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A Hot Dish Chain O’ Lakes Blues Festival

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CONTENTS COVER STORY L4 Order Up a ‘Hot Dish’ FINE ARTS R4

Foxy Finds

FOOD & DRINK R2 Brewmaster R2 The Wine Cave L11 Tricia’s Table

ENTERTAINMENT L8 R6 R16 R18 R20 R22

Reverend Raven Dobie Maxwell Kat Reinhert The Spanish Inquisition Postcard from Milwaukee Concert Watch

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R26 Riders in the Sky R30 Latino Fest Celebration Debuts L9 The Buddist Advisor L10 Live from Japan

NEWS & VIEWS R8 Media Rants R10 Right Wing Nut R12 Trump NO!

OUTDOORS R14 Rob Zimmer

EVENT CALENDARS R31 Live Music L12 The Big Events

CONTRIBUTORS Micheal Casper John Price-Kabhir Trish Derge James Page Merry Dudley Steve Lonsway Kimberly Fisher Jean Detjen Dobie Maxwell

Tony Palmeri Bob Meyer Rohn W. Bishop Rob Zimmer George Halas Blaine Schultz Jane Spietz Jamie Lee Rake

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COVER STORY // THE JIMMYS

BY MICHAEL CASPER

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There’s so much history within the walls of the Indian Crossing Casino in Waupaca with nine decades of entertainment under its roof. And here comes another talented line up scheduled for this season’s Chain O’ Lakes Blue’s Festival with howling guitars, note bending harmonicas, the Hammond B3, and gritty, soulful lyrics from songs belted out by some of the best.

Jimmy Voegeli fronts the headline band for the festival, The Jimmys.

Michael: You grew up on a dairy farm...where did...

Jimmy: Where did it all go wrong (laugh)?

M: Where did the music come from?

J: Growing up we always had music in the house on the record player, usually big band. I grew accustomed to the horns and music of the Benny Goodman’s and Louie Armstrong’s.

M: And your parents met at one of your dad’s gigs?

J: Yeah. My dad played trumpet in a polka band called The Jolly Schweitzers who were based out of the Monroe area.

My mom walked in, and dad was smitten.

By the time the band took a break, and he went out to find her...she already left. He told the bandleader that ‘If she comes into one of our gigs again someday, I’m gonna put my trumpet down, and go ask her to dance.’ The guy said, ‘If you do that, I’m not gonna pay you.’

M: And a month later?

J: In she walked. He put down his trumpet. Asked her to dance, ended up giving her a ride home, and ran out of gas.

Of course he didn’t get paid that night, so he didn’t have any money. So they walked to my future uncle’s farm, and got gas out of the farm tank. As my dad drove away my uncle said to my mom that ‘You’ll never see the money for the gas, or that guy ever again (laugh).

M: That’s a great story. This interview is over!

J: (Laugh) Far more interesting than my story, for sure. My father passed away a number of years ago, but my mom still lights up when she retells it. She’s 84 now, and still sings in the church choir.

M: You spent several years with Westside Andy & the Mel Ford Band, but your Continue on Page L6

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Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free and located at: Ministry Saint Michael’s Hospital, 900 Illinois Avenue, Stevens Point

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Friday, October 2 7:00 pm – Donnie Pick and The Road Band 9:00 pm – Altered Five Blues Band

Saturday, October 3 3:00 pm – Brian Koenig & The Stand Back Blues Band 5:00 pm – Big N Tasty Blues 7:00 pm – Reverend Raven and the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys 9:00 pm – The Jimmy’s

Order Tickets Online Friday – $15 in advance, $20 at the door Saturday, $20 in advance, $25 at the door Weekend Pass – $25 in advance, $30 at the door Prices include sales tax Available online until October 1st, by phone at (715) 258-7343 or (888) 417-4040 or at the Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce, 221 S. Main Street, Waupaca, WI 54981.

Online tickets will be held at “Will Call”.

Pick up at the Indian Crossing Casino Friday evening or Saturday.

Individuals not 21 years of age will not be admitted to the Festival. Identification required at the door. Carry-in beverages and seating will not be permitted. Handicap access into the Casino is available on the east side of the building.

musical desire goes back to high school.

J: I’m envious of young kids today, and starting a garage band. I was in the chorus, and marching band in high school, but our school system at the time went through a series of band directors and teachers. I never really followed my ‘calling,’ in other words, I didn’t practice much. I didn’t read music, and relied on my ear, and by my junior year my teacher flunked me! I flunked band!

And I deserved it. It was a kick in the ass. He was a great teacher, Mr. Korth.

He just retired a fews ago, and is still a great friend of mine.

M: And your first solo CD is an homage?

J: He plays on one of the cuts, and the cover of the album is my report card with the F on it. And every CD I sold, I gave two bucks back to the high school band department.

M: Eventually you did knuckle down and practice.

J: And was part of the UW Madison marching band playing the trumpet, and then the euphonium which resembles a small tuba. Meanwhile I’d been tinkering with the piano, my mom had shown me some chords. I was in an agricultural fraternity, and they had a Steinway grand piano, and I just kept playing more and more. Between my junior and senior year I got into my first band that played U2, XTC, and Pink Floyd covers...nothing really bluesy.

M: After graduating you went back to the family farm?

J: And that’s when I connected with some of the guys I still play with today, it’s been about 25 years.

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M: Things changed musically for you when Stevie Ray Vaughn hit.

J: Yes! I could hear this instrument playing within his music, and couldn’t figure out what it was. It turned out it was the Hammond B3 that Reece Wynans was playing. That’s what hooked me. I sort of went backwards in time starting with Stevie Ray, and Johnny Winter, then discovering older artists like Otis Spann and Professor Longhair, the piano players who really invented the sound that influenced every player since. I discovered a world I’d never been told about.

M: You met Reece this past summer?

J: At a festival in Canada, yes. I’d waited 25 years to meet this guy, 25 years to tell him how much he influenced my life with his instrument. I shook his hand. Was star struck. The conversation went so terribly. I was so dumb (laugh). I started talking and just wouldn’t shut up. I think I was talking about farming! Twenty five years, and

this is what I’m babbling about. You know how you imagine something like this? You meet a hero, and flash into the future where you’re sitting in a bar, telling stories, becoming great friends.

I pictured all that! Best friends with Reece Wynans, my idol. He was polite, but finally said, ‘I gotta’ go stand over here now.’ I said to myself, ‘You dumb ass!’ (laugh) M: The Jimmys today have been an on and off, interchangeable group.

J: The bass player Johnny Wartenweiler, and the drummer Mauro Magellan and I have been in and out of bands together for 25 years or so. After the turn with Westside Andy I thought it was time to try to put my own spin on things musically. I’ve always heard horns. I’d seen the horn section that played with Clyde Stubblefield who was the drummer for many years with James Brown, jamming in Madison a couple times. I recruited a couple of them, at first as an experiment, but everybody has

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always been on the same page musically.

M: Tell me about the Chuck Taylor’s.

J: I’ve never been a very snappy dresser (laugh).

M: Chucks have never been so popular!

J: I know. And I’d wear coveralls all the time if I could! In fact there was a phase that I went through where I was trying to dress up on stage, and wear nice shoes (laugh) but my feet would slip off the pedals of my keyboard all the time. I needed rubber soles, and I do move around a lot, I just needed the grip, and that’s how that started. And then Mauro, the drummer who played and still plays with the Georgia Satellites, he’s also our graphic artist, he decided to incorporate the Chuck Taylor’s into our band promo materials.

M: What if Converse gets wind of it?

J: Mauro said, ‘All the better,’ (laugh) there’s no such thing as bad press...let’em sue us, it’ll get us out there even more!

M: Musically, who are The Jimmys?

J: That’s kind of a complex question.

I’ve always had this, and I know the guys in the band are tired of me using this word, but ‘vision’ of what I wanted the band to be and how to go about it. I’ve always wanted to be as original as possible, play as much original stuff as we could. We’ve achieved that. We don’t have to do the ‘Brown Eyed Girl’s’ and the ‘Twist and Shout’ kind of classic horn band songs. The songs I’ve written come out of the base of blues, and old-school horn songs. When we do play a cover we’ll mix a Pink Floyd song in with one of ours once in a while or other tunes you wouldn’t normally expect to hear, always wanting to keep it a little on the ‘odd’ side.

M: Your guitarist Perry Weber writes a lot as well.

J: He’s been with us for about three years, and has played with a lot of great bands, and is a fantastic singer and songwriter. It’s something of a relief to have someone of his caliber with us to write music. Perry is true blues all the way.

M: Your writing is rooted in the blues.

J: Yeah, but I’m not trying to fool anybody into thinking that I’m some great blues piano player or artist, because I’m not. But being honest, and able to approach it that way, I can stay true to myself at the same time. Our latest album has some blues in it, but we certainly stray from it. We haven’t pigeonholed ourselves.

M: Speaking of your latest album,

that’s your wife Laura on the cover?

J: She’s a very positive and active part of my career and of the band. And yes that’s her. Kind of a play on words in the album’s title, ‘Hot Dish’...she’s definitely the ‘hot dish.’

M: Is your meeting her anywhere near as romantic as your parent’s story?

J: We did meet at a gig (laugh) but it was a dive bar, and she gave me a fake name. But, she did give me her correct phone number...so when I called it, she had no idea who I was asking for...she forgot she had lied to me (laugh). And when I took her to meet my mom, mom wanted to know how we met, and Laura told her we met at the Betty Ford Clinic (laugh). My mom was aghast! I had to explain I had never been in re-hab. Laura’s very funny.

M: How about this gig, and the Indian Crossing Casino?

J: The venue is so fantastic. The people there are wonderful, the owners are great.

There’s just so much history there, everybody has played it from Louie Armstrong to the Beach Boys, Ricky Nelson, the list is a long one, you can’t help but love the joint.

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ENTERTAINMENT // REVEREND RAVEN

REVEREND RAVEN at Chain O’ Lakes Blues Fest

The Rev and his Chain O’ Smokin’ Altar Boys Deliver the Blues

BY MICHAEL CASPER Michael: Tell me about the Altar Boys.

Reverend: They’re a talented group of musician friends of mine. The current version of the band includes Westside Andy who is an incredible harmonica player, and I’m honored he’s with us.

M: Danny Moore has been around a awhile.

R: He’s played piano with Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, and many others.

He’s one of the best. P.T. Pedersen my bass player toured with Charlie Musslewhite, Big Walter Horton, Pinetop Perkins...that’s a great resume right there. In fact P.T. just reconnected with Musslewhite at the Bayfront Blues Festival. They hadn’t seen one another in about 35 years, so that was pretty cool telling stories from back in the day...I always wanted to ask Charlie if P.T. was telling the truth about Charlie hitting a pig and totaling his truck (laugh).

M: There’s a book to be written telling tales of the road. You have a favorite?

R: I remember Danny once eating some magic brownies (laugh). He doesn’t drink...he doesn’t do anything, but he likes food. Somebody offered him a plate of brownies, he says he ate one...I think he ate more than one. In the middle of a set I hear this weird jazz being played. I look behind me at him and he has this giant smile on his face. I leaned over and suggested he take a break. He said very happily ‘Okay’ and off he went.

M: And your rhythm section?

R: Bobby Lee Sellers on drums is a guy who’s always in demand as a session drummer when he’s not gigging with us, and his vocals help make the blues sound we create over the top.

M: You like the ensemble.

R: Love it. Nothing makes me crazier

than a three-piece band that lags because of the lead guitar. My all-time favorite three piece is the Bel Airs out of Columbia, Missouri. I’ve always liked the larger ensemble with the piano and harmonica, bands like Muddy Waters, Jimmie Rogers.

guy, and started really practicing and woodshedding. Then I went in the Navy (laugh)!

M: And Freddie King was who hooked you?

R: My whole childhood I was like the kid in The Wonder Years, I wasn’t born into the blues, whereas my brother who was seven years older was in the middle of the whole hippie-thing, and flower power.

He was bringing home the Stones and Yardbirds, we lived on the south side of Chicago on 66th and Winchester. Then he discovered Muddy Waters lived and played right across the expressway, and Howlin’ Wolf was part of the live music scene.

Then all of a sudden he and his buddies were going to all the clubs. That was the big hippie invasion of all the black clubs on the south side, and he started bringing all those records home.

M: I can’t believe that.

R: Didn’t start playing again until I was 38. The last two years I was in the Navy I had a guitar, and I sat in on a jam session in St. Paul while I was on a training trip. I caught the bug again. I had a hippie girlfriend from Oshkosh who didn’t like my being in the military, so I got out for a couple years just to try it, fully intending to go back into the Navy.

M: But you were the youngster.

R: I didn’t see anybody until I was 17 years old. And that was at the Kinetic Playground which was like Bill Graham used to be at the Fillmore, Aaron Russo who went on to become Linda Ronstadt’s manager... he had the Kinetic Playground club, and that was pretty much like the Fillmore, same deal...a blues act, the the Buddy Rich Orchestra, then the Who...something like that. Well, my first night Freddie King was opening for Jeff Beck, and Freddie stole the show. He had the Leon Russell Band backing him up, and he was out there with his red suit, red patten leather shoes, a guitar with a 200-foot cord, and he’s standing in the middle of 2000 hippies just ripping it up!

M: And that was it for you.

R: Stopped playing rock n’ roll right then and there. I wanted to be a blues

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M: What?

R: Yeah. I put the guitar away for 15 years.

M: But? R: I started getting some gigs. And started getting fatter and fatter (laugh).

Had a heart attack. Can you imagine the Navy didn’t want me back?

M: Whatever happened to the hippie girlfriend?

R: She’s a psychologist.

M: I checked your schedule, and you’re booked!

R: I’ve always been the kind of person who wants to see what’s on the other side of the hill. I joined the Navy (laugh) to get out of town, grow a beard, get a tattoo, and drink my way through all the ports around the world. I got home and was assigned to shore duty in Chicago, then got orders to Oshkosh. I remember asking my detailer what the hell the Navy was doing in Oshkosh? He told me I was going to train reservists. And this was the late 80’s, and the live music-thing was still going on, Blue Tail Fly was going on, Janet Planet was huge...there was still a great music scene in the Fox Valley. I got out of the Navy, and into the music, moved to Milwaukee and started going on the road. What can I say?

I’m a gadfly. It’s terrible (laugh).

M: You still dig the greats?

R: Absolutely. Still love Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells...my go-to album is Hoodoo Man. Contemporary artists I listen to anything Kim Wilson (of the Fabulous Thunderbirds) does, Barrelhouse Chuck, Billy Flynn. New bands I like the 44’s, Nick Moss out of Chicago, Rockin’ Johnny is cool, Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones.

M: Do you listen back to your own music?

R: At home I’ll record myself, listen to it, pick things out I don’t like and try to change them. That’s why I was happy with the Big Bull CD, it turned out like it sounds in my head on a good night.

M: Big Bull took something like two years to complete?

R: I already had a live CD out, “Live at the Red Rocket” which is a bootleg CD I’ll be putting out every year, but that’s mainly for fans who come see us. It’s mostly covers that I’d never include on a regular album.

But, we ended up with these recordings, and Steve Hamilton produced and engineered Big Bull. Steve works with Jackson Browne, and does the Steel Bridge Songfest in Sturgeon Bay, he’s done a lot of work with Jim Liban and Short Stuff. Steve said he had some music of mine he had recorded from 2012 that I’d never heard, and then some more recent recordings, two songs of which from Red Rocket, and that’s the Big Bull album.

M: And the Chain O’ Lakes Blues Festival?

R: Get your tickets early. There’s a great bunch of bands, and it gets packed.

We’re looking forward to playing the Indian Crossing Casino again!

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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!!

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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?

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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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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.

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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.

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“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 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

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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

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@ 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

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Mile of Music, Appleton, WI

8/15

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8/28

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August 1 @ 6pm & 1:30am Main St. Music Festival,

@ 1:30pm Waupaca City Center, Waupaca, WI

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ENTERTAINMENT // THE BUDDIST ADVISOR

A Summer of Old Friends

BY JOHN PRICE-KABHIR; THE BUDDHIST ADVISER I’m not seventy yet, but I’m inching my way. As of two years ago, I became the oldest male in six generations on my father’s side. They all died before age fiftyone, owing to bad hearts. I most definitely thought I’d join that group, but here I am.

I thought I’d never reach the age where the orthopedic problems on my maternal side would hit, but by the time this is printed, I’ll be on the other side of a total knee replacement.

All the contacts I’ll refer to in this column have either been reborn or strengthened just this summer. It’s risky to write about people, because the list could be exhaustive and I’d still be leaving people out. I also diligently try to keep people anonymous as far as names go, but if you’re in this column, you just might recognize yourself. Only a couple of these people could be called famous, though they inhabit my personal Hall of Fame.

I ask myself as I compose this column, “Where does Buddhist practice fit here over simple praise of friends?” Then I realize clearly that one of the principle ideas of Buddhism is the interdependence of all things. And that fundamental cornerstone is clearly where I’m coming from.

I would normally avoid Facebook because it’s too trendy. But I’ve found that it’s valuable for older people because it allows, and in fact directs contacts with people not seen in years. Facebook has allowed me to post my connections and

write snippets about my beliefs and observations on world matters. It’s also provided connections with some former students, one living and propagating a family in Israel. It’s also helped me connect with people from California to Maine and all the way to Hawaii. I’ve been able to stay in touch with my first true love, who’s been living in Texas for many years. And many

order he leads. In the perfect spirit of a Zen Master, he’d never once called me or really initiated contact. But here, in this summer of friends, he called, telling me he’s been moved by this column and discussing plans he has with a new program he was about to lead hereabouts.

And then there is the fellow, now in his mid-forties, who has struggled with

Old friends, old friends sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blowin’ through the grass Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends…

How terribly strange to be seventy —Paul Simon of these connections are actually nearby, but people with whom I’d lost touch over the years even though they are near. Of course, it and email are means for folks to contact me as The Buddhist Adviser.

Among the people I have kept in touch with over the years is a fellow who’s still performing and supporting music. He’d reached some pretty high pinnacles, and wrote a song that was performed at the Super Bowl some years back. In his 60’s, he’s still rockin,’ doing the music he’s been so passionate about and supporting musicians of all ages from all over the world.

The other day, ironically at a low point in my emotions, I received an unexpected call from a Zen Master, the abbot of the order in which I was ordained over ten years ago.

I’d lost touch with him after I’d ceased to sit in meditative practice with the

mental health issues his entire life. I was his mentor when he was in high school.

He was a writer then, and he shared his writing in public engagements with literally hundreds of people in public readings after he’d graduated. I had a spontaneous reconnect with him at my medical clinic, and now we go out to dinner as I am able.

I seem to have known quite a few people named David or Dave. I’ve written about one of them many times in this column because I talk to him regularly.

But there is another Dave, a guy I spent a lot of time with in the 1960’s and 70’s.

I realize now I took his friendship for granted. We’d gone in vastly different directions as we moved into adulthood.

He’s Jewish, and I was raised Catholic and still practice Catholicism, but actually, we’d rarely spoken of our respective religious upbringings. He wasn’t Orthodox, but now, communicating with him, as we’re both interested in history, I know we should have spoken long and deeply about spiritual matters as we aged. Lately, we’ve exchanged our thoughts about World War II, and I am thankful we‘ve taken the time

to do this before we die.

On a morning last week, a small rental car pulled up in front of my house. As the driver exited the vehicle and moved toward my door, I was reminded I was about to spend the day with a man I view as a true living saint. This is a man who changed from a tough “greaser” to a true spiritual seeker. We traveled the country, mostly with our thumbs out on highways. We saw Jefferson Airplane on their first tour, and went to some of those famous rock festivals. This guy and I traveled virtually the entire western United States, mostly hitchhiking. We shared jail cells in other states. We were reckless and fearless, and I wouldn’t trade the experience of our travels for anything. As we sat that day, he told me how I was among the most profoundly influential people in his life. This humbled me a great deal, the words settling upon me, and caused some joyful quiet times for thinking about his praise when he’d left.

And as I sat writing this, the mail carrier came. Among the pieces of mail was a large envelope from the aforementioned first true love, who, she wrote, had been cleaning her house. She sent along to me a stack of memorabilia from my senior year in high school, including the graduation program and a poem I had published in the local paper that year. Such amazing “coincidences” again convince me of the merry trickster this universe can be. Such perfect timing.

I hesitated to write this piece. Why would I choose such a topic? Was it nothing more than cheap self-aggrandizing?

No, it was not that. It offered me a chance to pay tribute and show respect to a few of the people who touched me over the years.

So I offer respect and praise for some of the many people I’ve known, loved, and occasionally lost touch with. I celebrate you, and I hope I can make just a few more connections while still in this body.

John Price-Kabhir is a retired public school educator and an ordained Buddhist householder. He can be reached at Shiningcrow11@yahoo.com.

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ENTERTAINMENT // LIVE FROM JAPAN

InnoGames

BY JAMES PAGE THEPLAYERSPAGE@YAHOO.COM Game of the Month: InnoGames Player’s Page: InnoGames Summer has come to a close and as the days grow shorter there seems to be less time to devote to leisure activities. A full length game can require multiple days to complete and one cannot advance too far into the storyline without devoting several hours each session to the game.

Competitive games share a similar problem by requiring numerous hours of regular game play to maintain a certain skill level to remain competitive against the other players. Thankfully, there are games out there which can be played on the go and only require short play sessions to advance within the game.

InnoGames is a German company based out of Hamburg which creates games for mobile platforms and browsers.

In 2003, InnoGames was in its infancy and the founders decided to create a game with the approach of “let’s create a game that we can play with our friends.” The result of their effort was the browser based game Tribal Wars, and within two years the number of users had risen to 50,000.

InnoGames incorporated in 2007 and has created several browser games which have transitioned to mobile platforms.

Currently, there are over 130 million registered users of InnoGames titles, and two of their more well known titles, Grepolis and Forge of Empires have had commercials on U.S. television.

Forge of Empires is a city building game released in 2012 for browsers and has

since transitioned to the iOS and Android mobile platforms. Forge of Empires places the player into the shoes of a ruler of a city state and tasks them with guiding the city through the ages from the Stone Age to the Modern Age and beyond. Along the way the player will need to accomplish various tasks, research new technologies, and conquer new lands. The player must judge their resources and forces them to know when to expand peacefully and when to expand with force.

real threat of retaliation.

Unlike the classic city building games of the past Forge of Empires brings a social aspect to the game. The player does not exist in a vacuum. Players are grouped together and they are able to visit each other’s cities. While visiting another city a player may decide to help motivate current productions, polish monuments, contribute to large projects, or launch an attack in an effort to overcome the city’s defenses.

Peaceful interactions with other cities can

In many ways Forge of Empires is similar to classic PC titles such as Caesar, Pharaoh, and Zeus. The focus is on building a city and managing the needs of the population while gaining new buildings through research which can provide more base resources and unique items and troops.

Researching new technologies requires time, in the form of forge points which slowly accumulate over time; and resources in the form of gold, resources, and unique items generated by the city. There is limited interaction with a world map which focuses on exploring and invading neighboring territories while experiencing no

reward the player with gold, blueprints, and other rewards. A successful attack on another city will give the player the option of stealing gold, resources, or unique items, however; an unsuccessful attack will result in the loss of all attacking forces.

Forge of Empires can be played with relatively little interaction each day. All of the gold, resource, forge point, and unique item generation is timed and can take anywhere from five minutes to two days.

Projects can be run for different lengths of time to suit different play styles. However, it is possible to reduce the amount of time projects and expansions require by spend-

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ing actual money on in game micro transactions, and as a result one must be careful to avoid unwanted purchases when playing the game.

Forge of Empires is just one of a variety of titles offered by InnoGames. Tribal Wars and the upcoming Tribal Wars 2 are city building titles which are focused on player versus player combat. It is essential to build up the city and create a mighty army because other players will attack your city with the hopes of destroying it and removing it from the game; the goal is simple, expand or die.

Elvenar is another upcoming game focused on city building. The player must choose between playing as elves or humans and build a city in the style of their race.

Elvenar allows a player the opportunity to interact with others in a more in depth manner than Forge of Empires but not as competitive as Tribal Wars.

InnoGames offers a nice variety of games which can be played on the go and without devoting a large portion of each day to the game. All of the games are freeto-play but they offer micro transactions so caution will need to be taken when using some of the in game features. Despite their mobile nature each of the games are surprisingly in-depth, and each game offers something different to appeal to different game play styles. In as little as five minutes a day one can play a fun game, advance the story, and have an enjoyable experience which does not consume the entire day.

Remember, like all games if you play them just to have fun there will never be a bad game. theplayerspage@yahoo.com

FOOD & DRINK // TRICIA’S TABLE

Chicken Piccata & Spinach Salad DIRECTIONS

BY TRISH DERGE I found an interesting study done recently that again sings the praises of spinach. So when you make my Chicken Piccata recipe, be sure to fix a nutritious fresh spinach leaf salad as your side.

First...let’s make the simple and quick chicken dinner that has a lot of flavor!

INGREDIENTS 2 skinless and boneless chicken breasts, butterflied and then cut in half Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper All-purpose flour, for dredging 6 tblsp unsalted butter 5 tblsp extra-virgin olive oil 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice 1/2 cup chicken stock 1/4 cup brined capers, rinsed 1/3 cup fresh parsley, chopped

New research claims a compound found in spinach could help reduce hunger and food craving especially in men.

The study was published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition and claims a concentrated extract of thylakoids encourages the release of satiety hormones which slows down fat digestion in the body.

The researchers examined the effect of consuming a single dose of concentrated extract of thylakoids from spinach on satiety, food intake, lipids, and glucose compared to a placebo.

30 men and 30 women, classified as overweight or obese, consumed either the spinach extract or a placebo in random order at least a

1. Season chicken with salt and pepper.

2. Dredge chicken in flour and shake off excess.

3. In a large skillet over medium high heat, melt 2 tablespoons of butter with 3 tablespoons olive oil. When butter and oil start to sizzle, add 2 pieces of chicken and cook for 3 minutes. When chicken is browned, flip and cook other side for 3 minutes.

Remove and transfer to plate.

4. Melt 2 more tablespoons butter and add another 2 tablespoons olive oil.

When butter and oil start to sizzle, add the other 2 pieces of chicken and brown both sides again.

5. Remove pan from heat and add chicken to the plate.

6. Into the pan add the lemon juice,

stock and capers. Return to stove and bring to boil, scraping up brown bits from the pan.

7. Put chicken back in pan and simmer for 5 minutes.

8. Remove chicken to platter.

9. Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter to sauce and whisk vigorously. Pour sauce over chicken and garnish with parsley.

BALSAMIC & OLIVE OIL VINAIGRETTE 1. Whisk together equal parts balsamic vinegar and a good olive oil (1/3 cup each) 2. Puree 1/4 fresh blackberries and add to mixture 3. Add 2/3 cup crumbled blue cheese 4. Add 1 tblsp minced chives

week apart.

The results showed that the spinach extract containing thylakoids increased satiety over a two-hour period compared to a placebo.

There were no differences in plasma lipids and energy intake at dinner, but men showed a trend toward decreased energy intake.

A previous study had found that in women, a reduced urge for sweets was significant after a single dose of the spinach extract and the reduced urge for sweets was sustained throughout the study.

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SEPTEMBER 2015

ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY

A BY C For inclusion in our calendar of events, please contact us

September 1 “Haunts” by Alexander Landerman Gallery Q 1108 Main St., Stevens Point Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sunday 11:00 am to 3:00 pm; closed Mondays.

See Landerman’s well-loved foxes, rabbits and birds as their story is told along the walls and among the flowers at the Q. 715-3452888; http://qartists.com.

September 3 Blue Bead Bookmark Class Blue Bead Trading Co. 1043 Main St., Stevens Point Learn to make bookmarks! Class starts at 1:00 pm; cost is $5 plus materials. Visit www.blue-bead. com for more info.

715-344-1998.

Toddler Music

Reception PJ’s Atrium @ SentryWorld, 601 N. Michigan Ave., Stevens Point Event runs 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm $35 adults, $25 students and seniors, $15 children 12 and under.

Tickets available at www. cwtickets.com. 715-252-7920.

Visit www.transcribingdance.com for more info.

First Thursday Film Series: High Noon Waupaca Area Public Library 107 South Main St., Waupaca Commentary by Dr. Jack Rhodes.

Film begins at 1:30 pm; free admission and refreshments.

Appropriate for all ages. 715-2584414; http://waupacalibrary.org.

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.

Sunday Monday Free. www.rosholtfair.com

Sunset Point Winery Grand Opening Sunset Point Winery 1201 Water St., Stevens Point Friday 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, Sunday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Free admission.

Live music, raffles, giveaways and specials. Tastings and winery tours throughout the whole weekend.

September 5 John Swendrowski Memorial Golf Outing

Bulls Eye Country Club, 2800 Ridgewood Trail, Wisconsin Rapids September 4 Registration at 11:00 am, shotgun Oktoberfest start at 12:00 noon Event held at the Waupaca Ale House $95 per person Band from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm, Hosted by the Assumption High then The Kommissioners from School football team, this golf 9:00 pm to 12:00 midnight. outing will include 18 holes with Tickets $10 per person. cart, smokehouse BBQ buffet, Beer from Central Waters Brewery vent golf pullover and prizes. in Amherst, plus lots of great 715-423-2225. food. Entertainment by the Charlie Justmann.

Lake Arrowhead

Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum, 1100 Main St., Stevens Point Program begins at 9:30 am $5 per person museum admission, 12 months and younger free.

September 4 - 7 Enhance early learning skills by introducing easy musical Portage County Fair concepts. 715-344-2003; www.

Rosholt Fair Park cwchildrensmuseum.org. Also E. Forest St., Rosholt Sept. 10, 17, and 24.

8:00 am to 10:00 pm $3 Transcribing Dance Music, carnival, food and refreshments, parade, demo derby and Co. Performance & 4-H displays. Friday through

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Craft Show

Lake Arrowhead Golf Course, 1195 Apache Ln,, Nekoosa 9:00 am to 3:00 pm One of the best craft shows in central Wisconsin for more than 25 years. Enjoy refreshments, freshly grilled food and more than 100 displays of quality handmade crafts from vendors all over the

tri-state area. Event is held rain or shine.

Foraging Central Rivers Farmshed 1220 Briggs St., Stevens Point Workshop runs 3:00 to 5:00 pm $15 for non-members, $12 for members This workshop, presented by Andy Lickel, will include an indoor lecture about foraging and then we will go out to a park and see what we can scrounge up for a meal. This workshop will get you familiar with wild edibles and how and where to find them. 715544-6154; www.farmshed.org.

September 5 - 6 Riverfront Jazz Festival Pfiffner Pioneer Park 1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm Largest outdoor jazz festival in central Wisconsin. Free admission. www.riverfrontjazzfestival. org.

September 6 47th Annual Big Falls Bowhunters Corn Roast Village Park in Big Falls Parade at 12:00 noon Free corn, food stands, raffles and games. Live music throughout the day. For more info, contact Gary Beyersdorf at 715-754-2359.

Labor Day Celebration Robinson Park 1150 17th St. N., Wisconsin Rapids 12:00 noon until 6:00 pm A free celebration for all. Free children’s rides, two bands, bingo, food, beer and soda.

September 8 Community Potluck Series Central Rivers Farmshed, 1220 Briggs Ct., Stevens Point, WI 54481 Dinner runs from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Bring a dish to pass. This month’s theme is Noodles and Dumplings.

Free admission. 715-544-6154.

Lunch & Learn for Heroes Waupaca Area Public Library 107 South Main St., Waupaca Program runs 12:00 to 1:00 pm Gary Beyer talks about his book, You Must Answer This, and shares his story of business success and triumph over adversity. Free admission and a light lunch will be catered by a local restaurant.

715-258-4414; http://waupacalibrary.org.

September 8 - 13 Ink In Grooves…

Or Not

Gallery Q 1108 Main St., Stevens Point Opening reception is Fri., Sept.

11 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Gallery hours are Tues.-Sat. 10:00 September 7 am to 6:00 pm, Sun. 11:00 am to Autism Night 3:00 pm, closed Mondays.

CWCM Free admission.

1100 Main St., Stevens Point Enjoy this collection of works cre5:00 pm to 7:00 pm ated via ink transfer. View relief Free admission. printing, etching, lithography, The Central Wisconsin Children’s woodcuts and more. ApproxiMuseum will be open the first mately 15 printmakers will be Monday of each month exclusively represented in this show. 715for families that have children 345-2888; http://qartists.com. with autism. 715-344-2003; www. Also Sept 15-20, Sept. 22-27, and cwchildrensmuseum.org.

Sept. 29 to Oct. 4.

CALENDAR // THE BIG EVENTS

September 9 Christmas Variety Cards Class Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Make three beautiful Christmas cards using rubber stamps, decorative paper, embellishments and new dies from Penny Black & Stampendous. Bring your favorite adhesive. Pre-registration required, $10 plus tax. 715-4237773; www.lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

September 10 Christmas Variety Cards Class Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm $10 plus tax Make three beautiful Christmas cards using rubber stamps, decorative paper, embellishments and new dies from Penny Black & Stampendous. Bring your favorite adhesive. Pre-registration required. 715-423-7773; www. lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

Crafting Bee Scandinavia Public Library 349 N. Main St. Held every Thursday in September from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon This informal group is designed for handicrafters of all types to work in an atmosphere of creativity and mutual support.

Assistance is available for a wide variety of crafts, including knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, quilting, beading and more. All ages welcome, although younger children should be supervised.

715-467-4636; http://scandinavialibrary.org.

September 11 Arts Alliance of Portage County Alley Party

Downtown Plaza Alley 1052 Main St., Stevens Point 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm $22 online A unique urban outdoor experience with friends, beer, food, live music and improv performers. www.artsportagecounty.org.

715-254-0460.

September 11 - 13 Pacelli High School Panacea Pacelli High School 1301 Maria Dr., Stevens Point Friday 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm, Sat. 11:00 am to 11:00 pm, Sun. 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Silent auction, car raffle, cash raffle, bands and entertainment, carnival and rides, kickball tournament and much more.

Free admission. 715-341-2445; https://sites.google.com/a/spacs. k12.wi.us/spacs/home/panacea.

September 12

Big Dawg Fishing Brawl Bukolt Park 100 Bukolt Ave., Stevens Point 7:00 am to 3:00 pm $50 plus $10 per big bass boat Daily tournament limit for each competitor is five fish or another announced limit. Only largemouth and smallmouth bass will be weighed with 14-inch minimum length. Final winners determined by total weight of each competitor’s catch during the tournament. 612-408-2077.

Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease Waupaca Senior Center 407 School St., Waupaca Registration 8:00 am, walk at 9:00 am This three-mile walk will raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Assn.

Register onsite, at www.alz.org/ walk or call 800-272-3900.

CWN Singles Dance Bernard’s Supper Club

ABA Community Arts 701 Second St. N, Stevens Point Fair Music runs from 8:00 pm to Lettie Jensen Community Center, 487 N. Main St., Amherst Hours 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm The Tomorrow River Youth Arts Festival will offer nine workshops at the Jensen Center. Children aged three years through sixth grade will rotate through the workshops by age group so that participants may experience projects and mediums led by local artists, artistic leaders and teachers. Free admission.

Harvest Fair Historic Point Basse 300 Wakely Rd., Nekoosa 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Adults $3, students $2 Enjoy samples of the season and traditional harvest activities, such as apple cider pressing, corn shelling, making sauerkraut and harvest produce sales.

715-459-1722.

11:30 pm $8 members, $12 non-members.

No T-shirts, tank tops or shorts.

715-281-7823; http://cwnsingles.com.

Celebrate Amherst River Fest Downtown Amherst 10:00 am until dark Free admission Celebrating historic Amherst’s unique cultural, recreation, and natural resources. Music, arts, crafts, outdoor workshops and demos, kids stuff, food and more with evening concert. Call 715824-3424 for more info.

Guitarist and vocalist return to stamps, scrapbook supplies and Nelsonville for a 7:00 pm concert. much more. 715-423-7773; www. lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

Locals On Stage

Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids, Lincoln High School, 1801 16th St. S., Wisconsin Rapids 3:30 pm or 7:30 pm $15 in advance, $17 at the door for adults, $12 in advance or $14 at the door for children 12 and younger A variety show to benefit ODC Inc., which works to empower people with disabilities to achieve their work and life goals. Reserved seating. Tickets available at Daly Drug and ODC. www.odcinc. com.

Walk for Hope Pfiffner Pioneer Park 1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point Registration 9:00 am, 5K begins at 10:00 am, 11:00 am refreshments. $20 per individual, $18 per person in groups of four or more, $30 per household (2 adults and up to 4 children) Annual 5K walk for suicide prevention and mental health awareness. 715-346-5645; http:// suicidepreventionportagecounty. org/index.php/en.

New Happenings in New Hope New Hope Church 1410 County Rd. T., Nelsonville Talk begins at 2:00 pm Don Romandson will talk about early individuals, establishments, crossroad villages (Garfield, Peru), creameries (Benson Corner, Peru) and much more. Free admission.

Presented by New Hope and South New Hope Churches.

715-824-2509.

Eddie Biebel & Vickie Crafter’s Rummage Sale Basar Rising Star Mill County Rd. Q, Nelsonville $10 adults, $5 students (age 12-18), children under 12 free

Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Shop a huge variety of gently used crafting supplies, including rubber

Sept. 15 – Oct. 20 Beginning Sign Language UWSP Collins Classroom Center, 1801 Fourth Ave., Stevens Point Tuesdays from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm $89 per person The first unit of basic signs for conversational communication in sign language. Join the group for this hands-on class covering deaf culture, signs, grammar and fingerspelling. No book required.

715-346-3912; www.uwsp.edu/ conted/artculture/Pages/Arts-andCulture-Outreach.aspx.

September 16 Floral Cheer Cards Class Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm $12 plus tax Make four lovely floral cards using rubber stamps, embellishments and unique folds and pockets.

Bring your favorite adhesive.

Pre-registration required. 715423-7773; www.lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

September 17 Back to Business: Disaster Preparedness for Your Organization Holiday Inn Hotel & Convention Center, 1001 Amber Ave., Stevens Point 9:00 am to 2:30 pm This workshop is open to individuals from businesses throughout Portage County to learn about best practices and tools to prepare their business for a potential disaster. Free admission. Email wemppp@wisconsin. gov for more info.

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Ye Olde Madrigal Dinner Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre lobby and auditorium, 220 3rd Ave S. #6, Wisconsin Rapids Castle doors open at 6:00 pm Tickets are $50 for dinner Featuring artisans, raffle, jesters and serving wenches. Entertainment and masque to follow in the royal auditorium. Come in Renaissance garb and receive a complimentary souvenir of your visit. 715-421-0435; www.wrctheatre.org.

Blue Bead Peyote Stitch Bail Necklace Class

(downtown), Stevens Point Meet at 7:00 pm, ride begins at 7:15 pm Bike fun with Poky Pedaling.

Slow, less than 3-mile evening bicycle ride along the Wisconsin River to Bukolt Park and back, ending at a dessert place near the start. Free admission. Visit http:// pokypedalingstevenspoint.org for more details. 715-254-5817.

September 19 46th Annual Art in the Park

Forever Steam in Stevens Point Locomotive No. 2713 Monroe St., Stevens Point 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Free admission Family-friendly event celebrating Stevens Point train history.

Caboose 158 will be open for viewing and the whistle on Engine 2713 will be hooked up for blowing. A real working steam tractor will be fired up as well as a display with miscellaneous train and period artifacts. Rainbow Fun will be there with a miniature train to give rides to kids. 715344-0619; www.soo2713.org.

Pfiffner Pioneer Park 1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Many children’s activities sponStevens Point Blue Bead Trading Co. sored by non-profit groups, arts & Brewery’s 1043 Main St., Stevens Point craft vendors, food by local nonClass is 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Pointoberfest profit groups and entertainment.

Class fee and material fee to be Stevens Point Brewery, 2617 Water Free admission. 715-344-8901; determined. 715-344-1998; www.

St., Stevens Point www.artintheparkstevenspoint. blue-bead.com.

Hours 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm org. $20 in advance, $25 at door Beer tent, German food, live Floral Cheer Cards ADB Fall Festival music and much more. 800-369Class Downtown Stevens Point on the 4911; www.pointbeer.com. th Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8 Square, 823 Main St., Stevens St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids Point Stevens Point 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Events and sales start at 10:00 am, $12 plus tax Brewery’s Blubber live music and food vendors at Make four lovely floral cards using Run 4:00 pm rubber stamps, embellishments Stevens Point Brewery Free admission and unique folds and pockets.

2617 Water St., Stevens Point Outside events and sidewalk sales, Bring your favorite adhesive.

Check-in starts at 2:30 pm, run at live music, food vand craft beers.

Pre-registration required. 7153:00 pm 423-7773; www.lighthousebook$35 Waupaca Walk for sandgifts.com.

Entrants receive a T-shirt and Wellness admittance to Pointoberfest, Walk begins at Swan Park in which also includes a commemoSeptember 18 Waupaca rative beer mug. Costume contest.

A non-competitive 1-mile, 5K Limited to first 500 entries, must Riverfront Arts and 10K walking event to raise be 21. 800-369-4911; www.

Center Reception funds to sustain the River Ridge pointbeer.com.

Annette & Dale Schuh Riverfront Trail system. Registration begins Arts Center, 1200 Crosby Ave., at 7:30 pm. Depart any time for UWSP Spud Run 2015 Stevens Point the one-mile walk route; the 10K Goerke Park 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm begins at 8:30 am and the 5K at 1100 Minnesota Ave., Stevens Point Free admission 9:30 am. No pets; rain-or-shine Race begins at 12:00 noon Come to the gallery reception for event so dress accordingly. Pick up Children 12 and under run free an invitational exhibit. 715-343registration forms at the Waupaca with the purchase of an adult ticket 6251; www.stevenspoint.com/rac.

Rec Center or Waupaca ChiroThis pre-game 5K run/walk before practic. For more info, email the Spud Bowl starts and finishes TGIF Dessert Ride waupacawalkforwellness@gmail. at the stadium. Race registrants Meet at the Mathias Mitchell com or check out www.facebook. receive a T-shirt, choice of baked Public Square, 1100 Main St. com/WaupacaWalkForWellness.

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potato or French fries at the finish line, and ticket to the football game. 715-346-2909; http://athletics.uwsp.edu/sports/2014/6/6/ FB_0606144655.aspx.

Waupaca’s Fall-ORama Arts and craft vendors at South Park. For more info, visit www. waupacaparknrec.com.

September 20 Free Movie: Cinderella Lettie Jensen Community Center, 487 N. Main St., Amherst Show begins at 2:00 pm Free admission 715-824-5202.

September 22

Volunteer Free Merry & Bright Card Make-and-Take Coordinators of Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th Inner Wisconsin St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids Make a cute Christmas card using Impression Obsession rubber stamps. Limit one free make-andtake per customer, while supplies last. 715-423-7773; www. lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

September 19 - 20 15th Annual Woodcarving Show and Competition Holiday Inn Hotel & Convention Center, 1001 Amber Ave., Stevens Point Sat. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sun. 9:00 am to 4:00 pm $3 adults, 12 and under free Wisconsin River Woodcarvers show will include the Caricature Carvers of America (www.ccacarvers.org). Carving competition, vendors, demonstrations, kids carving and much more. 715341-2214. Visit www.wisconsinriverwoodcarvers.org for details.

11th Annual Dozynki Harvest Festival Moose Family Center 1025 Second St., Stevens Point Hours of festival are Sat. 12:00 noon to 8:00 pm, Sunday 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm $8 admission (food is extra) Polka bands, Polish and American food, polka mass at 10:30 am Sunday at St. Stevens (1401 Clark St., Stevens Point), plus much more. www.polkapowwow.com.

McMillan Library All-Purpose Room, 490 E. Grand Ave., Wisconsin Rapids 1:00 pm Free Anyone who coordinates volunteers at a local non-profit organization, government entity, school, church, etc., is welcome to attend. It is free and you do not need to be associated with United Way or the Volunteer Center. We meet quarterly to discuss issues that affect volunteer coordinators, such as recruitment, retention, etc. 715-422-5133.

Warm Coffee Cards Class Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm $10 plus tax Make two charming cards and a paper coffee cup using rubber stamps, decorative paper and embellishments. Bring your favorite adhesive. pre-registration required. 715-423-7773; www. lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

September Book Group Scandinavia Public Library 349 N. Main St. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Free Join Librarian Sue and the book group to discuss Me Before You

by Jojo Moyes. 715-467-4636; http://scandinavialibrary.org.

CALENDAR // THE BIG EVENTS

September 23 Community Shred Day River Cities Bank, 1601 Lincoln St., Wisconsin Rapids 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Bring your sensitive documents to be securely shredded onsite by Shred Safe, free of charge. For every pound of paper brought to be shredded, River Cities Bank will donate $1 to the United Way of Inner Wisconsin, with a max donation of $1,000. 715-422-1100.

Warm Coffee Cards Class Lighthouse Books & Gifts, 4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm $10 plus tax Make two charming cards and a paper coffee cup using rubber stamps, decorative paper and embellishments. Pre-registration required. 715-423-7773; www. lighthousebooksandgifts.com.

September 26 Festival of India SPASH 1201 Northpoint Dr., Stevens Point 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm Family-friendly event with workshops on Indian cultural and academic topics. Multiple stage performances by professional artists as well as audience participation dancing and music.

Free admission. 715-341-1538; www4.uwsp.edu/multicultural/ SHAMA/Festivals/PastFestivals. htm#Recent.

CWN Singles Dance Elks Club, 1132 Clark St. Stevens Point Music runs from 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm; $8 members, $12 non-members.

No T-shirts, tank tops or shorts.

715-281-7823; http://cwnsingles.com.

Hard Rocks Hiking Challenge Hike begins at 8:00 pm $20 through Sept. 13, $30 thereafter. $10 extra for a long-sleeve shirt Join Active Portage County and Walk Wisconsin for their inaugural Hard Rock Hiking Challenge. This 5.2 or 8.3-mile non-competitive hiking challenge will take place at Standing Rocks County Park just 7 miles east of Plover/Stevens Point.

Enjoy a leaf-kicking, beautiful hike during the peak of fall foliage on this 524-acre park. Visit www. activeportagecounty.com for more info.

Maple Ride Iverson Park 4201 US Hwy 10, Stevens Point Meet at 12:45 pm Ride at 1:00 pm Free admission Bike fun with Poky Pedaling Stevens Point. Slow 13-mile loop bike

ride on calm streets and multi-use paths. 715-254-5817; http:// pokypedalingstevenspoint.org.

Raw Food Chef Workshop Central Rivers Farmshed 1220 Briggs St., Stevens Point Class runs 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm $35 for non-members, $30 for members Join us for the Raw Food Chef workshop with Lois Anderson, which will feature demos on how to make Zucchini mac and cheese, warm tomato soup, dehydrated crackers, fermented cheese and chocolate mousse. 715-544-6154; www.farmshed.org.

This resource-free trivia contest is a fundraising event for the Arts Alliance of Portage County. No books, notes, phones, computers or any electronic devices are allowed. Call for pricing. Noel Hangar, 715-254-0460; www. facebook.com/triviaunplugged.

Autumn Dance Featuring The Swing Time Big Band. For more info, contact the Gerold Opera House, 136 E. Main St., Weyauwega; 920-8674888; www.wegaarts.org.

Manhattan Short Film Fest

Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre, 220 3rd Ave S. #6, Wisconsin Trivia Unplugged Rapids Stevens Point Municipal Airport, 7:00 pm Highway 66, Stevens Point $5 for students Registration and tailgating 1:00 pm Central Wisconsin film festival. to 2:30 pm, competition 3:00 pm $10 for adults, 715-421-0435; to 9:00 pm, reception and award www.wrctheatre.org. ceremony 9:00 pm to 9:30 pm

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