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ANGEL INVESTORS

Presbyterian ministers put down roots in Madison.

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LOOK, UP IN THE SKY!

The Madison Police Department will soon have drones in the air. It promises to use them sparingly.

INQUIRING MINDS JUDITH DAVIDOFF

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SPORTS TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS after its demise, the loss of the baseball program at UW-Madison still gets people worked up, says Isthmus sports columnist Michael Popke. But multiple efforts to bring back the varsity sport, including one last year by Jeff Block, coach of the school’s club baseball teams, have not convinced the powers that be. This week Popke writes about a new book on the history of the program

by Steve Schmitt. The title says it all: A History of Badger Baseball: The Rise and Fall of America’s Pastime at the University of Wisconsin.

COVER STORY JANESVILLE SUFFERED a devastating blow in 2008 when General Motors shuttered its auto plant. Judith Davidoff interviews Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein, whose book on post-GM Janesville is just out from Simon & Schuster. As you’ll see from our book excerpt, Goldstein goes beyond statistics to recount the human toll of job loss on families and communities.

Scientists and environmentalists take to the streets in defense of data and mother earth.

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IN SEARCH OF QUIET

Noise is ruining quality of life for one Bay Creek resident.

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WHEN JOBS DISAPPEAR

Excerpt of Janesville: An American Story, and interview with author Amy Goldstein.

23-27 FOOD & DRINK

SOUTH PARK SPICE

Chili King has an intriguing, sprawling Chinese menu.

CRATES AND BARRELS

The Cask Ale Fest serves up yeasty, naturally fermented, unfiltered brews.

28 SPORTS

VARSITY SPORT NO MORE

A new book looks back at UW-Madison’s now defunct baseball program.

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LAUGH, DON’T CRY

Beats and parks Saturday, April 22, Badger Rock Center, 11 am Who says nobody listens to kids? The city of Madison Parks Division invites youth 10-17 to explore parks of the future in a free workshop led by “hip-hop architect” Michael Ford. Hip Hop PARKitecture includes a park tour, design session, DJ and lunch. RSVP required: eventbrite.com/e/33120547449.

Comedian Stephanie Miller wants to stop Trump.

31-32 MUSIC

ALTERNATIVE SOUNDS

Two Mount Horeb natives have started a music label.

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DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS

MILWAUKEE MAGIC

BALTIMORE-BASED journalist Baynard Woods continues his eclectic coverage of the Trump administration under the banner Democracy in Crisis. See Isthmus.com this week for Woods’ interview with “longtime Trump adviser and Republican dirty-trickster” Roger Stone (who opines on Russia, Syria and Carter Page), and his multi-piece series on all things weed, in honor of 4/20.

CTM production imagines a bond between girls from very different backgrounds.

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Saturday, April 22, Central Library, 9 am-noon

HARMONIOUS WAIL

The Madison Postpartum Collective brings together varied practitioners to help new parents.

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

Throwing the bus under the bus

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“Bus-ted” is a way for patrons to bid farewell to the old Dane County Bookmobile, which will become (as with “Bookless,” the old Central Library farewell) a DIY art space and “deconstruction” event. There will also be tours of the new bus. Don’t get them confused and swing a sledgehammer at the new one, please.

Equine dreams Friday-Sunday, April 21-23, Alliant Energy Center

The Midwest Horse Fair, open at 8 am daily, will entertain and educate horse owners and those who wish they were. Pony rides for the kids, arena competitions and evening shows (rodeo Friday, Epic Night of the Horse Saturday) will keep you at a gallop all weekend.

Thank your local archivist Thursday-Friday, April 20-21, UW campus

The World Records symposium explores discs of a different nature this year: Those made to accompany early sound films using the Vitaphone process. The archive at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research is part of a current restoration effort, and project director Ron Hutchinson will give the event’s keynote Friday at 8 am. Along with panel discussions, there also will be a concert by 3Banjos3 (Thursday, 8 pm) and film screenings (Friday, 7 pm). For the full schedule: mayrentinstitute.wisc.edu.

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Dressed smartly in jeans and sportcoats, Matt Grimsley and Danny Hindman blend in easily with the downtown crowd of office workers, state Capitol staffers and tech startup employees — until you notice their clerical collars.

New to Madison, they’re just the kind of people the city has become known for attracting in recent years. They’re young urban professionals, highly educated and eager to make their mark on the community. But their startup efforts are a bit unusual — they’re attempting to form brand-new churches in a bastion of liberal secularism.

“Madison has a reputation to being a hostile city [for religion],” Hindman says over coffee at Bradbury’s on a recent Friday afternoon. “But on a personal level, people here are very open.

It’s been a nice surprise.”

Hindman, 29, attended seminary in St. Louis and became an ordained Presbyterian minister in Madison on March 25. He’s here focusing on campus ministry at UW-Madison, and in his first semester has built a congregation of around 15 students, a mix of Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians and even some non-Christians.

Grimsley, 36, has spent the past 11 years pastoring in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was also a “church plant.”

Church plants are one of the oldest and most effective forms of evangelism, but there’s been an uptick in the practice in the last 20 to 30 years, Grimsley says. Often there’s a “mother church” that provides leadership, guidance and resources for the planter. Other times a new church is backed by a group or organization. Larger churches can split into new congregations. But what Grimsley and Hindman are doing is called a “scratch plant” or a “parachute plant,” which involves moving to a new city and building their churches up from nothing. “Our kind of church plant is unique,” says Grimsley, who holds services at the Longfellow Lofts auditorium. “And it’s probably the most entrepreneurial.”

Hindman and Grimsley don’t stress the more conservative stances of the Presbyterian Church in America, which they belong to.

They’re aware of the social trends driving Americans — and particularly millennials — away from the church. And they lament the fact that President Donald Trump has become so closely associated with Evangelical Christianity.

“We both spend a lot of time wiggling out of these stereotypes,” Grimsley says. “We’re trying to curate a safe, welcoming place for people to really explore.”

Hindman agrees that there are “a lot of assumptions when you’re a white Evangelical Christian.” Raised in a religious family, he “did the megachurch thing” but quickly became disillusioned by the worship approach there — rock bands instead of pipe organs, video screens instead of Bibles. Trying to keep Christianity relevant by modernizing the practice has attracted some, but Hindman was looking for something that felt more serious. “It’s

People “unchurched” in U.S.: 156 MILLION Change in amount of religiously unaffiliated Americans: UP FROM 16% IN 2007 TO 23% IN 2014.

Church attendance, by generation: 11% OF MILLENNIALS; 33% OF GEN X-ERS; 35% OF BOOMERS; 22% OF ELDERS Average age of pastors: 54 Percentage of pastors younger than 40: 15%

Presbyterian ministers Matt Grimsley (left) and Danny Hindman want to challenge stereotypes about Evangelical Christianity.

almost like post-post-modernism — a return to ancient traditions,” he says of his approach to his faith. “It’s a powerful thing to profess a creed that was written in 325 A.D.” Grimsley believes that the waning interest in the church can be tied to a fundamental distrust in institutions. He sees an opportunity to connect with people who want to get back to the basics. “I find millennials in particular really want to get back to the roots of things

— they like old ways of listening to music, old ways of making coffee.”

And while some think America is going the way of Western Europe, where some churches stand as empty relics, Grimsley has a positive outlook on the future of religion — even if that’s a future with fewer churchgoers.

“I think what we’re doing is putting Christianity where it belongs,” he says, “on the margins of society, not in positions of power.” n

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Here come the drones Police promise new tool won’t be used “very often”

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In March, Madison police got a call that a teenager with disabilities was missing. To aid in the search, the department borrowed a drone from a neighboring police agency to scour Elver Park. With an eye in the sky, authorities quickly found and rescued the teen.

“They were able to cover a lot more area than with traditional methods,” Assistant Madison Police Chief Vic Wahl told the Public Safety Review Committee on April 12.

Drones have become a crucial law enforcement tool, Wahl says. “Madison is late to the game when it comes to this. There are hundreds of public safety agencies across the country that have deployed UAS [unmanned aircraft system] devices,” he told the committee. “There are quite a few in Wisconsin that have as well, including a number here in Dane County.”

But the department will soon be able to deploy its own drones. And that has some critics worried about police department overreach, privacy and the use of tax dollars.

Wahl told the committee that the department recently spent $18,000 for two DJI Inspire quadcopter drones. The unmanned aircraft will be equipped with several sophisticated cameras, including one with thermal imaging, which is useful in searching for missing people and fugitives.

The department is now training a team of six officers to operate the drones and get them certified as UAS pilots with the Federal Aviation Administration. It is also drafting a standard operating procedure for drones. The new unit will be ready to fly in late May or June.

“We had some funds last year that we were able to allocate for the initial purchase,” Wahl told the committee. “What we are work-

Madison police may use drones to search for missing people, analyze crime scenes and assist with event security.

ing on right now is what the annual maintenance cost will be just for replacing batteries, propellers, things like that. I don’t anticipate that it’s going to be anything very significant in terms of recurring cost.

Training is the other cost we are going through right now.”

The Middleton Fire Department, Capitol Police and Dane County Emergency Management already use drones in their operations. Wahl told the committee drones are useful in a number of situations.

“The most common is search and rescue.... These can be missing children, Alzheimer’s patients, criminal suspects, whatever the case may be,” Wahl said. Drones are also deployed as part of security for events like the Boston Marathon. They are also used to collect information at crime scenes.

“In one of our shootings last year, a homicide that occurred in a parking lot, we borrowed a UAS device. We did some overhead photography and video of the scene,” Wahl said. “It’s just remarkable how much more context that provides and how that assists in processing the scene.”

Mary Anglim, a committee member, asked Wahl about privacy concerns. Wahl noted that video surveillance is already pervasive in Madison, but said the department would use the drones in limited circumstances.

“There are going to be specific incidents where we use them, and if it’s outside those, we aren’t going to use them,” Wahl said. “But the city has 800-plus cameras downtown and at intersections that are constantly recording. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg if you figure how many private businesses have video out there.”

Chief Mike Koval and Wahl did tell council leadership at a March 9 meeting that the department had purchased drones a few months ago out of their “regular equipment budget,” according to council president Mike Verveer.

“I have no objections to the department having drones,” says Verveer. “I was surprised that it was not discussed with policymakers beforehand.”

Ald. Rebecca Kemble is upset by the lack of discussion.

“We weren’t told drones had been purchased,” says Kemble. “We weren’t told, formally, that they had been borrowing drones from other departments. This is exactly why we really need to develop good policy around the purchase and use of all surveillance equipment.”

At the Common Council’s March 27 meeting, alders unanimously approved taking $20,000 from the city’s contingency fund to pay for individual dispensers of naloxone, the drug used to treat opiate overdoses. Kemble wonders why the department had money to buy drones but not “life-saving drugs.”

“The drones weren’t a line item in a budget anywhere; [the department] just came up with $18,000. And yet, they come to the council asking for money for other things,” Kemble says.

“They didn’t ask for permission or for an allocation to buy them. That’s not okay. That’s not transparency.”

Wahl told the Public Safety Review Committee that video collected by the drones would be retained in a way that’s “consistent with how we handle squad video.” And he insisted the department would be transparent with its drone use.

“We do plan on clearly documenting every time we have a deployment of a UAS and doing an annual report so the public can see exactly how often we are using them and what they are being used for,” said Wahl.

“They are not going to be used very often.” n

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Earth Day is always special for Tia Nelson.

Her father, the renowned environmentalist and former Gov. Gaylord Nelson, founded the holiday almost 50 years ago and helped launch a new wave of environmental activism. But this year, amid the rollbacks of environmental protections, the wave of industrial deregulation and ongoing climate change denial from President Donald Trump’s administration, Earth Day feels much more urgent.

“This is a threat to our democracy, this is a threat to our public health, a threat to our rights as citizens,” Nelson says. “I think what we’re seeing on this Earth Day is significant concern and responses to those threats, and I think it’s imperative that we all speak up and involve ourselves in pushing back.”

Nelson, a managing director of the Madison-based Outrider Foundation, will speak April 22 at the Madison March for Science — one of more than 500 nonpartisan, proscience demonstrations taking place across the world on Earth Day in conjunction with a flagship event happening in Washington, D.C. The local march begins at 1 p.m. at James Madison Park and will move toward Library Mall, with speakers beginning around 2:30 p.m.

Happening that same day is the Madison People’s Climate March, an entirely separate but concurrent event aimed at raising awareness about climate change and social justice. The climate march kicks off at 2 p.m. at the State Capitol and ends at the Madison Gas and Electric headquarters on East Main Street, where the group will call upon the utility to combat climate change by reducing its use of coal. The national climate march as well as most “sister marches” are slated for April 29, but that date didn’t work for Madison because of the Crazylegs Classic.

Organizers of the Madison marches discussed merging the two, but decided to keep them separate, says David Lovelace, a science march volunteer. “There is a lot of crosspollination and collaboration [between the two groups],” Lovelace says, “but because we’re threading a needle of maintaining a nonpartisan, non-protest stance, we can’t be seen as attacking any one individual or any one organization.”

Devin Martin, a climate march volunteer and organizer of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, says the science march has a “similar purpose” and considers those involved to be allies. “The science march is for the role of science to be listened to and heard by policymakers, which is a really important thing, but on the other side of the coin we also need activism,” he says. “We also need to listen to the voices of people who don’t work in science, people in frontline communities who have the most to lose from anti-science policies.”

Martin moved to Madison from Louisiana, where people used to joke that “the flag of Texaco flies over the state capitol.” His grandfather was a coal miner, so growing up he saw the impact of the fossil fuel industry on the environment, communities and public health. “Louisiana loses a football field of wetlands every hour,” he says. “That’s what drove me to be more and more of an activist.”

MGE has touted its Energy 2030 initiative, which involves transitioning to renewable energy sources and reducing dependence on coal. The utility’s goal is to supply 30 percent of retail energy sales with renewable resources by 2030, but that still leaves 70 percent coming from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas.

“MGE relies on 68 percent coal generation. The national average is 30 percent, so we feel like they’re lagging behind,” Martin

says. “They’re making progress, but we’d like them to do more.”

(An MGE spokesperson told Isthmus in January the company’s mix of coal ranges “from about the mid-50 percent range to mid-60 percent range” annually.)

Martin is troubled by President Trump’s recent executive order, which nullified former President Barack Obama’s climate change initiatives in an effort to revive the coal industry. “It really shows the administration’s intention to accelerate the use of fossil fuels regardless of their cost to human health,” he says. “It’s important for us to step up at a local level and confront this crisis where we can. Because we can’t expect leadership at the state or federal level.”

While Martin and his Sierra Club compatriots are seasoned political activists, the folks behind the science march are, well, scientists.

“We aren’t organizers, we aren’t typically activists in this sense,” says Lovelace, a vertebrate paleontologist who works at the UWMadison Geology Museum. He says a demonstration like the science march is “for sure a first” for Madison’s academic community. But when the Trump administration started culling data sources from government websites that had been generated by publicly funded research, he and his colleagues couldn’t sit idly by. “This research is fundamental to everything in our democracy,” he says. “So many major innovations and medical advances are funded by publicly sourced data.”

The science march is all about outreach — organizers seek to humanize scientists and highlight their work while affirming the legitimacy of peer-reviewed research and its role in evidence-based public policy.

“It’s a political issue, but we’re treating it like it’s nonpartisan,” Lovelace says. “No matter who you vote for, people benefit from advances in science.” n

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More toxic PCBs are discovered in a city-owned east-side rain garden and traced back to a water pipe coming from Madison-Kipp Corp., the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Looks like the cleanup effort isn’t quite done yet.

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The city’s Engineering Division lays out options for fixing up areas of John Nolen Drive, including the intersection at Blair, East Wilson and Williamson streets, which in recent years has seen nearly 100 car crashes and nine bicycle crashes. Among the ideas is a bicycle-pedestrian overpass connecting downtown to Law Park.

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President Donald Trump signs his “Buy American, Hire American” executive order at the headquarters of Snap-On Inc., a tool manufacturing company in Kenosha. The order restricts a visa program

that allows companies to bring in highly skilled foreign workers. Trump also promises to “call Canada” and ask what’s up with its restrictions on importing Wisconsin milk. Glad to have this legendary dealmaker on the case.

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Viva Los Dells Latin music festival to be biggest in nation, organizers hope

BY ALLISON GEYER

If you ask Adam and Grant Mills what is the secret to their success, they’ll credit the Madison public school system. The twin brothers, who graduated from West High School in 2001, had no plans to attend college and “wanted nothing to do with books or classrooms� until they got involved with DECA, a marketing and business development program for high school students. “That was our first opportunity to jump into business,� says Adam Mills, 34. “We started developing business plans, started getting into hospitality. The term for that is entrepreneurship, but we didn’t call it that.�

The brothers continued honing their marketing skills while at college in Dayton, Ohio, working as representatives for brands like Four Loko and Red Bull and eventually getting into event promotion after undergrad. Now they’re running their own company, Event CRU, which has put on major festivals in such cities

as Las Vegas, Seattle and Minneapolis.

They’re based in Las Vegas, but they’ve “always been talking about figuring out a way to make it back to Wisconsin and do a festival there,� Mills says.

Thanks to a “serendipitous� business connection, that dream is coming true in September. Event CRU is putting on a two-day Latin music festival in Mauston, which about 20 miles northwest of Wisconsin Dells. The festival, called Los Dells, will be held Sept. 2-3 at the Woodside Sports Complex. Mills can’t release the name of the performers yet, but he promises some of the biggest names in Latin music. “I want people to say, ‘Why Wisconsin?’�

Mills says. “And then I want them to change their minds.�

Mills expects Los Dells to draw 50,00060,000 people over two days; the goal is to grow Los Dells into the largest Latin music festival in North America within three years. “I think the odds are against us, but that’s

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The Human Rights Program is pleased to invite you to: The J. Jobe & Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Lecture

“Women Lead the Way: From Violence to Non-Violence, from Greed to Sharing, from Hate to Love�

Dr. Vandana Shiva

Director, Research Foundation for Science,Technology, and Ecology, India

Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:00pm Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center Informal Reception to Follow This lecture is also the keynote lecture at the 2nd Annual 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being (womenstudies.wisc.edu/WSC/annualconf.htm)

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really what is driving us to make this happen,� he says.

Event CRU is working with Woodside Sports Complex ownership to build a permanent festival ground, complete with bathrooms, running water and space for camping. Eventually, Mills hopes the facility will host more music events. “In years to come we could do a country festival, maybe three nights with Elton John — that’s what I want to create,� he says.

In addition to putting the Wisconsin Dells area on the map as a music destination, the Mills brothers are also giving back to their alma mater. This year they’re donating $5,000 to West High, and they hope to donate $1 million “by the time they die.â€? It might seem a lofty goal, but they’re eager to give back. “If it wasn’t for [DECA], and for the students that we met in that program,â€? Mills says, “we wouldn’t be where we are today.â€? â–

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Saving Sight

SESSIONS

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Balancing Hope and Hype:

Š‡ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? ‹• ’Ž‡ƒ•‡† –‘ ‹Â?˜‹–‡ ›‘— –‘ǣ Š‡ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? ‹• ’Ž‡ƒ•‡† –‘ ‹Â?˜‹–‡ ›‘— –‘ǣ What’s new and next in eye care Š‡ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? ‹• ’Ž‡ƒ•‡† –‘ ‹Â?˜‹–‡ ›‘— –‘ǣ The Potential of Stem Cells Š‡ Â?Â?—ƒŽ ‹Ž†”‡† ‹•Šnj ƒ”Â?ƒ…Â? Š‡ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? ‹• ’Ž‡ƒ•‡† –‘ ‹Â?˜‹–‡ ›‘— –‘ǣ

to Help

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Patients with Blinding Diseases Š‡ Â?Â?—ƒŽ ‹Ž†”‡† ‹•Šnj ƒ”Â?ƒ…Â? —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† ‡Â?‘…”ƒ…› ‡…–—”‡ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† ‡Â?‘…”ƒ…› ‡…–—”‡ ‡†Â?Â‡Â•Â†ÂƒÂ›ÇĄ ‡’–‡Â?„‡” ʹͺǥ ʹͲͳ͸ǥ Íś ’ǤÂ?Ǥ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† ‡Â?‘…”ƒ…› ‡…–—”‡ Ž—Â?Â?‹ ‘—Â?‰‡ǥ ›Ž‡ ‡Â?–‡”ǥ ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â? ‡†Â?Â‡Â•Â†ÂƒÂ›ÇĄ ‡’–‡Â?„‡” ʹͺǥ ʹͲͳ͸ǥ Íś ’ǤÂ?Ǥ Presented by ‡†Â?Â‡Â•Â†ÂƒÂ›ÇĄ ‡’–‡Â?„‡” ʹͺǥ ʹͲͳ͸ǥ Íś ’ǤÂ?Ǥ

Â?ˆ‘”Â?ƒŽ ”‡…‡’–‹‘Â? –‘ ˆ‘ŽŽ‘™ Ž—Â?Â?‹ ‘—Â?‰‡ǥ ›Ž‡ ‡Â?–‡”ǥ ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â? ‡†Â?Â‡Â•Â†ÂƒÂ›ÇĄ ‡’–‡Â?„‡” ʹͺǥ ʹͲͳ͸ǥ Íś ’ǤÂ?Ǥ Ž—Â?Â?‹ ‘—Â?‰‡ǥ ›Ž‡ ‡Â?–‡”ǥ ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â?

David Gamm, MD, PhD

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THURSDAY, APRIL 20 • 6–7PM

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Č‚ ƒ†‹•‘Â? •–—†‡Â?– ‹Â? –Š‡ ͳ͝ʹͲ•Ǥ Š‹Ž‡ Ž‹˜‹Â?‰ ‹Â? ‡”Â?ƒÂ?›ǥ ‹•Šnj ƒ”Â?ƒ…Â? ƒ••‹•–‡† ‹Â? –Š‡ ‡•…ƒ’‡ ‘ˆ ‡”Â?ƒÂ? થ Š‡ ‹Ž†”‡† ‹•Šnj ƒ”Â?ƒ…Â? —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† ‡Â?‘…”ƒ…› ‡…–—”‡ ‹• Â?ƒÂ?‡† ƒˆ–‡” ƒ ‹Ž™ƒ—Â?‡‡ Â?ƒ–‹˜‡ ™Š‘ ™ƒ• ƒ Č‚ ƒ†‹•‘Â? •–—†‡Â?– ‹Â? –Š‡ ͳ͝ʹͲ•Ǥ Š‹Ž‡ Ž‹˜‹Â?‰ ‹Â? ‡”Â?ƒÂ?›ǥ ‹•Šnj ƒ”Â?ƒ…Â? ƒ••‹•–‡† ‹Â? –Š‡ ‡•…ƒ’‡ ‘ˆ ‡”Â?ƒÂ? થ Š‡” ”‡•‹•–ƒÂ?…‡ –‘ –Š‡ ƒœ‹ ”‡‰‹Â?‡Ǥ Š‹• Ž‡…–—”‡•Š‹’ ‹• †‡•‹‰Â?‡† –‘ ’”‘Â?‘–‡ ‰”‡ƒ–‡” —Â?†‡”•–ƒÂ?†‹Â?‰ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† Parking is available in the adjacent University Hospital patient parking ramp. ƒÂ?† ’‘Ž‹–‹…ƒŽ †‹••‹†‡Â?–•Ǥ Š‡ ‹• –Š‡ ‘Â?Ž› Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ? …‹˜‹Ž‹ƒÂ? ‡š‡…—–‡† —Â?†‡” –Š‡ ’‡”•‘Â?ƒŽ ‹Â?•–”—…–‹‘Â? ‘ˆ †‘Žˆ ‹–Ž‡” ˆ‘” Č‚ ƒ†‹•‘Â? •–—†‡Â?– ‹Â? –Š‡ ͳ͝ʹͲ•Ǥ Š‹Ž‡ Ž‹˜‹Â?‰ ‹Â? ‡”Â?ƒÂ?›ǥ ‹•Šnj ƒ”Â?ƒ…Â? ƒ••‹•–‡† ‹Â? –Š‡ ‡•…ƒ’‡ ‘ˆ ‡”Â?ƒÂ? થ ƒÂ?† ’‘Ž‹–‹…ƒŽ †‹••‹†‡Â?–•Ǥ Š‡ ‹• –Š‡ ‘Â?Ž› Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ? …‹˜‹Ž‹ƒÂ? ‡š‡…—–‡† —Â?†‡” –Š‡ ’‡”•‘Â?ƒŽ ‹Â?•–”—…–‹‘Â? ‘ˆ †‘Žˆ ‹–Ž‡” ˆ‘” †‡Â?Â‘Â…Â”ÂƒÂ…Â›ÇĄ ƒÂ?† ‡Â?”‹…Š ‹Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ •–—†‹‡• ƒ– ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â?Ǥ Š‡ Ž‡…–—”‡ „”‹Â?‰• –‘ …ƒÂ?’—• ƒ ’‡”•‘Â? ™Š‘ …‘Â?–”‹„—–‡† Š‡” ”‡•‹•–ƒÂ?…‡ –‘ –Š‡ ƒœ‹ ”‡‰‹Â?‡Ǥ Š‹• Ž‡…–—”‡•Š‹’ ‹• †‡•‹‰Â?‡† –‘ ’”‘Â?‘–‡ ‰”‡ƒ–‡” —Â?†‡”•–ƒÂ?†‹Â?‰ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† Questions? Contact Nicole Heiman at (608) 308-5502 or nicole.heiman@supportuw.org ƒÂ?† ’‘Ž‹–‹…ƒŽ †‹••‹†‡Â?–•Ǥ Š‡ ‹• –Š‡ ‘Â?Ž› Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ? …‹˜‹Ž‹ƒÂ? ‡š‡…—–‡† —Â?†‡” –Š‡ ’‡”•‘Â?ƒŽ ‹Â?•–”—…–‹‘Â? ‘ˆ †‘Žˆ ‹–Ž‡” ˆ‘” Š‡” ”‡•‹•–ƒÂ?…‡ –‘ –Š‡ ƒœ‹ ”‡‰‹Â?‡Ǥ Š‹• Ž‡…–—”‡•Š‹’ ‹• †‡•‹‰Â?‡† –‘ ’”‘Â?‘–‡ ‰”‡ƒ–‡” —Â?†‡”•–ƒÂ?†‹Â?‰ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† –‘ –Š‡ …ƒ—•‡ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• –Š”‘—‰Š ƒ…ƒ†‡Â?‹… •…Š‘Žƒ”•Š‹’ ƒÂ?†Ȁ‘” ƒ…–‹˜‡ Ž‡ƒ†‡”•Š‹’Ǥ †‡Â?Â‘Â…Â”ÂƒÂ…Â›ÇĄ ƒÂ?† ‡Â?”‹…Š ‹Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ •–—†‹‡• ƒ– ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â?Ǥ Š‡ Ž‡…–—”‡ „”‹Â?‰• –‘ …ƒÂ?’—• ƒ ’‡”•‘Â? ™Š‘ …‘Â?–”‹„—–‡† Š‡” ”‡•‹•–ƒÂ?…‡ –‘ –Š‡ ƒœ‹ ”‡‰‹Â?‡Ǥ Š‹• Ž‡…–—”‡•Š‹’ ‹• †‡•‹‰Â?‡† –‘ ’”‘Â?‘–‡ ‰”‡ƒ–‡” —Â?†‡”•–ƒÂ?†‹Â?‰ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• ƒÂ?† †‡Â?Â‘Â…Â”ÂƒÂ…Â›ÇĄ ƒÂ?† ‡Â?”‹…Š ‹Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ •–—†‹‡• ƒ– ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â?Ǥ Š‡ Ž‡…–—”‡ „”‹Â?‰• –‘ …ƒÂ?’—• ƒ ’‡”•‘Â? ™Š‘ …‘Â?–”‹„—–‡† –‘ –Š‡ …ƒ—•‡ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• –Š”‘—‰Š ƒ…ƒ†‡Â?‹… •…Š‘Žƒ”•Š‹’ ƒÂ?†Ȁ‘” ƒ…–‹˜‡ Ž‡ƒ†‡”•Š‹’Ǥ Saving sight is the most important part of our mission. The Department of Ophthalmology †‡Â?Â‘Â…Â”ÂƒÂ…Â›ÇĄ ƒÂ?† ‡Â?”‹…Š ‹Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ •–—†‹‡• ƒ– ÇŚ ƒ†‹•‘Â?Ǥ Š‡ Ž‡…–—”‡ „”‹Â?‰• –‘ …ƒÂ?’—• ƒ ’‡”•‘Â? ™Š‘ …‘Â?–”‹„—–‡† –‘ –Š‡ …ƒ—•‡ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• –Š”‘—‰Š ƒ…ƒ†‡Â?‹… •…Š‘Žƒ”•Š‹’ ƒÂ?†Ȁ‘” ƒ…–‹˜‡ Ž‡ƒ†‡”•Š‹’Ǥ –‘ –Š‡ …ƒ—•‡ ‘ˆ Š—Â?ƒÂ? ”‹‰Š–• –Š”‘—‰Š ƒ…ƒ†‡Â?‹… •…Š‘Žƒ”•Š‹’ ƒÂ?†Ȁ‘” ƒ…–‹˜‡ Ž‡ƒ†‡”•Š‹’Ǥ ’‘Â?•‘”•ǣ and Visual Sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health is devoted to

preserving and protecting vision. This program is one more way to keep you informed. —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ?ÇĄ Ž‘„ƒŽ ‡‰ƒŽ –—†‹‡• ‡Â?–‡”ǥ Š‡ Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ ‹˜‹•‹‘Â?ÇĄ Íś Â?Â‹Â–Â‹ÂƒÂ–Â‹Â˜Â‡ÇĄ ’‘Â?•‘”•ǣ The Saving Sight Sessions are a series of community education programs ’‘Â?•‘”•ǣ ƒÂ?† ƒ–‹Â? Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒ”‹„„‡ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒÂ?† „‡”‹ƒÂ? –—†‹‡• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? Č‹ ČŒ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ?ÇĄ Ž‘„ƒŽ ‡‰ƒŽ –—†‹‡• ‡Â?–‡”ǥ Š‡ Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ ‹˜‹•‹‘Â?ÇĄ Íś Â?Â‹Â–Â‹ÂƒÂ–Â‹Â˜Â‡ÇĄ ’‘Â?•‘”•ǣ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ?ÇĄ Ž‘„ƒŽ ‡‰ƒŽ –—†‹‡• ‡Â?–‡”ǥ Š‡ Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ ‹˜‹•‹‘Â?ÇĄ Íś Â?Â‹Â–Â‹ÂƒÂ–Â‹Â˜Â‡ÇĄ created to share discoveries and developments to stop blinding diseases, ƒÂ?† ƒ–‹Â? Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒ”‹„„‡ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒÂ?† „‡”‹ƒÂ? –—†‹‡• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? Č‹ ČŒ —Â?ƒÂ? ‹‰Š–• ”‘‰”ƒÂ?ÇĄ Ž‘„ƒŽ ‡‰ƒŽ –—†‹‡• ‡Â?–‡”ǥ Š‡ Â?–‡”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ƒŽ ‹˜‹•‹‘Â?ÇĄ Íś Â?Â‹Â–Â‹ÂƒÂ–Â‹Â˜Â‡ÇĄ ƒÂ?† ƒ–‹Â? Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒ”‹„„‡ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒÂ?† „‡”‹ƒÂ? –—†‹‡• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? Č‹ ČŒ enhance treatment and improve vision-related quality of life. ƒÂ?† ƒ–‹Â? Â?‡”‹…ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒ”‹„„‡ƒÂ?ÇĄ ƒÂ?† „‡”‹ƒÂ? –—†‹‡• ”‘‰”ƒÂ? Č‹ ČŒ Please join us as we share the ways we are transforming eye care.

Š‹• ‡˜‡Â?– ‹• ˆ”‡‡ ƒÂ?† ‘’‡Â? –‘ –Š‡ ’—„Ž‹… Š‹• ‡˜‡Â?– ‹• ˆ”‡‡ ƒÂ?† ‘’‡Â? –‘ –Š‡ ’—„Ž‹… Š‹• ‡˜‡Â?– ‹• ˆ”‡‡ ƒÂ?† ‘’‡Â? –‘ –Š‡ ’—„Ž‹… ‘” Â?‘”‡ ‹Â?ˆ‘”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ÇĄ ’Ž‡ƒ•‡ …‘Â?–ƒ…– —Â?—†— –ƒ’ƒ––— ȋ•—Â?Â—Â†Â—Ç¤ÂƒÂ–ÂƒÂ’ÂƒÂ–Â–Â—ĚˇÂ™Â‹Â•Â…Ç¤Â‡Â†Â—ČŒ Š‹• ‡˜‡Â?– ‹• ˆ”‡‡ ƒÂ?† ‘’‡Â? –‘ –Š‡ ’—„Ž‹… ‘” Â?‘”‡ ‹Â?ˆ‘”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ÇĄ ’Ž‡ƒ•‡ …‘Â?–ƒ…– —Â?—†— –ƒ’ƒ––— ȋ•—Â?Â—Â†Â—Ç¤ÂƒÂ–ÂƒÂ’ÂƒÂ–Â–Â—ĚˇÂ™Â‹Â•Â…Ç¤Â‡Â†Â—ČŒ ‘” Â?‘”‡ ‹Â?ˆ‘”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ÇĄ ’Ž‡ƒ•‡ …‘Â?–ƒ…– —Â?—†— –ƒ’ƒ––— ȋ•—Â?Â—Â†Â—Ç¤ÂƒÂ–ÂƒÂ’ÂƒÂ–Â–Â—ĚˇÂ™Â‹Â•Â…Ç¤Â‡Â†Â—ČŒ ‘” Â?‘”‡ ‹Â?ˆ‘”Â?ƒ–‹‘Â?ÇĄ ’Ž‡ƒ•‡ …‘Â?–ƒ…– —Â?—†— –ƒ’ƒ––— ȋ•—Â?Â—Â†Â—Ç¤ÂƒÂ–ÂƒÂ’ÂƒÂ–Â–Â—ĚˇÂ™Â‹Â•Â…Ç¤Â‡Â†Â—ČŒ

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Hey, we’re trying to think here Noise is toxic pollution that harms quality of life

BY RICK MAROLT Rick Marolt is a resident of Bay Creek in Madison.

Nice summer day, windows open. Over the phone, I am trying to help my mother understand that she is dying. Suddenly, a neighbor’s unusually loud saw changes the conversation from difficult to almost impossible. Just the latest instance of noise pollution in Bay Creek.

The Bay Creek neighborhood, just south of the Capitol between Monona Bay and Wingra Creek, was quiet in 1992, when I moved in. The noise pollution from the Alliant Energy Center started in 2004, when eight hours of heavy metal music and bomb-like fireworks at 10 p.m. announced the commercialization of Willow Island. Later, Brat Fest moved to Willow Island and became a very loud event with amplified bands on four stages performing simultaneously for four days. During the Dane County Fair at the Alliant Center, helicopter rides go over our house several times per hour for hours on end.

Noise pollution has also increased from neighborhood sources: snowblowers, boom cars, a neighbor’s drone, weed trimmers, rototillers, saws, sanders, power washers, radios, barking dogs and people yelling at barking dogs to be quiet. Then there are the leaf blowers, leaf vacuums and leaf mulchers. Most of us have small lawns. Why not just take a little longer and use a rake?

Fireworks are another source of noise. When I was growing up, fireworks displays occurred only on or around Independence Day on July 4. In 2012, I heard fireworks displays on eight occasions between the middle of May and early October, including one from Brat Fest.

Small planes are a particularly bad source of noise. In 2015, 25,000 airplanes both took off from and landed at the Middleton Airport, and 14,000 airplanes both took off from and landed at the Dane County Regional Airport — apparently joy rides or paid rides for sightseers. That’s an average of over 100 flights per day, fewer on days with bad weather, more on nice days. More than once, I have counted 15 flyovers in a 75-minute period, always when I am trying — and failing — to concentrate on an important or creative task.

DAVID MICHAEL MILLER

One would think that noise would be limited by people asking their neighbors to make less of it. Three neighbors have told me recently about neighborhood noise that disturbed them. Not one of them had talked to the noise-maker. Why not? Because it takes courage. And it is usually both unpleasant and futile because, no matter how polite the request, the response is unsympathetic or even belligerent. Once, I asked a man to stop setting off fireworks (it was not July 4). He refused and called me an “asshole” in front of his young son. I once asked a neighbor who was playing loud music outdoors to turn it down. He stepped so close to me that he brushed against me, yelled in my face, and told me to go home and wank my wiener.

Our local governments promote noise.

No elected or appointed official will oppose noise as long as the Alliant Energy Center or some for-profit operation might make money off it. In late 2015, the Madison Parks Commission set a high noise limit for events in city parks, then raised it even higher to placate the complaining people who stood to profit from loud events. And

consider “Shake the Lake,” the city-sanctioned Fourth of July event. We take pride in making so much noise that one of our wonderful lakes — habitat of nonhuman animals, surrounded by residences — shakes? Our local governments have failed to fulfill two of their basic functions: to protect the commons — the areas and resources that we all share — and to protect minorities from the harms of majority rule.

Some people have a high tolerance for noise or may even like some of the sounds that I have mentioned. Okay, we’re different. But some of us

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need quiet for the activities that enrich our lives: working from home, reading, writing, playing musical instruments, having intimate conversations, meditating, solving problems, doing research, playing games that require concentration, enjoying birds from our porch, trying to meet the daily challenges of our lives. For us, noise is a toxic pollutant that other people push into our homes and brains against our will and that reduces our happiness and our quality of life. So would you all please consider making a little less of it? n

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Habitat for inhumanity Re: “Shut It Down,” 4/13/2017): Between the Dane County Jail and the long-delayed homeless day shelter, I don’t know how Joe Parisi sleeps at night. Promising “access to opportunities” rings pretty hollow, but hey, Joe’s a nice guy, right? Yeah.

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No more fishnets!

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I agree with Mary Jo Walters, who wrote in about the “fish-netted a__” ad on page 47 of your March 30 issue (Letters, 4/13/2017).

Such ads demean women and condone attitudes and behaviors inimical to the best interests of y’all’s daughters, sisters, wives, etc. If some find them and the advertisers appealing, let them satisfy those appetites elsewhere.

Lisa Luedtke (via mail)

Regarding “In Search of the Elusive Saola” (4/6/2017): While respecting renowned wildlife biologist Bill Robichaud, I very much disagree with his view that Martha — the captive, “tame” saola — was not traumatized by her capture. While not familiar with the saola, instinct and common sense would suggest that, though they may indeed be “polite” animals who are not by nature “excitable” and “would feed out of your hand,” being taken from her everyday world to become part of a private menagerie was not in Martha’s best interest. She gave her last 18 days of life in captivity for the sake of numerous measurements, photographs and copious biological notes. Only after her death, when butchered for a village feast, was it discovered that Martha had been pregnant. How very sad.

Christine Raschick (via email)

Corrections In last week’s story about LED Habitats, Klaus Messerer should have been identified as the person who built and designed the LED Habitats cabinet, not Tom Fulker.

The story on Mike Heller had an incorrect location for iHeartRadio’s broadcast offices.

They are on South Fish Hatchery Road.

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at Lear Corp., the Janesville company that manufactured all the seats for the cars that rolled off General Motors’ neighboring assembly line. Vaughn spent 18 years at the plant, where he met his wife, Barb, and rose to shop chairman for United Auto Workers Local 95. He comes from a long line of union men.

His grandfather worked at GM for 30 years and his father, 35. Together he and Barb once pulled in over six figures, but after today — April 10, 2009 — they will go from one income to none.

The Vaughns are one of three families author Amy Goldstein, in her new book, Janesville: An American Story, profiles in extraordinary detail in the years following the shuttering of what was then GM’s oldest operating assembly plant. As she notes in the book, the destinies of the Lear factory and GM’s assembly plant were inextricably linked: “In Janesville, the assembly plant had been Lear’s only client, their fortunes bound together.”

The GM plant ceased production of SUVs on Dec. 23, 2008, with roughly 1,200 workers losing their jobs two days before Christmas (a small crew con-

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covers the 2011 protests in Madison over Gov. Scott Walker’s antiunion efforts and subsequent unsuccessful recall campaign, the political arena is not her primary focus; her real interest — and the strength of her book — is in showing how ordinary families and individuals fared after GM pulled out, losing $28-an-hour jobs with benefits that would be nearly impossible to find again.

With a sharp decrease in family income, the laid-off workers all faced tough choices. Many enrolled at Blackhawk Technical College to be retrained for other jobs.

Mike Vaughn ends up there, deciding that his work as a union shop chairman put him in a good position to go into human relations, even if it meant he’d be on the management side.

Matt Wopat, who worked at GM for 13 years before the closing (and whose father had earlier retired after 40 years at the plant), is less focused. He eventually enrolls in Blackhawk’s electric power distribution program. Also in the program is Jerad Whiteaker, whose family Goldstein profiles as well.

Whiteaker had heard there were good jobs at Alliant Energy but they would entail climbing tall utility poles. He quickly learns at Blackhwawk that he does not like climbing even the practice poles, and there are rumors that jobs at Alliant might actually be drying up. He drops out after two weeks.

Wopat sticks it out longer, studying at night at home with his daughters, struggling with the math. But he too starts hearing the rumors about Alliant, and is constantly worrying that he and his wife will not be able to cover their expenses. He learns there are GM jobs in Indiana about to come open and, nine weeks shy of getting his diploma, he drops out of Blackhawk.

Wopat becomes a “GM gypsy,” traveling back and forth from Janesville to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he works at a GM plant and shares an apartment with another GM autoworker. That means he sees his wife and three girls only on weekends.

Wopat makes an understandable choice, but Goldstein’s descriptive storytelling reveals the heartbreak as well. Like how Wopat’s children won’t watch their favorite TV shows during the week, but record them so the family can watch together on Sunday. Or how one daughter, a junior in high school, doesn’t like to go out on weekends so she can spend all that time with her dad. It’s these kinds of details, which Goldstein recreated from countless hours of interviews with her sources, that put a human face on the larger national story of economic downturn.

Goldstein says, from the start, she “wanted to operate on two layers.”

“I wanted to have this intimate quality where you see people’s lives changing. I also wanted to have some scaffolding. To make clear that the people I was writing about were representative of a larger reality in their community.”

Talks about the future of the Janesville GM plant continued for years. In a February 2015 meeting, Rep. Paul Ryan told the Janesville Gazette editorial board that GM officials had made it clear to him they would not be reopening the vacant plant.

So she worked with economists, including Laura Dresser of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at UW-Madison, to do a statistical analysis to see whether retraining efforts were helping the thousands of laid-off workers in southern Wisconsin in the years after GM’s departure. She focused on Blackhawk Technical College.

The findings, she says, were surprising. “Having gone back to school in many cases was not particularly helpful,” Goldstein says. It did not necessarily produce a job at the other end or better pay.

Goldstein doesn’t blame Blackhawk, whose staff worked closely with local business leaders to anticipate where job openings might be and to encourage people to go into those fields. School officials also created a lot of support services for students, including basic computer instruction, once they realized many of the former factory workers did not have these skills.

“The issue was that there still weren’t enough jobs on the other end,” says Goldstein. “That is not to say retraining itself is a bad idea.” But, she adds, “retraining can’t compensate for a lack of local jobs.”

Before GM, there was the Parker Pen Company. Founded in 1888, it produced fancy pens and supported good jobs in the city for decades until it, too, eventually left Janesville for good. Parker High School, named after the founder of Parker Pen, was built in 1967.

And, by the fall of 2008, there was something called the “Parker Closet.”

It was the creation of social studies teacher Deri Wahlert, who convinced her principal to let her convert a spare storage room in the high school into a supply cabinet. As Goldstein writes, it was for kids in need, who “ducked inside, when their friends weren’t looking so that nobody else would know, to comb through donated Rubbermaid bins for toothpaste or used jeans or cans of soup.”

Wahlert sees not just the increased material needs of her students, due to plummeting incomes at home and the ongoing recession, but the accompanying emotional toll. “Last year alone, seven of her Closet kids threatened suicide — a few even attempted it,” Goldstein writes. “She notices that her Closet kids who have grown up poor, always been poor, tend to be tougher, better at coping with it. The fragile ones are new to being poor, with parents fighting about how to live without the money they used to have.”

Goldstein says one of her takeaways from her research is that “falling out of the middle class is very different from having been poor all along.”

In a striking scene from the book, one of Wahlert’s students finally cracks, sharing the troubles her parents are having making ends meet. When introduced to the Parker Closet, it’s the first time it seems to dawn on her that other families in the community were going through similar troubles.

There are so many stories in the book that Goldstein, helpfully, provides a “cast of characters” cheat sheet at the beginning. She interviews business leaders and economic development officials, union retirees who stay on as union volunteers, college administrators, and leaders of nonprofit organizations.

Goldstein’s goal was to show how the changes brought on by GM’s departure “looked from many different vantage points in town. I wanted it to be like a kaleidoscope.” n ANDREW REUTER

tinued truck production through the spring). About 800 workers at Lear lost their jobs. There would be much more collateral damage to come.

The book grew out of Goldstein’s work covering social policy for The Washington Post during the Great Recession. The Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter was writing a lot of stories on the ground-level effects of the bust, but found herself wanting to drill down even more. “I just became obsessed with understanding what was happening with people’s lives,” she says in a phone interview from Washington, D.C., where she lives and works.

Goldstein started looking for a community that would serve as a microcosm of the country’s economic woes. She wanted to focus on a locale that fit the national pattern of unemployment — where disproportionate numbers of people were losing relatively high-paying jobs and had low levels of education. She was also looking for a community with a technical college because she was interested in job retraining efforts — something that, in increasingly partisan times, has rare bipartisan support.

And Janesville had one more thing in its favor. “I thought there had to be something interesting in the fact that this was an old UAW town represented by Paul Ryan in a state governed by Scott Walker,” says Goldstein. “I figured I would find interesting dynamics.”

In one of the early scenes in the book, Goldstein describes the trip Ryan, then the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, former Gov. Jim Doyle and former state Sen. Tim Cullen (recently retired from Blue Cross Blue Shield) took to Detroit in September 2008 to try to convince GM officials to keep the Janesville plant going. Their package of tax credits, government grants and union concessions was ultimately unsuccessful. But Goldstein says Ryan continued to work behind the scenes to help his hometown and district.

“There was a big economic development effort in the city and Rock County,” she says. “He has sometimes been asked to quietly talk with businesses the county or city is trying to recruit.”

At the same time, Ryan’s star was rising in the House, and he was becoming very focused on federal fiscal policy. “So his attention was not 100 percent back home,” says Goldstein. But Ryan saw the two as connected, adds Goldstein. “He believed that getting federal fiscal policy right is important to helping communities.”

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It is mid-May, and Mike isn’t toting any books tonight. Just an attendance slip he needs to turn in to the Workforce Development agency that has paid for all his classes, and a few sheets of notes he’d brought along in case he wanted to study just before his final exam. Mike has always gotten to his classes and his exams a half hour early, as he did for shifts in his factory days. Now, as he walks toward his white truck, it is near 9 p.m., and the exam for his business law course, his last final exam, is over.

By this night, 26 months have gone by since Mike took the brief, nostalgic glance back at the empty factory floor at Lear Corp., Janesville’s largest supplier to General Motors, manufacturing the seats for every vehicle that came out of the assembly plant. Mike was shop chairman for United Auto Workers Local 95, a responsibility that made him the third generation of his family to have been a leader in the local.

Over time, he has stayed in touch less and less with the 800 union brothers and sisters he represented at Lear, easing each round through their layoffs as best he could. Just a few friends and people he runs into now and then around town. It’s not that Mike doesn’t think about the times and the people of his past. But those times are gone, and no point dwelling on them.

His father, Dave, the middle generation of the union Vaughns, is still active in the union. Nearly a decade after he retired from General Motors, he is still volunteering as vice president of UAW Local 95, as he was when Mike broke the news that he was going into human resources, putting himself on the management side. The local’s membership has shriveled, the number of units whose workers it represents dwindled from 16 companies to five, given the suppliers that closed along with GM. And the workers who remain cannot claim paid “release time” from their jobs to help run the union — as Mike did at Lear and Dave before him at General Motors — which is why the local’s officers these days are retirees like Dave.

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On this Wednesday night, what is immediately ahead is his graduation on Saturday at the Dream Center, just like his wife Barb’s a year ago. So, with graduation three days away, Mike is walking to his truck with pride and fear.

The pride is easy to understand. Mike is excited that he did it — 23 courses in all, pulling 21 As, an A-minus, and one B. Like Barb before him, he will be wearing with his cap and gown a golden sash and honor cord. He will tell a Janesville Gazette reporter: “I got decked out. At 43, I’m proud of my accomplishments.”

The fear that runs alongside is because Mike cannot avoid the sense that a moment of truth has arrived. When he handed in his exam a few minutes ago, he completed a gamble, to which he has devoted two years of his life, that the Job Center’s retraining gospel was worth believing. Certainly, the gospel has been spread wide. Last year, when he started at Blackhawk, 543 other out-of-a-job factory workers in Rock County — and about 100,000 nationwide at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $575 million — got the kind of Trade Adjustment training subsidies that Mike helped to negotiate for Lear’s workers as it was shutting down. Nationally, nearly half the trainees who got this help last year, and about one-third this year in which he is graduating, will not quickly find a job.

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Two months ago, Mike began to apply for jobs. Dozens of jobs. He figured that his résumé might get noticed, with his near-perfect grades and his decade on the union side of human resources work, including five years as the shop chairman of an 800-person factory. He would get noticed, he figured, because of the contracts that he negotiated, the grievances he handled, the employee contract language he interpreted, the Kronos workforce management system that he already knows how to use. Union side or management side, he figured, the work is similar, and companies would surely notice that he had been doing it for years.

Mike is surprised that all he has gotten are rejection letters, when he has heard anything at all. Company after company telling him that they are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree and three to five years’ experience in human resources management.

He understands that companies can afford to be choosy when so many people want these scarce human resources jobs, want any job. Yet Mike can’t help but be nervous that, three days before graduation, he hasn’t gotten a single callback.

Proud as he is of his accomplishments, his mind-set is not helped by the fact that, in March, for reasons unfathomable to him, his unemployment checks stopped arriving. His unemployment benefits were supposed to keep flowing as long as he was in school. He knows other out-of-a-job workers who were laid off earlier than him and are going to be in school longer than he will and are still collecting their unemployment. But try though he has, he cannot persuade anyone in the Wisconsin agency that handles unemployment insurance that the status someone assigned to him — “exhausted time period for benefits”— must be a mistake. He and Barb have been dipping lately into their small savings, because trying to live on her $10.30 an hour, from her new job helping a developmentally disabled client, isn’t the same as living on her $10.30 an hour plus his unemployment checks.

So finding a job as soon as he graduates is a matter of urgency to Mike — such urgency that he has even started to apply

for laborer’s jobs, just in case the human resources management plan in which he has invested these two years of his life does not pan out. He has started to stare hard at the question of how far he is willing to commute each day if a job were to come along. Is Madison too far? Rockford, Illinois? Further away? As Mike walks toward his truck, his last exam just behind him, his graduation just ahead, a large question jostles in his mind: “What’s next?”

This pride-fear combination will linger inside Mike for precisely two more weeks.

Two Wednesdays from now, he will go for an interview at Seneca Foods Corporation, a vegetable processing plant in Janesville that happens to have an entry-level position in its human resources department. That Friday, he will get a call to come in on Monday for a preemployment physical. On Tuesday, he will be told that he can start work the next day. And so, on June 1, Mike will not be thinking much about the fact that he has to work the overnight shift, or that he will be dealing with workers and interpreting labor contract language from the corporate side and not the union side, or that he and Barb will, between them, be earning just over half the money they had made at Lear.

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“Our show has gone from just being a comedy show to being a sort-of primal scream,” explains Miller.

“There’s something about the combination of me and Frangela and John Fugelsang that’s just perfect for these times. John speaks so fluently about the Bible and Christianity, and Frangela are so dead-on about the race issues going on in this country, and the show’s just joyful. It’s a chance for us to get out of the studio and be with the people who think of us all as friends. I keep hearing the same thing, that it feels like family.”

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Now there’s Chili King — another sprawling, sometimes intimidating Chinese menu on South Park Street. That menu contains a slender American-style Chinese section that’s barely worth the time it takes to read. The good stuff’s everywhere else. You just have to dive in.

Witness the shift in international dining in America.

On my first visit, after ordering the tofu with special spicy sauce, we were discouraged from the dish on the grounds that it wasn’t the chef’s specialty. As the server turned over the menu to the side with the American section, my heart sank. However, he was pointing not to the crab rangoon or something equally Westernized, but toward the dried pot section, and to the beef stomach with spicy sauce.

The tripe was cut in a rough chiffonade, chewier than in similar dishes elsewhere on South Park, and was accompanied by a few unannounced slices of what was almost certainly tongue.

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Dried pot chicken is served on the bone; between those bones, the skin and the somewhat harsh cooking technique, the meat was a little tough. But the spicy, oily broth was killer. There’s house special steamed whole fish, no small specimen, also served on the bone — perfectly flaky under a blanket of floral, zingy chopped peppers. For a modest upcharge, it can be made from fresh fish instead of frozen.

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Those on the docket include Karben4’s Vine pale ale. It’s a sessionable beer made with Hull Melon and Hallertau Blanc hops, which give it fruity, wine-like accents. For the Cask Ale Fest, brewer Jeff Olson added golden raisins to the cask, which ramps up its Sauvignon Blanc character.

Door County Brewing of Baileys Harbor will be pouring In a Factory Downtown, an India Pale Ale brewed with lactose sugar, peaches and Citra hops. Then brewer Danny McMahon added more Citra hops and vanilla beans directly to the cask and allowed it to condition. “It should be something akin to a peach milkshake,” says McMahon.

The gluten-free brewery Alt Brew of Madison is also serving something peachy — a Belgian tripel made with peach puree.

From Verona, Hop Haus Brewing will bring Mango Magic Dragon Double IPA. The mango accentuates the citrus hoppiness already in the beer, lending even more fresh tropical notes.

The Great Dane, known for the cask ales it serves at its downtown location, will bring Black Watch Scotch Ale. It’s brewed with peat-smoked malt, well-suited to the style.

Making a run here from Minneapolis, Indeed Brewing will offer the 2016 vintage of Rum King. This big imperial stout comes in at over 10 percent ABV and is cask-conditioned with cocoa nibs and vanilla beans.

Scott Manning, brewmaster at Madison’s Vintage Brewing Company, always

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Cary Jaworski of Lakefront Brewery offering a sample at last year’s fest.

shines at cask ale festivals. For this year’s event he’ll be offering his Key Lime witbier.

Ale Asylum has a special version of its Bambooleator Doppelbock that has been aged in tequila and chardonnay barrels.

And Wisconsin Brewing will offer Badger Kellerbier. This is an example of a very pure unfiltered lager (the only lager in the cask ale fest).

Second Salem Brewing of Whitewater has a growing reputation for interesting one-offs. Brewmaster Christ Christon took a pale ale and conditioned it with poblano peppers, for some heat, and a little pineapple, for fruity freshness.

Hoppy beer lovers should look for a special dry-hopped version of Rockets Red Ale from Next Door Brewing.

Some brewers are still waiting to determine exactly what they’ll be bringing, so surprises are part of the event’s allure. This year’s Cask Ale Fest actually precedes the official opening of Madison Craft Beer Week; it takes place 7-10 p.m., Thursday, April 27, at the Madison Children’s Museum. Tickets ($40 via isthmustickets.com) include a tasting glass and unlimited samples. ■

German heritage Capital Kölsch from Capital Brewery The newest beer from Capital reinforces that brewery’s reputation for making great German beer styles. “[Even] with the portfolio of beer we’ve made in the past 31 years, we’re still finding German styles we’ve never brewed,” says brewmaster Ashley Kinart. The Middleton brewery just has released a traditional kölsch.

This kölsch was designed by the brewery’s Zach Faber, director of operations since 2012. The recipe has authentic touches in its German pilsner malts, German Hallertau and Czech Saaz hops. This kölsch ranks right up there. It’s clean with a hint

of fruity pear that reinforces the beer’s crispness. There’s also a subtle earthy, bready and wheaty background that gives it balance as well as body.

It pairs well with salads, light sandwiches and summer lunch fare. The fruity tones and mild maltiness go nicely with vinaigrette dressings and/or sandwiches and wraps.

Capital Kölsch comes in at 4.8 percent AVB. It’s likely to be found in local taphouses

and the brewery’s beer garden throughout the summer. At the brewery it’s sold in pints for $5 and growlers for $14 (refill). It’s also expected to be among the beers offered at the Cask Ale Festival on April 27 during Madison Craft Beer Week.

— ROBIN SHEPARD

Irish pub to replace Madhatter Danny’s Pub scheduled to open this fall

The campus area is losing Madhatter after 30 years. The longtime student bar and hangout will close in May and, pending approval from the city, reopen as Danny’s Pub this fall.

Brano Kruger, general manager of the Red Rock Saloon, is buying the bar and turning it into an Irish pub.

“This type of high-energy, Irish-American crossover bar is something that is lacking in this area of downtown Madison,” says Kruger. Though both the Irish Pub, Brocach and the Coopers Tavern are just blocks away, Kruger says he is courting more of a campus clientele. “We are still going to be all about the Badgers.”

For two decades, Madhatter was a campus hotspot at its original location in the old University Square complex. After losing its lease when the mall was redeveloped in 2006, the bar struggled to find a new home until settling in at 328 W. Gorham St. two years later.

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Kruger’s proposal calls for a complete remodel of the space and an expansion into the adjacent storefront once home to Silver Mine Subs. Unlike Madhatter, Danny’s Pub will serve

food. A kitchen is being added to the building as part of the project. Shepherd’s pie and other Irish fare will be on the menu, as well as burgers and wraps.

As part of his goal to appeal to students, Kruger is also seeking an entertainment license to allow for DJs and musicians to play well into the night.

Downtown Ald. Mike Verveer, a member of the Alcohol License Review Committee, supports the project because Kruger is an experienced operator with a clean record. Verveer says Madhatter, in recent years, ran into trouble with the city; in 2016 its alcohol license was suspended for 15 days for repeated violations involving serving minors and exceeding maximum occupancy. Nevertheless, it was a campus institution for several decades.

“Madhatter had a good run,” says Verveer. “It’s the end of an era.” n

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Casetta Kitchen, 222 W. Washington Ave., is teaming up with Itaru Nagano, chef de cuisine at L’Etoile, for a pop-up dinner focused on the versatility of chicken. Among the dishes: crispy chicken skin salad with nuoc cham dressing; chicken liver mousse, stracciatella and pickles; roasted chicken; and baked Alaska with matcha frozen custard. Tickets ($50) available for two seatings at tinyurl.com/casettachickendinner.

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Varsity Steven Schmitt pens the history of UW-Madison’s now defunct baseball program

BY MICHAEL POPKE

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Everyone knows how the story of Wisconsin Badgers baseball ends. Maybe that’s why it took more than 25 years after the program recorded its last out — a 1-0 loss to Purdue at Guy Lowman Field on May 10, 1991 — for someone to officially tell it.

“Nobody has ever written a history of the baseball team, which was the first varsity sport at the university,” says Steven Schmitt, author of A History of Badger Baseball: The Rise and Fall of America’s Pastime at the University of Wisconsin (UW Press), published earlier this month. Schmitt — a Madison native, Badger baseball fan, Wisconsin alum, and former reporter for several newspapers in the state — took seven years to write this book and interviewed 135 former players and coaches dating from the 1940s to the program’s 1991 demise amid a swirl of debt and Title IX concerns.

He will be selling books at a doubleheader between UW-Madison and Marquette University club baseball teams at Warner Park on April 22, beginning at 2

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Steven Schmi interviewed 135 former players and coaches to write the history of Badger baseball.

p.m., and he will be joined by journalist Doug Moe during a publication party at HotelRED, 1501 Monroe St., on April 24, at 7 p.m.

UW’s varsity baseball program began in 1870. Players participated in a first-of-its-kind

nine-game road trip to Japan in 1909, and the Badgers appeared in the 1950 College World Series. The sport was on the chopping block multiple times during its 121-year run, beginning in the early 20th

century. “I didn’t realize how often that happened until I did the research,” Schmitt says. “But football has always carried the other sports, whether in 1905 or 2017.”

Many former players who went on to build successful off-the-field careers in Madison are featured, including longtime and now retired Monona Grove High School athletic director Ron Nieman and Pat Richter, who left a career at Oscar Mayer to become Wisconsin’s athletic director in 1989. Harvey Kuenn made it to the big leagues and managed the Milwaukee Brewers to the team’s only World Series, and Dale Hackbart played for five NFL teams, including the Packers.

A History of Badger Baseball appears amid renewed hopes that the varsity sport will return to Wisconsin, the only Big Ten university without a team. “Some people say baseball will never come back, because it won’t support itself.

Well, it never did,” Schmitt, says. “There would be people willing to pay the funds to bring it back.” ■

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Magic in Milwaukee CTM’s To the Promised Land imagines a bond between a schoolgirl and Golda Meir

BY GWENDOLYN RICE

Inspired by real events and fueled by imagination, To the Promised Land features two Milwaukee girls from very different backgrounds — a troubled African American girl and a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine who will grow up to become prime minister of Israel.

The play, presented by Children’s Theater of Madison April 22-30 in the Playhouse at Overture Center, was written by Milwaukee actor and playwright Jon Daly.

The two girls occupy the same Milwaukee home, decades apart. In 1914, Goldie has dreams of political activism and tries to change the world for the better. In 1968, Ruth is struggling after the racially motivated shooting of her brother, who was part of a protest march for fair housing. Their relationship begins when Ruth is given an assignment to write a book report on Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel, who is coming to visit her school. In the play the two girls form a friendship, bonding over their mutual frustrations and their efforts to overcome injustice.

Daly says he was inspired to write the play because his daughter Emily attended Golda Meir School, renamed in 1979 after the prime minister, who went to grade school there. Meir visited the school in 1969.

“There is a famous picture of her embracing a young African American girl on that day,” says Daly. “Looking at that photo, I wondered if there was a story here — if I could bring them together in a work of fiction. The play just grew out of that.”

After the play premiered at First Stage Milwaukee in 2013, Daly sent the script to

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The photo that inspired the play: Golda Meir visiting a Milwaukee school in 1969.

Roseann Sheridan, artistic director at CTM. Finally Sheridan found a place for it in the company’s season.

Sheridan was particularly interested in directing and producing To the Promised Land because the content had both local and historical significance. “I didn’t know that much about Milwaukee’s struggle with civil rights before reading the play,” she says, “Plus, this was a great opportunity to promote new work. That’s always a goal.”

The two main characters, Ruth and Goldie, will be played by Laetitia Hollard and Alice Wenzlow, who are both enrolled in CTM’s Actors Academy program, an advanced acting

training program. Hollard is an eighth-grader from McFarland, and Wenzlow is a ninthgrader from Baraboo. Both have appeared in multiple CTM productions.

To prepare for her part as the teenage Golda Meir, Wenzlow read biographies of the renowned world leader. “She was a really strong girl,” says Wenzlow. “She’s willing to do what she needs to, to succeed.”

Like Sheridan, Hollard says the play introduced her to Milwaukee’s civil rights struggles.

“We learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks,” she says. “We never hear about the civil rights struggles in Wisconsin.” ■

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TO THE PROMISED LAND APRIL 22-30 The Playhouse at Overture Center

Aedric Donovan (left) and Hendrix Gullixson eventually joined forces after graduating from Mount Horeb High School.

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Gullixson and Donovan both bring personal experience to their work. Donovan, a part- time web designer, primarily handles the copywriting, design and marketing aspects of the business. Gullixson, a musician, handles talent development and communications with clients.

Today Vesten Records mostly represents electronic artists, partially due to Gullixson’s work in that sphere (he performs as Holven Fora). Early signees include ambient and chillwave acts from Madison and across the Midwest: NØÅ, Professor Daytime, Seafarer and Shikimo.

Donovan says Vesten Records wants to diversify both the artists and genres it represents.

In addition to Dash Hounds, the roster includes Sheep Decoy, an experimental acoustic artist

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Alivia Kleinfeldt, vocalist and guitarist for Dash Hounds, says the band appreciates the label’s aesthetic and is pleased to have the support of a label. “It’s as positive as I’ve ever seen from an artist standpoint,” says Kleinfeldt.

The label currently runs out of the founders’ homes, but Donovan and Gullixson hope to have an office and recording space soon. “We’ll need it to start working with larger bands, people struggling to find practice space and studio space,” says Donovan.

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Hendrix Gullixson and Aedric Donovan are excited. Vesten Records, their digital music label, has signed the dreamy up-and-coming Madison pop act Dash Hounds.

Donovan and Gullixson, who launched the label in May 2016, have a history, but the two weren’t always on friendly terms.

“We’ve known each other since early high school, but at that time we actually didn’t like each other,” Gullixson says with a laugh. “It wasn’t until later that we had both grown up enough to show each other respect.”

After graduating from Mount Horeb High School, the two eventually found common ground in their artistic pursuits. When Gullixson contacted Donovan to commission album art, the conversation quickly evolved, and they decided to create a record label.

“We saw a kind of all-or-nothing system,” Donovan says, “where you’re either scraping pennies or you’re a giant star. We looked at that as a problem, and asked, ‘How can we support those artists in between?’”

That support takes the form of one-stop digital distribution — via Spotify, iTunes, and other digital platforms. It also means helping artists connect with producers and a growing network of artists to create high-quality products. “Our relationships with our artists are very personal, and each is very specific,” Gullixson says.

“We see it as an investment in the artist,” Donovan adds, “so we cover the upfront costs for distribution.”

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Ode to a drowned city Cellist Matt Haimovitz returns with a powerful concerto

BY JAY RATH

Renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz returns to Madison this month in a revival of “Après moi, le deluge,” a powerful and unusual concerto responding to Hurricane Katrina.

The April 28 concert at UW-Madison’s Mills Hall also features the world premiere of “for Paris,” a work for solo viola and choir

by UW School of Music composer Laura Elise Schwendinger. Sally Chisholm, violist of the Pro Arte Quartet, will perform.

A native of Israel, Montreal-based Haimovitz has been called “ferociously talented” by The New York Times. Matt Rose at Juilliard described him as “probably the greatest talent I have ever taught.”

Though “Après moi, le deluge” features a chorus instead of an orchestra, the work technically remains a concerto.

“There are very few works like this,” Haimovitz tells Isthmus in a phone interview.

“You have organ with chorus, piano with chorus, but it’s rare to have cello.” It’s one of a series he commissioned for cello and unusual ensembles.

The work, which premiered here 11 years ago, was composed by Luna Pearl Woolf with libretto by Eleanor Wilner. Its title is credited to Louis XV of France. A close variant is credited to his lover, Madame de Pompadour. Almost certainly apocryphal, the phrase translates as “After me, the deluge” or, figuratively, “after my reign, all will be chaos.”

The commission began as a far different work. “I was actually having some trouble,” recalls Woolf, who is married to Haimovitz.

“It was more operatic and less choral. I was fighting with it a bit.”

It was at that time, in late August 2005, that Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. “Everyone sat glued to their television screens, watching this slow-motion catastrophe occur,” says Woolf. She and cocreator Wilner agreed to start over, addressing the tragedy.

“It was incredible to me how fluidly this new text came to her,” says Woolf. “It was ready for me to write within a week or two.”

Haimovitz says the piece ends in a New Orleans funeral march and celebrates all the music that has come out of New Orleans and “how much we owe to that tradition.”

The upcoming event reunites Haimovitz with the UW Concert Choir and conductor Beverly Taylor, who debuted “Après moi, le deluge.”

“They did an incredible job at the premiere, and we took them on tour through Texas and ended up in New Orleans,” says Haimovitz.

“That was a really emotional concert. People were just so touched. They were amazed by the sensitivity and empathy — and just really valuing what New Orleans means to our culture.

The reaction was powerful.” n

The “ferociously talented” Haimovitz.

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A perfect Good Friday celebration Madison Bach Musicians perform a stylish St. John Passion

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A performance of Bach’s St. John Passion at the First Unitarian Society, before an almost capacity audience, was a perfect celebration of Good Friday. It’s the latest landmark by Trevor Stephenson’s Madison Bach Musicians.

Bach revised this work, through some four versions, during his Leipzig years. He was not finished with it when he died — literally a work in progress, never formally completed. The edition used by Madison Bach Musician is the conventionally accepted third version.

As with the Messiah presentation a year ago, Stephenson has organized a proper Baroque recreation. The instruments are all period ones, or played in period style. And the scale suggests what Bach might have

mustered in his Leipzig church. There is a total of 10 singers (women and men), with an orchestra of 17 (12 on strings, four on winds, and organ).

Now, right away, some problems emerge.

Bach used boys as trebles, and there is still argument about how large his choir would have been. Of the singers, one, the sturdy tenor Dann Coakwell, is the narrating Evangelist. The others sing the choruses and chorales, and from their number come those taking small roles and the solo arias.

Certainly the singers are good. The men excel, notably tenor Ryan Townsend, and the two basses, Richard Ollarsaba (noble as Jesus), and Joshua Copeland (first as Peter, then as Pilate).

Chelsie Propst, often a spare tire in the chorus, is magnificent in singing the final aria.

The point is, though, that eight or nine adult mixed voices do not a chorus make.

Though they work with enthusiasm, they sound more like individual voices than as an ensemble, and do not stand up sufficiently against the 17 instrumentalists. Stephenson and conductor Marc Vallon seem fixated on presenting mini-choruses rather than something like the real thing, and, as with last year’s Messiah, the results are not sonically satisfactory.

That said, the performance is devoted and stylish. Vallon continues to be an energetic and inspiring conductor. Large audience response clearly shows that these Easter-season events are a firm tradition and a great credit to Madison Bach Musicians.

Stephenson gave a talk before the performance, and, echoing practices at Bach’s Leipzig church, Rev. Michael Schuler of First Unitarian Society delivered a sermon on issues of the St. John text between the two parts. n

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Bring the tissues Small moments lift Gifted beyond its clichéd plot line

BY MARC SAVLOV

Watching the trailer of Gifted, I felt I knew the whole film already, a rookie film critic mistake that reminded me that arriving to a film burdened with preconceived ideas is a fool’s errand. Despite its treacly storyline, this is a film with heart to spare and several outstanding performances. Yes, you’ll want to bring some tissues with you, but don’t check your sense of humor at the box office either: Gifted is a charming, deeply human film, so much so that complaining about its well-trod plot points strikes me as downright curmudgeonly. Also, this may be your last chance to peep a good, old-fashioned melodrama before legions of superheroes take over the theaters until next autumn.

Speaking of which, Captain America’s Chris Evans drops the red, white and blue here for a totally different type of shield, that of compassionate father figure and guardian Frank to his 7-year-old niece Mary (the excellent Mckenna Grace). He’s a Florida backwater boat monkey, and she’s a child prodigy who’d probably ace Will Hunting in any mathletics competition. With frequent assistance from next-door neighbor Roberta (Octavia Spencer), Mary’s been raised and home-schooled by Uncle Frank ever since the suicide of her equally numerically brilliant mother. Still, Frank’s determined that the li’l Einstein acquires some social skills with kids her own age and enrolls her in the local elementary school under the tutelage

Union Maids: Labor History Film Series: Documentary featuring the stories of three Depressionera organizers. Central Library, April 20, 7 pm.

Speed Racer: Live-action reboot of the cartoon series, helmed by the Wachowskis. Union SouthMarquee, April 20 (9:30 pm) and April 22 (11 pm).

The LEGO Batman Movie: Animated action comedy with voice work by Will Arnett and Michael Cera as the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder. Union South-Marquee, April 21 (6 pm), April 22 (5:30 pm) and April 23 (3 pm).

Affecting scenes between Uncle Frank and niece Mary will stick with audiences.

of kindly schoolmarm Bonnie (Jenny Slate). Predictably, Bonnie susses out the fact that Mary’s a bona fide pint-sized genius, and approaches Frank about enrolling her in a gifted and talented school. Believing that’ll sell the kid short in the emotional long run, he declines. Enter Mary’s British grandmother (Lindsay Duncan), herself something of a highly regarded intellectual, who’s determined not to let the child’s off-the-chart gifts go to waste, and so launches a custody battle with venom straight out of Kramer vs. Kramer. Tears are on the docket.

Synopsized like that you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d seen all this a dozen times before. But Gifted’s strengths lie in the interstitial moments of this family’s life that in other, lesser films might be overlooked, or only briefly

touched upon in some sort of musical montage. Two particularly affecting scenes — one of Roberta and Mary karaoke-ing their hearts out, and a sunset wide-shot sequence that has Mary quizzing Frank on the existence of God while climbing all over him like the world’s cutest monkey — will stick with audiences long after they’ve exited the theater. Writer Tom Flynn hit the “best unproduced movie” Black List a few years back with this script and it’s easy to see why: Gifted may rely on the extremely oldschool lovable-orphan-and-adopted-parent template, but there’s a certain emotionally complex realism to both the performances and the storyline that lifts the film beyond the obvious and the clichéd. n

A movie on Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett is full of weighty storytelling

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The Grateful Dead Movie: 40th anniversary screening of concert film drawn from the band’s 1974 Winterland shows. Point and Palace-Sun Prairie, April 20, 7 pm.

From Beyond: Director Stuart Gordon adapts H.P. Lovecraft’s tale of a machine that allows scientists to see beyond our reality, with problematic results. UW Union South-Marquee, April 20, 7 pm.

The real-life Indiana Jones He was the real-life Indiana Jones.

The Harrison Ford character was based on British explorer Percy Fawcett. A cartographer and archaeologist, Fawcett was obsessed with the idea that remnants of a lost civilization were hidden in the Amazonian jungles, and he disappeared in those jungles in 1925 on what would be the last of many expeditions to prove his theory. What became of him remains a mystery. Why isn’t Fawcett as well known, at least by name, as Ernest Shackleton or Amelia Earhart? His adventures in the early 20th century captured the public imagination in Europe and the United States; newspaper dispatches from the jungle kept citizens up to date. And somehow we’ve all but forgotten him.

The Lost City of Z is here to remedy that, though it’s not likely to have the impact of Raiders of the Lost Ark. This is not an action movie but an adventure of the intellect and of the heart, focusing on what drove the

Happy Birthday to Me: A teen returns to school after brain surgery, and her friends start falling victim to a series of bizarre murders. Central Library, April 20, 6:30 pm.

mapmaker and historian. Filmmaker James Gray — who based his script on journalist David Grann’s 2009 book about Fawcett — has moved far away from the New York City that has been the setting for all his previous films, including such marvels as Two Lovers and We Own the Night, but he retains his focus on character over plot, on cause over effect, on the journey rather than the destination. It’s this weighty centering of his storytelling that gives his films a genuine feel of freshness and discovery even when they cover well-trod ground, and that true of Z too.

It’s a teeny bit of a shame, then, that the weakest aspect of the film is Charlie Hunnam, who is a bit blah as Fawcett.

There are a few riveting moments, but Robert Pattinson, as Fawcett’s aide-decamp Henry Costin, creates a much stronger presence just sitting quietly in the background.

I wish Hunnam could sell Fawcett’s passion as well to Sienna Miller as Fawcett’s wife, Nina, who keeps getting left behind to raise their children on her own when he goes off for years to South America.

Gray does, at least, sympathize with Nina: As her husband heads off on what would be his final adventure, a tiny reverie sees her imagining herself walking into the jungle too. It’s tender moments of visual poetry like that that fuel The Lost City of Z*’s undeniable power: of the dangerous beauty of the Amazon, of the lure of the unknown, of the draw of new friendships, which Fawcett is constantly forging with those others considered “savages.” n

Vitaphone Rarities: Restored early sound shorts. UW Cinematheque, April 21, 7 pm.

Amagi Beautiful Park: Anime Club (RSVP: 246-4548). Hawthorne Library, April 21, 7 pm.

The Eagle Huntress: A teenage Kazakh girl trains to be the first female in her family hunting with raptors. Union South-Marquee, April 21, 8:30 pm.

A Dragon Arrives: Iranian Film Festival: A surreal take on the days following the assassination of the Iranian prime minister in 1965. Union South-Marquee, April 22, 11 am.

Breath: Iranian Film Festival: A look at an Iranian family in the 1970s through the eyes of an imaginative girl. Union South-Marquee, April 22, 2 pm.

Wings of Life: Disney documentary about pollinators. SuperCharge! Foods, April 22, 4 pm.

Antigone: Film version by directors Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub of Brecht’s Greek tragedy adaptation. UW Cinematheque, April 22, 7 pm.

The Lure: Mermaid sisters in a Polish cabaret have differing opinions on how to best enjoy humans.

Union South-Marquee, April 22, 8:15 pm.

Ragbar: Iranian Film Festival: A young teacher takes a job in pre-revolutionary Tehran, and falls for the sister of a troublesome student. Union South-Marquee, April 23, 11 am.

E.T., the Extra Terrestrial: UW Cinematheque: A gentle alien stranded on Earth befriends a young boy, but government intervention leads to trouble. Chazen Museum of Art, April 23, 2 pm.

Auteur: Ricky D’Ambrose: Micro-Wave Cinema short films screening. UW Cinematheque, April 23, 7 pm.

Chinese Exclusion Act: Wisconsin China Initiative advance screening of PBS documentary.

Union South-Marquee, April 24, 6 & 8:30 pm (RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/32170290204).

Breaking the Cycle: The Power of Food to Interrupt the Revolving Prison Door: UW Nelson Institute film screening & panel discussion. Mechanical Engineering Building-Room 1106, April 24, 5 pm.

We Are X: Documentary on Japanese rockers X Japan. Union South-Marquee, April 25, 7 pm.

When We Rise: Free QCinema screening of mini-series following the history of LGBT activists Cleve Jones, Roma Guy, Ken Jones and Celia Chung. OutReach, April 26 (parts 3-4), 6:30 pm.

Fire at Sea: Open Doors for Refugees screening of Academy Award-nominated documentary about the migrant crisis. Barrymore Theatre, April 26, 7 pm.

Playtime: A perpetually bemusing Monsieur Hulot (writer-director Jacques Tati) and an American tourist cross paths in a gadget-besotted Paris. Bos Meadery, April 26, 7 pm.

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The Flaming Lips Friday, April 21, Orpheum Theater, 7 pm Let’s face it: The Flaming Lips are really weird. Between their unpredictable, sprawling psych-rock and frontman Wayne Coyne’s penchant for doing things like rolling out over the audience in a giant hamster ball, the massively influential Oklahoma City-bred group have been letting their freak flag fly since the early 1980s. They released their latest opus, Oczy Mlody, earlier this year. With Cherry Glazerr.

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Waka Flocka Flame Thursday, April 20, Liquid, 9 pm

Surgeons in Heat Thursday, April 20, The Frequency, 9 pm

It’s been nearly seven months since beloved (and charmingly elusive) Milwaukee band Surgeons in Heat has played a gig in Madison; if you’re a fan of hazy, poppy, neo-soul jams, don’t sleep on this one. Two great local acts are filling out the bill: indie-rock quartet Little Legends, and lo-fi singer-songwriter Jeremiah Nelson performing as a duo with Aaron Scholz.

Atlanta rap royalty Waka Flocka Flame hit the scene in 2010 as a gritty Gucci Mane protege who helped drive the city’s regional trap sound to the height of popularity. In recent years, he’s capitalized on a shift into electro-fueled party rap. With DJ Whoo Kid, BoodahDARR, Knick Symo, DJay Mando.

Bos Meadery: Nøå, BaskET, DJ Kayla Kush, free, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Common Chord, Americana, free, 7 pm.

Harmony Bar: Jon Wayne & the Pain, People Brothers Band, Dirty Revival, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Animals (Pink Floyd tribute), Natty Nation, Thee Grateful Dub Band, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Nicky Jordan, Dan Rafferty, free, 9 pm.

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

Nomad World Pub: Bird’s Eye, 7 pm; DJs Funkenstein, Glynis, Prasanna, 10 pm.

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Tip Top Tavern: Sam Ness, folk, free, 9 pm.

Twist Bar and Grill: Gerri DiMaggio Jazz Unit, free, 5 pm.

UW Varsity Band Thursday, April 20, Kohl Center, 7 pm

The James Bond soundtrack song “Nobody Does It Better” is the theme for the marching band’s 44th annual spring concerts,

Yahara Bay Distillers, Fitchburg: The Civil Engineers, 8:30 pm; Maximum Ink’s anniversary party starts 6 pm.

T HE AT E R & DANCE The Wizard of Oz: Sun Prairie Civic Theatre, 7:30 pm on 4/20-21, 2 & 7:30 pm on 4/22 and 2 pm, 4/23, Sun Prairie High School. $15. 837-8217.

Demetri Martin Thursday, April 20, Orpheum Theater, 8 pm

Comedy fans are well aware of unconventional standup Demetri Martin. Widely known for his deadpan one-liners, ambidextrous drawings on giant note pads and for playing every single instrument in the hipster’s repertoire at the same time, he’s also put out four comedy albums, starred in various films, and had his own Comedy Central show (Important Things with Demetri Martin). Martin is coming to Madison with his palindrome-filled comedic stylings to celebrate that day of the year when everybody seems to be laughing a bit more than usual. With David Freeburg.

Tom Rhodes, Hannah Hogan, Turner Barrowman: 8:30 pm on 4/20 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 4/21-22, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

Stand-up Democracy: Audience votes on sets by Gena Gephart, Turner Barrowman, Martin Henn, Rich D’Amore, with host Esteban Touma, 9 pm, 4/20, Rigby.

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Samurai: The Way of the Warrior This exhibit of more than 90 pieces of Japanese arms and armor is drawn from the collection of Museo Stibbert in Florence, which holds one of the most extensive collections outside Japan.

Marquette University associate professor Michael Wert will give a lecture, “Inventing the Samurai in Early Modern Japan,” at 5:30 pm, with a reception at 6:30 pm.

The exhibit continues through July 23.

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Madison 420 Fest Friday, April 21, Brink Lounge, 4:20 pm

Dave’s not here. But he’ll probably be at 420 Fest. The annual stoner holiday is being observed with 12 bands on two stages, marijuana-related vendors and good vibes in hopes of finally ending Wisconsin’s prohibition on the sticky icky. Performing on the Lounge stage: Anima, Gary David & the Enthusiasts, Beefus, Mudroom, the Material Boys, Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars and Dub Foundation. Performing on the Nightclub stage: the Woods, Sweet Delta Dawn, Dogs in a Pile, the Family Business and the Grasshoppers. Tickets are $20 and benefit Madison NORML and Hempfest.

Dennis McCann: Discussing “This Storied River,” his new book, 7 pm, 4/20, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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High Noon Saloon: Morgan James, Mike Droho, 6 pm; Toxic Metropolis (Rage Against The Machine tribute), Master of Puppets (Metallica), Mergatroid, 9:30 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Cash Box Kings, blues, 8 pm.

Lakeside Street Coffee House: Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase, free, 7 pm.

Liliana’s: Doug Brown & Jodi Jean Amble, 6:30 pm.

Liquid: Cheat Codes, Inzo, Barello, 10 pm.

Majestic: Space Jesus, Perkulator, Zero Gravity, 9 pm.

Madison Theatre Guild and OUT!Cast Theatre collaborate on this play about a 1930s vaudeville comedian whose specialty is a “sissy” characterization, but who is also a closeted gay man. A new relationship and a political crackdown lead to a major conflict between his personal and professional lives. ALSO: Saturday and Thursday, April 22 & 27, 7:30 pm. Through May 6.

Perfect Arrangement Friday, April 21, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm Comedy blends with drama in Topher Payne’s play about a gay and a lesbian couple in the 1950s posing as straight by swapping partners in public, brought to the local boards

by StageQ. ALSO: Saturday, April 22 (with talkback led by historian Dick Wagner) and Thursday, April 27, 8 pm. Through May 6.

The Exonerated: Voices Theatre Project, 7 pm, 4/2122, UW Law School. Donations benefit Wis. Innocence Project. RSVP: voicestheatre.com.

Anger Dance: Left of Left Center: 7:30 pm on 4/2122 and 2 pm, 4/23, Lakeview Moravian Church. $15 donation. RSVP: leftofleftcenter.com/reservations.

Peter and the Starcatcher: Madison Country Day School: prequel to “Peter Pan,” 7 pm on 4/21 and 3 & 7 pm, 4/22, UW Vilas Hall-Hemsley Theatre. $12 adv. only: buytickets.at/madisoncountrydayschool. www.oz: PlayTime Productions: 7 pm, 4/21, Overture Center-Promenade Hall; 6:30 pm, 4/26, Patrick Marsh Middle School, Sun Prairie. Donations. 437-4217.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Midwest Horse Fair: Annual event, 4/21-23, Alliant Energy Center. $17/day (evening shows extra). midwesthorsefair.com. 920-623-5515.

Nomad World Pub: Madison Choro Ensemble, 5:30 pm; DJs Brook, WhiteRabbit, 9 pm.

Fashion Show for All Abilities: Annual Waisman Center event, 6 pm, 4/21, Monona Terrace. $5. 890-0777.

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

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Madrigal Singers, Chorale, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller: Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, free, 5 pm.

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

Williamson Magnetic Recording Company: Curt Oren with Taralie Peterson, Terror Pidgeon Surround Sound Laydowns, Midwaste, 8 pm.

UW Football: Spring intrasquad game, 6:30 pm, 4/21, Camp Randall; kids fair 5 pm (free). $5. 262-1440.

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Metropolitan Opera singers Andrew Bidlack and Amanda Woodbury (pictured) make their Madison Opera debuts in those roles, with direction by Met staff member Dan Rigazzi. ALSO: Sunday, April 23, 2:30 pm.

Caitlin Canty Saturday, April 22, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Factoid of the day: Americana singersongwriter Caitlin Canty’s last album, the atmospheric, hypnotic Reckless Skyline, was produced by Whitewater native Jeffrey Foucault. Multi-instrumentalist Shane Leonard (Kalispell, Field Report), an Eau Claire denizen, strengthens this bill’s Wisconsin connection with an opening set.

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Essen Haus: Brewhaus Polka Kings, free, 8:30 pm.

First Unitarian Society: Peter Mayer, 7:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Steepwater Band, Lower 5th, 9:45 pm.

Heid Music: Guilty, Kharma Shotgun, Vets on Frets, Guitars for Vets benefit, donations, 1 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Music con Brio, Sortin’ the Mail, free, 2 pm; Jay Moran’s Mad Rocksteady, 5 pm; The Last Revel, Joseph Huber Band, 9:30 pm.

Hop Garden Tap Room, Paoli: Old Black Joe & the Third Rail Sparks, free, 1 pm.

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The Red Zone: 5th Gear, JDRF benefit, 8 pm.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, chamber music, 7:30 pm.

Sí Café: The Handsome Devils Trio, jazz, 8 pm.

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Tricia’s Country Corners, McFarland: The Retro Specz, classic rock, 9 pm.

Tuvalu Coffeehouse and Gallery, Verona: Keith Hampton & Michael Mood, free, 7 pm.

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UW Union South-Sett: Why?, Page Campbell, 9 pm.

THEATER & DANCE

To the Promised Land Saturday, April 22, 2:30 & 7 pm 1 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53703 Lunch served daily 11:00am - 2:00pm circmadison.com

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Bos Meadery: Mark Lint’s Dry Folk, The Getaway Drivers, free/donations, 7 pm.

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Kanopy Dance Company: “Pictures Without Frames,” 5 & 8 pm, 4/22, Overture Center. $29. 258-4141.

Children’s Theater of Madison stages playwright Jon Daly’s magical-realisminfused story of the connection between Israeli prime minister Golda Meir and a girl growing up in the same Milwaukee house decades later. ALSO: Sunday, April 23, 2:30 pm. Through April 30. See story, page 30.

Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour Saturday, April 22, Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm Are you a special snowflake? Does saying the phrase “President Donald Trump” make you physically ill? Come laugh away the gloom and doom with progressive talk radio star Stephanie Miller, along with fellow leftleaning funnyman John Fugelsang and Los Angeles-based comedy duo Frangela, featuring graduates of The Second City. They want you to know that you are not alone.

And you are not insane. See story, page 21.

Atlas Improv Company: 8 & 10 pm Fridays & Saturdays, 609 E. Washington Ave. $8 ($5 kids). 259-9999.

Monkey Business Institute: 5:30, 8 pm & 10:30 pm Saturdays, Glass Nickel-Atwood. $12-$5. 658-5153.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Melanie Radzicki McManus: Discussing “Thousand Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail,” her new book, 2 pm, 4/22, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

Hidden Voices: African American Writers in Wisconsin: Talk by poet Fabu, novelist Sherry Lucille and playwright/novelist Catrina Sparkman, 2 pm, 4/22, South Madison Library. 266-6395.

Watershed Reading Series: Readings by “The Road Ahead: Stories of the Forever War” contributors Matthew Hefti & Kristen L. Rouse, with fellow veterans Justice Castañeda & Dave Chrisinger, 8 pm, 4/22, Arts + Literature Laboratory. 556-7415.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Deborah Butterfield: Talk by the sculptor, 7 pm, 4/22, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Event full; wait list only: mmoca.org. 257-0158.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Record Store Day: Exclusive releases, in-store events & giveaways, 4/22, with participants including B-Side Records (8 am; 255-1977); Ear Wax (11 am; 257-6402); MadCity Music Exchange (8 am;; 2518558); Strictly Discs (7 am; 259-1991); and Sugar Shack (9 am; 256-7155). recordstoreday.com.

Midwest Vintage Flea: Vintage apparel from various vendors, 9 am-5 pm, 4/22, Art In Gallery. 441-1323.

Spring Shearing Days: Annual event, 11 am-4 pm, 4/22-23, Rainbow Fleece Farm, New Glarus, shearing at noon, 1 & 2 pm daily. Free admission. 527-5311.

Wisconsin’s Earth Day Heritage: Music by John Harmon & texts by Gaylord Nelson, John Muir & Aldo Leopold, every half-hour, 10 am-1:30 pm, 4/22, Capitol. facebook.com/events/1397776796944711.

Party for the Planet: Earth Day celebration, 10 am2 pm, 4/22, Vilas Zoo, with kids’ activities, info on conservation, free trees for planting. 258-9490.

Earth Day Expo: Sustainable Stoughton event, 10 am5 pm, Chorus Public House, Stoughton, with 25+ local artisans & farmers, speakers, music by Peter Kocher, food. Free admission. sustainablestoughton.org.

Madison College Pow Wow: 11 am, 4/22, Truax Campus-Redsten Gym, with grand entries 1 & 7 pm, dinner 5 pm. $5. 246-6224.

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Pop-up Peace Museum: Madison WILPF event, 12:30-3 pm, 4/22, Lisa Link Peace Park, with poetry, Raging Grannies & more. 609-7961.

Steven D. Schmitt: Discussing “A History of Badger Baseball: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Pastime at the University of Wisconsin,” 7 pm, 4/24, HotelRED. 283-9332. See story, page 28.

Stand Against U.S. War & Militarism: Rally, 1 pm, 4/22, Capitol Square-State Street corner. facebook.com/events/192313644609650.

March for Science: Meet 1 pm, 4/22, James Madison Park, for walk to rally at UW Library Mall. facebook.com/events/1763770130603220.

People’s Climate March: Meet 2 pm, 4/22, Capitol for rally, with march to MGE following. facebook. com/events/156033178229398.

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Wisconsin Vinyl Collective album release Sunday, April 23, High Noon Saloon, 7 pm

Stone After Stone Records’ Erik Kjelland and producer/Garbage drummer Butch Vig (pictured) teamed up on WVC Volume 1, a compilation LP released in conjunction with Record Store Day featuring previously unreleased songs by BoDeans, Cory Chisel & Adriel Denae, and Vig’s own Emperors of Wyoming project. Also on the LP are the release show’s performers: The Mascot Theory, Kyle Megna & the Monsoons, Future Stuff, Seasaw and Jesse Laz (a member of comp participant Locksley).

tue apr 25 MUS I C The Frequency: Jucifer, 9 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Romero, Corridoré, Lords of the Trident, 8 pm.

Malt House: The Grouvin Brothers, free, 8 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Dealer, rock, free, 10:30 pm.

Nomad World Pub: Madison Latin Jazz Orchestra, free, 6:30 pm; New Breed Jazz Jam, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Up North Pub: Pat Ferguson, free, 8 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Morphy Hall: Linda Oh, UW Jazz Composers Septet, Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, free, 8:30 pm.

B O O KS Lauren Grodstein: Discussing “Our Short History,” new book, 7 pm, 4/25, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

S PEC I A L EV EN TS Housing Initiatives’ Talent Showcase: Spring social, 5-7 pm, 4/25, Brink Lounge, with art display, poetry, hip-hop dance & drag performances, food. Free.

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Bandung: Colectivo Altepee, Mexican traditional, 7 pm.

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Chamber Orchestra, 2:30 pm.

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First Baptist Church: A Forest of Flutes: Chinese Orphans Project benefit concert by Madison Flute Choir members, guest Kyle Dzapo, donations, 2:30 pm.

The Frequency: Paper Bird, Luke Callen, 8 pm.

Harmony Bar: Bonobo Secret Handshake, 4 pm.

Hop Garden, Paoli: Wendy Lynn Staats, free, 1 pm.

Nomad World Pub: Julia McConahay, 8 pm.

The Red Zone: Ladies Rock Camp Showcase, 7 pm.

Sequoya Library: Midtown Jazz, free, 1:30 pm.

UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW University Bands, School of Music concert, free, 2 pm.

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Doors Open Madison: Self-guided tours of iconic buildings & businesses, 11 am-4 pm, 4/23, downtown & UW campus area. Free. doorsopenmsn.com.

mon apr 24 M USIC High Noon Saloon: Clyde Stubblefield All Stars, C.S. Scholarship Fund benefit, 6 pm.

Malt House: The Barley Brothers, free, 7:30 pm.

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UW Humanities Building-Mills Hall: UW Western Percussion Ensemble, free, 7:30 pm.

SP ECIAL EV ENTS Welcome to Night Vale: Live podcast presentation, 8 pm, 4/24, Overture Center-Capitol Theater, with music by Erin McKeown. $32.50/$27.50. 258-4141.

Crystal Garden Wednesday, April 26, The Frequency, 7:30 pm

This new alt-pop trio is led by the virtuosic violin guru Boyd Tinsley, who is famous for his vital role in Dave Matthews Band. There are elements of DMB chill in Crystal Garden’s vibey rock ’n’ roll formula, primarily in their attention to melody and musicianship. The Lower 5th open.

Handel and Other Friends Wednesday, April 26, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 7:30 pm

Madison Savoyards, Pro Arte Quartet, Mosaic Chamber Players and students from the UW-Madison opera program celebrate the works of 18th-century master George Frideric Handel while raising funds for the fifth annual Handel Aria Competition.

Along with the musical performances, the seven national finalists for the competition — set for June 9 at Mills Hall — will also be announced at this event, hosted

by Isthmus arts critic John W. Barker.

High Noon Saloon: Derek Ramnarace, Jason Moon, Galynne Goodwill, 5:30 pm.

Me and Julio, Fitchburg: Brian Beebe, free, 6 pm.

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Oakwood Village-University Woods (West): Philharmonic Chorus of Madison, free, 7 pm.

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Sara Paretsky Wednesday, April 26, HotelRED, 7 pm

Fallout, the latest novel in the acclaimed mystery series featuring Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski, is just out in stores, and author Sara Paretsky will visit Madison to discuss what may turn out to be Vic’s toughest case yet.

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Nerd Nite: Free social gathering/informal presentations, 8 pm, 4/26, High Noon Saloon. 268-1122.

Watershed Reading Series: “One World: Poetry from Argentina, Russia & Uruguay” readings, 8 pm, 4/26, Arts + Literature Laboratory. 556-7415.

Lathrop Hall performance space named after program trailblazer Margaret H’Doubler. All events are free and open to the public; for the complete schedule, visit dance.wisc.edu.

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UW Dance celebrates with a five-day festival that includes six alumni concerts (totaling 35 different dance works), 20 master classes, eight panels/presentations, an IATECH gallery exhibit and more. Each day of the celebration culminates in an alumni dance concert at the

The Frequency: Flint Eastwood, Michigander, Disq, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Don’t Mess with Cupid (Otis Redding tribute), Girls Are Go, 9 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Cashmere Cat, Nina Las Vegas, Jordan Marsh, 9 pm.

Stoughton Opera House: Suzy Bogguss, country, 7:30 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Linda Oh with Johannes Wallmann Quintet, Mead Witter School of Music concert, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall: Zakir Hussain & Rahul Sharma, 8 pm.

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Hair Affair: The Art of Hair Thursday, April 27, MMoCA, 7-10:30 pm You had us at the theme: Myths + Monsters.

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art will host its fifth biennial celebration of Hair Affair: The Art of Hair. High-flying hair sculptures designed by Madison-area salons will take center stage as models descend the museum’s glass staircase and mingle with guests in the lobby. The event benefits MMoCA’s free exhibitions and education programs, and includes a live DJ, seasonal hors d’oeuvres, signature cocktails and a silent auction. Ticket availability is currently limited to standing room only!

CO MEDY Hari Kondabolu, Liz Miele, Greg Bach: 8:30 pm on 4/27 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 4/28-29, Comedy Club on State. $15-$10. 256-0099.

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Doulas Kat Schuknecht, Tiffany Wogsland and Jaime Healy-Plotkin (from left) are all members of the Madison Postpartum Collective.

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Marked by sleep deprivation and uncertainty, the time after a baby is born is notoriously challenging. And for some new parents, there’s surprisingly little help. The Madison Postpartum Collective aims to make life with a new baby a bit easier.

“In America, very little attention is given to the postpartum period,” says founder Kat Schuknecht. “So little, in fact, that most people believe the term ‘postpartum’ is synonymous with ‘depression,’” she says. (It just means “after childbirth.”)

As a certified postpartum doula and a maternal mental health advocate, Schuknecht is familiar with the challenges faced by new parents. Extended families might not be living nearby as they were in days past, she says. “Society expects parents to do it all, and parents feel like they’re failing if they struggle.”

As she spends time with new parents after the baby is born, it’s not uncommon to find they need additional care: “Part of my job as a postpartum doula is to connect families with other local providers and resources.”

The Madison Postpartum Collective, which formed in January, grew from Schuknecht’s desire to get to know these providers better and to work directly with them to help families.

The collective is made up of more than a dozen providers, including therapists, lactation consultants, women’s health professionals and massage therapists. Coming together as a collective allows them to connect with each other to network and share resources.

Collective members have their own individual businesses and set their own fees. Some have sliding scales and some accept insurance.

Parents and caregivers may contact a provider directly, but a collective member can also help families figure out who might be a good fit.

The Madison Postpartum Collective website, madisonpostpartumcollective.com, makes getting help more of a one-stop shop.

Schuknecht says she’s encouraged by the group’s momentum. “I know this is going to help improve the support we each provide to local families, especially in the way it will change how we give referrals. Providers are becoming more aware of what’s available in our area and are getting to know each other on a personal level,” she says.

The collective also offers two free support groups. MotherTrees is held four times per month as a drop-in group specifically for new or newish moms, though babies are welcome, too. “The group focuses on self-care and the idea that we aren’t just mothers; we still have an individual identity alongside motherhood,” Schuknecht says.

The collective also runs an online peer support group for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

“Every parent goes through a postpartum period after the baby’s arrival, and it’s the collective’s hope that local families will see us as a go-to resource during that time,” says Schuknecht. “Parents are not meant to raise their children on their own. We are here to support them. We are here to help make those next few months or years after the baby’s arrival a bit easier.” n

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64 Product of a betweenbuildings cookoff?

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25 Failure of diplomacy 26 Moved stealthily 28 Does nothing 29 Haloes of light 30 Made music?

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33 Made like a kangaroo 34 Prevent infestations, in a way 37 The shortest month?

38 Practical joke 40 Record producer with the 2017 single “Shining” 44 Site of Bryce Canyon 45 Old-school “Fuggedaboutit!”

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Dick monsters

BY DAN SAVAGE

I’m a queer girl living with a male partner. This weekend, we found ourselves in an after-hours club, made some new friends, and ended up at a house with two other guys and a girl. Things were pretty playful with everyone except for one of the guys. We all wanted him gone, but he wouldn’t take the hint. He bought the booze for the after-party, so we were a little unsure of the etiquette of asking him to leave. Neither I nor the other girl was interested. I made it clear that penetration was off the menu for me, and everyone respected this — except the one guy. He asked if I would do anal, and I refused. He shoved his fingers in my ass, and I stopped him. I positioned myself away from him, but he somehow got behind me again and put his bare dick in my ass — though barely. The host pulled him off me. We were admittedly all a bit fucked up from partying. I had a stern talk with him about respecting consent — but when I felt his dick enter me from behind a second time, I got upset.

My boyfriend threatened him, and the guy punched my boyfriend and broke my sweetheart’s nose. The host threw the guy out with no pants, so he had a welldeserved walk of shame. We don’t know the guy’s last name, so we can’t charge him. My question is this: As a couple, we enjoy threesomes/moresomes/swingers clubs, etc., and this wasn’t the first time a fun night was ruined by a persistent dick monster. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with pricks like these? Sober and not horny me has all the answers, but when I’m feeling violated and vulnerable, and distracted by whatever dick/pussy is in my face, I’m not the loudmouthed feminist bitch I usually am. We all agree he should have been kicked out before the offenses added up. Maybe he should have been kicked out when we all agreed we weren’t comfortable with him playing with us. What’s the etiquette of telling someone they can’t join in? I’m done dancing around assholes’ feelings.

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cent of all sexual assaults are reported to the police, and only 9 percent of all accused rapists are prosecuted. While recognizing some folks have legitimate reasons for not going to the cops, we need to get those numbers up — because unreported rapes and sexual assaults can’t be prosecuted.

As for preventing a PDM/VSP from ruining your future threesomes/moresomes, etc., advance planning — and familiarity among participants — is the best way to ensure a good experience. Spontaneous can be fun, but it’s difficult to pull off safely with groups — spontaneous fun can be difficult to pull off safely in pairs. Another lesson to be learned from this encounter: Getting shitfaced/shtoned/shwasted may not be the best plan. It’s often the worst plan — getting fucked up rarely results in good sex, even between people who fuck on the regular. Plus, it’s easier to ignore red flags/gut feelings when you can barely shee shtraight. Having to remind someone about consent is a major red flag, QUEEN, and one we’re likelier to overlook when we’re shwasted. In a situation where you’re receiving unwanted touches, your polite dismissal of them should be enough. If this reminder has to be repeated twice, that participant should have their pass to moresome mountain revoked immediately.

Two final takeaways: Even kind and decent people can be terrible about taking hints — especially when doing so means getting cut out of a drunken fuckfest. So don’t hint, tell. There’s no rule of etiquette that can paper over the discomfort and awkwardness of that moment, so your group’s designated speaker-upper will just have to power through it. And if you’re going to drink and group in the future, QUEEN, hew to a strict BYOB policy. You don’t ever want to be in a position where you hesitate to show someone the door because they brought the booze. n For more of Savage Love see Isthmus.com.

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

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“Persistent dick monster” (PDM) is putting it mildly, QUEEN. This guy sexually assaulted you and physically assaulted your boyfriend — that guy is a VSP (violent sexual predator), not a PDM. And even if you don’t know his last name, report the night’s events to the police. It’s possible this asshole is already known to the cops — hell, it’s possible he assaulted someone else on his pantsless way home and they’re already holding him and they’d be happy to add more charges to the ones this asshole is already facing.

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