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HOUSE OF QUIRKS

Craig Johnson points out the more unusual and funny details of the Capitol.

6-7 NEWS

LAST PLACE

Wisconsin comes up short in business creation.

8 OPINION

CONTEMPT FROM THE COURT

Wisconsin’s conservative Supreme Court justices close proceedings to public.

10 COVER STORY

THE CAPITOL AT 100 If you never took a tour of the state Capitol until friends or relatives came to Madison to visit, you are not alone. People tend to take for granted what is in their midst, even if it’s an extraordinarily majestic building with lush art and spectacular sculptures. We thought the 100th anniversary of the Capitol was a good time to take a closer look at the building many of us walk by every day.

The anniversary theme runs throughout the issue, with pieces on art, architecture and history. We uncovered some hidden gems in our research: the recipe for Fighting Bob’s hair tonic and a menu from a fancy cafe that once operated out of the Capitol. But wait, there’s more! We’ve also put together photo galleries and videos that you can find on isthmus.com.

Some of the contributors include:

CAPITOL CENTENNIAL

The third state Capitol turns 100.

SLEEPING UNDER THE DOME Why protesters moved into the Capitol in 2011.

GROUNDS AND GARDENS A special display honors the 100th anniversary of the Capitol.

KEEPING THINGS PRETTY

A 100-year-old building keeps Capitol maintenance workers busy.

20-22 FOOD & DRINK

WINE AND SELFIES

The new Eno Vino is the place to see and be seen.

24 SPORTS

TIME IS PRECIOUS

Why the WIAA’s establishment of a shot clock is a good thing.

JAY RATH

19, 26-27 ARTS

In addition to his print pieces, Jay Rath also scripted and stars in videos on the art and architecture of the Capitol. He is not new to film. He co-starred with Chevy Chase in a short movie, E-Day! and served as story editor for The Onion Movie.

THE BEAUTY WITHIN

The Capitol contains stunning art, many with interesting backstories.

Road trip: Rockonsin

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APT renovations preserve the magic but make things easier for audience, cast and crew.

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JUSTIN SPRECHER We bid a fond farewell this week to videographer Justin Sprecher, who filmed and produced nearly all the videos for the Capitol anniversary issue. Sprecher is heading west with his wife, who has accepted a postdoctoral position in neuroscience at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

MATTHEW KEARNEY Matthew Kearney just completed his Ph.D. in sociology from UW-Madison. He wrote his dissertation on the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011, which made him the perfect choice to explain why it was so important for opponents of Gov. Scott Walker’s policies to occupy “the people’s house.”

Who likes fireworks?

With the Independence Day holiday falling on a Tuesday, festival organizers are in a quandary when it comes to scheduling annual celebrations. This weekend fests include Fire on the River in Sauk City, June 30-July 1; events in Evansville and Whitewater continue through the holiday, from June 30-July 4. DeForest and Monona skip the weekend and celebrate just July 3-4. Columbus (July 3-8) and Stoughton (July 4-9) extend to the following weekend. And don’t forget Token Creek’s annual fete, squarely on the Fourth as always. For details, visit the Picks section (page 30) or the full calendar at isthmus.com.

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A dozen garage bands from Wisconsin schools will compete in the Rockonsin finals, which in its second year attracted 55 bands from 83 schools. Madison-area finalists include last year’s champs, Distant Cuzins from Oregon High School, with influences ranging from ska to Rush; poppunk trio Take the King from Madison West, Mount Horeb and Oregon high schools; and Marshall High’s Dystopian Echo, a post-punk/alt-rock quartet. Bands perform 15-minute sets on the Johnson Controls World Stage and are evaluated by three music industry judges. The winner and runner-up earn slots on the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard Stage on July 9, Summerfest’s final day.

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CRAIG JOHNSON POINTS to the large badger sculptures that sit above the entryways to the Capitol’s four main chambers. They honor the state’s early miners, who were called badgers because they dug tunnels and were known to live in abandoned, underground mine shafts.

1001 WISCONSIN • (608) 535-8200 “If you lookPLACE at the original blueprints from George THEEDGEWATER.COM B. Post & Sons, you’ll see that the design looks exactly like a badger is supposed to look,” says Johnson, an Isthmus contributor. “But whoever the sculptor was obviously had no idea what a badger looked like. In my opinion, it looks a lot more like a rat.”

Johnson has been a tour guide at Taliesin, the Spring Green estate of Frank Lloyd Wright, since 2003. But his first professional tour guide gig started at the Capitol in 1999. “What the Capitol and Taliesin have in common is they both burned down twice. As all the best buildings tend to,” says Johnson with a laugh.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Capitol, Johnson dusted off his old notes and showed Isthmus a few of the quirkier, hidden details of the historic edifice. Tours have been a fixture at the Capitol since 1915, two years before construction was even completed. Nearly 100,000 visitors take the tour, typically an hour long, each year. The state has never charged for this service.

Johnson says giving a good tour requires being a good storyteller, knowing the subject matter and being able to read the crowd.

Much of the time, that means being able to relate to 10-year-olds. Elementary school students swarm the building every year on class trips.

“During the school year, most of the tours are with fourth graders because that’s when you learn Wisconsin history,” says Johnson.

Being peppered with questions from fourth graders was one of the more rewarding aspects of the job, he says. On one tour, a precocious youngster asked him whether he worked for Tommy Thompson, the governor at the time.

“I replied, ‘Actually, Tommy Thompson works for me.’ Which, of course, is true. It was a snide, snarky response. It may have been accurate but the tone was wrong. The governor is supposed to work for everyone in the state,” Johnson says.

Johnson guides us to the second floor of the north wing. There are dozens of fossils — gastropods, brachiopods and ammonoids — embedded in the marble walls and staircases, and some of the largest are in the Italian marble walls of the North Hearing Room.

Johnson would always show school children this spot, seeing it as an opportunity to add a little science to the history-heavy tour.

“Kids would eat the fossils up,” he says. “Point out the starfish on the second floor stairway in the North Wing, they’ll think you’re a genius.”

Well, most kids.

“I told [one tour] how the fossils were left on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea millions of years ago. And one-by-one they all started raising their hands.” Johnson says. “I pointed to one kid and he said, ‘But the earth is only 6,000 years old.’ I didn’t disagree. They were either there for millions of years or placed there by Satan to confuse us.” ■

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Upshifting What will get Wisconsin out of last place in new business growth?

BY JOE TARR

When Zach Brandon asks people to think about the titans of Wisconsin’s economy, they usually rattle off names like HarleyDavidson, Kohler, SC Johnson, Johnson Controls, Miller, Leinenkugel, Kohl’s, Briggs & Stratton and Oshkosh Corporation.

“You go down this list and think about these companies, there’s a common thread — they’re either named after people or places,” says Brandon, president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce. “That’s how you know that they grew this company from the ground up, you didn’t import it from somewhere else.”

But the list also reminds Brandon that times have changed. There’s no apparent wave of emerging companies in Wisconsin poised to be the titans of tomorrow.

As the Kauffman Foundation reported in May, for the third year in a row Wisconsin ranks last in the country in the number of companies that were formed — both among the 25 most populous states (which Wisconsin is among) and among all 50 states. The state’s rate for new entrepreneurs is .21 percent, meaning that for every 100,000 adults living here, 210 of them started businesses.

Minnesota, which has a slightly smaller population, saw 280 adults for every 100,000 start new businesses. And the national leader, California, had 420 new businesses for every 100,000 adults.

Nationally, the number of new startups has been growing for the past three years, although it remains lower than it was in the ‘80s, according to the Kauffman Foundation.

“A century ago, this was one of the dominant entrepreneurial states,” Brandon says.

“What has changed?”

Brandon doesn’t pretend to have an answer and adds, “Anyone who tells you they know the answer, isn’t being honest with you.”

But he says it’s time the state made a concerted effort to figure out why it’s doing so poorly. He’s calling on the Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker to create a blue ribbon commission to investigate.

“Let’s put some smart people in a room from all over the state, and have them report back and say this is what’s broken, and here are some things we think would fix it,” he says.

The growth of new companies is important because they account for nearly all net job growth in the United States.

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When the Kauffman report was released in May, Walker’s spokesperson, Tom Evenson, dismissed its significance, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Federal data shows that Wisconsin has one of the highest levels of business survivorship in the nation — we’re ranked in the top 10 for both six-year and 10-year survivorship rate.”

The chamber is in the early stages of championing its idea and is waiting for the Legislature to finish the budget before making a concerted lobbying effort in the Capitol. “It doesn’t require any financial outlay, so it doesn’t need to be in the budget,” Brandon says.

In the meantime, chamber officials are working on getting business groups around the state on board with the idea, which it hopes can be a bipartisan effort.

Troy Vosseller, co-founder and managing director of gener8tor Madison and Milwaukee, a startup accelerator, loves the idea. Vosseller hopes state government spearheads the effort, but adds: “I think we can do it without the state.”

He points to two business-led groups — Cincinnati’s Cintrifuse and Michigan’s Renaissance Venture Capital Fund — as ways that industry can take the lead.

Vosseller has some ideas for what could help startup companies here, including increasing venture capital funding and barring non-compete clauses, like California does.

Brandon says there’s likely to be many actions that can improve Wisconsin’s standing, but cautions getting fixated on any of them just yet.

“All too often, people run to the solution,” he says. “We certainly have ideas, but what we’re saying is let’s take a comprehensive, diversified approach and talk about why is it that we’re securely in a trend of being in last place?”

He adds, “We feel bullish about it because who is going to say this isn’t a problem?” ■

Startup activity rankings among 25 largest states, 2016

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Democracy dies in darkness Supreme Court conservatives shut public out once again

BY RUTH CONNIFF Ruth Conniff is editor-in-chief of The Progressive magazine.

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ON JUNE 21, Wisconsinites had their last chance to watch the state Supreme Court meet to discuss its rules and procedures in an open session.

You can catch the meeting on WisconsinEye, and see Justice Michael Gableman push through a proposal to hide future administrative court proceedings from public view.

The video footage is a graphic illustration of the dysfunction on our court — and of the deep trouble we are in both as a state and as a nation. Gableman’s rude treatment of Justices Shirley Abrahamson and Ann Walsh Bradley is stomach-turning, as is his proposal that the court handle procedural matters privately — a measure he does not summon a single argument to defend, apart from saying the open meetings were an “experiment” whose “time has passed.”

Since he does not plan to run for re-election, it seems likely that Gableman’s rightleaning colleagues on the court selected him as the best representative for the indefensible shutdown of public scrutiny.

And why not? Gableman’s jowly mug is the face of corporate contempt for democracy.

It is also, not coincidentally, the face of sexism. Gableman’s dripping condescension toward two women justices who are far more distinguished than he is parallels the ape-like behavior of the 13 male Republican senators in Washington who secretly crafted health care legislation that eliminates funding for Planned Parenthood, while freezing out the two Republican women on the health care committee.

The rudeness, the incompetence (some of Gableman’s own conservative colleagues withdrew their support for him when he first ran,

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citing his disregard for the truth and cavalier attitude toward the law), not to mention the brazen disregard for the public trust, fits a pattern.

Gableman himself has refused to recuse himself from cases involving a law firm that gave him free legal help — defending him against ethics charges.

He proudly stands for crude power that concedes nothing, scorns civility, and pushes to conduct its business in darkness.

It’s the Donald Trump brand!

You may recall that Gableman was first elected after a dirty, Willie Horton-style campaign in which he smeared Louis Butler, the first African American judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with a series of lies and racebaiting ads. That race made national news both because it was so ugly and because of the way outside money came to play an outsized role in what used to be a low-dollar state race.

We now have a court where the majority banded together to oppose ethics standards that would make justices recuse themselves from cases involving their own campaign

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donors, who pony up millions to get friendly treatment when they have business before their pet judges.

Watching the last-ever public rules conference gives you a glimpse into how our state’s highest court really works. Clearly, the conservative justices had already discussed Gableman’s proposal before they met. Rebecca Bradley, who was out attending to a family matter, sends a text message which Gableman reads aloud, saying she is familiar with the proposal and votes in favor.

Ann Walsh Bradley, meanwhile, is clearly blindsided — and outraged. She notes that she asked days earlier for details on this item on the agenda and got no reply. “I have been shut out of this matter,” she says.

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Abrahamson, opening a big file of documents on the history of open records in Wisconsin, points out that open meetings are not a passing “experiment,” but part of a proud state tradition. She denounces what she calls “a court of supreme secrecy, which this has become.”

Gableman hits back below the belt : “Your history is unsurprisingly self-serving and incomplete, and, Shirley, for you and Ann to sit here and be so accusatory is beyond hypocrisy.”

In the creepiest moment of the entire session, Gableman begins reading an email to Abrahamson from the late Justice Patrick Crooks, suggesting the court hire a mediator to resolve “deep-seated disputes.”

Bradley is shocked. “Where did you get this?” she demands of Gableman. “Those are all internal, private. . .”

“Oh, they’re private?” Gableman sneers.

“Miss Sunshine? Miss ‘Let’s open it to the public?’”

The diminutive Bradley reaches across to try to get a look at the pages the portly Gableman is holding and he recoils like a little girl terrified by the big, mean playground bully: “Don’t grab papers from me! What are you doing! Good heavens, Ann! Have you lost leave? My God, what is wrong with you?”

And so ends the last open rules session of our state Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack calls the vote. Wisconsin Eye shuts off its cameras.

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Praise for Pines Re: “Activist Attorney” (6/22/2017). Allison Geyer — Thank you for your detailed history of Lester Pines, an incredible force in Madison culture. I’ve known the Gassman-Pines for decades and never knew anything about his rich history.

— Sarah Kilgour (via comment) Great piece, Lester. I’m not surprised to see you carrying this cause. You’re looking healthy — Mazel tov.

— Emanuele Corso, PhD (via comment) Regardless how one may feel or think about me, I want to share something that shows how much an exemplary person Lester Pines is. I am very fortunate to have had him represent me for some 37 years, but I am even more fortunate to have had him in my life. Lester not only agreed to represent me, in a First Amendment issue with the state; he actually hired me to clean his offices which enabled me to survive until my federal jury trial (which Lester won!). He then encouraged and helped me get my private detective license.

Then he hired me as a PI! He advocated for the Wisconsin’s whistleblower protection law. His firm again represented me against

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Activist The records show that when attorney [the state] “un-hired” me, Lester again got justice for me. All of this was done without him EVER asking for payment (and remember, he was struggling too). He was compensated far, far less than he deserved (some completely free!). He has earned my deep appreciation and respect.

He has also earned the respect of the community. The world and Wisconsin, especially, is a much better place. THANK YOU. — Jim Scurlock (via email)

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Third time’s the charm?

Wisconsin’s majestic 100-year-old Capitol has outlasted its predecessors

By Jay Rath

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IT’S OUR MARVEL, our skyline magnet and Madison’s reason for being: Happy birthday to Wisconsin’s Capitol! The building celebrates 100 years next week.

The dome will be lit red, white and blue the evening of July 5 to coincide with Concerts on the Square, which will also salute the anniversary.

Born of fire, the Capitol has seen heroes, rascals, riotous protests and countless schoolchildren on field trips from around the state.

Early guidebooks to Madison and the Capitol, newspaper clippings and files at the Wisconsin Historical Society paint a dramatic story.

It is Wisconsin’s self-portrait of 1917, painted in granite and marble.

Depending on how you count it, the Capitol is our third or fifth. Congress created the Wisconsin Territory in 1836. It included all of what became Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas. With future boundaries uncertain, the site of government moved around.

The first Capitol building, in today’s Belmont, Wis., has been restored as an historic site. The second, in Burlington, Iowa, lasted only a few months.

The third territorial capitol was built in Madison. It became our first state Capitol when Wisconsin entered the union in 1848.

That Capitol had a tin dome 26 feet in diameter. It was most famous for the murder of Charles Coatsworth Pinckney Arndt by fellow representative James R. Vineyard on the floor of the Legislature, Feb. 11, 1842. Charged

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The first Capitol in Madison, built from 1837 through 1846, sported a tin dome and gaps in its floorboards. The long construction period was perhaps explained in 1919 by newspaper publisher David Atwood, who recalled, “There was quite a difference of opinion in later years as to just what the Capitol actually cost and who made money out of it.”

only with manslaughter, it’s a sign of how wild a frontier we were that, after a brief trial, Vineyard was found “not guilty.”

Work on a much larger building began in 1869.

It was from this second state Capitol that Gov. Robert M. La Follette launched the Progressive Era; he never served a day in the current one. Most of the Capitol was lost Feb. 27, 1904, in a devastating fire.

Among other scandals, the building was uninsured.

Even before that, the Legislature had been looking for additional space. The Wisconsin Capitol Commission was formed, and it hired Daniel Burnham as its consultant.

Burnham was a Chicago-based architect with grand vision. “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized,” he proclaimed.

The man behind New York’s Flatiron Building, Burnham eventually created city master plans for Chicago and Washington, D.C. At the time, however, he was most famous for a project that launched a movement and redesigned the nation: the World Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Better known as the Chicago World’s Fair, the expo had a profound effect on American culture, introducing such products as Cream of Wheat, Cracker Jacks and the Hershey Bar. Frederick Pabst won his blue ribbon at the fair. George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., premiered a 264-foot wheel that was named for himself.

The Columbian Exposition also inspired the City Beautiful Movement, which had a direct influence on our Capitol and its surrounding “Capitol Park.” The fair was a planned neoclassical community spread over 600 acres. The style was — and is — widely copied. Burnham and the Wisconsin Capitol Commission didn’t look far for the designer of a new building. Plans were solicited from five leading architectural firms, and the winner was George B. Post and Sons, of New York. The firm’s design was chosen “as having the most merit from a practical and artistic point of view.”

Post had worked closely with Burnham as one of the featured architects at the World’s Fair. His firm designed its Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, then the largest structure in the entire world — 44 acres, enclosed. It was the most acclaimed building at the exposition.

Post created a Renaissance Revival Wisconsin Capitol that would have been right at home at the World’s Fair. For art and architectural ornamentation, he and Burnham called on a long list of exposition colleagues. Daniel Chester French sculpted “Wisconsin,” the figure on top of the dome. It’s essentially a scaled-down version of French’s 60-foot statue of “The Republic,” which stood watch over the fair.

THE SECOND CAPITOL was torn down as the third went up. Construction began in 1907.

It was completed in sections. Though there is no official opening date for the building, July 1, 1917

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may be viewed as its birthday. That was when records identify its status changing from “construction” to “maintenance.”

The building’s footprint and shape were fixed by the Legislature in 1905. There are 2,500 tons of steel in the 76-foot diameter dome. Each wing is 125 feet wide and 187 feet long. From the end of one wing to the other is 434 feet. When the building opened it had 1,500 doors, three keys for each, and a full-time locksmith.

“I have more trouble with the state senators than anyone else when it comes to lost keys,” locksmith William Henwood told The Milwaukee Journal in 1923.

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Though most of us enter at street level, “the formal approaches and entrances” are on the ends of the four avenues, according to a state history of the project. Those are the secondlevel entries atop broad staircases. The stairs lead to interior “pavilions,” each capped with a small dome. Continuing inside, visitors experience an expansive view of the rotunda, granting a sense of arrival.

White granite from the exterior was sourced from Vemont and marble was used extensively on the interior.

The Capitol included engineering novelties of the time, such as “wires for telephones and

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telegraph.” Outlets for air intake were hidden in pedestals for exterior statuary placed around the dome. The basement contained a refrigerating plant, which provided ice water from a deep well on the property to drinking fountains. The building had 168 clocks, all running in unison with a master clock.

The Capitol Commission had initially planned on expenditures of only 40 cents per square foot. That initial budget was insufficient, and would have “necessitated the use of brick or limestone for the outside finish of the walls.”

Separate appropriations were passed.

In the end, $476,000 was spent just on art.

Another $496,000 went toward part of the Capitol that’s invisible to most visitors — the Capitol Heat and Power Plant was planned and budgeted as part of the building. A system of tunnels connects it to the Capitol 2,600 feet to the west. Its designer was Lew F. Porter, secretary of the Capitol Commission.

The final total cost was more than $7.2 million. From 1988 to 2002, more than $158 million was spent on an exhaustive renovation and restoration. Besides rediscovering extensive stenciling, original furniture was collected and designed by Post’s firm.

By contrast, the first Capitol in Madison cost $60,000. There are two known photos of it.

A little more of the second Capitol survives: Genius of Wisconsin, a sculpture that stood in its rotunda, and a replica of Forward, at the head of State Street. One of its architects may also survive, in a fashion; the ghost of August Kutzbock is said to haunt Picnic Point, where he purposefully walked into Lake Mendota to drown.

George Post died four years before today’s Capitol opened. Daniel Burnham died a year later. But he left us a living legacy.

“Make big plans,” Burnham once said.

“Aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but, long after we are gone, be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.” n

“ Wisconsin” represents the spirit of state progress atop the dome.

Jean Pond Miner made “Forward” for the Chicago World’s Fair.

A replica of “Forward” now stands at the State Street corner of the Square.

Will the real (Miss) Forward stand up?

The women of the Wisconsin Capitol The woman on top of the Capitol dome is named Wisconsin, though she’s often misidentified as Miss Forward. Perhaps that’s because, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society, she was “placed on the Capitol dome as a symbol of the state’s motto, ‘Forward’” and to represent “the spirit of Wisconsin progress.”

She is the creation of Daniel Chester French, the sculptor perhaps best known for his massive Abraham Lincoln statue for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. She wears a helmet topped with the state animal — the

mighty badger — and holds a globe with an eagle on it. Standing more than 15 feet and weighing more than three tons, the statue in 1914 cost $20,325.

The statue at the State Street corner of the Capitol Square is also often misidentified as Miss Forward. Forward would be more accurate, but most accurate is this: It’s a replica of the original Forward, which now resides in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The original was created by Wisconsin sculptor Jean Pond Miner, who made it for the 1893 Columbian

Exposition in Chicago. Wisconsin weather got the best of it by the 1990s, so a replica was made and installed at the State Street entrance.

The statue in the Wisconsin Historical Society is the original Forward. Miner constructed it to be an “allegory of the devotion and progress she believed her state embodied.”

Originally placed at the entrance of the Capitol in 1895, it was moved to North Hamilton Street in 1916.

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Madison’s second Capitol (far left) burned from 3:20 a.m. until late in the afternoon on Feb. 27, 1904. The building had a sprinkler system and its own water supply – which failed.

The city’s water mains could have been tapped, but were not. In the scandal afterward, the Wisconsin superintendent of public property explained that doing so would have violated “the contract which had been made by the state and the city.”

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The Capitol occupation

By Matthew Kearney IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH of 2011, the Wisconsin Capitol hosted the longest continuous occupation of a major government building in the history of the United States. Gov. Scott Walker had just proposed a bill curtailing the collective bargaining rights of state workers, igniting an intense mobilization. Crowds on the Capitol Square peaked at well over 100,000. Many of

The “people’s house� “Whose house? Our house!�

Protesters occupying the state Capitol in the winter of 2011 wanted to stress that the building belonged to the people of Wisconsin, not the legislators, or the lobbyists or the police who were trying to keep them at bay. In other words, it was “the people’s house.�

Michael Edmonds, author of a new book on the state Capitol just out from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press (The Wisconsin Capitol: Stories of a Monument and Its People), traces the phrase back to 1827, when it popped up during congressional debate in reference to the White House: “the People’s house, built and furnished by the People’s Representatives, with the People’s money.�

Edmonds says in an interview that it is unclear when the term was first used to refer to Wisconsin’s Capitol.

But he notes that when the 1917 building was officially dedicated in 1965 (World War I got in the way of a timely ceremony), Gov. Warren Knowles called it “a living monument to the people who built our social order in Wisconsin.� —JUDITH DAVIDOFF

them stayed around the clock and slept on the granite floors of the building. The protest took this form, in part, for strategic reasons. Going to the Capitol and staying there was one of the boldest non-violent means for people to show their objection to controversial legislation. After all, that’s where Walker’s office is, where both houses of the Legislature meet, and where the state Supreme Court hears arguments.

Such a lengthy occupation, though, is more than just a statement on legislation. A large part of the motive was symbolic. Understanding the moral symbolism of the Capitol occupation sheds light on what “the people’s house� really means.

It was not a coincidence that, when people felt politically ignored, they congregated at the place where democracy is supposed to happen. In the eyes of protesters, Walker was violating democratic practices, so the principles of democracy needed special and spectacular restatement. The Capitol building embodies the self-government that is supposed to be enacted inside it. Under the principle of self-government the people collectively set the conditions of their own lives based on their own interest.

Visitors to the Capitol pass through heavy wooden doors and walk down the gray marble corridor, past wide Romanesque staircases, entering a palatial Rotunda that surpasses some European cathedrals. During the 2011 uprising, that central space usually featured one of two things: the People’s Mic, where anyone could speak, read, or sing whatever they wished; or a drum circle of pots, pans, and plastic buckets. Despite their prominence, neither the People’s Mic nor the drum circle was the primary attraction. It was what the Rotunda meant that was inherently the attraction. The People’s Mic and drum circle merely seemed appropriate, if improvised, observances to place there.

On a strictly rational level, there was nothing inevitable about occupying the Capitol. Many other spaces were available for protest. At various times, protest allies worked out of the union-

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The protest in “the people’s house� was a symbolic affirmation of self-government

The 2011 occupation of the state Capitol was the longest in U.S. history. owned Labor Temple two miles away, the Madison Masonic Temple two blocks away, and the Concourse Hotel one block away. The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the Orpheum Theater, each within walking distance of Capitol Square, also hosted events.

An Episcopal church across the street opened its doors to protesters.

In some respects, it would have been easier and less risky to use some combination of these spaces as staging areas, rather than the Capitol itself. Rallies, social media activity, news coverage, and general public advocacy were all possible without a continual, overnight presence. Maintaining that presence in a building that was technically closed required Herculean efforts. But nevertheless, people felt drawn to the Capitol building.

Police were mostly cooperative at first, but they eventually attempted to end the occupation by locking the Capitol doors and refusing to

allow anyone to enter. Hundreds congregated outside, chanting “let us in!� as the remaining indoor crowd chanted back, “let them in!� Why the compulsion to enter at that particular time?

Not for any event — the legislative calendar was empty that day. Not as a media strategy — demonstrating outdoors is at least as effective for gaining news coverage as demonstrating indoors. Not to avoid the weather — the temperature was cold but not extreme, and protesters had been marching outdoors for weeks. Not to unite the two crowds — those indoors never considered leaving to join those outside.

The impulse to enter came from the immense symbolism of the Capitol itself. There was an intense compulsion, sometimes even below the level of rational reflection, to be inside self-government. Taking possession of that house of the people, even if only temporarily and symbolically, was a way of trying to make the ideal of self-government real. n

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THIS ISN’T JUST our Capitol’s centennial. It’s also the centennial of the Capitol Square as we know it.

Or perhaps we should call it “School Square.” Its only other building and the first one finished was no statehouse. It was a school.

Some 70 feet above the lakes, the setting’s natural charms were recognized even before settlement. In 1828 pioneer explorer Col. Ebenezer Brigham camped on the exact spot.

Gazing at the countryside, he declared, “Someday a beautiful city will be built between these lakes and on this spot where I now stand will be erected the Capitol of a new state.”

Well, that’s the story. The first settlers called it “a mass of tangled bushes,” according to early newspaper accounts. Even after the first Capitol was built, you reached it by “paths through tangled coppice.”

The land originally belonged to the HoChunk, who kept a garden roughly where Brigham camped. Settlers found it abandoned, perhaps because wildfires often crossed “from marsh to marsh.” Appropriately, today the Square hosts a vegetable garden.

The parcel originally extended all the way to Lake Monona and halfway to campus, and cost $1,500. (There was some embarrassment in 1935 when it was discovered that the state had misplaced the deed.)

Trees were planted, but it wasn’t until the second Capitol had been completed that landscaping was considered.

“The ground in the park is in its natural state,” complained Gov. Cadwallader Washburn

in 1873. “It should be spaded up and brought to a true grade, smoothly rolled, seeded down and walks laid out, in accordance with the plan.”

A year earlier, the Board of Capitol Park Commissioners had asked Chicago landscape architect Horace Cleveland to come up with a new design for the Square, which until then featured such charms as an 1842 board fence, hitching rails and a cesspool.

An iron fence was put in place, boasting “figures upon large gate posts.” The grounds were laced with elaborate paths and a 10-ton, four-tiered, Renaissance-style, cast-iron fountain was placed on the southwest approach. It tapped a natural artesian well.

After the 1904 fire that destroyed the second Capitol, the fence was removed, along with “beautiful elm trees bordering the outer walks.”

Streets were widened and the original sidewalk was lost. The state retained the property, however, which is why it controls parking on the Square today.

The first completed building on the Square was a log shanty to house workers who arrived in 1837. It measured 20 by 30 feet.

Clarissa Pierce took the cabin over in 1840 for her “School for Young Ladies,” Madison’s second school; students paid $3 per quarter. It was also later used by a debating society for “weekly tournaments of wit and wisdom.”

Officially the Square is the Capitol Park.

Today’s steps, lighting fixtures, urns and approaches were all part of the current building’s design. Even the number of trees per acre were specified: 21. ■

Hanging cow heads and fixing sticky doors Capitol maintenance workers cope with the unexpected CUSTODIANS STAFF the Capitol 365 days a year. “We want to ensure the Capitol is well maintained and runs great for folks, everyone, every day,” says building superintendent Jason Rittel. While the building closes to the public at 6 p.m. and re-opens at 8 a.m., it is “never closed for a day,” notes Rittel. That can “make maintenance challenging.” So can the building’s relatively open architecture, which allows visitors to “wander throughout, unencumbered in most cases.”

“It sees a lot of use and abuse,” adds Rittel. Most of the cleaning gets done by evening custodians from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Three groups of workers maintain the building: mechanics, specialty craft trade staff and custodial. Mechanics take care of what’s often behind the scenes — pumps, coils, air handlers — but also visible concerns, like repair of an antique wood chair that’s coming apart at the seams, and practical ones like replacing light bulbs.

Trade staff include carpenters, plumbers, steamfitters, electricians, a mason and a decorative painter, who, among other things, takes care of gold and silver gilding and stenciling.

“Given the age of the building and its historic nature and value, a lot of what our mechanic staff does is unique,” says Rittel. “It’s the day-in and day-out routine to them, but compared to other mechanics of the same job title at other state office buildings, it’s a totally different ball game.”

Take, for instance, the doors at the Capitol. “At other places, they’re cookie-cutter.

Here they’re true solid pieces of timber,” says Rittel. “That means not only that they’re very heavy, but that they’re much more susceptible to expansion and contraction with humidity and temperature fluctuation.”

Facilities maintenance specialist Jim Werlein deems August the worst month for sticking doors: “They swell up even with the air conditioning.”

Werlein terms himself “jack of all trades, master of none.” He’s been at the Capitol for six years; before that he worked at the governor’s mansion.

He takes care of the three kinds of doors in the building – wrought iron, leather and wood.

Werlein takes care of wood doors at the Capitol; August is the cruelest month.

“These monsters are actually pretty easy compared to the wood,” he says, gesturing at the imposing, gate-like, wrought iron doors. The leather ones — found at the entrance to the Senate, Assembly and Supreme Court chambers and the parlors — are the most difficult, in part because their spring pack is in the floor and not (as is more usual) on the door itself. Also, the spring packs are original 100-year-old equipment that isn’t made anymore.

The well-used revolving doors on the ground level don’t actually need much fixing.

“They have held up,” says Werlein. The biggest maintenance issue with the revolvers are the “vertical and horizontal sweeps” that plug the gap between the door and the floor or door frame. Bubba, Rep. Ed Brooks’ prize cow, stays put with a These are custom-made at Mad- single nail and a french hook. ison’s Gallagher Tent and Awning. Werlein points to the part of the door that animals in legislators’ offices: “Deer heads, turclasps the sweeps; it’s cleverly mounted to the door key mounts, a bear rug, a cow head.” Hanging proper with screws and easily removed. Check it needs to minimize impact on walls.

His favorite mount is Bubba, the prize cow out the next time you cut through the Capitol.

Original instructions for the maintenance of in Rep. Ed Brooks’ office (hung by Werlein the revolving doors are framed and in the basement with just a single nail and a french hook). of the building, partly as an interesting artifact — Hanging the bear rug was actually less difficult than some quilts, he says. Next up: hanging but staff does consult them from time to time.

Perhaps the most unexpected task on Werlein’s an alligator mount. Says Werlein: “Sometimes to-do list is hanging everything from quilts to dead you just have to wing it.” n

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By Allison Geyer THE GARDENS surrounding the Wisconsin state Capitol come to life in early spring when more than 25,000 tulips bloom spectacularly, en masse. But according to head groundskeeper Steve Green, the gardens reach peak beauty around the end of June.

“Things really start to look good around then,” Green tells Isthmus during a recent tour of the Capitol grounds. “Then, through the dog days of summer, it’s especially nice.”

Green began working as a Capitol groundskeeper in 2009 and has been in charge of the gardens for the last four years. His work varies day-to-day depending on the season, but he stays busy with planting, weeding, watering and monitoring the health of the plants. As he walks through the grounds with a reporter, he stops periodically to pull up plants that are growing where they shouldn’t be. “I don’t like weeds,” he says, tossing aside an errant thistle.

At the end of King Street, in front of the statue of Hans Christian Heg, Green shows off the Capitol’s newest garden, a tribute to the building’s 100th anniversary. White salvia blossoms form the shape of the Rotunda, yellow-orange marigolds represent the “Wisconsin” statue that sits atop the dome. On either side, more marigolds spell out the years, 1917 and 2017. “This one went in May 16,” Green says of the centennial garden. “I laid it out, and the other groundskeeper put it in.”

Walking counterclockwise around the Capitol, Green points out more features. “Each area has a different microclimate,” he says. Dragon wing begonias, pinkish-red in hue, line the south-facing walkways, where they can get plenty of sun. “These are very hardy,” Green says. “We put them in last fall.”

Along the balustrades, he’s planted bronzeleaf begonias and petunias, with bright red cannas filling out the middle. At the end of North Hamilton Street, there’s another special garden, the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial, which is full of blue pansies and honors the men and

women who have died in the line of duty. Farther along, where East Mifflin Street meets Wisconsin Avenue, there’s the Gold Star garden, which was established around the time of World War I and remains dedicated to military families who lost relatives in combat. Lime green coleus is planted in the shape of a star, and black dragon coleus forms the border of this simple but impactful garden. In the fall, crews will plant apeldoorn tulips, red and gold, to create the same design. “It makes a strong statement,” Green says.

The Capitol grounds at one time were home to more than 150 trees of more than 30 varieties, though some have been lost to disease and bad weather in recent years. Still, many original specimens remain, including red oak trees that were were shipped from the East Coast on rail cars and kept cool with ice cut from the St. Charles River, Green says. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the plan for their placement on the grounds. The trees are planted next to walkways and their canopies create an effect called an allée.

The only garden on the Capitol grounds that Green doesn’t oversee is on the South Hamilton Street side. For the past five years, volunteers from Community GroundWorks have tended a 400-square-foot vegetable plot. Plants are just now starting to sprout — peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots. Produce from the garden goes to the Goodman Community Center. “I thought people might pick stuff,” Green says, “but it’s actually worked out pretty well.”

Green doesn’t do it all by himself. He consults with experts from UW-Madison on matters of plant health and gets landscaping help from horticultural work crews from Oakhill Correctional Institute, which he calls the “green team.” The inmates do good, careful work, Green says, adding that one crew member was inspired to pursue a degree in horticulture thanks to the program. But above all else, Green takes pride in keeping the Capitol grounds looking beautiful for the people of Wisconsin.

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By Jay Rath ■ Photograph by David Michael Miller Blashfield plotted its design on a wooden model one-fifth the actual size.

The central figure is meant to be “a symbolization of Wisconsin,” said Blashfield, according to Wisconsin State Capitol Guide and History, produced by the state Department of Administration.

Like most of the Capitol’s artists and artisans, he had worked with the Capitol’s architect, George B. Post, at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.

Around and below the central figure, the artist said, “are female figures, holding up specimens of the production of the state, lead, copper, tobacco, fruit,” and perhaps rather hopefully, “a fresh water pearl.”

Between the four interior arches supporting the dome are immense glass mosaics by Kenyon Cox, another World’s Fair veteran. The pieces average 12 by 24 feet, and are made up of 400,000 pieces of stained glass.

Its iridescent figures are surrounded by panels representing oak foliage, each panel in turn surrounded by an interlacing border of gold and purple. The figures symbolize the divisions of power of the state. To the portrayals of legislative, executive and judicial branches, Cox added a fourth: liberty.

Perhaps overlooked inside two of the Capitol’s ceremonial stairway entrances are two important sculptures.

“The West,” at the West Washington Avenue entrance, is a 5-foot figure sculpted by Vinnie Ream Hoxie, whose life is as incredible as it is forgotten.

She was born in Madison in 1847, in the first log cabin to be built here. At 18, Ream Hoxie became the first woman and youngest artist ever to be commissioned by Congress for her statue of the 16th president; the piece is now in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. She was the only sculptor for whom Abraham Lincoln posed in life.

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By Allison Geyer AROUND THE MIDDLE of May, something strange started happening on my social media feeds. Friends and acquaintances all started posting the exact same picture — the eastern side of the state Capitol, taken from about the same height as the dome. Some featured props like wine glasses, others were gleeful selfies. Where was this fun rooftop party, and why was I not invited?!

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My first visit was on a weeknight slightly later than the normal dinner hour. I had hoped to avoid the rush, but the dining room, which seats about 80, was still packed. Luckily, you can order food at the bar, which seats about 40, or at one of the adjacent high-top tables. And if those areas are full, head down to the 9th floor where there’s another bar, plus a lounge area and patio.

The two-dozen sharable plates draw inspiration from French, Spanish, Mexican, Italian and American cuisines.

Eno Vino does a nice version of the increasingly popular poke bowl, featuring salmon tossed in a ginger chili mayo and tuna dressed with a pineapple sweet and sour sauce, served atop a bed of wakame (a type of seaweed). It’s served with a side of fried wonton chips. It’s a simple yet substantial dish, perfect for sharing. I could have done with less mayo and more sweet and sour, but the flavors were nice and the fish was high quality.

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The turkey leg confit was recommended by a server who praised its gargantuan size and falloff-the bone texture. It was as long as my forearm (and significantly meatier) and quite tender, but the preparation was tragically unappetizing — a sparse bed of limp napa cabbage, a sprinkling of “crispy” red lentils that added neither flavor nor texture, a cranberry agrodolce that was pretty much just Craisins in a vaguely sweet brown liquid. Chicken lollipops were much better, fried to a delicate crisp and served with a rich “moody bleu cream.” I thought the shiitake giardiniera slaw was weird at first, but it actually kind of worked.

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IT LOOKS LIKE someone might have cracked open a Guinness while preparing a “St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Menu” for the cafe that once existed in the basement of the state Capitol.

A photo provided by the Wisconsin Historical Society shows an extensive menu and a sketch of the building, viewed from the southwest. The menu is undated but the sketch confirms the meal was served in the current Capitol, says Michael Edmonds of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

W.C. Spahr is listed as the proprietor of the cafe; the meal cost Capital Brewery, which began operations in $1 “per plate.” It was served after work hours, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 1986, uses the state Capitol dome as part of its which might explain the “Kilkenny shots.” There’s also Tipperary packaging and artwork. One of the first beers Salad, Molly McGuire’s Churned Cow, Muldoon’s Hoe Cake offered under this label, the Special Pilsner, and Blarneystone Kisses. is a classic of the modern craft brewing era.

According to Madison Food: A History of Capital Cuisine by Created by then-brewmaster Fred Scheer, Nichole Fromm and JonMichael Rasmus (American Palate, 2015), Special Pilsner falls between two popular variElsa Kragh opened the Capitol Cafe in the basement of the state ants: the Bohemian pilsner, moderately bitter Capitol when lawmakers met for the first time in the new Capitol on with the floral and grassy aroma of Czech Saaz Jan. 10, 1917. The authors write that Kragh recruited a chef from hops, and the Bavarian style, a little lighter in Chicago and “transformed the basement into her own establishment.” color with a dry earthy character associated For 12 years, they add, the cafe was a “hotspot,” becoming one with German Noble hops. Capital’s Special of “Madison’s most notable restaurants.” Guests included Wisconsin Pilsner features the soft, slightly sweet flavor of actress Sophie Tucker and magician Harry Houdini. The Wisconsin German pilsner malt with herbal Czech Saaz Gazetteer from 1912 lists Mrs. W.C. Spahr (the name on the menu) hops. These are the signature flavors to look as the proprietor of the State Capitol Cafe, so perhaps the cafe changed for in great imported pilsners. hands within five years or so of its founding. The restaurant closed in The beer pairs well with a range of food from 1929, so the St. Paddy’s Day menu could likely date from the 1920s. burgers, brats and fish to moderately spicy dishes.

Fromm and Rasmus report that a vendor continued to sell snacks I admit that Capital’s Special Pilsner is a beer that on the first floor of the Capitol until March 1938. The cafeteria reI’ve kind of forgotten about in recent years, but opened in the 1970s, run by blind business managers under a federal with the recent renewed interest in pilsners, it’s vocational program. It remained open until the turn of the century. worth getting reacquainted with it.

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The narrow 6-4 vote makes Wisconsin only the ninth state — and the first in the upper Midwest — to allow a shot clock.

A desire to improve game flow and eliminate opportunities for teams to hold the ball (sometimes for several minutes) as time winds down were cited as key factors in the decision.

Regular readers of this column might recall that I advocated for a shot clock at the high school level a couple years ago, and my position has not changed. At a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinals playoff game in 2016, Antigo upset Rhinelander, 14-11, thanks to holding onto the ball for more than seven consecutive minutes. How is that fair to players, fans and even the coach who opted for the cheap win?

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You mean like dribbling and passing?

WIAA associate director Deb Hauser told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that 81 percent of respondents to a Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association survey were in favor of a shot clock. Delaying implementation until 2019 gives schools more time to update scoreboards or add stand-alone shot clocks, as well as find people to operate them.

According to the Journal Sentinel, Hauser told board members that shot clocks typically cost between $2,000 and $2,400 — schools likely would need at least two, one for each end of the court — adding that the WBCA is trying “to find a corporate sponsor or a company that may give schools a deal statewide.”

Madison Memorial athletic director Jeremy Schlitz estimates that shot-clock operators will need to be paid $25 per game, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. That adds up quickly, with nearly two dozen boys’ and girls’ home games every season in the Big Eight Conference.

Also worth noting: By adding the shot clock, the WIAA is breaking rank with the National Federation of State High School Associations, which prohibits a shot clock.

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“The West,” created while Hoxie studied in Rome, was displayed in the Women’s Building of the Columbian Exposition. It portrays a young woman gazing across a prairie, her gown swept by wind. She holds a sheaf of wheat and a surveyor’s compass and chain.

“Genius of Wisconsin,” inside the Martin Luther King Jr. entrance, stands 9 feet tall and was similarly displayed at the Columbian Exposition. It portrays a leaning figure of a woman, with an eagle, looking ahead.

Its creator, Helen Farnsworth Mears, was an Oshkosh native and one of the“White Rabbits” of the World’s Fair. The group was named when it became clear that there were not enough male artists to finish the exposition’s statuary. Supervising architect Burnham ordered, “Hire anyone, even white rabbits, if they can get the work done.”

Farnsworth Mears studied in France and Italy, and she executed many commissions from her New York studio. Her work is exhibited in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.

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Just how much sculptor Attilio Piccirilli and his brothers contributed to the Capitol is unknown.

The west wing pediment displays “The Unveiling of the Resources of the State,” featuring livestock, wheat, corn and fishermen. A Native American and his dog represent hunting.

Around the barrel shape supporting the dome, Bitter also created four massive statue groups, many of them 12 feet tall. Facing Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is “Faith.” Overlooking West Washington Avenue is “Strength” and on East

“Faith” by Karl Bitter, faces Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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AFTER THE SECOND CAPITOL in Madison burned in 1904, the newly formed Wisconsin Capitol Commission hired consultant Daniel Burnham.

He had previously served as supervising architect for the Columbian Exhibition of 1893 — the Chicago World’s Fair. As a result, a host of World’s Fair architects, artists and artisans were brought to Madison to help create the new Capitol’s exterior.

In the Windy City they had built temporary exposition buildings from whitewashed “staff,” a mix of plaster, cement and jute. Here they would build and sculpt with Vermont white granite.

High above street level, their work is easily overlooked as mere ornamentation.

It is not. Each grouping is meant to engender values of the state.

On the end of each wing of the Capitol the roof line is a broad inverted V. Beneath these low gables, or pediments, are collections of statuary. Figures on the east and west pediments were sculpted by Karl Bitter. He was well-known for allegorical statues that he created for the Columbian Exposition’s Administration Building, the centerpiece of the fair.

The pediment on the Capitol’s east wing, which contains the state Supreme Court, represents “Liberty Supported by Law.” The Magna Carta is represented on the left. Toward the right, a mother is teaching principles to her children.

Washington is “Knowledge.” On Wisconsin Avenue is “Prosperity and Abundance.”

Figures on the south pediment, “The Virtues and Traits of Character,” were sculpted by Adolph Alexander Weinman, a German native. He previously served as assistant to Daniel Chester French, who sculpted “Wisconsin,” the figure on top of the Capitol dome. Weinman also sculpted the figure of Abraham Lincoln on Bascom Hill. The woman in the center of his pediment group represents wisdom. Flanking figures represent rectitude, equity, power, meditation, prudence, success and progress.

The north pediment, “Learning of the World,” was sculpted by Attilio Piccirilli, who played a large role both at our Capitol and the Chicago World’s Fair. A woman in the middle holds a tablet with the inscription, “Sapientia,” which represents wisdom and enlightenment. Figures on the right represent agriculture and the home, and on the left, mechanics and physics. Smaller figures represent fines arts and the home.

Piccirilli and his sculptor brothers are mysterious figures in art history, and just how much they contributed to the Capitol is unknown. In the 1900s it was not unusual for artists to model their figures in clay, and then hire others to “translate” them into marble or other stone. Daniel Chester French created the figure inside the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C. But it was the Piccirillis who did the actual stone-carving.

Just where the border falls between creators and the artisans is debated, and almost certainly it was a collaboration. Certainly the Piccirillis were artists in their own right.

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Woodsy, romantic — and now practical American Players Theatre unveils some dramatic changes to its Hill Theatre and lobby

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As American Players Theatre worked its way through a fourth decade, it faced a challenge. The Spring Green theater needed to improve acoustics, safety and accessibility while still preserving the essence of the classical theater nestled in the woodsy hills of southwestern Wisconsin.

Renovations began immediately after the close of the 2016 season, with the removal of the stage. Construction crews have since worked diligently to complete the improvements to the lobby, amphitheater and backstage areas.

The first notable changes, after the familiar hike up the wooded path, are to the open-air lobby. The carpet of wood chips has been replaced by flagstone and crushed granite, with a small patch of honey locust trees planted in the center. The paving of the hill crown is not purely an aesthetic choice.

These changes make the theater far more maneuverable for people with disabilities.

Until this last season, people in wheelchairs were confined to a boardwalk that stretched from far house right, where the only accessible seating could be found, to the bathrooms/concessions area. Paving also makes it easier for audience members with crutches, walkers or anyone else who finds wood chips awkward to travel upon.

With the lobby now entirely accessible, APT can open up the top of the aisles to accessible seating. Previously, the only accessible seats were subject to direct sunlight during matinees.

Patrons sitting in the back rows of the house will not only be protected from the

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The renovations maintained the original charm but increased flexibility for cast and crew.

sun, but also from the rain. Elegant scooping overhangs now line both theater and lobby sides of the wall. This, according to Sara Young, APT’s director of communications, has more than doubled the sheltered areas of the lobby.

It is estimated that more than 1,000 people, or roughly the capacity of the theater, could seek shelter during a downpour.

The design of the overhangs does not overpower the theater; it remains an open-air space. However, the additions also bolster the space’s acoustics. Director John Lang, whose production of this year’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream is his seventh play on top of the hill, says that the greatest improvement is the sound. “Actors can now give more subtle and layered performances. The audience may or

may not notice the differences, but the effect will be more dynamic.”

Audience members will likely notice the more obvious changes to the actual stage, which was torn out in its entirety last October and completely rebuilt. “Five years ago, contractors informed us that the stage was becoming unsafe [and] not able to bear the weight of the scenery,” says Young, adding that the company bolstered the structure with cables and steel bracing as a temporary solution. “We were told ‘You have five years,’ so this was kind of the deadline.”

The rebuilt stage utilizes a steel structure rising from a much stronger foundation beneath the stage. It also opens up the “pit” area beneath the stage so that trap doors can be placed anywhere, providing more flexibility for direc-

Facing our foibles

Cristina Panfilio and Nate Burger in the politically incorrect French farce.

A Flea in Her Ear is a night of frantic folly and fun

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Good communication is essential in a marriage. In an institution built on mutual admiration and trust, husbands and wives have a duty to talk through any problems they might have. If they don’t, chaos might ensue — as it does in American Players Theatre’s production of A Flea in Her Ear, running through October 7 in the Hill Theatre.

Adapted and directed by former APT artistic director David Frank, Georges Feydeau’s farce has all the elements: love, sex, jealousy, betrayal, miscommunication and mistaken identities — drenched in French perfume.

Trouble starts in the bedroom, where uptight and proper Victor Emmanuel Chandebise (David Daniel) is having a hard time performing his husbandly duties. His beautiful, bored society wife Raymonde (Kelsey

Brennan) assumes his disappointing bedroom performances are due to an affair. She sets a trap for him, lighting the fuse for the farcical fireworks that follow, with most of the action taking place at the inn of ill repute, the Mount Venus Hotel.

The play benefits from APT’s new stage (see story, above), with director Frank making use of multiple locations for entrances and exits and an essential set piece, a revolving bed.

Written in 1907, long before anyone had heard the term “politically correct,” much of the comedy relies on ethnic stereotypes, impenetrable foreign languages and problems with translation and speech. Jonathan Smoots plays an amorous Prussian who only speaks German but communicates clearly (and hilariously) what he’s looking for. Juan Rivera Lebron plays the fiery Spaniard Don Homenides de Histangua, the classic Latin lover whose passion for his wife Lucienne is accompanied by violent fits

tors and actors. “Ophelia has always been buried in that same spot upstage right,” says Young. Now, Ophelia can make her final exit almost anywhere.

The new stage is more stripped down than its predecessor. The upper platform is gone, and the entrances are more open, but this alteration will make the space more malleable for the designers. The gateways to the stage are taller and wider, so that much larger set pieces can be loaded in. A staircase, which in the past had to be assembled out of three pieces so it could be fit through the doors, can now be rolled in as one piece.

When there is only a one-hour turnover between matinee and evening performances, this makes all the difference to the stage crew. The backstage storage area has tripled in size, which will make transitions smoother and sets more elaborate.

The backstage is now also paved so people don’t step straight from the stage onto a sloping forest floor. This benefits both the crew’s quick changes, and also cast members, who often must wear period footwear not ideal for walking in the woods.

The only thing that is noticeably — and sadly — missing is the canopy of trees that once rose up behind the stage. It had to be removed to allow construction and to secure the grade of the slope. A variety of trees have been planted on the hill, chosen because they will grow tall or spread out quickly, so that in a few years the canopy will return.

With all the improvements, the Hill Theatre — which has always been a glorious space, even if it was weakly built — is finally equal to the talents of its actors, designers and technicians. n

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of jealousy. He and Lucienne communicate in rapid-fire Spanish.

Funniest and most inappropriate of all, Nate Burger plays Victor Emmanuel’s nephew Camille, who suffers from a severe speech impediment that allows him only to utter vowels and no consonants. Incomprehensible at first, the listener quickly tunes in to his sing-song delivery, which is corrected temporarily with a silver mouthpiece.

Burger’s struggle to communicate with those

around him is one of the most affecting and entertaining parts of the play, even though it feels wrong to laugh at his disability. Burger succeeds brilliantly in this challenging role.

David Daniel magically transforms from the prim businessman Victor Emmanuel to his doppleganger, a drunken porter at the Mount Venus Hotel. As the charming wag Tournel, Marcus Truschinski also deserves special recognition, not only for his flair for physical comedy, but also for spending half of opening night wearing only his underwear or a bedsheet in frigid 50° weather while the audience was bundled up in coats, sweaters and heavy blankets.

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Sloshed Shakespeare: Macbeth Saturday, July 1, Capital Brewery, Middleton, 6 pm Drunk Shakespeare is a global craze that’s exactly what it sounds like: Six Madison Shakespeare Company actors will (safely) ingest large amounts of alcohol and perform the Scottish play. The actors and director Francisco C. Torres participated in the company’s last (sober) production of the play. Fans of the Bard or the Comedy Central show Drunk History will appreciate this mash-up classic of tragedy, witches and war, which can only get crazier if the actors can barely stand. Jason Compton reprises his role as Macbeth.

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Brink Lounge: Jakob Heinemann & Ben Phillips,8 pm.

Crescendo Espresso Bar: Clara Baker, J. Hardin, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Emerald Grove, free (on patio), 6 pm.

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Lisa Link Peace Park: Dogs of War, free, 5:30 pm.

Friday, June 30, High Noon Saloon, 9:30 pm

Majestic Theatre: Them Coulee Boys, Dig Deep, Flowpoetry, free, 10 pm.

If you like your surf music bold, raunchy and over-amped, you are certainly a Knuckel Drager fan already. The band often features two drummers and bassists just to keep up with all the guitars and, of course, the fire-spitting Farfisa organ of Max Wedge.

Be sure to catch openers Wife (recently reunited) and one-man band Roboman.

Mickey’s Tavern: Tippy, Peeling, Frigs, Sexual Jeremy, 10 pm.

Monona Terrace Rooftop: The Boogie Men, free, 7 pm.

Sister Munch + Damsel Trash Thursday, June 29, The Frequency, 8 pm

Sister Munch’s irreverent attitude is on full display in their song titles, which include gems like “Dad, I Don’t Care About Sports” and, er, “Be Still My Quivering Butthole.”

But the Brooklyn-based punk squad is no laughing matter, serving up a hurricane of sneering fem-punk, much like Damsel Trash, the like-minded Madisonians they’ll be sharing the stage with. Rounding out the bill are Hellmuff and Sassy Come Home.

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Thursday, June 29, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

This is an interesting week to see these indie-phenoms from San Francisco.

Deerhoof started the week under threat of a lawsuit from Daytrotter after the band claimed the music website pressed an unauthorized LP release of a 2009 session.

Fearlessly touring and recording since 1994, the group is in a hyper-productive creative cycle right now. As artists in residence for Indianapolis-based Joyful Noise

Nomad World Pub: Tin Can Diamonds, frees, 7 pm.

Twist Bar and Grill: Madison Red & the Band That Time Forgot, jazz, free, 5 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Ida Jo, free, 5 pm; Bronson Wisconsin, Laundry, Tristan Freides, free, 9 pm.

The Wisco: Kiss the Tiger, Late Harvest, 9 pm.

T HE AT E R & DANCE The Maids: Jean Genet’s dark tale of “love” and class, 7:30 pm on 6/29 and 2 pm, 7/1, American Players Theatre-Touchstone, Spring Green. $78-$57. 588-2361.

42nd Street: Middleton Players Theatre musical, 7:30 pm on 6/29-7/1 and 2 pm, 7/2, Middleton-Cross Plains Area Performing Arts Center. $25. 829-9834.

Plays of a Protector: Indian classical dance, 7:30 pm, 6/29, Central Library. 266-6300.

Cyrano de Bergerac: Edmond Rostand’s iconic romancer adapted/directed by James DeVita, 7:30 pm on 6/29 and 8 pm, 7/1, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $84-$49. 588-2361.

Die, Mommie, Die!: StageQ takes on this comic melodrama about a murderous family, 8 pm on 6/29-30 and 2pm, 7/1, Bartell Theatre. $20. 661-9696.

COME DY Stand-up Democracy: Audience votes on sets by Emily Winter, Chris Calogero, Jake Snell & Eric Olander, with host Esteban Touma, 8:30 pm, 6/29, Rigby. Free. facebook.com/standupdemocracy.

Chicago Farmer Friday, June 30, Edgewater Plaza, 6 pm

Cody Diekhoff, a singer-songwriter who writes and records under the moniker Chicago Farmer, weaves together politically charged lyrics and tuneful folk melodies that channel the joys and frustrations of living and working in the Midwest. Fans of Arlo Guthrie and Todd Snider will enjoy Diekhoff’s take on modern Americana.

Chicago Edge Ensemble Friday, June 30, Arts + Literature Lab, 8 pm

Chicago’s Mars Williams (sax), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Dan Phillips (guitar) and Krzysztof Pabian (bass) are all genre hoppers who’ve played with the greats. Williams has blown his horn with the Psychedelic Furs, Billy Idol, Kurt Elling and Jerry Garcia. Bandleader Phillips is a Chicago institution, and Pabian is a classically trained bassist. It’ll be edgy and memorable.

Geezerpalooza Friday, June 30, Brink Lounge, 7 pm

Geezerpalooza: Best name for a birthday party — ever. Veteran performer and songwriter Ken Lonnquist has been delighting audiences young and old for as long as we can remember. He’s got a musical theater resume a mile long, a knack for witty and topical songwriting and a generous spirit that has him collaborating and jamming with just about everyone. Pete Seeger called him “one hell of a good songwriter and singer.” Expect a star-studded lineup and a great night of songs celebrating his 60th birthday.

The Right Now Friday, June 30, The Frequency, 9 pm Vocalist Stefanie Berecz lights the fuse on this explosive pop-soul act from Chicago.

Berecz is a monster singer; shouting to the rafters on one song, sizzling low on the next. The band’s new record, Starlight, is a showcase for her — and for Brendan O’Connell, the band’s primary composer/ arranger. The Right Now blows the roof off Chicago clubs much bigger than The Frequency. This will be one of the summer’s hottest shows. With Citra, North Coast Soul.

Brink Lounge: Mal-O-Dua, French swing, 8 pm.

Cafe Coda: Hanah Jon Taylor Artet, 5 pm; Dushun Mosley Quartet, jazz, 8 pm.

High Noon Saloon: Cement Pond, Blue Herons, Some Gomers, free, 5 pm.

Nomad World Pub: John Christensen Trio, 5:30 pm.

Tavernakaya: The Eggs, The Earthlings, free, 10:30 pm.

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The Wisco: Jesus, The Division Men, 9 pm.

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

Wisconsin Brewing Company, Verona: Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys, free, 6 pm.

Cafe Coda: Hanah Jon Taylor Artet, jazz, 8 pm.

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Coach’s Club, Cross Plains: Tracks Outta Town, 6:30 pm.

Whitewater Fourth of July: 6/30-7/4, 312 Whitewater St., with carnival, kids’ activities, music, fireworks 10 pm, 7/1 & 4. Free admission. ww4th.com.

Fire on the River: Independence Day celebration, 6/30-7/1, along the Riverway, Sauk City, with kids’ activities, food, art activities, music, fireworks at dusk Saturday. fireontheriver.org.

Essen Haus: Gary Beal Band, free, 8:30 pm.

Harmony: Gary David & the Enthusiasts, Alabaster, 9:45 pm.

Me & Julio, Fitchburg: The Blues Party, free, 6 pm.

Merchant: DJs Landology, Zukas, disco, free, 10:30 pm.

North Street Cabaret: DJ Lauden Nute, free, 8 pm.

A Flea in Her Ear: 8 pm on 6/30 and 7:30 pm, 7/5, American Players, Spring Green. $84-$49. 588-2361.

The Frequency: We Are the Willows, Mr. Jackson, 9 pm.

Nau-Ti-Gal: Riled Up, free, 5:30 pm.

Nomad: DJ Chamo, Latin, free, 9 pm Saturdays.

Sprecher’s: Dave Weld & the Imperial Flames, blues, 7 pm.

UW Memorial Union-Terrace: Mr. Chair, 3 pm; “Science is Fun,” 8:15 pm; Gabe Burdulis Band, free, 10 pm.

The Wisco/Willy Street Pub: Brash Menagerie, Rosa Parkinsons, Bashford, The Biscaynies, 9 pm.

RECRE AT ION Midwest Log Rolling Championships: Amateurs 11 am, pros 3 pm, 7/1; boom run 10 am, 7/2, Wingra Park. Spectators free (competitor info: madisonlogrolling.com).

Dane County Parks Free Days: Lake access, 7/1, at Babcock, Fish Camp, Goodland, Lake Farm, Tenney Lock. 224-3730.

sun jul 2 Saturday, July 1, High Noon Saloon, 9 pm

One of the most idiosyncratic bands from a 1970s and ‘80s Minneapolis scene filled with icons, the Suburbs blend dancefriendly grooves, skronky guitar punk and off-the-wall humor for a one-of-a-kind sound. The current incarnation includes founding singer/keyboardist Chan Poling and drummer Hugo Klaers. They are on tour with a new album, Hey Muse!, released in late June. With German Art Students, Chrash. See story at isthmus.com/music.

Red, White & Blues Festival Saturday, July 1, Knuckle Down Saloon, 1 pm

Nothing says Independence Day like a lazy afternoon of blues. The awardwinning Cash Box Kings (1 pm) are using the occasion to release their new album, Royal Mint. Featuring Madison’s Joe Nosek on harmonica and Chicago’s Oscar Wilson on vocals, the Kings are truly blues royalty. Also on the bill: The Jimmys (3 pm) and Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys (5 pm).

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

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DeForest Fourth of July: 7/3-4, Fireman’s Park, DeForest, with music, kids’ activities, food/beer tent.

Monday: Kings of Radio 6 pm. Tuesday: Freedom Run 8 am, parade 10:30 am, car show noon-4 pm, fireworks at dusk. deforestarea.com. 846-2922.

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

Evansville Fourth of July: 6/30-7/4, Lake Leota Park, Evansville, with music & much more; fireworks at dusk on Tuesday. Free admission. ecp-wi.org.

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Bos Meadery: Old Black Joe & the Third Rail Sparks Blues Band, blues, free/donations, 7 pm.

Stewart Huff Sunday, July 2, Harmony Bar, 8 pm

Uncle Baby Daddy is back, baby! Stewart Huff is bringing his thinking man’s routine back to the isthmus for all to enjoy. This 2016 Orlando Fringe Fest Critic’s Choice winner is a true storyteller, peppering in hilarious observations or philosophical non-sequiturs to keep the laughs coming constantly. There is never a dull moment in Huff’s act; his pacing is immaculate, and his ideologies about life may leave you with a new perspective...and insanely sore ribs! With Dan Bacula, Allie Lindsey.

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Me & Julio, Fitchburg: Shekinah King, free, 3 pm.

The Wisco/Willy Street Pub & Grill: Zafakon, Whore of Bethlehem, Khazaddum, Bray Road, Cast in Fire, 9 pm.

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Improv for Sluts Sunday, July 2, The Frequency, 7 pm

Putting a musical together is incredibly hard work. Putting one together on the spot is even harder. But that’s exactly what the riot grrls of Madison’s Damsel Trash intend to do, creating a fully improvised punk musical with local improvisers and vocal powerhouses Vanessa Tortolano and Kelly Maxwell. Given the frenetic, oftentimes downright hilarious nature of the band’s live show, this should make for an unforgettable piece of theater.

The Unexpected Man: Yasmina Reza’s tale of a fortuitous meeting, 1 pm on 7/2 and 7:30 pm, 7/6, American Players Theatre, Spring Green. $78-$57. 588-2361.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 6 pm on 7/2 and 7:30 pm, 7/6, APT, Spring Green. $84-$49. 588-2361.

Corky Laing — former drummer, vocalist and songwriter for the legendary southern hard-rock bands Mountain and West, Bruce and Laing — brings the music back to life when he stops in Madison on his world tour. Mountain hasn’t played its hit “Mississippi Queen” live since 2010, so this might be your best chance to relive ’60s blues classics as performed by one of the co-writers. Heavy metal Madisonians Cold Black River open.

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

Sunday, July 2, High Noon Saloon, 1 pm

Essen Haus: Jerry Armstrong, free, 4 pm.

Tuesday, July 4, High Noon Saloon 7:30 pm

Capital Brewery, Middleton: Michael Alexander & Big Whiskey, free, 6 pm.

Red, White & Bluegrass Sugar Maple Traditional Music Festival presents this afternoon of string band and country sounds, which could double as a solid primer on the local scene for the uninitiated.

Lonesome Willie Jones plays honky tonk with His Dime Store Posse and bluegrass as a member of Sortin’ the Mail. Milkhouse Radio, Northern Comfort and long-running bluegrassers Down from the Hills are also on the bill. Those who feel like doing a little pickin’ can join an open jam on the patio.

Corky Laing plays Mountain

Mason Lounge: Five Points Jazz Collective, free, 9 pm Tuesdays.

Mickey’s: Casey Foubert, Aaron Scholz, free, 10 pm.

Ohio Tavern: Bill Roberts Combo, free, 7 pm.

Big Thief Monday, July 3, High Noon Saloon, 8 pm

In the past year, Big Thief has been extraordinarily busy, releasing two acclaimed albums (last year’s Masterpiece and this year’s Capacity) and garnering praise across the board, including from notoriously curmudgeonly critic Robert Christgau, who described the melancholic, occasionally jangly Masterpiece as containing “fragile, noisy images of a love perpetually out of reach.” Joining them will be Twain, a folk rock act based in Virginia.

Come Back In: Sam Ness, rock, free (patio), 5 pm.

Frequency: Sweet Delta Dawn, Flowpoetry, Rootz Within, Raising Red, Curtis Goodman, Dr. Beatz, 9 pm.

Malt House: Grandpa’s Elixir, free, 7:30 pm.

Up North Pub: Gin Mill Hollow, Americana, free, 7 pm.

The Wisco/Willy Street Pub & Grill: Granddad, Tigt, The MCKs, punk, 7 pm.

FAIRS & F ESTIVALS Monona Community Festival: 7/3-4, Winnequah Park, with carnival (begins 7/1). Tuesday: Art fair 9 am4 pm, Taste of the Fourth 11 am-6 pm, Universal Sound 11:30 am, Car show noon-2 pm, Kids from Wisconsin 2 pm, Wall of Sound 4:30 pm, Wife Carry 6 pm, Blue Olives 8 pm, fireworks 9:20 pm. mononafestival.com.

Columbus Fourth of July: 7/3-8, Fireman’s Park, Columbus, with carnival. Tuesday: Parade noon, Dexter Road 5:30 pm, fireworks at dusk. Free admission. facebook.com/Columbus-4th-of-July-Festival-Wisconsin-110789108950984.

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FA I RS & FEST I VA L S Stoughton Fair: Annual event, 7/4-9, Mandt Park, with entertainment, carnival, fireworks 9:30 pm Sunday. stoughtonfair.com. 873-4653.

Token Creek Fourth of July Celebration: 10:30 am, 7/4, Portage Road in Token Creek, with parade 1 pm, street dance 2:30 pm, raffle, food tents. Free admission. facebook.com/TokenCreek4thofJuly.

MOV I ES Rocky IV: Free screening & trivia. Edgewater Plaza, 7 pm, 7/4, Edgewater Hotel. 535-8189.

wed jul 5 MUS I C Capitol Square: Concerts on the Square, “Red, White & Boom,” Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with guest Sarah Lawrence, soprano, free, 7 pm.

Come Back In: Shelley Faith, free (patio), 5 pm.

DreamBank: Gin, Chocolate and Bottle Rockets, free, 5:30 pm.

The Frequency: Andrew Combs, Waldemar, Sleeping Jesus, 8 pm.

Malt House: The North Westerns, free, 7:30 pm.

Me and Julio, Fitchburg: Back2Back, free, 6 pm.

Mickey’s Tavern: Pearl Earl, free, 10:30 pm.

Up North Pub: The Pine Travelers Duo, free, 8 pm.

The Wisco/Willy Street Pub & Grill: Blessed, Square Bombs, Exploration Team, Straka & Sphynx, 9 pm.

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The potion behind the pompadour Fighting Bob’s hair tonic

BY DYLAN BROGAN

That’s right. When Fighting Bob warned of “The Danger Threatening Representative Government” from the steps of the Capitol, there was bug juice in his hair.

These secretions contain large amounts of cantharidin, which is also the potent ingredient in the aphrodisiac Spanish Fly. But it’s more of a love poison, than a love potion. It’s working as advertised when it inflames the urethra, causing the genitals to swell. Ingest too much and it’s deadly.

But the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate may have been onto something by using Spanish Fly to make his hair stand tall. It’s said to stimulate hair follicles helping to prevent, even cure, baldness.

Cantharidin is still used in hair products today (although it’s hard to come by in the United States).

Sound like a bunch of 19th century hogwash? Fighting Bob didn’t think so. And he had the pompadour to prove it. ■

See staff writer Dylan Brogan whip up a batch of Fighting Bob’s hair tonic at isthmus.com.

JUNE 29–JULY 5, 2017 ISTHMUS.COM

WISCONSIN GOV. Robert Marion La Follette is remembered for championing the minimum wage, taking on the railroad tycoons and delivering impassioned speeches on the back of buckwagon. For this and more, the progressive from Primrose is memorialized with a bust in the state Capitol Rotunda. The white marble statue captures another famous attribute of Fighting Bob: His prominent pompadour.

La Follette tamed his unruly mane with a homemade hair tonic, which he purportedly applied to his roots twice daily. The formula is preserved in Lynne Watrous Hamel’s book A Taste of Old Madison: Collected Recipes & Nostalgia from Madison’s Early Days, published in 1974.

There are just four ingredients in the tonic: Eight ounces of cologne. One-half dram of English lavender oil and rosemary.

And a one-ounce tincture of dried secretions from the infamous blister beetle.

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The Music Box

BY DAN SAVAGE

I had a great time at the live taping of the Savage Lovecast at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. Audience members submitted questions on cards, and I tackled as many questions as I could over two hours — with the welcome and hilarious assistance of comedian Kristen Toomey. Here are some of the questions we didn’t get to before they gave us the hook….

If your partner’s social media makes you uncomfortable—whether it’s the overly friendly comments they get on their photos or vice versa (their overly friendly comments on other people’s photos) — do you have the right to say something?

You have the right to say something — the First Amendment applies to relationships, too — but you have two additional rights and one responsibility: the right to refrain from reading the comments, the right to unfollow your partner’s social-media accounts, and the responsibility to get over your jealousy.

Any dating advice for people who are gay and disabled?

Move on all fronts: Go places and do things — as much as your disability and budget allow — join gay dating sites, be open about your disability, be open to dating other disabled people. And take the advice of an amputee I interviewed for a column a long, long time ago: “So long as they don’t see me as a fetish object, I’m willing to date people who may be attracted to me initially because of my disability, not despite it.”

Why do I say yes to dates if I love being alone?

Because we’re constantly told — by our families, our entertainments, our faith traditions — that there’s something wrong with being alone. The healthiest loners shrug it off and don’t search for mates, the complicit loners play along and go through the motions of searching for mates, and the oblivious loners make themselves and others miserable by searching for and landing mates they never wanted.

Does your sister want him back? If so, taking him back is the only way to find out if he’s willing to make these lifestyle changes and make them permanently.

I went to a big kink event. Why are the people so fucking creepy? How can you find kinky folks who aren’t super pervy?

They’re hanging out with the kinky folks who aren’t super judgy.

As a trauma/rape survivor, I found myself attracted to girls afterward. Is this because I’m scared of men or am I genuinely attracted to girls? Is this a thing that happens after trauma?

People react to trauma in all sorts of ways — some of them unpredictable. And trauma has the power to unlock truths or obscure them. I’m sorry you were raped, and I would encourage you to explore these issues with a counselor. Rape Victim Advocates (rapevictimadvocates.org) can help you find a qualified counselor.

My boyfriend refuses to finish inside me.

When he’s about to come, he pulls out and comes on my chest. Every time. I told him I have an IUD and there’s no risk of pregnancy. How do I remain a feminist when my boyfriend comes on my chest every night? I know he loves me, but I feel very objectified.

A woman who enjoys having someone come on her chest doesn’t have to surrender her feminist card for letting someone come on her chest. But you don’t enjoy it — it makes you feel objectified in the wrong way. (Most of us, feminists included, enjoy being appreciated for our parts and our smarts.) Use your words: “I don’t like it when you come on my chest. So that’s over.” He’ll have to respect that limit or he’ll have to go. If he doesn’t feel comfortable coming inside you, IUD or no IUD, you’ll have to respect his choice. He can pull out and come somewhere else — in his own hand, on his own belly or in a condom.

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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My sister’s husband describes himself as sexually “vanilla.” She says she hasn’t had an orgasm without a vibrator in seven years. They are currently separated and he wants her back. If he makes some lifestyle changes (stops smoking so much weed, goes to the gym), is there hope for her sex life?

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