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SPRING IS IN THE AIR

An unseasonably warm February and early March has many worried about climate change.

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DOLLARS AND SENSE

Some worry about the proposed rollback of financial reform regulations.

12 OPINION MIKE IVEY

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DOUG HANSMANN AND DENISE THORNTON

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COVER STORY DOUG HANSMANN’S training in conservation biology and environmental chemistry led to a career in medical diagnostics research and eventually inspired him to convey scientific topics in ways that make sense to a nontechnical audience. As Denise Thornton increasingly focused her writing career on environmental topics, the husband-and-wife duo started to team up on writing projects, including this week’s cover story on the fate of Wisconsin’s wolves.

NEWS MIKE IVEY SPENT 15 years as a business reporter at The Capital Times and was named the state’s top business reporter in 2011 by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. He says stories on finance and investing strategies are more important than ever since few companies offer pensions and many don’t offer any kind of retirement plan. That’s right, folks. You’re on your own.

BORING IS BEAUTIFUL

What democracy really looks like is a long, dull meeting about prosaic policies.

15 COVER STORY

WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE?

Is Wisconsin’s gray wolf population robust enough to survive the loss of federal protection?

22-24 FOOD & DRINK

ABARROTES YUMMY

A Latin grocery in Middleton is dishing out the best tacos around.

25 SPORTS

ONE AND DONE?

Natural supernaturalism

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Thursday, March 16, Brink Lounge, 7 pm

Basketball Badgers cope with criminally underseeded status.

COMEDIC FEAST

Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical gets Broadway treatment.

28 BOOKS

NATIVE MEMOIR

How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century is a poetic look at an Oneida childhood.

Coven? Coven.

29 MUSIC

NASHVILLE HAUNTING

Saturday, March 18, Robinia Courtyard, 9:33 pm

Q&A with All Them Witches.

30 SCREENS LINDA FALKENSTEIN

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FOOD YOU NEVER KNOW what you’ll find on a walk with your dog.

Last May, on an outing to Pheasant Branch Conservancy in Middleton, features editor Linda Falkenstein spied a Mexican taqueria in a strip mall. At the time it offered mostly groceries, but has since added tables and shifted to more prepared food. She gives Abarrotes Yuremi high marks in this week’s food review.

RETRO EXCELLENCE

This year’s Wisconsin Film Fest has some standout revivals.

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MUD TIME

An indoor training facility in Middleton is perfect for Fido fun.

IN EVERY ISSUE 10 MADISON MATRIX 10 WEEK IN REVIEW 12 THIS MODERN WORLD 13 FEEDBACK 13 OFF THE SQUARE

You know how stories get told around the campfire?

“Super Natural Stories” is like that — only inside, with draft beer.

Storytellers Jen Rubin, Aims McGuinness, Christi Clancy, Chris Fink, James Edward Mills and others grab the mic at this nature-themed benefit ($10) to support the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters.

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PUBLISHER Jeff Haupt ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Craig Bartlett BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Mark Tauscher EDITOR Judith Davidoff NEWS EDITOR Joe Tarr ASSOCIATE EDITOR Michana Buchman FEATURES EDITOR Linda Falkenstein ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Catherine Capellaro STAFF WRITERS Dylan Brogan, Allison Geyer EDITORIAL INTERN Riley Vetterkind CALENDAR EDITOR Bob Koch ART DIRECTOR Carolyn Fath STAFF ARTISTS Todd Hubler, David Michael Miller, Tommy Washbush VIDEOGRAPHER/PHOTOGRAPHER Justin Sprecher CONTRIBUTORS John W. Barker, Kenneth Burns, Dave Cieslewicz,

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Voter education Sunday, March 19, Lake Edge Lutheran Church, 6 pm

Don’t head to the polls uninformed.

Although the races on the April 4 ballot may not have the luster of a contest for president, governor or mayor, they’re all important. East Side Progressives is hosting a forum where you can meet the three candidates vying for two Madison school board seats (Ali Muldrow, Kate Toews and Nicki Vander Meulen) and the two candidates for Dane County Circuit Court (Marilyn Townsend and Jill Karofsky).

Winterfest Saturday, March 18, UW Humanities BuildingMills Hall, 11:30 am-8:30 pm

Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras’ annual concert features nearly 500 youth musicians at four sessions throughout the day.

2017’s early show includes the debut of Opus One, an ensemble of string players ages 8-12.

The evening Youth Orchestra concert features two of this year’s Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition winners, Mary Deck and Adam Goren.

Schedule at wysomusic.org.

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Celebrate the primal magic of the spring equinox with your polytheistic pals at this pagan dance party. The bars at Julep and Black Locust will be open, and local DJs will be spinning house, disco, techno and rare grooves. Two dance floors, costumes encouraged, and your $5 donation at the door will benefit the ACLU. Blood sacrifice optional.

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Christy Lowney points to a magnolia tree (right) and pussy willows (left) that are already budding.

Spring’s false start

BY ALLISON GEYER n PHOTOGRAPHS BY AUSTIN DUERST

On a recent Saturday morning walk through the UW-Madison Arboretum, Christy Lowney stops to examine the newly formed buds on a stately magnolia tree. They’re lovely to see and touch — fuzzy little proto-blossoms bursting forth from dormant wintry branches. But they’ve arrived several weeks early. “Our curator is kind of in a panic,” says Lowney, an Arboretum ranger. “This normally happens much later.”

The magnolias aren’t the only ones waking up early from their winter nap. There are signs of spring showing up all over the Arboretum — never mind the fact that the calendar still says March.

Walking a few steps deeper into the Longenecker Horticultural Gardens reveals a thicket of witch hazel shrubs, already blooming with delicate yellow-red flowers. Like the magnolia, the witch hazel is another harbinger of spring, but it, too, is ahead of schedule this year, Lowney says. Same with the pussy willows, whose soft, gray buds are already abundant in the garden. On the ground, tulips are beginning to emerge, their green leaves peeking up through mud and snow.

Lowney says record-setting temperatures in the third week of February kicked off the early seasonal shift. Rangers, naturalists and Arboretum

patrons alike began reporting and documenting each bloom and bud, adding to a living ledger of ecological data about the nature preserve that’s been kept since the mid-1930s. “When things hit the 60-degree weather mark, that’s when we started noticing a lot of things happening around here that are a little earlier than some years,” she says.

Sandhill cranes and red-winged blackbirds were both spotted on Feb. 19, nine days earlier than the first sighting last year. And the hermit thrush, notable for its beautiful song, was heard calling on Feb. 4 — a full two months earlier than in 2016. Lowney also spotted a pair of eagles in February. Eagles don’t migrate, but they do need open water to hunt, so their return to the Arboretum means that nearby Lake Wingra has thawed.

While the early migration might seem like good news for birdwatchers, Lowney says the threat of climate change is on the minds of many. “Birders know something’s up,” she says. “It is a little daunting for some people.”

Inside the Arboretum Visitor Center, naturalist Kathy Miner is busy setting up for the annual Madison Reads Leopold event, a celebration of the famed Wisconsin environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Leopold became the Arboretum’s first research director in

1934 and was the first to begin tracking and recording the area’s phenology — the cyclic and seasonal changes in plants and animals. Miner honors Leopold’s legacy through her work as a proponent of “folk phenology” at the Arboretum — data and observations collected by citizen scientists.

“Folk phenology is about people being connected to natural rhythms. It’s an important component of mental and physical health,” she says.

“We evolved to pay attention to those things for survival — and we still should.”

A resident of Monroe Street for nearly 40 years, Miner says “folk knowledge” in the neighborhood was that Lake Wingra froze around Thanksgiving and thawed around April Fool’s Day. “That’s no longer true,” she says. Like the vast majority of scientists, Miner is concerned about climate change and believes that human activity is the primary cause. She worries about what rising temperatures will mean for our natural world — and the generations that will inherit it.

“I have a grandchild who’s 6 years old. By the time he’s an adult, is Wisconsin going to have snowy winters anymore? There’s really no guarantee,” Miner says. “I don’t think it’s paranoia. These are very reasonable questions to be asking.” n

Early bloomers: MAGNOLIA, PUSSY WILLOW, WITCH HAZEL Early birds: SANDHILL CRANE, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH Average maximum temperature for February at Dane County airport, 1981-2010: 31.1 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT Average minimum temperature for same period: 15.1 DEGREES Average maximum, minimum temperatures for February 2017: 41.7 DEGREES, 23 DEGREES Record high temperature: 66 DEGREES ON FEB. 22, 2017

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Join our week of water events March 18th-25th:

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10am & 5:15pm: Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District Tours (must register at Madsewer.org) 11:30am: Test the Waters, Madison Children’s Museum 2pm: Hard Hat Tour, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (must register at Madsewer.org) 2:15 pm: Watershed Explorations, Madison Children’s Museum 3 pm: Friends of Lake Wingra Nature Hike 5:30pm: Watershed Network Gathering, 5201 Fen Oak Dr., RSVP at olw-lwrd.countyofdane.com

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Mon. March 20 6:30pm: Science on Tap, Ale Asylum Brewery

Sat. March 25 9am: 9am: 10am: 10am:

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Consumer alert Many worried by rollback of financial reforms

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For nearly two decades, David Ohnstad has been warning anyone who will listen about alleged Wall Street abuses. His email missives are familiar to many at the State Capitol and beyond.

“I’m a pain in the ass, I guess,” admits the retired Madison real estate appraiser.

Much of Ohnstad’s outrage stems from 1999, when his 90-year-old aunt lost $25,000 on some high-risk corporate bonds — a totally inappropriate investment for someone her age.

Ohnstad felt personally responsible since his elderly relative was using an investment adviser he had recommended. So Ohnstad filed a complaint with regulators at the state Department of Financial Institutions that finally led to what he called a “wrist slap” against a prominent local Merrill Lynch broker, who later left the firm.

“What the Merrill guy was doing was placing many of his trusting and unsophisticated clients into junk securities that earned him big undisclosed commission dollars,” says the silver-haired Ohnstad, 71.

Legislation enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown — including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — was designed to protect investors from those kinds of shenanigans. By some estimates, high or unnecessary fees are costing investors up to $17 billion annually.

But those reform efforts are now facing an uncertain future following action from the Trump administration to delay or roll back entirely a series of regulations initiated under President Obama with at least some level of bipartisan support in Washington.

The banking and financial services industry has argued that Dodd-Frank and other reforms have damaged the country’s entrepreneurial spirit and limited access to needed credit.

Republicans in Congress are also looking to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move being spearheaded

by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

But consumer protection advocates, including the Madison-based Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group, are now raising red flags about an issue largely overlooked amid the tumultuous first two months of the Trump presidency.

“What’s most troubling is that these rules were designed to protect Americans who don’t have a lot of experience investing but are now having to make more and more of their own retirement decisions,” says WISPIRG director Peter Skopec.

Many observers are closely following what will happen to the so-called fiduciary rule.

Proposed to take effect on April 10 under

the Department of Labor, the rule would require brokers to put investors’ interests above their own when working with retirement accounts like an IRA or 401(k).

Perhaps surprisingly to the naive, financial industry sales people don’t have to offer unbiased advice when pitching products like mutual funds. Current laws only require them to recommend investments considered “roughly suitable” for the client.

That means if a firm carries two similar mutual funds, but one pays the broker a higher commission, they can steer you to that fund — even if the other carries lower fees and promises similar returns.

“I’m not sure how many people even know if their broker is making a commission or collecting a fee, but one role of government is to protect people from being ripped off,” says Skopec.

The financial industry has largely resisted too much government involvement, however, saying the rules have increased compliance costs and created a situation where companies only want to work with the wealthiest clients.

“What’s happening is that it becomes too expensive or risky to take on smaller customers, so those people are left without any help at all,” says Brendon DeRouin of Insurance Services Group in Verona, which specializes in retirement annuities.

DeRouin is president of the state chapter of the National Association of Insurance Financial Advisors (NAIFA), which has been fighting the Dodd-Frank rules for years. Opponents maintain that market forces are leading many firms to make changes on their own without regulatory meddling.

NAIFA has deep ties to Wisconsin. Its past national president, Juli McNeely, runs a financial services company in rural Spencer and was featured recently in a story from the Reuters news service.

McNeely says the fiduciary rules are cumbersome and have been especially difficult for smaller firms to comply with. She cheered the Trump administration for putting on the brakes.

“We were spending 45 to 60 hours a week in December just trying to get ready,” she says.

“Now we have a little breathing room to make sure we do this right and not quickly to meet a deadline.”

Neither side disputes potential high costs in complying with the new rules, estimated at $31 billion over the next decade. But consumer advocates maintain it’s a small price to ensure that people are keeping more of their hardearned money.

“There’s no question that in the minds of industry lobbyists, delay is just a step toward repeal,” says Barbara Roper, investor protection director for the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. “But if the administration follows an honest process and considers the impact on retirement savers, we have a winning argument.”

Some national firms like Vanguard or Fidelity have long maintained they are working in the best interests of their clients by maintaining low fees and not trying to “upsell” customers with things they don’t need. Vanguard founder John Bogle in a recent op-ed in The New York Times wrote that annulling the fiduciary rule “would clearly be a setback for investors trying to prepare for retirement.”

Still, even if that happens, “the fiduciary principle itself will live on, and even spread,” he wrote.

Being upfront with clients from the beginning is a strategy used by fee-only advisers, who charge a set amount for service and don’t collect commissions or skim a percentage of assets under management.

“The reason brokers don’t want to register as fiduciaries is because they have been making so much money off the old system,” says Kathy Hankard, who runs a fee-only firm called Fiscal Fitness in Verona.

Meanwhile, Johnson is leading the legislative charge to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bureau was created after the global economic collapse to hold bad actors accountable and prevent future systemic threats that could cause new crises.

In January, Johnson introduced a bill that advocates claim would significantly curtail the bureau’s ability to protect investors from unfair and predatory financial practices.

Johnson has also sponsored fast-track legislation to block basic fraud and fee disclosure protections for all prepaid debit cards.

More than 221,000 Wisconsin households, or 9.1 percent of all households in the state, used prepaid cards in 2015, according to the FDIC. “We can’t let Wall Street convince the president and Congress to re-rig the system so special interests win and everyone else loses,” says WISPIRG’s Skopec. “It’s almost like everybody has already forgotten what happened in 2008, when millions of people lost homes, millions more lost jobs, and just about everybody lost a big chunk of their retirement savings.”

Ohnstad couldn’t agree more.

“These crooks aren’t your friends,” he says.

“They are not your fiduciary since they put their financial interests ahead of yours.” n

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Common Council debate South-side candidates don’t see eye-to-eye on panhandling or Madison College

BY DYLAN BROGAN

ISTHMUS.COM MARCH 16–22, 2017

Ald. Sheri Carter is seeking a second term on the Madison Common Council. She is being challenged by UW-Milwaukee student José Rea to represent District 14 on the city’s south side. Both candidates are Madison natives and attended West High School.

But the two clash over some issues related to the district, including Mayor Paul Soglin’s recent push to curb panhandling on city medians and terraces. After months of debate, Carter was one of 12 alders who approved the measure at the Feb. 7 council meeting “Panhandling [in medians] is very dangerous,” Carter said at a March 3 debate hosted by Isthmus. “And quite frankly, I can’t sacrifice somebody’s life to grab a monetary benefit.”

Carter adds that she’s actively involved in combating homelessness through her work as a board member for the nonprofit Porchlight.

But Rea opposes the ban, saying it criminalizes homelessness.

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José Rea (left) is trying to unseat first-term Ald. Sheri Carter in District 14.

dividuals?” asks Rea, who serves on the city’s Equal Opportunities Commission. “When [people are] ticketed and accumulate more and more tickets, they can be jailed by our Madison Police Department. Then where do they go?

Back into the system.”

Rea says if resources for the homeless were properly funded, the new ordinance wouldn’t be needed.

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Rea is critical of Carter’s lack of advocacy on the Madison College issue. He says the south side should have a council member who is leading the charge to expand the college’s presence in that part of town.

“On the south side, we need better access to higher education,” says Rea. Carter says she’s long pushed for Madison College to offer more career pathway classes at its south-side campus. But she also likes that the college has a presence downtown.

“Don’t pit downtown versus south Madison. I think they both have value,” says Carter. “We’re not all cattle. There’s going to be someone in District 14 that wants to [attend Madison College] downtown. That won’t be an option anymore. But I’m just saying we also have to look at individuals’ choices and options. I want to give them as many options as we can.” n Listen to the full debate between Carter and Rea at isthmus.com.

Remodeling Oscar Can a potential buyer find new industrial uses for Oscar Mayer plant?

BY JAY RATH

When Kraft Heinz Company announced that it was closing Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant, Mayor Paul Soglin had some clear demands about what should happen with the more than 50-acre property. Now that a potential buyer, Reich Brothers Holdings, has emerged, Soglin isn’t changing his tune.

“There are two things we told Kraft Heinz from the beginning,” says Soglin, “and we’ve expressed it to the Reich brothers, and that is that we’re determined that the facility continue to be utilized as a main source of employment, and that we were not interested in someone coming in, putting up a shopping center, some kind of retail or housing.”

So far, the mayor is encouraged by what he’s hearing from the Reich brothers, who have acknowledged the city’s desires and say there’s a demand for industrial property in Madison.

“They’re still very interested in the site,” says Soglin. “That I see as a good sign. We have [also] said, if it’s part of an employment center, there could peripherally be housing and retail. That’s not a problem.

But we have to see the core use first.”

Adam Reich, the company’s co-CEO, is familiar with the Oscar Mayer plant, having been inside it “easily a dozen times” since 2002, working with Kraft Foods, Oscar Mayer’s parent company at the time.

“It is early in the process,” says Reich, a phrase that he repeats often. “At this point in time, I would say we’re cautiously optimistic.”

At its peak in the 1970s, Oscar Mayer had 4,000 employees in Madison, which was its world headquarters. Today, the land alone is assessed at $3.6 million. The value of the buildings is debatable.

Kraft Foods merged with Heinz in August 2015 to become the Kraft Heinz Company, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world. Almost immediately 2,500 jobs were slashed in the United States and Canada.

The Madison plant will be shuttered at the end of this month. “Approximately 400 employees currently remain at the facility,” says Michael Mullen, Kraft Heinz senior vice president of corporate and government affairs.

The economic pain of the closing is obvious, but there’s also a wound to civic pride, and — well, what do you do with an empty food factory?

Older brother Jonathan is co-CEO of the firm, based in White Plains, New York. Reich is pronounced like “rice,” but with a “sh” ending.

“Specifically, both of us are bankruptcy attorneys,” says Adam Reich, “both of us specializing and forging an expertise in the purchase and sale of distressed assets in a bankruptcy setting.”

For years the two worked together and apart, learning as they moved from firm to firm on both the West Coast and their native East Coast.

“As a result of that, and as result of our experience buying and selling, and representing clients, it became sort of a natural fit for us to go into what I would call the asset recovery business,” says Reich.

That doesn’t mean they’re repo men or liquidators. “The whole point of what we’re trying to do is an interesting sort of, I guess, vision or strategy that we have. Our day-to-day business is repurposing plants, attracting new industry and hopefully creating new jobs.”

“We love what we do,” Reich adds. “We think it’s important. And we’ve had some really good results.”

Since 2006 they’ve operated as a “boutique asset recovery firm,” with offices across the country, notably in Los Angeles and Chicago. Their work occurs in several phases, distributed across several divisions.

First, they buy manufacturing facilities.

“We don’t buy any vacant real estate,” says Reich. While processing facilities are something of a specialty, they call themselves “in-

dustry agnostic,” working with companies in fields as varied as aerospace and mining.

They recently closed on a facility belonging to Milwaukee-based Joy Global Inc., a leading manufacturer of mining equipment.

“We’ve been doing this for a long time, and we’ve got some really good in-house expertise that allows us to go after these types of facilities,” says Reich. “Our primary purpose once we purchase a facility is to simply repurpose the facility. And what I mean by that is, first and foremost, look and see if we can find a user to take over that manufacturing facility.”

If they’re able to find a user, they either sell the facility or enter into a long-term lease.

If they’re unable to find a user, the brothers’ equipment-auction division cleans house.

“We will then proceed to do any sort of cosmetic changes to the facility,” says Reich.

“If we determine that facility needs to be a complete redevelopment, then our third division, which is demolition and salvage, will engage in a demolition and salvage program relative to that property,” joining with a local developer or redeveloping it themselves.

While the firm is international, Wisconsin is well-trod ground. Besides Joy Global, Wisconsin facilities that Reich Brothers Holdings has worked with include Ken’s Foods, maker of Steakhouse-brand dressings, and Foremost Farms USA Cooperative, “a turnkey cheese-processing facility,” says Reich. The brothers are now attempting to lease the former Foremost plant in Waumandee or sell it to another processor.

As for Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant, Reich says that “It’s very, very complex. Some of the structures, for example the cold storage, are newer. It absolutely makes sense for them to stay intact and in place.”

But the plant’s antiquated structures may not be best suited for another manufacturer.

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One possibility can be seen in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. On March 2, Kraft Heinz announced that it had sold its condiment plant there, to Atlanta-based Ridgeline Property Group for $36.5 million. It will be demolished, and warehouses put in its place.

So Madison waits for the Reich brothers, Adam and Jonathan. Adventurous opportunists or white knights?

“We’re lawyers,” says Adam Reich, 50.

Adam Reich (left) acquired Waumandee’s Foremost plant (above) and is looking for a new cheese maker to take over the facility.

His company is considering attempting the same thing with Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant.

So some demolition appears likely.

“That said, we are absolutely exploring opportunities whereby another manufacturer or manufacturers might come in and operate on site,” he says. “First and foremost, we’re going out and seeing whether or not we can attract a user.”

At the same time, says Reich, “we’re engaging in the parallel path or the dual path that we typically engage in, with respect to our business plan,” by considering which buildings to keep.

Reich is hopeful the Madison plant can attract a new user.

“There is a very low vacancy rate for industrial in Madison, and there is absolute need for vibrant new manufacturing space,” he says.

“And so my early goal — if we could not attract a user — would be to see some newer industrial or warehousing space being built there, again, to attract industry and to attract jobs.”

Reich stresses that “It’s a longer-term process, and we’re just now getting involved.”

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U.S. District Judge William Conley stands up to President Donald Trump and issues a temporary restraining order barring Trump’s administration from enforcing its new travel ban on a Syrian family seeking refuge in Wisconsin.

TF? Badger men’s basketball fans are seething over the NCAA tournament selection committee’s baffling decision to seed Wisconsin eighth — below Minnesota, who we have beaten twice.

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In what might be the most innocent and adorable voter fraud ever committed, dozens of 17-year-olds voted illegally in the Wisconsin spring primary, the AP reports.

The kids reportedly believed they could cast a ballot if they’d be 18 by Nov. 8.

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MONDAY, MARCH 13 ■ The “alt right” has turned

on U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Janesville).

Hyperconservative website Breitbart publishes a “never before released” recording of Ryan disavowing then-candidate Donald Trump. Ryan’s comments were already reported, but the story is a signal that Ryan will be the scapegoat when the Trump-backed health care plan fails miserably.

■ Chicago-based developer Beitler Real Estate, the firm behind the Judge Doyle Square project, submits a proposal to build an 11-story office building on the site currently housing Madison College’s downtown cam-

pus. But the project won’t be considered because the developer wasn’t among the finalists.

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A UW-Madison nonacademic misconduct hearing committee recommends expulsion for Alec Cook, a suspended student accused of sexually assaulting multiple women.

Cook has until March 24 to appeal his expulsion to Chancellor Rebecca Blank.

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Return, sweet boredom True democracy comes slow and steady

BY DAVE CIESLEWICZ Dave Cieslewicz is the former mayor of Madison.

He blogs as Citizen Dave at Isthmus.com.

It’s well beyond the dinner hour. In a drafty room amid bad lighting, a handful of people sit around a battered table in old chairs that creak when their occupants shift in them. The committee is on item 29 of a 32-point agenda, so tantalizingly close to freedom they can almost taste it. But one member — it’s always that one member — needs to ask several more questions of the highway commissioner because next year’s pea gravel contract is just so very important. There’s an old saying in government: Everything’s been said, but not everybody has said it yet.

This is what democracy looks like. A properly humming civic engine runs quiet. It’s boring. And boring is beautiful.

Not so these days. There are lots of rallies and marches. People are storming the offices of their congressional representatives — even friendly ones. They are cramming into town hall meetings to scream and shout. Michael Moore tweets and folks race off to the Dane County airport to stand up for immigrants, no matter that our airport has flights from Detroit but not Damascus.

For a lot of people, an angry crowd is either an inspiring expression of First Amendment rights or a mob, depending on what it is they’re angry about. For me, loud, indignant speech always obscures and darkens the message, even when the message is something I agree with.

But I get a sense among some of my liberal friends that they enjoy their indulgence in righteous outrage. For those of a certain age it reminds them of their youth. For younger people the street theater makes politics seem exciting and maybe even a little dangerous.

DAVID MICHAEL MILLER

There’s a man with a gun over there. Of course, these days, with concealed carry and ever more liberal gun laws, there can be a man with a gun just about anywhere.

For political extroverts the era of Trump is horrible, but also wonderful. It gives them a chance to display their moral superiority and get some fresh air at the same time.

But while all of the Trump insanity is driving some to the street, it’s forcing me deeper into the library. I am burrowing into my vow to spend the entire year exploring little but Midwestern-born-and-bred literature, history and even recipes. Recently I made some amazing venison roasts from a deer I shot, gutted and dragged last November.

Up at our cabin I learned to split wood with a maul — Madison-based Fiskars makes the best one! When I’m done chopping I read Jim Harrison, the late, great Upper Peninsula writer, or I read Hemingway on Fishing, much of it about that Chicago

boy’s adventures in the upper Midwest, or I read any of the other regional volumes I’ve collected on my slowly filling bookshelf.

No, I don’t think I’m becoming a survivalist, but still, it’s a curious reaction. The more my fellow liberals want to loudly protest, the more I want to just do something useful and tangible. The more they want to speak truth to power, the more I want to go looking for it on my own. Let power find its own damn truth.

I am not becoming more conservative, but I am turned off by what looks to me like the indiscriminate frenzy of angry liberals.

The jury comes in on the first Tuesday in

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November 2018. Win a bunch of elections and it will all have been worth it. Lose and it’s all just a lot of sound and fury.

When I broached this topic a few weeks ago I got pushback from folks who said that the protests were about expressing resistance, electoral consequences be damned. I could not disagree more with that sentiment. For me it’s all about winning elections because I would rather see liberals making policy inside those big white buildings than protesting it outside of them. I would set aside half the liberal agenda if I could get the other half, because right now, folks, we’re getting 100% of nothing.

In any event, I have been thinking about organizing a rally of reasonable moderates who believe in compromise. We could get David Brooks to speak, followed by a panel of rumpled Brookings scholars moderated by Judy Woodruff.

We could even have chants: What do we want?

Sensible public policy!

When do we want it?

After due deliberation!

Look, even though I do not do protests, I understand why they’re happening and why they might be necessary. But when citizens believe they can only be heard in the street and not in the hearing room, that’s a sign of trouble for democracy.

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Creating a message that makes white men feel engaged often requires sending a message that alienates the most marginalized. That being said, we need the votes, so we need to figure out something that can balance both.

Sam Abraham (via Facebook)

White guys I appreciated former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s perspective that “White Guys Matter” (Citizen Dave, Isthmus.com, 3/7/2017).

Unfortunately, most of us Indian Americans and brown people in general are more concerned about being senselessly murdered in a hate crime like in Olathe, Kansas, Kent, Washington, or Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

I am all for knocking on the doors of socalled moderate, independent and bluecollar Trump voters and spreading the progressive message of economic prosperity. I have been doing that for the last 17 years.

However, these days I don’t know if I will be greeted by a handshake or a barrel of a gun.

Yogesh Chawla (via email) Cieslewicz is arguing for pandering to white men. And it’s a thing I struggle with a lot; on the one hand you want to win votes, but on the other hand, at what cost? A lot of the problems stem from the general white population not wanting to acknowledge there are problems or assuming they’ve all been fixed.

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Local control I appreciated Bert Zipperer’s “Keeping Communities Whole” article (3/9/2017). He is addressing an often-unrecognized need for more local control of a community’s own economy. Shouldn’t it be a right for communities to have first dibs on keeping job resources in their own locale? The power to make economic decisions should be vested in the hands of local people. His article is a great argument for economic democracy (in contrast to political democracy).

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Correction In last week’s story “Where to Say I Do,” it was incorrectly stated that staff and former letter winners who are active members of the W Club could get married at Camp Randall. Camp Randall is open only to photo shoots, not ceremonies.

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ENDANGERED Would a legal hunt spell the end of Wisconsin’s wolves?

BY DENISE THORNTON AND DOUG HANSMANN

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he world was created in a particular order. First came the physical earth and heavenly bodies, according to the Anishinaabe, a group that includes several Native American tribes. Then came the plants, followed by the animals and finally humans.

When the humans arrived, the Great Spirit asked them to walk the earth and name all things in the Creator’s garden, says Joe Rose, an elder with the Bad River Tribe. While Original Man was doing his walkabout, the Great Spirit sent a companion, and that was the wolf, to accompany him. As they traveled, they became brothers.

Then the Great Spirit called Original Man and Wolf into his presence and told them, Rose says, “In many ways you are alike.

When you take a mate, it will be for life. Your social orders will be very complex. You will make your living by the chase, and both of you will be excellent hunters.” Then the Great Spirit told them, “from this day forward you will walk different paths.”

Rose explains that this creation mythology is part prophesy, an unfinished story. “The wolf became a very powerful symbol of the wilderness. Whenever we encroach on the wolf’s territory, he retreats further into the wilderness,” Rose says. “The Great Spirit told Wolf that, ‘a time might come when you will no longer have a place to retreat, and wilderness will no longer exist. If that happens, you too will pass out of existence.’ Speaking to Original Man, the Great Spirit said, ‘if your brother wolf passes out of existence, you will soon follow. You will die of great loneliness of spirit. If you pass out of existence, all other races of human beings will soon follow.’”

Before Europeans settled in Wisconsin, there were an estimated 3,000 wolves thriving here, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. But European settlers did not consider the wolf a brother. Bounty hunters earned millions of dollars from Wisconsin taxpayers killing wolves, and by 1960, there were none left in the state.

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Since the passage of the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 1973, wolves have slowly returned to Wisconsin. Dick Thiel, a retired DNR biologist, documented the presence of wolves breeding in Wisconsin in the winter of 1977-78. That spring, two packs had pups. “The founders of those first packs probably moved into Wisconsin from Minnesota and approved of each other enough to develop into packs,” Thiel says. From that fragile start, the wolf population in Wisconsin has grown to almost 900.

Ongoing research supports the Anishinaabe view of how wolves are similar to humans. The animals share strong social bonds, form tight family groups, live collectively to raise pups and nurture injured members. They are curious, caring, intelligent and adaptable, all traits that have fueled their rapid recovery.

But their adaptability and intelligence may not be enough to save them from legislation now on the docket in Washington.

In a rare moment of agreement, both U.S. senators representing Wisconsin — Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin — are supporting the delisting of gray wolves. U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy (RWausau) is sponsoring a similar bill in the House. Delisting would remove the animals from federal protection and allow them to be hunted in Wisconsin.

Rose says the tribe feels its fate is connected to that of the wolves. “We have four small wolf packs on our Bad River Reservation,” he says. “We protect them, and we are against the hunting of wolves. The wolf is our brother. Whatever the fate of the wolf, the fate of the Anishinaabe will be the same.”

A FORMER DNR WOLF

expert, Adrian Wydeven, describes the onagain, off-again pattern of federal protection over the past 10 years. Gray wolves were delisted from federal protection in 2007. Protection was reinstated in 2008.

They were delisted again in 2009, returned to protected status two months later and then once again delisted in 2012.

“When the Wisconsin Legislature wrote its own wolf hunting bill in 2012, it set very aggressive controls on the wolf population,” says Wydeven, who is currently coordinator at the Timber Wolf Alliance, which is associated with Northland College. “I think there was an overreaction by the Legislature because of their frustration with the process. Almost a backlash.”

Then a federal court once again protected the gray wolf in 2014.

If successful, what would the new 2017 delisting legislation mean for Wisconsin’s wolves? Returning control to the state would bring back legal wolf hunting, which has divided biologists, environmentalists, farmers and residents. Although the Wisconsin DNR would once again be in charge of regulating wolves and a wolf hunt, it would not allow Isthmus to interview its wolf specialists. All questions were handled by Jim Dick, the department’s communications director.

“The DNR agrees with the scientific determination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service,” Dick says. “Wolves are recovered in the Great Lakes region, and management authority should be returned to the states.”

Wydeven was one of a number of wolf experts who signed a letter in November 2015 supporting delisting, but he has major concerns about the ways wolf hunting and trapping were previously permitted in Wisconsin.

The DNR wolf management plan was prepared in 1999 and has not been updated. “At that time, there were just over 200 wolves in the state, and the plan set a target of 350 outside of Indian reservations,” says Wydeven. “This goal was not intended to be a ‘cap’ on the wolf population. But some people consider 350 wolves a cap and want to return the population to this level.”

and collection of public reports of wolf observations,” says Wydeven. “During the current winter, about 170 volunteers and 30 DNR staff are combing wolf country for tracks, along with some 60 radiocollared wolves being monitored weekly by airplane.”

But once there was a wolf hunt, volunteers did not want their data made available to the public, Wydeven says. The DNR also didn’t think it was appropriate to show in great detail where the packs were located. So since 2012 the wolf count is summarized in-house at the DNR rather than at a public meeting.

“How to count something as elusive as wolves, or any creature, in an area the size of a state, is a demanding task,” says John Vucetich, a widely respected wolf population biologist at the Michigan Technological University School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. “More importantly, what is relevant is not a specific number, but what problems wolves are causing from a human perspective.”

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Mary Falk says dogs protect her livestock from wolves.

Reinstating this cap would put the majority of the state’s almost 900 wolves on a hunting season hit list. The Legislature requires the DNR to have a hunting season any time wolves are not on the federal Endangered Species List. “Any hunting season should be established by extensive public input, with management authority in the hands of the department, instead of a legislative act,” says Wydeven.

Counting Wisconsin’s wolves is no simple task. Until 2012 the DNR would hold a public meeting each April where all the stakeholders gathered to share information and create a map that identified the location of each wolf pack and the number of wolves in each pack. That produced a credible population estimate.

“The information came from volunteer and DNR wolf trackers, DNR pilots, weekly monitoring of radio-collared wolves,

husband have lived near the Minnesota border of northern Wisconsin for 30 years raising sheep, goats and cattle for their dairy operation. There are eight lakes connected by a waterway within two miles of their farm. Wildlife moves along the waterway like a highway, and wolves follow the wildlife.

“We are surrounded by wildlife. That’s why we moved here,” she says. Compared to coyotes and hunting hounds, Falk says, “as far as I’m concerned, the wolves have been the easiest to deal with. They seem to be smarter and more judicious about how they spend their energy.”

“When you have a predator problem, you keep adding guard dogs. We found the magic number for us is eight. Wolves don’t have the time and energy to deal with guard dogs. It’s a head game. The dogs are saying, ‘I see you! I hear you! I smell you!’ That means the game is up.

Wolves rely on stealth, so they just move on. But coyotes are like mini-wolves on meth. They don’t give up.”

There is a belief that in northern Wisconsin, wolves are uniformly feared and disliked. But although acceptance of wolves increases the farther away one lives from wolf country, a survey on public attitudes toward wolves and wolf management in Wisconsin completed by the DNR in 2014 shows that the majority of residents, like Falk, are pro-wolf, even in the north.

Over 80 percent of respondents outside wolf range felt that wolves are “important members of the ecological community” and “have a right to exist,” and over 65 percent of in-range residents agree. Among the survey respondents within wolf range, “maintaining the same number of wolves” was the most frequently selected response.

According to Wydeven, the survey hasn’t gotten a lot of publicity. “I’m not sure the results are exactly what the state and DNR administrations were hoping for.

I think they wanted to demonstrate more

“We have four small wolf packs on our Bad River Reservation.

We protect them....

The wolf is our brother.”

— Joe Rose

METTA MONDAY CREATIVE

George Meyer, former head of the DNR and now executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, argues that hunting ultimately benefits wolves by keeping their numbers at a sustainable level. He says that most wolf biologists — as well as the Michigan and Minnesota departments of natural resources — support wolf hunting.

“There are no predators for the wolf except humans. To keep the wolf population within biological limits and social carrying limits, you need a harvest,” Meyer says. “It’s necessary for the species and also necessary for protection of private property, whether it’s livestock or hunting dogs or pets or in some cases humans.” But what problems do wolves actually cause?

IN DECEMBER, BALDWIN

wrote to the Senate leadership calling for delisting, arguing it’s a matter of public safety and economic imperative. “Families are worried about their ability to stay safe, farmers report livestock losses and losses in dairy productivity from stressed cows, and pets have been killed by wolves that are straying closer to yards, farms and towns,” Baldwin wrote. “In addition, sportsmen and wildlife enthusiasts report declines in the population of deer, elk and other wildlife.”

Baldwin, whose office declined an interview request with Isthmus, has made similar arguments in the past. In a 2011 letter to the state Legislature she wrote, “Last year in Wisconsin, 47 farms lost at least 75 livestock animals and saw injuries to six more.”

But livestock depredation by wolves, for which farmers are compensated, is relatively small, considering that there are almost 70,000 farms in Wisconsin and 3.5 million cattle.

Wydeven noted that the current wolf population would not need to be reduced to successfully manage livestock problems.

“In 2014, when we counted 746 wolves in Wisconsin, the DNR was allowed to remove problem wolves, and landowners could get permits to kill wolves that were causing livestock losses on their property. The number of farms with depredation and animal kills was similar to that when the wolf population was 350.”

“I can’t say that the hunting season had no impact,” says Wydeven. “But the modeling we have done suggests that control by government trappers is probably the most effective way of reducing depredation.”

Wolves appear to present no risk to humans. There are no documented cases of physical harm to humans from wolves in Wisconsin. In contrast, the most recent

data posted on the Department of Transportation website states that in 2013 there were over 18,000 motor vehicle collisions with deer in the state, resulting in over 400 human injuries and eight deaths.

As far as human safety concerns, Thiel says the DNR is proactive with wolves when they have been delisted, killing or removing them from heavily populated areas “because of the threat that they could pose. It’s a very loose analogy to a campground bear in which wolves get accustomed to people and lose their fear of them. The decision is always made to protect the public.”

Regarding Baldwin’s concern about the wolf’s impact on the deer herd, Thiel says, “There is a perceived view of competition for whitetail deer. Some hunters, not all, feel that wolves deplete the population of whitetails to the point where it is not viable to hunt. But studies going on for 40 years don’t show that.”

The deer population is down from its peak in 2000, but it is estimated that there are two to three times as many deer in the state today as there were in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a time when there were no wolves at all. If the deer population were to increase, it is likely that motor vehicle collisions and resultant human injuries would also go up.

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negative attitudes that would have supported more aggressive controls on the wolf population.”

Many of Wisconsin’s Native American tribes contend their concerns have been disregarded. “Wolves were never really seen as threatening or frightening or even as competition to the tribes, like the way many deer hunters view them,” says Peter David, wildlife biologist for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission.

“They think of the wolf as their brother. If you saw signs of wolf when you were hunting, you knew you were in country with a healthy deer population that would support you as well as the wolf.”

In general, when hunting quotas are set, the tribes can claim half the legal harvest, and in deer management there has generally been agreement between the tribes and the state.

“When the state pushed for a wolf hunting season, the tribes did not lay claim to their half,” David says. “When it became clear that the tribe did not want to harvest wolves and wasn’t going to hunt them, the state exercised its legal ability to reclaim this half of the quota of wolves for nontribal hunters. So essentially, the tribes cannot protect the wolves by not harvesting them.”

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from wolf hunt advocates is that a legal culling season actually protects wolves by lowering the number of poached animals.

Adrian Treves, an associate professor of environmental studies and the founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at UW-Madison, has spent the last several years testing that hypothesis. His conclusion, published in February in the Journal of Mammalogy, disputes conventional wisdom.

“Culling doesn’t raise tolerance as far as we can tell. The effect seems clear that poaching increased every time the government had this authority to cull.”

The study compares periods between 2003 and 2012, when state officials had the authority to hunt and kill wolves and when they did not. “That gave us the wherewithal to compare periods with and without culling,” Treves says.

Treves joins other environmental advocates in arguing it’s simply too soon to delist wolves and that more study is needed.

“The state management plans are inadequate and completely outdated,” says Melissa Smith, executive director of Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife, and Great Lakes field representative for the Endangered Species Coalition. “It’s 2017. We’ve learned a lot about wolves since the 1999 wolf management plan, and wolves have shown that they are more adaptable to human activity than previously thought.”

Smith is also troubled by the second clause of the proposed federal delisting bill, which states that no judicial review of the law will be allowed.

“In this political climate, do our representatives really want to sponsor legislation that takes away the power of citizens to keep our government accountable through the courts?” Smith asks.

Smith expects the bill will pass within the next month, and she is worried that it will make other endangered species more vulnerable. “Any species could be next, and there will be a horse-trading of any species that gets in the way of big agriculture, oil or

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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is calling to end federal wolf protections. gas. I think it’s an attack on the integrity of the Endangered Species Act.” When asked about the DNR’s implementation plans should the management of wolves return to Wisconsin, spokesman Dick had little to say: “The management strategy is still a work in progress so there are no final details to provide yet.”

Thiel, who has worked with wolves since their return to the state, takes the long view about the future of wolves in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes area. “We know that these animals are very resilient as a population. They can take some punishment and rebound quickly under reasonable management.”

But others are not as sanguine. “I think our citizens need to pay close attention to this issue,” says Treves, echoing Joe Rose’s belief that the wolf’s fate is a harbinger for all living things.

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I am deeply appreciative of the work that the League of Women Voters does to educate the public and encourage civic participation. While I missed the deadline due to an email glitch, I did respond to the questionnaire. An informed electorate is vital to any democracy which is why our campaign placed this ad with my responses. I believe that Madison is ready to be at the forefront of inclusion, and if you agree, I’m counting on your vote April 4th.

–Ali Janae Muldrow, Candidate for School Board, Seat 6 What in your professional and community background qualifies you for this elective office?

I was an MMSD student from kindergarten to graduation. I have worked in education here in Madison my entire adult life. I am currently the Director of Youth Programming and Inclusion for GSAFE (Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools), where I advocate for children with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, youth of color, and the educational rights of all young people across the state of Wisconsin. I am passionate about excellent education for everyone.

Voters recently approved a referendum question to allow the Madison Metropolitan School District to exceed the state-imposed revenue cap. What criteria will you use to authorize spending of these funds?

We have to examine the impact of what we currently invest in. Right now, we spend an incredible amount of money policing and incarcerating young people who are disproportionately African American. This spending does not produce equitable results, and therefore we have to be considerate of new ways of navigating resources to produce better outcomes for students, educators, and community members. I am committed to ensuring public funding is not spent on private entities. I will not support voucher programs or private charter schools. Investing in the leadership of our educators and making sure they have the support they need to do what’s best for each student is deeply important to me.

What do you see as the pros and cons of the Personalized Pathways program for high schools, which will begin implementation in 2017–2018?

The Pathways program that MMSD is beginning to implement needs to be examined with a lens toward equity. We cannot allow our schools to overwhelmingly push students of color and low-income students toward careers in manual labor positions, while pushing affluent white students toward higher education and to occupy positions of power in our society. This merely perpetuates the status quo on issues of race and class. Although surely with many exceptions, East High School, with a higher concentration of students of color and poverty, has historically been a gateway for students to get work at Oscar Mayer and other manual labor work, while West High School, with a presence of greater affluence than East, funnels students into the UW-system and beyond. In addition, we need to be preparing students for an ever-changing world where they will need to be lifelong learners. More than half of the top ten job positions in our country in 2016 didn’t exist ten years earlier. Rather than focus on preparing our students for low-income careers or work that may not exist in ten years, we need to prepare them to be capable, self-advocating adults who can lead this country into the sustainable and equitable city, state, and country that we need to be.

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One of the reasons I’m running for school board is to inspire more people in our community to become passionate about education. It’s vital that our community feels welcome and included by diverse representation within school leadership. The question came up when we were talking about going door-to-door for my campaign: What do you do if someone says they don’t have kids and are not interested in school? My answer is that you ask them what they are interested in, because if they’re interested in safety, or sustainability, or having an informed electorate, then they are passionate about education. How we treat children defines who we are as a community. How we educate people shapes our future; we need our entire community to feel included and inspired by education if we are going to stand up to the current political climate to ensure public education is well-resourced and accomplishing great things.

¿Qué aspectos de sus antecedentes profesionales y comunitarios la califican para esta oficina electiva?

Fuí estudiante de el Distrito Escolar de Madison desde preescolar hasta graduarme de la Preparatoria. Como adulta, he estado involucrada laboralmente en la Educacion aqui en Madison. En la actualidad, soy la Directora de Inclusión y Programas para Jóvenes para GSAFE (Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools; Alianza Hetero y Homosexual para Escuelas Seguras). En mi trabajo abogo por estudiantes con discapacidades, jóvenes LGBTQ+, jóvenes de color, y por los derechos de todos los jóvenes en el Estado de Wisconsin. Me apasiona la excelencia en la educación para todos.

Recientemente los votantes aprobaron una pregunta de referéndum para permitir a el Distrito Escolar de Madison excederse en la tapa de ingresos impuesta por el Estado. ¿Cuál sería el criterio que usted usaría para autorizar el gasto de estos fondos?

Tenemos que examinar el impacto que tiene lo que estamos invirtiendo en la actualidad. Ahora, gastamos una cantidad de dinero increíble en recursos policiales y en encarcelar jóvenes que desproporcionadamente son Afro-Americanos. Este gasto no está produciendo grandes resultados, es por ello que tenemos que considerar nuevas maneras de navegar recursos para producir mejores resultados para estudiantes, educadores, y miembros de la comunidad. Estoy comprometida a asegurar que los fondos públicos no se gasten en entidades privadas. No apoyaré programas de vouchers ni escuelas charter privadas. Algo que es sumamente importante par mi es invertir en el liderazgo de nuestros educadores y asegurar que tengan el apoyo que necesitan para hacer lo mejor para cada uno de nuestros estudiantes. ¿Cuáles son los puntos a favor y en contra de el Programa de Caminos Personalizados (Personalized Pathways) para las preparatorias que empezara su implementación en 2017-2018?

El Program de Pathways (Caminos) que el Distrito Escolar de Madison acaba de comenzar a implementar debe de ser examinado bajo un lente de equidad. De ninguna manera podemos permitir que nuestras escuelas empujen abrumadoramente a estudiantes de color y a estudiantes de bajos recursos económicos hacia carreras de posiciones de labores manuales, mientras al mismo tiempo, empujen estudiantes blancos y afluentes a la educación superior para ocupar posiciones de poder en nuestra sociedad. Esto solamente perpetúa el status quo en problemas de raza y clase. Por ejemplo, y seguramente con muchas excepciones, en East High School, con un alto número de estudiantes de color y de bajos recursos económicos, históricamente ha sido una puerta para estudiantes para trabajar en Oscar Meyer y otros trabajos de labor manual; mientras en West High School, con una presencia muchas más afluente que en East High School, los estudiantes han sido dirigidos hacia la Universidad de Wisconsin o instituciones educativas mucho mejores. En adición, tenemos que preparar a nuestros estudiantes para un mundo que está en un cambio constante en donde serán estudiantes de por vida. Más de la mitad de las diez mejores posiciones de trabajo en nuestro país en 2016 no existían diez años atrás. En lugar de enfocarnos en preparar a nuestros estudiantes para carreras de bajos ingresos o trabajos que probablemente no existan en los próximos diez años, tenemos que prepararlos para ser adultos llenos de capacidad y autoafirmación que puedan dirigirnos a vivir en una ciudad, estado, y país sustentable y equitativo.

4. Teniendo en cuenta que hay pocos periodistas dedicados a cubrir temas de educación, ¿Cuál ve que sea su rol en abogar con la comunidad?

Una de las razones por la cuales quiero ser parte de la mesa directiva del distrito escolar es para inspirar a más gente en nuestra comunidad en apasionarse sobre la educación.

Es muy importante que nuestra comunidad se sienta bienvenida e incluida por una representación diversa dentro del liderazgo de nuestras escuelas. Una pregunta salió a flote mientras nos estábamos preparando para ir a tocar puertas para apoyar mi campaña: ¿Qué le contestarías a alguien que te diga que no tiene hijos y que no está interesado en las escuelas? Mi respuesta fue que entonces, le preguntaría en que está interesado, por que si están interesados en seguridad, o en sustentabilidad, o en tener un electorado informado, entonces si están apasionados por la educación. La manera en la que tratamos a nuestros niños nos define como comunidad. La manera en la que educamos a la gente define nuestro futuro; necesitamos que nuestra comunidad entera se sienta incluida e inspirada por la educación si vamos a confrontar el clima político actual para asegurarnos de que la educación pública tenga suficientes recursos y realice cosas grandiosas.

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The campy musical tells the story of gold prospector Alferd Packer, the only person convicted of cannibalism in the U.S.

New life for Cannibal!

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co-writer of Night of the Living Dead Live; and composer Aaron Eyre.

The 1993 cult film started off as just a threeminute trailer for a film production class at the University of Colorado Boulder. Parker, alongside longtime partner Matt Stone and others, eventually finagled their college project into a low-budget film. They even crashed the 1994 Sundance Film Fest with it, putting on unofficial screenings of the film during the annual festival in Park City, Utah.

Cannibal! revisits the true story of 19th-century gold prospector Alferd Packer — the only man

convicted of cannibalism in the United States.

It all started in 1874, when Packer was on a trip from Provo, Utah, to the gold fields in Breckenridge, Colorado. Despite being advised against it, Packer and four other men trekked through the high peaks of the Rockies in the dead of winter.

Two months later, Packer descended from the mountains alone. The exact details remain a mystery, but Parker claims the four other men killed each other for food, and he survived the gruesome conditions by living off their flesh.

Before he created the animated TV hit South Park, Trey Parker wrote, directed, pro-

duced and starred in Cannibal! Jason McHugh, author of Shpadoinkle: The Making of Cannibal! The Musical, was in the cast as well as being one of the executive producers for the original film. McHugh secured the rights and helped launch the first stage version of the musical, which was performed off-Broadway in 2001. Over the years, different versions of the musical have been performed at fringe festivals and by small theater companies around the

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Love story. A gory, dark comedy based on true events. Cannibal! The Musical — the first feature film of Trey Parker, creator of South Park and Book of Mormon — has been busting guts and twisting genres for over two decades. Starting March 14, the professionally revamped stage adaption of Cannibal! is making its U.S. debut at the Overture Center for the Arts. The new full stage version of the film was adapted by Christopher Bond, co-creator and director of Evil Dead The Musical; Trevor Martin,

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After I left Abarrotes Yuremi the first time, I scribbled on the takeout menu, “This is the kind of place that makes my heart flutter.”

Given a choice between a Mexican restaurant with a 12-page plastic menu and the taqueria counter in a Latin grocery store, I’m always going to pick the latter. Last spring, on my way to the Pheasant Branch Conservancy for a dog walk, I spied the Abarrotes Yuremi sign at a strip mall hidden behind the McDonald’s at Highway M and Allen Boulevard in Middleton. I executed a quick U-turn and headed back to pick up a little snack. (Dog walking is big exercise, you know.) Stupidly I ordered just one chicken tinga taco to go. The chicken, stewed for a long time LAURA ZASTROW in a chipotle tomato sauce, was outstanding, far beyond the bland Tacos put the emphasis where it belongs, on the meat fillings. chicken usually stuffed into North American chicken tacos, and all I The sign out front says “fruteria y tais quite hot and a little harsh, with lots of onion could think about during the rest of the dog queria” but I haven’t seen signs that the and garlic, though on another visit a green sauce walk was stopping back on my way home. fruteria part of the business is up and runwith some avocado in it was a better fit.)

Since last spring, Abarrotes Yuremi has ning — maybe this summer? A nice raspaTacos are $2 each, well worth it, or order three cut down on its grocery space and expanded dos (Mexican shaved ice) with mango and for $9 along with rice (a rich, slightly greasy but its seating with a handful of tables and some chimoy will be just the ticket come booths in a sunny, brightly painted space. The satisfying version studded with kernels of corn) warmer weather, but in the meantime, agua and pinto beans (just shy of mushy, with some menu has expanded too, though it is still bafresca is available, along with Mexican whole beans remaining, and real bean flavor). sic tacos, burritos, tortas, quesadillas, tostabottled sodas and fruit drinks.

Any guisado (stew) on the specials board das and sopes, with a Mexican breakfast and The Middleton area has recently expespecials on the weekend — menudo, tamales, is a must-order. My only disappointment so far rienced a growth spurt of places serving has been the steak filling. The small nibs of flank stews. Take advantage of the specials board.

Mexican food, all within a stone’s throw steak were tough and underseasoned.

The tacos — simple, diminutive corn of Abarrotes Yuremi. Lupe’s Taqueria in Simple tacos put the focus where it belongs, tortillas, griddled and doubled — are fresh Middleton Hills offers a Chipotle-style on the fillings, but I also like the sopes, with their but really just delivery vehicles for the real build-your-own experience; I Love Tacos stars here, any long-stewed meat. I’d recom- thick, crispy, fried masa base, loaded with beans has filled the huge Cold Fusion bar space; mend the tinga, the barbacoa (with a smoky, and meat and topped with lettuce, tomatoes and Cocina Real (a sibling of Laredo’s) is just luscious crema and cotija cheese. cinnamony quality), carnitas or, if it’s on the down Allen Boulevard; and Lalo’s is not Pork prepared al pastor, chorizo, tripe and specials board, cochinita pibil (a slightly too far off on University Avenue. tongue are also on the regular fillings menu. sweeter long-roasted pork dish). Topped Abarrotes Yuremi is not the place that Recently the taqueria has been announcing with raw white onions, cilantro and pickled gives you a free basket of chips while you more weekly specials on its Facebook page: onions and accompanied with a wedge of sip on an oversized margarita. It’s all about tilapia (whole fish), mole enchiladas, flan, $1 lime, that’s all you need — I’d even skip the the food. And rightly so. ■ taco Tuesdays. salsas to savor the meats. (The green sauce ABARROTES YUREMI ■ 2606 Allen Boulevard, Middleton 608-824-9619 ■ facebook.com/abarrotesyuremi ■ 9 am-9 pm Mon.-Sat., 9 am-6 pm Sun. ■ $2-$9

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ALT Brew is serving a traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner of corned beef, cabbage, carrots and red potatoes. The brewery has also prepared a Milk Coffee Stout for the celebration. Reserve tickets ($15) at tinyurl.com/ ALTbrewSPDdinner. 1808 Wright St., 5-7 pm.

Brocach is opening early on St. Patrick’s Day, and whiskey will be flowing from 9 am to bar time. Traditional Irish dishes will be on the menu, too. The Currach Irish Trio performs at 3:30 pm. At Brocach Irish Pub & Whiskey Den, 7 W. Main St.

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There will be music, beer and green eggs at the Orpheum this St. Patrick’s Day. The theater will also be giving away door prizes, swag and tickets to upcoming shows. At 216 State St., noon-2:30 am.

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Farms on film The FairShare CSA Coalition is celebrating 25 years of connecting local farms and the community by hosting a food-themed film festival.

“We thought this would be great opportunity to shed light on the good food movement,” says Carrie Sedlak, program manager at FairShare. “It will also highlight the work that we’ve done over the past two decades.”

The nonprofit will screen six documentaries related to sustainable food production at the High Noon Saloon starting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21.

The FairShare CSA Coalition is a “collaborative network” of community-supportedagriculture growers. In addition to helping consumers find the right CSA, the nonprofit also spearheads the cost-sharing program Partner Shares. The effort provides financial assistance to low-income families interested in purchasing CSA shares.

“We didn’t want to focus exclusively on CSAs or what we are doing at FairShare,” says Sedlak. “But the films we selected definitely bring attention to several topics that we care about and support. This is especially true of expanding food access, which has

long been a mission of FairShare with our Partners Shares program.”

Sedlak says the current political climate also makes the festival timely.

“A lot of people feel as though they don’t have a lot of choice right now. But you do have control over what you eat. It’s a great time to talk about how consumers can support local food production,” says Sedlak. “It’s important to make intentional choices. To put your money where your heart is and where your values are.”

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Ground Operations spotlights the growing coalition of combat veterans making the transition to new careers as sustainable farmers, ranchers and artisan food producers after they return to civilian life.

The last film being screened, fittingly, is about FairShare itself. It highlights the nonprofit’s work building a coalition of CSA farms in southern Wisconsin and the group’s annual Bike the Barns fundraising event.

“If we get a good showing this year, we’d like to make this film festival an annual event that will focus on different topics each year,” says Sedlak. “The food system is vast, and there’s a lot of ground to cover. We’re interested in doing more to cover labor in agriculture as well as climate change.”

Presenters at the festival include Sarah Lloyd from the Wisconsin Farmers Union; George Reistad, food policy coordinator for the city of Madison; Kat Becker, farmer at Stoney Acres Farm & Cattail Organics; and Steve Acheson, a veteran and co-owner of Peacefully Organic Produce.

Tickets for FairShare’s Food + Farms Film Festival are available at the High Noon Saloon website ($12 advance/$14 door). Locally made snacks and popcorn will also be available for purchase. ■

Quite a projekt WISCoast Ale has bright citrus hoppiness WISCoast Ale falls between a pale ale and a hoppy wheat beer. Glass terms it “approachable, sessionable and crushable,” which is reflected in the beer’s modest 4.9 percent ABV and 38 IBUs (International Bitterness Units). Amarillo hops give it crisp citrus aroma and flavor, along with hints of apricot and clementine oranges. The beer has become a core year-round offering for the Brewing Projekt and is among the brewery’s best sellers.

WISCoast Ale sells in four-packs of 16-ounce cans for $9-$10.

Lately, I’ve been suffering a bit from palate fatigue, brought on by all the big and bold malty winter brews. So WISCoast came at just the right time, as I was looking for something a little lighter. This beer is great now, but it’ll be even better in the warmer months ahead.

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Brewing Projekt brewmaster William Glass transports his beers to Madison himself every few weeks, bringing as much as he can fit into his pickup truck. Right now, “the passenger seat is full, the bed is full,” he says, “so we may be needing a bigger delivery vehicle.” WISCoast Ale is the brewery’s current beer. Glass says it’s reminiscent of hoppy West Coast pale ales; however, its name is more about his brewery being on the “west coast” of Wisconsin, next to the Mississippi River.

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The perfect bottle Casetta Kitchen offers wine pairings for dine-in or take-out

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Opening a sandwich deli in downtown Madison is hardly a novel idea. But the new Casetta Kitchen and Counter, the Italian-American deli at 222 W. Washington Ave. that opened in February, is already setting itself apart. Co-owner James Juedes has a rich knowledge of wine, and he serves it up alongside his American and Italian classics, which include the “Italian” (capicola, salami, ham, provolone “with everything”) and the “Tonno” (tuna, caper aioli, olives, potato, hard-boiled egg, shaved onion, lemon).

Juedes, a former sommelier at L’Etoile, has put together a selection of wines to pair with his menu, for dine-in or take-out — elevating the sandwich lunch. A few people have come in for lunch and had a bottle of wine, he says, something he’d like to see more of. Casetta is open until 7 p.m. Mon.-Wed., and until 11 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., so dinner, or picking up wine for a take-out dinner, is also an option.

Juedes offers what he considers some of the best-value Italian and American wines. “Being an Italian-American deli, we are kind of Italian-centric, but we’re not just Italian,” he notes. To pair with American deli classics, he carries a zinfandel, which he terms “the quintessential American grape.” His 100 percent zin is the renowned “Day,” from winemaker Ehren Jordan. Juedes also stocks

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some of his favorite Spanish and Austrian wines.

“Everything here is stuff that I love to drink.”

Juedes graduated from UW-Madison with an undergrad degree in biochemistry. He worked in a lab for a while but soon realized that wasn’t for him. He started bartending and visiting wineries around Wisconsin.

His first job in wine was at Fisher King Winery.

During that time he also enrolled in a distancelearning viticulture and enology program through the University of California-Davis.

About seven months later he moved with his fiancée to Spain to teach English. He spent a lot of that time visiting wineries around Europe. “It was an awesome opportunity to get around to a bunch of wineries and vineyards around Europe and learn from that,” he says. “There’s a distinct difference between knowing about winemaking and knowing about wine, so it was great to have that exposure.”

More globetrotting ensued. In 2013 he headed to the Willamette Valley in Oregon to work at Alexana Winery; then to New Zealand in 2014 to work at Wither Hills. After returning to Madison in 2015, Juedes got the job at L’Etoile running one of the most impressive wine cellars in the city.

Most of Casetta’s wines are between $15 and $25, because Juedes thinks the biggest jump in wine quality is from a $10 bottle to a $15 or $20 bottle — much more than the jump from a $25 bottle to a $100 bottle. Casetta’s rack has about 20 different bottles currently, but he hopes to add more as sales pick up. All bottles are priced at retail for take-out; for dining in, there’s a $10 corking fee.

Juedes has completed level three of the sommelier examination and wants to share his knowledge with his deli patrons. “I love talking about food and wine, so I’m more than happy to say if you’re [eating] this, I have the perfect bottle for that,” he says. n

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The new eatery is itself a re-launch of the former Bayou, which was located on South Butler Street.

L & J Deli Store has opened at 447 W. Gilman St., formerly home to the Wiener Shop. The deli has premade lunches for carryout.

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Longing for more Thoughts on a streamlined Chef Week

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If Yum Yum Fest, the Madison Area Chefs Network’s late summer outdoor food and drink carnival, is unabashedly for the diner, then Chef Week is for the chefs.

At least in part.

Chef Week 2017 wrapped up on March 12 after a week that looked markedly different from the two previous years’ events.

There was less of a city-spanning fever pitch, with chefs less likely to be tasked with multiple events on the same day. After a 10-day “week” filled with 35 events in 2016, Chef Week 2017 spanned eight days and put on 17 events. Almost half of them were ticketed or some other variation on prix fixe.

This is fine, of course. But when the event tally is so diminished that a day’s lone event is an event meal at L’Etoile, there’s pressure to either spend spend spend, or just skip it and wait for the next day’s events.

On another day, the options were a $60 supper club meal at the Old Fashioned, a $150 tasting menu at the Madison Club, or sausages at Natt Spil. For me, and I’m guessing for a lot of people, that’s hardly a choice. You go for the sausages because you can pop in whenever, have a bite, soak up the scene and head on your merry way.

My 2017 Chef Week boiled down to one day. Gotham’s bagel sandwich competition has been a Chef Week favorite of mine from year one, and this time, instead of rewarding the winning chef with a prize, there would be a donation to Planned Parenthood.

This year’s contest was a five-chef affair between Gilbert Altschul, Dan Bonanno, Dan Fox, Patrick DePula and Tory Miller. Fox’s was my favorite, and my 2017 love affair with the chef would continue much later that evening, as a friend and I settled in for the late-night barbecue menu at Heritage Tavern. The menu was globally inspired, and Fox shared his kitchen with Evan Dannells and some other Merchant folks. Fox told us a lot of the late-night barbecue menu was something of a tune-up for Heritage’s barbecue event March 20-23, so if you missed it on Saturday, you may find some of those dishes making a return appearance.

I may be weird for relishing scheduling chaos, but one of the appeals of events like the Wisconsin Film Festival or Madison Craft Beer Week is the conflict that makes you realize you can’t do everything, but you can make a happy fool of yourself trying to.

Bouncing from venue to venue used to be a Chef Week thing, too, and it’s okay if that’s not what the team wants to do anymore. But I kind of missed it this year. n

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By the time you read this, the Big Dance could already be over for the Wisconsin Badgers. But let’s pretend the UW — the No. 8 seed in the East bracket — hasn’t tipped off its first-round game of the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in Buffalo, N.Y., against No 9. Virginia Tech on March 16.

It’s difficult to imagine the tournament selection committee having a bigger chip on its shoulder against Wisconsin. Granted, this is the Badgers’ 19th straight tournament appearance. But this also is a team that went to the Final Four two of the past three seasons, compiled a 25-9 record to finish second in the Big Ten and was runner-up in the conference tournament.

Should UW beat VT, the Badgers likely will face defending national champion and overall No. 1 seed Villanova in the second round on March 18. For the first time in years, I’m not planning my personal schedule around the tournament’s second weekend.

Of the Big Ten’s seven representatives in the tournament, four have higher seeds than the Badgers, including teams that UW beat twice during the regular season. The most notable is Minnesota, a No. 5 seed in the South that opens against No. 12 Middle Tennessee in Milwaukee on Thursday.

No wonder USA Today included Wisconsin in its list of “criminally underseeded” teams.

At least the Wisconsin-Virginia Tech matchup is an intriguing one. The 22-10 Hokies are coached by Buzz Williams, a familiar name to longtime college basketball fans in this state. From 2008 to 2014, Williams was head coach at Marquette — a UW rival for decades.

Greg Gard, now in his first full season as head coach at Wisconsin, chose his words carefully when asked about UW’s tournament placement. “I don’t know exactly the logic or reasoning behind that, so for me to try and throw out an opinion probably wouldn’t [be smart],” he told the Wisconsin State Journal.

As for the players, their actions spoke louder than words when the matchup was announced. A CBS Sports camera captured the team’s subdued reaction of polite (or, in some cases, no) applause in a Verizon Center locker room shortly after the Badgers fell to Michigan, 71-56, in the Big Ten title game in Washington, D.C. Marquette is the other Wisconsin representative in the NCAA Tournament and will play South Carolina in Greenville, S.C. (how convenient), on March 17. Should the Badgers and the Golden Eagles survive their brackets, both teams would meet in the Elite Eight. But that won’t happen. ■

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Stuff of dreams and nightmares Theatre LILA creates a beautiful patchwork for The Bed

BY AMELIA COOK FONTELLA

Theatre LILA’s The Bed creates a dreamy landscape of passions and nightmares. In a show that unfolds completely in and around a white four-poster bed, the collaborators weave poetry, dance, song and story into a seamless piece of theater that is sad and funny and totally beautiful.

The show, which runs through March 19 at the Fredric March Play Circle in the Wisconsin Union Theater, is made up of a series of vignettes, mostly written by local playwrights. The story is more patchwork than plot-driven, but there’s one constant: From the beginning, Olivia D. Dawson plays a worried woman, struggling with sleep. She’s ever-present and often wideeyed at the strange scenes that unfold around her. It’s toward the end of the show when her character becomes defined: She is a mother in mourning. In a spectacular scene written by Gavin Lawrence, her young son (Elijah E. Edwards) has been killed, presumably violently. Edwards raps and sings, the entire cast moving behind him on the big, white bed. It’s heartbreaking and gorgeous.

There are funny moments, too. On opening night, the audience guffawed at the bed-making antics of Michael Huftile’s French clown — a recurring character from other Theatre LILA productions. Huftile also shines as a reluctant apprentice tooth fairy on his first night on the job in a fable written by Kathleen Johnson. Huftile is a master of physical comedy, and he’s hilarious in both roles.

Theatre LILA’s artistic director, Jessica Lanius, who created and directed the show along with James DeVita, also appears onstage. In an especially funny scene, she shows up in bed wearing a snorkel, mask

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Olivia D. Dawson (center) grieves the loss of her son (Elijah E. Edwards).

and fins, asking a bewildered Dawson questions about sea turtles. The questions in this funny and poignant scene, written by DeVita, become increasingly existential.

The show, which is presented without intermission, ran just over an hour on opening night.

I’m a fan of brevity (I’m usually complaining that shows are too long), but this feels too short.

The movement and the poetry are dazzling, but the show would benefit from more content.

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In all other ways, though, The Bed is a success. The collaborators of Theatre LILA have yet again found a way to create a production that transcends categories. But whatever you call it, The Bed is a fabulous dream. And like the best dreams, it’s complicated: weird, funny and a touch tragic.

When you wake up, you’re not the same. ■

world. The Cannibal! debuting at Overture is a much “deeper adaption,” says McHugh, than past productions. The campy, dark comedy has been given the full Broadway musical treatment, too.

“The one caveat of the stage show has been you can’t mess with the music. It’s the sacred cow that we have always been careful to preserve. Trey has certainly gone on to prove his musical geniusness,” says McHugh.

“We let people do anything they wanted with their own adaptation; there was room for artistic license. But the only rule we stuck to was the music has to stay the same.”

When Bond, Martin and Eyre inquired about producing a new version of Cannibal! with new songs that weren’t in the original film, McHugh was skeptical. Even so, McHugh let the trio take a stab at it. He was “blown away” by what they came up: Six new songs were added to the musical’s original eight.

“It really stayed true to the original vision,” says McHugh. “What people love about Cannibal! is it’s an imperfect film. It had some structural issues that we just didn’t recognize when making our first film.

In this all-new version, those issues get addressed by the musical being reworked into this proper, two-act Broadway show. It’s come a long way.” ■

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Miranda Hawk plays Barbara, the daughter most able to go toe-to-toe with Violet. In the eye of the hurricane is Johnna Monevata (played with beautiful simplicity by Gina Gomez), a Cheyenne woman who was hired to care for Violet. She observes the action from her room in the attic, stepping in with quiet strength to cook meals, care for family members and protect them from harm.

Pausch’s direction keeps the play moving with inventive staging, using every doorway and corner of the remarkable, multi-level set (designed by Dan Myers) that is both realistic and symbolic, as real walls are stripped to bare boards that fade into darkness.

Whether the play is a black comedy, a tragedy, or a bit of both probably depends on the audience’s own family relationships.

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Now the multigenerational story of love, betrayal, abuse, addiction and just plain meanness has arrived in Madison in a production at the Bartell Theatre through March 25. Deftly directed by David Pausch, the play features Madison’s own cast of superstars, whose work in a complicated ensemble, as well as in individual moments, is astounding.

The play, clocking in at three hours including two intermissions, feels like a sprawling miniseries set on the sweltering plains of Oklahoma. The extended family is called to gather around the aging and unwell matriarch, Violet Weston (a fierce Peggy Rosin), when her alcoholic poet husband (a steady and reflective Coleman) goes missing. In the weeks following his funeral, the family wrestles with a host of old demons and discovers new ones that range from the quaint complaint “mom always liked you best” to revelations about affairs, prescription drug abuse and predatory sexual behavior. In each generation stories of cruelty are paired with strength, parental love is mingled with crushing disappointment, and obligation to the family is weighed against the desperation to become independent.

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Louis V. Clark III — a semi-retired 60-yearold member of the Oneida Indian Nation — spent years writing a 74,000-word book about Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame halfback Paul Hornung and the 176 points he scored during the 1960 NFL season. In January 2016, Clark sent the manuscript off to the Wisconsin Historical Society Press for consideration.

As an afterthought, Clark included a second, much-shorter manuscript — a deeply personal but wry combination of straightforward autobiographical prose and poetry about loss, identity, race and culture. The Wisconsin Historical Society Press passed on the Hornung book but recently published the other manuscript, in the form of the 120page How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century.

The author, who lives in Omro, near Oshkosh, will read from his new book at the Wisconsin Historical Museum on March 23 at 6:30 p.m.

“The title draws in a lot of people,” says Clark, who also goes by the name Two Shoes, as in “goody.” “I hope readers will see we’re not that much different, regardless of race. So many of us deal with alcoholism in the family and a bully on the playground.”

Those two issues shaped Clark’s life. His alcoholic mother married a white man, and he was beat up for not looking like his classmates on the Oneida reservation.

“I was flat on my back, getting hit in the face/When a young man informed me, what was my race,” Clark writes in “First-Grade Lessons,” one of the many poems he penned over the years and included in the book.

Clark married at 18, had six children (college graduates all, he announces proudly), coached youth baseball for almost two decades and found decent work despite facing discrimination. It took him 25 years to earn his own college degree, attending UW-Oshkosh and Concordia University Wisconsin. Writing became a hobby, and poetry was his release, a form of catharsis.

“You can do a lot on paper just to make yourself feel better,” Clark says. “My hurts are real, and they’re severe hurts. But they’re also worth sharing. You’re always afraid to expose yourself to the world, but you have to think about whether your experiences can help someone else.”

When he was a college student in the late 1970s, professors told Clark that if he wanted to write poems that rhymed, he should make them songs and move to Nashville. But in his mind, the rhyming schemes echoed the drums of his tribal heritage, and drum imagery continues to shape much of his work.

On one of the first pages of How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century, Clark writes about boyhood memories of Fourth of July base-

Clark will read from his book March 23 at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.

ball games in Oneida, where drums were positioned at home plate. “Not the white man drums you hear on television, Boom, boom boom boom! Boom, boom boom boom!” he writes. “No, these drums were Indian drums beating boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, like a heartbeat, the heartbeat of my nation.”

How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century is Clark’s second published book; in 2011, the University of Arkansas and the Sequoyah National Research Center published a chapbook of his poems, Two Shoes, which won awards from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Oneida Nation Arts Board.

And there’s more on the way. “I have a lot of stuff in the works,” says Clark, who’s not giving up on that Hornung book. “I wrote a book of short stories, and a play, too. And I have enough material for another prose/poetry book — two or three of them, probably: More stories from a 21st-century Indian.” n

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Film events The Adventures of Prince Achmed: Hypnotic silent adaptation of stories from The Arabian Nights, using a silhouette animation technique.

UW Union South-Marquee, March 16, 7 pm.

Wisconsin Film Festival Sneak Peek: Ashman Library, March 17, 6:30 pm; Central Library, March 21, 6:30 pm.

Deluge: Restoration of long-lost RKO disaster film in which tidal waves wipe out New York City. UW Cinematheque, March 17, 7 pm.

5 Broken Cameras: A farmer in Palestine chronicles the growth of his son and the struggle against the building of a separation barrier. Hawthorne Library, March 17, 7 pm.

The Last Days of Pompeii: RKO disaster film focuses on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, A.D. 79. UW Cinematheque, March 17, 8:30 pm.

Wisconsin Film Festival Children’s Sneak Peek: Short films, book display & stories. Pinney Library, March 18, 1 pm; Oregon Library, March 20, 6:30 pm.

Fed Up: Documentary film examining the correlation between rising obesity and sugar in processed foods. SuperCharge! Foods, March 18, 5:30 pm.

Pinney Mini Film Festival: Shorts from the Wisconsin Film Festival, plus music by White Birch Ensemble. Pinney Library, March 18, 6:30 pm.

Panique: Film noir sets up a cat-and-mouse plot involving murder and voyeurism. UW Cinematheque, March 18, 7 pm.

The Missouri Breaks: UW Cinematheque: An eccentric hired killer (Marlon Brando) tracks a gang of horse thieves. Chazen Museum of Art, March 19, 2 pm.

Excursions: Micro-Wave Cinema: A weekend in the country turns weird when guests arrive. UW Cinematheque, March 19, 7 pm.

Food + Farms Film Festival: FairShare CSA Coalition event, with short films & talks. High Noon Saloon, March 21, 7 pm. See story, page 23.

The State of State Cinema: LakeFrontRow panel discussion. Central Library, March 22, 6:30 pm.

Alphaville: A U.S. secret agent is sent to a distant space city, where he must find a missing person and defeat a tyrannical ruler. Bos Meadery, March 22, 7 pm.

Get Shorty: Mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is in town to collect a gambling debt, but gets mixed up with the movie business instead. Yahara Bay Distillers, Fitchburg, March 23, 6:30 pm.

Worthy revivals Get in line for the film fest’s Restorations and Rediscoveries

BY JAMES KREUL

Some people find history boring, but at the Wisconsin Film Festival, history hits like a switchblade knife, to paraphrase the poster for Larry Peerce’s The Incident. That 1967 film is one of many worth seeking out in the festival’s Restorations and Rediscoveries series.

Since the hunt for the next commercial crossover has been co-opted by studios and distributors, festival circuit programmers have a chance to directly affect film culture by looking into the past. The thrill of the hunt for archival films provides as many highs and lows as seeking the Next New Thing.

Sometimes audiences rediscover overlooked films; last year the social drama The Well (1951) delivered a surprisingly frank and still-provocative discussion of race relations. Other times we rediscover why films were overlooked; last year’s Nothing Lasts Forever (1984) remains as comically flat as critics suggested. Thankfully, this year’s offerings provide a respite from the festival circuit fad for so-bad-they’re-good films (Roar, The Astrologer, Death Wish Club). We can scratch that itch with the return of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Netflix in April.

This year’s festival offers familiar classicera directors like Ernst Lubitsch, King Vidor, Lewis Milestone and Vittorio De Sica, but sometimes showcasing their less-familiar films — neorealist De Sica’s return to his Commedia dell’Arte roots, The Gold of Naples, for example.

Academy Film Archive preservationist Heather Linville will present several screenings, including the raunchy 1932 comedy Cock of the Air, produced by Howard Hughes (already rush ticket only).

Another hot restoration ticket, on pace to sell out advance tickets, will be the visually daz-

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zling early Technicolor musical revue, King of Jazz (1932). This will be rush-line worthy.

Festival programmers want more people to recognize the name of director Larry Peerce.

The 86-year-old Peerce, best known for the thriller Two-Minute Warning (1976), will present The Incident along with the interracial relationship drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964) and the rock concert film The Big T.N.T. Show (1966).

The Incident (which screens at 3:15 p.m. on April 1 at the Chazen) shows how sensationalism can convey the emotional truth behind social issues more vividly than “serious drama.” The first half follows eight storylines across an evening in New York City (with vibrant on-location night cinematography). The hard-hitting stories explore juvenile delinquency, class divisions, marital strife, teen sex, peer pressure, race relations

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and gay subculture. The storylines converge in one subway car as two delinquents (a young Martin Sheen and an unhinged Tony Musante) terrorize the passengers.

The second half of the film dishes out an almost unbearably physical demonstration of the “first they came for [insert group], and I said nothing” arguments reprised in recent months. The delinquents first assault a gay man, and no one responds. But everyone in the subway car learns the consequences of not responding.

The Q&A session with Peerce should be lively, not only for the social issues raised but for stories about the amazing cast, which includes Beau Bridges, Thelma Ritter, Brock Peters and Ed McMahon. History will bore no one in that auditorium. ■

Into the fray Playing Dr. looks at the debate around Wisconsin’s abortion restrictions

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In the new documentary Playing Dr., a Madison filmmaker takes on the onerous task of presenting the politics and science behind Wisconsin’s 20-week-abortion ban.

The July 2015 ban, signed by Gov. Scott Walker as he vied for the Republican presidential nomination, is also known as the fetal pain bill. The bill undermines language in Roe v. Wade that marks fetal viability at 24 weeks; its proponents pointed to research — without peer review — showing that fetuses are viable and can feel pain at 20 weeks. Wisconsin was the 14th state to pass legislation tied to the 20-week mark. The subject intrigued writer and producer Ben Fritz, 39, who has previously worked on Lifetime movies and art-house films, as a subject for his first documentary.

Fritz approached the issue by interviewing lawmakers, doctors and organizational leaders with firm stances on abortion. “In today’s media, culture and politics, things are so divisive, it was a refreshing experience to just bring it down to human conversation and honor everybody,” Fritz says.

He started by asking people on the street in Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau and Green Bay who they would contact if they had a health issue. Most responded that they would contact a doctor. Fritz followed up by asking if they would contact a politician or a lawyer, which often elicited laughter.

“We have legislators making statements about health and science and our bodies that have no basis in what’s considered to be the truth. They’re making health care decisions, and they’re completely unqualified,” Fritz says.

Gov. Sco Walker signs a bill restricting abortion a er 20 weeks. The film contends it’s based on questionable science.

Playing Dr. attempts to present the facts that the average person is unlikely to sift through with an unbiased perspective. It examines how

people on both sides of the issue use “junk science” from biased sources, often without peer review, to represent their views.

He notes that since President Donald Trump was elected, two more states have adopted similar legislation. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to sign abortion restrictions into federal law.

“You’re going to see legislation like this in the future,” says Fritz. “Here’s information that we feel is important to consider when this comes to your state and when this comes to the entire country.”

Playing Dr. will screen at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 30, at Sundance Cinemas 608. There will be a post-screening talk with representatives from Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health. ■

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this all-star local production from Mercury Players Theatre is destined to be one of the season’s best. See review, page 27. ALSO: Friday & Saturday (8 pm) and Sunday (4 pm), March 17-19. Through March 25.

Cannibal! The Musical Thursday, March 16, OvertureCapitol Theater, 7:30 pm

Robert Randolph & the Family Band

The massive success of The Book of Mormon has shown that Trey Parker’s no slouch when it comes to writing for the theater. Parker’s first musical, which began as a college film project, follows the story of gold panner Alferd Packer, the only person convicted of cannibalism in America. See story, page 21. ALSO: Friday (8 pm), Saturday (2 & 7 pm) and Sunday (1 & 6 pm), March 17-19.

Saturday, March 18, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Trinity Academy of Irish Dance: Free performance, 6 pm, 3/16, Verona Library. 845-7180.

Growing up in the House of God church in Orange, New Jersey, Robert Randolph never heard secular music. But playing in church is how he honed his skills, becoming the pedal steel virtuoso that he is today. With the added influences of rock, jazz, soul and funk, his Family Band has become one of the most exciting musical acts working today.

The group’s latest release, Got Soul, is a searing thrill. With the New Respects.

The Whipping Man: Madison Theatre Guild, 7:30 pm on 3/16-17 and 2 pm, 3/18, Bartell Theatre. $20. 661-9696.

The Bed: “A Theatre LILA Invention” featuring works by nationwide playwrights, 7:30 pm on 3/16-18 and 2 pm, 3/19, UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle. $29. 265-2787. See review, page 26.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Super Natural Stories: Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters storytelling, 7 pm, 3/16, Brink Lounge. $10. 208-1131.

Book Sale: Fundraiser, 4-8 pm on 3/16, 9 am-7 pm on 3/17 and 9 am-2 pm, 3/18, Literacy Network. 244-3911.

David Steinglass: Reading from “Hunt & Gather: Poems New and Selected 1968-2016,” his new collection, 7 pm, 3/16, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Melissa Clark: UW Center for the Humanities lecture by the cookbook author, 7:30 pm, 3/16, Central Library. 263-3412.

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Crescendor: Ian Ethan Case, Greg Thornburg, 7 pm.

WIAA State High School Boys Basketball Tournament: 3/16-18, Kohl Center. $10/session. 715-344-8580.

The Frequency: The Pinkerton Raid, The Family Business, The Sharrows, 8:30 pm.

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Hop Haus Brewing, Verona: Back2Back, free, 7 pm.

Majestic Theatre: The Revivalists, 8:30 pm. Sold out.

Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, free, 5:30 pm; It’s All You Cowboy, Pulsing, Baby Alchemy, free, 10:30 pm.

Nomad World Pub (former Cardinal Bar): Grand Opening with Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, DJ Phil Money, 8:30 pm.

Gaelic Storm Thursday, March 16, Barrymore Theatre, 7:30 pm

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You may not realize it, but chances are good you’ve already seen this rollicking band. The Santa Monica-based Celt revivalists appeared in the film Titanic as the Irish steerage band, a stellar turn that helped gain them gain an ardent following. And with St. Paddy’s Day a mere day away, there’s never been a better time to check them out.

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Jazz 100 Thursday, March 16, Overture Hall, 7:30 pm

To celebrate the birth centennial of four jazz legends (Ella, Dizzy, Mongo and Thelonious), former Gillespie pianist Danilo Pérez has put together a band of folks usually leading their own outfits, including Chris Potter, Lizz Wright and Avishai Cohen. Together, they will help show the musical connections between these seemingly disparate musical icons.

Ohio Tavern: Aaron Scholz & Chris Boeger, free, 7 pm.

Chuck Prophet + Bottle Rockets Thursday, March 16, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

Prophet’s new record is a brilliant curiosity named Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins.

(The “I Fought the Law” singer was found dead in his car at age 23 under mysterious circumstances.) Prophet calls the project “California noir,” but underneath it all it’s a manic celebration of the way a rock song can take a listener’s dreary life and briefly turn it into a fireworks show. St. Louis’ Bottle Rockets are gloriously blue collar.

Either band is worth the admission charge.

Avenue Club: The Currach, Irish, 6 pm.

Bos Meadery: Pelham, free/donations, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Common Chord, Efren Vinueza, 7 pm.

Buck & Honey’s, Sun Prairie: David Hecht, 6:30 pm.

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

NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship: First & second round championship games, 3/16 & 18, BMO Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee. Badgers vs.

Virginia Tech 8:40 pm, 3/16. ncaa.com/MBBTickets.

One Barrel Brewing: Killarney Blarney, Irish, 10 pm.

Francesco de Mura: Paintings, 1/20-4/2, Chazen Museum of Art (talk by curator Maria Saffiotti Dale 5:30 pm, 3/16). 263-2246.

Wendi Kent: “Transitions: A Complete(ish) Works Pop-Up Show,” 5-9 pm, 3/16, Art In. 575-9976.

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Stoughton Opera House: Tuba Skinny, Sweet Sheiks, 7:30 pm.

Tempest Oyster Bar: Paul Rowley, free, 6 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Teri Schanen, free, 9 pm.

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Twist Bar and Grill: Madison Red, jazz, free, 5 pm.

Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Marc Vallon, 8 pm.

Friday, March 17, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm

THEATER & DANCE

August: Osage County Thursday, March 16, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm

Though it’s since become an award-winning film starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor, August: Osage County began its life as a play — and an excellent one at that.

Written by Tracy Letts, it follows a dysfunctional Oklahoma family that begins falling apart after the father disappears. The acidly funny play won both a Pulitzer and a Tony in 2008, and

The musical representatives (art punk division) of far-flung Algoma, Wisconsin, Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones are taking a brief Midwest spin, and luckily the tour includes a Madison stop. The band’s website promises “a brand-new batch of unfamiliar songs,” but as anyone who’s seen them knows, whatever they have cooked up will be worth ingesting. Here’s hoping they attempt to squeeze their double-drummer setup into Mickey’s.

With Dumb Vision, the Smells.

The Barrymore Theatre presents

COME DY Tony Hinchcliffe, Danny Kallas, Paul Farahvar: 8 & 10:30 pm, 3/17-18, Comedy Club on State. $15/$12. 256-0099.

B OOKS Book Sale: 6-7:45 pm on 3/17 ($15 membership) and 9 am-4 pm, 3/18, Lakeview Library. 246-4547.

CRAFTS

Dinosaur Jr. Friday, March 17, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

J Mascis is a man of few words, so he lets his guitar speak for him. Since the 1980s, he and his band Dinosaur Jr. have been at the forefront of alternative rock, churning out 11 albums of fuzzy, shredding six-string jams. Their most recent release, last year’s Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, is their fourth since the band’s original lineup (rounded out by Lou Barlow on bass and Murph on drums) got back together in 2005. With Easy Action.

Art In Gallery: Lustera, post-hardcore, 7 pm.

Arts + Literature Laboratory: Greg Ward Trio, 8 pm.

Bos Meadery: Matt DeBlass, Celtic, 4 pm.

Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: Pilot, rock, 9 pm.

Brink Lounge: Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus, “Songs from the Silver Screen,” 7:30 pm. Also: 7:30 pm, 3/18 (RSVP: perfectharmonychorus.org).

Brink Lounge: Erin Krebs Quartet, jazz/blues, 9 pm.

Brocach-Square: The Currach, Irish, free, 3:30 pm.

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

Come Back In: Deep Pool, Irish rock. free, 6 pm.

Essen Haus: West Wind, Irish, free, 8:30 pm.

First Unitarian Society: New Muse, free, 12:15 pm.

Fisher King Winery, Verona: Mark Lint’s Dry Folk, Blue Stone, free, 6:30 pm.

The Frequency: Fin Zipper, Jessica Manning, Sleeping Jesus, 9 pm.

Gray’s Tied House, Verona: Ryan McGrath Band, 9 pm.

Great Dane-Hilldale: DJ Landology, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: The Currach, Irish, 7:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: The Kissers, Cashel Dennehy Dancers, 5:30 pm; Kissers, Cajun Strangers, 8:30 pm.

Knit-In: Madison Knitters’ Guild annual event, 3/1719, Alliant Energy Center, with classes, special events & market. Schedule: madisonknittersguild.org.

S PECTATOR SP ORTS Madison Capitols: USHL vs. Waterloo, 7:05 pm, 3/17; vs. Sioux Falls, 7:05 pm, 3/18, Alliant Energy Center-Coliseum. $23.50-$15.25. 267-3955.

ART E XHI BITS & EV ENTS Do Ho Suh: Installation/sculptures, 2/11-5/14 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA Nights reception 6-9 pm, 3/17, with talk by Michael Jay McClure, poetry readings, music by MSO Rhapsodie Quartet, $10). 257-0158.

Interior Architecture: Council of Interior Design accreditation exhibit, 3/17-28, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Ruth Davis Design Gallery. 262-8815.

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All Them Witches Saturday, March 18, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

All Them Witches stand out among their compatriots on New West Records. While that label is known mostly for its work in the Americana genre, the Nashville quartet takes its cues from heavy psychedelia, like a cross between Black Sabbath and the Grateful Dead. They released Sleeping Through the War earlier this year, which was produced by Grammy-winner Dave Cobb, known for his work with the likes of Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell. With Irata. See story, page 29.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Reloaded, rock, free, 9 pm.

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Hop Garden, Paoli: John Duggleby, free, 6 pm.

Ivory Room: Leslie Cao, Lindsay Everly, Michael Massey, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: The Jimmys, blues, 8 pm.

Lake Windsor Golf Club-Bar & Grill, Windsor: Piano Fondue, 6:30 pm.

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Cliff Frederiksen, free, 6:30 pm.

Liquid: Davilla, 10 pm.

Locker Room: High Performance, rock, 9 pm.

Lucille: DJ Phil Money, free, 10 pm.

Merchant: DJ Tanner Savage, free, 10:30 pm.

Nomad World Pub: Tony Castañeda Latin Jazz Quartet, free, 5:30 pm.

Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Riled Up, 8:30 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Noel Paul Stookey, 7:30 pm.

Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: Casey & Greg, Celtic, 7 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Sound Out Loud, new music ensemble, free, 8 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Back 40, country, 7:30 pm.

Watertower Chop House, Sun Prairie: Nine Thirty Standard, rock/country/blues, free, 7 pm.

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Marty Stuart got his start playing in the bands of legends Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash, and has since gone on to become a pillar of American traditional music himself. Whether keeping it trad or adventuring into roots rock territory (as on his top notch new album Way Out West), Stuart is a reliable source of great music, no matter what you call it.

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Local label Kitschy Manitou organized this regional showcase (and fifth anniversary celebration), which packs in eight high-energy bands for an early show — and also raises money for the Dane County Rape Crisis Center. Madison is ably represented by the sturm und twang of Wood Chickens and the straight-up punk of No Hoax; the visitors include Green Bay garage pop trio Holly & the Nice Lions and Milwaukee’s raging Static Eyes.

Double Ewes Saturday, March 18, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm

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Some of Madison’s finest weirdos will be taking the stage at Mickey’s for a spectacle that’s not to be missed. Double Ewes, the Janesville-bred, electronically inclined trio will headline, with support from genre-hopping psych rockers Squarewave and gritty dream pop act Disq.

1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: David Hecht, free, 7 pm.

MUS I C High Noon Saloon: Clyde Stubblefield All Stars Tribute, C.S. Scholarship Fund benefit, 6 pm.

Malt House: Material Boys, bluegrass, free, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: The Pine Travelers, free, 7 pm.

PUB L I C N OT I C ES

Nasty Women Reading Saturday, March 18, Arts + Literature Laboratory, 8 pm

Pussy hats are optional at this benefit for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Readings from local and national literary women (including Kara Candito, pictured) explore what it means to be a “nasty woman” in the age of the Grabber in Chief.

KIDS & FAM ILY

Bos Meadery: Bootsy La Vox, free/donations, 7 pm.

Kids in the Rotunda: Trinity Irish Dance, 9:30 am, 11 am & 1 pm, 3/18, Overture Center-Rotunda Stage. 258-4141.

Brink Lounge: Robert J & Michael Tully, free, 9 pm.

Buck and Honey’s: Nine Thirty Standard, 6:30 pm.

Cafe Coda: Corey Wilkes Quartet, 7:30 & 9:30 pm.

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Capitol Lakes: Madison Youth Choirs, free, 7 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Angels & Outlaws, 9 pm.

Come Back In: Deep Pool, Irish rock, free, 9 pm.

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

The Frequency: Imaginary Watermelon, German Art Students, Treemo, 9 pm.

Harmony Bar: Terrapin Flyer, 9:45 pm.

Unique compositions that unite head and heart

TOM GULLION QUINTET APR 7 Tenor sax fueled improvisations ranging from intense to introspective

TONY CASTAÑEDA LATIN JAZZ SEXTET MAY 12 A Madison favorite performing original Mambo and Cha Cha

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Chamber Players, 7 pm. Also: 2 pm, 3/19.

CAPITAL BREWERY

Paoli Schoolhouse: Mike & Jamie McCloskey, 6 pm.

5-7pm 7734 Terrace Ave The Red Zone: Fall II Rise, Cold Kingdom, My Memory The Madison Jazz Orchestra 5pm Remains, Dreamhouse, metal, 8 pm.

LOUISIANNE’S St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: Bach Around the Clock, 6-11pm 7464 Hubbardfree, Avenoon-midnight. numerous local performers, Johnny Chimes 6-9pm • JimTrio, Erickson 9-11pm Tip Top Tavern: Jon Hoel jazz, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: 2am, rock, 9 pm.

MIDDLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY 6-9pm Verona: 7425 Hubbard Ave Collective, free, 7 pm.

Tuvalu Coffee, Acoustic

Antique Nouveau UW Humanities-Mills Hall:6pm Wisconsin Youth SymSallyphony De Broux, LaurieOpus Lang One & John Becker 7pm Orchestra, & Sinfonietta, 11:30 am; Concert Orchestra & Harp Ensemble, 1:30 pm; PhilThe Tom Ryan Orchette harmoniamiles Orchestra, pm; of Youth (performing Davis’4Birth the Orchestra, Cool 8pm 7 pm.

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9:30pm - Midnight 1902 St @ Elmwood Ave event, Madison Area DollParmenter Club Show & Sale: Annual Jon3/18, Hoel Alliant Trio 9:30pm 9 am-3 pm, Energy Center-Exhibition Hall. $5 (free ages 18 & under). 212-9832.

Pagan Holiday Party: ACLU fundraiser dance, 9:33 pm, 3/18, Robinia Courtyard, with DJs Surf ‘n’ Turf, Millbot, Zack, Evan. facebook.com/events/372313499834057.

ART E XHIBITS & EV ENTS Jon Higgins: Photographs, through 4/30, La Mop Hair Studio (reception 3-6 pm, 3/18, with music by Higgins & Tom Naumann). 233-1997.

With her excellent new dream pop album Everybody Works garnering a lot of media attention, 22-year-old songwriter Jay Som has been attracting fans of emotional, lush acts such as Mitski and Porches. Vancouver fuzz punks the Courtneys and the youthful Madison power-pop outfit Disq open.

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

Knuckle Down Saloon: Lynda & the Zeros, 9 pm.

Edgewood High School Jazz Combo 5pm Majestic: Robert Randolph & the Family Band, 9 pm.

Madison Music Foundry Jazz Combo 6pm Nomad World Pub: DJ Chamo, Latin, 10 pm Saturdays.

Middleton High School Jazz Combo Oakwood Village-University Woods: Oakwood The Surreal Books 7pm

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Ohio Tavern: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Peter Hernet, Jim Ripp, Nicky Jordan, 8 pm.

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Crystal Corner: David Hecht & the Who Dat, 9 pm.

Hody Bar, Middleton: Chameleon, rock, free, 9 pm.

5-8pm 7447 University Ave @ Parmenter St Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, 6:30 pm.

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Tuesday, March 21, The Frequency, 8 pm

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Crystal Corner Bar: The Pine Travelers, Sweet Delta Dawn, Birds Birds Birds, 9:30 pm.

BMOLazy HARRIS BANK (STUDENT STAGE) Oaf Lounge: Undercover, free, 10 pm.

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Another night of freaky awesomeness from Tone Madison, this triple bill features Chicago’s Sun Speak (pictured, Matt Gold, guitar, and Nate Friedman, drums and percussion), delivering a combination of folk, experimental and jazz. Tony Barba, of the world-traveling Youngblood Brass Band, Bon Iver and more, will produce his magical looping/sax compositions. And Madison’s experimental MAHR will take you on a “psychological journey,” if you let them.

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Wilkommen! Overture presents the jawdropping, Tony-winning show set in the infamous Kit Kat Klub where the Emcee, Sally Bowles and a raunchy ensemble take you on a journey to pre-war Berlin. This is the Roundabout Theatre Company’s tour, with original Broadway direction by Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and choreography by Rob Marshall — it’s the place to be. ALSO: Wednesday-Thursday, March 22-23, 7:30 pm. Through March 26.

Asbury United Methodist Church: Hymn Sing, 3 pm.

Barrel Inn, Deansville: Country Legends, 2 pm.

Bethany United Methodist Church: Madison Sacred Harp Singers, shape-note singing, 3 pm.

Brocach Irish Pub-Square: Bi Dana, Irish, free, 5 pm.

The Frequency: Spatola, Andy Cook, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Shawndell Marks (CD release), The Lower 5th, Derek Ramnarace, Lo Marie, Sam Ness, 1:30 pm; Satsang, King Leopard, Bear in the Forest, 7:30 pm.

Olbrich Gardens: Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars, 2 pm.

Sequoya Library: Doug Brown, jazz, free, 1:30 pm.

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English Beat Wednesday, March 22, High Noon Saloon, 7:30 pm

Sharkmuffin Wednesday, March 22, Mickey’s Tavern, 10 pm

Brooklyn’s Sharkmuffin is on the road ahead of the May release of their second long-player, Tsuki. Their template of grungy, aggressive pop hasn’t changed substantially over the last few years (a good thing), except for a creeping edge of glam rock (ditto). Sharkmuffin’s Tarra Thiessen also fronts tourmates Ex-Girlfriends, a more directly punk attack and a provident pairing with locals Once a Month and Miyha.

Legends of England’s two-tone ska movement, the English Beat (or just “The Beat” in their homeland) return to the High Noon Saloon to make you skank the night away to hits like “Mirror in the Bathroom” and “Save It for Later.” Now in their fourth decade, the group will release their new, crowdfunded album Here We Go Love; a portion of its proceeds goes to Doctors Without Borders.

With Milwaukee ska-lifers Something to Do. Brocach Irish Pub-Square: Irish Open Jam, free, 8 pm Wednesdays.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Bernardus, 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Nicky Jordan, piano, free, 8 pm.

Up North Pub: MoonHouse, free, 8 pm.

B OOKS Shaun Harris: Discussing “The Hemingway Thief,” his new novel, 6 pm, 3/22, ED Locke Library, McFarland.

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With Seasaw, a Madison indie-folk duo.

Frequency: Telekinetic Yeti, Droids Attack, Hyborian, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Dub Foundation, Fringe Character, Fivy, 9 pm.

Merchant: Willy Tea Taylor, J. Auburtin, free, 10 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Bubbles Brown, Boo Bradley, Leopard Hound, free, 10:30 pm.

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Forget the dog days of summer; it’s the muddy days of spring in southern Wisconsin that can be a real drag for our canine friends and their owners. While dogs long to run and play, their owners may be reluctant to let them out, only to have to clean dirty paw prints all over the house (or end up giving the dog a bath).

But there is another option — agility classes at Canine Sports Zone, a 30,000-square-foot facility for dogs in Middleton.

On a recent blustery and slushy March evening, inside Canine Sports Zone 15 dogs of different ages, shapes and sizes are practicing things like impulse control (for beginners in the Agility 1 class) and weaving and jumping (for dogs who have graduated from Agility 1).

While some people bring their dogs to the facility to learn how to compete in timed events, co-owner Shawna Richgels says the focus at Canine Sports Zone is on having fun.

The facility also runs its own competitions.

Richgels started participating in agility classes when she was looking for activities for her boxers. She started teaching about 15 years ago, but there was no facility near Madison where she could compete and practice. So Richgels, along with three other instructors, decided to open their own place.

The facility has been open for about two years and has been in its current location on Laura Lane for just over a year.

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known for herding livestock, can participate in agility courses with obstacles. But the participants in the Handling class (for dogs who have completed Agility 3) put that myth to rest. On this evening the dogs waiting to run the obstacle course include a papillon (a toy spaniel that weighs no more than nine pounds), an eager vizsla (a small retriever breed) and a 110-pound Alaskan malamute.

As Richgels watches the malamute lumber over a pole, she says, “Would it be easier for a golden retriever to make those jumps?

Sure, but he’s having a good time.”

In another room, the Agility 1 participants are learning impulse control from the “demo dog,” BB, an Italian greyhound. The demo dogs belong to Canine Sports Zone instructors and come along to show the other dogs the ropes. BB is in a crate waiting patiently for his release word.

Richgels says this an important skill for dogs to learn. “It’s great for everyday life, times like when you come home with a bag of groceries, but you don’t want your dog to jump up and knock you over.”

She says classes are a good way for dogs to gain confidence; she works with a lot of rescue dogs who need that reassurance.

All classes at Canine Sports Zone have six sessions and cost about $120. In addition to offering workshops, the facility can also be booked for dog parties (much like for a child’s birthday party). The similarities between Canine Sports Zone, with tunnels and toys strewn about the room, and a space meant for children are apparent. “It really is like taking kids to the playground,” Richgels says. “They have to learn patience before playing.” n

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I went to Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, the big kink hotel takeover event in Washington, D.C., in February. There was one thing I saw there that is messing with my head, and I hope you can set me straight. There was this lovely little six-person orgy going on with two cute-as-could-be hippie girls and four older dudes. Then these four people came along. They sat and watched — a guy and three women in hijabs and dresses that went wrist to ankle, fully covered. After a while, one of the hippie girls turned to them and said, “I’d be happy to flog you later if you’d like.” The three women in hijab giggled.

The whole scene was really sweet, but I just couldn’t get over these three women. I saw them walking around all night, taking it all in. Intellectually, I know there is no reason to think that conservative Islam is incompatible with kink. But my cultural biases make me feel that it is. Or is it possible that covering is their kink? What would you make of that?

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“With all the hateful anti-Muslim rhetoric out there these days, it is tempting to romanticize Islam,” said Eiynah, a PakistaniCanadian children’s book author who also hosts a podcast that focuses on sex, Islam and apostasy. “The impulse is understandable, but Islam is another one of the blatantly sex-negative Abrahamic faiths.”

The other blatantly sex-negative Abrahamic faiths, for those of you keeping score out there, are Judaism and Christianity.

“Nothing outside of ultra-vanilla plain ol’ two-person hetero sex within the confines of marriage is permissible,” said Eiynah. So as much as I’d love to agree with WKW that conservative Islam isn’t incompatible with kink, there’s every reason to say that it is.

It’s even incompatible with a woman being slightly ‘immodest’ in front of men. Modesty codes are pretty rigid in Islam, and in nonMuslim-majority countries, modesty garments tend to stick out rather than blend in.

Which achieves the exact opposite purpose — attracting more attention, not less.”

And when sex-negativity, modesty and religion mix it up, WKW, the part of our brain that grinds out kinks — precise location yet to be determined — kicks into high gear. That’s why there is Mormon-undergarment porn out there and nun porn and hot-priest calendars for sale on sidewalks just outside Vatican City. “Islamic modesty has become fetishized for some — quite literally,” said Eiynah. “There’s hijabi porn and hijabi Lolitas. So the people WKW saw could be into some form of hijab kink.”

I’ve seen a few people dressed up as Catholic nuns at fetish parties, WKW, and I didn’t think, “Hey, what are nuns doing here?!?” I thought, “That person has a nun kink.” (Related point: The nuns you see at queer pride parades? Not really nuns. #TheMoreYouKnow) “Finally, it’s possible they could be a more ‘open-minded’ polygynous Muslim family

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