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Milwaukee’s Vivent Health Tackles HIV/AIDS Nationwide !::BY ERIN BERGE

ivent Health began in 1985 as the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW), a small social service organization. Recently rebranded as Vivent Health, the new name emphasizes the medical aspect of their services and their expansion outside of Wisconsin to St. Louis and Denver. According to Vivent’s CEO Michael Gifford, “We will do whatever we need to do to make sure our patients are well cared for, and that’s why we are expanding nationally.” He adds that Vivent Health is the only HIV medical home recognized by the federal government anywhere in the U.S. The HIV medical home concept is meant to address the poverty, drug use, homelessness, hunger and mental health that have fueled the HIV/ AIDS epidemic that has affected more than 1.1 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With all these societal issues working against HIV/AIDS patients, it can become difficult to manage their health.

Vivent Health uses a medical home system to ensure patients living with HIV/AIDS get their medication, while also supporting all other needs in their lives. “Vivent is about strengthening our response to the epidemic here in Milwaukee and all over the country. ‘Thrive together’ is in the tag line. That’s really important, because it’s about our patients and our staff coming together to help our patients thrive,” says Gifford.

Funding sources include Medicaid, insurance and revenue generated at Vivent’s pharmacy and from government grants. Five-percent of Vivent’s revenue comes from donors and special events such as the annual AIDS Walk. Vivent Health has been able to expand its services and locations. “It’s great fun to be able to do this, because we know the outcomes will be there. We know more people are going to get care; we know they’re going to be healthier,” says Gifford.

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Medical Home Helps Address Stigma, Discrimination

!"#$%& '()*+(,-& .#/0123#3& 4/5%3& 624& 7%27$%& $#8#10& #1& 9#$: ;/<=%%&"/8%&35%/.#$>&.%?4%/3%.&28%4&5"%&$/35&@A&>%/43B&C5"4#8: ing” after a diagnosis can oftentimes be difficult. People living ;#5"&'()*+(,-&354<00$%&;#5"&35#0D/3&/1.&.#3?4#D#1/5#21&;"%1& seeking medical care. According to Gifford, for example, an or: 5"27%.#?& 3<40%21& 2<53#.%& 26& )#8%15& '%/$5"& 4%6<3%.& 52& 27%4/5%& on a patient because they had HIV/AIDS a couple of years ago.

Such discrimination definitely still exists.

People of color are statistically more likely to have HIV; they of: 5%1&6/?%&04%/5%4&?"/$$%10%3&#1&D/1/0#10&5"%#4&"%/$5"B&;#5"&/&04%/5%4& 742E/E#$#5>& 26& E%#10& <1/E$%& 52& 4%/?"& 5"%& <1.%5%?5/E$%& 8#4/$& $2/.& outcome than do Caucasian patients. In Denver, Vivent was able 52&%F</$#G%&5"%&2<5?2D%&E%5;%%1&7%27$%&26&?2$24&/1.&H/<?/3#/13& through one-on-one patient care in their home medical service. )#8%15&'%/$5"&.%3#01%.&#53&D%.#?/$&"2D%&52&D/1/0%&/$$&/37%?53&26& care throughout a patient’s life. Services such as dental care, medical ?/4%B&$%0/$&?2<13%$#10B&73>?"#/54#?&?/4%B&622.&7/154>&/1.&"2<3#10&3%4: 8#?%3&/4%&/$$&?%154/$$>&$2?/5%.&/5&)#8%15&'%/$5"B&32&7/5#%153&?/1&/??%33& what they need immediately. Patients can sometimes struggle to find transportation to their medical appointments, don’t have proper housing or lacking food. The model of care at Vivent Health aims to 4%D28%&5"23%&5>7%3&26&2E35/?$%3B&/??24.#10&52&)#8%15&'%/$5"I3&8#?%& president of operations, Kevin Roeder. “We try to provide as many 3%48#?%3&/3&7233#E$%&#1&21%&$2?/5#21&624&5"%&7/5#%15&24&?$#%15B&/1.&;%& .2&5"/5&624&/&8/4#%5>&26&4%/3213B&E<5&(&5"#1=&5"%&D235&125%;245">&21%& #3&#5&4%/$$>&"%$73&/..4%33&32?#/$&.%5%4D#1/153&26&"%/$5"&5"/5&/4%&0%55#10& in the way of people caring for themselves,” he says.

(1&9#$;/<=%%&/1.&%$3%;"%4%B&728%45>B&$/?=&26&%.<?/5#21B&$#D#5%.& /??%33&52&"%/$5"&?/4%B&"2D%$%331%33B&5"%&35#0D/&26&+(,-&/1.&4/?#3D& /$$&/66%?5&727<$/5#213&26&?2$24&D24%&5"/1&;"#5%&727<$/5#213&;"%1& .%/$#10& ;#5"& "%/$5"& #1%F<#5>B& /??24.#10& 52& 5"%& !#3?213#1& ,%7/45: ment of Health Services (DHS). “HIV is, sadly, a poster child for racial inequity and outcomes for health care. I don’t know of an: 25"%4&"%/$5"&?/4%&7428#.%4&#1&/1>&.#3%/3%.&/4%/&5"/5&?2<$.&3/>&5"%>& eliminated racial disparity outcome. That’s the power of the model,” says Gifford.

‘The Power of the Model’

Treatments for HIV/AIDS can include PREP, or Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, which is a daily medication that, if taken, can pre: 8%15& 5"%& 374%/.& 26& '()& 5"42<0"2<5& 5"%& E2.>B& /??24.#10& 52& 5"%& CDC. Viral suppression can also reduce the viral load in the body, making the virus undetectable in testing. These treatments "%$7& 7/5#%153& /1.B& #6& 5"%>I8%& 4%/?"%.& <1.%5%?5/E$%& 35/5<3B& ?/1& help prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS. At Vivent Health, patients are 95% undetectable. +??%33&52&D%.#?/$&?/4%&624&5"23%&$#8#10&;#5"&'()&"%$73&74%8%15& further infection and promotes healthier lives, according to DHS. (1&JA@KB&/E2<5&KLM&26&1%;$>&.#/0123%.&?/3%3&624&'()*+(,-&;%4%& $#1=%.&52&?/4%&#1&9#$;/<=%%&;#5"#1&5"4%%&D215"3&26&5"23%&.#/0123%3B& according to DHS’s annual report.

Referencing a patient named Kathy, Gifford explains the treat: D%15& 3"%& 4%?%#8%.& /5& )#8%15& '%/$5"& ;%15& E%>21.& 5/=#10& D%.#?/: tion. After Kathy became undetectable, she started volunteering and eventually met a person she considered her soulmate. The couple D28%.&642D&9#$;/<=%%&52&35/45&/&1%;&$#6%B&E<5&3"245$>&/65%4;/4.B& )#8%15&'%/$5"&"/.&52&4%54#%8%&N/5">&/65%4&.#3?28%4#10&5"%&32<$D/5%& had abused her. Upon returning, Kathy recovered fully again to an undetectable status.

CO2<& 3"2;& D%& /125"%4& "%/$5"& ?/4%& 240/1#G/5#21& /1>;"%4%& #1& America that would do for this patient what Vivent did for them. It just doesn’t exist,” says Gifford. !"##$%&'(&')*$+$,-$.+,$))/0"#&■

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lthough some have termed lead poisoning a “wicked problem,” one that is difficult or even impossible to solve, local health department officials and community outreach workers remain hopeful that they can bring it under control. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) considers lead poisoning 100% preventable.

Recently released data provides a basis for some guarded optimism, and new sources of funding will provide much-needed practical assistance. New DHS !"#" shows that the City of Milwaukee is making some progress in its battle to combat lead poisoning. In 2018, for example, 9.2% of children under 6 who were tested for lead poisoning in the City of Milwaukee had blood lead levels above the threshold for identifying poisoning (≥ 5 mcg/ dL). This is a drop of 1.6 percentage points from 2016, when 10.8% of tested children had blood lead levels above this threshold.

Although the City of Milwaukee still has both the largest number and the highest percentage of lead-poisoned children among reporting units throughout Wisconsin, this drop is statistically meaningful and reflects similar trends throughout Wisconsin during the same time period. $%&'(')!'*+'"('(),"-)+'(./#)0+1,)1.#+'"*&) "2!)'!.*"#312)4+15+",()63#&)0",3/3'()"2!)#&') 5'2'+"/) 4.7/3*) 12) &16) #1) 4+'8'2#) *&3/!+'2) 0+1,) 7'325) '941('!) #1) /'"!:;) ("-() <"+=1> +3') ?112() 10) #&') @'"!) A13(12325) A+'8'2#312) B'*#312)"#)CDBE)$F"*&)-'"+:),1+')&1,'()"+') .2!'+51325)/'"!)&"G"+!)+','!3"#312:)+'!.*325) #&')+3(H()01+)/'"!)'941(.+')32)#&'(')&1,'(E;

!"#$%&#'#($% )*+,(*-%.*+"/ More home remediation will be made possible by a $6 million Lead Hazard Control Grant that was awarded to the City of Milwaukee by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in October.

“Two-hundred seventy-three homes are projected to be improved during this 42-month grant,” says Ron Green, environmental health services manager and HUD program manager for the City of Milwaukee Health Department.

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ate lead hazards in homes of Medicaid-eligible children and pregnant women. “The LeadSafe Homes Program funded by the Medicaid Health Services Initiatives (HSI) is providing new opportunities to eliminate lead hazards and protect children from lead poisoning in Wisconsin,” says Shelley Bruce, chief of DHS’s Lead and Asbestos Section. “This funding adds significantly to other funds used in the state to remove lead hazards and renovate old homes, such as HUD lead hazard reduction and community development grants,” she continues. “To the extent that more homes can be made lead-safe than otherwise could have been without this money, more children will be protected.” She adds the homes of children enrolled in Medicaid or BadgerCare Plus may be eligible for the program, which can pay up to 100% of the cost to make the home lead-safe.

According to Bruce, more than 85% of all lead-poisoned children in Wisconsin receive Medicaid or BadgerCare Plus benefits. “The LSHP is designed to directly benefit those children most likely to live in the oldest housing with lead hazards,” she explains. HSI funds are available to the state on a continuing basis, with total funding dependent on annual state match dollars that the state legislature provides. If the legislature accepted the expanded Medicaid monies as the majority of states have done, fewer Wisconsin children would suffer from this preventable but serious issue. Bruce adds that hundreds more homes can be made lead-safe every year through this program and HUD funding, and she estimates that there could be as many as 400,000 older homes with lead hazards in Wisconsin.

“By targeting areas with the oldest housing stock and high lead poisoning rates we hope to continue our progress in reducing childhood lead poisoning,” Bruce explains. The state actively monitors childhood lead poisoning and trends in poisoning rates, which helps to identify populations and communities that need additional resources like the Lead-Safe Homes Program or HUD funding can provide.

In Milwaukee, it is anticipated that 60 units can be completed under this reimbursement program—which has not yet begun—according to Claire Evers, deputy commissioner of environmental health and consumer environmental health for the City of Milwaukee Health Department.

01$23#,4*+%56%,7"%.*6,% 589*(,#+,%:74+;< “In 1996, nearly one-half of all Wisconsin children tested were lead-poisoned by today’s standard, with a blood lead level ≥ 5 mcg/ dL,” Bruce says. “In the past two decades, we have reduced the percentage of lead-poisoned children significantly. In 2018, 4.4% of Wisconsin children tested were found to be leadpoisoned. However, there are still pockets within the state where lead poisoning is much more prevalent.” Milwaukee is one of those pockets.

Ninety percent of children first identified with lead poisoning from 1996–2005 lived in homes that were built before 1950. These

older homes are a significant driver of lead poisoning. A IJJK)CDB)+'41+# found that the risk of a child becoming lead-poisoned was 6.4 times greater for tested children living in dwellings built before 1950 compared to children living in homes built since then.

Since April 2019, the Social Development Commission (SDC) on Milwaukee’s North Side has used a small outreach team, led by Tiffinne Pearson-Suggs, to go door-to-door in Aldermanic District 15, a hotspot for lead poisoning. In the past 10 months, with $150,000 in funding from Milwaukee’s Health Department, the team has knocked on more than 1,000 doors and made contact with people at 650 addresses in the district. Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers also received $150,000 in funding for implementing a similar program on Milwaukee’s South Side. “The good thing about this program is that we’re really able to educate the community about the

IT IS MOST REWARDING WHEN THEY MAKE A RETURN VISIT TO A HOME WITH A CHILD WHOSE ELEVATED BLOOD LEVELS WERE ONCE HIGH, AND “WE SEE THE LEAD LEVEL HAS GONE DOWN” AFTER INTERVENTION. importance of lead hazards,” Pearson-Suggs says. “We are able to do visual inspections of homes, if they need it, but the education is the most important thing.” She adds that, in addition to door-to-door canvassing, her team has been educating people at community events.

The team faces challenges because some people are apprehensive about answering their doors. According to Pearson-Suggs, there has been some good feedback from neighbors about what this pilot program is doing in the community, and the word is getting out about the program. Sometimes, the SDC receives calls from parents who have not yet been contacted by the team who want testing for their children. The SDC is also receiving calls from people who live outside the targeted 15th Aldermanic District who would like information or testing as well.

“The best situation is when we encounter someone who gets information that they didn’t know before our visit,” Pearson-Suggs says. It is most rewarding when they make a return visit to a home with a child whose elevated blood levels were once high, and “we see the lead level has gone down” after intervention, she adds. The SDC reports elevated blood levels and potential home hazards to the health department so appropriate follow up can be done. Funding for SDC’s pilot outreach program has been extended for another year (until April 2021).

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In July 2019, Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order creating a “lead czar” for Wisconsin to coordinate statewide efforts to reduce lead exposure. Earlier, the state Legislature struck $40 million from Evers’ proposed budget to replace some lead service lines in the state. The Evers administration, however, can use a portion of the $32 million for its clean water initiative for lead service line replacement.

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But with the additional city, state and federal resources, Milwaukee seems poised to combat lead poisoning more vigorously than in the past. “Lead is dangerous to our children, so wherever it is, we should take care of it,” Hinton says. “We need to be as aggressive as possible. For every year that we wait, there’s another group of children that are being negatively affected by lead.”

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Mink is from Wisconsin, and while living in Madison for college, he started learning about our broken food system and how industrialized food processing cares more about quantity over quality. But it wasn’t until he moved to Sitka, Ala., for a summer, that he saw firsthand how the commercial fishing industry was crushing smallscale fishermen. Motivated to change the story, he created a community-supported fishery program. Like CSA programs that support local farms, Mink’s “CSF” program supports small Alaskan fishermen by bypassing the supermarkets and bringing high-quality, sustainably caught fish directly to Midwest consumers. Thus, Sitka Salmon Shares was born.

When we buy seafood from a grocery store, about 75% of it is farm-raised and 25% is wild-caught. Some people assume that farm-raised seafood is better than wild-caught because it doesn’t target wild fish stocks, but most farms feed their fish with smaller wildcaught fish, also depleting ocean ecosystems. The vast majority of wild-caught fish in the United States comes from Alaska, which also exports seafood all over the world.

The industrial fishing industry has a history of causing destruction to bodies of water. Like Alaska, the Great Lakes used to have a massive fishing industry in the late19th and early-20th century with Jones Island being one of the major ports in the region. But pollution, overfishing and an invasive species called the lamprey led to the steep decline of the Great Lakes fisheries and moved most commercial fishing in the U.S. to Alaska. Unfortunately, many of those destructive practices are still used in Alaska, which is what Mink is trying change.

Large-scale commercial fishermen often use hazardous fishing methods which involve massive boats dragging miles-long nets behind them. These nets pull anything and everything out of the water, destroying coral reefs and whole ecosystems. In contrast, Sitka Salmon works with small-scale fishermen who mostly use a hook and line to catch their fish. They keep at least eight out of 10 fish they catch, compared to the large boats that throw away about 50% of their catch because they only get paid for the species they’re actually targeting.

To combat this destructive system, Sitka Salmon has created a model where the consumer’s dollar goes directly to these small fisheries. They no longer have to compete with large fisheries because of this direct income. The small fisherman can now focus on safeguarding fish ecosystems and delivering high-quality product.

Hopeful for the future, Mink has seen growth in the number of small, environmentally conscious fishing businesses that are disrupting the commercial fishing market. “Slowly but surely, the big system is being challenged by a bunch of small guys who are trying to do things correctly,” he says. Mink’s journey into the seafood industry started with his desire to create change, and his ambitions only grow with the support of everyday consumers who join his cause.

Learn more at sitkasalmonshares.com. For more of Erin Bloodgood’s work, visit bloodgoodfoto.com.

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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( FEB. 6 - FEB. 12, 2020 ) Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump regime, as well as highlighting activities that promote social and environmental justice. To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com.

Thursday, Feb. 6

Kinnickinnic River and Jackson Park Public Open House @ Manitoba Elementary School Gym (4040 W. Forest Home Ave.), 6:30-8 p.m.

Wanting to make improvements to the Kinnickinnic River and within Jackson Park, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is partnering with Milwaukee County Parks and others to discuss the changes.

Milwaukee County Executive Candidates’ Forum @ Albright United Methodist Church (5555 W. Capitol Drive), 6-8 p.m.

The forum will include Milwaukee County Executive candidates David Crowley, Chris Larson, Theodore A Lipscomb Sr. and Purnima Nath. For more information, call the Sherman Park Community Association at 414-444-9803.

60 Days to Victory Canvass @ UW-Milwaukee, noon-3 p.m.

Canvass with College Democrats at UW-Milwaukee for the Weekend of Action for the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Keep an eye on the College Democrats’ Facebook page for details.

Friday, Feb. 7

Black Stories Matter @ Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (839 S. Fifth St.), 5:30-8 p.m.

Share stories about Black Lives Matter with the community. A Black Lives Matter Award will be given to the educator of the year and aspiring educators.

Saturday, Feb. 8

League of Women Voters Public Issues Forum: Pathways to Criminal Justice Reform @ First Floor Conference Center at Summit Place (6737 W. Washington St.), 9:45-11:30 a.m.

The League of Women Voters will discuss criminal justice reform, exploring where reform is most needed and legislative pathways to reform. Panelists will include state Rep. Evan Goyke; founder of Youth Justice Milwaukee Sharlen Moore; Marquette University law professor Michael O’Hear; Wisconsin Justice Initiative executive director Gretchen Schuldt; and Sean Wilson, Smart Justice statewide organizer of the ACLU of Wisconsin.

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of 16thStreet and Wisconsin Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action of 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 the protest.

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ave you or a loved one received a psychiatric diagnosis? Or, have you played armchair shrink and applied a diagnostic label to yourself or someone else?

Either way, psychiatric diagnoses, while useful in certain instances, should come with warning labels. The risks in question are psychological and social, not medical. I’ll describe those shortly, but first, some background.

Traditional psychology has long embraced the “medical model,” the one your physician uses to nail down what’s ailing you. This methodology consists of identifying symptoms, gathering historical data and using diagnostic tests to determine one’s ailment. That’s why doctors have us complete those long family medical histories and symptom checklists. The modus operandi is formulaic. Assess, diagnose, treat.

Many mental health providers replicate this model. However, their precision in this regard is limited. A blood test may determine if you have diabetes, for example, but definitive diagnostic markers for mental illness are few and far between. So, grafting the medical model onto the assessment and treatment of mental disorders proves challenging, at best. Which is why mental health types lean hard on symptom identification and developmental history to pinpoint what’s amiss.

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Now, psychology has no monopoly on questionable diagnoses. The medical profession produces its share of false positives and miscues, but additional tests, more in-depth examinations and second opinions can often get it right. In the mental health arena, getting it right proves more challenging. A recent study in Psychiatry Research looked at the reliability and usefulness of the primary categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). They found widespread inconsistencies in diagnostic decision-making, meaning there is no uniform methodology for determining which mental disorder applies.

Also, regarding those symptom checklists, the study identified extensive overlap across many diagnostic categories. For example, anxiety and depressive disorders share many near-identical symptoms, making it tough to parse out the main culprit.

The researchers concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are “scientifically meaningless” and “disingenuous,” and they placed blame squarely on the use of the medical model as a template for mental health care.

This criticism is not new. In the 1960s, psychanalyst R.D. Laing chastised his colleagues to minimize diagnostic labels and, instead, focus on understanding the “lived experience” of the patient. He recognized that each individual’s mental state is unique and that blurring it with diagnostic generalizations creates social stigma (“I’m broken”) and faulty treatment planning. A salient example is “depressive disorder,” one of the more common labels pasted on people these days. Once a mental health provider attaches this diagnosis to a client, they may cease exploring the nature of the individual’s lived experience and begin treating the diagnosis instead of the person. Absent a deeper understanding of what the client is going through, the rapport and felt connection with the therapist, which is critical for emotional healing, may fail to emerge.

Also of concern, diagnoses can become self-fulfilling prophecies. Once told one has attention deficit disorder, for instance, a client may begin interpreting their lived experiences (distracted, hyperactive, hurried, etc.) within this diagnostic label, rather than contemplating the unique nature of what they are going through, what is says about their life and how best to address it.

Granted, when in mental distress, we want to identify what we’re up against. Nobody likes not knowing, so receiving a diagnosis, even when unwelcome, assuages this angst. And, in the realm of serious mental illness, an accurate diagnosis may help guide treatment efforts. However, such accuracy is often lacking, and, even when we get it right, psychiatric labels pose the risk the client will be treated as a diagnosis first and as a person second.

As psychologist Alice Miller stated, “Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual.”

Too often, diagnoses impede the emergence and affirmation of that truth.

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Tending a hemp farm also synchronized with Lawrenz’s goal of connecting her family in a way that combines hands-on, screen-free activities with an entrepreneurial goal. Ramage and Lawrenz kicked off 2019 by putting their plan into action. They incorporated Lake Country Growers in February and put together a business plan that included not just their own line of CBD products, but also selling hemp to other CBD companies.

They started approximately 24,000 seedlings of the merlot and cherry wine strains in a greenhouse on Ramage’s farm. In late spring, they transported the seedlings to a rented field in Helenville, Wis., about 25 minutes west of Oconomowoc. The seedlings were planted and cultivated by hand.

“We did a lot of research and development from February through Mother’s Day,” says Lawrenz. “We tried different methods for growing, experimented with types of containers, the right soil, water and humidity levels and proper temperatures. It was like a science experiment to create the right atmosphere for plants. We dialed in the process, and by Mother’s Day, we planted over 20,000 seedlings, one by one.” Lawrenz’s four kids, along with Ramage’s two children and their friends all helped.

“Because the weather is so unreliable in spring, we wanted to get a head start in the greenhouse, so we opted for transplants,” she explains. “We heard from people who planted seeds directly into the ground that they had some problems and that germination was all over the map. We had consistency.”

Lawrenz says they used organic farming practices such as natural fish emulsion and bat guano fertilizer. Lawrenz and Ramage harvested about 18,000 healthy plants that averaged six to seven feet tall. Throughout the process, they learned a lot and have planned logistical changes for the 2020 growing season. Lawrenz notes that with hemp being an old-yet-new again crop, there’s a lack of farming equipment available to tend fields and harvest the plants. Weeding and harvesting was all done by hand.

Many hemp farmers in Wisconsin faced the dilemma of where to sell their CBD hemp after harvesting it. “Industry-wide, there is a bottleneck on the processing side,” Lawrenz observes, citing a “green rush” after the 2018 Farm Bill removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. “It was difficult finding processors out there you can trust because it’s such a new market,” Lawrenz says. The eventually partnered with Hempshire, a processor in Tomahawk, Wis. A small percentage of their crop is grown for their Gold Leaf CBD personal product line, and they contract to sell the rest to other CBD oil companies such as Los Angeles-based Papa & Barkley CBD. They’re looking to expand growing contracts for the 2020 season.

The Gold Leaf CBD line currently has 10 broad spectrum CBD products, including lotions, topicals, bath salts, a pain relief stick, tinctures in 500 milligram orange flavor or mint 1,000 milligram, as well as two pet products— dog treats and dog tincture. The Gold Leaf items can be purchased online.

Lawrenz says they are in the process of partnering with local retailers such as salons, boutique shops and CBD dispensaries.

For more information, visit lakecountrygrowers.com.

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he big Marcus Center news this week is the opening of a month-long run of Disney’s The Lion King, the only Broadway show aside from Hamilton to have so long a run there. I’m here to tell you, though, about a one-night-only performance on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Marcus Center’s smaller Wilson Theater in Vogel Hall.

It’s a multimedia dance theater performance titled Black Like Me: An Exploration of the Word Nigger, a title hard to type without flinching and impossible to speak. The show examines why that word is unredeemable in any form or spelling. After watching a video of the performance and communicating via email with its talented young creator, Jade Solomon Curtis, I encourage you to see it if you can. You’ll find yourself, I think, joined with an audience community in profound consideration of what it means to be born in a black body. For choreographer and dance artist Curtis, it means the responsibility to address “the reverb” of a word coined by whites to dehumanize black folks for all sorts of purposes. Her company’s vision statement: “Activism is the muse.”

The show is also beautiful, crafted with great thoughtfulness and care. At its center is a gripping conversation about the n-word with several older, gentle, learned onstage cohorts that expands to include the audience. Curtis herself is a teacher and concerned for young people of all races. This piece, she maintains, is for them. It opens with “a pre-show experience that incorporates video projections and hip-hop playlists curated by young people 15-18 years old,” she writes. The show goes on to argue that the current slang version, “nigga,” which is used in rap music and sometimes as a so-called term of endearment among black people, only prolongs the history of hate and self-hate.

The performance is in five parts. In each, Curtis plays a different character with appropriate costume, music, lighting and projected scenery. Part one is called “Emancipation.” A gorgeous field of tall grass gently waves in the breeze on large video screens filling three sides of the stage. While a voice sings a heavenly spiritual tune, a black woman wakes there, alone and free. She discovers her body in amazing movement and stillness. What fate is hers? Curtis writes of “the body’s ability to serve as an artifact of memory, space and time.” In the show’s mid-point conversation, a cohort says, “To resolve my ancestral karma, it’s my job to fix the damage that’s been done.”

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Those full-stage screens fill with actual Evanston Police Department dash cam footage. We see and hear police commit outrageous acts of racial profiling, including the famous video of the doomed Sandra Bland accosted violently in her car for no reason. Then, Curtis appears in video in a yellow jumpsuit and hoodie on a city street, and she appears simultaneously on the stage in that costume. She dances superbly, her face concealed by the pulled-up hoodie, vulnerable, panicked, as photos of lynched black men fill the screens.

Titled “Untitled,” part three is that audience conversation. Curtis’ company, Solo Magic, is partnering with the Marcus Center “to curate a community panel encompassing people from the Solo Magic team and the Milwaukee community” to discuss their own experiences with the n-word and engage the audience in that conversation.

Curtis bares her soul throughout in improvised movements. Within a 23-minute time limit, “everyone who chooses to speak is acknowledged and heard,” and “a social media wall displays realtime audience responses via Instagram, Twitter and anonymous phone texts.”

The final two parts deal with uses of the word in current hip-hop culture. In “A Star Called Nigga,” Curtis portrays that star, a demoralized sex object. In “Under Fire,” she dances hip-hop in a red suit, felled by gunfire every time the word is uttered by the rapper.

Developed over years, the completed production premiered in North Hollywood in September. In earlier versions, it’s been performed internationally; but in its finished state, it was performed just 10 times, sometimes for youthonly audiences. “The show asks us to be curious, to ask questions and participate in understanding the foundation this country was built on,” Curtis summarizes. “It’s important to understand that the arts play a vital role in transforming Black and exposing these muchLike Me needed conversations.”

Wed., The Marcus Center’s director of programming, John Feb. 12, Hassig, discovered the work 7 p.m. at a booking conference in Marcus New York. ”Often the hardest Center’s part of a difficult conversation Wilson is starting it,” he says. “ThankTheater fully, art and artists have a magical way of expressing emotions at multiple levels, simultaneously leading to a jump start of thought and empathy. Art can be an agent for change, and this show is seeking to make a change that will take time and effort. Jade is looking to change the narrative.”

Black Like Me plays at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb.12, at the Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org.

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THEATRE

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Winner of two Tony Awards, this musical follows a group of quirky, socially awkward over-achievers who find joy, heartache and purpose as they compete at the regional spelling bee. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is an audience charmer with its effortless wit and humor, as well as its quick-paced, touching story. Featuring music and lyrics by William Finn (Falsettos, A New Brain) and a Tony Award-winning book by Rachel Sheinkin, Spelling Bee teaches the lesson that winning—and, for that matter, losing—isn’t everything.

Making his Skylight Music Theatre debut as director will be Brian Cowing. Based in Madison, Wis., Cowing has directed at the Capital City Theatre, Four Seasons Theatre and Children’s Theatre of Madison. As an actor, he was featured in national tours of Annie and Something Rotten. “There’s no denying that comedy really drives this piece,” Cowing says.

“Spelling Bee is often times described as hilarious, zany and kooky, but this show also succeeds in bringing true heart and relatability to its characters. The audience gets to experience each character’s insecurities, fears and dreams. It’s this balance that makes it such a unique and beloved show.” (John Jahn) Feb. 7-23 in the Cabot Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit skylightmusictheatre.org.

OPERA

Trouble in Tahiti

The Florentine Opera Company’s Baumgartner Studio Artist Showcase opens with Leonard Bernstein’s 45-minute, semi-staged opera, Trouble in Tahiti. Bernstein was working on the opera during his honeymoon with Felicia Montealegre. The story is based on the relationship of the composer’s own parents, Sam and Jennie (though he changed the wife’s name to the more singable Dinah, after his grandmother). Trouble in Tahiti received its first performance in June 1952 at Bernstein’s Festival of the Creative Arts on the campus of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

This American gem incorporates Bernstein’s quintessential jazzy idioms and a plot that runs the gamut from sneaking out of a kid’s concert to see a movie and some “Mad Men”era shenanigans at the office. Throughout the one-act opera, a jazz trio functions as a contemporary Greek chorus, providing satirical commentary to the unfolding drama. The second half of this Baumgartner Showcase features the young artists performing the songs that make them shine. Trouble in Tahiti is certainly an accessible entrée into the world of opera for the uninitiated—a “friendly music theater experience great for all ages, including your ‘I-don’t-like-opera’ friend,” as the Florentine helpfully explains. (John Jahn) Feb. 8-9 in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org.

DANCE

Out of Many, One

After a smashing one-night debut in the hallways, galleries and grand staircase of Saint Kate—The Arts Hotel in November, the Danceworks organization’s new professional multicultural dance company, named Danceworks Performance MKE, will present its first full-length concert run in the beautiful Jan Serr Studio on Prospect Ave. and Kenilworth Place. The Studio’s sensational floor-to-ceiling, two-story view of Milwaukee’s Lower East Side and Downtown as seen from the building’s sixth floor will serve as the backdrop for a performance that aims to celebrate the city’s diversity as collectively represented by this skilled troupe of dancers, choreographers and educators.

The concert’s title, Out of Many, One, suggests the subject: differently trained dance artists finding common ground and working together for the good of all. It’s an appealing vision, for sure; and given time and support, the potential for new ideas and expressions seems pretty unlimited. For this concert, artistic director Dani Kuepper, company member Gina Laurenzi and guest artist Dawn Springer will serve as the choreographers, working in collaboration with the members of the large troupe who are all distinguished creative artists in their own right. It will all be set to music by the brilliant Milwaukee area composer Allen Russell. (John Schneider) Feb. 6-8 at the Jan Serr Studio at 2155 N. Prospect Ave. Call 414-277-8480, ext. 6017 or visit danceworksmke.org 22 | F E B R U A R Y 6 , 2 0 2 0

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‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Dishes Out Genderbending Rock ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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s Hedwig and the Angry Inch a concert? Is it a play? Who cares? It is just pure, unbridled fun. In the show put on by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Stiemke Studio welcomes the one-venue tour of one Hedwig Robinson and her backing band, the Angry Inch. Between the songs of her rock concert, Hedwig reveals some details of her troubled past and no-less-troubled gender identity.

What is the “angry inch”? “It’s what I have to work with,” Hedwig would say. Concretely, it’s what’s left between her legs after a botched sex change operation imposed on her as a young man, forcing her to reinvent herself as a woman and an entertainer. She took a younger boy under her wing, but he betrayed her, stole her music and became a rock star, leaving Hedwig with nothing to show for it. All of that and more comes to light thanks to the impressive amount of information the show manages to

Fearlessly Funny ‘Little Black Dress’ ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

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ittle Black Dress is billed as “the fearlessly funny girls’ night out musical,” and the show— which had a four-day run last week as part of the Marcus Center’s Off-Broadway Series—was all three. At least in differing proportions, much like that black dress itself.

Dee (Danielle Trzcinski) and Mandy (Jennette Cronk) have been friends since the age of 13, and the discovery of the “little black dress” happens while they’re preparing for a school dance.

Throughout their lives, that little black dress— and its variations—accompany the two wherever they go. Job interviews, dates and even weddings (bridesmaid dress) and the resulting baby shower. Despite many of life’s ups and downs, that little black dress is the constant throughout SHEPHERD EXPRESS

convey between musical numbers.

The songs are the main draw, of course. With (mostly) high-energy rock and legendary tracks, the band delivers some amazing moments of pure music. It’s a real concert that’s taking place on stage, and audience members are encouraged to wear earplugs, because the band will not crank down the volume. The Angry Inch is composed of Dan Kazemi playing keyboards, Maxwell Emmet on guitar, Tommy Hahn on bass and Patrick Morrow on drums. “The Origin of Love” might be the weirdest, most engaging song you’ll hear this year, drawing from Plato’s Symposium to create an alternate, almost mythical starting point to the queerness that Hedwig embodies.

Here is the key to what makes this show so good, and why it attracted such a diverse LGBTQ crowd on opening night: Queerness is actually the topic of the show, not just alluded to or included for tokenism purposes. Hedwig—but also Yitzhak, her former drag queen husband (masterfully embodied by Bethany Thomas)— completely blur sexuality and gender lines, and these issues are the core of the character development and events related on stage.

Hedwig is an all-encompassing role: As the show’s namesake character, Matt Rodin must dance, sing, perform stand-up comedy, improv and emotion-heavy acting, all while remaining in character as an over-the-top, queen-like stage persona. Hedwig enters the room clad in brightly colored clothes, including a cape and massive wig. But, as Hedwig unveils her personality and sensitivity, she literally sheds her clothes, ending the show almost entirely naked. The last deeply emotional note that Hedwig and the Angry Inch leaves you energized and awash with excitement—avoid spoilers, but you should keep an eye on Bethany Thomas, as she shares more of the spotlight than seems obvious at first.

Through March 8 at the Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St.

their relationship. And, it is also, at times, very funny, especially when Dee goes to do improv and involves the audience (on opening night, front-seater Toby got to see her first kiss with a boy staged to hilarious effect).

Some of the musical numbers really hit home, as Dee gets ready to deliver, her fantasy of “TV Birth vs. Real Birth” had the many women in the audience laughing in agreement. “Fearless” falls into the category of strong adult language with stronger adult themes (think bachelorette party), which gets pretty graphic at times. But that was still to the raucous delight of all the groups participating in the “girls’ night out.”

True to form, within four minutes of the show’s start, there was a male stripper on stage (no, he wasn’t wearing a little black dress; that actually came later in the production).

Cronk, along with actors Jenna Cormey and Clint Hromsco, played multiple roles, and they were solid troupers from the start, stereotypical in the roles of doting mother, waiter and construction worker. The real cringeworthy moment? Hromsco’s way over-the-top, ginormously flamboyant dress store owner. A lot less would have been a whole lot more; just like that little black dress.

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Next Act’s ‘A Small Fire’

Life-changing Challenges in Next Act’s ‘A Small Fire’ ::BY BLAINE SCHULTZ

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mily Bridges’ work as an engineer overseeing construction projects means she needs to be in control of moving parts, but when her senses leave her like leaves falling from a tree, she and her family must figure out how to deal with a world slowly turning upside down. In David Cecsarini’s production of Adam Bock’s A Small Fire at Next Act Theatre, Mary MacDonald Kerr’s Emily provides the unflinching question: What happens if the center cannot hold?

In the days leading up to her daughter Jenny’s wedding, Emily loses her hearing, then her sense of taste and sight. John, her supportive husband (Jonathan Smoots), is slow to be convinced of the gravity of his wife’s situation. Theirs is a relationship wherein Emily’s type-A personality holds sway. John’s denial of his wife’s predicament is not surprising. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as their daughter, Jenny (Emily Vitrano), has a chilled relationship with her mom, keeping John in the middle playing peacekeeper. Even when Jenny helps her mom get dressed for the wedding, they never fully connect. As Emily never cared for her daughter’s fiancé, the gulf of their relationship widens as the young couple moves out of state.

Aside from her daughter’s wedding day stress, Emily is also dealing with a situation at work.

When the drug-dealing son of one of her workers assaults his own mother, Mark Corkins (as the loud foreman, Billy Fontaine) portrays a thoughtful conduit for Emily’s uncharacteristically compassionate response. When Billy visits her at home, he places his work helmet on her lap, and Emily instantly knows it is him. Fontaine emerges as a layered character who says more about Emily than we might initially guess. His scene with John—awaiting the return of Billy’s racing pigeons at Emily’s urging—is a neat metaphor for knowing where home is.

Voiceovers allow us into her head as Emily reels in frustration at losing control over her world. MacDonald Kerr’s transition, especially after Emily loses her sight, is stellar. At the wedding, voices that should be familiar come at her from all sides.

When a sound collage of everyday hum falls silent, Emily and John devise a simple language—one squeeze of the hand means yes, two means no. In a tender moment of choreographed dance where the couple make love, we understand that, while Emily’s senses are being stripped, her core self remains intact.

Through Feb. 23 at Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St.

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f I were to mention that I viewed an art exhibition of computer-based artwork that flirted with the spectacular, I think the assumption would be that the spectacle involved mov! ing images, light and other sensational magic tricks associated with the productive potential of new media. In the case of Na! thanial Stern’s exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art Downtown (MOWA | DTN), “The World After Us” (a name modified from Alan Weisman’s fascinating account of human ephemerality), the impact of his computer-generated art is based on computers and other technol! ogy itself—like the actual machines and hardware witnessed in various stages of degradation and reclamation.

It was a gut check to walk into the gallery on my cell phone, vaguely considering the refrain that I, like many of us, are “slaves” to our devic! es, and then witnessing the chaotic tangle of computers, motherboards and cellphones all bent to the Frankensteinian will of Stern, professor, artist and semi-mad scientist. As I stood in front of a blender filled with ravaged old Androids and RAZRs, a toaster holding a charred smartphone and what looked like a rotating cellphone torture rack, I might have put my thumb over the camera of my iPhone to prevent it from seeing the slaughter. But my phone should rest assured that these strange medieval-looking experiments with technology are all made with salvaged hardware procured through a program at UW-Milwau! kee; no phones were hurt in the making of this exhibition.

What might look like a graveyard or torture dungeon for spent hardware is actually a more redemptive setting. Stern’s no sado-technologist; rather, he’s an esthetic researcher hoping to reorient our relationship to computer waste by forcing us to look at it in new ways. Standing before a wall of degraded laptops and cables in the main gallery, appropriately titled “The Wall After Us,” I was reminded of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of accumulated technological waste. It occurred to me that he and Stern are both grappling with an inversion of that quote by Joseph Stalin that one death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic. One personal device con! nects you with the world and reflects your individuality, while thousands of them in a pile is a tragic reminder of human limitations.

Confronting these limitations seems so important to Stern precisely because the marketing teams in Silicon Valley exert so much force in the opposite direction. From the consumer side, computers are pre! sented as pure, precious, transportive, liberating and enlightened. Ap! ple Stores are designed to be visions of positivity. Stern notes in the catalog’s introduction that one of his profound revelations in research! ing this project was learning that waste from mining the raw materi! als vastly surpasses that of the products themselves, which means that

simply engaging in responsible disposal is not enough by itself to ar! rive at sustainable levels of technological consumption.

For this reason, Stern, who began thinking about the exhibition in terms of our “intimate” relationships with technology, soon started to look at e-waste from different perspectives. He considered the legal and regulatory issues around disposal and ultimately began to wonder about the creative and inspirational possibilities that might result from his vi! sual research. The “Phossils” that arise from these more experimental approaches provide the show some needed optimism and an entry point for those who would naturally begin thinking about solutions.

Stern collaborated with Cornell professor Johannes Lehmann, an expert in the burning material in zero oxygen known as pyrolysis.

Collaborations between the two result in some wonderfully strange at! tempts to denature keyboards, circuit boards and other hardware. It’s alchemy for the 21st century—trying to spin silicone back into carbon.

On the brighter side of dystopia are a series of mechanical tools cast from melted down aluminum from MacBooks—a hammer, saw and screwdriver—as well as a number of prints made with carbon-based ink refined from incinerated hardware. These restitutive moments are the sugar that helps one swallow the show’s more bitter realities.

The single most beautiful vision in the show is the large photograph of a mushroom rising from the face of an Apple watch, caught at the moment a single drop of water falls from its cap. “Sporadical” is a fine metaphoric punctuation for “The World After Us.” It encapsulates the ephemerality of our precious devices, their implicit battle with the natural world and all the accidental “third things” that might arise as if by magic from those encoun! ters. Stern confessed to me that, after seeing the show, a young girl decided to reimagine her science project and began researching e-waste. He men! tioned that it made all his labor worthwhile. Even though we have no idea to what end her enthusiasm and basic research will lead, it’s hope all the same.

Those unpredictable future events are the exhibition’s most precious con! tent, but we’ll all have to wait for them patiently over the coming decades.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Birds of Prey R As DC comic book characters Harley Quinn, the Huntress and Black Canary, Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell portray outlandish female superheroes. Robbie’s loquacious Quinn takes center stage, but I’ll take Winstead’s quietly simmering Huntress any day. These Gotham residents unite in order to stop crime lord Roman Sionis’ supervillain identity, Black Mask (Ewan McGregor), from killing a young girl who has ingested a diamond he covets. Along the way, the women celebrate killing numerous goons and assassins. Their enjoyment of overcoming these male baddies is an allegory for feminists subduing macho men.

Beneath her red lips, runny mascara and smudged make-up, Quinn is the poster girl for cheerful crime-fighters. (Lisa Miller)

Horse Girl R (STREAMING ON NETFLIX) Alison Brie strikes the right tone of “adorkability” in this genre-bender that explores her character’s deteriorating mental health. Co-written by Brie and director Jeff Baena, the actress draws upon the checkered history of her own family in the role of Sarah. Following her mother’s suicide, she fills her lonely existence with television, crafting, a beloved horse and her weekly Zumba class. Then, following a date with potential love interest Darren (John Reynolds), Sarah is increasingly unable to recognize the difference between reality and her fantastical dreams. Concerned for her well-being is Sarah’s stepfather (Paul Reiser) and a co-worker (Molly Shannon). (L.M.)

The Rhythm Section R After her husband and child are killed in an accidental plane crash, Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively) sinks into drug abuse and prostitution. Three years later, she is stunned to learn a bomb targeted the plane and caused the crash. Given this revelation, Stephanie works with an intelligence agent (Jude Law), who trains her in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship and impersonating various types (an anarchist, a mercenary terrorist, a businesswoman, a prostitute and a student), in order to find and get close to those she wishes to kill. However, as she continues on, Stephanie begins to realize that she must also rediscover her own evolving identity. Adapted from a 1999 novel by Mark Burnell. (L.M.)

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] n Moving Parts (INDIEPIX)

Zhenzhen arrives by boat in Trinidad and gazes pensively, apprehensively, into an uncertain future. Her family already paid $10,000 to smuggle her from China—and now the hard-faced men demand more money. The feature debut by Emilie Upczak is a quietly moving film about the virtual slavery endured by millions across the world, heads down and trapped in low-end or illicit jobs. Their desperation is palpable. Will the young woman escape the downbound spiral?

n Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (KINO LORBER)

Fire is the opening image. Blazing fire. The documentary’s subtitle tells the story: We’ve entered an era when humankind has reshaped not only the surface but the systems of our planet. Thus far, the wisdom to reshape it for good isn’t apparent. Anthropocene is a visual poem of destruction, narrated matter-of-factly by Alicia Vikander. In a bonus interview, Edward Norton aptly compares Anthropocene to a Terrence Malick film for its hypnotic beauty and horror.

n The Price of Everything (KINO LORBER)

An auctioneer offers the most plausible excuse for today’s grossly inflated art market: “It’s very important for good art to be expensive—you only protect something that has value.” But who decides value? The artists interviewed in this documentary shrug off money as their motivation. As painter Larry Poons quips about his career: “You don’t choose who you are.”

Explanations for art inflation include globalization (more collectors!) and the shortage of old masters, hence millions for Basquiat.

n Black Angel (ARROW ACADEMY)

A femme fatale with a handgun in her sweater drawer becomes a fatality.

The cops pin it on her blackmail victim (John Phillips). But before he walks to the gas chamber, his wife (June Vincent) joins with the dead woman’s alcoholic ex (Dan Duryea) to find the truth. Peter Lorre skulks in the shadows of this 1946 film noir directed by Roy William Neill (who helmed Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes) from Cornell Woolrich’s hardboiled novel.

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As chair of Nebraska’s Democratic Party, Jane Kleeb is in the center of the story she tells: Farms and small towns are hurting, sometimes from GOP policies, and should be ripe for picking come Election Day. When it comes to wedge issues, she insists that the way is not to dissemble or condescend, but to “focus on the issues where we are standing together.” As things stand, small town schools and hospitals are closing and farmers “are living on razor-thin margins” when they aren’t giving up altogether. Harvest the Vote contains a hopeful message and a rebuke to progressive “purists” with uninformed assumptions about rural America.

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It’s not the wisdom of crowds but their knowledge.

Oxford University astrophysicist Chris Lintott, cofounder of the Zooniverse website, has drawn on the knowledge (and spare time) of thousands of amateur astronomers from around the world to sift through the enormous online data dump provided by scans made by space telescopes. On a simple level, the amateurs are categorizing the millions of newly spotted galaxies according to their shape.

Others are using image processing and other tools to detect planets orbiting distant stars. Lintott writes about the crowdsourcing of science in the casual, jocular tone of a 101 professor determined to keep the class entertained. The Crowd & the Cosmos is a reminder that the Internet has also given rise to networks of positive accomplishment and that human intuition can still exceed algorithms and artificial intelligence. (David Luhrssen)

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::RUTHIE’S SOCIALCALENDAR Feb. 6—‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater (108 E. Wells St.): The trailblazing rock musical struts its sexy stuff into the intimate setting of the Stiemke Studio. Sit back and savor the intensity of this incredible show, featuring one of the most unique and memorable characters to hit the Great White Way. This all-encompassing production plays through March 8, so sashay your way to milwaukeerep.com and nab your seats today.

Feb. 7—Jukebox Bingo at Walker’s Pint (818 S. Second St.): Bingo meets “Name That Tune” during five rounds of fun at this Walker’s Point staple. Enjoy the “Un-trivia Game,” as well as drink specials, prizes, music, dancing and more. The games start at 8 p.m.

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Feb. 8—Wisconsin Cannabis Expo at The Wisconsin Center (400 W. Wisconsin Ave.): The team at Shepherd Express is about to add a bit of greenery to your winter blues. Check out the debut of this exposition, featuring speakers, more than 100 exhibitors and many presentations. See wicannabisexpo.com for more information, including how to grab your $20 tickets (they’re $28 at the door). You must be 18 years or older to attend this 11 a.m.-4 p.m. expo.

Feb. 8—‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ 42nd AnniversaryLingerie Show at the Oriental Theatre (2230 N. Farwell Ave.): It’s hard to believe that this landmark Milwaukee movie house has been showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show for 42 years—the longest continuous showing of the film in the country! Celebrate with the cast of Sensual Daydreams for a midnight extravaganza. The show includes a Rocky Horror costume (and lingerie) contest.

Feb. 9—Rainbow Crosswalk Fundraiser at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): Harsh winters have damaged the rainbow crosswalk This Is It worked so hard to create. Let’s raise some cash to restore this new Milwaukee landmark! Make it a Sunday Funday from 3-6 p.m. while enjoying raffles, drag performances, drink specials and all the good times This Is It has always been known for.

Feb. 11—Chamber on Tap at Glass & Griddle (1130 N. Ninth St.): The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts this monthly happy hour (5:30-7 p.m.). Mix and mingle with likeminded business owners, professionals and chamber members. Free and open to the public (you’re on your own for cocktails), members can participate in the “Success in 60” business seminar an hour before the mixer.

Feb. 11—Debut of Mary’s Big Easy Pop-Up Bar at Mary’s Arcade (734 S. Fifth St.): The Big Easy comes to Brew City with two weeks of craziness. From New Orleans menu staples to NOLA cocktails, you’ll relish all the naughty fun Mardi Gras offers (without the airplane tickets)! The pop-up bar stays open until Feb. 25, so swing by and check it out.

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by Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann, was a refreshing contrast to the hair metal, glossy videos and overproduced music of the day. That album included Guy Hoffman on drums and Bob Griffin on bass. The BoDeans were so popular at the time, they inspired a local tonguein-cheek tribute act.

The band that once played local spots like The Landing and Hooligans soon toured with U2 and collaborated with Robbie Robertson. They eventually would headline Summerfest’s Marcus Amphitheater.

In 2011, Llanas left the band, embarking on a solo career. He recently released Los Ochos Final, the final CD in his Return of the Goya trilogy. Llanas recently spoke about his musical history and the current project.

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Bro-Country’s Brantley Gilbert’s Personal Journey

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as Brantley Gilbert gone soft on Fire & Brimstone, his new album released in October?

Has the man who helped popularize the so-called brocountry movement left behind the rough, rowdy and rocking sound that has been his signature? Is Gilbert showing an emotional, sensitive—and dare we say—vulnerable dimension in his songwriting?

To a point, Gilbert would answer “yes.” While it has tunes that kick up the dust (“Tough Town,” and “Not Like Us”), Fire & Brimstone leans a bit toward slower-tempo material (“What Happens in a Small Town” and the title track). It’s a personal and emotional album that brings Gilbert’s formerly tumultuous life up to date.

“I feel like this chapter of my life and the story I was trying to tell, it’s about a little bit of the chaos and the mayhem leveling out some,” he says. It’s no accident that “Fire & Brimstone” is the title track on the new album, the fifth from Gilbert.

“The theme of this record basically is showcased with Brantley that song. It kind of sums it up,” he says “There’s basically some Gilbert parallel story lines going on.

Saturday, There’s my wife and I. There’s Feb. 8, kind of the personal journey 7:30 p.m. from being a boy to a man, a Fiserv Forum wild man to kind of settling down to become a dad and there’s my spiritual walk.”

As that quote indicates, Gilbert has made no secret that his penchant for partying got out of control when he was younger. Eventually it took a toll.

In fact, Amber Cochran, the woman who is now his wife, broke up with him at one point—a split that lasted five years—partly because she wasn’t comfortable with Gilbert’s addictions.

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A Different Life Now

“Without going too deep into that, it was definitely, yeah, I was all jacked up,” he says. “I told her a couple of years back, we were kind of talking about the old days, and I told her, I was like ‘Man, you don’t understand, I’d take you out and I’d wear myself out staying clean, not drinking, not doing anything. When I dropped you off, I’d have half of a bottle of Jaeger down before I got to the end of the driveway.’ It’s a different life (now), man.”

Gilbert has come a long way since he started dating Cochran nearly a decade and a half ago. Obviously, he’s become a country music star—breaking through when two singles from Halfway to Heaven, his second album, topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.

His career and profile only accelerated in 2014 with his third album, Just as I Am, which gave Gilbert two more No. 1 Country Airplay singles. 2017’s The Devil Don’t Sleep wasn’t as successful, but it still went gold and added a Top 10 song to Gilbert’s catalog. But the new album has given Gilbert another No. 1 Country Airplay hit with “What Happens in a Small Town,” which features a guest vocal from Lindsay Ell. Along the way, he’s gotten his act together on a personal level as well, going through rehab, reconnecting with Cochrane in 2011 and marrying her in 2015. Now four years later, they have a son, Barrett, and a daughter, Braylen.

Chances are the songs Gilbert performs, especially as he adds new material to the show, will say a good bit about his new life. “I feel like through the years, people, really not just the songs, but the bodies of work and my career as a whole, they can go back and listen to a story,” Gilbert says of his albums. “It’s just like reading a book. It’s going back in time and listening, if you listen to all of my records, you’ve got a pretty good idea of who I am.”

Brantley Gilbert performs at Fiserv Forum on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 6

Paired featuring Katie Gabert and Jason Anderson @ VAR Gallery, 6 p.m.

Enjoy an evening of dinner, drinks and music as chef Katie Gabert (former Goodkind Chef de Cuisine, Riverside-Pabst sous chef) prepares Yucatecan-inspired dishes derived from her time spent cooking with her family from the Caribbean shores of Mexico. Expect a seafood-forward, nine-course menu including fried octopus and tea-marinated scallops, as well as handmade fresh pastas and breads.

Musician Jason Anderson spent 2017 touring as guitarist-keyboardist for Strand of Oaks. He has been described as an “endearing singersongwriter whose work is as anthemic as it is affecting.”

Ray Parker Jr. @ Northern Lights Theater, 8 p.m.

Guitarist-songwriter-producer Ray Parker Jr. began as a session guitarist playing behind The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Spinners, Gladys Knight & the Pips and other Motown acts. With his band Raydio, Parker had hits with “Jack and Jill,”“You Can’t Change That” and “A Woman Needs Love [Just Like You Do],” but he carved his name into the history books with the chart-topping song, “Ghostbusters,” from the movie of the same name.

FRIDAY, FEB. 7

Johnny G w/ Jake Paul @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

John Gimler spent four years in Milwaukee playing keyboards in Jake Paul’s band before going solo and moving west.

With his old boss opening, Gimler is celebrating the release of his sophomore album, One Red Rose Serenade. Gimler’s 2018 album, Riding the Wave, was a low-key acoustic collection of personal songs.

The Hungry Williams: Cedarburg First Friday @ Cedarburg Cultural Center, 6 p.m.

Hungry Williams was a New Orleans drummer with an unforgettable name and a serious jones for the mambo beat—that Spanish tinge of which Jelly Roll Morton spoke. Named for the man himself, the Milwaukee combo is piloted by secondgeneration drummer John Carr and fronted by vocalist Kelli Gonzalez. The Hungry Williams take note of how important it is to make an audience want to move. Picking and choosing from the corner where jazz and R&B met up, they take songs that both groove relentlessly on a dime and look to run off the rails.

Abby Jeanne w/ Retoro @ Turner Hall, 8 p.m.

Here is the rescheduled concert that was cancelled when the January “blizzard that never happened” happened. Back in October, when Abby Jeanne returned to Milwaukee from her New York City work hideout, it was for the release of her cassette, Get You High. While she continues woodshedding for her next project, she makes a stop here to play new material for a hometown audience. Retoro’s spikey, angular sounds should provide for a kinetic pairing.

Ye Vagabonds @ the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center, 7:30 p.m.

Ye Vagabonds, brothers Diarmuid and Brían MacGloinn, hail from the rural town of Carlow on the southeast coast of Ireland.

Their third album, The Hare’s Lament, is a collection of traditional Irish music that includes music learned from rare archive recordings of a grandfather they never met. Violin, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, harmonium and fiddles provide instrumentation on folk songs about failed rebellions, lost love and the title cut, sung from the perspective of a wild hare.

J.J. Grey

SATURDAY, FEB. 8

JJ Grey & Mofro w/ Freddy & Francine @ Turner Hall, 8 p.m.

As easy as JJ Grey & Mofro’s music is to take in, it is difficult to pin down. It’s not retro, but it’s not modern either. Much like their Stax-Muscle Shoals forefathers, Mofro lays down a thick groove blending Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes piano, horns and harmonica. Like Otis Redding, Grey is a master of tension and release, building a song and stretching it out until it’s all but snapped and then doubling back for more frenzy. It helps to have songs as strong as “Country Ghetto,” where the audience sings along on cue as the band wades into the evening’s wall of swamp. As far back as his 2010 Milwaukee gig, Grey was preaching to the converted, playing for an audience of aging hipsters and bra-less, jam-band chicks enjoying an in-door preview of the festival season.

Seventh Annual Guitar Festival Concert @ Latino Arts, 7 p.m.

This performance will highlight winners of the Guitar Festival Competition and some of the world’s most talented guitarists, including soloist and chamber musician Elina Chekan, a native of Minsk, Belarus, and Cuban-born Rafael Padron, who is program director of classical guitar at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

SUNDAY, FEB. 9

Billy Don Burns w/ Liar’s Trial @ Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, 2 p.m.

Billy Don Burns has worked with legends Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Harlan Howard and Hank Cochran. He has also seen prison bars from the inside. This matinee show gives Burns the opportunity to perform his outlaw country songs—tales from a guy who comes by them honestly.

With songs filled with missteps and regret, Liar’s Trial should provide an updated take on Burn’s worldview.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Blu Milwaukee, Rhapsodies in Blu Bremen Cafe, Oxbow & Moor w/J.R. & the Strangers & A-Z Cactus Club, The Go Rounds w/Sleepy Gaucho Caroline’s Jazz Club, Brian Dale Group County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/ Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Eric Jacobson Trio: Parker’s Mood Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Brian Collins Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s On The Square (Racine), Open Mic Night Mezcalero Restaurant, Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Jam Band O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SuperBand (6pm) Pabst Theater, Grace Potter w/Devon Gilfillian Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Kirk Tatnall Rave / Eagles Club, Matt Stell w/Chris Bandi & Ray Fulcher (all-ages, 8pm) Rock Country, Craig Baumann Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel, John Price Duo (6pm) Sazzy B (Kenosha), Gypsy Jazz Shakers Cigar Bar, First Thursdays w/Professor Pinkerton’s Irrelevant Orchestra Shank Hall, Juliana Hatfield w/Sunshine Boys Up & Under, No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic Nite

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7

American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Sawyer Road Band American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Falcons (6:30pm) Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), ANDII w/Fiona Blue Art Bar, Mississippi Jake Boat House (Kenosha), Cucumber Band Bremen Cafe, The MilBillies w/Noah John and Ringing Iron, & Iron Monocle Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Tim Grimm w/Last Acre Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band Cedarburg Cultural Center, First Fridays presents Hungry Williams Club Garibaldi, Natty Nation’s MKE Bob Marley Bash wJD Rankin & thee dub alumni ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, DJ Bizzon’s The Turn Up! New Yams New Me Edition County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Crush Wine Bar (Waukesha), CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll

Dopp’s Bar & Grill, Dakota Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Friday Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & the Liquor Salesmen Jazz Estate, The Eternal Flame (8pm), Late Night Session: DJ Gramma Matrix (11:30pm) Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Sam Llanas Band Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Saint Tragedy w/Mixed Company & Would You Kindly?

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis, the year 2020 will be a time when you can have dramatic success as you re-evaluate and re-vision and revamp your understandings of your life purpose. Why were you born? What’s the nature of your unique genius? What are the best gifts you have to offer the world? Of the many wonderful feats you could accomplish, which are the most important? The next few weeks will be a potent time to get this fun and energizing investigation fully underway.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Physicist Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize for his insights about quantum mechanics. But he was humble about the complexity of the subject. “If you think you understand it, that only shows you don’t know the first thing about it,” he mused. I’m tempted to make a similar statement about the mysteries and riddles that are making your life so interesting. If you think you understand those mysteries and riddles, you probably don’t. But if you’re willing to acknowledge how perplexing they are, and you can accept the fact that your comprehension of them is partial and fuzzy, then you might enjoy a glimmer of the truth that’s worth building on.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have the power to make connections that have not previously been possible. You can tap into an enhanced capacity to forge new alliances and strengthen your support system. I urge you to be on the lookout for a dynamic group effort you could join or a higher purpose you might align yourself with. If you’re sufficiently alert, you may even find an opportunity to weave your fortunes together with a dynamic group effort that’s in service to a higher purpose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it,” wrote the poet Marianne Moore. In other words, you must track down each victory you’re interested in. You must study its unique nature. And then you must adjust yourself to its specifications. You can’t remain just the way you are but must transform yourself so as to be in alignment with the responsibilities it demands of you.

Can you pass these tests, Taurus? I believe you can. It’s time to prove it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While at the peak of his powers as an author, Gemini-born Nobel Prize-winner Jean-Paul Sartre consumed an array of mood-shifters every day. He quaffed at least a quart of alcohol, smoked two packs of cigarettes and drank copious amounts of coffee and tea.

His intake of pills included 200 milligrams of amphetamines, 15 grams of aspirin and a handful of barbiturates. I propose that we make Sartre your anti-role model during the next four weeks, dear Gemini. According to my analysis of your astrological indicators, your ability to discover, attract and benefit from wonders and marvels will thrive to the degree that you forswear drugs and alcohol and artificial enhancements.

And I’m pleased to inform you that there could be a flood of wonders and marvels.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I don’t think I’m boring. How could I be? I have an abundant curiosity and I love to learn new things.

I’ve worked at many different jobs, have read widely and enjoy interacting with a broad range of humans.

Yet now and then, I’ve had temporary relationships with people who regarded me as uninteresting. They didn’t see much of value in me. I tend to believe it was mostly their fault—they couldn’t see me for who I really am—but it may have also been the case that I lived down to their expectations. Their inclination to see me as unimportant influenced me to be dull.

I bring this up, my fellow Cancerian, because now is an excellent time to remove yourself from situations where you have trouble being and feeling your true self.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Soprano Helen Traubel and tenor Lauritz Melchior performed together in many productions of Wagnerian operas, often at the Metropolitan in New York City. Friends and colleagues but not lovers, they had a playful relationship with each other. A favorite pastime was figuring out tricks they could try that would cause the other to break into inappropriate laughter while performing. According to my quirky reading of the astrological omens, Leo, the coming weeks will be a propitious time for you to engage in SHEPHERD EXPRESS

similar hijinx with your allies. You have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to enjoy amusing collaborative experiments, playful intimate escapades and adventures in buoyant togetherness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Eighteenth-century author Samuel Johnson singlehandedly compiled the influential A Dictionary of the English Language, which remained the definitive British dictionary for 170 years. We shouldn’t be surprised that it was a Virgo who accomplished such an intricate and exhaustive feat. As a high-minded Virgo, Johnson also had a talent for exposing hypocrisy.

In commenting on the Americans’ War of Independence against his country, he noted that some of the “loudest yelps for liberty” came from slave-owners. I propose that we make him one of your role models in 2020. May he inspire you to produce rigorous work that’s useful to many. May he also empower you to be a candid purveyor of freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there a project or situation you’d love to create but have lacked the confidence to try? Now is a time when you can finally summon the necessary courage. Is there a long-running dilemma that has always seemed too confusing and overwhelming to even understand, let alone solve? Now is a favorable time to ask your higher self for the clear vision that will instigate an unforeseen healing. Is there a labor of love that seems to have stalled or a dream that got sidetracked? Now is a time when you could revive its luminosity and get it back in a sweet groove.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Was there a more influential 20th-century artist than Scorpio-born Pablo Picasso? He was a revolutionary innovator who got rich from his creations.

Once, while visiting a gallery showing of art made by children, he said, “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael [the great Renaissance artist]. But it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like they do.” In accordance with your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you seek inspiration from Picasso’s aspiration.

Set an intention to develop expertise in seeing your world and your work through a child’s eyes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I know a Sagittarius man who has seen the film Avengers: Endgame 17 times. Another Sagittarian acquaintance estimates she has listened all the way through to Billie Eilish’s album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, 135 times. And then there’s my scholarly Sagittarian friend who has read the ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad, 37 times. I have no problem with this behavior. I admire your tribe’s ability to keep finding new inspiration in sources you already know well. But in my astrological opinion, you shouldn’t do much of this kind of thing in the coming weeks. It’s high time for you to experiment with experiences you know little about. Be fresh, innocent, and curious.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Athens was one of the great cities of the ancient world.

Its vigorous art, theater, philosophy, architecture and experiments in democracy are today regarded as foundational to Western culture. And yet at its height, Athens’ population was a mere 275,000— equal to modern Fort Wayne, Ind., or Windsor, Ontario. How could such a relatively small source breed such intensity and potency? That’s a long story. In any case, I foresee you having the potential to be like Athens yourself in the coming weeks and months, Capricorn: a highly concentrated fount of value. For best results, focus on doing what you do best.

Homework: You can fling imaginary lightning bolts from your fingers any time you want. Prove it! Freewillastrology.com.

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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atthew Davies, 47, of Dunfermline, Scotland, pled guilty on Friday, Jan. 17, to assault and robbery in the case of a bumbling Bank of Scotland holdup in September, the Daily Record reported. On that day, Davies charged into the bank with a meat cleaver in hand and a pillowcase over his head. Unfortunately, he had neglected to cut eyeholes in the pillowcase and therefore couldn’t see, so he quickly took it off after entering the bank and donning it. Undeterred, he used the meat cleaver to batter a glass partition on the counter and eventually took off with almost 2,000 British Pounds, casually wandering toward home, even stopping to pet a dog along the way. This casual get away allowed bank personnel to easily follow Davies to his home and alert the police; there, they found the cash, pillowcase and meat cleaver, along with a stun gun. He’ll be sentenced in February.

Not So Funny, Easter Bunny Antoine McDonald, 21, of Altamonte Springs, Fla., became famous last year for dressing up as the Easter Bunny in Orlando, but he found his costume unhelpful on Thursday, Jan. 16, after ramming his motorcycle into a carport, which collapsed on a car parked there, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The motorcycle then hit a fence and flipped over, and a neighbor observed the Easter Bunny limping from the scene. When officers caught up with McDonald, lying in the back seat of a car, he denied involvement in the crash: “I wasn’t in any crash. I’m the Orlando Easter Bunny! Google it,” he claimed.

“The bunny was alive but apparently injured,” officers reported, according to the Orlando Sentinel, and they asked him to remove the costume before arresting him and transporting him to the hospital for rib and leg injuries sustained in the crash.

Not Very Green, Alexandre Garcin In June 2019, the city of Roubaix, France, proudly announced it had installed 187 solar panels to generate electricity for the city’s library and paid a local company about $113,000 for the “green” equipment. But, during the installation of a wind turbine to supplement the clean energy effort in December, workers noticed the solar panels had never been connected to the library’s electrical network. Oddity Central reported the panels were intended to supply about a quarter of the library’s needed power, but “we realized this was not the case,” admitted Alexandre Garcin, the city’s deputy mayor, who did not elaborate on why it took six months to figure out the oversight.

What Else? It’s Elsa!

Houston mother Emily Madonia’s nightmare began in 2015, when the Elsa (from Frozen) doll her daughter received for Christmas 2013 began reciting lines from the movie in both English and Spanish; originally, it had only spoken English. Next, the doll began speaking and singing randomly, even when her on-off switch was in the “off” position. In December 2019, Madonia threw the doll out, Click2Houston reported, but her husband and she later found the doll in a bench inside their home. So, they double wrapped the doll in plastic bags and “put it in the bottom of our garbage can,” Madonia wrote on Facebook. Days later, her daughter found the doll again in the backyard. Finally, Madonia sent the doll to a friend who lives in Minnesota, where it (perhaps?) remains. In the meantime, Madonia has been contacted by paranormal investigators, as well as the Travel Channel.

Spotted in Halifax Ben Lilly, 40, on his way to Halifax in West Yorkshire, England, on Saturday, Jan. 25, passed an object in the road that looked like a dead or injured animal: A leopard, to be specific. Lilly stopped and turned around, carefully approaching the large, motionless, spotted cat. He told Metro News his heart was racing, and he was afraid his face might be “ripped off” by the beast.

“I saw the markings on it; it had a long tail on it, too,” Lilly said. “But, as soon as I looked at it from another angle, I started laughing.” It turned out to be a leopard-print jumpsuit, complete with tail. Lilly speculated on Facebook that it might be “someone’s outfit from last night. ... It was Saturday morning, and Halifax is a bit of a drinking town.” © 2020 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION F E B R U A R Y 6 , 2 0 2 0 | 37

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