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APPLETON • FOX CITIES EDITION
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Foxy Finds
FOOD & DRINK R2 Brewmaster R2 The Wine Cave
ENTERTAINMENT R6 R16 R18 R20 R22 R26 R30
Dobie Maxwell Kat Reinhert The Spanish Inquisition Postcard from Milwaukee Concert Watch Riders in the Sky Latino Fest Celebration Debuts
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Bill the Packer Fan
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BY WILL STAHL The Fox Cities Marathon was first run in 1991 about a year after I moved to Neenah. As a lifelong but fairly casual runner, I had always had a faint but nagging interest in running a marathon, and in 1993 I found myself living only a couple of blocks from the Riverside Park start area. It taunted and tantalized me for years until in 2002, I finally decided to do it. Though I put in the training time, increasing my run mileage through the teens and into the twenties and was coached by a veteran marathoner friend, I made a serious error. About two weeks before the marathon, I changed the orthotic inserts in my shoes. On my next run, my legs hurt all over, bones and muscles, so I called my coach. Since I didn’t mention the orthotics, he diagnosed overtraining and told me to lay off running until the race. When the race began, I hadn’t run a mile before my legs began to hurt again the same way, and I knew the truth. Distracted by the hundreds of volunteers at the many water stops and an ongoing conversation with an Iowa woman, I made it through (let’s not mention my time) and crossed the finish line to be wrapped in the Mylar space blanket and awarded a deep red microfiber wind shirt that is still just right for certain conditions in biking and cross-country skiing.
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“We always tell people at our seminars, ‘Don’t change anything right before the race,’ said Event Manager Debbie Jansen after I’d told my story, ‘If you buy new shoes at the expo the day before the race, don’t wear them until after.’” Only one of the many lessons the Fox Cities Marathon organizers have learned in 24 previous races. To get the story around the twenty-fifth, I visited race headquarters on South Oneida, next to the Community First Credit Union building. Expecting a typical office scene with people answering phones and opening mail, what I found looked more like a warehouse, full of boxes of everything it takes to put on a marathon, handouts and signs, cups and energy drink mixes, bibs and bags, shirts and goody bag stuffers. A large roll of perforated silver Mylar waited to be torn off into the blankets to be wrapped around each finisher. The Fox Cities Marathon began, Jansen told me, when Gloria West had an idea for a marathon that would be a community event, linking all the Fox Cities. She brought the idea to Maury Dresang, president of Community First Credit Union, who endorsed it. Community First has remained the title sponsor throughout the event’s existence. The route would pass through all the Fox Cities and in the early years pass over a bridge
in each community: “Seven cities, seven bridges” was an early motto. Marathons and other community running events were not as common then as now. At first the Fox Cities race offered expense and prize money to attract top talent from among international running professionals, common practice for races seeking to raise their profiles. The first marathon had a few more than 1400 participants. The associated races then were a 10% marathon (2.6 miles) for those not up to more and a 1% marathon for kids (.26 miles). Though it had a few thin early years, the Fox Cities Marathon continued and prospered. It meets the sport’s exacting standards to be a qualifier for the Boston Marathon. For the last six years it has had to limit the number of participants. For 2015 numbers are capped at 1,300 for the whole marathon, 3,500 for the half marathon, 180 relay teams (who divide the marathon in four pieces, usually organized from businesses or families). The 5k is limited to 1,500 runners and the kids’ run to 1,000. Caps encourage early registration and give the organizers a clear idea of how many participants they will need to accommodate. Twelve years ago the event model moved to a more community orientation. No prize money for winners, instead, average runners
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would, as I did, find truly worthwhile things in their finish line rewards. What doesn’t go back to the participants is given back to the community to programs such as the YMCA’s Strong Kids. High schools that provide 50 volunteers get $1000 for their cross-country teams. When I asked about innovation, Jansen told me, “Every year we look to do new things and have new partners. ” This year, for example, the Boys and Girls’ Brigade became a partner and will have a “cheer zone” at their building. Cheer groups will be judged by Fox Cities Marathon board members who will not only observe them but video. Winners, judged by their enthusiasm and creativity, will receive money for their sponsoring organizations. Certain organizations have been strong supporters for years. For 15 years School Specialty has donated $6000 every year to the School Challenge. Three schools receive gift certificates of $1000 each and others get smaller prizes. Participation is judged by the percent of students involved. Neenah Rotary, the Pacesetters, Junior Achievement and some area schools have maintained water stations and contributed other services. Girls on the Run, a program that motivates girls in local schools to be more physically active, shares building
space with the marathon. The Business Challenge tries to get area businesses to bring their people out. They compete with others in their own size range. But no monetary prizes for the businesses––only happy hour bragging rights. This twenty-fifth race has a whole new course with only the beginning and ending staying the same. It includes seven miles of paved trails with stretches on Kimberly’s Sunset Park Trail and Appleton’s Newberry and CE trails. The course crosses the Trestle Trail bridge and swings around Little Lake Butte des Morts to Neenah’s Arrowhead Park and then through the city to the finish at Riverside Park. Medical personnel riding bicycles will provide extra coverage on the trails. No community marathon will ever be run for the sole benefit of those who might win. The heart of any marathon is in the people who only want to see if they can do this thing, run an arbitrary number of inches, very many in the average person’s conception, and bear up when it gets too hot or too cold or too tired or too painful and continue until standing at the end, knowing that he or she has done this thing. For the first-timer, it’s a revelation: I’m stronger than I thought I was. For the veteran, it’s a confirmation: I can still do this. The marathon experience teaches what the
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1991 – Inaugural Year of the Fox Cities Marathon––the race started at 10:54 a.m. at Riverside Park in Neenah and ended in Downtown Appleton. Ray Nitschke was the first Race Grand Marshal.
2,300 volunteers make race weekend happen each year. 2010
– Named one of the Top 25 Medals in the country by Marathon & Beyond Magazine
2011 – Named one of the Top 25 Midwest Marathons by Chicago Athlete Magazine
2 Guinness World Records in 2007 (14) and 2009 (16) for the most siblings to complete a marathon together. runner hopes to learn: I can do what most humans can’t do or won’t do. I’ve learned that I can do the repetitive days of training to accomplish this. I’ve come out here and done it. This self-test by so many is the core of the marathon. All the other shorter events are worthwhile; a half marathon is still a long way to run, relay teams still require a significant effort by each member, a 5k is still a great first goal for new runners. But
the 26.2-mile version is what pulls it all together. The Fox Cities Marathon has become one of the events that punctuate and energize the year here. Its effects on its thousands of participants, volunteers, fans and other watchers ripple through all the Fox Cities. It brings in people from some distant places who might never have come. And it shows this community at its best.
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Bill the Packer Fan: ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY
Living His Best Life so (Redacted) Doesn’t Have To
BY TYLER SJOSTROM In the time it takes to read this sentence, a wife will angrily shush her husband because Fox 11 is airing a thinkpiece about an undrafted Packers rookie who has only a slightly better chance of making the team than you do. At least one Fox Valley resident will look at his dog and wonder what sort of cheese-tinted voodoo compelled him to name it “Jermichael.” Someone, who may or may not be your author, will look at his fantasy football team chock with Packers and marvel at how his emotions are, as yet, undefeated in their long duel with sound judgement. Packer fandom is why a toddler on my block -- a female no less -- is named Jordy. It’s why my future father-in-law spends every offseason weekend perfecting grill recipes. And, in the case of one Fox Valley resident, it’s why he invented “Bill the Packer Fan.” Look up Bill the Packer Fan on Facebook, and you’ll see he’s garnered over 16,000 followers. Then amble over to his hilarious Facebook and YouTube videos to see that more than a million visitors were there before you, and wonder just what you’ve been missing. Borrowing equally
from the Saturday Night Live Superfans and every Rhinelander resident you’ve ever met, Bill the Packer Fan is, without a doubt, a phenomenon that even its creator didn’t see coming. Full disclosure: I personally know Bill the Packer Fan -- or his civilian proxy, I suppose -- pretty well. I even played guitar in his wedding. In giving up the backstory about Bill the Packer Fan, however, we agreed that we wouldn’t disclose his actual identity. Affecting a faux-yooper accent, he explains Bill’s origin. “Honestly, it came from just seeing Packer fans who were around during the early Favre years. I’d mimic the way they dressed, the way they talked, the way that it was all Packers, all the time.” The “Bill the Packer Fan” wardrobe is simple and chuckle-worthy: a furry mustache, short jean shorts, gaudy Packer gear, and an accent that would make Garrison Keillor chew his nails. All together, it works, and when he recorded his first video in December of 2013, it immediately went viral, and fame was inevitable. Before long, Nash FM radio came calling, and Bill the Packer Fan wasn’t just a web-only curiosity. He was a featured
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player at Packer gamedays, got to rub hairy elbows with country stars such as Joe Nichols, and eventually became probably the most famous Packer fan this side of Justin Timberlake. Not one to be pidgeonholed, Bill branched out. He made tons of appearances, was invited to rappel off the side of Lambeau, even parodied Eminem in one classic YouTube bit. Watch it, and I guarantee you’ll probably be a Bill the Packer Fan believer. Thing is, its creator has reason to trust that Bill the Packer Fan’s biggest impacts are still ahead. “Not gonna lie, I just think he’s a great character. I am him, but I also like him. So I want to do more: more videos, more appearances, all of that.” He’s even careful to avoid profanity because, as he says, it doesn’t fit with the ‘church-then-Packers’ mandate he’s shooting for. “I say ‘frick’ and ‘what the crap.’ I never wanted Bill to be a dick, just a lovable Wisconsin guy.” By that measure, he’s succeeded. His unique vocabulary, which includes Miller Lite 12-packs he calls an “A-Rodge,” and bowel movements he lovingly refers to as a “Chicago Cub,” is eminently quotable. He has new parody videos in the hopper and, as an outsider, it’s easy to see that Bill the
Packer Fan isn’t limited to his green-andgold antics. He’s even participated in charity events that have donated to children with maladies and weird senses of humor. For better or worse, Bill is all of us, and his many acts and antics reveal the honest emotions of his audience as well as those of his creator. With a new Packer season on the horizon, as we dust off our grills and jerseys and Cheeseheads, Bill the Packer Fan -- and his nameless originator -- has other ideas. “Check this video out,” he instructs me, as his wife -- not named Beverly, by the way, though the many online videos would suggest otherwise -- rolls her eyes. “It’s to the tune of ‘Greased Lightning,’ but it’s about how fricken’ awesome Eddie Lacy is.” His detached mustache now sits silently next to the computer keyboard, the new video is nearly ready to unleash on Packer nation, and kickoff is only days away. But there is a furry upper brow to reapply, and an A-Rodge waiting in the fridge. Bill the Packer Fan is fricken’ ready. See more of Bill the Packer Fan by following him on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Read more from Tyler Sjostrom at www. thepastorskid.net.
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FOOD & DRINK // BREWMASTER
FARM GIRL SAISON
Lift Bridge Brewing Company, 1900 Tower Drive West, Stillwater, Minnesota BY STEVE LONSWAY As the Mile of Music 3 slowly fades, all who participated are left with many fond memories of another successful year. The Stone Arch Brew crew is also left with the deepest of gratitude for all the support our brand received during this epic event. And thanks to the band Ruben, we were also left with several 16 ounce cans of Farm Girl, a Saison brewed by Lift Bridge Brewing Company out of Stillwater, Minnesota. Unfortunately this beer isn’t yet available in our market, but we thought the gesture itself was worth the story. Besides, The Twin Cities is only a short, beautiful drive away. The Stone Arch team invited a few of our spouses into this tasting circle and their feedback on the beer was also recorded and used in these findings. We poured the beers cold into standard pint glasses for all of us to enjoy. The hazy gold color reminded some of lemonade.
It was effervescent, and produced a nice thick, dense foam head which added to its appearance. As we brought this libation to our collective noses the following terms were used to describe the sweet aromas that were released; floral, lemony, pleasant citrus, fresh hay, yeasty, and orange peel which was an ingredient used in the brewing process. A sharp Belgian yeast scent was quite prominent and very enticing. All in all, quite pleasing and true to style. The flavors discovered were abundant. Spicy with hints of clove, allspice, cinnamon and orange all balanced very well with what is perceived as a light bodied malt profile. Its crisp invasion on the tongue left a bit of a chalky note that gives way to more orange peel and obvious Belgian yeast flavors that round out perfectly. The finish is very clean, candy-sweet and leaves a bit of acidity on the palate. This beer would pair very nicely with a cold, crisp summer salad or a freshly grilled slab of Mahi Mahi. We see this
beer as a really good fit to any and all of summers activities from a relaxing paddle downstream to enjoyment around a crackling camp fire. Its 5.8% is nothing to shake a stick at either so as always, enjoy in moderation. When pairing this beer to music, pop in a disc of the band Ruben, set the volume at around 70% and enjoy the audio and flavor invasion, you won’t regret it! Onto the Lift Bridge Brewery. Located about 25 minutes east of the Twin Cities this brewery and tap room is far away from the bustling city life we all know. With hours of visit primarily evenings and weekend days, a simple call ahead to their toll free number of (888) 430-2337 is recommended. Quite often your visit will be met with a freshly tapped firkin of real ale pulled through a traditional beer engine, which in our eyes is as natural as it gets. FINAL WORD: A great brew as the autumn sets in upon us. For those who enjoyed our last article
showcasing Surlys Overrated, Stone Cellar Brewpub will be featuring a Surly Beer Dinner on October 1st. We will host this four course dinner paired with fine Surly beers at our event space located at 1101 S. Oneida St. Stone Cellar at Riverview Gardens. The event is by reservation only by calling (920) 997-3332. Cost is $45 per person. Prosit!
FOOD & DRINK // THE WINE CAVE
Harvest of Grapes to Glass BY KIMBERLY FISHER
Fall is upon us and it is this season that starts the harvest of grapes to glass. Have you ever thought about the lifecycle of a vine or how long it takes to get grapes to make that wonderful transition from vineyard to glass? The physical structure of the vine as cultivated. It consists of a single trunk that connects its underground root system to the above ground structure of branches, shoots and leaves. The root system continues to grow and spread throughout the lifetime of the vine, and is capable of pulling water and nutrients from soil deep below the surface. The trunk thickens slowly with time, growing from a slender stick to a gnarled, tree-like pillar after many years.
In nature, grapes propagate by producing seeds. The skin and pulp of the grape are designed to protect the seed from damage and nourish it while it matures. A newly planted vine will produce grapes during its first or second season, but the clusters are usually considered substandard. It is isn’t until its third year, which is sometimes called “third leaf,” that the vine begins to produce good fruit and it is common to say, that after six years, the grapevine develops to the point where its fruit is at its optimal quality level. It will then produce its best grapes for a decade or more. The annual growth cycle of a vine is most successful in temperate climates. The cycle begins in the spring, once temperatures start to get up above 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). Tiny shoots emerge on the
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branches which we call “bud break.” As the shoots begin to grow and strengthen, leaves begin to develop. Once the leaves appear, photosynthesis can begin and the plant can take in energy directly from the sun. Flowering is the next phase and takes 40-80 days after bud break. Clusters of tiny flowers appear at intervals and for every flower that is fertilized, it will become a grape. The transition from flower to berry is called “berry set” or “fruit set.” As the berries start to mature in size over the next three months, a process called “veraison” takes place. It is most noticeable in red grapes which begin to take on color. White grapes also change in appearance, remaining green, but become translucent or golden. Harvest takes place a month or two
after veraison. When the grapes are ripe in terms of sugar levels and physiological maturity which translates into tannin, color, and flavor, and aromas become fully formed in the grapes resulting in the wine. Time from bud break to harvest is normally around 140-160 days but can be as short as 110 days or as long as 200 days. We are at the point of harvest in many countries where the aromas of crushed grapes fill the air. What an incredible aroma and what a journey the grape and grapevine together take. The end result is a delicious glass of red or white that fits your occasion or your budget. Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits
Barley’s Beer Sampling Series 4 Hosted by an All-Wisconsin line-up, Barley & Hops returns for the 4th installment of their celebration of this great state’s brewing prowess. Attendees will enjoy over 40 other beers, spirits and wines!!
Beer Samplings 2015-2016 Verona
Wednesday, October 7th Wisconsin Brewing Company Featuring: Dogfish Head (Delaware)
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Wednesday, December 2nd Central Waters Brewing Co. Featuring: Two Brothers Brewing (Chicago)
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Wednesday, February 3rd Pearl Street Brewing Featuring: Founder’s (Michigan)
Wednesday, April 6th Point Brewery
Stevens Point
Featuring: Kona (Hawaii)
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Foxy Finds FINE ARTS // FOXY FINDS
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Give your decorating scheme a big boom of resonating fun with this vintage “Harmony Rollickers” bass drum. 26.5” diameter, 15” height. $299 from Milo Milo in Appleton, where you can always find “a little bit of this, and a little bit of that.” Milo Milo features retail and resale treasures, with upscale furniture and home accessory finds from across the globe. Their inventory is always changing, so stop in often to see their latest arrivals and beautiful displays.
Handcrafted hardwood The Baker’s Board / Perfect Peel baking paddles are truly works of art. Choose from flatbread boards, pizza peels, brick oven peels, baguette boards, serving JEAN DETJEN, ARTFUL LIVING boards, craft beer sampler boards and more. Made with Cherry, Maple, and Mahogany, these fine boards have “Hushed a very rich, sleek, user-friendly design and are available in a variety of sizes. Effluence” origEngraving option available. Sold online at www.thebakersboard.com or at inal abstract The Wire Wisk in Appleton or in Green Bay at Cooks Corner. Prices range oil painting from $31 and up. These durable boards with their beautiful wood grain and on canvas by craftsmanship make great personalized gifts. Founded in 1986, Perfect Peel is Amy Buchholtz family owned and operated in Appleton. (Magnuson). Whether choosing their decorative rich32’ x 48’, wood peel or their lightweight basswood $1,950. Find board, you are sure to find the perfect one this stunning for your home or business! piece and additional works at The Hang Chic double-breasted beige-multi Up Gallery plaid tie coat by Peach Love. This of Fine Art, effortlessly stylish cape-jacket hybrid Neenah. The beautifully tops off your basic abstract expresunder-layers. Faux fur trim and sions invite piping detail. Similar styles of cute, the viewer to cozy layering pieces arrive weekly experience tenat hey, daisy! (Appleton, DePere, sions and anxieties of both the pulling back of gravity and the Howard, & Fish Creek) and are pushing forward of energetic progress. The emotional freedom perfect for Fall sweater weather! and the exploding deliverance celebrates the exciting wonderment of progress and future unfolding’s. Amy Buchholtz (Magnuson) is currently represented in galleries throughout the Midwest region. She acquired her Master’s of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, her Masters of Arts from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Repurposed furniture made from reclaimed leather belts. Hand hammered with nailhead accents. Comfortable and sturdy. No two are exactly alike, each is a unique conversation piece! Couch/settee - $275, chair - $250, wooden stool - $75. From Rehabit Makerspace and Gallery, a place of inspiration, creativity, learning, exhibit space & hobbyists in Oshkosh. Open 11-3 TuesdayFriday & by appointment (920.209.9368).
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Elegant wine goblets and serving bowls etched with “icy pine” motif. Delightfully frosted, multi-facetted pinecone designs make a bold statement. Contrasting cut and polished pine needles add dimension and sparkle. Add a touch of flair to your cabin, lake house or north woods abode with this sophisticated yet understated glassware. Perfect for any time of the year in Wisco. Find these and more eye-catching home décor items at Embellishments in Waupaca.
Handcrafted stone metallic python print cowgirl boots by Lucchese. The shimmering neutral hue makes these the perfect boots for the transition of seasons. Supple leather with scroll embroidery detailing. Pair well with both casual and dressy outfits. With their comfy cushion insole, these boots are definitely made for walking (and getting noticed!). On sale now for $230 at Elements Unleashed, Neenah.
Cheers to living artFULLY in the heart of Wisconsin! Send your suggestions for Jean’s Foxy Finds to jdetjen@ scenenewspaper.com
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ENTERTAINMENT // DOBIE MAXWELL
Back-To-School Lunch BY DOBIE MAXWELL
September is back to school month, and that makes memories come flooding back annually for those of us who did indeed attend an actual school. I am of a generation that did not yet know of the now all too frighteningly common concept of home schooling, so forgive me if I frown upon that idea without having personally experienced it. I think kids need to mingle with their peers. Home life comes with its own unique set of politics and dysfunction, and mine happened to be off the charts. I was raised by my grandparents, which in my day was not nearly as common as it is today. It wasn’t common in my circle at all, as I was the only kid I knew who had it going on. There’s an extra layer of difficulty in that situation on multiple levels. First, they were on to all the tricks my father and uncle pulled during their childhoods so that made them suspicious of me before I even did anything. They had seen it all before, and I was guilty until proven innocent. Secondly, they were of the generation before the one of all the parents of kids my age, so they looked down on all the parents of my friends as inexperienced, naïve and ungrateful spoiled brats for not having lived through The Great Depression. That was their generation’s common bond. I learned quickly that since they were forced to suffer their way through The Great Depression against their will, I would have to join them throughout my entire childhood and relive it all over again vicariously on a daily basis. They weren’t about to waste penny one on anything frivolous, kid friendly or fun, so I knew early I would be in for an uphill battle with nobody in my corner. This is where my school lunch connection kicks in. For whatever reason, Silver Spring School in Milwaukee did not have a school lunch program when it first opened. I think I was in fourth or fifth grade when they tore down the old school and built a new one, and we were all excited to be in a spanking new facility. It looked and
smelled new, but they still had some bugs to work out. Until the cafeteria was finished, we all had to bring our lunch to school. This is where I learned all about social intercourse and status, as in who the cool kids were and who was destined for the unwanted ugly fate of perpetual mock-a-tude. I soon became the king of everything out of style. Parents can be painfully unaware of styles and trends of their children, but grandparents are on a completely different planet. They have no clue what cool is, nor do they care. They think all of their generation’s references are still fresh, and they make no effort whatsoever to get current. From day one, I begged them for a lunch box. All the cool kids had lunchboxes, and they were just as cool. For boys, the highly desirables included Batman, Spiderman, G.I. Joe, Scooby Doo, Dukes of Hazzard, Green Bay Packers and maybe Charlie Brown. Everything else was mocked. For girls as I recall, it was Barbie, Raggedy Ann, Josie and the Pussycats and it was also fine to have a Scooby Doo or Charlie Brown. I didn’t pay much attention to the girls then, and they have long since returned that favor – but that’s another tale for another time. Back to lamenting lunch. Grandma and Gramps wouldn’t hear of buying me a lunch box, as they said I didn’t need one. I guess nobody really needs one, but what’s wrong with being in the incrowd for a change? I only wanted to be like the other kids, but they made it seem like I was asking to revoke my citizenship. What really welds the pain and embarrassment permanently into the deepest and most sensitive inner core fiber of my being is how they vehemently refused to purchase lunch bags. They could not comprehend why any sane human would part with perfectly good cash money for paper bags in which to haul a kid’s lunch to school. It was like the stock market was crashing all over again. I figured out what the actual cost per bag was and it came out to a whopping three whole cents. If I didn’t know better I’d have thought I asked for a new Cadillac
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and a bag of gold doubloons. “THREE CENTS A BAG?” Grandma yelped. “We are NOT the J.P. Morgans.” I had no idea who she was talking about. The only person I knew with that name was a panelist on The Gong Show. “There is NO need to spend three cents each for a lunch bag. I’ll use the bags we get for free at the grocery store instead.” Hey great! Now there’s a prudent solution. Pay absolutely zero mind that those enormous bags are only about fifty to one hundred times bigger than any grade school kid would ever happen to need at any time except for maybe a young Andre The Giant. You saved three cents. Yahoo! Just drop my little peanut butter sandwich in that bag, and I’ll wait for the echo. Then plop my tangerine in after that. And don’t forget my bag of plain, no name potato chips. God forbid I may enjoy some barbecue flavor chips or maybe even some snack with a brand name like Doritos or Fritos or Cheetos. Anything with an ‘itos’ on the end of it would have been a minor miracle. Then, why don’t you take that gigantic paper bag and roll it over about six hundred times, and I’ll drag it to the playground like Christ carrying the cross? Then I’ll get to school and have to be mocked for the rest of my days. This was a fate I was not willing to accept so I pushed back. For the first time I ever remembered, Grandma and Gramps agreed to something I really wanted. Unfortunately, grandparents live in their own world. They didn’t take time to ask what kind of a lunch box I might want. They went to a store of their own volition, and I would bet dollars to donuts it had the word “Mart” somewhere in the title. They probably had a coupon they clipped out of the newspaper, and I’m sure there was some kind of closeout “everything must go” sale. There was no fanfare whatsoever, nor was there any gift wrap. They came home one day and my icy German grandmother personally presented me with what I had whined about for so long. “You wanted a lunch box,” she said
matter of factly. “Well, here is your lunch box. It’s the last one you will ever get, so quit bothering us and live your life.” I was overjoyed for all of about five seconds until the picture on the lunch box gave me a swift kick directly in the groin of my heart. I am the only child I have ever met – and I’ve met a lot of children and former children in my day – that had to suffer through my formative years with a…and it still makes my snot curdle… Winnie the Pooh lunch box. I couldn’t have done any worse except for maybe if there had been a Hitler thermos. I knew I would hate it, but I also knew there was no turning back. This was it. The kids at my school could not have been any more cruel. My new nickname was of course a combination of “Pooh,” “Mr. Pooh” and “Permanently Ostracized Leper.” “You wanted a lunchbox.” Grandma said sternly. “And you’re going to use it every day.” I’m surprised she didn’t make me take it to church and pack me a lunch for Sunday school too. That lunch box was the source of torture for the rest of the school year. I remember taking it as soon as summer vacation came and bashing it with my Louisville Slugger baseball bat. After that I rode over it with my bike. Then I stomped on it with both feet. Then I threw it in the street and let the garbage truck run over it. When I was finally done, it was a twisted piece of useless metal. That damn lunch box was only one of many torturous memories of my childhood, and it comes back to haunt me every year around this time when I see the “Back to School” ads everywhere. To make it worse, I peeked at Ebay to see what Winnie The Pooh lunch boxes were going for. I saw one for $275 and another for $325. In retrospect I guess I was home schooled after all. Dobie Maxwell is a stand up comedian and writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To see him on stage at his next hell-gig, visit dobiemaxwell.com
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NEWS & VIEWS // MEDIA RANTS
Fox’s Frankenstein & the Sandman BY TONY PALMERI I’ve been following presidential elections closely since 1976 when I was a high school sophomore. As the first postWatergate national election, the 1976 contest sparked our still intense infatuation with outsider candidates ready to clean up Washington. Affable peanut farmer and former Georgia G o v e r n o r Ji m m y Carter cultivated the outsider persona perfectly against incumbent President Gerald Ford. Ford was a 13-term congressman, the only man ever to serve as Vice President and President without receiving any popular or Electoral College votes, and pardoned Richard Nixon; Ford was about as ‘insider’ as a candidate could get. The outsider/insider dialectic has framed every presidential election since, especially in the primary and caucus season. Today, every Republican seeking the White House is running as a Washington outsider, charged up to take on Hillary “the ultimate insider” Clinton. Even the Democratic challenger’s to the former first lady tout themselves as outsiders. For most of the summer, the presidential political scene has been dominated by two self-described outsiders: billionaire Donald Trump on the Republican side and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democrats. In different ways, both campaigns have exposed the moral bankruptcy of the mainstream media. The Donalds’ “Trump-a-palooza” campaign tour is like legendary American Idol contestant William Hung’s music: so awful that it actually becomes entertaining in its awfulness. Or for those old enough to remember the generous and kind kid Richie Rich comic book character, Trump is like what would happen if that kid grew
up and became a total asshole. Often he’s like an unfiltered Nixon, as in his conversation with Maureen Dowd: The nice thing about Twitter, in the old days when I got attacked it would take me years to get even with somebody, now when I’m attacked I can do it instantaneously, and it has a lot of power. How’s that for a great role model for the youth of America? Trump’s been in the mainstream media spotlight for a long time, but the fact that he can be taken seriously as a political candidate is unquestionably because of Fox News. His brand of highly personalized, black or white babbling, delivered in a slash and burn rhetorical style, generates great ratings for a news network that prides itself on being a platform for over-thetop wing nut characters. And that’s why Trump’s public spat with Fox after Megyn Kelly’s reasonable question to him about his history of misogyny and sexism was so amusing: without such a vulgar history, would Trump even be in the media spotlight to begin with? Not surprisingly, Fox viewership largely sided with Trump in the spat. Donald Trump is Fox’s Frankenstein. Yes, Fox has historically served as a forum for many monsters, but usually they’re content to go after single mothers, AfricanAmerican teens, liberal Democrats, and undocumented immigrants. The Trumpenstein monster on the other hand, appears poised to wreck the entire Republican establishment. Sure, it’s hilarious to watch Trumpenstein smack down Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and others in the GOP’s motley candidate crew of empty suits, lame brains, and lightweights; but as Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi argues, the end result is that candidates have had to resort to increasingly bizarre tactics in order to win press attention. It’s not pretty, yet there’s not one network news anchor with the moral authority to call out the nonsense. So what about the Democrats? When Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren declined to run, and with former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley failing to spark enthusiasm, it looked like Hillary Clinton might make it through the caucus and primary season unscathed except for the predictable GOP trolling about Benghazi,
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emails, etc. But then...Enter Sandman. Bernie Sanders, the 73-year-old Senator from Vermont who represents the democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and articulates a vision of an America of, by and for the people instead of the one-percent, met record crowds in city after city. Rocker Neil Young threatened to sue Trump for using “Rockin’ in the Free World” at rallies, but had no problem lending the tune to Bernie. Actually, I’d like to see Sanders come to the stage with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” as his intro music. The song’s theme of childhood nightmares works well with Sander’s harsh wake up call for the 99 percent, many of whom accept our economic nightmare as normal. The mainstream media response (or more accurately non-response) to Sanders is really a prime example of how bogus is the claim that there is some kind of liberal bias in political news coverage. If
500 people show up at a Tea Party rally, it’s treated as the birth of a new American revolution and often gets space on the network evening news. Sanders in contrast, can pack sports arenas with a message of redistributing wealth to Main Street instead of Wall Street, yet the events barely register a blip on the media radar. Does this mean there’s a conservative bias in media? No. The bias is toward the corporate, which means the Trump-apalooza clown show’s that drive ratings will get 24/7 attention. I hope there’s a high school sophomore following the campaigns. In 40 years people will want to know what it was like to watch corporate media obsess over Fox’s Frankenstein, while the Sandman filled the stadiums. Tony Palmeri (palmeri.tony@gmail.com) is a professor of communication studies at UW Oshkosh.
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NEWS & VIEWS // RIGHT WING NUT
RIGHT WING NUT BY BOB MEYER As more support for educational vouchers gains ascendancy, the talking points against them become increasingly desperate. The epitome of this trend might well have been expressed by a writer in his recent column in the Appleton Post-Crescent. His assertion is excerpted below. “Voucher schools, also known as taxpayer-supported religious schools, aren’t about improving public education, they are about proselytizing. And once government finances religion, it won’t be long before it wants to control the religious message, ending the religious freedom we’ve enjoyed for over 200 years.” h t t p : / / w w w. p o s t c r e s c e n t . c o m / story/opinion/columnists/2015/06/11/ vouchers-taxpayer-supported-religiouseducation/71095108/ It sure sounds good, but when I read the whole column, it appeared to be more a critique of private education, than advocacy for religious liberty. If education is a public good, then that particular ‘public good’ is realized regardless of whether or not the learning takes place in the public milieu. Some Christians may legitimately fear the regulation of their faith by the government should they accept vouchers. On the other hand, a greater number recognize the inherent unfairness of a taxation policy that makes them pay for government subsidized public education, even when they are already paying for alternatives. Vouchers could only help restore those funds, making alternative educational choices more affordable for citizens who aren’t wealthy. The accountability question is answered by the parents who voluntarily make educational choices. If one sees the voucher as following the student, rather than being a direct subsidy from the government to a particular school, then the issue is really about parental choice, not government subsidy. That is why the writer’s assertion that ‘vouchers are tantamount to subsidizing religious education’ are bogus. Taken to it’s logical conclusion, should we argue that a government employee’s contribution in the church offering plate is a really government subsidy of religion since the taxpayers pay the employee’s salary? Many secularists will quickly point to Thomas Jefferson’s famous quotation taken from a private correspondence in 1801.
“...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” But the historical understanding of this metaphor has absolutely nothing to do with removing religious principles from public education. Jefferson more clearly explains the meaning of his famous metaphor in this excerpt from his second inaugural message... “In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies....” Jefferson is talking about the application of federalism; distinguishing between the enumerated powers of the federal government and the broader latitude of state governments. Article three of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 clearly shows that the Founders had no intention to separate education from acknowledgment of God. “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged...” The late SCOTUS Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in his Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) dissent, clarified the historical abuse of the wall of separation metaphor. “But the greatest injury of the “wall” notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights...no amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The “wall of separation between church and State” is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.” The great deception on the part of many people, is to define “religion” narrowly, as a belief in theism, rather than more broadly. If one were to read beyond the first definition of the word “religion” in a good dictionary,
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they will come across a definition like this... “A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.” In that broad sense, all education is fundamentally and inescapably a religious enterprise. An attorney in San Antonio, Texas teaches a historical symposium on constitutional law. One question he asks early in the course is this: Who is more religious...? A) Bill Clinton B) Bill Gates C) Billy Graham D) Billy the Kid The answer, of course, is that this is a trick question. The correct answer is E), all the above, since all persons listed have a cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion. The biggest fallacy accepted by the public is that public education is ideologically neutral. The writer’s original claim of proselytizing is a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black. At least some humanists view the public education venue
as an indoctrination opportunity. (“The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: A religion of humanity – utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to carry humanist values into wherever they teach. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new – the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.”) Dunphy, John J., The Humanist, Jan. 1983, p. 26. Dunphy clearly recognizes what most advocates of monolithic public education either fail to admit, or are inexcusably ignorant of: The effort to extract Christianity from public education effectively replaces one “religion” with another, it doesn’t achieve neutrality. Though there are many good reasons to support vouchers, the check against undesired indoctrination is first on my list.
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NEWS & VIEWS // ROHN’S RANTS
Trump NO! BY ROHN W. BISHOP What the hell are we doing? The Republican Party currently has the best slate of candidates to seek it’s nomination since 1980! We have conservative governors, conservative senators, a business woman, a neurosurgeon, immigrant kids, small town kids, all of whom are true believers to the conservative cause. Yet it’s Donald Trump who’s leading the Republican Presidential polls? It’s Donald Trump who is receiving such love and adoration from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Breitbart News, and Ann Coulter? I get that Rush Limbaugh needs listeners, Sean Hannity needs viewers, Ann Coulter, needs readers, Breitbart needs web hits; but all in for Trump? I get it too that we’re ticked off and disillusioned with Washington. Since winning control of Congress in November the Republicans haven’t done diddly squat with their new found power. Obama Care survives, Iran is getting nukes, Israel is threatened, the border is wide open, the police are under assault, and Christianity is about to become the modern version of the KKK. We conservatives look around and no one is defending us, no one is sticking up for what we believe. We watch in disbelief as Americans are more angered about some lion in Zimbabwe than they are about Planned Parenthood murdering babies and selling the body parts! It’s like we’re living in the” Twilight Zone.” We look to our elected leaders, Republicans in Washington like Speaker John Boehner, or Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, and we get nothing. You turn on the TV and there is a guy, finally yelling about the border and immigration crisis, and when some jerk liberal reporter questions him, he yells back, “Sit down, shut up, you’re all done! You’re a loser!” It’s refreshing! We hunger for someone to express our beliefs, defend our beliefs, and to not put up with the main stream liberal news media and the politically correct bullies. I, as a monthly contributor
to the Scene, really appreciate Trump’s unapologetic bluntness. Every month, The Scene receives calls and emails from the “PC” crowd calling on me to be fired, threats to boycott the paper or our advertisers. These intolerant folks then put on a Che Guevara t-shirt, climb in their Prius with a COEXIST bumper sticker on it, tune into Pubic Radio, and congratulate themselves on being so open to diversity. But I digress… Trump is perceived as combative, always telling people off. And, he’s getting away with it! But we can do much better than Donald Trump. Trump is no conservative! He supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, he’s donated to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, repeatedly said George W. Bush was the worst president ever, opposed the Iraq War, has supported socialized health care, higher taxes, defends Planned Parenthood, uses Democrat talking points to slander Scott Walker, and gives Hillary a pass on her criminal behavior with her secret computer server. Even with that kind of past, I’m told by “Trumpiters” that he’s the true conservative, he’ll make America great again, and that Jeb Bush is the establishment’s squishy RINO. Really? Rush Limbaugh went so far as to say on the very highly rated “EIB Network” that, “The ideal, the perfect ticket, for the 2016 election: Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush. Now, they can figure out who’s on top of the ticket on their own, but when you compare their positions, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, on the key, important issues, they are two peas in the same pod.” Really!? When Jeb Bush served as Florida’s Governor he was the most conservative governor in America. Bush cut taxes, balanced budgets, grew a state surplus, gave Florida Concealed-Carry, state wide school choice, and defunded Planned Parenthood. Bush was a national leader in education reform with high standards, defended Elian Gonzalez, stood up for Terri Schiavo, despises Castro’s Cuba, and won the Hispanic vote. That RINO!
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If you don’t like Bush look at Scott Walker, who as Wisconsin’s Governor turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a surplus, has cut income and property taxes, all while staring down the all out assault launched by public sector unions. Walker has also delivered on Concealed-Carry, defunding Planned Parenthood, and expanding school choice. While Bush and Walker are the two most accomplished conservatives running, some of the less conservative, but still effective Republican leaders running include, Ohio Governor John Kasich, who balanced the federal budget while serving in Congress, Carly Fiorina a successful businesswoman who ran Hewlett Packard, Chris Christie who governed a blue state, and Rick Perry who lead America’s strongest economy as Texas Governor. We conservatives don’t have to settle for Donald Trump. Yes, he’s an entertain-
ing blowhard, much like Ted Cruz is, but we have the chance to select a conservative with a strong record of accomplishment, a conservative who’ll have a strong chance of winning in 2016. Let’s not blow this by selecting a chauvinist clown riding a tidal wave of disconnect. Let’s select a true conservative who’s shown they can accomplish conservative reforms and lead! Let’s select a conservative reformer with results. Let’s select Jeb Bush or Scott Walker. Rohn W.
Bishop is a monthly contributor to the Scene. Bishop, a former Waupun City Council member, and serves as Treasurer for the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County. Contact Rohn: rohnnyb@msn.com Twitter: @RohnWBishop
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Autumn
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BY ROB ZIMMER Add some new life to your yard, garden and landscape this fall by incorporating dramatic color, texture and more for an amazing autumn season. Look beyond the standard fall staples like mums and kale and include a variety of different and unusual plants to add spice to your landscape. Be sure to bring new life to fading summer containers by replacing spent annuals with flashy new fall bloomers. Looking for something different this year? Here are some of my choices for amazing autumn all-stars in the landscape.
Turtlehead
With their unusual, tubular blooms in pink or white, these long lasting, late blooming perennials attract migrating hummingbirds and monarchs. They
prefer part sun and moist soil.
Little Bluestem
My favorite of the native grasses, this compact, colorful and elegant variety shimmers in pink, silver, blue and red, changing to a fiery orange and gold later in fall. Grows 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide forming a nice, compact clump.
Witch Hazel
Our latest blooming wildflower, technically a shrub, witch hazel begins to bloom in mid October, lasting until early January, depending on temperature. Native witch hazel blooms in bright yellow, while garden varieties bloom in shades of red and orange.
Larches and Tamaracks
An excellent tree for color and texture in all seasons, tamaracks and larches are technically evergreens that shed their
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needles each fall. Before they do so, however, the needles transform into a brilliant, fiery gold. There are many varieties to choose from including weeping larches, conical forms and asymmetrical forms. There are even dwarf tamaracks and larches for large containers.
including pink, white and shades of red.
Look for autumn crocus bulbs on sale after Labor Day. Plant the large bulbs with their necks at the surface and enjoy their spectacular blooms just a few weeks later. These bulbs naturalize easily in the garden, meaning more blooms year after year.
Colorful, flamboyant and available in a wide variety of colors, zinnias are classic autumn bloomers that attract migrating monarchs and other late season butterflies.
Autumn Crocus
Hardy Hibiscus
One of the most dramatic flowers for the garden, blooms on hardy hibiscus plants may reach 10 inches across or more. Available in a variety of colors
Blue Lobelia
Often overlooked in place of its flashier cousin, cardinal flower, great blue lobelia is equally stunning in cobalt blue. Flowering spikes me a reach 3 to 4 feet in height and bloom begins in late August.
Zinnias
Cannas
Just as flashy in foliage as in flower, cannas spend the entire summer season reaching for the sky before putting on their best show in fall.
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ENTERTAINMENT // KAT REINHERT
Kat Reinhert
“Sparks” a New Album
BY GEORGE HALAS In addition to all the great original music being generated locally, Wisconsin is also in the business of exporting extraordinary talent to other parts of the country and the world. A splendid example is singer-songwriter-composer Kat Reinert, whose new album, “Spark” was released on August 21st. Growing up in Milton, Wisconsin, Reinhert – then Kat Berentsen – began her pursuit of her musical muse at Lawrence University, where she studied with Ken Shaphorst and voice teacher Patrice Michaels-Bedi. “I loved Lawrence,” Reinhert said. “It was an amazing experience and it was invaluable to my growth as a musician. I found my voice.” “I love Appleton. It’s such a beautiful place,” she continued. “I still keep in touch with the people from Lawrence.” After two years at LU, she faced a difficult decision. “As a singer, I needed more technical education than Lawrence could provide at the time,” she said. “I had to leave this wonderful college and small town for a conservatory
in scary New York City.” She enrolled at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where one of her classmates and friends was internationallyacclaimed jazz vocalist Jane Monheit. She earned a master’s degree in Jazz Pedagogy in 2007 at The University of Miami where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Education, specializing in Popular Music Education. “Spark” is a very strong, consistent tour de force that contains 12 Reinhert originals and an engaging cover of Rush’s “Limelight.” “I’m very proud of this album,” she said, “not only because of the content and the themes it explores, but also because of the music and the arrangements that the musicians helped to create and shape as we’ve played together for the last four years. This is the kind of album I’ve always wanted to make.” “It’s my originals as I envisioned them,” Kat said. “We recorded in this old school studio where I’ve always wanted to record; they have Coltrane’s mike and a grand piano from Carnegie Hall. I hired a producer – pianist David Cook – I had not done that before. I also hired a publicist, because I want to be honest about what I’m doing. This does not fit into jazz or any other genre – and that’s okay. It’s
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me celebrating music and allowing the musicians to be who they are. I’m fulfilling the dream of a 19 year-old kid.” The new CD is the culmination of “six or seven” years of her exploration of songwriting. “Over that time, I concentrated on lyrics,” she said. “I want to write lyrics that not only help me but perhaps others who are dealing with things that they cannot talk about. When you go through the jazz vocal programs, at both the undergrad and grad level, there is no emphasis on songwriting. You study the great songs but they don’t tell you how they were written or how they were created.” There were two years in between that she wasn’t living in New York. “I used the time like a workshop,” Kat said “to get better at the things I wanted to get better at. I had something deep to say that I wasn’t finding in the standards.” A growing trust of the players in the band led to a more team-oriented approach when it came to the arrangements. “They trust you as a person and as a musician and I trust them,” she said, “and that enables me to bring in something that isn’t quite finished and ask ‘what do you think?’” The title tune addresses the same values in a relationship, as she writes, “at last I trusted, at last I listened, at last I found you were here for me.” Much of the lyrical content deals with the kind of heartbreak and insight that comes after years of experience. “Divorce does really interesting things to you, like any life-changing loss,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to look inside yourself and be honest.” “Prison” includes the line, “you’ve got to kick the ball and chain of shame to the curb,”
while the opening cut, “Walk Into The Rain,” includes “we’ve said goodbye so I know that I’ve just got to walk into the rain…so that we can be free to love.” Reinhert is at perhaps her deepest and most reflective on “Without A Fight,” where she speaks of “sitting naked in your living room and you pray for the courage to move.” “I was very angry when I wrote that song, so it was actually pretty easy to write,” she said. “It is awesome as a songwriter to have a song that has double and triple meanings for people.” There is plenty of positive, upbeat emotion available in songs like “My Arms,” “Little Compartments,” and “Naked,” an interesting exercise in self-exploration of the “palladium mystery” of her “secret disguise” and her request for “silk sheets, if you please.” An off-the-cuff suggestion and a Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert led her to cover Rush’s Limelight.” “It deals with what you do after you succeed or fail. You go back to work,” she said. “You do not compete with your success or failure.” The album features outstanding playing – Reinhert gives her band plenty of room to stretch out, develop themes and have fun – from Cook on piano/keyboards, guitarist Perry Smith, bassist Sam Minale and drummer Ross Pederson. Cellist Jody Redhage adds just the right touch on “Prison” and “Paper Bag.” The entire ensemble seems to be on the same page with the mantra that is prominently featured on Reinhert’s refrigerator: “I will dare greatly to create a life that’s filled with love, gratitude and music so that I can help others to find their voices with the gifts that I share.” “Spark” can be purchased at katreinhert.com – she is also on Face Book, Instagram and Twitter.
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ENTERTAINMENT // THE SPANISH INQUISITION
New Focus on N.E.W. Music BY GEORGE HALAS From its humble beginnings, The Inquisition strives to discover and reveal the hidden gems in the music and art of The Fox Cities. One of the most important revelations was simply the enormous quantity and quality of original music of all types emanating from artists and bands based from Fond du Lac to Green Bay. The Inquisition leads by example, of course, and, with trademark humility, refuses to accept credit for anything other than a minor role in the growing megatrend generating momentum towards turning all of Northeast Wisconsin into a music and arts “destination.” One need look no further than the impressive success of Mile of Music and the growing emphasis on original music included on the playlists at 91.1 The Avenue, just two of a rapidly-developing number of examples. Marc Golde, a musician-composerarranger-producer and owner of Rock Garden Studios, has not only been in an excellent position to observe the growth of local original music, he’s played a key role in its development. It’s something about which he is very passionate. Golde left a management job in 2002 to start Rock Garden. “It was just a dream I had of having a great studio and producing awesome records,” he said. “I found a way to get it done.” Rock Garden achieved the goals of a five-year success plan in three and has been expanding ever since. While it is one of the favorite studios for musicians, a significant portion of the business is corporate video. “In 2002, there were not as many (local) gigs. There were only two festivals, Celebrate and Octoberfest. You had to travel. Now there is a festival in every town,” he said. “There have always been great artists and great bands, but the opportunities to see and hear them were fewer and farther between.” As the local music scene expanded, Golde’s passion turned into a mission. “I want to make the Fox Valley undeni-
ably important in the national scene,” he said, “and I’d like to see some local artists break out of the Fox Valley. I want to play a part in those artists gaining much larger national exposure.” While the Mile of Music has been one of the catalysts, the major impetus for the growth of local original music is the musicians themselves. “There have been enough artists who have stuck to their guns and done their own thing,” he noted, “that the gates had to open.” While the music is local, the reasons that many musicians and bands fail are global in nature. “You have to have something unique to offer,” Golde said. “Many artists make the mistake of following trends or thinking that there is a ‘Nashville formula,’ but the key is to be themselves. Many of the artists creating original music are not good at promoting themselves, nor do they have agents and management to shop their records. They are not looking at it as a business and at themselves as entertainers. Art and commerce are like oil and water. The music is yours to do whatever you want with, as long as you sell it.” Golde says you cannot be introverted. “You have to deliver your songs and the band to the audience,” he continued. “The music can be heartfelt art, but you still have to see it as ‘product.’ If you want to make money, you have to deliver.” W h i l e t h e Fo x Valley does not have the industry infrastructure of Chicago, New York, L.A., Nashville and other major cities, Golde points out that “Corey Chisel has shown people in this
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area that you can do bigger and better.” Golde is not just a dreamer, he has plans. “I’d like to see an organization and an outlet that offers artists hope,” he said, “and that can happen on the business side. We need to build some bridges to larger companies like record labels and radio stations that can help the artists gain greater exposure. I’ve been waiting for 20 years for someone else to do this, but I believe I have to get involved in connecting the artists with these companies.” Golde is thinking, hoping and dreaming big. “I’d like the Fox Valley to be like Motown in the ‘60’s or Seattle in the ‘90’s,” he said. “I’d like to make it so undeniably cool that it has to be recognized nationally and internationally. We have the talent but we need to start developing it earlier. It takes time to grow, but we are already starting to see it happen. I’m very excited for the next 10 years, things are going to get really good around here…and you can put money on that.” One of the more intimate venues
that has been a strong supporter of local music and musicians is The St. James Lounge in the Town of Menasha, more commonly referred to as “Michelle’s.” Among the many outstanding artists who have appeared at the St. James are Janet Planet, John Harmon, Antonio Wigley, Jim Rosetti, Erin Krebs and Jeff Johnston, KWT and The Bob Levy Little Big Band. The bad news is that the current location is being torn down; the great news is that owner-manager-bartender Michelle Kersten is moving to a somewhat larger location just 500 feet or so north. While the new location will retain the same, comfortable but classy intimacy and ambience, the stage will be larger and the room will feature a better acoustic set-up and design. Kersten plans to stay open in the current location until September 12th and expects to open in the new location on Tuesday, September 29th with a Grand Opening Celebration slated for early October with some very special musical guests. The current hours, Tuesday-Friday, 4:00 p.m.to close and Saturday, 5:00 p.m. until close, will remain the same.
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ENTERTAINMENT // POSTCARD FROM MILWAUKEE
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His resume includes Encyclopedia Walking – Pop Culture & the Alchemy of Rock ‘n’ Roll, a book that collects his writings from the weekly San Diego Reader, Ugly Things magazine, The San Diego Troubadour, and his own blog site. Kanis is or has been a recording artist
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(All American Mongrel Boy – a collection that veers from Beatle-esque to the DIY of “Where is Joe Strummer When you Need Him?”), collaborator, tour manager, radio deejay and producer (State Controlled Radio) and Grammy nominated video archivist (The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Volume One). While that may seem like a long list, the shorthand version is that Kanis is a wonderful chronicler of the human condition. In the mid-eighties he met the man who would become something of his mentor. Paul Williams founded Crawdaddy! magazine in 1966 and it is recognized as the first publication to take rock and roll music and its culture seriously. Williams was ground zero, writing thoughtfully about Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys’ masterpiece LP “Smile,” while most other publications
focused on teen heartthrobs. Williams also served as literary executor for Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Kanis met Williams on the eve of a Bob Dylan tour, trading tickets for California shows. And it is Williams’ compassionate searching that often surfaces in Kanis’s articles. Williams died in 2013. The centerpiece of the Encyclopedia Walking is Check Your Ego at the Door: Transformation and Rejuvenation at Steel Bridge Song Fest, Kanis’ journal recounting the 2013 songwriting workshop held annually in Sturgeon Bay. He takes the reader through a cross-country journey into the process of blind-date songwriting collaborations, insane logistics, and sunrise jam sessions. Ultimately, he leaves with a handful of co-written songs, and friendships that he continues to nurture.
While many of his articles delve into worthwhile analysis from Big Star to the Monkee’s movie Head, to an obscure 1973 New York public television series called SOUL!, the Steel Bridge chronicle serves as a bookend to the chapter titled 1992, where Kanis stands on the edge of his feather and dives in. He transforms his life; trial by fire as a vagabond musician traveling Europe, and then returning to the states to serve as Peter Case’s guerilla tour manager (and sometimes opening act). His depictions of challenges, stress and the payoff off realizing he made the correct choice is a lesson many young people may find valuable. Kanis ends with “I didn’t know what the future held or if I even had a future.” Just check his vast reservoir of work and decide for yourself.
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ENTERTAINMENT // CONCERT WATCH
Los Lonely Boys BY JANE SPIETZ WHAT: Los Lonely Boys WHERE: Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake WI WHEN: Thurs., October 1, 2015 7:30pm COST: $44 INFO: www.thrasheroperahouse.com www.thrasheroperahouse.com/ Dynamic rock/brown-eyed soul/blues band Los Lonely Boys is made up of the brothers Garza: Henry (guitar/vocals), Jojo (bass/vocals), and Ringo (drums/vocals). The band describes their sound as “Texican Rock ‘n’ Roll.” They are best known for their #1, Grammy-winning hit, “Heaven.” Originally from San Angelo, Texas, their music is deeply rooted in family ties. Their father, Ringo Garza, Sr., also played in a sibling band, The Falcones. Ringo, Sr. then went solo and brought along his sons as backing members. The boys left the nest to form their own group and recorded their self-titled debut album at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales studio in Austin in 2004, on which Willie played. Los Lonely Boys was first released on the small Or Music label, but Epic Records picked it up in 2004. The popularity of the group skyrocketed and their single, “Heaven,” went to #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart and won a Grammy in 2005 by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Best Pop Performance. Los Lonely Boys ended up going double platinum. Los Lonely Boys’ latest release, Revelation (2014) came out a little less than a year after Henry Garza was seriously injured from a fall from a stage. After a long recuperation period, he is thankfully back to playing music. The band strives to put out music that unites listeners. “We want to make music that brings people together, not music that divides people,” Jojo states. “We’re all about having a good time, but we also make an effort to write about things that really matter.” I must confess that I am a huge fan of Los Lonely Boys. This powerhouse triumvirate with its rich, effortless harmonies is a
pleasure to listen to. I caught up with Jojo Garza when he was in California recently. Jane Spietz: You refer to your musical style as “Texican Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Jojo Garza: Music has been a major part of our lives forever and so we were exposed to many different artists, styles, genres, instruments and many other things music related. Because of this we were able to learn that the art of music wasn’t something we could make new, but rather that we could create something new with what already existed from the art of music. Basically what I mean is we learned from the teachers and musicians before us. First our father. He was the biggest influence. Songs he wrote along with his personal favorites were what we were fed. Then we started to do our own searching musically and found many other influences along the way. All those ideas, and melodies and rhythms and sounds and artists are the base or platform of what we build musically. There’s nothing new about music. I guess you could say the hammer, nails and building materials were already here...it’s what we do with those things that make what we build ours. We call it Texican rock n roll because they asked us to define ourselves as a genre... we said, well if there isn’t a genre called “Music” then we will just make up our own.
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JS: It sounds as though your father, Ringo Garza, Sr., impacted the band greatly from early on. Did you perform
with him? JG: He’s the biggest influence. Our father is the original Lonely Boy. He had his dreams and aspirations as to what we would become. The first Mexican American family country band. That’s where we got all our practice. JS: Where did the inspiration for your #1 single, “Heaven,” come from? JG: The inspiration came from personal life experiences. Henry came up with the idea from what was at first a prayer. If you listen to the lyrics, you can understand where the inspiration comes from. The idea that we all have faith and hope, believing there’s a better place with better days, every day. JS: Los Lonely Boys won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Heaven” in 2005. What did that mean for the band? JG: First it was unbelievable, and then Continue on Page R24
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we remembered that our band name was the one they called out. Ha ha! We really never played for the idea of winning anything, but it’s such a great honor and it means a lot to us to be noticed by many others for what we always loved to do. JS: Having your debut album, Los Lonely Boys, go double platinum was quite an accomplishment. JG: When we started selling our album, it was obvious that the music did all the talking. It sold itself and began to grab the attention of many show goers. I guess word got around and we were approached by some cats from Epic Records. The idea of selling millions of records was not something we even knew about. When they gave us our platinum records we asked, ‘where’s the gold ones?’ They said, ‘these are way better than those.’ We were pretty surprised and it was another great moment. JS: Talk about your collaboration with Carlos Santana. JG: Working with Carlos was a dream come true for all of us. What he gave to music was always influential as well as inspirational to us. We are just so thankful
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to God for all the blessings we have received and continue to receive. JS: Los Lonely Boys covered John Lennon’s “ W h a t e v e r G e t s Yo u Through the Night” at Amnesty International’s Make Some Noise Project in 2007. Interestingly, that song was Lennon’s only U.S. #1 single while he was alive. JG: It was great being a part of it all. We wanted to record “Imagine,” but so did everybody, ha! So we came to the decision to record that tune and it came out pretty cool. JS: Your 2009 EP, 1969, celebrated some of the great music from that year. What thoughts went into the selection of the songs you covered for that? JG: Those were just a few songs we chose to put out as some of our favorites. We were paying homage to the 40 year anniversary of music from that era. JS: In 2011, Los Lonely Boys released Rockpango, which in Spanglish
means “rock party.” Describe how the music of Rockpango is representative of a “rock party.” JG: All our albums are like that really. We always try to give something to the people that flows. If you listen to music at a party, the music tries to please everyone with different styles and genres and so on. Not being big fans of limiting ourselves to styles or musical solidification, we always try to put something out that can keep you listening to the same band without noticing. That’s the idea behind the title. JS: You followed a new creative path on your latest album, Revelation (2014). Describe the musical stylings you explored for this. JG: Revelation is an updated version of how we approach our albums. Working with different artists and writers and producers, combined with what we do was an idea we all liked. There is an evident progression you can not only hear but feel. We’ve never been big fans of studio albums, we are a live band, but we really feel we captured something familiar but fresh. Something old but new. A true expression of being part of the change of something that already exists. A musical shift, or Revelation, if you will. JS: I am incredibly excited that Los Lonely Boys will be performing at the historic Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake WI on October 1st. JG: Everyone can expect a good time! Plain and simple. People can expect to see a band...that plays real instruments. We also sing and play every note heard. It’s all organic. You can feed your musical hunger with processed and overproduced so- called music, or you can come get some of the good stuff at a Los Lonely Boys concert.
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Saturday, November 14 | $26 | 7:30 p.m. Tom Chapin | With three GRAMMY awards & 23 albums, Chapin’s also acted on Broadway, in films and on television.
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Riders in the Sky&
“The Cowboy Way” BY JAMIE LEE RAKE “It’s just doing the right thing...not taking the easy way.” That’s a succinct description of The Cowboy Way delivered by Doug Green, better known as Ranger Doug, “the idol of American youth” whose serene baritone and acoustic guitar lead family-friendly, comedic Western music band Riders In The Sky, who are set to play Waupun’s historic City Hall at 201 E. Main St. 7 PM, Friday October 9. Not many groups, much less ones so long-lived and renowned as the Riders, promote an ethical
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code to inspire their young fans. Seeing a band with such an investment in their passion should be a draw for some already. That code also slyly acknowledges the straightshooting behavior of that nearly lost genre of movie, and singing star Riders and other acts who recall the time when “a Western” was once a common addition to country music’s description: the singing cowboy. “We all grew up in the ‘50s when cowboys were still on TV. That’s part of it,” Green says of some of the inspiration for the combo he assembled with fiddler Paul “Woody Paul” Chrisman, generously Continue on Page R28
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ENTERTAINMENT // RIDERS IN THE SKY
Continued from Page R26 mustached upright bass player and wearer of cactus neckties (or cac-ties,” get it?) Fred “Too Slim”LaBour, and accordion master Joey “The Cowpolka King” Miskulin. Alongside Western dramas like Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Have Gun-Will Travel, TV stations’ schedules in the Eisenhower
secured them, among other things, several years of Riders Radio Theater on public radio stations, an early ‘90s live action Saturday morning kids show on CBS, frequent appearances on WSM-AM ‘s famed Grand Ole Opry in their home base of Nashville, and arguably their most enduring insinuation into pop culture,
nizers The Sons Of The Pioneers (of which Rogers was once a member) at the fest led to memories of his childhood in front of the cathode ray tube watching his Western heroes. And then... “I tried to get some guys together for
what would become Riders In The Sky,” Green said “and when we found the right ones...initially just Woody and Slim, it was magic from there on.” But can magic going on four decades
era were apt to fill weekend afternoons with movies starring upright, guitar-strumming adventurers of the open plains including Gene Autry, Rex Allen and the man to whom the Riders pay tribute on their latest album, Roy Rogers. Western movies, and serenading heroes in them haven’t been in vogue for quite a while, but that hasn’t deterred the Riders’ ongoing popularity and objectives. “Our mission is twofold,” Green explains in the same sort of cucumber cool, beatific tone he possesses when he’s in character, “One, to entertain, to make people happy. Two, to preserve this beautiful style of music.” He avers that what they do, many never get into commercial radio rotation, but neither are Florida-Georgia Line nor Dan Shay apt to ever perform harmonies so sweet as Green and his cohorts. Niche entity though they may be, the guys’ profile has remained pretty high for much of their 36 years together. It has
as a presence in Disney productions. “That really had nothing to do with us,” Green explains of his group’s initial association with the House Of Mouse in Pixar’s Toy Story 2. “One of the producers happened to be a fan,” and hooked them up with songs Randy Newman wrote for the CGI blockbuster. “We have a good relationship with Disney,” Green says, and it’s landed him and his mates in cell animation TV productions like Darkwing Duck and pre-schooler favorite Stanley. Lest anyone think the Riders are playing strictly to the ankle-biter set, the fun they’re having is steeped in deeper matters. In fact, Green could have been the next Studs Terkel. “I had a job in oral history,” Green says of his work before donning his ranger hat. That gig led him to a festival of Western swing music, a genre in which he remains involved by way of his side band, The Time Jumpers. Hearing famed cowboy harmo-
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stay fresh? The good ranger insists that’s the case. “Being creative every night with three other really creative guys,” Greed said “remains an incentive to stay on stage for over 175 dates a year. But so does the kick of throwing each other off their game. We like to crack each other up.” There’s no conflict between being a hoot and keeping an artistic tradition alive. “The music still hasn’t lost its magic.” Green likes the reception they get for it in Midwestern cities like Waupun, too. “People up there have this wonderful sense of humor,” Green said “and enjoy having fun and laughing. Out East, it’s like folklore, you have to explain. In the Midwest, it’s entertainment, and people still have a huge appreciation of acoustic music.” Visit cityhallstage.com to order tickets online.
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ENTERTAINMENT // LATINO FEST
Latino Fest Celebration Debuts BY GEORGE HALAS The first ever Latino Fest Celebration in Appleton will be held on Sunday, September 13th, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Pierce Park, 1035 West Prospect. Admission is free and the event will go on rain or shine. The event helps kick off National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) and is designed to help recognize the contributions made and the important presence of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States as well as celebrating the heritage and culture. Hispanic Heritage Month was created in 1968 and is a salute to the anniversary of the independence of Guatemala,
Vanden Avond and Carlos Mendez. “Salsa Manzana’s music is not only the heartbeat of Latin America, it is full of joy and you hear it all over the world,” said Appleton-based jazz vocalist Gwen Carr. “Their rapport with each other creates an energy that truly engages the crowd. People don’t just sit and listen, they dance. When they dance, the band gets even better.” She added, “They are just plain, flat out, pedal to the metal fun.” “The Latino Fest Celebration is something that is long overdue in Appleton,” said Carlos Mendez. “We are very excited about playing. We are very lucky to live in an area where there are so many festivals around like Waterfest, Neenah Concert series, Mile of Music and so many other
Salsa Manzana’s music is not only the heartbeat of Latin America, it is full of joy and you hear it all over the world Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Costa Rica; Mexico, Belize and Chile also celebrate independence days during the month. While some of the activities will have an educational aspect, there will be music, dancing, games, food, a jalapeno-eating contest and a children’s area. The music/dance lineup is strong, headed by highly-regarded Salsa Manzana and mariachi singer Jose Luis Vargas as well as DJ spins from Henry Garza, who will also serve as master of ceremonies. The dance lineup is also excellent with the Aztec Dancers and Zumba with Jackie Brown. Salsa Manzana features some of the finest musicians in the area including Jose Encarnacion, Noah Harmon, Andy Mertens, John Daniel, Vicki Daniel, Julio Reyes, Mark Te Tai, Matt Granatella, Marisol Encarnacion, Andy Plank, Tom
great venues for summer fun for everyone to enjoy. The Fox Valley is, without a doubt, growing and expanding and bringing more cultural events . We live in a beautiful community and is still a fun place to raise a family.” While the emphasis is on fun and education, there are higher purposes in play as well. A merger of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce with Casa Hispana, Inc. will create synergies that result in even greater benefits to the community. Casa Hispana is an organization that provides scholarships to Hispanic students seeking higher education. The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is a multi-faceted entity that engages in advocacy and serves as a referral agency for the unemployed and underserved as well as running job training programs in conjunctin with Fox Valley Technical College. They also assist new arrivals and others who are unfamiliar with
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“the system.” “The merger of Casa Hispana with Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will g i ve u s m o re infrastructure and greater visibility in the community,” said Ernesto Gonzalez, who is the president of the board of directors Here is our line up Front Row left to Right Vicky Daniel ,Julio Reyes, Carlos at Casa Hispana Mendez, Mark Te Tai,Marisol Encarnacion , Jose Encarnacion Back Row as well as the Left to Right John Daniel , Andy Mertens, Andy Plank Noah Harmon, Tom Vanden Avond Matt Granatella assistant to the associate director of the Chamber. “The cooperative action There will be fund-raising activities and created by the merger will enable us to other opportunities to contribute. provide more scholarships and education.”
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CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC
SEPTEMBER 2015
LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR September 1 REVEREND RAVEN PULLMAN’S Appleton 6PM September 3 VIC FERRARI CENTRAL WISCONSIN STATE FAIR MARSHFIELD JOHNNY WAD KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 2:30PM MIXTAPE MILLER LITE GATE-LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 2PM COOKEE & DENNIS PROVISOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR SHEBOYGAN 6PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR- LEINIE LODGE PLYMOUTH 7PM HAPPY HOUR HEROES THE BAR IN LYNNDALE APPLETON 7PM WAYNE NEUMANN WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 4 BIG AND TALL ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM BRIAN JAMES ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM DAN TULSA DOCKSIDE TAVERN OSHKOSH 6PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC GIBRALTAR GRILL FISH CREEK 7:30PM BOXKAR MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8PM September 5 THE BOMB BOB AND JONIS NORTHERN LIGHTS WHITE LAKE 9:30PM BAD HABITZ CALUMET COUNTY FAIR CHILTON 4PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS CLEARWATER HARBOR WAUPACA 9:30PM VIC FERRARI CRANDON INT’L OFFROAD SPEEDWAY CRANDON 8:30PM TAYLOR JAY DOCKSIDE TAVERN OSHKOSH 6PM CHAD DEMEUSE DUO EDGE OF DELLS RESORT WISCONSIN DELLS 10PM THE COUGARS
FARMER GENES CAMPGROUND MARION 9PM STAR SIXTY NINE GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 8PM BRUCE KOESTNER HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7PM BOXKAR MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE MILWAUKEE RALLY-HARLEY DAVIDSON MILWAUKEE 4:45PM RABID AARDVARKS MOLE LAKE CASINO CRANDON 9PM THE PRESIDENTS PACK EM INN CRANDON 8PM R P M RED GRANITE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK RED GRANITE 6:00PM HYDE SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM HALF EMPTY SKINNY DAVE’S MOUNTAIN 9:30PM UNITY THE BAND STONE HARBOR STURGEON BAY 3PM DAN TULSA DUO TEDS GRANDVIEW FREMONT 1PM
BOXKAR MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8PM THE COUGARS SAND BOX GREEN BAY 6PM JOHNNY WAD SHAWANO COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS SHAWANO 8PM JERRY & NORA DUO SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR SHEBOYGAN 6:30PM STAR SIXTY NINE VILLAGE PARK BIG FALLS 7PM RED CLOVER VILLAGE PARK BIG FALLS 1:30PM
September 6 GRAND UNION BARZOS FREMONT 8:00PM ROAD TRIP CALUMET COUNTY FAIR CHILTON 8:30PM VIC FERRARI CALUMET COUNTY FAIR CHILTON 4PM R2 CLEARWATER HARBOR WAUPACA 3PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE CLEARWATER HARBOR WAUPACA 9:30PM HAPPY HOUR HEROES DOCKSIDE TAVERN OSHKOSH 6PM R P M FIN AND FEATHER WINNECONNE 6PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS FOX HARBOR PUB & GRILL GREEN BAY 6PM NASHVILLE PIPELINE GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 8PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC GIBRALTAR GRILL FISH CREEK 12PM
September 10 HAPPY HOUR HEROES PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 6PM JIM COUNTER WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM
September 7 TRAVIS LEE DUO GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 4PM BEAKER STREET LABOR FESTIVAL NEENAH 2PM VIC FERRARI SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR SHEBOYGAN 1:00 AM MIXTAPE TEDS GRANDVIEW FREMONT 1PM September 9 DIAMOND AND STEEL SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 5:30PM
September 11 BRIAN JAMES ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM STAGE HOGGS ACOUSTIC ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM HITS CIMARRON MENASHA 9PM VIC FERRARI KPAL OKTOBERFEST SHEBOYGAN FALLS 8:30PM SPIN NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8PM SONIC CIRCUS SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM 6 FIGURES SEAFOOD FEST MENASHA 4:15PM RPM
SEAFOOD FEST MENASHA 7PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ST. GREGORY CHURCH MILWAUKEE 8PM September 12 ADAMS WAY 10TH FRAME APPLETON 9PM FIGURES BOOM BAY BAR & GRILL LARSEN 6PM WILDSIDE CHESTERS APPLETON 9PM FOLLOW SUIT Fountain Tavern OSHKOSH 6PM BILL STEINERT HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7PM SPIN NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8PM THE COUGARS RIVER ISLAND GOLF COURSE OCONTO FALLS 7PM DAPHNI SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM BOOGIE & YO YO’Z SEAFOOD FEST MENASHA 7PM REPLICA SILVER SPRINGS CAMPGROUND RIO 8:30PM CRANKIN YANKEES SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM VIC FERRARI ST. MARY’S GREENVILLE BAD HABITZ STARLITE CLUB KAUKAUNA 8PM JOHNNY WAD TIMELINE SALOON BONDUEL 4:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL GREEN BAY 5PM JAKE WARNE WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 13 THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 3PM REVEREND RAVEN SMILING MOOSE NEW HOLSTEIN 4PM September 16 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 5:30PM September 17 MIXTAPE PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE
6PM
September 18 HITS AL RINGLING THEATER BARABOO 7AM TED EGGE ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM DOUBLE DOWN ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM September 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R31
CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE BONNIE AND CLYDES CAMPGROUND HARSHAW 1PM DAN TULSA TRIO EDGE OF DELLS RESORT WISCONSIN DELLS 8PM TONY ROCKER ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE PIKS PUB TOMAHAWK 8PM GRAND UNION ROCKY AND TARAS NUTHOUSE KAUKAUNA 9PM RABID AARDVARKS TOMAHAWK FALL RIDECOCKTAILS BAR & GRILL TOMAHAWK 7PM STAGE HOGGS ACOUSTIC WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 19 HYDE CAPITOL CENTRE APPLETON 9PM JOHNNY WAD CAPTAINS COVE GRESHAM 7PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE CHAMBERS HILL BAR AND GRILL SUAMICO 8PM THE BOMB City Inn BERLIN 9:30PM
SPITFIRE RODEO DAISYS WESTERN SALOON OSHKOSH 9PM FIGURES EDGE OF DELLS RESORT WISCONSIN DELLS 10PM WILDSIDE HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30PM FRAN STEENO HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7PM THE COUGARS IRON BUFFALO BAR 12PM TONY ROCKER ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9PM R2 JET AIR HANGER- AUSTIN STRAUBEL GREEN BAY 4PM ASK YOUR MOTHER KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM HALF EMPTY LEAP INN FREEDOM 10PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30PM THE PRESIDENTS MOLE LAKE CASINO CRANDON 9PM SONIC CIRCUS OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9PM BOURBON COWBOYS PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM
CRANKIN YANKEES SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM DAPHNI SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM BIG MOUTH ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 10AM BOOGIE & THE YO-YOZ ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 12:30PM RED CLOVER ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 3PM SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 12PM BAD HABITZ THE SHACK FOND DU LAC 9PM THE COUGARS WATERING HOLE GREEN BAY 9PM HURRY UP WAIT WILD HORSE SALOON WISCONSIN RAPIDS 7PM September 20 RPM KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 3PM DOUBLE DOWN MILLER LITE GATE-LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 3:30PM JOHNNY WAD SANDLOT ENTERTAINMENT
8/1
@ 9am Appleton Farmers Market, Appleton, WI
8/16
@ 5pm Bazils (outside), Appleton, WI
8/1
@ 7pm Spat’s, Appleton, WI
8/21
8/5
@ 7pm D2’s Sports Pub (outside), Appleton, WI
@ 8pm Fox River House, Appleton, WI
8/23
@ 4pm Game Day Sports Bar (Outside), Appleton, WI
GREEN BAY 3PM DIAMOND AND STEEL SANDLOT ENTERTAINMENT GREEN BAY 3PM STAR SIXTY NINE TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONELAMBEAU GREEN BAY 3:30PM September 22 REDFISH REMIX WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 23 THE COUGARS SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 5:30PM September 24 DAN TULSA DUO PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 6PM September 25 WAYNE NEUMANN ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM TED EGGE ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM THE PRESIDENTS JIMMY SEAS GREEN BAY 9PM KITTY CORONA LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9PM THE COUGARS OCTOBERFEST- LORELEI INN
GREEN BAY 5PM STAR SIXTY NINE PRESSBOX FOND DU LAC 7PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ROOKIES STEVENS POINT 9PM GRAND UNION SANDLOT ENTERTAINMENT GREEN BAY 8PM September 26 ASK YOUR MOTHER BACKSTAGE BAR FOND DU LAC 9PM DAVE OLSEN BAND BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE DÉJÀ VU APPLETON 9PM THE COUGARS FALLFEST- CHERRY ST. PARKING LOT GREEN BAY 10:30AM BAZOOKA JOE FAT JOES FOND DU LAC 9:30PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 8PM BAD HABITZ HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30PM KITTY CORONA LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE OCTOBERFEST
APPLETON 1PM GRAND UNION OCTOBERFEST- Y100 COUNTRY STAGE APPLETON 1PM HALF EMPTY OUTPOST SHERWOOD 9:30PM SPITFIRE RODEO SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM HITS SILVER CRYST WAUTOMA 8PM DOUBLE DOWN WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 27 THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 3PM ALEX WILSON BAND THE HILL OMRO 2PM September 28 THE COUGARS KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 3PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE STADIUM VIEW GREEN BAY 3:15PM RPM TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONELAMBEAU GREEN BAY 3:30PM
august schedule
8/6-9
Mile of Music, Appleton, WI
8/15
@ 9am Appleton Farmers Market, Appleton, WI
8/28
@ 7:30pm Highcliff Bar, Sherwood, WI
August 1 @ 6pm & 1:30am Main St. Music Festival,
@ 1:30pm Waupaca City Center, Waupaca, WI
8/29
@ 12pm Stone Cellar (Outside) Appleton, WI
August 6 @ 8:30pm Durty Leprechaun
@ 9pm Deja Vu, Appleton, WI
8/30
8/15 8/15
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August 7 @ 12:30pm Dr. Jekyll’s 4:20PM Appleton Beer Factory 9:30PM Olde Town Tavern
@ 3pm Kamps Bar, Kimberly, WI
Appleton, WI
August 8 @ 1pm durty leprechaun 6:10pm stone cellar brewpub 10:40PM wooden Nickel Appleton, WI
August 9 @ 2:55pm Durty Leprechaun Appleton, WI
august 15 @ 9:30pm gasoline green bay, wi
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august 28 @ 7:30pm fox river house appleton, wi
new album out at one week records !
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available only at www.oneweekrecords.com and www.walthamburger.com Just $5! produced and recorded by joe cape of lagwagon #Superfamous #punkrocklegend #waltcrushwednesday
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ENTERTAINMENT // LEADING THE BLIND
Following ‘Leading the Blind’ BY JEAN DETJEN It was a privilege to converse recently with original music artists Eric Krueger and Marty Paschke from the Appleton-rooted rock band Leading the Blind (LTB). These inspiring local musicians shared a few things with SCENE about their passion for music making and the local community for which mutual love, respect, and appreciation abounds. The two close friends are in sync both artistically and beyond, exuding cohesive energy that’s undeniably contagious. Here’s a peek into their world: Jean: You’re both busy family guys. How do you carve out time for creating music? Eric & Marty: Having full time jobs, families, and multiple other bands and musical projects only allows time for an hour of practice a week, which makes writing challenging, but extremely rewarding due to the sense of urgency and focus that is laid out when we are in a room together writing and performing. Jean: What are your primary goals for the future where music is concerned? Eric & Marty: To write, record, play as often as possible. And repeat. Jean: What are your thoughts about the local music scene and community support received over the years? Eric & Marty: The impact of Mile of Music has been inspiring, there is so much local talent in the area. Seeing that mixed in with touring musicians coming through is very special, and we hope that energy continues to spread throughout the area, through the year. The void left from the closure of the Maritime Tavern and the passing of our dear pal Jon Weiss is immeasurable. We can only hope that more bars and coffee houses can take a page out of his playbook by hosting and supporting original music from near and far.
As far as exposure is concerned, our pal Kent Waush and his internet radio platform known as The Great Unknown Radio, along with Home Brewed on WAPL and the Local Edge on the Razor are absolutely wonderful, as they provide a vehicle for original music to be heard, which is a great thing... Hopefully it creates a vortex and demand for even more live music venues in the Fox Valley and beyond. Jean: Talk about your new album in the works. Eric & Marty: The new album reflects
in the day that asked for permission to record a BLIND show. Caught off guard, he declined due to the fact he was never asked such a thing before and was a young, relatively new performer. Years later, as fate would allow through multiple circumstances and mutual friends, they became close friends. This “crazy” fan is known as “Crazy” Todd Van Hammond — renowned local music enthusiast, audio recorder and videographer... and also now handles management duties for LTB.
the growth and cohesiveness of the current line-up, which has been intact for over 2 years now. There are elements of classic BLIND mixed with more progressive song structures, intricate rhythms and dynamic low end holding things together. Having worked with Marc Golde at Rock Garden Studio multiple times has also added a distinct flavor to the album. His ideas along with a beautiful room and a vintage board have truly left their impact on this batch of songs. Jean: Any funny or especially memorable fan stories you’re willing to share? Eric: Marty tells the story of running into a “crazy” fan at a show back
LEADING THE BLIND Band Members: MARTY PASCHKE ::: VOCALS/GUITAR ERIC KRUEGER ::: GUITAR/VOCALS DAVID KILEY ::: BASS MIKE ST. CLAIR ::: DRUMS Genre: Alternative Rock/Hard Rock BIO: The beginnings of LEADING THE BLIND can be traced back to the early 1990s, with Marty Paschke honing his playing and songwriting skills while cutting his teeth in Northeast Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley with the Crocodile Nasty’s. After the sudden end of TCN,
Marty then gave birth to the band BLIND in 1999, gigging across the region and recording a couple of albums to glowing reviews with Keif Shaw on drums and Jim Van Hout on bass. After the demise of BLIND in 2001, Marty continued writing songs, waiting for the right time and lineup to present itself... and present itself it did in 2008. Recruiting his former Blind bass player Top Jimmy and drummer Patrick Wydeven (Pawnshop Lifters, A-Town Unplugged), LEADING THE BLIND was born — reworking old Blind material while working on new ideas. Enter 2010, and the addition of Eric Krueger (Sunday Flood, Hallorann, Old Nails) on guitar and backing vocal duties. The writing process continued, and the band entered Rock Garden Studios to begin work on the debut album INTO THE MODERN WASTEL AND, with David Kiley (Sunday Flood, Old Nails) taking over bass duties during the recording process. ITMW was released on Record Store Day 2013 with a release show at the infamous Maritime Tavern in Appleton. Shortly after, drummer Mike St. Clair (Scarlet Escape) came into the fold, and a renewed focus took shape. Fast forward to 2015 — after numerous regional performances including 3 years in a row at Mile of Music, as well as Octoberfest in Appleton, the band is putting the final touches on the new album IN THROUGH THE RED DOOR (again with Marc Golde at Rock Garden Studio) with an October release to follow. More to come… Band links: http://www.leadingtheblindrock.com/ https://www.reverbnation.com/ltb93
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SEPTEMBER 2015 September 8 While the SCENE does everything to ensure the accuracy of its Events calendar, we also understand that some dates and times change. Please call ahead to confirm before traveling any distance.
Anime Night with Cosplay Contest Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm We will pick the best anime of the night to watch, followed by fun cosplay-related activities, including a cosplay fashion show. Registration is requested. 920-832-6177.
disaster in Neenah and Menasha’s history. For more info, call 920-729-0244 or visit http:// neenahlibrary.org or http://neenahhistoricalsociety.com.
September 10 Creative Writing at the Library
Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hours are 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Memory Loss Education Explore creative writing through a Every Thursday from 2:00 pm to College Ave. from 100W to 300E September 2 variety of exercises led by Sharrie Neuroscience Group 6:00 pm until October 29. 920From 8:00 am to 12:30 pm Midweek Farm Market 967-3600. Robinson. 920-832-6177. Outside on College Avenue from 1305 W. American Rd., Neenah Houdini Plaza 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Appleton St. to Drew St., plus Thursday Night at the September 4 101 W. College Ave., Appleton The Neuroscience Group will Houdini Plaza. 920-954-9112. Movies Hours 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm. present its memory loss education Live Music: John Appleton Public Library Fresh fruits and vegetables, exotic Saturday Morning series. Free. 920-729-7683. Lambert 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton meats and cheeses, breads and Board Gaming Copper Rock Coffee Show begins at 6:00 pm Good Time Old Time baked goods, specialty food and Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. 210 W. College Ave., Appleton Showing McFarland USA. RefreshMusic and Dancing handcrafted items, plus live music. (inside City Center Plaza), 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ments served. Free admission. American Legion 920-954-9112. suite 103, Appleton 920-832-6177. 536 W. Main St., Winneconne Come join us for gaming at Boardlandia Board September 3 Music begins at 7:00 pm. Boardlandia in the City Center Game Night MS Support Group Thursday Afternoon at Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. 920- 920-582-7782. The Neuroscience Group 415-2480. the Movies City Center Plaza), suite 103, 1305 W. American Rd., Neenah Sept. 8 – Oct. 13 Appleton Public Library Appleton 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Kaukauna Farm Market 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Game with us every Friday night Led by neurologist Dr. Susan Tarot 101 Near corner of Crooks Ave. and Showing Into the Woods. Show at Boardlandia in the City Center Hibbs. 920-725-9373. Angels Forever – Windows of Light, Second St. begins at 4:30 pm; free admission. from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm. We 310 W. College Ave., Appleton 7:30 am to 12:00 noon Refreshments served. have demo games for you to play, Menasha Farm Fresh 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm 920-832-6177. but feel free to bring your own Future Neenah Farmers This six-week series of workshops Market game. 920-415-2480. Market will give you the info you need Every Thursday from 2:00 pm Downtown Appleton Shattuck Park to start reading for yourself and to 6:00 pm until October 29. Brat & Burger Fry for Trolley 210 E. Wisconsin Ave., Neenah others. Registration required; $60 Downtown Menasha on Main Free trolley makes a complete loop our Troops and Vets 8:00 am to 12:00 noon per adult; 920-738-6636. Street, in front of Marina Terrace; of Downtown and the Riverfront Festival Foods 920-967-3600. every 30 minutes with scheduled 1200 W. Northland Ave., Appleton September 5-6 September 9 stops along the way. The trolley 11:00 am to 5:00 pm September 11 Fox Jazz Fest Midweek Farm Market is available July 1 to September Proceeds go to Operation Jefferson Park Houdini Plaza Boardlandia Board 26 on Thursdays and Fridays Homefront. 915 Third St., Menasha 101 W. College Ave., Appleton Game Night from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm or Saturday 12:00 noon to 10:00 pm, Hours 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm September 5 Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside Saturdays from 8:00 am to 11:00 Sunday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; Visit 920-954-9112. City Center Plaza), pm. For more info, visit http:// Outagamie County www.foxjazzfest.com for details. suite 103, Appleton appletondowntown.org/events/ Master Gardeners Non-Fiction Book free admission. 920-969-1063. Game with us every Friday night event-highlights/trolley. Seminar: Invasive Discussion at Boardlandia in the City Center September 6 Species Appleton Public Library Grandpa’s Grill Out from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm. We Appleton Public Library Thompson Community Center Winneconne Historical 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton have demo games for you to play, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 820 W. College Ave., Appleton Society Museum but feel free to bring your own 10:00 am to 11:30 am Group is discussing Bloody Lies by 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Winneconne Historical Museum game. 920-415-2480. Plants like garlic mustard and John Ferak. Newcomers always Offering brats, burgers, chicken Complex, Marble Park, W. Main buckthorn can do serious damage St., Winneconne welcome. 920-836-6177. September 12 breasts and veggie burgers. to our environment, and fall is 920-225-1700. 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm Artist-in-Residence Rail Disaster in the best time to control them. Tour a historic 1800s railroad Mixed Media Workshop Neenah! Menasha Farm Fresh 920-832-6177; www.apl.org. depot, one-room schoolhouse, Appleton Public Library Neenah Public Library Market turn-of-the-century country parlor, 240 E. Wisconsin Ave., Neenah Downtown Appleton 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Downtown Menasha on Main steamboat house and doll cottage. Dick Loehning will present this 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Farm Market Street, in front of Marina Terrace Free admission. 920-582-7643. Artist Rosa Jimenez helps you Downtown Appleton discussion on the greatest rail For inclusion in our calendar of events, please contact us
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CALENDAR // THE BIG EVENTS
explore paper patterns and mixed media. 920-832-6177.
3rd Annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb Lambeau Field 1265 Lombardi Ave., Green Bay Onsite registration at 8:00 am, opening ceremony at 9:00 am with the stair climb at 9:30 am. Support the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, hosted by Pierce Mfg. $35 per person, includes the official Stair Climb T-shirt. 920-832-3204.
Appleton Come join us for gaming at Boardlandia in the City Center from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Bring any games you’d like, or let us know your requests. 920-415-2480.
September 13 Gulfstream Day
The Building for Kids Children’s Museum, 100 W. College Ave., Appleton 12:00 noon until 5:00 pm Explore the art and science of Fox Valley Hemophilia jet aircraft with your children at Gulfstream Day. Visitors can Walk examine airplane parts, speak with Schildt Park Gulfstream employees, explore the 1780 Cold Spring Rd., Neenah updated permanent Gulfstream 9:00 am to 1:00 pm exhibit, attend a program to learn Raising funds and awareness for the bleeding disorders community. how planes fly, and enter to win a model airplane. Free admission. www.glhf.org. 920-734-3226.
painting, food and beverages. 920-734-4286.
will be spent learning about the history of the Green Bay Packers. 920-832-6177.
September 14
September 15
Book Babies Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 9:00 am to 9:45 am A lap-sit story time for babies not yet walking. Designed to stimulate baby’s senses and promote early literacy techniques. Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177.
Wonderful Ones Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hours 10:00 am to 10:45 am A 30-minute program with lap-sit time as well as opportunities to work on cognitive development and motor skills with children who are new walkers to age 23 months. Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177.
Boys & Girls Brigade Open House
Children’s Story & Activity Time Trout Museum of Art 111 W. College Ave., Appleton 10:00 am to 11:00 am Join us for a fun hour in the museum and hear an exciting story surrounded by Norman Rockwell’s iconic artwork. Free with museum admission.
Boys & Girls Brigade 109 W. Columbian Ave., Neenah 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Learn more about the Boys & Girls Brigade and get a tour during their open house. Free admission. Storybook Stars 920-725-3983. Presents: The Very
Good Time Old Time Music and Dancing American Legion 536 W. Main St., Winneconne Music begins at 7:00 pm. 920-582-7782.
Musical Movin’ Story Time
Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Time for Twos Play and Learn: Near corner of Crooks Ave. and 9:30 am - 10:15 am, 10:30 am Appleton Public Library Spanish Edition Second St. 11:15 am, or 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Appleton Public Library 7:30 am to 12:00 noon Children will practice language, 11:00 am to 11:45 am 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton literacy and listening skills through Future Neenah Farmers 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Early literacy experience with stories, music, movement and Market Designed for families whose books, songs, finger plays and Shattuck Park primary language is Spanish, this musical movement with story time creative activities. Children must 210 E. Wisconsin Ave., Neenah program will help your child designed for children ages 24 to 36 be at least 3 years old to attend. Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177. 8:00 am to 12:00 noon develop pre-reading skills, social months accompanied by a parent skills and confidence through or caregiver. Siblings welcome. Teen Game Break Downtown Appleton interactive, play-centered learning. 920-832-6177. Appleton Public Library Farm Market Free admission. 920-832-6177. 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Downtown Appleton Play and Learn 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm College Ave. from 100W to 300E Play and Learn: Hmong Appleton Public Library Open, drop-in gaming for teens From 8:00 am to 12:30 pm Edition 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton only. 920-832-6177. Theme: Health & Wellness. Appleton Public Library 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Outside on College Avenue from 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton September 16 Help your child develop pre-reading Appleton St. to Drew St., plus 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm skills, social skills and confidence Midweek Farm Market Houdini Plaza. Includes fruits Designed for families whose through interactive, play-centered Houdini Plaza and vegetables, breads and baked primary language is Hmong, learning. 920-832-6177. 101 W. College Ave., Appleton goods, crafts, music and more. this program will help your child Hours 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm 920-954-9112. develop pre-reading skills, social Lego Lab Fresh fruits and vegetables, exotic skills and confidence through Appleton Public Library Winchester Craft Fair meats and cheeses, breads and interactive, play-centered learning. 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Winchester Town Hall baked goods, specialty food and Free admission. 920-832-6177. 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm 8522 Parkway Lane, Winchester handcrafted items, plus live music. Join us for a fun and education 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Dup15Q Believe Walk 920-954-9112. experience and create a masterCrafts, homegrown produce, Telulah Park piece out of Legos. 920-832-6177. Storyvine bake sale, food and beverages. All 1300 E. Newberry St., Appleton Appleton Public Library proceeds support the Winchester Registration at 8:00 am, run/walk Why We Love the 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Volunteer Fire Dept. begins at 9:00 am. Packers Program runs from 9:15 am to Join us for a 2-mile walk or 5K Appleton Public Library Saturday Morning 9:45 am. run on the paved riverside trail 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Board Gaming For families and childcare at Telulah Park. Enjoy our silent 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside auction (ends at 11:00 am), music, Presented by Jim Rice, this infor- providers featuring stories, music, City Center Plaza), suite 103, movement, media, puppets and inflatables, balloon artist, face mative and entertaining evening
Kaukauna Farm Market
more. 920-832-6177.
Hungry Caterpillar
The Building for Kids Children’s Museum, 100 W. College Ave., Appleton Shows at 10:00 am and 2:30 pm. Join us in the Mielke Family Theater to listen to the story, meet the star of the book, and make a take-home craft. Free with museum membership or daily admission. 920-734-3226.
Downtown Book Club Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm For this session, just bring your book to share with the group. Led by Howard Porter. Feel free to bring your lunch. 920-832-6177.
September 17 Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 10:30 am to 11:15 am or 1:30 pm to 2:15 pm Children will enjoy a short story time and explore themes in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and math. Registration is required. 920-832-6177.
Tween Scene: Lawrence University’s Bomb Squad Come to the Steitz Science Hall at Lawrence University to join the Bomb Squad and experience science demonstrations in one of the labs. This event is for kids in third, fourth or fifth grade. Registration is required and space is limited. 4:15 pm to 5:00 pm. Contact Tina Babler at 920-832-6170 or tbabler@apl.org for registration
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Thursday Afternoon at the Movies Showing 5 Flights Up Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Show begins at 4:30 pm; Free admission. Refreshments served. 920-832-6177.
Menasha Farm Fresh Market Downtown Menasha on Main Street, in front of Marina Terrace Every Thursday from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm until October 29. 920967-3600.
Tailgate 2015 Grand Meridian 2621 N. Oneida St., Appleton Sponsored by the Fox Valley Humane Assn., this event will raise money for the Veterinary Wellness Center. Food and beverages, entertainment and silent and live auctions. Bill Jartz from WBAY will be the evening’s live auctioneer. Items to be auctioned include VIP vacation destination package, Green Bay Packer tickets, spa packages, various weekend getaways, signed Packer memorabilia and more. Cocktails from 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm, then enjoy music, tasting and viewing of auction items. Live auction begins at 7:00 pm. 920-968-2621.
7th Annual United in Recovery James W. Perry Hall, UW Fox Valley, 1478 Midway Rd., Menasha 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm $35 per person Mark Lundholm is the special guest for this annual fundraiser. 920-722-2345.
September 18 Art Exhibits Wriston Art Galleries 613 E. College Ave., Appleton Showing “Beauty and Terror, Compassion and Despair: The Collages of Miriam Beerman.” An opening reception for the exhibits will be held from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 920-832-6942.
Storybook Stars
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Theme: Kids Market. Outside on College Avenue from Appleton St. to Drew St., plus Houdini Plaza. Includes fruits and vegetables, breads and baked goods, crafts, music and more. 920-954-9112.
The Building for Kids Children’s Museum, 100 W. College Ave., Appleton Shows at 10:00 am and 2:30 pm Join us in the Mielke Family Kaukauna Farm Market Theater to listen to the story, meet Near corner of Crooks Ave. and the star of the book, and make a Second St. take-home craft. 920-734-3226. 7:30 am to 12:00 noon
Boardlandia Board Game Night
Family Studio: Plaster Signs Trout Museum of Art 111 W. College Ave., Appleton Cost is $5 per person Drop in to the fifth floor studios between 9:30 am to 1:00 pm and create art as a family with this fun opportunity to engage in hands-on creative projects in the Fox Cities Building for the Arts studios.
Future Neenah Farmers Neenah Vintage Market Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside Adventure Shattuck Park City Center Plaza), suite 103, Appleton 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm Game with us every Friday night at Boardlandia in the City Center. 920-415-2480.
Sock Hop Dinner Dance
Downtown Neenah, 135 W. Wisconsin Ave. 11:00 am to 3:00 pm History comes alive in downtown Saturday Morning Neenah during Vintage AdvenBoard Gaming Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside ture. A Civil War encampment, complete with horseback riding City Center Plaza), cavalry until, narrated trolley suite 103, Appleton tours, costumed re-enactors, a 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Victorian tea, classic car show, Come join us for gaming at mini exhibits, music and a history Boardlandia in the City Center. Bring any games you’d like, or let scavenger hunt. 920-722-1920. us know your requests. 920-415-2480. September 20 210 E. Wisconsin Ave., Neenah 8:00 am to 12:00 noon
Thompson Community Center, 820 W. College Ave., Appleton Tickets are $15 and can be purchased. Join the Thompson Community Center and Still Cruising’ from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm for a night of Storybook Stars great food and dancing. 920-225Presents: The Very 1700.
Music at the Library
Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hungry Caterpillar 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm The Building for Kids Children’s Art on the Town Featuring music by 50[%] Folk Museum, 100 W. College Ave., PARK(ing) Day performing old folk, new folk, 60s Appleton Downtown Appleton on College light rock and old country that Show begins at 2:30 pm Avenue will tug at your heartstrings. Free. Join us in the Mielke Family 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Stroll the Avenue to explore and Theater to listen to the story, meet 920-832-6177. enjoy rhythm and music, perform- the star of the book, and make a Play and Learn: Hmong ing arts, visual arts and more. take-home craft. 920-734-3226. Edition 920-954-9112; http://appletonAppleton Public Library, 225 N. Appleton Walk to downtown.org. Oneida St., Appleton
KIDZ BOP Make Some Noise Tour Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, 400 W. College Ave., Appleton 6:00 pm $28 per person, $64 for the VIP meet-and-greet Performing family-friendly versions of today’s biggest hits. 920-730-3760.
September 19 Downtown Appleton Farm Market Downtown Appleton College Ave. from 100W to 300E From 8:00 am to 12:30 pm.
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tions, exercise demos, adaptive equipment samples, home safety modifications, low vision, proper footwear and more. Free. 920-225-1700.
Missoula Children’s Theater Auditions UW-Fox Valley Communication Arts Center, 1478 Midway Rd., Menasha Auditions for Sleeping Beauty from 3:45 pm to 5:45 pm. 920-832-2600.
Book Babies Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 9:00 am to 9:45 am A lap-sit story time for babies not yet walking. Designed to stimulate baby’s senses and promote early literacy techniques. We will bounce baby to rhymes, share stories, and sing songs with 15 minutes of social play time after. Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177.
Monday Morning Matinee Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Showing A Bug’s Life at 9:30 am. The Monday Morning Matinee film series is designed for persons with cognitive disabilities. Refreshments served; free admission. 920-832-6392.
Wonderful Ones Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hours 10:00 am to 10:45 am A 30-minute program with lap-sit time as well as opportunities to work on cognitive development and motor skills with children who are new walkers to age 23 months. Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177.
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Designed for families whose primary language is Hmong, this program will help your child develop pre-reading skills, social skills and confidence through Time for Twos interactive, play-centered learning. Spectrum Saturday Appleton Public Library The Building for Kid Children’s Mu- Free admission. 920-832-6177. 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton seum, 100 W. College Ave., Appleton 11:00 am to 11:45 am September 21 9:00 am to 10:00 am Early literacy experience with Falls Prevention Designed to give families with books, songs, finger plays and Awareness Event children on the autism spectrum musical movement with story time a lower-sensory experience in the Thompson Community Center, 820 designed for children ages 24 to 36 museum. Free admission to fami- W. College Ave., Appleton months accompanied by a parent 9:30 am to 11:00 am lies with children on the autism or caregiver. Siblings welcome. Free event includes balance spectrum. 920-734-3226. 920-832-6177. screenings, medication consultaAppleton Memorial Park, 1620 Witzke Blvd, Appleton 8:00 am to 11:00 am 414-831-3993; www.alsawi.org or www.walktodefeatals.org.
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Play and Learn
Memory Loss Education Appleton Public Library
Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Help your child develop prereading skills, social skills and confidence through interactive, play-centered learning. 920-832-6177.
Neuroscience Group 1305 W. American Rd., Neenah 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm The Neuroscience Group will present its memory loss education series in collaboration with the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Assn, Azura Memory Care and St. Paul’s Elder Care. For ages 18 and up. Free. 920-729-7683.
Knit2Together Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hours 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Stop by this multi-generational knitting circle. Newcomers welcome. 920-832-6177.
Lego Lab Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm Join us for a fun and education experience and create a masterpiece out of Legos. 920-832-6177.
September 22
FVTC Preview Night for Adults Fox Valley Technical College, 1825 N. Bluemound Dr., Appleton 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Find out what you need to get started at Fox Valley Tech. Talk with staff about careers you might be interested in. No need to register. Free. 920-560-1400.
September 23 Simple Steps for Starting Your Business
Copper Rock Café 210 W. College Ave., Appleton The first session is at 8:30 am to Appleton Public Library 12:30 pm. SCORE presents a free 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton introductory workshop to help 9:30 am - 10:15 am, 10:30 am 11:15 am, or 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm you decide if you should start your own business. This is the first of a Children will practice language, literacy and listening skills through series of five sessions. To register or to find additional info, visit www. stories, music, movement and foxcities.score.org. creative activities. Children must be at least 3 years old to attend. Storyvine Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177. Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Good Time Old Time Program runs from 9:15 am to Music and Dancing 9:45 am American Legion For families and childcare 536 W. Main St., Winneconne providers featuring stories, music, Music begins at 7:00 pm. movement, media, puppets and 920-582-7782. more. 920-832-6177.
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225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Learn what you need to know when it comes to Social Security benefits from Tim Gierke, David Austin and Yer Vue. 920-832-6177.
Every Thursday from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm until October 29. 920967-3600.
September 25 Boardlandia Board Game Night
Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside City Center Plaza), September 23-27 suite 103, Appleton 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm Annual Book Sale Game with us every Friday night Hosted by the Friends of the Neenah Public Library. Weds. 6:00 at Boardlandia in the City Center. We have demo games for you to pm to 8:00 pm; Thurs. 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm; Fri. 9:30 am to 5:00 play, but feel free to bring your pm; Sat. 9:30 am to 4:00 pm; Sun. own game. 920-415-2480. 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm. Admission License to Cruise on Thursday is $4, children under Corner of College Avenue and 11 free with a paid adult. Free Appleton Street admission on Friday through Kick off Octoberfest weekend with Sunday. On Sunday, get a bag full this classic car show at 6:00 pm. of books for $5. On Monday the Live music, great food and one of 28th, all remaining items are free. Appleton’s largest car shows.
September 24
Creative Writing at the Library Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hours are 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Explore creative writing through a variety of exercises led by Sharrie Robinson. 920-832-6177.
Art at Noon
September 25-26 Missoula Children’s Theatre UW-Fox Valley Communications Arts Center, 1478 Midway Rd., Menasha Friday 7:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 am The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents an original musical version of Sleeping Beauty. $6 all ages. 920-832-2600.
Wriston Art Galleries 613 E. College Ave., Appleton September 26 Tour begins at 12:00 noon Octoberfest Join us for a 20-minute tour of the exhibitions in the Wriston Art Downtown Appleton on College Galleries. Each tour will be unique. Avenue Entertainment starts as early as Thursday Night at 9:00 am. Enjoy arts and crafts and the Movies Showing the Family Fun area. Lots of food The Graduates/Los and beverages too! Beer sales end at 5:30 pm and the event ends at Graduados Teen Program: Airport 6:00 pm. Full schedule available at Appleton Public Library Midweek Farm Market Excursion http://octoberfestonline.org. 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Houdini Plaza 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Show begins at 6:00 pm Downtown Appleton 101 W. College Ave., Appleton ATW welcomes us on this Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month Farm Market Hours 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm behind-the-scenes tour at the and watch this film, which explores Downtown Appleton, College Ave. airport. Expect to see more than Fresh fruits and vegetables, exotic pressing issues in education today from 100W to 300E the average flyer during this meats and cheeses, breads and through the eyes of six Latino and From 8:00 am to 12:30 pm rare opportunity. Registration baked goods, specialty food and Latina students from across the U.S. Theme: Sample the Market. is required. Attendees must be handcrafted items, plus live music. Free admission. 920-832-6177. Outside on College Avenue from between the ages of 11 and 18. 920-954-9112. Appleton St. to Drew St., plus Sponsored by the Appleton Public Menasha Farm Fresh Houdini Plaza. 920-954-9112. What Everyone Needs Library. Contact Tina Babler at Market 920-832-6170 or tbabler@apl.org to Know About Social Downtown Menasha on Main Kaukauna Farm Market for more information. Security Benefits Street, in front of Marina Terrace Near corner of Crooks Ave. and
Second St. 7:30 am to 12:00 noon
Future Neenah Farmers Market Shattuck Park 210 E. Wisconsin Ave., Neenah 8:00 am to 12:00 noon
BBB Shredfest Thrivent Financial 2000 E. Milestone Dr., Appleton 8:30 am to 11:00 am Get your sensitive documents professionally shredded. Limit of three bags or boxes per vehicle.
Saturday Morning Board Gaming Boardlandia, 10 College Ave. (inside City Center Plaza), suite 103, Appleton 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Come join us for gaming at Boardlandia in the City Center. Bring any games you’d like, or let us know your requests. 920-415-2480.
Library Card Sign-Up Day Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 10:00 am to 12:00 noon Sign up for your very own library card and tour our children’s services section to learn about all the awesome services available. 920-832-6177.
September 27 Trim Hunger Cut-A-Thon Salon Professional Academy 3355 W. College Ave., Appleton 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Trim Hunger donates to food banks, pantries, public school lunch programs and community outreach efforts.
Music at the Library Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Featuring music by Cypress Dreams, Folk Beyond Borders with B.W. Alford and Erik Leveille. Enjoy original, traditional and contemporary folk music. Free. 920-832-6177.
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Mixed Media Workshop 15 minutes of play time. Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Artist Rosa Jimenez helps you explore paper patterns and mixed media. 920-832-6177.
September 28 Book Babies Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 9:00 am to 9:45 am A lap-sit story time for babies not yet walking. Designed to stimulate baby’s senses and promote early literacy techniques. Siblings welcome. 920-832-6177.
Wonderful Ones Appleton Public Library, 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Hours 10:00 am to 10:45 am A 30-minute program with lap-sit time as well as opportunities to work on cognitive development and motor skills with children who are new walkers to age 23 months. Siblings welcome. Join us after for
experience and create a masterfor this program. Working with a piece out of Legos. 920-832-6177. variety of materials, you can make your own swords, Endermen, September 29 Time for Twos Creepers, and other Minecraft Appleton Public Library gear. Unlike the game, you can Musical Movin’ Story 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton take it home with you. Attendees Time 11:00 am to 11:45 am must bet between the ages of 11 Appleton Public Library Early literacy experience with and 19. 920-832-6177. 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton books, songs, finger plays and 9:30 am - 10:15 am, 10:30 am musical movement with story time Good Time Old Time 11:15 am, or 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm designed for children ages 24 to 36 Music and Dancing Children will practice language, months accompanied by a parent American Legion, 536 W. Main St., literacy and listening skills through or caregiver. Siblings welcome. Winneconne stories, music, movement and 920-832-6177. Music begins at 7:00 pm. creative activities. 920-832-6177. 920-582-7782. 920-832-6177.
Play and Learn
Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Help your child develop prereading skills, social skills and confidence through interactive, play-centered learning. 920-832-6177.
Lego Lab Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm Join us for a fun and education
Health and Wellness Education Seminars Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Learn about cancer from Greg Reynolds. 920-832-6177.
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Tea Interest Group Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Would you like to learn proper tea brewing techniques, different types of tea, health benefits and more? Meet Jennifer Nowicki, a certified tea specialist. 920-832-6177.
101 W. College Ave., Appleton Hours 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Fresh fruits and vegetables, exotic meats and cheeses, breads and baked goods, specialty food and handcrafted items, plus live music. 920-954-9112.
Storyvine Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton Program runs from 9:15 am to 9:45 am. For families and childcare providers featuring stories, music, movement, media, puppets and more. 920-832-6177.
Wednesday Film Discussion Appleton Public Library 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Screening of Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 920832-6177.
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