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TREATMENT REGIMEN

Fighting cancer is “like a job” for one breast cancer patient.

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POLITICAL CHALLENGES MARC EISEN

DYLAN BROGAN

10 NEWS FOR REPORTERS and supporters alike, attending a political rally is a big commitment. Just getting through security can tack on an hour or two to the day. So Isthmus staff writer Dylan Brogan left Madison early Saturday to attend the Elkhorn rally where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had been uninvited by House Speaker Paul Ryan. It was only after the crowd got through security that people learned — from reporters like Brogan — that Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, was also not coming. Brogan says every person he talked to was disappointed by the turn of events. And it made for a strange day. “​I think a lot of people just didn’t know how to react,” he says. “They like Ryan. They like Trump. It was sort of like Mom and Dad fighting in front of the kids.”

17 COVER STORY MARC EISEN’S interest in urban planning dates to his college days when he first read about the street-level insights of the great urbanist Jane Jacobs and her epic battles with master builder Robert Moses in New York. Once in Madison, Eisen saw how the same struggle played out in the controversial urban renewal of the city’s Triangle neighborhood. He returns to the topic this week, making a convincing case for Madison to get serious about realizing the promise of its lakefront.

Four Assembly representatives from Madison will face opponents on Nov. 8.

TRUMPED

Paul Ryan’s Fall Fest upstaged by division within the Republican Party.

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THE ART OF INNOVATION Contemplating patent drawings.

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INFLUENCE PEDDLING

WMC, the Supreme Court and the John Doe probe.

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All together now

LAKE OF DREAMS

Will Madison finally make good on the vision to connect Lake Monona to downtown?

Sunday, Oct. 16, Madison College Mitby Theater, 2 pm

24-27 FOOD & DRINK

Madison Area Piano Teachers Associated is hosting a “Piano Play Together,” where an orchestra made up of 200 piano students will prove that the instrument is alive and well.

Mikko Utevsky, founder of the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the multicultural and multitalented ensemble.

It only happens once every three years, so don’t miss it.

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...you’ll like it. A Second Rising Sons on the west side, that is.

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BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY FÚTBOL! Inaugural “Day of Soccer” at Breese Stevens highlights Latino players.

BOOK FEST BESTS

Peace, love and understanding

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Saturday, Oct. 15, First United Methodist Church, 11:30 am-5 pm

23, 31 BOOKS Our critics scour the schedule for literary gems.

CROWDED STAGE

WHO’S AFRAID?

Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice is celebrating its 25th anniversary at this year’s Fall Assembly. A panel discussion will highlight past accomplishments and future plans, there will be an update on the Racial Justice Tipping Point campaign, and a lifetime achievement award will be presented to Renaissance man (and occasional Isthmus contributor) Steve Braunginn. RSVP at eventbrite.com/e/27068938925.

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Back and forth

Fringe Character pumps out label-defying grooves.

ROBIN SHEPARD

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25 BEER LONGTIME ISTHMUS beer critic and blogger Robin Shepard went up against national heavy hitters and won! His blog, Beer Here, took second place in the North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards, which are announced annually in conjunction with the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. The Guild has a noble cause, says Shepard: to improve the professional standards of beer writing. Congratulations, Robin.

SEXE DUOS

Liz Sexe asks her “dance crushes” to choreograph duets.

36-37 SCREENS A documentary looks at the ecology of wolves.

CHILL OUT. ROCK ON.

Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 13-15, Nielsen Tennis Stadium

The Kadampa Meditation Center expands, and crevice gardens are on the rise.

The WIAA State Girls tennis championship tourney comes to the UW-Madison campus this weekend, with individuals and doubles titles at stake. Sun Prairie’s Lats Sysouvanh and Stoughton’s Sarah Benoy as well as doubles team Bailey Chorney and Autumn Facktor of Waunakee are among locals to watch. Schedule at wiaawi.org/Sports/GirlsTennis.

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It’s fun to be clean Monday, Oct. 17, Waunakee Village Center, 5:30 pm

County Executive Joe Parisi and county staff are traveling the area to discuss a multi-million dollar 2017 budget initiative to clean 33 miles of streambeds feeding phosphorus into the lake system. A second presentation this week takes place at Warner Park Community Recreation Center, Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 5:30 pm; future meetings are at 4 pm at libraries in McFarland (Oct. 31), Stoughton (Nov. 1) and Sun Prairie (Nov. 3).

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Radiating hope

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Walking into a treatment room at the UW Carbone Cancer Center, Brynn Bruijn-Hansen is calm yet determined. She’s done this before and knows she’ll be back.

She has cancer. Specifically, she has invasive ductal carcinoma, the most common form of breast cancer. Today, she’ll receive her 12th radiation treatment to — hopefully — eradicate the disease from two spots in her right breast.

“It’s kind of like a job,” she says. “I have to get through this to get to the other side.”

As she strips out of her shirt and bra behind a curtain, she chats with senior staff therapist Melodie Corcoran. Once topless, she steps from behind the curtain and the discussion shifts to Bruijn-Hansen’s plans for reconstructive breast surgery when her treatment is complete. Corcoran downplays the need but her patient is insistent.

In July, Bruijn-Hansen underwent a double lumpectomy to remove two cancerous growths under her pectoral muscle and behind her nipple. After surgery, she developed a hematoma — a swelling of solid, clotted blood — beneath her breast. “Once that goes away, it’s going to sag,” she explains to Corcoran. “That’s why I want [the reconstruction] surgery.”

During this conversation, Bruijn-Hansen lays on a long, cushioned table in the middle of the room. The table top Bruijn-Hansen is laying on slides toward the wall while its pedestal remains in place — she looks like a magician’s assistant suspended in midair. The conversation ceases.

She’s now directly beneath the Varian Trilogy Linear Ac-

Breast cancer awareness month: OCTOBER

celerator — the highly precise machine know what’s happening, the sounds are a that will send short, concentrated pulses bit scary,” says Bruijn-Hansen of the low Women who will of radiation through her chest. hum of the rotating machine. develop breast cancer: The Varian is intimidating. It’s a huge The next treatment is delivered within ONE IN EIGHT piece of gray equipment jutting out a couple of minutes and the day’s radiafrom the wall. You can’t not stare at it. tion therapy is finished.

Men who will develop The large hook-like top of the machine Bruijn-Hansen feels a tingling sensabreast cancer: — known as the gantry — resembles a tion during the radiation, and she can ONE IN 1,000 gigantic baker’s mixer. feel the blood in her hematoma getting Estimated number of U.S. women Corcoran turns on green targeting lawarmer. Afterward, there’s some disto be diagnosed with invasive sers that help her position the gantry, turncomfort and pain. “They tell you it’s like breast cancer in 2016: ing it so it’s just over Bruijn-Hansen’s left a sunburn, but it’s not — it’s worse,” she 246,660 shoulder, lining up the lasers with four pinsays. “It’s very much a radiation burn. It’s point tattooed dots on her patient’s torso. hard to find clothes that don’t rub and Breast cancer survivors Leaving the room, Corcoran joins rairritate it.” in the U.S.: diation therapist Dustin Hebel at a bank of Even so, “once you get into the routine, 2.8 MILLION keyboards and monitors in a narrow space it’s not a big deal — the biggest hassle is just outside the treatment room. After conparking,” she jokes. “I haven’t gotten any firming the settings, Hebel turns on the radiation, monitoring superpowers from the radiation yet — I’m still waiting.” the patient on a number of computer screens. His equipment She knows she’s lucky to have found the cancer early. emits a rapid clicking to indicate the radiation is firing. It sounds “There’s a history of breast cancer in my family,” she says, like a digital woodpecker. Inside the room, a “BEAM ON” sign adding that she found the lumps herself and that they didn’t — just like a radio station’s “ON AIR” sign — glows. show up during regular mammograms.

In about a minute, the first treatment is done. Corcoran “In my mind, I’m cancer-free — they cut it out of me — goes back inside, checks her patient and repositions the this is just preventative,” she says before stressing the need gantry near Bruijn-Hansen’s right shoulder, aiming it at the for women, men and their partners “to do their job: keep second cancer location. “In the beginning, when you don’t checking [their breasts] regularly and thoroughly.” n

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Down the ballot Four of Madison’s state Assembly seats are being contested

BY NATHAN J. COMP

With Election Day just weeks away, it doesn’t appear the state Assembly races will reach the dramatic heights of the presidential contest between Republican nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

But some state Democrats say fear of a Trump presidency may spur an uptick in voting for down-ballot races, like those for seats in Assembly Districts 47, 76, 78 and 79 — each of which includes a slice of Madison.

In three of these races, self-professed independent men hope to unseat Democratic female incumbents. In the remaining race, it’s two young progressive males vying for an open seat.

Despite the partisan gridlock that continues to stymie Democrats in both chambers of the Legislature, many of the candidates say voters in Dane County are optimistic about the future of the state and the nation.

Below is a breakdown of the Assembly candidates Dane County residents will vote for when they take to the polls on Nov. 8. Two other Madison representatives — Terese Berceau and Melissa Sargent, both Democrats — are running unopposed.

Jimmy Anderson

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“I’m for stopping government overreach, but you can’t stop them if you don’t know what they’re doing,” he says.

In 2015, Taylor sponsored an amendment to enshrine the public’s right to open records in the state Constitution, but the measure failed.

Lisa Subeck

Chris Taylor

Jon Rygiewicz

District 76 Democratic state Rep. Chris Taylor has successfully pushed legislation through the Republican-controlled Legislature, including a bill requiring state investigations into officer-involved shootings.

Her opponent, Jon Rygiewicz, is unimpressed, promising to introduce and bring to a vote a minimum of one bill per month.

“With my experience and resources, I felt like it’s beneficial for the future of Madison if I run,” he says. “Chris Taylor has never been on the good side of anything.”

But Taylor counters that Rygiewicz is “incompatible with the district.... He’s anti-marriage equality, he likes tax cuts for super-rich people. He’s so out of touch with this district.”

The district stretches from Vilas Park Drive on the west across the isthmus to Anderson Street on the north side.

A Libertarian, Rygiewicz is running as a Republican to take advantage of GOP funds.

“I’m a poor guy,” says Rygiewicz, who manages a Domino’s pizza restaurant. “And if you look at the history of the Republican Party, it is still a good party; they’ve done very good things for the culture.”

Taylor argues that even though she’s been one of the most vocal opponents of the GOP agenda, she’s also found common ground with Republicans, as with the “Safe at home” bill, which allows victims of abuse, assault and stalking to keep their addresses private.

Though he worked “very hard for Scott Walker” in 2010, Rygiewicz says there is at least one area where he and Taylor stand on common ground: transparent government.

“It was one of those moments where there was an opportunity to reach out,” she says.

“Even as I was fighting against Republicans on some of the horrible, heinous things that are destroying our democracy, I was still able to work with them.”

When it comes to what distinguishes her from Fisher, Subeck points out that he skipped his League of Women Voters candidate interviews.

“I think that speaks to the difference between us,” she says.

Fisher, however, says the interview times offered to candidates conflicted with his work schedule. Nevertheless, he’s feeling good about the response to his candidacy.

“I’m hoping for the best,” he says. “I’m hoping for a tremendous turnout.”

Chris Fisher

District 78 Democratic incumbent Lisa Subeck says the rift between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders hasn’t alienated constituents she’s spoken with while campaigning.

“When I’m out talking to voters, they’re excited about Hillary,” she says. “In my district, where there was a lot of support for Bernie, people are excited that she’s incorporating some of his ideas into her agenda.”

“People are really optimistic,” adds Subeck, whose district includes much of far west Madison. “They’re pleased with the representation I’ve given them, and as I’ve been around the state helping colleagues in the Assembly, I’ve seen that people are really fired up about the Democratic ticket.”

Chris Fisher, who works in information technology, got the urge to challenge Subeck during a brief period of unemployment earlier this year. The single father of two currently commutes to Milwaukee for work each day. He’s running as an independent.

“I’ve always had an interest in serving, so this was a perfect opportunity,” he says.

“Listening to the people out there while campaigning...I love the process.”

Like Subeck, Fisher says voters in his district are an optimistic bunch. Although Subeck and Fisher aren’t far apart politically, Fisher says voters should look at who is funding their campaigns.

“I’m not taking donations,” he says. “From what I understand, she is taking full advantage of the campaign laws. I think there is a conflict of interest when you’re taking special-interest money.”

Subeck is one of the few Democratic Assembly members who successfully authored a bill that was signed into law by Republican Gov. Scott Walker. The law, which allows taxi drivers to park in disabled stalls when picking up riders with disabilities, was co-sponsored

by Taylor.

Jordan Zadra

Dianne Hesselbein

District 79 Jordan Zadra is running to unseat two-term Democratic incumbent Dianne Hesselbein for the Assembly’s 49th District.

But the race’s Republican candidate remains an unknown quantity. He was a noshow at a candidate forum held Sept. 12 at DeForest Public Library and did not respond to Isthmus’ request for an interview.

Hesselbein, a former Dane County supervisor who was first elected in an unopposed Assembly run in 2012, says she hasn’t met her opponent yet and therefore couldn’t comment on what sets them apart.

If elected, she says she would continue to push for the restoration of education funding and transparent government. She admits that being in the minority party isn’t easy.

“You can have a good idea that won’t see the light of day,” she says. “That’s why relationships are so important.”

The district is sprawling and far reaching, including parts of Middleton, Cross Plains, Waunakee, the town of Burke and a large swath north of Madison.

Hesselbein has helped shepherd through a few bipartisan bills benefiting Wisconsin veterans, as well as Alzheimer’s patients.

In his campaign literature, Zadra distances himself from Donald Trump and Walker.

He proclaims himself liberal on social issues, but supports small government by increasing the efficiency of state-run programs. n

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Distric 47 Jimmy Anderson expected to unseat threeterm incumbent Robb Kahl in the August primary. But weeks after Anderson announced his candidacy, Kahl decided not to run for reelection.

Anderson later defeated two alders from the city of Fitchburg in the August primary.

“Voters in this district have liked the message I bring,” says Anderson. “They want someone who truly reflects their progressive values.”

But Anderson’s opponent, Adam Dahl, says he is the true progressive in the race, claiming Anderson represents the interests of the party’s wealthy elite.

“I think people, especially people in a district that voted for Bernie Sanders, want true progressive representation,” says Dahl, who is running as a “Bernie Sanders independent.”

“Jimmy is a party politician, so he will do what the party wants.”

The district includes Monona, McFarland and parts of Fitchburg and south, east and west Madison.

On the issues, both say they want to roll back education cuts made under Gov. Scott Walker and invest more in renewable energy.

Dahl, who works in information technology, wants to follow the lead of Colorado, which will vote on a single-payer health care system next month. “Health care is a human right,” says Dahl.

Anderson says he would work toward strengthening the state’s safety net for vulnerable residents.

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Federal regulators from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency visit Madison to investigate complaints about the state’s enforcement of water pollution laws.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan refuses to defend Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying instead that he is going to focus on protecting the GOP majority in Congress.

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Democrat Russ Feingold leads incumbent Republican Ron Johnson 46 to 44 percent. Last month, Feingold’s lead was 44 to 39 percent.

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Unease in Elkhorn Paul Ryan’s super-awkward Trump(less) rally

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“Jackass.” That’s what one Trump supporter shouted at U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan after his Oct. 8 speech at Fall Fest, held at the Walworth County Fairgrounds in Elkhorn. The insult ended a bizarre afternoon filled with dismay, anger and confusion for many loyal Republicans who attended Ryan’s yearly fundraiser for the 1st Congressional District Republican Party of Wisconsin.

Earlier in the week, it was announced Donald Trump would headline the event. It was supposed to be the first time Ryan (R-Janesville) would campaign with the GOP presidential nominee. All the state’s Republican heavy hitters were also slated to join Trump in a show of unity, including Gov. Scott Walker, longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls) and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

But late Friday, the Janesville native — the highest-ranking Republican in the country — uninvited Trump after being “sickened” by comments Trump made in a 2005 video released by The Washington Post. The move left GOP leaders rallying the party’s faithful to vote Republican in November, while avoiding any mention of the man at the top of the ticket.

“It’s all political. [Ryan’s] got to do what he can to get votes,” said Lloyd Romie of Elkhorn.

“It’s the media stirring up this Trump stuff. It’s not right they are deciding this election.”

What sparked Ryan’s dissing of Trump were comments the nominee made to host Billy Bush during a taping of Access Hollywood 11 years ago. Although Trump was not on camera, a hot microphone captured Trump bragging about using his celebrity status to grope women.

“When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want,” Trump said in the leaked video. “Grab them by the pussy.”

But Kim Kubena of Delafield dismissed the comments as “locker room talk” made a decade before Trump entered politics. She called the remarks a distraction and was disappointed Ryan caved to “political correctness.”

“Find me one perfect person in this country. People say things that are politically in-

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correct all the time,” said Kubena. “The whole tool of political correctness is part of a socialist, communist agenda. We need to bring back freedom of speech.”

Mike Goril of Lake Mills was peeved that Wisconsin Republicans were giving Trump the cold shoulder. The blow was, temporarily, softened by news that vice presidential candidate Mike Pence would be attending the rally on Trump’s behalf. It was only after wading through a Secret Service screening that Goril learned Pence wasn’t coming either.

“Any Republican that does not support their presidential candidate is a traitor to the party.

They are electing Hillary [Clinton] by default,” said Goril. “If Trump is elected — and I hope he is — there’s going to be long-term ramifications for Mr. Ryan.”

Tom German of Brillion said he was “floored” when he learned Trump wouldn’t be at the event.

“I guess the party has to distance itself from those comments. But the comments are nothing like what Bill Clinton has done,” said German.

A young man standing right behind German was wearing a T-shirt — made to look like the famous Hope poster of President Barack Obama from the 2008 campaign — that showed President Bill Clinton’s face with the word “rape” written below.

Nick Iles of Waukesha was offended by Trump’s comments in the leaked video: “I’m not sure how you couldn’t be.”

But Iles is still standing by Trump. “Both candidates have said and done lots of bad things. But ultimately Trump’s policies will be better for America in the end.”

In a tweet, Walker described the comments as “inexcusable.” Johnson called them “indefensible” in a statement. Ryan scolded Trump for objectifying women. None of them uttered his name at the rally. Yet no senior Republicans in Wisconsin have rescinded their endorsements of Trump.

“We have 31 field offices all over the state that are there to help every Republican,” Brad Courtney, chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, told the crowd, trying to reassure

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an’s leadership in Congress.

He also reminded voters that the next president is likely to have a decadeslong influence over the U.S. Supreme Court.

“President Hillary Clinton will appoint three or four more Ruth Bader Ginsburgs. That will last for a generation,” said Sensenbrenner. “A Supreme Court will frustrate anything any Republican president will do simply by judicial fiat.”

Ron Johnson told the crowd that the election was about “saving this country.”

“Wisconsin’s a firewall.

DYLAN BROGAN We’ve got to save this Senate Trump supporters were disappointed that their seat,” said Johnson, referring candidate was uninvited from Paul Ryan’s Fall Fest. to his own seat. “We have to make sure the 10 electoral votes of Wisconsin don’t get Trump supporters that the party wasn’t turned over to Hillary Clinton. We need to abandoning the candidate. “The polls are do everything we can to win this election quite close. We have 31 days, and that’s an here in Wisconsin.” eternity so please, please, please volunteer.” Nevertheless, Johnson didn’t refer to But a handful of people in the crowd of his party’s top candidate by name. Neither roughly 500 Republicans weren’t going to he nor Sensenbrenner mentioned Donald let their leaders off easy.

Trump while offering grim predictions of “Every year Paul Ryan has a Fall Fest,” what a Clinton presidency would bring. began Sensenbrenner, who is seeking his Paul Ryan admitted there was “a bit of 20th term in Congress this fall. “Every year an elephant in the room” when he finally people come to the Fall Fest to show their took the stage. appreciation and support of Paul.”

“It is a troubling situation. I’m serious, it “Not no more,” proclaimed a heckler. is,” said Ryan. “I put out a statement about “Okay. If you’re not going to be for the this last night. I meant what I said, and it whole ticket...,” said Sensenbrenner before is still how I feel. But that’s not why we are being cut off again. here today.”

“I’m for Donald Trump,” the heckler shot Ryan ended his speech by saying “we back, which was greeted by scattered cheers will deliver our 10 electoral votes.” in the crowd.

To whom exactly, Ryan didn’t specify.

“Why don’t you listen to what I have to say Regardless, Donald Trump deemed Fall rather than interrupting me. There’s some- Fest a success via Twitter before the day was thing [called] courtesy involved here,” said done: “Thank you to my great supporters Sensenbrenner, winning back the crowd. in Wisconsin. I heard that the crowd and Sensenbrenner went on to defend Ry- enthusiasm was unreal!” n

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Artistic license New show highlights illustrations for patents

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If the highest function of art is to communicate ideas, then a recent and curious collection of technical drawings is very fine art, indeed. The inventive exhibit is about exactly that — inventions — historic inventions created at UW-Madison, and the patent illustrations that describe them.

The Artistry of Innovation: Patent Drawings Through Time includes 26 inventions from nearly a dozen disciplines, submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1928. From a piano with two keyboards to a device that ties shoelaces, the images are sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre and always provocative. The exhibit will be on display in the Union South gallery through Nov. 14.

“To me, each of them is worth more than a thousand words,” says Sally Younger, who helped curate the show.

“Many, if not most, patents have drawings associated with them,” she explains. “In addition to the words and the text and the abstracts that are in a patent, we also have these drawings, which help us illustrate parts or components, or illustrate how a technology may be novel and stand apart from the rest.”

The exhibit was assembled by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in partnership with the Wisconsin Union Directorate. It’s the first collaboration between the two.

WARF was created in 1925 to manage rights to the university’s creative property and to use proceeds to benefit research. The foundation was founded with

its earliest patent, for fortifying food with vitamin D. In just the last year, WARF provided more than $100 million in support to the UW. Assembling the exhibit wasn’t easy; WARF has more than 1,700 active patents.

Why show them in the first place? “Art is a bold and unmediated opportunity to celebrate the thinkers on whose shoulders we stand,” says Younger, a WARF technical writer.

Staff voted for drawings that would most engage nonscientists. Viewed through an artist’s eye, techniques include expressionism and post-impressionism. How else, for example, to portray invisible genetic or electro-magnetic worlds?

“They are created to be understood,” Younger says of the illustrations. “Every point is deliberate. Every stroke is defined. And yet, at the same time, they can be deeply abstract, and there’s room for interpretation.”

What looks like a whimsical corset is indeed a support device, but for a superconducting magnet (patented 1976). A Braille watch (2013) may be viewed as a cubist’s cathedral. A solar cooking device (1957) stuns with minimalism, while all humanity is held within the humble shoelace-tying device (2010), for people with “birth defects, amputations, strokes and arthritis.”

A bland, circular map (2004) is deceptive in its simplicity: It’s the complete DNA sequence of bubonic plague, “the Black Death” that killed perhaps half of medieval Europe in four years.

And the ordinary art critic can but stand in awe at “Method for Ripening Cheese” (with ultrasound, 1959).

The 1959 sketch for a vacuum pump invented by Raymond G. Herb.

Ion pumps like this were free of oil or moving parts, and led to research tools such as the scanning probe microscope.

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“Sometimes when I was researching them, I felt like Alice down the rabbit hole,” says Younger. “A single drawing opens up an entire story.”

A few other patent-related artifacts are included in the exhibit. As for the drawings, “There’s no glitter. There’s no color,” she says.

“They are raw-boned and sincere, and their authority is precisely what is cool, in my opinion.”

In most cases, the artists’ identities are hidden, perhaps forever.

“Sometimes the images are created by an inventor, but usually by someone in his or her lab,” explains Younger. “Some of the vintage patents in the show are highly stylized, crafted by very skilled draftsmen. Unfortunately,

their names are not recorded on a patent, so they are lost to time.”

The exhibit opened Sept. 30. “It was a smash,” she says. “It was very rewarding to see the various demographics that came out: everyone from inventors to musicians to high school students.”

But is it art? That’s a question that Younger has heard many times.

“The conceptual leap was not that these drawings are beautiful, because they manifestly are,” she says.

“And it’s not that they took great skill to produce, because they manifestly do. The leap is, will people who are not scientists appreciate what they’re looking at?

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The radical agenda of WMC How the pro-business group helped kill the John Doe probe

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WMC later convinced the court to adopt a rule allowing justices not to recuse no matter how large a campaign contribution they received from parties to the case. The rule is nationally notable for its lax standards, and opened the door to the court’s conservative majority refusing to recuse and then rule in favor of killing a John Doe probe of illegal campaign coordination by WMC and other defendants.

WMC also pushed for Act 21, the 2011 law limiting the power of state agencies to make any rules not approved by the state Legislature. This has greatly reduced the state Department of Natural Resources’ ability to regulate high-capacity wells, which has led to dried-up streams and lakes in Wisconsin.

And not long after former WMC lobbyist Andrew Cook became deputy secretary of the state Department of Justice, Attorney General Brad Schimel ruled the DNR has no legal authority to put conditions on high-capacity-well applications that would take into account their cumulative effects on streams, rivers and lakes.

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ter nearly three years as an aide to Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. Vebber recently blasted Dane County Circuit Court Judge John W. Markson for making a ruling favored by the environmental group Clean Wisconsin, that the DNR must impose conditions on the expansion of Kinnard Farms (which is adding more than 2,000 cattle at its farm in Kewaunee County) to safeguard water resources. Vebber, noting the judge had donated $50 to Clean Wisconsin, assailed him for refus-

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For those who like black comedy, it’s hard to beat the decision in August by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce to give its “Friend of the Environment” award to Menard’s, the home improvement chain.

The group released a statement praising Menard’s for efforts “to eliminate wasted energy, increase recycling rates and improve efficiency.”

Perhaps, but Menard’s also happens to have had more environmental violations than any company in the state. Owner John Menard and his company were fined $1.7 million for 21 violations, and have been cited for disposing hazardous waste, manufacturing and selling arsenic-tainted mulch, using a floor drain to dump chemicals into a tributary of the Chippewa River, and dumping a pallet of herbicide on a parking island.

The award was a smelly bouquet to Menard, who serves on the WMC’s board of directors and was a major donor of dark money to Gov. Scott Walker, but also a testament to how ideologically extreme the WMC has become.

That’s quite a change for an organization whose modern history goes back to 1970 and for decades “was largely seen as a quiet, pro-business group,” as Erik Gunn wrote in a 2008 cover story for Isthmus. “It advocated lower taxes and less regulation, but largely steered clear of the political fray.

It had cordial relations with...labor leaders.”

But since the 1990s, WMC has become increasingly strident, all the more so since its frequent opponent, the state teachers union, saw its power decline due to Act 10.

Now the state’s top lobbying group, WMC spent millions to help elect candidates like Annette Ziegler, Michael Gableman and David Prosser, all accused of ethical violations, to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This helped give the court a conservative majority, even as its reputation in legal circles has declined nationally.

ing to recuse himself and for helping fund a “radical environmental organization that had a case before him,” arguing it “raised significant questions about the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”

The idea that a $50 charitable donation had compromised the integrity of our judiciary is laughable by itself, but all the more blackly comic given WMC’s success getting the Supreme Court to ignore millions of dollars in campaign contributions in order to rule in the group’s favor.

As for the claim that Clean Wisconsin is a “radical” group, that’s a far better description of Vebber and the WMC. They have adamantly opposed the federal EPA rule that requires reductions in emissions by electric utilities.

But as a Wall Street Journal poll found, twothirds of Americans support the rule.

WMC has issued exaggerated statements on the potential economic impact, such as Vebber’s claim that it would be an “economic and jobs disaster for Wisconsin.”

But as Urban Milwaukee has reported, the impact on jobs amounts to 0.3 percent of the economy. The EPA rule is arguably an opportunity for the state to embrace homegrown alternative energy production of wind and solar and grow jobs here, rather than exporting them to states that sell coal and natural gas. That seems like a proWisconsin business position, while WMC’s stance favoring out-of-state coal companies could hardly be more extreme. n

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Road rage I liked Alan Talaga and Jon Lyons’ “Off the Square” cartoon on Walker’s transportation budget (9/22/2016). If you think about it, it makes perfect sense what Walker is doing here: ■ The Verona project delay is simply punishment for that large Verona-based software company full of the 10,000 millennials who voted for Bernie and its CEO, who has donated large sums of $$$ to Hillary!

■ The Milwaukee Zoo interchange delay is punishing the liberals and Democrat leaders in Milwaukee!

■ Providing funding for the I-90 highway project is simply a reward to his billionaire benefactors, the Uihleins and Hendrickses, so they have a nice, smooth drive to their vacation properties in the north!

Jeff Luther (via email)

I just sat down in the UW student union with a copy of your newspaper; I understand this is the paper to have if you want to acquaint yourself with the area. This is my second trip to Madison this year from Chicago; my partner and I have been seriously investigating a possible move here. Just ironic, I guess, that the first page I open to contains a cartoon that suggests that I and my people are rude, gas-guzzling, gluttons. I know, I know, it’s just a cartoon; really I’m not that sensitive. I live in downtown Chicago, no car, but certainly with a sea of tourists, especially in warmer months. Even walking to the grocery store is a challenge, people not looking, people not cooperating by sharing the sidewalk, etc. But honestly I wouldn’t even consider insulting these out-of-town folks; we NEED them. I am not jealous of them — I welcome them.

Roberta Ross (via email)

Taking issue Alan Talaga’s editorial, “Karen McKim and the Problem with Single-Issue Candidates” (Madland, 10/11/2016), intelligently engages real issues. But it put me in a bind. Talaga accused me of not liking the incumbent while asking me to find more issues with his performance.

First, none of this is personal. I’d happily sit beside Scott McDonell on a plane. He’s been a good politician, Democrat and supervisor.

And yes, I have an issue that he doesn’t check our election results’ accuracy. If the

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county clerk doesn’t do that, it doesn’t get done.

Are there other problems? Yes, and it’s true I haven’t been stressing them. Talaga is right: I need to say more if people are going to see the need for change. Here goes: Issue: collaboration. As county clerk, I will seek out community concerns and suggestions and provide constructive paths to resolution.

My 30 years’ experience as a public servant taught me to listen to and work with community advocates and other officials. Here’s how it should work: In 2014, I and other volunteers saw a need to ask the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board to alter some instructions for local clerks. The board allowed me to present evidence and arguments in an open meeting, and they improved their instructions. Even if they hadn’t agreed, the process built trust.

For four years, well-informed, respectful

citizens advocating for the recommendations of a Presidential Commission have received scant response. Communications go unanswered, invitations ignored. Approach other county officials for help on an electionadministration issue, and you’ll be told they have no influence, either.

As county clerk, I will make voter ID education videos only in collaboration with voting-rights advocates. I won’t develop an election-observation program without relying on the local League of Women Voters’ decades-long experience.

Still another issue: professional management practices. If I’m county clerk the next time a voting machine makes up its own votes, my official investigation will determine the cause and how to prevent it from occurring again. If I’m county clerk, the next time uncountable ballots are mailed out, the public will get more explanation than a few contradictory statements to the press. Procedures will be in writing so that, for example, a citizen will be able to come to a county canvass meeting and hold me accountable for following them.

I wish the likable incumbent the best, and hope that voters will move both of us into jobs that make the best use of our passions and skills for the benefit of Dane County and our vibrant democracy.

Karen McKim Candidate for Dane County clerk (via email)

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The latest proposal for Law Park envisions the downtown waterfront connection dreamed of for more than a century. Mayor Paul Soglin has asked city staff to investigate its feasibility.

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In 1959, bad boy English architectural critic Ian Nairn began a 10,000-mile tour of the United States that produced his bracing 1965 book, The American Landscape: A Critical View. The expected stops were made in New York, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, but the acerbic Brit also got off the beaten track.

Nairn was aghast.

He delivered perhaps the nastiest slam to Madison and its pretension of having the most beautiful state Capitol in the land. The disconnect between the Capitol Square and the beckoning shores of Lake Monona “is a slap across the face with a cold, wet fish, one of the cruelest disappointments in America” Nairn wrote in disgust.

“It could be so easily fixed,” he sighed. These are familiar words. They’ve been said time and again for more than a century (by John Nolen, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Wesley Peters, Kenton Peters, David Mollenhoff, Doug Kozel, Tim Anderson and other dreamers).

Nairn proposed Savannah, famous for its neighborhood squares and its riverfront embrace, as inspiration for Madison.

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Could he have been meaner than when he trashed Albuquerque as “one of the stupidest wastes of human endeavor on this earth” for its failure to capitalize on its magnificent setting between the Rio Grande River and the Rockies? Well, yeah.

Nairn, who loved a good pint and who succumbed to the complications of alcoholism in 1983, also drove through Madison one fine summer day. Motoring towards the downtown he was gobsmacked by the “fantastic” view of the Capitol nestled between the lakes.

Here, finally, was an American city that seemingly captured the uniqueness of its landscape: “...the first view of Madison across Lake Monona is a catharsis, like the first view of Chartres or Venice.” Even better, Nairn found the Capitol Square marvelously platted with a formal axis “the right length, the right size” leading to a bluff overlooking the lake ... and a sea of cars below him.

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Inspired by the great waterfront cities of Europe, John Nolen (left) proposed a prominent esplanade along what is now Law Park. The city rejected the idea and eventually built a six-lane highway that it perversely named for him.

He was incredulous the city hadn’t seized the opportunity. “This is the case of a townscape potential shouting so loud it almost deafens you,” Nairn declared.

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It’s time to make good on Madison’s waterfront promise.

Sure, 57 years after Nairn’s visit, a realist might argue everything and nothing has changed downtown. That’s to say, even with the tidal wave of construction, Law Park remains as isolated as ever from the Capitol Square. From Blair Street to Broom Street there is no sensible pedestrian access to Law Park. Not even Monona Terrace changed that dynamic.

The celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired convention center may overlook Lake Monona. But its awkward elevator connection to the waterfront is not what Nairn had in mind. And it certainly doesn’t achieve the dramatic tiered public terraces leading to a grand, milelong esplanade along the waterfront that the great planner John Nolen proposed in his magisterial program for Madison’s growth, published in 1911 as Madison: A Model City.

You should know that in an act of stunning cluelessness Madison honored Nolen in 1967 by naming the roadway for him that destroyed the very setting he wanted to grace with a Barcelona-style waterfront esplanade for urban strollers. Yes...This writer has his opinions. I’m a Nolen enthusiast who helped organize a 1995 Isthmus-sponsored conference on his Madison legacy.

Nolen, who died in 1937, was the first great American city planner, a proponent of the “City Beautiful” movement, as historian David Mollenhoff chronicled in Madison: A History of the Formative Years.

Nolen’s vision of an enlightened and improved Madison helped create the city we love today — the Capitol view protected, the UW campus expanded to Eagle Heights, the State Street commercial district spotlighted, the nature preserve at the Arboretum, the massing of government buildings between the Capitol and Monona Terrace, the expansive network of urban parks, even the dream of affordable housing “for all the people.” That’s John Nolen’s vision of Madison.

It’s all there, folks, except for the harmonious meeting of the downtown and Lake Monona blocked by the heavily trafficked roadway confounding John Nolen’s legacy when it is supposed to honor it.

There’s reason for optimism.

A serious case can be made that Madison is at a transformative moment in its history, well situated to grow and prosper in the knowledge economy of the 21st century. The city’s tech-fueled rise has made Madison the star of the Wisconsin economy. UW-Madison, bolstered

by a $3 billion building boom and a successful campus redesign and expansion, is a powerful engine.

We got game.

Yup, there are bedeviling problems in the Madison area involving race, poverty and education. Not to mention a troubled relationship with a hostile state government. But a growing city with good leadership can deal with all of this.

Reality is that successful cities can reinvent themselves with dizzying speed. We like to think change is slow and constant, but history shows cities can be transformed in a decade or two. (Exhibit A is the stunning change in New York from the financial and social chaos in the 1970s to a full-throttled turnaround in the 1990s.) Madison’s big pivot came in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Community leaders fashioned the “Madison Compromise,” which opened the door to manufacturing. A new east-side factory district boomed along East Washington Avenue, as Mollenhoff chronicled.

A progressive-minded industrialist, John H. Johnson, was the Judith Faulkner of his day, owning two plants that made farm implements and machine tools and that employed 600 well-paid employees at a time when the city’s population was around 20,000.

Today’s tech-fired boom in Dane County, which owes so much to Faulkner’s Epic Systems’ breakout business in electronic health records, is the sort of transformative moment that comes once a century for a community. The overriding question: Can Madison make the best of it, including capitalizing on the intersection of Lake Monona with the city?

Not just downtown either. But reimagining a 21st-century John Nolen Drive all the way up to Quann, Olin and Turville parks to the Alliant Energy Center to the South Beltline and to the overlooked neighborhoods of south Madison?

“This is the next big piece,” says Rob Gottschalk, a planner with Vandewalle and Associates who has studied the John Nolen corridor.

“The central city has grown and matured to the point we can now start focusing on the corridor.”

Zach Brandon, president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, gets it. So does Dane County Board chair Sharon Corrigan, her colleague and south-side Supv. Sheila Stubbs, County Clerk Scott McDonell, as well as business leader Susan Schmitz of Downtown Madison Inc. “It’s a game-changer,” Schmitz says of the recent waterfront connection proposed for Law Park by the Madison Design Professionals Workgroup. “Improved access is on everybody’s list for the downtown.”

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The Law Park plan proposed by the Downtown Design Professionals Workgroup would build a park — 1,500 feet long and 200 feet wide over John Nolen Drive — and about 500 stalls of underground parking.

It would feature a marina and hilly berms landscaped for casual outdoor gatherings. The shoreline would lose its riprap boulders for wetland plantings and boardwalk.

Like Gottschalk, Brandon, who served on the advisory board for the Vandewalle study, argues for a comprehensive game plan for the full corridor, including the Alliant Energy Center. “There is tremendous opportunity to create connectivity and economic development,” he says.

Indeed, a forward-thinking strategy for the county-owned 165-acre Alliant campus should be a key community challenge, as he, Corrigan, McDonell and Stubbs all argue. Surrounded by parks and the Goodman Aquatic Center, Alliant is the linchpin of 400 publicly controlled acres in a fragmented and sometimes impoverished part of town.

Pulling it all together in a comprehensive plan could simultaneously enhance lake access and recreational opportunities at Olin and Turville parks, strengthen Dane County’s convention and exhibition business at the Alliant complex and further economic growth along the South Beltline and in struggling south Madison.

All of these goals — celebrating the lakes, creating jobs, fighting poverty — rank high on just about everyone’s list of community goals, Brandon points out.

The good news is that the groundwork has been laid. There is no shortage of provocative ideas for improving the John Nolen corridor.

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Start with Law Park. No one has put more thought into it than Madison’s great lone-wolf architect Kenton Peters. He’s a defiant modernist in a city that prefers its new buildings to be historically deferential. Peters’ standout projects — including the federal courthouse and the Marina Condominiums — have always caused a stir.

Over the past four decades the 85-year-old has unveiled a succession of dramatic plans to build over John Nolen Drive to Law Park.

Everything from an urban shopping center, to Madison College’s main campus, to a convention center at the foot of Pinckney Street, to the urban park he now champions.

But the strong-willed Peters, who is a bad fit for Madison’s convoluted civic deliberations, no longer gets the time of day from Madison officials. “I’ve been disappointed in their lack of interest,” he says.

“The number-one priority in the Downtown Plan is celebrating the lake.

But they have done nothing and discouraged efforts to do something.”

The Madison Design Professionals Workgroup, which includes Kozel, Anderson, Ed Linville and others, seems to be getting more traction with its plan, called the Nolen Waterfront Vision. Now in its third (or maybe it’s the 2.5) iteration, their proposal is similar to Kenton Peters’. It would create a nine-acre park over John Nolen Drive with several tiers of underground parking extending from the convention center.

An earlier controversial idea to sink the road has been dropped, though the architects call for an “underpass” at the Blair Street intersection that would separate crosstown traffic (John Nolen Drive is also a segment of State 151) from local drivers headed back and forth from downtown to the near east side.

That intersection — a tangled mess of four roads, a train track, a bicycle/pedestrian path and a flight zone for ducks and geese (I exaggerate) — is hugely dysfunctional. It disrupts what should be the natural synergy of the resurgent downtown flowing into the vibrant Marquette neighborhood.

You have to wonder how much unrealized value could be uncorked if the intersection were tamed and Lake Monona laps against a new downtown park/marina featuring the unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright boathouse.

Yep, that 1893 plan — briefly revived in the 1980s and then shelved for the construction of Monona Terrace — is part of the workgroup’s vision, too. As Mollenhoff points out, this would make for a neat symmetry. The boathouse was perhaps the first project Wright designed after leaving mentor Louis Sullivan’s practice in Chicago, while Monona Terrace was the last project he worked on before his death in 1959.

“To have those two prize pieces within 1,200 feet of each other on the Madison lakeshore — well, that’s one of the coolest facts you’re

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Taliesin architect William Wesley Peters (left) proposed a unified vision for the western shore of Lake Monona that was 50 years ahead of its time.

ever going to trip across,” says Mollenhoff, who is co-author (with Mary Jane Hamilton) of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision.

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Taliesin architect William Wesley Peters was unrelated to Kenton Peters, except for talent. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “Frank Lloyd Wright’s right arm” and a “renowned architect” for his own work, Wes Peters served as the structural engineer for Wright’s most famous buildings. He also led a Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation team that produced the magnificent Monona Basin Plan for Madison in 1967 that, in his words and emphasis “proposes [developing] the entire western shore of Lake Monona as one site.”

It is a knockout, big-picture marvel that envisions an amphitheater and indoor concert venue at Turville Park with a marina and other recreational facilities. Where the convention center now sits, Peters proposed another iteration of Wright’s 1938 plan to put city hall on the waterfront.

You can see an overview of the basin plan in, of all places, the Chocolaterian Cafe, 2004 Atwood Ave. Owner Leanne Cordisco has hung one of the oversized 3.5-by-8 foot design panels (on loan from the Madison Public Library) on a wall. It’s a killer display.

Nothing came of Peters’ plan, but the ideas have endured. His dream of making Turville and Olin Parks a recreational mecca was resurrected in the 2014 Nolen Centennial Plan promoted by the civicminded supermarket entrepreneurs Tim and Kevin Metcalfe. Digging into their own pockets, they hired Vandewalle and Associates (Gottschalk was lead planner) as design consultants and plumbed various stakeholders for their ideas.

The resulting plan, which basically starts at the South Beltline and ends at Monona Terrace, has the sort of big-picture thinking that has been sorely missing for that part of town.

It includes the notion of a wide, pedestrian-friendly “land bridge” over car-jammed John Nolen Drive to connect south Madison and the Alliant campus to Lake Monona and Law Park and to those enhanced recreational venues in Olin and Turville parks.

“It’s an incredible canvas,” Gottschalk says of those 400 or so acres. “It’s in the heart of the city, but you don’t really think of it that way because it’s not comprehensively developed.”

Nothing came of the Nolen Centennial Plan either. (Familiar story, that.) But its core ideas are carried forward in the Dane County Board’s ongoing effort to reimagine the Alliant Energy Center as a metro dynamo for tourism, trade exhibitions and overall economic growth.

Sharpening the challenge is the fact that Alliant is expected to pay its own way. The county doesn’t subsidize its operation like the city

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underwrites the Overture Center. Nor does Alliant benefit from the city’s room tax like Monona Terrace does.

Still, after a decade of decline in which Alliant lost money, laid off employees and ate into its reserves, the county-owned facility has stabilized its finances and reaffirmed its relationship with its greatest client, the six-day World Dairy Expo. But fears remain strong that the 49-year-old complex — 2.5 miles from downtown — is just too musty and isolated to compete in the modern age of amenity-friendly conventions.

County Clerk McDonell, who preceded Corrigan as county board chair, puts it bluntly: “There’s nothing for people to do there. They have to drive into Madison to get to a restaurant. That’s terrible. There is one crappy adjacent hotel — the Clarion. Go there. Walk around. It’s a dump, and it’s not even old. The Sheraton is better, but it’s across all those lanes of traffic. They’re putting in all those new hotels, but they’re not adjacent [to the Alliant complex] either.

“This is bad planning,” he says.

The Hammes Company’s report on the aging Alliant complex has recast the discussion on what’s required for it to stay competitive. The far-reaching recommended action includes tearing down and replacing the old Coliseum as part of a $500 million redevelopment that would include both private and public investment in and around the Alliant center. A $139,000 market study is now underway to better gauge the possible economic impact.

Alliant’s future is in jeopardy, warns Stubbs, who sits on the committee plotting the county’s course. “Something needs to be done. It needs to be done now.”

The goal is to bring the Alliant Energy Center to national prominence and to secure the biggest exhibitions possible. Alliant’s success will be shared by the broader community, she and other supporters say.

“At the end of the day my neighbors want jobs. They want development,” Stubbs says of her south-side district. (They also don’t want music blasting out of the Coliseum grounds, but that’s another story.)

Corrigan is on the same page with Stubbs. “Our vision is intrinsically tied to the whole area,” she says. “We have to make good economic decisions for the campus, but we also have to recognize that the success of the campus and the surrounding neighborhoods are very much connected.”

This is big stuff. Brandon says planning Alliant’s future necessarily requires a broad vision of the Madison area’s future. “If we piecemeal it or Band-Aid it, we lose the once-in-a-city’s-lifetime opportunity to address two of our largest challenges — creating economic opportunity in the south side and celebrating Lake Monona,” he says.

This is a tough, tough challenge politically and financially.

Take the county. The split between Corrigan’s county board and County Executive Joe Parisi over the Alliant Center’s future is wide

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The Nolen Centennial Project, funded by the Metcalfe family, proposed an “iconic art feature” on a Lake Monona overlook (left) similar to “The Bean” in Chicago’s Millennium Park. The plan also would connect the Alliant Energy Center to the lake by building a “land bridge” (right) over traffic-clogged John Nolen Drive.

Simply put, the best way to do city planning is before backhoes are scraping earth and the cranes are lifting steel beams for new construction. The city got it right on Capitol East. While those blocks were still comatose, hearings were held, committees met, consultants hired, and plans plotted. Now Capitol East is bursting with life with restaurants, housing, offices and a major supermarket.

Lacking that template for growth, the John Nolen corridor is already seeing piecemeal development. That’s a problem. “As more properties develop, our opportunities to improve access to Law Park diminish,” says city engineer Rob Phillips. Only two good sites remain for a downtown connection, he points out: the State of Wisconsin Investment Board parcel and the McGrath property earmarked for a controversial 14-story apartment complex, both on East Wilson Street.

The same troublesome dynamic is in play at the other end of the John Nolen corridor.

“There is a timing issue,” says Gottschalk.

“The market is already coming. You’re seeing land-use and development decisions beThis aerial photo shows the grand sweep ing made in the vacuum of a comprehensive of the John Nolen crescent. vision for the entire area.”

He adds: “Things are going to be built, and then you’re stuck with it for the next 40 or 50 years.”

That’s why the planning now is imperative. Inaction could mean no action later. Corridor development would be phased over decades, probably beginning with an Alliant Energy Center makeover keyed to the lakes and to south Madison. Then to the expanded Law Park connecting to the Capitol Square. Finally to tunneling under the Blair Street intersection to separate crosstown traffic from the downtown bustle, which Phillips says could take two decades to plan, finance and execute.

Here’s the upshot. Good plans have always given Madison an uplifting vision of civic improvement. The chamber’s Brandon says we shouldn’t get hung up on the money. That can short-circuit the brainstorming. Better to first figure out what challenges confront the city.

What problems need to be solved. “Money will follow good vision, and money will follow good projects,” as DMI’s Schmitz puts it.

That’s it. The John Nolen corridor presents a heck of an opportunity.

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and may not be bridgeable. While board liberals and conservatives alike want to explore an expansive remaking of the center, Parisi is against it.

“There’s a narrative out there that I’m standing on the sidelines,” he admits. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” The county exec says he led the charge to replace Alliant’s aging barns with the $24 million New Holland Pavilions that drew both state and private contributions.

“I’m the one responsible for getting Alliant back in the black.”

Parisi disagrees that the Coliseum needs to be torn down. He’s also emphatic that the county can’t afford the $120 million public investment that the consultant suggests may be required. At best he favors “affordable, incremental improvements” at Alliant, which doesn’t sound anything at all like what the county board is investigating.

Parisi, who is mentioned as a possible Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2018, is just trying “to kick this can farther down the road” so someone else has to deal with the difficult decisions, McDonell complains.

Politics are further muddied by the fact that the Alliant Center is in the vestigial town of Madison, whose disconnected remnants will be annexed by the cities of Fitchburg and Madison six years from now, according to a 2003 pact. Mayor Paul Soglin’s recent move to speed up annexation (to December) sent his Common Council enemies into a tizzy, complaining that the mayor is acting without consultation.

Soglin’s point is that without quicker annexation the city can’t do anything about Alliant until 2022. “The county as the owner has to have some sense of purpose for the site,” he adds. “That clearly doesn’t exist.”

On Law Park, Soglin is curious enough to want to know if it’s doable. He’s instructed city staff to investigate the technical issues of building over John Nolen Drive. But other capital projects seem dearer to him. The Public Market qualifies as the great white whale of Soglin’s watch. He’s also proposed spending $150 million on a citywide fiber optic system. Did I mention he and the council are also battling over just when the midtown police and fire stations should be built?

How yet another capital project costing hundreds of millions of dollars fits in is a good question. City Planning Chief Natalie Erdman points out the city is committed to a bunch of downtown projects that are already pushing the city’s staffing and financial capacity — the renovation of the Municipal Building, reconstruction of the Government East parking ramp, adding a new ramp for the Capitol East District and building the massive Judge Doyle Square development.

“Our downtown plan does support that concept of a lakefront connection,” Erdman says of the two Law Park proposals. “But that’s a long-term investment. I don’t see it in our current priorities. That doesn’t mean it won’t move along as we study that area.”

Soglin suggests “regime change” is needed at the Capitol before sufficient state funding is imaginable.

The problem is that the clock is ticking.

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The right time for Thai A second Rising Sons is a strong addition to west-side cuisine

BY CANDICE WAGENER

It’s fun to see how Sauk Point Square has developed as a center of world cuisine for the far west side. The shopping center, at the intersection of High Point and Old Sauk roads, hosts Swagat (Indian), Oliva (Mediterranean), New Seoul (Korean) and has housed Mexican and Indonesian restaurants, too — a veritable Williamson Street in the burbs.

Now it’s also home to the Thai and Laotian restaurant Rising Sons, which has opened its second location; the original remains on lower State Street. Although it’s a bit tucked away in the former El Burrito Loco space, there’s a steady flow of customers throughout the day.

The spring rolls are a good start — fresh, crunchy carrots and lettuce cozy up to vermicelli, all wrapped up in rice paper.

They’re served with a sweet-and-sour sauce that’s thinner and lighter than the usual sugar-laden, bright pink version and has just a hint of spice.

The fried meatballs also didn’t last long at our table. These delectable little bites of ground pork are surrounded by a crispy, deep-fried shell and come with the sweetand-sour sauce.

Pad Thai is always a good barometer at a Thai restaurant, and this version more than passes. Stir-fried rice noodles are rounded out with generous amounts of egg, tender beef, crunchy bean sprouts and homemade sauce, served with a lime wedge for a touch of sour and topped with peanut bits for even more crunch. The only

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The vegetarian squash curry doesn’t need any meat to satisfy.

thing missing was cilantro, listed as a topping but appearing only as a tiny sprig.

Fans of curry dishes will be pleased to find six, including a very pleasurable curry squash that stands alone without any addition of meat.

Still-crisp broccoli and cauliflower, crinkle-cut carrot strips, bamboo shoots and generous cubes of tender butternut and kabocha squashes, all in a delicious red curry coconut milk sauce that had just enough kick to keep you on your toes.

The thom khem is a simple dish served with tender pieces of pork in a brown sugar

soy sauce with a hard-boiled egg alongside.

This dish had a nice intertwining of sweet and salty flavors to keep it interesting.

Spicier, but just as good, is the keng keow vane with bamboo shoots, green beans, basil, Thai eggplant and chicken in a green curry sauce. Lovers of serious spice should try the pad pet basil, with stir-fried basil leaves, garlic, mushroom, baby corn, green beans, carrot, green bell pepper and perfectly cooked pork, simmered in a savory chili sauce.

But my favorite has been the drunken noodles, a dish with wide rice noodles that absorb the flavor of the sauce they’re simmered in along with carrot strips, bok choy, and the most flavorful tofu I’ve ever tasted. This had a building heat to it, but even the adventurous 8-year-old who first ordered it at our table liked it.

Rising Sons serves 11 different soups. Overwhelmed with the choices, I went with the kao soy, on the suggestion of my server. Widely served in northern Laos and Thailand, this was another absolute favorite. Those same lovely, thick rice noodles from the drunken noodles dish were back, along with ground pork and bean sprouts simmered in a savory tomato and bean paste broth. There were chunks of tomato and a hearty garnish of fresh cilantro and scallions. This big bowl made for a very satisfying lunch.

Another good bet for a quick, inexpensive lunch are the noontime specials. Many menu mainstays are just $8, which includes a choice of the crab rangoon or the chicken satay appetizer, both marvelous.

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Wisconsin’s hop harvest finished a few weeks ago, so the initial flurry of local wet hop beers is starting to appear. With wet hop beers, the brewer uses freshly picked hops, often dropping them into the brew kettle on the day of the harvest. The result can be wonderfully aromatic, a true seasonal delicacy for those who enjoy hops.

Among local wet hop brews are the Hop Garden’s Festiv Ale and Nuggetopia, both made with hops from owner Rich Joseph’s farm near Belleville. “We pick the hops, run them through our harvester, and then immediately take them over to the brewery and throw them into the wort,” says Joseph. Both are draughtonly beers found at the Hop Garden’s Paoli taproom and a handful of Madison’s more extensive beer bars. Festiv Ale features Centennial hops, rich in citrus aroma and flavor; Nuggetopia is all about Nugget hops, which lend herbal, woody and pine qualities.

tional imperial stout made with a British yeast that’s aged in bourbon barrels. The festival will also feature last year’s versions of both stouts, plus several brewery regulars and new releases. Tickets for the fest, which takes place at the brewery on Oct. 15, 1-5 pm, are $35.

Dead Bird Brewing hosts an Oktoberfest party on Oct. 16, 1-5 p.m., at House of Brews, 4539 Helgesen Drive. Among the featured beers will be Toten Vogel and a limited amount of an imperial Oktoberfest called “The Kaiser.” Tickets are $30. ■

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Rockhound Brewing of Madison also just released its take on wet hop brewing. Owner and brewmaster Nate Warnke obtained five pounds of fresh Cascades from Gorst Valley Hops of Mazomanie. Warnke tried something a little different and smoked the hops over hickory wood and then added them to a pale ale he’s calling Campfire. That beer just went on tap in the brewpub over the past weekend.

And Sprecher Brewing of Glendale plans to release the first in a series of whole-cone hop beers in the next few weeks. The initial offering will be Wisconsin Pale Lager, or WIPL, which features freshly picked Wisconsin-grown Cascade hops. Such hopped up brews are not new to Sprecher, which has been offering its take on the practice for several years. What is new is the brewery’s series of whole-cone hop beer that will eventually include Citra Bomb IPA, made with Simcoe and Citra, which is expected out in late November. Pineapple Express, a Belgian Tripel with Mosaic and Equinox, will come out at the end of the year. Finally, All-American Pale Ale featuring Cascade, Mt. Hood, Citra and Simcoe hops is scheduled for release in February.

When a brewery wins a medal at the annual Great American Beer Festival it gets noticed nationally, no matter how big or small the brewhouse is, or how widely or narrowly distributed the beer. This past weekend, one of Madison’s smallest breweries captured that attention. Alt Brew won a GABF silver Owners Maureen and Trevor with its Copperhead ale in the Easton toast their medal-winning growing category of gluten-free gluten-free Copperhead ale. beers. (Raised Grain Brewing of Waukesha landed a gold medal in the imperial red ale style with its Paradocs; Vintage Brewing of Madison captured a silver in the American red ale style with its Better Off Red.) Copperhead is made with sorghum, rice and two types of millet that include red and chocolate roasted versions. These give the beer its dark color. It also has a touch of honey. The beer is hopped with Czech Saaz and Mt. Hood hops.

Copperhead has a deep amber/dirty copper color that’s unexpected given that it’s free of traditional dark roasted barley. Its flavor also offers a touch of roasted chocolate and toffee. In the end, there’s a light grainy earthiness that lingers, but not for long.

This is a beer that breaks down misperceptions about gluten-free beers “not tasting like beer.” It’s a great choice for those who seek foods without gluten, and it’s also a pleasant drinking companion for everyone. It pairs well with steaks, burgers and barbecue. It’s also great with nutty cheeses like roquefort and well-aged cheddar.

Copperhead finishes at 5 percent ABV. It sells for around $8 per 22-ounce bottle.

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Once again, RP’s Pasta Company is looking for a new home now that plans to move to the former Kohl’s grocery store space at Northside Town Center have fallen through. The Madison-based fresh pasta maker is “bursting at the seams” at its current location on East Wilson Street, according to owner Peter Robertson.

The deal that would have brought the company to the north side looked like a go this spring but quietly fell apart over the summer. Robertson declined to give more information about why negotiations with Northside Town Center reached an impasse.

“Let’s just say there were just too many things that didn’t align. So we made other choices,” says Robertson.

Sherman Plaza Inc., which owns the Northside Town Center, could not be reached for comment.

“We’re back to square one on a building search,” says Robertson, who founded RP’s in 1995 and has been look-

ing for a new facility for over a year.

North-side Ald. Larry Palm is disappointed the company won’t be moving into his district. City officials approved a lowinterest, $800,000 loan from the Capital Revolving Fund to assist in what was expected to be a $2.5 million renovation of the space for RP Pasta’s new facility. Palm says the project was a perfect fit for the “North Side Food Innovation Corridor” envisioned by the city’s economic development team.

“The north side already has FEED (Food Enterprise & Economic Development) Kitchens, the Madison College culinary program, a number of breweries and other food businesses,” says Palm. “RP’s Pasta would have been an ideal addition to what we are trying to do on the north side. We worked really hard to make it happen. It’s a real shame.”

The need for larger digs has been fueled by the success of its gluten-free pastas, which RP’s started producing in 2008. In the last few years, demand for the specialty product has been “overwhelming.”

“We are an extremely niche product even in the global, gluten-free market,” says Robertson. “All the other gluten-free pastas, whether they be dry or fresh, just don’t meet expectations of what a pasta should be. Right now we’re trying to figure out how to keep up.”

Robertson would like to be able to sell to more restaurants, delis and other food service businesses as well as have more grocery stores carry his product. But without a larger space to crank out more pasta, his growth is limited. The company currently employs 28 people and intends to hire more once a new facility is up and running.

Robertson is trying to keep the operation in Madison. Details are far from finalized, but he is in early talks to move to the south side in the industrial area off of Greenway Cross.

“We are trying to stay,” says Robertson.

“But nothing is set in stone, and we haven’t closed on a deal yet. We do have customers waiting in the wings that we need to provide a service for. So if we need to go outside of Madison to make that happen, we might have to leave. But I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that.” ■

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If House Targaryen is associated with fire and blood, for example, why is its namesake cocktail made with vodka, ginger and Ela Barn Cat apple cider? Is the Lannister made with New Amsterdam gin to conjure nobility and wealth? Brilliant! But then, what is the cardamom allspice syrup supposed to mean?

Also, should any of these drinks be served with a spoiler alert?

With cooler temperatures settling in, I chose the Greyjoy, a strong yet graceful drink made with Bulleit bourbon, shrubbed pear, a bourbon-caramel simple syrup and lemon juice, served up in a martini glass.

My first drink reminded me of a bourbon old fashioned, and since I prefer bourbon to brandy, that was fine. In full disclosure, though, I also prefer tart drinks to sweet ones, so I enjoyed my Greyjoy much more the second time, when I asked the bartender to cut the syrup by half. You should

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A “supper club” discussion with librarians and artists on food production, processing, distribution and waste hosted by the Community Research Kitchen. Includes a free meal of soup, salad and bread (you can bring a dish to pass too). At Madison Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin St., 6-8 pm. RSVP at madisonpubliclibrary.org or email spatularandbarcode@ gmail.com.

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A celebration of soccer

Día de Fútbol comes to Breese Stevens

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What do Wilco, the Raging Grannies, the 15-1 Madison Radicals ultimate team and international soccer star Gerardo Torrado have in common? They each will have been a vital part of the most exciting year in decades at Breese Stevens Field on Madison’s east side.

On Sunday, Oct. 16, the facility will host its final event of the year with Día de Fútbol. This inaugural “day of soccer” (sponsored by Madison Gas and Electric) will feature an appearance

by Gerardo Torrado — a mainstay of the Mexican National Soccer Team since 1999 and a member of the North American Soccer League’s Indy Eleven. Two all-star teams, United Football Club and the Madison Blues, composed of the best Latino soccer players from around Dane County, will face each other in a 2 p.m. match.

Gates open at 12:30 p.m., and youth soccer matches featuring at least four teams will be played simultaneously on a split field beginning at 1:30 p.m. Torrado will sign autographs, address the crowd and participate in a penalty kick competition at halftime of the all-star game, during which fans will have the opportunity to stop the aggressive midfielder from scoring a goal.

Admission is free, and the event — complete with food carts, live music and a familyfriendly vibe — is expected to be as festive as a Madison Mallards game.

“We’re baseball guys and we’re still learning about soccer,” admits Vern Stenman, Mallards president and chief operating officer of Big Top Baseball, which manages the historic facility. “But I’ve always wanted to bring soccer to one of the finest facilities in the state. At its core, Breese Stevens works best as a soccer facility.”

Baseball executives seeking to reach soccer fans is not new. In 2014 and 2015, for example, Milwaukee’s Miller Park hosted international friendlies when the Brewers were on the All-Star break.

Sunday’s games will be played rain or shine, and Stenman says he hopes Día de Fútbol will inspire future soccer exhibition matches at Breese Stevens Field — maybe even the establishment of a professional soccer team, with the stadium serving as its home.

Considering what the Madison Radicals have accomplished in only four years of existence, that doesn’t seem too far-fetched.

The American Ultimate Disc League team consistently draws more than 1,000 fans per game, and in August hosted the AUDL Championship Weekend at the stadium.

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Leading the pack in terms of scholarly heft — the book you’d most want the next Oval Office occupant to have read — is Andrew Bacevich’s 2016 America’s War for the Greater Middle East (Oct. 22, 2 p.m.), which seeks to make sense of the last four decades of U.S. entanglement in that part of the world.

Bacevich, a retired U.S. Army officer and professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University, focuses on the series of escalating blunders that constitute U.S. military policy toward this region.

He notes that from the end of World War II to the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and 1980, “virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving” in the Greater Middle East. But, since 1990, virtually none have died in action anywhere else. Bacevich provides an exhaustive, occasionally exhausting, history and critique.

Another worthy book that takes a long view of historical events in Mark Stein’s 2014 American Panic (Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.). Stein recounts our nation’s recurring eruptions of outsized fear over groups of people and ideas. Subtitled A History of Who Scares Us and Why, it covers everything from the Salem witch trials to the current wave of Islamophobia, stopping along the way to look at panics over black people, Asians, Catholics, Jews, communists and “illegal” immigrants. There’s even a chapter on hysteria over corporations, as evidenced in part by the portrayal of Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life.

Stein’s approach, while occasionally strained, proves our constant appetite for scapegoats and villains. In one enlightening passage, he notes how widespread animosity toward the Chinese abated as Americans shifted their hatred to the Japanese. Maybe he’ll talk about the panic over creepy clowns.

No offense to Katherine Cramer, but the UW-Madison professor of political science has written a book that may be more enjoyable to talk about than it is to read. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Oct. 22, 6 p.m.) is an unabashedly academic work, with methodologies, footnotes and graphs. But its central finding is not complex: Wisconsin’s rural residents feel disrespected, a sentiment politicians have managed to expertly exploit.

In the conversations with Cramer at the core of the book, one rural resident says city folk “think they’re smarter than ya. Got that book learning. People go to college they come out dumber than they went in.” Another puts it like this: “They shower before work, not after.”

Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel on the fall of Saigon, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, has followed with Nothing Ever Dies (Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.).

In this nonfiction meditation on the Vietnam War, Nguyen explores the transformative power of remembrance: “Nations cultivate and would monopolize, if they could, both memory and forgetting.” His work stands as a rebuke to that determination.

Matthew Desmond, a UW-Madison alum who is now an associate professor of social sciences at Harvard, dives deep into the plight of pushed-out tenants and the landlords who shove them in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Nov. 1, 7 p.m.). The Milwaukee-based book, the subject of a recent cover story in Isthmus, has been selected as the UW’s Go Big Read offering for 2016.

Jack Mitchell, the former longtime director of Wisconsin Public Radio, has produced Wisconsin on the Air (Oct. 21, 6 p.m.), described in a recent Isthmus review as “a lively and loving history” of the first 100 years of public broadcasting in Wisconsin.

The book cracks open a treasure chest of anecdotes and insights into what is hopefully the foundation for the next 100 years. ■

Literary dames Highlights in fiction and poetry by women

BY BECKY HOLMES

Literary women are making a big splash at this year’s fest, offering everything from mysteries to historical fiction and contemporary poetry.

Some, like Jane Hamilton and Jennifer Chiaverini, are perennial favorites, returning to the festival with their latest offerings.

Others, such as Flynn Berry, are first-time authors making their first visits. Here’s just a smattering of the offerings.

Jane Hamilton returns with her latest book, The Excellent Lombards (Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m.). Inspired by Hamilton’s life on an apple farm in southern Wisconsin, the book examines rural life, including the puzzle of succession on a family farm. Hamilton’s particular insight into the unspoken rules of family dynamics makes this a great read for fans of family sagas.

Flynn Berry is a first timer at the festival.

Her book, Under the Harrow (Oct. 21, 6 p.m.), is a moody first-person novel of suspense about a young woman searching for her sister’s killer. Berry’s sensitive portrait of love and loss moves this book from a simple “whodunit” to a more emotional plane. Joining the ranks of ultra-popular books like The

Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, with their unreliable narrators, Berry’s story gets under your skin.

Cara Black, known for her 15-book series about Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc, is in town with her latest, Murder on the Quai (Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.). Black switches things up by writing a prequel to the series, introducing the young Leduc as a university student in Paris in 1989. Black’s books are treats for fans of Paris and its neighborhoods; throw in a dog with a cute name and you’ve got the perfect recipe for an escapist mystery series.

Another festival newbie, Rae Meadows, will read from her latest novel I Will Send Rain (Oct. 22, 10:30 a.m.). Set in Oklahoma during the dustbowl, it’s a compelling story of a woman’s struggle to find hope and strength amid tragedy.

Meadows also explores a theme common to her earlier works: the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters.

Author of The New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, Jennifer Chiaverini, is a book fest fan favorite. In recent years, Chiaverini has begun writing historical fiction set during the Civil War era. Her newest book, Fates and Traitors (Oct. 22, 1:30 p.m.), is about the life of John Wilkes Booth. Praised for its historical accuracy, the book manages to humanize Booth without apologizing for him. Chiaverini depicts him large-

ly through the eyes of the women who loved him — his mother, his sister and his secret fiancée.

Known for her witty books about marriage, friendships and the career struggles of young professionals, Jennifer Close delivers up a witty takedown of Washington insiders in The Hopefuls (Oct. 22, 3 p.m.). According to Close, Washington is a place where your security clearance defines your location in the social stratum, and your relationship with your BlackBerry is stronger than with your spouse. Light and topical, The Hopefuls is a funny take on modern politics and marriage.

Madison poet Rita Mae Reese is bringing The Book of Hulga (Oct. 23, noon) to this year’s festival. The Book of Hulga is a project book, which means that all the poems explore a single topic — in this case the works of writer Flannery O’Connor, and one of her characters in particular: Hulga appears in only one of O’Connor’s stories, but she looms large in these poems. Part fan fiction, part homage to Southern gothic literature, The Book of Hulga works as a stand-alone collection and as a lens through which we can view O’Connor’s darkly comic genius. ■

The history of Tetris, Wisconsin surfers and more A look at sports, recreation and some uncategorizable titles

BY MICHAEL POPKE

Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild (Oct. 23, 10:30 a.m.) is a poignant account of a parentchild bond taken to extremes, and it made me cry.

On a lighter note, journalist and Belt magazine publisher Anne Trubek has written a concise summary of and prognosis for — quite literally — the written word. In The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting (Oct. 23, noon),

she links ancient times to the digital era and explains why we all are “living through a transitional moment.”

Regardless of whether I type it or use longhand, I (like many other journalists I know) aspire to write a novel. Which is why I’m drawn to The Making of a Book: Writing, Editing, and Small Press Publication (Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m.). Jeremiah Lewis — a Madison-based fiction writer and the founder of Snow Creek Press — will join first-time California author Louis Lo Praeste to discuss the long process of turning Lo Praeste’s once-sprawling novel into a taut post-9/11 survival story.

Finally, I like books about offbeat topics, and books don’t get more offbeat than Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders (Oct. 22, noon).

The handsome, hefty collection is co-written

by Ella Morton with the co-founders of the collaborative AtlasObscura.com website, hailed as “the definitive guide to the world’s wondrous and curious places.” It features more than 600 weird and quirky destinations, including Spring Green’s House on the Rock and Dr. Evermor’s Forevertron between Baraboo and Prairie du Sac. ■

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As the sports columnist for Isthmus, I’ve been impressed by the efforts of Wisconsin Book Festival organizers in recent years to include author presentations about baseball’s forgotten heroes and the trials and tribulations of owning a miniature golf course in northern Wisconsin.

This year’s festival expands its sports and recreation reach further. To that end, let’s begin with an illustrated history of the videogame Time magazine recently hailed as the best of all time. Tetris: The Games People Play, by Box Brown (Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.), features simple, black, white and yellow drawings that reflect the videogame genre’s infancy in 1984, when a Russian computer scientist working for the Soviet government created the colorful stacking puzzle game.

Box, an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, will be part of the free hands-on Science Arcade Night showcasing vintage videogames, virtual reality and more, courtesy of the Wisconsin Science Festival.

Another themed event I’m excited about is what Sheboygan brothers Lee and Larry Williams are calling the “Wisconsin Book

Festival Luau.” As the focus of author William Povletich’s Some Like It Cold: Surfing the Malibu of the Midwest (Oct. 21, 3 p.m.), the Williams brothers will share the story of how they turned the frigid waters of Lake Michigan into a surfing mecca. In true Wisconsin style, snacks and beer samples will be provided.

Speaking of lakes, a fellow swim dad and I were talking books at a recent meet, and he mentioned the thrill of reading Donald Sanford’s On Fourth Lake: A Social History of Lake Mendota (Oct. 22, 10:30 a.m.). This gem of a book, richly illustrated with more than 500 maps, photographs and newspaper clippings, chronicles in an easy-to-read format the 15,000-year history of what the author calls “Madison’s greatest lake.” You might recognize Sanford as a Betty Lou Cruises captain, but after reading the engaging book that took him a decade to write you’ll never view Lake Mendota the same way again.

As a father whose wilderness experience doesn’t extend much past a Cub Scouts weekend of camping at the Sauk County Fairgrounds, I’m intrigued by author and journalist James Campbell, who decided to take his 15-year-old daughter with him to Alaska’s outer edges on a work assignment. Braving It: A Father, A Daughter, and an

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True to their name, Fringe Character stays on the edges.

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Stamina and grace Liz Sexe Dance presents DUOS: Exploring Duets

BY KATIE REISER

At Kanopy Dance studio, dancers Liz Sexe, Alyssa Jendusa and Alaina Keller work through a phrase in artistic director Lisa Thurrell’s new piece for Sexe’s upcoming dance concert, DUOS: Exploring Duets.

After agreeing on which count to accent with a sweeping movement, Sexe says she’s having some “brain glitches.” Co-artistic director Robert Cleary quips from across the studio, “I don’t know why; you’re only doing 17 different pieces of choreography!”

Seventeen might be hyberbole, but Sexe’s new project proves she’s got stamina.

Sexe performs in seven of the eight dances that make up DUOS, and she is choreographing the eighth.

Sexe has presented several dance concerts over the years, including One: An Evening of Solos in January, so this show of duets, which plays at Madison Circus Space on Oct. 15, is a logical progression.

Last winter, Sexe began approaching her “Madison dance crushes,” asking them to choreograph duets. The resulting program represents a who’s who of female choreog-

raphers in Madison: Kate Corby, Maureen Janson, Heidi Krause, Li Chiao-Ping, Marlene Skog, Collette Stewart and Thurrell.

Her collaborators generously donated their work and their time, and in some cases found dancers for Sexe to perform with. Several are brand-new works, while others have been rejiggered for this occasion.

Growing up in Deerfield, Sexe studied dance at Studio 3-D before majoring in dance and biology at St. Olaf College. She then earned an MFA in dance from Mills College in Oakland, California, right as the recession hit, precipitating her return to Madison. Sexe, who joined Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 2009 and is one of the company’s most riveting performers, is now a lecturer at UW-Madison’s dance department, where she teaches ballet and Pilates. She also moonlights at Pilates Central.

DUOS will be demanding for even the most physically (and mentally) fit performer. When asked about the order of the program, Sexe whips out orange Post-Its from her journal and moves them around a coffee shop table, sharing the ins and outs of each piece’s placement in the show and what excites her about each of them.

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Self-producing such an ambitious show might be a risky proposition, but the community-building spirit propelling this project means that Madison gets an excellent glimpse into the modern dance scene, with choreography and dancing from some of the city’s biggest talents. ■

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As its title suggests, Divided We Fall is not another nostalgia film about the Wisconsin Uprising. Like other movies about the popular response to Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10, it has footage of Wisconsinites marching, drumming and sleeping in the Capitol. But it doesn’t stop there. This documentary by first-time director Katherine Acosta, who has a sociology Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, looks deeply into the mechanisms of the uprising and why it fizzled and, ultimately, failed. Weaving citizens’ videos with numerous interviews, the film offers new information, revealing what happened behind the scenes.

If you thought that the months of protest happened organically, you’d be partially correct. People wanted to express their rage in response to Walker’s attack on unions and cuts to social and environmental programs and agencies. However, behind the scenes, UW-Madison students, members of the Teachers Assistants Association and others were orchestrating a movement. They even had a room in the Capitol where a lot of the organizing originated. It was a somewhat uncomfortable role for the students, who pride themselves on the nonhierarchical, “flat” structure of TAA and who recognized that the uprising itself was nonhierarchical.

Unions, a major target of the Walker administration, showed up a little later, bringing organization, money and hierarchical thinking. While students organized an info station, child care, medics and food, unions brought large numbers of people from all over the state. And while the TAA and others, including Madison Teachers Inc., were mulling a general strike, organized labor leaders were thinking up ways to work with Walker.

As for state Democrats, 14 of them left the state as a strategy to make a vote on Act 10 impossible after the Republicans ended a hearing, which continued as a “listening session” for five more days. Former Rep. Brett Hulsey of Madison, who eventually ran an unsuccessful bid for governor, nominated himself a leader in more than one instance. He later collaborated with those who decided to end the occupation of the Capitol, bombastically declaring that “the most important part of this campaign is when you follow me out of here.”

As the film reveals, many Wisconsinites were committed to continuing the fight, but most of the unions decided — without consulting their members — to end the occupation, capitulating to Walker in the hope of getting a few crumbs. Madison Teachers Inc., which had organized a teachers’ sick-out that was supported by students, found itself betrayed

by WEAC, AFSCME and SEIU. Says John Matthews, MTI’s longtime head, “Selling out pulled the rug out from our efforts...the [union leaders]

Was a local movement co-opted?

were willing to buy their way out of it. That’s like authorizing theft.”

When the occupation ended, the unsuccessful campaign to recall Walker began.

Like the Arab Spring, the people of Wisconsin failed to overcome the dictates of the political upper echelons.

According to the film, this failure happened because of the actions of the major unions and at least one Democrat — an assertion that is sure to provoke discussion, I believe this film will be studied by future historians, but Madison audiences have the opportunity to see it now: Divided We Fall plays at Sundance on Oct. 20. ■

Learning to live with predators A Wisconsin premiere of Medicine of the Wolf explores ecological significance

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Why are we afraid of the big, bad wolf? Is it because they kill so much livestock, or steal our babies? Or is it because they have been vilified for centuries in every manner of media from folk tales to blog posts?

Julia Huffman’s award-winning documentary, Medicine of the Wolf, explores the lives of wolves in Minnesota, their place in the ecosystem, their relationship with humans and the continued smear campaign against the predators.

It includes footage shot by National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg, and will screen at the Barrymore Theatre Oct. 19 as part of Wolf Awareness Week. The 7 p.m. screening will be followed by a panel discussion with wolf experts and advocates, including Robert Mann, an elder from the Ho-Chunk Nation, and Randy Jurewicz, former wolf administrator for the state Department of Natural Resources.

Wolves once ranged throughout the lower 48 states, but by the late 20th century

they could only be found in northern Minnesota.

After decades of protection and management, their range expanded to more than 10 states, and they were removed from the endangered species list. Here in Wisconsin, 528 wolves were “harvested” from the north from 2012 until 2014, when a federal court ruling put wolves back on the endangered list.

“A forest with wolves is a healthy forest,” says environmentalist and author Barry Babcock, who appears in the film and will speak on the panel. Babcock says wolves spark a “eutrophic cascade,” which influences plants and animals throughout the wilderness: Wolves

cull the deer population, which means the deer don’t eat as much foliage; more foliage means a greater variety of herbivores are sustained, which leads to a greater variety of small predators and scavengers (eagles, foxes, weasels, etc).

Despite their beneficial effects, the vilification continues, with propaganda fueled by exaggerated tales of wolves killing livestock.

Now, the push is on in various states, including Wisconsin, to allow wolf hunting again.

Sometimes the hatred crosses into the irrational. Animal behaviorist and panelist Patricia McConnell says she heard “one hunter in Northern Wisconsin say he liked to kill wolves in as painful a way as possible, because ‘they are evil.’” The truth is that incidents of wolves attacking humans are about as common as them blowing over pigs’ houses.

Huffman and the panelists hope that Medicine of the Wolf will help turn society’s mistrust and hatred for wolves into a respectful partnership. Learning to share the world with wolves would not only improve their lives, but our own as well. ■

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The Films of Paolo Gioli: Short films by the avantgarde artist. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 15, 7 pm.

Army of Darkness: The third “Evil Dead” film goes straight for comedy, as Ash (Bruce Campbell) and his Olds are mysteriously transported to 1,300 A.D. UW Union South-Marquee, Oct. 15, 11 pm.

Crossroads Mini Film Festival: National Coming Out Month event featuring films with a QTPOC theme. UW LGBT Campus Center, Oct. 15, 11 am-5 pm.

Forgotten Plague: Documentary about myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome). Monona Terrace, Oct. 16, 11:30 am (RSVP: 834-1001).

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My Cousin Rachel: UW Cinematheque: Did Rachel murder her new husband? Will his brother Ashley suffer the same fate? Chazen Museum of Art, Oct. 16, 2 pm.

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Multiple Maniacs: UW Cinematheque: “Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions” is really just a criminal front; this early John Waters feature includes a “rosary job” and death by giant lobster.

Union South-Marquee, Oct. 17, 7 pm.

Shakespeare Behind Bars: Documentary about a theater troupe forming in a Kentucky jail, followed by talks on Jail Library Group and Oakhill Prison Humanities Project. Central Library, Oct. 18, 6 pm.

Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius: PBS Nova film about the 20th century African American chemist.

UW Union South-Marquee, Oct. 18, 7 pm.

Medicine of the Wolf: See story, page 36. Barrymore Theatre, Oct. 19, 7 pm.

Prince of Darkness: A vat of green liquid should have been left alone by the priest who discovered it and the physics students enlisted to examine it.

Bos Meadery, Oct. 19, 7 pm.

Homo sapiens: Spotlight Cinema: Filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter examines modern-day ruins. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Oct. 19, 7 pm.

Divided We Fall: See review, page 36. Sundance, Oct. 20, 7 pm.

The In-Laws: Farce in which the children of a CIA operative (Peter Falk) and dentist (Alan Arkin) are getting married; screenwriter Andrew Bergman will talk about the film. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 20, 7 pm.

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

Tip Top Tavern: Sam Ness, folk, free, 9 pm.

Twist Bar and Grill: Bill Roberts Combo, 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.

Saturday, Oct. 15, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

UW Union South-Sett: Brasstacks, Fizzy Pop, 8 pm.

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MDM Custom Drums is supplying several kits for a late October punk rock fest in Florida, but before sending them off they are throwing an art and music bash. Works by seven local artists will be on display starting at 8 pm, with music at 9:30 pm. Be sure to catch a rare set by local punkers the Gusto, and both the one-man band and visual art incarnations of ROBOMAN/Rob Oman.

With Madison power trio the Gran Fury and Descendents tribute Descendaints.

Commander Thursday, Oct. 13, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm

StageQ presents a dark comedy about an ambitious politician battling personal demons and societal taboos.

Ned Worley, a former college professor who becomes governor of Rhode Island, is running for president. Richard, his openly gay partner, is worried about the bid, while a campaign manager and an idealistic aide face off. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), Oct. 14-16. Through Oct. 22.

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Zeds Dead Thursday, Oct. 13, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

The Canadian remix masters known as Zeds Dead have been turning heads with their dubstep tracks for years, pushing crowds to frenzy levels with original and re-imagined jams full of deep bass lines and bizarre breakbeats. Beyond that, you can also expect new material from the duo at this show, including tracks featuring Swedish singer Elliphant and Indiana emcee Freddie Gibbs.

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.

CO MEDY Lachlan Patterson, Rojo Perez, Antoine McNeail: 8:30 pm on 10/13 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 10/14-15, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

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Louis C.K.: 8 pm, 10/13, Overture Center-Overture Hall. Sold out. 258-4141.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Chazen Expansion 5th Anniversary: 6-8 pm, 10/13, Chazen Museum of Art, with music by Ben Sidran, talk by Director Russell Panczenko, Free. 263-2246.

Harvest Celebration: Annual event, 6-8 pm, 10/13, Lussier Community Education Center, with kids activities, music, food. Free admission. RSVP: 833-4979.

The Hood Internet Thursday, Oct. 13, Frequency, 9 pm

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For a band whose career began with a joke in the 2003 single “Gay Bar,” Electric Six have spent the time since proving themselves to be a serious talent. Now a staggering 12 albums deep, the Detroit sextet has built a reputation as a band best enjoyed live, torching stages worldwide with a combination of rock ’n’ roll, disco and garage punk that’s just as good for dancing as it is for headbanging. With In the Whale.

Tech N9ne Thursday, Oct. 13, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

With a rapid-fire rhyming style that knows no boundaries, the versatile Kansas City emcee defies any single label. 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).”

With Krizz Kaliko, JL, Starzz, Sincere Life.

The Hood Internet surfaced in the late aughts, separating themselves from the 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, TheDream, R Kelly, M83, the Black Keys, of Montreal, Battles. They’re all there. Go dance. With Show You Suck, DJ Lolo.

Mickey’s: Mal-O-Dua, French/Hawaiian, 5:30 pm; Oedipus Tex, Thompson Springs, Crushed Out, 10 pm.

Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center: Middleton Community Orchestra, 7:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Romero, Compact Deluxe, We Should Have Been DJs, rock, free, 10 pm.

We Are Family: Family Service Madison benefit, 5-8 pm, 10/13, East Side Club, with music by UW MadHatters; appearances by Madison Capitols & MC Van Edwards (101.5 FM), silent auction, raffle, food. $25. RSVP: fsmad.org. 252-1320.

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Fringe Character Friday, Oct. 14, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

As the name implies, this local group dances around the edges of multiple genres — rap, soul, jazz, electronica and others — layering them into brandnew grooves. Their first project, Mint, is both hypnotic and startling in lyrical substance and sound. With Immigré, DJ Phil Money. See story, page 32.

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SPACE of Madison: MahaRa, “Sound Healing Journey” concert with poetry & chakra attunement, 7 pm.

Best known as the leader of the improbably hip Tijuana Brass, nine-time Grammy Award winner Herb Alpert is also a certifiable music industry giant. The “A” in A&M Records, Alpert contributed to the careers of Liza Minnelli, the Carpenters and Janet Jackson — to name just a few. His wife, vocalist Lani Hall (whose hit “Never Say Never Again” was the theme for the Bond movie of the same name) tours full time with Alpert. This concert will be a colorful journey into the deepest corners of American pop music.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Parry Karp, Frances Karp & Martha Fischer, free, 8 pm.

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Major Vistas + Anders Svanoe Trio Friday, Oct. 14, UW Memorial Union-Play Circle, 7:30 pm

InDIGenous Jazz, a free concert series from Greater Madison Jazz Consortium and Madison Music Collective, continues with a pair of Madison trios. Major Vistas (pictured) flavor their improvisational organ-guitar-drums flights with rock leanings on the 2016 release Minor Anthems. The concert also features a set by sax/clarinet player and composer Anders Svanoe’s small group.

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After canceling a full-length ballet Peter Pan last spring due to financial woes, Madison Ballet is back on its toes again. A study in contrasts, Black/White begins with excerpts from Balanchine’s masterpiece The Four Temperaments. The George Balanchine Trust tightly controls which regional companies get permission to perform the master’s revered works, so local balletomanes are fortunate to have an opportunity to see this piece. The show also includes artistic director W. Earle Smith’s hip-hop inflected Street, set to music from Black Violin. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2 & 8 pm.

Playscapes Friday, Oct. 14, Broom Street Theater, 8 pm

Friday, Oct. 14, Wil-Mar Center, 8 pm Singer/songwriter Mark Adkins (of subvocal) will provide the soundtrack and the inspiration for Sandra Klingbeil, an accomplished artist who will create an acrylic painting in response to the live set. It’s a presentation of Wild Hog in the Woods, and one lucky guest will get to take home the original painting.

An all-star, all-female cast performs in a new collection of short plays by Kelly Maxwell. Maxwell, an award-winning actor and improv comedy performer who wrote the script for Held — which debuted at Broom Street and moved on to the New York International Fringe Festival in August — explores the disconnect between adulthood and playfulness. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 pm. Through Nov. 5.

Arboretum Cohousing: Ryanhood, Oak Street Ramblers, Americana, 7 pm.

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UW Union South-The Sett: Reggie Bonds, K.Raydio, Danez Smith, Klassik, Gamespitta, Kiings, Mo City, Rich Robbins, 3rd Dimension, others, free, 7:30 pm.

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Pegasus Games: Heather Dale Band, 7 pm.

Friday, Oct. 14, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Beethoven’s Pastorale EDWARD ELGAR In The South (Alassio)

Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, with guest Ilya Kaler, violin, 7:30 pm.

Cargo-East Washington: County Highway PD, 7:30 pm.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Tontine Ensemble, Sisters Three, Cyrus Pireh, 8 pm.

First Unitarian Society: Jess Salek, piano, 12:15 pm.

High Noon: Shakey, Neil Young tribute, 5:30 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: The Jimmys, blues, 9 pm.

The Capitol Steps: 7:30 pm, 10/14, Overture CenterOverture Hall. 258-4141.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Robert Townsend: Discussing his “Long War” series, 7 pm, 10/14, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Watershed Reading Series: Readings from new anthologies of Uruguayan & Polish poets, 8 pm, 10/14, Arts & Literature Laboratory. $3 donation. 556-7415.

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Madison Capitols: USHL vs. Green Bay, 7:05 pm, 10/14, Alliant Center. 23.50-$15.25. 267-3955.

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Edgewater Hotel: Red Hot Horn Dawgs, free, 3 pm.

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High Noon Saloon: The Gusto, Descendaints, The Gran Fury, Roboman, 9:30 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Undercover, classic rock, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Jim Ripp, Luke HrovatStaedter, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Laura Rain & the Caesars, 9 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Honeyshot, rock/pop, free, 10 pm.

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Gates of Heaven: Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, 7:30 pm.

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Overture Rotunda Studio Oct 30 (SUN), 2-3PM Taiwanese Puppetry Workshop

The American Girls Revue: Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theater of Madison musical, 10/8-23, Overture Center-Playhouse, at 1:30 & 4:30 pm Sats.-Suns. and 10:30 am, 10/16 (sensory-friendly). $38 ($26 ages 17 & under). 258-4141.

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Fountain: Jennifer Hedstrom, free, 8 pm.

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SP ECI A L EV EN TS International Archaeology Day: All-ages activities, 9 am-4 pm, 10/15, Wisconsin Historical Museum, with guided exhibit tours 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Free. 264-6555.

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Bear Hands began their career with the “Brooklyn buzz band” tag, which for many young artists, can be the kiss of death — just another flavor-of-the-week indie rock band. But the experimentally minded quartet is still here 10 years later, and better than ever. Their most recent release, this year’s You’ll Pay for This, marries their sonic quirks to arena-ready rock jams. With fellow Brooklynites Savoir Adore.

Sunday, Oct. 16, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

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Madison College-Truax, Mitby Theater: Piano PlayTogether, “piano orchestra” by MAPTA students, free, 2 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW University Bands, free, 1 pm; UW Choral Collage, free, 7:30 pm.

BOOKS/SP OKEN WORD Lucy Sanna: Discussing “The Cherry Harvest,” hew new novel, 2 pm, 10/16, Monona Library. 222-6127.

Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets: 2017 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, 2 pm, 10/16, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

An Afternoon with Garrison Keillor: 3 pm, 10/16, Overture Center-Overture Hall. 258-4141.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS PhotoMidwest Women’s Interest Group: PhotoMidwest 2016 exhibit, 9/26-10/30, UW Extension Pyle Center (reception 1-4 pm, 10/16). photomidwest.org.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Día de Fútbol: Match between United Football Club & Madison Blues all-star teams, 2 pm, 10/16, Breese Stevens Field, plus all-ages activities starting 12:30 pm including autograph signing by Gerardo Torrado, music, games, food carts. Free admission. breesestevensfield.com.

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Holding History: Examine Shakespeare-themed items, 5-6:30 pm, 10/18, UW Memorial Library Special Collections, plus talk by professor Joshua Calhoun. holdinghistory.org.

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Crystal Corner: David Hecht & the Who Dat, 9 pm.

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Liquid: Felly, Knick Symo, DJay Mando, 9 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Gargoyle Brass with Jared Stellmacher, MSO Concert Organ series, 7:30 pm.

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Live electronic trio Autograf (pictured) create a laid-back (and soulful) incarnation of EDM, and also use their art and design skills to craft cover art. Oh, and they have remixed Pharrell, Stevie Wonder and others in their spare time. Co-headliner Goldroom (aka Josh Legg) released his debut album West of the West on Sept. 23, and also will perform with a full band for the tour. With Oh My Love, Zero Gravity.

Roger Hoover says the secret to good songwriting is â&#x20AC;&#x153;blending observation with experience.â&#x20AC;? He does so masterfully on his new project, Pastures, which is as close to a John Prine record as it gets. Hoover says Prine is a big influence, and the two have more in common than music â&#x20AC;&#x201D; real-world experience. Prior to going into music full time, the Ohioan worked with people with disabilities, toiled as a screen printer and framed pictures for a living. This is a full band show: big trap drums and reverbed guitars alert! With Yahara, Zach Pietrini.

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Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde first found success Stateside as part of the British Invasion in 1964, piling up hit singles such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Summer Song,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Goneâ&#x20AC;? and the Midwest favorite â&#x20AC;&#x153;Distant Shores.â&#x20AC;? The duo also released a couple classic pop-psych LPs, Of Cabbages and Kings and The Ark, before splitting at the decadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. They reunited briefly in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and again in the mid-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;00s, and have been touring with their trademark harmonies ever since.

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Buddhism is increasingly becoming mainstream, says Gen Kelsang Gomlam, resident teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center Madison, 1825 S. Park St. The group’s Madison’s center, one of the largest in the Midwest, opened in 1999 and is a welcoming place for people to learn more about Buddhism.

Although the religion once was only for Buddhist monks, Gomlam says that modern Kadampa Buddhism is a way for people to address human problems, including anger, anxiety and worry, through meditation. She says that people often seek happiness from external things, like a new car or job, but that “happiness comes from inside your mind.”

Even 15 minutes a day spent meditating can make a big difference in learning to focus and finding inner peace, Gomlam says.

Kadampa meditation centers, found in 48 countries, strive to present Buddhism in a way that is accessible to everyone. The centers also support the idea that people don’t need to become Buddhist to benefit from the practice of meditation.

Kadampa Meditation Center Madison offers classes for all levels of experience, including a free noontime meditation and such classes as “Unwind your Mind,” an after-work meditation.

Many sessions are free; most others are lowcost, from $4 to $10.

“Everyone is welcome to come in and learn to meditate,” Gomlam says.

The center has been in its current location on South Park Street for over a year, but it will celebrate a new meditation space there as part of its grand opening Oct. 14-16.

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Where most would have seen just crabgrass and weeds, Ryan Henke saw opportunity. This summer, the east-side homeowner transformed what was an otherwise ignored piece of earth into a far more aesthetically interesting crevice garden. The narrow city terrace in front of Henke’s home on the 200 block of North Baldwin turned out to be a perfect spot for it.

“I got the idea from Allen Centennial Garden on campus,” says Henke, whose day job is working in sales, marketing and event services at Monona Terrace. “I figured a crevice garden would be attractive and low-maintenance. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.”

So what the heck is a crevice garden?

Czech botanist Josef Halda is credited with popularizing this type of rock garden in the

1990s. The style is defined by a series of closely spaced flat rocks, placed vertically so they jut out of the ground. This creates — wait for it — crevices that are ideal for growing a wide variety of alpine plants. These usually small, almost cactus-like plants grow in rocky, sandy soil and are native to high-altitude regions above the tree line. A crevice garden replicates those conditions by sandwiching plants between the narrow spaces created by the rocks, forcing deep root growth. This protects the plants from the air temperature above and allows the plants to thrive under dry conditions.

“It may look a little goofy. But for as odd of a setup as it is, the garden really seems to have worked out in this spot,” says Henke.

Building the crevice garden turned out to be easier than Henke initially thought.

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ple are. But the initial space for meditation was noisy, due to traffic. “We’ve had that karma for a while,” Gomlam says, with a smile.

The new meditation space, with room for 100, is at the back of the center and is much quieter. The carpeted space will have beautiful new Buddha statues, too, because “everyone can receive benefit from seeing representations of something they can’t see directly,” Gomlam says.

The theme of the grand opening weekend will be “Happiness and Our Human Potential.” Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, deputy spiritual director of the New Kadampa Tradition, will visit for the weekend. Saturday’s events include a talk about how to be a happy human, and Sunday’s talk will give people confidence that we can create world peace.

“We need hope,” Gomlam says.

More information about classes and events are at meditationinmadison.org. n

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He first ripped up the grass and topsoil. Next, he placed a weed barrier and covered it with a mix of soil, sand and lime. After that, he put down gravel, put the large rocks in place and filled in the gaps as needed. He was careful to set the rocks two feet away from the curb so people who park their cars along Baldwin Street wouldn’t bang their doors on them. He also put a binding mix near the curb to cut down on gravel ending up in the street. The last piece of the puzzle was putting in cool-

looking alpine plants. The whole project took him about a month.

“The most labor-intensive part was hauling all the topsoil and grass to my compost heap in the backyard,” says Henke. “But I enjoy being outside. I’m sort of a mule, so I don’t mind doing hard work. Now that it’s all set up, it’s more fun than toil at this point.”

One perk Henke wasn’t expecting was that passersby seem to respect the crevice garden.

“It’s a high-traffic area. The amount of trash, cigarette butts and other stuff has gone down dramatically,” says Henke.

As for cost, Henke says, “I really don’t know, I try not to think about it too much.

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Chinese Cuisine Cook As the Chinese cuisine expert on our culinary team, you’ll be involved with menu creation, ingredient preparation, and scratch cooking for Epic staff, customers, and guests at our newest dining venue, Chopsticks. In addition to crafting and carrying out our menu, you’ll serve as a mentor for others on the team as they learn the art and technique of Chinese cuisine.

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I’m 64 years young, a musician, chubby, full head of hair, no Viagra needed, no alcohol, I don’t mind if you drink, smoker, yes I am. I am also faithful, loyal and single for five years. No health issues, nada, zero, zilch. Not gay, not prejudiced against gays, pro-woman, Democrat, MASCULINE. Except I only like the younger women and women without tattoos. And I like them FEMININE. Ladies my age are a shopping bag of issues with children and ex-hubbies. NO THANK YOU. So what’s my problem? Young women see me as an old gizzard. I am not ugly, and I look younger than 64. But I see what younger women go for. These girls are missing out on me because they would rather be abused, cheated on, and kicked around by some young prince. Be my guest, dear!

Another problem is that I don’t go to bars or really go out at all, so how the hell am I going to meet a girl? But I long for a girl I can cherish. I’m even willing to marry the right girl if she wishes, no problema. Who cares about age? I sure don’t, but they sure do. Of course, I will die first; she can keep the car and every-

thing else for that matter. I can’t take it with me. So I have about 24 more years of life, and I don’t want to wait. Dreaming is free, of course, but I want it right here, right now.

Am I asking for too much?

Oblivious Ladies Disregard Elder Romeo Who cares about age? You, OLDER, you care about age.

You rule out dating women your own age and then toss out two and possibly three stupid rationalizations for not staying in your actuarial lane: Women your age have children, ex-husbands and tattoos(?). All bullshit. Women your own age might be likelier to have children and ex-husbands, but there are plenty of childless women out there in their 50s and 60s, OLDER, younger women are likelier to have tattoos, and everyone (yourself included) has exes.

And excuse me, but women your own age are a shopping bag of issues? You’re a shopping mall’s worth of issues yourself, OLDER. Issue number one: You can’t be honest, even in an anonymous forum, about why you wanna date younger women — they make your grizzled old dick hard — so you take a dump on all older women.

Issue number two: male entitlement syndrome. (The universe doesn’t owe you a younger woman, OLDER; the universe doesn’t

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actually owe you shit.) Issues three, four and five: an inability to spot your own hypocrisy (I mean, come on), a clear preference for nursing a fantasy (the young woman of your nicotinestained dreams) over accepting reality (there’s no settling down without settling for), and the

probability that you’ve watched way too many movies with actresses in their 20s playing the romantic interests of actors in their 60s and 70s.

If I may be blunt(er): You’re an older man, you’re a smoker, you’re out of shape, you don’t leave the house much, and, most fatally of all, you harbor resentment for the objects of your desire (“Be my guest, dear!”), something objects of desire always pick up on and are almost always repulsed by. (Let’s all light a little candle for the ones who aren’t.) So unless you’re a billionaire or an A-list actor, OLDER, the young woman of your dreams is unlikely to break into your apartment. (There’s not a lot of overlap between the young gerontophile community and the burglar community.)

Not even the prospect of inheriting a used car 24 years from now is going to land you a young woman.

My advice, OLDER: Keep dreaming. And if you want to be with a young woman once in a while, consider renting. But please don’t misconstrue anything I’ve written here as encouragement to date women your own age: They deserve better. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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Big Ideas Busy Scholars 4 – 5 p.m.

Big Ideas Amazing Students Noon – 1 p.m., State Capitol Rotunda WARF Essential Topics: Kids in STEM & the Cycle of Innovation 4 – 5 p.m.

SATURDAY OCT. 22 Zika: An Epidemic in Context 2 – 3 p.m.

Hold Your Temper!

The Secret of Shiny Chocolate 1 – 2 p.m.

Should We Edit the Genome?

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Big Ideas for Busy People Lightning round talks with the experts 7 – 8 p.m.

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SUNDAY OCT. 23 Chasing the Ghost Particle: From the South Pole to the Edge of the Universe 1 – 1:30 p.m.

One in a Billion: The Dawn of Genomic Medicine 2 – 3 p.m.

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