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WELCOME TO THE THUNDERDOME Madison’s bike polo scene thrives, even during the winter.

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POLICE SETTLEMENT

Madison settles the lawsuit brought by family of Tony Robinson.

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4 SNAPSHOT A GRADUATE of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Sean Kennedy recently moved to Madison from Chicago, where he worked for public radio station WBEZ. An avid bike racer, he never played bike polo until trying it out while reporting for this week’s Snapshot.

ELISA WISEMAN

The resistance to Trump is fueled by progressives in D.C. and at home.

13 COVER STORY

OH, THE HUMANITIES

The Odyssey Project proves that art and literature can help make a life worth living.

21-24 FOOD & DRINK

BUZZED

Three new coffeehouses bring Madison new pour-overs, new beans and new T-shirts.

CHEESED

Melted food cart buys a school bus to serve as a home base for meal delivery.

25 SPORTS

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COVER STORY FORMER ISTHMUS news intern Elisa Wiseman, a recent graduate of the UW-Madison journalism school, wrote a version of the cover story for her creative nonfiction class.

When she began her reporting into the Odyssey Project, she couldn’t help but notice the similar stories of the program’s founder, Emily Auerbach, and one of its students, Avé Thorpe. The two became a dual focus for an article about how the humanities can transform lives.

NOT THE TEA PARTY

TRY LIKE AN EAGLE

Chaia Huff starts turning around the Edgewood women’s basketball program.

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HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Do Ho Suh’s exhibit at MMoCA is a wondrous dreamscape.

27-29 MUSIC Ari Herstand, author and DIY music guru, returns for a High Noon show.

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EMPHASIS MOUNT HOREB NATIVE Jane Burns says just about everybody she knew in high school worked as a guide at Cave of the Mounds. She didn’t, but was steeped in the lore of the place like everyone else — after all, the discovery of the cave in 1939 is what first brought tourism and attention to the area. Now the attraction is drawing a whole new audience, as Burns reports this week.

Where local meets global Saturday, Feb. 25, Overture Center, 10:30 am Celebrate Madison’s rich cultural and artistic heritage with more than 30 performances at the International Festival. Local businesses with global connections will sell arts and crafts, and the cafe will feature foods from India, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Poland and more. The event will open with Swiss alphorns, followed by a welcome by the Ho-Chunk Nation, traditional Chinese dance, German choral music, and folk music of Russia and Eastern Europe. And that’s just in the first hour!

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ORCHESTRAL SWANK

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Brazil’s Aquarius includes a sensitive portrayal of a mature woman’s sexuality.

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Thursday, Feb. 23, Central Library, 6 pm

Changes are afoot for those who sell their wares on the streets of Madison. Food cart owners in particular are hoping for a revamping of sites and regulations, and the city has a new street vending coordinator on board. Be part of the discussion at a community meeting — merchant vending and sidewalk cafes are also on the agenda.

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Minds matter

Concerts and tastings are taking place in a cave outside Blue Mounds.

Friday, Feb. 24, Mount Zion Baptist Church, 2019 Fisher St., 6:30 pm; Saturday, Feb. 25, Urban League of Greater Madison, 2222 S. Park St., 9 am-3 pm

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Keeping the flame alive Saturday, Feb. 25, Concourse Hotel, 6:30 pm

Sable Flames, an organization that funds higher education scholarships for low-income African American students, hosts a fundraising dance. With complimentary hors d’oeuvres and drinks and music from Dance Floor Heroes.

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According to the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin, African Americans are almost twice as likely to be affected by Alzheimer’s disease as whites, yet they are less likely to be diagnosed early, or at all. To build awareness of this “silent epidemic,” the group is co-hosting screenings and workshops (Feb. 25) and a community discussion (Feb. 24), led by Keith Whitfield, provost of Wayne State University, who will present “Mind Over Matter: Healthy Cognitive Aging with an Emphasis on African American Men.”

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Hockey on bikes

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It’s a sunny 25 degrees at the Reynolds Park courts on the near east side, yet a dozen cyclists ride in tight circles and swing mallets at a small rubber ball. It’s perfect bike polo weather.

“We’re at the Thunderdome,” says Megan Saucke, a bike polo veteran. “This is the original site of Madison bike polo.”

It looks like bike jousting while chasing a ball.

“Bike polo is...hmm,” Saucke says, struggling to describe it. “It’s basically hockey on bikes.”

An emissary for the sport, Saucke gives a quick, practiced rundown of the rules. “You have three-versus-three on the court, you play first-to-five or whoever has the highest score in 12 minutes. Can’t put your foot down, so if you put your foot down you have to go tap your mallet at the center of the court to re-enter play,” Saucke explains.

One end of the mallet is hollow, allowing a skilled player to scoop the ball. The other side is flat for shooting goals. “There are no set goalies; you kind of rotate in and out of positions based on how the game goes,” says Sauke. “It’s pretty dynamic.”

It can be a rough-and-tumble game, with high speeds in close quarters. Body-to-body contact is allowed, as is stick-to-stick. Some players wear shin guards and hockey gloves, but just as many take their chances.

It doesn’t really require specialized equipment, but Saucke has a few tips for those look-

ing to get into the sport. “You want a bike with a shorter geometry, so it can turn faster. You want a single-speed with a low gear ratio so you can get going pretty quickly. Straight bars, no drop bars — those can be pretty dangerous. Most people go front brake only — though some people are still old school and go back brake. They skid around; that’s fun to watch.”

Bike polo was born in Ireland in the late 19th century, with the first games taking place on the verdant fields south of Dublin. The modern variant traces its roots to the Seattle bike messenger scene of the late 1990s.

“I want to say the summer of 2005 is when we started playing bike polo here in Madison,” chef and player Jonny Hunter says. A few bike messengers came up from Chicago, where the bike polo scene was starting to grow. “They put together a game, and the next week, we all built mallets and started playing.” Jonny and his brother Ben became polo evangelists, organizing games and loaning equipment.

They stumbled onto the tennis courts by accident. Most Midwestern bike polo teams are dormant in the winter. But at Reynolds Park, the courts are heated by the water reservoir below, making for a pristine playing surface regardless of the weather. “We were wondering when the snow was going to stick up there, and it never did, so we finally thought ‘oh, we can play all year long.’ That was huge.”

The Madison scene grew quickly, and soon city teams were placing high at nationals and the world championships. There were growing pains. “We needed to have courts [at Reynolds Park], so we were taking two-by-sixes and placing them out into a court, then moving them off to the side of the tennis courts for storage,” Hunter says. “And Parks would come and take our stuff, or the water utility.” Hunter and others lobbied the Parks Division to get polo recognized as a legitimate use for the neglected tennis courts. “But they were not very interested in new sports at that time,” Hunter says.

The department eventually came around.

In 2014, the city officially designated the Reynolds Park courts as bike polo courts. The following year, they replaced the makeshift wooden boundaries of the court with durable prefab walls. Now the club plays regularly — Sunday afternoons in the winter; Tuesdays and Thursdays once the days get longer.

Polo is a small sport, but when people get into it, they tend to go whole-hog. “It’s also a really progressive community. It’s one of the few all-gender sports, where you’re not segregating by sex or gender,” Saucke says. “We have lots of trans and nonbinary players. Vegans, anarchists, people all over the spectrum. Mark over there is a cellist and a music teacher, Tony’s a helmet research engineer. Tommy is an apple farmer. We’ve got lots of interesting people.” n

1891: The year bike polo was born, the brainchild of Irish cyclist R.J. Mecredy. The first games took place in County Wicklow south of Dublin.

3: Consecutive national titles won by the Beaver Boys, formerly of Milwaukee, which eventually relocated to the West Coast in search of tougher competition.

The team also won two world titles, in 2010 and 2013.

1908: The only year bike polo made it to the Olympics.

Then called “cycle polo,” it made the Olympic roster as a demonstration sport at the London games. Ireland beat Germany for the gold, 3-1. .97: Number of miles I rode during a single 12-minute game.

Average speed: just under 5 miles per hour, or barely enough to stay upright.

See footage of the match at isthmus.com

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Madison settles Tony Robinson lawsuit for record $3.35 million Plaintiffs say evidence shows Officer Matt Kenny’s account was false

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Madison has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of Tony Robinson for $3.35 million, the largest settlement in state history for an officer-involved shooting, according to the family’s attorneys.

However, City Attorney Mike May would not confirm the settlement or comment in any way about the case. A trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 27 in Dane County Circuit Court.

The unarmed Robinson, 19, was shot and killed

by Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny on March 6, 2015. Earlier that evening, emergency calls reported a young man jumping in and out of traffic on Williamson Street and assaulting people. Kenny was dispatched and entered a nearby home looking for the young man. Moments later, Kenny fired seven shots from his handgun, all of the bullets striking an unarmed Robinson. Kenny, who remains on the force, was cleared of wrongdoing by both Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and the Madison Police Department.

Attorney Anand Swaminathan of the Chicago firm of Lovey & Lovey, which represents Robinson’s estate, says that the settlement — expected to be announced Thursday at a news conference — shows that their case against the city was strong.

“That settlement figure is absolute vindication for the family,” Swaminathan says. “The story that Kenny told is false, and, in fact, something very different happened in that stairwell.”

The state’s previous record settlement — $2.3 million — for an officer-involved killing involved Paul Heenan, who was fatally shot by a Madison officer in 2012.

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According to court documents, Kenny told investigators that when he arrived at 1125 Williamson St., “he was faced with a rapidly evolving scenario, which led him to believe Robinson was assaulting [someone] in the upstairs unit. Kenny responded in an effort to help, but was confronted in the stairwell by Robinson in an aggressive state. Robinson punched Kenny in the head, leading to a concussion, and continued to repeatedly swing at Kenny. Kenny, fearful that he would lose consciousness and be disarmed, fatally shot Robinson in an effort to protect himself.”

In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs challenge Kenny’s account of what happened that night, arguing that forensic evidence and dashcam video directly contradict the officer. They contend video shows Kenny exiting the stairwell during shot two of the first string of three shots. They also argue that because of the trajectory of the bullet wounds, Kenny could not have been at the top of the stairs and in close contact with Robinson when he began shooting.

“We were going to bring in multiple scientists who were going to look at the forensic evidence and explain to a jury very clearly why Officer Kenny’s story was provably false,” Swaminathan, who grew up in Madison, tells Isthmus. “There was going to be audio and video evidence [from Kenny’s squad car dashcam] that a jury could [have] seen with their own eyes that would have shown unequivocally that [Kenny’s] story was false. That [evidence] and the two scientists

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we would have brought in was what [the city] didn’t want the jury to hear.”

David Owens, another attorney with Lovey & Lovey, says the forensic evidence casts doubt on Kenny’s account that he was in a physical struggle with Robinson and feared for his life. “There are seven gunshots and [forensic experts can show] that three of them are from a distance of three to four feet away,” he says. “Three of the gunshots are also in three really bizarre places — one through Tony Robinson’s mouth that also hit his shoulder, one goes through his hand, one goes through his shoulder in another way.”

That evidence, Owens says, suggests that Robinson wasn’t battling Kenny, but that he was tumbling down the stairs.

“Robinson is falling down the stairs towards him. That’s what we think really happened in the stairwell,” Owens says. “There’s no universe in which it’s possible that Tony Robinson was on top of Matt Kenny the whole time. There’s no way that can be true.”

Plaintiff attorneys also argue that Kenny lied about announcing his presence as a police officer when he arrived on the scene and in the stairwell.

“There were neighbors downstairs — basically under that stairwell — that were interviewed, and they never reported hearing any of the things that Kenny said happened,” says

Owens. “The reason that this lie is important for Kenny is that he has to say that they interacted in the stairwell and Robinson knew he was a police officer because that way, he would be justified in shooting him. That’s the reason for the lie.”

The lawsuit stated it forcefully: “Tony Robinson Jr.’s life was taken through an act of intentional homicide — a violation of [his] constitutional rights — by Madison Police Department Officer Matthew Kenny.”

In their defense of the killing, lawyers for the city argue in court filings that Kenny had been well trained to deal with these types of situations and that he was justified in using deadly force based on the circumstances.

The city’s insurance agent, Wisconsin Municipal Mutual Insurance Company, hired the law firm Boardman & Clark to work with the city on the case. Kenny is represented by Crivello Carlson, also hired by the insurance company.

The defense motions note that photos taken after the incident show Kenny suffered head injuries, corroborating the officer’s account that Robinson attacked him. They point out that Kenny believed a victim was in the apartment.

“Robinson charged, attacked, and engaged in an active physical struggle with a police officer,” a city motion states.

“Kenny reasonably believed that his life was in danger and that a potential victim of Robinson’s actions remained in [the apartment] and was in imminent danger should Robinson render Kenny unable to assist.”

A main part of the city’s defense involved the precedent of giving police officers wide latitude in determining what constitutes an imminent threat of “death or serious bodily injury,” the standard for when deadly force is justified.

In particular, the city noted a 1988 federal case, Sherrod v. Berry, involving an Illinois police officer who killed an unarmed man in 1979. The court found the killing was justified based on what the officer knew at the time.

Madison attorneys cited this ruling: “It is not necessary that the danger which gave rise to the belief [that death or serious bodily injury was imminent] actually existed; it is sufficient that the person... reasonably believed in the existence of such a danger, and such reasonable belief is sufficient even where it is mistaken. In forming such reasonable belief a person may act upon appearances.” n

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■ MADISON MATRIX BIG CITY

UW-Madison’s student government demands free tuition and housing for black students.

Seems fair, given the time black students spend educating their white peers about race issues.

ONE DAY, ONE COMMUNITY MANY WAYS TO SHARE A UW-Madison student faces tentative charges of lewd and lascivious behavior after running naked through the state Capitol earlier this month.

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Two Republican lawmakers scrap a plan to get rid of Daylight Saving Time in Wisconsin after social media backlash, but announce an alternative plan to make the time change permanent year-round. Just...no.

Mayor Paul Soglin proposes a task force on Equity in Music and Entertainment with hopes to make the city more welcoming for hip-hop artists and fans.

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Madison concert promotion company Frank Productions announces that it has purchased the High Noon Saloon from owner Cathy Dethmers.

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Madison’s beloved “Funky Drummer” Clyde Stubblefield dies at age 73 from kidney disease.

The legendary musician is mourned by fans and friends far and wide and will receive an honorary degree from UW-Madison on May 12. See story, page 30.

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Four men are injured in an early-morning shooting at a gas station near East Towne Mall; police believe the incident may be gang-related.

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State Rep. Bob Gannon (R-West Bend) says children who end up in solitary confinement at the state’s youth prison have “earned the opportunity” because of their behavior

and suggests they should be prosecuted as adults, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Wonder if he supports waterboarding them?

■ Incumbent Tony Evers handily wins the threeway primary race for state superintendent with 69.8 percent of the vote statewide. He receives three times more votes than his nearest rival, Lowell Holtz, who will compete against Evers in the April 4 general election.

■ Madison school board candidates Ali Muldrow and Kate Toews are the top two finishers for one board seat, advancing to the general election. In the other board race, incumbent Ed Hughes and challenger Nicki Vander Meulen move on to the general election.

■ Although statewide voter turnout in Tuesday’s primary was just 8 percent, almost 20 percent of Madison voters cast ballots. Props to voters at Blessed Sacrament

Catholic Church on the near west side, with a 46.2 percent turnout.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22

Gov. Scott Walker’s “once-in-a-lifetime” evangelical Christian cruise to Alaska is canceled “due to scheduling issues,” the Milwaukee JournalSentinel reports.

■ Ed Garvey, the iconic labor rights advocate and attorney who founded Fighting Bob Fest, dies in a Verona nursing home.

The 76-year-old had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

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The advocate judge

BY ALLISON GEYER

Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell starts a recent Friday bright and early at Mendota Elementary School, speaking to parents at a National African American Parent Involvement Day event about the importance of being engaged in their children’s lives. Later, he hustles over to Hawthorne Elementary on his lunch hour to read with students and answer questions about what it’s like to be a judge. “The kids were happy, because they thought I was like Judge Judy,” Mitchell says. “Everything they know about judges is what they see on TV.” For Mitchell, who was elected in April 2016 and now handles juvenile court cases, demystifying the criminal justice system is an essential part of his new job — particularly when his audience includes youth and families of color.

Mitchell acknowledges that he wears a lot of hats, but he feels his community engagement makes him a better, fairer judge.

“I think it’s important for a judge to really be involved so that people can get a vision of the judiciary that isn’t distant and apart from the community,” Mitchell says. “It is a different approach, and I don’t think it’s an approach that every judge has taken.”

Wisconsin’s Judicial Code of Conduct lays out guidelines in state statute for how judges and judicial candidates should behave in order to “enhance and maintain” public confidence in the legal system. Because of the judiciary’s unique role as an impartial arbiter of facts, judges are, among other things, barred from making partisan endorsements, practicing law or serving as mediators in private

cases. While some judges opt to steer clear of advocacy work while serving on the bench, Mitchell says his new role hasn’t forced him to cut back on much of his community involvement.

“Doing both allows me to practice these values that I think are important — treating people like human beings, seeing them as human beings,” Mitchell says. “All the guiding values that I extract — Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, bell hooks, even George Carlin — I try to use all of that in my approach for what I do from the bench.”

When individuals aspire to the judiciary, they do so knowing that some of their civic activities are going to be limited, says Maryann Sumi, a former Dane County Circuit Court judge and former associate dean of the Wisconsin Judicial College, where she taught courses on judicial conduct and ethics. “Really, what it comes down to is the integrity and independence of the judiciary,” Sumi says. “It’s part of what goes into being a judge.”

While some of the rules in the judicial code of conduct are authoritative and binding, others are more flexible, meaning judges and judicial candidates can use their own discretion and situational context to help guide their decisions. For example, Mitchell recently made the decision to endorse Wanda Smith, a candidate for Fitchburg alder. The endorsement is allowed because it’s a nonpartisan race, but it’s rare for judges to endorse candidates, other than for judicial races.

“There’s nothing that prohibits [nonpartisan endorsements]. Some choose to do it, others choose not to,” says Sumi, who only endorsed judicial candidates during her time on the bench. “Those who choose not to want to avoid the appearance of partisanship,” she adds. “And if you feel like maybe you’ve said something

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Everett Mitchell balances community involvement with time on the bench

The Rev. Everett Mitchell speaks at a Tony Robinson protest in 2015. Since becoming a Dane County judge last year, Mitchell has remained engaged as a minister and activist.

that may cause others to question your partiality, it’s a judge’s duty to get off the case.”

Community involvement comes naturally for Mitchell. Before becoming judge, he served as a mentor to the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition. A former Dane County assistant district attorney, Mitchell was most recently director of community relations for UW-Madison, where he helped the university expand its presence on the city’s racially diverse south side.

Since becoming judge, Mitchell has also continued to serve as pastor at Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, usually working there in the evenings. He doesn’t get paid, but receives a housing allowance from the congregation.

Mitchell says his compensation arrangement is within the code of conduct guidelines.

Mitchell knows his background as an activist and a pastor sets him apart from his colleagues on the bench. But he also believes that his experience and perspective make him uniquely suited to bring about the criminal justice reform needed to address Dane County’s massive racial disparity in incarceration rates. He spent Thanksgiving and Christmas last year at

the Dane County jail, celebrating the holidays with incarcerated youth.

“It was important for me to go and spend that time with them so they know that I’m concerned about them — not as a judge, but as a human being, too,” he says.

One of his proudest achievements so far as judge was leading the charge on a recent policy change eliminating the use of handcuffs for most juvenile offenders when they are brought into court.

There was talk of doing away with the use of restraints in juvenile courts in 2014, but the judges on the bench at that time opted to leave the policy in place, says John Bauman, Dane County’s juvenile court administrator.

Mitchell revisited the issue at a judge’s meeting last fall and worked with Judge Shelley Gaylord, Dane County’s presiding juvenile judge, to coordinate with bailiffs and other stakeholders to implement the change.

“This was a decades-, maybe centuriesold policy that shifted in a matter of months so we can return back to these kids a sense of humanity,” Mitchell says. “If we don’t want them to become adult criminals, we shouldn’t treat them like adult criminals.” n

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As grim as the news has been lately, as the Trump administration wages its campaign of destruction and contempt for the public, there is a persistent rebellion across the land. And that rebellion is being led by progressives.

“I see myself as the legislative arm of the resistance,” says U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, who is vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Pocan has been busy racing back and forth between Washington, D.C., and Madison, where he held a big town hall meeting on Feb. 18.

Like many other members of Congress, Pocan has been deluged with calls from people appalled by Trump, his conflictridden Cabinet, his gaffes, scandals and a flurry of ill-conceived executive orders, including a scary crackdown on immigrant families, during the messy first month of the administration.

Pocan says he is often asked how the huge marches and protests against Trump compare to the 2011 uprising in Wisconsin against Gov. Scott Walker, and what lessons might be learned for the national resistance.

“I think the Wisconsin experience is going to help us,” Pocan says. The biggest difference he sees between the two uprisings is that the one in Wisconsin focused mainly on Walker’s attack on public employees’ collective bargaining rights, while people today are fighting against a multipronged attack on every aspect of civil society. With so many different groups organized to resist Trump, Pocan says, “We can really build a movement instead of just having a moment.”

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Persistent protests, legal challenges and nonstop resistance on every front is key. Most of all, people need to organize in their communities, through initiatives like Ald. Maurice Cheeks’ “Leading Locally,” to work on such issues as accessible housing, voting rights and reproductive choice.

In Madison, the same weekend Pocan had his big town hall meeting, community organizers from around the country converged for a summit on mutual aid networks organized by local activist Madison congressman Mike Pocan sees himself as the “legislative Stephanie Rearick, with the aim of building a more just arm of the resistance.” society, one neighborhood at a time. to do,” Pocan says. “We have to make sure they “We think we are under the thumb of the govdon’t get discouraged.” ernment. But we have to realize that we are the To that end, during the congressional re- government,” said Dana Gabina, a young activist cess, constituents are swarming Republicans’ who came to the summit straight from Standing district offices. Several Republican legislators Rock. She gestured to a whiteboard covered with have canceled town halls for fear of being descriptions of community work going on around mobbed by voters worried about plans to re- the country — from New Jersey to St. Louis to Standpeal the Affordable Care Act. ing Rock — where people are creating sanctuaries, But Pocan rejects comparisons between the supporting restorative-justice programs and buildresistance to Trump and the tea party, which ing time banks. once mobbed congressional offices to oppose the launch of the ACA. “I think we have to make sure we don’t THIS MODERN WORLD have a tea party movement of the left,” he said.

“I want people to realize that the people are America. The people are the government, and we should not be about inaction.”

The tea party, after all, is largely responsible for the mess the nation is in — as a movement dedicated to hamstringing government and preventing elected representatives from passing laws. “I don’t want that,” Pocan says.

“I want legislators to be responsive to their constituents.”

“Community nourishes you,” says Sarah Van Gelder, editor at large for Yes! Magazine, who attended the summit.

Van Gelder has written a book called The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America, and is an ardent proponent of the idea that local activism is the key to reclaiming national politics and bringing about a more progressive future.

Meanwhile, in Washington, by standing up for a government that serves the interests of all the people, not just the very rich, Pocan and progressive colleagues are championing their constituents’ progressive values.

On issues like fair trade, raising the minimum wage and regulating the banks, Democrats must learn the lesson of the last election, says Pocan, who grew up in Kenosha, the blue-collar, former manufacturing hub. He is bothered by the Democratic Party leadership’s failure to understand or even listen to the concerns of working people in the industrial Midwest. “Those are the voters we lost that we never should have lost,” he says.

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ieces of crumpled magazines would fill the pockets of Avé Thorpe’s book bag. On any given day, she’d find a torn-out bit of paper with a picture of a wedding gown or a nice car or a sunny beach.

Sometimes she’d dig it out of the bottom of her backpack. Sometimes, out of the back of her locker. They were casually strewn around her room.

“Kind of like a deconstructed vision board,” she remembers.

Celebrity, travel, business and women’s health magazines filled a big bowl in her living room. It sat next to an old brown chair, weathered from years of Avé’s mother’s smoking and reading habit.

Avé, 35, grew up on the South Side of Chicago, an area riddled with gun violence, gang activity and drug abuse. Her mother worked, her father had taken off years before, and her older siblings, 10 and 13 years older, had moved on with their lives, away from the poverty and violence they grew up in.

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“I had a lot of anger. Anger and resentment because it seemed as though, back then, everybody else’s life was so beautiful,” she says. “Like all of my friends, and the stuff they had, like a two-parent home... like nice homes, even though we all lived in the ghetto. They still had video games and new shoes. I didn’t.”

At 13, Avé got her first job as an office assistant at a church. The other kids would be there too, gathering for choir practice or studying for Bible classes. But Avé stayed hidden, making copies and filing papers in the office.

She thought maybe she’d be a doctor — her auntie was a nurse, who had gone on to teach in North Carolina.

“It was just so prestigious,” she says.

“I wanted to do something powerful and do something great that would just make people say, ‘Oh my God.’” Emily Auerbach, like Avé, understands that desire for prestige. Emily’s parents, Wanda and Robert, grew up in poverty.

Wanda was raised in a small town in Tennessee, in a house with no running water.

She would walk miles in her hand-medown clothes to get to the library. Robert escaped Nazi Germany with his family, eventually settling in New York.

Emily’s parents met at Berea College in Kentucky, a tuition-free institution.

Avé Thorpe (left) and Emily Auerbach review a Shakespeare assignment.

“Both my parents worked really hard to get where they got,” Emily says. “But they needed that [educational] opportunity. It wouldn’t have been enough for them just to work hard.”

Her parents taught her to read and appreciate literature. And they taught her to give back. So she gave back by teaching. She taught creative writing in prisons, remedial writing classes to Native Americans. She eventually became an English professor at UW-Madison.

But it wasn’t enough. She’d think from time to time about the opportunity her parents had been given. She’d think about what they would have done had they not had the chance to go to college, learn about music and literature. How would their lives have turned out?

“It changed the destiny of our whole family,” she says. “You open the door for somebody, and their entire family starts to change, too.”

Emily wanted to open doors for people. She just had to figure out how. Emily’s mission to help others and Avé’s desire to make more of her life would one day bring the two together.

Avé

Stuck inside, hiding from the bitter cold of January in Chicago, Avé was pregnant with her first child, a daughter she would name Javé. She was 18 and just out of high school. Her mother was clear: “You’re having a baby, you need to do something — and you can’t stay here.”

Avé sat in that weathered brown couch, reeking from her mom’s cigarette smoke.

Mindlessly, she picked up an issue of Money magazine. The first article she saw: “10 Best Places to Raise Your Children.” Madison was ranked at the top.

“It didn’t hit me until after I had the baby.... I have a good memory like that, too,” she says. “Like when the time is right, things just come back to me. It clicked that I needed to leave.”

Avé set her sights on Madison. It stayed in the back of her mind for a year, while she continued to live at her mother’s house, working office jobs. A year of more crumpled-up magazine pages, with pictures of kids’ toys and playgrounds and swing sets now in the mix. By August 2001, she and her baby’s father, a local drug dealer named Harold, were expecting a second child, a boy she’d name Jerry.

But Avé had had enough of this life; Madison couldn’t wait any longer. She took her 15-month old daughter and moved to the Salvation Army homeless shelter on East Washington Avenue.

“I’ve always been strong-minded and able to do my own thing,” she says. “I think it was that I wanted so much more and I didn’t know how to get it. I knew that I didn’t want to do it in a bad way.”

Emily

The same year, not far from the shelter, Emily was working at Wisconsin Public Radio.

Her co-worker, Jean Feraca, had proposed an idea — start a free college course for adults living in poverty.

The idea came about when Feraca hosted Earl Shorris on her radio show. Years earlier, Shorris had started a program in New York called the Clemente Course for the Humanities.

“It was taking adults living under the poverty level and exposing them to some great work, you know, literature, philosophy,” says Emily. “His thesis was about a transformation of self that would begin to break down the cycle of poverty just by changing their view of themselves and the world around them.”

It made Emily think about her parents and what they had gone through to get an education. But she knew it would be hard work. And she saw problems with the Clemente course, which limited applicants to those under 35 and gave college credits applicable only at Bard College, a private school in upstate New York.

Even the book that Shorris had written — Riches for the Poor — offended Emily.

“That title just bothered me. It sort of implies, like, here we come with our Plato and

Shakespeare, you lucky poor people,” she says. “It isn’t a mutual, reciprocal, human aspiration kind of thing.”

So she and Feraca and created their own course with an emphasis on multicultural writers and historians. She needed funding, a building, volunteer teachers and childcare services for students. And she needed to convince UW-Madison to accredit the class.

But she had a name: the Odyssey Project.

Avé

A week after Avé moved into the Salvation Army in 2001, the shelter secured her a job at the Madison post office. Two weeks later, she gave birth to her son. A week after that, the shelter found her an apartment.

Avé, then 20, 15-month-old Javé and 5-day-old Jerry moved into their first Madison home. “It was pretty nice but it was on Allied Drive,” she says of the neighborhood known for drug activity and crime — the kind of neighborhood she’d fled. She didn’t stay long. The shelter later placed her in Southridge Village on Fish Hatchery Road.

Working at the Milwaukee Street post office was taxing. She was there, dutifully, every day from 3 to 11 a.m. — even though she had given birth just a week earlier — while her dad, who had come back into her life, took care of the children.

“You had to stand up all night, and I had just had a baby and was bleeding heavily,” she says. “A lot of aches and pains. I didn’t realize you had to sit down when you have a baby, for at least six weeks. But I just had him in the shelter and moved with him being 5 days old. Not knowing anyone here....

It was really hard.”

And her old life was catching up to her.

Harold had followed her to Madison, moving in with her by October. He wanted to be there for her and their kids. But it quickly became apparent that he was a threat.

“It started with a few smacks here and there, but it didn’t escalate until after he got here in Madison,” she says. “He wanted to come here and sell drugs. [My children] cannot be around that. So, I wouldn’t let him.”

A neighbor who lived on the floor above theirs called the police on Harold one night, after hearing him abusing Avé, yelling at her, hitting her and pushing her against the wall.

He went to jail, and Avé got a restraining order.

“Where we’re from, that’s like the ultimate betrayal if you testify against somebody or press charges,” she says. “He backed off and left me alone and got this kind of hatred for me. I never had to think about it again.”

She quit her job at the post office and began to work at the Veterans Hospital Call Center.

Now, she’d wake up at 5 a.m., make breakfast for the kids — “something healthy, like oatmeal” — get them dressed and be out the door by 6:30 to drop them off at daycare by 7:15. By 7:40 a.m., she would catch the bus so she could be at the call center by 9.

She’d take her seat on the bus, exhale, close her eyes. A short-lived, hourlong period of silence, stillness. Sometimes she’d catch up on sleep. Other times, she’d read magazines, tearing out scraps with pictures that made her smile — colorful kids’ bedrooms, houses with big backyards, swing sets and trampolines.

In spring 2006, Avé met Donald through a friend. Everyone called him Lil’ Don. He made Avé smile, he was nice to Javé and Jerry. He always seemed to have a lot of money, so he’d buy them gifts, and hand the kids $100 bills.

“He’s more gentle [than Harold],” says Avé. “But he’s still a street person.”

“He says he has a recording studio,” Avé says with a laugh. “That’s what he claims. I don’t know. I think he’s still selling drugs and stuff like that.”

Avé and Donald had two kids together — Donyé was born in 2007 and Donielle in 2008.

Emily

In early 2002, Emily took her Odyssey Project idea to the Wisconsin Humanities Council, a nonprofit that provides grants and support to programs and research. She wanted to teach the humanities to people who might not have otherwise been exposed to them. She’d hold discussion-based classes, and students would read Shakespeare and study philosophy. They’d read about women in literature.

The program was met with skepticism by many. “There was a stereotypical notion about what poor adults could — maybe should — and couldn’t or shouldn’t do,” Emily says. One woman suggested she hold an “Is college for you?” workshop first in south Madison — Emily was insulted. It suggested, inherently, that college wasn’t for them.

The program was hard to sell, in part, because the Clemente Course hadn’t been all that successful. It had done great in New York, but in cities across the country, the dropout rate was almost 50 percent. One program in Milwaukee shut down after two years because it ran out of funding and was only graduating about 12 students a year.

Emily and her co-workers spent two years applying for grants, looking for funding sources and hashing out logistics, including how to provide childcare and secure college credits. Slowly, interest trumped the skepticism. She set up a display with brochures at the public library in south Madison. They got far more students than they bargained for.

Almost 100 people applied.

She accepted 30 students, hoping to get at least 15 through the program. In September 2003, the first Odyssey Project class was held in the Harambee Center in Villager Mall.

The first day, she set up the tables in a rectangle around the room, so that everyone could see each other. She stood in the center of the room, and decided to open

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“Well, no, you’re not,” Emily thought.

There was nothing in that room that would make somebody want to live. She posed a question to the class: If that were their friend, what would they bring to the room?

Every year since, Emily’s posed that same question to her class. And every year since, she gets the same responses: photos, music, good food, movies.

“And then I said, ‘Yeah, you probably wouldn’t bring an algebra textbook, but you’re glad that the doctor knows the math and that the engineers who made the machines know what they’re doing,’” she says. “But when you look at that stuff, it doesn’t feel like living. That’s the importance of the humanities.”

She based the curriculum on that notion that the humanities make life more colorful.

She didn’t want to teach another humdrum workshop on life skills or resume-building. Her students would learn about history. They’d learn creative writing, and they’d learn about different styles of music. They’d discuss Plato along with their own philosophies, their own poetry.

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By 2014, Avé’s life in Madison was starting to look like the dream she’d had in 1999 gazing at that Money magazine article. She had a job as a help line advocate for Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, an emergency shelter for domestic abuse victims in Dane County She didn’t worry about being re-victimized herself — Harold was in prison for selling heroin, and Lil’ Don barely came around. Still, something was missing.

But making ends meet was still a struggle. “It [all] comes with a great price. I have to be tired

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all the time, or stressed out, or stressing over where to get money,” she says. “You can’t provide a good life for your kids unless you’re cooking three meals a day. That’s what they depend on. It has to be a good, home-cooked meal. I’m constantly looking for a second job or to babysit or just something to pick up that extra money.”

She makes about $2,200 a month from DAIS. Her rent for a two-bedroom apartment that barely fits the five of them is $976 a month, but she usually has to pay a $35 late fee. That leaves her around $1,100 for other bills and food.

In June 2016 Avé saw an article on Facebook about a friend of a friend who had gone through an educational program as a poor single mother. The woman graduated from the program, and later earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

On a whim, Avé applied to the same program, the Odyssey Project. She reported her income, her goals in life. She told them about how she wanted to help people — maybe becoming a teacher or a nurse. She proved her lit-

eracy, and provided proof that she had her GED. At the interview, she met a woman whom she describes as fiercely passionate about her work.

The woman’s name was Emily. Avé told Emily that she was really shy — but that she loved to write. She told her about her four kids, and how she wanted to provide for them.

She told her she was scared, but fighting.

A few months later, in August 2016, Emily called applicants for the program’s 15th year. Some calls were easy — telling people they’d been accepted. Others were hard.

Telling someone they didn’t get in is never easy. Emily gives them a $250 voucher to take classes at Madison College, and tells them to apply again next year.

The call to Avé was an easy one. News of acceptance scared Avé — she hadn’t gone to school in years. But she was ready for a change. The Odyssey Project would take her one step closer to bringing those torn-out magazine images to life.

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“I feel like there’s a moral responsibility as far as having an education,” says Avé. “And the plan that I’ve tried, it has not worked. So I’ve got to try something different.”

Of the 30 students accepted each year in the Odyssey Project, all but one or two graduate. The reason their graduation rate is so high, Emily says, is simple: She doesn’t let people drop out.

In 15 years, Emily has missed only two classes — one when her mother died, and another when her daughter was undergoing major surgery. One year, one of her students stole a car and went to prison. She sent him his homework every week, and he graduated with the rest of the class. Another year, Emily brought homework to a student who was hospitalized.

“We have an emergency fund for rent if someone is about to lose their place or for gas for the car if someone is stranded on their way to get here,” Emily says.

Every Wednesday evening, Avé leaves work, and heads to the South Madison Part-

nership building with her kids, who attend the free Odyssey classes for students’ kids and grandkids — Odyssey Junior. On a gloomy October evening, Avé arrives around 5 p.m. to take part in a free dinner. While the other students chat, Avé keeps to herself, catching up on assignments.

The evening’s gray skies and drizzle finally give way to a loud thunderstorm, which rages outside during class. But all 30 students are there.

They had been assigned to write their own life mottos. A teacher reads a few out loud. “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed….” And a chorus of “yeahs” and “mm-hmms” goes around the room. Avé leaves every Wednesday night feeling invigorated: “Every class I feel like is the best class we’ve had so far.”

When she graduates in May, she’ll join a network of around 400 other Odyssey alumni.

College still feels far off, but not quite as far as it was back in 1999, when she had a newborn and dreamed about moving to a place she had never been to. Now, she says, it’s a little closer, a little easier to picture. If she applies and is ac-

Kegan Carter (right, with Auerbach) graduated from the first Odyssey class in 2004 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in English from UW (pictured here at graduation), and a master’s in Afro-American Studies. cepted to UW-Madison, the Odyssey program will earn her an automatic six credits.

“I do want to go to college,” she says. “[But] I don’t know what I’ll do. I’ve had dreams of owning my own daycare. I think about maybe being a nurse, and I want to be a writer too. I want to tell about the story that I have.”

Every now and then, she thinks about those old magazine articles, probably still strewn about her old bedroom in Chicago. Her tornout scraps of paper moved from the pockets of her backpack to her computer, where she still collects them on Pinterest.

But they aren’t just dreams anymore, she says. Now, they’re more like ideas. Now, they seem real. n

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be hard-pressed to find a time when [Suh’s work] wasn’t topical,” says MMoCA director Stephen Fleischman. “It’s absolutely stunning.”

The exhibit at MMoCA was initially curated by the Contemporary Austin before moving on to Cleveland and San Diego; Madison is the last stop. Other pieces from Suh have shown in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and the Guggenheim, and his work has appeared in many major exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale.

Much of Suh’s work is informed by his peregrine lifestyle: His projects span several mediums, each addressing the idea of belonging

and his complex search for it. Featured in the show are Suh’s “drawings” (made from thread embedded in cotton paper), and selections from the Rubbing/Loving Project, colored pencil impressions from the walls of his New York dwelling. Alongside these, each in separate gallery rooms, are his 1/16th-scale construction of a Korean home, titled Secret Garden, as well as Specimen Series, which presents stitched facsimiles of several household appliances displayed in illuminated glass cases.

The centerpiece of the exhibit, however, is Suh’s series of interactive, full-scale apartment reconstructions. Crafted from brightly colored,

diaphanous polyester fabric, Apartment A, Unit 2, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 100011, USA, serve as ghostly homages to the artist’s New York City home, which he left in 2016 after living there for nearly 20 years. Each piece is colored and created separately, yet arranged together, as they would be in the living space itself.

To create the pieces, Suh meticulously measured every inch of his Chelsea abode and had replicas of each individual space crafted and hand-sewn from multicolored

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Whether it’s Seoul, New York City or London, the Korean-born sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suh is thinking about home.

“Each and every time, when I try to understand the meaning of home through my art, by the end of the project or piece I have more questions,” says Suh, whose work is being exhibited at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through May 14. “Still, I’m looking for the answer for it.”

Landing an exhibit from Suh is a major score for the Madison museum. The artist is a towering figure in the world of contemporary art, and cherished internationally. “You would

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Stone Creek Coffee might at first seem like a sibling to Colectivo. Like Colectivo, it’s a design-conscious, Milwaukee-based chain — but it comes across more like Colectivo’s coffee-geek date than a sibling. You’ll find two pour-over systems (the Clever and a Hario V-60) and an Aeropress to choose from for individual brewing of your cup.

There is copious information available about the origin and roasting of the beans, and at least three varieties are available to choose from daily. The new East Washington Avenue location, Madison’s first, even boasts a dedicated room for coffee classes. It opened in December.

The food menu is less extensive here than it is at Colectivo, and there are no house beers on tap. From that, you could naturally assume that coffee is the focus — except Stone Creek is also merch city, selling logo-emblazoned everything (mugs, T-shirts, socks, hats, posters, even branded journals for that old-school coffeehouse creative experience).

Stone Creek has staked out territory in an odd block of East Wash, with new apartments above and ShopBop corporate headquarters across the street. Yet the area seems slow to rouse, not quite happening.

My cup of the day was fine, and so was my Clever-brewed Burundi — not at all overextracted. The Clever looks like a Chemexstyle filter holder, but the water stays in the grounds instead of dripping through the fil-

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ter immediately. At just the right time the barista places the Clever over a cup and releases the brew. In other words, the method is something between a Chemex and a French press, the coffee earthier than from a regular pour-over, but not as earthy as from a press.

While Stone Creek serves good coffee, brewed for purists, it can feel as much like a gift shop as a coffeehouse.

Cafe Domestique has a home-grown feel. Its decorative theme is bicycle racing, and it’s the only coffeeshop in Madison where you’ll find a copy of Peloton magazine to browse while sipping. It opened in December.

The bike decor makes sense, as the shop connects through a large open doorway with the Cargo Bike Shop next door, which sells commuter/hauling bikes.

Beans are by Chicago-based Intelligentsia, but the cafe serves only brewed coffee and espresso drinks, no pour-overs. That said, Domestique comes up with a mellow but flavorful cortado (espresso and steamed milk). The most offbeat entry on the drink menu is a rosemary brown sugar latte, which has only a vague rosemary flavor — probably a good thing.

Food is restricted to bakery, direct from Batch Bakehouse two doors down, and as such, it’s very fresh. Anything Batch is good in my book, and if Domestique doesn’t have your favorite muffin or whatnot, hey, the source is 52 feet away.

Cafe Social is perched somewhat awkwardly in the lobby of the new Uncommon apartment building at the corner of Bedford and West

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Mifflin. It never quite overcomes that lobby feeling; it’s a place of transit, not a settle-in-and-stay kind of place. The cafe opened in August.

What Cafe Social lacks in atmosphere, it makes up for with its food. In addition to empanadas made by the local Violet Rose Artisan Foods, there are tamales from Madison’s Tamaleria El Poblano, soups from Herbs, Spices and More in Arena, Wisconsin, chicken pot pie and quiche Lorraine from the Paoli Bread and Brat Haus and doughnuts from Greenbush Bakery.

A delicious black bean andouille rice soup, a recent daily special, was lighter than its name suggests; a veggie empanada wasn’t as crisp as it could have been, but was clearly homemade. And you can’t go wrong with those tamales.

Daily breakfast and lunch sandwiches are also on the menu.

What about the coffee? Co-owner Omar Lopez sources beans from his sister’s farm and other coffee farms nearby in Quindio, Colombia; the beans are also roasted there. That’s a cup of joe you can feel good about. No pour-overs here, but the cup of the day is a good Colombian (available in a dark or a medium roast or as decaf), and there are the full range of coffee drinks, including four super-sweet mochas and lattes (Mounds bar mocha?

Nutella latte?) catering to those with a sweet tooth or anyone needing to stay awake forever. Why would you want to do that to such good coffee? ■

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Earthy + fruity The Spiced Pear Saketini at Morris Ramen While the buzz about Morris Ramen, 106 King St., may be all about the Japanese noodle dish that is having a moment, don’t overlook the drink menu.

Currently, it features lots of inseason citrus and Asian-inspired flavors like lychee, a tropical fruit that comes from China. The list also includes cocktails made with sake, or Japanese rice wine, which is a good option if you’re torn between sake and a mixed drink.

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Banzo is teaming with One Barrel Brewing for a traditional Wisconsin fish fry. The Banzo food cart will be out back at the taproom frying up bluegill battered with One Barrel Penguin Pale Ale. Orders will be taken inside the bar (cash only). This is the first run of what might be a regular Friday fish fry during Lent. 2001 Atwood Ave., 3-9 pm or until they run out.

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12 oz. Curl from Ale Asylum There’s been a burst of interest among local brewers in making pilsners. Ale Asylum’s version is made in the tradition of a south German pilsner, featuring German pilsner malt and Hallertau Mittlefruh hops. It’s light, yet flavorful, with herbal and light spicy hoppiness throughout. There’s also a floral, bready maltiness in the background that gives balance to the flavor.

Unlike mainstream and big brewery pilsners that are clear, Curl has a cloudy appearance by design.

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Sake, lime and vodka infused with pear and spiced with anise seed, cloves and whole cinnamon sticks. Served up in a martini glass with a lime wheel, there is an earthiness from the sake.

Made from a brewing process that involves fermented rice, the sake is balanced by the fruitiness of the pear and brightened by the hint of acid from the lime.

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beer of flavor. “We wanted to use a specific type of German malt, and getting rid of the haze would compromise the taste,” says the brewery’s Joe Walts.

This beer pairs well with lighter entrees such as baked fish and seafood. That said, the German pilsner is a nice pre-meal beer, with crisp, clean bitterness and carbonation that cleanses the palate. It goes well with just about everything.

Curl comes in at 5.2 percent ABV. You’ll currently find it in the Ale Asylum taproom for $5/pint.

Twelve-ounce bottles in six-packs should start appearing on Madison shelves in early March.

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Isthmus Dining Company chef Rob Grisham is back at Macha, serving a three-course dinner of slow-roasted celery root, chicken roulade, smoked trout tart, winter spinach and a surprise dessert. Tickets ($45) must be purchased in advance at Macha or by calling 608-2839286. 823 E. Johnson St., 7-9:30 pm.

Whiskey dinner Sunday, Feb. 26

Chef Patrick McCormick is preparing a five-course tasting menu paired with several styles of Wild Turkey whiskey.

On the menu: lobster, bruschetta, tea-roasted sea bass, barrel-stave roasted veal, turkeystuffed morels and baked apple dessert.

Reserve tickets ($65) by calling 608-8198555. At Oliver’s Public House, 2540 University Ave. Reception starts at 5 pm; dinner is at 6 pm.

Educación ecológica The Wisconsin School Garden Network expands its reach Nathan Larson, director of the Wisconsin School Garden Network, leans forward in his chair, takes a sip of coffee and poses a question: “Could a book at the right time help to influence our educational priorities?”

Larson, whose vision is that every child in Wisconsin should have regular access to a garden and high-quality garden-based education, hopes the answer is yes.

His 2016 book, Teaching in Nature’s Classroom, outlines the core principles of garden-based education. As of mid-March, the book will be available in Spanish.

Research shows spending time learning and playing outdoors is beneficial for children, even as more students are being kept inside. The book includes studies that have found that exposure to soil can reduce anxiety, increase focus and strengthen the immune system.

The book’s influence extends far beyond Wisconsin. Since its release in March 2016, the book has reached over 6,000 educators in all 50 states and over 40 countries. After the Spanish version becomes available, Larson’s colleague Maria Moreno will be taking copies to Guadalajara, Mexico, when she visits the city in March in connection with the Earth Partnership Program. That program works with teachers, students and the community to provide training on the ecological restoration of school grounds.

The Earth Partnership Global Initiative also works with teachers in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador.

Teaching in Nature’s Classroom is available free, either as a print copy or by download, thanks to a $1 million, five-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program.

A Madison native and graduate of UW-Madison, Larson became interested in garden-based education when he worked as a naturalist for the San Mateo County Office of Education in California.

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Nathan Larson wants every Wisconsin child to have access to a garden.

in the redwood forests and on the coast, but his favorite time was spent in the garden.

When he returned to Madison in 2000, he helped build the farm- and garden-based education program at Troy Gardens. After a decade as the education director for Community Groundworks (the nonprofit that oversees Troy), Larson now has a joint position with Community Groundworks and the UW-Madison Environmental Design Lab. The Wisconsin Partnership Program grant will also fund technical assistance to 200 educational gardens and teacher training to more than 2,000 schoolteachers, after-school teachers and parents through Larson’s Wisconsin School Garden Network. He hopes it will be a resource hub for those involved in garden-based education everywhere, from community gardens to churches as well as schools.

On Feb. 28, Larson will be presenting at a Department of Public Instruction-sponsored early childhood conference at Olbrich Gardens, where he will hand out copies of his book and discuss some of the main tenets of working with children in garden settings. ■

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In the category of outstanding restaurant, L’Etoile will be up against such well-known names as the Spotted Pig and Momofuku Noodle Bar (New York City), Topolobampo (Chicago), L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Las Vegas) and Jaleo (Washington, D.C.).

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The semifinalists for the 2017 James Beard Awards have been announced, and Madison has garnered its first-ever nomination in the category of outstanding restaurant. And yes, it is L’Etoile.

Also earning a nomination, Jonny Hunter of Forequarter and Dan Fox of Heritage Tavern are up for best chef: Midwest.

Madison chefs also made a nice showing last year, when L’Etoile chef Tory Miller was nominated as best chef. In addition, Francesco Mangano of Osteria Papavero was nominated for best chef: Midwest, in addition to Hunter and Fox.

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March. In addition to inOr at least ask to have it stalling everything needed delivered. for a legal commercial prep That’s what Melted food kitchen, a walk-up window cart owner David Rodriguez and a six-seat chef’s table is counting on as he prepares are also being added. to launch a new lunchtime Rodriguez also plans delivery service. The Melted to take the food truck on food cart will continue to the road for private events, serve specialty grilled cheese weddings and music fessandwiches during the weekDavid Rodriguez: Taking tivals. “It’s been my goal day lunch rush at its current business to a new level. for some time to expand spot on Martin Luther King Melted without giving up Jr. Boulevard. our lunch spot downtown,” says Rodriguez.

The Melted delivery service will be op“I’m hoping the food truck helps take the erated out of a new food truck that will act business to a new level.” as a mobile restaurant hub for a small fleet This is Melted’s second attempt at a food of drivers. truck. Last summer, Rodriguez bought a 1971 “The truck will have a full commercial Dodge Travco motorhome to use for special prep kitchen inside,” says Rodriguez. “The events and pop-up dinners. But the chassis idea is to have two or three drivers pick up of the vintage RV was too weak to support all lunches there and drop them off wherever the necessary kitchen equipment. they need to go. I’m hoping we’ll be able to “[The Travco] ran, but I was a little deliver anywhere in Madison.” naïve when I bought it. The cost of reCurrently, Rodriguez hopes to park the habbing it was going to be exorbitant. I bus somewhere on East Main Street between started looking for another vehicle,” says South Blair and South Brearly streets. The Rodriguez. The new bus has been diligently area falls outside of the zone where a Mall/ maintained by the state of New Mexico, he Concourse vending permit is needed but is says: “It’s a beast that was built to last. It all still a short jaunt from offices downtown. worked out in the end because this vehicle The Melted food truck will serve the same will give me more options, like this new demenu as the food cart. Orders will be taken livery operation.” exclusively online at meltedmadison.com.

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Athletic administrators at Edgewood College warned Chaia Huff. But she took the job anyway — becoming the 13th head coach in the 38-year history of the Edgewood College women’s basketball program last September.

“I knew it would be a challenge,” says Huff, whose first name is pronounced KY-ah.

“But I didn’t know it was this dire.”

How dire? The Eagles wrapped up their first season under Huff on Feb. 18 with an 0-25 record. They were outscored by an average of 25.2 points per game, and no players averaged double-digit points. The lowest moment came on Dec. 10 at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, when Edgewood was (in Huff’s words) “annihilated and embarrassed,” losing by 53 points, 96-43.

That’s a record of futility no coach wants on his or her resume, but Huff figures things could have been worse. At least this team didn’t struggle with academic or behavior issues, as some of Huff’s previous teams did.

“There’s something about pouring your blood, sweat and tears into something with people you care about, even if you don’t have success,” she says. “These girls worked very hard for me during a very hard year.

And every coach in our league, after they beat us, told us our players just don’t quit.”

Nine of the 12 women on Edgewood’s 2016-17 roster were freshmen, and most of them played basketball because it was something to do — not because they had a passion for the game.

“There’s not a real sense of culture here,” Huff says. “There’s no pride or team identity, and it’s pretty rare for a kid to play basketball all four years. I want to change that.”

Huff, 35 and the single mother of a 7-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son, has a history of building team culture as head coach at Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska, and at her alma mater, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

She embraced the challenge at Edgewood, and as the long and trying season wound down, she noticed a shift in attitude when the Eagles hosted Benedictine on Feb. 11. A team proud to wear the Edgewood uniform took the court that night at the Todd Wehr Edgedome and played one of its most competitive games of the season, losing by only 11 points (56-45) — one of the narrowest margins all season.

“At that moment, something changed,” Huff says. “These kids learned to love being a part of Edgewood women’s basketball.”

There’s a long way to go, though. On the recruiting trail, Huff is as transparent as she is upbeat. During the season, she invited recruits to visit the campus and watch a game, and then admitted, “You’re going to see why I need you.”

At least three players already have committed to Edgewood for next season — two from the Chicago area and one from California — and the coach is optimistic about finally winning some games.

“We’re not going to be 0-25 forever,” Huff said. “I have every confidence we can turn this around.” ■

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fibers. “I have a habit of measuring spaces when I first move in,” says Suh, adding that he began the practice when he moved from Korea in 1991 to attend the Rhode Island School of Design. “When I look back, that was a way to cope, to understand my new environment.”

Visitors to Suh’s exhibit walk through the installation to experience an ethereal version of the residence. The works are striking in their size. Light filters through the fabric, creating an airy, dreamlike atmosphere.

Walking between replicas of the artist’s bathroom and kitchen, his living space and bedroom, it becomes clear just how tenuous the space actually is.

From a distance, the fabric architecture appears sturdy and durable. But after entering, the walls and ceilings breathe and sway from the wind created by people walking past — much like curtains do. These strange, delicate constructions memorialize a home without truly remaking it. “It’s ephemeral.” Suh notes of the fabric work.

“I wanted to sort of render the idea of the absence of the presence.”

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DIY success story Hometown hero Ari Herstand returns for a solo show and to promote his music biz book

BY BOB JACOBSON

When Ari Herstand told his guidance counselor at Madison Memorial High School that he wanted to be a rock star, she laughed at him. “She said I had a better chance of becoming an NBA star,” recalls Herstand, who graduated in 2003.

His parents didn’t react much better a couple years later when he told them he was dropping out of college to pursue his musical dreams. “My dad nearly had a heart attack,” says Herstand.

His parents eventually accepted his career choice after they attended his jam-packed concerts in Minneapolis — his home base from about 2004 to 2010. And they will likely be in the front row for his solo performance at the High Noon Saloon on Feb. 26. Sam Lyons, another up-and-coming singer-songwriter — whose dad, Phil, as it happens, was Herstand’s middle school art teacher — opens the show.

Now based in Los Angeles, singer-songwriter-guitarist-trumpeter-loopmeister Herstand has quieted the naysayers and forged a successful career as the quintessential DIY musician, serving as his own business manager, booking agent and publicist. In addition to his 600-plus live performances and handful of live and studio albums, his music has been featured in numerous television shows and films; he writes for music trade magazines; and he’s even dabbled in acting, including a guest spot on Mad Men as a hitchhiking musician.

As his indie career began to bloom, other musicians sought to tap into the body of

Herstand has carved out a successful career as his own manager, agent and publicist.

knowledge he had accumulated through trial and error. They asked him about practical matters like how he set up his tours, how he got his songs placed on TV shows, how to get all the royalties that are owed and how to pick the best platform for getting material on iTunes. He tried to respond to everyone, but eventually the volume of questions became overwhelming.

So about five years ago, he launched his own

blog, “Ari’s Take.” The blog became so popular it landed him a book deal. Weighing in at more than 400 pages, How to Make It in the New Music Business — released in December 2016 by the W. W. Norton imprint Liveright — may be the most comprehensive guide for DIY musicians written to date. Herstand is doing a book signing at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Madison’s west side on Feb. 28.

Herstand’s live shows are mostly loopbased solo performances where he builds songs by layering elements like beatbox, guitar, trumpet and vocal harmonies atop one another on the fly. His current tour includes those kinds of shows in his old stomping grounds of Madison and the Twin Cities, but mostly the tour is about promoting the book, so it includes lots of college speaking engagements. Some of those colleges plan to incorporate the book into their music business curricula. Herstand believes college courses on the business side of music are badly in need of updating to reflect the industry’s new realities.

“When I was at McNally Smith College of Music [in 2004 and 2005], they were teaching me the old music business, how things used to operate,” Herstand says. “But this was in the height of the Napster craze. iTunes was just becoming popular. Things were drastically changing. So I didn’t really learn anything that was immediately applicable to my solo music career.”

Even while the old music industry is crumbling and traditional music business jobs are disappearing, Herstand believes there has never been a better time to launch a career as an independent musician.

“Stories of managers or labels screwing over artists are endless,” he says. “But now everything is digital and transparent. You don’t need an entire accounting department to monitor your downloads. More than any time in history, musicians are able to take back control of their careers and their music, and don’t need the permission of the traditional gatekeepers to have a career.” n

Swank and circumstance A conversation with Pink Martini founder Thomas Lauderdale

BY BOB JACOBSON

Pink Martini’s roots are in playing at fundraisers for progressive causes and candidates. With your busy touring and recording schedule, do you still make time to play at those kinds of events?

Yes, we do quite a bit of that. I live in a loft building downtown, and we do a lot of political fundraising there. A couple years ago, we

The new album, Je Dis Oui, has an interesting assortment of guest vocalists, a couple of whom had never set foot in a recording studio before. How did that particular batch of singers come together?

The albums reflect my daily life, whoever I’m spending time with, the countries that we’re traveling in. There’s no particular theme. This album has three French songs, which we wrote for French actress Isabelle Huppert to sing in a film called Souvenir. And I thought it was important to do a couple of songs in Arabic, one of which was co-written with a man I met on a plane coming back from Paris. It was sung in Arabic by NPR’s Ari Shapiro, who’s Jewish. So that all just kind of unfolded organically without much of a thought or plan.

Lauderdale wanted classier fundraisers.

What can audience members expect at your Madison show?

We’re going to do a mixture from all the albums. Our audiences are generally a wide spectrum of people of different ages, different politics, different languages and different religions, and hopefully, it’ll all culminate in a big conga line at the end.

Are there differences in how audiences in the U.S. and audiences in other parts of the world respond to your music?

How often does that happen?

Not enough, but it happens fairly often. If I had my druthers, it would be constant. n

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Bandleader Thomas Lauderdale launched Pink Martini in 1994 to provide a spiffier soundtrack for political fundraisers. Since then, the Portland, Oregon-based “little orchestra” has captivated audiences across the globe with a spirited, multilingual melange that incorporates elements of pop, jazz, classical and world music. On tour in support of their new album, Je Dis Oui!, Pink Martini visits Overture Center’s Capitol Theater on March 1.

It shifts from country to country. I thought, for example, that Swiss audiences would be stoic, but actually they’re the nuttiest and most demonstrative; there’s nothing neutral about them. I think a lot of Americans come from a sort of puritanical ancestry. It takes a little while to get American audiences whipped up, but eventually they get there.

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The day the Funky Drummer died Madison mourns the loss of Clyde Stubblefield

BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO

Madison and the music world are still reeling from the loss of the Funky Drummer.

Clyde Stubblefield, 73, who died Feb. 18 from kidney failure, was a towering figure in soul, R & B and hip-hop. By most accounts, he was the most sampled drummer in history. Rolling Stone listed him near the top of “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time.”

Questlove wrote on Instagram that he was the “funky funkiest drummer of all time.”

Locally, Stubblefield made an indelible mark on Madison’s music community, gigging relentlessly through the decades, despite suffering more than his share of health problems. (Prince once paid his medical bills when he was receiving treatment for bladder cancer.) Since the announcement of his death, local DJs and musicians continue to spin out musical tributes, stories and photos of Clyde, whose playing and generous spirit moved Madison in innumerable ways.

Until several months ago, he was still playing with the Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band. In that ensemble, the elder statesman of funk drummed side by side with his protégé, Joey Banks. When Steven Potter interviewed Banks for a recent profile in Isthmus, Banks had more praise for Stubblefield than we could fit in print. “Just watching him and being around him as a young kid and watching him through the years has helped me develop who I am as a professional,” Banks told Potter. “I owe a lot to just being in the vicinity of Clyde.”

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Isthmus has been lucky enough to feature Stubblefield numerous times over the years. And rightfully so. In a loving portrait from 1991, the late Tom Laskin wrote: “Stubblefield is used to the fact that people don’t give him his due.” That was still somewhat true in 2015, when Bob Jacobson interviewed Stubblefield for another profile. “I just sit back and enjoy life,” Stubblefield said then.

Stubblefield is survived by his wife, Jody Hannon, whose family has begun a Go Fund Me campaign to defray funeral expenses.

Stubblefield’s legacy will live on in the scholarship that carries his name. And in the young drummers inspired by his infectious beats. And in all of us who loved his music, and felt proud that the Funky Drummer lived in our midst. n

See Steven Potter’s post on Stubblefield’s hip-hop contributions at isthmus.com. A celebration of Stubblefield’s life will be hosted by Michael Feldman on Friday, Feb. 24, 5-9 pm, at the Concourse Hotel Capital Ballroom. On Feb. 27, the Clyde Stubblefield All-Stars will play a benefit at the High Noon Saloon.

Changes in clubland High Noon owner Cathy Dethmers passes the torch to Frank Productions

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The shock waves are still reverberating from last week’s unexpected announcement that Cathy Dethmers, the founder and longtime operator of the High Noon Saloon, has agreed to sell her live music venue to Frank Productions, which recently secured final approval to construct its own 2,500-capacity music venue, the Sylvee, just a few blocks away on East Washington Avenue. The Franks are expected to assume full control of the High Noon by May. Dethmers approached the Franks about the sale back in November, when negotiations with another local buyer went south.

The idea emerged from a suggestion Frank Productions/True Endeavors promoter Tag Evers made to Dethmers a few years back, when he saw her struggling with burnout.

With the High Noon, the summer concert series at Breese Stevens Field and the Sylvee set to come online in 2018, Frank Productions

will control three of the major venues in Madison’s emerging music district (see the recent Isthmus cover story, “Musical Mile”). With the purchase of High Noon, Charlie Goldstone, president of Frank Productions Concerts LLC, sees more opportunities for collaborations with other music venues. For instance, an event like FRZN Fest, the High Noon’s signature winter multi-night concert event, could potentially expand to include venues like the Majestic Theatre and the Sylvee.

“But that’s not the purpose of why we’re buying it,” says Goldstone of the High Noon. “If Cathy was going to sell, we wanted to make sure the High Noon remained the vital music venue that she’s created. We both felt this was the best way to have the High Noon stay the High Noon.

Our view is we’re not reinventing the wheel.”

Given that this is all playing out against the backdrop of the city forming a task force to explore ways to encourage hip-hop music in Madison, it’s not necessarily far-fetched to think that both the High Noon and the Sylvee could end up being involved in that effort.

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Dethmers: “They have every intention of continuing things as they are.”

If there’s concern, it’s likely coming from Live Nation, the national promotion company booking shows into the Orpheum Theater, which is owned by the Paras family. And some local musicians are worried about whether Frank

Productions will be the same kind of tireless champion for local artists that Dethmers was over her three-decade run at O’Cayz Corral and the High Noon.

Dethmers, who is selling High Noon to spend more time with her two young sons, says her first question to Evers was what Frank Productions would do with the club if they bought it.

“They have every intention of continuing things as they are,” says Dethmers. “They believe in the format and want to have a hand in local music. Having this venue will give them more opportunity than they’ve had previously to do that.”

While she’ll be stepping away from the day-to-day grind of booking shows and running a bar, don’t expect Dethmers to disappear from the scene altogether.

“This is the only life I’ve known since I was a teenager,” she says. “I’m not leaving town. I’m still going to go to shows — probably even more than before.” n

Symphonic imagination

Pianist Stephen Hough performed an absorbing version of The Egyptian.

Madison Symphony Orchestra delivers a powerful Pathétique With this work totally at his fingertips, Hough had a fine romp with the outer movements, full of good tunes and bouncy spirit. But the meat of the work is its central movement, a remarkable example of “Orientialist” music so fashionable at the time in Europe, and especially France. Hough made it an absorbing experience in cross-cultural influences.

As an encore on Feb. 17, Hough played Debussy’s Clair de lune, taking an all-too-familiar piece and turning it into a miracle of coloristic shadings.

Maestro John DeMain deserves praise for adding one of Samuel Barber’s powerful Essays for Orchestra to the MSO repertoire. The composer suggested that the piece’s dark colors reflect its being written during World War II. But

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Stephen Hough — one of the leading pianists of our time — joined the Madison Symphony Orchestra for its February program, which memorably combined two novelties and one great warhorse.

One of Hough’s performing specialties has been the Piano Concertos of Camille SaintSaëns, all five of which he has recorded. He imaginatively chose the last of them for this appearance with the symphony Feb. 17-19. The Concerto No. 5 is titled The Egyptian, partly because it was composed on a visit to Egypt in 1896, but also because it incorporates some musical influences from that part of the world.

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it is essentially a symphonic study in thematic elaboration, and MSO’s performance was appropriately powerful.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the Pathétique, is a score we think we know so well until we listen to it closely. It is the composer’s last

work, and it premiered just days before he died. It is often considered autobiographical, and Tchaikovsky had innovation on his mind. The passionate first movement, with its romantic second theme, starts out in sonata-form but then breaks free of it, in a dying away that is paralleled at the end of the fourth movement, an Adagio lamentoso that is surely an evocation of death. In between are two hardly symphonic movements: a quirky pseudo-waltz in 5/4 time, and a rowdy march.

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As a result, the film is often understood in political terms, but its portrayal of a mature woman’s romantic life is far more compelling than its political commentary.

Aquarius kicks off a series of films presented by the UW’s department of Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies at the UW-Cinematheque the next three Fridays, starting Feb. 24.

Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman) stars as Clara, a 65-year-old breast cancer survivor and widow. She resides in a seaside complex at Boa Viagem beach in Recife, Brazil. Her neighbors have moved out due to an impending new development, but Clara has refused to sell. Aquarius toggles between Clara’s personal relationships and her efforts to remain in her beloved home.

Her fight to keep the apartment absorbs much of the 145-minute screen time, but the leisurely pace undercuts most of that drama.

Her nemesis, Diego (Huberto Carrão), a smug millennial fresh from business school, will do

anything to drive Clara out to break ground on the new development. But with the exception of a vivid confrontation at the end, the conflict is an unimaginative retread of the familiar story of heartless capitalism.

What we haven’t seen nearly as often in movies is a nuanced portrayal of sexagenarian sexuality. Braga shines in scenes that explore Clara’s quest for intimacy. In contrast to her defiant stance against her landlords, Clara exposes a tender vulnerability as she takes emotional risks. She makes out with a widower with potential, only to see him pull away when she discloses that she has undergone breast surgery. Since mature men cannot be mature about such things, she calls a young gigolo to get what she wants.

Director Kieber Mendonça Filho emphasizes the beauty of lived experience, as embodied by Clara’s home and body. Clara’s hair, lost 30 years ago in treatment, has regrown and triumphantly flows down her back. Clara understands the sacrifices associated with each wrinkle and scar. Her home similarly showcases evidence of a life well lived, including a record collection in which each disc has a story.

Clara could find comfort elsewhere, but doing so would erase many traces of her.

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My Hero Brother: UW Hillel Israeli Film Festival: Documentary about a Himalayan trip by young adults with Down syndrome. Hillel, Feb. 26, 2 pm.

How to Steal a Million: UW Cinematheque: Stylish caper romance set in Paris, starring Audrey Hepburn. Chazen Museum of Art, Feb. 26, 2 pm.

Miss Hokusai: Animated biography of ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai. UW Union SouthMarquee, Feb. 27, 7:30 pm.

Girl Rising: Documentary follows nine girls from around the world using education to overcome obstacles of culture and injustice. UW Union South-Marquee, Feb. 28, 7 pm.

Milwaukee 53206: Documentary chronicling the life of those affected by incarceration in “America’s most incarcerated zip code.” Q&A with Keith McWhirter, director of the film, and Beverly Walker, featured in the film. Edgewood College Anderson Auditorium, March 1, 5 pm.

The True Cost: UW Havens Center Social Cinema: Documentary about how the fashion industry affects people and the Earth. Union South-Marquee Theater, March 1, 7 pm.

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The Other Son: UW Hillel Israeli Film Festival: Drama about Israeli and Palestinian young men who learn they were switched at birth. Hillel, March 2, 6:30 pm.

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Wednesday, March 1, Overture Capitol Theater, 8 pm Twenty years ago, bandleader Thomas Lauderdale wanted to spice up progressive political fundraisers in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. He hit upon a winning formula: a “tiny orchestra” that plays sizzling multi-language versions of classical, jazz and pop tunes.

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PICK OF THE WEEK up in the Minneapolis scene with fellow Rhymesayers labelmates Atmosphere and Brother Ali, the 32-year-old is known for quick, choppy raps centered on long nights full of women, whiskey and the bad decisions that follow. High-energy jams like “Time Bomb” and “Bar Breaker” will help you sweat out some of that booze.

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Pilobolus Thursday, Feb. 23, Wisconsin Union Theater Shannon Hall, 8 pm

Since forming in 1971, Pilobolus has consistently left audiences marveling over the wonder and beauty of the human body in motion and the creative possibilities conjured by the human brain.

For Shadowland, the company collaborated with Steven Banks, lead writer for SpongeBob SquarePants, and composer David Poe to tell the story of a teen girl’s coming of age. Multiple moving screens with projected images are employed, along with choreography performed in front of the screens to explore the surreal happenings in the dark shadows.

(author of Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, pictured) and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Miracle Fruit) read poetry from their new chapbook Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens. This event is sponsored by UWMadison’s Program in Creative Writing.

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Johnny Cash Birthday Party It’s hard to believe Cash has been gone for 14 years. The Man in Black would have been 85 this month. The diverse line-up of bands includes Liam Ford, Wisconsin’s best Cash tribute act, and Madison’s Wood Chickens, who are likely to hatch some hillbilly hell. It’s also one of your last chances to see Whitney Mann (pictured) perform. Our hometown June Carter is leaving the stage to concentrate on her career and growing family.

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The award-winning poet and activist Ross Gay

Despite their attention-getting name and penchant for dressing up in women’s clothes onstage, STRFKR is more than a novelty act. Their sound is an immaculate combination of indie rock, psychedelia and electronica. After all, you don’t last 10 years and six albums (the most recent being this year’s Vault Vol. 1) by just being weird. With Psychic Twin.

Brink Lounge: Lou and Peter Berryman, 7:30 pm; MalO-Dua, free, 8 pm.

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Crescendo: Derek Ramnarace, Teddy Davenport, Shelby Kisling, Greg Thornburg, Jess Brandhorst, 7 pm.

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Harmony Bar: Civil Engineers (EP release), 9:45 pm.

Majestic Theatre: STRFKR, Psychic Twin, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: The Arge, free, 10:30 pm.

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Mother Fool’s: Hanah Jon Taylor Trio, 8 pm.

Carnaval 2017 Friday, Feb. 24, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm; Saturday, Feb. 25, Majestic, 9 pm

Long-running community percussion ensemble the Handphibians (pictured) hosts and performs at its annual tribute to the sounds of Brazil, once again spanning two nights and venues. Friday’s “Carnaval Pan American” show opens with capoeira and Brazilian dance demonstrations, and closes with South American/Cuban sounds from Los Chechos; in between is Samba Novistas, Drum Power and the debut of the Panchromatic Steel Band.

Saturday includes sets by Wolbaianos, Metabaque, Mami Wata and DJ Trixz.

Orpheum Theater: Lotus, 8 pm.

Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, works by Haydn, Stravinsky & Resphigi, with Julian Rhee, violin, 7:30 pm.

Red Rock Saloon: Rebel Grace, country, 10 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: River Willows, folk, free, 10 pm.

UW Memorial Union - Der Rathskeller: You Blew It, All Get Out, Free Throw, free, 9 pm.

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Morticians in Love Friday, Feb. 24, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm

Lou and Peter Berryman: Old Songs Night Friday, Feb. 24, Brink Lounge, 7:30 pm

Nothing says Wisconsin like the irrepressible, irresistible guitar-accordion folk/cabaret duo of Lou and Peter Berryman. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of their musical collaboration and their 70th birthdays with a roomful of people who appreciate their wry wit and rhyming takes on Midwest living.

In a post-Valentine’s Day funk? The Kathie Rasmussen Women’s Theater’s production of Morticians in Love may be the antidote to the sugary sweetness of the holiday.

This ultra-black comedy, written by Christi Stewart-Brown, features two rival morticians, an androgynous assistant and two good-looking corpses. Love and necrophilia are examined, so mature audiences only. ALSO: Saturday (8 pm), Sunday (4 pm), Wednesday and Thursday (8 pm), Feb. 25-March 2. Through March 4.

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Friday, February 24, Gilbert V. Hemsley Theatre (Vilas Hall), 7:30 pm

Friday, Feb. 24, The Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

Bos Meadery: Gary & Joan, free/donations, 7 pm.

University Theatre presents one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, which has several of the Bard’s signature elements, including separated twins and cross-dressing. It is perhaps better known to younger audiences as the inspiration for the Amanda Bynes movie She’s the Man. As directed

by David Furumoto, this “East meets West” production is set in the Hawaiian Islands, with multi-ethnic and multicultural casting.

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By creating an alchemy of jam band and electro-pop influences, members of the Philadelphia electronic rock band Lotus have proven themselves masters of the groove. Expect to hear old favorites and new tunes from their 2016 album Eat The Light, the band’s first to include vocalists on each song. London DJ/producer jackLNDN opens. See article at isthmus.com/music.

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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Friday, Feb. 24, Overture Hall, 8 pm

Affectionately nicknamed the “Trocks,” this dance company’s tagline is “the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company,” and they’ve been garnering rave reviews since forming in 1974. Under the stunning costumes, sparkly makeup and shiny pointe shoes, these are male ballet dancers with top-notch training and impeccable technique. So, while the campy drag element entertains, and the parody is witty and wise, the pure dancing will always amaze.

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J.E. Sunde Saturday, Feb. 25, Crescendo, 8 pm

J.E. Sunde’s sustained, falsetto voice will freak you out at first. But once you settle back into your seat, it’ll charm you, thrill you, and sweep you away into his psychedelic story songs of love and adventure. Sunde and his brother Jason moved from rural Amery to Eau Claire to make music just before Bon Iver exploded. Their band, the Daredevil Christopher Wright, represented the early, bent, Eau Claire pop sound — albeit more stripped down and a lot less self-serious. Sunde will be singing selections from his new solo effort, Now I Feel Adored, an astral collection due out in March. With Whitney Mann.

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Four-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton has played with many of this country’s jazz luminaries (including Henry Mancini) and serves as the musical director for the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour. He’s been performing since he was a wee child, including sitting in with his dad, the famous composer/bassist John Clayton.

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High Noon Saloon: The Jimmys, Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, Xavi Lynn, 8:30 pm.

Mickey’s: Love Czars (Love tribute), 10:30 pm.

Orpheum Theater: Aaron Lewis, Alex Williams, Travis Marvin, 7 pm.

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might have caught his cameo on Mad Men). Musically, he’s a one-man band, using loops of vocals, keys, trumpet and beatboxing to create songs built upon layers of loveliness. With the bouncy wunderkind Sam Lyons. See story, page 28.

One Woman Sex and the City Saturday, Feb. 25, Barrymore Theatre, 8pm

It’s time for cosmos! This one-woman tribute promises to take audiences through all six of the hit TV show’s sassy comedic seasons. Multi-talented Kerry Ipema brings the characters to life as they brunch, banter, spat and swoon over men and Manolos.

Seussical Saturday, Feb. 25, Overture CenterPlayhouse, 2:30 & 7 pm

Kids (and their grownups) will delight in seeing some of their favorite kooky Dr. Seuss characters on stage in a musical hosted by the most famous Theodore Geisel creation of them all – the Cat in the Hat. Seussical opened on Broadway in 2000 and is now one of the most performed shows in America. Luckily, Children’s Theater of Madison can be counted on to create quality productions that engage rather than condescend to their young audiences. Recommended for ages 5 & up. Through March 12.

LVL UP Sunday, Feb. 26, UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller, 8 pm

With a great new album out on Sub Pop records, New York lo-fi indie rockers LVL UP seem primed to be a success story at this March’s tastemaking SXSW festival. The fantastic East Coast post-punk quartet Palm and Madison bedroom pop act Trophy Dad round out the bill.

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Clyde Stubblefield tribute Monday, Feb. 27, High Noon Saloon, 6-10 pm

Big Gigantic Sunday, Feb. 26, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Ari Herstand Sunday, Feb. 26, High Noon Saloon, 7 pm

This former Madisonian (and author of How to Make It in the New Music Business) is now an L.A.-based phenom (you

Goatwhore Monday, Feb. 27, The Frequency, 7 pm

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If you’re one of those people who think electronica is nothing more than computer programming, look no further than Big Gigantic. The Colorado-based duo is composed of two veteran musicians (bandleader Dominic Lalli has a master’s degree in jazz from the Manhattan School of Music), who bring live saxophone, drums and vocals to Big G’s trademark funky electronics. This is going to be a party you won’t want to miss.

Madison and the music world lost a true treasure on Feb. 18 when Clyde Stubblefield, the generous and much-imitated Funky Drummer, died from kidney failure.

The Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band will perform the hits the drummer played with James Brown plus many originals. CDs of a recently released live album will benefit the Madison Area Music Association Clyde Stubblefield Scholarship Fund, and the cover will help defray funeral expenses.

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seen his songs get re-recorded by mainstream acts like Mark Chesnutt and Gary Allan, and has released a staggering 13 albums in his career. His latest, Eastside Bulldog, came out in 2016, proving that Snider is the once and true king of alt-country. With Allen Thompson.

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own backyard? The indie pop duo (who released the excellent Too Much of a Good Thing last year) will get support from Melkweed (which features former members of Modern Mod and the Recreation Station) and Hey Sorry. Come out and give Meg and Eve a proper sendoff!

The Gambol: Album Release Thursday, Mar. 2, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

High Noon Saloon: It’s All You Cowboy, Rae, Nate Meng & the Stolen Sea, Terri Schanen, 8 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, blues, free, 5:30 pm; Em Jay, free, 10 pm.

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Todd Snider Thursday, March 2, Barrymore Theatre, 7:30 pm

One of the unsung alternative heroes of the 1990s, Todd Snider is your favorite country musician’s favorite country musician. He’s

The Frequency: Wild Adriatic, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Ghost Bath, Corridoré, 8 pm.

Overture Center-Capitol Theater: Pink Martini, 8 pm.

Seasaw Thursday, March 2, Frequency, 8 pm

Madison’s hometown heroes Seasaw are set to embark on a tour of the eastern U.S., so where better to kick it off than in their

They’ve got the trappings of a classic Americana band — banjo, fiddle, harmonica, whiskey-soaked vocals — but Madison folk rock outfit the Gambol is no one-trick pony. After recording their forthcoming debut album in Nashville, they’re celebrating its release with a hometown shindig. Them Coulee Boys open.

Art In Gallery: Control, Louise Bock, Thomas Wincek, Rob Lundberg, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Lens, Joel Shanahan, Jeremiah Nelson, ACLU/Planned Parenthood benefit, 7 pm.

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Chicago native Erik Wm. Suter enjoys an international career from Tokyo to Toronto and from Massachusetts to Madison. For 10 years, he served as organist at the Washington National Cathedral. Additionally, he has won five first place awards in numerous organ competitions around the world and his performances of the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé have garnered high praise.

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In recent years, the cave obtained a liquor license as it has expanded into more corporate events and weddings (which are usually in a barn on the property, though short ceremonies and photo shoots have been held in the cave). With the license, staff explored other ways to boost offseason visits and bring in a different kind of crowd than usual.

The Cave After Dark events started slowly, Anderson says, but got a huge boost from social media. Photos of people eating cheese and drinking beer (which is allowed in plastic glasses) in a cave were custom-made for Facebook and Instagram.

Word spread quickly.

“There’s no better advertising than customers posting about it,” Anderson says. “Wine in a cave? It seems like a nobrainer.”

And while in the summer the cave is a destination to escape the heat, its constant 50-degree temperature provides the opposite experience in the winter: It provides an escape from winter’s chill.

“It’s so fun to send anyone in there on a 24-below day and have them say, ‘Wow, it’s warm down there,’” Anderson says. “It’s a weather-proof place, it really is.” ■ The next Cave After Dark event is March 17.

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Anyone who thinks caves are for hibernating hasn’t been out to Blue Mounds this winter.

In what would be considered the offseason at Cave of the Mounds, the popular destination has traded tourists for beer aficionados and Scout troops for blues fans. The second season of Cave After Dark events for ages 21 and over has turned into a tough-toget ticket for visitors who want a different way to check out the limestone cavern and its magnificent formations.

“It’s nothing like a real tour,” says Kim Anderson, the cave’s operations manager.

“The cave doesn’t change, but your perspective on it might, depending on how you’re walking through it.”

During regular cave hours, tours are guided. During Cave After Dark, ticketbuyers can go through at their own pace, stopping for pictures if they like rather than being pulled along with a tour group. Those who buy Cave After Dark tickets get an assigned time to go into the cave to ensure that everyone doesn’t go in all at once, but once there can stay as long as they like.

“If you’re on a tour, you might not get as close of a look at some things as when you’re allowed to spend as much time as you want,” Anderson says. “Giving people some time is nice.”

Five of the six events, including a Glow Party with electronic dance music on Feb. 18, sold out at $25 a ticket with a capacity of approximately 150. There’s plenty of room in the cave, but the tickets cut off at 150 because of capacity in the visitor center, which also hosts music and has a cash bar.

Events this season included a Rockstoberfest in October that featured a beer tasting inside the cave; a wine and cheese tasting inside the cave; and an underground cocktail lounge and blues music in various spots within the cave with tastings of local beers set up at stations throughout the well-lit walkways. In addition, there was a Valentine’s Day event, Love on the Rocks, on Feb. 11.

The last Cave After Dark event will be on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. Hooley in the Hollows will feature Irish music as well as a “treasure hunt” in the cave to find tokens for beer and wine samples.

The series has been so successful, organizers plan to begin events again in October 2017 and host one a month through March 2018.

Offseason activities at Cave of the Mounds aren’t new. The cave has hosted Christmas caroling and music in December for several years, as well as popular Halloween events. The cave is open year-round, though through March 14 weekday tours are by reservation only, and on the hour on Saturdays and Sundays.

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I am a straight married man. My wife and I have a 4-year-old and a 3-month-old. We’ve just started having intercourse again. For Valentine’s Day, we spent the night in a B&B while Grandma watched the kids. We had edibles, drank sparkling wine, and then fucked. It was amazing. After we came and while we were still stoned and drunk, my wife mentioned she was open to inviting others into our sex life. I asked about getting a professional sex worker. She said no. But maybe if we were in a bar (we’re never in bars) and met someone (a unicorn), she might be into it. Anal came up. She’s always said she’s up for trying anything once. I have a desire to experiment with anal. (Not just me entering her, but her pegging me as well.) I asked if she would use the vibrator we brought on me, just to experiment. She said she was too high to do anything. I felt let down. I feel she unknowingly teased me with fantasies I have, not knowing I actually have them. We have a good sex life, and I’m willing to write off the fantasies we discussed while high and drunk. It’s the teasing that drove me crazy.

Having And Realizing Desires P.S. I’m in no hurry. We just had a baby, and I don’t want to pressure my wife right now. My fear is that she may only like the idea of exploring our sexuality together and not the reality of it.

but let her know these are things you would actually like to do, and the more you talk about them, the more you want to do them. If she keeps talking with you about them, that’s a sign. Not a sign that she’s a cruel tease, HARD, but a sign that she’s inching closer toward pulling on a Team Realize jersey.

P.S. If your wife doesn’t know you have these fantasies — and is consequently teasing you “unknowingly” — that’s your fault, HARD, not hers.

I wanted to tell you about something that happened to my friend. (Really!) She was going to bang this dude from OkCupid but wasn’t getting a great feeling, so she went to bed and let him crash on the couch.

She woke up the next day to find her underwear drawer empty on the floor and all of her underwear wrapped around this dude’s feet. She stealthily removed all the panties from his perv hooves and put her shit away. When the morning actualized itself, they parted amicably with no mention of the underwear slippers.

Men In Alaska Ask yourself which is the likelier scenario, MIA. Scenario 1: This guy stumbled around your friend’s dark apartment in the middle of the night, managed to find her underwear drawer, pulled it out and set it on the floor, made himself a pair of pantie-booties, had himself a wank, and fell back to sleep. All without waking your friend. Then your friend got up in the morning, saw her panties wrapped around his hooves, peeled them off one by one, and returned her panties to their drawer. All without waking Perv Hooves up.

Scenario 2: Your friend got pervy with this guy, wanted to tell you about this guy’s kink, but was too embarrassed to admit that she played along and possibly got into it.

My money is on Scenario 2, MIA, because I’ve heard this song before: “I met this pervert who did these perverted things in front of me while I was asleep, and I wasn’t in any way involved and I wasn’t harmed. Isn’t that pervert crazy?” Yeah, no. In most cases, the person relaying the story played an active role in the evening’s perversions but edited the story to make themselves look like a passive bystander, not a willing participant. n Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.

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Some people think about, talk about and masturbate about certain fantasies without ever wanting to realize them. Let’s call them Team Fantasize. Some people think about, etc., certain fantasies and would very much like to realize them. Let’s call them Team Realize. There’s nothing wrong with either team. But when someone on Team Fantasize is married to someone on Team Realize, well, that can be a problem. Knowing your spouse is turned on by fantasies you share but rules out realizing them — or sets impossible conditions for realizing them — can be extremely frustrating. And sometimes a frustrated Team Realize spouse will say something like this to their Team Fantasize mate: “Talking about these fantasies together — this kind of dirty talk — it gets my hopes up about actually doing it. If it’s never going to happen, we have to stop talking about it, because it’s frustrating.”

The problem with that approach? Swingers clubs, BDSM parties and the strap-on-dildo sections of your finer sex-positive sex-toy stores everywhere are filled with couples who used to be on opposite teams — one from Team Fantasize, the other from Team Realize — but they’re both on Team Realize now. And what got them on the same team? Continuing to discuss and share fantasies, even at the risk of frustrating the Team Realize spouse.

So if you ever want to have that threesome or experiment with anal, HARD, you need to keep talking with your wife about these fantasies — and you need to tell her your fantasies too!

Tell her you’re not pressuring her, of course,

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