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■ WHAT TO DO 4 SNAPSHOT

SPARE PARTS

DreamBikes inspires teenagers with old bicycles.

6-10 NEWS

SITE CONTAMINATION

Are taxpayers funding affordable housing on tainted land?

12 OPINION SARAH MAUGHAN

JENNY PEEK

15 COVER STORY Jenny Peek graduated from East High School in 2007.

Then, students of color were 43 percent of the student body; today they are 63 percent. The school’s rich diversity, which extends to gender and socioeconomic status, and the efforts by staff to promote a sense of community, creates a “real-world experience” for Purgolders that not all high school students have, says Peek. “One thing I like to say about East is that it’s like a microcosm of real life.”

15 COVER STORY Sarah Maughan, a native of Rock Island, Illinois, got her first film camera from her dad when she was a freshman in high school.

She went on to Northern Illinois University, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in photography. She moved in 2005 to Madison, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

FIGHTING CITY HALL

Bureaucrats push new road despite neighborhood opposition.

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THE PRINCIPAL GREETER

Mike Hernandez wants to make space for everyone at East High.

23-26 FOOD & DRINK

BACK ON KING STREET

Muramoto Downtown retains its greatest hits in a stylish new space.

WOMEN’S ROOM

Culinary Ladies Collective raises the profile of women in the food industry.

28 SPORTS

PITCH PERFECT

Badger softball gains momentum as it heads into the Big Ten Tournament.

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FRESH FACES OF ROCK

His two Elaines Monday, May 15, Central Library, 11 am Former Wisconsin Gov. Martin Schreiber has spent more than 10 years as caregiver for his wife, Elaine, who lives with Alzheimer’s disease. In his recent book, My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver, he shares the challenges and mistakes he’s made along the way.

Disq is going places — fast.

JAZZ GROWS UP

Night in the city

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Thursday, May 11, Gilman and State streets, 6-11 pm

Isthmus Jazz Fest turns 30.

MONSTERS AND MYTHS

Two exhibits at the James Watrous Gallery.

34 SCREENS TOM WHITCOMB

21 MUSIC Growing up in the emo and punk boom of the mid-aughts, Tom Whitcomb spent his high school years devouring Alternative Press magazine, which made him think that maybe he should take a crack at this whole “music writing” thing.

He began covering music for Isthmus in 2015.

DIY KIDNAPPER

Take Me is an absurdist black comedy from first-time director Pat Healy.

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JOB COACH

The inaugural Madison Night Market includes booths with arts, crafts and food aplenty.

Entertainment for the whole family includes giant board games and sets at Lisa Link Peace Park by the UW Marching Band and Cash Box Kings. Mark your calendars: Madison Night Market will also take place the second Thursday in June and July.

A new website helps people with autism land jobs in the gig economy.

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Make your neighbors green with envy Friday (11 am-5 pm) and Saturday (9 am-3 pm), May 12-13, Olbrich Gardens; Saturday, May 13, UW Arboretum, 9 am-2 pm

Plant Sale with the Pros returns to Madison’s dream yard, Olbrich Gardens. Purchase the same plants used there for your own yard, and get tips on how to care for them from local pros and master gardeners. For those who appreciate a wilder direction, the Arboretum’s Native Plant Sale offers more than 200 varieties of grasses, trees, shrubs, and woodland or prairie plants for that back 40 you don’t want to mow anymore.

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Learn more about traditional Irish sports with a series of matches pitting local clubs against their Milwaukee counterparts. The Madison Gaelic Football Club men’s team plays at 3 pm, followed by the women’s outfit at 4 pm. Hurling Club of Madison hits the field at 5:30 pm. Admission is free.

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Lessons for work and life: Russell (front) and Calmeso, Shirley and Lee (le to right), with a volunteer at Northgate’s DreamBikes shop.

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At 4:15 p.m. four north Madison teens arrive for their shift at DreamBikes, a bicycle resale shop whose interior evokes the orphanage Tom Waits envisioned in his 1981 song, Broken Bicycles.

Broken bicycles, old busted chains/With busted handle bars out in the rain/Somebody must have an orphanage for all these things that nobody wants anymore…

The teens’ job: to refurbish and resell orphaned bikes.

But on this Friday, their first task is to fill 20 balloons with helium, finishing each with a ribbon.

“They’re for the grand opening tomorrow,” explains Olivia Lee, a 16-year-old East High School junior who learned about DreamBikes in a college prep course.

Since its first store opened in Verona, in 2008, five others in four states have followed. The Northgate location was part of DreamBikes four-store expansion last year.

The business model is simple: turn unwanted bicycles into saleable inventory.

The store technically opened last October, sans bicycles.

“It took us about three to four months to build up our inventory,” says store manager Josh Barrett. “Then we had to strip them down, clean all the parts, and build them back up.”

Those dead on arrival are salvaged for usable parts. Leftovers are shipped to bicycle programs in Africa. “Almost everything that comes into the shop gets channeled out somewhere,” he says.

City residents, mostly north-siders, have donated around 100 bikes since last fall.

“Our employees learn “A lot of people donate Percentage of energy a variety of soft and hard to us specifically because of delivered by bicycle riders skills,” says Barrett, an what we do,” Barrett says. “So transmi ed to the wheels: avid cyclist hired by the bikes come in from the 99 DreamBikes 18 months community and go back out ago. “They learn life isn’t into the community.”

Teens employed by all fun and games, that As its name and nonprofit DreamBikes: sometimes the bathroom status suggest, DreamBikes 200 needs to be cleaned.” pitches a far more utopian viBikes refurbished Bike repairs can be sion than the authoritarianand resold: time-intensive, especially gray interior of its north-side 15,000 for mechanics so green, but store lets on. What would Bicycles built by Trek Barrett doesn’t set quotas. be a low-wage job to adults in its first year: Though sales are a must is seen as an opportunity by 900 to prevent paychecks from the teenagers who live in the bouncing, his teenage staff low-income neighborhoods is similarly unburdened by sales goals. where DreamBike stores operate.

“Obviously, customer service is our numAbout 200 opportunities have been created.

At one of four work stations behind the ser- ber one priority,” he says. “But I believe that if vice counter, Calista Shirley, 16, cleans the indi- we focus on the mission, the sales will follow.”

Nearly an hour after the teens begin vidual parts of a bike nearly ready for reassembly.

“I had never refurbished anything before,” their shift, six balloons remain unfilled. she says. “It’s a lot easier than I thought it Customers are trickling in. East High sophomore Bryan Russell, 15, is on deck to would be.”

DreamBikes is far from her dream job, but greet them. Although he clearly has more it’s accommodating enough for her to take four mechanical aptitude than the others comweeks off to study abroad this summer in the bined, his heart is in sales.

“I want to learn marketing, too,” he says.

Dominican Republic. Like Lee, Shirley learned Surprisingly, none of the teens find of the DreamBikes opportunity from connections through East High School’s AVID pro- much pleasure in bicycling as an activity. gram, for students on track to be first in their If Trek had a hidden agenda to cultivate a new generation of cyclists — or cheap labor family to attend college.

Madison school board member and former — it has some uphill pedaling to do.

East High freshman Malcolm Calmeso, gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, whose father founded Trek Bicycle, was instrumental in 14, doesn’t own a bike. His DreamBikes embringing AVID to Madison high schools. Trek ployee discount is unlikely to change that.

Bicycle was likewise instrumental in launching “Man, I got other priorities,” he says, “like saving for college.” ■ DreamBikes.

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Affordable, but at what cost?

Critics don’t want the city to fund low-income apartments next to Madison-Kipp

BY DYLAN BROGAN

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More affordable housing in one of Madison’s most vibrant neighborhoods.

What’s not to like? A proposed mixeduse development at 134 S. Fair Oaks Ave. would create dozens of subsidized, residential units just blocks away from Lowell Elementary and Olbrich Park, and with easy access to the Capital City bike path, major bus routes, restaurants and grocery stores.

However, residents of the affordable apartment complex — proposed

by Stone House Development — would also be living across the street from an aluminum die-casting plant operated by the Madison-Kipp Corporation. A report from city health officials to the Plan Commission, which approved the project in December, concludes that the manufacturer’s activities “are not creating a human health impact.” But opponents of the city-supported development say officials lack evidence to make that claim and are potentially exposing poor people to toxins that may damage their health.

Maria Powell, president of the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization, used to live near Madison-Kipp and has long been critical of the company’s environmental record. She’s appalled that the city would back an affordable housing project so close to an industrial loading dock where “trucks come-and-go, day and night, emitting diesel fumes.” She contends that the nearby smokestacks at the MadisonKipp plant are “more than an eyesore.”

“If this project happens, there are going to be vulnerable people living right next to a facility that emits harmful chemicals,” says Powell. “Immune system problems. Developmental problems. Cardiovascular problems. Respiratory problems. Some of these chemicals are known carcinogens. Those are the potential health hazards. There isn’t enough testing to say that residents living 100 feet away will be safe.”

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Stone House Development proposes building an 80-unit, multi-family residential building on the Fair Oaks site, most recently home to Fair Oaks Nursery & Garden Center. The project would also include underground parking, commercial space that utilizes a 1927 brick industrial building on the property, and a courtyard that overlooks Starkweather Creek.

Sixty-eight apartments in the building would be available, below-market rate, to residents who qualify for affordable housing. In its application for Affordable Housing Funds, Stone House says a renter who makes 30 percent of Dane County’s

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median income or less, would pay $388 for a onebedroom apartment and $588 for a three-bedroom unit. This would be Stone House’s 10th affordable housing development.

In 2014, Mayor Paul Soglin launched an initiative to create 1,000 affordable housing units in five years. Jim O’Keefe, Madison’s community development director, says the city has had “tremendous success” leveraging federal tax credits — distributed annually by the Wisconsin Housing Economic Development Agency (WHEDA) — to build affordable housing. He says city-support has been key to developers getting funding through the program. In the first two years of Madison’s Affordable Housing Fund, the eight projects supported by the city all received WHEDA funding.

“The fact that we are investing city dollars in these projects is recognized by WHEDA in its scoring,” says O’Keefe. “In a very competitive process, being able to get points for local financial participation might be the difference between getting tax credits and not getting tax credits.”

On Nov. 28, 2016, the Common Council authorized $1.35 million out of its Affordable Housing Fund for Stone Creek’s proposal on Fair Oaks. The project is one of five city-backed, affordable housing developments competing to receive WHEDA tax credits this year.

Ald. David Ahrens says the council should have given the Fair Oaks project more scrutiny before funding it. In recent months, Ahrens has rallied opposition to the proposal because of its proximity to Madison-Kipp. Uncertainty about exposing lowincome residents to potentially dangerous fumes was enough to block $334,000 in tax-incremental financing that Stone House sought in late February.

Ahrens accuses city health officials of “gross negligence” for concluding the site is safe. Six alders voted against the TIF grant, defeating it at a Feb. 28 meeting. “[Industrial manufacturing] is a noisy, dirty, smelly affair and this is particularly true of Madison-Kipp,” Ahrens said at the meeting. “We know

childhood exposure to air pollution of this magnitude results in lifelong respiratory damage. And those are the kids that are going to live there…. I wouldn’t let my kid live there for free.”

Ahrens says city health officials are relying on air quality measurements by the state Department of Natural Resources from a monitor at East High School, over a mile away from the project. Without site-specific testing, Ahrens says the city has no evidence to say Madison-Kipp’s facility is “not creating a human health impact.”

Madison-Kipp has a history of soil and groundwater contamination in other properties adjacent to its facility. It has paid millions to settle lawsuits from neighbors over contamination of tetrachloroethylene, a probable carcinogen, that leaked into the soil and into people’s homes.

For decades, residents have also complained of chemical odors near Madison-Kipp’s facilities on Atwood and Fair Oaks. When assessing the Stone

“ It’s the Willy Street neighborhood. Everyone wants to live there. It would be much easier to build out in a cornfield somewhere.”

— Helen Bradbury, Stone House president

House proposal, city officials still cite the “Madison Kipp Corp Exposure Assessment” prepared by Madison’s public health department in 2001. The report finds potential emissions from MadisonKipp’s die casting operations include chlorine, hydrogen chloride, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter and various volatile organic compounds. But the report says emissions are at levels that are “not expected to cause human health effects that are observable with an epidemiological health study.”

In 2016, Madison-Kipp also announced it had stopped using chlorine to treat aluminum at its facilities. John Hausbeck, environmental health supervisor with Public Health Madison & Dane County, says there are fewer complaints about odors coming from Madison-Kipp since the measure was taken.

“From my personal experience, there are odors. It is my hope that people coming into this new development go in with eyes open,” Hausbeck told the Plan Commission on Dec. 12. “From what everybody tells me, it’s a great neighborhood. And then, there are obviously people who would rather not live next to [Madison-Kipp]. The odors are there, the noises are there. If that’s tolerable to a person, it could be a great place.”

But Ahrens isn’t convinced by the available data.

“There have been hundreds of complaints over the years from residents over Madison-Kipp,” says Ahrens. “It’s incredible that a city department would risk these people’s lives when they lack evidence on the health hazards. To expose known toxins to low-income residents, who have few resources to defend themselves if there is a problem, is a great injustice.”

Hausbeck says the agency lacks the means to provide the evidence that critics of the Fair Oaks project are demanding.

“The environmental data that I have says it’s safe for people to live there,” says Hausbeck. “It would be great to have all the data in the world. But the monitoring done by the DNR says the air is safe. That’s what I’m working with.

This property does have some environmental problems but they are being addressed as part of the development.”

Ald. Mark Clear says using “hypothetical environmental concerns” to derail the affordable project is “a farce.”

“That’s a red herring. Opponents were using a potentially vulnerable population as a shield to make more of an emotional case,” says Clear. “I think it was just a lot of noise.”

Stone House was granted a conditionaluse permit to build housing on the industrially zoned property.

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Helen Bradbury, Stone House president, says the company did its own environmental testing on the site and is taking “significant steps” to eradicate any contaminants.

“You can’t get a loan or get an investor without clean environmental reports.

We are very satisfied that the site is safe,” says Bradbury. “We are improving the environmental conditions. If we felt like it was too dangerous to live there, of course we wouldn’t move forward. We’re affordable housing providers.”

Bradbury says it was frustrating to hear “hyperbole from council members” about health hazards.

“There are hundreds of people who live near Madison-Kipp. There are houses that are closer to both of their plants than [the Fair Oaks project] location,” says Bradbury. “If there really are serious pollution issues, where is the outrage about that? Why are we the ones being picked on?”

Bradbury adds that council members who oppose the project also fail to understand the difficulty of finding locations for affordable housing in isthmus neighborhoods.

“It’s the Willy Street neighborhood.

Everyone wants to live there,” says Bradbury. “It would be much easier to build out in a cornfield somewhere but that’s not the socially responsible thing to do and wouldn’t come close to offering the same amenities.”

Bradbury says council members have put the project in jeopardy. She says Stone House lost at least a point or two off its score for WHEDA funding when the council denied the TIF. Stone House will know by the end of May whether it will get the tax credit.

“The WHEDA [tax credits] are so competitive that losing one point off our score might make the difference,” says Bradbury. “If we don’t get that funding, I can’t say what will happen with the project.”

Environmentalists aren’t the only ones opposed to the Stone House project.

Tony Koblinski, president and CEO of Madison-Kipp, posed a hypothetical situation to city officials in a Dec. 6 letter.

“Imagine Stone House had built its development 30 years ago and it was [Madison-Kipp] who came to the city today to propose an 80,000-square foot manufacturing facility right next door, operating 24 hours per day, with loading docks and all the attendant noise and traffic,” Koblinski wrote. “Even though a manufacturing facility is a permitted use, [Madison-Kipp’s] ability to develop such a facility would certainly be impeded by the existence of residential units so close by.” ■

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Fifty years later Indian American community celebrates contributions to Madison

BY ALLISON GEYER

When Lakshmi Sridharan moved from India to Madison in the late 1960s to attend graduate school at UW-Madison, the local Indian American community looked much different than it does today. There were no Indian restaurants, no colorful Holi celebrations, no theaters showing Bollywood movies. On campus, the community was so small and close-knit that whenever someone’s relative from India would visit, all the Indian students would get together to share news from home and eat traditional foods.

“In those days, it was a dream for all Indians to come to the United States,” says Sridharan, who was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in water chemistry from the university.

She remembers the excitement and the pride of being accepted into the university, but also the fear — Would she pass her English test?

Could she find vegetarian food? “My first meal at [Memorial] Union was potato chips and milk,” she recalls with a laugh.

Now, nearly 50 years later, Madison is home to a thriving community of Indian Americans — about 4,700 working adults according to a study commissioned by Sridharan and others, but she estimates the

actual population is “at least three times that.”

As the immigrant group has grown, many of its members have found success in and made significant contributions to Madison.

On May 13, Sridharan and a group of coorganizers are throwing a daylong celebration of the local Indian American community called Namaste Madison, which will be held at Central Library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sridharan received a grant through the new Library Takeover program, which provides training and resources to help community members organize events.

Beyond Indian cooking demonstrations (and samples!) and a Bollywood dance party, Namaste Madison will also feature panel discussions about the experiences of Indian American immigrants in the United States.

In many ways, Indians are “model immigrants,” uniquely positioned for success in the United States, says Joe Elder, a UW-Madison professor of sociology, languages and cultures of Asia and an expert on India who will deliver a virtual keynote speech on Saturday. “This is a group that came in with an enviable amount of talent,” he adds.

Decades of British colonial rule, while problematic, led to many Indians becoming fluent in English. The Indian culture also places great value on education, which can explain why a

high percentage of Indian Americans work in scientific and academic fields.

“Yes, we’ve been successful, but we use that success to give back,” says Anjali Sridharan, Lakshmi’s daughter and a co-organizer of the event. She’s excited to educate the community on the economic impact of Indian American immigrants in Dane County — which is in the hundreds of millions annually, according to the commissioned study — and to highlight the group’s significant volunteerism and civic engagement.

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Does Madison need another street?

City officials should not be pushing a road that neighbors don’t want

BY MICHAEL CUMMINS

Michael Cummins is a Madison-based business analyst.

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At a 2014 conference of the Placemaking Leadership Council, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin delivered an inspired appeal to people power. He encouraged neighborhoods to take the lead in developing their public spaces, asking, “[D]o you want my vision, or do you want a process that allows you to become a part of your own solutions?”

Residents of one far-southwest-side neighborhood have come to find such talk of selfFlagstone Dr. determination exasperating. Their ongoing struggle to preserve a cherished Neighbors have fallen in love with Jeffy Path and the surrounding green public space suggests that, space and do not want to see the path replaced by a road. when it comes down to it, the city will push its own Jeffy Path vision, and push it hard. to the extension is over- page states that “Jeffy Trail construction funds At issue is the “Jeffy whelming, if not unani- have been shifted to 2019.”

Ice Age Trail View Trail Extension,” a promous.Oak On itsDr.website, the Why does the city persist? There might be d posed road construction Madison West Neighboran element of bureaucratic stubbornness at a o dR on project. In 2012, the city hood Association has work but, mostly, city officials are just conm y Ra purchased about 10 acres posted a map on which all vinced they’re in the right. of land in the High Pointthe signatories of a 2015 Though authoritative estimates have varied Raymond neighborhood, anti-extension petition widely, from a few seconds to a minute-and-abetween Raymond Road, a more-or-less are plotted. Hawks Creek and its neighboring half, no one doubts that an additional vehicle east/west street, and the southern endpoint subdivision, Stone Crest Estates, are virtually entrance would improve emergency response of Jeffy Trail, a north/south street that runs invisible under a sea of plot pins. Barbara Har- times in the area. Bill Sullivan, Madison’s Fire through the Hawks Creek subdivision. rington-McKinney, the city alderperson for the Protection Engineer, supports the extension.

Soon thereafter, the city constructed an area, told the Cap Times that when she initially Thing is, almost any new road, anywhere, “interim multi-purpose path” through the ran for her seat, “Jeffy [Path] was absolutely the will improve emergency response times. And land, connecting the Jeffy Trail dead-end first thing I encountered … What I’ve heard the to the Ice Age Junction Path, which leads residents say over and over again is that they out to Raymond Road. value that property.”

THIS MODERN WORLD The neighbors immediately fell in love Yet, as far as the city is concerned, the with the path. The city, on the other hand, extension project is very much alive. Staff is immediately announced a half-million dol- urging the Plan Commission to keep it in the lar plan to destroy it, and extend Jeffy Trail, High Point-Raymond Neighborhood Developthe street, southward to Raymond. ment Plan when the panel updates the docuThe neighbors have managed to keep ment this summer. Commission member Brad the project in abeyance, thus preserving Cantrell even noted at a meeting that he recJeffy Path, for several years now. ognizes the city’s desire to act quickly in the The neighbors, I should note, are not a growing area “so there’s not a huge population selective group of super-activist residents. to oppose [the extension] in the future.” And a In and around Hawks Creek, opposition recent entry on the city’s engineering project

emergency officials like Sullivan are — as we want them to be — hyper-focused on response.

To Jeffy-area residents, emergency response is just one of myriad factors that feeds into overall quality of neighborhood life. Consider that city staff has preliminarily estimated that the extension will have a traffic count impact of “less than 1,000 vehicles per day.” The neighbors, understandably, read that as “up to 999 vehicles per day,” a level that could have major implications for safety, noise, and general disruption. And it’s the neighbors, not city officials, who stand to lose their prized path and the green space that surrounds it.

David Handowski, vice president of the Madison West Neighborhood Association, emphasizes that the neighbors have carefully weighed all the pros and cons involved.

“We put a lot of thought into this. People should be able to select what is most valuable to them.” In stating his case, Handowski sounds remarkably like the mayor.

Handowski urged me to come see the path for myself, as a sort of research trip for this column. But my personal assessment of the path’s value is, ultimately, irrelevant.

No one — not me, not city experts — can understand the neighborhood’s needs better than the neighbors themselves.

I would, though, be happy to suggest some better uses for that half-million dollars, if anyone cares to ask. n

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No litmus tests In his opinion piece last week, “Wanted: Good Democratic candidates,” Alan Talaga suggests running those “who have roots in the district” because their perspectives need to be heard in Madison and Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, there is as much danger setting up a litmus test that excludes a candidate from “a fancy law school” as one who is “a progressive dairy farmer.” It becomes too easy to pit rural against urban and roads against trains. Farmers can feel no need to care about the homeless in Madison and Milwaukee’s young professionals can absolve themselves from understanding how changes in NAFTA affect milk sales to Canada and corn exports to Mexico. Candidates need to represent their districts, Wisconsin, and the United States.

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Silence hurts Re: “Secrets and lies in Sun Prairie” (5/4/2017): It only takes one instance like this to completely erode the trust of local police. One bad apple does spoil the bunch in cases like this when the city refuses to make light of the situation and chooses to remain mum on details.

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Trouble on State Re: “Madison continues efforts to ‘activate’ trouble spot at top of State” (5/1/17): Political correctness, which epitomizes Madison, apparently forbids honesty. We know darn

well that no one wants the homeless cluttering up the landscape (whether it be parks or State Street) but they dare not come right out and say it.

How about we just vote on an ordinance that bans vagrancy, panhandling, loitering, and sleeping on public or private property?

Then give one-way bus tickets to those who have a problem with that.

I’m kidding, of course, but the silly efforts the city goes to in order to do what everyone wants them to do without offending anyone is ridiculous.

Obviously, what is being done isn’t working. Not here or anywhere.

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Correction In last week’s story, “A Rock ‘n’ roll farewell,” it was incorrectly stated that Tag Evers of Frank Productions will be taking over booking for the High Noon Saloon. Maggie Denman will be handling local booking, and Kyle LaValley will be booking national acts.

The headline on our opinion column last week was incomplete. It should have read “Wanted: Good Democratic candidates.”

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Opening doors

Principal Mike Hernandez works to make East High a community hub

By Jenny Peek

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In partnership with more than 200 teachers and staff, Hernandez is on a mission to make East High School not just a great school, but a vital part of the community. In the two years since he arrived, Hernandez and his staff have connected with numerous community organizations, bringing their services directly into East, in hopes of engaging even the most vulnerable students and their families.

Last year the school opened a food pantry and a Summit Credit Union branch. Growing relationships with Briarpatch Youth Services, Nehemiah, Centro Hispano and Girls Inc. — to name a few — have brought extensive resources into the building to buoy the school’s increasingly diverse population.

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he sun has barely risen, but Mike Hernandez is at his desk checking and sending emails. The glow from the computer screen on this late winter day is all that illuminates the room.

A 6 a.m. start is typical for Hernandez, principal of East High School, who is used to working 12-hour days. The early mornings give him time to collect his thoughts and prepare for the day.

While Hernandez carries himself with an inexplicable zen, he admits the job weighs on him. “We have 1,700 kids, that is some serious stress for any adult in this building. You are shaping — or attempting to shape — this large group. It’s crazy talk,” Hernandez exclaims. “How many people have that? It’s something we have to be very cognizant of.”

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Summit Credit Union opened a branch at East in part to help students gain financial literacy.

Tom Kanies (above) has worked at East for 14 years: “Mike is out to engage the disengaged parents as well as the disengaged students.”

The food pantry run by Helena White (right) is one of several community services now operating out of the school.

we can do to be able to bring them to East has helped build that community,” Hernandez says. “Now these services are being offered here, supporting students in need.”

Tom Kanies has worked at East for 14 years; he’s currently the Freshman Academy coordinator. He credits Hernandez for nurturing a community.

“Mike threw out the idea to [the staff] about East becoming a community school in the sense that it becomes a hub where students and their families come to receive support services,” Kanies says. “Some parents come to school all the time, but when it comes to kids who are struggling, those parents aren’t here. Mike is out to engage the disengaged parents as well as the disengaged students and really understands that we’re not going to reach those kids until we reach their parents.”

When Hernandez transferred to East in 2015, after eight years as principal at Sherman Middle School, he had a keen awareness that many parents don’t feel welcome.

“The community is changing,” says Kanies. “East was always part of the east side but we were kind of an island too. Mike is breaking down walls and really building ties to the community. I like the community at East more now than I probably ever have.”

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It’s 8 a.m. and Hernandez is in

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position with 10th grade principal Alex Thompson. Standing outside of the cafeteria across from the senior wall, Hernandez becomes a greeter, bidding good morning to students as they sleepily make their way to class.

Hernandez sports an Under Armour warm-up jacket, blue jeans, and his East High ID lanyard — he nearly blends in with the students pouring by. A seemingly photographic memory allows him to rattle off nearly each name of all 1,700 students under his supervision.

“When do you guys start practice,” Hernandez asks one young man.

“Soon,” he replies. “You ready? You should know the date man!” Hernandez pushes.

“Brigit, did you get notice that we have advisory group today? At lunchtime okay? Be there!” Hernandez reminds her.

“I will, don’t worry,” laughs senior Brigit Stattelman-Scanlan as she hustles to her first class.

Hernandez reaches out to another student who recently lost a grandparent, “Hey, how’s your mom and dad after the funeral?”

“They’re good…” the student responds before Hernandez jumps in, “They okay? I’ve got some pictures I want to send them from the game, I got some really nice ones, I’ll send them to you too, okay?” he says.

The effort doesn’t go unnoticed.

“Every day at passing time he stands in the hallway and he’ll shake students’ hands and call them over and ask them how they’re doing,” says Siara Williams, a sophomore. “He’s really involved in the students’ lives. He knows everyone in the school’s name, and he just makes everyone feel really welcome.”

It’s been a refreshing change for Kanies.

“He has that deep engagement with every student.

We’ve been through five principals since I’ve been here and some of them have been very fine,” says Kanies. “But they don’t have that personal engagement with kids and it’s a really cool thing to see.”

The power of creating positive connections with students is not a novel concept, but it’s one that both Hernandez and his wife of 17 years, Melissa Hernandez, consider necessary for being a good educator.

Principal Hernandez calls Melissa, a third grade teacher at Elvehjem Elementary School, his biggest “thought partner.”

Melissa says the two push each other. “I think that my strength for him is that I’m pretty grounded and I’m in the classroom,” she says. “Administrators often lose touch with what’s happening in the classroom and that irks me a bit, so I just really try to make sure that he can see everything from a teacher’s perspective. We challenge each other, and I love it because we are both so much better because of it.”

Hernandez grew up in Toledo, Ohio. His father was a truck driver and his mother a librarian. After getting a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University, he taught for a year in Toledo before moving to California.

He met his wife in San Bernardino, California. Hernandez was a middle school department chair for special education and Melissa taught third grade. It was there that Hernandez suddenly found himself thrust into an administrative role.

“It’s an odd story,” says Hernandez, shaking his head.

“The day before school started, the principal and superintendent said they needed to speak to me. The previous night a principal at an elementary school was found intoxicated in his car at a Del Taco and was immediately fired.”

After shifting staff around, they named Hernandez interim assistant principal. “I said I didn’t want to do it and they said too bad,” says Hernandez. “I’ve been a principal for 15 years now.”

The Hernandez’ roots are in the Midwest. When they had their third and youngest child, the family moved to the Madison area to be closer to family. Although they love their jobs, family is a priority.

“My wife is extremely strong, she continues to remind me — not that I need to be reminded, but I do at times

The Principal’s Advisory Committee regularly gives Hernandez (center) feedback. Infinity Gamble (third from right) says the committee gives her a chance to talk “directly to the source.... We don’t always agree on everything but it’s in a respectful way.”

— that dad [comes] first, work second,” Hernandez says.

“She understands that we have kids at East that don’t have positive adult role models, male adult role models, people of color adult role models, and while that’s always a stress, when I’m home, I’m home.”

Melissa says that her husband has a natural ability to connect with kids.

“He is what those kids need and that’s part of what makes him so good,” Melissa says. “He knows that he has to connect with them and I think that he really likes it. He really cares for them.”

When lunchtime rolls around

Her Little Sister struggled and almost didn’t graduate.

But Hernandez threw her a lifeline.

“He talked to her, he learned her name. I don’t think until he got there that she connected with anyone,” Nelson says.

Hernandez introduced her Little Sister to Aronn Peterson, an advisor of the Black Student Union at East. Creating that connection made all the difference in the world, Nelson says. Her Little not only had someone to go to, she had someone to hold her accountable.

“It was close, she could have been one of those slip-throughthe-cracks statistics, but he really helped her get through.”

Nelson admits that the problem is bigger than one person can take on, but she credits Hernandez with making inclusion a priority.

“He’s very committed to building a school community,” says Nelson. “He doesn’t run a school, he runs a community.”

In the months since the election of Donald Trump, Hernandez and the staff at East have emphasized that sense of community, making clear to students and families that the school is a sanctuary.

“The day after the election was hard,” Hernandez says.

“We have spent a tremendous amount of time after the election and after the inauguration — two very stressful times for students — reminding our community that we are here for the kids, all kids.”

During election week, students showed increased anxiety and had difficulty focusing. There was also a 2 percent drop in attendance.

“This drop was consistent among most demographic groups, but went down 3 percentage points among our ESL students,” Kanies says. “We seldom see this kind of drop in a week unless there’s some extreme weather involved. Attendance went back up a bit the next week, but not to the pre-election levels.”

Kanies remembers Hernandez’s emotional reaction to the election.

“He got on the PA and I thought he was going to break down and cry, not because of the politics of it but because

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Hernandez makes his way with pizza in hand to meet his principal’s advisory group, a set of students who consult with staff.

Today, the group chats about a student panel they participated in weeks prior. The students are candid. Accidental swear words slip past their lips as laughter spreads through the room.

Infinity Gamble, a senior and member of the group, participates because she knows that someone in power is listening.

“I’m talking directly to the source,” Gamble says after the meeting. “We don’t always agree on everything, but it’s in a respectful way. Mr. Hernandez listens to the pros and cons of how we, and the staff, feel and I like that. If we can’t get exactly what we want or what other people want, we can compromise and try to figure out what we can do in the sense of our school community.”

Gamble, who helped assemble the current group of students, says a goal was to represent East’s diversity.

According to the district, 63 percent of students at East identify as people of color. Fifty-six percent of East students are in low-income brackets — the highest among Madison’s four major public high schools.

“We thought a lot about how to make the group more diverse, how to get people from different socioeconomic statuses, genders and races,” says Gamble. “How do we make this look like our actual school? How do we get opinions

from different backgrounds? After a lot of work, our group is a perfect representation of our school.”

Hernandez says he wants every student to feel valued and encouraged to lead — something he sees as necessary to the school’s success.

“School is a place of trust, it’s a place that values everybody’s opinion. We don’t always do what students ask,” Hernandez says. “However we hear it and we’re respectful.

That’s the role that true schools that make a difference play.

They are schools that value staff’s, students’, the community’s — everybody’s opinion,” Sonia Spencer is a parent of sophomore twins at East who also had Hernandez as principal at Sherman. She feels welcome to offer her two cents.

“You don’t need to make an appointment with him, his door is always open,” Spencer says. “You don’t have to wait for that meeting time or that scheduled conference to see him. He has a sense of being there and letting families know, ‘I’m here, I’m the principal, my door is always open, and if I can’t help you, I’ll find somebody who can.’”

Spencer, who is African American, finds it refreshing to have a principal working to give students of color the same opportunities as their white peers.

“Mike is really great at noticing kids of color that are achieving and placing them in [advanced] programs or college prep programs,” Spencer says. “He’s a real, honest advocate making sure that kids of color, such as my kids, are able to get the same opportunities other kids are getting.”

Bridging the opportunity gap is one of the biggest challenges facing the district and the state. In 2015, 93 percent of white seniors in Wisconsin graduated high school, compared to 64 percent of black seniors, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction reports.

Kristen Nelson, a parent of two and a Big Sister to a young woman who recently graduated from East, says these dismal graduation rates aren’t due to a lack of dedicated teachers and programs, but because students of color don’t get help when they need it.

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Kanies doesn’t remember Hernandez’s exact words, but with the help of other staff, recalls his announcement as follows: “I know a lot of you are coming to school today with some difficult emotions. I share a lot of these emotions with you. This is a challenging time. I want you to know that no matter what, we love all of you. We’re going to look after you. We’re going to take care of each other. That’s what East High is about.”

His stance was condemned by some. A person from the East community sent an anonymous letter to conservative radio personality Vicki McKenna. The letter was shared on McKenna’s radio show, website and Twitter, resulting in a number of phone calls and emails to Hernandez voicing disapproval.

“I let the kids know that they were safe here and then we began getting hate emails and hate phone calls on a daily basis,” says Hernandez. “I’ve never shied away from conflict. We’re going to continue doing this and we’re going to be outspoken about it because we want our kids and families to know that we have their backs.”

After the president signed an executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries and doubled-down on detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants, East created multiple spaces where students and staff could speak openly about their fears. The school has also led a fundraiser for scholarships for undocumented students and brought in immigration lawyers to help families navigate the sea of paperwork to apply for citizenship.

Hernandez understands the fear many of his students face. His father was undocumented until just a few years ago.

“When we were little, ICE or INS would come through and even though I was born in the United States, we had to be concerned about that,” he says.

“There are some amazing teachers in this building, just amazing, and I wish everybody realized that these people put in a crazy amount of hours and sacrifice so much, but they choose to be here.”

Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham appreciates that Hernandez’s leadership style is inclusive, not autocratic.

“Because he leads with a team of people, I expect great things,” says Cheatham. “I expect to see student outcomes continue to move in the right direction at East.”

In just two years, he’s making progress.

Between the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 school years, the percentage of students meeting ACT college readiness benchmarks increased in both reading and math.

Students of color showed improvement across nearly all close Hernandez reflects on the experiences and circummetrics — attendance, average semester one GPA, perstances that led him to East. Being immersed in both the cent of 11th grade students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 history and legacy of the school — established in 1922 — or higher, as well as a decrease in the percent of ninth can be intimidating. He mentions Milton McPike, the forgraders failing two or more courses. And the graduation mer NFL football player who was a beloved East principal rate for all students increased by 2 percent. from 1979 until 2002.

While things are improving, Hernandez isn’t settling.

“Every person that you talk to who remembers Mr. “We need to be better, we have a graduate rate that McPike says that he did everything he could for kids,” Heris embarrassing, it’s gone up, but it’s still embarrassnandez says. “That’s the legacy I hope to leave, that no mating. If I’ve got three kids, at the current rate, I have to ter what, I was here for the kids.” pick one of those that’s not going to graduate…. That’s Williams says Hernandez is already establishing that the reality,” says Hernandez. “I’d like to see every kid legacy. “He really cares about his students and he’s really graduate.” there to help us succeed,” she says. “He believes that we Hernandez has many other goals: eliminate the opcan rise to our potential and just because we might mess portunity gap, provide positive mirror models for all stuPRESENTED

BY CITY OF MADISON & MADISON’S BUSINESS DISTRICT up one time, it doesn’t mean that he’s going to look at us dents of color,CENTRAL and ensure East is aIMPROVEMENT safe and welcoming differently. He’s one of those people that you know you space, especially for its LGBTQ+, undocumented, trancan always go to.” sient and homeless students.

Hernandez insists that nothing he has accomplished That won’t likely happen overnight, but Hernandez since arriving at East would have been possible without may have plenty of time to work on it. his top-notch staff. he says, unique “I hope to retire a celebration“Honestly,” of Madison’s and here.” n

Despite the constant fear his family faced, Hernandez’s parents inspired their children to live successful lives. His sister, Sara Hernandez, is an associate dean at Cornell University. His brother is a police detective in San Diego.

He knows that for many immigrant students, the legal cloud their families live under can be an overwhelming stress.

“When we talk about our students that are undocumented, holy cow, they are just so much more limited,” says Hernandez. “With all of the [discussion] in the media of raids, it reminds me of leading through fear and intimidation. Then we expect the kids to come here, sit down and do trig? It’s just not a reality.”

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yet entered high school when the band began), Disq is a dreamy power-pop act that sounds like a more psychedelic version of Pinkerton-era Weezer. Pinkerton was released in 1996, three years before De Broux-Slone, the elder of the two at 18 (Bock recently turned 17), was even born. But Disq is a band beyond their years, as evident in their restless career arc.

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Better together Women chefs create a new support network

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A new network of female food professionals will be showing off their skills and spreading the word about their group at Isthmus’ Food Cart Fest. The Culinary Ladies Collective — which formed this spring — will serve street food at the festival, to be held in Madison’s Central Park on May 21. Eight chefs from the group will be making dishes inspired by their family heritage.

“We are going to be preparing original recipes from our grandmothers to highlight our ethnic backgrounds in food,” says Tami Lax, owner of Harvest and a founding member of the collective.

Lax will be bringing kolaches filled with fruit and cheese. She has fond childhood memories of her Grandma Alice making huge batches of the European pastries.

“She would make hundreds of kolaches for every church event. I remember going to her house as a child and seeing all these pastries. They were on every surface but I wasn’t allowed to touch. The wonderful smell of fresh pastries filled the house,” says Lax. “So I’m paying homage to Grandma Alice, both with the recipe and also the fact that I have to make like 500 of these.”

Jennie Capellaro, chef/owner of the Green Owl, is going to recognize her Lebanese roots.

“I’m thinking about doing dolmas, stuffed grape leaves,” says Capellaro. “That or sweet potato baba ganoush. I grill the sweet potato so it has this subtle but distinctive smoky flavor.”

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Lauren Montelbano of Surya Cafe, which opened at Perennial Yoga in Fitchburg this April, is preparing chickpea sliders for the festival. She sources many of her ingredients from crops she grows. The cafe serves mainly animal-free dishes with the notable exception of a quiche made with duck eggs — these Montelbano collects from a nest in her backyard.

“My heritage is Italian. And it’s pretty much impossible to make authentic vegan Italian,” Montelbano says. “But I did travel around south East Asia and did a lot of cooking in Thailand and India. Those experiences were highly influential. I learned from little old ladies who know how to do it best.”

Laila Borokhim of Layla’s and the Noosh food cart plans on making a hand pie, drawing on her father’s Persian heritage.

Culinary Ladies Collective members Kristina Stanley of Brown Rice & Honey, Jennifer Mans of Humble and Shanna Pacifico of the Graduate Hotel are also preparing dishes. And local chefs Shannon Berry and Megan Belle are teaming up on a creation for the event.

The Culinary Ladies Collective is the brainchild of Lax, Borokhim of and Francesca Hong of Morris Ramen. The business network of “female chefs, cooks, food and beverage producers, growers and artisans” already boasts nearly 100 members across the state despite forming only a few months ago, says Lax. “Through regular meetings, we nourish ourselves in body and spirit. We are a group that respects food, how it’s grown, where it’s raised and who is growing it,” reads the mission statement of the collective.

The group wants to to empower women by providing mentorship, outreach and educational opportunities in the culinary community.

“It’s also a time to get together and just relax and touch base. Having a group of female chefs come together every few weeks is unique,” says Lax. “We’re all so busy, we don’t get a chance to see each other and just talk.”

Lax says the Culinary Ladies Collective will also support other nonprofits. The group’s first fundraiser was a barbecue brunch at the South Madison Farmers’ Market on May 7. Proceeds from the event benefited Neighborhood Food Solutions, a local organization focused on creating food-related economic solutions in disadvantaged communities.

As a rookie restaurateur, Montelbano says she feels lucky to be part of a network of women in the industry “that have her back.”

“Opening a restaurant is a daunting task. I’m grateful to be surrounded by a group of mentors who have seen it all and know how to navigate all the challenges.” n

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Saisons are sometimes referred to as farmhouse ales because they emerged from farmstead breweries in the French-speaking region of Belgium. Rockhound brewmaster Nate Warnke makes Plowshare with a combination of Pilsner and Munich caramel malts and a modest amount of red wheat that gives the beer its hazy appearance. The flavors from those play off the earthy, spicy, dry French saison yeast. Warnke chose Czech Saaz hops and a touch of coriander to lend a bit more herbal spiciness. However, it’s his use of bitter orange peel that most fully complements the saison yeast, accentuating a fruity crispness.

This beer has a lot of Belgian wit-like character with its light body and very hazy appearance. For drinkers who tend to be sticklers about styles, I suggest not worrying too much about what is or isn’t a saison and just enjoy this beer for what it offers. It’s refreshing and crisp, with lots of fruity orange aroma and flavor. It pairs well with grilled fish and chicken, light sandwiches and picnic fare.

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Canteen has opened at 111. S. Hamilton St. (608-285-5703) in the historic Jackman building (former home to Nostrano). Tacos ($3-$4.50), plates and a large menu of cocktails, tequilas and mezcals are the stars here.

Bear & Bottle has opened at 601 N. Sherman Ave. (608-630-8800). The gastropub is owned by Tim Thompson (who also operates the Free House Pub in Middleton and the Flying Hound in Fitchburg). The north side rejoices.

Eno Vino Downtown is open at the new AC Hotel, 1 N. Webster St. (608-455-06638400), daily at 4 pm.

Plowshare ends up at 6 percent ABV and around 30 IBUs (International Bitterness Units). It’s sold over the bar for $4/10 ounce glass, $5.50/pint, and $15/growler (refill).

It’s expected to remain on tap through summer and early fall.

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One sign of a successful season is how many fans show up at the games. By that measuring stick alone, the 2017 University of Wisconsin softball team — which heads into the Big Ten Tournament this weekend as the No. 6 seed — is already triumphant.

On April 23, the Badgers packed Goodman Diamond with a record 2,297 fans in a 8-0 loss to Michigan; the old attendance record was 2,007. When you consider that UW only won three games at home all season en route to a 32-14 overall record, that’s impressive.

This team made its mark on the road and at neutral sites, including a three-game sweep of Maryland the first weekend in May to end the regular season at 11-11 in the Big Ten — good for sixth place. (Minnesota won the conference, with a remarkable 22-1 record).

The Badgers outscored the Terps, 18-6 in the series, and rallied from a 3-1 deficit in Game 2 for a 5-3 win.

“To get three wins going into the postseason, I think we have everything moving in the right direction at the right time,” sophomore Kelly Welsh (who went 2-for-4

with one run in Wisconsin’s regular-season 5-0 finale at Maryland) told UWBadgers. com. “We’re peaking at the right time. We had a good preseason and then had some ups and downs, but for us to be making strides right now, it’s really exciting to jump into the Big Ten Tournament and see who we play next.”

Next up for the Badgers is No. 11-seed Iowa (19-31), a team Wisconsin faced in early April at Goodman Diamond — taking two out of three games. First pitch is at 6 p.m. (CST) Thursday, May 11. The winner will meet No. 3-seed Ohio State (33-15) on Friday night in the quarterfinals.

The Big Ten Tournament runs Thursday through Saturday at Wilpon Complex on the University of Michigan campus. Only 12 of the conference’s 14 teams will compete. Badgers head coach Yvette Healy, who coached UW to its only Big Ten Tournament championship in 2013, is thrilled to be among them.

“The Big Ten is so strong, it’s such a tough conference. To be able to get 11 wins and be a .500 team in conference is a really big deal in a conference like ours,” Healy told UWBadgers.com. “Now it’s all about winning one game at a time.” ■

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De Broux-Slone and Bock, vocals/guitar and bass, respectively, have gone through a rotating cast of supporting musicians — currently Zoe Dennis and Evergreen Wildingway (guitar) and Braden Huffman (drums).

And then there’s the distance: Bock lives in Viroqua, a two-hour drive away.

“It’s a bummer,” says Bock. “I’m used to it now, but we drive back and forth to Madison a couple times a week at least.”

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has some flexibility, too. She attends Youth Initiative High School, which she describes as “a really funky, weird Waldorf school.”

“We’re planning on touring the first semester of next year, and they’re all like, ‘yeah, that’s fine! You can take a semester off, it’s all right.’ So that’s awesome,” she says.

In addition to planning the tour, Disq is also prepping for the recording of a second album at Rustbelt Studios, a Detroit institution that’s produced work by classic rock stars like Bob Seger and John Fogerty.

They’ll be working with Bob Ebeling, a seasoned producer and engineer who’s worked with a host of artists ranging from Rufus Wainwright to Kid Rock. They’ll also be performing a sold-out show with Bad Bad Hats at Spring Green’s Shitty Barn on May 24, their debut at the iconic venue.

And as for that late-running Mickey’s set? De Broux-Slone, Bock and their bandmates took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and promptly blew the roof off the place.

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Isthmus Jazz Festival turns 30 Grammy winner Terence Blanchard headlines the special edition

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When the Isthmus High School Jazz All-Stars hit the Memorial Union Terrace stage at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 16, the 30th annual Isthmus Jazz Festival will officially be underway.

Their downbeat kicks off a two-day celebration of local jazz, along with a few regional acts and a nationally renowned headliner, New Orleans-based bandleader, composer and trumpet superstar Terence Blanchard and his current band, the E-Collective.

Blanchard’s concert is a ticketed event in the Union’s Shannon Hall. Everything else that’s part of the festival takes place on the Terrace and is free of charge. The festival is presented by the Wisconsin Union Theater in collaboration with Isthmus.

A Crescent City lifer, Blanchard has recorded 30 albums as a bandleader or co-leader; composed 50 film scores, including the music for every Spike Lee Joint since 1991; and taken home five Grammys for his efforts. Blanchard first burst onto the jazz scene when he replaced his homeboy Wynton Marsalis in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s, and started leading his own bands in the early ‘90s. Since then, Blanchard’s music has bounced around among, between and beyond recognizable jazz subgenres, from traditional to provocative to groovalicious funk. The ECollective is the group Blanchard initially put together for his 2015 album Breathless, whose title refers to the words “I can’t breathe” uttered by Eric Garner, the New Yorker who died after being put in a chokehold by an NYPD of-

Blanchard will perform with his current band, the E-Collective.

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ficer in 2014. Blanchard and The E-Collective play June 17 at 8 p.m. in Shannon Hall.

In recognition of the festival’s 30th anniversary, the organizers commissioned an original piece by Madison-based composer/ bandleader/trumpeter Paul Dietrich. The threemovement composition, “Scenes from Lake Mendota,” will be premiered by the UW Jazz Orchestra on June 17 at 6 p.m. on the Terrace, the very space that served as its inspiration.

As always, college groups will be wellrepresented at this year’s festival. In addition to the UW Jazz Orchestra, ensembles from UW-

Whitewater, Edgewood College and UWPlatteville are all on the bill for Saturday. Another category that figures prominently into Saturday’s schedule is Latin music. Madison Latin jazz stalwart Tony Castañeda and his Latin Jazz Band, along with special guest vibraphonist Tom Mattioli, play at 4 p.m.

Closing out the festival Saturday night will be two popular local Latin groups — Edi Rey y Su Salsera at 10 p.m. and Orquesta SalSoul at 11 p.m. (Full disclosure: Your humble author plays trumpet with Edi Rey.) Friday’s lineup includes a couple of regional acts. Alyssa Allgood is a Chicagobased vocalist whose 2016 release Out of the Blue received best-something-of-the-year plaudits from a raft of jazz publications. The Milwaukee-based Kevin Hayden Trio, led by drummer Hayden, plays a lively melange of jazz, R&B, pop and hip-hop.

But as usual, the Isthmus Jazz Festival is mainly a showcase for hometown talent. Friday night’s closing act is the Darren Sterud Orchestra, led by trombonist Sterud, a fixture on the Madison jazz scene. And Saturday night, after the premiere of “Scenes” and before the salsa blowout, longtime Madison favorite Jan Wheaton brings her quintet to the Terrace stage.

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choral sound was smooth and luscious, but the number of singers and the distant stage location of the chorus made for a thick sound, with diction problems. To be sure, both the German texts and translations were printed in the program, but they are unreadable in the darkened hall. English tags were, however, projected as surtitles, which was helpful.

For the work’s solo sections, soprano Devon Guthrie was satisfyingly maternal in the movement inspired by the death of the composer’s own mother. But Timothy Jones, with a light, high-baritone voice, sang perfunctorily and with little force in his two solos.

Conductor John DeMain chose tempos that were broad and rather slow, for very monumental Brahms. ■

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Madison Symphony Orchestra finished off its regular season last weekend with grandiose organ music and a massive choral rendition of Johannes Brahms’ beautiful “Requiem.”

The pre-choral filler came first: a Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra by Charles Villiers Stanford, a British late Romantic in the tradition of Brahms. Really a 20-minute concerto in three movements, it was a nice workout for the soloist but its musical content is slender.

Guest soloist Nathan Laube made the most of it, and, as if this showing off of the Overture Hall’s Klais Organ was not enough, he offered an encore at the May 5 concert— the first movement of the Organ Symphony No. 6 by Charles Marie Widor, a French contemporary of Brahms. This was a thunder-

ous test of both instrument and performer, and Laube showed just what the Klais powerhouse can do.

The last MSO season program always involves the Madison Symphony Chorus.

They were put to work in Ein deutsches Requiem, or A German Requiem, by Brahms, one of the very greatest of choral composers, as well as a master of so much else. Unlike the Latin liturgical Mass for the Dead, this work uses various scriptural texts selected by Brahms from Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible. The resulting spirit is less about the dread of death and more about providing assurance to the departed and consolation to the living.

The chorus does most of the work in this score, and MSO’s concerts included 166 singers, a pretty huge aggregation. Overall, the

Guest soloist Laube showed off Overture Hall’s Klais organ.

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Signal boost New group aims to promote equality and inclusion in music scene

BY ALLISON GEYER

When Tessa Echeverria was a college student in Olympia, Washington — a city steeped in feminist-punk riot grrrl culture — the local DIY music community was known for being “woman and queer friendly.” Local bands and audiences displayed an abundance of gender diversity. But after moving to Madison and starting exploring the local scene, Echeverria found the Midwestern vibe quite different.

“When I came to Madison it was a little shocking,” says Echeverria. “It was a good old boys club, to a certain extent.”

Still, the musician made friends and inroads — playing in bands like Jonesies and Once A Month, going to shows and eventually opening a studio, Williamson Magnetic Recording Company. But Echeverria still saw problems with sexism (sometimes overt, but often unintentional) and wanted to do something to foster more inclusion in the scene. Others felt the same way. Last fall, Tone Madison organized a panel discussion, “Consent, Amplified,” to discuss harassment, safety and equity in Madison’s nightlife scene. It was a cathartic and much-needed discussion, but Echeverria and others left wanting to do more.

“There’s all this terrible sexism and racism, and I’m tired of being angry about it,” Echeverria says. “Let’s do something about it.”

Echeverria, Claire Nelson-Lifson, Mary Dahlman Begley and Maggie Denman formed Half-Stack Sessions, a club for women, LGBT and nonbinary folk who play music in the Madison area; the goal is to create “a space for musicians to grow and work towards higher visibility in the music scene,”

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From anger to action: Echeverria, Nelson-Lifson, Begley, Denman (le to right).

according to the group’s mission statement.

Nelson-Lifson plays in the band Proud Parents; Dahlman Begley in Jonesies and Once a Month; and Denman in Once A Month and Miyha. Denman also works for Frank Productions, handling the booking of local bands for the High Noon Saloon. All four women are involved in organizing local DIY gigs.

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the club has grown to about 130 members. Its first public event is a May 13 show at the WilMar Center, benefiting Half-Stack Sessions and Domestic Abuse Intervention Services of Dane County. Performers include local bands Miyha (see story at isthmus.com/music), Jonesies and a solo set from Nelson-Lifson as well as Fox Face from Milwaukee and 4th Curtis from Minneapolis. Though the performers are mostly women,

Half-Stack is not billing the show as a genderbased showcase, as sometimes happens. “It’s just a killer show,” Denman says.

The club name, coined by Denman, is inspired by the type of guitar amp that she uses when she plays gigs. A half stack is not quite as loud as a full-stack amp, but if you put a microphone in front of it, the sound becomes powerful enough to fill any concert hall. The group’s first three meetings focused on networking, resource-sharing and musical collaboration. The founders plan to continue raising the profile of local non-male musicians, and hope some new musical projects will also emerge. The most recent meeting was led by local photographer Jennifer Bastian, who’s compiling the experiences of Half-Stack members into a zine that will be available at the May 13 show.

The founders say the response from the local scene has been positive, but they do acknowledge there has been some pushback — particularly from men who don’t understand why women would need a special group. “[The guys] have been salty dogs,” Nelson-Lifson says diplomatically.

Begley, who sings and plays bass guitar in Jonesies, agrees it’s a difficult road to navigate, particularly because there are so many men in the scene who are friends and allies. “But we all have stories about dudes giving us shit,” she says.

The motivation behind Half-Stack is not about calling out individuals — although they’re not afraid to do that. It’s about challenging institutions and upending the cultural norms. “Little boys [are] given guitars,” Echeverria says. “And it’s not that we don’t want boys to play — we just want a more equal footing. Because we are equal and not less than.” ■

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Myth and magic A painter and a ceramicist explore similar themes in side-by-side exhibits

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That two artists might share a fascination with folklore, myth and magical stories is perhaps not so remarkable. What’s intriguing is to compare the way they interpret these influences, one in paint and another in clay.

That’s just what the James Watrous Gallery/Wisconsin Academy lets us do in sideby-side exhibitions on view through June 18.

Gina Litherland, who grew up in Gary, Indiana, and now lives in Cedarburg, paints intricate scenes in oil that emerge from her reveries about fables, folklore and literary characters. Gerit Grimm, raised in the former Soviet East Germany and now an assistant professor at UW-Madison, is a ceramicist whose large-scale figures suggest puppets acting out a play. Both artists’ works reference something familiar but are, upon closer look, haunted by the less familiar.

Leda and the swan are here, invoking the Greek myth about seduction. Several images suggest the three graces. Don Juan visits from fable and opera, Reynardine from an old-English ballad, and a group of women and children from an early-Christian resurrection parable. Other works, such as Grimm’s two toiling fruit peddlers and Litherland’s three spinsters spinning wool, are less obviously derived.

The theme of Grimm’s exhibit is loss and renewal. After her father’s unexpected death last year, she found herself exploring depictions of mourning. Her three most recent works — “Deposition Caring,” “Entombment” and “Pieta” — are touching examples of this, in which lifeless bodies are gently carried and borne by survivors.

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Provocative works by Litherland, “A Friendly Game” (above), and Grimm, “Entombment.”

All of Grimm’s figures begin as wheelthrown pots that are manipulated, shaped and detailed — it’s impressive just to consider her construction skills. Grimm pushes the pot beyond its usual boundaries and uses unglazed stoneware that’s fired to give the surface an almost metallic sheen. Her long-limbed figures have a doll-like quality that’s sobered up by the material. They’re decidedly not for play.

Grimm’s mourners mingle with other characters in the exhibit: a girl on a swing, several pairs of lovers, a trio of women representing three stages of life. There are flowers and references to spring. Facial expressions and interwoven hands convey tenderness. In her artist’s statement, Grimm quotes Friedrich Nietzsche: “Everything dies, everything blossoms again.”

Her figures seem to be acting out that truth.

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All money raised at this event stays in Madison to provide free tutoring to children with dyslexia.

Litherland’s exhibit is organized around the theme of “Curious Encounters,” which is a rich vein for her to mine as a student of folklore and literature. Just as an encounter can lead to a pivotal discovery, Litherland’s creative process often does, too. She likes to begin with a scene or character in mind, then see where her brush takes her. She paints on wood or Masonite in a layering technique that imparts an old-world glow. Her female characters are riveting and self-possessed, even when they’re only represented by a pair of bare feet in the woods (“The Last Days of Werther”) or when they’re in seemingly vulnerable circumstances (“Terre Verte”).

Animals and the natural world are important to Litherland, and they play a role in some of the encounters here. I keep going back in my mind

to “Bird Funeral,” in which a small girl comes upon three bird-women lamenting a dead fledgling. Two other human women appear, as well, as if to join the mourning — or are they interlopers? Or spirits?

This is one of several moments in the two shows when one artist’s gesture is echoed by the other — in this case women representing three stages of life, and mourners.

There are other echoes, such as the lithesome and fluid movements of both artist’s figures, the expressive hands, the inward-looking gazes. Grimm and Litherland had never met before their juxtaposed exhibitions, but their work shares much in common.

Maybe that says something about the enduring power of the stories both artists plumb. These are cautionary tales and characters that have stood the test of time. Grimm’s earth-toned, three-dimensional figures and Litherland’s richly painted ones might be dressed in storybook costumes, but the themes they act out are timeless: death and hope, safety and danger, the mystical and the physical, and the resurgent power of the natural world.

These two exhibits are a reminder that stories handed down through the ages aren’t owned by anyone in particular. Two women can lay claim to them, adding their own truths and experiences. It’s like a reverse patina that, instead of aging the material, polishes it. n

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You’ll be tossed in the back of a van, gagged and tied up in a strange man’s basement.

That is the premise at the center of the comic thriller Take Me, which will screen at UW-Cinematheque on May 12.

Ray Moody (played by Pat Healy, who also directs) is a sad sack of a man who is eking out a living with his therapeutic kidnapping business. Fortune strikes when he gets a call from Anna St. Blair (Taylor Schilling), who is prepared to pay top dollar for a deluxe weekend package. It’s an offer he can’t refuse, but as the weekend stretches on he finds that Anna may not be what she seems.

Dolled up like an icy Hitchcock blonde, Schilling’s Anna is a wonderful enigma, constantly keeping both Ray and the audience wondering why she is taking this strange vacation. Here, Shilling demonstrates far more emotional range than she does as Piper on Orange Is the New Black, where her character must be cagey to survive in prison. Take Me’s prisoner needs her to go the opposite direction, broadly using every trick avail-

able to make it through the weekend. In the end, Anna demonstrates she is far better at control and manipulation than her captor — who is a bit too polite for the abduction biz.

Kidnapping is the only part of Ray’s life where he feels in control (and the wonderful absurdity of that is the same wonderful absurdity of this movie), so when this new project goes haywire, we have the pleasure of seeing what is beyond the end of a man’s rope. This could be painful to watch — due to the humiliation and sadistic slapstick Ray endures — but Healy makes Ray just deserving enough of what he endures. He has a funny way of sweating that makes his trials a pleasure to witness.

Mike Makowski’s script demands precision, or it wouldn’t work as the crazed chess game that it is, and Healy delivers. After two decades as an actor, this is Healy’s first time directing a feature film, but Take Me does not feel amateurish.This low-budget, smallcast movie moves swiftly through the film’s 83 minutes, a dark comedy laced with authentic sadness. Ray and Anna aren’t happy people, but I was happy to spend some time watching them play off each other.

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The Revolution Friday, May 12 Barrymore Theatre, 8 pm It’s hard to believe that Prince has already been gone a year, but the Purple One lives on through his music. The Revolution — which served as Prince’s band for three classic albums — is on the road to keep his spirit alive.

Including the original lineup from Purple Rain, the group will celebrate the life, music and strange spirit of Prince Rogers Nelson. Let’s get nuts.

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

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David Montgomery: Discussing “Growing a Revolution: Bringing our Soil Back to Life,” his new book, 7 pm, 5/11, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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It’s hard to find someone in Madison who exemplifies the spirit of the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium’s “InDIGenous Jazz” series more than Castañeda, a superb Latin percussionist who has performed for a quarter-century around Madison. Some of the city’s finest jazzers will join Tony for a night of mambo and cha cha: Dave Stoler (keyboards), Henry Boehm (bass), Anders Svanoe (sax) and Louka Patenaude (guitar). With craft cocktails from Gib’s.

Michael Massey CD release Friday, May 12, Bartell Theatre, 8 pm

ME eN YOU Thursday, May 11, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm 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.

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Cafe Coda: Richard Hildner, Nick Moran, Tony Barba & Juancho Martinez, Latin jazz, 8 pm Thursdays.

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

High Noon Saloon: Milkhouse Radio, free (patio), 6 pm.

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

Nomad World Pub: Louka, John Christensen & Josh Pultorak, 8 pm; DJ Phil Money, free, 10 pm.

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

Tip Top Tavern: Tristan Friedes, free, 9 pm.

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Thursday, May 11, Bartell Theatre, 7:30 pm You may be thinking “What is a Frandú, and do we want a Frandútopia?” Let us ease your mind: Comedian/poet Frandú Smith presents a three-night release party for his album Rainbows from Tragedies (from new Madison imprint Sunday Night Records).

With 2017 Madison’s Funniest Comic winner Nick Hart and other surprise guests.

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Friday, May 12, Mickey’s Tavern, 10:30 pm

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. With Nate Abshire, Geoffrey Asmus. ALSO: Friday-Saturday, May 12-13, 8 & 10:30 pm.

Guitar pop fans should prepare to settle in for the entire evening, anchored by the shiny hooks of Milwaukee quartet Midnight Reruns.

Dual guitar leads and catchy songcraft enliven their new platter Spectator Sports, just out on Dusty Medical. Madison is well-represented by fellow guitar rockers Post Social, jangle popsters Exploration Team, and whatever Matt Joyce (Midwest Beat) and TS Foss (aka Tyler Fassnacht of Fire Heads) get up to as a duo.

Massey is a Madison institution. The composer, singer, songwriter, pianist and producer has toured the world and appears on countless recordings. Now he’s releasing his masterful and moving album, Naked, at an intimate concert at the Bartell. You want to be there to see what the Piano Man (see isthmus.com/music) is up to.

Alchemy Cafe: Nuggernaut, funk/jazz, free, 11 pm.

Bos Meadery: Blue Cheese, free/donations, 7 pm.

Brink Lounge: Russ Nolan with the Johannes Wallmann Trio, jazz, 8 pm.

Cafe Coda: Rodrigo Villanueva Jazz Trio, 8 pm.

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

Cargo-East Washington: County Highway PD, 7:30 pm.

Club Tavern, Middleton: Kings of Radio, ‘80s, 9 pm.

Nick Brown Band (EP release)

First Unitarian Society: Maureen McCarty, violin; Mark Brampton Smith, keyboards, free, 12:15 pm.

Friday, May 12, High Noon Saloon, 5:30 pm

The Frequency: Syneva, Shikimo, Seafarer, 8:30 pm.

Most often spotted holding down the bass in such bands as Brown Derby, Nick Brown is also one of our favorite songwriters thanks to his excellent 2012 debut Slow Boat. The long-awaited follow-up emerges in the form of a new EP, Contender. Opening is Marty Finkel, another ace local songsmith.

High Noon Saloon: Old Soul Society, The Lower 5th, Katie Scullin Band, 9 pm.

Immanuel Lutheran Church: Choral Arts Society Chorale, “Out of a Dream” concert, 7:30 pm.

Knuckle Down Saloon: Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys, blues, 9 pm.

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Nomad World Pub: Tom Gullion Quartet, free, 5:30 pm; DJ Millbot, free, 9 pm.

Saturday, May 13, Overture CenterCapitol Theater, 8 pm

Sprecher’s: David Hecht & the Who Dat, 7 pm.

Fans of the musical Jersey Boys will jump at the chance to hear former cast members deliver hits from the American radio songbook from the 1950s-1970s. The crooners present polished versions of doo-wop, Motown and old time rock ‘n’ roll, including popular songs by the Drifters, Roy Orbison, Nat King Cole, the Beach Boys, the Beatles and — of course — Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons.

CSArt Madison Studio Visits: Arts & Literature Laboratory community supported art program participants, 5/13: John Hitchcock, 1 pm, UW Humanities Building; Dakota Mace 2:15 pm, Chelsea Thompto 2:50 pm, Helen Lee 3:25 pm, Faisal Abdu-Allah 4 pm, Art Lofts. RSVP: csart@artlitlab.org. 770-2052.

Stoughton Opera House: SHEL, 7:30 pm.

The Wisco/Willy Street Pub & Grill: Seeking Machines, The Drain, Malcomexicans, 9 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Trash Pandas, free, 10 pm.

TONY CASTAÑEDA UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Jon Hoel Trio, 5 pm; Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets, free, 9 pm.

LATIN JAZZ BAND VFW-Cottage Grove Road: Kristi B, 7:30 pm.

MAY 12 Wil-Mar Center: Dangerous Folk, 8 pm.

Up North Pub: Rascal Theory, rock/blues, free, 8 pm.

Friday, May 12, Overture CenterDave Stoler (keyboards) Playhouse, 6:30 pm Henry Boehm (bass)

B OOKS Mare Chapman: Discussing “Unshakeable Confidence,” 6 pm, 5/12, Mystery to Me. 283-9332.

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Namaste Madison: “Library Takeover” event by Madison’s Indian American community, 10 am5 pm, 5/13, Central Library, with kids’ activities, talks, demonstrations, food. 266-6300.

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ADMISSION Draconia:FREE Encore Studio for the Performing Arts, 5/5-20, Mary Dupont Wahlers Theatre, at 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm, 5/14. $15. 255-0331.

Madison Hurling & Gaelic Football Clubs: vs. Milwaukee teams: Men 3 pm, women 4 pm, hurling 5:30 pm, 5/13, Breese Stevens Field. Free. madisonhurling.com.

Madison Mini Maker Faire: Showcase of creators, 10 am5 pm, 5/13, Monona Terrace, with entertainment. $15 admission ($10 adv.). madison.makerfaire.com.

A Madison favorite performing original Mambo and Cha Cha T HE ATER & DANCE Tony Castañeda

A swingin’ musical about two friends Anders Svanoe who arealto, different and the same, Chil(baritone, and tenor saxophones) dren’s Theater of Madison’s A Year with Louka Patenaude (guitar) Frog and Toad is an entertaining way to introduce theCENTRAL youngsters to the classic MADISON LIBRARY 3rd Floor, 201 W Saturday-Sunday, Mifflin Street characters.

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Pride in Your Ride: Scholarship fundraiser car show, 9 am-3 pm, 5/13, Madison College-Truax, with music by Kevin Fayte Rock & Roll Trio, food. $5 admission ($20 vehicle entry, 8-11 am). 246-6661.

Amy Helm Saturday, May 13, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

Former Olabelle member Amy Helm has a highly expressive singing voice and the authority to make a familiar song her own: Check out the cover of Sam Cooke’s “Good News” on her 2015 solo debut Didn’t It Rain for a good example. She learned from one of the best, performing alongside her father, roots-rock legend Levon Helm. Opening is dobro and lap steel master Cindy Cashdollar and Brooklyn blues combo Fife & Drom.

Art In Gallery: Golpe Tierra (CD release), plus screening of tour documentary “Quizás, quizás, quizás,” 7 pm.

Musical Theater Trivia Night: Music Theatre of Madison fundraiser, 7 pm, 5/13, Ten Pin Alley, with preview of August production, raffle. $10. mtmadison.com.

Artists for Animals: Dane County Humane Society fundraiser art show/sale, 5-9:30 pm, 5/13, Park Hotel, with music by Driftless Regionaires, James Eisele, Saturday Morning Cartel. $15. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/32938720600, 5 pm.

K I D S & FA MI LY Kids Building Wisconsin: Hands-on constructionthemed activities for kids ages 4-12, 9 am-4 pm, 5/13, McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg. Free. kidsbuildingwi.org.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory: Major Vistas, 8 pm.

Bandung: DuggHopper, 6 pm.

Bos Meadery: Marshall & Schram, donations, 7 pm.

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Cafe Coda: Jan Wheaton Trio, jazz, 8 pm.

Come Back In: Blue Zone, free, 9 pm.

Crystal Corner Bar: Sean Michael Dargan Trio, The Periodicals, Pearl Handle, 9:30 pm.

Edgewater: WheelHouse, Nuggernaut, free (plaza), 2 pm.

Red City Radio Saturday, May 13, The Frequency, 8:30 pm

Red City Radio is a band that writes like hard-luck country singers, but plays like a balls-to-the-wall punk rock band. The quartet, anchored by Garrett Dale’s melancholically optimistic lyrics, has released three full-length albums, the most recent being 2015’s self-titled affair. They’ll be joined by Albuquerque rock and rollers Russian Girlfriends, as well as Madison staples the Moguls and American Dead.

The Black Angels Saturday, May 13, Majestic Theatre, 9 pm

Heavy psych rockers the Black Angels have waged a one-band campaign to export Austin weirdness to the world since 2004. The excellent, just-released Death Song LP adds a bit of West Coast sheen to the fuzz guitars and dark subject matter courtesy of producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, the Shins). With A Place to Bury Strangers.

Essen Haus: David Austin Band, polka, free, 8:30 pm.

Harmony Bar: Jes Raymond & the Blackberry Bushes, Soggy Prairie Boys, string band, 9:45 pm.

Ivory Room: Katy Marquardt, Peter Hernet, Jim Ripp, 8 pm.

Lazy Oaf Lounge: Mars Hall, 10 pm.

Liliana’s: John Widdicombe & Stan Godfriaux, 6:30 pm.

Lucille: DJ Nick Nice, free, 10 pm.

Merchant: DJ Bruce Blaq, hip-hop, free, 10:37 pm.

Mickey’s: Fire Heads, Harlequins, No Men, rock, 10:30 pm.

Oakwood Village-University Woods: Oakwood Chamber Players, 7 pm. Also: 2 pm, 5/14.

Red Zone: May Mayhem: War Of Abaddon, Blackmarket Democracy, Sleep Signals, Ultrea, Beyond Atlas, BREECH, Desolate, Starfoxx, Reaching Everest, SEISMA, Dear Violence, Once Around, Dystopian Echo, Mile 134, 6:30 pm.

Sprecher’s Restaurant: Ryan McGrath Band, blues, 7 pm.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church: Ancora String Quartet, works by Saint-Saëns & Beethoven, 7:30 pm.

The Dear Hunter Sunday, May 14, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

A progressive emo outfit with a penchant for heady concept albums, the Dear Hunter is ambitious, to say the least. Now in their second decade, the band — led by chief songwriter and guitarist Casey Crescenzo — released Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional in 2016, the fifth installment in a six-part series that’s been taking shape since the band’s inception.

With local indie pop master Brett Newski.

First Congregational United Church of Christ: Madison Youth Choirs: Girlchoirs 1:30 pm, boychoirs, 4 pm, high school ensembles 7 pm, 1:30 pm.

Tip Top Tavern: Cosmic Strings, free, 10 pm.

The Frequency: Warseid, Tyranny Enthroned, Order of the Leviathan, 8 pm.

Tricia’s Country Corners: RoadHouse Chiefs, 8:30 pm.

Harmony: Cajun Strangers, 6 pm (dance lesson 5 pm).

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: The Clyde Stubblefield All-Star Band, free, 9 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Ab-Soul, Reggie Bonds, 8 pm.

Wil-Mar Center: Jonesies, Fox Face, 4th Curtis, Miyha, Claire Nelson-Lifson, fashion show, 7:30 pm.

The Wisco: Dogsflesh, ZOR, Scratch 45, 9 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, 10:30 pm.

Nomad World Pub: DJ Ashoka, 3 pm; Mr. Chair, 8 pm.

Olbrich Gardens-Evjue Commons: New Horizons Concert Band, annual Mother’s Day concert, 2 pm.

Sequoya Library: June Dalton Gang, jazz, free, 1:30 pm.

The Wisco: Duane Marks, Tim Vee, 9 pm.

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Brink Lounge: Sundae + Mr. Goessl, free, 7 pm.

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Phillip Michael Scales, free, 6 pm.

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

The Frequency: J. Marsden, Chandon Vicarious, Jack Selmer, Eric Doucette, 8:30 pm.

Malt House: Onadare, Irish, free, 7:30 pm.

Kate Moore Sunday, May 14, 702wi, 4:30 pm

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women is British author Kate Moore’s nonfiction account of the “shining girls” who worked with the dangerous element radium — used in everything from body lotion to tonic water after World War I. Tickets are limited to 40 people and available at 702wi.com.

Listen to Your Mother: Annual mom-themed readings by local writers, 3 pm, 5/14, Barrymore Theatre. $16 (a portion benefits Literacy Network). 241-8633.

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Nomad World Pub: Ben Ferris Octet, free, 6:30 pm.

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

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COME DY Steve Hofstetter, Brett Druck: 7:30 pm, 5/16, High Noon Saloon. 268-1122.

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Michael Ward Tuesday, May 16, A Room of One’s Own, 6 pm

The Sea Is Quiet Tonight is Ward’s insightful and candid memoir looking back at the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when his partner Mark fell ill and died.

Kirkus Review called Ward “a talented storyteller who’s created a compelling, emotionally rich tale out of a difficult, tragic time in American history.” Stay afterward for a talkback with the author.

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L ECT URE S & SEM INARS History Sandwiched In: Brown-bag lunch program: “Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow & Justice in a Time of Terror” talk by Dean Strang, 12:15 pm, 5/16, Wisconsin Historical Museum. $3 donation. 264-6555.

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Masterson’s Milwaukee-based outfit, Hugh Bob and the Hustle, nearly hit it big with songs like “This Bar is a Prison,” a throwback to Flying Burrito Bros. eracountry-rock. The band broke up in 2015 when Masterson struck out for Nashville.

Lost and Found, his first solo record, will be released next month. The title track is a song he started writing years ago while recovering from a Milwaukee mugging that left his jaw broken in two places.

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High Noon Saloon: Apologists, Small Mediums, 6 pm.

Liliana’s: Verona High School Jazz Ensembles, 6 pm.

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

Up North Pub: Coyote, free, 7 pm.

B OOKS Martin J. Schreiber: The former Wisconsin governor discussing “My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver,” his book, 11 am, 5/15, Central Library. 264-6555.

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Dark, dreamy synth-pop duo Boy Harsher brings their brooding-yet-infectious dance grooves all the way from Western Massachusetts. Touring on last year’s well-received LP, Yr Body is Nothing, their sound is equal parts ethereal and industrial.

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All Tiny Creatures Wednesday, May 18, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm Playing a glitchy, sample-driven brand of indie rock, All Tiny Creatures has established itself as one of the most pleasantly weird bands in modern music. Now the four-piece will transport concertgoers with their self-described “pop music from an alternate universe.”

With Twin Cities-based loopsmith Dosh.

THURSDAYS H 8:30PM H FREE

Tate’s Blues Jam FRI, MAY 12 H 9PM H $7

Reverend Raven

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Bandung: Louka, 7 pm.

Cafe Coda: Chris Ruppenthal, Sims Delaney Potthoff & Jeff Weiss, jazz, 7 pm.

& The Chain Smoking Altar Boys

The Frequency: Dirty Bourbon River Show, 9 pm.

SAT, MAY 13 H 9PM H $7

The North Avenue Stompers FRI. MAY 19

Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal

Harmony Bar: Cork ‘n Bottle String Band, 6 pm.

Lucky’s 1313: Rip (album release), hip-hop, 6 pm.

The Wisco: Psycho Feedback, Eaten, 9 pm.

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Keith Lesmeister: Discussing “We Could’ve Been Happy Here,” his short stories collection, 6 pm, 5/17, A Room of One’s Own. 257-7888.

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High Plains Thursday, May 18, Gates of Heaven, 7 pm

The new electroacoustic duo High Plains is comprised of Madison cellist Mark Bridges and Canada’s Scott Morgan, an ambient artist also known as Loscil. Their debut for famed experimental label Kranky is a testament to their interest in exploratory, thoughtful composition. Ambient act Anjou and songwriter Alej Perez open.

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Brink Lounge: Tracy Jane Comer, free, 7 pm.

The Frequency: Hope Country, Christopher Gold, 8:30 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Yid Vicious, free (on the patio), 6 pm; Bird’s Eye, The Gambol, 8 pm.

Majestic Theatre: Hippo Campus, 9 pm.

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Chuck Klosterman

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Thursday, May 18, Central Library, 7 pm Klosterman’s brain is a cornucopia of crap — and trust us, that’s a good thing. The pop culture essayist, known for now-classic books like Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, discusses his latest collection of essays, X, which covers everything from Lou Reed and Kobe Bryant to Taylor Swift and Charlie Brown. Klosterman’s mind works in mysterious ways, and it’s a joy to see which pop culture rabbit holes it takes you down.

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Nick Venturella was inspired by his son to start AutismHR.

224 State Street • 608.251.2370 madisonstore@serrv.org

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Verona man creates platform to connect people with autism to employers

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2090 Atwood Ave. (608) 241-8864

FRI. MAY 12 - 8:00PM presents

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

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

Giving motherhood a microphone

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

Listen To Your Mother, LLC presents

THE 8th ANNUAL & GRAND FINALE MADISON

Lisa Bauer Takeyla Benton Camille Bernier Leslie Coff - Jael Currie Megan Diaz - Vicki Eckman Katie Frank - Deb Nies - Megan Ryan Claire Weiss - Rhenna Widerski Founder and National Director Ann Imig will emcee and read as well

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Tickets $16 advance - 10% of Madison ticket proceeds and additional fundraising at the event will benefit Kajsiab House of Journey Mental Health Center.

FRI. MAY 19 - 7:30PM

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

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.

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Finding meaningful employment and getting through the interview process can be a challenge for any adult. But for adults living with autism, who are perhaps distracted by fluorescent lights and the conversational buzz of an office setting and who struggle with social interactions, it can be nearly impossible.

Nick Venturella is on a mission to increase the employment options for people with autism via his online platform AutismHR (autismhr.com).

Venturella’s brainchild comes out of personal experience. When his son was diagnosed with autism a few years ago, Venturella, who does marketing work at a human resources software company, took on additional work through the freelancer platform Fiverr to help pay for his son’s therapy.

He began to wonder how his son would support himself as an adult on the spectrum.

Venturella, who lives in Verona, first created a blog with content targeted towards young adults with autism looking for ways to utilize their college education and skills.

Many adults on the spectrum are bright, high-functioning individuals who would be an asset to employers. Venturella was trying to envision various ways to connect employers to job seekers with autism, but he didn’t have time to play recruiter. Then a lightbulb moment happened.

“Fiverr markets for you, so it dawned on me that it could be a really useful avenue for many people who are very capable of [freelancing] and doing quality work,” but have trouble “selling” themselves to an employer, says Venturella.

He expanded his site to include free tutorials (targeted to autistic users) on how to use Fiverr and find employment in the gig economy in general (that is, temporary freelance jobs).

Venturella intends to maintain the no-cost tutorials and has connected with Fiverr on growing his site. His goal is for AutismHR to be a springboard for individuals with autism to build a portfolio of work that will make it easier to market themselves for traditional employment or freelancing.

He’s also introduced AutismHR to his alma mater, Edgewood College, through its Cutting Edge program, which strives to give individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities a true college experience. Dedra Hafner, assistant professor and director of Cutting Edge, believes the AutismHR platform could be a good fit for several of her students.

“The unemployment rate for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is much higher when compared to the general population,” says Hafner. “AutismHR is one approach to filling a need in the community for assisting individuals with ASD in obtaining job skills.”

According to research published in the May 2012 issue of the journal Pediatrics,35 percent of young adults (ages 19-23) with autism have not had a job or received postgraduate education after leaving high school.

These numbers push Nick Venturella to make his site even more useful to adults who need that extra bit of help: “If AutismHR can help even a few people, then I’ll feel like it has been successful. But I hope it can help many more.” n

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Housing Apartments Near Kohl Center: 550 W Main St/Studio: Redecorated, wood floors, full bath, vessel sink, stove & refrigerator. Air conditioning, bike storage, coin-laundry.

ALL FREE utilities. One available now, another on 8/15/17, $685. 608-836-1476 3 One Bedrooms: Living room, full bath, appliances & air. Free Heat and water. Price choices, $745, $765, $790. Coin-laundry, bike storage.

Available 8/15/17, $685. 608-836-1476 Rural Acreage: Spectacular, beautiful, 40 acre parcel near Mt. Horeb, 1⁄2 woods—1⁄2 open land. Very quiet and private. Build your dream home, or excellent for hunting, greenhouses, investment, etc. The possibilities are endless! First Weber Realty. Contact Donald Sands at 608-767-2868. MLS #1798716

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

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Jobs Senior Couple Share Home: Seeking responsible students/persons. Semester or year lease. 2 rooms, $475 and $525/mo includes utilities. Immediate and April occupancy.

608-256-0080 ALL AREAS Free Roommate Service @ RentMates.com. Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at RentMates.com! (AAN CAN) Vacation on beautiful Rowleys Bay, northern Door County. Two large rental cottages plus our spacious lighthouse suite. Private beach. Firepits. Boating. Swimming. Kayak/ canoe rentals on-site. Stone’s throw from world famous Mink River. Quiet. Peaceful.

920-421-1257 rowleysbaycabins@gmail.com 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.

WHAT’S YOUR MESSAGE? Call 608-251-5627 to place an ad. isthmus.com/classifieds

Child care assistant Child care nursery worker needed for progressive American Baptist Church. Sunday mornings 9 a.m. to noon, excellent rate of pay ($13/hour to start). Plan activities and care for small groups of children ages 0-3 with one co-worker. Knowledge of child development, health and safety for young children required. Send resume and letter of interest to: personnel@firstbaptistmadison.org or to: 518 N. Franklin Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 no later than May 20, 2017. Start date: June 25. Equal Opportunity Employer 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 Female with MD living in downtown Madison is looking for fun, hardworking and motivated individuals to provide personal cares. AM and PM shifts available. $12.50/hour. Please contact (608) 255-7728 for an interview today!

Woman with physical disability looking for assistance with housekeeping, meal prep, grocery shopping & light personal care assistance. Flexible schedule preferred. 12 hrs/wk. at $12.50/hr.

Call Allie at (608) 242-8335 ext 3143.

East side woman with a disability seeking a reliable & compassionate personal care worker. Early shifts beginning at 5 AM and weekend shifts beginning at 7 AM. Pay $12.50-13.00/hr. Call (608) 204-9416.

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 Madison Metropolitan School District - Office of Personalized Pathways invites you to interview a 7th, 8th, 9th or 10th grade student about their identity, goals, plans and future aspirations. The purpose of the interviews is to give students an opportunity to share with an adult what they have learned about themselves, their growth, and future emerging plans as part of the Academic & Career Planning process. Then you will provide feedback to the student.

Community Action Coalition For South Central WI, Inc. could use the help of many energetic volunteers to assist with the “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive on May 13th at 3 postal stations in Madison. Volunteers will be unloading mail vehicles that are stuffed with bags of food donations collected by letter carriers on their routes. Volunteers should be able to lift up to 25 lbs.

MTILP Inc., a day center for clients with disabilities from Central Wisconsin Center, is looking for musicians to play music once a month or more from 11:30am-12pm. Clients love music and would love for someone to share their talent at the day center. A drum set without cymbals is available but other musicians would have to bring their instruments.

Services & Sales 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

Happenings 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

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“Rhymes at the Zoo” — a group effort for Take Your Kids to Work Day.

Traps and triggers

BY DAN SAVAGE

My husband is nearly 20 years older than me, which was never an issue early in our relationship. However, for approximately the last eight years, we have not been able to have fulfilling sex because my husband can’t keep an erection for more than a few thrusts. I love my husband and I am committed to our family, but I miss full PIV sex.

I’m still fairly young and I enjoy sex, but I feel like I am mourning the death of my sex life. I miss the intimate connection and powerful feeling of sex with a man. My husband tries to please me, but oral sex is just okay and toys don’t have the same effect. We have tried Viagra a few times, but it gave him a terrible headache. I try to brush it off because I don’t want to embarrass him.

I am curious about casual relationships, but I fear they wouldn’t stay casual. Also, I would feel guilty being with another man even though my husband said I could do it one time. On one hand, I feel like I should be able to have a fulfilling sex life. But on the other hand, I don’t want to be a cheater.

Now On To Having Awkwardly Realistic Discussions

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[Note: Matt J. took his two kids to the zoo, where they came up with this theme (no, he doesn’t work at the zoo, just thought it’d be fun). Clues with an [E] were written by 67-Across, and clues with an [S] were written by 49-Across.]

Sound of a punch [E] Green paper that you pay with [E] They make up stairs [E] Make goo-goo eyes at Tennis’s Arthur ___ Stadium Like some dirt bike tracks [S] Fearsome cat that spends moolah on Lamborghinis and mansions? [S] Former “Come on down!” announcer Johnny “I ___ open this jar. Can you help, Daddy?” [E] Monkey that eats curtains? [E] “Gimme ___! ... What’s that spell? Ella!” [E] There are 100 in a century (abbr.) [S]

26 Something a toy poodle says [E] 27 Rat-a-___ [E] 28 Something that people say in awe [E] 30 Pookums [E] 35 Scaly creature that likes to eat frosted sweets? [S] 37 Ninja Turtle that wears red, to his friends [S] 40 Getting from ___ B 41 Kid that can have a cellphone [S] 42 Bird that smokes and does vandalism? [E] 47 Sneaky little animal [E] 48 ___ gin fizz 49 Kid who is “epic!” [S] 52 The ___ on the Shelf [S] 54 Sid: “I’m not ___ years old anymore.” Me: “No, I mean ___ as in ‘I ___ some food.’”

55 Palindromic Turkish title 56 Water animal with flippers that barters 24/7? [S] 61 Wants really badly [S] 63 Go off-script (sorry, Ella, it doesn’t mean “get more pounds”)

64 Slow animal that grows wings and gets in your clothes? [E] 66 She was a princess “long ago” [E] 67 “The coolest kid in the universe” [E] 68 Lake that sounds scary [E] 69 Me: “How about the clue ‘Used needles,’ Ella?” Ella: “No, new needles. You have to use them because it affects the fabric more than you expect.”

70 Martens and McStuffins, for instance [S] 71 Air France fliers, once DOWN 1 Type of wild “kitty-kitty” [E] 2 Type of lizard in “Sing” [E] 3 Horse’s mesh protection against pests, maybe 4 Sinn ___ (Irish political movement) 5 Spike thrown in the road to stop robbers [S] 6 “___ was saying ...” [E] 7 Like show horses’ feet 8 “___ Danger” (Nickelodeon show) [E]

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Partner and I adopted a 2.5-year-old mutt a month ago. We are also trying to get pregnant and are having sex every day for 15-day stretches a month. Dog does NOT like being shut out — we love dog but do not love the idea of him being in the room. Should we get over it? Should dog get over it? What is dog/human sexual privacy etiquette?

Don’t Oversee Getting It On I’m not into pups, human or otherwise, but I live with two actual dogs and, man, if those dogs could talk. Some dogs loudly object to their owners fucking, others don’t. If your dog barks when you’re fucking, I can see why you’d want to keep him out of the room.

But if he just wants to curl up in a corner and lick his ass for a minute before dozing off, what’s the big deal? n For more of Savage Love see Isthmus.com.

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

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It’s not cheating if you have your husband’s permission, NOTHARD, but fucking another man could still blow up your marriage — even if you manage to keep it casual.

Story time: I knew this straight couple.

They were good together, they loved each other, and they had a strong sexual connection. (Spoiler alert: my use of the past tense.)

The woman was all about monogamy, but her boyfriend had always wanted to have a threesome. She didn’t want to be the reason he never got to do something he’d been fantasizing about since age 13, so she told her boyfriend that if the opportunity ever presented itself, he could go for it. So long as the sex was safe and he was honest with her, he could have a threesome one time.

The opportunity presented itself, the sex was safe, he was honest — and my friend spent a week ricocheting between devastated and furious before finally dumping her devastated and flummoxed boyfriend.

During a drunken postmortem, my friend told me she wanted her boyfriend to be able to do it but didn’t want him to actually do it.

She didn’t want to be the reason he couldn’t; she wanted to be the reason he didn’t. So her permission to have a threesome “one time” was a test (one he didn’t know he was taking) and a trap (one he couldn’t escape from). I urged my friend to take her boyfriend back — if he would have her — but he’d touched another woman with the tip of his penis (two women, actually), which meant he didn’t love her the way she thought he did, the way she deserved to be loved, etc., and consequently he couldn’t be allowed to touch her with the tip of his penis ever again.

Back to you, NOTHARD: My first reaction to your letter was “You’ve got your husband’s okay to fuck some other dude — go for it.”

JOE NEWTON

Then I reread your letter and thought, “Wait, this could be a test and a trap.” You say you’ve brushed off the issue to spare your husband’s feelings, but he may sense it’s an issue and, consciously or subconsciously, this is his way of finding out. If you take him up on his offer “one time,” and you make the mistake of being honest with him about it, he may be just as devastated as my friend was.

So don’t take your husband up on his offer — not yet. Have a few more conversations about your sex life instead and address nonmonogamy/openness generally, not nonmonogamy/openness as a work-around for his dick. There may be some solo adventures he’d like to have, there may be invigorating new sexual adventures you could enjoy as a couple (maybe he’d love to go down on two women at once?), or he may rescind or restate his offer to let you fuck some other dude one time. Get clarity — crystal clarity — before proceeding.

Finally, NOTHARD, there are other erectile dysfunction drugs out there, drugs that may not have the same side effects for your husband. And low to very low doses of Viagra — doses less likely to induce a headache — are effective for some men. Good luck.

9 Quaint stores (you’d think, based on how they’re spelled) 10 Piece that goes on the floor [S] 11 Queen in Arendelle [E] 12 Water drop sound [E] 13 “Auld Lang ___” 18 Something said in an “argument party” [S] 22 Teacher’s helper [E] 25 Region with Legoland, informally [S] 29 Dislikes [S] 31 Poker money 32 “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly ___ Jepsen [E] 33 “I Like ___” (‘50s political slogan) 34 “Hallow” ending 35 Someone who might cook meatballs for you [S] 36 Animal that’s cute, fuzzy, lazy, and gray [E] 37 ___ for “Ricky Bubwick” (apparently a name that Sid just made up) 38 Everyone [S] 39 Toilet paper layer 43 Turns evil or moldy [E] 44 Remote control car part [S] 45 Tag situations? [S] 46 Looks rudely 49 Enjoys, as food [S] 50 “Understood” [S] 51 Marks that are lines [S] 53 Popular [E] 56 Parents “who do puzzled goodness” [S] 57 Brickell whose band is the New Bohemians 58 “There ought to be ___” 59 It may be parallel [E] 60 Olympic hurdler/ bobsledder Jones 62 Drinks that are alcoholic [S] 65 “Waterfalls” trio

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