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■ CONTENTS ELECTION COVERAGE

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6-13 NEWS IT TAKES A VILLAGE. Election Day coverage is pretty much ’round the clock; during the day we visit polling places, talk to voters and election workers, troll Twitter and keep an eye out for problems. Things kick into high gear when the polls close at 8; then there are votes to track, parties to attend, politicians to interview and experts to consult. And then the writing begins. This year freelancer Jenny Peek (top) and intern Elisa Wiseman joined team Isthmus, fanning out around the city and the UW-Madison campus to keep tabs on the polls. Staff writer Dylan Brogan covered the U.S. Senate race between Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson, staff writer Allison Geyer hung out at a party planned to celebrate a historic win that did not happen, and freelancer Nathan Comp followed the races for state Assembly. News editor Joe Tarr was up late and early editing stories, web editor Jeri Casper kept our special Election Day Twitter feed on Isthmus.com fresh, and staff artist Tommy Washbush designed our cover.

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Capturing the cats of Madison on Instagram.

6-18 NEWS

0-AND-2 Liberals stunned by Russ Feingold’s rematch loss to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

BRIDGING THE GAP

Milwaukee’s police chaplains try to bring the community and law enforcement together.

20 OPINION

THE NEXT BIG ONE

What this election tells us about the 2018 race for governor.

25-27 FOOD & DRINK

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28 SPORTS

B-BALL ABROAD

Former Badger stars make a career overseas.

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HOOLIGANS UNITE!

Pussy Riot members swing through Madison for a Q &A.

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OUR RACE PROBLEM

North of Dixie highlights struggles over fair housing and education.

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Downtown building gets an LED waterfall.

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GROWING PAINS

Habitats in Humanities Monday, Nov. 14 (UW Art Lofts) and Tuesday, Nov. 15 (UW Humanities Building, 7th Floor Studios), 11:30 am-1:15 pm and 4-7 pm Visit MFA students on their own turf during two days of open studios. There is nothing cooler than seeing these rad, creative cubicles and the art that’s made in them.

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Moonlight is a mesmerizing film about growing up black, poor and gay.

44 EMPHASIS ALEJANDRO ALONSO GALVA

NEWS WHEN ALEJANDRO Alonso Galva went to Milwaukee’s Sherman Park after the August riots, he figured he would find unease, tension and a potential for violence. He was not expecting to cross paths with the Milwaukee Police chaplains. But once he did, he was eager to bring the story back to Madison. “In 2016, all we’ve heard about is hate, fear and anger. We all know that story, but what’s next?” He says the program is not perfect, but “it’s a new hope in all the noise. Seems like we could all use a little hope right now.”

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Need to process the results of the presidential election? The UW Public Affairs Writer in Residence program is here to help with a panel discussion, “Now What: The 2016 Election and Its Impact.” Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel will survey the aftermath with Milwaukee radio host Charlie Sykes, Morgridge Center for Public Service director Katherine Cramer and School of Journalism associate professor Michael Wagner.

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Come learn about the intersection of creativity and entrepreneurship at this discussion moderated by George Tzougros of the Wisconsin Arts Board. Panelists include Gregory St. Fort, executive director of Madison coworking space 100state; Ben Richgruber, executive director of Eau Claire Regional Arts Center; and Tryg Jacobson, co-founder of Sheboygan coworking space Jake’s Cafe.

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Thinking about joining the Peace Corps? Hear stories that tote up the adventures and the misadventures from returned volunteers (RPCVs) at this annual storytelling slam/fundraiser for the UW-Madison food pantry ($5 or two nonperishable food items; students free).

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Documenting the cats of Madison

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According to Jason Nolen, there are three types of cats: The cats who love strangers, the cats who hate strangers and the cats who are indifferent. Nolen, founder of the Instagram account “Cats of Madison,” says the first kind of cats are difficult to photograph because they get too close and rub against the camera. The second kind get scared and flee. But the aloof cats are just right. “They sit there like a tableau,” Nolen says. I joined Nolen to go “catting” — the term he uses when he searches for felines to photograph — in the Willy Street neighborhood on a warm, sunny afternoon in late October. Nolen, who mostly photographs cats he finds outdoors, says this might be one of the last good catting days for a while. With winter coming, the cats of Madison will be heading indoors. Nolen, like a squirrel hiding nuts away, is storing up photos to last him through winter. The first cat we see this afternoon, a beautiful brown Bengal with black spots and piercing green eyes, is walking down a sidewalk on Dickinson Street. Nolen has never seen this cat before, but, unfortunately, it runs away. Nolen

respects the cat’s wishes. He never chases after one but will note its appearance on a spreadsheet he keeps to track the city’s cats. We continue to “cat alley,” a stretch of blocks near the Yahara River where Nolen has had good luck before. As we walk along chatting, Nolen occasionally stops and silently points, having spotted an incognito cat. Sometimes it’s just the tips of the cat’s ears, peeking out above a porch railing, or a tail disappearing around a corner. “This is really the first hobby I’ve ever had,” Nolen says. “It’s similar to birding, but I know way less about cats.” Nolen, a sociology lecturer at UW-Madison, started the Cats of Madison page in May when he worried that he was annoying friends by posting too many cat photos on his personal Instagram page. His first photo on May 27 featured Ziggy, a popular east-side cat who lives on Williamson Street. For the next couple of weeks Nolen went on long walks every day and noticed cats everywhere. One night on a walk with his girlfriend, they heard meowing and leaves rustling and then “a cat fell out of the sky.”

“This is a sign,” Nolen thought. “A cat just bombed us from a tree!” With more than 3,000 followers, Nolen tries to post a photo a day, sometimes using guest photos. On a couple of occasions, the page reunited people with their pets. One time a cat wandered into a home on Willy Street and someone sent him a photo to post. “Within 30 minutes someone said, ‘Hey, that is my cat!’” Nolen says. Today we strike out on cat alley, but we do see one of Nolen’s favorite cats sitting on a porch on another street. As we head home, Nolen explains that he loves seeing cat regulars in his neighborhood, like Charlie, Memow, Lucy and Violet, and he loves that people send him photos and have conversations about the cats that he photographs and posts online. Just then, Nolen spots a black and orange cat making its way down the front steps of a porch on Clemons Avenue. The tag on the collar reads “Mitzi,” and Nolen, kneeling on the sidewalk taking pictures, is thrilled because this is a new cat. As the sun slants low in the sky, illuminating the golden leaves, Nolen smiles and says: “This has been a really good cat walk.” n

Camera Nolen uses: IPHONE Number of cats he has photographed: ABOUT 60 Number of photos posted on Cats of Madison (including guest photos): 139 AS OF NOV. 2, 2016 Cat with the most “likes”: CHARLIE, WITH 677 (POSTED ON HALLOWEEN) Weirdest animal Jason has seen while catting: A TWO-HEADED RABBIT Cat with the most comments: THE FLUFFY CAT IN THE LEAVES, POSTED ON OCT. 19 (27 COMMENTS)

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Russ Feingold supporters arrived in Middleton expecting to win. They left the former U.S. senator’s election party in a state of vanquished disbelief. The polls, historic voting trends and tepid support from state GOP leaders for Presidentelect Donald Trump all appeared to spell a victory for Feingold. Instead, incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson rode an unexpected wave to re-election that also washed Wisconsin’s 10 electoral college votes away from Democrats for the first time in over three decades. “I don’t know how this happened. This is not okay. I don’t know how anyone can justify voting this way,” said Zion Little, who cried over the results of Tuesday’s election at the Marriott West hotel. “All I know now is that I’m scared that my rights will be taken away.” “It sucks!” said Sandi of Madison, who didn’t want to give her last name. “Russ should have been elected. This just sucks.” The sting of Feingold’s defeat deepened as Trump inched closer to the White House Tuesday night. Johnson may have triumphed, but loyal Dems placed the blame squarely on the Manhattan billionaire. “You can now run with no experience. You can lie. You can call people names. You can make fun of people and still get people to vote for you,” said Peng Her, a former candidate for Madison Common Council. “That’s not the America where I grew up.” Julie Peterman felt “overwhelmed” as she tried to understand what motivated Wisconsin voters to elect Trump and Johnson. “What has happened in this country that has turned people to do something like this?” she asked. “The con men, racists and the wealthy have taken over,” said Caroline, who also declined to provide her last name. “Where do we go from here?” First elected in 1992, Feingold served for 18 years in the U.S. Senate. In 2010, he lost to Johnson — a plastics manufacturer and political newcomer — in a wave election that ousted Democrats from coast to coast. This year, Feingold appeared poised for redemption at the ballot box. Lauded pollster Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website projected the Janesville native had a 81.7 percent chance of winning. But Johnson exceeded expectations, emerging from the rematch against Feingold by nearly 4 points. With all precincts reporting, 50.2 percent of Wisconsin voters cast ballots for Johnson, 46.8 percent for Feingold and 3 percent for Libertarian Phil Anderson.

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Russ Feingold supporters take in a painful loss at the Marriott West in Middleton.

The crowd gathered in Middleton remained dumbstruck by the turn of events even as Feingold delivered his brief concession speech. The once-popular progressive warned of an uncertain future: “This could be one of the most challenging times in the history of this country.” “I didn’t expect this outcome, to be honest with you. We didn’t get the job done,” Feingold admitted to supporters. “Obviously, something is happening in this country tonight. I don’t think I understand it completely.... I would urge you to be as restrained as you can be as the next steps occur. I don’t know exactly what they will be.” UW-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner calls Johnson’s win a true upset. “Johnson led in exactly one poll out of more than 20 over the last several months,” said Wagner. “[Johnson] was able to motivate Republicans to show up and vote for him. Even though not all of his party was wild about the top-ticket, they still showed up for him.” Johnson received nearly 70,000 more votes than Trump (who won the state by only 1 percentage point). He also won big in Waukesha County. The GOP stronghold gave more votes to Johnson than it did to former Gov. Tommy Thompson in his failed Senate run against Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) in 2012. Conversely, bright blue Milwaukee County saw a drop in turnout. Feingold received 35,000 fewer votes than Baldwin did in Milwaukee County four years ago. Johnson also dominated in Brown County, home to Green Bay and traditionally a swing area of the state, racking up votes with a whopping 16-point lead. While Johnson outperformed Trump, Feingold and Democratic presidential nominee

Hillary Clinton ran nearly even. Feingold received 2,000 fewer votes than Clinton statewide. The only bright spot for Democrats across a very red map was Dane County. The progressive county came out strong for Feingold with 72 percent of the vote, matching historic turnouts seen in 2008 and 2012. Democrats were hoping Trump’s historically low approval rating would drag down Republican Senate contenders nationally, flipping control of the upper house of Congress. But last-minute comebacks by Republican candidates in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, in addition to Wisconsin, will give the Grand Old Party full control of Congress in January. State Rep. Lisa Subeck (D-Madison) says she is heartbroken by the Democrats poor showing. “It doesn’t bode well for Wisconsin or the nation,” said Subeck, who easily won her race for another term in the state Assembly. “What are people thinking?” Ron Johnson’s answer to that question is that “we got one shot” to put America back on track. “I could ruin your night laying out the problems, the challenges, the threats we face. I’m not going to do that. This is a night of celebration,” Johnson told his supporters in Oshkosh. “This is a night of opportunity. We’ve been given a chance. We are going to seize that chance.” This race is likely the last chapter of Feingold’s 30-year political career. Before departing for his home on Donna Drive — where he once famously painted five promises to voters on his garage door — Russ had these final words: “We’ll get through this, and I look forward to helping you in any way I can. But it is now up to you.” n

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If there is comfort to be found in Wisconsin becoming a red state in a presidential election for the first time in 32 years it may be that Madison remains 77 square miles surrounded by reality. Democrats running in state Assembly races representing Dane County residents held on to their seats by wide margins, but statewide failed to narrow the Republican’s 63-36 seat majority in the Legislature’s lower chamber. Republicans successfully defended all their seats and picked up an unexpected win by knocking out Chris Danou from Trempealeau. Democratic incumbent Steve Doyle beat back a challenge from Republican Julian Bradley in District 95. “I’m disappointed we didn’t make gains in the Legislature, but it tells us something in the electorate has changed in the state,” says Lisa Subeck, who held on to her District 78 seat, which includes parts of far west Madison, Middleton and Verona. She defeated independent challenger Chris Fisher with 79 percent of the vote. Democrats Chris Taylor and Dianne Hesselbein also kept their seats in Districts 76 and 79, respectively. Taylor’s district stretches from Vilas Park Drive on the west side across the isthmus to Anderson Street on the north side. Hesselbein represents parts of Middleton, Cross Plains, Waunakee, the town of Burke and a large swath north of Madison. Two other Madison Democratic Assembly members — Terese Berceau and Melissa Sargent, both Democrats — ran unopposed. An open District 47 seat — which includes portions of Monona, McFarland and Fitchburg — went to Democrat Jimmy Anderson, who took 69 percent of the vote. His seat had been held by two-term incumbent Robb Kahl, who decided not to run for reelection. “I’m incredibly proud to have earned the support of the people of the 47th District and I’m going to work like hell to fight for their values,” says Anderson, who was paralyzed from the neck down after being struck by a drunk driver. In one of the most closely watched Assembly races, Jeff Wright, one of three Democratic Assembly candidates endorsed by President Barack Obama, failed to unseat GOP incumbent Todd Novak, the only openly gay Republican state legislator in the country. “I was out knocking on doors in the 51st, and it sounded like there was a lot of excitement around Jeff Wright,” says Subeck. “But it’s hard to look at individual races in isolation given what happened at the top of the ticket.” Another open seat in play, District 85, went to Patrick Snyder, who defeated

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Voter protection Election Day polls run smoothly despite minor problems When Joe Lalli decided to take the day off to volunteer as an election observer, he braced for the worst. Lalli worried about claims from Republican nominee Donald Trump and others that the process was rigged, that agitators might try to intimidate voters or that voters would be confused by the state’s new voter ID law. He was surprised, then, when everything got off to a smooth start. “It’s not the answer I would have expected, but things have been very smooth,” says Lalli, a League of Women Voters of Wisconsin volunteer election observer. Lalli checked in at three polling places in Madison — Gates of Heaven on East Gorham Street, the Tenney Park Pavilion and Madison College on Commercial Avenue — to make sure officials followed the law and voters had someone to turn to for help, if needed. Although the process in Madison went relatively well, Lalli was disappointed to see some technical problems. “The biggest problem I’ve seen first-hand is a lack of tabulation machine maintenance,” says Lalli. “The tabulation machine at Tenney Park was completely broken for over 20 minutes, and it took multiple calls from the chief inspector before the city clerk said they’d send someone over.” The clerk’s office eventually sent a spare tabulator to Tenney Park in time for the after-work rush. According to Lalli, there were similar problems at Madison College earlier in the day. At that location, Lalli says, “It took the city four hours before someone was sent out.” Broken machine or not, these ballots were still counted. They were placed in an “auxiliary bin” underneath the tabulator and counted once the machine was fixed. Madison’s clerk, Maribeth Witzel-Behl, says tabulator breakdowns are not uncommon during

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Voters fill out ballots at East High School, which was ordered by a court to stay open an extra hour because a fire alarm temporarily closed it. It was one of a few glitches in Madison on Election Day.

elections. She says they can fail for various reasons, including ballot jams, gel ink gumming up the machines, or ballots being cut incorrectly. “I can’t think of an election where we didn’t have at least one machine that was having either an issue with the cut of the ballots or that some ballots were starting to jam in the machine,” says Witzel-Behl. “If we don’t quickly get it fixed we will swap out that machine. That did happen at several polling places, and that is why we have extra machines.” The clerk’s office has six vehicles and staff on call to help. She admits there was frustration in wait times from election officials. “For us, any issue with the machine is the top priority, but we were relying heavily on temporary help that may not have passed on the message to us in a way that we could understand that the machine was the issue,” Witzel-Behl says. Statewide, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin reported few major problems with voter access. “Despite election fatigue,

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people all over Wisconsin took the time and, in many cases, a lot of trouble to vote, and that is good,” Andrea Kaminski, the League’s executive director, wrote in an email shortly after polls closed Tuesday in Wisconsin. “The voting process was fairly smooth, as far as I know at this point. That is due in large part to the exceptional professionalism of our state and local election officials.” Lalli had to help a handful of voters who didn’t have the correct ID or proof of residency, but he noted that all but two of these voters came back with the proper documents to cast ballots. “There were a lot of people coming in with alternative voting documents, an expired student ID or an out-of-state driver’s license, but everyone managed to have [the laws] properly explained to them, they went home, got their ID or passport and came back,” Lalli says. “I’m not in favor of the [voter ID] law, I think it’s unnecessary, but so far it hasn’t been as much of an issue. People seem to be informed and motivated

enough to vote that they’re able to get their hands on something.” Voting at East High School was met with an early interruption when the fire alarm went off around 8:20 a.m., lasting for nearly 10 minutes. To ensure voters got a chance to cast their ballot, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford ordered that East’s polling place stay open until 9 p.m. In Madison, there were more poll workers and more election observers than in other years; other groups providing election observers included the state Democratic and Republican parties and the Wisconsin Department of Justice. With the increased fire power, most problems at the polls were quickly dealt with. Turnout in Madison was reported at just over 79 percent. Lalli was happy to help. “It all boils down to I need to make sure that every person who walks through the door, walks out having voted,” says Lalli. “And if they don’t, I need to find out what happened and try to make it right.” ■

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followed by a visit to Colectivo Coffee on the Capitol Square. n A new study finds that chronic wasting disease is deadliest for bucks, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. That means “new and more aggressive measures should be used to slow CWD’s growth, including eliminating large numbers of bucks in two southern Wisconsin areas with high infection rates.” This is bad news for hunters looking to bag that elusive 30-pointer.

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Republican Party of Dane County, at a watch party at the Concourse Hotel. “[Republicans] are going to come home and vote where their heart is.” UW-Madison’s College Republicans gathered at Brickhouse BBQ to watch election results come in over chicken wings and beer. Michael Falk, a 26-year-old law student, described the campaign season as “very demoralizing overall,” but he was enthused by the potential for down-ballot Republican success. An undecided presidential voter until “very recently,” Falk says he “held his nose” as he voted for Trump. “I think Trump will work with a Republican-controlled Congress,” Falk said. “I think he will do good, conservative things with Paul Ryan.” During the campaign, pollsters and pundits believed that Trump’s core supporters were white, working-class citizens who were hit hard by the loss of America’s manufacturing industry and frustrated with the policies of President Barack Obama. But exit polling shows that white, wealthy voters — including women and college graduates — were key to Trump’s victory. At Plan B, the mostly white crowd worried what a Trump presidency — which has been endorsed widely by white nationalist groups, including Ku Klux Klan leaders — would mean for people of color. For 25-year-old Katherine Garcia, a graduate student at UW-Madison of black and Puerto Rican heritage, the election results were simply terrifying. “I’m scared. I feel like I’m not safe in this country anymore; I feel like my friends aren’t safe,” she said shortly before the election was called. “We can’t deny the racism, sexism and xenophobia anymore.” n

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Out of the ashes, a Democratic governor? What the party needs to do to win in two years BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison. He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

This wasn’t my original column. The column I had written for this week sifted through the Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold victories to try to find a route for Democrats to take back the Wisconsin governor’s office. Then a funny thing happened. After the Republicans lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama again, despite a record turnout of white Americans for Mitt Romney, the party launched a soul-searching study overseen by party chair and Wisconsin guy Reince Priebus. The conclusion was that white men couldn’t jump far enough to elect a president and that the rest of the down-ticket ballot would also be threatened unless the GOP expanded its base, especially among Latinos. So what did they do? They nominated a man who started his campaign by insulting Hispanics. He went on to insult virtually every other demographic group that Republicans thought they needed to make inroads with. And not only did Trump win, but Feingold, once considered a lock to regain his U.S. Senate seat, was turned back, and the Democrats, who had considered the pickup of at least one state Senate seat a certainty, wound up losing at least one instead. Still, while I know it sounds close to ridiculous right now, I believe the Democrats do have a chance to win back the governor’s office. And, in fact, they have to, or Republicans will once again draw legislative district lines after the next census, locking in their majorities for yet another decade. Here’s what the harsh lessons of 2016 might teach the Democrats.

jobs and the unions that represented these workers and the Democrats’ turn to identity politics drove them off. For a long time, the Democrats seemed to be the party of everybody but working-class white guys. In a state with such a large white population, they can’t be ignored. White men made up 44 percent of the vote in the 2014 gubernatorial election, and the Democratic candidate lost them by 24 points. That’s a recipe for failure every time. These voters should be reachable, and had the Democrats nominated someone like Joe Biden, or even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, they might have done it. Even our first black president carried rural white counties that Clinton lost this time. Hillary Clinton, for all her virtues, was the embodiment of the establishment in a year when there was no stronger single theme than anger at the established order.

voters remain a relatively small part of the Wisconsin electorate, they helped deliver the state to Obama twice because they voted so overwhelmingly for him. And the Latino vote is expanding, if somewhat more slowly than in other parts of the country. The Democrats need to get them to the polls in off-year elections like 2018. The party needs to find a way to motivate young voters, blacks, Latinos, women, and the LGBTQ community but without alienating

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THEY NEED TO EXPAND THEIR BASE. The GOP wasn’t wrong in its conclusion that the party needed to rely less on older white voters. These voters just way overperformed in this election. It’s the flip side for Democrats in Wisconsin. They need to reconnect with blue-collar whites, especially men. These voters once formed the Democratic base, but the loss of manufacturing

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straight, white voters in the process. That could be the biggest challenge of all. Look, this is the first time Wisconsin has gone for a Republican for president since 1984, and demographic trends don’t make it likely that it will happen again next time. Tammy Baldwin, America’s first openly gay U.S. senator, was elected here just four years ago, and she did it by painting her opponent, Tommy Thompson, as a Washington insider, essentially discovering four years ago what worked for Donald Trump this time. And Democrat Jim Doyle found a way to get elected governor twice in a row in 2002 and 2006. As bad as things look right now, recent history doesn’t tell us that in statewide races we are as deep red as we appear. Moreover, Gov. Scott Walker’s approval ratings have remained in the low forties ever since he started running for president in 2015, and that has been a function of plummeting support in the rural, northern parts of the state, exactly where Trump did his best. Assuming he runs again and doesn’t join a Trump cabinet, after two full terms as governor he’s the establishment now. That makes him ripe for a challenge. So there’s a path out of this mess and it is basically just doing what Democrats used to do: build as broad a coalition as possible and motivate voters to vote. But they need to do that not by parsing the electorate into distinct identity groups, but by appealing to what we have in common. What people might be hungry for in two years isn’t more us-against-them acrimony but a message about our common interests and aspirations as Wisconsinites. That’s a candidate I’d vote for. n

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I just read the “Feedback” comments by Jack Holzhueter (10/20/2016) on the Isthmus article by Marc Eisen covering the redevelopment potential of the downtown Lake Monona waterfront (“Lake Effects,” 10/13/2016). Mr. Holzhueter wonders about the purpose that the Lake Monona Boathouse that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at the start of his career would have in 2020. Based on my 40 years of experience as a waterfront planning and engineering design professional, I believe that this historically significant building design would create a much-needed aquatic center that will help meet the recreational needs of the Madison community. Paddle craft and small sailboats would be stored, launched and retrieved here at Lake Monona’s only Aquatic Center, providing lake access opportunities to residents and visitors (similar to Hoofer Sailing Club, Wingra Boats and Brittingham Boats). The second floor could serve many purposes, including a more intimate event space than what is currently offered by Monona Terrace. This boathouse project is a key element of the proposed Nolen Waterfront, showcasing FLW’s first and last building designs. It could serve as a catalyst for redevelopment by demonstrating the quality of “what could be” along the Law Park water’s edge. Fred Klancnik Adjunct professor UW department of civil and environmental engineering (via email)

Dylan Brogan’s piece on the potential loss of Willy Street food manufacturer RP’s Pasta (“Pasta Problems,” 10/13/2016) neglected to ask two key questions: 1) who has the power? and 2) why is bigger always better? City officials use our considerable public resources to mediate between private landowners, developers and entrepreneurs. When the city fails — as with the negotiations between entrepreneurs at RP’s Pasta and the owners of Sherman Plaza — the city loses valuable time and public money. When they “succeed,” the private landowners are the biggest winners. Our north-side city officials brokered a deal between Dave and Don Bruns, who own Sherman Plaza Inc., and a new marquee anchor store — Willy Street Co-op. The deal came with years of rental income for the Bruns family and a $250,000 loan from the city to repave their parking lot. I guess those perks and other incentives were not enough for the Brunses to agree to a future deal with RP’s Pasta. RP’s owner, Peter Robertson, says that he needs more space because they are overwhelmed by demand in the “global gluten-free market.” What about local producers feeding local consumers? Why is constant growth the mantra of Madisonarea businesses, from those that employ dozens, like RP’s, to those that employ tens of thousands, like Epic Software. Is there not a limit to the amount of revenue that our “local” businesses can make? Jackson Foote (via mail)

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That action led to the arrest and imprisonment of Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria (Masha) Alyokhina on charges of “hooliganism.” Since the women were released from a penal colony two years later, Pussy Riot has grown into a multimedia movement; today, in addition to making music, members are doing investigative journalism and writing and performing in political theater troupes, continuing to call attention to Vladimir

Putin’s expansionist and totalitarian state. These days, Tolokonnikova has been working with a producer in Los Angeles to create videos under the Pussy Riot brand. Her disturbing “Make America Great Again” video imagines a Trump-led America, while “Straight Outta Vagina” is a more playful tune: “If your vagina lands in prison, the world is gonna listen.” But Tolokonnikova is not part of the current U.S. Pussy Riot tour, which is billed as a “Q&A”

rather than a concert. The audience at Wisconsin Union Theater on Nov. 21 will get to ask Alyokhina and Sasha Bogina questions. In advance of their Madison appearance, they both answered questions from Isthmus via email while on an epic 30-hour journey that began in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and wound up at their first U.S. tour stop in Cornell, New York.

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It’s tough to get a handle on Pussy Riot, often described as a punk rock band from Russia. Like the brightly colored balaclavas that members often appear in, the women’s individual identities are intentionally obscured. Best known for their performance art and provocative punk songs, three members of Pussy Riot were arrested in 2012 for performing “Punk Prayer” (“Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away”) at a Moscow cathedral.

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Do not pass up the opportunity to try the French onion soup. A well-seasoned broth complements perfectly caramelized onions and those deliciously spongy croutons that make French onion soup so addictive, along with that gorgeous, satisfying layer of crusty cheese browned on top. The croque-monsieur is a delightful sandwich layered with ham, mustard, béchamel sauce and Swiss cheese, beautifully presented with the cheese somewhat unconventionally broiled on the outside of the sandwich and some fun chive curls adorning it. Other sandwiches include a croque madame (which adds a sunny-side up egg), a bagnat (tuna, black olive and hardboiled egg), brie, and the Basque (with roasted tomatoes). Tartines, or toasts, come in avocado, smoked salmon or chicken and mushroom sauce. My favorite lunch here is the Chicken Doria, which started as a special but has earned a spot on the permanent menu. Served in an au gratin dish, this high-brow chicken and rice casserole is nothing like your mom used to make, transformed with béchamel sauce and again that gorgeous, satisfying layer of crusty cheese topping it all off. Most items come with a small salad lightly dressed with vinaigrette. A lovely side of persillade potatoes, fried and tossed with herbs, is a $2 add-on and worth the cost. The salade du sud quest is a larger green salad, also dressed with vinaigrette

and accompanied by those same persillade potatoes, plus prosciutto, herby croutons, roasted red peppers and olives niçoises. This makes for a fine lunch or light dinner. Dinner offerings are similar to lunch, with soup, salad, tartines and savory crepes still served, plus the addition of a duck and a chicken entree. If ever I am in a situation where I have to pick a last meal, Nanou’s lavender crème brulee will be on that list. It’s still here, made now by Ok. Dig your spoon into that perfectly glassy top layer of burnt sugar to discover beneath the soft, smooth, creamy custard with just a subtle hint of lavender. The presentation on a stone slab adorned with lavender petals was stunning. The restaurant recently obtained a license to sell wine, so there will be French labels, of course, along with coffees and teas. But with winter approaching, the housemade hot chocolate is not to be missed — a rich, creamy treat to enjoy slowly. La Kitchenette bills itself as a “French Home-Style Cafe” and it’s true there’s nothing pretentious about the place, although the interior is now more minimalist, straying from Chez Nanou’s country charm. La Kitchenette is a welcome taste of France on the near east side and a worthy successor to Chez Nanou. ■

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For the past five years, the quaint, tiny space at 805 Williamson St. has been owned and operated by Anne-Marie Rieunier under the name Chez Nanou. Rieunier has now retired and a new restaurant, reminiscent of Chez Nanou but now called La Kitchenette, is run by Virginie Ok. Ok, a self-taught cook born and raised in Paris, trained under Rieunier for several months before her debut this September. The warm, welcoming atmosphere remains — along with the crepes, a staple on the old menu. Savory crepes, served at lunch, are made with buckwheat, which lends itself to a slightly denser crepe with crispier edges. (And, by the way, it means they’re gluten-free, unless you choose a filling with béchamel sauce.) Brie and prosciutto make for a delicious combination in the crepe montagnarde, rounded out with a sunny-side-up egg on top. Others are the campagnarde (spinach and béchamel), savoyarde (potatoes, bacon, béchamel), Parisienne (ham, mushroom and yes, béchamel) and the Norvegienne (smoked salmon). Sweet crepes use the traditional flourbased recipe and are filled with either lemon curd, Nutella or chocolate sauce and topped with a generous dollop of real whipped cream. The lemon curd, made from scratch, will work both your sweet and sour taste receptors in a way you won’t soon forget. The sweet crepes are a star at breakfast, along with brioche French toast, eggs and omelets.

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Local cart crews head out to North Dakota pipeline protest BY ALLISON GEYER

Crews from three Madison food carts — Melted, Slide and Leia’s Lunchbox — are heading out to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota to feed activists demonstrating against the construction of an oil pipeline on native land. Melted owner David Rodriguez says the group plans to leave Madison on Nov. 14 and will spend four days at the protest camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Their goal is to provide about 1,000 meals per day, free of charge, for the protesters. “We have a couple good friends that are out there [at the protest site], and just seeing the pictures made us want to be involved,” Rodriguez says. “It’s exciting that we could find a way to help.” The food trucks themselves won’t be making the journey out to Standing Rock. Since they will be feeding thousands, a larger catering setup is necessary. Rodriguez and the others will be working in the protest camp kitchen under the direction of Native American chefs. Each business will bring two or three employees, who will be paid their

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Melted food cart owner David Rodriguez: “Providing food is in its own way a show of solidarity.”

usual wage for the work. None of the businesses will make a profit. The group hopes to raise between $12,000 and $13,000 to cover the cost of travel, food and wages for the employees. An online fundraiser is underway, and as of Tuesday afternoon had raised nearly $3,400. Supporters have also donated large quantities of eggs, potatoes and puri-

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fied water. Those provisions will allow the group to serve breakfasts to the activists, but at this point, Rodriguez says they need monetary contributions rather than in-kind donations, simply because they don’t have the space to carry more supplies. The grassroots DAPL protest movement began in the spring of 2016, but in recent weeks the conflict has grown violent, as law enforcement has clashed with protesters. Hundreds have been arrested, including Madison Ald. Rebecca Kemble. Rodriguez says his group discussed the dangers of going to the protest site, but notes that they will be serving food at the camp — “although maybe some will go and join the protest.” Rodriguez says the main reason he opposes the pipeline is the “hypocrisy” of seizing native land — land that was given back to the tribes with the Treaty of Laramie in 1868. He hopes the gift of food will help fuel the activist movement. “When I think about food, I always think about people gathering to eat — it is a nurturing experience more than just filling your belly,” Rodriguez says. “My hope is [that] the act of providing food is in its own way a show of solidarity.” ■

Hy-Vee, 2920 Fitchrona Road, marks Veterans Day with a free breakfast 6-11 am for veterans and current service members. Eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy, sausage, doughnuts, hash browns and more are on the buffet. Reservations: 608-273-5131.

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As of this Saturday, the market moves to Monona Terrace through Dec. 17, 7:30 am-noon. Preserves, cheese, meats, baked goods, maple syrup, root veggies and more will be on hand.

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Get an insider’s look at Madison’s artisan food and beverage scene with a tour (6-10 pm) of several local production facilities: YumButter, Potter’s Crackers, Mad Urban Bees, Quince & Apple, Dashelito’s, Underground Meats, Nessalla Kombucha, Old Sugar Distillery, Gretchen Olson Arts, Roth Cheese and Calliope Ice Cream. Samples from all plus appetizers from Underground Food Collective and Willy Street Co-op; proceeds benefit the Madison Area Urban Ministry and the Just Bakery program. Advance tickets ($60) only via madisoneats.net/artisan-food-tour.

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nectar, but its smooth blend of flavors will remind Spotted Cow fans of whence it came. Pair with a brie or camembert to bring out the sweet, fruity apricot and pear notes. It also goes well with pot roast or baked fish. I do like this beer, maybe even better than I like Spotted Cow, and feel it’s well worth the $11/4-pack. Spotted Cow Grand Cru is bottle-fermented to 8.5 percent ABV and is Sexpected H I N to G be T around O N through A V E December. . Serve it cold, but not as low as refrigerator temperatures, to bring out even more of its sweet hints of apricot, pear and orange.

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When it comes to cocktails, the unseasonably warm weather has been messing with my game. Typically, in mid- to late November, I stop drinking lighter, fruitier cocktails and start having darker-colored drinks that portend the winter solstice. Not this year. The other night at Lucille, 101 King St., I even ordered a drink called Summer Love, a concoction of Milagro blanco tequila, passion fruit simple syrup and a Serrano pepper tincture. Why not?, I thought. It was 65 degrees outside. My addict-brain basically thought I was in Los Angeles. It did surprise me that this drink was still on the regular menu. While tequila is one of those spirits that can swing either way seasonally, depending on what you mix with it, passion fruit is definitely not a winter flavor, unless you’re spending the holidays in Brazil. But Lucille has a good enough reason to keep the Summer Love alive. After bottling a vast quantity of the housemade fruit syrup and serving it all summer, the bar is now

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Playing pro basketball overseas Ex-Badgers Kirk Penney and Mike Wilkinson describe the life BY MICHAEL POPKE AND MARK TAUSCHER

Before Sam Dekker and Frank Kaminsky there was Kirk Penney and Mike Wilkinson. Penney, a native New Zealander shooting guard and small forward, was a freshman during UW’s 2000 Final Four run and finished his Badgers career second on Wisconsin’s all-time three-pointer list with 217. Wilkinson, a graduate of Wisconsin Heights High School in Mazomanie, arrived as a forward the following season, redshirted his freshman year and went on to become only UW’s second player with at least 1,500 career points (1,532) and 800 rebounds (856). Dekker and Kaminsky led the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team to back-toback Final Fours in 2014 and 2015 and now play in the National Basketball Association. Penney and Wilkinson also dreamed of playing in the NBA. But after bouncing between five NBA teams in short succession (including the Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves and Miami Heat), Penney always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Utah Jazz, meanwhile, paid Wilkinson a per diem to simply to be, as he says, “a body for practice.” Neither player secured a multi-year deal. The NBA’s loss was rest of the world’s gain. As things turned out, coaches of several international professional basketball teams had their eyes on Penney and Wilkinson, so both players dusted off their passports and headed overseas to play the game they loved as strangers in strange lands. This summer, Isthmus reunited the 35-yearold former teammates — who each, incidentally, played under Dick Bennett, Brad Soderberg and Bo Ryan — at the Avenue Club and Bubble Up Bar on East Washington Avenue. They stayed in touch over the years and even competed against each other a few times. Wilkinson played for six teams during a nine-year international career before retiring in 2014 after repeat shoulder injuries; he lives in Sun Prairie, owns a farm near Mazomanie and runs a tool-distribution company. Penney played for 10 international teams on several continents and maintains a condo in downtown Madison with his wife, former Badgers volleyball star Audra Jeffers, and their young daughter. In late July he headed back Down Under to play for the New Zealand Breakers of Australia’s National Basketball League. “Mike and I can’t just sit here and say, ‘Oh, we would have been NBA All-Stars.’ We don’t know that,” says Penney, who signed with a professional team in Las Palmas, Spain, in 2003. “We went through the typical process, the typical training camps, and we were deemed not good enough to sign a multi-year deal. That’s reality. Do we think

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we could have gone out there and played well in the NBA? Absolutely. But I think there are 400 other basketball players who would say the same thing.” Far fewer U.S. players, though, are cut out to pursue a career overseas. “It takes a certain type of person to do it,” Wilkinson says. “There are some guys I’ve played with who are a heck of a player but who just couldn’t handle living the lifestyle we lived overseas.” For example, when Wilkinson played for BC Khimki in Moscow, an away game sometimes meant waking at 3 a.m. for a nine-hour crosscountry flight to play BC Spartak Primorye in Vladivostok — located just northeast of North Korea on the Sea of Japan shores seven time zones ahead of Moscow. Violence in the midst of lax security also was a common occurrence in many of the cities where Penney and Wilkinson played ball. “We were playing in Turkey, and we came out after halftime and all our fans were gone,” Penney remembers. “All the visiting fans were gone, too. I asked one of my teammates, ‘Where’d our fans go?’ He said, ‘Oh, they’re just out having a fight. They’ll be back in 10 minutes.’ So they go have a brawl and then come back in. That’s just part of the scene there.” At a playoff game during his second season with Aris Thessaloniki in Greece, Wilkinson remembers being pelted with raw eggs and Coke cans by fans of the opposing team. Another time during a Greek playoff game, the visiting team’s fans weren’t even allowed into the venue. But that didn’t stop them from crashing through police in riot gear and ripping out the seats to celebrate a victory. “That really opened my eyes to the fact that I wasn’t in the United States anymore,” Wilkinson says. There were other eye-openers, too. International teams, often funded by sponsorships and TV deals, typically include living arrangements and a vehicle as part of player salaries.

Grocery stores in some countries are open only eight hours a day and closed on Sundays. Skype barely existed at the time Penney and Wilkinson moved overseas, and staying in touch with friends and family back in the States wasn’t easy. And although many international teams include one or two “import” players on their rosters — usually Americans — English isn’t always commonly spoken. “What you learn more than anything living this lifestyle is how to adapt,” Penney says. “In Spain, I liked my coach; he was a pretty cool dude. But I never spoke to him. He didn’t speak English, and I didn’t speak Spanish. All the timeouts and all the coaching was really quick Spanish, so I focused on the visuals, the Xs and Os. Sometimes I would ask my teammates, ‘Dude, what are we doing?’” Even the game itself is different — with multiple levels of competition, transcontinental travel, arenas built either for a few hundred fans or several thousand fans, and a style of play that’s foreign to today’s NBA. “It’s not run-and-gun, one-on-one basketball,” Wilkinson says. “There’s no defensive three-second violation over there — you can have as many people inside the lane as you want. Teams scout every player superwell, and they have entire game plans for leading scorers. “My game always adjusted well to Europe, because it’s a lot more similar to the college game,” he continues. “It’s more of a team game. So I got over there and I fit in. The hardest thing for me was adjusting to the different lifestyle, different food and different language.” Fortunately for Penney and Wilkinson, Madison remains friendly and familiar territory — which is why they both still call the city home. “The university does a great job of keeping us, as former athletes, informed and involved,” Penney says. “We feel like we’re still a part of the community; it’s not over just because our playing days are past.” ■

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Pussy Riot continued from 23

In 2014, Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina appeared in a video showing solidarity with Wisconsin protesters being arrested for singing in our State Capitol. Why did you decide to weigh in on Wisconsin’s workers’ rights struggles? Alyokhina:When we saw the words of Scott Walker and reaction to the protesters, we felt that we needed to support them. At this moment America has a much more difficult test in the face of Donald Trump, and it is important for you to look to the example of Russia, the country in which a fucking bastard took the presidency. It’s a little hard to figure out who’s doing what in Pussy Riot. Is there much activity

(actions or songwriting) as a group, or are you going separate ways? Alyokhina: Pussy Riot, in four years time of existing, experimented with genres a lot. It happened ’cause we love experiments. When Vladimir Putin and his officials in 2012 [took] balaclavas from three of us, thousands of people around the world put balaclavas on to support us. Since that moment Pussy Riot can be called a movement, not a group. You and Nadya Tolokonnikova spent two years in prison. What has happened since then? Alyokhina: After our release in 2014, we founded Mediazona, an independent media that covers all topics related to freedom (unfreedom) in Russia: prisons, violence, political trials. You are involved in political theater, including a play called Burning Doors. What is that about? Alyokhina: Burning Doors is about resistance between artists and authorities. We made it

together with Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group from Belarus. Our play is a part of the campaign for freedom for Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker [sentenced to] 20 years of prison in Russia.

working for this project in a small newsroom in the center of Moscow. Most Mediazona journalists and chief editor Sergey Smirnov used to work for Russian Planet; many people have left its team after facing censorship.

How did the experience of prison change you? Alyokhina: I believe that every experience is useful, [and] that’s why I do not regret anything. After two years in the penal colony I’ve understood that the prison system is a mirror of Putin’s political system. I’m not something special. Each of us has a story, and each of us makes a choice at some point in our lives. The main thing here, I think, is do not lie to yourself and remember that history is written by all of us.

What kind of journalism happens there? Bogina: Mediazona was founded with the idea that the history of Russia is written in the courtroom, so you need to actively monitor various trials if you want to understand the situation in our country. Mediazona is known for our online reports from trials, for example of a Ukrainian politician and former Army aviation pilot, Nadia Savchenko, and a Russian performance artist and political activist, Peter Pavlensky. We are covering the murder case of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in the center of Moscow in February 2015, as well as the case of a young blogger, Ruslan Sokolovsky, who was arrested and charged with extremism and insulting

Tell us about Mediazona. Bogina: Mediazona is a small online news outlet founded by Maria, Nadya and Peter Verzylov, shortly after the girls were released from the penal colonies. Nowadays, there are about 20 people

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The piano duo of Madison’s Naughton twins performs the lyrical Mozart, while Shostakovich’s powerful Fifth Symphony showcases his artistic triumph over the forces of Soviet repression. MAJOR FUNDING PROVIDED BY Nathan F. Brand & Regina Millner | Marvin J. Levy Madison Symphony Orchestra League Fred & Mary Mohs | Tom & Nancy Mohs Peggy & Tom Pyle ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY Scott & Janet Cabot | Martha & Charles Casey Dr. Stanley & Shirley Inhorn | Wisconsin Arts Board

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people’s religious feelings after playing Pokémon Go in a church of Novosibirsk. Just recently, Anna Kozkina reported on torture in prison #54 in the Sverdlovsk region and slave labor in one of Mordovia’s penal colonies. One of her most important articles was the story of an orphanage in the Trans-Baikal region, where children were humiliated, beaten, starved, tied to the door and subjected to sexual violence. What is going in Russia that you wish people in the United States knew more about? Bogina: In my opinion, people in both Russia and the U.S. need to know more about the cases of violence against prisoners, censorship in the media, domestic violence, police violence and other cases of human rights violations in both countries. It is kind of upsetting that the image of Russia in the Western media is largely formed by the image of our government. Seriously, Russia is a huge and multicultural country. I would like to see people in Western countries get rid of stereotypes about Russia and Russians. (Russians should get rid of stereotypes about the West as well.) This may sound silly, but I believe that people around the world should communicate more and explore other countries beyond the media headlines. n

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Taking it to the streets North of Dixie focuses on the less familiar struggles for racial justice BY JANE BURNS

As a historian, Mark Speltz isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the business of trying to change history. He just wants to tweak the narrative. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the mission of his new book, North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South (Getty Publications), in which Speltz helps dismiss the notion of where and when the fights for racial justice occurred in the United States. Those who think the civil rights struggle was solely a Southern thing in the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s will be quickly proved wrong as they thumb through Speltzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. Its approximately 100 photos document racial conflict beyond the familiar sites of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma. Instead, they depict struggles in Detroit, San Francisco, Milwaukee and even places like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from the 1930s through the 1970s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People have been writing about Milwaukee, Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis or Brooklyn for 20 years,â&#x20AC;? says Speltz, a senior historian at American Girl who lives in Middleton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But they are still not part of the common story we tell in our schools or the narrative we see during Black History Month.â&#x20AC;?

The images in Speltzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, like their iconic Southern counterparts, are moving and infuriating. A mob that includes children screams at a black family moving into a previously all-white neighborhood near Philadelphia. A smartly dressed black woman kneels to block dump trucks at a Brooklyn construction site to protest hiring practices. A young black boy holds his hands in the air as armed National Guard members trail him on the street in Newark, New Jersey. The book, which was praised on The New York Timesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lens blog, includes the work of noted photographers of the era such as Gordon Parks, Leonard Freed and Bob Adelman, as well as ordinary citizens. The photos spotlight issues that were at the heart of the movement outside the South â&#x20AC;&#x201D; housing, employment and policing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a bus seat, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a hamburger at a lunch counter or voting,â&#x20AC;? Speltz says of the protests that gained much of the attention 50 years ago in the South. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often a different issue.â&#x20AC;? The seed for the book was planted when Speltz was in graduate school in history at UWMilwaukee. He was assigned to study a photo in detail and dig into the story behind it. A

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Sid Boyum house saved Now supporters are working on next steps BY JAY RATH

The home and sculpture garden of idiosyncratic folk artist Sid Boyum have been saved. “Now we have to decide what to do with it,” says Brian Standing, president of Friends of Sid Boyum. “We want to turn it into a museum ideally. We don’t know if that’s feasible,” says Standing. “It’s something we’re going to have to find out.” Boyum, whose whimsical concrete sculptures dot the east side, died in 1991. He was a practitioner of what has been variously called intuitive, naïve and outsider art. His longvacant home and studio, 237 Waubesa St., is filled with drawings and other works, including two bas-relief sculptures built into interior walls. The backyard features around 20 sculptures, including a gigantic red Cambodian Buddha, a Japanese teahouse with red, white and blue concrete lanterns in a variety of sizes, and other works with adult themes. The property was in danger of being auctioned by the county for back taxes totaling more than $25,800. Bids were to be accepted through Oct. 27, with a minimum bid of $50,000. In discussion with Mark Fraire, Dane County’s cultural affairs director, Dane County Treasurer Adam Gallagher had already delayed the auction. “It was agreed that Dane County could put on hold the auction from the fall of 2015 to the fall of 2016,” says Fraire. Friends of Sid Boyum officially organized in January. “Boyum’s home environment

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tells the story of his creative energy in a way that his individual sculptures removed from context cannot,” says Karin Wolf, the city’s art administrator. “Sid’s former neighbors and wider community recognized that his house, even after years of decay and neglect, is a treasure trove of east Madison’s cultural legacy.” While volunteers took care of nuisance issues, such as shoveling the house’s sidewalk and mowing the grass, the group raised more than $28,000. Major donors include Madison Kipp Corporation and the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood Association. In late September, the Friends paid the taxes and now hold the title to the property. But the real work is just beginning. “Obviously, it costs money,” says Standing. “Before we propose anything we want to talk to

neighbors first. What we want to do is start a dialogue to make sure that whatever we do is compatible. The last thing we want to do is be poor neighbors.” Meanwhile, the organization needs to keep fundraising to pay for emergency stabilization of the house and to begin preserving some of the backyard sculptures. “The Friends’ incredible effort to save Sid’s house was impressive in both its ambitiousness and grassroots tenacity,” says Wolf. “It really seemed like a long shot at times, but they prevailed and delivered. Creativity won. Miracles happen.” n A fundraising party for the Friends of Sid Boyum will be held 4:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Harmony Bar and Grill, 2201 Atwood Ave. The band Youngdyke will perform.

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online marketing manager. “There’s not a big budget for public art projects, and that’s a shame. So it’s exciting when developers like Hovde Properties are stepping in to fill that need and show some community pride.” Another benefit to Madison will be two new residents. “We’re buying a house here,” says Brown. “This is what I keep telling my fiancé. I need to summer here. I literally have fallen in love with this town. I really have.” n

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We’ll soon have a waterfall between Lakes Monona and Mendota. A massive, cascading mural will be unveiled on West Washington Avenue on Nov. 10. Its working title is simply “The Waterfall,” though that may give way to “Technology in Motion.” Roughly 15 by 123 feet, it adorns the former AT&T building, 316 W. Washington Ave. “The objective was to make the mural look like it’s in motion, falling down onto the awning, which I also designed,” says artist Jonathan Brown. He and a team of 10 worked on the mural’s painted panels at Brown’s Houston-based Modern Mosaics studio. Brown says the mural includes nearly 500 full-color changing LED nodes. Also, “It has 15 really theatrical exterior lights and, in the ground in front of the building, a lot of lighting nodes trickling out to the street.”

Eric Hovde of Hovde Properties acquired the 10-story building in 2014. As part of the building’s renovation, the developer wanted to commission a work of art. Initially budgeted at $100,000, the mural will cost more than $500,000. The developer and the artist began their collaboration about a year and a half ago. “Eric literally said the magic word,” says Brown. “He said, ‘What about a waterfall?’ That was it. The shape of the building was perfect for a waterfall.” There were 54 international applicants for the Hovde commission, 10 from bordering states, three from Wisconsin and one from Madison. Brown was selected by Madisonbased CODAworx, which connects purchasers with more than 17,000 artists worldwide. The firm was founded in 2012 by Terry Maxwell and Toni Sikes, founder of The Guild Sourceworks and Artful home, an art ecommerce site. “I think this is a good step forward for the city of Madison,” says Nick Anderson, CODAworx

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Mesmerizing Moonlight One of the year’s best films examines sexual identity and masculinity BY SCOTT RENSHAW

“What’s a faggot?” 9-year-old Chiron (Alex Hibbert) asks local drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali) early in Barry Jenkins’ revelatory Moonlight. It’s a hard question for anyone, and an even harder question in the Miami neighborhood where Chiron is growing up. Living with a crack-addicted single mother (Naomie Harris), Chiron already struggles with basic survival. That’s even before taking into account the bullying he faces from classmates, before he even has a chance to understand his own sexual identity and how it could be possible to embrace that identity as a poor black male in America. But Juan’s response is unexpected, containing no rebuke or insult. There’s compassion in Juan’s words, and assurance that Chiron will have a chance to figure out for himself who he is. That surrogate parent relationship is only one part of the magnificent complexity of Moonlight, where basic questions of identity become some of the hardest questions a person can possibly face. Adapting the semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Jenkins tells Chiron’s story in three parts, beginning with that 9-year-old Chiron, who has been given the dismissive nickname of Little. Later, as a high school student (Ashton Sanders), we see him facing a growing threat of violence and having his first sexual experience with his friend Kevin

A surrogate parent relationship develops between Chiron (Alex Hibbert) and Juan (Mahershala Ali).

(Jharrel Jerome). Then, as a grown man (Trevonte Rhodes), Chiron — now using the street name Black — has in some ways taken over the role once held by Juan, before unexpectedly hearing from Kevin (André Holland) after many years. Jenkins’ narrative structure presents an obvious challenge in casting, with a need for three actors of different ages who somehow create a complete character. These three actors meet that challenge remarkably well, as Jenkins guides them to body language and facial expressions that achieve a beautiful, cohesive picture of a boy struggling to become a man without knowing if he can openly be the person he truly is. Sanders seethes with swallowed rage and attractions, while Rhodes offers the different challenge of a man whose carefully constructed public face is an elaborate disguise. Collectively, they’re one of the year’s most mesmerizing performances.

It’s such a distinctive structural dynamic that it would be easy to get caught up in it and ignore the beauty of Jenkins’ visual storytelling. His use of the beach as a recurring motif allows for some of Moonlight’s loveliest scenes, yet Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton can also create a single startling shot out of something as simple as teenage Chiron pulling his battered face out of a sink full of ice water, facing his future with a grim determination. At every turn, Jenkins refuses to allow Moonlight to take the obvious turn, even as it ventures into territory that could have played out as surviving-the-’hood cliché. The heartbreaking core of Moonlight emerges in this stunning piece of filmmaking when it becomes clear that far more important than the answer to “what’s a faggot?” is the answer to “what’s a man?” n

A worthy revival A critical flop, Heaven’s Gate is a visual masterpiece BY JAMES KREUL

When Michael Cimino’s epic western, Heaven’s Gate, was released in 1980, New York Times critic Vincent Canby proclaimed it “an unqualified disaster.” Canby’s scathing review of the film triggered a critical avalanche, and the subsequent box-office disaster destroyed United Artists studio, ending a decade of maverick filmmaking that distinguished Hollywood in the 1970s. Several American critics now view Heaven’s Gate as a masterpiece (it always had European advocates). Madison’s filmgoers will (re-)discover a flawed but exhilarating film when the UW-Cinematheque presents the 216-minute digitally restored director’s cut in 4070 Vilas Hall on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. Harvard-educated James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) serves as marshal of Johnson County, Wyoming, in 1890. He’s infatuated with the local madam, Ella (Isabelle Hubert), but so is his friend Nate Champion

(Christopher Walken), a hired gun for the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. This personal conflict turns political when Averill discovers that the stock growers have hatched a stateapproved plot to kill 125 undesirables — mostly Eastern European immigrants. Cimino attempts to outshine 1970s Hollywood mavericks like Coppola, Altman and Malick with wildly ambitious art direction and sound design. The results, lensed by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), are often breathtaking. A courtyard dance at Harvard and a roller rink social in Wyoming mesmerize with their movement and rhythm. A simple shot of Averill struggling to put on his boot will compete for the most beautiful screen image you will see this year. Cimino had vision, but he was tone deaf. His deconstruction of the western delivers a hamfisted critique of American imperialism, and his screenplay alternates between purple prose and clunky clichés. In key scenes he clumsily stages violence that mimics The Godfather and Bonnie and Clyde, with far less impact. But little of that

matters when the images themselves sing. The 2012 restoration features some concessions to the 1980 critics. Roger Ebert described the film as “one of the ugliest films I have ever seen,” and observed “there’s not a single primary color in this movie.” The restoration brings out the vibrant hues that Ebert and others yearned for. Fortunately, Cimino lived long enough to appreciate the critical reevaluation of the film — he died in July at age 77. The hyperbole from Canby, Ebert and other critics has faded, but Cimino’s images remain. n

Film events Hamlet: UW Cinematheque: Shakespeare through the lens of director/producer/star Laurence Olivier. Chazen Museum of Art, Nov. 10, 6 pm. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Documentary by journalist Greg Palast on Republican election rigging scheme. Central Library, Nov. 10, 6 pm.

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Equinox Flower: A businessman has great romantic advice for everyone but can’t be objective when it comes to his daughter. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 10, 7 pm (with talk by author David Bordwell). The Big Lebowski: A stoner (Jeff Bridges) and his bowling buddies get involved in a case of mistaken identity in the Coen brothers’ cult comedy. Majestic Theatre, Nov. 10, 8:30 pm. Total Recall: A man with a recurring dream about Mars learns more than he bargains for when purchasing a virtual holiday via memory implantation. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 10-11 (10 pm) and Nov. 12 (11 pm). Being Mortal: Screening of PBS Frontline documentary based on the book by Atul Gawande. St. Mary’s Hospital Conference Center, Nov. 16, 5:30 pm (RSVP by 11/11: lori.schlimgen@ ssmhealth.com.. The Age of Love: Documentary follows a group of seniors preparing for a speed-dating event. Ashman Library, Nov. 11, 6:30 pm. Heaven’s Gate: See review, page 34. UW Cinematheque, Nov. 11, 7 pm. Audrie & Daisy: Documentary about the effect of online bullying on teenagers. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 12, 2 pm. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Documentary about Intentionally Welcoming Communities, with discussion and afterparty with DJ Flo. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 12, 3 pm. Papa’s Shadow: Documentary about Ernest Hemingway’s African hunting expeditions, plus Q&A with director Jimmy Gildea & producer Mark Nystrom. SuperCharge! Foods, Nov. 12 (6 pm) and Nov. 13 (11 am). The State of Things: A producer leaves an international film crew stranded in Europe. UW Cinematheque, Nov. 12, 7 pm. Miss Representation: Documentary about the effect of media on girls and women; post-film discussion by Jean Geran of the STREETS program. Fitchburg Library, Nov. 13, 1:30 pm.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: UW Cinematheque: Warner Brothers pulled out all the stops for this star-studded 1935 Shakespeare adaptation. Chazen Museum of Art, Nov. 13, 2 pm. The Treasure of Taiwan: Travel Adventure Film Series screening with Buddy Hatton. UW Union South-Marquee, Nov. 14-15, 7:30 pm. The Fits: A new dance troupe member struggles to fit in, while the group overall has other troubles as well. Pinney Library, Nov. 15, 6:30 pm. Cold War Road Show: Screening & discussion of documentary about the 1959 visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev to the U.S. Humanities Building-Room 1651, Nov. 15, 7 pm. I Learn America: Association of Latin@ Students “Sharing the Dream” film series documentary screening. Edgewood College-Anderson Auditorium, Nov. 15, 6:30 pm.

Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Journey: Documentary about Hannah Nydahl, who helped bring Tibetan religion to the west. UW Union SouthMarquee, Nov. 16 (7 pm) and Nov. 19 (1 pm). Don’t Call Me Son: Spotlight Cinema: A teen’s life is turned upside down when he discovers he was stolen at birth, and his biological family reclaims him. MMoCA, Nov. 16, 7 pm. My Darling Clementine: A John Ford take on the legend of the O.K. Corral shootout. Bos Meadery, Nov. 16, 7 pm.

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The Man Who Disappeared: UW Center for Visual Cultures film screening with director Sylvère Lotringer. Elvehjem Building-Room L140, Nov. 16, 6 pm.

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Friday, Nov. 11, Overture Center-Promenade Hall, 7:30 pm Kanopy Dance Company’s season opener honors Graham’s legacy while also mounting new works. The choreographer’s groundbreaking Heretic from 1929 is being staged by Miki Orihara, a former principal dancer with Graham’s company, who will also perform the solo Resonance. Martin Løfsnes, another former Graham dancer and artistic director of 360° Dance Company, returns to Madison with the world premiere of his Ritual. Look for pieces from co-artistic directors Lisa Thurrell and Robert E. Cleary and an appearance by Chicago-based dancer Zada Cheeks (pictured). We dare you to try to take your eyes off him when he’s performing. ALSO: Saturday (5 & 8 pm) and Sunday (2:30 pm), Nov. 12-13.

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SP ECIAL EV ENTS The Amazing Acro-cats: Circus tricks & music performed by kitties, 7 pm on 11/10-11, 3 & 7 pm on 11/12 and 1 & 5 pm, 11/13, Bartell Theater. $21-$21 (a portion benefits Dane County Friends of Ferals). 661-9696.

Legendary Shack Shakers Thursday, Nov. 10, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Southern Surreal is the latest from this hot mess of a quartet out of Paducah, Kentucky. And that title about says it all. The music is gasoline-soaked honky-tonk. And the band’s leader, Col. J.D. Wilkes, prowls the stage like a tortured hillbilly ghost. He’s a harmonica-howling, redneck Iggy Pop who never, ever fails to leave it all on the field at the end of the night. With Chuck Mead.

Alex G Thursday, Nov. 10, Frequency, 8 pm

Though he was born in 1993, Alex G has the ’90s sound down pat. The prolific (to the tune of 13 releases since 2010, the most recent being 2015’s Beach Music) singersongwriter frequently garners comparisons to Elliott Smith, Built to Spill and Pavement. He’ll be joined by fellow throwbacks LVL UP, a quartet of lo-fi Brooklynites who released Return to Love on Sub Pop in September. With Brandon Can’t Dance.

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Barrymore: John Kadlecik Band, Mr. Blotto, 7:30 pm.

Bos Meadery: Hoot’n Annie, string band, free, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, free, 8 pm. Essen Haus: Bill Roberts Combo with Bob Corbit, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Nicky Jordan, Michael Massey, piano, 9 pm.

The HillBenders: Tommy Thursday, Nov. 10, Overture CenterCapitol Theater, 7:30 pm

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Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing/Hawaiian, 5:30 pm; Harlequins, Soap Moat, Kazmir, free, 10:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Vaudevileins, Midwest Voltage, Hired Rivals, rock, free, 10 pm. Red Zone: Glory Divine, Pigeon vs. Crow, Milestones, 8 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 9 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Jackie Marie, 8 pm.

Lady Laughs Comedy Festival Nov. 10-12; Plan B, The Frequency, Glass Nickel Pizza Co. (Atwood Avenue)

More than 70 comedians, improv performers and storytellers from all over the United States (and Canada!) converge for Madison’s first female-centric comedy showcase. It’s organized by Dina Nina Martinez (pictured, voted Madison’s favorite comic in the 2015 Isthmus poll), so you know it’s gonna be fierce and fabulous.

Broken Lizard Thursday, Nov. 10, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

When Steven “Mac” Lemme and Kevin “Farva” Heffernan’s two-man show blows into town, you bet your boots there’s gonna be some shenanigans. As two representatives of the comedy sketch group/filmmaking team Broken Lizard, Lemme and Heffernan perform standup, regale audiences with tales of their beerfueled antics and sometimes even sit among the audience just to chat. Prepare for a rousing yet intimate night of comedy and (you heard it here first) Super Troopers 2 details. ALSO: Friday and Saturday (8 & 10:30), Nov. 11-12.

Michael Perry: “Have I Said This Before?” stories, 7:30 pm, 11/10, Stoughton Opera House. $20. 877-4400.

T H EAT ER & DA N C E 4000 Miles: Forward Theater Company, 11/3-20, Overture Center-Playhouse, at 7:30 pm WednesdaySaturdays and 2 pm Sundays, plus 2 pm, 11/12 & 19. $47-$38. 258-4141. See review at isthmus.com. Detroit ‘67: Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theatre, 8 pm, 11/10-12, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage. $20. 663-5814. Little Shop of Horrors: Musical comedy, 7:30 pm on 11/10-12 & 17-19 and 3 pm, 11/13, Stoughton Village Players Theater. $15/$12. stoughtonvillageplayers.org. Mary’s Wedding: Through 11/20, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $75-$54. Schedule: americanplayers.org. 588-2361.

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Darrell Scott Friday, Nov. 11, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm Scott is a latter-day Utah Phillips, traveling and living the music as he writes it. Based in Nashville by way of Kentucky, Indiana, Southern California, Toronto and Boston, he’s one of those folks every musician you love wants to play with or cover — including Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Sam Bush, Guy Clark, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Robert Plant. Brad Paisley’s cover of Scott’s “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” was the closing song in the final scene of the first season finale of Justified. With luck Scott will perform, “Hank Williams’ Ghost,” a rare song on the subject that ditches despondence in favor of truth and honor.

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T H EAT ER & DA N C E Falstaff: University Opera production of Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespeare, 7:30 pm on 11/11 & 15 and 3 pm, 11/13, UW Old Music Hall. $25 (free panel discussion 6 pm, 11/11). 265-2787. The Secret Garden: Sun Prairie Civic Theatre musical, 7:30 pm on 11/11-12 and 2 pm, 11/13, Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, Sun Prairie. $15. 837-8217. Calamity Jane: Mmusical western, 7:30 pm on 11/11-12 & 17-18 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 11/19, Edgewood College-Ballweg Theatre. $12. 663-6710. If the Shoe Fits: A Cinderella Story: PlayTime Productions fairy tale adatpation, 7 pm, 11/11, Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie; 4:30 pm, 11/12, Boys & Girls Club-Allied Family Center, Fitchburg; 1 & 3 pm, 11/13, Waisman Center; 6:30 pm, 11/15, McFarland High School. 437-4217.

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Atlas Improv Co.: Finals for The Cut competition, 8 pm, 11/11; also 10 pm on 11/11 and 8 & 10 pm, 11/12, 609 E. Washington Ave. $8 ($5 kids). 259-9999.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Tricia Clasen: Discussing “The Haunted House Project,” her middle-grades novel, 7 pm, 11/11, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888. Bill Stork: Discussing “In Herriot’s Shadow,” 7 pm, 11/11, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. Watershed Reading Series: Workshop participants, 8 pm, 11/11, Arts & Literature Laboratory. 556-7415.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS

Brink Lounge: No. 27, Lucas Cates, River Glen, 8:30 pm. Cardinal Bar: Mike Cammilleri Organ Trio, jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Ginjahvitiz, Ashoka, 9 pm.

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Chief’s: Shari Davis & the Hot Damn Blues Band, 8 pm. ®

Steven Wright: 8 pm, 11/11, Barrymore. $40. 241-8633.

Art In Reception: 5-10 pm, 11/11, 1444 E. Washington Ave., with works by local artists, music by Kevin Kingsbury, DJ Gunnard Engebreth. 535-9976.

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Parched Eagle Brewpub: Carley Baer, free, 7:30 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Madison County, 9 pm. First Unitarian Society: Leonard Altino, cello, 12:15 pm; Clocks In Motion, percussion ensemble, 7:30 pm. The Frequency: Cold Black River, Samyaza, Amberstein, 9 pm. Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Robert J, free, 6 pm. Hody Bar, Middleton: Eugene Smiles Project, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Vince Strong, Lindsay Everly, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

UW Homecoming Parade: Friday: Parade, 5 pm, 11/11, from Gilman Street along State Street. More events: uwhomecoming.com. 262-2551.

S PEC TATO R S PO RTS WIAA State Girls Swimming & Diving Tournament: Div. 2 diving 2:30 pm, swimming 6:30 pm, 11/11; Div. 1 diving 10 am, swimming 3 pm, 11/12, UW Natatorium. $6/day. 715-344-8580. UW Men’s Basketball: vs. Central Arkansas, 7 pm, 11/11; vs. Chicago State, 7 pm, 11/17, Kohl Center. $34-$26. 262-1440.

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Madison Hip-Hop Awards Saturday, Nov. 12, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm

Just as in the big leagues, this rap awards show doubles as a live showcase of the hottest up-and-coming talent. But unlike the national shows, the Madison event features award winners chosen exclusively by fans, and the performers are 100 percent local and homegrown. For the seventh annual event, expect the club-ready raps of Keon Andre (pictured) and DJ Sixteen as well as slick, synchronized dance moves from XClusive Movement. Proceeds will benefit the East Madison Community Center. This is the premier annual event for the local hip-hop scene — so represent.

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Sat., Nov. 12, Wisconsin Union Theater, 8 pm These top-notch singers and dancers are the Badger State’s version of Glee. Wildly popular and energetic, their 49th annual show, In Living Color, features Broadwaycaliber singing and dancing, with musical arrangements from Robert Dietz (NBC’s The Sing Off). They even tackle a vocal version of the Badgers’ Fifth Quarter, with “Varsity” and “Jump Around.” Wisconsin Singers have been the “Official Ambassadors of Goodwill since 1967” — that’s almost a half century of upbeat! ALSO: Sunday, Nov. 13, 3 pm.

Saturday, Nov. 12, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm

True to the lyrical speed his name implies, the Cleveland emcee often known as MGK spits raps about the rough realities of his life far faster than most of his peers. Last year’s General Admission showcased his best work, including the ode to his hometown “Till I Die,” a solid follow-up to his 2012 debut “Lace Up.”

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Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials Saturday, Nov. 12, Knuckle Down Saloon, 9 pm

This Windy City quartet is anchored by two nephews of legendary Chicago bluesman J.B. Hutto: slide guitarist and singer Lil’ Ed Williams and bassist James “Pookie” Young. With a steady lineup for 25-plus years and a stellar catalog of original songs, the Blues Imperials play it tight but not slick, cooking but still raw. If they don’t make you get up and boogie down, you might want to see a doctor. Alchemy Cafe: No Name String Band, free, 10 pm. Blackhawk Evangelical Church, Middleton: Tasha Cobbs, Trilogy, FGF Choir, Fall Gospel Fest, 7 pm. Bos Meadery: Kelsey Miles, free/donations, 6 pm. Brink Lounge: The Keepers, classic rock/pop, 8 pm. Cardinal Bar: DJ Fernando, Latin, 10 pm. Come Back In: City Electric, free, 9 pm. The Crossing: Orquesta Salsoul del Mad, Project 1808 fundraiser, 7 pm. Crystal Corner Bar: Cribshitter, Proud Parents, Wood Chickens, 9:30 pm.

Holiday Art & Craft Sale: Annual Verona Area Education Foundation fundraiser with 70+ local artisans, 9 am-3 pm, 11/12, Badger Ridge Middle School, Verona. 276-8594. Vegan Bake Sale & Craft Sale: Alliance for Animals Kids fundraiser, 10 am-2 pm, 11/12, Goodman Community Center. allanimals.org. 957-2392. Holiday Bazaar: Crafts, gifts, baked goods, silent auction & sweepstakes drawing, 8:30 am-3 pm, 11/12, St. Andrew Parish Center, Verona; lunch 10:30 am-1:30 pm. 845-6613.

KI D S & FAM ILY

Cargo-East Washington: Jamie Guiscafre, guitar, 2 pm. Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Chamber Orchestra, 2:30 pm. First Unitarian Society: Dan Broner, classical organ, 4 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: KMFD, Asumaya, free, 10:30 pm. Mr. Robert’s: Davemon, rock, free, 10 pm. Red Zone: In Dying Arms, Pathways, Denihilist, 7 pm. Williamson Magnetic Recording Company: Royal Station, Jonesies, Miyha, American Feedbag, Louka Patenaude, Willymag birthday party, free, 6 pm.

Fairytale Pancake Barre: Kids’ activities (costumes encouraged) and performances from “The Little Matchstick Girl,” 10 am-noon, 11/12, Bishops Bay Country Club, Middleton. $25 benefits Central Midwest Ballet. 422-4003.

COM EDY

Hawthorne Hootenanny: Music & play, 10 am-3 pm, 11/12, Hawthorne Library, with David Landau, UW Taiko Drummers, bilingual poetry jam with Oscar Mireles. 246-4548.

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sun nov 13

Shane Mauss: “A Good Trip,” 7 pm, 11/13, Comedy Club on State. $15. 256-0099.

The Crafty Fair: Annual indie artist showcase, 10 am4 pm, 11/13, Goodman Community Center. Free admission. facebook.com/thecraftyfair.

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Edgewater Hotel: The Jimmys, free, 5 pm.

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The Frequency: Boom Forest, 8:30 pm.

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

Gates of Heaven: Chançonette, free/donation, 7 pm.

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

Harmony Bar: Cash Box Kings, blues, 9:45 pm.

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

High Noon Saloon: Steely Dane, tribute to the Dan by local musicians, 8:30 pm.

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

Hody Bar, Middleton: 5th Gear, country, free, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Leslie Cao, Kevin Gale, Anthony Cao, 8 pm. Lakeside Street Coffee House: Brian Ray, Starr Moss & Paul Kienitz, bluegrass. free, 6:30 pm. Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Paul Filipowicz, 6:30 pm.

Band of Horses

Liquid: Davilla, DJ R3dline, 10 pm.

Sunday, Nov. 13, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm

Majestic Theatre: Orchard Fire (Fleetwood Mac tribute), Dash Hounds, 8:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: No Question, The Central, Earworms, Mellow Harsher, free, 10:30 pm. Mother Fool’s: Troy Petty, Dana Perry, 8 pm. Mr. Robert’s: The Brash Menagerie, Fiendish Phantoms, Night Howls, rock, free, 10 pm. Spring Prairie Lutheran Church-Prairie Coffeehouse, DeForest: Nine Thirty Standard, free, 7 pm. Stoughton Opera House: David Bromberg, 7:30 pm. Tempest: Mal-O-Dua (CD release), 9:30 pm. Tip Top: Emily Arnold, Werewolverine, Purra, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Whiplash, 9 pm.

From the beginning of their now decade-old career, Band of Horses were always luminaries of twinkling, atmospheric indie rock. But recent albums have seen the members of the South Carolina quintet embracing their Southern roots. Beginning with 2010’s Infinite Arms, the band has leaned into a more streamlined Southern rock sound, and it’s working: Between the stellar musicianship of their early work and the knack for pop songcraft in the later, they rank among the country’s finest rock bands. With Wild Belle.

Tuesday, Nov. 15, Liquid, 9 pm

Los Angeles trap duo Slander (Derek Andersen and Scott Land) are on tour with NGHTMRE (Tyler Marenyi), aptly named “GUD Vibrations” after their popular 2015 collaborative track. They have been playing at increasingly larger venues around the world, so don’t miss what could be your last chance to experience the bass drop in a club environment. With HABSTRAKT, LDRU. Cardinal Bar: Ben Ferris Octet, jazz, free, 6:30 pm. Crystal Corner: David Hecht & the Who Dat, 9 pm. The Frequency: Santa Marta, Discord Curse, Once Around, Casket Robbery, 8 pm. High Noon Saloon: Matt Wertz, Cappa, Aaron Krause, 8 pm. Majestic: Rufus du Sol, Cassian, Atlas Bound, 8 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

Malt House: Onadare, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.

Ben Franklin & Baron von Steuben vs. the Paine County School Board: TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater, 6:30 pm, 11/14, Edgewood College-Anderson Auditorium. Free. 244-2938.

The Red Zone: Stitched Up Heart, 7 pm. Up North Pub: The Lower 5th, rock, free, 8 pm.

SP OKEN WORD

Covering the 2016 Election: The Good, the Bad and the Weird: UW La Follette School of Public Affairs discussion by Dave Weigel (Washington Post) and Jessie Opoien (The Capital Times), 11 am, 11/15, Social Sciences Building-Room 8417. 262-3581.

The Moth Madison StorySLAM: “Nine to five” theme, 7:30 pm, 11/14, High Noon Saloon. $10. 268-1122.

LECTURES & SEM INARS Eileen Collins: Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series, by the first female NASA space shuttle commander, 7:30 pm, 11/14, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall. 890-4439.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra, 1:30 & 4 pm; Mark Hetzler & Vincent Fuh, School of Music concert, free, 8 pm.

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Consent, Amplified: Tone Madison panel discussion on harassment, safety & equity in the Madison music community, 7 pm, 11/15, Arts & Literature Laboratory. 556-7415.

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UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Mandolin Orange, My Bubba, 8 pm. Viking Brew Pub, Stoughton: Back2Back, 7:30 pm. Waunakee High School: All That Jazz, Waunakee Big Band, Kee Notes, 6:30 pm.

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Pinney Mini Book Fest: 1-3:30 pm, 11/12, Pinney Library, with Margaret M. Goss, Marlon Howard Banks, James P. Roberts, Nick Chiarkas, Rachel Davidson Leigh, Bruce Forciea & Rita Mae Reese. 224-7100.

SP EC TATO R S P O RTS UW Football: vs. Illinois, 2:30 pm, 11/12, Camp Randall Stadium ($75); pre-game tailgate noon, Engineering Mall, with music by Student Body Band (free). 262-1440.

SP EC I A L I N T ER E STS Craft and Bake Sale: With homemade lefse and an American Girl Doll raffle, 8 am-4 pm, 11/12, Burke Lutheran Church. 244-8486. Holiday Fair: 40+ artisans, 9 am-3 pm on 11/12 and 8-11 am 11/13, St. Dennis School. stdennisparish.org.

Murder By Death Sunday, Nov. 13, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Murder By Death is a talented band, but when frontman Adam Turla opens his mouth, watch out. With a voice as deep as the earth’s core, Turla helps turn every show into an almost religious experience. Imagine the voice of God speaking to you over a kickass blend of goth-tinged alternative country. The band last released Big Dark Love in 2015. With DIY power-pop queen Laura Stevenson. Barrymore Theatre: Todd Snider, Rorey Carroll, 7:30 pm. Brocach Irish Pub-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 5 pm. Cardinal Bar: Senri OE, jazz piano, 7 pm.

Five Finger Death Punch + Shinedown Tuesday, Nov. 15, Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center, 6 pm

Full-blown rock shows in Madison don’t get much bigger than this. This double bill showcases the elite of American-made heavy metal and aggressive hard rock. Meanwhile, openers Sixx:A.M. presents a darker, more sophisticated side to former Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx. U.K. newcomers As Lions should fit in well.

Protomartyr Wednesday, Nov. 16, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Joe Casey may be more than a decade older than his bandmates, but that doesn’t stop the Protomartyr frontman from rocking with the best of them. His vocals are pure emotion — strained, impassioned and optimistic. His bandmates match him with a jagged blend of indie rock that makes them sound like a post-hardcore version of the National. They released The Agent Intellect, their third full-length, earlier this year. With Fred Thomas, Melkbelly.

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Tellabration: Storytelling concerts: For young kids, 4 pm; for families, 6 pm; for teens & adults, 7:20 pm, 11/16, Monona Library. Free. RSVP: mononalibrary.org. 216-7456.

The trend-setting Chicago based DJ/producer duo helps shape the urban dance music scene and others follow. From the blog house days of mid-2000s to collaborating with Diplo, then Iggy Azalea, to the trap fusion bangers of the last few years, the DJ duo tag teams highenergy sets. They are, in three words, unabashed dancefloor whores. Expect sweat. With Slushii, Towkio, Whethan. Bandung: Louka, 7 pm.

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MUS I C Brink Lounge: Madison Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 pm. Frequency: Matthaus, Mancrush, Trap Saturn, 8:30 pm. Harmony Bar: Backroom Harmony Band, 8 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Ashoka, 9 pm.

High Noon: Alejandro Escovedo, Jesse Malin, rock, 8 pm.

The Frequency: Alanna Royale, 8:30 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Chris Webby, Sincere Life, 9 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Peter Wolf, 7:30 pm. Malt House: Don’t Spook the Horse, free, 7:30 pm. Opus Lounge: Teddy Davenport, free, 9 pm.

Thursday, Nov. 17, Monona Terrace (Lecture Hall), 7 pm

thu nov 17 Crescendo Espresso Bar: Kalispell, J.E. Sunde, 7 pm.

Mickey’s: Mal-O-Dua, 5:30 pm; Dumb Vision, Little Big Bangs, Friendship Commanders, Minotaurs, free, 10:30 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall Lobby: WheelHouse, People Brothers Band, free, 7:30 pm.

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

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

Michael Ford: Hip-Hop Architecture

Pussy Riot Q&A Thursday, Nov. 17, Shannon Hall, Wisconsin Union Theater, 8 pm

Pussy Riot’s guerrilla performance art has run afoul of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church. Now they’re branching out into investigative journalism and political theater. See story, page 23.

The link between architecture and hiphop isn’t obvious, but once you see the connection, it can’t be broken. In this Wright Design Series lecture, architect and Madison College professor Michael Ford will discuss how the oppressive architecture and environment of the New York City projects led its residents to revolt against monotony to build the creative outlet of hip-hop culture. He’ll also discuss how hip-hop can fuel an increase in the number of architects of color. Free but registration required: mononaterrace. com/event-group/wright-design-series. Mad Like Artaud: UW Center for Visual Cultures workshop & performance by Sylvère Lotringer, 6 pm, 11/17, Humanities Building-Room 6321. visualcultures.wisc.edu.

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In Conversation and Q&A Nov. 17, 2016

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