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MANSPLAINING CORRECTIVE Madison Central Library event works to counter Wikipedia bias.
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UNVINDICATED
Andrea Irwin’s legal victory has offered no comfort over Tony Robinson’s killing.
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COVER STORY ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO , Mike Popke wrote a short story for a non-credit class at Madison College. His classmates and instructors suggested he expand it into a novel, but he never did. This weekend, while reporting on the renowned Writers’ Institute at UWMadison, he was persuaded to pursue his novel. “I’m not sure I would have picked it up again without the encouragement of the writing community I set out to cover,” he says. “What’s more, now I actually feel a part of that community.”
32 SCREENS KENNETH BURNS RETURNED TO the South after leaving Isthmus in 2014. He and his partner, an English professor, now live in Natchitoches, Louisiana, where Steel Magnolias was filmed. “Thanks to campus screenings, the local multiplex, and excellent art cinema in nearby Shreveport,” he says, “I am able to maintain my curious habit of sitting in dark rooms watching movies with strangers.”
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Ekaterina and Alexey Pronina have found a home with niche market on west side.
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AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
UW-Madison contemplates how to regulate emerging drone technology.
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STICKING IT TO TEACHERS
Gov. Walker’s student aid increase forces school districts to change employee benefits.
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Mike Popke reports from the UW’s Writers’ Institute.
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FOUR FLOORS OF FUN
Eco-friendly renovations at the Duck Blind will transform Mallards-viewing.
It’s time to celebrate science - or what we like to call the systematic accumulation of knowledge through experiments and observation! Dozens of workshops, open houses and hands-on explorations are free during the UW-Madison Science Expeditions. Tour the veterinary and pharmacy schools, learn about origami or get a history lesson on the Great Sphinx. Free trolley between stations on Saturday and Sunday. Full roster at science.wisc.edu/events-science-expeditions.htm.
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A different kind of monologue
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Friday, March 31, Goodman Community Center, 7 pm
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NEWS AARON HATHAWAY WILL graduate from UW-Madison in May 2018 with majors in journalism and Scandinavian studies, and a certificate in digital studies. He earned his remote pilot certification this fall in order to explore using drones for aerial photography in journalism. Studying for the licensing exam gave him deeper insight into the evolving legal status of this new technology, which he explores in his news story this week.
You’re probably familiar with The Vagina Monologues, but have never seen the stories told like this. Madison nonprofit Deaf Unity is putting on a performance of the iconic play featuring deaf actresses using American Sign Language, with voice interpreters for the “signing impaired.” All proceeds go to the group, which supports deaf and hardof-hearing victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Tickets are $16 in advance, $20 at the door; a silent auction begins at 6:30 pm.
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Kenneth Burns reviews some choice films at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
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Although many local and state officials are running unopposed for reelection on April 4, there are still plenty of reasons to vote. Tony Evers, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction, will attempt to defend his seat against “Kidservative” Lowell E. Holtz. Marilyn Townsend and Jill J. Karofsky are running for an open Dane County Circuit Court seat. Kate Toews and Ali Janae Muldrow square off for a Madison school board seat. And there are five competitive Madison Common Council races. See isthmus.com and the League of Women Voters of Dane County for coverage and information about the candidates. For polling places/ ballot info: cityofmadison.com/clerk or countyofdane.com/clerk.
MAMAs Nomination Party Sunday, April 2, Brink Lounge, 5 pm
This year’s finalists for the Madison Area Music Awards will be revealed at this concert and dinner. Performers include Sam Ness, Shawndell Marks, the Lower 5th and the Dash Hounds. Buffet tickets are $30; for just the music, admission is $5.
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VIDEOGRAPHER/PHOTOGRAPHER Justin Sprecher CONTRIBUTORS John W. Barker, Kenneth Burns, Dave Cieslewicz, Nathan J. Comp, Aaron R. Conklin, Ruth Conniff, Michael Cummins, Marc Eisen, Erik Gunn, Mike Ivey, Bob Jacobson, Seth Jovaag, Stu Levitan, Bill Lueders, Liz Merfeld, Andy Moore, Bruce Murphy, Kyle Nabilcy, Jenny Peek, Michael Popke, Steven Potter, Adam Powell, Katie Reiser, Jay Rath, Gwendolyn Rice, Dean Robbins, Robin Shepard, Sandy Tabachnick, Denise Thornton, Candice Wagener, Tom Whitcomb, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER Todd Hubler ADVERTISING MANAGER Chad Hopper ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Annie Kipcak ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Lindsey Bushart, Rebecca Jaworski WEB ANALYST Jeri Casper CIRCULATION MANAGER Tim Henrekin MARKETING DIRECTOR Chris Winterhack EVENT DIRECTORS Kathleen Andreoni, Courtney Lovas CONTROLLER Halle Mulford OFFICE MANAGER Julie Butler SYSTEMS MANAGER Thom Jones ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Carla Dawkins
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Average number of page views Wikipedia gets each month: 18 billion Number of articles added each month: MORE THAN 20,000 Percentage of 1,445,021 Wikipedia biographies (as of January 2015) that are of women: 15.5 PERCENT Total edits made at the Central Library’s sandbox: 21 Number of articles edited: 3 Words added to Wikipedia: 295 Ian’s pizzas eaten: 3 Progress toward equality: INCALCULABLE, BUT SIGNIFICANT!
Wikipedia expert Sean Lamb helps Rhea Ewing learn how to edit and create content for the site.
Dismantling patriarchy, one edit at a time
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On a recent Saturday afternoon, Rhea Ewing is hanging out in a sandbox. No, not a children’s play area. It’s the Wikipedia Sandbox, a virtual space where users can play around and learn to make changes to the free, collaborative online encyclopedia. “I’m new to starting fresh pages, but I’ve tried to make edits to articles before,” says Ewing, a 28-year-old artist. “It’s a little intimidating and not very intuitive.” Ewing and about a dozen others are gathered in the Bubbler at Madison Central Library, where they’re working on laptops, clicking through tutorials and trying to get a feel for the back-end building blocks of one of the most popular websites on the internet. The workshop, put on by Madison’s ArtWrite Collective, is branded as an Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thon, part of a national movement aimed at improving diversity among Wikipedia editors and the content they create.
“We’re trying to fix who gets represented,” says Alaura Seidl, founding director of ArtWrite Collective. Wikipedia aims to be the encyclopedia of everything, but it’s not necessarily the encyclopedia of everyone. The vast majority of articles are written and edited by men — a 2011 internal survey showed that less than 10 percent of Wikipedia editors are female; another study from the same year found that only 6 percent of contributors with more than 500 edits are women. Unsurprisingly, the gender disparity has led to glaring omissions when it comes to articles about the achievements and contributions of women. “Men are terrible,” jokes Brett Schlough, a 24-year-old engineer and avid Wikipedia user. He was at the workshop to brush up on his editing skills and learn how he can do his part to help correct the gender imbalance on the site. He feels most qualified to write about technical topics like engineering and architecture and plans to make an effort to highlight
work by women in the field. “It’s something I’ll keep in the back of my mind going forward,” he says. In addition to editing existing articles, workshop participants are also encouraged to create articles about notable figures in art, feminism and the LGBTQ community — people who deserve Wikipedia pages, but don’t have them yet. Rita Mae Reese, a local poet, is working on a page about Melissa Sweet, a children’s author and illustrator who has written more than 100 books and has won the prestigious Caldecott Medal, yet there’s no mention of her on Wikipedia. “She’s one of [my children’s] favorites,” says Reese. Funnily enough, Reese actually has her own Wikipedia page — something she didn’t even realize until a friend pointed it out. “It’s like, how do I have one but [Sweet] doesn’t?” Before the workshop, Ewing attempted to edit a Wikipedia page about ancient Viking funerals, which describes a sacrifice of a female
thrall, a Scandinavian slave or serf. The ritual involved “sexual rites” to symbolize the slave girl’s role as a “vessel for the transmission of life force to the deceased chieftain.” Ewing took issue with the language. “Sexual assault was being called sex,” Ewing says. After correcting the article, Ewing noticed something happening on the article’s “talk page,” an administrative tab attached to every Wikipedia entry where users can discuss and debate how to improve articles. “People started talking [about my edit] and debating neutrality of language,” Ewing says. Eventually, other users overruled the edit and changed “sexual assault” to “sexual intercourse.” “I wasn’t necessarily satisfied, but I didn’t feel like I had the ability to challenge,” Ewing says. But thanks to the training and support from the workshop, Ewing now feels empowered to do so. “It makes a big difference when you have the confidence.” n
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Unresolved Tony Robinson’s mom finds no peace or justice in record settlement
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Andrea Irwin thought she would feel vindicated. After a year and a half of seeking justice through a lawsuit against the Madison police officer who shot and killed her son, she agreed late last month to a settlement with the city’s insurance provider for $3.35 million, the largest in state history for an officer-involved death. She thought the size of the settlement might convince others that Officer Matt Kenny shouldn’t have shot her 19-year-old son, Tony Robinson, during an encounter at an eastside apartment in 2015. She hoped it would quiet those who said her son deserved to die. It hasn’t. “Some foolish part of me thought that the people who’ve been attacking us and attacking my son for the last two years would be able to see that they were wrong, but [it’s been] the opposite,” says the 39-yearold. “People hate me because my son was killed. They hate me because we sued the city. They hate me because the city settled.” She doesn’t understand why others can’t see her side. “No insurance company is going to give out the money just because,” she says. “They’re not going to pay the highest settlement in the history of the state just because they didn’t want to waste the time [going to trial].” The city’s insurance provider, the Wisconsin Municipal Mutual Insurance Company (WMMIC), did not respond to multiple requests from Isthmus for an interview. Eric Veum, the city’s risk manager and also the current chairman of WMMIC’s board of directors, and other board members, also did not respond to requests for comment. With the lawsuit over, Irwin now faces an uncertain future. She has some ideas for how to use the money to honor her son. But otherwise, she feels lost and still unable to grieve for him. “The pain is so powerful,” she says. “I’m afraid of being consumed by it.”
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Irwin filed the lawsuit in August 2015 after Kenny had been exonerated by both Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and the police department. Kenny — who remains on the force — has not spoken to media since the shooting. Irwin believed the lawsuit was her “only chance to get some form of accountability.” It alleged that Kenny violated her son’s civil rights by taking his life. Kenny had responded to calls on March 6, 2015 about a young man who was jumping in and out of traffic on Williamson Street and assaulting people. The officer entered 1125 Williamson St. looking for Robinson. Moments later, he shot Robinson, who was unarmed, seven times. Kenny told investigators that Robinson punched him in the head at the top of the stairwell and continued to swing at him. Irwin’s attorneys, however, argue that forensic evidence and dashcam video directly contradict what Kenny says happened that night. They believe Robinson had tripped and was falling down the stairs when he was first shot. Although the federal judge dismissed Madison as a defendant in the case, the lawsuit against Kenny was expected to go to trial in late February. But, earlier that month, Irwin’s attorneys got a call from WMMIC lawyers, who were also representing Kenny. Irwin says the insurers first offered $1.5 million to settle. “We turned that down. And then they made another offer of $1.75 million and we turned that down,” recalls Irwin. The offers grew over the next two
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Andrea Irwin had hoped winning a record settlement against the city would prove to people that her son was unjustly killed, but feels only more hatred from others.
days, eventually reaching the agreed upon amount of $3.35 million. Agreeing to settle was difficult, says Irwin. “We were ready for trial [and] I always thought it was going to be something I could handle but after my [pre-trial] deposition, I was breaking. My attorneys said I would have to sit through 40 hours of autopsy photos and pictures and things I’d never seen before and didn’t want to see, and listen to the audio of my son dying…. I decided I can’t do this,” she says of deciding to take the offer. “I’m not going to put myself in a position to have an emotional breakdown — it’s too much. I couldn’t take anymore.” Irwin also considered another possibility: “We could’ve won and then [the WMMIC lawyers] could have appealed it and kept us in appeals for years and years.” After the settlement, Robinson’s attorneys publicly presented the evidence they say disproves Kenny’s account of the altercation and released the information on a website. This led to more grief for Irwin. “The settlement wasn’t going to be closure [and] I knew that. All I ever wanted was for the truth to get out,” says Irwin of releasing the information. “People can think what they want to think but I don’t
give a damn about the money — all this was about was accountability.” Irwin is also furious at how city officials have reacted to the settlement, pointing to statements made by both Mayor Paul Soglin and Madison Police Chief Mike Koval that stressed WMMIC acted alone in settling the lawsuit. “The city and the police department have weaseled their way out of any accountability whatsoever,” says Irwin. She contrasts that with the response to WMMIC settling a similar lawsuit in 2015 for $2.3 million brought by the family of Paul Heenan. Heenan was killed by Madison police officer Stephen Heimsness in November 2012. Heimsness later resigned. “When the Heenans settled, the city and police weren’t jumping out there [in the media] making sure [everyone knew] it wasn’t their choice to settle,” says Irwin. “Why is it with the Heenans it was settled and done? But with us, it wasn’t [the city] that settled, it was the insurance company?” Mayor Soglin declined to discuss his statement about the settlement. Through police department spokesman Joel DeSpain, Koval responded only that “he was not the chief when [the Heenan] shooting took place and was not involved with the internal investigation.”
After news broke that Irwin had accepted the settlement offer, she began getting calls from people she hadn’t heard from in years asking her for money. “I went through all this alone, so don’t come to me now,” she says to those with their hands out. “This is blood money, my son died for this. I have not won the lottery.” While she hasn’t received the money yet, Irwin does have a few plans. “My kids will have a chance at life and be taken care of and go to college because that’s what Tony would have wanted,” says Irwin, who has three other children. She also wants to start a nonprofit support center in Madison for grieving families and friends. “A place for parents who have lost a child and also a place for the family and friends of people who are trying to support someone that’s going through that because the ripple effect is massive. People who are trying to be a support system should also have a support system.” Another thing Irwin is contemplating is an escape. She’s considered moving out of Madison, perhaps to another part of the state or farther away. “I’m not sure I want to leave,” she says. “And I’m not sure I can stay either.” n
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A taste of home Russian couple have found a niche with Madison market BY RILEY VETTERKIND
After more than a decade of living in the U.S., 35-year-old Ekaterina Pronina still can’t quite explain why she and her husband Alexey, both originally from Russia, decided on such a major relocation. “That’s a good question after 13 years,” Ekaterina says, letting out a chuckle. “I don’t know, we were young. We wanted to live in a different country. There was no reason at all.” Ekaterina met Alexey in the Wisconsin Dells in 2001; she was working as a summer volunteer for Easter Seals and he was doing temp work in agriculture. Since the 1990s, the Dells has drawn large numbers Melts in your mouth Who says yo u c a n’t Who says you c a n’t of international workers. buand y ssooin meo ne’s l ove? your hands. buy meo ne’s l ove? Their relationship blossomed, and the two married in Madison the following year. The couple returned to Russia in 2002, where Ekaterina finished her college C H O C O LATIE R degree. In 2003 they had a daughter, Darya, CH OCOLATI ER who turns 14 in April. By 2004, they were 608.845.1545 • www.candinas.com C 2435 H O Old C OPB, L AT IER Verona back in the U.S. Ekaterina says they did not 608.845.1545 • www.candinas.com or experience any difficulties obtaining visas 11 West Main on the Capitol Square to live and work here. Candinas_ad_03.indd 8 11/30/06 4:49:00 PM 608.845.1545 • www.candinas.com In 2009 the couple opened Intermarket, Candinas_ad_03.indd 8 11/30/06 4:49:00 PM a pan Eastern-European grocery store, the only one of its kind in the region. Almost hidden on the ground floor of an apartment building on the city’s west side, it offers a taste of home to people from Eastern Europe: beautifully wrapped chocolates and assorted Russian wafer cookies, and freezers stocked with caviar, smoked fish, cured meats and pelmeni (dumplings). The store sells teas,BANK vodka and greeting cards and BMOalso HARRIS (STUDENT STAGE) children’s books inAve Russian. 5-8pm 7447 University @ Parmenter St Edgewood The couple got the for 5pm the market afHigh School Jazzidea Combo ter visiting a Foundry similarJazz oneCombo in Milwaukee. They Madison Music 6pm SPRING 2017 did no market research. They opened with Middleton High School Jazz Combo TOM GULLION QUINTET one freezer, one cooler and zero advertising. The Surreal Books 7pm “When we opened, we had no idea how APR 7 CAPITAL BREWERY many Russians were around,” says EkatTenor sax fueled improvisations ranging 5-7pm 7734 Terrace Ave erina, looking out from behind her cash from intense to introspective The Madison Jazz Orchestra 5pm register. Luckily for them, on their opening Tom Gullion (saxophones/flutes) LOUISIANNE’S David Cooper (trumpet) day, dozens of patrons visited the store — 6-11pmthat 7464aHubbard Ave community did, Tim Whalen (piano) confirming Russian Mark Urness (bass) Johnny Chimes 6-9pm • Jim Erickson 9-11pm “invisin fact, exist. Ekaterina suggests Dane Richeson (drums) ible forces” were working in their favor. A MIDDLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY healthy6-9pm Russian speaking 7425 Hubbard Ave community on TONY CASTAÑEDA the westAntique side certainly didn’t hurt. Nouveau 6pm LATIN JAZZ SEXTET hasLang remained stable 7pm ever since. Sally DeBusiness Broux, Laurie & John Becker
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ting married. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he felt he had dodged a bullet. “I thought I was lucky to escape the nightmare there,” Nenashev says. “It was total chaos. The big government organizations started dissolving. Then it became dangerous — racketeering. You’d go for a tour, and people would come to you and ask for money.” Nenashev has no desire to go back. “You can probably get away with more money [in Russia] than we get here running small businesses, [but] it’s much easier to run a business here because it all makes sense.” Ekaterina agrees. But she is hesitant to weigh in on politics or the national conver-
sation about immigrants and the United States’ relationship with Russia. “I just live in the country, I obey all the rules, we don’t discuss the political situation here or there,” Ekaterina says. “We just live.” They live hoping for a better future for Darya and their son Dmitry, 5, who are taking advantage of the education and extracurriculars that their school in Waunakee offers. “The kids, they have perfect language, they have friends, they have this American school,” Ekaterina says. “They grow in this culture and this community, and they become Americans. Hopefully they will go to university, graduate and get a better job.” n
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Eleven-year-old Michi lives in a children’s home. His biggest dream, to find his father, seems to come true when he discovers an unsent letter from his mother addressed to Tom. “At Eye Level” is an unusual father-son story full of humor and drama – and a passionate appeal for accepting those who are different. Age recommendation 10+ (German with English subtitles)
Join us for this inspiring family friendly program of award winning short films from all around the world. Together on the big screen we meet a squirrel that discovers sledding, a lonely alien, a whale and mole, a leaning tower and a fish that must be rescued, a wolf that needs hiding, a girl that makes amazing dresses and a boy who enjoys music. You will also revisit two old friends from the past, the little rice ball and the little bird.
Frans, a beloved teacher has a secret. He turns into a frog whenever these green, croaking, slimy animals are mentioned. Age recommendation 8+ (German with English subtitles)
A huge hit with European audiences, this new Swiss German adaptation of Johanna Spyri’s classic children’s book (published in 1881) puts the mud back into the Alpine pastures. Winner of the 2016 German Film Award (Outstanding Children or Youth Film). Age recommendation 8+ (German with English subtitles)
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Republicans in the state Legislature introduce a proposal to allow people to legally carry hidden handguns without a license. The bill immediately draws bipartisan opposition (for obvious reasons) but one of its co-sponsors, Sen. Dave Craig (R-Big Bend), tells the State Journal, “It’s all about freedom.” Which is just another word for nothing left to lose. THURSDAY, MARCH 30
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On Oct. 11, 2014, an unidentified flying object appeared over Camp Randall. Between the third and fourth quarters of a Saturday football game against The Fighting Illini, a small white drone hovered over the stadium, the nasal whine of its four rotors lost in the revelry of “Jump Around.” Bearing no identification marks and carrying an underslung camera, the aircraft lingered for several minutes before departing, leaving no trace of its pilot or origin. The drone’s presence defied a nationwide security measure prohibiting flight over major stadiums while sporting events are underway. The incident triggered an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration and local law enforcement, but the drone’s pilot remains unknown some two years later. In front of a captive audience of thousands, a single operator was able to use a drone to intrude protected airspace and escape without resistance or consequence. The Camp Randall flyover is one of many stories in an ongoing national discussion concerning the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Lawmakers and regulatory bodies are racing to keep pace with evolving technology, encountering new approaches to aviation, safety and privacy law as they try to balance regulation with innovation. From a federal to local level, many questions remain unanswered regarding the management and regulation of drone operations. While the FAA has historically been the exclusive regulator and enforcer of American airspace laws, this standard was established before the development of consumer drones. The Camp Randall incident demonstrated how drones challenge conventional airspace management, leaving law enforcement and private property owners unprepared for the consequences. “Everybody is waiting for somebody else to see how they handle it, because this is kind of uncharted territory for a lot of folks,” says Marc Lovicott, director of communications for the
Violating flight rules outlined in Part 107 can incur penalties ranging from the revocation of a remote pilot’s commercial license to thousands of dollars in fines. In January 2017, the FAA reached a settlement agreement with aerial photography company SkyPan International, which paid a $200,000 penalty for 65 unauthorized drone operations in Chicago and New York.
UW-Madison Police Department. “There’s a lot of gray area involved in what the FAA says, what different municipalities say, and what some state laws say.” The first push to regulate drone technology came with the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which in part sought to establish rules for the safe operation of drones. The FAA finalized these rules in August 2016, releasing a system of regulations known as Part 107, which outlined operational guidelines for small unmanned aircraft. The new rules limited maximum altitude to 400 feet, prohibited flight over people and roadways, restricted flights to daylight hours and banned operations near airports. The regulations apply to both hobby and commercial pilots, who must pass an FAA exam in order to use drones for business purposes. Drones on the market can cost as little as a few hundred dollars or as much as tens of thousands. They’ve been used by
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photographers, engineers, farmers, law enforcement and delivery services. Phil Levin is a local videographer who regularly uses drones for his business by incorporating aerial footage in video projects. The new rules can be frustrating for Levin. “Navigating the legal hurdles given the severity of the penalties for not doing so has been a lot of work,” says Levin. While he does understand the importance of regulation, Levin adds, “there are a lot of ways to operate drones safely and carefully that are still outside the letter of the law right now.“ Pilots who seek to fly beyond the stipulations of Part 107 must apply for permission from the FAA, which grants waivers on a case-by-case basis. But the turnaround time for waivers can be difficult for business. “The waiver process limits the type of projects I can offer to clients because folks are usually not planning videos more than three months in advance, which is how long it might take to hear back from the FAA,” Levin says.
Chris Johnson, director of flight simulation research at UW-Madison, says not all the concerns about drone use were addressed by the new federal rules. “You have the Federal Aviation Administration regulations, and those were developed around safety only, because the FAA’s congressional charge is based on safety, not privacy,” Johnson says. “That has sparked an influx of local and state ordinances mainly surrounding privacy issues, and then private landowners have a say.” There are also some concerns around the use of drones in terrorism and criminal activity. But Joel DeSpain, the public information officer for the Madison police department, says that beyond the Camp Randall flyover, the city has had no issues with drones to date. “We have not experienced any illegal drone uses at this time,” DeSpain says in an email. “However, certainly privacy concerns — and possibly safety concerns — could arise depending on circumstances.” Though UW currently restricts drone flight over campus to sanctioned official use, an advisory committee is working on a policy that seeks to expand opportunities for students, faculty and staff to use drones over campus for both recreational and academic purposes. Ben Griffiths, senior university legal counsel from the Office of Legal Affairs, says the new policy is nearing completion and going through final review and revision. “I think we all wish that the university could move a little bit more quickly, because I know that there’s a lot of demand for and interest in the different applications of drone technology,” Griffiths says. ■
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Ties that bind The governor’s budget tethers student aid increases to employee benefits BY ALAN TALAGA
There must have been concern in Gov. Scott Walker’s office when an increase in per pupil aid was written into the state budget. By giving districts a $200-per-student boost in funding, had the governor gone soft on public schools? Sure, this would help Walker with moderates, but conservatives need to see that Walker is still the stern union-buster of years past. So the governor decided to do what he always does in times of need — kick some dirt in the face of Madison. The funding increase now comes with strings. Districts can only get it if they have their employees pay 12 percent of their health insurance premiums. There are many districts outside of Madison where employees don’t pay 12 percent of their benefits but it’s no secret that the clause was written specifically to dig on Madison. Currently, Madison school district employees pay for benefits on a progressive scale, ranging from lower-wage employees who pay 1.5 percent of their benefits all the way up to administrators who pay 10 percent. Employees choose from one of three HMO plans, from the cheaper Group Health Cooperative (GHC) to more expensive plans offered by Dean and Unity. Full disclosure, my partner is a school employee and we get our GHC health insurance through the district. An increase of $200 more per student is a lot of money and I can’t begrudge the district for taking it. However, Walker’s 12 percent figure for employee compensation is the definition of arbitrary. It doesn’t specify how generous the benefits package can be, or specify other categories of employee compensation. Districts can pay teachers whatever they want, just as long as their fringe benefits come with a random percentage price tag. The district’s current benefits package, based on 2015-16 statewide data from the Department of Public Instruction, falls in the middle of the pack in terms of average costs; Madison ranks 199 out of 446 districts. District administrators, the local teacher’s union (Madison Teachers Inc.), and the three HMOs have negotiated to
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provide employees with a good benefits package without gouging taxpayers. Increasing employee contributions won’t save taxpayers anything. The district will likely take the money they expect to get from increased contributions, and give it back to employees in the form of increased compensation — aka a raise. It’s a disruptive cost transfer with no savings. I expect these attacks on local control from a governor who cares more about his next election than actual governing. What’s irresponsible about this punitive funding scheme is the absurdly short timeline. Districts need to have the 12 percent contribution in place for the 2017-18 school year. Madison’s contracts with its three HMOs operate on a fiscal year that starts July 1. But negotiations start in December or January. Negotiations were well underway by the time Walker introduced his budget. The parties had to start from scratch with an abbreviated timeline and under radically different conditions. With a 12 percent employee contribution, it is assumed that more customers — par-
ticularly the young and healthy — will switch from Dean and Unity to the cheaper GHC to save money. That leaves Dean and Unity with the older and more expensive customers. Prices at Dean and Unity would likely go up, which would, in the end, cost Madison taxpayers more money. Great savings, governor! The district is also considering offering just one HMO, GHC. Under this plan, district employees and their families on Dean and Unity would lose their current doctors. Unlike Dean and Unity, GHC has no clinics
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outside of Dane County, a major hassle for the more than 100 employees and their families who don’t live in the county. The decision to switch from three HMOs to one is a big decision and it shouldn’t be made on a short timeline. The district should have time to hold public hearings and evaluate the fiscal impact for taxpayers and employees alike. The abbreviated timeline means that the district has to lock in contracts based on prospective — not final — budget language. According to Doug Keillor, executive director of Madison Teachers Inc, the district will have to finalize its contracts in a matter of weeks. Nothing in the budget will be certain for months; a final vote is not likely until June or even July. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates that Walker’s budget will create a structural deficit of around one billion dollars. Legislators might start looking for things to cut. The per pupil aid increase could get trimmed back significantly or even eliminated entirely. The school board has to decide policy by taking a guess on what the Legislature will do. It doesn’t have to be this way. If the governor had tied his contribution increase to the per pupil aid in the 2018-19 school year, the Madison school district would have been able to sit down to the negotiation table with the usual timetable and a locked-in budget. If Walker is going to make yet another attack on Madison’s self-governance, he could have at least afforded us the time to minimize the damage. n
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No bus depot It’s a shame and a disgrace that Madison let both the Badger Bus and Greyhound terminals close (“Going Nowhere,” 3/23/17) and still haven’t figured out a sensible replacement. Margaret Frechette (via Facebook) They need to at least move to another sidewalk considering the headache this causes for everyone in and around the Union. Christina McCoy (via Facebook) A train would fix this. Oh, that’s right…. Rick Bristol (via Facebook)
Whose free speech? In “Speech Wars” (3/23/2017), it mentions Scott Walker’s proposal that supposedly encourages free speech. It’s amusing he
would be pushing for this since a few years ago he had hundreds of people arrested at the Capitol for exercising their First Amendment rights. People were arrested for singing, holding signs and banners, chalking and releasing balloons. Most of the charges were thrown out, but about 100 were appealed and then thrown out. I was arrested eight times, and had to pay a $200.50 fine for releasing a red heart balloon in the Rotunda. So it’s laughable that Walker would try to claim he’s interested in free speech. He also referred to protesters as “terrorists” and ISIS members when he was running for president. He claimed he knew how to deal with ISIS because he’d dealt with protesters at the Capitol. Also, in the last budget he tried to get rid of the Wisconsin Idea. That was removed and he tried to deny he’d included it. He lied. Genie Ogden (via email)
To kill by any other name The letter writer who took umbrage at your use of the verb “harvest” in the context of wolf hunting (“Endangered,” 3/16/17) should have consulted a dictionary before waxing pedantic. Had he done so, he might have found that one definition of “harvest” is “to gather, catch, hunt, or kill (as salmon, oysters, or deer) for human use, sport, or population control.” Knute K. Knutson (via email)
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We’re gathered on this overcast and chilly lateFriday afternoon to hear Patricia Skalka — author of the popular “Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery” series — talk about her journey from nationally published freelance journalist to successful novelist. This is exactly the kind of experience I’d hoped for when I registered for the 2017 UW-Madison Writers’ Institute, a 28-year-old spring tradition helmed by the university’s Division of Continuing Studies. Two decades ago, as part of a non-credit writing class at Madison Area Technical College, I wrote a short story that my instructor and classmates suggested I expand into a novel. I never did. But now, as my own boss and with two older kids, I think the story still holds up, and I’m determined to write my first book. At the March 24-26 Writers’ Institute, I found myself among 300 aspiring, emerging and experienced writers — most of them at least 35 years old — who want to hone their craft, learn more about the publishing industry and make potentially life-changing professional and personal connections. About 75 percent of us pursue fiction, 20 percent write nonfiction and the rest are poets. Sprinkled in among us are probably a few screenwriters, too. I’m among more middle-aged men than I expected (organizers have made a conscious effort to attract more males in recent years), and although many writers are introverted, there is a camaraderie I haven’t experienced at conferences in other industries.
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Fellow writers include a city clerk from Illinois, a tech support specialist from Nebraska and a professional photographer and volunteer high school forensics judge, each from Madison. They write about such diverse topics as mermaids, the Napoleonic Era and falling in love in Nepal. The roster of almost 30 speakers includes established fiction (Sara Dahmen, Patricia Skalka), nonfiction (Blair Braverman, Nina Amir) and local (Pat Zietlow Miller, Shannon Henry Kleiber, Oscar Mireles) authors. Ten agents and editors also are available for eight-minute one-on-one pitch sessions for writers willing to pay $15 a pop and who, unlike me, have a book proposal or manuscript ready for submission. The event has earned its status as “the Midwest’s premier writing conference” by changing with the times and having a dynamic leader in conference director Laurie Scheer, whose network of publishing, TV, film and music contacts runs deep. Revered crime fiction writer Elmore Leonard was the event’s first-ever keynote speaker in 1990, when the Writers’ Institute was held at the Pyle Center (known as the Wisconsin Center back then), and things took off from there. This year’s presenters include transgender author Renee James, speaking about the self-publishing experience for her first book, Coming Out Can Be Murder, and game designer Matt Forbeck, who writes Halo novels and Captain America guidebooks.
Larry Brooks, a USA Today-bestselling novelist and author of three critically acclaimed books on writing, is also here. During the opening keynote session, Brooks starts by countering the idea that aspiring authors should “just write.” It can be “one of the most toxic pieces of advice” writers receive, he says, especially if they are unprepared for the monumental task they’re undertaking: “Everything in your story needs to be there for a purpose.”
INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS Around the same time that Christine DeSmet, an author and scriptwriter in the Liberal Arts and Applied Studies program at UW’s Division of Continuing Studies, was building the Writers’ Institute, Milwaukee-born and Marquette-educated Scheer was making a name for herself in the entertainment industry on both coasts. In the early 1980s, she was involved in the development of two of ABC-TV’s biggest dramas of the decade, Dynasty and Moonlighting. Scheer later worked as a producer for Viacom, Showtime and AMC-Cablevision during some of those networks’ most successful years and eventually was named vice president of programming for WE: Women’s Entertainment (now WE tv). “Then I realized I wanted to be a teacher — it was that simple,” Scheer tells me over iced teas one Feb-
ruary afternoon at Java Cat on Monona Drive. So she began teaching the art and craft of writing, securing part-time gigs at such prestigious institutions as Harvard, UCLA, Northwestern and American University. Eventually, a full-time job opened up teaching writing courses at UW-Madison, and Scheer jumped at the opportunity to return to her home state. By the time Scheer arrived on campus in 2010 as a faculty associate and writing mentor in UW’s Liberal Arts and Applied Studies program, the institute was a contender among Midwest writers’ conferences. All it needed with a little extra oomph, which Scheer brought by diversifying the offerings and creating a hearty Midwestern vibe. “This is the biggest writers’ conference in the Midwest, and we sell it that way,” says Scheer, who has become the face of the event. (DeSmet, now director of the annual Write-By-the-Lake and Weekend With Your Novel retreats, still speaks at the institute and is revered among longtime attendees.) The inspiration for today’s UW Writers’ Institute comes from the Willamette Writers Conference in Portland, Ore., now in its 48th year and considered one of the country’s biggest and best. “It was in the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel — nothing special,” Scheer remembers about the time she attended. “However, I knew in a minute this was the Pacific Northwest. These people had stories about being in that part of the world. They
“The Writers’ Institute is a grand example of the Wisconsin Idea.” transformed this regular hotel into a place to share those stories. That’s what I wanted to create here, so people can feel the energy of writers in the Midwest,” says Scheer, who in 2013 founded an annual literary journal, the Midwest Review. “The Writers’ Institute is a grand example of the Wisconsin Idea. We are bringing these resources to the community.” And participants are reaping the benefits. Madison resident Margaret Goss attended her first Writers’ Institute in 2010; five years later, a small independent company called Three Towers Press (an imprint of HenschelHAUS Publishing in Milwaukee) published her debut supernatural thriller, The Uncommitted, to positive reviews (including one in Isthmus). “That was a bucket list item for me,” says Goss. “Some people want to run a marathon; I wanted to write a book.” In 2013, Scheer relocated the event from the Pyle Center to the Concourse, a risky but ultimately effective move she says altered the weekend’s entire vibe. “It has changed the conference from a school to a community,” she says. “Everybody feels like we’re in this together.” “I really don’t feel like I need to go to the Chicago Writers Conference anymore,” says Carlo Kennedy, the author of two time-traveling novels who lives in suburban Chicago and has attended the Writers’ Institute the past six years. “I get more out of coming to Madison. It is better in every way.”
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gave me the kick in the pants to clean up the book and look at it more seriously,” she says. “In a very short time, I learned a lot of information.” Over three days, Goss immersed herself in both the art and business of writing — everything from building her narrative to crafting a query letter to publishers. She also experienced her first opportunity to pitch The Uncommitted to agents, one who envisioned the novel being adapted into a feature film. At the institute, Goss met DeSmet, who began critiquing and providing invaluable structural feedback. Goss worked on emphasizing showing over telling and creating more realistic dialogue.
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The pen name Carlo Kennedy didn’t exist when the writer first attended the Writers’ Institute in 2012 as a speaker about church-related nonfiction writing. “I was so inspired by so many people wanting to write fiction that I wanted to give it a try,” he says of the book that became 2014’s Time Signature, a timetraveling rock and roll story published by 220 Communications, a small Chicago-based company that also published Time Signature II last year. “I wanted to be free to write books that might offend the audiences for my other books,” Kennedy adds, explaining why he took a pen name. “People swear in the Time Signature books, and they sometimes have sex with each other without being married.” The Writers’ Institute also provided Goss the inspiration she needed to finish The Uncommitted. “It
Likewise, Marianne Flynn Statz found the breakthrough she was looking for at the institute. A former detective with the Madison Police Department who is now an MPD supervisor, Flynn Statz worked on the Jean Zapata murder investigation — a former cold case reopened in 2004 in which Eugene Zapata claimed his wife, Jean, simply disappeared one October day in 1976. Then, in 2008, he admitted he strangled her to death. Flynn Statz journaled about the case “to come to terms with it” and decided after the case was solved to write a true-crime book, with the permission of Jean Zapata’s daughter, Linda. “It felt uncomfortable writing about myself,” Flynn Statz says. “I didn’t want to follow the facts of the case literally, so I switched to fiction. But that felt icky, because I knew it was a true story. It felt disingenuous to me.” Then, at the 2016 Writers’ Conference, she pitched to Paul Levine, a renowned literary agent from California who has sold more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books to publishers. She concluded by declaring, “I investigated this case.” Levine looked her in the eye: “I don’t want a novel,” he said. “You bring a level of credibility to this true-crime story because you lived it, and it’s a onein-a-million story.” Today, Flynn Statz is working on the umpteenth version of her nonfiction book about the Zapata case, titled The Gift of Goodbye. She will send it off to Levine when she’s done and ultimately hopes it will give voice to victims of domestic violence. “Some days, I’d rather clean the toilet than write,” she admits. “That said, I’m looking forward to having this done and putting it out in the world.” One of the biggest success stories to come out of the Writers’ Institute in recent years might be that of Heather Lyn Mann, who founded Madison’s Urban Open Space Foundation (now known as the Center for Resilient Cities) in 1996. In 2007, Mann and her husband, Dave, set off on a multi-year Caribbean sabbatical in their sailboat, Wild Hair. “There were so many stories that were coming up — so many things happening at sea felt very cinematic, very alive — that I thought, This is something I need to write about,” says Mann, who published pieces for Cruising World and Blue Water Sailing magazines.
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Based on what she learned at the 2014 Writers’ Institute, Mann wrote a book proposal for a sailing memoir that included an outline, a business plan and a review of comparable titles. Within a year, she found a home for Ocean of Insight: A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair at the nonprofit mindfulness publisher Parallax Press. She also was fortunate to be one of Parallax’s first authors whose book was involved in a new sales and distribution deal with Penguin Random House Publishers Services. Parallax even provided Mann with a publicist who booked multiple tours for the author — something that doesn’t always happen. Mann moved from Madison to Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 and couldn’t attend this year’s Writers’ Institute because she was on a book tour. But she’ll make a stop at A Room of One’s Own on May 4 to promote Ocean of Insight. “It’s been a little dizzying,” she says.
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If there was one overwhelming message at the 2017 Writers’ Institute, this is it: Writing is hard work, but that’s only one step in a potentially years-long process that also includes pitching, editing, rewriting and marketing. It requires an immense level of commitment, but for writers who dream of a published book, the demanding journey is worth it. Take Matt Rogge, who develops fundraising copy for the University of Wisconsin Foundation. He wrote most of his giant 150,000-word first novel, November in Nepal, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 2 a.m.. When he pitched it to four agents at this year’s institute, three of them asked for pages to read, and the fourth provided what Rogge calls “invaluable” advice. “The opportunity to meet with New York agents right here in Madison is really remarkable,” Rogge, a first-time attendee, told me. “I knew that at some point I’d have to
sell my book, and that might mean trying to get to New York to pitch it to agents. I really appreciate the ability to connect with New York without leaving town. Writing is a business, and there are marketplace issues that I need to be addressing as I do my work.” The publishing business, never known for its compassion, has become more brutal in recent years. I heard more stories than I wanted to of authors who lost their agents or editors to layoffs, and there are scammers out there who charge writers for agent representation and book publication. We also have to contend with the realities of the market. As Noah Ballard, an agent at Curtis Brown Ltd. in New York City reminded us, white women between the ages of 35 and 60 comprise the largest readership segment in the United States. If my book doesn’t appeal to that demographic, does it hurt my chances at a scoring a deal? Few authors make big bucks these days, but we writers tend to define our own success. For many, seeing our work between two pieces of cardboard is (or will be) enough. “It feels good to be in a room with people who take their work as seriously as I take mine,” Rogge says. “There’s a sense of solidarity. Writing is hard, and we all do it pretty much alone. These opportunities to get together with fellow writers is reenergizing.” “Rejection is part of the process, and it did discourage me at first,” adds Goss, who now is listed on the Writers’ Institute website as one of its success stories. “But if your story is good, it’ll find a market. So see it through to the end, no matter how long it takes.” In my case, that’s 20 years and counting. But if the story has stuck with me all this time, maybe I finally should do something more with it. When a publisher at the institute who is familiar with my Isthmus work tells me she’s interested in taking a look at my first novel when it’s done, I realize I need to write this thing. My goal is to have a draft ready for the 2018 Writers’ Institute next April. n
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Turning up the heat! Wisconsin cheeses go spicy with peppers beyond the jalapeño Gloves? Check. Goggles? Absolutely. Dust collector running? It better be. When it comes time for the staff at Jim’s Cheese in Waterloo to make one of its popular products, the food prep precautions go to a whole new level. That’s because working with something called Habanero Ghost Cheese comes with a little more potential drama than a friendly horn of colby would.
“You can tell when we’re making it because we have a big dust collector running to take all the dust away,” says Chip Kubly, owner of the distributor that creates the spicy product on site by adding peppers to a monterey jack cheese made by another company. “Even so, you can feel a little tingle in your throat when we’re making it.” More and more cheese makers — and their customers — are feeling the tingle. While a
black pepper-based cheese from Sartori of Plymouth, Wisconsin, took top honors earlier this month at the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest in Green Bay, that peppery bite is nothing compared to what else is on the market. “People are looking beyond the jalapeño,” says Rachel Kerr of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, which reports that pepper makes up one-fifth of all flavored cheese sales. “In 2016
we saw a decline in jalapeños but a big rise in habanero and less familiar hot peppers.” Jalapeños primarily have been what’s given pepper jack its name over the years, but they’re looking a little wussy these days. According to the Scoville scale, which measures the heat of chile peppers, jalapeños rate from 2,500 to 8,000 in Scoville heat
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Dress up, dress down The Verona Woods sports a wide-ranging contemporary American menu BY CANDICE WAGENER
As Verona continues to expand with more apartments, condos and homes (obviously due in good measure to Epic System’s evergrowing campus there), it’s only natural that its restaurant options are expanding as well. The Verona Woods opened in early February across from the Wisconsin Brewing Company, aiming to bring fine (or at least finer) dining to the area. The dining room is decorated simply with natural elements. Steel “canvases” with tree silhouettes adorn spaces above booths and there are warm wood touches throughout, plus cozy seating, with live music on weekends. Appetizer standbys like cheese curds, chicken wings and several different versions of nachos are on the menu, but there are less predictable choices, too. Croquettes are a delightful mix of ham, mashed potato and manchego cheese all deep-fried as one, served atop pools of both roasted red pepper and garlic aioli, like a hot dish all dressed up. The tequila sunrise tiger shrimp (though I question whether they were true tiger shrimp, based on size) are delicately arranged on crispy wontons with a dab of guacamole and radish matchsticks, brightened with a hint of tequila orange sauce. The crispy brussels sprouts could convert a naysayer. Roasted to the point where their sweetness shines, topped with pancetta and a delightful fruity balsamic reduction, this preparation earns the cruciferous vegetable the respect it deserves. The salads here are inventive, including one featuring charred beets and goat cheese. A mix of arugula, shaved fennel, savoy spinach, just-crunchy beets and a handful of chickpeas provided a good base. However, the toasted almond vinaigrette is too sweet and the honeyed almonds and goat cheese were missing.
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Some entrees need a little more refinement as well, especially considering the prices. The Friday fish fry of beer-battered cod is a bit greasy and served with what I think was tartar sauce, but tasted much more like mayonnaise with a chunk of relish mixed in. Also, my menu indicated a choice of potato but the server informed me my only option was french fries. Even for lunch, choice of potato should be standard. With so many other fish fry options in the area, I’d skip this one. A pasta dish that promises a cabernet sauvignon beef broth, slow-braised short ribs, root vegetables and parmesan shavings is disap-
pointing. Only a hint of beef comes through in the sauce, the only root vegetables are carrots and the meat is mostly tough. To top it off, there was a sad showing of a parmesan shaving. While I had hoped the bone-in pork chop would be more tender, I knew I was in trouble when the server set it down in front of me, saying “This is really tender. At least, I hope it is!” Based on our wait time for dinner, I’m guessing it sat under the heat lamp for too long. It also had too much of a char flavor. Still, the asparagus was lovely, crisp and lightly seasoned and the dijon mashed potatoes were unusual but worked.
The restaurant redeems itself with the 12oz. New York strip. Expertly served medium rare, this is steak as it ought to be. There’s a choice of several flavored butters to top it, but I wouldn’t. The superb bourbon-glazed carrots on the side tasted like candy. The pan-seared red snapper, something you don’t encounter regularly in these parts, comes with a delicious and creative side of coconut tomato red curry chickpeas over rice pilaf. The signature burger, the Gooey Louie (akin to Minnesota’s Jucy Lucy) is another standout. Biting into a burger and having cheddar cheese cascade from the middle is something every carnivore should experience at least once. The grilled brioche bun makes the burger a little more elegant, too. The owners also operate Willy Ty’s in Sun Prairie, and some menu items are marked with a “Willy Ty’s” logo — this is true of the stuffed burgers and the griddled cheese sandwiches. Touches from sous-chef Barbara Wright, who used to own the Dardanelles on Monroe Street, are evident in the dinner entrees. Vegetarian and gluten-free options are marked on the menu (gluten-free buns and bread are a $2 upcharge). Desserts are where the restaurant excels. Share the poppy seed crumb cake, a generous loaf served warm with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and a jammy Bing cherry sauce, all topped with cookie dough crumbles. And definitely experience the house-made churros, which are dusted smartly with cinnamon and cardamom for a little punch, drizzled with chocolate sauce and accompanied with salted caramel ice cream. Each is just $5, a dessert bargain. The decor and prices at Verona Woods indicate a fine dining experience, as do many of the dishes — but the menu at times hovers closer to American sports-bar territory. If the kitchen ups its game a little with some tweaks to menu items and preparation, there is promise. n
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It’s time again for the annual “Iron Chef” fundraiser to benefit the Tenant Resource Center. The amateur chef competition includes seven “ingredient battles.” This year’s ingredients: Lemongrass, beer, cauliflower, cardamon, kale, coconut and mango. The cook who raises the most cash (“votes”) will earn the “Citizens United” award and bragging rights. Suggested donation $25, RSVP at tenantresourcecenter.org. At Brink Lounge, 701 E. Washington Ave., 5-8 pm.
Intertribal dances and other festivities at the annual spring UW-Madison/Wunk Sheek powwow are the backdrop to the food: Indian tacos, wild rice brats, corn soup, fresh maple water and more will be available for purchase. Free admission. At Alliant Energy Center, Saturday 10 am-10 pm, Sunday 10 am - 7 pm.
Bistro 101 in Mount Horeb hosts a five-course dinner with beer pairings from Middleton’s Capital Brewery. Beer-braised short ribs and a porter crème brûlée are among the courses. Tickets ($65) by calling 608-437-9463. At 101 E. Main St., Mt. Horeb, 6-9 pm.
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the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. The most recent contests were the first to feature open categories for hot cheeses based on mild, medium and high heat. Judges look for flavor, not heat, says Dean Sommer, cheese and food technologist at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research. Even when the hotter spices dominate, Sommer says, cheese is a good product to deliver the heat — particularly monterey jack, which doesn’t have a lot of other complex flavors. “With monterey jack, one can add a small amount of jalapeño peppers to get a nice, balanced, relatively mild spicy-flavored cheese,” he says. Going beyond that might overwhelm the cheese flavor, he says, and create a challenge for cheese makers who are responding to market demand for more and more heat. “People just like pain, I guess,” Sommer says. ■
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units (SHUs) compared with the peppers that top 1 million (ghost, scorpion and Carolina Reaper) that are going into cheeses now. Habanero peppers rate in the 100,000 to 800,000 range. “I think we were early on the habanero bandwagon, starting five or six years ago,” says Kubly, whose company uses fresh habanero peppers and dried ghost peppers for its cheese. “There are certainly more out there, but ours has stayed a popular item.” The hottest pepper in use is the Carolina Reaper, which is featured in a cheddar that is one of 11 hot cheeses made by Nasonville Dairy of Marshfield. Kindred Creamery, a new line of Muscoda’s Meister Cheese Company, has a selection of spicy cheeses that includes sriracha jack and ghost pepper colby jack; Monroe’s Emmi Roth introduced a new sriracha gouda in January, and Henning’s Wisconsin Cheese of Kiel has a variety of hot cheeses, including its Dragon’s Breath cheddar. Even a blue cheese made by Carr Valley and a feta made by Klondike’s Odyssey brand use spicy flavors. Maple Leaf Cheese of Monroe won awards at the recent U.S. contest with its habanero jack. The emergence of hot cheeses has had an impact in the U.S. and world championship contests that are hosted by
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Middleton hits the brakes Food cart fee hikes inhibit mobile vending BY LINDA FALKENSTEIN
While Madison is attempting to expand options for food carts this spring, the city of Middleton is going the other way. An April 2016 mobile food vending ordinance restricts where carts can vend and raises the city’s annual licensing fee from $50 to $500. The ordinance, which was amended earlier this month, has made it impractical for most food carts to do business in Middleton. “We are not Madison. These food carts don’t have a Library Mall that they can go set up at and sell five days a week,”says Cyndi Pisani of Capital Brewery, which has hosted food carts in its biergarten. “They go from charging [almost] nothing to charging $500. I thought that was a bit high.” Prior to April 2016, Middleton had no regulations specifically governing food carts, says city administrator Mike Davis. Hans Hilbert, Middleton alder and chair of the city’s license and ordinance committee, says the request for new rules came from city staffers: “We had carts asking about licensing, and the only [ordinance that] was applicable was the direct seller’s permit, which didn’t really fit.” During the process of drafting the ordinance, brick-and-mortar restaurants were “concerned that the city could be creating the situation where [it] could be subsidizing the use of public property to take away business from taxpaying businesses in the city,” says Hilbert. The ordinance restricts mobile food vending in Middleton to private property and requires the $500 yearly license as well as a background check. Carts can also pay $250 to vend one time only at a special event. Hilbert says the committee did look at what fees are charged in nearby communities.
“Much like any fee or when you have to put a number on something, it’s a little bit like throwing a dart at the dartboard and seeing where it ends up. We kinda hit $500 and some people said, ‘Yeah that seems right,’ and other people said ‘That seems high,’” says Hilbert. “The fact that people were talking about it seemed like we probably found a good number.” In fact, Hilbert says the $500 is intentionally high, enough that food carts “have to consider what their role in the community ultimately is going to be.” “I would not say we are trying to drive them out or we’re not welcoming them,” says Hilbert. “What we are doing is responding to brick-and-mortar restaurants that pay property taxes and guarantee their businesses are going to be there, open and available.” The fee is also meant to encourage carts to vend often: “At that level, you are making a commitment that you are going to be there and operate,” Hilbert says. Christine Ameigh, owner of Slide Food Cart and organizer of Let’s Eat Out neighborhood food cart nights, says the increase in the licensing fee ended that group’s weekly Middleton night. It’s also made it impractical for carts to sell for school fundraisers, another popular function. Let’s Eat Out rotates carts in different spots on different nights; in that way Middleton would get a greater variety of carts over the course of a summer. But it means that a single cart might vend only about four times a year for three hours. “It might not even make the $500 fee back,” says Ameigh. In comparison, Waunakee charges carts a $25 base fee with another $25 charge each day a cart vends, while Sun Prairie charges $150 annually (a reduction from a previous annual fee of $300).
When Ameigh found out about the proposed fee hike in spring of 2016, she went to the next Middleton council meeting to explain the carts’ situation. But “it seems like they already had their minds made up,” she says. “If I’d known sooner, we would have rallied more people to attend and have this conversation.” Ameigh says that if a cart decided to be in Middleton “for lunch five days a week in the different office parks, then that’s not a bad deal. There’s a lot of office parks in Middleton you could go to.” The new ordinance also hampers the ability of Capital Brewery — which has no restaurant of its own — to host food carts and area restaurants at its biergarten, which it has been doing three nights a week in warm weather. These food carts and food stands operated by Middleton restaurants have become popular hallmarks of the biergarten, says Cyndi Pisani, Capital’s director of marketing and special events. But now even the restaurants are classified as mobile food vendors and must pay the $500 license to sell inside the biergarten. “We have a lot at stake with this,” says Pisani. The ordinance grants a work-around for carts to vend at Capital by allowing them to set up in a pavilion in Capital’s parking lot, without needing to pay for a license. But Pisani says that’s not really practical for restaurants, which don’t have carts, and she is concerned about safety: “A little kid is running across the parking lot to get a burger and a car doesn’t see him.” Pisani says local businesses are losing out because of these new regulations. “It’s much more beneficial for the food vendors to be within the biergarten than in the parking lot.” ■
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The Madison Mallards haven’t announced their 2017 roster yet, but you can bet whoever is named as the team’s starting right fielder will be a budding showman. After all, given its close proximity to the popular Great Dane Duck Blind party area, the position requires someone who can engage the crowd by tossing balls to fans and encouraging fun chants. “We put a lot of thought into who plays that position,” admits Vern Stenman, president of Big Top Baseball, which operates the Mallards and three other Northwoods League teams. “I’ve seen opposing right fielders come in and get riled up by the fans, and then they make mistakes.” This season, the pressure on visiting right fielders will be even greater. The Duck Pond is undergoing its largest renovation since 2010 — converting the Duck Blind into a four-level space with a total seating capacity of about 700. The exclamation point on this $1 million project: 37 lightly used shipping containers converted into 12 fan suites. The design is the first of its kind in all of baseball, Stenman says, and this is Madison’s first shipping container project. “We want to be reflective of the community,” says Stenman, who conceived of the initial design with Middleton-based
Shulfer Architects. “But we also always try to break new ground and see what happens.” The Mallards have established themselves as one of baseball’s greenest franchises, earning an Outstanding Achievement in Recycling award from the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin in 2012 for incorporating reused materials into a major renovation of the Duck Pond. Other highlights of the updated Duck Blind include relaxed seating with outdoor furniture and better views of the field, a shaded rooftop suite and a second-level suite area that cantilevers over the playing field and provides a short porch for home runs. (Not surprisingly, Duck Blind ticket prices have increased, too.) “It started out as a simple party space that evolved into a phenomenon — a signature of summertime in Madison,” Stenman says about the all-you-can-eat-and-drink Duck Blind, which debuted the same year as the Mallards, in 2001. “It was different from anything else in the market, and it’s still different. But it’s been there for a long time, and it needed the infusion we’re giving it.” Fans will have their first opportunity to check out the new and improved Duck Blind at the Mallards’ home opener on May 30 against the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders. Opposing right fielders: You’ve been warned. ■
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Consolidation fever Frank Productions to merge with Majestic BY AARON CONKLIN
Apparently, we’re not done with the shifts and bombshells reshaping the Madison music venue scene. Frank Productions has announced plans to merge operations with Matt Gerding and Scott Leslie, the owners of Majestic Live/The Majestic Theater, later this year. “We discovered our companies are a lot more complementary than competitive,” says Charlie Goldstone, president of Frank Productions Concerts LLC, stressing that this move is a merger, not a buyout. “The way for both of us to improve is to join forces.” There is some precedent. Frank Productions has collaborated with Gerding and Leslie the past two years on its summer concert series at Breese Stevens Field. But the merger announcement is just the latest in a series of bold moves from Frank Productions, which followed the announcement of their upcoming new 2,500-seat music venue, The Sylvee, with the surprise announcement that they’d be purchasing the High Noon Saloon from longtime owner-operator Cathy Dethmers in May. The merger will result in a new business with an as-yet undetermined name. It will be able to book into five Madison music venues: Breese Stevens Field, The Sylvee, the High Noon Saloon, the Majestic and the Frequency. Frank Productions’ primary competition, Live Nation, controls booking for the 2,300-seat Orpheum Theater on State Street. Goldstone says not much will change from the way things are currently operating. Gerding and Leslie will remain primarily responsible for booking the Majestic, as well as the Blue Note and the Rose Music Hall in Columbia, Missouri, where they’ve been active since 2014. Frank Productions will retain
Matt Gerding (left) and Scott Leslie of the Majestic are joining forces with the Frank family.
primary responsibility for the other venues, but both sides will also collaborate on bookings and marketing as opportunities arise. “All of us are in this because we want to make music and artists grow,” says Gerding. “We want to develop artists from the Frequency to the High Noon to the Majestic and upwards from there.” As an example, Leslie points to a band like Portugal. The Man, which played a sold-out show at the Majestic March 24. Gerding and Leslie booked the Alaska quintet into the now-defunct Café Montmartre in 2009, well before they became a household name, beginning a relationship that paid off eight years later.
“Bands remember people who are nice when they don’t have to be nice,” Leslie says. “That’s the kind of relationship we’re looking to develop.” The question is whether that model also extends to local musicians. News that Frank Productions would be taking over the High Noon Saloon sent some unsettling waves through the locals, and this latest bombshell probably won’t do much to allay any fears they may have about future booking opportunities. Goldstone says they needn’t worry. “We have staff in place who will be committed just to the booking of local artists at
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the High Noon,” he says. He declined to offer further specifics until after the venue sale is finalized in May. Gerding says he’s as shocked as anyone by the latest shift in the local scene: “When we got here a decade ago, it was all competitive — we were jockeying for position with Frank Productions and True Endeavors [the promotion company founded by Tag Evers, now also a Frank Productions employee]. Now, you fastforward 10 years, and we’re on the same team. We can make the Madison music scene better together.” n
Classically folk Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra hosts a homecoming for Vicki Powell BY JOHN W. BARKER
heard the composer’s name as Hoffmeister, a contemporary of Mozart). It was certainly a dazzling showpiece, boldly brought off. But soloists should be trained to project enough to let the audience know what these encore pieces are. The second half brought us to Scotland, with a short work titled Benedictus, orchestrated by Alexander Mackenzie from a piece of his originally for violin and piano, and turned into a lush melodious display. The finale was pure Americana, of that kind perfected in the 1930s by Aaron Copland — the orchestral suite drawn from the 13-instrument score that he wrote for Martha Graham’s ballet Appalachian Spring. The WCO players responded to it with undiluted delight and splendidly varied color. A terrific conclusion. n
Powell studied viola at UW-Madison.
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In a program with folk flavorings, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra hosted a homecoming for violist Vicki Powell, who now has a flourishing international career. England was the point of departure for the first half of the March 24 concert. To be sure, there was nothing folksy about Benjamin Britten’s early Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, composed as a tribute to his teacher. Britten was so extraordinarily talented that a lot of his music is teddibly, teddibly clever, aimed more at pulling off fascinating tricks than just pleasing the ear. But this is a fascinating set of variations, written for string orchestra, with varied textures augmented by frequent subdividing of sections. Only 20
players strong, the WCO string section showed again what a superb and disciplined ensemble it has become, in a vibrant but precise rendition. The Suite for Viola and Chamber Orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed for the English viola virtuoso Lionel Tertis. Cast in eight movements organized into three groupings, this is a collection of quite diverse miniatures, some serious, most charming. They reflect the deep influence of English folk songs, and at many points one can imagine the viola part as a singing voice. This was a triumphant return for the soloist, Powell, who began her training under Sally Chisholm and Eugene Perdue at the UW-Madison School of Music. She proved how she has blossomed, displaying rich tone and superlative technique. She played a solo encore, but her announcement of it was virtually inaudible (I thought I
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Back on its feet Madison Ballet has thrived by scaling back BY JAY RATH
After some lean times, embattled Madison Ballet’s final production of the season may represent a new era. Primavera showcases the company’s strengths — and its attempts to gain new audience. “I’m really optimistic about where we’re going,” says general manager Gretchen Bourg. “We’ve had a rough couple of years but we have got a great team in place on the administrative side and our company looks wonderful. It makes me happy to think, ‘Okay. We’ve turned a corner. We’re getting there.’ ” Primavera, which runs March 31 and April 1 at the Bartell Theatre,“ is sort of the romantic evening of the season,” says artistic director W. Earle Smith. The company is creating a tribute to William Shakespeare for his 400th birthday and will perform excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And Smith has choreographed the Romeo and Juliet pas de deux. Four of the concert’s six works are premieres. One highlight will be “Internal Divide,” staged by Marlene Skog, a choreographer at the University of WisconsinMadison Dance Department. It features original music and is based on the medieval ritual dance called La Folia. Last year, Skog developed a solo based on Vivaldi’s interpretation, but she still wanted contemporary contrast. She approached Milwaukee-area composer Timothy Russell to collaborate on
the project. “His compositions are eclectic, brilliant, take you on a journey,” says Skog. Early last year, Madison Ballet cancelled two big productions, Peter Pan at the Overture Center and a tour of its original commissioned Dracula, in order to avoid accumulating more debt. Beginning in 2011, as financial troubles mounted, the company had already begun cutting costs by staging some performances at the Bartell Theatre instead of at the more costly Overture Center. The Bartell’s Drury Stage seats approximately 200 patrons. “We can really focus in on individual dancers,” says Bourg, adding that the smaller setting “really personalizes the experience of watching ballet, which can come off as very prim and standoffish.” She laughs, adding, “It’s great for people to be able to hear a dancer breathing heavily after doing something amazing.” The troupe is broadening its appeal by expanding its style repertoire. Primavera also includes strong tango and Broadway flavors. The ballet’s repertory series will continue in 2017-18, and it’s possible to purchase season tickets for only those concerts. One of them will be staged at the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater, and will include live music. Another concert will be choreographed by women only. “Next season is going to be about challenging ourselves as dancers and artists like we have not challenged ourselves before,” says Smith. “It’s going to be very exciting for the audience.” From a financial standpoint, Smith says the troupe is “forging forward.” The company’s
Company dancer Kristen Hammer will appear in the ballet’s season finale March 31-April 1.
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winter production of The Nutcracker was its bestselling ever. And in July, the troupe added a development director, Alicia Kopp, who performed that role for Milwaukee Ballet. Smith calls her “a rock star.” As many arts organizations face further cuts under President Trump’s proposed budget, Smith
says it’s important for people to support local arts organizations. “Whether it’s the symphony, the opera, the ballet, the theater, I think people really need to step it up,” he says. ■ For “Primavera” tickets or more information visit madisonballet.org. Season tickets will go on sale by early summer.
Heartfelt and brutal Learning to Stay tackles the aftermath of war
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Forward Theater Company’s Learning to Stay takes a heartfelt look at the battles that happen after a soldier comes home from the war. The production plays on Overture Center’s Playhouse stage through April 9. Jeb Burris, who looks like a G.I. Joe doll, is perfectly cast as Brad, a wounded soldier who returns from Iraq to his wife. Neurotic Elise (Kat Wodtke) has been obsessively watching military reunion videos and — even though Brad’s return isn’t the photo-op she imagined — is thrilled to have her husband home. But before the glow of Brad’s homecoming fades, it becomes clear that the man who returned to her isn’t the same one she married. His wounds aren’t just physical ones. Brad has post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury, Elise suspects. The story here is Elise’s. We don’t get into Brad’s head much, but instead see the impact of his struggle on the woman who
Kat Wodke (center) plays Elise, whose huband returns from Iraq with hidden wounds.
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worried and waited for him to come home. Despite her quippy and, at times, comedic voice, Elise is floundering. She doesn’t know how to help her husband. She doesn’t even know who he is anymore. An ensemble of four actors plays a variety of supporting roles. Malkia Stampley is captivating
as Darcy, Elise’s friend who has lost her husband in the war. Stampley’s dance-like movements are irresistible to watch, and her grief shows even when she smiles. Michael Herold, Karen Moeller and Di’Monte Henning also show wonderful versatility as they move seamlessly among multiple characters.
The narrative at times feels predictable, but that’s simply because it rings true. While this particular story is fictional, the shadows of war that come home in the form of PTSD and other injuries and traumas are a reality for many military families. Real-life experiences of veterans, their spouses and mental health professionals were used to guide the script, which was written by James DeVita and adapted from the novel by local writer Erin Celello. Forward Theater commissioned the work, making it the company’s first world premiere. Learning to Stay isn’t always easy to watch. There are some brutal moments when Brad begins to open up to Elise about his experiences in Iraq. War isn’t an easy thing to think about, but this piece tackles it with good intentions. It’s an earnest look at the devastation of war, especially the wreckage that doesn’t make the evening news but unfolds in living rooms and kitchens everywhere. ■
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tapped by the U.S. government to sculpt a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Lorine Niedecker, a Fort Atkinson woman, quietly produced a large body of poetry that has earned her comparison to Emily Dickinson. Madison fisherman extraordinaire William (“Pickerel Billy”) Dunn would “launch his boat into Lake Mendota near James Madison Park and routinely catch one hundred pounds of bass or pike in a day.” Some of the subjects are admirable. Ezra Mendall, a farmer in what is now Waukesha, stood up to mercenaries and the law by shielding a runaway slave, declaring “a bad law is sometimes better broken than obeyed.” Ezekiel Gillespie, an African American man in Milwaukee, successfully agitated for the right of black Wisconsinites to vote. And Lavinia Goodell secured the right of women lawyers to appear before the state Supreme Court. The book also has its share of kooks and charlatans, including the Rev. David Van Slyke, who argued that the actual biblical Garden of Eden was located in Trempealeau, and Joseph Crelie, who proclaimed to be 145 years old — just three years after telling a reporter that he was 117. (He died in 1866 at age 92.) Although the sketches are brief, the authors include sources for those seeking to dig deeper, for whatever they might find. ■ A book launch for Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels will be held April 5 at Sun Prairie library, 6:30 p.m.
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail You recall mortgage fraud. It was at the heart of banking crisis that, a few years ago, brought the global economy to the edge of the abyss. In terms of criminal prosecutions, the big banks emerged largely unscathed, but one New York bank spent a fortune fighting charges related to mortgage fraud in the late 2000s. Was it one of the international giants? No, it was Abacus Federal Savings Bank, a Chinatown-based company that, with its six branches, is the 2,651st biggest bank in the U.S. Director Steve James’s compelling documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail tells the story. It will make you angry. In 2012, New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced scores of charges against Abacus. They stemmed from claims that Abacus arranged home loans based on fraudulent information, then sold them to Fannie Mae, the national entity that repackages mortgages. After the announcement, there followed an incident that James examines closely: Numerous bank employees were arrested, and they were chained together before they were led into court — “herded like cattle,” as one interviewee says. The optics were terrible, and they are at the core of the film’s claim that the prosecutors’ methods were, at best, culturally insensitive. “It was very unfortunate,” Vance says in an awkward interview. Abacus was founded by Thomas Sung, who was born in Shanghai in the 1930s and immigrated to the U.S. at age 16. His daughters run the bank, and the family members
are mesmerizing to watch as they share meals and talk over each other at business meetings. The film follows them as the trial proceeds, and courtroom scenes are reenacted by voiceover performers. No one disputes that lower-level bank employees committed fraud, and that they were enabled partly by the cash-based economy of the Chinatown retail scene, which is documented in fascinating detail. As for the outcome of the trial, I’ll let you find out from the film — although if you were reading headlines in June 2015, you already know. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo You’ll remember Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo for the lovely dialogue, the actors’ stirring chemistry, the beautiful photography of Paris. Oh yeah, you’ll also remember it for the orgy. That 18-minute scene takes place at the beginning of this striking film, in a gay sex club. It is really graphic. It leaves little, like maybe 5 percent, to the imagination. Only a handful of filmmakers, including Catherine Breillat, have depicted sex so explicitly for mainstream audiences. Théo (Geoffrey Couët) and Hugo (François Nambot) forge a connection in this sex-firstnames-later-maybe milieu, and when they leave the club, late at night, they go on a joyful bike ride through the deserted streets. Then horror sets in as they share devastating information: Théo didn’t wear a condom, and Hugo is HIVpositive. A tense scene in a hospital follows, and writers/directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau bring a documentary fascination to the emergency drug treatment that may prevent Théo from getting infected. What comes next is gorgeous the way Before Sunrise is gorgeous. In the predawn hours,
Théo & Hugo walk around the city and get acquainted. They talk about the past, their work, their dreams. They meet a couple of strangers whose briefly told stories are fascinating counterpoints to the main plot. Hugo, who is more philosophical than Théo, tells how reading Balzac inspired him to become a notary, and it’s the sort of thing that could only happen in a French movie. They also playfully chase each other around, and kiss a little. Judging by this film, if you’re looking for a place to fall in love, you could do a lot worse than Paris at night. Sami Blood “Circus animal” is one of the milder insults the locals hurl Elle Marja’s way. She is one of the Sami, the reindeer-herding indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, and she faces a series of humiliations as she enters mainstream society in the marvelous Swedish drama Sami Blood. As played beautifully by the remarkable Lene Cecilia Sparrok, the teenage Elle Marja struggles to reconcile her ambitions with the institutionalized bigotry of 1930s Sweden. Early in the film, Elle Marja and her sister (Mia Erika Sparrok) leave their family’s tent for a Sami boarding school overseen by a teacher (Hanna Alström) who is kind, but only up to a point. After Elle Marja has a sweet romantic encounter with a boy (Julius Fleischanderl) at a dance, she flees for cosmopolitan Uppsala and tries to put her past behind her. Sami Blood was written and directed by Amanda Kernell, whose father is Sami. I learned a lot from it about a place I have never visited, and that is the great gift of international cinema. ■
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Film events Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi takes us through a turbulent period in Iran’s history in this largely autobiographical animated feature following Satrapi’s coming of age. UW Union South-Marquee, March 30, 7 pm.
Nenette: Documentary about an orangutan in the Menagerie du Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Hawthorne Library, March 31, 7 pm. Trainspotting: Edinburgh heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with unreliable friends (Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle). Bos Meadery, April 5, 7 pm. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire about an insane general who sets the world on a course for nuclear holocaust. Central Library, April 6, 6:30 pm.
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Wisconsin Film Festival Thursday, March 30-April 6, various venues No matter what your film taste, this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival has something for you. More than 140 films are being screened. Highlights include the Oscar-winning Iranian drama, The Salesman (pictured); Afterimage, the final film by Polish legend Andrzej Wajda; Personal Shopper, a ghost story starring Kristen Stewart; and A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies’ drama starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. As usual, there’s a fantastic lineup of documentaries, international and domestic. And for reasons that should be obvious, this year’s fest has a focus on social activism. See isthmus.com/screens for reviews and, if you haven’t done so already, go to 2017.wifilmfest. org to plan your cinematic journey.
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As a founding member of Uncle Tupelo (with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy), Jay Farrar more or less invented the template for modern alt-country. And since releasing the insta-classic Trace in 1995 (with “Drown” a surprise modern rock radio hit), Farrar’s band Son Volt has remained at the forefront of the genre. Eight albums later (their latest, Notes of Blue, was released in February), the St. Louis based band is only getting better. With Anders Parker.
Mnozil Brass Thursday, March 30, UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, 8 pm
Austria’s offbeat brass septet is not just a novelty act; they are some of the finest brass players on the planet. Catch a pre-concert lecture by Wisconsin Public Radio’s Norman Gilliland at 7 pm in the Festival Room. Bos Meadery: Lou Shields, free/donations, 7 pm. Brink Lounge: Mike Massey & Francie Phelps, free, 8 pm. Cafe Coda: Latin Jazz Jam, 7:30 pm. Cask & Ale: DJ Vilas Park Sniper, 10 pm (“yacht rock” costume party starts 8 pm). Harmony Bar: VO5, Wisconsin Film Fest party, 9:30 pm. Ivory Room: Connor Brennan, Nicky Jordan, free, 9 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, free, 5:30 pm. Ohio Tavern: Lucas Cates, free, 7 pm. Red Zone: Buku, Zero Gravity, Dub Borski, Motchy, 8:30 pm. Stoughton Opera House: Riders in the Sky, 7:30 pm. Tempest Oyster Bar: Paul Rowley, free, 6 pm. Twist Bar and Grill: Gerri DiMaggio Jazz Unit, free, 5 pm.
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One of Madison’s top heavy bands celebrates the release of their sophomore record, Lands. Rounding out the bill are legendary Mad City stoners Bongzilla, Iowan doom trio Aseethe, and Dos Malés, another local act that features members of Bongzilla, Panther and Pyroklast.
Jenny Hval Kyle Dunnigan Thursday, March 30, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm
A prolific, Emmy award-winning comedian known for his character appearances on Reno 911, Inside Amy Schumer and most recently The Howard Stern Show, Dunnigan knows how to rile audiences up with enigmatic takes on human behavior. With Esteban Touma. ALSO: Friday-Saturday, March 31-April 1, 8 & 10:30 pm.
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Philip Salamone: Paintings, through 6/4, City-County BldgDane Arts Gallery (reception 4-7 pm, 3/30). 266-5915. Francesco de Mura: “Works by the 18th Century Italian painter, 1/20-4/2, Chazen Museum of Art (Bridge Poetry Series readings 7 pm, 3/30; talk by curator Maria Saffiotti Dale 2 pm, 4/1). 263-2246. Tara Austin: “Dusty Turquoise Waters,” MFA exhibit, 3/25-30, Art Lofts (reception 5-7 pm, 3/30). 262-1660.
This show is a must-see for fans of the avant-garde: On stage, acclaimed Norwegian experimental musician Jenny Hval morphs her confrontational songs into full-on performance art. Hval’s music is brave, brooding and bold; theatrical performances of songs such as 2016’s “Conceptual Romance” make for a transcendent concert experience. Samantha Glass opens. See story at isthmus.com/music.
Atlas Improv Company: Endurance Fest: Shows at 9:30 pm on 3/30; 5:30, 8 & 10 pm on 3/31; and 1 pm2 am, 4/1, 609 E. Washington Ave. Free. 259-9999.
Learning to Stay: Forward Theater Company adaptation of Erin Celello’s novel about a couple after the husband’s return from a deployment in Iraq, 7:30 pm on 3/30-4/1 & 4/5-6 and 2 pm, 4/1-2, Overture Center-Playhouse; pre-show talks Thursdays & Sundays. $47-$38. 258-4141.
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Local Love Fest An annual celebration of Madison bands, Local Love Fest is both a concert and a CD, available each year only by attending the show. Among the 14 bands covered on the 2017 compilation are Dick the Bruiser, The And, Skintones, Sexy Ester and Droids Attack. Compilation participants who will perform at this year’s show are Dr. Noise, Help Desk, Rogue Rat, Mhos & Ohms, the Gran Fury, White Bush Unicorn and Derx Brax Band.
Fishbone Friday, March 31, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm
Criminally underrated and fiercely beloved by their fans, Fishbone is one of the most influential bands to emerge from the funky Los Angeles hard rock scene of the 1980s, sharing the stage with everyone from the Beastie Boys to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to the Dead Kennedys. Nearly 40 years later, the ska fusion pioneers are still going strong, playing shows constantly, and with twice the energy of guys half their age. With Cowboy Winter, Mr. Jackson.
1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: David Hecht, 7 pm. Bandung: DuggHopper, 6 pm. Bos Meadery: Mad City Jug Band, free, 7 pm. Bowl-A-Vard Lanes: 5th Gear, country, 9 pm. Brink Lounge: Acoustic Charlies, 9 pm. Cafe Coda: Old Black Joe & the Third Rail Sparks, 7:30 pm.
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Parched Eagle Brewpub: Ryan Mauer & the Angry Fix, free, 7:30 pm. Rex’s Innkeeper, Waunakee: Back 40, 8:30 pm. Stoughton Opera House: Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, 7:30 pm. Tandem Press: UW Blue Note Ensemble, Jazz Standards Ensemble, free, 5 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Prognosis Negative, free, 10 pm. Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: Brett Schwartz & Liv Rather, free, 7 pm. Up North Pub: Karen Wheelock, Joe Marsden, Starving in the Belly of the Whale, free, 8 pm.
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Jazz great Billie Holiday gets the royal treatment in this concert musical that imagines one of her final concerts at a dive bar in Philadelphia. It’s a production of Capital City Theatre, a professional music theater company attracting national talent that hit a home run with a concert version of Gypsy last summer. ALSO: Saturday, April 1, 2 & 8 pm. Through April 8.
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Friday, March 31, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm Madison Ballet closes its season with an intimate performance on the Bartell’s cozy Drury stage. The program includes two premieres from company artistic director W. Earle Smith, who is gifted with keen musicality: “Romeo & Juliet Pas de Deux” and “Las Cuatro” set to Ástor Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.” Also premiering are Marlene Skog’s “Internal Divide” and Cynthia Severt’s “Up all Night.” Excerpts from Peter Anastos’ sunny frolic, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” will surely brighten your mood as we transition to spring. ALSO: Saturday, April 1, 2 & 8 pm. See story, page 28.
LP Record Event: 7,000+ albums at each store, 10 am-5 pm, 3/31-4/1 and 4/21-22, Agrace Thrift Store East (327-7200) and West (833-4556). Deer & Turkey Expo: Annual event, 2-9 pm on 3/31, 9 am-7 pm on 4/1 and 9 am-4 pm, 4/2, Alliant Energy Center-Exhibition Hall, with seminars, classes, exhibits, contests, demos. $14/day ($5 ages 6-15). deerinfo.com. 800-324-3337.
S PEC TATO R S PO RTS UW Softball: vs. Nebraska, 4 pm on 3/31 and noon, 4/1-2, Goodman Softball Diamond. $5. 262-1440. UW Men’s Tennis: vs. Northwestern, 6 pm, 3/31; vs. Illinois, noon, 4/2, Nielsen Tennis Stadium. 262-1440. Madison Capitols: USHL vs. Green Bay, 7:05 pm, 3/31, Alliant Center-Coliseum. $23.50-$15.25. 267-3955.
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Overture’s Puppet Festival Friday, March 31-Sunday, April 2, Overture Center
Ever think you could reach out and pet a Brontosaurus? Walk with dinosaurs and enjoy stories performed by creatures crafted by artists. Overture’s first-ever Puppet Festival brings together the traditional and the modern, the enchanting and the irreverent, with both free activities and ticketed performances. Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live is a collection of lifelike dinosaurs brought to life by performers and puppeteers. For a more hands-on experience, Felice Amato leads a toy theater workshop where participants create sets and puppets. For schedule: overture.org/programs/puppet-festival. The Vagina Monologues: Deaf Unity performance in American Sign Language, 7 pm, 3/31, Goodman Community Center. $20. RSVP: deafunitywi.org/tvm. Steel Magnolias: Strollers Theatre production of Robert Harling’s comedy set in a beauty salon, 3/31-4/15, Bartell Theatre-Evjue Stage, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm on 4/15), plus 2 pm on 4/2 and 7:30 pm, 4/12. $20. 661-9696.
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Many bands spend their careers streamlining their sounds; Foxygen does the opposite. The California psych duo has created five albums of sprawling indie rock that’s unafraid of experimentation — from their spacey, theatrical debut to the baroque stylings of this year’s Hang, Foxygen lets its freak flag fly high. Come salute it with them. Gabriella Cohen opens. Alchemy Cafe: Sortin’ the Mail, free, 10 pm. Bandung: Mideast Salsa, free salsa lesson, 7:30 pm. Bos Meadery: Peter Jens, folk, free, 7 pm. Cafe Coda: Marilyn Crispell & Hanah Jon Taylor, 7:30 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: WheelHouse, 9 pm. Crescendo Espresso Bar: Chris Trapper, 7:30 pm. Crossroads Coffeehouse, Cross Plains: Jay Matthes, Martha Burnett & Jennifer Bottoni, Johnny Sparkle, Katie Burns, Corey Mathew Hart & Paul Mitch, Anthony Lamarr, 7 pm.
Essen Haus: Zweifel Brothers, 8:30 pm (also Fri.) The Frequency: Slapshot, Warhawks, Delinquents, No Question, 9:30 pm. Harmony Bar: The Family Business, rock, 9:45 pm. High Noon Saloon: Old Shoe, People Brothers Band, The Pauly Show, 9 pm.
Homeless Not Hopeless Friday, March 31, Social Justice CenterJackie Macaulay Gallery, 3-8 pm
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Hody Bar, Middleton: The Retro Specz, free, 9 pm. Ivory Room: Anthony Cao, Brandon Jensen, Connor Brennan, dueling pianos, 8 pm. Kiki’s House of Righteous Music: Curtis McMurtry (RSVP: righteousmusicmgmt@gmail.com), 8 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Altered Five, blues/soul, 9 pm. Lazy Oaf Lounge: Kelsey Miles Band, free, 10 pm. Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, 6:30 pm. Madison College-Truax Main Building: Madison College Big Band, free/donations, 7:30 pm. Merchant: DJ Nick Nice, house, 10:30 pm (also Fri.).
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Saturday, April 1 Open Houses & Science Spectaculars 9 am–4:30 pm Multiple destinations across campus Science Expeditions Trolleys 9:30 am–4:30 pm Trolleys will circulate to campus sites Exploration Stations 10 am–2 pm Discovery Building, 330 N Orchard Street Science Scinema with HHMI 7 pm Genetics Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall
Sunday, April 2 Science Expeditions Trolleys 9:30 am–4 pm Trolleys will circulate to west campus sites Exploration Stations and Tours 10 am–2 pm Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave School of Nursing, Signe Skott Cooper Hall, 701 Highland Ave School of Pharmacy, Rennebohm Hall, 777 Highland Ave
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SpringFest Arts & Crafts Show: Featuring 80+ Midwestern artists, 9 am-3 pm, 4/1, Warner Park Community Recreation Center, with music, door prizes. $1 admission. 245-3669.
Overture Center-Overture Hall: Music of Led Zeppelin, members of Madison Symphony Orchestra, 8 pm. Paoli Schoolhouse: Gillian Lish, free, 6 pm. Parched Eagle Brewpub: Yid Vicious, free, 7:30 pm. Plan B: DJs Mike Carlson, WhiteRabbit, Alistair Loveless, Leather & Lace, 8:30 pm. Tip Top: Hank Kimball & the County Agents, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: City Electric, 9 pm. Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: Krause Family Band, 7 pm. Tyranena Brewing Company, Lake Mills: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, blues/rock, free, 7 pm. UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Sole Nero, Mead Witter School of Music faculty concert, 8 pm.
COM EDY Rated Her: Allie Lindsay, Stevie Leigh Crutcher, music by Lyndsay Evans, Aarushi Fire, burlesque by Marina Mars, open mic, 6 pm, 4/1, Frequency. $5. 819-8777. Emo Philips: 7:30 pm, 4/1, Stoughton Opera House. 877-4400.
Signature Seven: Noon-4 pm Saturdays, 4/1-29, PhotoMidwest (reception 7-9 pm, 4/6). photomidwest.org.
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High Noon Saloon: The Drain, The Mossmen, Rogue Rat, 8 pm. The Rigby: Madison Jazz Jam, free (all ages), 4 pm. Sequoya Library: Driftless Regionaires, free, 1:30 pm.
On Wisconsin Spring Powwow: Annual UW Wunk Sheek event, 10 am-10 pm on 4/1 and 10 am-7 pm, 4/2, Alliant Energy Center, with Grand Entry 1 & 7 pm on 4/1 and 1 pm on 4/2. Free. facebook.com/WunkSheek.
UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: gobbinjr, greenhaus, Emma Fish, free, 8 pm.
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African American History Challenge Bowl: 100 Black Men of Madison annual event, 9 am, 4/1, MMSD’s Doyle Administration Building. Free. 205-8572. Speakeasy & Swing: Prohibition-themed interactive event, 8 pm, 4/1, Brink Lounge, with music by Professor Pinkerton & the Magnificents, games, dancing & more. $55 ($100 VIP includes 7 pm dinner). RSVP: facebook.com/SpeakandSwing.
Bluegrass Birthday Celebration Sunday, April 2, High Noon Saloon, 1:30 pm
KI D S & FAM ILY www.oz: PlayTime Productions zaps Dorothy into cyberspace, 2 pm, 4/1, Monona Library; 6:30 pm, 4/5, Waunakee Library. Donations. 437-4217.
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Years before Hee Haw took to the national airwaves, Madison had its own country music television show. Fiddler Dick Peterson found a seed company sponsor, changed his last name to Sherwood (it sounded “smoother”) and hosted a polkabilly show with a band that featured his wife Goldie on guitar and bass. This big ol’ country birthday party brings together old friends on one stage including the Sherwoods’ son, Mark, whose band Northern Comfort (pictured) will anchor the afternoon. With Mad City Jug Band, Bill & Bobbie Malone.
Stephane Wrembel Sunday, April 2, Cafe Coda, 7 pm Stephane Wrembel is one of the nation’s finest interpreters of the the music of gypsy jazz master Django Reinhardt. He’s released two albums on Water Is Life Records, The Django Experiment I and The Django Experiment II. The New York Observer called Wrembel “the living face of gypsy jazz.” Wrembel’s Oscar-nominated composition was the theme for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and he performed at the 2012 Academy Awards. Now see him up close at Madison’s intimate new jazz venue.
Rachel Corrie Commemoration: Annual MadisonRafah Sister City Project event, 2 pm, 4/2, St. James Catholic Church, with presentation by photograhper Anne Paq & journalist Ala Qandil, dessert. Free/donations. RSVP: madisonrafah.org. Wisconsin Festival of Ideas: Wisconsin Union Directorate conference, 11 am-4:30 pm, 4/2, UW Discovery Building, with faculty & student speakers. Free. facebook.com/WUDDLS. Madison Area LGBT Wedding Expo: Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce event, 11 am-2 pm, 4/2, Sheraton. Free admission. eventbrite.com/e/30890842341.
mon apr 3 MUS I C Cafe Coda: Blues Jam, 7:30 pm. The Frequency: Sweet Delta Dawn, Flowpoetry, Desmond Jones Band, Dr. Beatz, PheoNix, stRaka, Jon Schinke, 9 pm. Harmony: Oak Street Ramblers, bluegrass, 7:30 pm. Malt House: Grandpa’s Elixir, free, 7:30 pm. Stoughton Opera House: UW Graduate Student Horn Quartet, free/donations, 3 pm. UW Humanities Bldg-Morphy Hall: UW Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Composers Group, 7:30 pm.
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Agnes Obel + Ethan Gruska Sunday, April 2, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm
The deeply literate Danish keyboardist Obel (pictured) says she likes to write songs about “secrets.” Her glossy music will put a hush across Stoughton. Gruska, the maternal grandson of film composer John Williams, “might be L.A.’s next great songwriter,” according to the L.A. Times. Traces of James Blake and Sun Kil Moon inform Gruska’s compositions on keys and a guitar that was once owned by Glen Campbell. Arts + Literature Laboratory: Nestle, William Brittelle, Joel Shanahan, 8 pm. Brink Lounge: Madison Area Music Awards Finalists Party, with Sam Ness, Shawndell Marks, Lower 5th, Dash Hounds, silent auction, 5 pm.
Celebrated Canadian novelist, poet, environmentalist and inventor Margaret Atwood is this year’s keynote speaker for the Great World Texts program, which connects high school classes with UW-Madison scholars for a shared reading and discussion of a piece of classic literature. This year’s selection is William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which Atwood re-imagined in her acclaimed 2016 novel Hag-Seed.
S PO K EN WO RD Alisha Dietzman, Sean Patrick Mulroy, Thiahera Nurse, Carolyn Orosz, Leslie Sainz: UW Creative Writing Program readings, 7 pm, 4/3, Central Library. 253-3658. The Moth: Fresh: Storytelling competition, 7:30 pm, 4/3, High Noon Saloon. $10. 268-1122.
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Bandung: Louka, 7 pm.
Chief’s Tavern: Hoot’n Annie, free, 8:30 pm.
The Frequency: Strange Americans, 8:30 pm.
Crescendo: Matt Hires, Kyle Cox, folk, 7 pm.
High Noon Saloon: Thriftworks, Payam Imani, Edamame, 8:30 pm.
Hop Haus Brewing Company, Verona: Mike’s Mud Music, Americana, free, 7 pm.
Ivory Room: Luke Hrovat-Staedter, piano, free, 8 pm.
Ivory Room: Vince Strong, Josh Dupont, free, 9 pm.
Malt House: The North Westerns, free, 7:30 pm.
Majestic Theatre: Big Wild, Phantoms, IHF, 9 pm.
B OOKS Michael Edmonds & Samantha Snyder: Discussing “Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels: Brief Portraits of Real People Who Shaped Wisconsin,” their new book, 6:30 pm, 4/5, Sun Prairie Library. 825-7323.
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Siamese Tuesday, April 4, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm
Leave Mickey’s saturated with creativity. Dallas-based Siamese mixes ominous art pop with opulent set design and deranged alter egos. The glam rock band of four theatrically inclined friends released their debut, The Mesmerist, on March 3. With Dash Hounds and Slow Pulp.
League of Women Voters of Dane County Issues Forum: “Jailing the Mentally Ill: The Better Options” panel discussion, 7 pm, 4/5, Capitol Lakes-Grand Hall. 232-9447.
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Twist Bar: Marilyn Fisher/Paul Hastil Group, jazz, free, 5 pm. Yahara Bay Distillers, Fitchburg: Tracy Jane Comer, free, 6:30 pm.
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William DeBuys + Bill Robichaud Thursday, April 6, A Room of One’s Own, 6 pm
In March 2011, Pulitzer finalist William DeBuys embarked on an expedition into the mountains between Laos and Vietnam with field biologist Bill Robichaud, a Wisconsin native and UWMadison graduate. They were part of a scientific and diplomatic mission to save one of the rarest land mammals on the planet, the saola. The imperiled creature wasn’t identified by biolo-
gists until 1992. DeBuys’ captivating account of the journey and its larger meaning became a critically acclaimed book, The Last Unicorn. Both men are excellent storytellers, and this literary reunion is a rare opportunity for the audience to see where knowledge and passion intersect. Michael Perry: Discussing “Roughneck Grace: Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf and Other Brief Essays from on and off the Back Forty,” his book, 7 pm, 4/6, Belleville High School. 424-1812. Margaret George: Discussing “Confessions of a Young Nero,” her new book, 7 pm, 4/6, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.
T H EAT ER & DA N C E Les Miserables: Musical, 7 pm on 4/6-7, 2 & 7 pm on 4/8 and 2 pm, 4/9, Monona Grove High School. $14 ($12 adv.). 221-7666. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon: Eastside Players comedy-drama about friends who band together to live independently despite society’s expectations, 7:30 pm on 4/6-7 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 4/8, Bartell Theatre-Drury Stage. $10. 661-9696.
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The Frequency: Sinners & Saints, 8:30 pm. Luther Memorial Church: Nidaros Cathedral Girls’ Choir, free/donations, 7:30 pm. Majestic Theatre: Sohn, William Doyle, 8:30 pm.
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Malt House: Cajun Strangers, free, 7:30 pm. Ohio Tavern: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 7 pm.
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The incomparable Philippe Bianconi masters Rachmaninoff ’s legendary concerto, known as the most fearsomely difficult piece ever written for piano, and the composer’s favorite among his own works.
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Madison artist Aliza Rand has launched Pikku Takki, a new kids’ clothing line, as an alternative to fast, throwaway fashion. “It’s important to appreciate clothing and what goes into making it,” Rand says. “Back in the 1920s or ‘30s kids would each have one pair of boots of really awesome quality, and one or two awesome dresses. Everything that was made was very special and to be appreciated.” As a mom herself, Rand understands the qualities necessary for long-lasting children’s clothing: It must be practical and durable, as well as beautiful and affordable. Pikku Takki means “little jacket” in Finnish. The first run includes reversible t-shirts and kimono-inspired jackets for children of six months to five years. The shirts and jackets are unisex. The shirts are reversible and may be buttoned from both sides. The kimono-style jackets can be worn for about a year as the child grows. “Color is really exciting for boys and girls,” Rand says. “As a parent, when I look in the boys’ section of any store, it’s just very drab: browns, black, green, blue. It’s sort of repetitive.” She concentrates on vibrant colors for kids of both sexes. Rand is partners with her mother-inlaw, Sabine Kaipainen, a couture designer based in Switzerland. The two launched their first clothing collaboration in 2011 at an art show in Berlin. Soon after, they dis-
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Gay guy here. Met a guy online. He came over. We had incredible sex and then a great conversation lasting several hours. But — and you knew there was one coming — he told me that he lied about his HIV status. (I asked him before meeting him, like I do with anyone.) He is undetectable, but he told me initially he was “HIV/STD negative.” I got very upset — more from the lie than his status. (I know that undetectable is practically the same as negative.) I really like him, but that was a big lie. He told me all about his life and any other secrets after that. Should I swear off him for lying about such a big topic? Or is the fact he did tell me and our connection enough to give him a second chance? I had not been that happy up till the reveal in, well, maybe ever. But I want to be wise. Did Ask, Didn’t Tell
understandable. I think he deserves credit for coming clean right away — and a second chance. I’m a teenage girl and I’m really horny. I always think about sex, and I’d like to masturbate sometimes. I can’t live in this way, sometimes I feel physically and psychologically bad because of this terrible need to have sex or stuff. I’m single, and I don’t want to lose my virginity with a random guy. I really need some advice from you! How can I masturbate or quit this exaggerated libido? Don’t Reveal My Name Your libido is your libido, DRMN. It isn’t exaggerated, it simply is. Some people have high libidos, some people have low libidos, some people have no libidos, and an individual’s libido can wax and wane and wax again over the years. You’re at the stage of life when people tend to be at their horniest and consequently think about sex a lot. Women and girls, too. (Don’t let anyone tell you that women aren’t as horny as men.) If you find yourself distracted by sexual thoughts, DRMN, masturbating can help — most people find they can concentrate on other things for at least an hour once they’ve rubbed one or two or three out. As for how you masturbate…. Masturbate on your own or with a partner, in private, and whenever you feel the desire or need to. Enjoy! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Filmmakers, lovers, wannabe porn stars, sex-positive types, kinksters, and other creative types are invited to create short porn films — five minutes max — for HUMP! 2017, my dirty little film festival! HUMP! films can be hardcore, softcore, live-action, stop-motion, animated, musical, kinky, vanilla, straight, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, genderqueer — your film can be anything because everyone and everything is welcome at HUMP! For more information on submitting a film, go to tinyurl.com/hump2017! n For more of Savage Love see Isthmus.com. Email Dan at mail@savagelove.net or reach him on Twitter at @fakedansavage.
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Why would he lie? To avoid rejection. Obviously. Guys often refuse to hook up with guys who are honest about being HIV-positive even though a positive guy with an undetectable viral load is less of a risk—at least where HIV transmission is concerned—than a guy who believes himself to be negative because he was the last time he got tested or because he doesn’t think he could ever get infected and so has never been tested. Someone who was recently infected is highly infectious; someone who doesn’t think he could ever get infected—because he doesn’t sleep with older guys, because he only tops, because his ass is magic and he uses unicorn spit for lube—is a fucking idiot, and fucking idiots are higher risk for fucking everything. Sometimes positive guys get sick of being punished for being honest, and so they lie — and it’s particularly tempting to lie to someone you don’t expect to see again, i.e., a quick hookup. HIV-positive people shouldn’t lie to their sex partners. Obviously. People should be honest, informed consent is consent, and lying about your HIV status can be risky for people with HIV. Thanks to stupid laws passed by ill-informed idiots, failing to inform a sex partner you’re HIV-positive is a crime in many areas. There are people in prison today — mostly men, mostly black — for failing to disclose. These disclosure laws incentivize not knowing your status — you can’t be punished for not disclosing what you don’t know — putting everyone at higher risk. Why would he tell the truth? It’s possible he lied to you about his status — a lie he regarded as harmless thanks to his undetectable viral load — because he assumed this would be a hookup and nothing more. He wasn’t going to infect you and he wasn’t going to see you again. But after you two hit it off, DADT, he decided to tell you the truth right away instead of waiting weeks or months. The connection you describe is hard to find — this could be the start of something great — but the lie he told was big, yes, but
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