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Food Halls are Taking Root Around Milwaukee How neighborhoods are revitalized by the new trend in dining::BY ROB HULLUM

hen Tony Janowiec’s commercial real estate firm, Interstate Development Partners LLC., purchased the Shops of Grand Avenue in 2015, he said they had “a million ideas” for what to do with the property. Over the following three-plus years, many of those plans changed, but there was one concept that remained intact throughout the entire process: a 35,000-square-foot food hall. “I think the bottom line to it was that we knew the one thing, oddly enough, that was working in the mall was food,” Janowiec said about his decision to launch the food hall, which he chose to name 3rd Street Market Hall and is set to open by the end of the year. “The fast food court was doing really well despite the rest of the retail continuing to decline. We just knew that we wanted to elevate that experience.” With its massive square footage and plans for 18 vendors, ping pong tables, giant Jenga, an indoor bocce ball court and arcade games, 3rd Street Market Hall will be the largest among a group of food halls that have opened in Milwaukee over the past year. It will join Sherman Phoenix, an entrepreneurial hub in Sherman Park that incorporates a food hall element on its first floor; and Crossroads Collective, a food hall located in the former Oriental Drugs building on the East Side that opened in December.

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What is a Food Hall?

Food halls have existed in one form or another in the United States for decades. Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles, for example, has been open for more than a century. But the trend has really taken off over the last few years. There were 155 food halls throughout the United States in 2017, according to data from commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. The company expects that number to grow to 200 by the end of this year. Modern food halls incorporate elements of the traditional shopping mall food court. Both feature a variety of scaled-down restaurants under one roof with communal seating. The biggest difference between the two is subtle: Food halls generally consists of local restaurants, while a food court is typically made up of national chains. Most food halls are also standalone spaces, not associated with a mall. But, even among food halls, there is no one clearcut definition. “There are 50 different shades of color to what a food hall can actually be,” Janowiec said. “There’s a very wide spectrum of how it’s defined. Crossroads, Sherman Phoenix and 3rd Street Market Hall are going to have very different experiences and very different flavors just reflective of the neighborhoods that they exist in.” Food halls also fit in with a larger trend in retail towards the experiential. Just as Amazon and other online retailers have decimated department stores, the rising popularity of delivery apps are eating away at restaurants’ profits. It is becoming more important than ever to give people a reason to dine in. Having multiple vendors under one roof is one way to do that. “Anything with multiple layers of energy is exciting for people,” said Tim Gokhman, director of New Land Enterprises and owner of Crossroads Collective. “I think that to compete with the creature comforts that you can now get at home—the Netflix and the food delivery—you have to give people something more interesting than just a single concept.” The arrangement can also benefit emerging chefs and budding restaurateurs with limited resources by giving them the ability to operate with a relatively small initial investment. “With how competitive the restaurant scene is, I think that it is getting tougher and tougher for restaurateurs to spend $1 million and hope that you can get your money back,” said Omar Shaikh, president of SURG Restaurant Group and a partner at 3rd Street Market Hall. “You can get in here for less than 10% of that.” He added that operating costs for space in a food hall are also much lower because the business needs far less staff than a typical restaurant. The potential for food halls to become an incubator for the local restaurant scene may not be front of mind for food hall operators right now, but they seem to be open to the idea. “It’s not a stated goal, but it’s something we’ve thought about,” Gokhman said. “And if it happens, that’s awesome.”

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Activating Underused Spaces

A common factor of Milwaukee’s three food halls is that each has, in its own way, helped revitalize an underused piece of real estate in the city. 3rd Street Market Hall is part of a plan to bring life to the long-neglected Shops of Grand Avenue (now named The Avenue). Crossroads Collective opened in the former Oriental Drugs space, which has cycled through a number of bars and restaurants over the years and sat vacant since May 2017. Sherman Phoenix redeveloped a former BMO Harris Bank branch that was burned during the Sherman Park uprising in 2016. To Janowiec, this fits in with the community focused ideology practiced by some of Milwaukee’s most forward-thinking developers. “The role of a real estate developer has always been to try and contribute to the urban planning fabric in a way that advances a cohesive plan,” he said. “That’s really the modern thinking behind real estate development. You see more progressive developers thinking that way, where it’s really an outward facing, ‘What does the neighborhood need?’ versus ‘What can I put in my building to lease space?’ Developers are investing in neighborhoods and not necessarily in buildings anymore.”

In Sherman Park, the new development is contributing to a growing sense of community according to Joanna Brooks, entrepreneur program manager at Sherman Phoenix. “When I think about families coming together around a meal, I think in a lot of ways the Sherman Phoenix provides that opportunity in a community setting,” she said. “People can come in by themselves just to grab something to eat, and they end up seeing someone that they know, or they sit together and there’s great conversation in there and there’s laughter and connection. I’m really happy that the Phoenix is able to create that kind of energy and sustain it.” As two food halls currently operate in the city, with a third on the way, it begs the question of whether more entrepreneurs and property developers in Milwaukee will continue to capitalize on the trend. “Once something is successful, there are always multiple iterations of it,” Gokhman said. “So yes, I would assume that other concepts would come up. We’ve already been asked multiple times to do a second one—both by vendors and interested parties—so we’re thinking about it.” Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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Lack of Investment in Education Breeds Poverty Among Students HOMELESSNESS, POVERTY AND FOOD INSECURITY ARE ENDEMIC AT MATC::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

rofessional success is the inevitable result of hard work and talent according to anyone who still believes in the American dream. However, regardless of one’s merit, the door to success is often closed to those who lack financial stability in the first place. Just a month ago, the Government Accountability Office released a scathing study about poverty among U.S. college students, finding that more than 7 million students are low income, and more than 1.1 million are homeless. Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) illustrates how poverty breeds poverty. In 2017, 61% of program students at MATC received financial aid, and even more struggled to make ends meet but didn’t qualify for grants. To face the worrying issue of poverty among students, the Local 212/MATC Believe in Students FAST Fund was created by sociology professor Sara Goldrick-Rab. Today, it aims to provide funds to the “72% of MATC stu-

dents [who] are low-income.” The fact that MATC is a textbook case of poverty perpetuating itself is tragic in more ways than one: Nearly a third of the students are African American, and most come from lowincome families, attracted by the promise of an inexpensive education leading to high-paying jobs. More than three-quarters of MATC students are pursuing degrees in business, healthcare, technology and applied sciences—fields that direly need more qualified workers, new blood and new perspectives.

Mike Rosen, retired professor of economics at MATC and union leader; Rosen is now dedicated to the FAST Fund. Tuition is often the main expense for students. In the Milwaukee area, yearly tuition is $30,000 per year on average for a full-time student. MATC advertises that its tuition is between $3,600 and $4,700 per year on average. However, prices can vary depending on a student’s situation, and students must also pay

Steep Costs Create Barriers to Entry

IN ITS FIRST YEAR, MATC’S FAST FUND SERVED 30 STUDENTS; LAST YEAR, IT HELPED 104. THIS YEAR, DESPITE BEING IN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF THE SECOND SEMESTER, THE FUND HAS ALREADY HELPED MORE THAN 80 STUDENTS

“People who are concerned about having a skilled labor force, about having an educated population, don’t realize we don’t have public policy that addresses the principal reason why students aren’t completing superior education. Because of the financial stresses they are under, students are forced to stop attending,” explains

for books—“which are very expensive, routinely more than $1,000 per year for a student attending full time,” according to Rosen—as well as countless miscellaneous fees. In the end, according to MATC’s own cost calculator, the average in-state student pays roughly $10,000 per year to attend. Even with Pell Grants— the maximum amount of which is $6,095 this year—students cannot cover more than 60% of their tuition. “Pell Grants were initially designed to cover the entire cost of attendance for a community college, but today, they cover barely more than half,” Rosen explains. “In the early 2000s, 30% of the funding for technical colleges came from the state, but by 2010, state aid had dropped to 10%. The state just stopped investing in tech colleges.” 6 | FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Some initiatives exist to improve the situation, such as the Promise Program, which was launched in 2015. High school graduates who are eligible for federal financial aid may receive up to 75 credits worth of free tuition at MATC in order to avoid an outstanding debt. The program also exists for adults 24 and older who have never earned a degree and wish to reenter the education system. However, even with the Promise program, many students still need to work part-time. According to a 2015 Georgetown University study, low-income students who work while studying “are more likely to have lower persistence and completion rates than others.” After being at their job 35 hours a week—which nearly 50% of working undergraduate students do—who could blame them when they struggle to keep up with their degreeearning goals?

Students Rely on Generosity to Survive

Besides tuition, students need money for rent, food, insurance, bills, transportation and any kind of supplies and equipment required to complete classes. With the average MATC student being 30 years old, many students also have to juggle taking care of their kids alongside work and college obligations. Due to the distinct lack of sufficient state and federal support systems in place to ensure the survival of students, they must often rely on the generosity of groups like the FAST Fund. “The first thing students need help with is shelter,” according to Rosen. “Last year, 45% of students the FAST Fund helped had housing issues—whether the students were actually homeless, were couch-surfing or had eviction notices. The second-biggest area was transportation to get to school, work or to pick up children. Then, it is important to help with energy bills, especially right now. And, just in the last week, we helped students who had no food.” In its first year, MATC’s FAST Fund served 30 students; last year, it helped 104. This year, despite being in the first few weeks of the second semester, the fund has already helped more than 80 students. To raise money and support impoverished students, the FAST Fund is organizing a gala and silent auction on Friday, Feb. 15, at the Milwaukee Brewing Company. Items such as theater tickets, art from MATC students, a signed Green Bay Packers jersey, guest house vacations and gift certificates for local businesses will be auctioned off. Despite those heart-warming community efforts and generosity, students should never have to rely on handouts to become educated. Hope now lies in the hands of the newly elected state legislature and governor. “I’m hopeful that Gov. Tony Evers will reverse this,” Rosen confides. “He’s a supporter of technical colleges, so I hope he will increase funding for both technical colleges and the state’s currently underfunded higher education grants.” As a former educator, Evers made public education his first priority as governor, explicitly promising he would “increase investments in our technical schools.” For more information about the MATC FAST Fund and the fundraising gala, visit local212. org or call 414-467-8908. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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The Vanishing Foxconn Fantasy ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

bsolutely no one should have been surprised that the fantasy of an imaginary high-tech Foxconn factory three times the size of the Pentagon transforming Wisconsin into a jobs-gushing Silicon Valley of the Midwest suddenly began vanishing into thin air last week. The only surprising part was that the deal started coming apart even before Foxconn—a Taiwanese company producing liquid-crystal display TV and computer screens— could collect any of the $4 billion in state and local taxpayer subsidies former Republican Gov. Scott Walker foolishly committed to pay the company throughout the next 15 years—the largest state tax giveaway in U.S. history. Seriously, did anyone other than Walker’s Republican co-conspirators in the Legislature ever really believe all those preposterous claims about Foxconn turning Racine County into Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland, with Tinkerbell flying overhead sprinkling fairy dust? The initial announcement was a 2017 Walker re-election stunt at the White House featuring Walker, Donald Trump and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou—three notorious public liars well-known for promising enormous jobs numbers that never materialized. The centerpiece of Walker 2010 campaign was an incredible political promise to create 250,000 jobs in his first term, which he still hadn’t achieved when voters finally sent him packing eight years later. Trump’s blizzard of well-documented lies by The Washington Post increased to 15-a-day in 2018, tripling his 2017 world record. It wasn’t easy, but Gou put them both to shame. Gou had broken promises to spend billions of dollars throughout the world that, he claimed, would create tens of thousands of jobs in Brazil, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Gou’s only prior U.S. fabrication was a 2013 promise to invest $30 million creating 300 hightech jobs in Pennsylvania. It never happened.

The Lies Live On

Walker’s gone now, but his fraudulent claims about Foxconn live on. When Gou’s assistant said last week that Foxconn was ready to abandon manufacturing plans in Wisconsin (“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S. We can’t compete.”), the media widely reported Wisconsin could lose a $10 billion manufacturing facility providing 13,000 jobs. That wasn’t true. Foxconn was contractually obligated to provide only 3,000 jobs. After Walker publicly inﬂated the number to 13,000, Foxconn adopted the same exaggeration, vaguely suggesting the factory might someday provide “up to 13,000 jobs.” It’s obvious why Walker avoided mentioning the actual number of 3,000 guaranteed jobs. The real number revealed how ridiculous Wisconsin’s $4 billion taxpayer subsidy to Foxconn really was. Wisconsin was paying $4 billion to Foxconn for 3,000 jobs, while New York, Virginia and Tennessee combined were paying $2.4 SHEPHERD EXPRESS

billion in state subsidies to Amazon for 55,000 much higher-paying jobs. The disappearance of the Foxconn deal could be the best possible outcome for Wisconsin. Even if everything went as planned, the non-partisan state Legislative Fiscal Bureau predicted Wisconsin wouldn’t recover ﬁnancially from the Foxconn agreement for a quarter century. Until then, health care, education, roads and every other public need would be underfunded to export billions of Wisconsin dollars to a Taiwanese billionaire. So what’s really going on with Foxconn? Is Foxconn going to build a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin or not? If it does, how many jobs will it provide? It’s hard to know when everybody involved in the project has a history of lying, but there are a few simple rules to follow sorting through the outpouring of conﬂicting public statements.

Don’t Believe the Tweets!

The most important thing we’ve all learned is never to believe anything tweeted by the president. When Trump tweeted: “Great news on Foxconn in Wisconsin after my conversation with Terry Gou!” we can be pretty sure it’s not great news for Wisconsin. Neither can we believe Republican legislators who greased the fast track for the Foxconn train wreck. When the deal started blowing up, the ﬁrst people they blamed were newly elected Democrats who had absolutely nothing to do with the Republican negotiations. All we really know so far is that Gou failed to meet his initial 2018 job goals to earn a penny of the $4 billion bonanza Walker was so eager to throw at him. Apparently, the company’s future plans change hourly. But, we deﬁnitely shouldn’t believe anything the company says

about jobs numbers. Gou has told investors he plans to replace 80% of his worldwide workforce with robots during the next decade. So disregard everything the liars say. We really won’t know what’s happening until it does—or doesn’t—actually happen. But, the Wisconsin deal will always be held up nationally as the worst tax giveaway of all time in U.S. history. The state loses either way, whether it succeeds in transferring an enormous chunk of its tax revenue to Taiwan or the deal continues to fall apart. Walker probably should reconsider the idea he ﬂoated a few weeks ago about running for public ofﬁce again someday. Heck, he might even want to reconsider venturing outside his new Downtown digs in Milwaukee without a disguise. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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ixteen years ago, Tatiana Maida immigrated from Cochabamba, Bolivia, to Los Angeles, making the choice to leave the comfort of her family and follow her new husband. As she describes, people in Bolivia don’t understand the concept of personal space. And, to Maida, that means close relationships and a family that is always there for one another. On the other hand, “it takes a while to build relationships,” in the United States, she says. “It’s learning how to adjust, how to be alone, truly alone.” But, after more than 10 years in L.A., Maida eventually found herself in a new city, where she’s seen diversity and people with a resilience and passion for improvement in their lives. That city is Milwaukee. When Maida arrived in Milwaukee, she continued with her career in journalism and began writing about holistic nutrition. Motivated by her personal experiences with illnesses, she was driven to help others find healthy alternatives in their not-so-healthy lifestyles. She thought, “How can I not just write about it, but do something about it?” It didn’t take long for Maida to find her way to CORE El Centro, where she began developing nutrition and health programs. From there, she moved on to work at Milwaukee’s Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC). She worked her way up to her current role as the Healthy Choices Department Manager, transitioning from the world of journalism to community advocacy. Maida found a home at the SSCHC because their mission easily aligned with hers. That mission is to improve the health of Milwaukee community members, not just through medical treatment but through education and prevention. Maida developed a curriculum for the Family Education Program that teaches families about healthy eating habits, physical exercise and stress management. The goal is to empower people through knowledge to make their own healthy choices. Most importantly, the program accommodates the cultural background and language of the participants. “Families and children have the right to receive education according to their age, language of preference and culture,” she exclaims. According to Maida, the education shouldn’t stop there. Once community members in this program have the education to lead healthier lives, Maida believes they should learn the leadership skills to speak for their community. That is why she created the Community Advocacy Program. In this program, people learn how to be leaders by promoting health and advocating for the change their community wants. With that program comes the challenge of creating space at community meetings for both professionals and community members. “That’s been my fight; to connect with the community in meaningful ways and give them the voice and the space to make decisions.” Over the years of doing this work, Maida explains how her eyes have been opened to injustice and inequality. However, through those hardships, she has also witnessed the power of people to change their own homes and environments. And Milwaukee has provided her with that opportunity: a space to make closer connections and for her work to be visible. The main lesson she’s learned is to “have a lot of hope,” she says. “We can’t give up.” Learn more at sschc.org/health-community/healthy-choices. For more of Erin Bloodgood’s work, visit bloodgoodfoto.com. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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THE STATE IS IRONING OUT THE WRINKLES AFTER LEGALIZATION PASSES THE VOTE ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

ut of all the states bordering Wisconsin, only one has fully legalized cannabis: Michigan. Our eastern neighbors voted in the November 2018 election to allow adults 21 and older to possess, grow and consume marijuana. Full legalization, unlike what some opponents of it may fear, does not mean a lawless, free-for-all anarchy. Michigan favors a private, discreet use of marijuana, allowing individuals to own 10 ounces at home but only 2.5 ounces in public. It is now legal for individuals to grow up to 12 marijuana plants at home, as long as it remains within a private residence. There are still penalties for breaking the law, however. If you own or grow more than the allowed amount of cannabis, you may receive a fine up to $500; but no penalty includes incarceration. Businesses that make and sell marijuana require licenses and must pay a 10% tax in addition to regular state taxes, which will cover all costs incurred by regulation. Growing or selling marijuana without a license is a felony, punishable by four to 15 years in prison, depending on the amount. Operating a vehicle while under the influence of marijuana is a DUI in Michigan, and the same penalties apply no matter what drug (alcohol, cannabis, GHB, cocaine, etc.) the driver is “under the influence” of. There are no places that officially sell recreational marijuana, as the first shops are expected to open in 2020, after lawmakers have settled all the legal details. The main sources of cannabis are currently the plants grown by private individuals and medical cannabis dispensaries that sell only to qualified patients since medical cannabis was legalized in 2008. While the number of qualified patients is relatively high (300,000 as of last October), most of the dispensaries are concentrated in highly populated areas like Detroit and Flint, leaving large swathes of the state with no access to dispensaries. Given how recent the legalization of cannabis in Michigan is, currently we can only make assumptions as to its success. It is impossible to tell how efficient the taxing system will be, or if there will be a shift in criminality or DUI charges, for example. However, one of the arguments in favor of legalization was a study published by VS Strategies, a Colorado-based consulting firm, that estimated the Michigan cannabis market would be a pot of gold, bringing in more than $130 million to the state annually after just a few years. The real figures are likely as high or higher than this estimate, as VS Strategies’ home state, Colorado, has half as many inhabitants as Michigan but touted a $130 million tax revenue from cannabis in 2015, which increased to $266 million in 2018. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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isconsin was once one of the largest hemp producers in the nation. I’d like to see that happen again, because it’s a great crop for our farmers,” said Sam Ward. Ward, his wife, Sadie, and friend/engineer Drew Faude, own Partnered Process, a Waterford, Wis.-based company that processes botanicals to make high-quality oil. Sadie’s mother, Janet Gamble, is an organic farmer and co-owner of Turtle Creek Gardens. She began growing hemp during the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP) 2018 pilot program to diversify their income opportunities. “I thought that sounded really cool and interesting, and then I thought about what happens next, so I started researching processing,” Sadie said. Intrigued, she talked it over with Sam. The couple consulted with Faude, and they began researching hemp processing, traveling to Colorado and Tennessee to see how other processing businesses operated. They obtained state processing licensure this past October. For the 2019 season, Partnered Process will again work with Turtle Creek Gardens and some farmers new to growing hemp. “Most people are getting into this as a side project, and a couple of farmers are looking to diversify what they’re already doing. We’ve had a lot of interest,” Sadie said. Sam has a background in in-house sales and marketing, and Sadie has worked in the natural food and wellness areas. Because Wisconsin’s hemp industry is still new, there aren’t many other companies in Wisconsin currently offering hemp processing, so the Wards and Faude wanted to get in on the ground ﬂoor. They plan to branch into online retail of ﬁnished products like tinctures and smokable items. Faude explained their focus is looking for sustainable and organically grown hemp, ideally with higher cannabidiol (CBD) levels, “but we’re able to process any of it, and we’re trying to make it transparent to the customer where the hemp is coming from. People will be able to access that right off our bottle. Currently, we’re using ethanol extraction and some practices to remove ethanol out of the plant material through some things I designed.”

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Ethanol and CO2 are two commonly used CBD extraction methods. “We chose ethanol because a lot of the experienced people that have been doing this for years use it, and it seems to be the way to get the most out of the plant,” Sam added. “Once we extract it, the base product, crude, can be sold wholesale to brokers or to people making bath bombs or lotion.” Crude, a thick, syrupy substance, is mixed with organic hemp oil or a mediumchain triglyceride (MCT) like organic coconut oil to thin it and act as a carrier for digestion. “We use everything we took out of the plant, so your body can use the CBD, the chlorophyll, the flavonoids and other things that are super-beneficial,” Sam said. In addition to CBD, hemp’s uses include rope, clothing and paper. Because Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has stated he supports medical marijuana, Sam is optimistic that growers and processors can work on both spectrums of cannabis for medicinal and practical goods. Sam said it’s important to keep the playing field level so large agribusinesses don’t squeeze out smaller farmers. He sees opportunity for successful, long-term partnerships for farmers, processors and retailers. “Partnered Process’ focus is to make sure these small farmers can be sustainable,” Faude adds. “We want to keep the smaller farms; they create some of the best foods, whereas these large corporate farms are destroying the land and [creating] these monocultures, and that’s not good.” Sadie believes transparency is the key to building customer trust, and thus success, in an up-and-coming industry. “I think it’s important that we set that standard for Wisconsin. We can’t have a quality product without a quality crop, so creating these partnerships is important.” For more information, visit partneredprocess.com. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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hether you’re looking for butternut squash pasta sauce, wild boar jerky or a utopia of hot sauces, Just Not Salt & Pepper (4162 S. 108th St., Greenfield) goes above and beyond common supermarket snacks and condiments. “This is the kind of store I wanted to open, with not the stuff you’d find at Pick ’n Save,” said owner Tim Novak, who operates the store with his wife, Gail, and daughter, Cassandra. The 2,000-square-foot store stocks artisan products like popcorn, nuts, sausage snacks, cocktail mixes, old-time candy, oils and vinegars, barbecue sauces, coffee, seasonings and over 480 hot sauces. Just Not Salt & Pepper also has their own line of spices and flavoring

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ISABELLE KRALJ ADAPTS IBSEN’S ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE’ GIGANTESTYLE ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

he title character of An Enemy of the People, the 1882 drama by the towering Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, isn’t the news media. Rather, it’s a doctor in a village that depends on tourists drawn to its celebrated health spa to bathe and drink water from a mountain-fed river. A rise in illnesses prompts the doctor to have the water tested. Behold, the river’s contaminated by run-off from an upstream factory that provides the village with its second source of income. The health spa must be closed until the problem is solved, says the doctor to the powers-that-be. A solution will be costly, the leadership replies; better to label the problem fake and blame the messenger. Will the townsfolk agree?

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Ibsen spent his life developing the style we now call modern realism. When Mark Anderson suggested to his wife and artist-partner, Isabelle Kralj, last year that she adapt this play for their Theatre Gigante, Kralj felt distant from Ibsen’s style. “I mean, it’s a play,” she said at the start of our conversation, referencing its five long acts of dialogue. “I just felt that there were too many ideas in it to be able to adapt it to our style.” Instead, she adapted Franz Kafka’s novella Metamorphosis, selecting all the things she found important and devising Gigante-style ways to stage them. That success brought her back to Ibsen’s play. “When Mark and I first talked about it, we related it to Flint, Michigan,” she said. “But, once the water issue fades in the play and the political issues rise up, it’s so timely it’s just breathtaking. So I’m glad we’re doing it. Jason Powell wrote six songs for us. They’re hilarious and perfect. There’s lots of stylistic variability. Different elements play into it, including Frank Paul’s Toy Band. The whole cast sings and Ben Yela plays guitar. It takes you on a little roller coaster of stylization.” Kralj has spent her life developing the Theatre Gigante style, a hybrid of dance, drama and music. “We always say, it’s got to be seamless,” she said. “It’s got to flow from text to song to movement, just to continue the story.” That work began in 1987, when she founded Milwaukee Dance Theatre. In the late ’90s, when she teamed with her soon-to-be husband Mark Anderson, a successful writer and performance artist, the style became a central focus. What was emerging was so new the two couldn’t name it until, in 2008, tongues in cheek, they called it Theatre Gigante. They explored, experimented and sharpened it through one original piece after another. The driving vision behind most of the shows was Kralj’s, Anderson said. Last winter’s Metamorphosis was her first solo adaptation. This winter’s An Enemy of the People is her second, although she asked Anderson to write two important monologues, she said, to keep it theirs. I’ve read the script and find it brilliant. Ibsen’s full story is told, pared but not simplified, inescapably Theatre relevant, the more so because it’s so entertaining. “Reading up on Ibsen,” Kralj continued, “I learned that Gigante he’d written his publisher that he didn’t know whethAn Enemy of er to call the play a comedy or not. I read that after I’d the People already written the adaptation and I was very happy Kenilworth because we’d chosen the route of laughter.” 508 Theater It’s probable that Ibsen identified with his protagoFeb. 8-16 nist, the crusading doctor, ultimately spurned. In fact, it’s believed he wrote the play in response to the public outcry over his previous play, Ghosts. He certainly doesn’t compliment his townsfolk. I suspect that Kralj, however, identifies with Yela’s guitar player, a character entirely of her invention. “He’s a very everyday character,” she said. “The sanity, the balance, the one that offers neither black nor white but just a kind of smarts, in the few lines that he has.” Even more than the original, Kralj’s adaptation reminds me that democracy means we’re free to argue publicly with power, even if it leaves us isolated. Dictatorships silence opposition. Kralj’s script has two named characters, the doctor—played by Emmett Morgan—and his chief antagonist, the mayor played by David Flores. In addition to Yela, a cast of five performers serves as townsfolk, business people, civic leaders, family members and, yes, a newspaper reporter, in scenes that sometimes last just seconds. Those five are Hannah Klapperich-Mueller, Katie Gesell, Leslie Fitzwater, Mark Bucher and Ron Scot Fry. Kralj is directing. “They’re a wonderful group that jumps into improvisational moments with great energy,” she said. “They were assigned to come up with gestures and flowing movement mirroring behavior at a meeting, for example, and together we sculpted a movement meeting. I don’t think I work in dance anymore. But there’s an emotional world that exists that I see and understand in movement. I think it can express onstage something that words can’t.” Feb. 8-16 at Kenilworth 508 Theater, 1925 E. Kenilworth Place. For tickets and more information, visit theatregigante.org or call 800-838-3006.

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Interpol w/ Sunflower Bean @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY, FEB. 7 Mozes and the Firstborn w/ The Parrots and Surgeons in Heat @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

With their loopy combination of psych-pop and oddball Guided by Voices rock, the Dutch quartet Mozes and the Firstborn fit right at home on the California label Burger Records, long a hub for zippy guitar bands. The label released their self-titled debut album in 2014, and they’ve been touring aggressively ever since. In January, they released their third record for their label, a typically loose, unstructured set called Dadcore, which they recorded with Beach House/Slowdive producer Chris Coady. The band has said they modeled the album like a mixtape.

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John Mellencamp @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Like that other small-town-romanticizing heartland-rocker, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp balances pop prowess with big-hearted, populist ambitions. Even his flag-waving, Chevrolet-selling love letter to the working class, “Our Country,” was anchored by a progressive message of tolerance. If that 2007 hit, with its triumphant accompaniment from country titans Little Big Town, felt a bit like a bid for the radio, there’s nothing particularly commercial about the album he’s released over the last decade. Roots traditionalist T Bone Burnett produced 2010’s No Better Than This and 2014’s aptly titled Plain Spoken, two of the most straightforward folk albums he’s ever recorded, and Mellencamp self-produced 2017’s Sad Clowns & Hillbillies. His most recent release is the low-key covers album Other People’s Stuff, which features takes on Robert Johnson, Jimmie Rodgers and Stevie Wonder tunes.

The Milwaukee Admirals w/ Styx @ UWM Panther Arena, 7 p.m.

The art-rock band Styx scored some of the biggest—and longest—hits of the ’70s and ’80s, including stadium staples like “Lady,”“Too Much Time on My Hands” and their signature epic, “Come Sail Away.” After more than four decades together, the group is still touring, albeit without original singer Dennis DeYoung, who left to pursue a solo career in 1999. DeYoung’s absence might explain why they play after so many hockey games. For this concert, the group will again join the Milwaukee Admirals, who take the ice against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at 7 p.m.

William Bell @ Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 8 p.m.

Memphis soul singer William Bell is a true journeyman whose music has transcended genres and eras. His nearly 60-year career began with his 1961 debut “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” which was covered Otis Redding, The Byrds and Peter Tosh. While Bell is best remembered for his long stint on Stax Records, his best-known song might be the blues standard “Born Under a Bad Sign,” which he co-wrote with Booker T. Jones. It would go on to be covered by Cream, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Etta James, Jimi Hendrix and countless others. Bell also included a version of the song on his first major new album in 30 years, 2016’s This Is Where I Live, which won him a Grammy for Best Americana Album.

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Of the hundreds of bands that mined the chilly, angular sounds of British post punk around the turn of the century, Interpol were the very best, and their debut albums Turn on the Bright Lights and Antics remain some of the most evocative indie rock of their time, instantly summoning feelings of post-9/11 dread. But, even the biggest fans of the band admit that the group overreached on its 2007 major-label debut Our Love to Admire, a jumbled album that made many question what they even saw in the band to begin with. Their most recent album, 2018’s Marauder, was touted as a return to form, a boast that might have carried more weight if the two records before it hadn’t also been marketed as return to forms. Still, there’s no denying it gets the job done. This band’s days of being on the vanguard may be over, but they’re still able to scratch this one, highly specific, highly stylish itch in a way no other act can.

Willy Porter @ Cedarburg Cultural Center, 8 p.m.

In the quarter century since Mequon songwriter Willy Porter released his breakthrough record Dog-Eared Dream, which scored the hit “Angry Words” and landed him tours with Tori Amos and The Cranberries, Porter has remained one of Wisconsin’s most prominent songwriters. He’ll perform his solo show for Cedarburg Cultural Center’s annual Advocates of Ozaukee benefit concert supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence. 18 | F E B R U A R Y 7 , 2 0 1 9

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Bad Wig/Sin Bad w/ Large Print and Rio Turbo @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Bad Wig and Sin Bad have been two of the more efficient hook-delivery systems in Milwaukee’s punk scene, Bad Wig with their lo-fi, SST Records throwbacks, and Sin Bad with their sprightly, peppier spin on punk. And, given the overlap in their band names, it only made sense for them to release a split record together (SIN BAD WIG, as the cover art bills it). The two bands will share this joint release show for their 12-inch split on Madison’s Kitschy Spirit Records, joined by Milwaukee alt-rock enthusiasts Large Print and party-starters Rio Turbo.

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The Pennsylvania Celtic band Runa don’t limit themselves to just traditional Celtic sounds. Instead, they mix Irish and Scottish styles with jazz, bluegrass, blues and folk, forming an Irish-American fusion heavily influenced by acts like The Chieftains, Solas and Nickel Creek. The group is led by singer and step-dancer Shannon Lambert-Ryan, who’s joined by Dublin-born guitarist Fionán de Barra, Canadian percussionist Cheryl Prashker and others. On this tour, the band is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

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Few Memphis rappers wear their Tennessee drawl quite as proudly as Young Dolph, who even before his 2016 commercial debut King of Memphis had emerged as one of the city’s biggest rappers, thanks to a steady output of impressive releases and his frequent collaborations with Gucci Mane (the two rappers released a collaborative mixtape called East Atlanta Memphis in 2013). Dolph only garnered more attention in 2017 after surviving multiple gunshot wounds in an incident some speculated stemmed from his widely publicized rivalry with rapper Yo Gotti, though no charges were filed. The brush with death did little to slow Dolph down. In September, Dolph he released his fifth album, Role Model.

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The Chinese Lady

The Chinese Lady centers on Afong Moy, who was brought from Beijing to America in 1834 and put on display as the “Chinese Lady.” Over the next several decades, she performed in a sideshow that both defined and challenged her own view of herself as she witnessed stunning transformation in the U.S. Inspired by the true story of America’s first female Chinese immigrant, playwright Lloyd Suh unearths hidden history and questions the way we look at ourselves and others in this new play. Directed by Milwaukee Repertory Theater associate artistic director May Adrales, The Chinese Lady’s cast features two Rep newcomers—Lisa Helmi Johanson (as Afong Moy) and Jon Norman Schneider (as Atung). Its creative team includes sets by Collette Pollard, costumes by Izumi Inaba, lighting by Noele Stollmack, sound design by Andre J. Pluess and dialects by Clare Arena Haden. Dramaturgical consultant Nancy Davis and stage manager Kimberly Carolus round out the team behind this powerful play’s production. (John Jahn) Feb. 13-March 24 at the Milwaukee Rep’s Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

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“Con Amore”

“Con Amore” (“with love”) is a title that should give you a great deal of information about what you’ll hear at this Florentine Opera Company concert performance featuring their quartet of studio artists. Solo arias and ensembles will focus on matters of the heart from a theater-music genre in which such fairly abound—opera. The vocalists are soprano Nicole Heinen, mezzo-soprano Briana Moynihan, tenor Nicholas Huff and baritone Nathaniel Hill. As the Florentine explains the event: “See the next generation of great opera artists shine in this intimate and romantic show. Our world-class Baumgartner Studio Artists perform a charming concert of love songs from the world of opera and beyond. ‘Con Amore’ will also feature the Jamie Breiwick Quartet.” (John Jahn) Feb. 8-10 in Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall, 929 N. Water St. (Marcus Center for the Performing Arts). For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit florentineopera.org.

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Torch and Glamour: An Exploration of Love and Illusion

Cascade, 2015, Oil and alkyd on wood panel, 72 × 144 inches. Commissioned by Grand Rapids Art Museum with funds provided by Peter Wege, Jim and Mary Nelson, John and Muriel Halick, Mary B. Loupee, and Karl and Patricia Betz. Grand Rapids Art Museum, 2015.19

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The audience will enter the Danceworks Studio to the music of guest artist Ryan Cappelman at the piano. Guest writer-performer Andréa Moser, instigator of this newest escapade in Danceworks Performance Company’s glorious history of side-splitting comic dance concerts, will emcee an audience-interactive, lounge-style variety show about romance and heartbreak. Audience members will be guest artists, too, sharing their own romantic mishaps as material for improvisation by the excellent cast of Melissa Anderson, Kim Johnson, Liz Licht, Elisabeth Roskopf, Zach Schorsch, Maggie Seer, Christal Wagner, Andrew Zanoni and artistic director Dani Kuepper (also the show’s main choreographer). One lucky guest will be honored with a glamorous makeover designed for soothing broken hearts. “I’ve always liked making funny dances,” Kuepper said. “It’s really hard. I know some tricks, it’s true, but then it’s dangerous to be formulaic. This show has some similarities to last year’s Mad Li(m)bs, but the audience interaction and the kind of raucous nature of this is stylistically very different, and this probably has more choreographed dances. Everyone sings or raps throughout the show. Christal Wagner sings while tap dancing. She’s really good. Andrew Zanoni rewrote Nicki Minaj’s ‘Stupid Hoe.’ The content of his writing and his delivery are virtuosic.” (John Schneider) Feb. 9-16 at Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-277-8480 ext. 6025, or visit danceworksmke.org. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Powerful Performances in ‘Pure Enough to Drink’

Next Act’s ‘Blood at the Root’

THEATRE

An Emotional Whirlwind in Next Act’s ‘Blood at the Root’ ::BY ANNE SIEGEL

large tree, tightly encased in yards and yards of ropes, dominates the set of Next Act Theatre’s excoriating Blood at the Root, a play by noted author Dominique Morisseau. The play focuses on real-life events surrounding the “Jena Six”—six black teenagers convicted in the beating of a white student in Jena, La., during a period of high tension after three nooses had been hung from a tree on their high school’s property. Morisseau’s play about this 2006 incident carries a powerful message about social prejudice and systematic injustice. Dubbed by its playwright as a “choreopoem,” Blood at the Root takes the audience through a whirlwind of emotions. The dialogue is interspersed by bits of choreography and poetry. The play takes its title from a line in the late Billie Holiday’s best-known song, “Strange Fruit,” which ponders lynchings. Director Marti Gobel brings the story to life with a cast of six young people: three girls and three boys. The students, both black and white, must come to terms with where they stand on an issue they didn’t create but are now deeply involved in. They stage protests when the school’s administration tries to write off the nooses as merely a “prank.” At the same time, the district attorney is treating the school beating as an adult offense. What are the students to think about this? Standouts in the cast include Raylynn (Chante Miller), who is running as the school’s first black candidate for school president. Her views about racism puts her at odds with one of her best friends, a white girl named Asha (April Paul). Also caught in the crossfire of the Jena Six case is Casey Hoekstra as Colin, the school quarterback who is victimized by the black male students. The cast also includes Ibraheem Farmer, Grace DeWolff and Justin Lee. The audience cannot help but sympathize with the adolescents, who are trying to figure out their own identities within the context of a racist environment. This fast-paced show moves with a beat. Choreographer Alicia Rice delivers some edgy moves that punctuate the script, while director Gobel also contributes as “movement and stomp director.” The actors perform the dance movements flawlessly. At one point in the play, Asha wonders why they must deal with the effects of racism. Her black friend sums it up: “If we don’t know how to connect to a problem that ain’t your own, we all screwed.” Through Feb. 24 at Next Act Theatre. For tickets, visit nextact.org or call 414-278-0765.

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::BY NICHOLAS TOCCO

n our society, the public often turns a blind eye to the problem of drug addiction. We assume the problem is reserved for the underprivileged and could never afflict the upper and middle classes. Unfortunately, in reality, there are people in those two classes who fall into addiction, especially teenagers. As a teen myself, the fact that one of my peers could be harming him or herself just to feel joy deeply disturbs me. Such is the subject matter of the play, Pure Enough to Drink, performed by The Company of Strangers. Pure Enough to Drink is a play based on true-life events. It’s the story of its author, Alex Hoffmann, the flawed father of Shay, who died due to a heroin overdose. Alex also comes to terms with his own drinking addiction after he is imprisoned for driving while drunk and causing property damage. To make things worse, he’s currently going through rough times with his wife, Judy, after the discovery of their son’s addiction. The cast delivers performances worthy of such tragedy, especially Markaz Davis as Shay. The actor is outstanding as a nihilistic youth who has destroyed his own life and is trying to justify his decisions, with all the ex-

cuses addicts use to rationalize their choices. In fact, the play itself begins with a powerful soliloquy given by Shay about how anyone can become addicted to drugs. Also of note is Kerric Stephens as Alex Hoffmann—a man damaged by the choices made regarding his life and his son. We see how his time in prison changes Alex for the better. The sets and props were minimal but creative. Tables and chairs were used for the recreation area of a prison. Two cans symbolized a phone, and two boxes stood for the growing distance in the relationship of the callers, Judy and Alex. Near the end of the first act comes a moment where Alex is given a less than ethical way to save his son. Alex chooses not to have that act carried out, because he doesn’t want to break the law. Later in life, Alex feels regret that he could have saved his son in that very moment but didn’t. All of these internal conflicts can be summarized with a quote from the last scene of the play: “You’re not the bad guy, you’re the guy who made all the wrong choices.” Through Feb. 9 at Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, call 434-221-7498.

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Beautiful Work and Storytelling in UWM’s ‘Winterdances: Refuge’ ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

t was easy to believe that the young performers in the UW-Milwaukee Dance Department’s Winterdances: Refuge have futures in dance. Their commitment to the work, and their love for dancing was clear. They did beautiful work under difficult circumstances. So did the designers and technicians. Last week’s weather forced the university to close for the days that would otherwise have been the concert’s dress rehearsals and opening night, so they opened a day late with just a few hours to pull it all together. The dominant impression, hand-in-hand with the excellence of the dancing, was the concert’s visual beauty—the lighting by Ellie Rabinowitz, costumes by Lisa Schobert, Debra Krajec and Leslie Vaglica and especially the scenic design by Nicole Bauguss and videography by Kym McDaniel that powerfully graced the show’s centerpiece, “The Gray Shape of Wasp’s Nests,” choreographed by artistic director Simone Ferro. A dance response to stories from the lives of several generations of Milwaukee women, Ferro’s piece also featured Susan Firer’s poems as recorded by Firer and the wonderful Flora Coker. This lovely idea was marred by the sound quality at that first performance, no doubt due to the lack of prep time. And, in this piece and others, whenever dancers spoke or sang onstage, their voices needed amplification. Ferro’s piece presented women, onstage and off, as loving providers of refuge and continuity, helping their children into the future, just as this concert was doing. The show’s five choreographers—and all but one of the dancers—were women. All the dances spoke of that in essential ways across a range of styles. The one man, Matthew Wagner, and his partner, Lehua Estrada, executed choreographer Bryn Cohn’s “Viewpoint” perfectly. Intimately attuned to each other and at speed, the pair carved out space for one another until a threatening rumble drowned their music, and the stage darkened. In “treewaterland-milwaukee,” choreographer Esther Baker-Tarpaga paid tribute to the indigenous women of Lake Michigan’s southwestern shore. Her dancers arrived with handfuls of tiny lights and moved as ghosts until the world disintegrated into contemporary chaos. In choreographer Darci Wutz’ “Together Alone,” three women danced as the title announces with self-possession and genuine glamour. Aerial choreographer Andrea Burkholder’s “Residence Time” was the dreamy finale. Fearless dancers climbed high on swaths of silk—swung, slid or spun in an aerial hoop to gorgeous music, adventuring and taking care of one another. It was heaven.

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::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Feb. 6—HamBingo at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): It’s time for prizes and bingo and burgers galore when everyone’s favorite holy rollers take over Hamburger Marys’ for a night of fun. The Brew City Sisters offer a party where the bingo is free, the burgers are hot and the drinks are cold. Perfect for a girls-night-out, family fun or simply a change-ofpace night, check out the 8 p.m. HamBingo this week! Feb. 8—NEWaukee’s Tenth Anniversary Party at Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery (901 W. Juneau Ave.): Celebrate a decade of the one of Milwaukee’s most popular organizations... NEWaukee! A cash bar, DJ and dancing highlight the 8-10 p.m. event. Haven’t been to a NEWaukee event before? This is your chance. Feb. 8—TITS Valentine’s Day Show at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): Can’t wait to celebrate Valentine’s, Gal-entine’s or Pal-entine’s Day? Then join me at Milwaukee’s favorite watering hole for celebration of the red and white. The free 9 p.m. show features me as well as Shawna Love, BJ Daniels, Karen Valentine and Goldie Adams. Feb. 9—Love is Love: A Benefit for LGBTQ Youth at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (227 State St., Madison): Make the (short) road trip to Mad City for this 8 p.m. to midnight event that helps kids dealing with emotional health issues, and benefits LGBTQ youth programs. Tickets run $25 to $100, so get yours at unitypoint.org/madison/loveislove. Enjoy a 9:30 p.m. program followed by 10 p.m. entertainment and dancing. Feb. 9—Opening Night of Torch and Glamour at Danceworks (1661 N. Water St.): Love is in the air, and it’s going up in flames according to the talented team at Danceworks. Join them as they explore love, illusion, mayhem and more with a variety show spotlighting dancers, singers, musicians and others. The show runs through Feb. 16 with tickets ranging in price from $16 to $27. Swing by danceworksmke.org for tickets and show times.

Feb. 10—Love is in the Air Chili Cook Off Championship at Kruz (354 E. National Ave.): Love may not be the only thing in the air when this chili cook off is in full swing. The winners of January chili contests vie for the final title during this Sunday funday hosted by Castaway’s Levi/Leather social group. Celebrate the 3-7 p.m. competition with raffle drawings and a beer bust. Feb. 11—Gay Speed Dating at Intersectionality Among Men (2439 N. Holton St.): Need a date for Valentine’s Day? This might be the event for you! Organizers note that this event is for “same gender-loving young men of color between the ages of 18-29.” The 6-8 p.m. night sits two single men together for a 5-minute introduction before each man moves on to the next gentleman for another quick intro. Feb. 12—Milwaukee Coffee Connection at JDBC Tax Services (6525 W. Bluemound Road): Grab a free cup of coffee from 8-9 a.m. when the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts this month’s social. Make some new friends, form some new business contacts and warm up on the way to work with this early-bird happy hour. Feb. 12—LGBTQ+ Book Talk and Club Launch at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): Sign up for the community’s newest book club and help select the first book. The fun begins at 6 p.m. Free and open to all, this first meeting will focus on a scope of titles to consider, goals of the club and dates and times of future meetings. 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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Black History Month as Stonewall Turns 50 ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

or African American LGBTQs, Black History Month 2019 begins inauspiciously under the pall of the most recent spate of racist and homophobic incidents. In December, black comedian Kevin Hart offered a non-apology for saying he would beat his son with a chair if he were gay. Recently, an Iowa Republican Congressman declared his white supremacy with barely a shrug from his GOP colleagues. A Democratic governor’s clueless black face confession brought calls for resignation, but, at least for now, he won’t. The smirk seen ’round the world of a Kentucky Catholic boy in a MAGA hat is being defended by high-powered lawyers threatening lawsuits and even the president. To be fair, that debacle was fueled in part by racist and homophobic slurs hurled at the boy’s white school group by radical Black Hebrew Israelites. Then, in Chicago, gay African American singer-actor Jussie Smollett (a Milwaukee PrideFest 2018 guest celebrity) was attacked by white men invoking “MAGA.” Despite evidence to the contrary, the apparent hate crime has been called a hoax by certain black bloggers who shamed the victim with homophobic epithets. When, among other black entertainers, Kevin Hart offered sympathetic words for Smollett, critics pointed to his earlier violently

homophobic jokes as causing the attack he now decried. Given all that (and more), local LGBTQs of color might wonder what Black History Month means in this, the Stonewall Riots’ 50th anniversary. It may conjure last year’s 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s racial unrest. There wasn’t much celebration of positive changes that event brought about because there haven’t been many. Milwaukee is still the country’s most segregated city with the same disparities as ever in health, education and employment. As if to underscore that reality, a recent mock Milwaukee map identiﬁed our quaint neighborhoods with such names as Artisanal Fetishists (Bay View) or Yuppies in Warehouses (the Third Ward), while the central city got The Shooting Gallery (53206) and The Mob Beating District (Sherman Park). Similarly, Stonewall’s impact on local communities of color seems negligible. While the same social inequities persist among LGBTQs of color as in the rest of the population, they also endure discrimination from both outside and within based on their sexual orientation. I recall going to the Factory in the 1970s, where a back bar (open only on weekends) tended to be almost exclusively black, while the front bar was all white. Decades later, in 2011, Diverse and Resilient’s “Acceptance Journeys,” a multi-phase billboard campaign depicting alternative families, intended to bridge the cultural gap. Although studies concluded the project had positive results in other cities, its Milwaukee run was never completed due to funding issues. It’s hardly reassuring that Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn has been condemned by both the Human Rights Campaign for his attacks on LGBTQ rights and black leaders for his assault on the NAACP, which he called a “disgrace to America.” Coming to the rescue, perhaps, is U.S. Rep. “Auntie” Maxine Waters, the African American ﬁrebrand, who issued a powerful pro-LGBTQ statement calling for confrontation of inequality and the empowerment of those of “different lifestyles” who are the targets of discrimination. We can only hope.

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cago. They called him a faggot and the n-word and tied a noose around his neck, punched his face kicked him and poured a chemical on him while yelling, “This is MAGA country!” referring to Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again”. Then, on Wednesday, Jan. 30, while scrolling through an R&B radio station’s website for an event, I caught its story on Jussie Smollett and saw the words “alleged attack.” That infuriated me. I wondered how many LGBTQ hate crimes went unreported for reasons such as shame, being outed, fear of another attack, not

hate the word “alleged.” I just do. Especially when you know a crime was committed because all the evidence is there in black and white for the world to see. The word “alleged” to me, maybe not in the court of law, means it may or may not have occurred. Take the recent hate crime case of Jussie Smollett, award-winning singer and actor from the television show “Empire.” He was viciously attacked by two white men (According to TMZ) in masks and all black clothing as he was leaving a Subway restaurant in Chi-

wanting to worry their family and friends, selfrejection, thinking the police might not help. These are some psychological effects that can deter people from reporting hate crimes. The horriﬁc attack on Jussie Smollett captured my attention and that of the media, showing the reality that these attacks are happening to people across the U.S. every day.

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targets a victim because of her or his membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group or race. A hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence. Examples include (but are not limited to): sexual orientation, gender identity, physical appearance, ethnicity, sex, language, nationality or religion. You could experience physical assault, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, hate mail, rape or damage to property to name a few examples. According to the American Psychological Association, people victimized by violent hate crimes are more likely to experience psychological distress than victims of other violent crimes. Speciﬁcally, victims of crimes that are bias-motivated are prone to post-traumatic stress, safety concerns, depression, anxiety and anger.

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According to Victim Connect, you should: call 911 for immediate assistance; record what happened; file a police report; lean on trusted friends and family; reach out to an advocate for support; find an attorney; and, if you don’t trust local authorities, file a report with the FBI’s Civil Rights Program. Other resources out there for you are the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline (888-843-4564 and glbthotline. org), which provides telephone, online private one-to-one chat and email peer support, as well as local resources for cities and towns across the U.S. In Milwaukee, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center has an Anti-Violence and Counseling Program and a Report Violence department. Their number is 414-292-3070 and the Center’s general line is 414-271-2656. The Center is dedicated to reducing violence perpetrated against LGBTQ individuals through community outreach, education and facilitating healing from recent or past violence and trauma through counseling and advocacy. They help victims and survivors aged 14 and older with crisis counseling, accompaniment to court, medical exams and advocacy. They also offer crisis counseling and stabilization Monday-Friday during business hours by a trained mental health professional. All information is kept confidential (mkelgbt.org). Let me tell you something: I saw Jussie Smollett perform live last summer at Pridefest, and did he shine! You and I shine just like Jussie, and our light can never be dimmed by any act of racial or homophobic hate. Let us continue to fight for love, fight for justice and fight for equality here in Milwaukee, in Wisconsin, across the nation and throughout the world! I’d like to dedicate this column to Alfonzo Muñoz, known as “La Movida,” who was found dead in his home on Thursday, Jan. 31. La Movida was originally from Acapulco, Mexico, and became a famous hair stylist for Paul Mitchell Fashion Impressions Salon, as well as a fashion stylist and cross dresser well known in the Latinx LGBTQ community.

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X-Ray Arcade Creates an All-Ages Games and Music Destination in Cudahy ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

head of the saturday, Feb. 9, opening of X-Ray Arcade, the new Cudahy bar, music venue, gaming space and arts hub in the building previously home to The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s Lounge, Nick Woods has spent a lot of time familiarizing himself with vintage arcade machines. He’s been learning how to maintain and repair them, and so far it’s proven easier than might be expected. “It’s been fun learning the quirks of how they work,” says Woods, who also fronts one of Milwaukee’s most prominent punk bands, Direct Hit. “They’re really primitive machines when you get down to it. It’s not like working with software and hardware and networks and all that. It’s basically just the circuit board, the monitor and the power source.” The venue has also given Woods and his business partners a crash course in all things carpentry. Renovations of the building at 5036 S. Packard Ave. were extensive, and included new plumbing, electrical and acoustical upgrades, replaced floorboards and new bar and kitchen equipment. The bar was refinished, the wood was stained and the walls painted a fresh coat of black. “It’s been really satisfying for me because I had no idea how to do some of this work,” Woods says. “That’s been the coolest part of me doing this. I worked corporate jobs for the last decade, then I had this double life touring with Direct Hit. But in terms of building and repairing things, I never had any experience doing that.” Still, some of the skills he picked up playing in a hard-touring band have already come in handy in his new role as the arcade’s general manager. Prep for the venue’s launch has involved plenty of time on the road for Woods and his partners, who have purchased arcade machines from all over the Midwest and driven them back to Cudahy. The NBA Jam machine came from Omaha; Off Road from Chicago and

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Street Fighter from Detroit. They had to drive up to Minneapolis for Area 51, and down to Ferguson, Mo., for The Simpsons Arcade Game. Other machines include House of the Dead, Maximum Force, Die Hard, Spider-Man and Donkey Kong. X-Ray Arcade will open with more than a dozen machines, in addition to six TVs behind the bar where patrons can play classic console games. There will also be gaming tables and board games. And a vast patio will offer the arcade plenty of room to expand once it’s up and running. Woods says they hope to add a three-seasons room that could have Skee-Ball and foosball. Those games and the arcade’s all-ages policy will separate X-Ray Arcade from the countless other bars that line Packard Avenue, as will its large, 20-foot stage, which will host shows across the genre spectrum. The venue has already locked in about a dozen shows for March, including a record release show from the Milwaukee metalcore band Wits End on Thursday, March 7. “Right now we’ve lined up mostly local stuff and really small touring punk bands, but we expected that’s how we’d fill up the calendar for the first few months, since most touring packages want to see that you have the venue up and running first,” Woods says. “I’m hoping by June we’ll have some bigger touring acts.” A 13-foot projection screen will also enable the venue to host film screenings and community events. The vision, Woods says, was to create a space that could morph into whatever the community wants it to be. “At the very least, we wanted to at least try to create a place that would be friendly to people under 21,” Woods says. “I grew up going to house shows and DIY spots, and I just don’t see many of them around Milwaukee anymore. The Shorewood Legion Hall is getting torn down in a couple of months, and there are no longer places like the Borg Ward or The Globe, public venues that book consistently. I hope we can fill that need.” X-Ray Arcade opens Saturday, Feb. 9, at 5036 S. Packard Ave. For more information, visit facebook.com/xrayarcade.

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Even on a Frigid Night, The Wailers Kept the Fire Alive ::BY THOMAS MICHALSKI

lthough the recent cold snap was slowly releasing its grip on the city, Downtown was still suffering through the extreme effects of the polar vortex Thursday night, with snowdrifts obscuring the usual walkways and hurried pedestrians struggling to avoid the stinging wind. Inside of the Pabst Theater, however, the mood was altogether different. Instead of shielding themselves from bone-chilling, sub-zero temperatures, the audience was practically basking in the warm Kingston sun courtesy of the legendary Wailers, who celebrated their spiritual father Bob Marley’s birthday with a fiery reaffirmation of his core beliefs and, of course, his greatest hits as well. As the band took the stage, cloaked, suggestively enough, by an overworked smoke machine and green lighting, the audience was still staggering in, shivering and looking for someplace to stash their winter coats. Soon though, nearly everyone in attendance had seemingly forgotten about the atmospheric hell that mercilessly awaited them all outside, quickly succumbing to the insistent skanking rhythm. Most had clearly bought their tickets in advance with little thought to what the weather might be like, but few seemed reluctant to follow through with the purchase and the excitement was still running high. To the crowd’s evident delight, the two-hour program stuck mostly to Marley’s most celebrated output. Those who came expecting hits, even if their knowledge of reggae begins and ends with Legend, likely did not walk away disappointed with “Is This Love,” “Three Little Birds,” “Buffalo Soldiers,” “Get Up, Stand Up” and nearly all of the other usual suspects making their way into the mix. As relentlessly overplayed as these tunes are, though, the band still manages to make them seem vital, thanks in part to the song’s enduring strength and in part because they’re still delivered with the utmost conviction. Given Marley’s vast discography, easy crowd-pleasers could have taken up the whole night but the Wailers seemed determined to avoid the kind of nostalgia-driven karaoke vibe that ruins so many tribute shows, working in semi-obscure but still relevant tunes like “Johnny Was” or really cutting loose on something like “Exodus.” In the end, The Wailers, old and new, managed to breathe life into songs that, by repetition, we’ve all become sort of numb to and the crowd was clearly grateful to them for keeping the fire alive, even on this most frigid of nights.

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Lauryl Sulfate and Her Ladies of Leisure Find Affirmation in Dance Pop ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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auryl Sulfate admits she may have jumped the gun naming her band Lauryl Sulfate and Her Ladies of Leisure. “When I started the project it was just me, hence the really long name,” she says. “I thought it was funny since it was just me to give the band a really long name.” Since then the group has expanded to include two real Ladies of Leisure: backing vocalist Mony Bennett and keyboardist Mark Zbikowski. That one of her Ladies turned out to be a man is just one of those fun ﬂukes that comes from naming a band before it exists. Although the trio has played many of the same Riverwest and Bay View hot spots as most of the city’s most plugged-in acts, their sound makes them outliers on most bills they play. There aren’t a lot of acts like them in Milwaukee. They specialize in dance music at its most pop-forward, ﬁltering the singing-into-a-hairbrush exuberance of classic Madonna through the half-rapped/allattitude mentality of Kesha, with a little bit of Beyoncé’s no-nonsense politics thrown in. On the group’s debut album Dance Music Saves Lives, Sulfate and her ladies push back against a culture that too often casts women as supporting players in men’s stories. “I ain’t here to teach you no lessons/I ain’t your manic pixie dream girl/This is the real world,” Sulfate sings on “Hard Candy.” For Sulfate, part of the appeal of pop music is that it can seem so out of reach. For decades, this style of pop was largely a studio creation, something that required pricy producers and even pricier equipment to realize. But advances in technology have made it possible for any musician with the interest and ambition to make records that hold their own against their bigger-budget corollaries.

“I enjoy making this style of music because it shows people that you can do whatever you want,” Sulfate says. “If you have the right tools, you can make music that sounds almost like what’s on the radio. There are big musicians these days who work using Garage Band. It’s a great equalizing tool. I love the idea that you don’t have to have a lot of money or a lot of clout to make whatever music you want.” On the surface, the title Dance Music Saves Lives may sound grandiose and hyperbolic, but it’s quite literally true. Talk to enough people immersed in the music, and you’ll hear plenty of stories of people who found a sense of acceptance and belonging in dance music they couldn’t ﬁnd anywhere else. “One of the things we really wanted to do with this album is write a sort of love letter to the dance music and dance clubs that we grew up in,” Sulfate says. “One thing that I think gets overlooked a lot about dance music and dance culture is the way that it provides a safe haven for people who are often disenfranchised: women, queer people, people of color, poor folks.” That’s something that can’t always be said of rock music, which Sulfate notes has historically prioriLauryl tized the perspective of one overrepSulfate resented demographic: white men. “In our culture we have this idea and Her that one man doing it by himself Ladies of is more noble than a woman who Leisure wants to collaborate with a lot of people, and I don’t think that’s true,” Company she says. “We have guys like Neil Brewing Young who are singing about their Saturday, heartbreak, and women like Kesha Feb. 9, who are singing about their own 10:30 p.m. heartbreak. But we don’t put the same value on Kesha’s heartbreak. “In the greater culture, ‘lone male geniuses’ are often given primacy and those are the voices we hear the loudest,” she continues. “But in the dance club, you can create a space where that social order is turned upside down. Especially in the current political climate, many people are needing these kinds of safe places more than ever. They need to be told that they are important, valued, and beautiful just the way that they are, and that is one important message of this record.” Lauryl Sulfate and Her Ladies of Leisure play an album release show on Saturday, Feb. 9, at Company Brewing with Tigernite and LUXI at 10:30 p.m. F E B R A U R Y 7 , 2 0 1 9 | 33

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Cactus Club, Mozes and The Firstborn w/The Parrots & Surgeons in Heat Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Dan Navarro County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Blues Night Misha Siegfried Kelly's Bleachers (Big Bend), Ricky Orta Jr. & Michael Bucholtz Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Writer's Round w/Chris Porterfield, Caley Conway, Ryan Necci & Old Earth Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Ultimate Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Miller Time Pub, Matt MF Tyner Nice Ash Cigar Bar (Waukesha), Jude Kinnear - Acoustic On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, Night Ranger w/Teeze Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Robbie Gold Rave / Eagles Club, Robert DeLong w/Morgxn (all-ages, 7pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World's Funniest Free Comedy Show Shaker's Cigar Bar & World Cafe, Wild Game Dinner w/Prof. Pinkerton & the Magnificents The Bay Restaurant, Wicked Long Day The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Martini Jazz Lounge: Anthony Deutsch Trio Turner Hall Ballroom, Cherub w/Mosie Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

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Alley Cat Lounge (Five O'Clock Steakhouse), Ali & Doug Duo Ally's Bistro (Menomonee Falls), CP & Company w/Chris Peppas, Keith Johnson & Hal Miller American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), The Hit Men American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Danny Moore and The Boogie Woogie Flu Angelo's Piano Lounge, Julie's Piano Karaoke Art*Bar, The Nightinjails Cactus Club, Richual Presents: Sweetheart Friday w/D. Rose, TR3Y, Je’Love & JLyn Rose Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), The Bill Camplin Band Cedarburg Cultural Center, Willy Porter's Annual Advocates of Ozaukee Benefit Concert CelticMKE Center, Valentine's Celebration w/Guinness, Chocolate & the Henhouse Prowlers (6:30pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Spike & April w/John Sieger (8pm); DJ: The Nile & Stephen (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, AIHA w//Nickel&Rose & Lifetime Acheivement Award County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Iron Mike's (Franklin), Open Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Neil Davis Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Anthony Deutsch Trio (11:30pm) Kam's Thistle & Shamrock, The Ronny Starr Motown Xperience "Good & Terrible Tour 2019" Kim's Lakeside (Pewaukee), Andrew Gelles Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Man Random w/Blind Adam & The Federal League, and Beach Static Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman's Riverwest Inn, The Sam Llanas Band Mamie's, Robert Allen Jr. Band Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Firehouse Pub, Open Jam w/The Healers Miramar Theatre, SubDocta (all-ages, 9pm) Pam's Fine Wines (Mukwonago), Jonny T-Bird (6:30pm) Paulie's Pub and Eatery, Ricky Orta Jr Band Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Chris Schmidt Acoustic (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Eric Martin of Mr. Big w/Michael Sean (9:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, An Evening With Caifanes (all-ages, 8pm), 12th Planet w/Shlump, Gentlemens Club & Infekt (all-ages, 8pm) Reefpoint Brew House (Racine), Sammy Marshall Riverside Theater, John Mellencamp Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Mt. Olive Shank Hall, Michael McDermott The Back Room at Colectivo, Naked Giants w/TWEN & Platinum Boys The Packing House Restaurant, The Barbara Stephan Group (6:30pm) Timmer's Resort (West Bend), Acoustic Blu Duo Turner Hall Ballroom, Chad Daniels Up & Under Pub, King Solomon

Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), Dexter Road Fire On Water, The Jonny T-Bird Trio Five O'Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Fox & Hounds Restaurant, Larry Lynne Solo (6:30pm) Glen Cafe, Jim the Piano Man (5pm) Havana Lounge & Cigar, The Blues Disciples Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jazz Estate, Billie Holiday Night with Marcya (8pm), Late Night Session: Late Night Session Jon Lovas Qtet (11:30pm) Kelly's Bleachers (Big Bend), Mt. Olive Linneman's Riverwest Inn, The Esquires II w/Tammie Moorer & Elements of Sound Mainstream Bar & Grill (Waukesha), Joe Kadlec Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Matty's Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Winter Music: G&R Mezcalero Restaurant, Sauve' Milwaukee Ale House, Cold Sweat and the Brew City Horns Motor Bar & Restaurant, Bulleit Bourbon Presents BBQ & Blues (5pm) Paulie's Pub and Eatery, Category X Plymouth Church UCC, The Coffee House presents: Annual Community Sing w/Jerry Danks & Martha Danks Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Andrea & The Mods (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Eric Martin of Mr. Big w/Michael Sean (9:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Devin Dawson w/Jillian Jacqueline (allages, 8pm) Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, 5 Card Studs Shank Hall, Signalfire w/Grace Under Water & A Legend Alone Stolley's Hogg Alley (Oconomowoc), Robert Allen Jr. Band The Back Room at Colectivo, Great Lake Swimmers w/Native Harrow The Cheel (Thiensville), Andrew Gelles Band The Lakeside Supper Club & Lounge (Oconomowoc), Addiction The Packing House Restaurant, Joe Jordan & The Soul Trio (6:30pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Beats Antique Up & Under Pub, Hot by Ziggy

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American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Ricochettes Anodyne Coffee, Eagle Trace w/The Mike Benign Compulsion Art*Bar, Spike & April Cactus Club, Bad Wig/Sin Bad (Split Record release) w/Large Print & Rio Turbo Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Randy Sabien w/Bill Camplin Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Tritonics (8pm); DJ: Holiday Spirit (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, Laughing Liberally Milwaukee’s 2nd Anniversary Spectacular Company Brewing, Lauryl Sulfate and Her Ladies of Leisure album release party w/Tigernite & LUXI

Angelo's Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Moon-Eyed Man w/Chabboka (8pm); DJ: Sheppy (10pm) Dopp's Bar & Grill, CCMC Open Jam w/host Remington's Ride (2pm) J&B's Blue Ribbon Bar and Grill, The Players Jam Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, The Best Westerns w/ Liar's Trial (2pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Scotty's Bar & Pizza, Larry Lynne Solo (4pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, The Samples w/SeepeopleS

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Cactus Club, Weeknight w/Cashfire Sunset & 1996 Kim's Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. & Friends Landmark Lanes, Voyager Mamie's, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe's Pub (Racine), The Jim Yorgan Sextet Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm, all-ages) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Shank Hall, Marty Friedman Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, thanks for coming to this page and god bless you. As your loin-girded anointed local knucklehead essayist, I would be a derelict from my duties if I did not deliver my annual address about what a good focking job I’ve been doing; about how we as a peoples are way better off than we’d be if I were not doing the job of whatever the fock the job is I do; about tossing a limp bone to knobshines who’d say perhaps I’m not performing up to the snuff; and blah blah, focking blah. And about that polar weather we had last week— I heard some clown on TV suggest it was of “Biblical proportions.” Hold on—“Biblical”? You got to be jerking my beefaroni. Hey, the people who first made up the Bible wouldn’t of known “cold” if it came up and took a big honking bite right out of thine beatific butts. Give me a focking break. You ever hear of Jesus shoveling snow? You ever hear Him telling his focking flock to wear a hat “cause you lose 90% of your body heat out the topsides of your domes,” so it is written? They were all in a desert. They knew about as much from the cold and snow as they did about the Earth being round for christ sakes, I kid you not.) Before I launch into my prepared remarks from over the years of my fond due diligence on the job, I begin with this anecdote: Guy goes to the dentist. Dentist examines the guy’s

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mouth and says, “These are the worst teeth I’ve ever seen. Do you ever floss?” Guy says, “Flossing’s a big pain in the ass.” Dentist says, “Then obviously you’re doing it wrong.” Thank you. Please be seated. We shall begin. Yes, “You’re doing it wrong.” When haven’t I heard that exact phase more than once and plus a hundred times weekly during my administration of this essay. When I awaken, “You’re doing it wrong,” be the first words I hear through my head. When I go to bed in the nighttime, “You’re doing it wrong” be the last words I imagine to hear before dreaming of better essays. And what can I pledge to do about this? Fock if I know. So now I sit with thumb up dupa and wonder, hey, how many of these essays do I have left in me, anyways? Could it really be some kind of what-youcall finite number, or do I possess the kind of potency to keep pumping these babies out ’til they got to haul me out of here feet first come doomsday? Again, fock if I know. But I do know I’d like to have a word with the smokers in the audience. You are true Americans, what with the exorbitant amount of taxes you ship to the governments on an hourly basis so that our elected politicians can enjoy the Cadillac of all health plans, while your crappy health plan is now ready and willing to chew you a new one because you might be a so-called health risk for no reason other than the exercise of freedom to make a personal choice, or something like that. I’m just not buying the science of the health malarkey that the anti-crowd chooses to use to douse your enjoyment of a fine tobacco product. According to a study I personally slapped together years ago, I learned that the average life span of the average Tom, Dick or Dickless got one hell of a lot longer after Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the cigarette than it was before the

cigarette, so put that in your peace pipe and smoke it, mister. Hey, you can look it up yourself if you don’t believe me. Back in the olden days of the Dark Ages, long before your regular Joe Blow could take a break and blow a square, civilized people lived in dank castles, grew old and croaked by the age of thirty-focking-ﬁve, I kid you not. Today in the modern time following the advent of the tobacco product, you can ﬁnd guys at the age of 35, chewing the chaw and playing competitive ball on major league baseball teams to the tune of a couple, three million bucks a year. Funny you don’t hear more

about that connected to the so-called “evils” of tobacco, ain’a? Now I’m not saying that cigarettes are the only reason people live longer today than they used to—indoor plumbing’s probably helped some—but I am saying that you never hear about the connection between smokes and longevity. Kind of makes a guy wonder what else he might not be hearing about, what the fock. And “what else” you won’t be hearing is more from me. It’s cocktail time, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you sit on your own head? Not many people can. It requires great flexibility. Before comedian Robin Williams was famous, he spontaneously did just that when he auditioned for the role of the extraterrestrial immigrant Mork, the hero of the TV sitcom Mork and Mindy. The casting director was impressed with Williams’ odd but amusing gesture, and hired him immediately. If you’re presented with an opportunity sometime soon, I encourage you to be inspired by the comedian’s ingenuity. What might you do to cinch your audition, to make a splashy first impression, to convince interested parties that you’re the right person? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Twitter wit Notorious Debi Hope advises us, “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assho--s.” That’s wise counsel for you to keep in mind during the next three weeks. Let me add a few corollaries. First, stave off any temptation you might have to believe that others know what’s good for you better than you do. Second, figure out what everyone thinks of you and aggressively liberate yourself from their opinions. Third, if anyone even hints at not giving you the respect you deserve, banish them for at least three weeks. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Climbing mountains has been a popular adventure since the 19th century, but there are still many peaks around the world that no one has ever ascended. They include the 24,591-foot-high Muchu Chhish in Pakistan, 23,691-foot Karjiang South in Tibet, and 12,600-foot Sauyr Zhotasy on the border of China and Kazakhstan. If there are any Aries mountaineers reading this horoscope who have been dreaming about conquering an unclimbed peak, 2019 will be a great time to do it, and now would be a perfect moment to plan or launch your quest. As for the rest of you Aries, what’s your personal equivalent of reaching the top of an unclimbed peak? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Eminem’s song “Lose Yourself” was a featured track in the movie 8 Mile, and it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2003. The creator himself was not present at the Oscar ceremony to accept his award, however. He was so convinced his song would lose that he stayed home. At the moment that presenter Barbra Streisand announced Eminem’s triumph, he was asleep in front of the TV with his daughter, who was watching cartoons. In contrast to him, I hope you will be fully available and on the scene for the recognition or acknowledgment that should be coming your way sometime soon. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While enjoying its leisure time, the peregrine falcon glides around at 50 miles per hour. But when it’s motivated by the desire to eat, it may swoop and dart at a velocity of 220 miles per hour. Amazing! In accordance with your astrological omens, Gemini, I propose that we make the peregrine falcon your spirit creature for the next three weeks. I suspect you will have extraordinary speed and agility and focus whenever you’re hunting for exactly what you want. So here’s a crucial question: What exactly do you want? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now and then the sun shines and rain falls at the same time. The meteorological name for the phenomenon is “sunshower,” but folklore provides other terms. Hawaiians may call it “liquid sunshine” or “ghost rain.” Speakers of the Tangkhul language in India imagine it as “the wedding of a human and spirit.” Some Russians refer to it as “mushroom rain,” since it’s thought to encourage the growth of mushrooms. Whatever you might prefer to call it, Cancerian, I suspect that the foreseeable future will bring you delightful paradoxes in a similar vein. And in my opinion, that will be very lucky for you, since you’ll be in the right frame of mind and spirit to thrive amidst just such situations. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A study by the Fidelity financial services company revealed that in 43% of all couples, neither partner has an accurate knowledge of how much money the other partner earns. Meanwhile, research by the National Institute of Health concludes that among heterosexual couples, 36 percent of husbands misperceive how

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frequently their wives have orgasms. I bring this to your attention in order to sharpen your focus on how crucial it is to communicate clearly with your closest allies. I mean, it’s rarely a good idea to be ignorant about what’s going on with those close to you, but it’ll be an especially bad idea during the next six weeks. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Torre Mayor is one of the tallest skyscrapers in Mexico City. When workers finished its construction in 2003, it was one of the world’s most earthquake-proof buildings, designed to hold steady during an 8.5-level temblor. Over the course of 2019, Virgo, I’d love to see you erect the metaphorical equivalent of that unshakable structure in your own life. The astrological omens suggest that doing so is quite possible. And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to launch that project or intensify your efforts to manifest it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Multitalented Libran singer and actor Donald Glover uses the name of Childish Gambino when he performs his music. How did he select that alias? He used an online random name generator created by the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. I tried the same generator and got “Fearless Warlock” as my new moniker. You might want to try it yourself, Libra. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to add layers to your identity and expand your persona and mutate your self-image. The generator is here: tinyurl.com/yournewname. (P.S.: If you don’t like the first one you’re offered, keep trying until you get one you like.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million in 2017. Just 12 years earlier, an art collector had bought it for $10,000. Why did its value increase so extravagantly? Because in 2005, no one was sure it was an authentic da Vinci painting. It was damaged and had been covered with other layers of paint that hid the original image. After extensive efforts at restoration, the truth about it emerged. I foresee the possibility of a comparable, if less dramatic, development in your life during the next 10 months, Scorpio. Your work to rehabilitate or renovate an underestimated resource could bring big dividends. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): We can behold colors because of specialized cells in our eyes called cones. Most of us have three types of cones, but a few rare people have four. This enables them to see far more hues than the rest of us. Are you a tetrachromat, a person with super-vision? Whether you are or not, I suspect you will have extra powerful perceptual capacities in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be able to see more than you usually do. The world will seem brighter and deeper and more vivid. I urge you to deploy your temporary superpower to maximum advantage. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are two kinds of minor, boring little tasks. One is when you’re attending to a detail that’s not in service to a higher purpose; the other is when you’re attending to a detail that is a crucial step in the process of fulfilling an important goal. An example of the first might be when you try in vain to scour a permanent stain on a part of the kitchen counter that no one ever sees. An example of the second is when you download an update for an existing piece of software so your computer works better and you can raise your efficiency levels as you pursue a pet project. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to keep this distinction in mind as you focus on the minor, boring little tasks that are crucial steps in the process of eventually fulfilling an important goal. Homework: What is the best gift you could give your best ally right now? Testify at 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.

::NEWS OF THE WEIRD ::BY THE EDITORS OF ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Going Out on a High Note

ebra Johnson, 69, of Searles, Minn., suffered from heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and mental illnesses according to the Mankato Free Press and was a patient at a transitional care center before her husband took her home to have a “death party,” he later told authorities. Brown County sheriff’s officers responding to a 911 call from Duane Johnson, 58, on Jan. 24 found the words “Death Parde God Hell” spray painted on the front door. Duane came out of the house naked, yelled that his wife was dead and quickly ran back inside, where officers found him in the bathtub. Debra’s body was wrapped in a sheet nearby. Duane told police his wife asked him to take her home to die, so they had staged the party, “rocking out” to Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health” and taking methamphetamines. After her death, Duane said he washed and wrapped her “like the Bible tells me to do.”

Cold-hearted Company Vaev, a Los Angeles-based internet startup, is offering consumers the “luxury to choose” when to become sick with a cold, gushes 34-year-old Oliver Niessen, the company’s founder. For $79.99, Vaev will send you a box containing a petri dish, which houses a facial tissue used by a sick person. Niessen explained to Time magazine that the recipient wipes their nose with the provided tissue and contracts a cold virus to get it out of the way before, say, leaving on a vacation. But Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, debunked Niessen’s theory: “There are more than 200 types of rhinoviruses; getting inoculated from one doesn’t protect you against all the others.” He adds that Vaev’s customers will never know what exactly is on the provided tissues, which Niessen says are produced by a “stable” of 10 go-to sneezers, some recruited on the internet. Still, Niessen claims to have sold about 1,000 used tissues, although the company’s website currently shows the product as sold

out. “We’ve had some supply chain issues,” Niessen said, without offering further details.

Sweet Smell of Excess A motorist in New Canaan, Conn., called police on Jan. 23 after spotting a woman stopped at an intersection in the driver’s seat of her car with her eyes closed. When officers arrived, they found Stefanie Warner-Grise, 50, “unable to answer basic questions,” according to the arrest report. They “detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath, and her speech was slurred. In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle.” The Hour reported Warner-Grise failed field sobriety tests, and she was charged with driving under the influence… of vanilla. The Food and Drug Administration requires that pure vanilla extract must be at least 35% alcohol, which makes it 70 proof. Just FYI.

Getting the Jump on Crime Police in Austin, Texas, caught up with 19-year-old suspect Luca Mangiarano shortly after a bank robbery in large part because of his choice of getaway vehicles. According to police, Mangiarano stepped into the BBVA Compass Bank on Dec. 18 and handed a note to a teller, reading: “This is a robbery, please give me all your 100’s and 50’s in a (sic) envelope, and everything will be ok.” The employee did as directed, and the robber left, hopping on a Jump electric scooter he rented and took off down the sidewalk—perhaps failing to realize that the company’s scooters are linked to GPS tracking systems. Not to mention the fact that Mangiarano had to have provided Jump with his phone number, email address and credit card information in order to use the scooter. After police obtained the necessary information from Jump, Mangiarano was arrested.

Nosey Neighbors Penny Pospisil, 47, of Sumter County, Fla., was arrested on Jan. 25 for the alleged murder of her boyfriend, 55-year-old Anthony Mitchell, according to WFTV. Investigators believe that, last August, in the Lake Pan RV Village where Pospisil and Mitchell lived, she killed Mitchell and cut his body into pieces, living with the remains in their camper. When neighbors asked about him, she explained that Mitchell had died of natural causes, and she had him cremated. But they also noticed a foul odor coming from the camper, and that Pospisil was regularly bathing herself in a local pool. When police arrived in December to investigate her overdue lot fee, she told them that she was a victim of domestic violence and had killed Mitchell in self-defense. She faces charges of second-degree murder and abuse of a dead human body. © 2019 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION F E B R U A R Y 7 , 2 0 1 9 | 37

DAILY GRIND

THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

ACROSS 1. — ghanoush 5. — virilis 9. As aforesaid 14. Class 19. Organic compound 20. OT name 21. Inaccuracy 22. Water passage 23. Delicious 25. Textile pattern 27. Fills 28. Salt and strip 29. Storeroom 30. Ludwig — van der Rohe 31. Lawn-care item 32. 16.5 feet 33. “Space Odyssey” computer 34. Stun gun 37. Campus gp. 38. Yellow pigment 40. As blind as — — 41. Roulette: 2 wds. 44. Marble 47. Ceremonial garb 48. “Viva Las Vegas” star 49. AKA 50. Seconds, e.g. 51. Carrying too much cargo 53. Fasteners 54. “Shrek” princess 55. Rocky hill 56. Exploits 57. Consecrate 58. Vessel with sails 59. Spud 61. Spume 62. Troyal — Brooks 63. Cut a groove in 65. Poker hand 66. Nimbus 67. Kind of diet 70. Appears, in a way

71. Musical work 72. Delimit 74. Part of AG: Abbr. 75. Kagan of SCOTUS 76. Alone on stage 77. — act 78. Slangy reply 79. Kind of shark 81. Oilman — Halliburton 82. Klemperer et al. 83. Invent 84. Stratum 85. Girl at a ball 88. Mineral 89. High silk hat 90. Online activity 92. Awn 94. Twilled cloth 96. Acts as moderator 100. Old dentifrice: 2 wds. 102. A wireless technology 103. — Lauder 104. Dentist’s directive 105. Woodwind 106. Part of NB 107. Quantities of paper 108. Gather 109. Nosebag filler 110. Complacent DOWN 1. Win, place, and show 2. Celebes ox 3. — camp 4. Device in a cockpit 5. Liking 6. Orchestra members 7. Cherished ones 8. Stout 9. Split open 10. Perfume ingredient 11. Faithful 12. Lots and lots

13. Statute: Abbr. 14. Stronghold 15. Before long 16. Laziness 17. Aquarium fish 18. — alcohol 24. ‘60s musical 26. Seedlike bodies 28. Insects 31. “— — Cleveland” 32. Big birds 34. Kind of mystical card 35. — — usque ad mala 36. Extinct cat 37. Roams 38. Like a bird 39. Salty snack 41. Tantalized 42. Senior 43. Hebrew letter 44. Tinker Bell cousin: 2 wds. 45. “Rule, Britannia!” composer 46. Erosion 50. Hand 52. Plucked instruments 53. Neighboring 54. Hullabaloo 57. Like a barbarian 58. Carriage hood 60. Horde

61. Tosses 62. Series of notes 63. Do in 64. — d’Ivoire 65. Tierra del — 66. Spartan’s underling 68. Corn meal mush 69. Block 71. Candidates list 72. Name in a Blackmore title 73. Works of art 75. Frame 76. Set of steps 79. Comforts 80. Outgoers 84. — laugh 85. Office gadget 86. Notched, said of leaves 87. Flora and fauna 89. Lock 90. Oil bottle 91. Listens 93. Goblet part 94. Swirl 95. Krabappel or Ferber 96. Entreaty 97. Condemn 98. — —, Brute? 99. Carpet type 101. — pro nobis 102. Buddy

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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 30 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Geeks and gadgets Solution: 30 Letters

Solution to last week’s puzzle

Blow dryer Bread maker Clock Copier Crazy Dishwasher Drill DVD Edger Electric blanket Fan Fireplace Garage door

GPS Guitar Heater Hood IPod Iron Juice Keyboard Lamp Laptop Lawn mower LCD Light

Mixer New Radio Range Scale Stapler Stove Timer Torch VCR Watch

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Date: 2/7/19

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