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WILL THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION COME TO MILWAUKEE NEXT SUMMER? If yes, what will it mean for Milwaukee and Wisconsin? ::BY MELANIE CONKLIN

wenty years ago, Carolyn Walker started Great Impressions Graphics & Printing in the basement of her home on Milwaukee’s Northwest side. She now has five employees and is looking to hire more, purchase new equipment and grow her business from its current niche market in serving funerals. When she learned about Milwaukee being one of three cities competing to host the Democratic Party National Convention in 2020, Walker got excited and prepared by becoming a union-certified shop. “I have plans to grow, and this would be a real game changer for me,” she says.

“I’m praying it happens—it’s in my prayers, that’s how important it is.”

The convention, at which Democrats will nominate their presidential ticket, will take place July 13-16, 2020. Aside from media coverage, the four-plus days would bring an estimated 50,000 people to the city for 1,500 unique events with a $200 million impact, according to VISIT Milwaukee. The other finalists are Houston, Texas, and Miami Beach, Fla., and a decision will be announced by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez, likely next month.

There is a lot of money to be made and spent in hosting a major party’s national convention; the economic story helps not only the hospitality and entertainment realms but all sizes of businesses. It’s also a political story, although that aspect is low in the current focus. Top in the mind of the many planners is the Milwaukee story: A Midwestern, rust-belt, cool-and-most-underrated city on the rise, as a 2018 Vogue article dubbed it. “It’s an opportunity to showcase progress we’ve made,” says Mayor Tom Barrett. “The renaissance in the heart of our city.”

The crown jewel of this bid is the new Fiserv Forum, home of the Milwaukee Bucks. At the center for planning “Milwaukee 2020” is Alex Lasry, senior vice president of the Milwaukee Bucks. As he watched Amazon look to locate its second headquarters, he was frustrated Milwaukee wasn’t even on the early map of dozens of cities. “Milwaukee should be on par with cities on that list, but it was never mentioned,” he says with a sigh of frustration. “It’s the bestkept secret, and this is our way of changing that. It’s time for Milwaukee to come out of the shadows.”

Media coverage is lavished on the host city similar to levels of the Final Four or the Super Bowl, notes Lasry. Even once TV satellite trucks head out of town, the impact for a city lingers. Groups think of a city that played host to a major national event for future conventions, tourism or even as a place to relocate. Wisconsin DNC member Martha Love wants to make sure the local story shows Milwaukee as a city of neighborhoods. “We are making sure that our diverse neighborhoods can be presented in showing our city’s entertainment, arts and culture.”

The DNC city selection committee has visited Milwaukee twice; the second trip in December included Perez, who has strong family ties to Wisconsin. Restaurateur Joe Bartolotta, who sits on the board of VISIT Milwaukee, hosted the groups and says they left with a favorable impression. “They were surprised, I think, by how beautiful Milwaukee is from our stunning mix of architecture to our own little ocean.” He hopes hosting might even jumpstart other civic projects like the convention center. “If our secret gets out, that’s not a bad thing.

This would be a real feather in our cap.”

Milwaukee’s Progressive History

The event’s political nature is being downplayed by many organizers who want to keep the focus on Milwaukee. Indeed, Lasry says they’d be doing the same to lure a Republican Party convention. The process thus far has had virtually no detractors. But Milwaukee is a city steeped in Democratic politics, and Wisconsin has been at the center of the political universe during the last decade—from the uprising against Scott Walker’s Act 10 to being a state that gave the presidential victory to Donald Trump by a very narrow margin. Now, it’s also known for electing Democrats to every statewide seat last November.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore sees this as a chance for redemption: “Our state is the birthplace of the Progressive movement. It’s clear we started our return to those values in the recent midterms, but now, it is time to bring Wisconsin principles to the White House. The Midwest is key to the 2020 election and hosting the convention in our neighborhood is the perfect way to help us cross the finish line.”

And Love, who has attended conventions going back to the 1980s, is eager to showcase the deep African American political role in state politics going back to trailblazer Vel Phillips, elected as Wisconsin Secretary of State, and up to the most recent election of Mandela Barnes as Wisconsin’s first black lieutenant governor and Kalan Haywood, age 19, as the youngest legislator in the country.

Mayor Barrett says it’s good for Democrats to see “Milwaukee challenges in education, poverty and housing” and talk about addressing them here and nationwide. “Business leaders I talk to see it as rebranding Milwaukee. The fact that we’re in the final three tells you how far Milwaukee has come. Yes, we have our challenges, but we’re fighting back.”

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What’s in it for Local Business?

Tim Sheehy, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, is raising money for the bid. He says businesspeople view this through an economic lens: A big “M” for Milwaukee and a little “p” for politics. “Their view is we are spending for Milwaukee, and I represent the green party.”

He elaborates that green (as in money) will come in two forms. One is the spending that occurs during the convention—a surge revenue

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stream. And two is the “green that comes from the exposure being the center of attention of the world, arguably. Both make it valuable.” It’s a chance for businesses to pitch their products, make money and recruit new talent, including the many young professionals sure to attend the convention.

But what’s in it for the average Milwaukee citizen or a mom-and-pop store? The team is already working towards ensuring that any Milwaukee small business—and particularly diverse businesses—see a boon. Love and the Milwaukee Urban League has hosted a number of “2020 Supplier Diversity Registration Sessions,” and more are planned for 2019.

The league talks with women’s groups, minority chambers of commerce, BIDs (Business Improvement Districts), LGBTQ groups, veterans’ groups and neighborhood groups. The DNC requires that a local vendor directory from these groups be set up within 90 days of signing the contract. It adds the list should include “office furniture rental, office supplies, technology support and rental, floral services, messengers, transportation support and rental, security services, communications providers, exhibition services, food and catering, childcare, etc.”

Bartolotta knows the hospitality industry— especially restaurants, cabs, Uber, Lyft and hotels—would see a huge spike in business. “The spending that occurs is great for our economy, and it does have a trickle-down effect. July

tends to slow down. I have 1,000 employees, and the waitresses will get good tips, and the cooks will get good hours.”

It can benefit startups and entrepreneurs, too, says Gener8tor’s Maggie Brickerman: “The convention relies on hundreds, if not thousands, of vendors and places a priority on engaging with local and diverse businesses, so startups could gain significant business. Even those that aren’t direct vendors will benefit from the spotlight on the city.”

‘We’re the City That Will Host the Best Event.’

Wisconsin weather actually works in its favor given the mid-July dates. The two competitors are hotter and subject to hurricane season.

“Every sign points to Milwaukee,” says Barrett, noting there has also not been a Democratic National Convention anywhere in the Midwest outside of Chicago since it was held in St. Louis, Mo., in 1916.

The first DNC delegation visited at the perfect time to answer the criticism of Milwaukee being too small for such a large crowd. They arrived 48 hours after the ribbon was cut on the new stadium and 48 hours before 100,000 people rallied for Harley-Davidson’s 115th anniversary. On the plus side, getting around is less time-consuming, and the city is affordable.

The DNC convention would not even be on the table were not for the Bucks’ new stadium.

It adds another big advantage in that it is the

newest state-of-the-art stadium venue in the nation right now, and the Bucks are certainly doing their part right now with a winning record and a spotlight on superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.

So, where does all this leave Milwaukee?

Ask the Buck’s Lasry about Milwaukee’s chances of being picked from the three finalists, and he starts off cautiously: “33%.” But, after a pause, he adds, “If we are able to tell our story and let everyone know about Milwaukee, then we’ll get it. We’re the city that will host the best event.”

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HOW TO GET INVOLVED, HOW TO HELP When running the Milwaukee Urban League’s 2020 Supplier Diversity Registration Sessions, Martha Love says the number one question she gets about bringing the Democratic National Convention to Milwaukee is: What can I do to make sure this happens? “The community is energized! People are saying: How can we help?” Love attests.

“I tell them to watch YouTube videos of past conventions; you’ll see printing, lights, confetti, balloons, areas for people expressing opinions, table displays, bottled water, food trucks...”

Here are some ways Love suggests people like you can help in this important effort: n Potential vendors should go to milwaukee2020.com to fill out a supplier registration. The site is also a place to register support or sign-up for email updates. n Become an ambassador for Milwaukee. “Talk the city up on social media, tour the city.

We never do a tour of our city ourselves, and we should. Then, share it so people can see all the richness in our city and neighborhoods,” Love says. n Use #Milwaukee2020 and like/follow the effort on Facebook and Twitter: @Milwaukee2020. It’s that simple. “We’re all set,” says Love. “We just need for them to say ‘go!’”

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Spotlighting Historic Landscapes Could Benefit Milwaukee

STORYTELLING ABOUT PLACES AND PEOPLE HELPS PROMOTE CITIES ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL

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ilwaukeeans have inherited a treasure trove of historic parks and other public landscapes rivaling in significance those in Chicago, Minneapolis and other major cities. Nonetheless, Milwaukee’s landscape heritage has not been fully chronicled—so it is less known and accessible than some other cities’.

For example, a librarian at Milwaukee’s Central Library said recently that one of the most-requested references that does not exist is a comprehensive history of Milwaukee’s parks. That’s a missed opportunity for Milwaukee, since cities that showcase their many-layered histories also tend to exude present-day dynamism, rather than seeming like “Anywhere, USA.” Some key facts offer clues about how Milwaukee County created a park system noted as a national model. One milestone occurred in 1889 when the city’s new park commission hired Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture, to help select sites for a foundational “park system,” a concept Olmsted invented. Olmsted designed three of the initial seven: Lake, Riverside and Washington, as well as Newberry Boulevard linking the first two. Lake and Washington parks remain shining examples of Pastoral and Picturesque landscape styles.

Warren H. Manning, Olmsted’s planting designer, supervised construction of Milwaukee’s Olmsted-designed parks and continued consulting with park commissioners until 1907.

Manning, dubbed America’s first “environmental planner,” designed Mitchell and Kosciusko parks as well as landscapes for Downer College and prominent Milwaukeeans.

Subsequent park development and city planning was spearheaded for 40 years by visionary and pragmatic Milwaukee Socialist Charles B. Whitnall. In 1907 he was appointed to both Milwaukee County’s new parks commission and the city’s Public Land Commission. In 1927 Alfred L. Boerner, a Cedarburg-born landscape architect, was hired to design county parks and supervise their construction. He and Whitnall built upon Olmsted’s ideas about parkways, park systems and naturalistic landscapes that also serve recreation. Boerner’s triumphs include Brown Deer and Whitnall parks, as well as Boerner Botanical Gardens. Much county park development was assisted by Depressionera work programs.

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in 1870 by Milwaukee’s Public Works Department to design the city’s first planned park.

Overlooking Lake Michigan, it was eventually named for Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee’s first mayor. Cleveland presciently planned for drainage and erosion control, as well as beauty.

The Transcendentalist and conservationist had designed Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., with Robert Morris Copeland in 1855.

Cleveland briefly worked with Olmsted before moving to Chicago to practice landscape architecture in 1869; they remained lifelong friends.

In 1873, Cleveland wrote a seminal book titled Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West; with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains. He encouraged designing cities around natural topography (rather than rigid grids), planting street trees and managing forestry—in an era of rampant clearcutting. He wrote, “No such thing as a system of street [tree] planting under municipal regulation has, to my knowledge, been adopted by any city in the country.” His eventual crowning achievement was working to plan and design the Min-

Forest Home Cemetery in 1850. He modeled it after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, America’s first “rural cemetery,” which he had visited. He emphasized existing rolling terrain, trees and floral plantings to create a peaceful, parklike setting. Early settler Byron Kilbourn had recruited Lapham to work here in 1836, including laying out downtown streets west of the Milwaukee River.

More recently, Modernist ideas manifested in landscapes as well as buildings. One major legacy is a downtown oasis with a grove of chestnut trees, designed by Dan Kiley, an internationally renowned landscape architect.

Surprisingly, when the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts recently announced plans to demolish Kiley’s plaza and replace it with lawn, his name was not mentioned. Kiley also designed the Cudahy Gardens to complement the Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum addition.

Landscape Art and Ideas

Landscape architecture frequently gets overlooked as an art form—despite being a direct way to experience a work of art again and again.

Olmsted once wrote, “Landscape moves us in a manner more nearly analogous to music than anything else.” Although enjoying landscape art does not require specific knowledge, understanding a place’s design, history and other factors can enhance appreciation of it.

The National Park Service defines a “cultural landscape” as “a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity or person, or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values.” According to NPS, there are four general types of cultural landscapes, not mutually exclusive:

MILWAUKEE’S PUBLIC REALM INCLUDES MANY DIVERSE CULTURAL LANDSCAPES. THEY REFLECT IDEAS SUCH AS THAT PARKS ARE THE “LUNGS OF A CITY” AND THAT “THE COMMONS” AND NATURAL BEAUTY SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ALL CITY DWELLERS. HONORING PLACES MAKES HISTORY ACCESSIBLE. neapolis and St. Paul park systems, including preserving the incomparable Mississippi River gorge as parkland.

Even earlier, pioneering Wisconsin scientist Increase A. Lapham intimately studied landscapes throughout the state. Lapham wrote the first book published in Milwaukee, A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin (1844). Renowned for helping to found the National Weather Service and chronicling Wisconsin’s flora, fauna, geology and Native American legacies, Lapham also laid out

historic sites, historic designed landscapes, historic vernacular landscapes, and ethnographic landscapes, which contain “a variety of natural and cultural resources that associated people define as heritage resources,” including religious sacred sites and massive geological structures.

Milwaukee’s public realm includes many diverse cultural landscapes. They reflect ideas such as that parks are the “lungs of a city” and that “the commons” and natural beauty should be available to all city dwellers. Honoring places makes history accessible.

Golden Opportunities

Charles Birnbaum, founder and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation based in Washington D.C., considers Milwaukee an ideal candidate for a collaborative effort to develop comprehensive documentation of historic landscapes for TCLF’s online searchable database.

Birnbaum wrote in a recent email, “When initiating these efforts, the first step is to compile a list of sites and designers that we should focus on as we develop our research. We endeavor to work with local collegiate educators and their students, municipal agencies, nonprofit groups, local landscape architects and history/preservation professionals to inform that list.”

TCLF also hosts “What’s Out There Weekends” with free interpretive tours led by expert guides. The weekends, held annually in different cities, “highlight the unique landscape legacy and local character of each city, defined by its publicly accessible parks, gardens, plazas, cemeteries, memorials and neighborhoods.” An extension of TCLF’s database, What’s Out There Weekends “draw people out into their communities to experience first-hand the landscapes that they see every day but often overlook.”

Recently highlighted cities include Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Nashville and San Antonio.

“Olmsted 2022—The Legacy,” a nationwide celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth, will be another chance for Milwaukee to shine. Milwaukee trails only Boston, Buffalo, Louisville and New York in number of parks designed by the “father of American parks.” Organizations throughout North America have begun planning to honor legacies of Olmsted and the successor firm headed by his sons.

Why History Matters

In “Why the Past Matters,” published in 2000 by the Wisconsin Magazine of History, William Cronon wrote, “What saves the past is the stories we tell about it. It is our stories that take dead objects and boring documents and make them live again.” Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the UW-Madison. His title itself honors a fellow esteemed historian from Portage, Wis. Cronon concludes “Let us seek to know the worlds we have lost, the people and creatures and institutions and landscapes and ideas that have made the world we now inhabit… In remembering, we remember ourselves.”

Cronon and other UW scholars have long led in studies relating to landscape history and land conservation. In Milwaukee, numerous scholars study and teach about urban landscapes, including Arijit Sen and Joseph Rodriguez at UW-Milwaukee, and Michael Carriere at Milwaukee School of Engineering. The City of Milwaukee’s Historic Preservation Commission offers guidelines for preserving historic assets, including landscapes.

Collectively honoring historically and culturally significant landscapes could help inform civic decision making. Without concerted attention, Milwaukee’s landscape heritage faces underappreciation, neglect or even random erasing and replacing.

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LOCAL LANDSCAPES IN THE NEWS Milwaukee’s Dan Kiley -designed grove at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts The Cultural Landscape Foundation recently wrote in a media release:“To have, within blocks of each other, two public projects [at the Marcus Center and Milwaukee Art Museum] that bookend the civic career of one of the most important post-war landscape architects is of great cultural significance for the City of Milwaukee—a distinction that once forfeited can never be regained, and one that should be carefully weighed against the center’s plans, especially given its stated mission to provide ‘the best of cultural and community programming.’ This important public space is leased by the County of Milwaukee to the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, and there should be public input before it is erased forever. At the very least, citizens and design professionals should be allowed to review and voice their opinions about the plans. There has, however, been no indication that either the county or the center itself will provide such an opportunity.”

Washington Park has been nominated for designation as a local historic district by Michael Carriere, an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Milwaukee School of Engineering.

The Historic Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote on the nomination on Monday, Jan. 14, followed by review by the Common Council’s zoning committee and then the full council.

The March on Milwaukee 50th Anniversary Committee is working to honor, with historic markers, sites in Milwaukee where Civil Rights-era milestones happened.

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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( JAN. 10 - JAN. 16, 2019 ) The Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump administration, as well as others who seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking-discussion get-togethers and any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

Thursday, Jan. 10

Democratic Socialists of America Milwaukee Chapter Happy Hour @ Lakefront Brewery (1872 N. Commerce St.), 6-8 p.m.

The Milwaukee chapter of Democratic Socialists of America will host a happy hour at Lakefront Brewery for new members to get to know each other and for others to come and learn more about the organization.

Saturday, Jan. 12

Peace Action of Wisconsin Activist Training @ The Peace Center (1001 E. Keefe Ave.), 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

This workshop, presented by activists and former fellows at the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking George Martin and Julie Enslow, will cover meeting facilitation, strategy chart planning, nonviolent direct actions and more. To register, email juliebenslow@gmail.com with the subject line “activist training” or call 414-745-5740.

Democratic Socialists of America Milwaukee Chapter General Meeting @ Milwaukee

Public Library (814 W. Wisconsin Ave.), noon-1:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 14

Wisconsin Working Families Party New Years Resolution Kickoff @ Working Families Party Office (413 N. Second St.), 6-8 p.m.

The Wisconsin Working Families Party invites the public to come talk about the party’s resolutions for the new year, which include elect more progressive candidates to fight for working families, strong public schools and justice. Food and drinks will be provided.

The Milwaukee chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America will hold their general meeting at the Milwaukee Central Library. New members will be able to learn about the organization and “educate, agitate and organize for the world we want to see.”

Wednesday, Jan. 16

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Capitol Drive and Humboldt Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action Wisconsin to protest war and, literally, “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee @ ComedySportz Milwaukee (420 S. First St.), 8-10 p.m.

Shawn Vasquez, Dana Ehrmann and sketch comedy group The Accountants of Homeland Security.

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is a monthly progressive political comedy show hosted by comedian, satirist and progressive talk radio host Matthew Filipowicz. This month’s show features Ton Johnson, Cynthia Marie, Jen Durbent,

District 3 Candidate Forum: MPS School Board @ Atkinson Library Community Room (1960 W. Atkinson Ave.), 6-7:30 p.m.

A coalition of community organizations have come together to host a candidate forum for the Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors. Candidates Catrina Crane and Sequanna Taylor will participate. The spring primary will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 19. The general election will be on Tuesday, April 2.

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hen Donald Trump announced his sudden decision to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan, I couldn’t help thinking about all those peace marches I participated in circling the old and new federal buildings in Milwaukee with some of the most decent, most moral people I’ve ever known.

Could one of the most indecent, immoral presidents in American history really transform himself into “Peacenik Trump,” hero of the antiwar movement? Surely not. We still remember “Madman Trump” bragging about the size of his nuclear button and threatening to rain down “fire and fury like the world has never seen” upon millions of human beings in North Korea.

Many pacifists opposing war are deeply committed Christians, but they’re not those rightwing Christians supporting Trump’s racial and religious bigotry. The Christians at anti-war rallies shelter and support immigrants and refugees fleeing violence in their own lands instead of slamming America’s door in their faces.

As a country, we’re certainly long overdue for a thoughtful national debate about what we’re achieving in the endless war since the 2001 attack on America. After 17 years, with Osama bin Laden long gone and other perpetrators imprisoned and tortured without trial, U.S. troops continue to fight all over the world, seemingly forever. So, sure, let’s have an intelligent national debate about war and peace and ending endless wars.

Big Gut, Small Brain

But, of course, Trump has never encouraged intelligent national debate. He simply woke up one morning and sent out a tweet immediately withdrawing all U.S. troops from Syria and half of its troops from Afghanistan. There were no military plans assuring troop safety. No one in the military—and nobody who knew anything about what’s going on in those countries—was even consulted.

Rather than wasting time on policy debates, Trump simply consults his own ample gut, which he brags is smarter than most people’s brains. Trump doesn’t rely on facts when making decisions. Constant lying is the most consistent feature of his presidency. The Washington Post’s fact checker documented an average of 15 lies or misleading statements a day from Trump in 2018—nearly tripling his 2017 mendacity rate from his first year as president.

Nearly everyone realizes the president rarely tells the truth, but many dismiss his pathological lying as a harmless presidential eccentricity.

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It’s not. His public dishonesty makes negotiating with our president impossible. That’s on glaring display in the non-negotiations to end Trump’s government shutdown. It also stymies countries seeking international agreements with an American president who routinely trashes international agreements.

Every measure passed last week by Democrats controlling the House of Representatives to end Trump’s government shutdown was part of a bipartisan agreement with the Senate that Trump supported. That was way back… several weeks ago. All it took was criticism from Rush Limbaugh for Trump to reverse himself. Now, he says, he’ll keep the government shut down for years unless Democrats agree to spend billions of U.S. tax dollars on a wall he promised voters Mexico would pay for.

Beyond the daily lies, Trump’s presidency has exposed the two biggest lies of his life.

The first is that he’s a master negotiator. It’s clear Trump never read The Art of the Deal, his own best-selling book actually written by Tony Schwartz, who has said of Trump: “He’s incapable of reading a book, much less writing one.” Trump’s brilliant negotiating strategy is to insist Democrats waste billions on a worthless 2,000-mile wall the majority of Americans oppose.

The second lie about Trump’s life is that he must be smart because he’s a rich businessman. The spotlight of the presidency exposed just how little Trump actually knows about… well, anything. That might seem like an overstatement, but he’s seriously impaired. Imagine how little any of us would know if, like Trump, we were incapable of reading. He’s either functionally illiterate or possesses such an infinitesimal, childlike attention span that he can’t concentrate on reading anything more than a few

minutes. The intelligence experts who prepare daily presidential briefings on complex world problems need to reduce Trump’s reports to pictures and flashy graphics.

That such a profoundly ignorant man could still retain an enormous family real estate fortune despite multiple bankruptcies is a public testament to the overwhelming bias of America’s laws and tax system in favor of the wealthiest among us.

There’s a very good reason why lack of education is one of the most important predictors of support for Trump and why Trump once publicly exclaimed, “I love the poorly educated!” That’s why no one in the anti-war movement would ever be foolish enough to believe any U.S. military withdrawals promised by this president. They know most of what he says never happens.

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hen people think of a community organizer, they often envision someone on the front lines leading a crowd, but Tammy Rivera often works in the background mending the building blocks of local community organizations. Rivera came into the Southside Organizing Center (SOC) as a consultant to restructure the organization and fix the finances, but after being there for six months, she knew she had to stay. Soon, she became the executive director and focused on the nuts and bolts that held the organization together. With a diverse background in community organizing, education and administrative leadership, she understood that the organization could not achieve its goals without first diversifying its funding and rebuilding its programming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Five percent of the movement is the romantic t-shirts, posters and rallies,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;95% of it is work.â&#x20AC;?

Every SOC program and initiative now relates back to its mission, which is to work with residents to ensure safe, livable and economically vibrant communities. If the SOC provides the leadership training and support for its residents, then the people of Milwaukeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Side will have a stronger voice when contributing to decisions made about their community.

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Four leaders from each group can be sent to SOCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership institute to learn leadership development. Rivera built the curriculum based on her extensive skillset which also teaches grassroots organizing and economic development. The idea, she explains, is for these people â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have a voice whether the SOC exists or not.â&#x20AC;? The SOC wants to put power into the hands of the people and give them the ability to dictate their future.

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The essence of the South Side is the power of pueblo. Born and raised in the shadow of the Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Point clocktower, Rivera understands this strength. The residents of this neighborhood struggle together, but they build change together and support each other. Rivera, herself, has been through this struggle, but in her words uses her pain as her superpower: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The affirmation is the pueblo.â&#x20AC;?

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Column introduction: Long demonized and riddled with negative stereotypes, cannabis is now becoming recognized and respected for its therapeutic and industrial properties, and state-by-state, draconian laws against the plant are falling away. Wisconsin has recently enjoyed a boom of businesses offering cannabidiol (CBD), the nonpsychoactive phytocannabinoid derived from cannabis species. A Wisconsin law signed in 2017 legalized the growing of industrial hemp. This month the Shepherd Express introduces ‘Cannabis,’ a new column dedicated to covering hemprelated topics, businesses and farmers.

LoveBootch Kombucha’s Cannabidiol-infused Brew ::BY SHEILA JULSON Jessica Peterburs has been making LoveBootch Kombucha—bottled tea obtained through fermentation of bacteria and yeast, known for its health benefits— for over two years. When she began infusing her product with cannabidiol (CBD), she realized she had something special. Her CBD kombucha became extremely popular at retail outlets, and she’s outgrown her second commercial kitchen in Muskego. In April, Peterburs is set to open Dispensary on Division in East Troy, Wis. Her new store will have a kombucha processing workspace in the back, along with a dispensary with CBD retail products and CBD-infused kombucha available on tap or in bottles.

Peterburs first discovered Hemp Rescue, a full-spectrum (CBD) product that she uses in her kombucha, at House of Nutrition, in Kenosha. She brainstormed with House of Nutrition owner Mark Wistar about how to introduce CBD to more people and came up with the idea to add CBD to her small-batch kombucha.

She started with lighter kombucha flavors, so that customers could taste the CBD’s grassy flavor and wouldn’t doubt that the product actually contains CBD. “From there, it evolved,” Peterburs said. “Customers trust that the CBD is in there, so I’ve been able to branch out with more flavors, and any regular flavor can be made with the supplement of CBD oil.”

The CBD oil supplement is added just before capping. Peterburs uses local products such as Urbal Tea, and she’s working with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to use the “Something Special from Wisconsin” logo. Her most popular flavors of CBD-infused kombucha are elderberry, blueberry and spearmint, brewed with herbal tea, so the only caffeine present is from the starter culture. Also popular is Sweet Greens, a newer flavor with dehydrated vegetables, fruit and ginger; mandarin ginger; and tangerine hibiscus.

Peterburs predicts that edibles and CBD-infused beverages will complement other retail CBD products like topical oils, while making CBD more convenient and approachable. “People like it in beverage form because they don’t have to put it under the tongue (like a tincture),” she said. “It’s a different way of consumption.”

LoveBootch Kombucha offers the beverage with or without CBD, currently available at several retail and farmers markets including Milaeger’s Great Lakes Farmers Market, which is open year-round. Some hemp-specific outlets carry just the CBDinfused kombucha. Peterburs notes that some stores where she never thought CBD kombucha would go over well is where it’s selling best.

Peterburs also holds fermentation workshops and sells symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, better known in fermentation circles as SCOBY. “I want to be a resource for everyone,” she said. “I will look at photos of people’s kombucha batches, answer questions and share recipes.”

The farmers market setting, along with store demonstrations and the upcoming opening of Dispensary on Division, allows Peterburs to dispel any myths about CBD and educate the public on whether CBD is right for them. Peterburs works in health care as an imaging services supervisor in ultrasound and breast imaging, and she’s a doctoral student in health studies.

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The Brat Burger ($7.89), a Milwaukee-only offering, tops a beef patty with a Usinger’s jalapeno cheddar brat that’s been butterflied and griddled. This sandwich also gets a smear of ShackSauce, along with outstanding ale-marinated and fried shallots. They’re like crispy onion strings but with a noticeable beer bite. You can also order the brat sans burger patty ($5) with the addition of American cheese sauce.

The ‘Shroom Burger ($6.89) forgoes beef for a substantial portobello mushroom ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI stuffed with muenster and cheddar cheeses before being breaded and deep fried.

With a core of molten cheese, it’s hard to pass up, and it can be added to a cheesehake Shack has been on my radar for a long time. When burger to make a Shack Stack ($9.59).

I wrote about Milwaukee’s burgers for Serious Eats many Though it’s not a burger, the Chick’n Shack ($6.39) sandwich did not get overyears ago, the editors of the New York City-based website looked by the Shack’s product developers. A thick chicken breast is cooked in published dozens of articles about Shake Shack—they buttermilk, then battered and fried to order. Crunchy whisps of batter surround couldn’t stop talking about their favorite burgers. So, in my the supple chicken. Shredded iceberg lettuce, a few pickle slices and a thick, mind, and in the minds of a lot of food obsessives, Shack herb-studded buttermilk mayo complete the package. (Protip: order a side of Shake has been a burger holy grail, but impossible to get that mayo for fry dipping.) outside of NYC. All sandwiches are served on Martin’s Potato Rolls, a brand of hamburger buns That is until they started opening locations all over the that, for some reason, doesn’t distribute to grocery stores in the area (trust me, I’ve world. It became a publicly-traded company in 2014 and has grown to over 200 locations. Now that this well-loved looked: the nearest is the Kenosha Woodman’s). They’re ethereally fluffy, squishy, and have a cult following all their own. They’re lightly toasted here, as all good burger joint is officially a chain, is it worthy of the hype? burger buns should be.

And can a non-local chain based on burgers and frozen Fries ($2.79) are crinkle cut, with a great ratio of crisp outside to soft interior. You custard compete here, where burgers and frozen custard definitely want to get them with cheese sauce ($3.79) and ask for it on the side so have been established for decades? they stay crisp. There’s enough cheese flavor in the sauce to satisfy any good WisShort answer: Hell yes! You bet Shake Shack is competing, consinite, and it stays smooth and flowing to boot. There is no shame in scraping and it’s throwing down. I don’t know how this location compares the last bit out of your cup with the little wooden fork they stick in your fries. to one of the originals, but I do know the food is damn tasty, even to us burger and As for the frozen custard, it’s hard to beat Milwaukee’s custard stalwarts, and custard aficionados. well, Shake Shack doesn’t. It does, however, offer a very good version, even better The ShackBurger is the signature offering and comes as a single ($5.39) or douthan some “custard” places here that pump it out of soft serve machines. Skip the ble ($7.99). It’s pretty as a picture, with a thin burger patty served seared-side up, a concretes and try a shake ($5.19+), which was on par with the local spots, instead. generous slice of yellow American cheese melted over it, exactly two slices (always There’s also a small variety of local tap beers, if that’s more your drink wheelhouse. two) of Roma tomato, a light smear of tangy mayo-based ShackSauce, and a single So, after all the years of pining for a burger I couldn’t have, I finally got it, and it green lettuce leaf, frilly side out, all photogenically bursting from the waxed paper lived up to my high expectations. Judging by the steady stream of customers into pouch it’s served in. This is the only restaurant I know of where the actual items the modern Third Ward restaurant, it seems many agree. I was worried about an look as good as the publicity photos. outsider like Shack Shake competing with our beloved local institutions, but I think Salt and pepper are used heavily on the beef patties. It’s Milwaukeeans will always be able to make room in their hearts enough to make you notice the seasoning but without that imand stomachs for more delicious burgers and custard. mediate thirst you get from someplace like McDonald’s. The beef Shake Shack is a proprietary blend made of Angus short rib, chuck, brisket and 220 E. Buffalo St. skirt steak, with no hormones or antibiotics. A nice crust from the CORRECTION: The Dec. 27 Short Order review of Strange 414-509-1080 • $-$$ Town neglected to mention that chef Mia LeTendre is also the griddle, similar but not as pronounced as Culver’s, lends extra flavor and texture. restaurant’s co-owner. shakeshack.com

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homas Hochheim of Smokin’ Ts had always enjoyed good food. Born and raised in Germany, he was influenced by his family of restaurateurs and chefs. His grandparents owned a restaurant and hotel in Germany, his father was in the restaurant business and his mother was a chef. When Hochheim was 13, his family left Germany and spent time in the Caribbean before settling in Florida.

Following in his family’s footsteps, Hochheim also began working in restaurants.

While managing a French classical restaurant in the Sunshine State, Hochheim was inspired by one of their appetizers, made with smoked shrimp, scallops and tomatoes.

Inspired by how smoke added such a satisfying, earthy-rich flavor to foods, he got the idea for Smokin’ Ts and created the sauce that would later become his full-time business.

Hochheim moved to Delafield, Wis., 15 years ago to work at his brother-in-law’s restaurant, Kurt’s Steakhouse; meanwhile, his smoky sauce was quickly becoming a hit with family and friends. He eventually met

the owners of a pickling business in Waukesha County, and they guided him toward state food licensing requirements and how to find a commercial kitchen. Hochheim and his wife, Jeannie, obtained food licensing at the end of 2014 and started producing and selling Smokin’ Ts sauce in 2015.

Although Smokin’ Ts is typically found in the barbecue sauce section of retail outlets, it’s more versatile than just for slathering on a rack or ribs or a slab of tofu. The complex flavor profile also makes it a fine dressing or marinade. “I don’t use liquid or artificial smoke,” Hochheim said proudly. “I actually smoke my tomatoes and onions in a smoker and process them into sauce afterwards.

That’s the difference.”

Hochheim said he also uses clean, simple ingredients and no preservatives, although he still gets questions about xanthan gum, which he said is a natural thickener derived from the sugars of corn. The two flavors, Original or With a Kick, are available in two sizes— 12-ounce bottles and two-ounce sample/travel size jars. With a Kick has added habanero, and that kick comes in about 10 seconds later at the back of the throat. Hochheim emphasized that it’s not a hot sauce, but “perfectly spicy.”

Smokin’ Ts is also gluten-free certified and vegan. “That’s a whole other demographic of customers. People usually don’t start out vegan, so they might miss the meat flavor, and the smoke really emulates that meaty flavor.”

As a salad dressing, Hochheim said Smokin’ Ts particularly goes well on salads topped with seafood, grilled chicken or pork.

It can be mixed with cream cheese to make a dip, it can add a smoky taste component to a Bloody Mary or enhance the flavor of “anything in a crockpot,” Hochheim said. “Everyone has a little different way of using it, some people like to put it on eggs or in a breakfast burrito, or they use it in a deviled egg recipe to bring out the flavor.”

Smokin’ Ts has won or placed in competitions, including the International Flavor Awards in Sun Prairie and the Wisconsin State Fair’s Eats & Treats competition. Hochheim sells Smokin’ Ts at several farmers markets, including the Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market and Milaeger’s Great Lakes Winter Farmers Market, as well as butcher shops, grocery stores, bakeries and locally owned shops in Southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

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A conversation with playwright Ayad Akhtar on ‘Junk’ ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER finalist for the Best Play Tony Award last season after a run at New York’s Lincoln Center and winner of the prestigious Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, Junk is Brookfield-native Ayad Akhtar’s fourth play. It’s also his fourth to be staged by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (The Rep) during a unique four-year partnership that’s grown even greater since Akhtar has joined its associate artist family and board of directors. A stage adaptation by The Rep’s artistic director, Mark Clements, of Akhtar’s Brookfieldbased novel, American Dervish, is now in the works.

Akhtar has continued to polish the script of Junk. Working with Clements, he’s just finished a new two-hour, intermission-free, updated revision that will premiere in Milwaukee Jan. 16-Feb. 17. That’s important, because Junk comes closer than any play I know to addressing our present troubled moment, its causes and its implications for the future.

The title refers to junk bonds. Akhtar’s fictional characters are based to varying degrees on actual Wall Street raiders, businessmen, lawyers, law enforcement agents and laborers from the 1980s, when massive debt became, for a few, a means of acquiring massive wealth. What follows is edited from a recent conversation with Akhtar about Junk.

Your new draft left me close to tears. It’s so frightening.

Yes. What’s happening to the country is frightening. The play is a kind of elegy to a lost battle. It tries to stage the battle again, so we can feel the poignancy of what has been lost and, in a way, the uselessness of the moral triumphs we’ve given ourselves in consolation for what we’ve lost. I think it’s not a coincidence that we have a man in [the White House] who calls himself the “king of debt.” To quote: “I am the king of debt. I love debt. Nobody loves debt better than me.” So, it’s all of a piece. The gap between perceived value and real value is the same gap that we now see between language and meaning, the same gap between appearance and reality that has engulfed our nation.

We are a people beholden to and completely infatuated with unreality. That comes from a kind of lack of collective confrontation with the gravitas of death and the endless franchise of limitless possibility represented by credit cards. We’re looking at corporate debt levels that are so extreme because of the years of easy money that the system has had, that all the smartest people I know think we’re headed for some really, really tough times. It’s the same story over and over.

We don’t seem to learn any lessons.

So, what are you going to do? Hopefully try to educate, entertain and enlighten people at the same time.

I feel the size of the matter, reading the play. At the same time, I don’t know how to measure the size of it. That’s why I said “frightening.”

I have a friend who used to be a trader and is now a private investor.

He walked out of the play and said, “I finally got it. I got what has happened to America, and it filled me with such tremendous sadness.”

Bill Moyers also had a thoughtful response, but it was about

his despair. So, in rehearsal, when I mentioned these anecdotes, one of the actors said, “Why write it if you can’t change anything? It’s hard to see why we should do it.”

Because it’s real?

I think we have to have some awareness of what we’ve become.

That’s a precondition for any possibility for there to be some counter to it. To know that the arc of history doesn’t necessarily bend toward justice. That it tends to bend toward the interests of the powerful, and they ultimately define what is right. And we have allowed the powerful so much power.

What’s happened to the conservative movement—which is actually not conservative at all, because they’re not trying to “conserve” something—is that they’ve become weird reactionary activists.

They’re progressives of a different ilk. And, I think their fundamental ideology appears to be that individual franchise, supported by untold amounts of wealth, enables individuals to be free enough to define a social order.

So, it looks to me like people like the Kochs, and others, think that their freedom from regulation, their freedom from law, gives them access to a consciousness, really, to be able to shape America, and [to] shape it in their interests.

Like the protagonist of Junk, Robert Merkin.

I want to show that Merkin is making the world. He’s concocting it. He’s a magician, really. He’s saying we can turn hope into a spreadsheet. You hope for a return? Give me a hundred thousand dollars, and I will fulfill that hope.

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The Brian McKnight 4 @ Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 8 p.m.

Though, like most R&B singers of his generation, Brian McKnight has periodically flirted with hip-hop, he’s never strayed far from the soft, sophisticated soul music that’s been his hallmark since his self-titled album in 1992. More than a quarter century and a dozen albums later, McKnight’s sound hasn’t changed much: On his most recent release, 2017’s Genesis, he’s still making music for candlelit dinners and intimate nights in the bedroom. Along the way, he’s sold millions of albums yet he’s never won a Grammy—despite being nominated 16 times, most recently in 2005 for his song “What We Do Here.”

Total Chaos w/ The DUIs @ Cactus Club, 8:30 p.m.

Street-punk legends U.S. Bombs dropped off of this bill, a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, but the night still features one legendary punk institution: Total Chaos, the California hardcore band founded by SOS Records co-owner Rob Chaos. For more than a quarter century, the group has been recording fierce, politically charged records, including their latest, 2015’s World of Insanity.

They’re joined on this bill by Milwaukee hardcore greats The DUIs.

Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials

FRIDAY, JAN. 11

Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials specialize in a particularly wide-ranging style of Chicago blues, leaning hard on the boogie. That band had been kicking around the city’s blues scene for years before they were signed by the famed Chicago blues label Alligator Records, which released their debut Roughhousin’ in 1986. More than three decades later, the regional blues festival staples are still on the label, which released the band’s ninth and most recent album The Big Sound Of… in 2016.

G. Love and Special Sauce w/ Ron Artis II and The Truth @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

G. Love and Special Sauce scored a hit early in their career with the cheeky single “My Baby’s Got Sauce” from their self-titled 1994 debut, but rather than fall into obscurity along with so many other novelty bands from the era, their blend of blues, folk and hip-hop found a welcoming audience in the jam scene. Garrett “G. Love” Dutton spent much of the ’00s as a solo act, recording a trio of albums on his own for Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records, and Special Sauce suffered a blow in 2009 when bassist Jimi “Jazz” Prescott quit the group. To the relief of fans, though, Dutton announced Prescott had rejoined the band in early 2014, a reunion that resulted in a pair of new records, that year’s Sugar and 2015’s Love Saves The Day. 20 | J A N U A R Y 1 0 , 2 0 1 9

Yule Ball 2019 @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7 p.m.

The gamers and fantasy enthusiasts at Oak & Shield Pub struck a nerve with their annual Harry Potter-themed Yule Ball, which proved so popular that this year it’s expanded to two nights. Attendees are encouraged to dress in their favorite robes, wizard apparel or cosplay outfits. Doors open at 7 p.m., but for an extra $10 there’s a Waltz Package that gets attendees early 6 p.m. entry and waltz lessons with professional dancers to prepare them for the night’s Champion’s Waltz. (Also Saturday, Jan. 12.)

Winter is Coming: A Pop Up Bar Experience @ City Lounge, 3 p.m.

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The six-episode final season of HBO’s smash hit “Game of Thrones” is still several months away—it’ll air in April—but City Lounge is helping fans pass the time with this high-concept pop-up bar. To judge from a brief teaser video the Cudahy bar posted on its Facebook page, it looks pretty elaborate.

It’ll run daily for three weeks, from Jan. 11 to Feb. 3, and feature a special drink menu and indoor and outdoor bars. There’s no cover, and costumes are encouraged but not required. Might we suggest a mock version of one of Rob Stark’s wolfskin coats?

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FRIDAY, JAN. 11 Jeff Dunham @ Fiserv Forum, 7 p.m.

While much of the country was surprised by Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, at least one comedian called it: Jeff Dunham. The Comedy Central mainstay says he knew Trump would win, based on how much support he saw for the billionaire at his live shows. Of course, that says as much about Dunham’s audience as it does the state of politics in America. Dunham became one of the country’s top touring comedians not only because of his unusual medium (he’s a ventriloquist), but also for his unapologetically conservative world view. He’s the Fox News Channel of the comedy world, channeling the anger of red-blooded Americans who feel under attack by cashiers who say “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas.” Some of Dunham’s puppets include José, a talking jalapeno pepper who wears a sombrero, and Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a sort of skeleton version of Osama Bin Laden. Ugh.

SATURDAY, JAN. 12 Seth Meyers @ The Pabst Theater, 8:15 p.m.

After joining the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in 2001, Seth Meyers has worked his way up the show’s ranks, becoming head writer in 2006 and a “Weekend Update” anchor shortly afterward. At a time when the pointed politics of comedy programs like “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” had begun to make “Saturday Night Live” and its softer strain of humor feel toothless in comparison, Meyers revitalized the program with his astute sketches about the 2008 presidential campaign, which featured Tina Fey’s candidate-defining Sarah Palin impersonation.

Meyers left “SNL” in 2014 to take over for Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s “Late Night,” distinguishing the program from its predecessors with more politically minded content, including its signature “A Closer Look” segments, which dives deeper into current events than the typical late-night comedy show.

He returns to the Pabst Theater to headline this Laugh It Up Milwaukee benefit event for the JCC and the youth organization Running Rebels.

January 21-27, 2019 Immerse yourself in art, science, technology and history as you explore some of Milwaukee’s greatest cultural assets – our museums.

PARTICIPATING MUSEUMS:

Betty Brinn Museum • Brew City MKE Beer Museum Charles Allis Art Museum • Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear Discovery World • Grohmann Museum Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University Harley-Davidson Museum • Jewish Museum Milwaukee Milwaukee Art Museum • Milwaukee County Historical Society Milwaukee Public Museum • Mitchell Park Domes • The Pabst Mansion North Point Lighthouse • Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum Wisconsin Black Historical Society/ Museum See a full schedule of activities at MKEMuseumWeek.org

SUNDAY, JAN. 13

William Fitzsimmons @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 7:30 p.m.

Nashville songwriter William Fitzsimmons specializes in hushed, vulnerable indie-folk in the spirit of Iron & Wine and Elliott Smith. Like so many similarly styled songwriters in the late ’00s, he gained exposure through song placements in TV shows like “Grey’s Anatomy,” and he doesn’t shy away from personal subject matter. His breakout 2006 album Goodnight was inspired by his parents’ divorce, and his most recent record, 2018’s Mission Bell, chronicles the collapse of his own marriage in often blunt terms.

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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre will present its eighth Young Playwrights Festival Showcase this month, celebrating the winners of its local high-school playwriting competition. Each of the three winning plays will be presented at each performance. The new plays are Pinta El Fuego by Markia Silverman-Rodriguez (Pius XI High School); 1-800-123-BOYS by Jazmin Reyes (Reagan High School); and The Divine Komedy by Max Engel (also from Pius XI). This year’s presentation will also feature an afternoon of “Honorable Mention” staged readings from three runners-up.

MCT’s Young Playwrights Festival Showcase is the culminating event in a series of free playwriting workshops at several Milwaukee-area high schools. Ten plays are chosen each year from an annual competition that encourages students to write original one-act plays exploring themes, genres and relationships from their unique perspectives. (John Jahn) Jan. 10-13 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com.

Cabaret Café Concert at Oconomowoc Arts Center

Father-and-son multi-instrumentalists Tom and Evan Leahy will be joined by accordion virtuoso Stas Venglevski for a program that draws from folk, Irish, Americana and bluegrass music. Tom and Evan are part of the long-running Irish folk band Leahy’s Luck, a band that has been performing for more than two decades. Venglevski, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1992 from the Republic of Moldova (formerly part of the U.S.S.R.), is widely considered a master of the bayan accordion.

Venglevski has performed with symphony orchestras in Milwaukee, Chicago and Tacoma, Wash., and has released 18 albums. Attendees at this concert can expect to hear the songs of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, among others. (Blaine Schultz) Jan. 11-12 at the Oconomowoc Arts Center, 641 E. Forest St., Oconomowoc. For tickets, call 262-560-3172 or visit oasd.k12.wi.us.

Things My Mother Taught Me

Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together; they’ve just completed a long road trip to their new home: Chicago. But moving in doesn’t go as planned, becoming especially unpredictable when all the parental units show up to help. Their furniture will not fit, the moving truck goes missing and their parents get into squabbles; what else can possibly go wrong?

The idea of “mother knows best” funnily gets flipped upsidedown in this heartwarming rom-com. As playwright Katherine DiSavino (Nana’s Naughty Knickers) explains, Things My Mother Taught Me “takes a generational look at relationships and how sometimes parents are passing their best lessons on to their children without even meaning to.” Racine Theatre Guild’s production stars Norgie Metzinger as Gabe, Lindy Ross as Olivia and co-stars Larry Rowe, Emily Mueller, Frank Russ, Mary Kveton and Savannah Bishop. (John Jahn) Jan. 11-27 at Racine Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave., Racine. For tickets, call 262-633-4218 or visit racinetheatre.org.

SueMo’s Winter Dance Concert

Symbiosis can occur when different organisms live in close association. New creative relationships with several Milwaukee artists from different disciplines have given birth to Symbiosis, this season’s winter concert by the ever-evolving five-year-old contemporary dance company SueMo: A Dance Experience. A live performance by spoken-word poet Brooklyn Lloyd becomes the beating heart of one new dance. A performance by drummer Jacob Durbin inflames the nervous system of another premiere.

The main event, a premiere titled Imagery Portrayed, responds to personal and organizational growing pains. Filmmaker and photographer Heather Mrotek, SueMo’s creative director, worked closely with founding artistic director and choreographer Morgan Williams, the dancers and a team of lighting designers to create a multi-storied, multimedia work on the subject of creative development and change. “It’s about the death of things that hold us back,” Mrotek says. “It’s about being reborn in our art. It’s about hard work; the dancers work hard.”

Williams compares it to beating the boss level in a video game and adds: “Once you’re through it, you can input the connections, you can share love, you can enrich the whole community and that’s all we want to do.” Seen in rehearsal, it’s very exciting.

(John Schneider) 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12 and 3 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org

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OPENINGS: Art Drop-Ins for Kids and Self-Care Sunday Various dates throughout January Lynden Sculpture Garden 2145 W. Brown Deer Road Lynden offers two “Art Drop-Ins” throughout January: One for children age 11 and up every Wednesday and one for children age 6-11 every Thursday. Kids can stay for 30 minutes or for a couple hours; visit weekly or stop by when an after-school activity is desired; bring a friend or sibling or go alone. Each week, Lynden introduces different materials, processes and themes and gets them started on a project. Also, Sunday, Jan. 13, sees the inauguration of Lynden’s “Self-Care Sundays.” From 2-4 p.m., join artist, author and activist Jenna Knapp for this series of workshops focusing on self-care techniques, including the creation of your very own trading card with an emphasis on self-love affirmations. For more information, visit lyndensculpturegarden.org.

“Responding—A Conversation in Color” Jan. 11-March 2 Gallery 224 224 E. Main St., Port Washington An opening reception takes place on Friday, Jan. 11, from 5-7 p.m. for the exhibition “Responding—A Conversation in Color,” at Port Washington’s Gallery 224. This exhibition features artists Martha Coaty, Erica Jane Huntzinger and Angela Pierro. It runs through Saturday, March 2. Throughout its run, Gallery 224 also features several poetry readings and workshops (including one on Sunday, Feb. 3, in which 10 poets will share works that were specifically inspired by the exhibition), a new “Drop in and Draw” program on Thursdays and “Photobook Conversations” on Mondays. For more information, visit gallery224.com.

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A&E::FILM [ FILM CLIPS ] A Dog’s Way Home PG W. Bruce Cameron adapted his own best-seller for the screen. It is narrated by its protagonist, Bella (voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard), who is a pit bull mix. When pit bulls are outlawed in her owner’s hometown, Bella is set adrift. Attempting to find her master, Bella meets various people and animals with whom she has adventures. Having written other books from a dog’s point of view, notably A Dog’s Purpose, released on film in 2017, Cameron’s sentimental storytelling hasn’t impressed critics, though he’s established a large following. Intended for the whole family, some scenes may be too intense for the little ones. (Lisa Miller)

Replicas PG-13 Reeves portrays Will Foster, a scientist poised to download human minds into electronic circuitry. When Foster’s wife (Eve) and their three children die in a car wreck, Foster decides to transfer their minds. Limited body-blanks force him to make impossible choices, a mere bump in the road compared to Foster’s company’s assertion that it owns his “recreated family.” Door-die action pushes the moral dilemmas out of frame, leaving a far less interesting film for us to contemplate. (L.M.)

The Upside PG-13 ‘On the Basis of Sex’

HOW RUTH BADER GINSBURG CHANGED ‘THE BASIS OF SEX’ ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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n the gray flannel tide flowing toward Harvard Law School, one person stands out. Dressed in blue and clutching a handbag instead of a briefcase, Ruth Bader Ginsburg advances, eyes aglow with hope and determination. On the Basis of Sex opens in 1956, when Ginsburg was one in a handful of women attending Harvard Law. The school had only recently begun admitting women, and barely a generation earlier, Harvard restricted the number of its Jewish students.

Just being there was a challenge, but Ginsburg was up for it. On the Basis of Sex folds her crucial college years and her first landmark case into a Hollywood mold, complete with stirring music at moments pregnant with expectation.

Yet, anyone familiar with last summer’s popular documentary, RBG, will recognize the new film’s overall truth. On the Basis of Sex didn’t have to work so hard to be inspiring. The story practically tells itself.

Felicity Jones is a believable Ginsburg, both as a young law student in the ’50s and—after the film jumps to the ’70s—the campaigner who challenged the inferior legal status of women in federal courts. Although her Brooklyn accent wavers, Jones conveys an inner life composed 24 | J A N U A R Y 1 0 , 2 0 1 9

of vulnerability and stubbornness. On the Basis of Sex is a love story as well as a law story.

While her husband, Martin Ginsburg (Armie Hammer), was sidelined by cancer treatments, Ruth attended his law classes and helped him graduate. Martin became a successful tax attorney and supported Ruth professionally and personally. They shared parenting—and he was the better cook.

Some of On the Basis of Sex’s best parts reflect on the early years when intelligent women weren’t necessarily taken seriously or afforded opportunities. Despite her sharp mind and prodigious memory, Ginsburg was hard put to establish a legal career. Even as a Rutgers professor, she felt patronized and dismissed. But a renewed women’s movement brought the lower status of women into question. According to On the Basis of Sex, a lasting impression was made on Ginsburg during a Harvard lecture on precedents.

Judges are bound by them, the professor said, but added that significant social and cultural developments—not a shift in weather but a change in climate—should lead courts to new interpretations of basic principles.

On the Basis of Sex is also good at On the showing the evolution of Ginsburg’s Basis of Sex ideas and approach Felicity Jones in context of the risArmie Hammer ing women’s moveDirected by ment. It was colMimi Leder laborative. She took her crucial early test Rated PG-13 case, involving discrimination against a man in a tax matter, at her husband’s suggestion and against the initial advice of the ACLU. On the Basis of Sex is a reminder that only half a century ago, women were usually barred from many responsibilities by law as well as social custom. Ginsburg went to the forefront as a leading intellectual in the fight for change.

A depressed billionaire widower and quadriplegic, Phillip (Bryan Cranston) hires recently paroled convict Dell (Kevin Hart) as his caregiver, hoping Dell’s sloppiness will hasten Phillip’s death. Instead, Dell insists they have all the fun money can and can’t buy. Seeking comedy from this odd-coupling, the story brings both Nicole Kidman and Julianna Margulies on board as Phillip’s potential love interests. Remaking popular French comedy Intouchables, the script soon becomes predictable. While the story avoids making meaningful insights, it remains watchable thanks to the talented cast. (L.M.)

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Robert Altman was always a keen observer of contemporary America. With Gosford Park (2001), the director took an elegant detour into “Masterpiece Theatre” territory. Set in 1932 on an English estate, the “Upstairs Downstairs” dynamic of feckless aristocrats and busybody servants has seldom been better displayed. Sly subversive humor is heard amidst simmering resentments and cruel cut-downs in a society where snobbery is felt on all levels. Naturally, a body is found in the library.

n New Wave: Dare to be Different

One problem with this documentary on Long Island’s WLIR: the persistent claim that the station (it went “new wave” in 1982) was the first for everything.

Someone even says they were first to play The Police’s “Roxanne” (sorry, I heard it in Milwaukee in ’78). Truth is WLIR was part of a larger wave but, given its location, it had influence. New Wave catches the giddy fun of a time when U2 was groundbreaking.

n An Afghan Love Story

The contemporary Kabul of Barmak Akram’s film has cybercafés and condos, yet old customs remain in place. Romantic affection is expressed furtively.

Sex happens anyway, and with it pregnancy outside marriage. For the young law student Wajma, this is worse than a dead end or a difficult choice. “Based on several true stories,” An Afghan Love Story is a tragic and believable look at a country where everyday life continues despite the ongoing civil war.

n The Comedians

The cast was entirely black but the crew and producer were white in this apartheid-era cheapie. Released as part of the project, The Comedians is a lost 1980s South African flick intended for a blacks-only audience. The acting isn’t half-bad but the two-camera cinematic crudity is evident on every frame. The unconvincing story of a “magic ring” is set against the bleak vista of cementwalled housing with yards enclosed by chicken wire.

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(UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS), BY ALLEN GINSBERG, EDITED BY MICHAEL SCHUMACHER Kenosha’s Michael Schumacher has become Allen Ginsberg’s literary caretaker as biographer and editor. With Iron Curtain Journals, Schumacher presents the poet’s diary from his 1965 journey to Cuba, Czechoslovakia and Russia. A generous soul, he may have expected to find a viable alternative to Moloch but encountered something worse instead. Communist Cuba proved uncongenial for free expression and expelled him; he was arrested in Czechoslovakia and sent packing to the friendlier climes of Swinging London. In Iron Curtain Journals, Ginsberg jotted down aspersions against the “dogmatic mediocrity Marxists” and the heavy-handed Puritanism of the Castro regime, although he enjoyed watching Castro perform on TV. The Czech section of Iron Curtain Journals is sketchier—there, the police confiscated his journals and they remain lost in the archives of totalitarianism. The side trip to his parents’ homeland, Russia, went better, and he wrote beautifully of the country, spreading a torrent of ink across the pages.

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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

(OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS), BY JAMIE SUSSKIND Prophets predict the future at their own risk. That said, Jamie Susskind’s Future Politics was among the most frightening books of 2018. Philosophical and witty, erudite yet casual, the British author explores the consequences of developments occurring faster than the human eye can follow. Self-driving cars may make speeding impossible. “Good!” you say. How about algorithms “allocating social goods and sorting us into hierarchies of status and esteem”? It’s already happened in China. The “wealth” that once flowed to laborers will go instead to the patentholders of labor-saving tech. 3D printers are nifty, but what happens if no one needs factory workers? Our lives are quantified and he who owns the data might own us (virtually). What’s to be done when our perceptions are directed by search engines? Future Politics is a long book.

Tellingly, the shortest portion has to do with proposed solutions to the digital hole we’ve dug for ourselves. (David Luhrssen)

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ick Petrie is a Milwaukee thriller writer with advanced degrees from both the University of Michigan and University of Washington. While at Michigan, Petrie was given a Hopwood Award for short fiction, and during his time as an MFA candidate at Washington his story “At the Laundromat” won the short-story contest in The Seattle Review (a national literary journal).

Despite these early accolades, his foray into full-length fiction did not see immediate success. The fourth book he wrote was the first to publish, but that pioneering adventure tale, The Drifter, was soon nominated for an Edgar Award and won a Barry Award for best first novel. That book became the first in what is today the national bestselling Peter Ash series. Due out mid-January, Tear It Down is the latest Peter Ash installment, and readers will reacquaint themselves with the oftidiosyncratic Iraq combat veteran as he stumbles into new adventures in Memphis, where he has traveled to help a friend’s friend out of a difficult situation. In the process, he unexpectedly finds himself at the center of a jewelry heist and simultaneously entangled with a Mississippi ex-con on the lookout for a family heirloom dating back to the Civil War. Like its earlier chronicles, Tear It Down is filled with mounting adventure and peppered with exciting modern action heroes.

Petrie will appear at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, in conversation with WUWM Lake Effect’s Bonnie North. He will also speak at the Whitefish Bay Public Library at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

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.G. Nadeau, a sociologist and a long-term Madison resident, and his son Luc, an ecologist who lives in Longmont, Colo., just published the second edition of The Cooperative Society: The Next Stage of Human History. Off the Cuff spoke with E.G. Nadeau about the book.

projected to have about 11 billion people by 2200. It is too early to tell whether we will be able to “bend the curve downward” in order to reduce population pressures on our finite environment, so we rated this measure as “neutral.”

We don’t approach the issue of the cooperative society with rose-colored glasses. Rather, we present the best information available to objectively analyze past and future trends.

Can you give us a quick summary of what the book is about?

We organize the book into two main parts: First, we make the case that humans may be at an epoch-changing moment in the more than 200,000-year history of our species. That is, we may be on the verge of evolving into a worldwide society characterized by cooperation, democracy, reduced conflict, adequate resources for all and a sustainable relationship with the environment.

Second, we argue that we, as individuals, local communities, countries and at an international level, can take actions in the first half of the 21st century to increase the likelihood that a transition to a cooperative society occurs.

One of your findings is that democracy is on the rise. But what about the erosion of democracy under Donald Trump and in other countries?

That’s a good observation. Democracy has increased in fits and starts over the last 120 years. There were only 10 democracies in the world in 1900. There are more than 75 democracies today, with about half of the world’s population. There has been a slight erosion in “full democracies” in the first part of the 21st century—including during the Trump administration in the United States. But, based on long-term trends (and the recent midterm elections), the movement toward increased democracy appears likely to continue.

That sounds like a pretty ambitious and optimistic agenda. What information do you present to support your contention that we may be on the verge of a cooperative society?

In the first part of the book, we present seven measures related to whether or not we are trending toward or away from a more cooperative society. These measures are: concentration of economic power, economic inequality, conflict, democracy, population change, quality of life and the environment.

Looking at worldwide data, it turns out that during the 20th and early 21st centuries, we get mixed results on these measures. Economic power continues to be concentrated among a relatively small number of corporations and governments; economic inequality persists around the world; and we are abusing the environment, especially in terms of global warming and species extinction.

On the positive side, conflicts, as measured by war, deaths and homicides, have decreased dramatically since the mid-20th century; the number of democracies and people living in democracies have experienced substantial growth over that same time period; and, especially in the last 30 years, the quality of life for people around the world has improved significantly. For example, the number of people living in extreme poverty has been reduced by half. In terms of population growth, we are

With these trends going in opposite directions, how can you be optimistic about the future?

As we write in the conclusion of the book: “The jury is still out on whether or not we are transitioning to the cooperative society. However, as we have stated throughout the book, we are not merely passive observers of these trends and countertrends. As humans, we can shape our own history.”

That is the ultimate message of this book.

We, as a species, are not destined to destroy ourselves and our planet. We can make the transition from a destructive society to a cooperative one. And we can make major progress on that transition between now and 2030.”

Each of us plays many roles in society.

We are voters, consumers, jobholders, members of families and communities. In all these roles, we can take actions to make our society more cooperative—for example, voting for candidates who support a less divisive society; purchasing products and services that promote the health of the environment; volunteering with, or donating to, organizations that improve the quality of life of our fellow humans.

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::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Jan. 10—LGBT+ Adult Game Night at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): Pop over to this 5-7:30 p.m. party for a night of fun and friendship.

The center provides the games (or bring your own), so you can enjoy a sober and safe place to meet new folks. Free and open to all 18 and older, the night also includes light non-alcoholic refreshments. Swing by mkelgbt.org for more on this monthly gamenight gathering.

Jan. 11—Out at Wilmot Mountain Ski Resort at Wilmot Mountain (11931 Fox River Road, Wilmot): Whether you want to grab your skis and hit the slopes, sled down Tubing Hill or simply enjoy a cocktail in the lodge by the fireplace, this 5-10 p.m. night can’t be beat when you’re surrounded by like-minded friends. Hang on to your ski lift ticket for free admission to the 10 p.m. after-party at Club Icon (6305 120th Ave., Kenosha).

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Jan. 11-12—Yule Ball at Turner Hall Ballroom (1040 Vel R. Phillips Ave.): This annual celebration of wizards, witches, spells and spirits has become so successful, organizers extended the party to two nights this year. Open at 7 p.m. both evenings, this adultsonly, Harry Potter-themed party encourages guests to wear their finest robes, gowns and/cosplay attire for a bewitching evening of dancing, cocktailing, shopping (be sure to visit “Vendor Alley”) and more. Admission is $25 at the door or purchase tickets in advance at Oak & Shield Gaming Pub (600 E. Ogden Ave.).

Our adult son came out to us in March 2018. I believe that my husband and I are very supportive (my husband’s brother is also gay), and we wish nothing but happiness and success for him. We’re super supportive of LGBTQ people, and we love our son.

He tells us he’s been happily dating someone for several months now. He tells us how happy he is with this man, but he refuses to introduce him to us. We were excited to meet this man over the holidays, but no luck. We don’t get it. We want to share in his happiness, but he just won’t let us meet his boyfriend. He won’t even give us his last name, presumably so we can’t look him up on social media. Speaking of which, our son seems to have no photos of this mystery man on his social media pages. (Not that we’ve been trolling. LOL.) Is there something our son is hiding? Are we not as supportive as we think? Is this guy imaginary?

Jan. 12—Drag Storytime in MKE at Gathering Place Brewing Company (811 E. Vienna Ave.): After a short break, this free, family friendly morning is back! Join Tempest Heat as she reads the kids a story or two encouraging acceptance, individualism and love. Bring a donation (a children’s book, a gym ball or money), and receive a free raffle ticket. The story time runs 11 a.m. to noon; contact arodriguez@thriveservicelearning. org with questions or to learn about volunteer opportunities.

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Let you son call the shots here. You say he’s an adult, so let him make his own decision where this is concerned. Maybe he just doesn’t feel the time is right. Perhaps he’s not as sold on this guy as he says he is.

Who knows? There could be a slew of reasons that he’s not ready to bring his boo into the family fold, and that’s OK. Keep being the supportive parents you are and let him deal with his dating life as he sees fit.

Jan. 12—Name & Gender Change Clinic at Neighborhood Law Clinic (2312 S. Park St., Madison): The team at Trans Law Help Wisconsin host this informative seminar.

The free 1 p.m. clinic offers two hours of useful tips and hints to navigate the complexities of name and gender changes in the eyes of the law.

Jan. 12—“A Miltown Variety Show” at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): A $5 cover charge gets you into this 10 p.m. revue hosted by the Miltown Kings. Enjoy the talents of your favorite drag kings alongside up and coming acts that are sure to take the city by storm.

Jan. 13—Commando January Chili Cook Off at Kruz (354 E. National Ave.): Oh, boy! The guys of the Castaways MC Levi/Leather social group are at it again, hosting another Sunday Funday! A chili cookoff takes center stage during the 3 p.m. event (arrive right at 3 p.m. if you want to submit an entry). Raffles, beer and soda busts, food and more make this a Sunday that’s sure to beat the winter doldrums.

Ask Ruthie a question and share your events at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Don’t miss her hilarious reality show on YouTube—“Camp Wannakiki!”

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019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. For LGBTQs, it will be a year of tempered celebration. Although one would think the strides made in the struggle for LGBTQ equality over the past half century would be “etched in stone,” as the saying goes, the outlook for LGBTQs remains difficult to predict. November’s Blue Wave and the opening of the 116th Congress, the most diverse in history, is cause for optimism. Our ruling body now includes 10 LGBTQ-identified members and more than 100 women with a

Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. A trans flag now hangs outside the office of Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-Virginia), who is the aunt of a trans child.

Arizonans elected the first bisexual member of the Senate, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Here in Wisconsin, we ousted Governor Scott “Butinaskaya” Walker and elected Democrat Tony Evers.

This may stem the tide of the last two years of setbacks, especially given Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s commitment to the Equality Act to insure LGBTQ rights.

But, hate and fear remain virulent. Advocate magazine published a list of the world’s “Top 10 homophobes” of 2018. Competing with the Brazilian, Tanzanian and Malaysian heads-ofstate were a parade of Republican functionaries. With that and all the mayhem of the closing weeks of 2018, I checked the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) social media page to see what they were saying. After all, these are the folks who helped usher in the regime with all its horrors and have since been quite chuff with themselves that they did.

I found the usual joust between LCRs and their detractors. Someone mentioned the obvious GOP threats to LGBTQ rights to which one gay regime loyalist blithely made the inevitable

bitch-slap-worthy reply, “What more ‘rights’ do I need?? We have gay marriage legal across the land. I don’t get what gay activists are still asking for or even needed!”

Needless to say, that quote came without acknowledgement of the party’s inherent opposition to LGBTQ marriage, adoption, trans military members, health care, etc. A Republicanengineered rollback of civil rights in deference to religious exemptions is well underway. The ACLU lists nearly 100 bills in State legislatures intended to abridge or deny LGBTQ rights. A proposed Arizona law forbids teachers from discussing LGBTQ issues in the classroom with the threat of firing if they do. A lesbian attorney’s reappointment to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was blocked by a single Republican senator because of her support for LGBTQ equality.

Locally, there’s Judge Gordon Giampietro, the regime’s U.S. Court nominee for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. His attitude towards the LGBTQ community has been described as “brazen contempt.” All that, plus the spike in hate crimes against LGBTQs, proves the need for gay activism now more than ever before.

Still, after the decade’s worst year for stocks and regime financial policies undoing

STILL, AFTER THE DECADE’S WORST YEAR FOR STOCKS AND REGIME FINANCIAL POLICIES UNDOING THE OBAMA RECOVERY, SOME OF MY GAY REPUBLICAN ACQUAINTANCES HAVE EXPRESSED SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT THEIR ONCE-RABID REGIME FEALTY. the Obama Recovery, some of my gay Republican acquaintances have expressed second thoughts about their once-rabid regime fealty.

Now that the value of their 30 pieces of silver has plummeted, they’re hanging up their brown shirts (sorry, caramel) and clutching their pearls with voter’s remorse.

Meanwhile, Canada will mint a new dollar coin in celebration of LGBTQ rights. The USA will not.

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appy New Year to Ruthie, Paul, Christopher and you, our Shepherd Express LGBTQ fans! May 2019 be filled with love of self, love of others and love of life.

On New Year’s Day morning, I woke up with a cold that made me wonder if I should even go out to the movies on $5 Tuesday.

Would leaving my warm house and going out into the cold make it worse? Would I even be alert enough to capture the film’s meaning? Would I be coughing and sneezing all the way through the best parts? The movies won. After all, it’s the new J-Lo film Second Act, a comedy drama about a Puerto Rican working class woman from Queens who loves her boyfriend and wants to start a family, then finds herself in the luxurious world of a Manhattan products company, reconnects with her daughter and ultimately makes a choice: to tell the truth about who she really is. All I did was sniffle through the film, and yes, I caught a chill. I also caught the meaning of choices that we make in life and the impact on ourselves and others that those choices make.

Fast forward to that evening, and a friend stopped by unexpectedly to talk about finding meaning in life and, as I walked behind her SUV, I didn’t notice the sheet of ice below.

I fell smack down on the ice in my driveway right on my pelvis and hard on my right knee and leg. Man, did I wail; fortunately, she was there to comfort me. The timing of her visit was impeccable because we were able to comfort one another. I firmly believe external pain and bruising goes away faster than internal pain and sadness and bruises that hurt from messages that linger long past the messages we get.

I spent today getting x-rays, putting a natural healing cream, drinking expectorant and, of course, resting. It was while lying there in my bed, looking up at the ceiling, that I realized I need to comfort and care for myself more in 2019. I don’t do it enough because I’m moving so fast through life, wanting to see what’s new and next. As LGBTQ people, we are often in survival mode to protect our identity; the choices we make are around being honest with ourselves and others, being there for our friends and family as they are figuring out life along the way. How do we learn to comfort and care for ourselves and let that be enough? How do we move forward from each painful experience both internally and externally? How do we find time to look out for each other in our LGBTQ community while balancing self-care and self-love?

How could something so big and so trendy like self-care be such a big deal?

In his article “Self-Care is a Big Deal for LGBT People,” Adam D. Blum, founder and director of the Gay Therapy Center, writes about the five “B’s” for better self-care: Boundaries, Bodies, Breath, Being Grateful and Becoming Curious.

Boundaries. Many of us are afraid to say no. Deep down, we fear we’ll be all alone if we assert our boundaries. Ironically, the opposite is true. We’ll have more and better relationships when we learn to put our needs at the top of the priority list.

Bodies. Does the topic of getting enough exercise and good nutrition make your eyes glaze over? There’s no getting around the importance of caring for your body. Many studies show that exercise works better than medication for moderate levels of anxiety and depression, with no side effects.

Breath. What could be more boring than breathing? And yet, it is the fastest way to reduce our anxiety and feel more centered. Taking several deep breaths that go all the way into our belly reduces our heart rate. It is no coincidence that the work “spirit” comes from the word “breath” in Latin.

Being Grateful. One of the best ways to start feeling better is to reflect on what you have that is good. It takes practice to challenge that automatically pessimistic perspective.

Becoming Curious. Another way to say this is learning to track yourself. This means slowing down enough to occasionally notice our interior dialogue in addition to our behaviors. By cultivating curiosity, we get more raw data about what is actually true about ourselves. Without awareness, change can’t occur. It’s much easier to stay busy with the distractions of apps, shopping or entertainment than to take 15 seconds to notice, and the long-term good stuff comes from “noticing.” Being curious is simply remaining open to what is going on with you.

Self-care isn’t complicated, and I like it like that!

Until next time, Love, Carmen.

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back up. They returned last year to the stage in support of their first new album in ometimes a little time off can help one refocus and see four years, Life is Good on the Open Road. the bigger picture.

“Personally and creatively, it’s always nice to get a little space in any kind of relaFor the Duluth, Minn. genre-hopping band Trampled tionship, especially a musical one,” Simonett says. “We’ve been busy together for so

by Turtles, that was the realization a few years ago, long, we wanted to make sure to recognize when it’s time to relax a little bit and be prompting them to go on hiatus. After a string of busy apart and do other things. We want to keep this thing fresh and that’s exactly what years recording and touring, they felt it was time for a it did.” break. Everyone went their separate ways, filling their time However, at first it took some convincing to get Simonett on board to tour. He with their own music projects, including lead singer Dave had been recording and touring heavily on his own and wasn’t sure he would be Simonett with his project Dead Man Winter. ready to jump so quickly into Trampled’s heavy touring schedule.

Simonett also had time to do some production work But as he started writing the album’s title track, he changed his tune. for several bands, including Wisconsin’s Horseshoes & “I had gotten so burned out on touring, but I had to remind myself that it’s a Hand Grenades and Them Coulee Boys. He first became pretty special life and I’m pretty lucky to have it,” he says. “A lot of that song is me friends with both bands several years ago after meeting pointing to the parts of it that I really love about it and the adventure and unknown them at a small festival outside Winona called Boats and of it and keeping it fresh.”

Bluegrass. Horseshoes & Hand Grenades released their That feeling was certainly felt when the band reassembled for the first time in album The Ode last year, while Them Coulee Boys are hopseveral years in a Minnesota cabin in October 2017. It was a joyous ing to release their album later this year. occasion but also a sad one due to Tom Petty’s death. The band “I was off the road and they were going off to make would later cover Petty’s “Wildflowers” for a Record Store Day release.

Trampled records,” he says. “It’s just something I’ve been dabbling in a bit and “It was the weekend that Tom Petty died so it was a little bit somthe timing just worked. Both of those experiences were great. Both

By Turtles ber,” says Simonett. “It wasn’t somber being together. That part was bands are full of great people and they made really cool albums.

Riverside great. We hadn’t been in the room for like 18 months. So, there was They just reached out and asked if I would be part of that process. It Theater that joy of being back with these guys who are pretty much family was a real joy to do it.”

Saturday, Jan. 12, to me now. Mixed with sadness of one of our music and songwriting “The studio is my favorite place so just witnessing and being part 8 p.m. heroes passing away. So, it was a bittersweet time.” of the creation of an album is really special and probably one of my Sonically, the band sought to capture the energetic and loose feelfavorite parts of working in music.” ing of one of their shows. Instead of going into the studio and seeing He’s excited to have Them Coulee Boys as the opener for the what happened, they simply sat in a circle and played the songs together live. band’s Wisconsin shows this month.

“We did a lot of it live, us with our instruments in a room together, which is how “It’ll be great to see those guys again,” Simonett says. “Since I made their record, we started out recording and is still one of my favorite ways to do it,” says Simonett.

I haven’t seen them play any of that stuff live. So, I’m not only excited to hear the “It felt very casual and easy. I think that was a good way to get back together.” songs that we worked on but hear where they’ve gone since then, and to see them Trampled By Turtles play the Riverside Theater with Them Coulee Boys on Saturday, live since they’re such a great band.”

Jan. 12, at 8 p.m.

In 2017, the members of Trampled by Turtles decided it was time to pick things

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ach Pietrini is beaming with excitement for what’s in store in the year ahead. The Milwaukee singersongwriter and band leader is planning to perform as much as he can in the months ahead—including at South by Southwest—and to get into the studio at some point to record a new album.

But before that, he’ll mark the “end of a chapter” of the Zach Pietrini Band, with the release of new EP Denver Sessions (B-Sides).

It features an assortment of unused songs, many of which didn’t make the cut for his 2017 release Holding onto Ghosts.

It’s a collection of music made for and courtesy of his loyal fanbase. Pietrini and his band were barely out of the studio recording Ghosts when a fan named Kevin offered to fly them out to Denver to record in a studio there. The fan was studying in school to be a music engineer and had a connection at Side 3 Studios in Denver.

“Literally the week after we got out of the studio, a guy who is a mutual friend and a fan of our music basically offered us a trip out to Colorado,” Pietrini says. “First, it started as just me. And then it turned out he was ‘No, let’s get the whole band. We’ll do a 20-hour session. I’ll get you time at the studio.’ He just gifted us this thing.”

Pietrini began looking through his notes and demos to see what music he had available. Some were nearly complete while others were rough sketches of songs.

“I had a couple weeks to basically chart out a bunch of music and get some ideas down,” he says. “When choosing songs [for Ghosts], it’s not like I said, ‘These 6-7 songs are junk.’ I really believed in these songs. They’re part of me like most of my music is. A lot of it is me making sense of life.

“Sometimes you don’t have a place to use them, but you really enjoy them. It can be very frustrating,” he continues. “The reason I wanted these tunes was that I really believed in what they were by themselves.”

The band flew out to Denver for three days and spent two of them recording in the studio. Pietrini shared production duties with Zach Meyer, who had produced Ghosts.

“Zach is very talented and has a good ear,” Pietrini says. “He knows the stuff because he was in the studio for Holding onto Ghosts before that. The hardest part of recording is finding someone you can let your guard down, and they understand your sound because they’ve been living in it. But I can with Zach. It was a natural extension, where it was like, ‘Hey, we finished this one project, do you want to jump on this next one with us?’”

While the Denver Sessions songs aren’t as connected as the ones on Ghosts, they have a more varied sound.

“Americana can go in many different sonic directions. For the Denver Sessions, I took more advantage of that where it wasn’t bogged down by keeping everything in one family,” Pietrini says.

“I felt like I picked and chose between parts of that genre I liked best. Though it sounds closer to Holding onto Ghosts than what the next album will sound like. It’s in the in-between space where some Zach of it is channeling that old country sound, with Pietrini new rock sensibilities. It dived into rockier, Band Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen territory.”

Ultimately, Pietrini feels it helped that they Twisted were operating out of “abundance instead of Path shortage.” They didn’t feel the strain of a typiDistillery cal recording opportunity where it was “oh Friday, shoot, we got to get through this because it’s Jan. 11 our one shot.” & Instead, there was a relaxed feeling since Saturday, this was an opportunity that came out of genJan. 12 erosity. Anything that came out of it would be a bonus. He hopes this puts them ahead for the next record.

“Some of our biggest expenses are recording,” he says. “So, you usually start in the hole pretty far and then you hope that you can make it back. For this one, we didn’t have it hanging over our head.

Everything we make from that is going to go back into making the next record, and hopefully we’ll be starting out with a really nice

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budget. I’m hoping to get to the point where enough of the money we’re making from people liking and supporting our music just goes back into making more.”

The Zach Pietrini Band will play release shows for Denver Sessions (B-Sides) at Twisted Path Distillery on Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12.

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(RESONANCE RECORDS) Alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist Eric Dolphy was influenced by bebop, Igor Stravinsky, John Coltrane and—as much as anything else—birdsongs. He died young of undiagnosed diabetes while on European tour, shortly after the New York recording session that yielded a pair of LPs, Conversations and Iron Man. Those two albums are reissued as part of Musical Prophet along with what producer Zev Feldman assures us in his liner notes are the best of previously undiscovered outtakes.

Dolphy’s music remains remarkable and relatively timeless, soulful and spontaneous with an elastically rhythmic snap. On “Music Matador,” he draws from the joyous tempo of the Caribbean from where his family came. Dolphy drove the sax to its technical limits, but his assured humility seemed to whisper: “I’m not here to show off.” The three-disc set includes an extensive booklet.

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Nora Collins Strings Nora Collins has moved from suburban Milwaukee to Nashville. The change befits a singer who survived the local late ’00s boomlet of young women pursuing pop country in Taylor Swift’s wake. Ready for her national breakthrough, her latest release, Strings, finds her savvier than ever to the trends Music Row nowadays deems apt for commercial radio. Perhaps because she’s always had a bit of pop flair about her work, Collins’ venture into dance music doesn’t feel like bait-and-switch. Collins leans a bit toward tradition on Strings’ most empathetic cut where she invites Vince Gill for some background vocals. Elsewhere, she maintains local ties by giving Bluemound Road a lyrical namecheck. The great asset of her exuberant voice with a patina of twang remains an undiminished delight.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11 Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), Ali & Doug Duo American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Cowboy Up American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Larry Lynne Band (6:30pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee, Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys w/Westside Andy Cactus Club, Brendan Kelly w/Sincere Engineer (solo) & Bobby Flowers Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Obscured Birds (8pm); DJ: The Nile & Stephen (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Spiders From Milwaukee and David E. Kirby & his Memphis Cadillacs ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Concerts on Cramer Presents St. Mark’s Brass and Emmy Rozanski, Trombone Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Larry Lynne Solo (4pm) Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Full Band Open Jam w/host Tony & Co. (5pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, Gospel Brunch (12pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, William Fitzsimmons (7:30pm)

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 34 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Hobart Town Solution: 34 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Exceed 5. Rubbed out 10. Scaly creature 15. Angelou or Plisetskaya 19. Surmounting 20. Near East inn 21. Maxim 22. — — arms 23. Simple things: Hyph.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1984, singer-songwriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty’s former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.” That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There’ll be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you?

If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Virginia Woolf thought that her Piscean lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Self-expression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Computer-generated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now.

But at the time they were revolutionary. Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park’s pioneering breakthroughs. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m a big proponent of authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. Be an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach. Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make it” strategy: to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The students’ dining hall at Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1,250 gallons of the stuff became rancid. Rather than simply throw it away, the school’s sustainability officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you grow vegetables, fruits and grains on an acre of land, you can feed 12 people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you’ll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, you’ll need at

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least four times more water and 20 times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value. What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks? What’s the wisest use of your resources?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Modern kids don’t spend much time playing outside. They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while growing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the open air than prison inmates. And today’s unjailed adults get even less exposure to the elements. But I hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrological estimates, you need to allocate more than the usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind and sky. Not just because it’s key to your physical health, but also because many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you’re outdoors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): NASA landed its robotic explorer Opportunity on Mars in January of 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples. More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1557, Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented the equals sign: =. Historical records don’t tell us when he was born, so we don’t know his astrological sign. But I’m guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies and creating reciprocity?

In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance? In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a modest, one-story office building at 1209 N. Orange St. in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the U.S. claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware house thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal. No one gets in trouble for it.

I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will provide you with extra benefits and advantages.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People in the Solomon Islands buy many goods and services with regular currency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory.

Homework: I’ve gathered all of the long-term, bigpicture horoscopes I wrote for you: https://bit.ly/YourGloriousStory2019.

Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 877873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

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aisei Corp., a construction company based in Tokyo, announced in December 2017 that it would use autonomous drones to combat karoshi, or “overwork death,” reported The Independent.

The drones hover over desks of employees who have stayed at work too long and blast “Auld Lang Syne,” a tune commonly used in Japanese shops getting ready to close. A company statement said: “It will encourage employees who are present at the drone patrol time to leave, not only to promote employee health but also to conduct internal security management.” Experts are skeptical: Scott North, professor of sociology at Osaka University, told the BBC that “to cut overtime hours, it is necessary to reduce workloads.”

Yellow Journalism Ikea took advertising in a whole new direction with its print ad for a crib. The ad, which appeared in the Swedish magazine Amelia, invited women who think they might be pregnant to urinate on the paper to reveal a discounted price. “Peeing on this ad may change your life,” the ad read at the top of the page.

“If you are expecting, you will get a surprise right here in the ad!” Adweek reported that the agency behind the gimmick adapted pregnancy test technology to work on a magazine page.

Message Received Loud and Clear Linda Jean Fahn, 69, of Goodyear, Ariz., finally succumbed to a frustration many wives suffer. On Dec. 30, 2017, as her husband sat on the toilet, she barged in and “shot two bullets at the wall above his head to make him listen to me,” she told Goodyear police when they were called to the scene. Fahn said her husband “would have had to be 10 feet tall to be hit by the bullets,” ABC15 in Phoenix

reported, but officers estimated the bullets struck about seven inches over the man’s head—as he ducked. She was charged with aggravated assault.

I Love You, You Love Me What’s become of the beloved Barney the Dinosaur character of children’s TV fame?

Well, the Daily Mail has the answer for you.

David Joyner, 54, romped inside the big purple suit for 10 years on the 1990s “Barney & Friends” show on PBS, but now, he’s a tantric sex guru in Los Angeles who claims he can “unite a client’s body, mind and spirit through tantric massage and unprotected sex.” Joyner credits his tantric training with helping him endure the 120-degree temperatures inside the Barney suit.

Godspeed A woman led a Kentucky State Police trooper on a chase at speeds of up to 120 mph on Feb. 10, stopping only when another trooper managed to pull in front of her car and bring her to an eventual halt. According to the Elizabethtown News-Enterprise, Connie Lynn Allen, 52, of Goodlettsville, Tenn., told officers that she was “Mother Mary,” en route to pick up “Baby Jesus,” and that “God has given me permission to speed.” She also said that she had died six years ago. She was charged with several offenses and is being held in Hardin County.

Use Your Spidey Sense Alarmed neighbors in Perth, Australia, called police after hearing a child screaming and a man repeatedly shouting, “Why don’t you die?!” on Jan. 1, according to the Evening Standard. Multiple units of officers arrived at the property, weapons drawn, only to learn that the unnamed man, an arachnophobe, had been trying to kill a spider. His wife confirmed to police that their child had been screaming in fear of the eight-legged intruder. The spider didn’t survive.

Going Bananas Rogelio Tapia, 26, was arrested in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 31 after a dispute at a QuikTrip around 3 a.m. The store clerk and witnesses told police Tapia chased the clerk around the store and assaulted him with a banana after the clerk tried to intervene in a domestic situation. According to KCCI, Tapia caused about $1,000 in damage; he was charged with assault and third-degree criminal mischief. © 2019 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION J A N U A R Y 1 0 , 2 0 1 9 | 37

::ARTFORART’SSAKE

The Eyes Have It ::BY ART KUMBALEK

I

’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So yeah yeah, there was no regular Shepherd issue last week and if you enjoyed my absence, you’re in luck ’cause come next issue I’ll be on a week’s medical leave on account of having one cataract carved out of an eyeball—the other one due to be scraped out in February sometime I’m guessing, what the fock.

And you bet I’m sure as heck looking forward to this schmutz-removal, so much that I’ve been on the inter-focking-net pricing tin cups and canes so that when my procedure somehow gets botched, I’ll have the necessary means to earn a living.

So right now, I’m at the Shepherd office to pick up a couple, three items, whip out this essay and check the mail since I haven’t been here for a while.

And lo and behold, I got a package from my wouldbe guardian angel El Jefe out of Maryland, the “Old Line State,” containing a fabulous tub of Old Crow, I kid you not.

God bless the Jef’ because the Crow is the only thing I got for Christmas that I asked for. Once again this year, Santa, the fat fock, did not deliver to me the busload of Vegas showgirls I asked for.

Nor did he deliver the personal butler I requested, the one who would keep me seasonally sartorially

correct, manage my daily schedule such as it is, and make me a nice egg sandwich now and then.

So I really ought to cut this essay short and commence taste-testing the Old Crow to make sure it hasn’t gone bad. But before I do, I also got to tell you I noticed I received a letter postmarked sometime before Christmas. The writer asked me for advice, what the fock. He wrote: Hey Artie, the wife wants a new puppy for Christmas. I know they don’t sell them at your Best Buy or Old Navy. Any idea where I should go?

The letter even contained a self-addressed stamped envelope for my reply. Well, Christmas has come and gone, hasn’t it. Had I been able to reply in a timely fashion, this is what I would’ve wrote: Yeah, I’ve got an idea where you should go. How ’bout Divorce Court? Full disclosure: My scariest thought is whether or not animals get to go to heaven. For christ sakes, that’s all a guy like me needs is to spend his entire focking life busting his butt, finally gets puking sick, croaks, walks through the Pearly Gates and the first thing that happens is he steps right smack-dab into one heaping, heaving pile of dog-doo. Praise the lord.

And this is supposed to be for eternity ever-after?

I’ll tell you’s, I want to be buried with a rolled-up newspaper so that when I’m shaking hands with St. Peter and some canine starts humping my leg, I can give it one good ol’ whack right across the goddamn snout.

I pray they must go to the other place, ’cause spending a couple, three eternities in the company of household pets and assorted animals sure sounds like focking hell to me. Or at least that these creatures would have their own animal heaven where they could all go and sniff each other’s butts and leave mine alone. That I could live with ’cause when

it comes to other species—your animal and insect societies to name two—you can call me a “specieist,” but I firmly believe in a “separate, the hell with equal” kind of arrangement, you betcha.

So, before I go, I really ought to close-up Art’s Ba-ding! Boutique now that the holidays are mercifully focking kaput. But I see I’ve got one item left, so take it if you can use it. It’s yours: A very spiritual and holy priest dies and is swept up to heaven. St. Peter greets him at the Pearly Gates, and says, “Hello Father, welcome to Heaven! You are very well known here, and as a special reward because you are such a devout man, we’re going to grant you anything you wish even before we enter the Kingdom. What can I grant you?”

And the priest says, “I am a great admirer of the Virgin Mother. I’ve always wanted to talk to her.”

St. Pete nods his head to one side, and who should approach the priest but the Virgin Mary!

The priest is overcome with joy and says, “Mother, I have always been a great admirer of yours and followed your life as best I could. I have studied everything I could about you—every painting and portrait ever made of you, and I’ve noticed without fail that you are portrayed bearing a wistful expression.

Forever I’ve wondered what it was that made you seemingly so melancholy.” And Mother Mary says, “Honestly, I was really hoping for a girl.” Ba-ding!

That’s it. See you next time, I hope, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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