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4 IN MEMORIAM

DAVID MEDARIS

The talented and erudite Isthmus alum is remembered.

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IT’S ALL OVER NOW

Donald Trump’s chances of carrying Wisconsin look bleak.

NATHAN J. COMP

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MARC EISEN

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IN MEMORIAM

MARC EISEN began writing for Isthmus in 1978, left for The Capital Times in 1986, and returned two years later to Isthmus as editor. David Medaris started writing for Isthmus in 1976 while still in high school, joined the staff in 1981 as calendar editor, left for travels and adventure abroad, and returned to Isthmus in 1988 as calendar editor, then staff writer. The long, loyal tenures of people like Marc Eisen and David Medaris have always made Isthmus feel like a family. Eisen remembers his longtime colleague and friend, who died Oct. 18.

COVER STORY

NATHAN COMP has been following the developments in gene editing and splicing for years. He writes this week about the potential of a new editing tool — CRISPRCas-9 — which, according to one researcher quoted in the piece, has already “changed the mindset of science.” Comp covers both the promise of this new technology and the ethical concerns it raises.

FUNDING PLEA

Madison school district turns to voters to make ends meet.

14 OPINION

NEXT STEPS

What progressives must do post-Trump.

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CUT AND PASTE

Scientists can now precisely edit genetic code.

What will they do with the power?

23-26 FOOD & DRINK

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28 SPORTS

DAYS OF GLORY

Three area teams are working to get to the WIAA state football championships.

30-34 MUSIC

DYNAMIC DADS

Lost Lakes combines the folk talents of Corey Mathew Hart and Paul Mitch.

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MOTOWN ONSTAGE

The Poem Is You Thursday, Oct. 27, UW Elvehjem Building (Room L160), 7:30 pm You won’t want to miss this Center for the Humanities lecture from Steven Burt, an English professor at Harvard University.

The New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of his generation,” but his criticism is often effusive: He wants people to read poetry. And he’s an out cross-dresser, a women’s basketball expert and published poet in his own right.

Banjo hauntings

Detroit ‘67 looks at a family during the turmoil.

36-37 SCREENS

Saturday, Oct. 29, High Noon Saloon, 3:30-5:30 pm

DRIFTING THROUGH THE PLAINS ALLISON GEYER

American Honey captures the lives of youth.

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44 EMPHASIS

NEWS

IN TRYING TO GAUGE how the Badger State may vote in the presidential race come Nov. 8, staff writer Allison Geyer talks with Jennifer Pierotti Lim, the national leader of Republican Women for Hillary. Lim says she’s in contact with plenty of conservative Clinton-backers in Wisconsin, but is not surprised to hear they were reluctant to talk to a reporter.

“They don’t feel like they can be public about it,” says Lim.

Boo-Grass for Books is an annual fundraiser for Literacy Network and Lowell Elementary, collecting new and used children’s books and cash donations as an admission fee ($20 maximum for the whole family).

There’s also a kids’ costume parade, arts and crafts, a bake sale, and all-ages friendly Americana by Oak Street Ramblers, Brother Rye, Shotgun Mary and Lit Net executive director Jeff Burkhart.

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Clean Wisconsin sponsors this appetizer-reception and talk (“The Waters of Wisconsin: Sustaining Our Aquatic Ecosystems”) by Curt Meine, senior fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Meine will focus on how we use water, and how crucial it is to our culture and economy.

The voting maze Thursday, Oct. 27, Francesca’s al Lago, 111 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 5:30-7:30 pm

In recent years there has been a strong push to, depending on who you believe, protect against voter fraud (according to the right) or restrict voting rights (according to the left). Hear both sides debate Wisconsin’s voter ID statute, current law and recent litigation at a debate sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society. RSVP at acslaw.secure.force.com/events.

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CONTRIBUTORS John W. Barker, Kenneth Burns, Dave Cieslewicz, Nathan J. Comp, Aaron R. Conklin, Ruth Conniff, Michael Cummins, Marc Eisen, Erik Gunn, Mike Ivey, Bob Jacobson, Seth Jovaag, Stu Levitan, Bill Lueders, Liz Merfeld, Andy Moore, Bruce Murphy, Kyle Nabilcy, Kate Newton, Jenny Peek, Michael Popke, Steven Potter, Adam Powell, Katie Reiser, Jay Rath, Gwendolyn Rice, Dean Robbins, Robin Shepard, Sandy Tabachnick, Denise Thornton, Candice Wagener, Tom Whitcomb, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER Todd Hubler ADVERTISING MANAGER Chad Hopper ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Laura Miller ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Lindsey Bushart, Peggy Elath, Lauren Isely WEB ANALYST Jeri Casper CIRCULATION MANAGER Tim Henrekin MARKETING DIRECTOR Chris Winterhack EVENT DIRECTORS Kathleen Andreoni, Courtney Lovas CONTROLLER Halle Mulford OFFICE MANAGER Julie Butler SYSTEMS MANAGER Thom Jones ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Carla Dawkins

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n IN MEMORIAM

Remembering David Medaris The longtime Isthmus staffer cut his own path

ISTHMUS.COM OCTOBER 27–NOVEMBER 2, 2016

BY MARC EISEN

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Isthmus has always been a collection of odd and compelling characters. None more so than David Medaris, who began writing for the paper as a West High student and who spent almost three decades as the listings editor and then a staff writer.

I was editor. David was David, which is to say he cut his own path. As the arbiter of listings, he functioned like a human algorithm. He precisely sorted and summarized hundreds of disparate and often recondite events that poured into the paper each week. No monk in a priory had a more exacting system of categorization.

David lived and breathed by his rules. Yet, paradoxically, he was also an exuberant, free-range thinker. He spied life’s complicated facets like a jeweler with a headlamp. Here was the reporter who would ponder endless questions for a story.

David had to know. He had to understand. He was immensely curious about life and people. There was a sense of wonder and pleasure in comprehending both the mundane and the profound.

He also had a little sign on his desk: “Just tell the story.”

That was David: Painstakingly diligent, yet the faraway flutter of a butterfly in the Amazon might set him off on an intellectual ramble in the Isthmus lunchroom. He took delight in it.

His death Oct. 18 at age 57 after many years of beating back brain cancer was like a kick in the guts to his friends. His love affair with his wife, Michana Buchman, Isthmus associate editor, was something any of us would want in this life. He always spoke of her with a tone of awe and respect. If only all of us could be so considerate of our partners. Now he’s gone.

As with the recent death of Tom Laskin, another Isthmus original, David was evidence of how the best news and creative venues prosper when they embrace smart, quirky talents. The machine-stamped writers could fit in elsewhere.

Isthmus leaves the door open for strays and rebels.

In David’s case, he avoided the antisocial compulsions found in too many good reporters. I will always remember him greeting me with an expansive “How are you?” That big loopy smile followed by a penetrating gaze as he read your body language for clues. David really cared. His life was more than the sum of the transactional events that most of us navigate on a daily basis.

Locked into a conversation where his thoughts led him down a rabbit hole of digression, David would stop in embarrassment and turn the conversation to others — how was your partner? And the kids, what were they up to? Did you have any travels planned? David was sincerely interested.

“How are you?”

Not so good, David, now that you’re gone.

His many friends will have different memories than mine.

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“The race is over” Wisconsin Republicans poised to reject Donald Trump again

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Does Trump have any path to victory in Wisconsin? Not likely, according to Brandon Scholz, a longtime Republican strategist from Madison.

“The race is over,” Scholz says. “Trump really hasn’t done much to endear himself to Republicans, especially Republican leadership. I think the fact is that many of Wisconsin’s Republican officials are supporting Trump because of the party — I don’t believe it’s out of any love for Donald Trump.”

Adds Scholz: “And I don’t think that Trump really cares.”

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But Trump’s problems with Wisconsin Republicans began months ago. Before the primary, the state’s establishment conservative leaders mounted a spirited #NeverTrump resistance, fueled by right-wing radio host Charlie Sykes, an ardent anti-Trump voice with considerable influence over the reliably Republican territory of Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties.

That area — populated by white, college-educated conservatives — has proved to be stubbornly unreceptive to Trump’s message. His campaign recently canceled an event in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis and instead has focused on areas like Green Bay (where polls show he has an 18-point lead). That market, along with the north and northwestern parts of the state where he is also polling well, will help Trump remain competitive, but “he needs southeast Wisconsin more than he needs anything else,” Scholz says.

Madison-based Democratic pollster Paul Maslin agrees that Trump failed to connect with Wisconsin’s key Republican voting bloc and erred in picking fights with the state’s top GOP officials. There was talk early on of Trump’s appeal to white, working-class voters who might otherwise vote Democrat, but Maslin says that support never materialized.

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At the end of September, Jennifer Pierotti Lim traveled to Wisconsin from her home in Washington, D.C., hoping to connect with like-minded voters: Republicans supporting Hillary Clinton for president.

Lim, a lifelong Republican who has spent much of her life promoting conservative causes, is co-founder of the volunteer group Republican Women for Hillary. The organization formed about five months ago when a group of conservative political activists, unimpressed with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, defected from their party and began to rally behind Clinton. Lim says there’s a “constant stream” of women contacting and joining the group each day as the election grows nearer.

“We chose [the name] Republican Women for Hillary very specifically, because we knew women would have the hardest time coming out and feeling like they could endorse someone other than who their party would choose,” says Lim, who works as director of health policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “Being a woman in the Republican Party is much different from being a woman in the Democratic Party.”

Adds Lim: “And of course, the parties view women’s issues very differently.”

The organization has in recent weeks focused on voter outreach in battleground states, expanding efforts in places like Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia, Georgia and Utah.

While in Wisconsin, Lim spent two days meeting with voters and making radio appearances in Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and “deep red” parts of Brown County. She encountered plenty of fellow conservative Clinton backers here in the state, but she found that political discourse in Wisconsin is “unique” compared to other places she’s visited. In some parts of the country, she’s seen former Republicans running field offices for the Clinton campaign.

But when Isthmus asked to speak with Republican Women for Hillary members from Wisconsin, none were willing to go on record. Lim says that’s not surprising.

“People in Wisconsin in general are very private about politics,” Lim says. “There are Republican women in Wisconsin voting for Hillary, but they don’t feel like they can be public about it.”

Is it a symptom of the notoriously polite (but sometimes passive-aggressive) Midwestern culture? Maybe, says Lim. But she’s also noticed that Republican Clinton supporters who live in states where it’s legal to openly carry a firearm — Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, in particular — are less likely to speak out publicly about their political beliefs. Republican Women for Hillary members regularly get death threats and are subject to near-constant online harassment.

“I worry about our ladies in open-carry states,” Lim says.

The most recent Marquette University Law School poll, conducted Oct. 6-9, shows Clinton leading Trump 44 to 37 percent among likely Wisconsin voters. The poll happened to coincide with the Oct. 8 publication of a Washington Post story that brought to light a recording of disturbing, lewd comments about women that Trump made in 2005 on the set of Access Hollywood. “The publication appears to have caused a significant shift in Wisconsin voters’ attitudes, across several different demographics,” poll director Charles Franklin said when the poll was released.

Still, Trump’s support from the state’s Republican base has remained strong, with an average of 76 percent of Republicans surveyed over the three-day period reporting they planned to vote for the GOP nominee. So is Wisconsin shaping up to be a battleground state on Nov. 8?

The Trump campaign began spending on advertisements in Wisconsin media markets just a few weeks ago, with Kantar Media’s political ad tracker showing a $600,000 buy on Oct. 12. Since then, Trump’s campaign and the conservative super PAC Reform America Fund have aired about 2,400 ads in the state.

Clinton and her allies have aired none, and Wisconsin remains one of the few states in the nation where there are more pro-Trump ads than there are pro-Clinton ads on the airwaves. “[Clinton] is not on the air much here because she doesn’t have to be,” says Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison professor of journalism and political science. “She’s winning without airing ads.”

If that’s true, why would Trump bother with Wisconsin at all? The campaign’s focus on the state could be a nod to Wisconsin’s deep ties to the Republican Party — it’s home to Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus and House Speaker Paul Ryan, it’s a place where state-level Republican candidates have been wildly successful in recent years and it has a reputation as a swing state in presidential elections. So Trump’s advertising advantage in Wisconsin is not so much strategic as it is symbolic.

“It’s not that Trump has decided to throw all his eggs in one basket,” Wagner says. “It’s that Clinton doesn’t see Wisconsin as competitive.”

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■ WEEK IN REVIEW FRIDAY, OCT. 21 ■ Alec Cook, a 20-year-old

UW-Madison student who was arrested Oct. 18 for sexual assault, is re-arrested after two more women come forward to report separate incidences of sexual assault.

Cook has been suspended from the university.

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approves its $380 million operating budget for the 201617 school year, and with it, a decrease in taxes. The owner of an average-priced home will pay $53 less next year.

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refused to open an early voting location at UWGreen Bay because “students lean more toward the Democrats,” The Nation reports. The

clerk is an appointee of conservative Mayor Jim Schmitt.

■ Chelsea Clinton stops in Madison to campaign for her mom, encouraging early voting and making an appeal to millennials and swing voters. Hillary Clinton has a seven-point lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin and hasn’t made an appearance here since September — a sign she’s expecting to win the state.

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have come forward with allegations of sexual assault against Alec Cook, court records released to the media show. Police searched his North Henry Street apartment and found a notebook containing a list of women’s names and detailing his “grooming and stalking” techniques. “Disturbingly enough there were statements of ‘kill’ and statements of ‘sexual’ desires,” the affidavit states.

Cook is facing more than 30 charges.

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For members of Madison’s school board, the Nov. 8 referendum asking residents for another $26 million is about treading water.

“We have had a number of difficult budgets, and we have been very fiscally responsible, but each time we have to balance those budgets we have to look at big items to cut,” says Mary Burke, board vice president.

James Howard, board president, agrees, saying any more cuts will damage the quality of education.

“Every year we’ve had to make cuts in order to balance the budget,” he says. “We had to eliminate 120 positions over the last two years, and we cannot continue to operate at the same rate because eventually we will see effects in the classroom.”

If approved, the referendum would give the board authority to exceed state-imposed revenue caps by $26 million over four years — $5 million for the first two years and $8 million for the third and fourth years.

The $26 million would go toward sustaining the district’s current operations, funding teacher salaries, classroom materials, technology and building repairs.

Without the money, school officials say they might have to cut 120 more positions over the next two years, which would mean larger classes and delaying the district’s technology implementation plan.

Mike Barry, assistant superintendent for business services for Madison schools, says that if the referendum passes, not all of the extra $26 million would necessarily come from property taxes. Some of it could be raised through state aid, depending on the district’s enrollment and state budgets.

“But we would consider it to be locally approved and locally funded,” says Barry, who estimates that over four years, property taxes on an average single-family home in Madison would be $144 higher, equaling out to about $3 per month, per household.

The Madison school district isn’t alone in resorting to referendums for more funding. “This is a function of what the state has done with education funding,” Burke says.

“So you are seeing historically high levels of the number of school districts going to referendum and also historic highs of the percent that are passing.”

If it doesn’t pass, Barry explains that the budget for the next two years will look a lot like the budgets of the past years.

“It’s a pattern we’re trying to break, a pattern that had us making $18 million in budget cuts over the last two years,” says Barry. “The schools are being underfunded, they are being asked to do difficult work and do it well on absolutely minimum revenue growth.”

Even though the financial outlook is bleak, officials insist that the schools are still making improvements. Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham says students are performing better and the racial achievement gap is narrowing.

“We want to keep our momentum going,” she says. “But without the financial stability this referendum would provide, we think that will be increasingly difficult to do.”

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Madison’s Ethics Board spent two meetings in September wrangling over whether it should hear complaints brought by Kathi Hurtgen against her boss, Gregg McManners, executive director of Monona Terrace.

Hurtgen’s allegations never got a hearing, and on Oct. 25, the board dismissed her complaints in less than 20 minutes.

Hurtgen, who is associate director of finance and operations at the convention center, claims that McManners had routinely circumvented the city’s rules on bidding for competitive projects, including requirements for contractors to have an affirmative action plan in place. She also alleged that Monona Terrace had improperly been holding the checkbook for the Friends of Monona Terrace, a nonprofit group set up to support the center. She also charged that the center had committed time card fraud.

Three of the complaints were dismissed on the basis that they happened more than a year ago. Two other allegations — that McManners awarded a $100,000 contract to Hiebing Group without going out to bid and that Monona Terrace was improperly keeping the checkbook for Friends of Monona Terrace — were dismissed

Kathi Hurtgen laments that the Ethics Board didn’t give her a chance to speak about her complaints against her boss, Gregg McManners.

on the grounds that the board did not have jurisdiction to hear them.

Board member Drew Cochrane argued that allegations centered on the fact that McManners violated the law. Cochrane said that the board was never intended to hear complaints about illegal behavior.

“I don’t think that’s a reasonable interpretation, and it’s not consistent with what

we’ve done in the past,” Cochrane told the board.

Fellow board member James Cobb noted that city departments determined there was no violation of city policies.

Leslie Elkins, one of Hurtgen’s lawyers, disagreed with the board’s interpretation.

After the meeting, she told Isthmus that the city’s ethics code is pretty clear. It states that

city officials “shall not exceed their authority or breach the law or ask others to do so.”

As previously detailed by Isthmus, Hurtgen says she’s been raising concerns about violations of city policy and law at Monona Terrace for years, but hasn’t been able to get anyone to listen to her.

She left the meeting frustrated that, once again, neither her nor her lawyer were allowed to present their case to the board. “I wish I had a chance to speak,” Hurtgen said.

McManners seemed prepared for the outcome. Asked for a comment after the meeting, he handed out a printed statement with the heading “Statement 1: Dismissal scenario for media.”

It read, in part, “I believe what this complaint boils down to is that Ms. Hurtgen is determined to have the only right answer. Let me assure you that there is more than one right answer with the realm of ethical business practices, especially as you weigh what is in the best interest of Monona Terrace.”

Hurtgen also has a complaint filed with the state’s Department of Workforce Development’s equal rights division, alleging that McManners has retaliated against her because of the complaint. Elkins says she and her client have not yet decided what other options they will pursue. n

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sick watching their progressive movement absorbed by the Democratic Party establishment.

Fortunately, the outlook for the presidential election looks quite a bit better than the end of the story in Wisconsin, where Democrats failed to stop Act 10, and then failed, twice, to defeat Walker, leaving the state even more firmly in the hands of rightwing Republicans.

What are the lessons of these recent flashpoints — the Wisconsin uprising and the Bernie Sanders campaign?

Acosta’s narrative notwithstanding, it’s not clear that continuing the occupation, or heeding the briefly popular calls for a general strike, would have changed the final outcome of the losing battle against Walker.

With union membership at historic lows and Walker’s successful exploitation of hostility to public employees among cash-strapped, nonunion private-sector workers — not to mention Republican majorities in all three branches of government and redistricted electoral boundaries — the protesters might not have been able to achieve their ends even if they had not

been abandoned by timorous leadership.

Turning the tide might take a long time.

Progressives are understandably frustrated by the visceral loss of energy when we move from activism in the streets to the institutional electoral process. But how do we figure out the right relationship between movement politics and electoral politics? It’s not just a matter of a few missed steps.

I once interviewed Howard Zinn, whose name was invoked constantly by students working on the Ralph Nader presidential

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The movie Divided We Fall paints a dispiriting picture of progressive politics in Wisconsin, with serious implications for the future of progressivism both at home and nationally.

In an election year that stirred hopes with the unlikely and nearly successful grassroots Bernie Sanders campaign, and then headed downhill into the reality TV show that is the 2016 general election, Katherine Acosta’s hard look at the way progressive activists influence (and fail to influence) electoral politics has deep resonance.

Acosta attempts to explain why the historic uprising against Scott Walker fizzled out.

The pivotal moment in the documentary comes when retired Madison teachers union president John Matthews tells how statewide union leaders “pulled the rug out from under us.” He describes how, while speaking to a group of teachers who had participated in a mass walkout, he was handed a note explaining that statewide union leaders had announced the teachers should go back to work. Matthews was shocked. The leaders were negotiating with Walker and had decided to accept cuts to members’ health insurance and retirement benefits in the doomed hope that, in exchange, Walker would give up on Act 10 and the destruction of their unions.

Union leaders had essentially told state Republicans, “If you will leave us alone so we can continue to exist as a union, to hell with the members,” Matthews says. “That destroys the union movement.”

Acosta segues from that betrayal, which let the air out of the protests, to the push by union leaders and state Democrats to get protesters to stop occupying the state Capitol building. From there she moves to the recall elections, run by professionals with little connection to the mass rallies that made us all feel, for a short time, like part of a vibrant, democratic movement.

That whole trajectory might feel familiar to Bernie Sanders delegates who attended the Democratic Convention this year and felt sea-

campaign in 2004. Zinn was warm toward those student activists, but he also warned against getting too hung up on ideological purity when it came time to vote. You can be part of a movement that criticizes Democrats from the left, and also vote for the least-worst option at the polls, he explained. Movement politics is a long-term effort, not to be confused with short-term campaigns.

This year, when we are done obsessing over Donald Trump, we progressives need to get back to building a majoritarian movement.

We got a glimpse of what that might look like in Wisconsin, and again in the Sanders campaign.

That potential is still there, and it’s possible to take the next step.

Our Revolution, the group run by former Sanders staffers, is working to draft and support progressive candidates all over the country.

And Ralph Nader, whom I interviewed recently, has a very concrete suggestion for a grassroots organization to push progressive policies.

“Let’s say 1 percent of people in every congressional district organized at the level of a hobby,” says Nader. People in district offices would hold members of Congress accountable and demand policies in areas of broad public agreement — increasing the minimum wage, reducing wasteful military spending, and criminal justice reform. Civic-engagement hobbyists could change the world, he says.

“We’ve got to tell people: ‘1 percent, that’s all you need.’”

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Kathy Krentz uses a computer to analyze mouse sperm. For years, Krentz has altered the genetic makeup of mice for experiments, but she now has a much easier and more reliable way to do so with CRISPR-Cas9.

Scientists can now easily manipulate genes.

Should they?

BY NATHAN J. COMP KATHY KRENTZ HAS PLAYED

“The problem was that it would randomly insert DNA just anywhere on the genome,” she explains. “So as a cell divided, that piece of DNA would be incorporated into the dividing embryo, anywhere.”

In 2014, Krentz scrapped the laborious, error-prone process in favor of a new tool known as CRISPR-Cas9, despite her initial skepticism of the hype percolating around it.

“As we read scientific articles and looked at the data as to whether this was worth investing in, it became clear very quickly that CRISPR-Cas9 was going to be game changing,” she recalls. “And it has been.”

CRISPR-Cas9 is the biochemical equivalent of a magic wand. Compared to transgenics, CRISPR-Cas9 is a far faster and cheaper process. It also reaches targeted points on the genome with unrivaled precision. If the accuracy of transgenics was that of a free-fall bomb, CRISPR-Cas9 is a laser-guided missile, capable of editing.

UW-Madison researchers using CRISPR-Cas9 are circumspect about their ability to now make revisions to evolution’s handiwork over the last 3 or 4 billion years. But having been given the keys to the kingdom, so to speak, scientists around the globe are experimenting with their new creationist powers. It’s the end of the biological world as we know it.

“CRISPR has changed the mindset of science,” says Dustin Rubinstein, director of UW-Madison’s Biotechnology Center. “A lot of times technology is very straightforward. But with this, we’re only limited by our own creativity.”

The technology has already pointed toward some amazing possibilities. Scientists in London are working on eliminating the species of mosquitos that carry malaria.

And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year approved for consumption Atlantic salmon that had been engineered to grow double the size of ordinary salmon in half

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“Mice make a good animal model because they reproduce very quickly, and you can get a cohort of animals that are genetically identical very quickly,” says Krentz, who runs UWMadison’s Transgenic Animal Facility.

Aided by a powerful microscope, Krentz has injected hundreds of thousands of mice embryos with exogenous genes, inserted through a microscopic glass syringe. This process, known as transgenesis, was developed in the early 1970s. But it doesn’t always work.

Exogenous genes are expressed in offspring only if accepted by cells that store the biochemical units of heredity, known as the germline.

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Perhaps not since Gutenberg’s printing press have humans entrusted themselves with a tool so powerful, cheap, and timesaving; this may well be a watershed moment in human history — the world before CRISPR-Cas9 and the world after.

The ethical issues CRISPR-Cas9 raises don’t differ much from those raised by genetic engineering in general. The difference now is the speed at which these issues will arise. If scientific research was once a long, incremental slog, CRISPR-Cas9 has broken the sluices of discovery wide open.

“As it becomes cheaper and more accessible and more available, it’s going to expand the range of people who can pursue this kind of research and for more trivial purposes,” says Robert Streiffer, an associate professor of bioethics and philosophy at UW-Madison. “We’re not going to be able to put a lid on it as much as people might like.”

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munity found in bacteria, which evolved to fend off predatory viruses.

Because viruses are acellular, they reproduce by hijacking the reproductive machinery of host cells, provoking an immune response from the host. In humans, white blood cells are a first line of defense, but in bacteria it’s enzymes.

These viral-fighting enzymes are like an army defending the homeland from foreign foes, only its soldiers are weak and therefore victorious far less than 50 percent of the time. When the enzymes kill the foreign invaders, a highly specialized enzyme, Cas9, arrives on the battlefield to retrieve a piece of the snuffed out virus’ DNA. Cas9 then returns to the bacteria’s genome and stuffs the piece of viral DNA in the CRISPR region of the genome. CRISPRs — an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats — are segments of repeating base pair sequences. The space between each repeat contains a piece of DNA from a virus defeated by the bacteria’s enzyme army and retrieved by Cas9.

The viral DNA stored between repeats then serves as a molecular wanted poster used by Cas9 as it patrols the interior of the bacterial cell reading the genomes of invading pathogens. If it encounters a sequence matching any of those on the wanted poster, Cas9 shreds the virus with its molecular scissors.

Seven years after its discovery, researchers at three different institutions independently have begun unlocking CRISPRCas9’s potential. By retooling its cellular

mechanics, researchers soon turned CRISPR-Cas9 from a defensive system in bacteria into an offensive one in mammals and other organisms. They learned to rewire CRISPR-Cas9 cellular circuitry to make precise cuts anywhere along the genome of any organism, including humans.

In bacteria, Cas9 is dispatched from CRISPR regions of the genome; in animals — Krentz’s mice for example — CRISPR is a delivery device for Cas9, guided to its target by specially engineered molecules.

“Because the genome sequence has been identified, you find the sequence you want to edit and you can synthesize DNA that mimics that exact sequence,” Krentz explains. “Cas9 cuts the genome sequence exactly where we need it to be cut.”

Following its set of chemical instructions, it will delete, replace or add genes to the genome.

Rubinstein, known on campus as “the CRISPR guy,” performs the biochemical tweaks to CRISPR-Cas9 for Krentz and other researchers. At present, Cas9 is the gold standard among known CRISPR-associated enzymes. But he adds that biotech firms are screening bacteria in search of other enzymes that work differently or even better.

“As this technology grows, we’ll discover more CRISPR-associated enzymes, ones more specific so you don’t have to worry about making changes where you don’t want, ones that make the changes more rapidly,” he says. “As we understand this more, we will fill the toolbox with more tools.”

RESEARCHERS ARE CURRENT-

ly using this new tool to identify and tweak genes in plants and humans to do everything from preventing diseases to making improvements in crop quality.

And while we have known for some time how genes are ordered — genomes have been sequenced in thousands of organisms, including humans, since the 1990s — we don’t always know what each gene does or how they interact with one another.

Before CRISPR-Cas9, researchers like UWMadison biochemist Richard Amasino learned the function of individual genes by blasting an organism — plants, in his case — with mutagenic chemicals or X-rays and then observing what traits were different or unexpressed.

“But there’s no way to do it without hitting genes all over the place,” he says. “But you go in with CRISPR and you have a very clearly defined plant at the other end. You know exactly what has been changed; it’s faster and more readily done.”

Amasino’s research focuses on how plants measure seasonal cues like sunlight and temperature to coordinate flowering.

Top: Known on campus as the “CRISPR guy,” Dustin Rubinstein performs the biochemical tweaks that allow other researchers on campus to alter genetic code.

Bottom: Robert Streiffer, a bioethics and philosophy professor: “We’re not going to be able to put a lid on it.”

Opposite: Shawn Kaeppler’s research attempts to identify the genes that influence corn’s resistance to disease and pests.

Once the function of enough genes are identified, the job descriptions for the remaining genes will be written even faster.

“It’s like a puzzle,” he says. “You start out turning over the pieces one-by-one, but at some point you’ve turned over enough of them to know you need a piece that looks a certain way because it has to fit over there.”

UW-Madison anthropology professor John Hawks expects the first widespread use of CRISPR-Cas9 in humans will be in the development of new gene therapies targeting genetic conditions like Huntington’s disease, a degenerative condition affecting the brain. Hawks says there are thousands of such conditions caused by a single gene mutation, but treatments are rare since, in many cases, sufferers worldwide number less than 100, he says.

With CRISPR-Cas9 the genes responsible for these conditions can be deleted and replaced in affected embryos with a fully functional version.

“When you know the cause and can potentially splice in a working version of the gene on someone already suffering from the condition, that kind of potential is very exciting,” Hawks says.

There are limits to what can be done, however.

“For things like Down syndrome, and even autism, I think the utility of CRISPR would be pretty low,” Hawks says. “There’s a developmental process that begins well before birth, and the downstream effects are in part based in the anatomy, not just metabolism. It’s not like something like sickle cell, where turning off the abnormal protein provides an effective therapy or even cure.”

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES,

genetic divergence and natural selection dating back to the single-celled organism from which all organisms descended have resulted in the human genome as it is today.

CRISPR-Cas9, Rubinstein says, places the levers of evolution into the calculated hands of people.

“It’s much more proactive,” he says.

“Rather than saying, ‘We need more strains of bananas,’ now we can ask, ‘What can we do to improve bananas.’ It empowers us to take the initiative on certain global issues.”

About 90,000 years after modern humans emerged, they began planting seeds, not because it suddenly occurred to them to do so, but because localized climate change necessitated new survival strategies. Agriculture, which emerged independently and around the same time, in 11 places around the world, was possible because it fell within the genetically permissible range of behaviors unique to our species.

Corn was among the first crops domesticated, but, 10,000 years later, there is still a lot we don’t know about corn or the 35,000 genes packed onto its 11 chromosomes.

UW-Madison agronomy professor Shawn Kaeppler is the son of a Wisconsin dairy farmer who has spent his career studying corn genetics.

Kaeppler’s research is aimed at identifying the genes that influence corn’s resistance to disease, insects and pests. And in the context of climate change, he is exploring what genes might lead to a cultivar — a variety produced by selective breeding — that has better resistance to drought and heat or can develop root systems more tolerant of nutrient-poor soil.

“How can we make cultivars adaptable for not what Wisconsin is like now,” he explains, “but what it might be like 20 years from now.”

As with Amasino’s flowering research, CRISPR-Cas9 has accelerated Kaeppler’s research by making the process of gene identification faster and more precise. Already, he says, the gene-editing tool has led to wheat strains that are invulnerable to fungi and produce hardier crop yields.

Last month, the world’s largest bioagriculture company, Monsanto, began re-

searching how CRISPR-Cas9 might aid the engineering of seeds to meet specific environmental conditions. The move already is facing controversy, since CRISPR-Cas9 will allow Monsanto to sidestep federal regulations over genetically modified organisms.

Kaeppler says the difference between an organism that has been genetically modified and one genetically edited is largely semantics.

“Anything that is different from the thing you started with is in some way genetically modified,” he says.

Streiffer agrees, but explains that from a regulatory perspective, the government is concerned only with modifications where plant pathogens, like the cauliflower mosaic virus, are introduced into the recipient crop’s genome. CRISPR-Cas9 avoids these regulatory triggers because it doesn’t introduce foreign DNA or plant pathogens into the recipient genome.

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ogy of any kind is neither good nor bad.

He doesn’t see any concerns with using CRISPR-Cas9 to genetically modify consumer crop seeds.

“When you’re setting out to develop a better product and better modify things, I don’t have substantial concerns,” he says.

“If you’re trying to do a good thing, it is highly improbable that you’ll get a negative result.”

Streiffer disagrees. He says genetically editing crops can raise a multitude of ethical issues. Modified crops can be a positive thing, if, for example, the yield is increased without having to increase the acreage or nutrients needed to grow it.

But the ethical implications can be farreaching, he says.

“Maybe you get more profits for those farms, or less profits for farmers that don’t adopt that corn,” he says. “Is it really helping? Or is it just turning some people into

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winners and others into losers? Then you have to question why we’re investing so many resources into developing these kinds of things.”

Genetically modified crops have attracted farmers for a variety of reasons, but without much benefit for consumers.

“There was a lot of hype put into the existing genetically engineered crops on the market, and consumers eat them, basically, because they’re there,” he says.

“But we don’t search them out because they’re especially attractive and especially good.”

Streiffer would like to see companies like Monsanto engineer crops with consumers in mind. Using CRISPR technology to produce fruit that has a longer shelf life is one idea.

“That would be wonderful,” he says.

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and concerns when it comes to gene manipulation in humans.

Could one day researchers master the genome so that children won’t throw tantrums? Not anytime soon, Hawks says.

He believes it will be a very long time before couples have the option of using CRISPR to select traits in their offspring since “we don’t know which genes make a difference.”

“What if someone wanted to design a super-intelligent human?” he asks. “We don’t know the first place to start.”

Human embryos have already been edited using CRISPR-Cas9, both in China and Sweden, with limited success. Aside from the mysteries around the complex interplay among genes, CRISPR isn’t 100 percent error-proof. Off-target mutations may not only throw a genome’s biochemical output out of whack, but also risks alterations to the germline, passing mutations onto subsequent generations.

“Say you go in and inadvertently mutate a tumor suppressor,” says Kris Saha, a UW-Madison molecular biology professor. “That’s a very troublesome scenario because now...you pass that mutation on to your kids.”

The appropriateness of modifications to an animal’s genome, Streiffer says, depends on whether it is good or bad for its welfare.

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Kathy Krentz with a mutant mouse: “It became clear very quickly that CRISPR-Cas9 was going to be game changing. And it has been.”

“We have examples of breeding where the interests of the animal itself hasn’t really been considered,” he says.

“We have breeds of dog, for example, who have a very poor quality of life, but owners like them and they like them to be purebred even though they have various health issues.”

The GloFish became the first genetically modified animal on the consumer market four years after a researcher in Singapore gave a zebrafish the gene from a jellyfish that allowed it to glow fluorescent green.

Today, GloFish are bred in a variety of eclectic colors and appear to live happy lives.

“There are examples where a single gene has a pretty big effect,” says Kaep-

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Streiffer believes CRISPR-related gene therapies and medical treatments may aggravate existing problems around equitable access, especially if one day rich couples can afford to design a child by making genetic revisions during embryonic development, with the traits in the offspring of poor couples left to chance.

“Issues of social justice will have to be addressed so that they don’t only benefit the wealthy, who already have a tremendous array of advantages,” he says. “There is a concern these things are going to exacerbate social and economic inequality.”

CRISPR-Cas9 is that those with certain genetic conditions will one day be cured.

In hemophiliacs, mostly men who’ve inherited a nonfunctioning gene on their X chromosome, CRISPR-Cas9 could edit out that gene, replacing it with a new one.

“Imagine if with CRISPR we could create normally functioning isolete cells, inject them into Type 1 diabetics and cure diabetes? That sort of thing is where you can see a huge difference being made if you give people more control over how cells work.”

One genetic disorder Hawks believes may be promising for CRISPR-related therapy is PKU, an enzyme deficiency that leads to mental retardation in children.

“It can be ameliorated with a diet that lacks a certain amino acid, but there is no cure,” he says. “Providing the ability to produce the necessary enzyme for infants and young children would effectively remove this as a disorder.”

At the dawn of the transgenics age, researchers not only knew what DNA was, but they could do stuff with it — cut it, stitch back together, implant it. But that doesn’t mean the public liked it.

According to a Pew Research Center survey in June 2016, a majority of Americans believe that gene-editing will “change society” and “negatives will outweigh the positives.” From Super Mice in the 1980s and FrankenFoods in the 1990s, to the completion of human genome sequencing in the 2000s and CRISPR-Cas9 today, the public has always been apprehensive about scientists “playing God.” “We’ve gone through these iterations before in biology where we make this powerful new technique and people got concerned,” Rubinstein says. “With transgenics, everyone sat down and came up with a set of guidelines.”

That may not be possible with CRISPRCas9.

Rubinstein says with so many more labs across the globe, it wouldn’t be hard for poorly funded labs or rogue geneticists to cross ethical lines.

“It’s the slippery slope idea,” he says.

“Is left-handedness something that needs to be cured? I don’t have any specific concerns.... The concern is more what we don’t know.” n

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To be eligible, you must be currently experiencing depression and insomnia, be 18-65 years old, and have access to regular care with a primary care provider.

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Temple Beth El prepare sandwiches for the annual luncheon.

“It’s a little hard to decipher some of the old recipes. These ladies knew what they were doing, so it’s a pinch of this and a little of that. A few of the details we have to figure out for ourselves,” says Kemp, who has been the chair of Food-aRama for the past seven years.

The first Food-a-Rama was held Nov. 8, 1966, when incumbent Republican Gov. Warren Knowles faced a challenge from incumbent Democratic Lt. Gov. Patrick Lucey. (This was before elections for governor and lieutenant governor

were combined onto a single ticket.) Temple Beth El was a polling place that year.

“The women of the Sisterhood just began feeding people. It was a way to make a little money by making sandwiches and other food for people who came into vote,” explains Kemp. “Eventually it snowballed into a big production. Now, the whole temple becomes a delicatessen for a day.”

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Temple Beth El’s Food-a-Rama is the place to be on Election Day. For half a century, the synagogue at 2702 Arbor Drive has celebrated democracy by transforming into a temporary delicatessen that attracts people of all faiths and political persuasions.

Corned beef sandwiches. Potato knishes.

Matzo ball soup. Fresh chopped liver. Kosher hot dogs. Cabbage rolls. A small army of volunteers comes together once a year to make deli items using recipes passed down through the generations

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Mediterranean vegetarian platters, cheesecake, chocolate cake, cookies, pies and brownies.

The temple’s social hall is converted into a “restaurant” so people can eat lunch on-site.

Patrons can also carry out lunch, buy items à la carte or have food delivered (five lunches or more). Dine-in hours are 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

The bakery is open 10 a.m-1:30 p.m. Deli sales (which include frozen matzo ball and cabbage soup, chopped liver, challah and corned beef) have been extended this year and run 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. or until all is sold out.

Kemp expects a particularly big crowd this year. “We always see more people during presidential [election] years. The fact that it’s our 50th anniversary, it should be even crazier.”

Proceeds from the event benefit a number of organizations including Temple Beth El, community food pantries, Camp Shalom, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services and the YWCA-Madison’s Third Street women’s housing program.

While Food-a-Rama It’s like a bake sale, but be er. Food-a-Rama has is billed “as a delicious complete lunches and other goodies to go. reminder to vote,” it’s held annually in November, reyear. There’s no way we could do it twice gardless of whether there is an election. a year,” says Kemp, laughing. “People hear “I get phone calls near spring elections wondering when the deli will be open. I have ‘election,’ and I start getting calls about matzo ball soup.” to remind people that we only do it once a

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Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and Congressman Mark Pocan are also regulars.

“Russ Feingold is a frequent visitor whether he’s in office or not. If she’s in town, [U.S. Sen.] Tammy Baldwin usually comes by. Mayor Paul Soglin has been coming for a long, long time,” says Kemp.

Despite the visiting dignitaries and significance of the day, Kemp says Fooda-Rama is really about enjoying good food and company.

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Opening a raw-fish-focused, If you don’t do raw fish, Miko Hawaiian-themed, counter-service Poké offers two cooked proteins restaurant on the cusp of autumn in and a mix of fresh vegetables. The Wisconsin might be seen as a queslatter of these, served as a vegan tionable decision. Yet here we are bowl called the Coco Curry, was with Miko Poké — Food Fight’s newan unexpected success. It’s a trainest spot, in a slice of the former Bluewreck, to be sure; basically every phies — doing quite a solid trade. ingredient that isn’t an animal It’s easy to see how poke would product goes into this one. Dispaeasily become sushi-loving Madison’s rate geographies are represented jam. Poke and sushi are often lumped by tahini, coconut curry, edatogether, particularly as the mainland mame, avocado — yet it all kind of version of poke becomes more asworks. There wasn’t as much yelsociated with its rice base. But with low squash as I expected, given its poke, unlike sushi, the rice is neither top billing in that ensemble cast, vinegared nor sticky. Miko Poké offers but it’s a great meal all the same. both white and brown rice, as well as I’m a sucker for rock shrimp baby salad greens as base options, any time I see it on a menu, and but original-recipe poke refers to just the Banzai Shrimp bowl featured the fish salad atop the base. quite a few of the tenderly cooked A comment here on the word CAROLYN FATH little guys. That Volcano Sauce, “poke.” Defenders of the Hawaiian The Hawaii Style (front) is true to poke’s roots; again, proved non-volcanic. I didn’t language rush to note that there the coco curry is vegan. pick up much teriyaki in the teriis no accent mark on the original yaki chicken bowl, which seems to Hawaiian word that means “to cut serve as the bowl for diners who really don’t crosswise into pieces,” as the dish does with dense and chewy than the ahi, but diced want to experiment. It’s fine. raw fish. But Miko Poké is by no means alone melon and crispy shaved garlic played well Experiment away, though. Build your in the restaurant world in trying to help the off each other. own bowl with the whole ingredient list at Anglo diner differentiate the word from the The Cali Salmon traded in the die-sized your disposal. Sides include salty, thin-sliced, verb meaning “to jab.” cubes of fish for a more imprecise chop, but crisply fried purple sweet potato chips in First on the menu is Hawaii Style, a dish I would have preferred smaller pieces. Yuzu handy little bags at the checkout, and a most true to poke’s roots. This ahi tuna-centric tartness dominated the other ingredients, pleasantly complex Honolulu iced tea. Shave bowl was my favorite of Miko Poké’s six house giving the dish an insubstantial feel. Great ice is served in a handful of flavors. I mixed combinations. The ahi had a clean, fresh taste if you’re looking for a light meal, less so if caramelized pineapple and passionfruit, to and was diced to a consistent and pleasant size. you’re in search of bold flavors. Over brown neither’s benefit. Keep it simple on that front.

There’s a lot of soy in the accompanying Poké rice it has a little more heft.

Eventually, Miko Poké promises alcohol Sauce, providing a savory base for the more delThere are three sizes of poke bowl availservice, but it doesn’t need it to reel in the icate fresh flavors of cucumber and edamame. able, but I can’t imagine needing more than customers. On dreary October evenings, a The spicy albacore bowl wasn’t particularly a small. Bear in mind that if you order your betting man wouldn’t put a dime on a Wisspicy, even with an additional squirt of Volcano poke to go, you may want to ask for a larger consin poke shop having a line almost out Sauce (red chile paste, peppers, rice wine vincontainer in which to transport it. The staff the door. But behold the power of poke. ■ egar, honey) at the table. The fish was more really cram those things full of ingredients;

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Among the menu items: curried carrot soup with crispy chickpeas; kale salad with squash, apple, cheddar and almonds; butternut squash risotto; and fruit pie for dessert. Proceeds benefit Underdog Pet Rescue (which will be bringing some furry friends). At 901 N. Marsh Road in Brodhead, 5-7 pm. Tickets ($40) from tinyurl.com/dinner4underdog.

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But not at Field Table, where bar manager Michael McDonald is going in the opposite direction. His newly revamped menu is full of flavors that are meant to be enjoyed any time of the year.

One of the most interesting new creations is Teh Susu, named for a common tea drink from Indonesia. It’s a mix of Plantation rum, Osocalis Heritage Brandy and Batavia Arrack, an obscure molasses and rice-based spirit from the Indonesian island of Java. Lemon and grapefruit add a layer of acidic nuance, and clarified milk lends an interesting texture. It’s refreshing and exoticly spiced all at once.

Another unseasonable standout is Vice & Vigor, a heady-yet-elegant cocktail that uses Rittenhouse Rye, Lagavulin 16-year, Door County cherry juice, tea syrup and cherry bark-vanilla bitters. There’s also a zucchini cocktail — somewhat after the peak zucchini month of August. The Zuc-

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of malt and the subtle hint of oak in the finish. It’s approachable for a range of drinkers without the harsh burnt roastedness sometimes found in other well-known imperial stouts. It pairs well with a slice of chocolate cheesecake with raspberry or cherry topping; you’ll find even more roasted and toffee tones. It also a good match with pumpkin pie.

Osiris Oak finishes at 9 percent ABV. It’s available for a limited time this fall in 22-ounce bombers for $8 in the brewery’s taproom in Waunakee and a few of Madison’s more beer-focused liquor stores.

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Teams from 10 Dane County high schools qualified for the first round of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association’s football playoffs, but only five made it past the first round of games on Oct. 21.

Verona rallied from a 14-0 deficit in the first quarter to beat Hartland Arrowhead, 21-17, in front of a hometown crowd at the Wildcats’ Curtis Jones Field. Longtime followers of Division 1 football probably recall that only a few years ago, Arrowhead was considered among the state’s elite teams, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, and finishing runner-up in 2014 and 2015.

Verona will meet Badger High School in Lake Geneva in Round 2 action Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.

Another big first-round game involved the Division 1 sectional’s No. 1 seed Sun Prairie and No. 8 Madison La Follette, in a rematch of the previous week’s regularseason finale. The Cardinals won that game, 31-7, but the Lancers invaded Ashley Field and embarrassed Sun Prairie, 40-13, to move on. La Follette senior quarterback Julian Patton blasted the game wide open in the third quarter with three touchdown runs — two of them for more than 60 yards.

La Follette plays Middleton, which escaped Oconomowoc with a 20-13 round-

one victory, at Breitenbach Stadium on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.

If La Follette, Middleton or Verona continues the march to Camp Randall and the state title game on Nov. 18, there’s a good chance one of them will face three-time defending champion Kimberly (Division 2 in 2013 and Division 1 the past two seasons).

The Papermakers, who haven’t lost a game since 2012, obliterated Milwaukee Vincent/ Destiny, 78-0, in this year’s first round.

In Division 2 playoff action, No. 1 seed Waunakee wiped out No. 8 DeForest, 42-7; Monona Grove beat Waterford, 24-14; and Waukesha West shut out Stoughton, 35-0.

Marshall, Dane County’s only other representative in the state playoffs, fell hard to Clinton, 42-14, in Division 5.

Blowout wins. Tough losses. This is what high school football in late October and early November is all about. Longtime rivalries can take on new life, and major upsets can rattle the brackets.

And sometimes — as Verona senior outside linebacker Jared Grassman noted after the Wildcats’ come-from-behind win — motivation can turn to inspiration. He told the Wisconsin State Journal the team was playing for starting offensive lineman Colin Van Altena, who broke his leg earlier that week in a trampoline accident. “He’s one of my best friends,” Grassman said. “We wanted it for him.” ■

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You’ll zoom right past County Road F on the way to Blue Mounds, if you’re not paying attention. That kind of thing happens in the country, especially at night, when your mind wanders out past the headlights and into the coming dark. Once on F, things get quiet. Deathly quiet. County F loops and lifts through the hills, turns into Z, and then it’s official: You’re in the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as Corey Mathew Hart’s house.

Hart is County Road Z personified. Meandering. Filled with twists. Hard to follow in the dark and, most of all, quiet. Hart speaks to you from across the room in the same tone as he would if he were whispering in your ear. But when he sings, hoo-boy.

Five years in the making, it makes sense that Hart’s new project with fellow folk traveler Paul Mitch is known as Lost Lakes.

The record has a woodsy, corduroy feel. Hart and Mitch’s music blends the duo’s respect of traditional folk sensibilities with their own brand of hipster mysticism. Both are sensational singers. Together, their voices define the Lost Lakes sound. Think Milk Carton Kids with a bigger hammer.

The two met in 2010 during the 105.5 Triple M performance competition. Hart is a complete nerd when it comes to equipment: amps, mics and the like. “Corey is a tone guy,” says Mitch. Hart is also a savant when it comes to indexing sounds — filing those tones away in his mind and then reaching for them when the time is right.

What Hart heard in Mitch’s singing and bass playing in 2010 turned out to be exactly what he sought after his own bass player moved away later in the year. Hart and Mitch became an informal duo.

“They are like one engine running in tune when working together,” says Justin Guip, the New York state-based engineer who, previous to mixing Lost Lakes, recorded, among others, Levon Helm. Guip leaves next month on tour to drum with Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady.

“I like their organic sense of pop music — which comes down to great groove, melody, arranging and, of course, lyric.”

Many of the songs that eventually became part of the Lost Lakes project were fashioned and refashioned as Hart and Mitch tested them out in live performance.

“Give Up the Ghost” is an example. On the record, the arrangement, lean but fully realized, starts in a hush. Rusty Lee’s piano makes a sweet announcement of forgiveness. The song has a gorgeous weariness to it as the music crescendos in a tide of volume and emotion all the way to the end.

Hart says the song was the product of much tinkering, “tightening up the arrangement and ultimately cutting more than a minute in length.”

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By November 2013, Mitch and Hart were on the verge of turning their songs into the Lost Lakes recording. The band was getting tight.

They were playing some bigger shows, including opening for Blind Pilot and the BoDeans. Of course, life has a way of intervening. It was as if their close collaboration included family planning, because both musicians became fathers that month — Mitch for the first time, Hart for the second. Lost Lakes was shelved.

Two years later, the fathers finally headed into the studio. A very chilly studio. With the inside temp sometimes dipping down into the low 40s, Eau Claire-based drummer Shane Leonard joined them at Madison’s warehouse music funhouse fondly known as “The Dojo.”

The song finessing continued into the recording sessions. “I love writing vocal parts,” says Mitch. “Coming up with interesting ways to lay in background vocals is one of my absolute favorite things to do. Corey comes to it with a really unique, powerful voice. He’s definitely got an idea in his head when it comes to how a song should be, and what kind of tone or sonic color it needs to have.”

Two musicians who know what they want is a powerful thing. Their choice of drummer Shane Leonard is proof. Leonard has been deeply immersed in the explosive creative scene in Eau Claire. His own band, Kalispell, helps define that sound as well as any. He also plays with Milwaukee’s Field Report.

Rusty Lee’s piano parts were laid down after the Dojo recordings were complete.

His keyboard overdubs included work on a Steinway grand piano captured in Mitch’s inlaws’ living room.

Lost Lakes will release its first single, “Digital Tears,” Oct. 28. The quartet will perform on Nov. 3 at a venue perfectly suited for their delicate sounds: the Williamson Magnetic Recording Studio at 1019 Williamson St. “We don’t pretend to play tunes that people get up and dance to,” says Mitch.

“It’s critical to make something else happen there. Hopefully we make some moments that make you feel the hair on your arm stand up.” ■

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The 12-piece sax choir Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon assembled for the project — collectively dubbed the Sad Sax of Shit — included four Madtown reedmen: Tony Barba of Youngblood Brass Band; Al Falaschi of Phat Phunktion; Pete Ross of the Jimmys; and Clay Lyons, a Madison native now jazzing it up on the East Coast.

Saxophone is nothing new for Bon Iver.

Sax ace Michael Lewis has long been part of Vernon’s inner circle. But 12 of ’em? Once the idea of a full-blown sax choir popped into Vernon’s head, it became clear that the circle would have to expand.

When you achieve Vernon’s level of success, you can get nearly anybody you want to play on your album. He could have summoned the hottest saxophonists in New York to his studios. But Vernon is the kind of guy who likes to keep it local. So he set Lewis and another saxophonist friend, Matt Douglas, to the task of gathering a dozen sax players from the upper Midwest. Douglas, it turned out, was a college classmate of Barba’s, so he tapped into Barba’s Madison sax network. Lewis, meanwhile, mainly worked his Twin Cities connections. Thus the Sad Sax of Shit were born.

In September 2015 the four Madison musicians loaded a car up with a mess of saxes, from sopranos to tenors (there was no room for a baritone, so they just brought their bari mouthpieces), and headed northwest. The crew spent five days at April Base, a former veterinary clinic in Fall Creek, outside Eau Claire, which serves as both Vernon’s recording studio and his home.

Falaschi says the process was quite different from most sax-for-hire recording gigs, where players come in and are dismissed after they play their parts. “They [Vernon and arranger Rob Moose] just started putting charts down and we’d play through it, and Justin and Rob would go off and listen to things, chop things up,” Falaschi says. “Then they’d come back and say, okay we like this, we don’t like that, let’s change this part.... It was really cool to watch him work, just the amount of time they were spending on this thing.”

Falaschi was also impressed by how, well, normal Vernon was. No superstar bullshit. “He opened up his house to us, he was hanging out with us...he’s just a good old Wisconsin kid like I would have been friends with in college. Super laid-back.”

The final proof of Vernon’s regular ol’ Cheesehead nature came toward the end of the five-day stretch, when the Packers were scheduled to take on the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday Night Football. The Sad Sax wanted to shut down recording to watch the game. To their delight, Vernon was totally on board. “We didn’t know if he was a Packers or Vikings fan, since Eau Claire is so close to Minneapolis,” Falaschi says. “But when he showed up with his Packers shirt on, we were like, ‘Yes!’” n

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Most of Edward Elgar’s music is ignored in this country, save for his popular Enigma Variations. In fact, his symphonic poem, titled alternatively In the South and Alassio, is rarely, if ever, played by American orchestras.

But the Madison Symphony Orchestra opened with Elgar’s wonderfully rich piece at its Oct. 21 concert at Overture Hall. In the South reflects impressions from a vacation stay in the town of Alassio on the Italian Riviera. The music suggests the passionate spirit of the land, areas of rustic calm, histories of war and violence and the region’s love for song. At 20 minutes or more, it sounds sprawling at first, but as one gets to know its character and intentions, it becomes a really rich experience. I salute maestro John DeMain for finally bringing this splendid work to our audience.

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An award-winning play set against the racially charged backdrop of the civil rights movement and the Motown era follows a family trying to survive in a conflict-ridden city.

The Wisconsin premiere of Detroit ’67, produced by Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre, opens Oct. 27 and runs through Nov. 12 at the Bartell Theatre. Named for the location and year of the third most devastating riot in U.S. history, the play centers around Chelle (Nyajai Ellison) and her brother Lank (Maxton Young-Jones), who operate an unlicensed after-hours joint in their basement to make ends meet.

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BY SCOTT RENSHAW

After more than 20 years of writing about movies, I’ve accumulated a near-infinite list of advice that I would give to filmmakers — from actors they need to cast far more often, to scenes that I would be happy to never ever see again. But one that seems so obvious to me continues to be a danger: You need to think long and hard before you start your film title with “American.”

Clearly many such films have been popular and generally lauded over the years, from American Graffiti to American Beauty to American Sniper. It’s a risky proposition, however, because there’s a built-in assumption that you’re going to unfold a narrative that is in some way about The Way Things Are Today.

Where you could simply be telling a story, throwing “American” at the front makes it feel like you’re trying to tell the story — the definitive statement. And that’s a burden that even a good movie doesn’t need.

American Honey takes its title from a Lady Antebellum song — more about that later — and it’s fairly evident that it’s meant to describe Star (Sasha Lane), writer/director Andrea Arnold’s 18-year-old protagonist.

Scraping together a desperate life in Muskogee, Oklahoma — dumpster-diving for food while living with her creepy father — she’s a fierce spirit staring down a life that looks as dead-end as the one that cost her meth

addict mother her life. So it’s easy to understand the appeal when she spots a wild young traveling “mag crew” of youths selling door-to-door magazine subscriptions, and is invited by their top salesman, Jake (Shia LaBeouf) to join them.

And join them she does, loading herself into a van filled with fellow drifters, runaways and other assorted misfits, like the Darth Vaderobsessed Pagan (Heaven Knows What’s Arielle Holmes). Arnold does a fine job of capturing the makeshift family vibe of these kids, packed together and getting high on their road trip across the Great Plains in a way that feels even more constricted by Arnold’s use of the TV-square 4:3 ratio. American Honey is at its loosest and most satisfying when simply observing the crew’s dayto-day world, from motel rooms full to bursting, to their expertly tailored door-to-door — and sometimes truck door-to-truck door — sales.

It’s also a phenomenal showcase for firsttime actor Lane. This story plays as something of a spiritual companion piece to Arnold’s terrific 2009 drama Fish Tank, which also followed a tough teen girl trying to imagine a better future for herself. The director understands how to navigate the character space between toughness and vulnerability, observing Lane’s watchful performance as she tries to interpret Jake’s feelings for her, or his relationship with the crew’s alpha female boss, Krystal (Riley Keough). Thanks to the defiant edge in her performance, scenes that could have come off as exploitative — like a house party with three cowboys that seems

doomed to a bad end — instead crackle with Star’s determination to become a winner.

It all might have added up to a transcendent piece of cinematic realism, if Arnold demonstrated just a bit more trust in her audience. Not content with one scene in which Star’s gentle treatment of an animal conveys the soft center in her soul, American Honey offers up at least two or three such scenes; when Jake and Star attempt a sale in one upper-class home, it becomes a set piece about an uptight Christian mother and her young daughter’s inappropriately sexy dance moves. The movie never feels ponderous at more than two-and-a-half hours, but its epic length — visiting of-the-moment locations like North Dakota oil shale fields — still feels like part of a plan to give it an epic sense of consequence.

Late in the film, Star and her friends share one of several sing-alongs that liven up their long drives through flat landscapes: Lady Antebellum’s “American Honey.” They sing lyrics about getting caught in the race of this crazy life, and remembering a simpler, innocent childhood time — a time which, for these kids, almost certainly never existed.

Arnold does a fine enough job in American Honey of telling a story about that missing childhood innocence, without having to tell us that she’s been telling us. It can be about these people, in this place, and not have to be about America. n

Film events Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy: International Workers of the World Social Action & Solidarity Committee documentary screening. Central Library, Oct. 27, 6 pm.

Iron Jawed Angels: Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health screening of historical drama about the women’s suffrage movement. Market Square, Oct. 27, 6:30 pm.

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Nosferatu: German director F.W. Murnau’s silent adaptation of Dracula by Bram Stoker, starring the unforgettable Max Schreck as the count.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Screening of the audience participation classic, with the Velvet Darkness cast, Gone Rogue Burlesque.

Majestic, Oct. 27, 8:30 pm.

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Halloween: The archetypical low-budget slasher movie from director John Carpenter is a genuine heart stopper, despite shallow scripting. Point, Oct. 27-29, 10 pm.

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Ghostbusters: In this classic ’80s comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, a team of unemployed scientists discovers a gateway to another dimension when they form a ghost-slaying business. Breese Stevens Field, Oct. 28, 7 pm (family activities & food available at 5:30 pm).

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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud: The final film by director Claude Sautet tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with a septuagenarian man. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 28, 7 pm.

Stories We Tell: Documentary by Sarah Polley, inspired by learning who she thought was her father was not, biologically speaking. Hawthorne Library, Oct. 28, 7 pm.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Do the “Time Warp” again (audience participation and costumes welcome), with pre-show by Gone Rogue Burlesque. UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, Oct. 28, 9:15 pm.

Alice in the Cities: Comedy-drama by director Wim Wenders follows a journalist and an abandoned girl searching for her grandmother. UW Cinematheque, Oct. 29, 7 pm.

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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte: UW Cinematheque: A former Southern belle (Bette Davis) is pushed further into madness by a scheming cousin (Olivia de Havilland). Chazen Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 2 pm.

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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: International Workers of the World Social Action & Solidarity Committee screening of documentary by journalist Greg Palast on Republican election rigging scheme. South Madison Library, Oct. 31, 6 pm.

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Reel Rock 11: Climbing films screening with Hoofer Mountaineering Club. UW Union SouthMarquee, Nov. 2, 7 pm.

MISS HOKUSAI

London Road: Spotlight Cinema: A series of murders in Ipswitch are recounted via song.

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 2, 7 pm.

DOCTOR STRANGE NARRATION Thu: 7:00 PM

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Black Girl: Marquee Film Festival: A Senegalese woman takes a job as a governess in France, only to encounter discrimination. UW Union SouthMarquee, Nov. 3, 7 pm.

Democracy: Im Rausch der Daten: Documentary about European Union policy-makers attempt to guard against corporate data collection. UW Cinematheque, Nov. 3, 7 pm.

Weiner: Marquee Film Festival: Documentary about Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York City mayoral run. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 3, 9 pm.

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Fellini Satyricon: This loose adaptation of Petronius’ Roman satire remains as gratuitous, semichaotic and undeniably eye-catching as ever.

Central Library, Nov. 3, 6:30 pm.

CC & DESCRIPTIVE NARRATION

Fri: (1:40, 4:25), 6:50, 9:20; Sat: (11:10 AM, 1:40, 4:25), 6:50, 9:20; Sun: (11:10 AM, 1:40, 4:25), 6:50; Mon to Thu: (1:40, 4:25), 6:50

Elephant Blues: Documentary about a young girl living among forest elephants in India. Sundance, Oct. 31 & Nov. 2, 7 pm.

13th: Documentary about the relationship of the current prison system to slavery. Central Library, Nov. 3, 5:30 pm.

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Freakfest, featuring Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals

Wisconsin State Music Conference: Annual Wisconsin Music Educators Association event, through 10/29, with concerts open to the public: Thursday: State Honors Band & Orchestra 4:30 pm, State Honors Treble & Mixed Choirs 8 pm, Overture Center ($17.50/concert, 258-4141). Friday: State Honors Jazz Ensemble 11:30 am, Monona Terrace ($15). Saturday: Middle Level State Honors band 1 pm, orchestra 2:15 pm & choir 3:30 pm, Waunakee High School ($15). wmea.com/conference. 850-3566.

Saturday, Oct. 29, State Street, 7 pm The man who “won” SXSW is headlining the city’s annual fam-friendly downtown music fest. .Paak has been swiveling heads and beats with his oldschool, smooth-as-suede jazz and R&B-inflected rap. His meteoric rise is quite literally straight outta Compton — as in his triumphant six-song turn on Dr. Dre’s 2015 album of that name. Getting down and spooky with the dude who’s now collaborating with everyone from ScHoolboy Q to 9th Wonder and the Game is the musical equivalent of getting a king-sized Snickers bar in your treat bag. Be sure to catch one-man dance/ sex party Har Mar Superstar earlier on the Capitol Square stage. Country star Kip Moore headlines the Gilman Street stage just a day after a new EP release, with tourmate Jon Pardi also performing.

And the Frances Street stage features a strong Midwest lineup from indie rock (the Kickback) to hip-hop (Trapo, Rich Robbins).

L EC T URES & S EMI N A RS

The Power of Partying Thursday, Oct. 27, High Noon Saloon, 8:30 pm When his single “Party Hard” became an unexpected smash in 2001, Andrew W.K. established himself as alternative rock’s loud, unabashed party animal. But in the years since, he’s gone on to redefine himself as a “party guru and motivational speaker.” W.K. manages to harness his bombastic, oddball energy into an oddly intimate rally to celebrate “our common humanity,” or as he simplifies it, “a party about partying.” Sign us up!

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Stupid Fucking Bird: University Theatre production of Aaron Posner’s “sort of” Chekov adaptation, 10/20-11/6, Vilas Hall-Hemsley Theatre, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays. $20. 265-2787.

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The Dragon: UW Theatre for Youth production, 7:30 pm on 10/27-28 and 2 pm, 10/29-30, Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle. $10. 265-2787.

COM EDY

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

Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm.

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

The Frequency: Glostick Willy, Flowpoetry, Armchair Boogie, Coyote, Eddie Danger, 9 pm.

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Liquid: Party Favor, Antics, mindcntrl, Davilla, 9 pm.

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

Mr. Robert’s: Romero, Compact Deluxe, Fiendish Phantoms, Optigan, “Halloweenie Roast” with “Bordello of Horror” cast members, free, 10 pm.

Orpheum: Clutch, Zakk Sabbath, Kyng, 7 pm.

Paoli Schoolhouse: Thomas Burns, free, 6 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Roy Book Binder, 7:30 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Darren Sterud & the New Orleans Tribute, free, 9:30 pm.

Up North: Catfish Stephenson, 9 pm Thursdays.

Verona Area High School: Verona Area Concert Band, “Dedications,” free/donations, 7:30 pm.

Stephen Burt: Poetry reading, 4 pm, 10/27, UW Memorial Library, Room 126. felixreadingseries.wordpress.com.

Rachel Davidson Leigh: Discussing “Hold,” her new LGBT YA novel, 6 pm, 10/27, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Jesse Temple: Discussing “100 Things Every Wisconsin Fan Should Know or Do Before They Die,” his new book, 7 pm, 10/27, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Night of the Living Humanities: Benefit for UW Odyssey Project, 5-7 pm, 10/27, University Club, with staff & students costumed as writers, literary characters & other historical figures, plus appetizers, costume contest. $30 donation. RSVP: odyssey.wisc.edu/rsvp. 262-3733.

Laser Shows: Planetarium fundraiser, 10/27-29, MMSD Planetarium, with laser animation set to classic rock music; also Halloween & family shows. $4. Schedule: planetarium. madison.k12.wi.us/lasershows. 663-6102.

Haunted Castle: Madison Metro Jaycees, 7-10 pm, 10/2729, Olin Park. $10. facebook.com/madison.h.house.

Fitchburg Library: Milkhouse Radio, free, 7 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 5:30 pm Thursdays.

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REC REAT I O N & GA MES

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

Ivory Room: Michael Massey, Vince Strong, 9 pm.

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Alice Thursday, Oct. 27, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm

This is definitely going to rock. Madison Theatre Guild produces a world premiere of a “hard-rock musical” version of Alice in Wonderland, adapted by playwright Dan Myers (Being Human) and with a score by award-winning songwriter and bad-ass riot grrl Meghan Rose (Meghan Rose & the Bones, Damsel Trash). Parental discretion advised. ALSO: FridaySaturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (2 pm) and Wednesday-Thursday (7:30 pm), 10/28-30 & 11/2-3. Through Nov. 5.

Playscapes: Nine scenes exploring the disconnect between adulthood & play, 10/14-11/5, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

Chris Garcia Thursday, Oct. 27, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Los Angeles native Chris Garcia got his start in the San Francisco Bay area, and was named “A Comic to Watch” by the San Jose Mercury News. He’s appeared on Adam Devine’s House Party, WTF with Marc Maron, and most recently at the 2016 Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, where he was dubbed “Best of the Fest.” His characters, voices and spot-on accents establish him as a master storyteller who reels audiences in with his familiar and relatable anecdotes. With Mike Brody, Nick Lynch. ALSO: Friday, Oct. 28, 8 and 10:30 pm.

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Freakin’ Halloweekend Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28-29, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Local bands will be donning their Halloween costumes and performing cover sets at the High Noon Saloon over the course of two wild nights. Friday’s show will include tributes to Bad Company, Queens of the Stone Age, the Breeders, the White Stripes and Merle Haggard, while Saturday will feature Alanis Morissette, Hall and Oates, Weezer, Primus and Buddy Holly.

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ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS

STEVE BROWN APARTMENTS 96.3 STAR COUNTRY STAGE AT GILMAN ST

KIP MOORE

JON PARDI ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES WHEELHOUSE HAR MAR GRETA VAN FLEET SUPERSTAR ADAM BARTELS DIANE COFFEE SWEET SPIRIT

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WSUM/IAN’S PIZZA STAGE AT FRANCES STREET

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ScHoolboy Q Friday, Oct. 28, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

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NINETEEN THIRTEEN Friday, Oct. 28, Arts + Literature Lab (2021 Winnebago St.), 8 pm

The name comes from the cello, made in 1913. But the music is most definitely from today. This wholly original collaboration between cellist Janet Schiff and percussionist Victor DeLorenzo (from the Violent Femmes) explores uncharted sonic territory. Expect a haunting performance of looping, beats and commentary by the two artists.

You may recognize ScHoolboy Q’s southern [California] drawl from his many collaborations within the rap community, perhaps most notably with fellow Top Dawg artist Kendrick Lamar. Many peers try to repay the favor on all four of Q’s studio albums, including FreakFest headliner Anderson .Paak, who guests on Q’s most recent LP, Blank Face. The rapper’s no-fucksto-give swagger and the drippy, heady beats will seep into your system like an IV and rattle the walls of the Orpheum.

Opener Joey Bada$$ is no slouch, either.

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4 on the Floor Friday, Oct. 28, Farley’s House of Pianos, 7:30 pm

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades $20 advance, $25 dos

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Friday, Oct. 28, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

If you’re looking to add some twang to your Halloween weekend, you can’t go wrong here. The bearded wonders of Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, who hail from Stevens Point, pump out classic bluegrass and country sounds, adding a Midwestern flavor.

They’re on the rise, too, having placed third at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and they’ve shared the stage with Trampled

by Turtles, Merle Haggard and Yonder Mountain String Band. With Kind Country.

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Brink Lounge: Billy McLaughlin & Jeff Arundel, 8 pm.

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

Chief’s Tavern: The Sparks Band, rock, free, 6:30 pm.

Chocolaterian Cafe: Lulu Swing Quartet, free, 7 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Charm School Rejects, 9 pm.

First Unitarian Society: Ted Reinke, piano, 12:15 pm.

The Frequency: Joseph, William Wild, 9 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Country Wide Rocks, free, 9 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Pistol Pete, blues, 9 pm.

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

Mickey’s Tavern: Sinking Suns, Mama, Shadow in the Cracks, Heather the Jerk, rock, free, 10 pm.

Tickets $40 advance

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No, it’s not a disco beat. This “4 on the Floor” is a rare chance to hear virtuoso pianists performing on concert grands as part of the Salon Piano Series at Farley’s. International powerhouses Daniel del Pino (pictured), Lucille Chung, Alon Goldstein and Roberto Plano chose the Madison showroom as their only North American performance. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 29, 7:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: The Benders, Dewey Cox & Spinal Tap tribute, free, 10 pm.

SUN. NOV. 13 - 7:30PM

Overture Center: Tony Bennett, 8 pm. Sold out.

Stoughton Opera House: Honey Dewdrops, 7:30 pm.

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ROREY CARROLL Tickets $30 advance

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Needtobreathe Friday, Oct. 28, Alliant Energy Center Coliseum, 7 pm

With sounds reminiscent of U2 and the Fray, Southern-style Christian rock band Needtobreathe consists of brothers and South Carolina natives Bear and Bryant “Bo” Rinehart. Rivers in the Wasteland, the band’s fifth studio album, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart, and the song “Multiplied” earned Needtobreathe its first Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. With Mat Kearney, Parachute, Welshly Arms.

Tandem Press: UW Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Standards Ensemble, free, 5 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Los Chechos, free, 9:30 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Christopher Taylor, performing Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” 8 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Universal Sound, 8 pm.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS John Riggs: “Entering Old Growth: Meditations from the Ancient Rain Forest of the Pacific Northwest,” photographs, 10/28-12/31, Bos Meadery (reception 5:30-8:30 pm, 10/28, with music by Jane Reynolds & Cliff Frederiksen). bosmeadery.com.

Cheng-Po Chen & C.K. Chang: Taiwanese Culture in Madison 2016 exhibit, 10/19-11/2, Overture CenterPlayhouse Gallery (reception 6:30-7:30 pm, 10/28). madabouttaiwan2016.wixsite.com/home.

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T HE AT ER & DA N C E

Arts & Literature Laboratory: Amoebageddon, Scott Gordon, 8 pm.

Barrymore Theatre: Terrapin Flyer, Evergreen Grass Band, Mission, annual Grateful Dead tribute, 8 pm.

PRESENTS

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Vinyl Thunder, classic rock, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Mike Massey & Francie Phelps, 7 pm; Tom Gullion Quintet,8 pm; Antique Nouveau, 9 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: DJ Robbie G, free, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: VO5, ‘70s, 9:30 pm.

The Poe Requiem Friday, Oct. 28, Masonic Center, 8 pm

Always ready with a fresh take on classical repertoire, Fresco Opera Theatre presents an evening of works from master of dark prose Edgar Allan Poe, with a new score

by Clarisse Tobia. We have goosebumps already. ALSO: Saturday, Oct. 29, 8 pm.

Detroit ‘67: Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre comedy-drama, 10/28-11/12, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays, plus 8 pm on 11/9. $20. 663-5814.

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

Harmony Bar: People Brothers Band, Frogleg, 9 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Midlife Crisis, free, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Luke Hrovat-Staedter, Taras Nahirniak, dueling pianos, 10 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Valerie B & the Boyz, 9 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee: Common Chord, free, 7 pm.

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

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, 6:30 pm.

Liquid: Hipp, 10 pm.

Lucille: DJ Phil Money, free, 10 pm.

Mary’s Wedding: A romance shattered by the war effort, 10/28-11/20, APT-Touchstone Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$54. americanplayers.org. 588-2361.

Mother Fool’s: Open Mic with Angelica Engel, 8 pm.

FU NDRA I S ER S

Stoughton Opera House: Subdudes, 7 pm.

Bat-oberfest: “Battle for Bats” film screening & snacks, 5 pm, 10/28, Capital Brewery, Middleton.

Bat-oberfest beer sales benefit Wisconsin Bat Conservation Fund. 866-264-4096.

Spaghetti Dinner: Annual fundraiser for the Mujilla Falls Agricultural Education Center in Zambia, 5-8 pm, 10/28, Trinity United Methodist Church, with music by MadFiddle. $8 ($4 child). 257-4591.

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The Frequency: David Ramirez, 7 pm.

Taiyuan Puppet Theatre Company: 7:30 pm on 10/28 and 1 pm, 10/30, Overture Center-Rotunda Stage; 3 pm, 10/29, Oakwood Village-University Woods.

Free. madabouttaiwan2016.wixsite.com/home.

Fall Fest: “Creatures of the Night’ themed activities, 5:30-7:30 pm, 10/28 Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Monona, with costume parade, refreshments. $50/ family (includes annual family membership to ALNC). aldoleopoldnaturecenter.org. 221-0404.

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Edgewater Hotel: Madison County, free, 2 pm.

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Majestic: DJs Nick Nice, Mike Carlson, 8 pm.

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

Mr. Robert’s: Stone Room, Royal Station, free, 10 pm.

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Natt Spil: DJ Trichrome, free, 10 pm.

Tavernakaya: DJs Radish, Fuzzy Duck, Lolo, 10:30 pm.

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

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Breaking Ground, marking groundbreaking for new UW facility, with Jessica Johnson, piano, John Chappell Stowe, harpsichord/organ, Andrew Briggs, cello, Sound out Loud, free, 7 pm.

Woof’s: DJ John Murges, free, 10 pm.

T HE AT E R & DANCE Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two-Woman Show: 3 & 7 pm, 10/29, Stoughton Opera House. $60. 877-4400.

B OOKS Falling Light and Waters Turning: Adventures in Being Human: Release party for memoir by Mary North Allen, 3 pm, 10/29, The Gardens. fallinglightwatersturning.com.

Tickets available at MajesticMadison.com, 800-514-ETIX, and at the Majestic Theatre Box Office.

ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Artful Women Show/Sale: Annual Wisconsin Women’s Network & UW Hospital Art Fund benefit, 10/2912/3, UW Hospital & Clinics-2nd Floor. 263-5992.

Fine Art & Craft Sale: Madison Weavers Guild event featuring Wisconsin & Minnesota craftspeople, 10 am-4 pm, 10/29-30, Olbrich Gardens. 238-3425.

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Saturday, Oct. 29, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

A “save the date” notice for Madison rock fans appeared quietly via a post on the previously dormant His & Her Vanities Facebook page: The Madison quartet will reunite to play their first show in more than five years. Also on the bill is Pamphleteers, an excellent Chicago band that includes Rebecca Crawford (the Dials) and Jonathan Ben-Isvy (the Returnables). With Venus in Furs.

Hilldale-O-Ween: All-ages activities, 10/29-31, Hilldale. Saturday: Ken Lonnquist family concert 10:30 am (atrium). Monday: Trick or treating 4:30-6:30 pm, music/laser light show 4:30-6:30 pm (west plaza). More events: hilldale.com. 238-6640.

Community Mandala: Help create an earth-made art mandala, 11 am-3 pm, 10/29, Farley Center, with food, music & meditation. Donations support Sarvodaya USA. RSVP: sarvodayausa.org. 567-4421.

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Halloween Parade & Party: Primates Inc. fundraiser, 2 pm, 10/29, from Library Mall to Capitol, with costume contest. $10 ($20 per family) RSVP: amy@ primatesinc.com. 220-2166.

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Fruit Bats Sunday, Oct. 30, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Eric D. Johnson’s musical history is eclectic, to say the least. The Chicago-based musician has played on two classic Shins albums and worked on eight different film scores. But his most consistent work has been with Fruit Bats, a folky-indie rock project that’s released six albums of whip-smart, masterfully crafted jams that sound straight out of 1970s AM radio, the most recent being this year’s Absolute Loser. With Courtney Marie Andrews.

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Sunday, Oct. 30, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

Seething with disgust for a world that’s screwed him over since birth, Yelawolf is the far-less-popular Eminem of the South.

And he owns every bit of it. In his transformation from the awkward cruising anthem “Trunk Muzik” to his unapologetic tantrum on the guitar-heavy “Till It’s Gone,” he’s found his niche in angry, country-esque rap, and it works really, really well for him. With Struggle Jennings, Bubba Sparxxx, Jelly Roll.

The Frequency: Kyle Craft, 8 pm.

Sunday, Oct. 30, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, 7:30 pm

The shape-shifting genius of Esperanza Spalding had its roots in her childhood in Portland, Oregon, when she began performing violin with the Chamber Music Society of Oregon at age 5. At 31, the virtuosic bassist/composer/ vocalist has performed at the Oscars and the Grammys (she’s won four), and she’s practically a regular at the White House. Her latest album, Emily’s D+Evolution, is a whimsical, trippy experiment, with exuberant bass lines and vocals evoking the likes of Joni Mitchell.

dick’s thundering bass, you will feel this music deep within your chest cavity. With droning, fuzzy industrial noisemakers HEALTH.

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

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Wisconsin Brass Quintet, School of Music concert, free, 7:30 pm.

Purity Ring Sunday, Oct. 30, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm

Purity Ring vocalist Megan James’ hauntingly ethereal vocals weave through crisp trap beats constructed by Corin Roddick as if they were forever intended to be united. James’ gothic, often fantastic imagery evokes raw emotion and vulnerability that Roddick shatters with 808 kicks and high hats. Their live show employs custom-built sound and lighting controls, which bring the laptop-style act to another level.

Whether it’s the wistful woes of James or Rod-

VFW Post 7591-Cottage Grove Road: Jammin’ for Slammin’ Cancer, fundraiser for local charities (performers RSVP: dennis@inpaksystems.com), donations, 1-7 pm.

F UNDRAISERS Pie Palooza: Annual REAP Food Group fundraiser, seatings hourly 9:30 am-12:30 pm, 10/30, Goodman Community Center. $20 ($18 adv.) includes two slices of sweet or savory pie by local chefs, salad & beverage.

RSVP: reapfoodgroup.org. 310-7836.

KIDS & FAM ILY Halloween at the Zoo: Annual event, 9:30 am-3 pm, 10/30, Vilas Zoo, with trick-or-treating, entertainment, activities. Free/donations. 258-9490.

Reel Big Halloween!

Monday, Oct. 31, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

In the 20-odd years it’s been in existence, Reel Big Fish has developed a reputation as a party band. The legendary skapunk outfit burst onto the scene with the ubiquitous single “Sell Out” in 1997, and has since released eight albums of cheeky originals and high-energy covers.

In others words: the perfect band to get your Halloween rockin’ (and skankin’).

With PPL MVR, Stacked Like Pancakes.

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

The Frequency: MDC, The Crosses, Wartorn, The Moguls, The Bottles, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Megan Bobo & the Lux, Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band, DJ Vilas Park Sniper, 6 pm.

Liquid: Golden Donna, Mr. Jackson, McFabulous, Zed Kenzo, DJs Mando, Evan Woodward, Radish, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Heavy Looks, North by North, Dash Hounds, rock, free, 10:30 pm.

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

Up North Pub: Eddie Danger, free, 7 pm.

A RTS N OT I C ES Wisconsin Film Festival Entries: Submissions from filmmakers with state ties invited for the 2017 showcase through 12/1; Student Shorts through 12/31. $45$15 entry fee. Rules: wifilmfest.org/entry. 262-9009.

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MU SI C Cardinal Bar: Paul Dietrich Ensemble, 6:30 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

High Noon Saloon: Cindy Set My Hair on Fire, 6 pm.

The Frequency: Nate Millyunz, 8 pm.

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

Monona Terrace: Gingger Shankar, 8 pm.

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

A RT EX H I B I TS & E VE N TS Dying to Cross: Exhibit commemorating lives lost while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, 10/20-11/4, Edgewood College Gallery & grounds (Dia de los Muertos discussion 6:30 pm, 11/1; candlelight vigil 8 pm, 11/3). 663-3252.

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

The Frequency: Brian Ray, Starr Moss, Ben Sanders & Mark Hembree, bluegrass, 8 pm.

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

Mickey’s: Brain Bagz, Sky Urchin, free, 10:30 pm.

Opus Lounge: Benjamin Lodahl, free, 9 pm.

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

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

B OOKS / S POKEN WORD Mike Mentzer & Tom Martinelli: Discussing “Unbreakable Bonds: Edgewood Football, Life Lessons: 1927-2015,” 7 pm, 11/2, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Day of the Dead Poetry: Workshop by Araceli Esparza 6 pm, open mic at 7 pm, 11/2, Hawthorne Library.

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ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Brandon Lee Goral: Paintings, 11/2-30, UW Health Sciences Learning Center, 2nd Floor Lobby. 263-5992.

Jan Boelte: Watercolors, 11/2-1/26, UW Health at the American Center-American Bistro. 263-5992.

POL I T I CS & ACTIV ISM League of Women Voters of Dane County Issues Forum: “A Citizen’s Perspective on Climate Change” talk

by Dick Smith, 7 pm, 11/2, Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for Arts & Education. 232-9447.

The Staves Wednesday, Nov. 2, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

The dulcet-toned harmonies of the three Staveley-Taylor sisters have been making their way over the Atlantic. The trio from Watford, England, has its own tour after selling out arenas while opening for Florence & the Machine in the U.K. Their Justin Vernon-produced song “If I Was” helped the sisters gain some well-deserved attention for their melodic folk rock.

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High Noon: Tucker Beathard, Aubrie Sellers, 8 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Stick Figure, The Movement, Natty Nation, DJ Trichrome, 8 pm.

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“In what other job do you get to meet a 9-year-old girl who wants to have a Day of the Dead birthday party because she’s inspired by Frida Kahlo?” asks Amy Mietzel, director of Bare Knuckle Arts, an independent art center on Madison’s east side. “Or an octogenarian excited to be taking her first painting class because the original one she was signed up for was canceled due to the Nazi invasion of Greece?”

While she’s grateful for the many years she spent teaching art at Cherokee Heights Middle School, Mietzel always knew she wanted to open her own studio. “I genuinely enjoyed teaching the middle school ages for 20 years,” she says. “But I really wanted to teach 3-year-olds and 83-year-olds, too.”

Since its 2013 opening, Bare Knuckle Arts has been a fixture of the Schenk’s Corners neighborhood offering a novel range of art classes with all-ages appeal. Adults and teens who sign up to take the Nov. 18 nuno felting scarf workshop will learn how to combine roving wool (usually used for spinning) into an elegant and fashionable scarf they can sport this coming winter. Or if folks are starting to tire of the whole elf-on-ashelf-as-décor thing, they can stop by Bare Knuckle from 1 to 4 p.m. on Dec. 4 to create a set of whimsical nesting dolls to reflect their own holiday traditions.

After-school art projects include (clockwise from top) a catapult; Minions and a rolling cat.

Youth programming, from workshops to private birthday parties, is still Bare Knuckle’s bread and butter. “I love that I’m able to provide an array of classes for kids that really taps into their interests,” says Mietzel. She is known for incorporating pop culture into many of her kid offerings. In her Pokémon Go workshops, participants bring their favorite character to life through activities like “create-your-own Poké egg,” or they make their own Minions from two-liter soda bottles. “Kids want to talk about and create art around what they know,” says Mietzel.

Bare Knuckle also hosts drop-in classes after school on Mondays (when Madison public schools have early release). Instruction for home-schooled students and a Friday morning “Curiosity Club” for toddlers are popular, as well. “Most parents would prefer their toddlers paint here,” rather than at home, says Mietzel with a smile. “I’m pretty used to paint on the walls.”

Most special, to Mietzel, is when multiple generations are creating together. “I love to see a grandpa and his granddaughter working on a piece together,” says Mietzel.

“Having this center has allowed me to help families make memories. And those memories will likely last longer than whatever they’ve painted, sculpted or decorated in the studio that day.” n

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20 See 18-Across 22 Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2019 23 “Homer came up with the drink, but I came up with the idea of charging $6.95 for it” speaker 24 Sang from the hilltops, maybe 28 European sports car marque 32 Love letters?

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45 Common (and unimaginative) first episode title 47 Empty, as a mathematical set 48 It runs between “This American Life” segments 50 Battery terminal 53 Countless centuries 54 Romance/thriller novelist Hoag 55 With 60-Across, anesthesia administered by a small monkey?

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Seven nights

BY DAN SAVAGE

I love my wife, but I have a lot of resentment, disappointment and insecurity over our sex life. After four years of marriage, huge angst remains that I have yet to get a handle on. Right now, with kids and our busy lives, she’s content with sex once a week or so, and I need relief pretty much every night to help with my insomnia. What’s more, I really don’t enjoy porn at all, but if we aren’t having intercourse, there’s pretty much no other way for me to get off. Blame it on my fundamentalist evangelical upbringing, but I fear my porn use becoming an addiction. It makes me feel dirty. I would love a solution to this problem that doesn’t involve me jerking off in a dark room by a computer screen after my wife falls asleep every night. All I want to do is feel close to my wife, orgasm and sleep. I think she does sincerely care and wants to help me, but is just so tired and busy with her career and our kids.

And yes, I have talked and fought with her countless times. In weaker moments, I’ll admit I have also guilted her for her more “active” sexual past (with prior boyfriends) and for her current “ne-

glect,” which I know is unfair and unhelpful.

I just don’t know what to do.

When Orgasms Enable Sleep You’ve been married four years, you have more than one child, you both work — and if you divide household labor like most couples, your wife is doing more/most of the cooking, cleaning, and child care. But even if you were childless, living in a hotel suite with daily maid service, eating only room service, and throwing your underpants out the window after one wearing, WOES, it would still be unreasonable to expect PIV intercourse every night of the week.

Frankly, WOES, once-a-week PIV is more sex than most young straight dads are getting. And if you’re demanding PIV from your wife as a sleep aid — “ask your doctor if Clambien is right for you” — it’s a miracle you’re getting any sex at all.

And the limited options you cite — it’s either PIV with the wife or masturbation in front of the computer — aren’t doing you any favors.

Consider PIV from your wife’s perspective: Her husband fucks, comes and falls asleep. She lies there for a while afterward, tingling, and may have to go to the bathroom once or twice.

The PIV that puts her husband to sleep after a long day? It puts her sleep off. And if she wanted to get it over with quickly — because

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she was exhausted — there wasn’t much foreplay, which means she probably wasn’t fully lubricated (uncomfortable) and most likely didn’t come (unfair). That’s a recipe for resent-

ment, WOES, and resentment kills desire.

(Or maybe you should think of it this way: If your ass got fucked every time you said yes to sex, you wouldn’t say yes to sex seven nights a week.)

If you expanded your definition of sex, if your options weren’t PIV or nothing, you might not have to masturbate six nights a week. Because if your definition of sex included oral (his and hers), mutual masturbation and frottage—and if these weren’t consolation prizes you settled for, but sex you were enthusiastic about — your wife might say yes to sex more often.

Still, you’re never going to get it seven nights a week. So make the most of the PIV you’re getting, broaden your definition of sex and get another night or two of sex in per week, and enjoy porn without guilt the rest of the week. And if you’re concerned about the amount of porn you’re watching, try this trick: Lie on the couch or the floor or the guest bed, stroke your cock (even if it’s soft), and think dirty thoughts. Your cock will get hard, I promise, and you’ll get off.

It’s how most people masturbated before the internet came and ruined everything, and it still works. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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