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PICKLE!

Fans of a new hybrid sport can now find a game at Madison’s Garner Park.

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VOTING RIGHTS

In the midst of a historic election, voters face brand-new rules for casting ballots.

ONE SEAT AT A TIME AMELIA COOK FONTELLA

JANE BURNS

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COVER STORY JANE BURNS REALIZED her childhood dream of becoming a sports writer, working for some 20 years at the Des Moines Register, Minneapolis StarTribune and USA Today. She covered high school and college volleyball and just about every other sport out there. An alum of both The Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal, she writes this week about the UW’s volleyball team, a powerhouse that has the potential to be number 1 in the country this year.

26 FOOD AMELIA COOK FONTELLA is mostly a coffee drinker.

But she admits to loving a “proper cup of tea,” perhaps owing to the time she spent studying abroad in the United Kingdom. So her interest was piqued when she heard about a new catering business in town that specializes in gatherings around tea.

This week she interviews proprietor Lindsay Bessick.

Democrats eye a handful of Assembly seats they hope to wrest from Republicans.

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NERVE MENDINGS

UW-Madison scientists discover that nerves can repair themselves.

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PRESS PHOBIC

Transparency will likely not be part of a Clinton presidency.

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NET GAINS

The volleyball Badgers are having an electric season and selling out the Field House.

23-26 FOOD & DRINK

DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE

Breakwater Monona revives an often forgotten space on the Yahara.

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HOOPS HOPES

While expectations for the Milwaukee Bucks are modest, there could be good surprises in store.

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Judgment day Tues., Nov. 8, Isthmus watch party at High Noon Saloon, 6 pm At last! Election Day is finally here. The polls are open 7 am-8 pm.

You can view a sample ballot and find your polling place at myvote.wi.gov. Isthmus is hosting an election-night watch/dance party at the High Noon Saloon starting at 6 pm, with a live broadcast on WORT-FM starting at 8 pm. If you want to throwdown with local politicos, Republicans will be watching election returns at the Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club. Libertarians are holding court at Brocach on the Square. And local Dems will be cheering on U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold at the Marriott-West in Middleton.

Heed the herb

Lady Laughs Comedy Festival busts up the boys’ club.

Sat., Nov. 5, Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 9 am-3 pm

32-33 MUSIC JOEL PATENAUDE

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SCREENS JOEL PATENAUDE IS the former longtime managing editor of Silent Sports magazine, which has for decades reported on such “self-propelled” activities as bicycling, running, skiing and skating, and the current regional editor for Roots.Rated.com. A lifelong classic cross-country skier, he previews alpine backcountry skiers featured in the film Monumental: Skiing our National Parks.

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The Herb Faire is a unique blend of herb tradition dating back to medieval times and herb science of the present day. This year’s theme is “Hips, hops and healthful herbs.” Speakers will extol the virtues of herbs; vendors will be selling live plants and all kinds of herb products.

UW’s Christopher Taylor unleashes the beastly invention.

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Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks is a history lesson with thrills.

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BETTER AND BETTER

Human Crafted improves the utility of everyday items.

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Everyone’s Earth Thurs., Nov. 3, UW Discovery BuildingDeLuca Forum, 7 pm

How does one’s ethnic heritage intersect with sense of place in America? Lauret Savoy, professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts), explores this question in her writings and research. She’ll speak on themes from her latest book, Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape.

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Gamehole Con has grown quickly into an annual must for gaming enthusiasts from around the Midwest, with a dizzying array of board, card and role-playing games to choose from starting at 8 am Friday. The roster of special guests at the Con features many with a connection to legendary Lake Geneva company TSR (creators of Dungeons & Dragons), including the sons of co-founder Gary Gygax. Find the complete schedule at gameholecon.com.

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Pickleball, anyone?

Rico Goedjen (left) and Pat Fleming both lunge for the pickleball while playing doubles at Garner Park.

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Deep within Garner Park on Madison’s west side, visitors can hear the crisp sound of perforated polymer balls smacking wooden paddles and bouncing on asphalt before they can see the dozen or so players competing on the six newly converted pickleball courts.

“There were 24 of us here at 9 a.m. earlier in the week,” Rico Goedjen, a fit 69-year-old retiree who learned the game about four years ago, says this early, brisk fall morning, with temperatures hovering around 50 degrees and wind gusts occasionally stopping the lightweight yellow ball in mid-air. “We probably have 50 people a day. If you’re a pickleball player, you know you can come here and find a game.”

That wasn’t always the case for enthusiasts of the sport that combines tennis and ping-pong. It wasn’t until 2012 that city crews began striping existing tennis courts throughout Madison to accommodate the smaller court dimensions of pickleball; Sun Prairie’s Wyndham Hills Park was the only site in Dane County at the time with dedicated outdoor pickleball courts.

Then, over this past summer, six underused tennis courts at Garner Park on Rosa Road were converted and officially opened on Sept. 15 — making them Madison’s first outdoor space exclusively for pickleball, which is now considered one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States.

Young children and older adults, especially, enjoy the activity because the courts are small (44 feet long and 20 feet wide), most games can be played within 20 minutes, and the social aspect is a key element of the game. Points are scored by the serving side only, and the first to 11 points wins. This morning, most of the players are playing doubles.

All told, the Garner Park project cost about $65,000. Goedjen and one of his playing partners, 67-year-old Pat Fleming, are among a small group who formed Madison Friends of Pickleball and raised more than $44,000 in individual gifts and grants — the most generous donation coming from the Irwin A. and Robert D. Goodman Foundation — toward the effort.

Madison Friends of Pickleball now is morphing into the broader-based Capital Area Pickleball Association, which will promote the sport throughout Dane County. Goedjen, the group’s president, says he would like to develop pickleball leagues and tournaments, host social events and lessons, and even help more communities build dedicated outdoor pickleball courts.

“We have a lot of quality players in Madison,” says Goedjen, noting that Dave Weinbach, a national pickleball champion, often plays at the Garner courts. “This sport really has some momentum now, and pickleball players need to get more cities to consider this.”

The sport’s popularity has been a long time coming. With a history dating back to 1965, pickleball most likely began when, according to the USA Pickleball Aassociation website, “Joel Pritchard, [a] congressman from Washington state, and Bill Bell, successful businessman, returned to Pritchard’s home on Bainbridge Island, Wash. (near Seattle), to find their families sitting around with nothing to do. The property had an old badminton court, so Pritchard and Bell looked for some badminton equipment and could not find a full set of rackets. They improvised and started playing with ping-pong paddles and a perforated plastic ball.”

The Pritchards’ family dog, “Pickles,” would chase runaway balls. And the rest, they say, is history.

Back at Garner Park, Goedjen and Fleming want to raise money to install windscreens and shade structures at the courts in 2017, and they’ll probably ask city officials to keep the public restrooms open later in the year, too.

“Here you have 25 old people and they lock the bathrooms on us,” gripes one unidentified woman, sounding only like she was half-kidding.

About 24 hours after I meet him, Goedjen emails me. “After you left, a half-dozen more players showed up, and we played past noon,” he writes. “Like the Field of Dreams, ‘build it and they will come.’” n

2.5 MILLION: Number of pickleball participants in the United States, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association 27: Number of local pickleball players who in 2011 requested dedicated pickleball courts in a Madison park 34 INCHES: Height at the center of a standard pickleball net; sides are 36 inches high 1965: Year pickleball was invented 4,000: Number of locations on the USA Pickleball Association’s “Places to Play” map

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A “toxic” recipe for problems New voting laws have some bracing for a chaotic Election Day

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“Judge Peterson’s recent ruling focused on the DMV’s ID petition process, which allows individuals to obtain a temporary receipt that can be used for voting even when they do not have the necessary documents,” explains commission administrator Mike Haas.

In response, the commission has printed more than 13,000 info sheets explaining the ID petition process. The sheets are being distributed throughout the state by voter advocacy agencies like the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin.

Andrea Kaminski, executive director of the League of Women Voters, says on Election Day her group will be watching to make sure local officials adhere to the law. Kaminski will be managing nearly 250 trained poll observers covering 500 polling places across the state.

“We tell them what to watch for,” says Kaminski. “We want to know how these restrictive new laws and procedures are affecting voters in the voting process. We also have them looking for any signs of disenfranchisement, where somebody who is a qualified citizen is not able to vote because of a new law or because an election official isn’t administering the law properly.”

Kaminski is especially concerned about voter intimidation.

“Voter intimidation is illegal; if you see people leaving because the polling place is not orderly and they’re frightened by that, that’s in-

timidation, and it’s illegal,” Kaminski says.

While the League’s poll observers will be all over the state, they will be concentrated in areas where more people tend to register on Election Day, such as poor neighborhoods in cities and on college campuses.

Mayer says it’s no coincidence that these laws affect certain demographic groups more than others.

“Voter ID laws have almost invariably been enacted by Republican state governments, and they also invariably require IDs that certain demographic groups — minorities, the poor, elderly, students — are less likely to have,” he says. “I don’t think it’s remotely a stretch to argue that there is an overt partisan intent here — which is to make it more difficult for certain types of people to vote, and it’s not an accident that those groups are disproportionately Democratic.”

Regardless of the intent behind the voter ID laws, Mayer says they do little to protect against the voter fraud.

“The preface to all of this has to be that these laws solve nothing. They do not make any difference in the integrity of the election process because the types of vote fraud they are designed to prevent happen in vanishingly small numbers,” says Mayer.

“So the notion that there is substantial voter impersonation is simply untrue.”

Poll monitors and election officials say they are prepared to handle anything that comes up.

Scott McDonell, Dane County clerk, recently reminded law enforcement about the rules for election observers, warning of increased emotions for this election.

“We’re worried about folks who are a little bit more emotional and may not know the rules,” says McDonell. “There are strict rules about observers not disturbing the polling place, not talking to voters, not electioneering and clearly identifying themselves. Law enforcement in this community is really good, and they know the rules; I’m not expecting anything to happen, but if it does, we can handle it.”

To ensure the election runs smoothly statewide, the elections commission has partnered with federal and state agencies to address election security, and met with both the Republican and Democratic parties to discuss issues that may arise.

“The election is now in the hands of the voters,” Haas says. “We expect the polls to be busy and for Wisconsin to again have one of the highest voter turnout rates in the nation. While the long campaign season has emphasized partisan disagreements, we expect all Wisconsinites to observe and promote civility at the polls.” n

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You don’t have to tell Ken Mayer that this has been an unusual election year. But while many people are fretting about who will be the next president, Mayer is concerned more about the process by which he or she will be elected.

Accusations of election rigging, stricter voter ID laws and fears of voter intimidation have people like Mayer, an election law expert and political science professor at UW-Madison, fearing for the worst when voters head to the polls on Nov. 8.

“The combination of massive changes in election administration, restrictive voting rules, a scaling back of federal monitoring and enforcement efforts, and the completely unwarranted claims of one of the presidential candidates that fraud is going to be rampant, is unfortunately a toxic recipe for problems,” Mayer says.

But Mayer says that voters need to remember just one simple thing when heading to the polls: They need a state-approved photo ID in order to vote.

Acceptable ID cards include those issued by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the U.S. military, as well as a U.S. passport.

Also acceptable are photo IDs issued by a federally recognized Indian tribe in Wisconsin or an accredited Wisconsin university (provided it includes a date of issuance, signature of student and an expiration date no later than two years after date of issuance).

UW-Madison IDs aren’t valid for voting, but students can obtain a secondary ID at Union South that is valid for voting. And on Election Day, every on-campus polling location will be printing out paper IDs that can be used for voting, provided students have their regular ID. Mayer worries that many people remain confused about what is acceptable.

“When a law is being rolled out or there is uncertainty about what’s required, people don’t realize they need an ID, or they don’t understand what type of ID they will have to show,” says Mayer. “It’s likely that there are going to be some people that are prepared to show an ID but it’s not going to be the right kind. It’s also likely that there will be a lot of people who don’t realize they have the necessary ID and don’t even try to vote.”

That’s where the city and county clerks’ offices, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (one of two agencies that replaced the Government Accountability Board), and organizations like the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin come in.

Since the start of the year, the commission has focused its work on voter education and outreach with the Bring It to the Ballot website, and a $250,000 public information campaign funded by the Joint Finance Committee including ads and PSAs about voter ID. A court recently ordered the commission to ramp up its efforts to communicate the law’s requirements to the public. U.S. District Judge James Peterson ruled in October that while he could not suspend voter ID, state agencies like the DMV needed to better explain how to get an ID to vote.

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development project slated for the 800 block of East Washington Avenue wins approval from the city council, despite concerns about a music venue from Frank Productions and subsidized parking.

■ Gov. Scott Walker tweets an appeal for voters to back Republican nominee Donald Trump, posting a picture of Hillary Clinton hugging President Barack Obama along with the caption, “If you like the past 8 years, vote @HillaryClinton.” Does Walker realize that Obama is more popular in Wisconsin than he is these days?

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Opportunity knocks Democrats hope to pick up a few Assembly seats Dodgeville resident Brenda Mittlestadt considers herself an independent voter who has long leaned Republican. But this year, she’s found herself increasingly alienated by the Grand Old Party.

Over the last five years, Mittlestadt has been alarmed to see Republican lawmakers slash funding for public education in favor of voucher programs.

It’s one reason why she’s considering voting for Democrat Jeff Wright to represent her in the Assembly 51st District on Nov. 8, over Republican incumbent Todd Novak. “I’m leaning toward Jeff because he’ll be involved in making sure the public schools stay strong and healthy,” Mittlestadt says.

“Republicans have gone so far in becoming an intolerant, it’s my-way-or-the-highway group,” she adds. “I feel more comfortable with the Democrats and the compassion they show.”

The state Democratic Party is hoping that enough voters will feel like Mittlestadt and help the party make some gains in the Assembly, where Republicans currently hold a solid 63-to-36 majority.

“We know this time around we’re not going to win back the Assembly,” says state Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison). “But we know we have a shot at making progress and picking up a few seats.”

Taylor, who is facing a long-shot challenge from Republican Jon Rygiewicz in an overwhelmingly liberal district, is spending some of her time campaigning for Democrats in other districts, including the 51st. She thinks that Wright has a good shot at winning.

“Todd Novak has failed to be an advocate for his community. He’s failed to stand up for local schools, he’s failed to fix roads,” Taylor says. “He’s mostly just voted for [Gov.] Scott Walker. He’s so out of touch with his district.”

Novak did not respond to a request for comment from Isthmus. Several GOP officials — including Pat Garrett, R.J. Johnson and Christine Breit-

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State Rep. Todd Novak (le ), a first-term Republican, faces a challenge from Democrat Jeff Wright.

kreutz — either could not be reached or did not respond to requests for comment.

The state’s Democratic Party has sensed vulnerability in districts like the 51st, where Republicans like Novak claim to be independent yet consistently vote with Republicans. The 51st District is west of Madison and includes parts of Iowa, Green, Lafayette and Richland counties.

Wright, assistant superintendent for Sauk Prairie School District, hopes to turn his opponent, Novak, into a one-term Republican assemblyman. Wright is trying to exploit discontent some rural Wisconsin voters feel toward the Republicans they voted into office and who’ve controlled all three branches of state government since 2011.

The 51st District is one of six Assembly seats Democrats hope to gain on Nov. 8, says

Laura Smith, communications director for the state’s Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee.

Other districts where Democrats are hopeful of unseating incumbents include the 67th, where Dennis Hunt is challenging Rob Summerfield (R-Bloomer); the 75th, where Joe Huftel takes on Romaine Quinn (R-Chetek); the 35th, where Renea Frederick faces Mary Czaja (R-Irma); the 72nd, where David Gorski faces Scutt Krug (RNekosa); and the 1st, where Lynn Utesch challenges Joel Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay).

Smith says the committee has spent an “unprecedented amount” of money supporting Democrats in top-tier races.

She says Democratic candidates this election cycle are benefitting from both

beefed-up fundraising and voter discontent with Republican policies.

The enthusiasm behind Wright was such that the party opened its Monroe-based campaign headquarters three months ahead of schedule.

Although the Democratic Party officials are enthusiastic about Wright, it remains to be seen whether he will appeal to voters.

“When people voted for Todd in the first election, he had no record of voting in the Legislature,” says Barb Woodruff, an executive member of the Green County Democratic Party. “Instead of voting independent, he votes 95 percent of the time with Republicans and Scott Walker’s group. I honestly think he feels afraid that the Republicans will punish him otherwise.” ■

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Dr. John Svaren likes to tell people that he’s “a biochemist pretending to be a neuroscientist.”

The biochemistry professor has spent much of his career studying the biology of the nervous system, particularly myelin, a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers and increases the speed of electrical impulses carried through nerves.

This combination of interests opened the door for the UW professor and his grad student, Joseph Ma, to identify an important genetic switch in helper cells.

Schwann cells, which make up protective myelin sheaths surrounding axons — the long fibers in which neural impulses travel from the central nervous system outward — have been thought to mostly take a passive role in the peripheral nervous system.

But Svaren and Ma have discovered that the cells actually take a very active role in cleaning up injured tissue and supporting axon regeneration.

“After an injury, they have to change their whole program,” Svaren says. “What’s novel about that is no one ever identified a switch like this, which is important for the nerve injury process and the regenerative process after that.”

Svaren and Ma looked at the role of a protein called polycomb as it relates to the Schwann cells and myelin in mice and rats.

“We thought that inhibiting this one epigenetic switch would devastate myelin,” Svaren says. “When we took away the function of it, we thought that everything would go to hell in a handbasket.”

But instead, the animals’ cell behavior did not change for the worse, which prompted the team to look a bit closer.

The cells were able to make things in the nervous system that are normally only made after an injury.

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ment. In a way, it was really good because if the nerves had been devastated, then we wouldn’t have been able to discern this very specific role in the reprogramming of Schwann cells.”

This discovery, published in the August Journal of Neuroscience, has a potential to one day aid people with neuropathies, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other severe disorders that affect the nervous system.

“If we can identify steps to get the Schwann cells to reprogram themselves a little bit better, especially in older individuals who have an injury issue, then that would be the ultimate goal of this research.”

Prior to this study, Schwann cells were thought to serve two purposes: protect nerve cells and speed up nerve impulses.

Axons need protection, Svaren says, because they are so long and vulnerable.

Depending on how tall a person is, a singlecelled axon could be a meter long.

For perspective, Svaren offers this: If a single peripheral nerve in a person’s toe were scaled to one meter, the connecting axon would be the length of the 1,300 kilometer (800 miles) Alaska oil pipeline.

“So there has to be a robust process to maintain them over the course of a lifetime.”

The other role of Schwann cells is to keep nerve impulses moving through the body quickly and efficiently.

“So when you trip on the sidewalk and your impulse makes your leg fly out in front so you don’t land on your face, that’s really due to this fast transmission of nerve impulses.”

Without that myelin sheath, messages are sent to the brain much slower.

“In the periphery nerves, we have sensory axons that are not myelinated. And that’s why if you put your hand on a hot stove, you don’t recognize it right away.”

Svaren and Ma’s discovery is far from being tested in humans, but it is still something the scientists are proud of. “We’re hoping to build onto that into the future,” says Svaren. ■

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ous major presidential candidate in the modern era has allowed a team of reporters to “attach” themselves to their campaign entourage. Pathetically, the Clinton camp has used Trump’s denial of protective pool privileges as an excuse for her repudiation, as if Trump has the moral authority to set such standards.

The absence of a protective pool enabled Clinton’s bizarre evasions about being sick at this year’s 9/11 memorial in New York. She simply ditched the press that day. The episode fueled a Trump poll surge, and led famed Democratic operative David Axelrod to quip that DAVID MICHAEL MILLER pneumonia is treatable, but “what’s the cure for an unAnd the late-breaking report that the FBI healthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly is examining a newly discovered cache of creates unnecessary problems?” emails has re-energized a flagging Donald Fear of a Trump victory has likely subTrump campaign. Though it’s almost certain- dued media complaints about their consisly too little, too late for Trump, congressio- tently shabby treatment, and Trump’s antics nal Republicans are promising to hamstring have provided a constant distraction. But a Clinton White House with email-focused once the Trump threat has officially passed, hearings regardless of what the FBI finds. look for a fed-up press corps to start strongly Clinton’s contempt for the press is most asserting itself. glaringly manifest in her stubborn refusal Things might get ugly. As Dowd points out, (as of this writing) to bring journalists into “people tend to get more paranoid in the White a so-called “protective pool,” despite having House, at the very moment that the whole repeatedly promised to do so. Every previ- country affirms them.” n

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In times past, an incoming Democratic president could count on a warm welcome from the Washington press corps. But Hillary Clinton, who is on track to become the least popular president-elect in modern times, stands to inherit a White House briefing room still seething with mistrust and hostility.

Despite frequently bragging that he runs the “most transparent administration in history,” President Barack Obama has operated with an unparalleled level of concealment. Veteran New York Times Washington correspondent David Sanger has claimed that “this is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered.” Jill Abramson, a Times editor under whom Sanger served, once called the Obama years “a benchmark for a new level of secrecy and control.”

Obama has launched more internal leak investigations than all previous administrations combined. Agents have aggressively pressured journalists to reveal their sources, even to the point of threatening prosecution. The administration has also set a record for resisting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. During Obama’s tenure, lawsuits challenging the government’s FOIA operations have risen by 54 percent, and the U.S. has fallen from 20th to 41st place in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index.

So journalists should be thrilled that this administration is coming to a close. Except they strongly suspect things will get even worse under Clinton. “President Obama is suddenly not looking so bad anymore,” lamented McClatchy Newspapers’ White House correspondent Anita Kumar recently, anticipating the next four to eight years. Kumar says that, under Clinton, “we think there will be less information, [fewer] news conferences, less interaction with the media.”

Hillary Clinton had, by all accounts, an open and engaging disposition in her younger days.

But she began developing a bunker mentality in reaction to the scrutiny she received as first lady of Arkansas. New York Times columnist

Maureen Dowd has observed that while Clinton “does have this idealistic public service side...her secretiveness and defensiveness tend to trip [that] up.”

Presidential campaigns provide a window into the future character of an administration, and Clinton’s aloofness has persistently antagonized those who cover her on the trail. An online counter, developed by the Washington Post, at one point tolled an astonishing 275 days between Clinton press conferences. Her arms-length treatment of the media hit a nadir at a Fourth of July parade in 2015. She deigned to allow reporters to walk along with her, but only if they stayed within a comical rope corral that was moved along by staffers. The incident prompted journalist Josh Jordan to tweet, “239 years ago America declared independence. Today Hillary celebrates that by roping off the press like wild animals.”

At times during the campaign, Clinton’s habitual guardedness seemed to jeopardize her prospects for victory over a cartoonishly inept opponent. She professed to have conducted State Department business over a private email server merely for the sake of “convenience.” “I thought it would be easier to carry one device,” she claimed, confusing those of us who, like Ray LaHood, when he served as Transportation Secretary, manage to keep separate work and personal email accounts on a single phone. Given Clinton’s history, the much more plausible explanation is that she wished to operate outside the media’s FOIA purview.

The email scandal has been terribly damaging. In a June 2016 Fox News poll, a solid majority of respondents agreed that “Hillary Clinton is lying about how her emails were handled while she was secretary of state.”

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Look up more I loved reading this and remembering the old rabbit warren of Isthmus editors and writers, my first real colleagues and the most wonderful people I’ve ever worked with (“Remembering David Medaris,” 10/27/2016).

Marc Eisen captures David’s essence, but he doesn’t mention David’s Hawaiian shirt collection! When I think of David, I see orchids.

I see the many, many loud floral prints he wore to work every day as a sign of good-natured kookiness. And I remember him telling me one day that he’d resolved to “look up more.” I always think of that advice when I find myself barreling down the sidewalk, eyes on the cracks. Then, I look up at the clouds and absorb something brighter.

Tenaya Darlington (via comments) I met David back in the mid-’90s when he wrote a story about my obsession with building snowshoes. It was wonderful and obvious that he wasn’t just writing a story; he really wanted to know everything about snowshoes. A few months later we built shoes together, and consequently became great friends.

I’ve had the honor of paddling, camping, snowshoeing and skiing with him, and we had regular lunch dates for almost 20 years.

During those lunches I would sometimes mention something in a book I was reading, and he would drawl “now, stop right there...” and pull out his ever-present notepad and write down the title. That was David’s mind.

He was certainly not a dilettante, but rather had a burning, aching desire to really know everything and to share what he learned. He never stopped asking questions. Thoughtful, meaningful, poignant questions that made me think about things differently.

In short, David was a mahatma — a great soul. I miss him.

Darren Bush (via comments) David and I were student journalists for the Regent Review at West High School and shared a passion for long-distance running — although I do not recall either of us having varsity speed — and writing. It was always good to cross paths with David as he was one of those from the Madison wonder years who never strayed far from his roots. I send my condolences to his family, including Isthmus staff. David was a very, very good person.

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IT WAS THE UNMISTAKABLE SCREAM OF A DISTRAUGHT CHILD, WITH THE DRAMA PLAYING OUT JUST INSIDE GATE C OF THE UW FIELD HOUSE. AS THE MOM LED HER WEEPING CHILD AWAY, SHE OFFERED UP A SIGH AND AN EXPLANATION FOR THE MELTDOWN: “THE VOLLEYBALL MATCH IS SOLD OUT.” Volleyball success isn’t new for the Badgers, who have been to two Final Four tournaments, have had just one losing season since 1987 and twice have been the national runner-up. They caught people by surprise with a second-place national finish in 2013, but this year fans knew from the get-go that this season would be one to see.

“There really is something special this year, there’s just something you see when you watch them play,” says Teri Barr, co-host of the Wisconsin Women’s Sports Hour on WIBA-AM on Tuesday nights. “We’ve asked players and coaches this, too, and we all seem to think it’s because of the way they’ve built to this.”

Even the players notice the buzz. “I was out to get a coffee at 5 o’clock and people were already lined up for a 7:30 match,” says Haleigh Nelson, a senior middle blocker for the Badgers, of the Oct. 8 match against Illinois. “I wasn’t even there yet but the fans were. That’s dedication.”

At a time of the year when football usually leaves other sports in its dust, the Badgers volleyball team has fashioned what is becoming a signature sport for women’s athletics at UW-Madison. It’s volleyball that has fans lined up along Monroe Street and Breese Terrace waiting to get in the door and has area businesses swamped before matches. And it’s volleyball that has energized the UW Field House and given new life to the venerable facility.

“I think it’s electric,” athletic director Barry Alvarez says of the atmosphere at the Badgers’ home matches. “I just spoke at a couple functions and I told everyone there, ‘If you want to get your money’s worth and be entertained, go to volleyball. You’ll see some of the best athletes you’ve ever seen, it’s exciting, the players are engaged with the fans, and the fans are engaged with the players.’”

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These days, that’s just an average night when the Wisconsin women’s volleyball team is in town. The Badgers aren’t on a mission to break hearts — unless those hearts reside in places like Texas, Hawaii, Nebraska or Minnesota — but disappointed would-be ticket-holders are collateral damage to a program that has emerged as one of the best in the country.

On Oct. 11, for the first time in school history, the volleyball team earned the No. 1 ranking in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, but a loss to Minnesota quickly bounced them from that perch.

That hasn’t hurt their popularity, however. The Badgers, with an 18-3 record as of press time (10-2 and in second place in the Big Ten) and a No. 3 ranking (behind Nebraska and Minnesota in the latest poll released Oct. 31), have sold out seven of nine home matches this season. Their recent matches against Penn State and Rutgers, and the upcoming Nov. 5 match against Purdue, sold out weeks in advance.

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success of the volleyball team can be traced to a moment eight years ago. That’s when senior all-American Lauren Carlini, then just a high school freshman, announced she would play college volleyball at UW-Madison. Rules kept her from signing a letter of intent until her senior year, but the setter from Aurora, Illinois, always knew where she wanted to play.

“I started coming to Wisconsin in middle school,” says Carlini, who began playing volleyball at 5 years of age when she tagged along with her mother, a former college player at Appalachian State, who competed in a rec league. “We went to camps here, got to know the coaching staff, and I just fell in love with the place.”

Getting a star setter isn’t unlike a football team getting the star quarterback or a basketball team getting a star point guard — it’s the player who will drive and direct everything, and the Badgers got a good one.

Carlini already had an international career behind her when she came to Wisconsin. She had been a member of the USA Youth National Team in 2010 and

2011, competing in the 2011 Girls’ Youth World Championship in Turkey.

Her impact was immediate at Wisconsin.

She was in the starting lineup as a freshman and helped lead the Badgers to the 2013 national championship game, where they lost to Penn State. After her sophomore season, she trained with the U.S. national team and last summer was on the U.S. team that won a bronze medal at the Pan American Cup. The two-time first-team all-American will leave Wisconsin as one of the most decorated athletes in school history, and could once again, in 2020, wear the red, white and blue for the U.S. in the Summer Olympics.

“She is the face of volleyball right now,” says Liz Tortorello-Nelson, an all-Big Ten setter for the Badgers in 1990 who now calls volleyball matches for the Big Ten Network. “You wonder why Wisconsin volleyball has been so great in the last four years? Well, Lauren is a part of that. Any coach in the country would love to have somebody like Lauren that they can trust to make her hitters look better.”

Carlini has a strong supporting cast that includes Haleigh Nelson (no relation to Tor-

torello-Nelson), an all-conference player and second-team all-American, and Molly Haggerty, a highly regarded freshman who has made an immediate impact. But it’s Carlini who has become the rock star of the team.

“At the mall I’ll always, without fail, get asked for two or three pictures,” Carlini says of young girls who often recognize her. “Actually, what I usually hear is, ‘My mom loves you!’”

FOR ALL THAT CARLINI has brought to the program, it very easily could never have happened. She was recruited by Pete Waite, the Monona native who had led the program since 2000. But in November 2012, 11 days after Carlini signed her letter to commit to Wisconsin, Waite resigned under fire after five seasons with a losing Big Ten record. (Waite stayed in Madison and now sells real estate and is also part of the Badgers radio broadcast team.)

Two months later, Kelly Sheffield came to Wisconsin from Dayton. Right away, he called Carlini.

“You know there was anxiety in that house because of the number of people that were trying to get ahold of her,” Sheffield says. “I called her to tell her that this is who I am and this is

how I see things. And her message was, ‘Don’t worry about me, I’m all the way in; go get some help and let’s do this.’ That was about it. She’s very loyal, very driven and very selfless. That’s a pretty good combination.”

Sheffield didn’t have to start from scratch. He just had to revive the program.

The winning began after Steve Lowe became coach in 1986, and he led the Badgers to their first Big Ten championship and NCAA tournament appearance. In 1991, just weeks before the season was to begin, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died a month later at age 35.

Lowe taught the Badgers to win, and they’ve done so pretty consistently ever since. John Cook, the team’s next coach, built upon the success before leaving for Nebraska, the defending national champion.

Waite’s 14 seasons included a national runner-up finish in 2001. But the Badgers struggled in his final five seasons.

Still, says Tortorello-Nelson, who played for Lowe, “I never felt like they were down.

There was never a sense of doom and gloom for the program; I never felt that.”

The game itself has changed since Tortorello-Nelson played. There is a new position (the libero, the defensive specialist who wears the different-colored shirt), new rules and a new rally scoring system that doesn’t require a serve to score a point — all with the goal of making the game faster, more powerful, more TV-friendly and more popular. If fans in the stands haven’t seen a volleyball match for a while — and many haven’t — they might be surprised to learn it takes 25 points, not 15, to win a game and that a game is now called a set. (A match is the best three sets out of five. If a fifth set is required, it only goes to 15.)

It’s also a sport that is, at the NCAA and high school level, a woman’s domain. There are 336 Division I schools that play women’s volleyball; in the men’s game, there are so few that Division I and Division II combine and there are still only 28 teams. Even without a straight-up comparison to the men, women’s volleyball has the high-flying power that people equate with men’s sports.

Just ask the many fans who have to protect their faces or their popcorn as the balls fly into the Field House bleachers.

“People often will say, ‘I don’t like watching women’s basketball, I only watch men’s basketball,’” Tortorello-Nelson says.

“But people will get hooked if they watch women’s volleyball. It’s so fast-paced. The physicality of it is incredible — the players are so much bigger and stronger and faster than they ever were.”

The popularity has trickled down to the high school level. Two years ago, for the first time, more high school girls participated nationally in volleyball than in basketball. In Wisconsin, the two sports have had generally equal participation numbers the past 20 years; last year 471 schools competed in girls’ volleyball and 466 in girls’ basketball.

Just 59 boys’ teams played volleyball in Wisconsin this fall, but local schools were well represented, with four Madison public high schools and Middleton fielding teams.

THE BADGERS’ RECENT RUN is catching

even longtime fans, like Richard Sheard of Columbus, by surprise. Sheard, who has been coming to games since the 1980s, learned a couple of years ago it was now necessary to plan ahead when he went to see UW face off against Penn State at the Field House.

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COACH KELLY SHEFFIELD REVIVED THE VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM. “I dropped my brother off to get tickets and I parked about a mile away and walked all the way down here, only to find out we didn’t get tickets,” says Sheard, who was standing — this time with a ticket — in line an hour before the Oct. 8 match against Illinois. “So we had to walk all the way back to the car, [and we] went home and watched it on TV.” A good team isn’t the only thing driving ticket sales: The price is right. Reserved season tickets that cost $65 for 12 matches sold out by midJuly. General admission season tickets, which cost $50, sold out later in the summer. Even for sellouts, the lines snake down the street before the doors open an hour before match time because fans with general admission tickets want

to snag good seats. About half the seats in the Field House are sold as season tickets.

Despite the sellouts, volleyball isn’t a revenue-generating sport at Wisconsin. Only two programs — perennial powers and attendance leaders Nebraska and Hawaii — make money for their schools. They also have higher-priced tickets and larger facilities.

But Alvarez is not concerned. “I don’t think it’s important for it to be a money-maker,” he says. “I think it’s more important for it to be available and affordable for families. At some point we may have to adjust that, but I don’t see that in the near future.”

When it comes to sellouts, the question inevitably turns to the empty red seats

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that line the top of the Field House. Right now, a sellout crowd at the more intimate lower-level Field House is 6,012. Three thousand more seats are unavailable, deemed not up to code in the 1930 building that has only been used for volleyball and wrestling since Badgers basketball and the state high school tournaments headed to the Kohl Center in 1998.

There is no plan yet in place to fix the upper deck, says Jason King, UW senior associate director for capital projects. The priority at the facility was a new $1.7 million locker room, training room and study space project that was funded with private money and completed in September. Fixing the upper deck would cost about $500,000, King says.

“At some point we’ll look to do something with the upper deck but it hasn’t been our No. 1 priority,” he says, adding that it’s a topic that will be evaluated at budget time.

Alvarez says it also depends on the continued demand for tickets: “If we’re turning people away every game, then we’d consider it.”

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KELLI BATES GOES UP FOR A SPIKE AGAINST OSU ON SEPTEMBER 23. sity. This week, teammate Annie Pankowski is part of the U.S. national team competing at the Four Nations Cup in Finland. The No. 1-ranked Badgers have won four national titles (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011).

The Badgers are the national leader in attendance this season and regularly sell out the 2,273-seat LaBahn Arena. A fifth “Fill the Bowl” event at the Kohl Center on Jan. 14 will seek to top the NCAA single-game attendance record for women’s hockey of 13,573 that was set the last time the Badgers hosted the event in 2014.

Rose Lavelle of the women’s soccer team has trained with the U.S. national team and is on the watch list for the MAC Hermann Trophy, given to the top collegiate soccer player in the nation.

In addition, Kelsey Card finished her time as a member of the Badgers track and field team and competed in the discus at the Rio Olympics in August, finishing 25th. And the women’s swim team has gained an Olympic gold medalist: Cierra Runge, who was part of the winning 4x800 freestyle relay team in Rio and transferred to Wisconsin from the University of California-Berkeley.

Part of this overall success stems from opportunities available to female athletes at a young age in a variety of sports since the

Title IX era of the 1970s. It is also due to efforts to spread the wealth from the success of the football program, Alvarez says.

“We want to run a program the right way, and we want to be competitive,” Alvarez says.

“Football is the major money generator for the department, and that’s allowed us to keep our 23 sports and keep their budgets at a level where they compete.”

The women’s program that has most struggled to find success has been the highest-profile one — basketball, which has a new coach in Jonathan Tsipis this season. Last March, Bobbie Kelsey was fired after five losing seasons and replaced by Tsipis, a coach who took George Washington University to two NCAA tournaments after serving as associate head coach for perennial women’s power Notre Dame.

Expectations are high for Tsipis, too.

“I don’t tell [coaches] how many championships they need to win,” Alvarez says, “but that I expect them to be competitive because I’ll give them the resources to run their program at a high level.”

THE LONG-TERM FUTURE for volleyball looks good, too. The Badgers already have a player, Sydney Hilley from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, lined up to succeed Carlini as setter and in fact have the position covered until 2023.

Hilley will graduate from high school early to enroll at Wisconsin for the spring semester to work with Carlini before Carlini leaves for California to train with the U.S. team and then head abroad for a pro career.

(Two other recruits, Dana Rettke of Riverside, Illinois, and Mariah Whalen of Wausau Newman, are also graduating early to enroll at UW in January.) There’s even a plan for Hilley’s replacement, as high school freshman M.E. Hammill of Greenwood, Indiana, has announced that she’ll play for Wisconsin.

The Badgers have four more home matches this season — Nov. 5 against Purdue, Nov. 18 against Michigan, Nov. 19 against Michigan State and Nov. 23 against Iowa. Then it’s NCAA tournament time, with the possibility of the Badgers hosting the first and second rounds and a goal of the Final Four in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 15-17.

These home matches at the Field House won’t be an easy ticket to get, and it’s not as fun standing outside for an hour or two now as it was in September. But as the season has gone on, the lines and the sellouts have become business as usual.

“We expect it now,” Sheffield says. “[The fans] are into it; they show up and they show up early. It’s why it’s one of the best places to play in college volleyball.” ■

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Martinez, who has been a mainstay in the local performing arts scene since she moved to Madison from Los Angeles about four years ago, is seeking to shatter comedy’s glass ceiling (or is it an exposed brick wall?) once and for all.

She’s bringing in more than 70 performers from throughout the U.S. and Canada for a three-day festival showcasing the many talents of funny

women. The first-ever Lady Laughs Comedy Festival runs Nov. 10-12 and features about 20 different acts at Plan B, the Frequency and on the basement stage at Glass Nickel Pizza on Atwood Avenue.

“Madison doesn’t have anything quite like this,” Martinez says. There’s the Madison Comedy Festival, which brings big-name acts to venues like the Orpheum, the Majestic, the Barrymore and the Comedy Club on State, but there’s

“nothing for these women who are pounding the pavement and doing shows every night and going to open mics,” she adds.

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The new Breakwater Monona is an unusual and cool space. Boats dock directly below the main dining room area. Take the stairs outside all the way down to have a look. Boaters drifting lazily down the river can set anchor and head to the Breakwater for lunch.

This space was previously occupied by the Bourbon Street Grille, which served terrible food, by any measure.

So it’s exciting to see the new menu, with intricate dishes using prime ingredients from Fox Heritage Farms — which makes sense, since chef-owner Brandon Reid is an alum of Fox Heritage Tavern, as well as the Coopers Tavern and Steenbock’s on Orchard.

In the warmer months, the revamped nautically themed dining areas sprawl onto a veranda where diners can watch boats drift by while noshing on gussied-up supper club fare.

At brunch, the lightly fluffy frittata with sausage and an enormous heap of mixed greens is fully functional as a light meal in itself. There are lots of spices here and decent heat for this Italian dish. A steak skillet with roasted potatoes for breakfast — why not? Dense, rich, smoky duck confit with eggs makes another interesting brunch.

These are enormous portions — and come with commensurate prices. At $13, it may seem like a lot for one plate, but we were able to generate an entire second meal by frying up leftover steak and potatoes with some red bell peppers. Unless you are supernaturally hungry, just plan on getting a box to go. Presto! You just cut the price in half.

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The phenomenal “Breakwater Burger” is topped with a stack of bacon, onions and aioli.

even with two hands; sautéed and still warm yellow and red bell peppers add flavor and snap. All the sandwiches come with fries or mixed greens, sprinkled with cheese and lightly dressed.

Cheese curds, one measure of Wisconsin pub food, are unfortunately bland here, and the ranch-style dressing doesn’t do anything to help.

Pub chips, on the other hand, are addictive — not too crisp, with soft interiors. The blue cheese dressing provides a perfect counterpoint. The Philly cheesesteak is a disappointment, almost totally lacking in flavor even with the housemade giardiniera. Philly cheesesteaks are hard to do correctly, but this was a miss by a country mile and should be removed from the menu.

A raft of specialty pizzas, a bone-in pork chop, sirloin, trout and Friday night fish fry (walleye with caper truffle aioli) round out the dinner menu. Listed as “In a League of its Own” is the “Ultimate Poutine” which, at $25, is more like a super-appetizer for a very large group — truffle fries topped with foie gras,

duck confit, aged white cheddar, caramelized onions, mornay sauce and more.

For dessert there’s nicely tart Key lime pie, a blueberry blondie with blueberry coulis, and a beignet with foie gras buttercream (this last one unfortunately not as successful as the other two).

During slow periods the restaurant has had trouble keeping up with even modest demands. On one visit, it took the kitchen nearly 30 minutes to produce three plates, despite an almost completely empty dining room. On subsequent visits the teams did better. Since this is not the kind of place that gives out a bread basket to quell hunger pangs or pacify kids, getting food out of the kitchen is important.

This restaurant is a good choice for outof-towners or locals wanting to sit in a dining room along the Yahara. The menu is solid.

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More food carts on Library Mall?

City vending committee is considering changes in ranking system, locations How the city assigns prime locations for food carts is “a uniquely Madisonian endeavor,” says Hansen.

“I’ve been to a number of mobile food conferences and nobody does it like us. Our process is very hands-on.

In most other cities, food cart licensing is much more bureaucratic. It’s like applying for a driver’s license.”

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Changes could be in store for how Madison regulates its blossoming food cart scene.

Members of the city’s Vending Oversight Committee, including Ald. Mike Verveer and longtime Madison restaurateur Rena Gelman, acknowledge there are issues with the current process and are open to making modifications.

Verveer says he is in favor of taking a close look at the whole process for site selection for 2018. “The process has not been reformed, in any significant way, since I’ve been a member of the Vending Oversight Committee,” says Verveer, who has served on the panel since the mid-1990s.

Gelman, a new member of the committee and former owner of the Sunprint Cafe, says she is “enthusiastic about addressing some of the issues. I would like to be part of the change.” Gelman, who is a consultant with the UW-Madison School of Business, says that the review process “needs to be taken seriously” as livelihoods are at stake.

At the committee’s Oct. 26 meeting, several food carts owners voiced frustration with the current system. The owners of the El Grito food cart, Matthew Danky and Joshua Barraza, asked to appeal their ranking (49 out of 60). If its score stands, El Grito is almost guaranteed to be bumped from the Capitol Square next year.

Danky and Barraza have questioned the qualifications of the review panel that judges carts. They also alerted the committee to possible inaccuracies in how the final scores were tabulated.

The ranking process has become ever more crucial as the number of carts who want to operate downtown

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These vendors will likely have to make other plans for the 2017 season.

Longtime street vending coordinator Warren Hansen, in charge of conducting the annual review, recognizes that “60 carts basically overwhelms the system.” He, too, is receptive to many of the suggestions made by vendors at the committee meeting, including having more food professionals on the review panel and increasing training for judges.

This all comes as Hansen readies for retirement after nearly two decades of facilitating mobile vending in Madison. When he started in 1998, there only a handful of food carts downtown.

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The vending committee on Oct. 26 voted to delay accepting the results of this year’s food cart review in order to ensure the scores are accurate. But “barring any errors that are discovered before our next meeting, I don’t see how we will be able to change the outcome for the upcoming licensing year,” says Verveer.

Nonetheless, Barraza says he and Danky will appeal their score. He says public opinion is on their side, citing the several dozen people who came to the meeting.

To help out lower-scoring carts next year, Verveer suggests the committee investigate whether additional food carts can be added on the 800 block of State Street.

That’s the block of Library Street vending coordinator Mall in between the HumaniWarren Hansen: ties building and the Wiscon“Our process is very sin State Historical Society.

Another dozen or so food hands-on.” carts could fit there, which would cut the vendors on “I think my retirement might the waitlist in half, but would be an opportunity. Whoever also create more competition replaces me can come at it with among the mall carts. fresh eyes,” says Hansen, who Adding food carts to will stay on through the winter the 800 block of State to train his successor before Street may create more CAROLYN FATH retiring in the spring. “It was not controversy. The Wisconsin that long ago when [every venHistorical Society objected dor] who applied for a spot on the Capitol Square or to food carts being added there when Library Mall got one. The complaint we used to get the State Street Design Committee disfrom vendors was that they didn’t get the spot they cussed the idea in 2013. The Historical wanted. Now, a number of applicants don’t get a Society did not return Isthmus’ request spot at all. So it’s gotten a lot more competitive.” for comment. ■

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The bartenders at the Robin Room are practiced at whipping up specials, whether it’s a new drink pairing for one of their pop-up dinners or a one-off drink menu for an industry event.

One of the most delicious new inventions is a drink made for Madison Cocktail Week. The drink, called “It’s Pronounced Far-ve,” tastes exactly like carbonated crudite. Herbal spirits Midwest gin and Gamle Ode dill aquavit lend a complex savory layer of flavor, while sweet carrot syrup, fresh lemon and a pinch of salt balance the drink. Add soda water and garnish with mint for a perfectly refreshing experience.

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The beer and wine worlds collide in the latest brew from Madison’s Dead Bird Brewing. Wine Thief is a complex, sweet, white wine-like beer that may convince staunch wine lovers and hard-core craft beer enthusiasts that collaboration can lead to good things. The base beer is a bigbodied, hoppy Belgian witbier. The witbier is normally a light-bodied wheat beer; this is a bigger version made with a strain of Belgian yeast, much more malt and a lot more hops.

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Lady Forward is a Wisco approach to the British tradition scones with fresh lemon curd and Devonshire cream, and cucumber-boursin sandwiches Last December, Lindsay Bessick hosted so pretty you’ll want to take a picture. Less her very first tea party. As a dozen women traditional treats have included Bloody Mary chatted over tea and cucumber sandwiches salad bites, mini corn dogs (for a kids’ event), shaped like Christmas trees, Bessick was and a bite-sized take on eggs benedict. One struck by the “genuine connection” she saw all-time favorite is a chocolate ganache tart unfolding. “It was such a moving experithat Bessick calls “the best brownie with the ence,” she says. best frosting you’ve ever had.” She makes all Within a few months, she launched her goodies by herself from scratch. own business, Lady Forward Tea Celebra Teas come from several vendors, intions. Lady Forward — a nod to the bronze cluding Colectivo’s Letterbox Tea series. statue that stands on the Capitol Square at Bessick’s face lights up as she describes the top of State Street — is a tea catering one of her Letterbox favorites, Gala, made service specializing in afternoon teas. with hibiscus: “It looks like garnets.” For a For those unfamiliar with the notion more traditional black tea, there’s Heavenly of afternoon tea, it’s a British invention.

Cream, a long-leaf Ceylon with bergamot Think of it as a small meal usually including and vanilla made by Sloane Fine Tea Mersandwiches, scones, sweets and, of course, chants. “It smells creamy; it’s so alluring,” piping-hot tea, served with milk and sugar.

Bessick says. Twinings’ Lady Grey is anoth Lady Forward takes a “decidedly loose er favorite, with its “flashes of periwinkle.” interpretation” of the British tradition, giv In addition to catering services, Lady ing clients endless options to create an Forward also holds pop-up teas around experience that fits their tastes. So, even if town. These are often themed events — a you loathe scones and detest Earl Grey tea, Halloween tea in Argus’ basement or a Bessick will help find food and tea choices, brunch-themed tea at Revel on Hamilton including herbal and green tea options, that Street, for instance — and open to the are just right.

“I don’t wantNaughton people to be in-CLAUDE public.DEBUSSY Events are listed on Lady Forward’s The piano duo of Madison’s timidated by the experience,” Bessick says.Le Printemps website, ladyforward.com. twins performs the lyrical Mozart, “Iwhile want Shostakovich’s them to be themselves.”

Ultimately, Bessick’s work is about powerful Fifth

Whatever you fancy, Lady Forward brings much moreAMADEUS than tea and snacks.

“It doesn’t Symphony showcases his artistic triumph WOLFGANG MOZART it allover to you: perfectly prepared tea in gormatter what I serve; it’s the celebration that the forces of Soviet repression.

Concerto for Two Pianos geous china, and homemade treats both is the essence of Lady Forward,” she says. sweet and savory.

Some menu items “OurSHOSTAKOVICH world is so weary, and for most of us, MAJOR FUNDING PROVIDED BY are takes DMITRI Nathan F. Brand & Regina Millner | Marvin J. Levy on teatime standards: Door County cherry the connections to friends and family are Madison Symphony Orchestra League Symphony No. 5 Fred & Mary Mohs | Tom & Nancy Mohs the most valuable spots in our days.

Peggy & Tom Pyle “Taking the time to be really present in ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY Johnthese DeMain, Conductor special moments is one small thing Scott & Janet Cabot | Martha & Charles Casey Dr. Stanley & Shirley Inhorn | Wisconsin Arts Board Christina & Michelle PianonDuo e Naughton, that Lady Forward can encourage.”

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Experience 8 poets responding to the music and the history behind it—8 original original new works—8 world premiere readings. The Counterpoint Readings happen following the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) “Paired to Perfection” performance. The concert starts at 2:30 p.m., and the live poetry readings begin at approximately 4:30 p.m.

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Lindsay Bessick sees “genuine connection” coming from the ritual of tea and treats, both sweet and savory.

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Poets: August Jirovec, MSO bassist | Marilyn Taylor, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Sarah Busse, former Poet Laureate of Madison | Richard Merelman | Eve Robillard Timothy Walsh | Marilyn Annucci | Rita Mae Reese Coordinated by MSO violist and poet Katrin Talbot, the series aims to expand the audience’s musical experience and bring Madison’s poetry into a new light.

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Good luck to the Bucks Though the team probably won’t make the playoffs, it could be an interesting season to watch

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Guard Matthew Dellavedova is one of six new Bucks players.

The Milwaukee Bucks lost two of their first three games by a combined 26 points — and came within one basket of starting the season 0-3. But it’s way too early to panic.

Major media outlets are predicting a solid but not playoff-contending season for the young team, but remember, the NBA’s 82-game regular season stretches into April. And the team is generating interest.

For the second straight year, the team held part of its training camp on the UW-Madison campus and played a preseason game at the Kohl Center. Almost 11,000 people showed up on Oct. 8 to watch Milwaukee beat the Dallas Mavericks, 88-74.

“It means a lot to us,” Bucks general manager John Hammond told the Wisconsin State Journal about the importance of establishing firmer roots in the capital city. “We’re a small-market team, and as a small-market team it’s important to have a fan base that extends beyond the city of Milwaukee...and particularly to Madison.”

The Bucks entered the 2016 season with six new players — including guard Matthew Dellavedova, acquired from the NBA Champion Cleveland Cava-

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liers — but the core of this team remains 6-foot-11-inch Giannis Antetokounmpo. The so-called Greek Freak recently was named the NBA’s best international player in a survey of the league’s 30 general managers and finished second in the voting for most versatile player, behind none other than LeBron James.

Head coach Jason Kidd moved Antetokounmpo from forward to point guard after last season’s All-Star Game, and he ended the season averaging almost 17 points per game.

Milwaukee’s other big scoring threat? Jabari Parker, acquired by the Bucks as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. Although injury-prone since his arrival in Brew City, Parker averaged 18.9 points per game during the second half of last season, and the Bucks responded by exercising Parker’s fourth-year contract option. (Under the terms of the NBA’s current collective bargaining agreement, the first two years of a first-round draft pick’s contract are guaranteed, while the third and fourth years of the contract are the team’s option.)

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performed at the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival. That experience inspired her to bring something similar to Madison.

Lady Laughs features an array of standup acts, improv groups, sketch comedy and storytelling. Martinez says this is a nod to the spirit of inclusivity the organizers are hoping to foster. “Everybody expresses themselves so differently, and I think it’s incredible to be able to showcase that,” she says.

Sheila Robertson, a member of Madison’s Monkey Business Institute improv troupe, has been performing since the early ’90s. “When I started playing in Madison, there were no other women in the [improv] group at that point,” she says. “It was very much a boys’ club. We did a sports-themed show; we literally wore men’s uniforms. It was just so guy-influenced, but I remember just loving it and not caring.”

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Today, women make up nearly one-third of the Monkey Business troupe, and the group is performing an all-female show called “Yes Ma’am” at Lady Laughs. Robertson says the women-only environment has helped performers stretch out.

The festival also features a number of LGBTQ performers, including Marla Depew, a bisexual comic who founded Queer Comedy at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago. Martinez, who is transgender, is also bringing back “Alphabet Soup,” an LGBTQ comedy show that she emceed for a year and a half at Plan B. And, in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity, Lady Laughs is letting a few men in on the fun with an all-male “He’s Not a Lady” showcase, hosted by Milwaukee comic Jason Hillman, who has performed with Martinez at comedy events around Milwaukee.

Hillman believes most men working in comedy are in favor of more inclusion. But, as with

any traditionally male-dominated arena, there are entrenched problems. “You can talk to any woman and get a story about a dude that’s been creepy,” he says. “I had a friend who was introduced on stage as “ass and tits.” There will never be an MC who says, ‘Hey, do you want me to introduce you as cock and balls?’”

As for penises, Martinez actually uses the fact that she has one in her act. (You’ll have to see her perform to hear the punchline.)

When she has the mic, she uses humor to tell her story, to fight back against the negativity and shame that surrounded her childhood. “[Women] want to be able to be in a space where we don’t have to compete against each other and fight against each other,” she says. “We want to be on stage and tell our stories and say to each other, ‘Your stories are great — do ’em.’” n

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Journey of sorrow Mary’s Wedding is a meditation on war and loss

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the frontlines in France and wide-open fields where the young lovers ride horses together.

The set pieces keep the actors in almost constant motion, uniting disparate scenes with clarity.

Choreographer Jessica Lanius’ guidance in movement and dance lift Brenda DeVita’s strong direction even higher, giving the actors a physical language to create evocative pictures of Mary and Charlie astride a galloping horse, noting a beautiful bird flying by, falling into each other’s arms, and first straining against, then delicately accepting the end of their relationship.

These graceful stage pictures are heightened by Jason Fassl’s remarkable lighting design, which infuses each scene with specificity and texture. It creates the green haze of chlorine gas that wafts across the trenches, the golden glow of an idyllic summer afternoon, a stunning starry night and a vision of Mary as an angel in a battlefield hallucination. From the lightning flashes to the flashes of machine gun fire, the stage is constantly transformed.

In a two-person play that dwells almost exclusively in the heightened states of joy in new love, the terror of war and the devastation of death, the actors have their work cut out for them to keep these scenes safely away from melodrama. Fortunately, both Burger and Rook turn in stellar performances that feel completely authentic and painfully raw.

As Charlie reminds us at the very beginning, it’s not an easy to story to watch, but it is emphatically worth taking the journey. ■

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Despite the promise of the title, the audience never gets to actually see Mary’s wedding in the extraordinary production of Mary’s Wedding at American Players Theatre.

Instead, a barefoot Canadian farm boy in suspenders tells us that the story is only a dream, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. Walking slowly from the back of the house to the stage, he assures us that although there are very sad moments, it is a tale worth hearing.

That reassurance is not necessary, as Mary (a luminous Laura Rook) and Charlie (a fresh-faced, earnest Nate Burger) draw us into the intertwined stories of young love, loss and the horrors of World War I, which will separate the pair forever. On the eve of her wedding to another man, Mary dreams of her first love — Charlie — in scenes that span their entire relationship, blending seamlessly between different settings and times.

In this intensely poetic play, showing at the Touchstone through Nov. 20, much of the action is narrated by the two characters.

The poetry of Byron, Tennyson and Shakespeare is used to calm Charlie’s nerves in a rainstorm, to inspire him in battle and to mourn many losses. The poems are also held up as pretty fiction compared to the real-life anguish Mary and Charlie face.

Aesthetically, Mary’s Wedding is magical.

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Anatomy of fame Free from chasing chart numbers, the Fray releases greatest hits album

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

It’s bizarre how bands end up being associated with certain things over the course of their careers. Take the Fray, the pianodriven Colorado band that gave us “Over My Head (Cable Car).” They’ve enjoyed a successful career that’s spanned 14 years and five albums, including a forthcoming greatest hits album, Through the Years, and a U.S. tour that brings them to the Orpheum Theater on Nov. 7 And the band’s two big cultural touchstones? Grey’s Anatomy and The Muppets.

The Fray had already begun to hit it big before their second single, “How to Save a Life,” played in the first season of Grey’s Anatomy, helping to take their sound global. Joe King, the guitarist-vocalist who founded the Fray with best pal/pianist/ lead singer Isaac Slade and drummer Ben Wysocki when they were in church groups and school together, laughs when it’s mentioned that both his band and Grey’s Anatomy are still going strong.

“Which will go away first? That’s the bet, right?” he says. “There was a moment when the association was Grey’s Anatomy only. But if you ask if there’s an avenue for you to break worldwide, would you take it?

Any artist would say yes.”

The evidence suggests King and company would have gotten pretty far without the soundtrack bump from Meredith Grey and “McDreamy.” The softer, piano-driven ballads that dominated their first disc (songs like “100” and “Look After You”) quickly gave way to a rougher, rock-oriented sound that paved the way for more recent hits like “Heartbeat” and “Love Don’t Lie.” And thus, a group that many critics initially dismissed as light and derivative has met a pope, played for multiple presidents and persevered to reach the no-fucks-given zone.

Back from the brink

“I’m at a point in my career where I want to put out music I’m proud of,” says King. “I don’t care if goes number 10, number 2 or number 400. We’ve been on the charts before.”

Case in point: Through the Years, a 12song effort that mostly mines the band’s earlier history and features a three-pack of new songs. King says “Singing Low,” the first single, could probably have fit in perfectly on the band’s 2005 major-level debut. But “Corners” and “Changing Tides” are a different story. “The other two are almost unrecognizable as Fray songs, except for the sound of our voices,” says King.

The band launched its tour in the Pacific Northwest, a place King calls “historically the most difficult for us to play” — apparently, the kids in Seattle and Portland tend to be less loud and demonstrative.

‘It can make you very insecure as an artist,” he says. “But this time, they were really into it. They looked so much cooler than we do.”

The band’s also discovered that they now have a multigenerational appeal. “I’ve had moms come up to me at shows with their 4-year-olds and say, “My daughter loves ‘Mah Na Mah Na,” King says, referring to the cover of the tune the band recorded in 2011 for The Muppets: The Green Album.

I mention that it’s a short step from “Mah Na Mah Na” to “Love Don’t Die,” King laughs. “They’re basically the same beat.

And both recordings involved spirits.”

The Fray’s future’s a little blurrier than its present. King says he’s got 20-plus songs written and ready to record, but another studio album may not necessarily be the delivery system of choice.

“I’m just going to put songs online on a random Thursday,” he jokes. “The instant connection you can have is incredible.” ■

The new songs explore issues of addiction and mental illness.

Communist Daughter’s bandleader creates deeply personal new album

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The story of Communist Daughter bandleader Johnny Solomon is filled with almost every rock star cliché imaginable: a spectacular flameout of a promising band, crippling drug addiction, stints in jail and rehab.

Despite setbacks, though, the Twin Cities-based Communist Daughter is back on the road. They play the Frequency Nov. 8, where the audience will hear songs from the band’s sophomore album, The Cracks That Built the Wall.

For Solomon, who writes the band’s songs, getting clean came with growing pains. “It was harder for me to write after I got sober,” says Solomon. “Getting back on the straight and narrow, and getting my health back, it was really hard to write. I felt like I lost a lot of my ability.”

In a harrowing memoir published online at Talkhouse, Solomon recounts some of his struggles with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

“While recording music, I was visited by spiders in the periphery of my vision all the time, and as I got less and less sleep, they would drift into my line of sight — from giant spiders on desks and ceilings to hundreds of tiny spiders crawling across the computer screen,” he writes. “One night, I sat up watching wave after wave of spiders made out of blue electricity wash over my room. Thousands of tiny spiders made of light crashing over everything. I knew I was in serious trouble.” He goes on to recount how he once tried to break his own nose, thinking a spider had crawled into it, before appearing in a taped session for a local radio station.

Communist Daughter’s first album, 2010’s Soundtrack to the End, was released in the throes of Solomon’s addiction to alcohol and meth.

While two tracks from it were getting played on

Grey’s Anatomy, Solomon was sitting in the Hazelden treatment center in Minnesota. This year’s follow-up, The Cracks That Built the Wall, is a new start for the band, which is composed of veteran Twin Cities musicians, including bassist Adam Switlick, a former member of Solomon’s previous band, Friends Like These; and Solomon’s wife, co-lead vocalist Molly Solomon.

The Cracks That Built the Wall is a sonically eclectic, intensely personal album that, in many ways, serves as Solomon’s autobiography. On “BB Gun,” he addresses his addiction issues directly, while the mournful “Balboa Bridge” features a kind of familiar intimacy rarely achieved in a four-minute song. And as the songwriter describes it, the whole process has been re-

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warding: “Everybody’s got a little bit about them that’s broken, and we all have to come to terms with that.”

“I feel like it’s easier to write now,” Solomon adds. “There’s always bad stuff in life.

Even if your life is great, there’s always suffering. So I like to explore the darker end of things. And I’ve got plenty of history, so if I want to pull on my history, I don’t have to go too far to remember.” ■

“Frankenpiano” unleashed UW-Madison’s Christopher Taylor debuts his imperfect invention

BY JAY RATH

Right before Halloween was the perfect time for UW-Madison pianist Christopher Taylor to unveil his invention, which his students have dubbed “Frankenpiano.”

Taylor prefers the term “hyperpiano.” But no matter what you call it, there were tricks as well as treats at the Oct. 28 concert at Mills Hall, where Taylor performed Bach’s 1741 “Goldberg Variations” on his whimsical invention.

Like the mad scientist’s monster, the creation at times turned on its master. But that added a new level of enjoyment for the delighted audience of more than 660, who gave Taylor a standing ovation.

Of course, Taylor can play perfectly. He’s been dubbed a genius and lauded nationally for his performances of “The Goldberg Variations,” named for Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, a virtuoso on two-keyboard harpsichord.

Taylor has toured with the school’s one-of-a-kind Steinway Moor Piano, which features two keyboards. That instrument’s limitations led to his hands-on creation of software and hardware to play two pianos at the same time.

The hyperpiano consists of two widely spaced grand pianos and an electronic two-keyboard spinet down front, all connected.

In front of each grand, a sort of upside-down “L” stands like a thin lunch counter. On top, in a riot of wires set over the keyboard, are two rows of plungers, rising and falling like engine cylinders as they press the keys.

Musically, the most striking and easily overlooked result was the wide spacing of two pianos played by the same hands, creating a rich super-stereo, as if it were a piano orchestra.

There were glitches, which the audience took in good humor. In performance, Taylor hunched, swinging hips and shoulders, snakelike. When a stuttering key or keyboard went mute, his intense concentration was broken. Down on two knees, he toggled switches and returned to the keyboard with the same degree of concentration and emotion.

Far more interesting than icy perfection. ■

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Newski, a troubadour with a sweet indiepop sensibility and a wit as jagged as a shattered Old Fashioned glass, is clearly drawing on his hard-won road experiences on this 11-song collection. It is, after all, a disc partially recorded at a surf camp in Sri Lanka.

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There are no feminine product references on the new disc. But whether he’s spinning a sweet ballad about a meet-cute with a heart-

and energy with every chord and chorus. Plus, he’s given us the quintessential sing-along dive bar-musician anthem with the hilarious “DIY,” a tune that finds him smelling like skunky PBR: “I’m DIY/I’m punk as fuck/don’t need your money/I don’t want your love.” It’s instantly recognizable, and kinda what we suspected all along.

With a wry attention to observational detail that rivals Kurt Vile, each of the tunes here stakes its own corner of your consciousness — and that’s no mean feat. Having spent the latter part of October touring the West Coast with Cheese State legends the Violent Femmes, Newski’s at the Frequency for his album release party Nov. 4 before heading out on a solo tour that’ll eventually take him east before year’s end. We recommend catching him now: He sounds very much like he’s ready to take the leap. ■

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Film events

Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks honors past and present

BY JOEL PATENAUDE

Ill-equipped but daring skiers count among the first explorers and promoters of some of the most awe-inspiring landscapes in the United States. In 1871, Frank J. Hayden led a 29-day ski expedition through Montana in what would become Yellowstone, our first national park, a year later. And in 1929, Orland Bartholomew spent more than three months skiing from Mount Whitney to the Yosemite Valley, a publicity effort undermined by the Great Depression.

Even Ansel Adams, best known for his black-and-white photos that popularized Yosemite National Park, was an accomplished ski racer and one of the first presidents of the ski-promoting Yosemite Winter Club, established in 1927.

This history is largely unknown, even to present-day backcountry mountain skiers.

In fact, two of the professional skiers featured in the new documentary, Monumental: Skiing our National Parks, confessed they were unaware of the skiers who preceded them. Monumental screens at the Barrymore Theatre Nov. 9, the 12th stop on a 19-city U.S. tour.

“I had no idea of the significance of what had been done 100 years before we got there this past winter,” said 27-year-old pro skier Connery Lundin, who is shown in the film backflipping over a tree branch at Yellowstone and jumping a huge crevasse in the Grand Tetons.

“We were the only ones out there because it’s still so hard to reach those places,” says Lundin, the 2015 Freesking World Tour Champion. “Those early-on dudes were doing insane missions on skis half as wide

Democracy: Im Rausch der Daten: Documentary about European Union policymakers’ attempts 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.

NUTS!: Marquee Film Festival: See review, bottom left.

UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 4, 5:30 pm.

David Steele atop a peak in 1,012,837-acre Glacier National Park.

STEVEN GNAM

as ours today and in leather boots, and taking pictures with those huge, heavy cameras, too.”

Monumental connects the dots to illustrate an extraordinary evolution of the sport while honoring the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Park Service. But the film — the first produced by Powder magazine and funded by REI — is primarily grounded in the prolific genre of short ski films (at 40 minutes, Monumental is shorter than most) showcasing epic runs down breathtaking mountainsides and shot entirely within a single season.

The action shots are all the more impressive when you realize national park rules prohibit the use of drone technology or the transport of skiers by snowmobile or helicopter. The camera operators themselves skied alongside the featured athletes and set up their long shots from

across mountain valleys after making their own arduous climbs.

“The character of the film is in keeping with the parks not allowing the operation of heavy machinery in these pristine places,” executive producer John Stifter says. This meant that a crew, including skier Colter Hinchliffe, 30, had to hike 20 miles through temperate rainforest to reach a skiable glacier within Olympic National Park in Washington state. He’s seen in the film, with his skis and a huge pack on his back, walking in flip-flops through puddles along the lushly green forest trail.

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helped him build a quasi-medical media empire worth millions during the Great Depression.

Lane’s documentary, which earned a well-deserved editing award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, alternates between fact and fabrication — from both Brinkley and Lane.

Animated sequences illustrate passages from Brinkley’s authorized biography, The Life of a Man, published by his own company in 1934.

Interviews with historians verify some bizarre details from his life and career.

Hubris led Brinkley to file a libel suit against Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 1938. Lane uses Brinkley’s own testimony at the trial to pick apart the foundations of his biography.

Instead of finding satisfaction with Brinkley’s subsequent comeuppance after the trial, Lane

The Other Side: Documentarian Roberto Minervini visits the Louisiana backwoods for fact and fiction by a smalltime dope dealer. UW Cinematheque, Nov. 4, 7 pm.

The Wailing: Marquee Film Festival: A mysterious stranger brings a spreading illness to a village. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 4, 9:45 pm.

Her Wild Oat: Duck Soup Cinema: Long lost silent comedy-drama about a waitress interacting with society toffs. Overture Center-Capitol Theater, Nov. 5, 2 & 7 pm.

Sand Storm: Marquee Film Festival: A Bedouin family is divided by the husband’s second wedding to a much younger wife. UW Union SouthMarquee, Nov. 5, 3:30 pm.

Kings of the Road: Director Wim Wenders’ story of a traveling repairman and a suicidal pediatrician. UW Cinematheque, Nov. 5, 7 pm.

The Brand New Testament: Marquee Film Festival: Fantasy in which God lives in Belgium, and his daughter decides to “rewrite” the world. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 5, 7:30 pm.

Tickled: Marquee Film Festival: Documentary about a journalist tracking down an online tickling competition.

UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 5, 10 pm.

Our Little Sister: Marquee Film Festival: Three sisters abandoned by their parents years earlier take in their teenage half-sister. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 6, 1 pm.

Champion: UW Cinematheque: Kirk Douglas stars as an anti-hero boxer. Chazen Museum of Art, Nov. 6, 2 pm.

Maya Angelou and I Still Rise: Marquee Film Festival: Documentary about the writer/activist. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 6, 6:30 pm.

The Dream Is Now: Association of Latin@ Students “Sharing the Dream” film series documentary screening. Edgewood College-Anderson Auditorium, Nov. 7, 6:30 pm.

Catch My Soul: UW Cinematheque: Restoration of Patrick McGoohan’s only directorial effort, an adaptation of a rock musical version of “Othello.” Union South-Marquee, Nov. 7, 7 pm.

NUTS! looks at the legacy of a bizarre doctor Let’s play “two truths and a lie” about John R. Brinkley, the subject of NUTS!, a boldly irreverent documentary by experimental filmmaker Penny Lane (Our Nixon).

1. Brinkley cured male impotence using goat testicle transplants.

2. Write-in voters elected him governor of Kansas until 50,000 ballots were invalidated.

3. He eluded U.S. broadcast regulators by operating a 50,000-watt radio station across the Mexican border, on which many country music fans heard the Carter Family for the first time.

Brinkley’s supporters believed all three statements were true, even the scientifically impossible first one. Their trust

Fellini Satyricon: This loose adaptation of Petronius’ Roman satire remains as gratuitous, semi-chaotic and undeniably eye-catching as ever. Central Library, Nov. 3, 6:30 pm.

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

Stranger than fiction?

BY JAMES KREUL

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

Seed: The Untold Story: Documentary about the preservation of seed varieties in response to corporate control of stocks. Point, Nov. 7, 7:30 pm.

conveys the sadness intrinsic to shattering an illusion, even a harmful one.

Lane understands that her choices have an impact on what audiences will believe to be true. If you want to go down the NUTS! rabbit hole, the director has posted 300 footnotes to track Brinkley’s distortions and her own inventions and “tricky edits” at notes.nutsthefilm.com.

WUD Film will screen NUTS! at its Marquee Film Festival at Union South on Nov. 4 at 5:30 p.m. The Driftless Film Festival at the Mineral Point Opera House also screens the film on Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. n

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.

Central Library, Nov. 8 & 10, 6 pm.

30 Seconds Away: Breaking the Cycle: Documentary & discussion with director Faith Kohler & producer Jessica Farrell. Central Library, Nov. 9, 6:30 pm (housing resource fair 5-9 pm).

After the Storm: Spotlight Cinema: An estranged Japanese family reconnects during a typhoon. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 9, 7 pm.

Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks: See story, top left. Barrymore Theatre, Nov. 9, 7 pm.

Gilda: Assigned to a new job, a small-time crook (Glenn Ford) encounters a former lover (Rita Hayworth) married to his boss. Bos Meadery, Nov. 9, 7 pm.

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PICK OF THE WEEK

Flannel Fest Saturday, Nov. 5, High Noon Saloon, 5 pm-midnight Flannel Fest returns for its third incarnation, and with acclaimed North Carolinians American Aquarium set to headline, this year is already proving to be one for the books. Support will come from five immensely talented local acts: the Mascot Theory, Beth Kille Band (pictured), Compass Rose, the Getaway Drivers and Edward David Anderson. Proceeds benefit the Keep Wisconsin Warm/ Cool Fund. Come out and enjoy Madison’s burgeoning Americana scene and help a great cause while you’re at it.

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CO MEDY

4000 Miles

Marina Franklin

Thursday, Nov. 3, Playhouse at Overture Center, 7:30 pm

Thursday, Nov. 3, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm Born and raised in Chicago and now based in New York, Marina Franklin is a long way from the five-floor theme restaurant she worked at after first moving to the city. The rising comic has performed everywhere from Montreal’s Just for Laughs, Bonnaroo and season two of Last Comic Standing, and has appeared on Louie and in Amy Schumer’s film Trainwreck. And with a wit like hers, you’ll be seeing her more often.

With Aaron Weaver, Stevie Leigh Crutcher.

ALSO: Friday-Saturday, Nov. 4-5, 8 & 10:30 pm.

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Stick Figure Thursday, Nov. 3, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

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Twin Cities crooners Jack Torrey and Page Burkum are brothers who sing as one. They cover what they call “gut-wrenching, tongue-in-cheek heartbreakers,” and have been ceaselessly — and deservedly — compared to another pair of siblings, the Everly Brothers. Originals like “Stoplight Kisses” pick up where the Everlys left off. They honed their live act during a longstanding residency at St. Paul’s famous Turf Club, and their new record, You’re Dreaming, includes contributions from some of Chicago’s finest, including Flat Five drummer Alex Hall and guitarist Joel Paterson. Looks don’t matter in this world, but the brothers are pretty as a picture — as easy on the eyes as the ears. Along the way to the Stoughton Opera House they’ve wowed audiences from A Prairie Home Companion to the Newport Folk Festival.

Combining roots-dub grooves with a sprinkling of electronic, Stick Figure knows how to get a crowd moving. Also, they’ve got a rescued Australian shepherd named Cocoa as their mascot. Now that’s good vibrations. With the Movement, Natty Nation, DJ Trichrome.

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

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

Fountain: Durango McMurphy, free, 8 pm.

The Frequency: The Youngest, Adrian & Meredith, The Civil Engineers, 6:30 pm; Mr. Bill, Circuit Bent, 10 pm.

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

Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Levi Kreis, 8 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Morning Metaphor, free, 9 pm.

UW Union South-The Sett: Destroyer, Kevin Krauter, free (tickets required: 265-2787).

Williamson Magnetic: Lost Lakes, J. Hardin, 8 pm.

Yahara Bay Distillery, Fitchburg: Johnny Chimes, 6:30 pm.

B OOKS / S POKEN WORD John K. Wilson: Discussing “Trump Unveiled: Exposing the Bigoted Billionaire,” his new book, noon, 11/3, Madison College-Truax Room D1630C. trumpunveiled.com.

Bobbie Malone: Discussing “Lois Lenske: Storycatcher,” with Doug Moe, 7 pm, 11/3, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Lauret Savoy: Discussing “Trace: Memory, History, Race & the American Landscape, 7 pm, 11/3, Discovery Building-DeLuca Forum. 265-5296.

The always excellent Forward Theater Company launches its season with a Wisconsin premiere of Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize finalist. Leo, a 21-year-old on an epic bike trip across the country, winds up at his grandmother’s New York City apartment, providing an intimate look at growing up and growing old. ALSO: Friday-Saturday (7:30 pm), Sunday (2:30 pm) and Wednesday (7:30 pm) Nov. 4-6 & 9. Through Nov. 20.

Alice: Madison Theatre Guild rock musical, 7:30 pm on 11/24 and 2 pm, 11/5, Bartell Theatre. $25/$20. 661-9696.

Stupid Fucking Bird: University Theatre, 7:30 pm on 11/3-5 and 2 pm, 11/6, Vilas Hall-Hemsley Theatre. $20. 265-2787.

Playscapes: 8 pm, 11/3-5, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

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Detroit ‘67: Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre, 10/2811/12, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays, plus 8 pm on 11/9. $20. 663-5814.

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ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS

Friday, Nov. 4, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare: Traveling exhibit, 11/3-12/11, Chazen Museum of Art (lecture by Joshua Calhoun 5:30 pm (Elvehjem L160) and reception 6:30 pm, 11/3). 263-2246.

Richard Storch: Noon-4 pm Saturdays, 11/5-26, PhotoMidwest (reception 7 pm, 11/3). photomidwest.org.

Deb Gleason, Irene Olson: Watercolors, 11/3-1/27, UW Signe Skott Cooper Hall. 263-5992.

Steven Brock: Paintings, 11/3-1/3, UW Hospital-Carbone Cancer Center Waiting Room. 263-5992.

Hiss Golden Messenger Hiss Golden Messenger stands out, even among its peers on eclectic indie tastemaker Merge Records. The brainchild of North Carolina musician MC Taylor, the group specializes in folky, sophisticated alt-country that’s a far cry from, say, Superchunk or Dinosaur Jr., but wholly at home among such legendary names.

In short: This is good stuff. With Phil Cook.

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BARRYMORE The Barrymore Theatre presents

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Organist Greg Zelek in Recital

Tickets $10 advance www.Powder.com/Monumental

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Praised for his “effortless facility on the instrument,” Greg Zelek is increasingly recognized as one of the most exciting young organists in the American organ scene. A recent graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Greg Zelek makes his Overture debut with an exciting program of music to maximize the many colors of the colossal Klais organ.

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ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Your Mom, 10 pm.

Romeo & Juliet

WPS Holiday Bazaar: Annual arts & crafts sale, 3:30-7 pm on 11/4 and 8 am-1 pm, 11/5, WPS Health Insurance, Monona. Free admission. 977-5416.

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

Friday, Nov. 4, Overture Hall, 8 pm

Brett Newski album release Friday, Nov. 4, Frequency, 9:30 pm Following the amicable breakup of collegiate pop rockers the Nod, UW alum Brett Newski went rogue and become a globetrotting minstrel. After a couple years in Vietnam, he’s essentially been on a never-ending tour, continuing to release missives from the wild in the form of new music and the YouTube series Crusty Adventures. Newski is currently headquartered in Wisconsin and debuts a new LP/CD, Land Air Sea Garage, at the Frequency. With Tiny Riots. See story, page 33.

’Tis the season to celebrate the Bard, and Madison Opera stages Charles Gounod’s sumptuous musical version of the tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, one of the best-loved stories in the Western canon. The show coincides with the opening of an exhibit of the First Folio, Shakespeare’s original manuscripts, at the Chazen Museum of Art. Make a night of it. ALSO: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2:30 pm.

The Secret Garden: Sun Prairie Civic Theatre musical, 7:30 pm on 11/4-5 & 11-12 and 2 pm, 11/13, Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, Sun Prairie. $15. 837-8217.

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Boom Snap Clap: ArtWorking holiday show with works by artists with disabilities, 11/4-6, Hilldale. 442-5294.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS RSVP for Candlelight Dinner Concert: University League event, 5 pm, 11/12, Nakoma Country Club, with dinner, music by Delight Quartet. $40. RSVP by 11/4: univleague.wisc.edu.

Oktoberfest: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies fundraiser German-style buffet, 6-9 pm, 11/4, University Club, with craft beer from Bull Falls Brewery, polka music & silent auction. $35. 262-7546.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS Big Ten Men’s Tennis Singles & Doubles Tournament: 11/4-7, Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Free. 262-1440.

F UNDRAISERS Holidays Galore & More: Hand-crafted holiday items, new & used holiday decor, and raffle, 9 am4 pm on 11/4 and 9 am-2 pm, 11/5, Attic Angel Association. Proceeds help local non-profits. 662-8900.

ColoniALE Fest: Annual beer/wine tasting fundraiser, 6-9 pm, 11/4, Colonial Club, Sun Prairie. $40 ($30 adv.). colonialefest2016.eventbrite.com. 837-4611.

Kathleen Madigan Friday, Nov. 4, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

Tony Barba album release Friday, Nov. 4, Williamson Magnetic Recording Company, 8 pm

Perhaps you’ve heard Tony Barba’s genrehopping woodwind stylings when he plays around Madison with groups like Big Pinky or Youngblood Brass Band, or maybe you noticed he was part of the saxophone choir on the most recent Bon Iver release. Now, for his first solo project, Barba has created an album of experimental saxophone music influenced by the depths of the Wisconsin winter. With Chicago trio Dim Lighting, also releasing a new album Friday.

Even if you’ve never heard Kathleen Madigan’s standup, chances are you’ve seen her on TV. Between appearances on Last Comic Standing, VH1’s I Love the decades series, and pretty much every late-night TV show on air, Madigan is everywhere. Armed with an acerbic wit and genial personality, she comes off as a slightly less grumpy version of Lewis Black.

Friday, Nov. 4, Bascom Hall, Room 272, 7 pm

Knuckle Down Saloon: Dan Law & the Mannish Boys album recording session, 9 pm.

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Liquid: Davilla, 10 pm.

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Majestic Theatre: LANY, Transviolet, 9 pm.

Mickey’s: Paid to Cum (Bad Brains tribute), Deaf Boys (Dead Boys), El Espectro (Scratch Acid), 10:30 pm.

Mr. Robert’s: Chaos Revolution Theory, free, 10 pm.

Red Zone: Space Jesus, Yheti, Bless the A.M., 8:30 pm.

Stone Fence: The Brine Solution, free, 6 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: The Flatlanders, 7:30 pm.

UW Humanities-Mills Hall: UW Madrigal Singers, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: Nuggernaut, 7:30 pm.

UW Union South-Sett: Teklife, Contraboi, free, 9 pm.

Midvale Community Lutheran Church: Madison Flute Club Fall Recital, free, 2 pm.

The Red Zone: MAMA Breakthrough Artist Battle of the Bands 2017, 6 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Wood Brothers, 7:30 pm.

Tempest: Bill Roberts Combo, jazz, free, 9:30 pm.

CO MEDY Iliza Shlesinger, Jen Murphy: 7:30 pm, 11/5, Barrymore Theatre. $25. 241-8633.

B O O KS Dean Robbins: Discussing “Miss Paul & the President,” 11 am, 11/5, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS The Splendor of Silent Film: Images from the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research: 11/51/8, Overture Center-Playhouse Gallery (reception 4:30-6:30 pm, 11/5). 258-4169.

ArtWorks: Fine arts/crafts, 10 am-8 pm on 11/5 and 11 am-6 pm, 11/6, Hilldale. artworksmadison.com.

Art in the Wright Place: Annual arts & crafts/bake sale benefit, 10 am-6 pm on 11/5 and 9 am-4 pm on 11/6, First Unitarian Society. 233-9774.

Rhea Ewing: “Seven Strengths,” 11/5-12/3, Arts & Literature Laboratory (reception 4-6 pm, 11/5). 556-7415.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Polish Christmas Bazaar: Annual Polish Heritage Club event with traditional food & crafts, music & demonstrations, 9 am-3 pm, 11/5, St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Free admission. 239-0398.

K I D S & FA MI LY Halloween Candy Trade-In Party: 9:30-11:30 am, 11/5, Meriter-West Washington. Candy sent US Troops through Operation Gratitude. 417-8300.

Saturday, Nov. 5, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, 8 pm

Patrick Rothfuss

Hody Bar, Middleton: Universal Sound, free, 9 pm.

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

Una Noche en México: Edición Día de los Muertos: Latino Student Union “A Night in Mexico” scholarship benefit, 5-8 pm, 11/5, East High School, with entertainment, food. $5 (free ages 10 & under). 204-1624.

Joshua Bell

Club Tavern, Middleton: City Electric, rock, free, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: Evergreen Grass Band, 9:45 pm.

Mezze: Charlie Painter & Friends, jazz, free, 9 pm.

Saturday Science: “Stars Above” activities, 10 am-noon.

11/5, UW Discovery Building. Free. 316-4382.

Chocolaterian Cafe: Cajun Spice, free, 7 pm.

First Unitarian Society: Noon Musicale, Helen Avakian & Dave Irwin, guitars, free, 12:15 pm.

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Cardinal: Gerri DiMaggio, 5:30 pm; DJ Chamo, 9 pm.

Come Back In: The Contractions, free, 9 pm.

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Marty Clarke: 10:30 pm, 11/4, Fountain. 250-1998.

Arts & Literature Laboratory: Auscultation, Kevin Greenspon, Tippy, Feeding Behavior, 8 pm.

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

Saris Gala: Wisconsin Bike Fed benefit, 7-11 pm, 11/4, UW Union South, with special guest Gwen Jorgensen, entertainment, live & silent auctions. $100 (VIP with Jorgensen meet & greet, $200). 251-4456.

Majestic Theatre: Majid Jordan, DJ TJ, 9 pm.

Even if fantasy isn’t your genre, you will be spellbound by the magical world created by author Patrick Rothfuss. The Stevens Point native has authored two bestsellers: The Name of the Wind and A Wise Man’s Fear, and a lot of readers are waiting with bated breath for the third installment of the trilogy. Meanwhile, Lionsgate has optioned the books for film productions. Rothfuss provides the keynote speech for the UWMadison Working Class Student Union on Friday, and also appears Thursday, Nov. 3, from 5-7 pm at Agriculture Hall, room 125.

Jess Lourey: Discussing “Salem’s Cipher,” her new book, 1 pm, 11/4, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Amy Lynn Brown & Heidi Andermack: “Chowgirls Killer Party Food,” cookbook, 7 pm, 11/4, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Madtown Poetry Open Mic: With Amy Elizabeth Gaeta, 8 pm, 11/4, Mother Fool’s. 255-4730.

One of the world’s most celebrated and best-loved violinists, Joshua Bell plays with an exquisite blend of technical precision and near-poetic expressiveness. Hearing him live is an experience not to be missed. This program includes works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Saraste. With pianist Alessio Bax.

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Bandung: Mideast Salsa, free salsa lesson, 8:30 pm.

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Come Back In: Field & James, free, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: The Gambol, Feed The Dog, Nate Meng & the Stolen Sea, Americana, 9:30 pm.

Fountain: The Self Transforming Elves from Hyperspace, electronic, free, 8 pm.

The Frequency: Ne-Hi, Ricky Eat Acid, 9 pm.

Funk’s Pub, Fitchburg: Warrior Songs (CD release) with Jason Moon, Sheila Shigley, Kris Sheehan, Mambo Surfers, Melissa Doud, Monterey Trail, others, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: Joe & Vicki Price, MoonHouse, 9:45 pm.

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Knuckle Down Saloon: Ross Kleiner & the Thrill, 9 pm.

Joey B. Banks Birthday Bash Sunday, Nov. 6, High Noon Saloon, 6 pm Banks is one of the busiest performers in Madison, and this annual party features many of the acts he plays drums with, including Honor Among Thieves, Steely Dane, Keon Andre Band, Gabe Burdulis Band and Lo Marie. It’s also a fundraiser for Black Star Drum Line, a nonprofit youth performance group Banks co-founded and directs. With Distant Cuzins, Tuesday Night Squad, Trilogy, XL Big.

try! head honcho is the poster boy for DIY ethos and a fully inclusive scene, releasing tracks for free on his website and building personal relationships with many of his fans through social media. Fans will get a chance to see Rosenstock do what he does best — bring raucous drunk-punk confessionals to life. With Hard Girls, Katie Ellen.

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Chazen Museum of Art: Sunday Afternoon Live, Varshavski-Shapiro Piano Duo, free, 12:30 pm.

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Jazz Ensemble, donations, 2:30 pm.

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

B OOKS / S P O K EN WORD Kathleen Ernst: Discussing “A Memory of Muskets,” 1:30 pm, 11/6, Sequoya Library. 266-6385.

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The Beatles are the most appreciated band in history; Sloan, one of Canada’s modern answers to the Fab Four, may be the most underappreciated. The foursome will draw from nearly a quarter decade of original songs, giving you a long-overdue chance to correct the oversight.

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When Communist Daughter’s first album, Soundtrack to the End, broke through in 2010, Johnny Solomon was only able to enjoy it from his room at an inpatient rehab center in Minnesota. Now Solomon’s clean, sober and better than ever, and the result is The Cracks That Built the Wall, a collection of eclectic indie rock that’s loud, quiet and lush, often in the same few bars.

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Luther Memorial Church: Bruce Bengtson, organ, free, noon Wednesdays (repertoire: luthermem.org).

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Monona Terrace: Tony Rocker & the Comeback Special, Elvis tribute, free, 5:30 pm.

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The Red Zone: Invidia, Vyces, White Knuckle Riot, Something to Die For, Of the Earth, 7:30 pm.

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Eileen Myles: Felix Series of New Writing poetry reading, 7 pm, 11/9, Central Library. felixreadingseries.wordpress.com.

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I’m a 41-year-old male who looks like the tall, strong, professional, alpha-male type on the outside. On the inside, though, I would like to find a strong, confident woman who wants a cuckolding relationship — she sleeps with other men, while I am faithful and submissive to her. There must be women out there who would love to have a loving, doting boyfriend or husband waiting at home while they go out with other men, but I tend to attract women who want the alpha-male type.

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“As much effort and time as getting into the kinky community takes, it’s still easier than trying to turn a vanilla woman kinky,” said FleeMarket. “He shouldn’t ‘lead with his kink.’ If a woman asks him what his interests are, mention it, but dial down the excitement level. These ladies deal with a lot of creeps, and it’s easy to scare them off. Basically: Be in the right place, treat the women there with respect, and get to know them as people first.”

My ex three exes ago was a cuckold. I swore I would never date another cuckold after he blew up at me for not cheating on him juuuuuust right. I was just a prop, and I came to hate him. I also hated you, Dan, because he raised the subject by giving me some of your columns to read.

Fast-forward five years, and my brandnew boyfriend tells me being cuckolded is his ultimate fantasy. I literally started to cry. He held me, he apologized on behalf of all cuckolds everywhere, we laughed, and then he dropped it. He didn’t pressure me, and about a year later, we gave it a try on his birthday. It turns out my boyfriend — fiancé now — is much better at this kink than my ex was. He’s open and honest, he communicates constructively, and he was willing to step outside his comfort zone to accommodate my needs. (He wanted the other guys to be strangers, but I need to know someone before letting him in my body.) I have a regular thing with an ex-FWB, and sex with my cuck is frequent and hot. Things couldn’t be better. So I’m not mad at you anymore, Dan! All is forgiven!

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“Most women, even dominant women, are still looking for guys who look like they ‘kick ass and take names’ in every other aspect of their lives,” said FleeMarket (u/ flee_market), one of the moderators of r/cuckold on Reddit. “As for how to find dominant women, I see a lot of submissive guys on various websites — OkCupid, Reddit, Tinder, FetLife — and something they don’t understand is that women looking for sex or love online tend to get buried in unsolicited PMs from thirsty guys. That makes it hard to find that one respectful PM from a guy like our letter writer here.

The signal gets lost in the noise.”

Before we get to some practical advice for ALPHA, a quick word about the term “cuck.” While it has long been an affectionate/horny term embraced by self-identified cuckold fetishists, the alt-right has attempted to turn “cuck” into a term of abuse, hurling it at any straight white man who gives a shit about racial justice, police brutality and the plight of undocumented immigrants.

In an effort to wrest “cuck” back from the bigots, and to mark the waning days of the Trump campaign, I’m dedicating this week’s column to “cuck” as properly understood: a guy who wants his partner to sleep with other men.

So, ALPHA, how can you attract a woman who wants a cuck?

“What’s worked for me is using the internet not to find people but to find kinky events where dominant women gather in real life,” said FleeMarket. “I’m on my second openly dominant female partner in four years, both of whom I met at kinky parties.

The events are usually listed on FetLife, and you usually have to attend a munch first to demonstrate that you’re not a dingus who can’t follow the rules or a psycho who doesn’t care about them.”

You will find a lot of advice for wannabe cucks on r/cuckold, most offered in response to men trying to talk their vanilla wives or girlfriends into cuckolding them. But you’re as likely to read stories of failure (she said no, absolutely not, never) as you are to read

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