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WEATHERPROOF

A hearty group of Madisonians doesn’t let the elements get in the way of fitness.

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MEMORY CHALLENGE

Quincy Bioscience faces lawsuit over claims that Prevagen is a brain miracle pill.

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15 COVER STORY UW-MADISON junior Ellie Borstad is pursuing majors in journalism and Spanish.

She first learned about the Disability Rights Commission’s work to improve accessible taxi service when covering one of its meetings for The Daily Cardinal. The following semester, she decided to dive into that work to fulfill a final class project — a long-form piece of creative nonfiction. An expanded version of that report is this week’s cover story.

EMPHASIS HANNAH KIM moved from Los Angeles to the Midwest several years ago to attend graduate school at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She joined her boyfriend, who works for Epic, last year in Madison. Kim has taught writing and also worked in her family’s construction management business. She chose to write about an off-the-grid goat soap maker because she is interested in small business owners doing innovative things.

JAIL SENTENCE

Joe Parisi pushes for another option on the Dane County jail.

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OUT IN THE COLD

People living on the streets have become a familiar sight in Madison.

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WHEELS OF FORTUNE

People with disabilities are close to losing a round-the-clock transportation option.

19 RECREATION

WHERE’S ALDO?

The great naturalist Aldo Leopold will be feted in a UW Continuing Ed series this spring.

21-24 FOOD & DRINK

SUN PRAIRIE SENSATION

The new Salvatore’s Tomato Pies offers way more than pizzas.

26 SPORTS

R-E-L-A-X

Aaron Rodgers led the Pack in an instant classic against the Cowboys. Now on to meet Atlanta.

28-31 MUSIC

RETIRING THE BIRD

The Cardinal Bar’s new owner wants to honor its legacy.

31 STAGE MICHAEL POPKE

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SPORTS MIKE POPKE did not grow up a Packers fan. A distant cousin on his dad’s side of the family played cornerback for the Chicago Bears in the late 1970s and early 1980s (No. 44, Terry Schmidt), so his loyalties were with Chicago. But after Schmidt retired in 1984 and became a dentist, Popke stopped paying attention to the Bears and found his way to the Green and Gold. Hallelujah!

SHORT AND SWEET

A teacher’s short fiction becomes a mini opera.

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LIZA DONOVAN

Resist and replace (The Donald’s agenda) Saturday, Jan. 21: 316 W. Washington Ave., 9 am-noon; UW Library Mall, noon; Lucille, 3-5:30 pm Feeling overwhelmed by the parade of nasties taking the reins in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20? Spend the next day taking action, beginning at 9 am with “Leading Locally: 100 Days of Turning Ideas into Action,” a discussion session led by Ald. Maurice Cheeks.

Gather at noon for the Women’s March on Madison, a local rally in solidarity with the national event taking place in D.C. Following the rally, join organizers from Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Emerge Wisconsin and others for the “Post-March Warrior Oasis.”

COMIN’ ATCHA

UW Cinematheque explores the history of 3-D.

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Sunday, Jan. 22, The Fountain, 2 pm

The Winter Festival of Poetry, a Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets eight-week “tree-themed” series, kicks off with “I Pine for You.” Six local poets take the stage: Judy Washbush, Bridget Birdsall, Dominic Holt, Angie Vasquez, Lynn Patrick Smith and Martha Kaplan.

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Saturday, Jan. 21, Alliant Energy Center, 2-6 pm (premium tasting at noon)

Politics may divide us, but in Wisconsin there are two things that can still bring folks together: brews and cheese. This year’s Isthmus Beer and Cheese Fest features more than 100 breweries, cheese from more than 20 state artisans, dueling pianos

by Piano Fondue, Hammer-schlagen and silent disco, and more. At press time, both general admission and premium tasting tickets were still available, but be warned: This event usually sells out in advance.

Creation stations Thursday, Jan. 19, Central Library, 6 pm

Where can creative artists find space to produce or showcase their work? Are more spaces needed in Madison?

The Madison Arts Commission and the Bubbler are hosting a meeting to discuss current and future needs.

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Just before 6:30 on a Friday morning, the temperature is barely 5 degrees. Factor in the biting, constant wind and it feels more like 5 below.

Wearing just thin jackets, sweatshirts and skintight spandex pants, none of us are dressed to be standing around outside.

But we won’t be standing around for long — we’re here to run. And do push-ups. And sit-ups.

And burpees. Outside. In the cold.

Known as the November Project, these exercise enthusiasts pride themselves on their outdoor workouts, despite the elements. Rain or shine, in blizzards and blistering heat, they’re out in it, working up a sweat year-round.

“No matter what it’s like outside, we’re here,” says Nicole Martin, a UW-Madison graduate school student and one of the group’s two volunteer leaders. “We’re weatherproof.”

The Madison chapter of the November Project has been meeting every Wednesday on Bascom Hill and Friday at the Capitol for these earlymorning workouts since 2013. The free fitness movement, which started with a group in Boston in 2011, has spread around the globe and is now in more than 30 cities.

To begin the 45-minute workout, we huddle together tightly and, upon instructions from Martin and co-leader Moriah Cosigny, a UW nursing student, start to bounce. As we’re all hopping up and down like off-tempo pistons, the chanting begins.

“ARE WE READY?!?!” Cosigny and Martin ask. We yell back in encouraging expletives.

Once fully revved up, we take off, racing around the Capitol Square for a warm-up lap. The more seasoned runners carry on light conversations about their cars and music, while the rest of us just try to keep up.

At the end of our loop, we’re told today’s routine: first, we’ll race to the Capitol doors and pair up with someone of similar speed. Then, we’ll couple up with another pair and alternate between running the Capitol steps and racing around the Square.

When running the steps, we mix in jump squats, planks and a variation of sit-ups known as “crunchy frogs.” After about 30 minutes we end — fairly exhausted but only slightly frozen — and come back together for a group photo.

Through it all, people encourage one another with high-fives and shouts of “you got this” and “let’s go” or “good pace.” It’s that team mentality

that keeps most in the group coming back week after week. In fact, they even call themselves a tribe.

“If I miss a workout, I’ll get five texts about it from people in the group,” says Indy Stluka, a 29-year-old program manager who’s lost 70 pounds since he joined the group last August.

“Gyms are boring,” adds Stluka’s exercise partner and close friend, DA Dirks, a 47-year-old UW System employee from Canada. “Seeing my friends is what motivates me to come back.”

The group often celebrates with coffee after the workouts. They also do charity runs and hang out together, sometimes meeting up for a beer or catching a movie.

“You get to meet people you wouldn’t normally come across,” says graphic designer Jen Taylor, 29.

“These people are the most consistent ones in my life. Outside of co-workers, I see them more than anyone else.”

The price is also right. “The fact that it’s free eliminates the excuse for a lot of people. You shouldn’t have to pay for a gym membership — we can just use the city,” says Martin, an avid exerciser who joined the group in 2013 to meet people. “You don’t have to sign up; just show up.” n

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Parisi wants to put brakes on jail plan Should the county renovate or build a new facility?

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One of the most complex and expensive public projects in Dane County history just got more complicated. After years of study and debate, a long-term plan for the Dane County Jail appears to be in sight. But Dane County Executive Joe Parisi isn’t sold on the two options currently being considered to modernize the jail.

“How can we find the best, most costeffective solution if we don’t have a number of options before us?” says Parisi. “A project of this magnitude requires thoughtful, careful deliberation, and it’s important not to rush into a decision.”

Parisi’s call for more options could derail the county board’s plan to make a final recommendation on the jail’s future in time for the 2018 budget. In a Jan. 5 opinion column, board chair Sharon Corrigan said there is “no dispute” over whether the jail facility at the City County Building is “unsafe,” “inhumane” and needs to be closed. She said the board expects to make a decision this summer by acting on one of two proposals that would consolidate jail operations at the Public Safety Building. But Parisi balks at the price tag for these options, which are estimated to cost between $152 million and $165 million.

“What we have before us are two very expensive proposals,” says Parisi. “Each of these projects is well over $150 million.

This project would impact a lot of people in our community.... I think we have to ask, is this the best way to address criminal justice issues?”

Parisi has already quietly tried to widen the number of proposals for a new jail. In the fall, he allocated $109,500 in his 2017 capital budget for a study on building a new facility to replace the jail at the City County Building. Just as quietly, county supervisors removed the funding from the final version of the budget.

“We felt like it was something that deserved more attention. During the budget process there are already a lot of moving pieces,” says Supv. Jenni Dye, who sits on the personnel and finance committee. “If we were to consider [a new study on the jail], we wanted to do it at a point where there could be public input on that issue alone.”

Supv. Carousel Bayrd, a member of the committee that oversees the jail, says Parisi’s action is a betrayal of the county’s pledge to only consider plans that would keep the jail downtown by remodeling existing county facilities.

“It was an incredibly sneaky move. It was hidden in the budget resolution, and nobody knew about it until well into the process” says Bayrd. “Was [Parisi] allowed to do that? Sure. Was it tricky and manipulative? Heck yes.”

In May 2015 the county board approved a jail reform resolution opposing construction of a new stand-alone jail. It passed unanimously and was signed by Parisi. The resolution quelled months of demonstrations and protests over building a new jail led by social justice groups MOSES Madison and Young Gifted and Black. Instead of calling for a jail facility at a new site, the resolution authorized a $479,000 study that would ultimately lay out options for remodeling and expanding the jail at the Public Safety Building (which opened in 1994). The consultant company Mead & Hunt took more than a year to complete the wide-ranging study, releasing a 700-page report in December 2016.

The report recommends closing the jail at the City County Building and the Ferris Center on Rimrock Road and bringing all county inmates under one roof. The number of beds for inmates would decrease by 69 under these plans, fulfilling a pledge also stated in the 2015 jail reform package. More housing units and programming space would be created by adding four new floors onto the Public Safety Building and expanding out into the sheriff ’s parking lot.

The other option calls for an addition to the building that would require purchasing two adjacent properties on West Wilson Street.

But Parisi is not happy with these recommendations. He says the resolution passed in 2015 doesn’t preclude the county from exploring additional options. Back in 2014 he rejected the idea of a new jail, citing the hefty price tag. A preliminary estimate put the cost at $150 million for building a jail at a new site within 10 miles of downtown.

The study Parisi wanted (but didn’t get) would have looked at constructing a smaller facility that would only replace the 341 beds at the jail located in the top two floors of the City County Building. The plan assumes more than half of county inmates would remain at the Public Safety Building.

“I would like to see an option that includes a smaller project,” says Parisi. “Without being wed to any one idea, I think it would benefit the community to have a greater array of options to explore.”

“ It would benefit the community to have a greater array of options to explore.”

— Joe Parisi, Dane County executive County board officials are “strongly leaning” towards keeping the jail in downtown Madison. Advantages include proximity to the Dane County Courthouse and bus line accessibility. Arrests from the Madison Police Department also account for the majority of inmates in the county.

“It seems like a complete waste of taxpayer money for the Madison Police Department to be driving somewhere that is not centrally located every time they need to bring someone to or from the jail,” says Bayrd. “There are multiple reasons why the jail should stay where it is.”

For years, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney has been sounding the alarm on the conditions at the jail located in the City County Building. First built in 1954, the jail houses maximum-security inmates and contains 24 solitary confinement cells.

There have been several incidents of inmates being trapped in cells due to malfunctioning doors at the 60-year-old facility.

“Just a month ago, we had another incident where individuals were locked in for over three hours where we couldn’t get them out of their cells. That’s completely unacceptable,” says Mahoney. “In the face of an emergency, a medical condition or if someone attempted to hurt themselves, having to wait three hours to get into cells would result in one or more deaths.”

A short-term solution to these problems is already in the works. In October, the county board approved $4.4 million for “life-saving improvements.” Mahoney says the safety measures will be implemented within the next six months, but stresses that the mitigation plan is not a long-term fix.

“It will only last us — at best — two or three years,” says Mahoney. “That’s why we are continuing to move forward with replacing the two floors [at the City County Building where the jail is located]. If we can begin construction in 2018, we can occupy the new facility in three years, which will be in line with the estimates of the mitigations.”

Mahoney says the county has “gone far too long” risking the lives of inmates and the employees who work in the jail.

“Time is of the essence,” he says. “Let’s not wait until a catastrophic incident occurs, or we may be forced to do something we didn’t want to do in the first place.” n

■ WEEK IN REVIEW FRIDAY, JAN. 13 ■ State Department of Natural Resources Secretary Cathy Stepp tells the Wisconsin State Journal that she hopes lawmakers will hold off approving a proposal to split her department programs among five state agencies...at least for the near future.

■ Stepp also tells the paper she didn’t know about President-elect Donald Trump’s environmental stances (i.e. he believes climate change is a “Chinese hoax” and wants to dismantle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) when she campaigned for him last year. Sad! SATURDAY, JAN. 14 ■ “The Greatest Show on

Earth,” aka the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, announces that it will end its 146year run in May. The news comes as a shock to citizens of Baraboo, where the circus was

■ n MADISON MATRIX BIG CITY

Of the 16 school districts in Dane County, Madison is the only one not to cancel classes during a “treacherous” ice storm. Parents are not pleased, and the district is revisiting its decision-making approach.

founded in the mid1800s, but the circus had long been criticized for mistreatment of animals.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 ■ U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) and Ron Johnson (ROshkosh) are backing a bill to remove federal protections from gray wolves in Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and return responsibility for managing these populations to the states.

■ U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy tells CNN that Democrats should “put on their big boy pants” and show up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Yes, this is the guy who helped shut down the government in 2013.

■ UW-Madison’s Sigma Chi

fraternity is suspended from all university activities until March 1, university officials announce.

The student-led Committee on Student Organizations chapter served or permitted the serving of alcohol to minors at a function in October.

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up an overtime pay dispute lawsuit involving Epic Systems, one of three cases it will consider on the issue of whether employers can require arbitration agreements that prevent workers from pursuing group claims in court.

WINNING

Gov. Scott Walker pays off his more than $1.2 million presidential campaign debt, setting himself up for a possible third gubernatorial run. He got the money by selling his campaign donor list and having vendors write off his debts.

UW-Madison researchers say they’ve settled “a persistent scientific controversy” with a new report confirming that monkeys that are fed a restricted-calorie diet lead longer, healthier lives.

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Quincy Bioscience, a Madison biotech company that has struck gold in the dietary supplement business, is facing a potentially ruinous lawsuit filed by government regulators.

The Federal Trade Commission in conjunction with the New York state attorney general is seeking to shut down sales of Prevagen, which is a costly over-the-counter supplement the company says improves brain function, including memory.

The supplement’s key ingredient is a synthetic version of a jellyfish protein called aequorin. Quincy has patented it and promoted aequorin as supporting a sharper mind and clearer thinking.

“A clear-cut fraud” is how New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman described the supplement in a press release.

Through its advertising and TV infomercials, Quincy was preying on vulnerable senior citizens, he said, adding: Prevagen is a product “that costs more than a week’s groceries, but provides none of the health benefits that it claims.”

The FTC and Schneiderman want the court to issue a permanent injunction against the sale of Prevagen — which is Quincy’s core product — and to order the company to refund more than $165 million in Prevagen sales to consumers.

Quincy has firmly pushed back in what stacks up as a life-or-death battle in New York’s southern district federal court.

“Prevagen is safe. Neither the FTC nor the New York attorney general has alleged that Prevagen can cause or has caused harm to anyone,” the company said in a statement posted on its website. “And hundreds of

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The company argues it has “gold standard” research supporting its advertising — an assertion that the complaint appears to seriously undermine — and that politics is the source of its FTC problems. Namely, that only two commission members — both Democrats — voted to authorize the legal action, while a third member, a Republican, recused herself, and two commission seats remain unfilled.

“We vehemently disagree with these allegations made by only two FTC commissioners,” Quincy said in its statement. “This case is another example of government overreach and regulators extinguishing innovation by imposing arbitrary new rules on small businesses like ours.”

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Jenna Greene, a legal observer writing in The Litigation Daily, called it a “post-truth” defense “that may have particular resonance at the dawn of the Trump administration.”

Meanwhile, Quincy’s claims are rejected by the research community, which notes that any protein taken by mouth will be broken down into amino acids in the stomach and won’t reach the brain in its original form.

Quincy’s claims “have no legitimate reality based on the real facts of science, nutrition and memory,” says David Mead, a molecular biologist and cofounder of Varigen Biosciences in Madison.

“It’s quackery. I can’t think of anything better to say,” says Baron Chanda, an associate professor in the UW-Madison Department of Neuroscience.

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JAN 20–APR 2

In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Ave Hours Vary (Closed Mon)

First ever retrospective of Francesco de Mura, the greatest painter of Naples’ Golden Age and one of the last Baroque old masters. Opening lecture and reception on Jan 19 from 5:30–8:00 pm and additional lecture on Feb 9.

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JAN 22

Violinist Soh-Hyun Altino and Pianist Christopher Taylor Duo Recital Mills Hall Humanities Building 455 N Park St 4:00 pm – Sun

Two esteemed faculty members present the Sonata for Violin and Piano by John Corigliano and the Sonata in A Major by Gabriel Fauré.

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Holy Mountain: Icons from Mount Athos – Photographs by Frank Horlbeck L140, Elvehjem Building 800 University Ave 5:30 pm – Thurs

Professor Thomas Dale will speak about the Art History Department’s curated exhibition on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through March 26. Mount Athos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Greece.

Reception follows after the lecture.

JAN 22–MAR 5

Crossing Mountains and Other Adventures: Story Quilts by Rumi O’Brien Ruth Davis Design Gallery School of Human Ecology 1300 Linden Drive Days and Hours Vary

JAN 25

Visiting Artist Colloquium: Jason Yi L160 Elvehjem Building 800 University Ave 4:30 pm – Wed

Jason Yi is the first guest artist of the Art Department’s weekly series for the spring semester.

He is a multi-media artist and references culture, time and history in his work.

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The Seldoms: Power Goes Wisconsin Union Theater Frederic March Play Circle 800 Langdon St 8:00 pm – Fri & Sat

Looking at Lyndon B. Johnson, this spectacular multimedia performance investigates power in politics and elsewhere. $10–20

LECTURE

Cinematheque in 3-D

An Evening with Andrew Solomon

4070 Vilas Hall 821 University Ave Hours Vary

Shannon Hall Wisconsin Union Theater 800 Langdon Street 7:30 pm – Wed

From Jan 26–29, we are literally in your face!

Thanks to temporarily installed equipment, we will present the first digital 3-D screenings in Cinematheque’s history.

Visit cinema.wisc.edu for details on the nine free films.

Esteemed intellectual and best-selling author Andrew Solomon will give a lecture titled How Our Identities Emerge From Our Struggles: A Talk About Love. Event presented by the Center for Humanities and WUD Distinguished Lecture Series.

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Neither East Nor West 125 Lathrop Hall 1050 University Ave 8:00 pm – Thurs & Fri 2:30 pm – Sat

The Dance Department presents its annual faculty concert, Neither East Nor West, featuring choreography from Kate Corby, Li Chiao-Ping, Liz Sexe, Marlene Skog, Chris Walker, Jin-Wen Yu and guest artist Rosalind Newman. $15–20

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n NEWS “I second the ‘quackery,’” says Chanda’s neuroscience colleague, professor Edwin Chapman. “This is downright silly — no other word for it.”

Quincy was founded in Madison in 2004

by Mark Underwood, Quincy’s president, and Michael Beaman, its chief executive officer. The company raised $1.5 million in venture funding, including $250,000 from the Dane Vest Tech Fund and $59,750 in state-administered investor tax credits.

Formerly headquartered at University Research Park, Quincy is now at 726 Heartland Trail on the far west side.

For three years in a row, Quincy was identified as one of the fastest-growing small companies in America by Inc. magazine. Indeed, Quincy boasts that Prevagen is “the #1 selling memory supplement in drugstores,” including outlets like Walgreens and CVS. Drug Store News reports that Prevagen sales nearly doubled in 2016. Another industry tracker cites the “staggeringly high growth rate” of brainhealth items like Prevagen.

But Quincy’s ascent has been troubled.

In 2010, 40 neuroscience faculty at UWMadison and UW-Milwaukee, responding to a news story about Quincy’s plans to market Prevagen, sent a letter to the Wisconsin State Journal stating they were “deeply disturbed” by Quincy’s claims of it functioning as a memory aid.

They suggested that anyone worried about memory loss would be better off

concentrating “on worthwhile activities that are known to slow the loss of memory, such as regular physical exercise, a healthy diet and vigorous daily mental activity.”

In 2012, Quincy ran afoul of the Food and Drug Administration. The agency warned Quincy that it was selling “unapproved new drugs” — not dietary supplements — based on unverified health claims of “miraculous” cures of memory loss, including from Alzheimer’s and dementia.

“ Hundreds of thousands [of] people tell us it works and improves their lives.”

— Quincy Bioscience statement This is a huge distinction. Supplements are treated as a food item and are lightly regulated. Drugs, in contrast, are tightly reviewed for their safety and efficacy through rigorous testing. Only 22 new drugs were FDA-approved in 2016, notes Edmund Elder, a UW-Madison School of Pharmacy expert in drug development. The average cost for bringing those new drugs to market? Elder says $2.1 billion and 10 years or more of rigorous testing.

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At the heart of the Prevagen case is Quincy’s forthright assertion that the supplement “significantly improved learning and word recall” in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Such research, as the company boasts, is the gold standard of science.

In this case, 218 subjects were periodically tested on nine computerized cognitive tasks over 90 days. Prevagen’s packaging prominently displays a chart tracking improved memory at 8, 30 and 90 days for the subjects.

The problem, says the advocacy group Truth in Advertising, is that Quincy did the study inhouse and the results were not peer-reviewed by outside scientists.

More to the point, regulators say that Quincy’s own research revealed that Preva-

gen was actually ineffective: “The study failed to show a statistically significant improvement in the treatment group over the placebo group on any of the nine computerized cognitive tasks.”

Quincy researchers subsequently sliced and diced the results more than 30 different ways until it found positive results for subgroups, according to the government complaint. “This methodology greatly increases the probability that some statistically significant differences would occur by chance alone,” the complaint says. “Even so, the vast majority of these post-hoc comparisons failed to show statistical significance....”

Michelle Rusk, the FTC attorney, points out that the Prevagen packaging does not chart the “sugar pill” group’s results. “That completely hides the fact that Prevagen didn’t do better than the placebo,” she says. Also uncharted are the “day 60” results, which showed the Prevagen-takers’ memory-recall had actually declined from “day 30,” according to the complaint.

Quincy in its statement tries to downplay this, saying, “Their experts simply disagree with ours over how to interpret the study results. The FTC should not be the arbiter in matters of scientific debate.”

Whether this argument holds up in federal court will be interesting to see.

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about the supplement and making a medical claim. “This is where the interpretation comes in from the FDA and the FTC.” In 2013, Underwood told Isthmus “we’re in a fine place with the FDA” and “we’ve been able to satisfy all of their requests.” Yet three years later, the FDA website says the case has yet to be closed. (The agency did not respond to a reporter’s request for clarification. Quincy also declined to speak, citing the FTC/New York litigation.)

Federal Trade Commission attorney Michelle Rusk says her legal action is unconnected to the FDA investigation. “Our suit is part of a larger effort to stop companies that are preying on an aging population and its fear of memory decline and dementia. We have made that an enforcement priority.”

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■ OPINION

Seeing is believing It’s hard to deny the awful reality of homelessness in Madison

BY RUTH CONNIFF Ruth Conniff is editor of The Progressive.

Since The Progressive magazine moved offices a year ago to the top of State Street, I often walk to work through an encampment of homeless people.

One weekend I took my young daughter along. She tugged on my arm. “Mom!” she said urgently, “that man’s sign says ‘homeless’!”

It’s troubling how inured we adults have become to the awful reality of homelessness.

Up until the bitter cold struck, I would see men, women and little kids sleeping outside the Veterans Museum. Even in the bad weather there were sleeping bags and piles of stuff outside.

The city of Madison has been grappling with the growing problem of homelessness — made worse by our state Legislature, which has preempted local ordinances that protect people from being evicted.

But there is some good news. According to Brenda Konkel of the Tenant Resource Center, who often clashes with Mayor Paul Soglin over what she sees as the punitive policies toward the homeless downtown, there has been notable progress on the issue in Madison.

The city is building new affordable housing units. A new day shelter will open in the old Department of Commerce building downtown in the fall. And service providers are coordinating their efforts. There are homeless liaisons in the schools. They serve the 1,100 homeless children enrolled in our school district. Think about that for a minute. Our whole community has recognized that homelesseness is a serious problem.

But the measures we’ve taken don’t come close to solving the problem. The 60 new units at Rethke Terrace are the first stage of the city’s “housing first” effort to get homeless people into apartments near services and stabilize their lives. But there are more than 500 families on wait lists for affordable housing, according to Melissa Mennig of the Road Home. The housing crunch — made worse by the Epic effect on local rents — means that some people wait years for a precious housing voucher, she

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says, only to have it expire before an affordable apartment becomes available.

Coincidentally, during the same year my office move brought me face-to-face with Madison’s homeless population, the university chose Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City as the community-wide Go Big Read book.

Desmond spent years living in the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee. He paints a riveting portrait of the families who face repeated eviction there.

“The home is the center of life,” he writes. “It is a refuge from the grind of school, the pressure of work and the menace of the streets.” Home makes us who we are. “Civic life too begins at home,” Desmond adds. “It is only after we begin to see a street as our street, a public park as our park, a school as our school, that we can become engaged citizens.” Without stable homes, we can’t function properly as human beings, nor as a society.

Seeing the homeless outside my office, I have a visceral feeling of society coming apart.

According to the Dane County Clerk of Courts, there were just under 2,000 eviction cases filed in the county in 2016.

“I’ve never met someone who was evicted and then went right into housing,” said Jani Koester, who works with homeless children for the school district’s Transition Education Program (TEP).

Koester read a couple of poems at a recent panel on homelessness hosted by the Madison Institute, a nonpartisan progressive policy center. One, by an evicted mother, described how her son begged her to retrieve his teddy bear from the pile of their possessions dumped on the curb when they were forced from their home.

“If you wonder why I get so fierce, it’s

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because I know these people,” Brenda Konkel said during the same panel discussion.

Konkel described how joining Occupy Madison, and sleeping outside with 300 homeless people, changed her life.

“The more I saw, the crazier it became,” she said. “The city was threatening to fine me for letting people sleep on my porch.” Konkel put lockers on her porch so people could store their belongings there, and began driving people to campgrounds where they could legally spend the night.

The problems can seem overwhelming. But the Madison Institute panelists had some concrete suggestions — starting with saying hello.

“You’ll make someone’s day,” said Koester.

“People feel invisible.”

The Tenant Resource Center has a small antieviction fund. Donations helped prevent the eviction of a woman who was $60 short on her rent.

Konkel also needs volunteers to feed quarters into washing machines at the Bubbles Laundromat on East Johnson Street, so homeless people can do their laundry.

On Jan. 25, Madison will conduct a homeless census. Anyone can help conduct on-thestreet interviews all night, beginning at 10 p.m.

And then there’s politics.

“We could set standards so the Madison public housing agency is not one of the top evictors,” said County Board member Heidi Wegleitner.

Show up to city and County Board meetings. Show you care. ■

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Judgment call The spring election season is upon, us and I’d like readers to know more about Marilyn Townsend, who is running for a Dane County Circuit Court judgeship (“Townsend v. Karofsky,� 1/5/2016). In her long legal career, she has chosen to represent people who have been aggrieved by powerful institutions, people who need help in dealing with those in power who have vast resources. She’s appeared in courts of all levels: county courts, state appellate courts, federal courts and, most recently, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, representing an employee in a wrongful termination case. Experienced in all kinds of cases, she hasn’t limited herself to only one speciality and has often appeared in Dane County in juvenile court cases. That’s where I first met her, as we worked on cases together, frequently as lawyers for opposing parties. I was always impressed by how hard she worked and how sensitive she was to all parties’ concerns, and her ability to calm things down in often-emotional settings.

In addition, she is now in her third term as municipal court judge, elected by her community, by people who know her, who respect her judgment and temperament and who appreciate her knowledge and fairness in their courtroom. She is known for her ability to listen carefully to both sides in a dispute, an important quality in a judge.

As many of you may know, circuit court judges are not elected as only civil or criminal judges. They serve in all three divisions of legal matters: juvenile, criminal and civil. Every few years they change assignments and “rotate� to a different division.

So knowledge and experience of all areas of the law is crucial to a judge’s ability to effectively serve our county.

Marilyn has the breadth and depth of experience to be an outstanding judge for us, to bring her sense of fairness, her integrity and values to our court.

Betsy Stampe (via email)

Voter suppression Thank you for publishing my “Open Letter from a Poll Worker to the UW Student Who Tried to Vote yesterday� (2/17/2016).

I’m amazed that a short, heartfelt letter from one of your readers became the No. 1 Isthmus.com story of 2016 (Isthmus.com, 12/26/2016), and I’m glad my letter had ripple effects nationwide. Attorneys who were preparing to challenge Wisconsin’s restrictive voting laws spotted it and contacted me immediately.

I agreed to be a witness in the federal trial and told U.S. District Judge Peterson about the student I addressed in my open letter.

That student heard the Republicans who passed our voter ID law promise that “All you need is the same type of ID you use for

buying booze, getting into a bar and getting prescriptions.� As a registered voter, he was understandably distressed when the out-of-state driver’s license that identified him for all those purposes was not good enough for voting.

Judge Peterson ruled that parts of our voter ID and other voting laws are unconstitutional, stating “Wisconsin’s strict version of voter ID law is a cure worse than the disease.� In-person voter fraud is effectively nonexistent, yet as of 2014 when the law was passed, 300,000 of Wisconsin’s registered voters, disproportionately minorities, faced what the court deemed to be undue burdens obtaining the necessary identification to vote. The margin of victory in Wisconsin’s presidential election was about 22,000 votes.

Todd Allbaugh’s testimony in the same trial described a 2011 closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers who are willing to turn voters away. I challenge Republican lawmakers to justify their “giddiness� because they saw the voter identification law as an opportunity to drive down Democratic turnout.

Gov. Scott Walker has defended voter ID, declaring that “it doesn’t matter� if there is only one incident of voter fraud in each election. Really? It doesn’t matter? On Nov. 8, I had to tell eligible voters their votes could not be counted.

It mattered to them.

I challenge Gov. Walker to work the polls with me during our next election so he can be the one who turns eligible voters away.

Carrie Scherpelz (via email)

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Many of us who are married or in committed relationships have a health care power of attorney for our spouses or other loved ones. It gives us the ability to make life-and-death decisions for them if they are sick or incapacitated.

The current voting laws in Wisconsin do not allow spouses to legally vouch for the identity or residence of each other when voting (“The End of Voter Registration Drives,� 1/5/2017). You can be empowered to turn off a loved one’s life support but you cannot swear to their identity or residence for voting purposes!

This is never talked about in the voter ID or other discussions. It should be, as a lot of politicians who call themselves profamily actually are backing anti-family policies.

George Hagenauer (via email)

The earth is flat!

Re: “State’s Revised Climate Change Statement ‘Simply Incorrect,’ Say UW Scientists�

(Isthmus.com, 1/9/2017): There are still a

few people who think the earth is flat, so let’s only have maps but not globes till we get this issue sorted out.

Steven C. Schaefer (via comments)

Yep, we live in the land that thinks scientists are heretics again.

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Jeff Erlanger chats with a Jamaican cabbie in 2004.

His experience there inspired Erlanger to fight for more accessible services in Madison.

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family disembark from the Caribbean cruise ship, and suddenly they’re in humid

Jamaica with hours to kill. The family meanders around the port for an hour or so, eager to explore, but doesn’t expect to see much of the city. They have no way to get around.

A family of able-bodied individuals would be able to hail a cab, no problem. But Erlanger is a lifelong quadriplegic who uses a heavy motorized wheelchair.

Back home in Madison, he relies on his accessible van to get from his apartment to his Edgewood College classes, appointments and extracurricular activities.

Thus, a typical taxicab is not an option, especially — he thought — in Jamaica. Yet one suddenly pulls up beside the family and asks if they need a ride. They explain

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their situation to the driver, that Jeff would need a ramp, and a way to hook in his wheelchair, so thank you but no thank you.

Instead of leaving, the driver pulls out his phone and dials a number. We’ll get you one that works, he says. A few minutes later a van pulls up, one with equipment accessible enough to transport the family to tourist spots around the city. And when they’re ready to return to port, they simply call the number again and the van picks them back up.

Erlanger’s mom, Pam, is traveling with the group. Dozens of years later, she realizes the importance of that day.

“It opened his eyes to see what could be,” she says. “I don’t think it had ever occurred to him.”

It struck Erlanger as strange that a developing country like Jamaica could provide fast, affordable,

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“ You can call us right now for a wheelchair ride; you could probably get a cab in 20 minutes.”

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accessible taxicab service when Madison, while becoming more inclusive, failed to do so. There was no ordinance or legislation requiring taxi companies to provide accessible service.

We’ve got to make this available in Madison, Erlanger thought. And that’s exactly what he did.

Carl DuRocher, a longtime advocate for both mass transit and people with disabilities, laments that the state Legislature passed a law in 2015 that legalized these app-based services and preempted municipalities from regulating them.

They “are really destroying the way cab companies have been licensed for the purpose of serving the public,” he says. “They cherry pick profitable rides, which takes away some of the profits and makes it harder for Union Cab.” DuRocher says Madison can’t afford to lose on-demand taxi service for people with disabilities. It’s bad for residents and visitors, he adds.

What about a visitor who uses a wheelchair who is in town for a conference or a job interview but can’t get from the airport to a hotel?

“That can happen,” DuRocher says. “Somebody can come from out of town and be totally naive and just be stranded. We can’t let that happen. Madison is too big.”

Erlanger, who died in 2007, led

Chris Reott secures Karen Foxgrover’s wheelchair in an accessible Union Cab van.

“If you add it up over time, we do lose money on those rides.”

In addition, app-based companies like Uber and Lyft are increasingly cutting into Union Cab’s profits, making it difficult to maintain the more expensive service for people with disabilities.

“We don’t know what we’re going to do,” Bittorf says. “We don’t want to stop providing the service, but we really don’t know how we’re going to afford it.”

While expensive, there’s clearly a need for the service, says Bittorf.

In 2013, the company provided about 10,000 accessible rides. More recent figures are unavailable. But Bittorf says a regular cab provides about 15 to 20 rides during a typical eight-hour shift. An accessible cab will usually give about 15 percent of its rides to people with disabilities, or two to four calls per shift per van.

Bittorf acknowledges the company isn’t able to meet the current demand for rides because sometimes there aren’t enough available vehicles. “We actually turn down a lot of people, and we don’t keep track of the ones we turn down,” he adds.

Bittorf says he heard from a man who uses a wheelchair whose daughter was in an accident. But he couldn’t get a cab and had to wait until the morning before he could get to the hospital to see her.

Anna Gouker, a former member of the Disability Rights Commission, has spinal muscular atrophy and uses a wheelchair. She once scheduled an accessible van ride several days in advance to get to her internship, but when the day came, the cab never showed up.

“If you’re not able to be where you need to be, [to] follow through with your commitment, then you’re not as attractive in the employment market,” Gouker says. “It just adds to the challenge of employment even further.”

Gouker did everything she was supposed to, but still felt at fault. She says this feeling can easily lead to giving up on goals and aspirations.

But ultimately, she doesn’t blame Union Cab for what happened — she believes the company is doing its best.

Union Cab, like the rest of licensed taxicab companies in town, is now competing against companies like Uber and Lyft.

Bittorf is scrambling to find a way to maintain the status quo. Union has generated some revenue by renting advertising space on the backs of its accessible vans. But it’s not enough to keep the service going, and longterm solutions aren’t simple or clear.

He says if nothing changes soon, the service might be gone by the end of the year.

Numerous city and county officials have expressed sympathy about the company’s predicament, but none have offered solutions or help.

“I have talked to people at both the county and city levels about it,” he says. “The standard reply is to say, ‘well, the rules have changed, you should change your business’” in order to again qualify for federal funding.

“That’s actually quite a bit to ask a company to do,” Bittorf adds. “If I could figure out a way to do it, I’m all for it, but I haven’t been able to figure out a way.”

Some ideas have been floated — and so far rejected. In January 2015, the Disability Rights Commission recommended either requiring all cabs to have a percentage of fully accessible vehicles or imposing a 25-cent surcharge on all taxi rides in the city, which would then help pay for accessible rides. But the recommendation came around the same time the state Legislature was moving to preempt municipalities from regulating “transportation network companies,” i.e. services like Uber and Lyft.

Ald. Mark Clear, who sits on the commission, says these ideas were never acted on because officials worry they would further cripple taxi companies as they struggle to compete against the new app-based businesses, which are exempt from all taxi regulations.

“It felt to me like putting an additional burden on the taxi companies — that are highly regulated — while not being able to do the same thing for transportation network companies — that have less regulation — would give [taxi companies] an even more difficult competitive disadvantage,” Clear says. “So it didn’t move forward at the time, but I feel like there’s a sense of urgency to do something before the service goes away.”

On a brisk December morning, Chris Reott begins his shift as he begins them all — driving through the streets of Madison.

Reott has been a Union Cab driver for eight years, and an accessible van driver for seven.

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a battle to get Madison up to speed with Jamaica. As chair of the Disability Rights Commission, a committee that works through Madison’s Department of Civil Rights, Erlanger was in a unique position to press for better transportation options for people with disabilities.

Then — as now — people with disabilities could get wheelchair-accessible van rides through Madison Metro, but 24-hour advance notice is required, and the service isn’t available ’round the clock. “Metro has paratransit, but you have to reserve it a day in advance, and you have to be prequalified,” says Mike Cechvala, a Madison Metro employee who previously worked for the Metropolitan Planning Organization. “If you use a wheelchair and want to go to the movies in an hour, paratransit isn’t going to work for you.”

In 2004, the Common Council was close to requiring that all of the city’s cab companies offer around-the-clock service to people with disabilities. But instead, Union Cab, the worker-owned collective, offered to provide the service voluntarily. Today in Madison, those with physical disabilities can ride in Union Cab’s six accessible vans 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Union Cab has been able to provide the service with federal funding to help buy accessible vans, which are expensive. “The price for a converted mini-van with wheelchair ramp is somewhere from $18,000 to $25,000, depending on the quality of the van,” says Paul Bittorf, Union Cab’s business manager and cooperative secretary. Regular cabs cost about $8,000 to $10,000, Bittorf says.

Grants from the Federal Transit Administration program have covered 80 percent of the accessible vehicles’ cost. When the vans aren’t providing rides for people with disabilities, Union uses them as regular cabs, which helps make the service affordable.

But now Erlanger’s hard-fought victory is in danger of unraveling. The federal government changed the criteria for the grants, making them available only to nonprofits or carpooling services. Without the grants, Union Cab cannot afford new vans, and its current accessible vehicles are rapidly aging. The company typically uses a standard cab for about three years, but it’s kept accessible vehicles on the road twice as long.

Its oldest van has logged more than 400,000 miles, Bittorf says.

Union Cab can charge a higher rate for accessible rides when contracted with a service agency. But if a person with a disability calls for a ride, Union charges the same rate it would for an able-bodied person. But that doesn’t cover the true cost. Bittorf says accessible rides are twice as expensive for the company, due to higher costs for maintenance, insurance and other factors.

He waits for a ride request to pop up on his small screen, but in the meantime, he tells stories of the people and things he has seen as a cab driver. Women in labor, people who have had strokes and struggle to communicate — Reott has driven them all.

“Dealing with the public is an interesting thing because you really never know who you’re going to get in your cab and what their attitude’s going to be,” he says.

“Then you’ve got people who aren’t well, because I’m dealing with that. Whether they’re not well in the head, or physically.

You get it all. And some are both. You just don’t know. It’s an adventure.”

Reott laughs heartily. His dark hair is graying at the temples, and he wears glasses with thin frames. He glances down when a notification pops up on the screen — someone needs a taxi, but not an accessible one.

Reott gives three or four accessible rides on an average day, and drives ablebodied folks for the rest of his shift. He says he’s happy to provide a service that he believes is vital.

“You can call us right now for a wheelchair ride; you could probably get a cab in 20 minutes,” Reott says. A regular cab might only take 10 minutes, but even twice that wait “is still pretty good.”

Reott has been driving for an hour when he accepts his first accessible ride request of the day. The system says she’s a wheelchair user who wants to get from her downtown apartment to a doctor’s appointment at UW Hospital.

He recognizes her name. When you’ve been doing this for seven years, you start to know the regulars, he says.

Reott drives up to the curb and stops, waiting several minutes. The moment he sees Karen Foxgrover leaving the apartment complex, he hops out, opens the van’s back doors, and helps the woman roll herself up the ramp.

Foxgrover is bundled up in a scarf, hat and blanket on this below-freezing morning. She requests that Reott drive slowly and coast over any bumps — her muscular dystrophy has caused severe scoliosis.

“My back is very, very unstable, so I would rather pay more for a cab ride that goes slow enough to not break my back, and that’s what they do,” Foxgrover says.

Reott gets on the road, and he and Foxgrover argue lightheartedly about their pets — she brags about her ragdoll cat, while he claims his shih tzu is cuter.

Suddenly, railroad tracks appear in the van’s path.

“We’re going to slow down and we’re going to hit these tracks here. We’re going to slide slowly through these tracks,” Reott says in a calming manner.

The rest of the ride goes smoothly, and the van arrives at the revolving doors of the hospital’s entrance. Chris gets out of the driver’s seat, opens the back doors, undoes the buckles and pulleys. He guides Foxgrover gently down the ramp and out of the cab. She thanks him and says goodbye: “I’m ready to roll.” n

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Leopold died of a heart attack while fighting a wildfire near his land in Sauk County in 1948.

“Why Leopold now? Leopold is a clear and obvious path into current environmental controversies, no matter where you are in the country,” says Courtier. “But obviously it’s especially important and relevant here in Wisconsin because of his work here.”

“There are degrees of awareness of Leopold’s contributions,” says his biographer, Curt Meine. “He’s [become] almost a mythical figure that bears little resemblance in some ways to the actual human being,” says Meine. “But that’s what happens with authors who write classic books; you think of them primarily in that role.”

Keeping in touch with the Leopold the man, instead of Leopold the icon, is increasingly difficult.

“It’s especially hard as generations fade and there aren’t too many living people anymore who knew him,” says Meine. “Back when I was a lad, there were a lot of people, especially here in southern Wisconsin, who knew and worked with Leopold personally, so he wasn’t a mythical figure. He was a neighbor and a friend and a colleague and a teacher and a hunting buddy.”

The UW program series reintroduces the real Leopold. It’s not just a bunch of lectures, but classes designed to get students into nature and doing the kind of observations and actions that Leopold did.

“A number of the classes are about emulating Leopold’s observational process, as a kind of foundation,” says Courtier. For instance, one of

the visual arts classes is about nature journaling. “Anybody who’s read Sand County Almanac knows he was quite a journalist himself.”

The Leopold series begins Jan. 25 with Writing Nature: Signatures in the Wild, offered by longtime creative writing instructor Christopher Chambers. The class will read and discuss a wide range of nature writing, including Leopold’s.

“We’ll also be taking short excursions into the Arboretum for inspiration, and apply the techniques and styles of the featured writers in our own essays,” says Chambers. “We will share our writing and ideas about our place in nature and about the writing process.”

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With conservation and ecology politicized at state, national and international levels, it’s important to remember our connection to the physical world, says Jessica Courtier.

“There’s an ever-growing sense of urgency about talking about human relationships to nature,” says Courtier, outreach specialist at the Division of Continuing Studies at the UW-Madison. From Jan. 25 through June, the division will offer a wide-ranging public series of classes, workshops, tours and other events, looking at the life and legacy of favorite son Aldo Leopold.

“The father of wildlife ecology,” Leopold was a scientist, philosopher, UW-Madison professor and author. He’s perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac.

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Destination dining The new Sal’s in Sun Prairie debuts an ambitious dinner menu

BY KYLE NABILCY

Salvatore’s Tomato Pies has been more or less an instant hit in every iteration. In its original Sun Prairie location, it was that charming brand of pizza shop that feels like a room in someone’s house.

And there were reliably long waits for tables at the Madison location on East Johnson Street when it opened in late 2014, which continue today.

Now the Sun Prairie location has moved down the street to the former La Tolteca storefront and expanded significantly in both size and scope. If you ever visited La Tolteca, I can’t imagine you’d recognize this as the same restaurant. There are industrial touches, with repurposed wood elements sourced from the recently shuttered Orvis sporting goods store in Middleton. There’s a bar now, with plenty of room for pizza elbows. Once through the bar area, another dining area sits adjacent to the large, open kitchen. This is a restaurant, by golly, not just a pizzeria.

It’s a restaurant that had more than an hour-and-a-half wait for some parties on a recent Thursday evening. In Sun Prairie.

That night, our estimated 40-minute wait (at 5:30 p.m.) was closer to an hour. To keep the crowds moving, reservations are not accepted at this time, so be prepared to order a drink and hover for a while.

The smaller starter dishes are proportioned well for enjoying at the bar, if that’s the closest you get to a table. Seared scallops rest in a Pleasant Ridge Reserve-doped polenta, dressed with shreds of cured ham.

It’s a salty dish, but not overly so. Crispy pork

Some of the pies have changed, others remain the same, and they remain exceptional. I enjoyed a new El Toro, which used Spanish chorizo instead of the loose Mexican variety.

Though there are some successes beyond meatballs among the main dishes, it’s this section of the new menu that needs a little refinement.

On the plus side, a short rib ragu (don’t confuse it for the capital-R version, there’s no tomato in this) mingles with heavy ribbons of pappardelle.

It leaves a pleasant slick on the lips but isn’t all fatty richness, and the chilis and preserved lemon make nice additions. A porchetta is a stunner. With a judicious apPATRICK DEPULA plication of pesto as its only sauce, the dish is a touch dry, but overall belly wanders briefly into Asian territory, with an it’s a midwinter warmer — hearty pork and umami-rich glaze and a light rice noodle salad.

It’s a balance between crunchy and slippery, salty dense vegetables.

Less successful is the hamburger. The and sweet, entirely enjoyable.

Conscious Carnivore beef patty was juicy There’s a homey spaghetti and meatand pink in the middle, but lacked seasoning. balls, with the pasta more of a bucatini, but a A New York strip was similarly lackluster. little heft is necessary to stand up to the two A ring of gristle surrounded a piece of beef racquetball-sized meatballs. These have a nice that favored grill marks over a uniform crust crust to them, and the sauce is simple and zingy. A meatball pizza, which includes peppers, from edge to edge. The polenta and other accompaniments were lovely, but grill marks onions and a layer of the straciatella filling from are the wrong kind of throwback.

Salvatore’s house-made burrata, is a hybrid of Still, for all its new trappings and doorsorts between a meatball sub and lasagna. busting crowds, there is a core of Salvatore’s That burrata is a holdover from the original that remains the same. The waitstaff is Sal’s, and for good reason. Four tender dollops friendly as always, the crust is still some of that creamy straciatella, held loosely with of the best in the area, and owner Patrick a skin of mozzarella, are joined by roasted DePula is still likely to pop out and check garlic cloves, sliced beets and pepitas. There on diners. And for whatever maturation the is traditionally a season for burrata, but I don’t new dishes still need to undergo, my goodparticularly care; it’s as delicious in January as ness, those meatballs are the truth. ■ it is in late summer.

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Can the restaurant boom continue?

Madison chefs take a look at the scene for 2017

BY DYLAN BROGAN

The state of Madison’s food scene is strong. Entrepreneurs are developing new hot spots across the city, downtown remains flush with options, and access to local food continues to increase. But local chefs and restaurateurs also see a new reality downtown, after years of growth.

Chef Tory Miller says it’s about time.

“How many restaurants can little Madison support? I think we’re finding out,” says Miller, owner of L’Etoile, Graze, Estrellón and Sujeo. “There’s a false sense of what our local economy can sustain.”

“It’s tough. Opening a restaurant is a huge financial investment. It’s a huge psychological and physical investment.

You can never rest on your laurels,” says Tami Lax, owner of the Old Fashioned and Harvest. “Unlike in Chicago, we still really rely on our weekends here. If there’s a snowstorm on a Saturday we could lose half our income for the week.”

Lax shares Miller’s concern that the city will have difficulty supporting this kind of density long-term.

Miller also says high rent prices downtown are now spreading to adjacent isthmus neighborhoods as new mixedused residential developments sprout.

He’d like to see more of an effort by developers to support fledgling businesses and restaurants in these new spaces.

“I hope this trend of developers insisting on putting a restaurant in every new building comes to an end in 2017,” says Miller. “There needs to be more of an understanding [by developers] that restaurants can’t start paying sky-high rent immediately.”

The Johnsons see much promise in the new high-rise residential and commercial developments popping up on East Washington Avenue.

But the couple say the central corridor is still maturing, and a bona fide food scene is still a ways off.

“East Wash is a really exciting place because there is so much being built. Ideally, there’s going to be a lot of new people and arts options in the area,” says Gwen. “I just think we’re about five years before everything clicks.”

Kyle says walkability on the traffic-heavy thoroughfare is an issue. “People are sticking to one side of East Wash and not gravitating back and forth,” he says.

“The people who live on East Wash also seem to be heading to other parts of the city when they go out.”

The Johnsons, fittingly, have found success on East Johnson Street with Johnson Public House.

They’ve seen a tight-knit community of business owners emerge since opening the coffeehouse and breakfast spot in the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood six years ago.

“There’s no chains. Everything is super-fresh, farm-to-table. We have some of the best businesses in the city. Forequarter. La Taguara. Cork N’ Bottle. Drunk Lunch. Macha [Tea Company].

The Robin Room is a world-class bar,” says Gwen. “Our clientele is a great mix of young

families, professionals and longtime residents. It’s definitely a unique scene, and we feel lucky to be a part of it.”

Daniel Bonanno, chef and co-owner of A Pig in a Fur Coat on Williamson Street, agrees that downtown might be at capacity for new restaurants, but sees opportunity on the near east side. He says healthy competition forces chefs to get creative.

“The more restaurants the merrier,” says Bonanno. “It just shows who’s good, who’s not. Some concepts work, some don’t. It helps motivate restaurants that have been there for a while, too.”

Bonanno predicts simplicity will be a trend in 2017. “You can’t try to do everything; you have to home in on one thing.” says Bonanno. “If you’re going to do tacos, you only do tacos and you do it well. And if you only do pizza, you only make really good pizza. That’s what the big cities do.”

One advantage Madison has over some cities is easy access to fresh food.

Farmers have become far savvier at getting their products into local kitchens.

“We have farmers from five, 10, 20 miles away come directly to our restaurants with fresh products,” says Bonanno.

Miller expects to see more joint efforts by local chefs in 2017 in the form of collaborations, mash-ups and popup events.

“That was my hope when we formed the Madison Area Chef Network. The food scene gets better when chefs open up their kitchens and their brains,” says Miller.

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The Fermentorium is a small brewery and taproom on the north edge of Cedarburg. It’s been brewing for a little less than a year, and until a few weeks ago, to get its beer you would have needed to go there.

Just before Christmas a handful of beers from the Fermentorium started turning up in Madison. One of them is Underwater Panther IIPA. This imperial IPA showcases juicy, tropical Citra hops. “It’s aggressively dry-hopped for huge aroma,” says brewer Kris Volkman. It’s also made with 100 pounds of orange blossom honey per 20-barrel batch. That juicy fruitiness will please IIPA and IPA lovers.

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At this point, it’s safe to toss around a sports-writing cliché and call the 2016 Green Bay Packers a team of destiny. How else can you explain the resurgence of a team that two months ago was 4-6 in the NFC Central Division — with fans calling for the forceful removal of head coach Mike McCarthy — and now is one game away from the franchise’s fifth Super Bowl appearance?

The Packers almost needed overtime to beat the Dallas Cowboys in an instant classic on Jan. 15. But kicker Mason Crosby, who already held the NFL record for most consecutive postseason field goals at 21, booted two more from 56 and 51 yards in the final 93 seconds of the game to beat the best team in the NFC, 34-31, and send Green Bay to Atlanta for the NFC Championship Game on Jan. 22.

One could argue that Green Bay wouldn’t still be in the playoffs were it not for a 42-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers to wide receiver Randall Cobb in the closing seconds of the first half against the New York Giants the previous weekend. That score put the Packers up 14-3 in an NFC Wild Card game at Lambeau Field and shifted all the momentum toward Green Bay, which easily won, 38-13.

Then there was Rodgers’ bold, even arrogant, claim following a brutal 42-24 loss to the Washington Redskins that his team “can run the table.” At that time, the Packers were two games out of first place.

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Walking Leopold’s Legacy takes participants on a trip May 6 to the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo. The daylong event, led by Curt Meine, begins with a special tour of Leopold’s homestead, the famous “shack,” and its environs. A workshop and discussion follow lunch.

Other writing classes focusing on observation and the practice of being present in nature include: Nature’s Music: Knowing the Natural World Through Sound (Feb. 23-March 16); Contemplative Walks with Nature (May 3-June 21); and Artful Observation: Nature Journaling at the Arboretum (May 12-June 2).

Jens Jensen: A Pioneer in American Landscape Design and Conservation (March 1-15) surveys the work of one of Leopold’s conservation colleagues, an innovative landscape architect who brought inspiration from the natural world — especially native plants — to the realm of cultivated landscapes. Jensen’s work can be found on campus and at Glenwood Park on the city’s near west side.

Coinciding with the annual UW Writers’ Institute, Wisconsin nature writer Blair Braverman on March 25 reads from Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North, which explores her travels in arctic Norway and Alaska.

Another highlight will be Meine’s class Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: The Land Ethic in Today’s World, April 6-27.

“We’ll look at his ideas, his legacy, his literary, scientific and policy work,” he says.

“We’ll look back on it and how it’s changed — how his core concept of the land, for example, has continued to inform conservation action, even as it’s evolved and been challenged.”

Such issues as water ethics and environmental justice have gained steam since Leopold’s time. “It may not seem directly relevant,” says Meine, “but there’s a strong

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Slow burn Squarewave releases a long-awaited new album

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

Like a fine wine or a distracted undergraduate, the members of the Madison’s Squarewave took their time with their latest album, A Tighter Knot. It’s a project that’s been a whopping seven years in the making.

“We have hundreds of ideas,” says guitarist Jeff Jagielo, who shares a musical collaboration with fellow guitarist Pat Connaughty that stretches back to their days with Ivory Library, a mainstay of the local scene in the 1980s. “The ones that work come to the surface and you eventually get ’em down. We were never trying to force the songs — the ones that end up being the best are the ones you don’t struggle with.”

They’re also, apparently, the ones that come from a ridiculously wide range of musical genres. Jagielo and Connaughty weave and blend elements from folk to prog-rock to pop and grunge over the course of the album’s 14 songs. A Tighter Knot all but bleeds standout tracks, including “Smoke for Air,” a shimmering pop song with a soaring chorus that belies a bummer lyrical bent. Another cut from the album, “Can You Tell Me,” is so sonically ornate the band won’t play it live.

“The basic structure is pop melodicism,” says Jagielo of Squarewave’s deeply layered

Pat Connaughty (le ) and Jeff Jagielo blend elements from folk to grunge.

walls of sound. “I’m a fan of melody. That’s one of the things I’m attracted to. The darker things — that’s just what comes out.”

Both Jagielo and Connaughty share with Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) a love of retreating from the world to create music — hence the protracted creative process, completed in Jagielo’s Wautoma garage. Being musical veterans has also been liberating, says Jagielo.

“At this point, we don’t have any wild expectations of where the music is going to take us,” he says. “In the past we would have to self-promote ourselves. Now we just create music.” The album is being released on Artisanal Records, founded recently by Phil Davis, a guitarist who once played with Butch Vig and Duke Erikson in the pre-Garbage band Firetown.

TIM RADL

The band’s album release party Jan. 21 at the Harmony Bar and Grill will double as a gathering of old friends. The Dash Hounds, who contributed to A Tighter Knot, will serve as Squarewave’s rhythm section, bridging a musical generation gap in the process. Dash Hounds will open the show, followed by Stone Prairie.

A Tighter Knot may have taken seven years to get here, but it’s worth the wait. ■

An entertaining Scheherazade Madison Symphony Orchestra explores Rimsky-Korsakov — with the DeVitas

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A special event from the Madison Symphony Orchestra engaged theatrical luminaries James and Brenda DeVita to provide a glimpse into the life and influences of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who wrote the popular and gaudy 1888 “Symphonic Suite,” or Scheherazade.

The second installment of “Beyond the Score,” presented at Overture Hall Jan. 14 and 15, is part of a series created for the Chicago Symphony, which has developed mixedmedia presentations about major symphonic works. “Behind the Score” presentations are designed to provide context to audiences before they experience a full performance of the work. The MSO offered a presentation on Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony in 2014.

For Scheherazade, the visuals include projections of old photographs, scenes from Persian art and animated cartoons of rather puerile character. The verbal component consists of two kinds of readings from the DeVitas of American Players Theatre. James DeVita, portraying the composer, reads autobiographical reflections, and Brenda DeVita provides passages, mostly from the

Thousand and One Nights collection from which the composer drew his inspirations.

The Thousand and One Nights selections often go beyond Rimsky-Korsakov’s intentions that the music be suggestive rather than strictly programmatic and narrative. The onstage orchestra contributes frequent musical clips, not always precisely keyed to the score as discussed.

This material produces a mixed result. Far too much time is spent on the composer’s experiences at sea. His growing interest in travel and exotic places is, however, given proper weight, as is the extensive fascination with Eastern (especially Arabic) culture shown by a number of his Russian contemporaries and colleagues.

But the presentation lacks a greater context for Rimsky-Korsakov’s body of work. For example, it ignores the place of Scheherazade in his evolving quest to join descriptive evocation with symphonic structure. That struggle persisted through a series of important scores, and culminated in Scheherazade as his final venture in that direction.

For the last two decades of his life, the composer turned definitively to opera instead, transferring his orchestral wizardry to that field.

Failure to explain Scheherazade in that context is rather like talking about one of Beethoven’s symphonies without any reference to his others.

The multimedia presentation examined the composer’s life and influences.

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The “Behind the Score” presentation is entertaining. And for many audience members, it may make the full performance of the work more enjoyable. Still, I wonder if it conveys much deeper understanding of this composition.

That said, the orchestra proceeds after the intermission to give a rousing performance of the work, with particularly luscious wind solos all along, and a passionate power overall. For those in the audience either familiar with it or new to it, that is the real point of the concert. ■

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Music of brotherly love The teenage multi-instrumentalists of the Lemon Twigs are rooted in the ’60s

BY AARON R. CONKLIN

Some kids listen to the tunes Dad spins in the rec room and the family car, and eventually move on to different musical pastures. For Brian and Michael D’Addario — a pair of teenage brothers known as the Lemon Twigs — Dad’s record collection became the foundation for a burgeoning musical career of their own.

While much of the modern music landscape looks back to the ’80s and riff-samples the ’90s, the brothers, who actually began their showbiz careers as child actors (Michael appeared in both Sinister movies) have set the dial of the wayback machine just a little further. “We’re rooted in the ’60s,” says Brian D’Addario, calling from Long Island in advance of the Lemon Twigs’ free Jan. 27 gig at the Sett in Union South. “That’s the first music we were obsessed with when we were 8 and 9.”

If the Jagger/Bowie hairstyle and the Ziggy Stardust bodysuit Michael sports in the video for “As Long As We’re Together” weren’t enough to make the point, the Beatles-esque harmonies, the layered glam-rock orchestration and the heavy use of harpsichord on Do Hollywood, the Lemon Twigs’ debut album, are all dead giveaways.

But in addition to these ’60s touches, their music draws from multiple time periods. “It’s more about the melodies and chord progressions than it is about the style,” says D’Addario. “We’re just writing songs.”

Alongside the more obvious influence of the Beatles and Brian Wilson, D’Addario offers some surprising influences for Do Hollywood. Gilbert & Sullivan?

And Kendrick Lamar?

“I don’t think we’re going to start rapping anytime soon,” D’Addario jokes. “But there are various ways in which Kendrick’s music speaks to us.”

The brothers are both multi-instrumentalists, which creates a few logistical challenges when the Lemon Twigs perform live. To combat what could quickly become a constant swap-fest, the live set list is split in half based on each brother’s songs. The first half features Brian playing guitar and keyboard on the songs he composed, and the second finds him switching to drums to play on Michael’s songs. And the brothers need to come up with a way to perform their complex vocals. D’Addario admits that it’s challenging to hit some of the falsetto stretches on tracks like “Baby, Baby” when performing live.

After spending last year rocking the opening-act spot on a tour with lo-fi darlings Car Seat Headrest, 2017’s all about big gigs and headlining. In addition to the U.S. tour, the Lemon Twigs are also slated to perform with the Pixies in Japan and are on the docket for Coachella.

After listening to Do Hollywood, you’ll want to see what these brothers can do live. ■

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The Cardinal has flown But hopes are high as the Nomad wanders into Madison

BY BOB JACOBSON

It was no secret that Ricardo Gonzalez had been trying to sell the Cardinal Bar on and off for years. But when news broke last week that he had found a buyer in Mike Eitel, owner of Milwaukee’s Nomad World Pub, it was still a little hard to absorb.

Gonzalez isn’t the rocking-chair type, but at 70 he’s ready to retire from the bar biz and focus instead on writing projects, travel (especially to South America) and local Cuba initiatives like the Madison-Camaguey Sister City project.

Gonzalez tried to retire once before, back in 2004, when he sold the Cardinal to a couple of his managers and a co-owner of the building. By 2009, however, the new owners had made a mess of things, and Gonzalez found himself back in the nightclub business. It was supposed to be temporary, but legal entanglements with the failed ownership group prevented him from bailing within a couple of years as planned. Besides, by the time all of the litigation was resolved in 2012, he was having fun again.

“We were in this great encore period,” Gonzalez says. “We were doing things I never did with the bar before, including a wider variety of Latin music. So for a while I really wasn’t thinking much about selling.”

But when longtime manager Franklin Parr left in September 2015, Gonzalez knew it was time to get serious again about offloading the Bird. Meanwhile, Eitel had been casually looking for an opportunity to open a Madison establishment, and when he stumbled across a listing for the Cardinal, he was instantly intrigued, having been a regular customer years ago as a UW stu-

The owner of Milwaukee’s Nomad World Pub (above) wants to honor the Cardinal’s legacy.

dent. Eitel and Gonzalez had their first conversation well over a year ago, but it took until December to shake on a deal. If license and permit processes go smoothly, the space will reopen as the Nomad World Pub in March.

To people familiar with both the Cardinal and the Nomad, it seems like an outstanding fit.

While a certain amount of change is inevitable, Eitel doesn’t envision dramatic overhauls of either the structure or the programming, so the transition could be relatively painless for the Cardinal faithful. Eitel is keenly aware of the Cardinal’s special place in LGBT, Latino and jazz communities, and he hopes to cultivate strong ties with all of them.

In addition to hosting live music, the Milwaukee Nomad is known as a place to watch early morning international soccer broadcasts, and

Eitel plans to establish that in Madison as well.

He thinks soccer might help forge connections with the Latino community here that go beyond music and dance. And by being open more days and longer hours than the Cardinal, he hopes the Nomad can not only maintain much of the Cardinal’s current music programming, but even expand on it. He has already had conversations with such Cardinal music stalwarts as DJ Chamo, Latin jazzer Tony Castañeda and trombonist/ bandleader Darren Sterud. Gonzalez and Eitel say Sterud was particularly tickled to learn who the new owner was; he played one of his firstever gigs at the Milwaukee Nomad as a teenager.

“I fully appreciate the weight and responsibility of taking over a spot like the Cardinal,” Eitel says. “There are so many different communities that think of the Cardinal as home, and I

plan to make sure they’re all still comfortable coming in and are happy with what we’re doing.” Morning soccer notwithstanding, Eitel says there’s no danger of the new Nomad morphing into the kind of sports bar where patrons stare glassy-eyed at every meaningless mid-season Brewers game. That’s the opposite of the vibe he’s trying to create.

You can replicate programming, but you can’t clone the Cardinal’s historic role as an epicenter of progressive organizing in Madison. The Madison Press Connection — the newspaper launched by striking Madison Newspapers Inc. workers in 1977 — was essentially born at the Cardinal. Two years later, Union Cab was born out of meetings held there by striking Checker Cab drivers. Community radio station WORT routinely packed the place for a series of Wednesday night dance benefits during its infancy. And it’s not just politics. The Cardinal was also Madison’s first full-fledged disco, complete with dual turntables and a dangling mirror ball.

No musician is more closely associated with the Cardinal than Castañeda, whose Latin jazz group played a weekly show for 13 years, and continues to perform there frequently. Castañeda is optimistic that the Nomad will be a worthy heir to the Cardinal’s legacy, but mostly he’s just happy for his friend Gonzalez.

“People should understand that he really introduced Latin music to Madison, and he played a big role in bringing the Latino community together,” Castañeda says. He says he hopes to have a strong relationship with the Nomad and continue playing there. He’s also excited that Eitel is promising to expand the bar’s tap beer offerings. Says Castañeda: “That’s important to me in a bar.” n

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Flashes of brilliance

Andrew McCuaig’s “The Wallet” is headed to Broadway’s Symphony Space.

A high school teacher’s short fiction becomes an opera

BY JAY RATH

“The Wallet” for an English as a second language textbook.

Finally, a year ago, McCuaig was contacted

by Experiments in Opera, an innovative nonprofit production company in Brooklyn, New York. Composer and co-founder Aaron Siegel asked if he could adapt “The Wallet” to opera — very short opera. It will be staged with others as part of “Flash Operas,” opening May 5 at Broadway’s Symphony Space performing arts center.

“It’s a great honor. It’s really exciting,” says McCuaig, who will be attending with family. “It’s also quite bizarre to imagine my characters singing their lines.” n

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About 15 years ago, teacher Andrew McCuaig scribbled a short story in his La Follette High School classroom. In May, it premieres on Broadway as an opera.

It’s like lightning striking for McCuaig.

His class was experimenting with short, short stories — “flash fiction” — when McCuaig came up with “The Wallet.”

“It’s only two pages, and it’s set in a tollbooth,” he says. A young woman working the late shift has an irritating co-worker who leaves behind a soda and his wallet. A woman escaping domestic violence comes through the tollbooth with two kids in the

back seat and says she needs money. “That’s where the wallet comes in,” says McCuaig.

“The Wallet” has traveled a long way. It was published in Beloit College’s Fiction Journal in 2003. “And then three years later I got a letter out of the blue,” says McCuaig. A Manhattan publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, asked to include it in Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories. The 2006 book is still in print, and is often used in classrooms. Another Madison-area writer, poet Alison Townsend, is also featured in the anthology. Both Townsend and McCuaig have won the prestigious Pushcart Prize, which honors the best from small presses.

“Three or four years later, I got an email,” says McCuaig. A Puerto Rico publisher wanted

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Depth in retrospect UW-Madison’s Cinematheque explores lineage of 3-D film

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The year is 1922. The Ottoman Empire collapses. Sylvia Beach publishes Ulysses on author James Joyce’s 40th birthday. And in Los Angeles, theater audiences see, for the very first time, a 3-D film: The Power of Love.

3-D films have recently proliferated with the rise of digital filmmaking, which makes it easy to convert single-lens shots to 3-D. But Cinematheque’s four-day retrospective on 3-D film, which kicks off Jan. 26, focuses on true 3-D films — those shot simultaneously with two lenses — which were a commercial success in the 1950s.

While some cinephiles tend to consider 3-D a clever gimmick or unwanted nuisance, Jim Healy, Cinematheque’s director of film programming, wants to dispel the myth that 3-D is not for serious filmmakers; the format is inseparable from film’s history and its lofty ambitions. “3-D film is something we take seriously,” says Healy.

Cinematheque in 3 D! is a condensed version of the 3-D Auteurs showcase Healy presented previously at the Film Forum in New York City, and features 3-D works from paragons of cinema, including Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and Alfonso Cuarón.

The 3-D series is a first for Cinematheque, UW-Madison’s international and art film showcase. The films in the series range from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the modern day, and run the gamut from feature films to experimental shorts.

Healy says the immediacy of 3-D film is one of its greatest appeals.

“It’s the thrill of having something thrown in your lap,” Healy says. “It’s a way to make more vivid the illusion of depth and, at its best, to create a fully immersive experience.”

Cinematheque has temporarily installed additional projection equipment to show the films, and Healy hopes turnout will demonstrate an appetite for 3-D showings in future showcases. Though its commercial popularity has waxed and waned, Healy predicts the 3-D format will endure.

All Cinematheque in 3-D! showings will be held at UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706. Showings are free, and 3-D glasses are provided.

Dial M for Murder Jan. 26, 7 pm The classic Alfred Hitchcock film follows a former tennis pro’s (Ray Milland) chilling plot to murder his wife (the peerless Grace Kelly).

Inferno Jan. 27, 6 pm In Roy Baker’s gem from the 3-D wave of the 1950s, a privileged petty tycoon plots revenge after he is left injured and stranded in the Mojave Desert.

Gravity Jan. 27, 8 pm Sandra Bullock is stunning as Ryan Stone, an astronaut fighting for survival in the void of space. A masterwork from the ever-excellent Alfonso Cuarón, and one of the most visceral, thrilling and spectacular experiences released in recent years.

House of Wax Jan. 28, 5:30 pm Things begin to feel strange when visitors explore Dr. Henry Jarrod’s (a delightfully creepy Vincent Price) wax museum and learn its gruesome secret. Showing preceded by the Three Stooges short Spooks (1953, 16 min.).

3-D Rarities! (compilation) Jan. 28, 8 pm Collected digital restorations of early 3-D tests and obscurities, including atomic bomb footage, Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons, burlesque footage and assorted trailers.

September Storm Jan. 28, 1 pm This 1960 tale of a model duped into a Mediterranean treasure hunt is a piece of buried treasure itself: The original negatives were only recently rediscovered and converted to digital 3-D.

Kiss Me Kate Jan. 29, 11 am Art mirrors reality mirroring art in this musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, in which actors Fred (Howard Keel) and Lili (Kathryn Grayson) reunite during a musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. George Sidney directs.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams Jan. 28, 3:30 pm One of the tallest towers in a soaring skyline of a career, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams explores the preserved paintings of the Chauvet Cave in France, home to some of the oldest known art in the world.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Jan. 29, 2 pm JJ Abrams returns audiences to a galaxy far, far away, where Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) fight to save the galaxy from the evil First Order and the menacing Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Big, fun and entertaining.

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Men of the Cloth: Documentary about Italian tailors nearing retirement and the decline of the apprentice system. Hawthorne Library, Jan. 20, 7 pm.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Screening of the audience participation classic, with the Velvet Darkness cast. Majestic, Jan. 20, 10 pm.

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Donnie Darko: After surviving a freak accident, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) uncovers secrets of the universe that give him a tempting power to alter time and destiny. UW Union South-Marquee, Jan. 26 (9:30 pm) and Jan. 28 (11 pm).

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Dial M for Murder: 3-D screening of director Alfred Hitchcock’s film about an unfaithful wife (Grace Kelly) and plotting husband (Ray Milland). UW Cinematheque, Jan. 26, 7 pm.

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Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall: Great Circle Collaborative & Prison Ministry Project documentary screening and Q&A with producer Edgar Barens. First Congregational Church, Jan. 25, 7 pm.

All Quiet on the Western Front: The patriotism of a group of young idealists during World War I is crushed by combat. Verona Library, Jan. 26, 5:30 pm.

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Sara Watkins Thursday, Jan. 19, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

One of the best fiddlers in contemporary music, Sara Watkins is one of folk’s true luminaries. From her famed work with Nickel Creek and the Decemberists to her accomplishments as a solo artist (she’s three albums deep — the most recent being last year’s Young in All the Wrong Ways), the California native has established herself as one of the finest in a genre filled with master musicians. With Liz Longley.

What a Joke Friday, Jan. 20, Majestic Theatre, 7 pm This inauguration weekend, skip the presidential fanfare and laugh for a good cause instead.

What a Joke, a national comedy festival happening simultaneously across 28 cities and two continents, will bring feel-good comedy to an otherwise murky, tumultuous time. Local comedians Cynthia Marie, Anthony Siraguse and Esteban Touma will be joined by national headliner/Madison original Nate Craig (pictured), alongside Chicago-based rising star Reena Calm. Proceeds go directly to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is going to be real busy for the next half-decade.

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Lucille: DJ Brook, free, 10 pm Thursdays.

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

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

sound that carries enough pop sensibility to dominate the airwaves, while at the same time boasting an outlaw’s mentality. With Muscadine Bloodline, a pair of Mobile, Alabama, natives who marry Southern rock licks to ’90s country lyrics.

The Devil Makes Three Thursday, Jan. 19, Orpheum Theater, 9 pm The Devil Makes Three sounds like a band from a different era. Playing a seamless blend of bluegrass, country, folk and other oldschool genres, the band sounds more like they should be onstage at a smoky saloon somewhere out West than at the Orpheum. Their most recent record, Redemption and Ruin, was released in 2016. With Lost Dog Street Band.

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

Up North Pub: Catfish Stephenson, free, 9 pm Thursdays.

THEATER & DANCE Time Stands Still: Madison Theatre Guild, drama about love, friendship and war, 1/13-28, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm only 1/28) and 2 pm, 1/22. $20. 661-9696.

The Full Treatment: Dark comedy about corporations, 1/13-2/4, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays (no show 1/20). $11. 244-8338.

International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase: “L’Aubergine,” by TerZetto (ages 5-12), 8 pm, 1/19; “They Called Her Vivaldi,” performance by Theatre Lovett (ages 7 & up), 8 pm, 1/20; Jazzy Ash & the Leaping Lizards, 9:30 am, 1/21, Overture Center-Capitol Theater. Free; tickets required: overture.org. 258-4141.

FolkUP Tour Launch Party Thursday, Jan. 19, Bos Meadery, 6 pm

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Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Jackie Marie, 8 pm Thursdays.

The FolkUP Tour is a project of German Joseph Schrock, who created a mobile production studio and is set to hit the road to provide free audio/video recording for musicians around the country (and spread the word about Madison’s music scene). Visit the studio at the tour launch party, plus enjoy visual art, music by Dr. Beatz, Sam Ness, Imaginary Watermelon (pictured) and Tin Can Diamonds — and, of course, some mead.

Thursday, Jan. 19, Majestic Theatre, 8 pm

Brink Lounge: Mike Massey & Francie Phelps, 8 pm.

Country radio could use a shot of life, and Luke Combs might be the guy to give it.

The 26-year-old North Carolinian has a

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

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

The Frequency: Against the Grain, Dos Males, 8:30 pm.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Francesco de Mura: “In the Light of Naples,” retrospective of works by the 18th Century Italian painter, 1/20-4/2, Chazen Museum of Art (lecture by curator Arthur Blumenthal 5:30 pm & reception 6:30-8 pm, 1/19). 263-2246.

African Art: Traditional & Modern: 1/10-2/23, Madison College-Downtown Gallery 211; and 1/10-2/9, MCTruax gallery (reception 4-6 pm, 1/19). 258-2437.

BOOKS Brenda Bernstein: Discussing “How to Write a KILLER LinkedIn Profile…and 18 Mistakes to Avoid,” 6:30 pm, 1/19, Barnes & Noble-East Towne. RSVP: 241-4695.

P UBLIC M EETINGS Art Spaces in Madison: Presentations & discussion hosted by Madison Arts Commission and The Bubbler, 6 pm, 1/19, Central Library. 261-9134.

Ryan Hamilton Thursday, Jan. 19, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

Ryan Hamilton just has one of those happy faces that would have served as a 1950sera advertisement, but this polished and endearing comic gives audiences an inside look at his internet dating life. Named

by Rolling Stone one of the five comics to watch for this upcoming year, Hamilton’s always clean set means that even those uninitiated in the standup realm are welcomed into the world of live comedy.

With Mike Lebovitz, Ali Sultan. ALSO: Friday-Saturday, Jan. 20-21, 8 & 10:30 pm.

L EC T URES & S EMI N A RS The Paradox of Being a Black Police Officer in Today’s Society: Talk by Madison Police Officer Corey Saffold, 6:30 pm, 1/19, BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, Fitchburg. 729-1791.

PO L I T I C S & AC T I V I S M Last Gasp: National Lawyers Guild Madison solidarity gathering for progressives, 5:30-8 pm, 1/19, Argus Bar & Grill, with music, snacks. madisonnlg@gmail.com.

Peregrine Forum: “Getting Ready to Resist the Trump Regime,” discussion continues, Room 104, 6:30 pm, 1/19, Central Library. 284-9082.

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Clyde Stubblefield (pictured), James Brown’s “funky drummer” and one of Madison’s musical treasures, is releasing a new CD at this star-studded extravaganza. Get down to sets from Clyde Stubblefield All-Stars, Steez and Dr. Funkenstein. Part of the proceeds go to support the Madison Area Music Association’s Clyde Stubblefield Scholarship Fund, a college music scholarship. Hit the dance floor for the next generation.

Babe’s Restaurant: Richard Shaten, 8:30 pm Fridays.

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Jazz Opera: Free “Opera Novice” talk about “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird” production, 6 pm, 1/20, Madison Opera Center. RSVP: madisonopera.org. 238-8085.

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Cardinal Bar: Mambo Blue, Latin jazz, free, 5:30 pm; DJs Brook, Siberia, fetish night, 9 pm.

Cargo-E. Washington: Half Rose:Half Nelson, 7 pm.

Chief’s Tavern: Frankie Lee, Tim Haub & Doug DeRosa, blues/old-timey, 6:30 pm.

Chocolaterian: Cajun Spice, free, 7 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Mark David, free, 9 pm.

Essen Haus: Tom Brusky, free, 8:30 pm.

First Unitarian Society: The Arbor Ensemble, 12:15 pm.

Harmony Bar: The Jimmys, blues, 9:45 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cris Plata with Extra Hot, Wendy Schneider, Tex-Mex/country rock, 6 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Kevin Gale, Leslie Cao, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

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

Liquid: Hook N Sling, 10 pm.

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

Mickey’s Tavern: Pollinators, Lurkhards, Knvte, Roboman, free, 10:30 pm.

Orpheum Theater: Lukas Graham, 7 pm.

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Circus Space’s showcase of members and students returns, with performers including aerialists Alex Devaux and Claire Kannapell, juggler Nick Aikens, award-winning hoop dancer Sophie Spacegypsy and children’s troupe These Are My Monkeys. In addition to Friday’s shows, a showcase designed for families will take place at 9:30 am Sunday, Jan. 22.

Bos Meadery: Daniel Mortensen, donations, 7 pm.

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South Pacific: Musical by Verona Area Community Theater, 7:30 pm on 1/20-21 & 26-28 and 2 pm, 1/22, Verona Area High School. $16. vact.org.

Brocach-Monroe Street: The Currach, 6 pm Fridays.

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PaintBar: Open Mic, free, 9:30 pm.

Parched Eagle Brewpub: Milkhouse Radio, 7:30 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Jake Dodds, country, 10 pm.

The Red Zone: Known to Wander, The Begowatts, Lorenzo’s Music, Bassliss, 8 pm.

CO MEDY What a Joke: With Nate Craig, Reena Calm, Esteban Touma, Cynthia Marie & Anthony Siraguse, 7 pm, 1/20, Majestic Theatre. $18 ($16 adv.). 255-0901.

S PO K EN WO RD Word Power! Open Mic: For ages 13-19, 6:30 pm, 1/20, Lussier Community Education Center. jvnp.national@gmail.com.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Leslie Iwai: “Daughter Cells: Inheritance, Separation & Survival,” mixed media, 11/18-1/22, Overture Center-James Watrous Gallery (Art at Noon program noon, 1/20). 265-2500.

Wisconsin Regional Art Program: 1/18-3/1, River Arts Center Gallery, Spring Green (reception 5-7 pm, 1/20). 643-5215.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Blanket Fort Night: Planned Parenthood fundraiser, 7 pm-1 am, 1/20, Broom Street Theater, with stories, crafts, music, dance for all ages. Donations. 244-8338.

RSVP for Lily’s Luau: Annual Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research fundraiser, 6:30 pm, 1/21, UW Union South-Varsity Hall, with dinner, music, dancing, auctions. $60. RSVP by 1/20: lilysfund.org. 446-6052.

Always UNIDOS: UNIDOS Against Domestic Violence fundraiser, 6-9 pm, 1/20, Five Nightclub, with bingo, photo booth, mural & more. $10 donation. unidosagainstdv.org. 256-9195.

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UW Men’s Hockey: vs. Minnesota, 7 pm on 1/20 and 5 pm, 1/21, Kohl Center. $24/$20. 262-1440.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: David Wheaton & Steven Hollerup, free, 7 pm.

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SP ECI A L I N T ER ESTS Well Expo: Annual health & wellness event, 3-8 pm on 1/20 and 9 am-4 pm, 1/21, Monona Terrace, with speakers, seminars, exhibitors. $5 (free with two nonperishable food donations). wellexpomadison.com.

Remodeling Expo: National Association of the Remodeling Industry Madison Chapter event, 1/20-22, Marriott-West, Middleton, with vendors, seminars & demonstrations. $5. nariexpo.com. 222-0670.

MPower Champion Public Showcase: Sustain Dane event, 7:30 am, 1/20, Monona Terrace. Free. RSVP: sustaindane.org. 819-0689.

P OL IT I C S & AC T I V I S M Resist Trump: Occupy the Inauguration!: Madison Socialist Alternative rally, gather 2 pm, 1/20, UW Library Mall, with march to Capitol, speakers. facebook.com/events/219067278526953.

Candlelight Vigil: In support of victims of bigotry, prejudice & xenophobia, meet 7 pm, 1/20, corner of State and Lake streets. 712-2810.

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UW-Madison’s first hot ticket show of the semester is coming courtesy of esteemed Tennessee-via-Los Angeles rapper Isaiah Rashad, who released his debut album, The Sun’s Tirade, last fall on Kendrick Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment label.

Since XXL magazine named him one of their esteemed “freshmen” in 2014, Isaiah has released a slew of underground hits; in 2017, he’s poised to fully break into the mainstream. Fellow TDE signee Lance Skiiiwalker & Maryland’s Jay IDK open.

The vibrant new chamber music ensemble presents a timely concert honoring the “first lady of civil rights.” The Players will offer Daniel Bernard Roumain’s “String Quartet No. 5: Rosa Parks,” plus works from Haydn, Mendelssohn and Piazzola. ALSO: Sunday, Jan. 22, 1:30 pm.

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Saturday, Jan. 21,, Harmony Bar 9:45 pm

Brink Lounge: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 8 pm.

This venerable Madison psych-pop outfit took their sweet time following up on their 2009 album, Throwing Stones (seven years, to be exact), but the wait was worth it.

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Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: David Hecht, free, 7 pm.

Cardinal Bar: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: The Lower 5th, free, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Valerie B. & the Boyz, free, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Lords of the Trident, Inner Siege, Help Desk, 9 pm.

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Known by its legions of devoted fans simply as “Yonder,” this beloved bluegrass jam band has been pushing the boundaries of classic Americana for nearly 20 years. Their latest album, Black Sheep, is the band’s first release since major lineup changes (most notably, the departure of frontman Jeff Austin), but the sound is classic Yonder. With the Railsplitters.

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Fisher King Winery, Mount Horeb: The Mascot Theory, folk rock, free, 6:30 pm.

The Frequency: Growing, Dead Ships, Throw the Fight, 9 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: The Keepers, classic rock, 9 pm.

Post-March Warrior Oasis: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (and other organizations) gathering, 3-5:30 pm, 1/21, Lucille, with art & music by DJ Bizzon, BlackPaint Studios, Video Villains, Mikey C. Apollo. facebook.com/events/855300097946524.

Ivory Room: Andy Schneider, Jim Ripp, Kevin Gale, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

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High Noon Saloon: Kids’ Day, annual family concerts

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Knuckle Down Saloon: The Soul Inspirations, 9 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Michael Gruber, fingerstyle guitar, free, 9:30 am Saturdays.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Northern Comfort, bluegrass, free, 7 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, jazz, free, 6:30 pm.

Majestic: The Schwag, Grateful Dead tribute, 9 pm.

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

Mickey’s Tavern: Mori Mente, Ronin, Luxury Prisons, Queenager, free, 10:30 pm.

Nau-Ti-Gal: Riled Up, free, 8 pm.

Oakwood Village-University Woods Center for Arts & Education: Oakwood Chamber Players, 7 pm. Also: 2 pm, 1/22.

Pooley’s: Madison County, country, 9 pm.

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Women’s March on Madison: Solidarity rally for Washington, D.C., march, meet noon, 1/21, UW Library Mall, for march to Capitol for rally. facebook. com/events/361478110866299.

Steinway & Sons: Apostle Island Trio, free, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Imaginary Watermelon, free, 10 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: Open Mic with Steve Venturella, free, 7 pm.

Tyranena Brewing, Lake Mills: Sortin’ the Mail, 7 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Wisconsin Day of Percussion: Clinics, presentations & performances, 8:30 am-5 pm; concert by Doug Waddell, Dave Stanoch, UW Western Percussion Ensemble, World Percussion Ensemble, College All-Star Percussion Ensemble, WYSO Percussion Ensemble, 5:15 pm. pas.org/widop.

UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: Fin Zipper, Griffin Paul Band, free, 9 pm.

SP OKEN WORD Urban Spoken Word: 7 pm, 1/21, Genna’s Lounge. $5. 332-4643.

Watershed Reading Series: Poetry readings with an “advice” theme, 8 pm, 1/21, Arts + Literature Laboratory. Donations. 556-7415.

SP ECTATOR SP ORTS UW Women’s Hockey: vs. North Dakota, 1 pm on 1/21 and noon, 1/22, LaBahn Arena. $5. 262-1440.

Day with the Experts: Autism: Panel discussion & info on latest research advances, 9 am, 1/21, Waisman Center. Free. RSVP: waisman.wisc.edu. 263-5837.

EN V I RO N MEN T Cranes! Ambassadors for Conservation: Friends of Cherokee Marsh presentation by International Crane Foundation president Richard Beilfuss, 10:30 am, 1/21, Warner Park Community Recreation Center; Friends annual meeting at 10 am, plus cake & door prizes celebrating 10th anniversary. Free. 215-0426.

DA N C I N G USA Dance-Madison: Ballroom dance, 7:45-10 pm, 1/21, Prairie Athletic Club, Sun Prairie. $13 (lesson 7 pm). 836-4004.

Wisconsin Tango Milonga: 8 pm-midnight, 1/21, Tempo Ballroom & Latin Dance Studio. $10 (beginner lesson 7 pm). 622-7697.

K I D S & FA MI LY Kids in the Rotunda: Free performance by Stuart Stotts, 9:30 am, 11 am & 1 pm, 1/21, Overture CenterRotunda Stage. 258-4141.

Children of the Rainforest: Caribbean folk music by Goongoo Peas, 10:30 am & 1:30 pm, 1/21, Olbrich Gardens. $5 ($3 ages 3-12). 246-4550.

Kid Disco: With DJ Nick Nice, 11 am-2 pm, 1/21, Great Dane-Hilldale. $5 ($15/family). 661-9400.

FA RMERS’ MA RK ETS Dane County Farmers’ Market: 7:30 am-noon Saturdays, Madison Senior Center, with music by Peasants Abroad, breakfast with guest chef Kristina Stanley (8:30-11 am, $10) on 1/21. 455-1999.

MadWest Farmers’ Market: 8 am-noon Saturdays, 11/12-1/28, Lussier Family Education Center.

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Isthmus Beer & Cheese Fest: Annual event, 2-6 pm, 1/21, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall, with samples, pairing presentations, music by Piano Fondue, silent disco with DJ Tanner. $50 adv. ($85 with noon entry; 21+ only). isthmusbeercheese.com. 251-5627.

Frostiball: Annual fundraiser dance, 8:30-11 pm, 1/21, Overture Center, with music by the Upbeat Orchestra, visual art by Black Hole Theatre Les Méduses, silent auction & more; Isthmus After Party 11 pm2 am. $125 ($75 afterparty only). 258-4141.

Legacy of Love: A Night Out with NAMI Wisconsin: NAMI Wisconsin fundraiser for the family of Adam June, 6-10 pm, 1/21, Brink Lounge, with social hour 6 pm, music by Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble 8:30 pm. $50-$15. RSVP: eventbrite. com/e/30259560159. 268-6000.

P OLITICS & ACTIV ISM Leading Locally: 100 Days of Turning Ideas into Action: Discussion of 100-day agenda for civic action in Madison, hosted by Ald. Maurice Cheeks, 9 amnoon, 1/21, 316 W. Washington Ave. facebook.com/ events/1128332973950301.

Planes Mistaken for Stars Sunday, Jan. 22, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

As one of the leading lights of the posthardcore genre, Planes Mistaken for Stars have become the elder statesmen of their scene. But the Denver-via-Peoria, Illinois, band hardly lets their age show; even in their third decade, they can still tear it up with the best of the younger generation. Prey, their first album since 2006, was released last year on Deathwish Records. With Twelves, Control.

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ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS

Ruthanne Bessman: “In the Fold,” origami, 1/22-3/5, Nancy Nicholas Hall-Mecklenburg Reading Room. 262-8815.

Sunday, Jan. 22, Farley’s House of Pianos, 4 pm

Though he died at the tender age of 31, Franz Schubert is considered one of the most prolific and important composers of all time. Catherine Kautsky, chair of the keyboard department at Lawrence University in Appleton, will perform a tribute to the late-Classical early-Romantic master in an intimate salon-style setting. Repertoire includes works inspired by Schubert, as well as two pieces by the master himself.

E N VI RONM ENT UW Arboretum Walk: “Winter Water” topic, 1 pm, 1/22; and Family Nature Program: “Winter Animals” topic, 1:30 pm, 1/22, Visitor Center. 263-7888.

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The Frequency: Sunjacket, The Ferns, 8 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Thistle Pettersen, free, 8 pm.

Funk’s Pub, Fitchburg: Open Jam with Mudroom, free, 8 pm Sundays.

Farm Tavern: Bluegrass Jam, free, 6:30 pm Mondays.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Soh-Hyun Park Altino & Christopher Taylor, 4 pm.

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

High Noon Saloon: Trap Saturn, Disq, It’s All You, Cowboy, 9 pm.

Ivory Room: Josh Dupont, piano, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Mickey’s Tavern: Em Jay, free, 10 pm.

Neighborhood House: Bluegrass Jam, 7 pm Tuesdays.

Up North Pub: Lucas Cates & Kenny Leiser, free, 8 pm.

Fountain: Open Mic with Adam Pitt, 8 pm Mondays.

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

Madison Opera Community Preview: “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird,” free multimedia presentation, 7 pm, 1/24, Capitol Lakes. 238-8085.

Malt House: Barley Brothers, string band, free, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Paul Matushek, free, 7 pm.

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ARTS N OTICES Make Music Madison Volunteer Kickoff: 6 pm, 1/23, Chocolaterian Cafe. info@makemusicmadison.org, 6 pm.

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Post-punk synthpop songwriter Chris Stewart recorded Black Marble’s 2016 album It’s Immaterial during a cross-country move to the West Coast. With its themes of uncertainty and lack of control, the album’s vibe is sonically indebted to the dark synthdriven pop of the late 1970s while feeling as contemporary as the winter landscape of late January 2017. YOU. and Touch open.

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

Alchemy Cafe: DJ Samroc, free, 10 pm Mondays.

Tip Top Tavern: Open Mic with Nate Meng, free, 9 pm Sundays.

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Come Back In: WheelHouse, Americana, free, 5 pm Tuesdays.

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Cardinal Bar: Madison Bones, jazz, free, 6:30 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

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

Brocach-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 5 pm.

Liliana’s: Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 10:30 am Sundays.

Wisconsin Innovation Network: Lunch program on broadband expansion, 11:30 am, 1/24, Sheraton. $35.

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Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: John Vitale, Marilyn Fisher & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Tuesdays.

Bird & Nature Outing: 1:30 pm, 1/22, UW Parking Lot 129 (Picnic Point). 698-0104.

Bos Meadery: Open Mic, free, 2 pm Sundays.

Java Cat: Nick Matthews, free, 9 am Sundays.

Can a Madison Progressive Win the Governor’s Race?: The Capital Times discussion, 6 pm, 1/24, High Noon Saloon. Free. 268-1122.

Alchemy Cafe: Ted Keys Trio, free, 10 pm Tuesdays.

Rumi O’Brien: “Crossing Mountains and Other Adventures,” story quilts, 1/22-3/5, UW Nancy Nicholas HallRuth Davis Design Gallery. 262-8815.

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Wonky Tonk Wednesday, Jan. 25, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm

If you like a bit of rock ’n’ roll attitude with your honky-tonk, Wonky Tonk — aka Kentucky singer-songwriter Jasmine Poole — may become your new musical crush after this Mickey’s show. Opening are a pair of Madison’s best songwriters, the hardtouring Josh Harty (playing in a trio format with bassist Chris Boeger and percussionist Pauli Ryan) and Aaron Scholz (also accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Boeger).

1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove: Ken Wheaton, fingerstyle guitar, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.

Brocach Irish Pub-Monroe Street: Gypsy Jazz Jam, free, 7:30 pm Wednesdays.

Brocach-Square: Irish Open Jam, 8 pm Wednesdays.

Genna’s Lounge: Open Mic, free, 9 pm Wednesdays.

High Noon Saloon: Psychoswank, 5:30 pm.

Ivory Room: Jim Ripp, piano, free, 8 pm.

Liliana’s Restaurant, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen & Ken Kuehl, jazz, free, 5:30 pm Wednesdays.

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

Majestic Theatre: Louis the Child, sold out, 9 pm.

The Red Zone: Open Jam, free, 8 pm Wednesdays.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

UW Union South-The Sett: Open Mic with Frankie Pobar Lay, free, 8 pm Wednesdays.

VFW Post 7591-Cottage Grove Road: Jerry Stueber, free, 6 pm Wednesdays.

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Phantom of the Opera Wednesday, Jan. 25, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm

SP OKEN WO R D Nerd Nite: Free social gathering/informal presentations, 8 pm, 1/25, High Noon Saloon. 268-1122.

Majority Rules? Arguments for and Against Electoral College Reform: American Constitution Society-Madison Lawyer Chapter panel discussion, 8:15 am, 1/25, Boardman & Clark. Free. RSVP: bsnapp@habush.com.

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Outside Mullingar Thursday, Jan. 26, Overture Center Playhouse, 7:30 pm

Forward Theatre Company will bring a little piece of Ireland to Madison with John Patrick Shanley’s Tony-nominated play. It’s a quirky love story focused on two aging, introverted misfits — a rural cattle farmer and the woman who lives next door — and their struggle to find happiness by overcoming family rivalries and a bitter land feud.

ALSO: Friday and Saturday (7:30 pm) and Sunday (2 pm), Jan. 27-29. Through Feb. 12.

Forward Theater Company Play Club: Readings from “Outside Mullingar,” 7 pm, 1/26, Belleville Library. Free.

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COME DY Bryan Miller, Robert Baril: 8:30 pm, 1/26, Comedy Club on State. $10. 256-0099.

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ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Felipe Hernandez: Wire art, reception 7 pm, 1/26, Yellow Rose Gallery. artonstate.com.

Daumier Lithographs: Characters & Caricatures: 12/232/19, Chazen Museum of Art (lecture by Andrew Stevens 5:30 pm, 1/26). 263-2246.

James Reinke, Jean Borman: “Co-Opted: JJ3 and JJ4,” through 2/28, Willy Street Co-op East (251-6776) and West, Middleton (284-7800).

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Clean living Jangle Soapworks of Mount Horeb makes natural goat milk soap

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Part of the herd that produces the liquid of choice for Jangle’s body care products.

Janelle Holmstrom, owner of Jangle Soapworks, knows goat milk is not just for cheese.

Holmstrom has been making and selling goat milk soap for five years. She lives with her husband and three children on a fiveacre farm outside of Mount Horeb, where they raise and milk their own goats.

The soap business grew from Holmstrom’s interest in natural living. Her farm has no electricity and shares organic garden plots with neighbors. Each spring her family taps its own maple trees to boil syrup.

She describes herself as caught between wanting to live “that quintessential, simple life,” and wanting to keep up with aspects of mainstream culture, like her kids’ basketball and dance practices and orchestra concerts.

Holmstrom purchased her first goat 12 years ago while on a nutritionally motivated quest for raw milk. Now, she keeps five to 12 goats at a time, and names each new kid alphabetically (having started with Alphabella, the leader of the pack). This year, she reached the letter O. She feeds the goats vegetables grown in her own garden; they also eat pumpkin seeds as a natural de-wormer.

Holmstrom milks the goats each morning. To make soap, she freezes the fresh milk in ice cube trays. Then, she adds sodium hydroxide, or lye, a necessary salt-based chemical, to induce saponification. Saponification is the chemical reaction that transforms the oil, liquid and fat into soap.

After the milk and lye are mixed together, she adds melted fats or oils, such as almond, olive, coconut or canola. Then she adds colors, additives and scents, before pouring the mixture into molds.

Raw liquid soap could actually burn the skin. Soap must be cured over time — and, like wine and cheese, becomes better with age. Curing allows extra water to evaporate, which makes the bar harden and produce more suds and bubbles when used.

Holmstrom cures her soaps for at least two months. The ideal time to use soap is six months to a year after it is made.

A main benefit of goat milk soap is that it nourishes as well as exfoliates. The texture itself is smooth, but the enzymes in goat milk help skin cells rejuvenate.

Goat milk soap has been helpful for people with dry skin in winter and even for those with chronic skin conditions.

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Holmstrom also makes a variety of other natural products, such as body butter, lip balm, deodorant and shaving cream. Each product undergoes a development phase of at least six months.

Her latest product is natural laundry detergent.

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About a year ago, I was pretending to read my boyfriend’s mind and jokingly said, “You want to put it in my ear.” Since then, I have seen references to ear sex (aural sex?) everywhere! There’s even a holiday (“Take It in the Ear Day” on Dec. 8), and I was reading a book just now in which the author mentions how much she hates getting come in her ear. So while I am honestly not trying to yuck someone’s yum, I do have two questions. First, is this really a thing? And second, how does it work? I mean, I like it when my boyfriend kisses my ears, but I don’t think I’d get that hot from him putting his penis there. It just seems loud. Can you enlighten me?

An Understanding Requested About Listeners Ear sex is a thing. But we need to distinguish between auralism, AURAL, and an ear fetish.

People into auralism are sexually aroused by sounds — it could be a voice or music or sex noises. (Sex noises can arouse almost anyone who hears them, of course, so technically we’re all auralists.) An ear fetish, on the other hand, is a kind of partialism, i.e., a sexual interest in one part of the body (often parts not typically found in pants). A foot fetish is a partialism, for example, as is an ear fetish or an armpit fetish.

Most ear fetish stuff — including the thousands of ear fetish videos on YouTube — is about tugging, rubbing, or licking someone’s ear and not about fucking someone in the ear or coming in someone’s ear canal.

Dicks don’t fit in ear canals, and blasting semen into someone’s ear could cause a nasty ear infection. So both are risky practices best avoided — but, hey, if PIE (penis in ear) sex is actually a thing, I invite any hardcore ear kinksters out there reading this to write in and explain exactly how that works.

I have a particular fetish that I’ve never fully disclosed to anybody. My ultimate fantasy is to be stripped of my assets by a woman and then (most importantly) made homeless. I like dressing up dirty — face, clothing, and all — and even going so far as to look through garbage cans. My question is this: Is it moral to live out this fantasy, considering the plight of homeless people?

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you and leaving you homeless? Great. Find a woman who’s into findom (financial domination) and give her some or most of your money and play dress-up on the weekends and sleep in her backyard. But don’t give her everything and actually wind up homeless, because then you’ll wind up competing for scarce shelter beds and other resources with men, women, and children who didn’t choose to become homeless because it made their dicks hard. There’s nothing moral about making their plight worse than it already is.

Finally, while you’re able to fantasize about being stripped of your assets and left homeless, there are real people out there who have nothing and don’t find anything about being homelessness arousing. Want to be poorer? Donate a big chunk of your assets to homeless shelters and/or nonprofits that assist those experiencing homelessness in your area.

Bi guy here, who’s way okay with the use of “fag” or “faggot” in the right context.

And what FAGS wrote in about last week — a boyfriend who wants to be called “faggot” while she talks negatively about his cock — is absolutely the right context.

There’s an evolution in meaning taking place right now, Dan. These days, “fag” is less about sexual preference and more about sexual submission. A submissive man? Gay or straight? He’s a fag. I’ve been serviced by both hetero and homo faggots and have enjoyed myself, as have the fags who sucked my cock or did my housework.

Go onto Tumblr and see for yourself.

(Also: I have a sneaky suspicion that sparks would fly if FAGS raised the subject of cuckoldry with her boyfriend.)

Bi Guy Into Faggots Thanks for sharing, BGIF. For more of Savage Love see Isthmus.com.

Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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Just like AURAL, DIRTY, I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. But this is definitely a fantasy — morally speaking — that can’t be fully realized.

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