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COIFFING IT UP

Stylists go big at MMoCA’s Hair Affair.

6-11 NEWS

HE DID WHAT?

Sun Prairie Police were mum over officer who wrote bogus tickets.

12 OPINION

HEADHUNTER WANTED BILL LUEDERS

Dems need to field candidates for the midterm elections now.

15 COVER STORY

STIRRING IT UP

Women bartenders form new group to network and support each other.

MICHANA BUCHMAN

23-27 FOOD & DRINK

IT’S CHAMPING AT THE BIT. Not chomping at the bit.

That’s just one of the many copyediting catches Michana Buchman has made over the years, and the many lessons she’s passed on to reporters and editors.

After nearly 32 years at Isthmus, Michana is retiring.

Next to founder Vince O’Hern, who sold the paper in 2014, she is the longest-running Isthmus employee. We will greatly miss her vast knowledge of grammar, syntax and obscure facts. And then there’s her talent at turning a phrase — who else would describe mussels as “winsome bivalves”?

Michana was also the invisible hand behind the “Edited by” bylines that once accompanied the calendar listings. One week it was Richard Chelimo, who had also, miraculously, just won a controversial medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; another time it was Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who must have been able to step away from his work at the United Nations for just a bit.

Michana spent a significant chunk of her childhood in Mexico and Guatemala, where her father was a mahogany exporter; she attended bilingual schools, becoming fluent in Spanish, and would later bring a global perspective to her work. She is also a proud science nerd with a major in biology from Lawrence University.

When Michana started at Isthmus in 1985, we had typesetters on staff and designers laid out the paper on paste-up boards.

She was instrumental in establishing the editorial department’s computer system and an efficient workflow. In her role as associate editor, she’s been a trusted sounding board, offering solid advice on matters of taste and esthetics. And she met the love of her life here, former Isthmus writer David Medaris.

An avid climber and paddler, Michana plans to spend time on the water and at Boulders Climbing Gym, as well as with her family, which includes two grandchildren she adores. In August she will really get her geek on when she travels to Missouri with her sister Sally to see the total solar eclipse. Felicidades, our friend.

WORLD OF BISCUITS

Bloom Bake Shop on Monroe excels at savory breakfast sandwiches, but also sweets.

28 SPORTS

BADGERS GO BYE-BYE

And Vince Biegel says hello to the Green Bay Packers.

Saturday, May 6, UW Memorial Union, 4-8 pm

21, 30 ARTS

FAIRE GAME

Makers converge on Monona Terrace for drone challenges, upcycling workshops and Tesla coils.

32 BOOKS

RAGING PAGES

Madison’s Raging Grannies publish a collection of memoirs.

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HISTORY OF THE CLOSET

The Nance and Perfect Arrangement revisit LGBT lives during the vaudeville era and the Cold War.

33-34 MUSIC

SONGWRITER REVEALED

Michael Massey releases a powerful new album.

36 SCREENS

DYSTOPIA TV

The Handmaid’s Tale is beautiful and nightmarish.

IN EVERY ISSUE 11 MADISON MATRIX 11 WEEK IN REVIEW 12 THIS MODERN WORLD 13 FEEDBACK 13 OFF THE SQUARE

More flamingos!

DAN TREUTER

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

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Networking, literary-style Friday, May 5, Central Library-Room 301, 5 pm

Are you a poet, writer, spoken word performer, hip-hop artist or storyteller looking to make connections with other creative folks? Stop in at Share the Word, a “Library Takeover” event designed to showcase new work and spark new friendships. A social hour kicks off at 5 pm; readings, on the theme of sharing, begin at 6 pm.

Amiable Amy Saturday, May 6, Madison CollegeDowntown, Room 240, 1:30-3:30 pm

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, returns to Madison for a talk and a book signing. The veteran muckraker is on tour for the paperback release of her book Democracy Now! 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America.

The event is presented by the Madison College Journalism Program, WORT 89.9 FM and The Progressive magazine.

Young and daily growing Saturday, May 6, Allen Centennial Garden (and nearby venues), 10 am-1 pm

Remember: April showers bring May flowers. UW’s annual Family Gardening Day combats the recent chilly and rainy spring weather with activities for plant fans of all ages. Extension experts and master gardeners will be on hand to answer questions and demonstrate growing techniques, and kids can assemble miniterrariums at Steenbock Library. Get there early: free sets of plants needed to make homemade spaghetti sauce will be distributed while supplies last.

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CONTRIBUTORS John W. Barker, Kenneth Burns, Dave Cieslewicz, Nathan J. Comp, Aaron R. Conklin, Ruth Conniff, Michael Cummins, Marc Eisen, Erik Gunn, Mike Ivey, Bob Jacobson, Seth Jovaag, Stu Levitan, Bill Lueders, Liz Merfeld, Andy Moore, Bruce Murphy, Kyle Nabilcy, Jenny Peek, Michael Popke, Steven Potter, Adam Powell, Katie Reiser, Jay Rath, Gwendolyn Rice, Dean Robbins, Robin Shepard, Sandy Tabachnick, Denise Thornton, Candice Wagener, Tom Whitcomb, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER Todd Hubler ADVERTISING MANAGER Chad Hopper ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS Jeri Casper, Annie Kipcak ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Lindsey Bushart, Rebecca Jaworski CIRCULATION MANAGER Tim Henrekin MARKETING DIRECTOR Chris Winterhack EVENT DIRECTORS Kathleen Andreoni, Courtney Lovas CONTROLLER Halle Mulford OFFICE MANAGER Julie Butler SYSTEMS MANAGER Thom Jones ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Carla Dawkins

“Dizzyland: Leon Varjian and the Antics of the Pail & Shovel Party” is an exhibit of posters, documents and memorabilia related to the late UW alumnus Varjian, a prankster in the late ’70s and ’80s who put flamingos on Bascom Hill and a replica of the Statue of Liberty on a frozen Lake Mendota. An opening ceremony is at 4 pm in the Play Circle, with a reception in the Class of 1925 Gallery 5-7 pm; memorabilia will also be available in the Festival Room 5-8 pm. On display through June 5.

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Hair, glorious hair

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BY CATHERINE CAPELLARO n PHOTOGRAPH BY CAROLYN FATH

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It’s 40 minutes to call time, when the models will line up for the Hair Affair catwalk.

Backstage buzzes with activity — and reeks of hairspray. Long tables are laden with containers of makeup and bottles of product.

Bobby pins litter the floor, and multicolored piles of hair extensions are heaped on tables and have drifted onto the floor.

The models look more like living sculptures than humans. After all, they’ve been holding still for hours while teams of hair and makeup stylists paint their bodies, affixing clumps of hair, glitter and costume pieces.

The evening’s theme, Myths + Monsters, is playing out in interpretations that range from creepy to majestic.

Model Amanda Acker (a formidable Brunhilde the Valkerie) sits quietly while two RZ & Company stylists braid flame-red, floor-length extensions and fit her with a silver breastplate.

A team from Studio Z Salon is turning Paolina Fosshage into a sphinx, painting her belly with black body paint and gold glitter as she tries on a pair of 8-foot-wide wings.

It’s the fifth biennial Hair Affair, one of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s most important fundraisers. The sold-out crowd is lined up at the Henry Street entrance, and some of them have taken the style cues: One man sports horns and sunglasses, another a giant pink bouffant. Well-heeled art patrons mingle with tattooed and brightly coiffed millennials.

I had stopped by RZ & Company Salon earlier in the day to watch longtime stylist Renee Thomas (a Hair Affair veteran) in the early stages of her creation. She was hovering over Rachel Svendsen, who has been her model for all five Hair Affairs. Svendsen, a nurse in real life, was wearing a full-length one-sleeved velvet gown — and tennis shoes. Her face was covered in a regal periwinkle, jewels attached to her eyebrows.

Thomas was already on her second can of hairspray, weaving Svendsen’s actual hair into a curved pyramid of extensions to create a version of Shangri-La, the mythical Himalayan temple. She paired up with another RZ employee, Arati Shrestha, who is from Nepal, to create a giant lotus flower (periwinkle petals ironed out of hair extensions called “wefts”) to frame Svendsen’s face. Atop her head, Thomas created a golden temple (not made of hair).

Shrestha bought temporary tattoos and a special ornament back from her last visit to Nepal, all of which were incorporated into the design.

Thomas spends months planning her creations, beginning in December, when MMoCA solicits proposals from area stylists, who donate their time and supplies in exchange for the portfolio shots and publicity the event generates. “I think about it a lot,” says Thomas. “It’s gotten bigger every year, and it’s really creative.

It’s definitely beyond the day-to-day. It’s not something you can repeat on clients.”

At final call, Thomas has finished attaching all the petals surrounding Svendsen’s face, which glows with the addition of tiny blue

Attendance at first Hair Affair in 2009: MORE THAN 300 2017: 475 Participating salons: 17 Farthest distance a material traveled: 6,900 MILES (HAIR USED BY STUDIO Z SALON’S SPHINX WAS SHIPPED FROM CHINA) Most hair used in one design: OVER 256 LINEAR FEET, IN THE KOMIHO DMZ BY RENEE KNIGHT OF AVEDA INSTITUTE MADISON Tallest model: TOD’TIANA THOMPSON, DESIGNER AND MODEL FOR KRS HAIR & WAX STUDIO, AT 6 FEET, 2 INCHES Number of stairs the models descend: 88, OR 3 STORIES Small but mighty team: 1 DESIGNER AND 1 MODEL — CHA CHA BEAUTY & BARBER Power teams: 2 EACH WITH 9 DESIGNERS AND MODELS — UNION HAIR PARLOR AND KRS HAIR & WAX STUDIO

Renee Thomas (right) working with Mikha (top left) and Arati Shrestha to apply final touches to Rachel Svendsen’s hair and costume.

lights. Shrestha’s 18-year-old daughter, Mikha, helps with some of the final touches, wrapping Svendsen in a toile cloud embedded with white lights — the Himalayan mist.

Final coats of hairspray are applied as models move slowly and carefully down into a crowded hallway and elevator, which will take them up to the third floor to await their descent down the magnificently lit MMoCA lobby staircase.

In the lobby, the crowd is jockeying for views, balancing cellphones and wine glasses. As the models descend the staircase, steadied by male escorts from a local modeling agency, the crowd gasps, oohing

and ahhing in appreciation. Passersby peer through the giant glass windows, getting a free show.

And finally, after months of fretting, dyeing, spraying and gluing, Thomas can relax. “It’s just such a great thing to be part of,” she says. “It’s an opportunity that doesn’t come around every day.”

Although an element of one-upmanship is certainly present, Thomas is happy that the event is a showcase for creativity and not an actual competition. “There are plenty of those out there,” she says, “but here we can just come together as professionals. I love to see what other people are putting together.” n

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Secrets and lies in Sun Prairie Cop wrote bogus tickets; city stayed mum about why they were dismissed

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Officials in Sun Prairie quietly handled a case in which an officer was caught writing traffic tickets for violations that did not occur. Patrol officer Matt McElroy was forced to resign, but the department made no public disclosure of his transgressions, beyond vague notices to affected motorists informing them that their citations were dismissed.

Police officials, including support services Lt. Brian Teasdale and spokesperson Jon Lothe, declined to provide any information on the matter, other than that McElroy was employed as an officer from July 9, 2012, until his resignation on Feb. 1, 2017. The department is still processing a request from Isthmus for relevant records.

Sun Prairie City Attorney Mark Leonard says his ability to discuss the case is limited by a “confidentiality agreement.” He did confirm that a number of citations were dismissed following an investigation prompted by a comment made to police “questioning a ticket.”

Further details are provided in a Jan. 26 letter from Sun Prairie Chief of Police Patrick Anhalt to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, obtained by Isthmus through another channel. It says officer McElroy was found to have written 25 citations to people for not wearing seatbelts over the course of four days in 2016, even though “the motorists were in fact wearing their seatbelts.”

According to the letter, McElroy admitted that he turned in bogus seatbelt citations.

He was found to be in violation of police department and city policies. Wrote Anhalt, “I determined that Officer McElroy was untruthful while conducting his official police duties.”

The letter says McElroy issued these citations while “working a traffic grant” on April 26, July 7, Aug. 27 and Aug. 31 of last year.

Wisconsin’ seatbelt law imposes a $10 fine for violations, with the money going to the municipality that issues the citations.

Ozanne, in an interview, provides information that is not in Anhalt’s letter. He says that, as he understands it, the officer had issued seatbelt citations “in cases where there had been other traffic violations,” such as running a stop sign. Ozanne says these were situations in which the officer “would have been within his authority to write a warning, but he chose to write the seatbelt violation.”

Tom Hebl, a former Democratic state lawmaker who serves as Sun Prairie’s onemorning-a-week municipal judge, signed a letter to affected motorists. The letter was sent in February to “a total of 24 defendants,” according to Cindy Piper, the city’s municipal court clerk.

The letter, which Isthmus obtained through an open records request, said “A review of court records has revealed that your seatbelt citation was issued in error. As a result the Sun Prairie Police Department has requested that the judgment on your ci-

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BY BILL LUEDERS

In a WISC Channel 3 report, Officer Matt McElroy said building trust with the community was an important part of the job.

He resigned earlier this year after being caught writing bogus tickets.

tation be set aside.” Those who had already paid the $10 fine received a refund.

The letter does not reveal that the “error” was determined to be officer misconduct.

In fact, there is no indication that Sun Prairie officials ever intended to make any information on the matter public, prior to the inquiries and records requests from Isthmus.

McElroy’s conduct, though hidden from public view, has had repercussions beyond the dismissal of the seatbelt citations.

Leonard says he ended up dismissing several other citations written by the officer because “I felt I could not trust the honesty and integrity of the individual who would be my witness.” The tickets were for minor offenses like retail theft. “It was an integrity issue for me,” Leonard says.

Similarly, in mid-March Ozanne’s office dismissed a criminal charge due to concern about McElroy’s reliability. The case involved a 27-year-old Sun Prairie woman charged last August with third-offense DWI. At a court appearance in mid-March, Assistant District Attorney William Brown moved to dismiss the charges on grounds that “I find [McElroy]’s testimony to be totally not credible,” according to a court transcript.

Brown, in an interview, says this was the only serious charge involving this officer that he dismissed, although “there may have been a few traffic tickets I dismissed as well.”

Ozanne says others in the office were apprised of the findings involving the officer but doesn’t know if it led to additional dismissals.

The criminal complaint against the Sun Prairie woman, whom Isthmus is not naming because the charges were dismissed, said McElroy executed a traffic stop because the vehicle’s brake lights were not working and noticed a strong odor of marijuana and alcohol. A passenger in the vehicle admitted that marijuana had been consumed.

But the woman told her attorney, Charles Kyle Kenyon, that the brake light was working and no alcohol was involved. He obtained video of the arrest, which confirmed there was no brake light problem. Kenyon believes the officer had no valid reason to stop his client and may have made up the reference to alcohol. He filed a motion to suppress evidence due to an “illegal stop.”

Kenyon, besides logging more than a quarter century as a state public defender and local criminal defense attorney, was for several years the elected district attorney of Kewaunee County. He says police officers are “human beings” with a tough job.

“Sometimes they lie,” Kenyon says. “Much more often, in my experience, they make mistakes.” The lies, he believes, merit special attention. “I hope that [McElroy] would not work in law enforcement again,” he says. “It compromises the whole system.”

Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Hanrahan, who presided over the dismissed case, is also bothered by the officer’s conduct. “We rely on people in the court system, especially someone sworn to uphold

the Constitution, to be on the up-and-up,” he says in an interview. “[There is] a sacred trust that we place in these individuals. When that trust is shattered, I would expect an immediate response.”

Hanrahan, after hearing that the video evidence contradicted the officer’s claim about a nonfunctioning brake light, told ADA Brown in court: “I’m sure you’re going to turn that over to the powers that are potentially investigating.” Brown replied: “Yes.” Brown, who calls the video evidence regarding the brake light “not clear,” says he did mention this additional possible indication of the officer’s duplicity to “management here.” The DA’s office decided not to pursue criminal charges.

Efforts to locate McElroy through public directories, property databases and social media were not successful. He was honored last June by the Madison Police Department for his help on a youth soccer tournament, according to a Facebook post, and last October at a luncheon for Hispanic officers, according to an article in the Sun Prairie Star.

He was also profiled for a report last July on the challenges of policing that aired on WISC Channel 3.

“Every day, dealing with different types of people and different types of calls is fascinating to me, and it’s very rewarding,” he said. “I feel like there is no better time to become a police officer.” According to the print version of the story, “McElroy said he and other officers in the department work daily to build trust with the community.” n

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Let’s (maybe not) make a deal DA seeks greater oversight over plea bargains by subordinates

BY BILL LUEDERS

The Dane County District Attorney’s Office has adopted new guidelines for settling adult criminal cases that some local defense attorneys believe will result in harsher outcomes for their clients.

The rules, which quietly went into effect April 3, require the office’s roughly two dozen assistant district attorneys to obtain prior approval from District Attorney Ismael Ozanne or one of his four deputies before offering to waive a preliminary hearing, dismiss criminal charges or amend charges to a lower category of offense, among other actions.

“We are trying to be as efficient as possible,” says Ozanne in an interview. “We’re not saying you can’t do any of these things.

We’re saying, ‘Let’s have a conversation.’”

He touts the changes as necessary to ensure consistency in an office that is understaffed and where a sizable number of assistant prosecutors are relatively new to the job.

“We have had a significant amount of turnover,” Ozanne says. “We’ve lost a lot of historical knowledge.”

But some local defense attorneys fear the new rules will make it harder for assistant prosecutors to strike reasonable deals.

Reaching plea agreements is an essential part of handling the office’s workload of more than 40,000 cases a year.

“This is a very significant departure from previous practice,” says attorney David Knoll. “It means I am negotiating with ADAs who in fact do not have settlement authority. And it means the decisions being made about plea agreements are being made by a deputy who is neither familiar with the case nor obliged to try it if it is not resolved.”

Speaking his mind in the city he once ruled!

District A orney Ismael Ozanne says the new oversight on plea bargains is an a empt “to be as efficient as possible.”

Defense lawyer Brian Brophy, a former deputy DA who headed the office for about six months ending in January 2001, shares these concerns. He believes the office works best when front-line staff are empowered to make judgment calls. When he was in charge, “If an ADA picked up a misdemeanor file, he or she had absolute authority to settle the case. The view was that efficiency is part of achieving justice for victims, defendants and the public.”

Brophy says the new policy, in contrast, “tells assistant district attorneys they can’t be trusted to make good decisions. If Ismael were brand new, it could make some sense. But at this point, he hired the assistants, he’s trained

them, yet the optics here are that he doesn’t trust them.”

Ozanne disagrees, saying the new policy was adopted in response to requests from the ADAs for more direction. But, he adds, another goal is to ensure that consideration is always given to victims as well as defendants.

“I’m working with our assistants to grow them into thoughtful, well-meaning prosecutors,” he says.

Tim Kiefer, a local defense attorney who worked as an assistant Dane County district attorney from 2007 to 2011, sees both sides.

He says the level of inexperience among assistant prosecutors has led to frustration

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among defense attorneys, including himself, who notice that the decisions being made are “more unpredictable than they used to be.”

The new policy could result in “more uniformity between offers.”

On the other hand, it means decisions will ultimately be made by deputies who do not know the defendants, victims and witnesses as well as frontline ADAs do. And it may create situations in which ADAs feel that they are constantly being second-guessed by management.

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The Henry Vilas Zoo announces that two adorable lion cubs were born in February.

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Wisconsin’s prison population is on track to break a record. The state Department of Corrections expects to have 23,233 inmates by June 2019.

The previous high was 23,184 in 2007.

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Democratic candidates The party needs to get to work on the midterm elections

BY ALAN TALAGA Alan Talaga co-writes the Off the Square cartoon with Jon Lyons and blogs at Madland.

The 2018 midterm elections are still a full year and a half away but I’m getting anxious about who will run on the Democratic side.

I’m not talking about the governor’s race. Unlike some other progressives, I’m not super-concerned about the lack of gubernatorial candidates at this time. Rep. Dana Wachs (D-Eau Claire) and Sen. Kathleen Vinehout (D-Alma) are both looking at making a run; frankly, both excite me more than did Tom Barrett or Mary Burke. I’d still like to see some other candidates make a run for the office — say, Sen. LaTonya Johnson (D-Milwaukee) — but I’ll save that for a future piece.

I’m focusing now on the rest of the races — congressional house seats and those in the state Senate and Assembly.

Many of these races will get overshadowed by the races for governor and U.S. senator, but these other races are still incredibly important.

This midterm is the Democrats’ best shot to pick up seats in all three bodies since President Obama’s first election a full decade ago. At the 100-day mark, President Trump is holding onto a 39 percent approval rating. Historically, as much as precedent still holds in the modern era, presidential approval ratings tend to drop between day 100 and the midterms.

Republican Congressmen Sean Duffy and Mike Gallagher, both big supporters of Trump, enjoy somewhat gerrymandered districts but neither has enough of a firewall to ensure reelection in the shadow of a president with an approval rating at or below 35 percent.

If Democrats are to take advantage of a midterm wave, however, they are going to need good candidates to run against the Duffys and Gallaghers of the state. Elections are largely based on national sentiment, with results often determined more by the goingson in Washington, D.C., than the main streets of Wisconsin. But local candidates still matter; a good candidate can take advantage of the national mood and ride it to victory. Similarly, a bad candidate can lose even if the political tides are in their favor.

I’ll admit that it is going to be hard to convince good candidates to run on the Democratic side after a string of humbling election losses. Experienced, well-liked Democrats lost in 2016, including Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson, who ran for Congress, and Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, who ran for state Senate. They were both solid, local candidates driven down by a presidential campaign that didn’t deem Wisconsin worthy of a visit.

The demoralization has gotten so bad that there wasn’t even a liberal or progressive candidate for the most recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Now, victory was by no means certain, but it is shocking that no one ran for an office with a 10-year term.

When there are Democrats who want to run, too often these candidates are relatively new to their districts. Pat Bomhack was a lawyer who had only lived in the district for three years when he mounted a lackluster campaign for state Senate, throwing away one of the only competitive state Senate races in 2014.

You need candidates who have roots in the district, particularly when the candidate is a lawyer. It makes it way too easy for the opposition to paint the candidate as a carpetbagger coming in from some fancy law

Progressive dairy farmer Sarah Lloyd is the kind of candidate the Democrats need to find and support.

school who is going to tell locals how to live their lives. When lawyers decide to run for office, they should follow the example of Dana Wachs. Wachs is a lawyer but he was born and raised in Eau Claire, raised his kids there, practiced law in the Eau Claire community for decades and served on the Eau Claire City

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The Legislature already has plenty of lawyers. What Democrats really need are more Sarah Lloyds.

Sarah Lloyd is a progressive dairy farmer who ran against Rep. Glenn Grothman in the 6th Congressional District in 2016.

Lloyd has experience with small-scale agriculture — her family runs a dairy farm — as well as with larger-scale operations through her work with the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative and the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. She was a good candidate who ran a good race against a bloviating bigot. Unfortunately, 2016 was a year when running as a bloviating bigot was an asset.

But Sarah Lloyd was the right candidate with the right background; she just ran in the wrong election. Lloyd’s experience should serve as a model for other candidates, people whose backgrounds represent their districts and provide a perspective that isn’t currently being heard in the capitol buildings of Madison and D.C. Democrats should be out recruiting and encouraging folks from across the state, people with deep community ties and unique experience. Find the next Kathleen Vinehout, Dana Wachs and Sarah Lloyd, and Democrats will start building a slate of candidates ready to start turning the tide next November. ■

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Calling the shots Women bartenders make their mark on the craft cocktail scene

By Erin CluneFPhotography by Laura Zastrow wears a bow tie — a real one — every day.

She’s been wearing one daily since the end of high school and can tie it without a mirror. Along with discussions about alcohol, her bowtie is a common topic of conversation with her customers.

Her regulars even give her bow ties as gifts now.

“It’s really sweet,” McCormick says. “When you wear a tie, everyone knows what to get you.”

While the tie enhances her appearance as an archetypal craft bartender, it doesn’t stop older male customers from occasionally addressing her as “sweet-

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n COVER STORY heart” or asking her “if she knows how to make a Manhattan.” That bugs her, but she tries to ignore it. To keep it professional, she simply asks them what kind of whiskey they want in their drink.

The craft cocktail renaissance in America has brought vintage bowties back, but it hasn’t solved the problem of gender inequality in the profession. Though women make up the majority of bartenders nationwide, they still take home lower pay, according to a 2014 study by the Economic Policy Institute. Even in supposedly progressive Madison, women bartenders still encounter sexism, gender discrimination and unconscious bias.

Women bartenders are more culturally acceptable than they were 50 years ago, when half the states in the U.S. prohibited women from tending bar, for “social” or “moral” reasons. But cultural acceptance is not full inclusion. In Madison, a new organization called Spirited Women hopes to make the case for full equality — to its female members, their male allies in the industry and to the broader community.

ing the whiskey list. Like most bartenders, she tries to track whether customers are becoming inebriated, and pays particular attention to women who are receiving unwanted attention from a guy. She’ll interrupt a conversation, or return multiple times with a water pitcher.

Scott also brings her expertise into her work for Spirited Women, which was founded by Mariah Renz, former bar manager at Julep. Scott recently directed a workshop on the making of amaro, an herbal liqueur produced by macerating herbs, roots, flowers, bark and peels in alcohol, and her fellow bartenders reconvened a few weeks later to sample their creations with a social gathering.

Scott says the workshop created a “safe space” for women to learn from each other without having to compete with mansplainers.

Says Renz: “The best thing women can do in this industry is to educate themselves.”

An intense culture with a lot of yelling Nationally the craft cocktail movement was pioneered primarily by men, and at least one survey, of New York bartenders, suggests that men are still overrepresented in the most elite, high-profile positions. A 2015 study by the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United found that “the greatest racial and gender wage inequality is in the highest-wage occupational categories — namely fine-dining server and bartender positions.”

Devan Friedl has beaten the odds and made it into an elite craft cocktail bar. She’s the only woman bartender at Merchant, which has been at the epicenter of the craft cocktail renaissance in Madison since it opened in 2010.

Friedl had a few years of bartending experience when she joined the staff, but still had to work as a bar-back for six months before getting promoted. This didn’t trouble

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Alison Scott was on the verge of getting her doctorate in botany — and preparing to start a postdoctoral fellowship on redwood genome sequencing — when she began bartending to earn money. Her academic interests transferred well: She came to the job with an extensive knowledge of the plants used to make spirits.

Scott describes bartending as the “hobby that took over my life.” Like many people in the craft cocktail business, she’s driven to excellence by her nerdy intellectual interest in the botanical derivation and production of liquor.

Despite continuing to pursue her career as a botanist full-time, she feels invested in the bar industry. She would like to open her own bar and restaurant one day and build its menu from her own greenhouse.

Scott, who until recently worked at Cento, says gender still comes into play behind the bar.

Despite the restaurant’s unisex blue oxford shirt uniform, for example, customers would periodically approach her when she was working to ask to “speak to a bartender.”

O n e c u s t o m e r w h o re q u e s t e d Laphroaig remarked that she looked “too young and pretty” to tell him anything about scotch. She encountered men who ogled her while she was shaking their cocktail. And she once had to rebuff a customer who followed her out of the bar, complimented her cocktail and tried to grab her by the waist.

Scott understands that it can be hard to “determine the line of bad behavior” in a bar, where bartenders are otherwise trying to cultivate a feel-good, customer-oriented space. But she wishes customers would respect her professional boundaries.

In her own customer service, Scott is inclusive. She won’t give a female customer the wine list without also provid-

her. Merchant has precise techniques and rigorous protocols, and Friedl had to learn the build for 40 or 50 menu classics.

Bartending is fiery and fast-paced. It’s an “intense culture with a lot of yelling,” says Friedl, noting that working at a busy bar requires a strong, confident personality, regardless of gender.

A former athlete and daughter of a gym teacher, Friedl loves the physical nature of bartending, likening it to a team sport: “You’re constantly moving.”

For now, Friedl likes the pay and being able to take unpaid leave any time. She recognizes that down the road, she’ll need more money and health insurance. But for now she is content to put her “energy into the service boom.”

Bar family Amber Solow started bartending in her early 20s when she was planning to travel a lot. It was, she figured it, a job she could do anywhere.

She’s been bartending at Mickey’s for 15 years. She continues because it pays the bills and she can do art and photography during the day.

She loves the bar regulars, and says she can’t envision her life without her “bar family.” An ideal night for her is when there’s a good band playing, the crowd is happy and her work is steady but not slammed.

And it’s better than the old days, when she worked as a cocktail waitress.

She says she felt little recourse then when male customers would slap her ass or and say inappropriate things. Now, she finds working behind the bar helpful — it’s a physical boundary. That’s just one reason why hiring women as bar-backs, not just as servers, is a positive change for women in the industry. It’s also a more direct route to bartending, she says.

Not long ago, she threw a male customer out after he reached across the bar and touched her pigtail. A more typical show of disrespect is when men stare or address her as “honey.” In response, she always introduces herself and insists they use her actual name.

Says Solow: “These sorts of guys don’t like to be called out on stuff.”

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Mariah Renz (left) and Alison Scott.

“The best thing women can do in this industry is to educate themselves,” says Renz.

Vanessa Shipley started working at Maduro, the cigar bar in downtown Madison, almost two decades ago as a cocktail waitress. She learned all the drinks within a year and convinced management she’d be more valuable behind the bar. Sometime in her early 30s, she decided that the schedule and flexibility of bartending made it an ideal job for her; she says she “couldn’t think of another job that paid well, had time off and had good hours.” She works 40 hours a week, crunched into long shifts; it fits her lifestyle. Now she’s in the process of buying into the business with its owner, Brian Haltinner.

Shipley’s role is a bit reminiscent of a traditional bar matriarch, those much older ladies who are tough and engaging, run the country bars and know all the neighbors. One of her nicknames is “Mama V,” which the regulars use as a verb (i.e., “you just got Mama V’d”)

Vanessa Shipley of Maduro plays the role of traditional bar matriarch and doles out advice.

Drinks on the menu Meghan McCormick got her first drink on the menu at Heritage Tavern a few months ago — it’s called Gourds Galore. It was inspired by Brian Haltinner from Maduro, who came in one night and challenged her to make something with rum and sherry; the drink is based around roasted squash and flavored with star anise.

She loves the creative process, which is a good thing. Heritage values local and seasonal ingredients, and because squash is no longer in season, McCormick has been going into work early to experiment with a new cocktail that uses carrot.

McCormick wants to be a filmmaker and works on that during the day; she’s even making a film about the Spirited Women group and women’s empowerment. If not for her love of filmmaking,

she’d think more seriously about running her own bar someday.

Of the many things she likes about tending bar, one of them is having a supportive female co-worker: Alex Kjell. At one time, women were in the majority behind the bar at Heritage; McCormick jokingly refers to that time as their “glory days,” but she says she has learned a lot from her female colleagues.

“Alex has always told me that there is no dumb question,” says McCormick.

Kjell bartends “for a combination of reasons” — mainly because “everyone needs to work.” But having found a restaurant and bar program that she likes, she sticks with it because she loves the creative process. She’s created several drinks for Heritage over the years, including an epic summer cocktail made with sweet peas.

Community spirit After appearing on a Madison Cocktail Week panel in February with Liz Henry of J. Henry & Sons, the bourbon distillery located in Dane, Wisconsin, Mariah Renz decided that women in the business needed a regular venue for addressing genderspecific concerns in the industry.

Spirited Women has already boosted women’s participation in the newly formed Madison chapter of the United States Bartenders’ Guild. Although the guild has no women in any of the leadership positions (and none ran for the positions), the last meeting was almost balanced in terms of gender. And Renz (the only woman currently on the Madison Cocktail Week committee) hopes the group will also help to expand the purview of cocktail week.

Like many of the women in the group, Renz has been part of the bar community

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when she’s doling out advice. Shipley corrects men when they refer to her as “honey” or “sweetheart,” but she also finds it funny, since they’re often younger than she is.

Shipley prefers working behind the bar alone and says that experienced bartenders can “do it in their sleep,” partly because they know how to catch problems before they escalate. Age and experience, she says, “help control the space.”

If some dude is being vulgar and bothering other customers, she’ll ask him to tone it down. If someone starts playing with matches, she’ll walk out and tell him to stop. She’s never encountered a situation she couldn’t handle.

Shipley waves off customers when they offer to help since they will punch each other but not her. Drunk men, she says, are more likely “to transfer their macho stuff to another man.”

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Working at a busy bar requires a strong, confident personality, regardless of gender, says Devan Friedl of Merchant.

in Madison for a long time, and she values its cohesion. Occasionally men aren’t receptive to her input, but she always feels confident that she can break through to them. “I just throw some ego into it,” she says, and convinces them she knows more about spirits than they do.

Spirited Women has also recently become involved in community outreach. In April, the group sponsored a fundraiser for the Dane County Rape Crisis Center. Held at Robinia Courtyard on East Washington Avenue, the fundraiser featured DJs who promote safe

dance spaces, a raffle for donated prizes, and bartending lessons given by group members. The event raised more than $5,500 and inspired ongoing workshops on assault prevention for bartenders and managers, called the Safer Bar Bystander program.

Also upcoming: The amaro produced by the group workshop earlier this year may go commercial in a partnership with the forthcoming Imaginary Factory craft beverage facility on Madison’s east side.

The members of Spirited Women are looking forward to having more discussions and doing more community outreach for the benefit of everyone in the industry. They aren’t getting together to “bash a boys’ club,” Alison Scott says, but to “open a dialogue about how to be fully included in the club.” n

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It’s a family-friendly celebration of the maker movement, which is made up of individuals who create their own products, using everything from centuries-old skills like blacksmithing and woodworking to high-tech computer skills and can even extend to shenanigans such as drone gaming.

“Drone gaming is still primarily a do-ityourself hobby,” says Gregg Novosad, founder of GoDroneX. Drones can be built at home, and the pilot must have technical knowledge to maintain and repair the machine. GoDroneX will be bringing 2-ounce, 70-millimeter, radiocontrolled multiloader aircrafts to the fair.

The company will also host an entertainment called Drone Clan Wars. Two teams of experienced pilots will fly the drones through an obstacle course devised like a videogame with beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of play. The drones collect points by touching pads

at the center of the arena. They are equipped with video piloting, which allows the human pilots to wear goggles and see the race course from the drone’s point of view. Spectators are able to follow the video piloting via television screens that also display animated graphics.

Maker Faires are “more STEAM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics] than STEM,” says Heather Sabin, tourism coordinator at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, site of the Madison event.

Maker Faires emphasize hands-on engagement. “It’s a place where people show what they are making and share what they are learning,” says Sabin.

Nancy Judd, founder of Recycle Runway, is bringing her traveling exhibition of eco-couture fashion sculptures made of trash and will lead one of the hands-on workshops.

GoDroneX may not look like a do-it-yourself project, but it is.

Judd’s fashion sculptures will include the Caution Dress, created from caution tape recovered from the sides of roads and sewn into a vintage-style sundress; the Aluminum Drop Dress, a 1920s retro flapper frock made from a used shower curtain and em-

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Shane Evans describes Robot Resurrection, his 28-foot-tall, 2,000-pound fire-breathing robot, as both sculpture and entertainment.

Evans created the robot from eight large pieces of reused airplane parts. Every 30 minutes, he climbs inside the torso/cockpit to animate the robot’s arm and head with mechanical controls. The robot’s body lights up as it shoots fire from its hands and mouth.

“Most of what we throw away can be fixed,” Evans says. “It can have a second life.

The robot is so large, it draws attention and raises attention for recyclability and repurposing things.”

Robot Resurrection is one of nine national acts to be featured at the Madison Mini Maker Faire on May 13. The Maker Faire, a traveling road show from Maker Media, is billed as “The Greatest Show and Tell on Earth,” and will also feature local makers.

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Traditional with a twist Monroe Street’s Bloom Bake Shop excels at savory, sweet, vegan and gluten-free

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Like a crocus in the snow, the new Bloom Bake Shop emerged on Monroe Street during the gloom of winter and heralded the arrival of spring — or at least of cupcakes.

Like its original location in Middleton, this Bloom prides itself on selling fresh, seasonal, from-scratch goods and celebrates its use of “local farms and purveyors,” a list of which is prominently displayed in the shop. Every day, about 40 percent of the offerings are vegan/gluten-free, says baker-owner Annemarie Maitri. It’s easy to see why Bloom is popular among those who need GF and vegan food; I tried a variety of both and couldn’t tell them from the traditional baked goods.

But back to those cupcakes. Full disclosure: I do not typically go crazy for cupcakes. I love cake and frosting, but with cupcakes often find there’s too much of the latter for my taste.

But the cupcakes at Bloom won me over. A little more restrained in their frosting application than many cupcakes, they were still plenty indulgent. The Chocolate Decadent cupcake had a dense cake and just the right amount of rich frosting. Also good was the Almond Raspberry Rose cupcake. Frosted pale pink with tiny white sprinkles, this pretty cupcake revealed a heart of Quince & Apple raspberry rose preserves.

The cinnamon roll was also a standout.

My favorite was the chèvre and sugar bun. I loved the contrast in texture between the sugar-spangled, crunchy exterior and

this scrumptious sandwich, though.

Towering and tender, the biscuit was buttery and warm on the inside, with the eggs and bacon cooked just right.

The cashier mentioned that the Add brown sugar and maple syrup butter brown sugar biscuit dish was “like to grilled biscuits and you have a great french toast,” and indeed it was. A new take on french toast. sweet cream biscuit was sliced and grilled, lightly topped with maple syrup butter and sprinkled with spiced pecans. It came with a banana, sliced lengthwise and grilled, and the whole plate was dusted with spice. Despite what you might conclude from the ingredients, the dish was not outrageously sweet.

Biscuits and gravy came with a choice of black pepper and sausage or mushroom gravy — I chose the latter. This could be the perfect breakfast for that person who somehow does not have a sweet tooth.

The least complex biscuit option, a buttermilk biscuit with seasonal jam CHRIS KRONSER and butter, was just as satisfying as the others.

Biscuits are always available in Bloom also offers a small counter service the chewy, eggy interior. A dollop of soft chèvre both traditional and vegan/gluten-free. menu that is primarily biscuit-based. The Wisin the center could be scooped onto each piece consin was an excellent sliced buttermilk biscuit A delicious counterpart to the sweets to offset the sweetness. I’ve never had anything was vanilla black tea, served in a glass teasandwich made with bacon, egg, mild cheddar quite like it, and it was delicious. pot. Bloom serves a selection of other teas, and stone-ground mustard (which I ordered on That willingness to use unexpected ingreplus coffee drinks, cocoa and iced tea (both the side). I was happy to see that it came with a dients was also at play with a beet and chèvre seasonally), and wine, beer and cocktails. tangy, snappy slice of pickled carrot. The height pop tart, served warm. The filling was very mild, For eating in, there are about a dozen small of this sandwich was impressive but proved made up of sliced beets, chèvre, spinach and tables, plus a few longer ones. difficult to manage for my dining companion. garlic. A ginger pear pop tart came drizzled Bloom Bake Shop offers classics done When half of the biscuit went flying off during with glaze and green sugar sprinkles. It had an well with some unexpected options, includone attempt at a bite, a Bloom employee took intense fruit flavor from the generous amount ing plenty of sweets that have a lot more note and cheerfully replaced it with a fresh of golden-colored pear filling, a bit of which was going for them than just a sugar buzz. n half. There were no other obstacles to finishing oozing out the sides.

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It’s more than a cheese box It’s a dairy-centric Wisconsin meal kit!

BY JANE BURNS

“Hopefully this will be a way to get people to love their cheese and vegetables without being intimidated by them,” says Berry, who is creating the recipes.

If the service takes off, Berry says, Fromagination would continue offering it through the growing season. The store is looking to partner with more farmers and is considering creating appetizer kits for the holidays, she says.

“This is the first stage of it,” Berry says.

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A new service from Fromagination aims to promote cheese while making cooking less intimidating.

Taking a cue from CSA boxes and meal kit company Blue Apron, the downtown cheese shop is creating a service for homemade side dishes with all the ingredients and the recipe coming in one box.

“Everything you see on the recipe will be included, it will be measured out and ready to go, so it’s really convenient,” says Shannon Berry, event director at Fromagination. “The fun part is you get to put it

together yourself. You get the joy of cooking it and serving it.”

The store is partnering with local farmers and cheesemakers to offer boxes in May, June and July. The boxes, which even include milk or eggs, are available the last Saturday of the month for pickup at the store or can be delivered in Dane County.

First up in May is an asparagus and cheese tart, which will include asparagus from Raleigh’s Hillside Farm near Brodhead and Roth’s Grand Cru Reserve cheese. Also on tap is a bread pudding with leeks and Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese, and a goat cheese dip with radishes and fava beans.

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Lives up to hop hype Napalm Bunny is an amped version of Velveteen Habit Ale Asylum kicked off this year’s Madison Craft Beer Week with the release of a new hop-forward beer, a bigger, bolder version of the brewery’s popular Velveteen Habit.

At its debut on Friday night at the Waypoint Public House in Monona, it sold out in just hours. Napalm Bunny is the bigger brother to Velveteen Habit IPA. “We turned up the volume in every way,” says brewmaster Dean Coffey.

Napalm Bunny has an assertive tropical personality from Citra and Cascade hops, and nearly four times the amount of hops as Ale Asylum’s other hop-centric beers.

Because of that, it’s the most expensive beer that the brewery makes.

It pairs well with entrées that have some spicy heat and a lot of flavor. It’s suited to Thai dishes and rich Italian cuisine with lots of tomato sauce. It’s also a nice match for sharp blue and pepper jack cheeses.

This is an IIPA with a lot of flavor that lives up to the hop hype. It’s not bitter, just solid citrus and tropical hoppiness, with a rich malty backbone.

Napalm Bunny finishes at 9.2 percent ABV. It’s currently on tap at the Ale Asylum taproom for $7/glass and $35/growler (refill).

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A number of specialty wood-fired pies will be on the menu, including Three Little Pigs (topped with locally sourced sausage, bacon and pepperoni) and Real Fungi (with house-made mushroom tapenade sauce, onions, shiitake mushrooms, beets, fennel, toasted walnuts). It’s a picnic, so bring a blanket or lawn chairs. At 4035 Ryan Road, Blue Mounds, 4:30-8:30 pm.

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The city is partnering with the downtown business community on a new monthly market. Farmers will be selling fresh produce and other locally prepared foods. The event also promises “special visiting” food carts, pop-up restaurants and vendors selling art, handmade products and other gifts. Along Gilman Street (off the 400 block of State Street), 6-11 pm. More info at madisonnightmarket.com.

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Alt Brew This gluten-free version of this year’s Common Thread is also a Baltic porter. The release party is scheduled for May 4 at Alt Brew.

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Danny McMahon of Door County Brewing is one of the many Wisconsin brewers who love to roll out new beers in Madison during this event. “We always use Madison Craft Beer Week as a platform to showcase some of our smaller batch seasonals, one-offs and taproom-only beers,” he says.

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If you stayed up late enough watching ESPN’s coverage of the NFL Draft’s first round, you saw the Pittsburgh Steelers make former Wisconsin outside linebacker T.J. Watt the 30th overall pick. And with the 32nd and final pick of the night, the New Orleans Saints drafted former Badger Ryan Ramczyk, a guy from Stevens Point with only one year of Division I football experience yet considered among the best offensive tackles in the country.

Then on the final day of the draft, as the 108th overall pick, former UW outside linebacker Vince Biegel became a Green Bay Packer.

Other former Badgers eligible for the draft but not picked agreed to undrafted free agent deals. They include running backs Corey Clement (Philadelphia Eagles) and Dare Ogunbowale (Houston Texans), cornerback Sojourn Shelton (Arizona Cardinals) and wide receiver Rob Wheelwright (New York Giants). Quarterback Bart Houston was invited to a tryout with the Oakland Raiders.

The Packers traded their No. 29 firstround pick to Cleveland for pick No. 33 — the first one of the second round — and chose University of Washington cornerback Kevin King. The deal with the Browns gave Green Bay the 108th pick and opened the door to take Biegel.

A Wisconsin Rapids native and lifelong green-and-gold fan, Biegel finished his

Wisconsin career with 191 tackles and 21.5 sacks, most of them recorded during his sophomore and junior seasons. A foot injury slowed him down last season, but his enthusiasm never wavered.

“He’s a tenacious player,” Packers senior personnel executive Alonzo Highsmith told Packers.com. “You can tell his passion for the game. He checks all the boxes — his makeup, his personality, how he goes about being a professional.”

Watt also brings a tenacity that allowed him to switch from offense to defense in the middle of his college career. The Pewaukee native started at outside linebacker for only one season at Wisconsin after switching from tight end, and he ranked among the top linebackers in several categories at this year’s NFL Combine.

“His outlook regarding preparation and his mentality regarding training was... beyond a guy that was preparing for the draft,” Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin told Steelers.com. “And I think that’s the benefit of having older brothers that are National Football League players.”

Those other Watts also played for the Badgers. Derek is a fullback for the Los Angeles Chargers, and, of course, J.J. is a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year for the Houston Texans.

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bellished with teardrops and circles cut from aluminum cans; and a faux fur coat, made from cassette and video tape looped to create the fur and a secondhand prom dress as the lining.

Her workshop participants will cut up and repurpose old T-shirts into such new items as hats, skirts and dog toys. T-shirts are “a great lens [to look] at the impact of consumerism, both socially and environmentally,” Judd says. “Just one T-shirt has such a huge environmental impact, and when we look at the ubiquitousness of Tshirts specifically — and they’re throwaway things. That’s really just the tip of the iceberg of all the things we consume that go through the same process.”

Peter Krsko, current artist-in-residence at UW-Madison, will lead a hands-on community art project.

Originally from Slovakia, Krsko has a Ph.D. in biophysics and material science, which provides a framework for his art examining natural phenomena: “What do bubbles look like inside foam?” Krsko says. “Bubbles are spherical only if they are surrounded by air. When they come into proximity to other bubbles, their whole meeting point becomes a flat point. They turn into multifaceted, geometric shapes.”

Krsko will provide wooden sticks, glue guns and pliers for participants to build a collaborative model of bubble foam. The interactive project is modeled after his art piece “Inner Foam,” a metal sculpture that represents a geometric study of flexible cells. It is currently installed in the Discovery Building at UW-Madison and will be on display at Monona Terrace.

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By building the collaborative sculpture, participants will be able to see how the shape of each bubble depends on the shape of neighboring bubbles.

Arc Attack, described as part rock concert and part science experiment, will have on hand two custom-engineered, hand-built Tesla coils that throw out electrical arcs up to 12 feet long. Nick Ferry will present woodworking demonstrations, and Cardboard Teck Instantute will demo its “PinBox 3000,” a tabletop pinball system made of recycled cardboard.

Local makers include cast iron artworkers from FeLion Studios and mosaic artists from Backyard Mosaic Women’s Project.

Jesse Ransom will also bring his bike hacking station.

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A fatal east-side car accident in 1991 activated a local artist’s connection to the stories told by roadside memorials.

Thomas Ferrella, a former emergency room doctor, treated one of the two girls killed by a motor vehicle crossing East Washington at Fourth Street, near East High School. Soon after, he watched as a memorial took shape along the chain link fence that stood where a median sits now. Its balloons and streamers moved in the wind and as cars passed. Teddy bears and photos became weathered reminders of what the girls meant to the community.

“I never took any photos of that site, but the next one I came across, I really started looking at,” says Ferrella, an artist who has exhibited paintings, sculptures and outdoor installations around the city.

Ferrella has been photographing roadside memorials, many of them rural, throughout the state for more than 20 years. His series of more than 120 photographs of 90 memorials are presented in the exhibition “Not Forgotten: Wisconsin Roadside Memorials,” opening May 5 at the Arts + Literature Lab. “I was really attracted to these sites because of the beauty,” Ferrella says. “These are really personal, very powerful, and somebody has declared this specific spot as being sacred.”

Often, he stumbles upon a cross erected at an exact spot where someone lost a life.

They are sometimes painted with names or marked with poems and personal effects of the deceased. In addition to the photography, Ferrella tracks down information through neighbors and obituaries, and conducts interviews with families. The memorialization continues digitally through his site wisconsinroadsidememorials.com with space for family and friends to add to the remembrance with a post.

“It’s a way of processing the death and healing,” Ferrella says.

The personal nature of the articles left at these makeshift shrines can trigger empathy in passersby. Photos with friends and meaningful personal articles, like scorecards from golf games, are common. Ferrella remembers a memorial that read “Dad,” which was surrounded by plastic toys that were likely left by children of the deceased.

“It’s those kinds of things that just rip at your heart,” he says. “It’s not just these pretty photographs; it’s the stories that make them really poignant and powerful. This had to be told.” ■

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BY JUDITH DAVIDOFF

For more than a decade, a group of women has come together to advocate for progressive causes and to protest policy gone bad.

Members dress in long skirts, aprons and floppy hats, a whimsical and unapologetic shout-out that they are not youngsters.

“Our old age is part of our costume for our street theater,” says Marie Martini, a member of the Madison chapter of the Raging Grannies. The Madison group has been singing at protests since a 2003 rally against the Iraq War and was particularly active during the 2011 protests against Gov. Scott Walker.

The group has just released a new book of personal essays, Listen to Your Grandmothers, which was compiled by Martini. A book party is slated for May 7, 2 p.m., at the Madison Central Library (“Grandma’s cookies and milk” will be served).

The 22 short memoirs span nearly nine decades. “I thought the stories needed to be preserved,” says Martini. “I thought they’d be inspirational, especially now, to people who are so worried about what is happening in our state, country and world.”

It’s a message for young and old alike, adds Martini. “Elders will be able to say, ‘These old ladies are doing it. Maybe there’s a place for me in what’s happening in this world.’” And younger audiences, says Martini, need to know they cannot be complacent.

“Things can change if you don’t pay attention and you don’t move forward.”

Deborah Lofgren, the group’s conductor, underscores that lesson when she writes about getting an illegal abortion in 1971. “I had to fly to New York and have an abortion in a basement in the Bronx. I didn’t speak Spanish and the man there didn’t speak English. It angers and frightens me that current

laws in so many states have made women’s health care and choices so dangerous again.

It’s a story I share with many young women because they have no idea what it was like before Roe v. Wade [the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion]. When I was a teenager, it was illegal for a doctor to prescribe birth control unless you were married.”

Martini, who taught high school for 34 years and now teaches part time at Madison College, finds many students are “totally oblivious” about current political attacks on reproductive health rights and other liberties. “I am pretty shocked at how ambivalent younger people are about their rights and their quality of life and the protections for that quality of life,” she says. “They take it for granted that it will always be there, and it certainly hasn’t always been there.”

“Everything we fought for in the ’60s is in jeopardy right now,” she adds.

Not all of the stories in the collection are about politics and protests. There are also poignant stories about family and coming of age. Gerrie Martini, mother of Marie, writes about scraping by during the Great Depression. “My earliest memories are of potato soup, homemade bread (we kids always wanted store-bought bread), my grandparents bringing us milk, butter, meat, vegetables and berries from their farm. Many people were not so lucky.”

And Bonnie Block, born in 1941 and raised on a dairy farm in Dodge County, recalls how bullying “by the clique of ‘townies,’ who saw themselves as a cut above us farm kids who were bused to school,” turned her into a fighter for justice. “I think it was precisely these experiences that developed my penchant for siding with the underdog and speaking up when I see anyone being treated unfairly.” ■

■ STAGE

Closets of the past Vaudeville era: The Nance Early on in Douglas Carter Beane’s Tony Award-winning play The Nance, two actors take the stage to perform a comedy sketch between risqué burlesque acts at the Irving Place Theater. It’s New York City in the 1930s and burlesque is on its last legs as movies begin to take over the entertainment scene. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia is cracking down on lewd and lascivious behavior in an effort to “clean up” the city in preparation for the 1939 World’s Fair.

Straight man Efram asks his scene partner, “Hey, are you a pansy?” And with exaggerated bewilderment, Chauncey Miles (Dennis Yadon, the “nance” character) answers, “Doesn’t necessarily make me a bad person!” And so begins the painful conundrum that The Nance’s main character Chauncey will face, both on- and off-stage through the rest of the play — how to reconcile his homosexuality with a society that condemns it and an audience that applauds when he himself ridicules it. A coproduction from Madison Theatre Guild and OUT!cast Theatre, the brave and challenging production runs through May 6 on the Drury Stage at the Bartell.

Despite some draggy political monologues and ambling storylines, the ambitious play is both fun and thought-provoking, with themes that reverberate today about the effectiveness of unions, out-oftouch elitist politicians and the violence and vitriol of homophobia.

— GWEN RICE

The Nance

Perfect Arrangement KELLY DOERING

McCarthy era: Perfect Arrangement

The Bartell Theatre’s Evjue stage has been transformed into a well-appointed Georgetown apartment for StageQ’s production of Perfect Arrangement, a comedy written by Topher Payne that played off-Broadway in 2015. The play explores the threat of the U.S. government’s “Lavender Scare” — a purge of gays and lesbians from government jobs in the early 1950s because they were considered national security risks, susceptible to being compromised through blackmail.

The action begins at a cocktail party hosted by Millie and Bob (Antonia Villalon and

Akshat Sharma). Bob is a U.S. State Department employee whose loyal secretary Norma (Lauren Rusch) happens to live next door with her husband Jim (Brett Kissell). Also in attendance: Bob and Norma’s boss Ted (Jim Chiolino) and his wife Kitty (Liz Leonard). Ted announces that Bob has proven so adept at rooting out communists he’s now charged with ridding the government of “drunkards, loose women and deviants.”

After Ted and Kitty depart we learn that Millie and Norma are a lesbian couple, while Bob and Jim, who are also a couple, live in the apartment next door. There is much toing, fro-ing and hiding in the closet that connects the two apartments. The “closeted” symbolism is not subtle.

Payne’s writing is best when he uses a light touch, and the surprise at the end of Act I actually had the audience gasping. Things get more heavy-handed in Act II as Payne begins to lecture the audience through his characters about the stress of living a lie and the bravery required to love whom you want. Clearly these are weighty issues, but the shift in tone feels awkward.

These issues aside, the show, directed by John Siewert, shines a light on the sacrifices that so many people made to move the needle on gay rights and acceptance. It also underscores the worry that in our current political climate, hard-won progress is fragile and under threat.

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Seeing double

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Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra hosts a world premiere of a two-piano concerto

BY JOHN W. BARKER

Pianists Jessica and Michael Shinn played Double Rainbow.

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Sewell’s approach was lean and brisk, with propulsive tempos that became really rushed in the scherzo movement. The slow movement, a virtual anthem of early Romanticism, was pretty but lacked depth of feeling. This was not a Romantic performance but a Classical one — Schumann as Haydn. Not convincing, but at least a stimulating experience. ■

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A leaping dolphin and a light show in the sky inspired composer Thomas Cabaniss to write Double Rainbow — a concerto that had its world premiere at the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s season season closer on April 28.

Double Rainbow, a two-piano concerto, is in the line of Poulenc’s Two-Piano Concerto, if not actually modeled on it. The two pianists duel and dialogue mostly in fast figurations, leaving the orchestra to suggest any lyrical lines. Only in the last of the three movements does the orchestra begin to suggest the wonders of nature.

The soloists were the husband-and-wife team of Michael Shinn and Jessica Chow Shinn, Cabaniss’ faculty colleagues at the Juilliard School in New York City. Cabaniss, a native of South Carolina, was on hand to share in the cordial response of the audience. As an encore, the two soloists played a brief piano duet, Love Song, written by

Cabaniss for his wife, showing the composer’s more expressive side.

Two very different works framed the concerto. The opening piece was Maurice Ravel’s suite, Le Tombeau de Couperin. A tombeau — “tomb” or “memorial” — was a French Baroque form of keyboard music to honor a deceased colleague. Originally for piano, this 1914 work was a tribute to friends who had died in World War I, which was raging at the time.

Adapted (selectively) for small orchestra by Ravel, this was an ideal piece for a chamber orchestra. Maestro Andrew Sewell led an incisive performance, showing off the delicious sounds of the WCO wind players.

In the second half, we heard the Symphony No. 2 of Robert Schumann. This score is usually part of the larger-orchestra repertoire, commanding a rich and full sonority. Tackling this is another example of Sewell’s ventures into that repertoire, challenging big orchestras at their own game. Fewer than 40 players were involved, and the 21 strings, however fine, were just too thin to sustain the balances against the burnished wind prominence.

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The piano man

FRI MAY 5 5-11PM

Michael Massey releases an introspective new album

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Michael Massey has always used his music as a form of personal therapy, but that’s never been truer than on the 58-year-old composer/pianist’s fifth and latest release, Naked.

“These songs span my career,” says Massey. “Some of them are approaching their 40th birthday. They’re about re-creating the feeling of being in a dark room, late at night, purging yourself of the emotions.”

Massey’s been all over the map in his multi-decade Madison musical career. He has a Madison Area Music Award on his shelf for his 2006 collection of pop songs Attack of the Delicious, and another for his most recent effort, which had even more bite: the sweeping score for Dracula: A Rock Ballet, performed in the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater by Madison Ballet in 2013.

He’s fronted numerous bands, he regularly gigs at the Ivory Room piano bar on State Street and has composed music for Oscar Meyer commercials.

All of which has little to do with his newest effort. Massey describes Naked as a cross between “pop, Broadway and Leonard Cohen.” It’s deeply nostalgic and introspective, a dozen stripped-down piano arrangements that find Massey singing over contemplations of loves lost, friendships faded

JOHN URBAN

Massey’s new work is deeply personal.

and rediscovered and hard personal lessons learned. The album’s flagship song, “More,” deals with Massey’s successful struggle to beat back alcoholism, a turning point in his life and

career. Longtime friend and local vocalist Francie Phelps lends her voice to tunes like “Not Pretending,” a number about maturing in relationships.

Massey knew songs as intimate as these would get lost in the distracting conversational buzz of a club setting, so he’ll debut them live in the Bartell Theatre as part of a CD-release event on May 12. It’s an, um, nakedly confessional format, sure, but also one that’s both deeply familiar to him and tonally appropriate.

“Piano was always my main instrument,’ says Massey, who also plays guitar and produces. “I’ve done solo shows the majority of my career. I wanted to get back to that original feeling.”

The live gig is actually only the beginning of Massey’s burgeoning association with the Bartell. He’s also arranging the score to From Awkward Spaces: The Story of the Bartell (Theatre) and the Journey to Permanence, an original play by Suzan Kurry and Brendan Smith that’s set to be staged later this year as part of the Bartell’s 20th anniversary season. Given that the play’s mission is contemplating history, Massey’s the perfect candidate — he’s obviously had a lot of practice.

“Things that are personal and revealing — I like that,” he says. “If I weren’t a songwriter, I’d have had a much more difficult time.” ■

A rock ’n’ roll farewell Cathy Dethmers’ fans celebrate her contributions to the music community

BY ANDY MOORE

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In the end it was a death sentence. A big, ballsy, beautiful atom bomb of death metal.

High Noon Saloon had been jammed since 5:30 (on a Sunday night!), and this thing was headed to midnight. In a set that must have been heard in Lake Mills, doom metal purveyors Bereft played the last hour of Cathy Dethmers’ career as a nightclub owner on April 30.

“Thank you for supporting me and all my dreams,” Dethmers said onstage early in the evening. Resplendent in a white party dress, Dethmers, as always, was the perfect rock ’n’ roll host.

“Cathy gave me my first club gig. I was 18,” said Bobby Hussy, whose band The Hussy was picked by Cathy to perform. “What an honor it was for her to ask us to play this.

She’s been as important to us as anyone else.”

Hussy was joined by a legion of fellow local musicians onstage and off, a staggering display of Madison’s musical elite. The Gomers rolled out of hiatus for a special edition of Rockstar Gomeroke, one with handpicked local rockers at the mic.

There was a special buzz when Dethmers’ husband, Dan O’Brien, took the mic. An impeccable string musician and the world’s sweetest guy, O’Brien leads the country swing band North Country Drifters. It was impossible to avoid the symbolism of his song selection, “Not Fade Away,” which he performed with Bo Diddley bravado.

Dethmers thanked her employees, past and present, people she said made it possible “to throw thousands of parties.” And she thanked O’Brien: “[He] made it possible for me to sell the club in my own time. And I was ready to do it.”

Before I left, I asked Dethmers if she could sum up what she’ll miss the most in one word.

“Familiarity,” she answered. Which brings us to the other person she most thanked at the mic: Tag Evers — True Endeavors founder and employee of Frank Productions, the club’s new owners — and someone Dethmers said believed in her from the start.

Change brings suspicion, and there’s some in town aimed toward Frank Productions. The two people who appear the least worried about the club turning away from its local music and events mission? Dethmers and Evers.

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Dethmers toasts the crowd at her party.

“It’s not broke,” said Evers, who will take over bookings for the club, told me on my way out. “It’s important to keep Cathy’s spirit as part of what this place means.” ■

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Film events

A cautionary tale The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu is beautiful and terrifying

BY ALLISON GEYER

The Handmaid’s Tale, which debuted its first three episodes April 26 on Hulu, presents an unflinching and horrifying introduction to the oppressive, patriarchal hellscape that is the Republic of Gilead.

Based on the iconic 1985 dystopian novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, the show takes place in a not-sodistant future where the United States has been taken over by religious fundamentalists whose authoritarian regime has gradually stripped women of virtually all their civil rights. The show manages to capture a peculiar — and disturbingly relatable — feeling of being trapped in an alternate timeline where everything is terrible and there’s no way out.

The story’s protagonist, portrayed spectacularly by Elisabeth Moss (Peggy from Mad Men), is a former book publisher named June who is captured by authorities while trying to escape to Canada with her husband and young daughter. Her husband is murdered, her daughter is taken away, and June (renamed Offred) is forced to become a Handmaid — a type of reproductive slave whose only purpose is to bear children for the leaders of Gilead, most of whom are infertile due to exposure to pollution.

There are scenes of gratuitous violence — bloody public executions, humiliating sexual subjugation, brutal methods of indoctrination — but some of the show’s most terrifying moments aren’t necessarily the most graphic. The truly chilling scenes are often the smaller moments, presented as flashbacks, that show the country’s slow yet inevitable march toward dystopia.

The Player: Michael Tolkin adapted his novel for this dark comedy by director Robert Altman, about a Hollywood exec being threatened by a rejected screenwriter. Central Library, May 4, 6:30 pm.

This Changes Everything: Clean Wisconsin screening of documentary based on Naomi Klein’s latest book. Majestic Theatre, May 4, 7:30 pm.

Harold and Maude: A suicide-obsessed rich kid (Bud Cort) and free-spirited elder (Ruth Gordon) strike up a special relationship in this one-of-akind film from director Hal Ashby. UW Union South-Marquee, May 4, 7 pm.

La La Land: Boy (Ryan Gosling) falls for girl (Emma Stone); singing and dancing ensues in writer/director Damien Chazelle’s musical, winner of six Academy Awards. Pinney Library, May 5, 6:30 pm.

Windy Tales: Anime Club screening (RSVP: 608246-4548). Hawthorne Library, May 5, 7 pm.

52 Pick-Up: An aspiring politician (Ann-Margret) deals with blackmailers and an unfaithful husband (Roy Scheider). UW Cinematheque, May 5, 7 pm.

UW Communication Arts Showcase: UW Cinematheque student showcase. Union SouthMarquee, May 6, 7 pm.

Elisabeth Moss plays June, who is captured and forced to become a reproductive slave.

It’s scary because it feels so familiar. The proponents of Gilead use a fake terrorist attack to leverage fears about the threat of Islamic radicalism. The Constitution is “temporarily” suspended until safety can be established, but once gone, the freedoms never return. The spread of extreme conservatism leads to a puritanical social regression that enforces strict gender roles. Women are openly slut-shamed and eventually barred from working, handling money or owning property.

It’s beautifully shot, if hard to watch — the idyllic town where the story takes place (likely somewhere in New England, though it’s never explicitly stated) is sunny, immaculate and lush with greenery; the costumes, color-coordinated to denote the oppressive new caste system, give a powerful, visual pop. Jane/Offred’s inner monologue — often darkly humorous and profane — serves as narration.

The series is essentially a faithful adaptation of Atwood’s novel — the author was an executive producer, after all, and she even makes a brief but dramatic cameo in episode one. And when the show does depart, it does so by adding more detail about the backstories of certain characters. It’s also sprinkled with pop-culture references (Uber, Tinder, salted-caramel ice cream) that add another layer of realism. And though the show was announced in 2016, months before the presidential election, the parallels with the current political climate are jarring. Above all else, it feels like a cautionary tale against complacency.

“Ordinary is just what you’re used to,” says Aunt Lydia, who’s tasked with breaking the Handmaids to prepare them for their new life. “This may not seem ordinary to you right now, but after a time it will. This will become ordinary.” n

Jurassic Park: UW Cinematheque: Steven Spielberg blockbuster about a theme park populated by dinosaurs. Chazen Museum of Art, May 7, 2 pm.

Northern Light: Micro-Wave Cinema: Documentary follows three northern Michigan families during their town’s annual snowmobile race.

UW Cinematheque, May 7, 7 pm.

Divided We Fall: Peregrine Forum screening of documentary about the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising. Christ Presbyterian Church, May 9, 6:30 pm.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: A mafia hitman (Forest Whitaker) who lives by the ancient code must defend himself against his bosses after a job goes wrong; a weird and wonderfully dark-humored outing from writer-director Jim Jarmusch. Bos Meadery, May 10, 7 pm.

At the River I Stand: Labor History Film Series: Documentary follows the last two months of the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. Central Library, May 11, 7 pm.

The Princess Bride: Based on William Goldman’s novel, this fairy-tale adventure centers on a beautiful young woman who has been kidnapped (Robin Wright), her odious fiance (Chris Sarandon) and her childhood beau (Cary Elwes), who sets out to rescue her. Majestic, May 11, 8:30 pm.

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MMoCA Gallery Night

PICK OF THE WEEK

Friday, May 5, various venues, 5-9 pm Madison’s springtime ritual is upon us, when more than 80 venues host exhibits, receptions, artist talks, demonstrations and live music all over Madison.

Gallery Night’s command central is the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which puts together a helpful map (see the back cover of this week’s issue or go to mmoca.org/gallerynight). Get a first look at Kambui Olujimi’s “Zulu Time” exhibit at MMoCA and “2017 Studio Editions” by Dale Chihuly in the museum’s gift shop. The forecast shows little chance of rain and high probability of mind-blowing art.

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picks T HE AT E R & DANCE Edgewood College Student Directed One-Acts: Department of Theatre Arts, 7:30 pm on 5/4-5 and 2 & 7:30 pm, 5/6 Edgewood College-Ballweg Theatre. $12. 663-6710.

Perfect Arrangement: 8 pm on 5/4-5 and 2 pm, 5/6, Bartell Theatre. $20/$15. 661-9696. See story, page 33.

Gepetto: 4/28-5/20, Broom Street Theater, at 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. $11. 244-8338.

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Scott H. Biram Thursday, May 4, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Brink Lounge: Blues Jam with Bill Roberts Combo, 9 pm.

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Capital Brewery: Kai Anderson & the Pickups, 6 pm.

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Chief’s Tavern: Hoot’n Annie, string band, 8:30 pm High Noon Saloon: Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse, free (on the patio), 6 pm; Trout Steak Revival, The Brothers Comatose, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Lindsay Everly, Michael Massey, 9 pm.

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

Tip Top Tavern: Kurt Funfsinn, guitar, free, 9 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Play Circle: UW Black Music Ensemble, free, 8:30 pm.

Heather Lyn Mann: Discussing “Ocean of Insight: A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope,” her new book, 6 pm, 5/4, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Kristen Radtke: Discussing “Imagine Wanting Only This” in conversation with Jamel Brinkely, 7 pm, 5/4, Central Library. 266-6300.

The Nance: Madison Theatre Guild & OUT!Cast Theatre co-production, 7:30 pm on 5/4-5 and 2 pm, 5/6, Bartell Theatre-Drury Stage. $20. 661-9696. See story, page 33.

The bluesy Americana songs of Scott H. Biram are dispatches from the ragged edge of life; there’s lots of sinning and seemingly little hope of salvation. His one-man-band playing style is informed as much by Motorhead as Merle, so be prepared for intensity. With Madison hokum master Boo Bradley and Missouri honky-tonker Jack Grelle.

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Thursday, May 4, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm Impressionist Adomian’s Bernie Sanders hit a chord with mainstream audiences as he made appearances on the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast, Comedy Central’s @Midnight, and toured the country as a live duo act with fellow comedian Anthony Atamanuik, who plays Trump. Now Adomian is coming to Madison as himself to share his lighthearted observations about politics (perhaps) or Dr. Pepper commercials (probably). With Zach Martina, Anthony Siraguse.

ALSO: Friday-Saturday, May 5-6, 8 & 10:30 pm.

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2016-17 Creative Awards Ceremony: UW Creative Writing Program event, 7 pm, 5/4, UW Elvehjem BuildingRoom L140, with guest Nickolas Butler. 253-3658.

ART EXHIBITS & EV ENTS

Who You Lookin’ At? Portraits

by Generation Potential Thursday, May 4, Overture Center’s Playhouse Gallery, 5-7 pm

Students in alternative high school programs from Madison and Sun Prairie switched from taking selfies to painting self-portraits for this partnership with Dane Arts Mural Arts.

In this collaborative project, students are depicted the way they see themselves — their triumphs, struggles, personalities, perspectives and hopes for the future all come through in full color. On display through May 28.

Design Studies Masters in Fine Arts Exhibition: 4/305/14, UW Nancy Nicholas Hall-Ruth Davis Design Gallery (reception 5:30-7:30 pm, 5/4). 262-8815.

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Laura & Paul Meadough: “Jubilant Acrylics & Contemporary Folk Art,” 5/4-31, Yahara Bay Distillery, Fitchburg (reception 5-9 pm, 5/4). 275-1050.

Scenes from a Magic Lantern: Prints made from donated 20th Century slides, noon-4 pm Saturdays, 5/6-27, PhotoMidwest (reception 7-9 pm, 5/4). photomidwest.org.

FOOD & DRINK Madison Craft Beer Week: Isthmus presents tastings, brewer meet & greets and more (including various free events), through 5/7, at Madison area locations. Schedule: madbeerweek.com.

FARM ERS’ M ARKETS Fitchburg Farmers’ Market: 3-6 pm Thursdays, 5/410/26, Agora Pavilion. 277-2606.

Froth Friday, May 5, UW Memorial Union-Der Rathskeller, 9 pm

The seed for Los Angelenos Froth was a joke about a fake band with a silent record, but there’s nothing ersatz about what they’ve been up to since picking up instruments and learning to play. Based in spacey psych rock, their recordings have moved through ’60s-garage simplicity and ’90s shoegaze to land at a more synthydroney and chilled-out vibe all their own.

Madison guitar pop wunderkinds Dash Hounds will make a perfect opener.

Cave Curse Friday, May 5, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm

Bobby Hussy is a busy guy. When he’s not fronting his garage-punk stalwarts The Hussy, he’s either recording other Madison bands, playing guitar in Fire Heads, or performing with Cave Curse, his own darkwave, synth-punk act. For this outing, Cave Curse will be joined by Milwaukee noisemakers Sex Scenes, Madison punx Solid Freex and fellow local alt-country luminaries Wood Chickens.

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K I D S & FA MI LY www.oz: PlayTime Productions zaps Dorothy into cyberspace, 7 pm, 5/5, McFarland High School; noon, 5/6, UW Space Place. 437-4217.

B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Book Sale: 8 am-6 pm on 5/5 and 8 am-2 pm, 5/6, Garfoot Library, Cross Plains. 798-3881.

Manic Focus

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Friday, May 5, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

5-10 pm Yahara Bay Distillery

John “JmaC” McCarten, alias Manic Focus, is a Chicago-based producer mixing soul, hip-hop rhymes, dubstep and other influences into a dizzying electronic dreamscape. He’s on tour behind the just-released Minds Rising album, featuring collaborations with Late Night Radio, ProbCause, Statik and others. Statik also opens, along with the Spvceage.

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Samba Novistas Unique cocktails and craft spirit tastings

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Brink Lounge: Edi Rey y Su Salsera, DJ Rumba, 8:30 pm.

Cafe Coda: Louka Patenaude Trio, jazz, 8 pm.

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Capital Brewery, Middleton: Vehicle 6, free, 6 pm.

Cargo-East Wash: Brian Ray & Starr Moss, 7:30 pm.

Chief’s Tavern: Frankie Lee Trio, free, 6:30 pm.

Delaney’s: Bob Kerwin Quartet, jazz, free, 6 pm.

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Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Women’s Choir, Chamber Singers, free, 7 pm.

Essen Haus: Pieptone!, German, 8:30 pm. Also: 5/6.

First Unitarian Society: Jeannie Yu, piano; Soh-Hyun Park Altino, violin; Leonardo Altino, cello, 12:15 pm.

Frequency: Post Paradise, The Anderson Brothers, 7 Seasons Deep, 9 pm.

Tickets: $40 advance, $45 d.o.s.

Gold Circle VIP: $75 advance (includes Early Entry & Preferred Seating, on sale by phone only)

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SUN. MAY 14 - 3:00PM Celebrate Mother’s Day with readings by local writers on motherhood

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Share the Word: Gathering of writers, spoken word performers & supporters, 5 pm, 5/5, Central Library, with social hour, readings 6 pm. RSVP: 266-6300.

Madison Storytellers: Listen to or share stories with a “clean sweep” theme, 7 pm, 5/5, Old Sugar Distillery. Free. madisonstorytellers.com.

Madtown Poetry Open Mic: With Bria Fey Servoss, host Ron Czerwein, 8 pm, 5/5, Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. 255-4730.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Gallery Night: Receptions, demonstrations & artists’ talks, 5-9 pm, 5/5, at 80+ venues around Madison.

Locations: mmoca.org. 257-0158.

Roots & Wings: 5/5-30, Cambridge Winery, Cambridge (reception 5-9 pm, 5/5). 819-6672.

Thomas Ferrella: “Not Forgotten: Wisconsin Roadside Memorials,” 5/5-27, Arts & Literature Laboratory (reception 5-9 pm, 5/5). 556-7415.

Spring Art Fair: Wheelhouse Studios students, noon-5 pm, 5/5, UW Memorial Unio. 262-3156.

Harbor: Participatory exhibit, 5/1-5, Art Lofts (reception 5-8 pm, 5/5). 262-1660.

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Ivory Room: Connor Brennan, Taras Nahirniak, Leslie Cao, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

March for Divestment: Solidarity gathering with the Global Divestment Mobilization & Black Lives Matter movements, 3:30 pm, 5/5, Capitol Square (gather at 1 S. Pinckney Street). 350madison.org.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Big Wes Turner’s Trio with Billy Flynn, Americana, 8 pm.

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

Liliana’s, Fitchburg: Larry Stout & Mike Turk, 6:30 pm.

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Liquid: DJs Kristian Narin, Poe Junior, Barello, 10 pm.

Overture Center-Overture Hall: Madison Symphony Orchestra, with organist Nathan Laube, soprano Devon Guthrie, bass-baritone Timothy Jones, 7:30 pm. Also: 8 pm on 5/6 and 2:30 pm, 5/7.

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Tandem Press: UW Jazz Composers Group, 5 pm.

Up North Pub: Lost Highway All-Stars, free, 8 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Rathskeller: Mr. Chair, 5 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Fredric March Play Circle: Juan de Marcos Gonzalez & First Wave, free, 8 pm.

VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Frank James, 7:30 pm.

Wisconsin Brewing Co., Verona: WheelHouse, 6 pm.

The Wisco: Sarah Longfield, Token Minority, 9 pm.

Yahara Bay Distillers, Fitchburg: Samba Novistas, with Meloz Honey Spirit release party, free, 5 pm.

Laura Marling

THEATER & DANCE

Laura Marling isn’t just folk royalty — she’s real royalty. The daughter of a British lord (the 5th Marling Baronet, to be precise), the English songstress is likely the first in her family to get an album listed in New Musical Express’ “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” (as her sophomore effort, I Speak Because I Can, was). Now she’s supporting her sixth full-length, Semper Femina, and if the rave reviews it’s getting are any indication, NME better start clearing some more space on that list. With Valley Queen.

Friday, May 5, Mary Dupont Wahlers Theatre, 8 pm

Tickets on sale at Sugar Shack, Star Liquor, MadCity Music, B-Side, Frugal Muse, Strictly Discs, the Barrymore, online at barrymorelive.com or call & charge at (608) 241-8633.

Todd Michael Cox: Discussing “Iowa,” his new novel, 7 pm, 5/5, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

High Noon Saloon: VO5, East High sports benefit, 7 pm.

Draconia

Tickets: $25 advance VIP $85 (incl. Early Entry, Preferred Seating, Meet & Greet)

L.A. Kauffman: Discussing “Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism,” her new book, 6 pm, 5/5, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Encore Studio for the Performing Arts, Madison’s professional theater company for people with disabilities, debuts a new collection of short plays, monologues and films on subjects such as the inevitability of change, murder, the human services industry and politics. ALSO: Saturday, May 6, 8 pm. Through May 20.

Saturday, May 6, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

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Harmony Bar: The Pine Travelers, Winterland (Grateful Dead tribute), 9:45 pm.

Saturday, May 6, The Frequency, 9 pm

With his band Delta Spirit more or less on hold, Matthew Logan Vasquez has hardly allowed himself any downtime. Does What He Wants, his second album in two years, was released in April, and it’s full of the ramshackle, Kerouac-ian, Southwestern Americana that the well-traveled (he’s lived in San Diego, L.A., Brooklyn and, now, Austin) singer specializes in. With David Ramirez, Bronson Wisconsin.

High Noon Saloon: North Country Drifters, 4 pm; Steve Moakler, Drew Baldridge, SmithField,9 pm.

Immanuel Lutheran Church: Madison Area Community Chorus & Orchestra, Ringing Badgers Handbell Ensemble, annual Earth Day concerts, 2 & 7 pm.

Ivory Room: Connor Brennan, Andy Schneider, Anthony Cao, dueling pianos, 8 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, blues/rock, 9 pm.

Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest-on-the-Road

Lazy Oaf Lounge: The Visitors, rock, 10 pm.

Saturday, May 6, Stoughton Opera House, 7:30 pm

Madison’s own jazz masters Harmonious Wail pair up with the Gonzalo Bergara Trio (pictured) from Argentina for a night that celebrates the passionate sounds of European gypsy jazz. Nothing lifts the spirits like the music that Django made famous.

Alchemy Cafe: Sortin’ the Mail, bluegrass, free, 10 pm.

Art In Gallery: White Bush Unicorn, The Young Step, The Heavy Parts, 7 pm.

Bandung: Mideast Salsa, free salsa lesson, 7:30 pm.

Wild Sound Saturday, May 6, Overture-Capitol Theater, 8 pm Wild Sound is a collaboration between classically trained 2016 Grammy winners Third Coast Percussion and Glenn Kotche, best known as the drummer for Illinois rock heroes Wilco. Kotche is also known in the modern classical and experimental music worlds as a respected composer of new works for percussion ensembles, some of which will be performed at the Overture show.

Bos Meadery: Daniel Mortensen, donations, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Mad City Jug Band, 8 pm.

Cafe Coda: Dave Stoler Trio, jazz, 8 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: DJ Radish, free, noon.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Best Practice, free, 9:30 pm.

Liliana’s: Tom Waselchuk & Doug Brown, 6:30 pm.

Mezze: Charlie Painter & Friends, jazz, free, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Ka-Boom!Box, free, 10 pm.

Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse: Ladyscissors, 8 pm.

Plan B: DJs Mike Carlson, WhiteRabbit, 8:30 pm.

Sprecher’s: The Keepers, classic rock/pop, 7 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Tony Barba Trio, jazz, free, 10 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners: Kelsey Miles Band, 9 pm.

The Wisco: Brash Menagerie, 4-5 Dive, 9 pm.

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FAIRS & F ESTIVALS Maifest: Outdoor spring celebration, noon-6 pm, 5/6, Essen Haus, with music by Zweifel Brothers noon, Live at Nine 3 pm, kids’ activities, local art, grillout. Free admission; 15 percent of profits benefit Dane County Humane Society. 255-4674.

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Crystal Corner: Fringe Character, Foreign Goods, 9:30 pm.

Dizzyland: Leon Varjian and the Antics of the Pail and Shovel Party: 5/6-6/5, UW Memorial UnionClass of 1925 Gallery (opening ceremony 4 pm, reception 5-7 pm, 5/6). 262-7592.

First Unitarian Society: Festival Choir of Madison, “A Musical Zodiac,” works by Berlioz, Debussy, Strauss, 7:30 pm.

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Zuzu Cafe: Intemperance Collective, 7 pm.

Come Back In: The Lower 5th, rock, free, 9 pm.

Edgewater Hotel-Augie’s Tavern: The Dang-Its, 2 pm.

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n ISTHMUS PICKS : MAY 6 - 8 Spring Potters Tour: Clay Collective self-guided tour, 10 am-5 pm, 5/6-7, at studios in eastern Dane & western Jefferson counties. Map: theclaycollective.org.

Art Spin: Free projects for all ages related to “Samurai” exhibit, noon-3 pm, 5/6, Chazen Museum of Art, with martial arts demos. 263-2246.

The Conservators: Photographs by Pat Eagan, Annette Knapstein, Michael Knapstein, Tim Mulcahy, Cheryl Vickroy, 5/1-6/30, UW Fluno Center. 577-3300.

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social justice advocate. Alongside his friend Chance the Rapper, London runs the largest youth open mic in Chicago and in October 2016 released his debut album, Opia. Rich Robbins, another up-and-coming Chicago rapper, opens.

Brocach-Square: West Wind, Irish, free, 5 pm.

Chazen Museum of Art: Pro Arte Quartet, 12:30 pm.

Deja Brew: Haley Parvin, 11 am.

Edgewood College-St. Joseph Chapel: Edgewood College Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, 2:30 pm.

Essen Haus: Meet the Beetles, free, 4 pm.

Harmony Bar: Brother Rye, Paul Filipowicz & the Corbits, Eastside Bluegrass Band, annual Lowell Elementary fundraiser, 3 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Shawndell Marks Trio, Hannah Von Der Hoff, Lo Marie, 7:30 pm.

Madison College-Truax Campus, Mitby Theater: Community Show Choir & College Choral, 2 pm.

Madison Turners Hall: Madison Maennerchor, 3 pm.

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B O O KS / S PO K EN WO RD Listen to Your Grandmothers: Book by the Raging Grannies, 2 pm, 5/7, Central Library. 266-6300.

A RT EXH I B I TS & EV EN TS Marquette-Atwood Neighborhood Art Walk: Annual self-guided tour of artists’ studios, 11 am-5 pm, 5/7; maps at facebook.com/marquetteartwalk.

FA RMERS’ MA RK ETS Northside Farmers’ Market: 8:30 am-12:30 pm, Sundays, 5/7-10/22, Northside Town Center, with music. northsidefarmersmarket.org.

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Sequoya Library: Bob Kerwin Quartet, free, 1:30 pm.

Blondes vs. Brunettes: Alzheimer’s Association benefit flag football game played by women, noon, 5/6, Keva Sports Center, Middleton. $10. 203-8500.

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Free Comic Book Day: Worldwide comic book giveaway, 5/6, with participants including Capital City Comics (251-8445); Graham Crackers (422-4110); Westfield Comics West (833-4444) & East (633-5555). freecomicbookday.com.

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Saturday, May 6, Lathrop Hall’s Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, 2:30 pm Even if it continues to rain, 100 young dancers will generate their own sunshine at the fifth annual Performing Ourselves showcase. UW dance faculty and students provide dance training and confidenceboosting curriculum to underserved youth at seven community centers around the city.

The pleasure of watching these dancers’ joy in performing and presenting their own choreography, which explores the theme of connection, is unparalleled. This year marks the first time that boys will be sharing the spotlight. Free and open to the public.

The Rigby: Madison Jazz Jam, free (all ages), 4 pm.

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Malcolm London Sunday, May 7, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Chicago rapper, poet, educator and activist Malcolm London has been heralded

by Cornel West as “the Gil Scott-Heron of his generation,” and for good reason — since launching his career at a poetry slam in 2011 he’s gone on to earn international acclaim as an artist and

Frontier Ruckus Monday, May 8, The Frequency, 8 pm

Much of Americana is focused on lyricism, but few people write with the specificity of Frontier Ruckus songwriter Matthew Milia.

His lyrics invoke a Coen-esque view of suburban middle America, finding poignancy in even the most banal things. The Michigan quartet released its fifth LP, Enter the Kingdom, in February, recorded by former Wilco and Uncle Tupelo drummer Ken Coomer.

Malt House: The Kissers, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: The Wang Show, free, 7 pm.

S PO K EN WO RD The Moth: Karma: Storytelling competition, 7:30 pm, 5/8, High Noon Saloon. $10. 268-1122.

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tue may 9 Capital Brewery, Middleton: Robert J, free, 6 pm.

Come Back In: WheelHouse, free, 5 pm Tuesdays.

Frequency: The Railsplitters, The Lower 5th, 7:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Y&T, Autumn Grey, 7 pm.

Malt House: Birds, Birds, Birds, free, 7:30 pm.

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

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

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The Book of Mormon Tuesday, May 9, Overture Center, 7:30 pm

One of the most wildly popular musicals in history is returning to Madison. The Book of Mormon, written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, follows an odd couple of missionaries as they venture to the far reaches of the world in the name of the lord. The show is a nine-time Tony Award winner, and was called “the best musical of the century” by The New York Times. ALSO: Wednesday-Thursday, May 10-11, 7:30 pm. Through May 14.

Elsewhere and InBetween: Theatre for Young Audiences production, 1 & 7 pm, 5/9 Edgewood CollegeAnderson Auditorium. Free. 663-6710.

Patty Loew: Discussing “Seventh Generation Earth Ethics,” noon, 5/9, Madison Senior Center. 266-6581.

Don Sanford: Discussing “On Fourth Lake, A Social History of Lake Mendota,” his book, 7 pm, 5/9, Pinney Library. 224-7100.

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A musical romp in the swamp with everyone’s favorite amphibians — Frog and Toad. Adapted from the popular children’s books, this show is a true celebration of friendship.

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Mickey’s Tavern: Coordinated Suicides, Curse They, And Illusions, rock, free, 10:30 pm.

Wednesday, May 10, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

It’s an exciting time for the Madison bedroom pop favorites Trophy Dad: The release of their new Dogman EP was heralded by Stereogum with an in-depth profile and exclusive stream. We’re happy the band is getting its due; while the rest of the country might now know them as the next big thing, we’ve trusted they’d go places ever since their excellent 2015 debut, Shirtless Algebra Fridays. Dash Hounds, Emma Fish and Laundry open.

Cafe Coda: Sims Delaney Potthoff & Scott Hlavenka, jazz, 7 pm.

Frequency: New Sound Underground, Bird’s Eye, 8 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, piano, free, 8 pm.

Me and Julio, Fitchburg: Skyler Nahn, free, 6 pm.

B O O KS Iris Waichler, Karen Meadows: Discussing “Role Reversal: How to Take Care of Yourself & Your Aging Parents” and “Searching for Normal: The Story of a Girl Gone Too Soon,” their new books, 6 pm, 5/10, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

Paul Offit: Discussing “Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong,” his new book, 7 pm, 5/10, UW Discovery Building. 266-6300.

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Madison’s standout hip-hop cooperative works under the direction of poet/arranger Eric Newble. The group sometimes swells to as many as 10 onstage, blending live keys, saxophone and multi-vocalists.

On a moment’s notice, tightly composed numbers change to raw freestyle rap that showcases the fearless stylings of Lord of the Fly. Watch for songs like the funky “Monday,” which has the effect of transporting the audience into the last hour of a New Orleans house party.

With Wurk and Left Field Quartet.

Bos Meadery: Derek Pritzl, Eston Bennett, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, 8 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Terry Hogan, free, 6 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Milkhouse Radio, 6 pm.

Lisa Link Peace Park: Cash Box Kings, free, 5 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Heavy Looks, Nest, Gentle Brontosaurus, rock, free, 10:30 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub: Blue Zone, 6 pm.

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Aparna Nancherla Thursday, May 11, Comedy Club on State, 8:30 pm

She may introduce herself by spilling her antidepressants on the floor, but Nancherla is the funniest red flag you ever did see.

She’s a former writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers and currently has roles on HBO’s Crashing and Netflix’s Love. Dozens of publications — from Time magazine to Vulture to Splitsider — have named her an up-and-coming comic force. Her dry observations about modern dating and the drawbacks of working from home add punch to her surrealistic interpretation of herself as a raptor from Jurassic Park. With Nate Abshire, Geoffrey Asmus. ALSO: Friday-Saturday, May 12-13, 8 & 10:30 pm.

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All real estate advertised is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or status as a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking; or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Isthmus will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are on an equal opportunity basis.

Jobs Woman with physical disability looking for assistance with housekeeping, meal prep, grocery shopping & light personal care assistance. Preferably a female applicant with a flexible schedule. 12 hrs/wk at $12.50/hr. Call Allie at (608) 242-8335 ext 3143.

Woman w/disabilities in Middleton seeks assistance at home with exercises. Mondays 7 PM, other days negotiable, two hour shifts $12.50/hr. Call Angie at (608) 332-8962 and leave a message.

Massage Therapists Wanted We have free space in beautiful clinic.

Take care of our clients and keep what you make.

University Alternative Health 608-231-3900

Henry Vilas Zoo is hiring seasonal staff for our food service, gift shop and carousel. Located near downtown Madison. Positions starting May 1st.

Please go to www.vilaszoo.org/employment or stop at the zoo for an application.

LOCAL DRIVERS WANTED! Be your own boss. Flexible hours. Unlimited earning potential. Must be 21 with valid U.S. driver’s license, insurance & reliable vehicle. 866-329-2672 (AAN CAN) Volunteer with UNITED WAY Volunteer Center Call 246-4380 or visit volunteeryourtime.org to learn about opportunities

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PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards.

Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 877-362-2401

Swedish Massage For Men, providing immediate Stress, Tension and Pain Relief.

Seven days a week by appt.—same day appointments available. Contact Steve, CMT at: ph/text 608.277.9789 or acupleasur@aol.com. Gift certificates available for any reason or season @ ABC Massage Studio!

Happenings GIGANTIC USED BOOK SALE: Friends of Alicia Ashman Library, 733 North High Point Road, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, May 4-6.

Pre-sale for Friends only, Thursday 5-8 pm (may join same evening).

Public Sale Friday 9:30-7:00 and Saturday 9:30-3:00. $5 bag sale Saturday 1-3 pm.

Adult and children’s books, videos, CDs, more.

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It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139 (AAN CAN)

SOFTBALL TEAMS FORMING NOW! 12 week season, looking to start mid-May. Wednesday & Thursday nights. 6 & 7pm games. $400 covers all sponsor fees and player fees for the entire team! Contact: WILLOWS TAVERN (608) 244-8458 5485 Willow Road Waunakee, WI 53597 AIRLINE CAREERS begin here – Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

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Recognizing outstanding volunteers for their work in our community

Heather Wittrock Sierra Club Foundation – John Muir Chapter Heather Wittrock started volunteering with the Sierra Club as a student intern, and because of her commitment to the environment, she’s continued volunteering even after graduation. She support the chapter through weekly office work, campaign organizing, and lends her talents to the Membership Committee and Board Nominating Committee—ensuring that the John Muir chapter stays strong on all levels.

Goodman Community Center has an exciting opportunity to increase access to food for our pantry clients through donations from Hy-Vee on East Washington Ave. We’re looking for 2 volunteers to pick up a large donation once a week on Saturdays and deliver the food to GCC. Volunteers must have a clean driving record, feel comfortable driving a cargo van, and be physically able to load and unload the vehicle.

For more information about Sierra Club or to volunteer, visit www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin or call 608-256-0565.

Nancy Christy Chrysalis

Hope & A Future is a local nonprofit working to create a therapeutic interactive intergenerational neighborhood. Come out to the 3rd annual Pancake Breakfast on May 20th and eat pancakes while enjoying live music for local musicians, shop a silent auction, and let the little ones enjoy fun activities and crafts.

United Way 2-1-1 is seeking new volunteers to staff our telephone lines, answering questions about resources available in the service area. If you are looking for an opportunity to learn more about community resources and would like to assist people in finding ways to get and give help, United Way 2-1-1 may be the place for you!

Awesome Massage from the heart, gift certificates available; Hypnotherapy: Quit Smoking! Lose Weight!

Remove Anxiety, Etc Ken-Adi Ring 608-444-3039 www.Wellife.org

As a volunteer with Chrysalis, Nancy Christy helped to create Chrysalis Pops—a local, organic fruit-pop social enterprise. Chrysalis Pops provides meaningful paid work opportunities for individuals living with mental illness in Dane County. Nancy shared her professional knowledge, as well as countless hours of consultation and resources, all of which ensured this new program was a success.

For more information about Chrysalis or to volunteer, visit www.workwithchrysalis.org or call (608) 256-3102.

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The leftovers

BY DAN SAVAGE

Nancy, the tech-savvy at-risk youth, two gimps, Christ on the cross, the Easter Bunny, two weeping women, and the Easter Bunny’s smoking-hot leather master took to the stage at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon, for a live taping of the Savage Lovecast on Easter weekend. Audience members submitted their questions on cards (I take my questions like some of you take your men: anonymously) — but with Rachel Lark & the Damaged Goods and comedian Nariko Ott on the program as well, we didn’t get to many questions. So I’m going to answer as many of Portland’s questions as I can in this week’s column.

We’ve been sleeping with another couple for three months (first time my BF and I opened our relationship). How do I suggest full penetration with the opposite partner?

At this point, we just do oral, and that’s the “groove” we’re in.

Only-oral-with-others may be this couple’s preferred groove and the lane they want to stay in. If they’re only up for the “soft swap,” as it’s known in swinging circles, penetration isn’t gonna happen. But you should feel free to ask for what you want — at the very least, you’ll get some long-overdue clarity about their boundaries.

My girlfriend asked me to make out with another guy. Her fantasy. We met a really pretty gay boy at a house party, and so I made out with him. I got hard, and my girlfriend made a huge scene. She says it was supposed to be for her pleasure, not for mine, and she’s still angry six months later and constantly questions whether I’m really straight. (I am!) What do I tell her?

Good-bye.

When do you know if it’s okay to insert your finger in your boyfriend’s butthole?

Without fear of freaking him out?

After you’ve applied lube to your finger and his butthole — which you’re allowed to do only after you’ve asked him if you can insert your finger in his butthole and after he’s consented to having your finger in his butthole.

I love my man, but we’re both tops. What should we do?

Spit-roast very special guest stars if you’re in an open relationship, take turns/one for the team if you’re in a monogamous relationship, explore and enjoy your non-buttpenetrative options.

My girlfriend and I are pretty grossly in love and very affectionate, especially after we’ve just had sex. Should we make an effort to tone it down a bit around a third we’ve just fucked around with? Or should we just be ourselves, and if they don’t like it, oh well?

Be yourselves — but make an effort to include your third in those oxytocin-infused displays of postcoital affection. Unless your third was inconsiderate or creepy during the sex, or is anxious to go immediately after the sex (a sign you may have been inconsiderate or creepy), your third helped get you to that blissed-out state and deserves to bask a bit in the afterglow too.

My boyfriend is 10 years older than me.

Also, he’s the first boyfriend I’ve had in 10 years. I’m used to being single — and while he is great (sexy, amazing, smart), I feel like I’m losing parts of myself. I’m not doing the stuff my prior loneliness made it easy for me to do, creative stuff like openmic nights. Do we break up?

You’re no longer lonely — you have a boyfriend now — but you still need time alone.

Even if you live together, you don’t have to spend every waking/non-work hour with your boyfriend — it’s not healthy to spend every waking/non-work hour with your significant other. But instead of heading to open-mic night because you’re lonely and bored and have nothing else to do, now you’re going to go to that open-mic night (and go alone) because you enjoy it, you need the creative outlet, and it’s healthy for a couple to have time apart.

Thank you, Dan. Five years ago, I was miserable in a sexless marriage. Tonight I’m here with my fabulous boyfriend and my hot sub. Thanks to your advice!

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