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search of the elusive saola

Bill Robichaud ﬁghts to save one of the world’s rarest creatures

MICHAEL HIRSHON

APRIL 2017 FILM

THROUGH APRIL 6

Wisconsin Film Festival Sundance Cinema 430 N Midvale Blvd Hours Vary

Join us for the last day of the largest university-managed film festival in the nation. 2017.wifilmfest.org $8–10 M U LT I - M E D I A PERFORMANCE

T H E AT R E

D A N C E F E S T I VA L

APRIL 13–30

APRIL 28

The Underpants

UW Concert Choir with Cellist Matt Haimovitz

Ronald F. Mitchell Theatre Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave Days and Hours Vary

Mills Hall, Humanities Building 455 N Park St 8:00 pm – Fri

Steve Martin brings his comic genius and sophisticated literary style to Carl Sternheim’s classic 1910 farce. $10–20 EXHIBITION

APRIL 14–23

Design 2017: Juried Design Concepts from Across Campus Ruth Davis Design Gallery School of Human Ecology 1300 Linden Drive Days and Hours Vary

Juried exhibition features student work in any field of design taught at UW–Madison, including graphic design, interior architecture, landscape design, fashion design, textiles, multi-media or 3D printing.

APRIL 26–30

90th Anniversary Festival Locations Vary Days and Hours Vary

Join us in celebrating Margaret H’Doubler’s remarkable achievement, establishing the first Dance degree program in higher education. Festival includes 6 alumni concerts, 20 master classes, 8 panels/presentations, IATECH Gallery exhibit, Dance on Screen, lecture by renowned dance scholar Janice Ross, receptions and more. Dance.wisc.edu FREE

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APRIL 11–16

Line Breaks Festival

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CONCERT

APRIL 22

Overture Center for the Arts 201 State St Hours Vary – Tue-Sun

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

This annual festival is presented by the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and features solo and ensemble works of dance, music and film by students (including First Wave) and guest artists. April 11 at the Chazen Museum of Art. linebreaks.wisc.edu

Wisconsin Union Theater 800 Langdon St 8:00 pm – Sat

FREE

CONCERT

One of the most multifaceted groups in any genre, the quartet brings a new energy to the stage with music from bluegrass to Bach, Baroque, flamenco, rock and new-age contemporary. $10–48

COMPETITION

APRIL 28

New Arts Venture Challenge Plenary Room, Grainger Hall Wisconsin School of Business 975 University Ave 1:30 pm – Fri

Four finalists will present their entrepreneurial proposals for an arts exhibition, series, commercial venture or other artistic project to the public. A judging panel will award grant money to each finalist group to implement their proposal. FREE

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Cellist Matt Haimovitz, known for the Bach Cello Suites as well as contemporary works, will perform “Après moi, le deluge” by composer Luna Pearl Woolf, plus a premiere by UW’s Laura Schwendinger. $5–15 EXHIBITION

APRIL 28–JUNE 25

Middle Child: Photographs by Alex Orellana

Peter Krsko Arts Institute’s Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence Krsko is a bioinspired artist whose approach combines science and art. go.wisc.edu/krsko EXHIBITION AND WORKSHOP

APRIL 7–8

Wormfarm Institute

Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Ave Hours Vary (Closed Mon)

28 E Main St Reedsburg, WI Various Hours

Orellana is the winner of 2017 Chazen Museum Prize for Outstanding MFA Student and their work is based on non binary gender identity. Opening reception on April 27 from 5:00-7:00 pm.

View Krsko’s latest exhibition (through May 31) and join guest artist Katie Schofield for a workshop.

FREE FA S H I O N S H OW

APRIL 30

Threads: Ensemble Madison Masonic Center 301 Wisconsin Ave 4:00 & 7:00 pm – Sun

The Threads Fashion Show is an annual celebration showcasing student work from the Textiles and Fashion Design Program in the School of Human Ecology at UW–Madison. $10–35

FREE P R E S E N TAT I O N

APRIL 19

UW–MANIAC talk 3245 Nancy Nicholas Hall School of Human Ecology 1300 Linden Drive 9:00 am – Wed

Peter Krsko and visiting artist Katie Schofield will present an artist talk as part of the UW–MANIAC talk series. FREE

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION

An Arabic teacher from Egypt has inspired East High students to make a documentary film.

6-12 NEWS

CHEW ON THIS

Madison’s beaver crackdown in Warner Park prompts blowback from residents.

14 OPINION AMELIA COOK FONTELLA

CATHERINE CAPELLARO

17 COVER STORY IN THE EARLY 1990S, Catherine Capellaro spent six months on a botanical expedition in the remote rainforests and savannahs of Guyana, in South America. After contracting malaria, giardia and other tropical ailments, she was more than ready for the comforts of home. But she remained fascinated with efforts to preserve precious areas of biodiversity and jumped at the chance to interview renowned wildlife biologist Bill Robichaud.

FOOD SOMETIMES IT’S WHAT is not on the menu that really sets a restaurant apart, as Amelia Cook Fontella discovered when reviewing Monona Bakery & Eatery. Amelia encourages diners to ask for the Honduran specialties, even if they are not listed on the menu. It’s a cuisine Amelia came to know while living in Honduras for about a year in her 20s. Whatever you do, she says, don’t miss the baleadas.

BUDGETING FOR INDIVIDUALS

The GOP has lost sight of the public good.

17 COVER STORY

WILD LIFE

Bill Robichaud seeks the world’s rarest land mammal in Laos.

22-28 FOOD & DRINK

PUPUSAS, PLEASE

Monona Bakery & Eatery has Honduran specials.

TAP DANCE

The schedule for Madison Craft Beer Week is out, and it’s a packed calendar.

TECMO? I DON’T EVEN KNOW MO. Madison’s “Super Bowl” for the vintage Nintendo game persists.

21, 33-34 MUSIC

FINDING HER VOICE

Hannah Busse’s debut album has it all.

32 BOOKS

MARGARET ATWOOD’S WARNING Q&A with the legendary Canadian novelist.

35 STAGE

EXONERATED ONSTAGE

A new theater company brings true stories to Wil-Mar and the UW-Madison law school.

36 SCREENS

DIY PORN ALLISON GEYER

32 BOOKS WE HAD HOPED to interview Margaret Atwood in advance of her visit to Madison, but it didn’t happen. Waiting until the renowned novelist arrived on campus, however, proved fortunate. Videographer Justin Sprecher was able to record staff writer Allison Geyer’s interview with Atwood at UW’s Union South. See the video on Isthmus.com.

Farmer Jane

30 SPORTS

Dan Savage’s HUMP! Festival rolls into the Barrymore Theatre.

44 EMPHASIS

CAPS FOR SALE

A 21st-century peddler breaks the vending mold.

IN EVERY ISSUE 12 MADISON MATRIX 12 WEEK IN REVIEW 14 THIS MODERN WORLD 15 FEEDBACK 15 OFF THE SQUARE

38 ISTHMUS PICKS 45 CLASSIFIEDS 46 P.S. MUELLER 46 CROSSWORD 47 SAVAGE LOVE

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

Thursday, April 6, Middleton Library, 6 pm Women working in sustainable agriculture unite to share gardening and farming tips, sample locally made products and hear inspiring stories. Lisa Kivirist, author of Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers, gives the keynote presentation at the event. Woman farmers from Browntown to Blanchardville will be in attendance. Free; register by emailing info@midlibrary.org.

Play “Volga Boatmen” for me Saturday, April 8, UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall, 7:30 pm

The UW Russian Folk Orchestra marks its 20th anniversary with this free concert, featuring the world premiere of new works by orchestra players Nebojša Macura and Yuriy Kolosovskiy. Guest soloists include Kiev, Ukraine, balalaika player Tetiana Khomenko and vocalist Anna Gubenkova, a Belarus native and currently a student at UW.

To catch a thief Wednesday, April 12, Monona Library, 6 pm

A National Library Week program pairs a reallife consumer advocate with a writer of crime fiction to discuss “ID Theft in Fiction and Real Life.” Wisconsin author Nick Petrie will discuss his cyber-thriller Burning Bright and Wisconsin Bureau of Consumer Protection’s Laura Fay will give practical tips on personal security, identity theft, data security red flags and more. Vegan dessert from the Green Owl will reassure everyone, at least to the extent that food solves all problems.

Get trashed Friday, April 7, Madison Children’s Museum, 6-10 pm

Adult Swim returns with the annual Sustainability Sideshow, a fundraiser for the museum and Sustain Dane. Enjoy carnival games, music by Sortin’ the Mail (including a mini-set as Garbage cover band “Compost”), trashion fashion show and a discussion of how the Lorax can be a change agent. After a few drinks, chow down on edible insects...or cotton candy. Your choice. Admission is $15, ages 21 and up only.

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Mahmoud Hegazy with his Arabic students who are making a documentary to dispell stigmas and stereotypes about the Arab world.

Outsmarting the stereotypes

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BY JENNY PEEK n PHOTOGRAPH BY SARAH MAUGHAN

Or for the English speakers out there: Lights. Camera. Action. A Moroccan exchange student sits in front of the camera, mic’d up and ready to go. Her classmates go through a list of questions — where are you from? Are you Muslim? What stereotypes have you heard from Americans about Muslims? What are the common stereotypes of Americans back home? As the camcorder, balanced precariously on a wobbly tripod, rolls, students in Mahmoud Hegazy’s Arabic class at East High School work to dismantle stereotypes, one conversation, one interview, at a time. “There are a lot of stereotypes and stigmas about the Arab world. Coming from Egypt to America was a dream, but I had a goal in mind. I wanted to tell everyone that I met that I am an Arab and we are not tough, we are not terrorists, we don’t hate you as the media tries to tell you; on the contrary, we love you,” Hegazy says. “That’s why my students and I are producing a documentary — to outsmart the stereotypes.” The documentary project is just one part of the Facilitated Language Study program at East. The other, possibly more daunting, task is to learn Arabic, a language with anywhere from 90 million to 500 million words.

Before Hegazy arrived, a small group of nine students studied Arabic on their own. But when Hegazy arrived in December, more students joined the class, excited and intrigued by the opportunity to learn from a native Arabic speaker. Three months later, his 22 students have learned a new alphabet, and built their vocabulary to include clothing, body parts and basic conversational necessities. They’re to the point where most of them can even sing along in Arabic to “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” “When I came, the students felt happy because they had someone who spoke Arabic to talk to them,” Hegazy says. Hegazy came to Madison as part of the U.S. State Department’s Teachers of Critical Languages Program. It places teachers from China, Egypt and Morocco in high schools across the U.S. to teach both their native language and culture. While primarily focused on teaching the language, Hegazy also addresses complicated cultural issues. When students ask questions about social justice, gender equality and corruption in the Middle East, he responds candidly. “I try to be frank when presenting to the students; I don’t like beautifying facts,” he says. “Some people in the Arab world don’t

talk about the problems taking place in their country. I feel happy talking about this to let the students know, please appreciate what you have here, appreciate that you can voice opinions freely, and do not allow anybody to make divisions in this society.” Despite President Donald Trump’s effort to ban immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries to the U.S., students and teachers at East made sure to let Hegazy know he was part of the Purgolder family. “After Trump’s ban on the seven Muslim countries, everybody came and told me, ‘This is not our attitude, we love having you here.’ I really appreciated this,” Hegazy says. “Some of them cried. This is something we don’t have in my country. No colleague comes to me just to show empathy; I was really taken.” For the remainder of the semester, Hegazy will continue to work with the students on improving their Arabic and finishing their documentary project on dismantling stereotypes. After that, sticking with the language is up to the kids. “By the end of June I will not be here,” says Hegazy. “I would like my students to continue with Arabic, and hopefully we can find somebody to give them a hand; but for now, they just have to continue learning.” n

22: Countries in the Arab World 5TH: Arabic’s rank among top spoken native languages 467 MILLION: Native Arabic speakers in the world. 11: The number of words for “love” in Arabic FASTEST-GROWING LANGUAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: Arabic, which grew from 615,000 speakers in 2000 to 1.1 million in 2014. FACILITATED LANGUAGE STUDY PROGRAM: Developed at East High School, the program enables students to independently study a language. The East program currently offers Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, as well as advanced French and Spanish. PURGOLDER: East High School’s mascot, most likely a cougar or cat-like mammal, named by merging the words purple and gold, the school colors.

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Chewed out! City removes beaver traps from Warner Park after blowback BY DYLAN BROGAN

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Eric Knepp, Madison’s parks superintendent, says that beavers are welcome at some of the city’s parks. Just not near the Warner Park lagoon. The parks division decided to trap the animals at Warner in an effort to control flooding on the north side. “Our goal is to find a harmony within the parks system. It’s not wild nature. That doesn’t exist in the city anymore. We have 250,000 people living here,” says Knepp. “We’ve disturbed nature to a great extent. We have an obligation as humanity — not just the parks division — to do our best to manage it.” Knepp says that beaver dams, if left unchecked, can end up flooding soccer fields, recreational spaces and the parking lots at Warner Park as well as nearby streets and basements. Parks staff have found beavers damaged or fell more than a dozens trees. “As far as hydrology, the vast majority of Warner Park and some amount of the surrounding area would have historically been a marsh,” explains Knepp. “A major concern is the flooding and water level change. The [Warner] lagoon is the primary conveyance for about 1,100 acres of the north side. That means when it rains and storms, the water goes there.” The effort to trap the animals was largely under the radar, but when residents learned about it last week, many were outraged. Some people began yanking the traps on their own, prompting city staff to remove all of them. Knepp tells Isthmus that the traps were set for three days and that one beaver was caught and killed. The traps were slated to be removed on April 1. “Staff had already predetermined that they were going to remove traps on Saturday either way. The theft of traps, when brought to my attention, that made the decision unequivocal,” says Knepp. “[The theft of the traps] did cause me great concern. They were not easily accessible. They were set in an intentional way to try to nearly eliminate any adverse impacts. There is no doubt that this will be evaluated further.”

Trapping might have gone unnoticed if not for retired Madison police detective Sara Petzold. She lives near Warner Park and frequently visits with her giant schnauzer, Milo. On a recent walk, she spotted a truck with the license plate “ITRAP.” “First thing I thought was, ‘Uh-oh,’” says Petzold. She then learned the truck belonged to a trapper contracted with the city to remove beavers. He told her that he was placing traps near the underwater entryways to the beavers’ lodge. “I asked if he was trapping to relocate the beavers or kill them. He said, ‘Some of them are over 70 pounds, and it’s really

(vs. the animal) by making it unappealing and/or inaccessible to unwanted species. Examples of this for beavers include curtailing access to food sources by spraying tree trunks with [repellents], coating trunks with latex paint, or “caging” trunks with 3-foot-high wire mesh/ hardware cloth offset by at least 10 inches to prevent gnawing.” But Knepp argues that the traps don’t purposefully drown beavers. “The traps that were used are body-grasping traps,” says Knepp. “They aren’t designed to cause drowning as a means of lethal take. I’m not arguing that it can’t occur. But the design of the trap is not predicated on that being the outcome in every situation.”

MADISON PARKS DIVISION

Parks division staff point to trees damaged by beavers in Warner Park as justification for trapping the animals.

hard to find a place to put them,’” says Petzold. “He then told me the traps hold the beavers underwater until they asphyxiate. It was disturbing to me that the city was essentially drowning beavers without any notice to residents.” Petzold wrote about the encounter on social media, prompting outrage from others. She says the parks division’s decision to remove the traps because of “safety risks” is proof that the city should have told the public what it was doing. “As far as I know, the neighborhood and the Wild Warner group were not notified. Considering the number of dogs that go swimming in the lagoon, I was worried that a dog could have been hurt or killed,” says Petzold. “In the parks division’s subsequent response to all this, they acknowledge that the traps are dangerous. That’s even further reason they should have made this known to residents.”

Knepp says that the city cannot notify residents about everything it does in the parks. “I would have some concerns about individualized public input meetings related to specific wildlife management operation,” he says. “Sometimes time is of the essence.” The animal rights group PETA also contacted the city about the trapping. Kent Stein, a member of the group’s “emergency response team,” sent an email to Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, Common Council members and Knepp urging them to forgo trapping in favor of other methods to mitigate potential damage caused by beavers. “Please understand that death by drowning is a terrifying and exceptionally painful ordeal (beavers can take up to 15 minutes simply to lose consciousness),” Stein wrote to officials. “Successful long-term wildlife control requires targeting the environment

Petzold wants the parks division to justify its “covert trapping policy” to residents. “I think we need to look at the benefits of having beavers at Warner Park [and] the negatives, and, as a city, find the right balance,” says Petzold. “I have not seen any indication that parks has really undertaken any of those analyses. That’s what concerns me the most. This could have easily flown under the radar, and we’d have no idea why the beavers were gone.” Knepp, to the best of his knowledge, says Warner is the only city park where beaver trapping has occurred. “We have not done any other beaver trapping at Madison parks this year, and I don’t recall when the last one was,” says Knepp. “We don’t routinely do this, and it’s not commonplace in our management plan.” But he doesn’t rule out future beaver trappings as a “wildlife management tool.” “There’s often a perspective that nature is predictable. It’s not. We can’t say for certain what will happen. But we will be monitoring it,” says Knepp. “There are situations that could necessitate a review of options available, including a trapping operation. As for the method of trapping, we will be continuing to evaluate with the DNR and other wildlife biologists at the University of Wisconsin on best practices.” Ultimately, says Knepp, park policy is set by park commissioners and the Common Council. He looks forward to conversations with policymakers on the topic of trapping, public engagement and “what, if any, changes they’d like to see” to current wildlife management practices. “We have resident beavers. We are proud of them. I’m always a little hesitant to tell people to look, explore and find beavers because that can be disruptive. But they are absolutely there, and they are welcome members of the park system,” says Knepp. “We spend a lot of time, money and passion on trying to promote diverse wildlife in our system. Some of our biggest accomplishments have been in that area.” n

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Resist and reform New grassroots group aims to be progressive tea party BY ALLISON GEYER

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Crystal Kettering was never really into politics. A self-described “mom-preneur,” she’s spent much of her professional life in the creative field, working as a photographer, an international yoga magazine editor and apron designer. Then the 2016 election happened. “Trump woke me up,” Kettering says. With the president’s far-right administration now in power, suddenly the freedoms and civil liberties that she’d always taken for granted seemed frighteningly vulnerable. “I decided something had to change, and that change had to start with me,” she says. “I wanted to use my skills, my education, my privileges to help.” Kettering found solidarity with other concerned Indivisible Madison doesn’t plan to endorse candidates, but progressives who had huddled on social media to might oppose those who don’t uphold progressive values. process the election results and plot what became known as #TheResistance. At the same time, an activism were in the past. That’s the definition of being a progressive.” manual written by former Democratic congressional staffIndivisible isn’t the only grassroots movement ers was circulating online. The document, “Indivisible: A spawned in the wake of the election. Groups like the ForPractical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda,” became a ward Action Women’s Network and the Women’s Huddle playbook for the burgeoning grassroots activist network. To- are also using the Indivisible playbook, says Dale Ivarie, day, there are more than 6,000 confirmed Indivisible groups an activist and political analyst. The groups are unabashin all 435 of the nation’s congressional districts. edly left-leaning, but not explicitly affiliated with the Indivisible Madison met for the first time Feb. 6, draw- Democrats, and they’re trying to find their place within ing about 120 people, says Kettering, who has become existing social justice organizations in the state. one of the group’s core organizers. “People are superIvarie says some Indivisible chapters around the state are passionate, ready to organize and eager to get started,” open to working with Democrats, while others are saying, Kettering says. “screw it; let’s vote them out.” “The people on the left, they’re As the group has expanded its reach and membership, its fragmented into these little groups and they in-fight all the organizational structure has grown as well. Members have time,” he says. “But we need to come together and work tolaunched a number of initiatives, including an “empty chair” gether — that’s the whole point of the Indivisible group.” town hall for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Oshkosh) that drew Staffers in the Democratic Party of Wisconsin are aware hundreds of attendees. Johnson declined to attend. They of the Indivisible groups around the state and are doing their also hold #ResistTrump meetups every Tuesday at 1 p.m. at “due diligence to reach out” to progressive activists, says the state Capitol. Indivisible activists have also been meet- Brandon Weathersby, the party’s communications director. ing regularly with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s staffers and “What they’re doing on the ground is incredible,” successfully pressured Baldwin (D-Madison) into holding Weathersby says. “What we’re trying to do is to be a rea town hall meeting in Milwaukee. The group doesn’t plan source, helping amplify the message, helping mobilize to endorse candidates, but might “anti-endorse” candidates people to [Indivisible] chapters.” who don’t uphold progressive values. Weathersby hopes that the activism will continue into “The first tier of what we want to do is resist, and the the midterm elections and beyond. But he says there’s a other side of that is reform,” Kettering says. The group’s key difference that could end up benefiting the Demolong-term plan is to “get dark money out of politics, get cratic Party down the road. good people into seats of power, and to vote in represen“Eventually, the tea party movement cannibalized tatives that represent the people and not the corporation conservatives and Republicans, but I don’t get the sense that pays them to be corrupt puppets.” that that’s the Indivisible groups’ priority [with regards to Democrats],” he says. “I think right now their priority is Indivisible Madison is shaping up to be the state’s flagship to identify individuals who are not supporting a progreschapter, and there’s an effort to create a “state-level resis- sive agenda and holding those folks accountable, so their tance guide” that will help unite the various Indivisible focus is primarily on Republicans and conservatives.” groups popping up throughout the state. Interest and enthuMike Wagner, a professor of political science and joursiasm from members is high, but many challenges remain. nalism at UW-Madison, says the Indivisible movement’s “None of us are professional organizers,” says Adam collective strategy will give it a greater chance of being Wood, an Indivisible volunteer who works as a transpor- politically effective. The fact that Indivisible isn’t endorstation and land-use planner. 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The GOP’s “go it alone” budget Scott Walker and company promote individualism over community BY RUTH CONNIFF Ruth Conniff is editor in chief of The Progressive magazine.

Scott Walker says he wants to help students save money on college. So in his budget, the governor has included a provision that allows them to opt out of paying student activity fees. On the UW-Madison campus, that means students would no longer have to pay $88.98 per semester — the lion’s share of which goes to fund student government and to pay for bus passes that allow registered UW students to ride the Madison Metro bus for free. The upside is, students would have an extra 89 bucks and more “freedom to choose.” The downside is, “Allowing individual students to opt out of paying would destabilize funding of these services,” explains Graham Pearce, UW System student representatives chairman. Services students currently take for granted might just go away. Madison Metro would lose millions of dollars in funding, and could make up the difference by reducing rides on some routes. Student government would face a shortfall, and programs from religious clubs to the campus radio station to the Women’s Center to the Adventure Learning Program would face cuts. The cost savings to people who no longer have to pay fees is nothing compared with the loss to the whole community when the system everyone relied on begins to break down. It’s kind of like “Right to Work,” which “frees” individual workers from paying union dues, so that there is no longer a large pool of workers who jointly fund union representation. Presto — no more contracts that protect overtime. Or the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act, which gives people “access” to the private market, and relieves the healthy of the obligation to pay into an

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insurance system so there’s enough money to cover the old and the sick. In fact, Walker’s student fees gambit is the perfect illustration of the Republicans’ “go it alone” approach. From labor unions to health care to school vouchers, Republicans oppose communal efforts where we all put in money to do something as a group that most of us can’t afford to do on our own. According to Walker and his GOP allies, individuals have a “right” not to help pay for things they don’t like. It helps to have a scapegoat. Explaining his fees scheme, Walker pointed to Sex Out Loud, a student group that promotes sex education and activism — one of 16 programs in the general student services fund that get part of the student fees allocation. In truth, Sex Out Loud is small potatoes — about 1 percent of the $89 bucks — or 89 cents per student per term. Seems like hanging onto free bus rides and the radio station is a pretty

good trade, even if you don’t like people talking openly about sex. But the point of this exercise is not just to defund sex ed (though that’s a Walker priority, too). It’s really to promote individualism over community, and to unwind public services and the whole idea of the public good. That’s why, in Walker’s budget proposal,

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payments to voucher operators are at least $1,000 higher per student than the average for public school students. And while Walker is proposing an increase in education funds for Wisconsin’s K12 students (which will supposedly be paid for by switching to self-insurance for state employees) and a tuition break at UW, these measures don’t make up for years of huge cuts to education funding and the tuition hikes Walker supported in the past. UW students now carry nearly $29,000 in average student debt. And Walker is inclined to leave them to the tender mercies of the private market instead of allowing them to refinance that debt like homeowners refinance their mortgages. The future of our public school system is even more bleak. After 25 years of a voucher school “experiment” in Milwaukee that failed to improve outcomes for students, the Walker administration is going all in on vouchers and charters, siphoning taxpayers’ money into private school “choice” programs. We have a great university system, a great public school system and some of the best health care providers in the country right here in town. Instead of setting up a system where individuals have to scramble and compete to get a shred of these goods, we ought to be supporting the infrastructure we’ve got for everyone — so we can all share the benefits of a healthy community, an educated and healthy population, and a nice place to live. n

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Still unresolved

Letter writer Knute Knutson illustrates my point that the English language is constantly in a state of flux (Feedback, “To Kill by Any Other Name,” 3/30/2017). Whomever defines words or ascribes new meanings to them has great power, since new meanings will shape the thinking of current and future generations. He is mistaken in thinking I did not consult a dictionary before taking umbrage at the words, “harvesting wolves.” Now, my dictionary is the 2002 edition, and I’m guessing that Knutson is using a more modern version. In those years between 2002 and 2017, it somehow became okay or normal to say, “deer harvest,” and now, potentially, “wolf harvest.” This is a change, and not one for the better. Don’t try to normalize or sanitize the killing of wolves by calling it a “harvest.” Rather, it is a wolf hunt, resulting in dead wolves. Mark Lajiness Stoughton (via email)

Re “Unresolved: Tony Robinsons’ Mom Finds No Peace or Justice in Record Settlement,” 3/30/2917): Maybe the family will have a better chance of finding peace if the media stops bringing it up every other week. Obviously it was controversial, and nobody’s mind is changing at this point. Victor Toniolo (via Facebook)

Shooting gallery Re: “Guns, Rights and Responsibilities” (Citizen Dave, Isthmus.com, 4/4/2017): Dave Cieslewicz is right here. Carry permits without training is asinine. And the NRA is at this point nothing more than an industry lobbying group. It long ago ceased to serve a useful purpose to shooters or society. Kurt Amann (via Facebook)

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The 1999 camera-trap photo (above) is the first image taken of a wild saola in Laos.

chaud. “Three days later I was down on a bus to that part of Laos.” By now, we have a name for the mysterious cloven-hoofed creature, the saola (pronounced sow-LAH). The importance of that discovery still animates Robichaud, who studied zoology at UW-Madison and now lives outside Barneveld. It turns out the saola is the only surviving line of a genus of bovid, a grazing animal related to cattle, bison, goats and antelopes. “This wasn’t a new species of

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hen one the most important zoological discoveries of the century was announced in 1992, field biologist Bill Robichaud happened to be sitting in a noodle shop in Vientiane, Laos, reading the Bangkok Post. The article had an inset map showing the location of a Vietnamese village where a set of long, tapered horns — unlike any known to science — were found in a hunter’s shack. “I thought, that thing’s in Laos, for sure,” says Robi-

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life’s work. A natural candidate would be George Schaller, who had studied tigers, mountain gorillas, jaguars and giant pandas. The subject of Peter Matthiessen’s adventure tale The Snow Leopard had been a mentor and colleague of Robichaud’s at the Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Society. “I just said, ‘George, you’ve defined your career by being the first guy to do the first-ever field study of large, unknown mammals. Why aren’t you settling down in Laos and making saola your retirement project?’” Schaller’s reply: “How can you study an animal you can’t even see?” So Robichaud seized the opportunity to study the rare and elusive creature. “I just kept waiting for someone to take this over, and nobody did, so I just did it by default.” Robichaud now coordinates a massive international effort to save the saola from imminent extinction. As Robichaud describes it, “the saola found him.” He wasn’t even a mammal specialist. He had traveled to Vietnam with the Wisconsin-based International Crane Foundation in 1990, and because he loved working in the field, moved into doing wildlife surveys in the difficult terrain of Southeast Asia. A Wisconsinite who loves snow, hunting and fishing, he spent the better part of the past 20 years in steep and steamy conditions on the other side of the world, searching for a creature so rare it’s described as a “unicorn.” In 2011, naturalist and author William DeBuys joined Robichaud on an expedition deep into the Nakai-Nam Theun National Protected Area in Laos, which borders Vietnam. They were seeking the saola, of course, and setting up camera traps to capture images (few photos exist of saola in the wild). They also were on a diplomatic mission to convince villagers of the importance of conserving the forest’s resources. The tale of that trip — and the larger story of the global crisis in illegal wildlife poaching — is captured eloquently in DeBuys’ The Last Unicorn, published in 2015. Both biologist and writer appear in Madison April 6 at A Room of One’s Own. The ultimate goal of the trip and the book, DeBuys writes in the prologue, was a lofty one: “to save the saola from extinction.”

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Highway 18-151 during a mid-March snowstorm to visit Robichaud at the farm where he’s made his home for the past four and a half years. He introduces me to his carpenter roommate, Mitch, and pours us each a coffee, which we sweeten with maple syrup tapped from trees in his yard. We sit down in front of a fireplace; the mantel features several sets of whitetail deer antlers and a Hmong sword. While the snowflakes drift down, Robichaud describes the singular journey that led him from here to Laos and back again. Robichaud, the youngest of six children, grew up in Waukesha County, near Delafield, where he would escape every

Bill Robichaud (right) with a survey and patrol team in Laos’ Nakai-Nam Theun National Protected Area. chance he could to the forest behind his house. “That’s where I really got into nature,” says Robichaud. “I lived in the woods, and I went fishing every day.” He captured and hunted with a red-tailed hawk, whom he named Genghis. When he was in high school his parents divorced, and he relocated with his mom and brother to Middleton, so the siblings could afford to attend UW-Madison by living at home. Before starting college, Robichaud worked as an intern at the Cedar Grove Ornithological Research Station, trapping and banding hawks and falcons migrating along the Lake Michigan shores. That facility, which has been in operation since 1960, has documented a remarkable recovery for birds of prey since the pesticide DDT was banned in 1972. The comeback gives Robichaud hope that humans can learn from their mistakes: “The world is getting better, in some ways,” he says.

He shows me to the dining room, where a small framed picture of him as a teenager, with a hawk perched on his glove, is hanging near the window. Out in the snow, a juvenile bald eagle feeds on a raccoon carcass. “When I was a teenager the only place you could see a bald eagle was in the remote areas of northern Wisconsin,” he says. This work with birds of prey led him to UW’s legendary wildlife ecologist Stan Temple and eventually to the International Crane Foundation. Robichaud conducted wildlife surveys in Vietnam and Laos, which led to coordinating the Lao program for the Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Society, which he did until 1999, when he left the field to get a master’s degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He currently works for Austin-based Global Wildlife Conservation and coordinates the Saola Working Group, which is

an arm of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. After 15 years of living in Laos (with periodic visits back to stay with his brother in Mazomanie), Robichaud wanted to reestablish roots in Wisconsin and be closer to his daughter, who is half Lao; she went to boarding school in Vermont and currently attends Smith College. “And I just missed snow,” he says.

By the time he wrote his master’s thesis on the saola, Robichaud already had the distinction of being the only Western scientist to study a live one. He named her Martha (after an unflappable administrator at the Wildlife Conservation Society). The saola was captured by Hmong tribesmen in 1996 and brought to the village of Lak Xao, where she became part of a private menagerie of tribal leader General Sayavong Cheng.

DeBuys calls Robichaud “one of the most remarkable human beings” he’s ever met. He was mightily impressed with the scientist’s wilderness savvy and his ability to relate to the Lao people: “He’s a natu-

“They go out and they’ve got to get the grail and bring it back to the community. I was putting myself through that initiation.” He skied into a campsite and spent several nights in a tent when the wind chill factor was -90. He slept in two sleeping bags. “I kept a candle burning in the tent and set an alarm for every hour, to make sure I was okay. It wasn’t very relaxing.” These days, Robichaud doesn’t usually choose camping as a recreational activity: “Now I go to a warm coffee shop,” he says. He’s gifted with a strong constitution: After years of working in Laos, and watching many friends succumb to malaria, dengue fever and typhus, the worst health problem he’s faced in the field was an infected leech bite.

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Rangers have removed thousands of illegal wire snares, set by poachers in the saola’s habitat. ral leader, he has reserves of energy that seem otherworldly, and his passion and commitment for his work are completely unsurpassable.” DeBuys, who describes the physical hardships of the expedition in painstaking detail, notes Robichaud’s ability to adapt. “His tolerance for inconvenience, disruption, bad food and arduous conditions is as great as I’ve seen in any other human being,” says DeBuys. “And frankly, a conservation biologist who works in the forests of Indochina has got to have those qualities. It is one of the most remote and difficult ecosystems on Earth in which to travel and try to assess wildlife. The obstacles are enormous.” Robichaud doesn’t remember the Last Unicorn trip as being one of his most difficult, but he confirms the troubles they had with the guides and porters they hired to help carry gear into the forest. “It was really trying, in that aspect,” he says. But Robichaud is used to the life of climbing slippery slopes, hiking, camping and subsisting on bony fish and sticky rice. “I don’t know what it’s like for somebody who hasn’t done it because it’s been so long since it was the first time for me.” Robichaud has a long history of testing his survival skills. His debut was a solo winter camping trip in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in 1978, when temperatures plunged to record lows. “I think young men are genetically hard wired to go on a quest,” he says.

many saola actually exist in the wild. When I ask Robichaud, he takes a breath: “I think if things are good, there might be 200 left. If things are bad, there might be 20. We are getting down to the finish line.” The principal threat to saola is not village hunters shooting and roasting a saola. That is rare, since the meat is not considered particularly tasty. It’s the widespread commercial poaching, using wire snares, described in heartbreaking detail in The Last Unicorn. “It’s a catastrophe. That’s not too strong of a word,” says Robichaud. Poachers, mainly Vietnamese wildlife traders, set thousands upon thousands of snares, easily constructed from bicycle or truck cable. Anything that walks through the forest is at risk of being strung up to die slowly and painfully. Since 2011, rangers have removed 150,000 snares from protected areas, but Robichaud knows it’s not enough. Demand for rare creatures continues to soar, especially in Chinese and Vietnamese urban centers, where “bush meat” is a delicacy for the growing wealthy class. In addition, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine demand parts of monkeys, rhinos and more. One box turtle, which shares a habitat with the saola, can fetch $20,000. The saola, however, is so rare it has slipped under the radar, and so far, doesn’t fetch more than $100 for a set of horns. The Saola Working Group has focused its efforts on protecting habitat and removing snares. Robichaud says it’s not that difficult to convince a Lao hunter to put down his gun when face-to-face with a saola. This “village diplomacy” stems from a solid understanding of social and economic realities for Lao people. For decades, the United Nations has considered Laos one of the world’s leastdeveloped countries, and the Lao people “hate that,” says Robichaud. “It’s a shameful message for anybody.” Robichaud approaches villagers with respect, and explains that they have something the rest of the world doesn’t. “They have unlimited access to land, they have a forest full of bamboo shoots and fish and mushrooms and everything else that peo-

ple in cities have to pay for. As saola conservationists, we go in and say, ‘you have something the rest of the world is really interested in.’ Other than from a Vietnamese wildlife trader, they’ve never heard that, and you can see it, they get proud of having saola in the forest. The key is for them, saola conservation comes with no economic cost because they can’t make a lot of money from it in the wildlife trade.”

That’s the good news. The bad news is it truly might be too late to save the saola from extinction. Robichaud estimates that about 10 have been caught in the past decades, but to date, every captive saola has died within five months, and no scientist has ever seen one in the wild. Meanwhile, the poaching crisis continues unabated. An obvious question is whether Robichaud’s efforts would best be spent elsewhere. “Other guys that I work with will say, ‘How do you keep doing it? You can’t even see what you’re studying.’ But this is the largest animal in the world of certain existence — I’m not talking about sasquatch — that’s never been seen in the wild by a biologist. I guess I’m in love with that mystery, rather than having to see it.” Because the saola is considered “critically endangered,” the efforts of the Saola Working Group have shifted, in recent years, to planning for a captive breeding program. The idea is to capture (no small task) every living saola and repopulate the forests in 15 to 20 years. A center will be built in a park in Vietnam, and a consortium of zookeepers, headed up by Poland’s Wroclaw Zoo, is studying how to capture saola and keep them alive in captivity. But, Robichaud emphasizes, the goal is not a zoo exhibit where people will gawk at a creature that once roamed the forest. “There’s no point in doing captive breeding if you don’t have a place to put them back to,” he says. “It’s about keeping an insurance population until there is adequate protection in protected areas in Laos and Vietnam, where they could be safely released.” Even that is a gamble, but one that Robichaud is willing to take. The saola are important on many levels because of the wildness and diversity they represent. “The Buddha said ‘no effort is wasted.’” says Robichaud, ticking off a list of new species and a new genus of rodent that have been discovered in the same mountain range (the Annamites) where the saola live in the shadows. “That’s a pace of discovery of new animals unmatched by any region of the world, probably in the past century,” says Robichaud. And, he adds, all the work that has been done to pick up snares helps conserve not just saola, but everything else that’s walking on the forest floor. “I hope the saola doesn’t go extinct,” says Robichaud. “But even if it does, we’ll still have done a lot of good along the way in its name.” n

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Once again, Robichaud was in the right place at the right time. Already in Laos, he had booked a helicopter to do a wildlife survey in the border areas, and they were planning to refuel in Lak Xao. “Two of our field members came out of the forest — this was before cell phones — and said ‘you won’t believe it; they captured a live saola,’” says Robichaud. “I told Alan [Rabinowitz, a colleague he was traveling with], ‘Look, this is the first live saola any biologist has ever had a look at, so I’m just going to stay and watch her around the clock.’” That’s exactly what he did, spending day and night in her pen. He took measurements and photographs, wrote copious notes about everything from the size and composition of her feces to descriptions of her markings and musky scent glands. And he was with her when she took her final breath after 18 days in captivity. “She was amazing,” says Robichaud. “She was completely tame around people.” She lacked the usual skittishness of the other hooved mammals — species of deer and goat — that lived in the menagerie. “She would feed out of your hand. I got videos of her, and I just took a tape measure and was measuring her belly and her ears and she wasn’t doing anything,” he recalls. While some people suspected Martha was suffering some sort of trauma from her capture, Robichaud is convinced otherwise. “A monk from the local Buddhist temple came, and I was looking at her with him and commenting on how tame she was. And he said, ‘Yeah, you know, we have a nickname for this animal: We call it the saht-supahp, which means the polite animal. Saolas, they just walk slowly and quietly through the forest. They don’t get upset at anything. They’re just very calm. They’re very wary, but they’re not excitable.’” The only thing that got Martha agitated was the presence of dogs, another fact confirmed by numerous hunters. “Any dog that came near the pen, she would smell the dog and have a very strong reaction,” says Robichaud. In a sense, the fear of dogs may have led to Martha’s capture. “It will run down to a stream and keep the dogs at bay. They are so focused on the dogs you can just walk up to them and throw a rope around their horns or their neck.” After Martha died, on Jan. 26, the villagers cooked and ate her. The butcher removed a male fetus — hairless, rabbit-sized, with tiny buds where the horns would have grown. The fetus was taken to the Wildlife Conservation Society office in Vientiane. “Given the endangerment of saola throughout its range,” DeBuys writes in The Last Unicorn, “Martha’s baby may turn out to be the most complete evidence that humanity will ever possess of the species presence on Earth. It abides behind a barrier of peeling duct tape in a dusty jar, unborn and forever floating.”

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At first glance, Monona Bakery & Eatery seems to be exactly what its name implies: a place to get a pastry or sandwich. The chalkboard menu lists standard breakfast and lunch fare. Crepes come topped with fruit and filled with a cream cheese and ricotta blend. Eggs benedict is a spin on the classic, with poached eggs on a housemade croissant with crispy bacon and asparagus and topped with a drizzle of what the menu calls “lemon bearnaise,” which seemed like a straight-up hollandaise to me. The egg yolks were cooked firmly; I missed the creaminess that comes from soft yolks. Owners Claudia Santos and Vicente Sacramento hail from Honduras and Mexico, respectively, and a few Mexicaninspired dishes appear on the breakfast menu. Breakfast tacos are simple: Corn tortillas hold scrambled eggs with a small amount of chorizo, peppers and tomatoes. A touch of cotija cheese adds a salty kick. They’re delicious, but visually disappointing. A slice of avocado and a dash of Mexican cream would do a lot in terms of prettying up the plate. It’s the tomatillo-based housemade green salsa, bursting with lime, that makes the chilaquiles a must-order. A huge portion of fried tortillas are coated in this amazing salsa and served with two eggs, fried so hot the underside crisped up like pork rinds. Much of the lunch menu is devoted to sandwiches. “The Monona” is essentially a Philly cheese steak, and a good one, on a wonderful baguette. The TBA sandwich has turkey, thick slices of avocado, bacon and a chipotle aioli. The lightly toasted bread is studded with sunflower and flax seeds. Sacramento has an impressive baking resume, including a stint at La Brioche, so it’s not surprising that everything I tried, from a bran muffin to carrot cake, was excellent.

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Mexican conchas and other Latin American pastries brighten the bakery case.

But it’s too easy to miss a few special dishes, mostly traditional food from Honduras, that aren’t listed on the menu and truly set this place apart. On some visits, staff mentioned the Honduran items; other times, I had to ask about them. The bakery’s Facebook page sometimes highlights the Honduran fare, but it would be very easy to walk in and have no idea that the eatery serves any Honduran food. It’s the baleadas that will keep me coming back. Flour tortillas are filled with refried red beans, a salty cheese and mantequilla (Hon-

duran sour cream). Other toppings, like eggs and avocado (both of which are available), are often added. The tortillas are thick, a bit chewy and made fresh at time of order. Ask for the Honduran hot sauce, a commercial version made from tabasco peppers. Baleadas aren’t always available (the kitchen may be willing to cook some up for you if you ask), which is too bad. They should be a signature dish as they’re both easy to love and hard to find. I don’t know of anywhere else in the Madison area that serves them.

Honduran tamales sport a banana leaf wrapper. Inside is velvety corn masa, pork or chicken, a few chickpeas and green peas, and a large green olive, my favorite part. Pupusas (thick corn tortillas filled with meat, vegetables or cheese) are Salvadoran in origin; they’re also common in Honduran cooking. Be sure to try one stuffed with loroco, if it’s available. The buds of this Latin American vine are delicious, like a cross between asparagus and chard. Chicharrón makes a more decadent filling. The pork rind is crumbled like bacon and mixed with cheese. Even my favorite baked goods here have a Latin American influence. For the milhojas, layers of pastry are stacked on either side of a thick smear of Bavarian cream and dusted with powdered sugar. It’s a mess to eat, but worth the sugar smudges on your clothes. Coconut tres leches is not too sweet and tastes more of pineapple than coconut, thanks to pineapple chunks in the middle layer of whipped cream. Side dishes include Honduran tostones, green plantains that are sliced, smashed and deep fried. The portion seemed small for the nearly $5 price tag, but they were delicious, hot and crunchy. Yucca fries were less expensive, but not as good. The ones in the batch I tried were starchy and a bit dry. The dishes I fell in love with at Monona Bakery & Eatery were those with Latin American roots. As the restaurant continues to grow, I hope the staff will consider putting its Honduran food in a more prominent spot on the menu. n

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In just a few weeks, the passion for beer that this city already demonstrates on a day-to-day basis will become a full-blown obsession. It’s almost time for Madison Craft Beer Week (April 28-May 7), and the list of events is something to behold. We’re talking well over 350 entries, covering tap takeovers and beer dinners, pop-ups and pairings, plus a few beer-educational interludes. An embarrassment of riches is what I’m saying. One major benefit of this year’s calendar is the ability to really get to know some fresh faces, whether newborn breweries or just new labels on Madison shelves and tap handles. Half Acre of Chicago made its debut in Wisconsin at the end of January, and if you’re not yet familiar, get ready. You’ll find Half Acre tap events at Dexter’s (April 30), Alchemy (May 4), the Coopers Tavern (May 5) and BarleyPop Tap and Shop (May 6). Alchemy in particular is highlighting rare Half Acre taps. Untitled Art, the collaborative brewing project from Isaac Showaki of Octopi Brewing and Levi Funk of Funk Factory Geuzeria, has only released two beers so far, but they’ve both been hype monsters. You’ll find Untitled Art beers on tap alongside Octopi’s house label, 3rd Sign, at the Up North Bar (April 28), World of Beer in Middleton (April 29) and Alchemy (May 6). Maybe the biggest beer news of the first half of 2017 is the return of Boulevard Brewing to the Wisconsin market after an absence of so many years that a lot of folks don’t even know it was ever here. Sconnie Bar will host a Best of the Midwest tap event that will include both Half Acre and Boulevard, among others (May 3). You can also pick either Cannery Wine and Spirits in Sun Prairie or Tipsy Cow on the Capitol Square for more Boulevard taps (both May 4). May 4 is a red-letter day on the beer week schedule for one very punny, very nerdy reason. You’ll be tripping over “May the Fourth be with you” jokes on Twitter that day, so go IRL with your Star Wars references. The biggest, most legit LOL “May the Fourth” joke I’ve read in years comes thanks to House of Brews’ annual Star Wars-themed release at Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace. If you don’t at least snort audibly at “Uncle Owen’s Toasted Farmhouse Ale,” then maybe May the Fourth isn’t your scene. There’s also a tapping of Elysian’s Space Dust at the Plaza, or the release of the gluten-free version of this year’s Baltic Porter Common Thread beer at Alt Brew; they’re calling this “rogue one” the UNCommon Thread. Common Thread, of course, is its own Madison Craft Beer Week tradition, and

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thing ready for the tournament from way down here in Florida,” Murray says, although he and Paquet have received local assistance from the Madison Area Sports Commission. “The home of the championships has always been Madison, so we wanted to keep it where it was born.” Tecmo Madison relocated from the Badger Bowl to the larger and more upscale High Noon this year for practical and aesthetic reasons. “The Badger Bowl was a great venue for many years, but [physically] it split our crowd in half,” Murray says. “We want everyone in the same room duking it out. We want it to be loud, pressure-filled and full of interaction. The upstairs balcony affords an awesome place for spectators to take in all the action, and the stage gives us the opportunity to build a miniature early-’90s living room scene where the finals will take place.” Games will be projected on massive video screens and livestreamed to an estimated audience of 75,000 viewers. Nintendo introduced Tecmo Super Bowl in 1991. It quickly gained a cult following and used both the names and primitive likenesses of real teams and players. All rosters are based on the 1990-91 NFL season. Meanwhile, the Holzbauers haven’t hung up their NES controllers; Josh will be the Tecmo Madison emcee, and both brothers will compete. For the love of Tecmo. n

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“Anything can happen anywhere” Margaret Atwood talks Shakespeare, politics and the looming threat of authoritarianism BY ALLISON GEYER

Celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood is having a bit of a moment — her 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, which takes place in a world where women have virtually no rights, has found its way back onto bestseller lists thanks to the rise of President Donald Trump; a television adaptation of the book debuts April 26 on Hulu. Atwood was the keynote speaker at UW-Madison’s Great World Texts, from the Center for the Humanities, which connects high school students from around the state with experts at the university. This year’s program centered around William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which Atwood reimagined for her 2016 novel Hag-Seed. While on campus the 77-year-old author sat down with Isthmus to talk politics, feminism, and the threat of apocalypse. The following interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. For the full interview, see our video at Isthmus.com.

Why are the humanities important for young people? My first introduction to Shakespeare was in high school, which I think is a very good age to get familiar with it. The humanities are about human nature, and that’s one reason why people generally get interested in them. Science and technology are about exploring the physical world and making tools, but what you do with those tools is always going to be a human choice. Therefore, it’s good to have some knowledge of human nature; otherwise you have no context for deciding whether you think the use of a tool is a moral choice, an ethical choice. How do you feel about the resurgence in popularity of The Handmaid’s Tale? Even during the last two elections, The Handmaid’s Tale was already a meme. It was already something people were mentioning. And now it really is. These civil rights that people have worked for, once they’re achieved, we tend to think that’s that and we can move on. But that’s never true. Democracy is always pretty fragile, civil rights and legal entitlements are always fragile, they can be reversed very quickly.

When I published the book in 1985 some people took the “it could never happen here” view, but I’ve never taken that view. Anything can happen anywhere, given the circumstances. If we’re too threatened by anarchy, we will choose authoritarianism, because we think we’ll be safer. What can you tell us about the upcoming Hulu series? I’ve seen the first three [episodes], and it’s very strong. It’s pretty shocking, and it goes further than the book did in some directions. Because it’s a television series, it can follow the lives of some of the characters who simply disappear from view in the novel. You’ve said your work is speculative fiction rather than science fiction, because everything that happens in your novels draws from things that can happen or have happened. How can we avoid a dystopian future? You mean what can I tell America right now? America’s a very diverse country, so it’s much harder to control than a smaller, more homogeneous entity, like Germany in the 1930s. I don’t think it will be easy for America to roll over for totalitarianism. n

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Masterwork from the master Madison Bach Musicians mount period version of St. John Passion BY SANDY TABACHNICK

Trevor Stephenson, founder and artistic director of the Madison Bach Musicians, describes Bach’s St. John Passion as “otherworldly,” a sacred masterwork that transcends space and time. The Passion, which tells the story of the betrayal and crucifixion of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of John, premiered at a Lutheran Good Friday service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig in 1724. It is one of two surviving Passions from the great composer. Madison Bach Musicians will present the premiere period performance of the St. John Passion in the intimate setting of the First Unitarian Society Atrium Auditorium April 14-15. The storyteller, called the Evangelist, sings John’s gospel story in recitative style. Meanwhile, the soloists and choir sing various arias and chorales that tell us how the story affects them. “It’s like a movie,” says Stephenson. “There are multiple perspectives, and they change quickly.” Even without costumes or staging, tension is palpable throughout the work. It grows feverish during Jesus’ trial as he engages in legal sparring with Jewish and Roman authorities, and an angry crowd led by high priests demands his crucifixion. But Bach cools the soundscape with arias and hymn tunes strategically placed among the jagged counterpoint.

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Over the years, some have criticized the Passion for being anti-Semitic in its portrayal of Jews as the reason for Christ’s death. Others argue that it blames the sins of all mankind for the crucifixion. Stephenson will address this issue, as well as Bach’s process for composing the work, in pre-concert talks. Between parts one and two, Reverend Michael Schuler of the First Unitarian Society will talk about the work’s theological reflections. The Passion will be sung in German with English supertitles, and 10 professional singers from around the country will sing arias and chorales, as well as the roles of protagonists Jesus,

Pontius Pilate and Peter. Grammy awardwinning tenor Dann Coakwell will sing the part of the Evangelist. An orchestra of 17 outstanding musicians will play Baroque instruments, while Stephenson plays organ continuo. Baroque performance specialist Marc Vallon will wield the baton. “The St. John Passion is the closest work to an opera that Bach wrote,” says Stephenson. “The pacing is impeccable. Bach knows when to pull back and when to move forward, when to be simple and when to be complex.” ■

Leaning into the lifestyle Detroit’s Bonny Doon combines ambition with a lo-fi vibe BY AARON R. CONKLIN

Columbo. “It’s the thoughts I’d have if I were talking to a therapist.” That probably explains lines like “I’m trying, trying to be/Everything I can be/But I don’t have the energy” from the song “Relieved,” and the contemplative, miss-you rocker “Evening All Day Long.” Lennox points to the Velvet Underground and Neil Young as musical inspirations, but much of the band’s vibe actually sounds like the lo-fi magic of early Wilco. “The music comes from me thinking about the music I want to hear that isn’t out there,”

says Lennox. They recorded it in 2015, but took a year and a half to mix it, and they released it in early March. As a result, they’re already fixated on returning to the studio to tackle another album — while booking all their own gigs for their Midwestern tour. JULIA CALLIS “We’re excited to get the songs out there, but we’re also at a more evolved place as a band,” says Lennox. “We have a couple more years under our belt playing together; We’re a better band. Lennox says he’s especially looking forward to hitting Mickey’s, a Madison venue he hasn’t visited in more than seven years. “I’m just leaning into the lifestyle at this point,” he laughs. “For now, we’re just striking a balance, and booking shows based on isthmus.com/opinion/tell-all who we want to hang out with.” ■

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It’s pretty clear that Bill Lennox, the cofounder, co-songwriter and lead vocalist of Detroit’s lo-fi Bonny Doon, gets Madison. As well he should: He spent a year and a half here beginning in 2008, just hanging around, jamming in bands while his high school buddy attended the university. “Madison is sort of idealized for me. The vibe is right in line with Bonny Doon,” says Lennox. “A progressive, slow town with cool people.” These three descriptors could also easily apply to Bonny Doon’s recently released, self-titled debut disc, a languid collection of country-flecked garage rock that finds Lennox contemplating emoji texts from his mom and the existentially ambivalent pleasures of celebrating yet another birthday. The band is set to co-headline a gig with Madison’s Proud Parents at Mickey’s Tavern on April 7. “It’s about getting by each day,” Lennox says of the songs he’s written with longtime friend and Bonny Doon co-founder Bobby

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under the age of 5. “Being a perfectionist, I was afraid to take that step. It argues the question of who you are and what kind of music you want to do. Finally releasing the album takes the question mark away.” She needn’t have worried about the answer. Underneath is packed with thoughtful ballads about relationships, from “Good Old Days,” a song that recalls a close friendship lost to the wiles of time, to the catchy la-di-dah chorus of “To the Robin,” a song about the relationships between animals and their habitats that’s really about motherhood. The album cover features a set of thick, branching tree roots reaching

upward, a metaphor that conveys a double meaning. Part of it, says Busse, has to do with the facades we don and the feelings we hide beneath. One of the album’s best tracks, “Walking Wounded,” tackles this notion head- and heart-on. But Busse’s music also looks at the ways roots connect us to a location, for better and worse. “Roots can also be hard sometimes,” says Busse, who recorded the album in the third

trimester of her third pregnancy. “We all have that wanderlust, but roots can keep you from exploring that. Even motherhood has been that — it limits me in a lot of ways. At the same time, the kids give me so much music to write about.” Not unlike Regina Spektor, one of her musical heroes, Busse’s a lot less contemplative and melancholic when she plays live — in fact, there’s a playfulness in her music that’s largely absent on the al-

bum. (To wit: She’s got a song called “Mama Brain Blues,” one of several that touch on the quirky side of parenting.) “There are moments when I’m playing live where people are just laughing,” she notes. “There’s a playfulness I just love with music.” The demands of motherhood don’t currently allow for much playing out, but you can catch one of her rare appearances at a songwriter’s showcase on April 7 at the Tuvalu Coffeehouse & Gallery in Verona. She also just landed on the docket at the Shitty Barn in Spring Green (June 14). ■

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police officers. She maintained that she and her common-law husband were actually hostages of the man who committed the crime. Her husband was executed by electrocution, horrifically, by the state of Florida in 1990. In 2011, she married a man who spent 15 years on death row in Ireland before his exoneration. In the local readings, Sunny will be played by Stephanie Monday, a Madisonbased stage and screen actor who has a UW-Madison law degree. Like her fellow castmates, Monday is volunteering her time because she believes in the cause. She appeared in a Chicago production of Dead Man Walking last year, and was deeply moved by the experience. She is struck by Sunny’s optimism in the face of adversity. “She’s such a character of hope and, right now, when we’re looking at the world, that appears to be lacking,” Monday says. She feels the play’s urgency, and the sense of vulnerability it conveys: “These could be anybody’s stories. You could be in the wrong place at the wrong time and it could happen to you.” n The Exonerated will be performed April 8 and 9, at the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, and on April 21 and 22, at the UW-Madison Law School. The April 9 show is at 5 p.m.; all other performances are at 7 p.m.

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There is a moment in The Exonerated when “Sunny” Jacobs talks about her resolve, despite all she’s been through, to keep hope alive: “[I]f you sit there rubbing two sticks together and crying on your sticks, they’re never going to make a spark. But, you know, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself, just because you’re determined not to believe in hopelessness, then a spark happens, and you keep fanning that spark until you’ve got a flame.” The Exonerated, which tells the stories of six people who were sentenced to death and later freed, is just such a flame, lit by words drawn entirely from actual court records, letters and interviews. The play, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, debuted off-Broadway in 2002 and was made into a searing film starring actors including Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover and Brian Dennehy in 2005. Now Madison will host four readings of the play in April. The shows are free, but donations will be accepted to benefit the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which since 1998 has helped free 22 wrongfully convicted individuals, according to its co-director, Carrie Sperling. “We welcome the attention that the play brings to the injustices that many in our crimi-

nal justice system face,” Sperling says in an email. “And we hope that as more people become aware of the enormous burdens wrongly convicted people face, the more likely we will be as a society to address the problems that need fixing in our imperfect system.” The local productions are the inspiration of Meghan Randolph, executive director of Music Theatre of Madison, through a newly created Voices Theatre Project. She sees growing awareness of the failings of the criminal justice system, as evidenced by the successful documentaries Making a Murderer and The 13th, both of which have Wisconsin connections. “It’s very strangely a nonpartisan issue, because both parties are complicit in this lockeveryone-up phenomenon,” Randolph says. One of the play’s exonerees, Gary Gauger, was pressured by police into falsely confessing to the 1993 murder of his parents; his conviction was overturned and two motorcycle gang members were later convicted of the crime. Another, Kerry Max Cook, served more than 20 years on death row before being released due to DNA evidence in 1999; the charges against him were not fully dropped until last year. And then there’s Jacobs, who served 17 years in prison for the 1976 murder of two

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Film events 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. Newtown: Documentary about the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings. UW Union South-Marquee, April 6, 7 pm. Eraserhead: Writer/director David Lynch’s study of horror and sexual alienation in Philadelphia, beloved among aficionados of bizarre midnight movies — and one of the creepiest films ever. UW Union South-Marquee, April 6 (9:30 pm) and April 8 (11 pm). Hidden Figures: Biopic about a trio of African American women who worked on NASA’s mission to send John Glenn into space. UW Union South-Marquee, April 7 (8 pm), April 8 (2:30 & 8:30 pm) and April 9 (3 pm). Loving: Biopic about Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple arrested for their marriage in Virginia who took the fight to the Supreme Court. Pinney Library, April 7, 6:30 pm. Beautiful Bones: Anime Club screening (RSVP: 246-4548). Hawthorne Library, April 7, 7 pm. The Conversation: A surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) gets too close to the truth, with personal consequences. UW Cinematheque, April 7, 7 pm. La La Land: Boy (Ryan Gosling) falls for girl (Emma Stone); singing and dancing ensues in the Academy Award winner. UW Union SouthMarquee, April 7 (9 pm), April 8 (5:30 pm) and April 9 (6 pm). Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Screening of Intentionally Welcoming Communities documentary, plus Q&A with producers Johnny & Marie Justice. Farley Center for Peace, Justice & Sustainability, April 8, 1 pm. Queen of Katwe: Biopic about a Ugandan girl whose life is changed by learning to play chess. Hawthorne Library, April 8, 2 pm. Not Reconciled: Vignettes following three generations of a German family during the rise and fall of Nazism. UW Cinematheque, April 8, 7 pm. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach: The story of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life told through music and voiceovers by Christiane Lang. UW Cinematheque, April 8, 8 pm. Catch Me If You Can: UW Cinematheque: Leonardo DiCaprio fakes it (as con artist Frank Abagnale Jr.) with Tom Hanks FBI agent in pursuit. Chazen Museum of Art, April 9, 2 pm. My Private Italy: Travel Adventure Film Series screening with Steve McCurdy. UW Union South-Marquee, April 10-11, 7:30 pm. An Evening of Rare Jazz Films: Free Madison Opera program hosted by Gary Alderman. South Madison Library, April 11, 6 pm. Finding Favre: New documentary by Todd McWilliams. Barrymore Theatre, April 11, 7:30 pm. See story, right. Day for Night: Life imitates art on a film shoot; a film from writer-director François Truffaut. Bos Meadery, April 12, 7 pm. National Bird: Documentary about military veterans blowing the whistle on the U.S. drone program. Central Library, April 13, 6:30 pm.

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Real people, real sex This year’s HUMP! is an eye-opener BY HOLLY HENSCHEN

From bedrooms and dungeons across the country to the Barrymore Theatre, a homemade porn festival exposes audiences to edgy action outside of the mainstream. The 2017 HUMP! Film Festival is exciting more audiences than ever with nearly 40 screenings, up from 27 last year. But this year’s event has triggered some political anxiety. When the festival screened in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, during election week, some audience members were distressed to see Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” caps in films. (The caps were “extra credit” items that submitters include to prove the film was made just for HUMP!) The festival was launched in 2005 by Dan Savage, America’s favorite sex ed teacher and columnist (Savage Love) and LGBT activist, who put out a call for homemade dirty movies. Savage started writing his column for The Stranger in Seattle in the early 1990s while still living in Madison. He eventually rose to prominence as the guru of kink, open relationships and everything in between — including ethical relationship behavior. “I’m insanely jealous of HUMP! right now — because HUMP! is in Madison and I am not,” Savage says. “I love Madison and try to get back there as often as I can. Savage Love got started in the back of Four Star Fiction & Video [as it

was called then], and being in Madison always takes me back!” One HUMP! filmmaker says this semipublic display of pornography gets audiences thinking and talking about something that’s usually done alone or in small groups. “The public benefit of HUMP! is the possibility — or, really, probability — of witnessing bodies and action that [they’ve] never seen before,” says Seattle body-based artist Ty Wardell, whose film Breakfast in Bed was the runner-up in this year’s “best kink” category. “Sitting in a theater with strangers

watching porn is kinda weird and amazing,” he says. Clocking in at about 2½ minutes, Wardell’s film begins with him topping his boyfriend before heading into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. He warms a stick of butter — ahem — internally and then releases it onto the toast before sharing a bite with his partner. With ample close-ups and no cutaways, Breakfast in Bed is dedicated to actor Divine, who’s infamous for eating fresh dog droppings in director John Waters’ filth classic Pink Flamingos. The rules for entry to HUMP! are few: five minutes max, anything goes — but no minors, no animals and no poop. At this year’s HUMP!, a straight couple performs pre-coital acroyoga on a mountaintop, and two men take a Brokeback Mountain-style camping trip. A polyamorous group of 51-through75-year-olds discuss their relationship. A musical puppet show about fisting, a lesbian BDSM three-way and a film called Trans, Toys, Training are among other HUMP! stand-outs. Wardell says audiences benefit from the variety of films in HUMP! “Porn isn’t going to change the world,” Wardell says. “But people are going to walk away knowing that there are other ways to butter toast.” HUMP! will screen April 8 at 7 and 9:30 p.m.at the Barrymore Theatre. n

Obsession Finding Favre is the result of a one-sided bromance BY MICHAEL POPKE

When Todd McWilliams lived in Iowa, he got to know crew members working on the 1989 cornfield-to-ballfield classic Field of Dreams. Inspired, he bought an HDX camera and learned how to make movies. Years later, McWilliams is prepping for the world premiere of his first film, a documentary titled Finding Favre: A Mostly True Story About Brett Favre at the Barrymore Theatre on Tuesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. A meet-and-greet and discussion will follow. Finding Favre was shot over almost 20 years and chronicles the 52-year-old’s one-sided bromance with former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. Footage includes the filmmaker’s own pursuit of both an NFL career and an interview with the elusive Hall of Famer. “When somebody plays on the same team for 16 years, he really becomes a part of your life,” says McWilliams, who estimates he spent about $20,000 on the film, which Favre declined to appear in.

Favre and the filmmaker at Fan Fest 2005.

McWilliams tracked down plenty of other people with connections to Favre, though — including his mother, Bonita; former Packers chairman and CEO Bob Harlan; general manager Ron Wolf; head coach Mike Sherman; and Jim Carmody, who recruited Favre to the University of Southern Mississippi in 1987. McWilliams, who is married with two teenagers and is general manager at Adams Outdoor Advertising, also interviewed former Green Bay kicker Ryan Longwell (who, like Favre, ended up playing for the Minnesota Vikings). Other former

Packers opted not to speak on camera. “They didn’t want to say anything, especially negative, because they worried it would get back to Favre,” McWilliams says. “It’s a boy’s club, and you don’t talk about things like that unless you have permission.” Isthmus has only seen the film’s trailer, but McWilliams says he shot his own footage of Favre beginning at the 2005 Packers Fan Fest through his 2016 induction into the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. In Canton, McWilliams made one final, unsuccessful request to interview Favre. “I originally thought I needed the interview, but I went to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last year and talked with independent filmmakers who suggested I just make the movie without him,” says McWilliams, who nevertheless invited Favre to the premiere; two complimentary tickets are waiting at the Barrymore. “I don’t know what people will think of this movie,” McWilliams admits. “But I’ve never seen anything like it.” n

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Big Wild Thursday, April 6, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

As Big Wild, California’s Jackson Stell makes huge, glossy electronic pop songs from an enticing blend of laid-back grooves and sunny, melodic hooks. Stell only released his first EP this February, making Big Wild’s quick ascendancy to headliner status all the more reason to party. Phantoms and IHF open.

Kishi Bashi Monday, April 10, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm Born in Seattle, raised in Norfolk, Virginia, and currently based in Athens, Georgia, Kishi Bashi is a well-traveled guy. So it makes sense that his music is just as restless, combining elements of contemporary indie rock with flourishes of orchestral instrumentation. His eclectic sound, honed with his band Jupiter One, has won him fans the world over and led to gigs playing with Of Montreal and Regina Spektor. He released Sonderlust in 2016. With Tall Tall Trees.

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Thursday, April 6, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Victor Wooten, Bela Fleck’s bassist, who The New York Times named one of the top 10 bassists of all time, has put together an all-star trio with saxophonist Bob Franceschini (Tito Puente) and drummer Dennis Chambers (John Scofield, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic). Prepare to have your mind blown.

Riff Raff Thursday, April 6, Liquid, 9 pm Many rappers write songs about excessive lifestyles, but few truly live it the way Riff Raff does. The Houston emcee/human meme can be easily spotted by his cornrows, golden grill and vibrant sartorial choices. But his tracks are a master class in the summer party, bass-heavy vibe of Southern rap, and he’s collaborated with everyone from Gucci Mane to Childish Gambino to the Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman. His latest, Peach Panther, dropped last year. With DJs Afterthought, Strategy, Davilla, Trini. Bos Meadery: Morning Metaphor, free, 7 pm. Brink Lounge: Blues Jam with Bill Roberts Combo, 8 pm. Chief’s Tavern: Hoot’n Annie, string band, free, 8:30 pm. ISTHMUS.COM APRIL 6–12, 2017

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Matt Hires, Kyle Cox, folk, 7 pm. The Frequency: DJ Pain 1, Lab Fresh pop-up shop, 5 pm.

Yahara Bay Distillers, Fitchburg: Tracy Jane Comer, 6:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Canyon Spells, Pollinators, Gentle Brontosaurus, 8:30 pm. Hop Haus Brewing, Verona: Mike’s Mud Music, 7 pm. Ivory Room: Vince Strong, Josh Dupont, free, 9 pm. Ohio Tavern: Exploration Team, Heather the Jerk, 6 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 9 pm. Twist Bar: Marilyn Fisher/Paul Hastil Group, free, 5 pm.

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Mike Stanley, Nick Hart: 8:30 pm, 4/6, Comedy Club on State. $10. 256-0099.

Thursday, April 6, Broom Street Theater, 8 pm

Taking “the show must go on” to an entirely new level, Dumpster Flower is a play that asks the question “what if the techs had to become the actors?” That’s exactly what happens after the cast of the fictional Nova Nilla Theatre Collective walks before a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, leaving the backstage folks to stand up front and center to save their jobs. Written and directed by the always-funny Malissa Peterson. ALSO: Friday-Saturday, April 7-8, 8 pm. Through April 15. The Lion King Kids: Verona Area Community Theater musical for grades K-2, 6:30 pm on 4/6-7 and 12:30 & 4 pm, 4/8; and Guys and Dolls Jr.: Musical for grades 3-7, 7:30 pm on 4/6-7 and 1:30 & 5 pm, 4/8, Verona Area High School. $16. vact.org. 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, 7:30 pm on 4/6-7 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 4/8, Bartell Theatre. $10. 661-9696. Steel Magnolias: Strollers Theatre, 3/31-4/15, Bartell Theatre, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays (2 pm on 4/15), plus 7:30 pm, 4/12. $20. 661-9696. Learning to Stay: Forward Theater Company, 7:30 pm on 4/6-7, 2 & 7:30 pm on 4/8 and 2 pm, 4/9, Overture Center-Playhouse. $47-$38. 258-4141. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill: Capital City Theatre, 8 pm on 4/6 and 2 & 8 pm, 4/8, Overture Center-Wisconsin Studio. $42. 258-4141.

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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 UW-Madison 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 biologists 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 reunion is a rare opportunity for the audience to see where knowledge and passion intersect. See cover story, page 17. Michael Perry: Discussing “Roughneck Grace” his book, 7 pm, 4/6, Belleville High School. 424-1812. Margaret George: Discussing “Confessions of a Young Nero,” her book, 7 pm, 4/6, Mystery to Me. 283-9332. A Rational Basis: Recording of podcast by American Constitution Society & WORT-FM, discussing criminal justice reform, 5 pm, 4/6, High Noon Saloon. 268-1122.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS Signature Seven: “From Selfie to Service,” photographs, noon-4 pm Saturdays, 4/1-29, PhotoMidwest (reception 7-9 pm, 4/6). photomidwest.org.

Allison Krezinski: 4/6-30, Yahara Bay Distillers, Fitchburg (reception 5-10 pm, 4/6). 275-1050.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Wisconsin Film Festival: Final day, 4/6, at Sundance Cinemas 608. $10/film. wifilmfest.org. 265-2933.

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String Cheese Incident Friday, April 7, Orpheum, 8 pm Their name may call to mind some horrible dairy-related disaster, but the String Cheese Incident is anything but. The jam band legends have built their reputation on an ever-changing, progressive sound and a riveting live show that puts flamboyant performers like Phish and the Flaming Lips to shame. They last released A Song in My Head in 2014. ALSO: Saturday, April 8, 8 pm.

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Art In Gallery: Earthman, Olyvia Jaxyn, Chez Starbucks, electronica/prog, 7 pm. Arts + Literature Laboratory: Sarah Louise, Nathaniel Braddock, 8 pm. Brink: Edi Rey y Su Salsera, DJ Rumba, 8:30 pm. Cafe Coda: Eric de los Santos, 5:30 & 7:30 pm.

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Fisher King, Verona: Mascot Theory, 6:30 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Soul Inspirations, 8 pm.

Majestic Theatre: DJs Hot Chip, Nick Nice, TV Dinners, 9 pm.

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Club Tavern, Middleton: City Electric, free, 9 pm. Crossroads Coffeehouse, Cross Plains: John Widdicombe & Cliff Frederiksen, jazz, 7 pm.

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Friday, April 7, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm Hazy twangers from the Motor City, Bonny Doon sounds like a slacked-out mashup of Beachwood Sparks and Madison alt-country legends Charlemagne — at least, judging by their ace new self-titled long-player. The sleeper bill of the week also includes Dusk, a country-fried Appleton outfit including members of worldbeaters Tenement; local garage-pop wonders Proud Parents; and acoustic bedroom pop by ts foss. See story, page 33.

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North of the Bayou: Cajun Spice, 6:30 pm. Overture Center-Overture Hall: Madison Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Philippe Bianconi, 7:30 pm. Also: 8 pm on 4/8 and 2:30 pm, 4/9. Parched Eagle Brewpub: Treemo, free, 7:30 pm.

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Tip Top Tavern: Sugar Still, free, 10 pm. Tuvalu Coffee, Verona: Hannah Busse, John Crossman, Thistle Petterson, open mic, 7 pm. Up North Pub: Lost Highway All-Stars, 8 pm. UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers, free, 9 pm.

It’s All You, Cowboy Gods in the Chrysalis Doctor Noise (acoustic) Dear, Violence / 8pm $5

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Adult Swim: Sustainability Sideshow: Carnivalthemed Sustain Dane & MCM fundraiser, 6-10 pm, 4/7, Madison Children’s Museum. $15 ($12.75 adv.; ages 21+ only). 256-6445.

S PEC TATO R S PO RTS UW Softball: vs. Iowa, 6 pm on 4/7 and 1 pm, 4/89, Goodman Softball Diamond. $5. 262-1440. Madison Capitols: USHL vs. Dubuque, 7:05 pm, 4/7; vs. Chicago, 7:05 pm, 4/8, Alliant Energy CenterColiseum. $23.50-$15.25. 267-3955.

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Dave Attell Friday, April 7, Comedy Club on State, 8 & 10:30 pm

Dave Attell remains one of most highly touted off-color comics ever to grace the stage. His blue subject matter betrays his razor-sharp wit and intensely smart punchlines. A veteran of the late-1980s comedy boom, Attell still has the energy, stories and talent to sell out rooms across the country (including Madison, as only wait list spots are available for all four shows). With Mike Stanley, Nick Hart (Madison’s Funniest Comic 2017). ALSO: Saturday April 8, 8 & 10:30 pm.

K I D S & FA MI LY www.oz: PlayTime Productions zaps Dorothy into cyberspace, 7 pm, 4/7, Warner Park Community Recreation Center; 1 pm, 4/8, Stoughton Opera House. Donations. 437-4217.

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Movie Hell: Hosts Anthony Siraguse, Cynthia Marie & Eric Olander “tortured” by film selected by Stevie Leigh Crutcher, 7 pm, 4/7, Bos Meadery. bosmeadery.com.

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Nancy Vedder-Shults: Discussing “The World Is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Wisdom and Getting the Answers You Need,” 6 pm, 4/7, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Del McCoury Band

Madison Storytellers: Listen to or share stories with a lost & found theme, 7 pm, 4/7, Old Sugar Distillery. Free. madisonstorytellers.com.

Bluegrass legend McCoury is a direct link to the originators of the genre, first hitting the national scene as the lead singer for Bill Monroe’s band in the early 1960s. Authenticity remains a hallmark of his band’s sound, but they have made their way into the pop culture consciousness by being open to songs and collaborations far outside the bluegrass scene, from an album with outlaw singer-songwriter Steve Earle to onstage jams with Phish and String Cheese Incident. With the 2nd Strings.

Madtown Poetry Open Mic: With Rita Mae Reese, Ron Czerwein, 8 pm, 4/7, Mother Fool’s . 255-4730.

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This benefit for StageQ, Madison’s LGBTQ theater group, features photographs by Natalie Kirk and Kyle Krueger. Kirk photographs men in traditionally feminine clothing and poses, and Krueger’s work (pictured) brings attention to survivors of sexual violence in the LGBTQ community. Plus there’s a silent auction, appetizers and an artists’ talk. Sarah West Whitcomb: Reception 6-9 pm, 4/7, Stone Fence, with music by Drake Street Five. 238-4331.

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UW Engineering Expo: Annual technology event, 9 am-2 pm, 4/7-8, UW Engineering Campus, with student exhibits, commercial exhibitors, speakers, demonstrations. Free. engineeringexpo.wisc.edu.

The Hussy + Sweet Spirit Saturday, April 8, Crystal Corner Bar, 9:30 pm

Madison duo the Hussy morphed into a three-piece recently, but don’t let that fool you into thinking they have abandoned their garage-punk roots; the addition is a second guitar, allowing more free-form axe abuse by Bobby Hussy. Sweet Spirit (pictured) brings the pop side of garage rock north from Austin, and features Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen of A Giant Dog. With Solid Freex (Trin Tran and sons) and Twelves (Madison noise rock supergroup).

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Saturday, April 8, Majestic, 9 pm

Hippo Campus isn’t just another band on the rise — they’re currently on track to leave Earth’s orbit entirely. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based indie pop four piece is only in their third year of existence but have already performed at major festivals like SXSW and Lollapalooza, appeared on Conan and shared the stage with the likes of My Morning Jacket and Modest Mouse. And all that before even releasing a proper album — their debut, Landmark, came out in February. With Magic City Hippies. Sold out. 1855 Saloon, Cottage Grove: Robert J, free, 7 pm. Bos Meadery: D.P. Knudten, free/donations, 7 pm. Cafe Coda: Wihuba Trio, 8 pm. Central Library: Tom Gullion Quintet, jazz, 7:30 pm. Club Tavern, Middleton: Shotgun Jane, country, 9 pm. Frequency: Honduras, Acid Dad, Fin Zipper, 9 pm. Harmony: Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound, 9:45 pm. Knuckle Down Saloon: Stackhouse, 9 pm. Lakeside St. Coffee House: The McDougals, 6:30 pm. Lazy Oaf Lounge: Honeyshot, rock/pop, free, 10 pm. Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Dan Barker, 6:30 pm. Mickey’s Tavern: Spirits Having Fun, Pat Keen Full Band Sound, rock, free, 10:30 pm. Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center: Beginnings, Chicago tribute, 7:30 pm. The Red Zone: Cherry Pie, 8 pm. Sequoya Library: Phil Passen, Titanic theme, 2 pm. Tip Top Tavern: Charlie Painter & Friends, free, 10 pm. Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: Pacific Coast Highway, 8:30 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: Perlman Trio, Mead Witter School of Music concert, free, 3:30 pm. UW Union South-Sett: The Garden, Fat Tony, 9 pm.

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The Exonerated Saturday, April 8, Wil-Mar Center, 7 pm

The newly formed Voices Theatre Project presents a play based on true stories of wrongly incarcerated people. Benefits the Innocence Project. ALSO: Sunday, April 9, 5 pm. April 21-22 at the UW Law School. See story, page 35.

Saturday, April 8, Arts + Literature Lab, 7-9 pm

ALL brings together three artists with unusual sensibilities: Stephen Kroninger, an experienced veteran whose collages (pictured) have appeared in The New York Times, the New Yorker and on the cover of Time; Jeremy Nuttall, a third-year MFA student at UW-Madison, who presents “Learning Curves,” a sculptural exploration of his childhood experiences in special ed programs; and poet and UW MFA candidate Carolyn Orocz, who presents her ceramics installation, “Soft Tissue Decomposition.”

S PECI AL E V ENTS Tecmo Madison XIII: Competitors play the classic NES game, 11 am, 4/8, High Noon Saloon. Spectators welcome. tecmomadison.com. See story, page 30. Barstool Open: Center for Families of Wisconsin & Lions Club benefit mini golf tournament at 12+ downtown bars, 10 am, 4/8; registration 5-8 pm on 4/7 or 8-10 am, 4/8, Double U, 620 University Ave. $50/team (21+ only). RSVP: isthmustickets.com/ events/41327118. 834-2337 ext. 7266.

Legacy of Love: Ice Age Trail Alliance fundraiser, 5:30-11:30 pm, 4/8, Brink Lounge, with music by Backward Bird, Happenstance, DJ Johnny Armstrong, talks, silent auction. $15. facebook.com/ events/249250982200361.

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Wisconsin Gourd Festival: Annual event, 9 am4 pm, 4/8, Olbrich Gardens, with gourd art, vendors, lectures, raffle, music, silent auction & kids’ activities. Free. wisconsingourdsociety.org. 437-1944.

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Spring Frokost: Traditional Norwegian brunch & bake sale, 9 am-noon, 4/8, Sons of Norway-Idun Lodge. $13 ($6.50 ages 6-12). 277-8190. Spring Bazaar: Meet current users of the shared commercial kitchens, 3:30-6:30 pm, 4/8, FEED Kitchens, with product samples. Free. 204-7015.

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G.C. Waldrep: Discussing “Testament,” his new book, 6 pm, 4/8, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

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Fundraiser for Standing Rock: 7 pm, 4/8, Art In Gallery, with music by Our Friends the Savages, Imaginary Watermelon, Sean Michael Dargan Band, art exhibit, silent auction. Donations. 575-9976.

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Writer John Scalzi originally published Old Man’s War serially on his own website, but once it was published in 2005 it was nominated for a Hugo Award and ended up being only the first book in a popular saga. He’s created even more waves with his “Whatever” blog and other online writing activities, from opining about the sci-fi field to clashes over the Creation Museum with fellow authors. Scalzi is in town to discuss The Collapsing Empire, the first in a new series.

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Hoops & Hops: Hula hooping demos for all ages, 12:30-7 pm, 4/8, Art In Gallery, with music by Anima, Gary David & the Enthusiasts, vendors. $5 admission (free ages 12 & under). 575-9976.

HUMP! Film Festival: Homemade, sex-positive films, hosted by Dan Savage, 7 & 9:30 pm, 4/8, Barrymore Theatre. $20 adv. 241-8633.

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Wisconsin Regional Art Program: Through 4/8, UW-Extension Pyle Center (talk by artist Chuck Bauer 10 am, 4/8, $5). 262-3056.

Bellydancing UW: Annual spring show, with guest Aliyah Sahar, 8 pm, 4/8, Monona Terrace. $12. bellydancinguw.wordpress.com.

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19th Annual Write-by-the-Lake Writer’s Workshop & Retreat

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Crescendo: Jacob Metcalf, Vein Rays, 7:30 pm. First Unitarian Society: First Unitarian Society Choir, “A German Requiem,” by Brahms, 10 am & 3 pm. High Noon Saloon: The Low Czars, Girls Are Go!, Better Yeti, Planned Parenthood benefit, 5 pm. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Sun Prairie: Sun Prairie Area Community Band, free, 2 pm. Sequoya Library: Proton Pack, jazz, free, 1:30 pm. UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Symphony Orchestra, School of Music concert, free, 7:30 pm.

June 26-30, 9:30-12:30, optional afternoon events included, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Spring Festival: Annual Polish Heritage Club event, 10 am-3 pm, 4/9, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, with lunch, bake and craft sales, music, kids’ activities. Free admission. 239-0398.

14 sections include: Children’s Picture Books, Literary Memoir, Creative Nonfiction Books, Short Stories, Writing Your First Novel, Writing Women’s Lives, Novel Revision & Polishing (several sections), Poetry, Master Class/Novels

Vintage Vinyl Sale: Local collectors, 11 am-3 pm, 4/9, Harmony Bar. 249-4333.

KIDS & FAM ILY Waisman Center Children’s Theater: Playtime Productions “www.oz,” 1 pm & 3 pm (sensory-friendly), 4/9, 1500 Highland Ave. $2 ($1 kids). 263-5837.

Keynote: Author Ann Garvin—she got her start here! Teachers—3 English grad credits offered; extra fee. Cosponsor: UW-Madison Dept of English Can’t make it in June? Put your writing goals on the fast track with our online courses and critique services offered year-round.

mon apr 10 High Noon Saloon: Kishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees, 8 pm. Malt House: The Kissers, Irish, free, 7:30 pm. Up North Pub: The Wang Show, free, 7 pm.

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DNR Spring Conservation Congress: Annual public hearing to review proposed rule changes, plus election of CC delegates, 7 pm, 4/10, Monona Grove High School. dnr.wi.gov. 266-0580.

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THE EDGEWATER 2ND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH Coffee: 7:30 a.m. Presentation and Q&A: 8-9 a.m.

Tuesday, April 11-Sunday, April 16, Overture Center

UW-Madison is the only major university that offers a full-ride scholarship for hip-hop artists, the First Wave program. The annual Line Breaks Festival showcases their prodigious talents. See the renowned touring ensemble, films, poetry and music by some of the city’s most passionate young artists. All performances are free and open to the public. See full schedule at linebreaks.wisc.edu.

Lori Rader-Day Tuesday, April 11, Mystery to Me, 7 pm

M USIC For info: Christine DeSmet, christine.desmet@wisc.edu, 608-262-3447

Line Breaks Festival

M USIC

Lori Rader-Day, the award-winning author of Pretty Little Things, is launching her newest mystery thriller, The Day I Died. It’s already a critical fave, with Publishers Weekly praising its “beautiful prose and tack-sharp observations.” Alex Bledsoe: Discussing “Chapel of Ease,” his new novel, 1 pm, 4/11, Madison Senior Center. 266-6581.

L EC T URES & S EMI N A RS The Art of Discovery: Wisconsin Academy panel discussion, 7 pm, 4/11, Overture Center-Wisconsin Studio. RSVP: wisconsinacademy.org. 263-1692.

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Thursday, April 13th “Dane County’s Science-based Approach to Regulating Construction Site Erosion”

Jeremy Balousek, P.E. - Dane County Land & Water Resources Department -

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$10 Admission FREE parking

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Coffee, pastries, and fruit provided

FREE FOR FRIENDS OF CLEAN LAKES ($35 donation)

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Coming May 11th “Yahara 2070 and systems thinking” w/ Jenny Siefert, Yahara Water Sustainability and Climate Project & Jeremy Solin, UW-Extension

Bombadil Tuesday, April 11, Frequency, 7:30 pm

With natives such as Ben Folds and Superchunk, the state of North Carolina has a history of turning out quirky pop acts, and Bombadil is no different. The Durhambased trio (whose name comes from an obscure Lord of the Rings trilogy character) has released six albums of hooky folk pop that maximize the band’s sound — which isn’t tough to do when every member is a multi-instrumentalist. Bombadil last released Fences in March. With Waldemar. Crystal Corner Bar: Josh Harty & the Big Tasty, 8 pm. High Noon Saloon: It’s All You Cowboy, Gods in the Chrysalis, Doctor Noise, Dear Violence, 8 pm. Malt House: Birds, Birds, Birds, free, 7:30 pm.

FAROUT + Coolzey Wednesday, April 12, The Wisco, 9 pm

If you’re hunting for rap outside of mainstream radio hits, this show will certainly feed your need. The two headliners are nothing alike, and neither fit any simple definition beyond “underground” or “altrap.” Coolzey mixes his rhymes with punk and pop influences, while FAROUT (pictured) combines politics and controversy, leaving no topic out-of-bounds. Local emcees Dizzo, Conscious Object, Neu Dae and Eruditious will open. The Frequency: The Barons, 8:30 pm.

Mickey’s: Blythe Gamble & the Rollin’ Dice, 5:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: German Art Students, 5:30 pm; Street Names, Help Desk, Made of Blocks, 8:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Derek Ramnarace, free, 8 pm.

Me & Julio, Fitchburg: Pete Kocher, rock, free, 6 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: Stephanie Jutt, School of Music faculty concert, free, 7:30 pm.

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UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: The Alt, 8 pm.

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T HE AT E R & DANCE

MadCity Sessions: Lo Marie + Grupo Candela

Wisconsin Burlesque Festival

Thursday, April 13, Overture Center Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm

This showcase for local artists features the jazz/opera wunderkind Lo Marie (pictured), whose album, Solid Ground, won the 2015 MAMA for jazz album of the year. She’s paired with the 12-piece Latin music extravaganza Grupo Candela, which is bound to have everyone on their feet. High Noon Saloon: Fin Zipper, Trophy Dad, greenhaus, 9 pm. The Frequency: Armchair Boogie, Cascade Crescendo, 8:30 pm. Twist Bar and Grill: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 5 pm.

Thursday, April 13, Five Nightclub, 9 pm

The Wisconsin Burlesque Festival brings a formerly stigmatized art form into a new age, offering three days of some of the best burlesque the Midwest has to offer. Many performance permutations are represented: classic, neo, circus, subversive and nerdlesque. And while you’re there, check out Madison’s own Marina Mars, Breezy Blue and Melani Khandroma, who perform on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, respectively. ALSO: Friday-Saturday, April 14-15, 9 pm. The Underpants: University Theatre: Steve Martin’s adaptation of a play about some scandalously unruly drawers, 4/13-30, Vilas Hall-Mitchell Theater, at 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays. $20. 265-2787.

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VINTAGE Stackhouse VINYL RECORD SALE SAT, APR 8 H 9PM H $7

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Valerie B & The Boyz

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Laura Kiessling

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THE ART OF DISCOVERY Tuesday, April 11 – 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Wisconsin Studio, Overture Center for the Arts • 201 State Street What is the spark that ignites scientific discovery? Join us for an evening with three Wisconsin Academy Fellows whose explorations in science are fueled by imagination. Marcia Bjornerud—Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University Laura Kiessling—Hilldale Professor of Chemistry and Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry at UW–Madison Bassam Shakhashiri—Director of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy and Professor Chemistry at UW–Madison Free and open to the public with advance online registration, this talk is the final in a six-part series that explores how specific investments in the knowledge economy and our creative sectors can make a brighter future for Wisconsin.

Why fly out of a big box airport when you can fly local

Info and registration at wisconsinacademy.org/artofdiscovery

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Ukrainian Egg Decorating Demo!

Saturday, April 8 . 1-3pm

Grasshopper’s new store-in-a-van will deliver the goods to customers.

Deadline: Saturday, April 8th

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Grasshopper Goods jumps into red tape Madison’s first mobile retailer is allowed to vend only at special events BY DYLAN BROGAN

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Food carts have become a staple of the downtown dining scene. Could mobile shops be the future of retail? Karen Tardrew, owner of Grasshopper Goods, thinks so. She’s in the process of converting a 1977 Freightliner Step Van into a store on wheels. It’s a boxy truck comparable to a small UPS truck, says Tardrew. In essence, Grasshopper Goods pulls up, the back of the van is opened up, and presto! It’s a 200-square-foot store. The mobile shop will even have dressing rooms. Grasshopper Good’s merchandise includes clothing, housewares, gifts and jewelry. Clothing is from small-scale producers, often locally made (as are the other products). As she prepares to launch into a true mobile boutique, Tardrew has been making connections with artists and makers and organizing pop-up events. In mid-April, her mobile store will be ready to hit the road. “A big part of this for me is supporting small makers locally and around the country. All the items are made in the USA or fair trade,” says Tardrew. “Mobile businesses are the cutting edge of the field. Everyone is talking about online shopping. But people still want to touch and feel and be part of it. What’s so cool about mobile boutiques is

we go to the customers. And I can cater what products I sell based on where I go.” Grasshopper Goods will be the city’s first mobile boutique. It’s currently the only member of the American Mobile Retail Association in Wisconsin. But when Tardrew started researching where she could set up shop in Madison, her shop on wheels ran into a lot of red tape. “There are probably 500 trucks all over the country doing this right now. But unfortunately, Madison’s regulations are really unfriendly to boutique trucks,” says Tardrew. “I’m not allowed to be in a residential area. I’m not allowed to sell outside a business. And I can’t just park on a street because of the size of my van — which is the typical size of a mobile boutique.” Currently, Grasshopper Goods is allowed to operate during special events. Tardrew plans on setting up the mobile business at a new Thursday night farmers’ market on Gilman Street and at other events. But city statutes will interfere with her plans to vend at private parties, downtown during lunch hour and to organize pop-up events with other businesses. “I’m technically considered a peddler by the city, and the rules are antiquated. It was absolutely shocking to me,” says Tardrew.

“Just like food carts, mobile boutiques are a great way for entrepreneurs to start small businesses. If the city wants more minority-owned and women-owned businesses, this is a way to do it.” Tardrew has put mobile retail vending on the radar of Meghan Blake-Horst, Madison’s street vending coordinator. Blake-Horst says she’s helping get the conversation started, but changing current rules for mobile retail means changes to zoning ordinances. She expects that several committees — and eventually the Common Council — will need to weigh in before the city can update its current policy on “peddlers.” “It’s not something where we can say, ‘Oh yeah. Do that. Let’s go.’ We have to go through the whole process,” says BlakeHorst, who notes mobile retail has already been discussed this spring by the Vending Oversight Committee. “We are seeing a lot more [mobile] vendors in general, and I know that’s it’s a trend around the country. Right now, the big barrier seems to be not being able to vend on private property.” Tardew's first area event will be April 20 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Atomic Koi, 2685 Research Park Drive, Fitchburg. n

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Housing Rural Acreage “OPEN HOUSE”. Spectacular secluded 40 acre parcel near Mt. Horeb, 1/2 woods—1/2 open land. Potential to build your dream home, or excellent for hunting, greenhouses, investment, etc. The possibilities are endless! April 9th from 11:00—Noon. First Weber Inc. Contact Donald Sands at 608-767-2868.

Buy-Sell-Exchange Matching people and property for over 20 years. Achieve your goals! Free consult. www.andystebnitz.com Andy Stebnitz 608-692-8866 Restaino & Associates Realtors

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Jobs Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities Agrace HospiceCare’s inpatient unit features beautiful gardens that provide beautiful, peaceful spaces for our patients and families to enjoy. Volunteers make a big difference in developing and maintaining a variety of different garden spaces. Activities can include mulching, planting, watering, or pruning depending on seasonal needs. Minimum age: 14.

ALE ASYLUM is currently seeking experienced servers. If you enjoy a fun and energetic work environment and share our passion for beer, please apply in person or send your resume to bandit@aleasylum.com. Open availability desired.

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Happenings WELLIFE Mind Body Spirit EXPO April 8th-9th 10am-6pm SHERATON HOTEL: ARTS CRAFTS • WELLNESS WORKSHOPS • CHIROPRACTIC MASSAGE • HEALERS • PSYCHIC READINGS, COACHING •TRANSFORMATION... 608-256-0080 • www.wellife.org AIRLINE CAREERS begin here – Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

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Struggling with DRUGS or ALCOHOL? Addicted to PILLS? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment. 800-978-6674

For more information about WCBVI or to volunteer, visit www.wcblind.org/ or call 608-255-1166.

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Awesome Massage from the heart, gift certificates available; Hypnotherapy: Quit Smoking! Lose Weight! Remove Anxiety, Etc Ken-Adi Ring 608-444-3039 www.Wellife.org MAKE THE CALL TO START GETTING CLEAN TODAY. Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol & drug addiction treatment. Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139 (AAN CAN)

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Recognizing outstanding volunteers for their work in our community

Health & Wellness Swedish Massage For Men, providing immediate Stress, Tension and Pain Relief. Seven days a week by appt.—same day appointments available. Contact Steve, CMT at: ph/text 608.277.9789 or acupleasur@aol.com. Gift certificates available for any reason or season @ ABC Massage Studio!

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An advocate for the most marginalized and vulnerable among us, Dija Manly’s work with the Rape Crisis Center (RCC) is truly beyond her years. She began volunteering with RCC her freshman year of high school, most notably serving on the RCC youth advisory board, GameChangers. Her knowledge and drive have made her an inspiring leader in our community. Photo by John Urban

For more information about Rape Crisis Center or to volunteer, visit www.danecountyrcc.org or call 608-251-5126.

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