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Urban Guesthouses and B&Bs A New Way to Experience Milwaukee ::BY ERIN BLOODGOOD he accommodation industry is shifting toward small cozy guesthouses and Milwaukee is picking up on the trend. When most of us imagine a bed and breakfast (B&B), we think of a remote cottage in the countryside, but Milwaukee has urban guesthouses and B&Bs that offer easy access to the city and a comfortable, welcoming place to rest your head at night. With the rise of the “sharing economy” through sites like Airbnb and Couchsurfing, people in the industry are realizing that travelers are looking for a “home away from home.” Imagine for a moment that you are visiting a new city for a few days, and when you first arrive to your accommodation, you are greeted by a friendly face— the owner of the house. Rather than walking into a generic lobby, you enter what feels like home, with a personalized touch. You sit down in the common room with a warm cup of tea to have genu-
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ine conversation with the other guests, and suddenly this city doesn’t feel so strange. As travelers, we are drawn to these small, unique businesses when looking for accommodations because we want a story. The structure and design of a guesthouse tells the story of its neighborhood, just as much as its owner does. By staying in a familyrun guesthouse or B&B, you get the chance to meet the people who run it and see Milwaukee through their eyes. Not only will they reveal the hidden corners of Milwaukee, but they take the time to learn about you and your interests before suggesting the perfect outing. When traveling, the place where you stay should be as much a part of the experience as the rest of the city. Milwaukee has six small, family-run guesthouses or B&Bs that are all notably unique. From Victorian-style bed and breakfasts to a guesthouse in the midst of flourishing gardens and a cozy gallery space, each place adds a unique accent to the urban neighborhoods of this city. B&B’s continued on page 6 >
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NEWS&VIEWS::FEATURE Meechan—the owners of the place. The novelty of this guesthouse comes from the Milwaukee art hanging on its walls and the dedication the couple has for the local artists. All of the art changes quarterly, thanks to curating by Renée “Luna” Bebeau. To see the work on display, stop in during one of their gallery events or during the Bay View Gallery Night. As experienced travelers, Hermann and Meechan see the value in bed and breakfasts because of the well-traveled people they often meet in such places. “When you have breakfast with them, you learn so many things, particularly the next two dozen places you want to go visit,” explains Mary Ellen. The guesthouse is meant to be an experience and a welcoming place for travelers to relax and feel like they are part of the city.
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Brumder Mansion
3046 W. Wisconsin Ave. • 414-342-9767 milwaukeemansion.com
The Brumder Mansion brings a different experience to the Concordia neighborhood. Built on Wisconsin Avenue in 1910 by George Brumder (1839-1910), the building has a theater in the basement and five bedrooms, most of which have a Jacuzzi and fireplace. Nine years ago, Tom and Julie Carr came from California, bought the Brumder Mansion and rebuilt the basement theater. Some guests come for romantic escapes in the bed and breakfast, while others come specifically for the theater. “This isn’t a bed and breakfast; it’s a Hollywood set,” says Tom Carr. Stay a night during one of the performances, and you will be taken away into another world of fantasy and imaginary characters. The Brumder’s theater puts on four to five shows per year, made possible by production manager Amanda Hull, artistic director Tom Marks and Milwaukee Entertainment Group. Whether you are trying to solve a murder mystery or you are being swept up into the madness of the Hatter in Alice’s Wonderland, you won’t be bored. Don’t miss their upcoming shows including Dancing with Hamlet.
Kinn Guesthouse
2535 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. • 773-909-4947 kinnmke.com
Originally from Chicago, Charles and Connie Bailey moved their family to Milwaukee in 2015 when they bought the Cream City brick building on Kinnickinnic Avenue in Bay View. After a year and a half of restoring the building, the couple opened Kinn Guesthouse in March of 2017. The name Kinn comes from Charles’ father and grandfather who ran the Drake hotels in Chicago and passed the trade down to him. The eight-room guesthouse has a chic modern feel with large windows in every room, making the rooms seem twice their actual size. All but one of the rooms and the spacious common area are on the second floor of the building, above the restaurant, Kindred. Before you get to your room, you will be stopped by the stunning kitchen and living room space that is free for all the guests to use. Along with the deep-cushioned couch, 6 | FEBRUARY 15, 2018
gallery wall and fully outfitted kitchen, the Baileys have a Nespresso machine, bottle of wine and popcorn waiting for their guests. “People care to live in a different way,” says Charles. “They want something that’s more cozy and comfortable and feels more like home than the big hotels.” If you stay at Kinn, you will most likely meet the charming couple and be treated to the Honey Pie pastries that they offer every weekend.
Manderley Bed and Breakfast 3026 W. Wells St. • 414-459-1886 bedandbreakfastmilwaukee.com
For the last 17 years, Marie and Andrew Parker have been running Manderley Bed and Breakfast, making it the longest-running B&B in Milwaukee. Originally from the Milwaukee area, the couple decided to open the bed and breakfast once they discovered the elaborate mansion on Wells Street in the Concordia neighborhood. “Even in its dilapidated condition, it had charm and appeal,” explains Andrew. After seven years of rebuilding the structure and designing the interior with hand-made stencils and hand-painted art, they finally opened their dream business. Because there were no other Milwaukee B&Bs at the time, the couple helped the city write the laws pertaining to bed and breakfasts, making Concordia the official Bed and Breakfast District of Milwaukee. When you first walk up to the Manderley mansion, you will most likely be greeted by one of the friendly cats waiting for you on the porch. As you pass through the door into the house, you will be taken back in time to a Victorian era filled with old books, ornate wall décor and a warm fireplace. Andrew and Marie will make you feel right at home with friendly conversation over fresh breakfast from their backyard chicken coop and vegetable garden. There is no doubt these two are dedicated to their guests and to Milwaukee.
Muse Gallery Guesthouse
602 E. Lincoln Ave. • 414-745-7735 themuseguesthouse.com
When you choose to stay at the Muse Gallery Guesthouse in the heart of Bay View, you may spend hours sitting and talking with Mary Ellen Hermann and Andrew
While walking up the front stairs to the Sanger House Gardens through the lush greenery, you can look over the vast array of plants at the beautiful cityscape of Milwaukee. If you continue on the winding pathways through the arching branches and multitude of colors, you will reach the carriage house in the back of the garden. There is only one bedroom in this urban getaway, but it is a luxury space with two floors, kitchen, laundry machines and double doors that open to the gardens. Steve Bialk and Angela Duckert bought the Brewer’s Hill property in 1985 and have been enhancing the gardens ever since. About five years ago, they decided to start a wedding and event business in the space. Along with formal events, the couple has also hosted neighborhood garden clubs and participated in Doors Open Milwaukee 2017. After getting repeated requests for a guesthouse, Bialk and Duckert finally renovated the carriage house and opened the guesthouse last April. There is no breakfast included with your stay, but when you arrive, you’ll get a personal tour of the gardens and personal suggestions for your Milwaukee stay. One of the best things about Sanger is that pets are allowed. It’s a place where you get the best of both worlds: close proximity to the city and a hideaway amid blooming flowers.
Schuster Mansion Bed and Breakfast
3209 W. Wells St. • 414-342-3210 schustermansion.com
In that same Concordia neighborhood, you will find Schuster Mansion Bed and Breakfast, run by Rick and Laura Sue Mosier. They’re known for their Victorianstyle high tea and exceptional hospitality. If you want coffee or tea delivered to your room in the morning, a choice of breakfast from their menu that has not changed in 10 years and freshly ironed sheets every night, then the Schuster Mansion is the place for you. As you wander through the halls of the mansion, you get lost in the relics adorning the walls and the hand-made decorations throughout the house. The attention to detail is unreal, even down to the shower curtain rings covered in fabric so they don’t make a sound. The moment you meet Rick and Laura Sue Mosier, you already feel like old friends. “It is so fun to meet people and learn about their lives and why they’re here. We’re part of people’s lives,” says Laura Sue. After talking with the couple for what could be hours, they will give you customized suggestions about the city based on your interests and their own secrets spots in Milwaukee. Comment at shepherdexpress.com.n SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Proposed Parking Meters in the Parks Outrage County Residents ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL
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ast week’s meeting at the Mitchell Park Domes about parking meters in Milwaukee County parks revealed an overwhelming rejection of County Executive Chris Abele’s plan to impose another “revenue stream.” The Saturday, Feb. 6, event drew more than 300 citizens, with nearly all opposing this latest attempt to “balance the county budget on the backs of those who depend on parks.” Among the many hand-made signs was one warning: “Chris Abele, Your Meter Is Running Out.” A memorable image was of Abele fleeing the hall amid catcalls-—flanked by his two private bodyguards—the minute the first citizen was permitted to publicly speak. Abele exited without even a feigned excuse. He never addressed those attending an event cautiously staged by his office—down to a highly visible security presence inside and a police department command vehicle outside. Meanwhile, Abele had stood off in a corner uttering sound bites to TV crews. He told them that no one, including himself, “likes the idea of paying for parking in parks,” as if explaining a brasstacks situation to a child. Abele’s I-feel-your-pain riff was coupled with explanations about how his hands are tied by budgetary challenges. In any case, snubbing hundreds of constituents who had gathered on short notice on an 18-degree night, was a telling move for Abele, a billionaire’s son known for being detached and out of touch. It had taken citizen and Milwaukee County Board efforts to even allow unfiltered public testimony. On Friday, Jan. 19, a Parks Department Facebook event page, the only official source of information about the meeting, announced the Feb. 6 “public-input session” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. It said there would be a presentation about paid-parking plans followed by small-group discussion opportunities to “provide input that will be used to develop a plan for this initiative.” It sounded like window dressing for a fait accompli. County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic, who co-sponsored a budget amendment regarding paid-parking proposals, instead urged using a town-hall format “where all attendees form a single audience” and can speak to all present. She 8 | FEBRUARY 15, 2018
told event organizers that constituents attending public meetings with breakout groups felt they were “designed to limit participation and control the outcome of what is discussed.” She was later informed that a town-hall format would be “incorporated,” news she shared through a memo and social media. One reason citizens erupted at the meeting’s outset was that they learned that the first hour of the meeting, still scheduled on the official Facebook page for only 90 minutes, would be taken up with presentations by Abele administrators and small-group circles. After briefly participating in a county-staff-moderated circle, Ann Green of Milwaukee angrily confronted Teig Whaley-Smith, the county’s director of administrative services and the event’s apparent host. “Seriously, 30 minutes to talk about how we use our parks? I feel manipulated and treated like a 5 year old,” she asserted. Eventually, the crowd was told that anyone who wanted to speak could do so for up to two minutes, starting at 7 p.m.
A Moving Target
The only major new information WhaleySmith revealed during a time-killing, dense-data slide show was that the top proposed hourly parking rate was now $2.50, not $2. That’s $1 more than the City of Milwaukee’s highest parkingmeter rate. (Rates as high as $3.50 per hour had been floated.) Whaley-Smith also speculated that the county might pocket 60% of fees collected by a private vendor, a guesstimate extrapolated from income generated at several leased, county-owned, gold-mine lots in Downtown Milwaukee. No prospective vendors have hinted at potential revenue splits, so it’s anybody’s guess what a countywide operation requiring major start-up infrastructure and monitoring might actually yield. When asked by a reporter how county administrators would address the fact that hourly parking fees of $2.50 could make many parks unaffordable for some residents, Whaley-Smith noted that they could still use their neighborhood parks, take public transportation to parks with paid parking or visit on a possible midweek “free day,” if the chosen vendor includes that. He stressed, “This is not something we just dreamed of to make parks less accessible.” If that indeed happens, apparently it would be someone else’s problem.
A Moved Audience
During two-and-a-half hours of public testimony, a chorus of civic leaders and other citizens voiced relentless, near-unanimous (98%) rejection of paid parking in parks. The audience respectfully listened and frequently erupted in spontaneous cheering. Repeated refrains included heartfelt appreciation for Milwaukee County’s parks and urgent pleas to keep them free, open and affordable for all. An MPS teacher was overcome with emotion when he asked how families could pay for parking in parks “when they don’t have enough money for food.” County Board Chair Theo Lipscomb and County Supervisor Jason Haas, chair of the parks committee, there to listen, stayed till the end. Representatives of Preserve Our Parks, Urban Ecology Center, Fondy Winters Farmers
CITIZEN BACKLASH FORCES CHRIS ABELE TO BACK DOWN County Exec says he’ll cancel ‘Pay to Park’ ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN As the Shepherd Express went to press this week, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele emailed a statement entitled “You Spoke, I Listened.” The speaking took place at the Domes on Feb. 6 when his scheme to install parking meters in the county park system was loudly denounced by hundreds of angry audience members. Reflecting on public outrage over steps that would make the parks less accessible to the public, Abele announced that he is asking the County Board to “discontinue” the “Pay to Park” proposal and use the county’s contingency fund to “fully fund our Parks Department for this year.” However, the argument hasn’t ended but has only been postponed. “I am pleased that we will be able to avoid charging visitors from paying to park their vehicles this year,” Abele said. “But I must caution that this is a short-term solution to a long-term problem.”
Market, League of Women Voters, the Milwaukee Ultimate [Frisbee] Club and numerous park friends groups objected to parking fees in any county parks. Collectively, it would have made for good listening as a public archive. However, the Abele administration did not document the session through video or audio recordings. Written public comments will be posted on a county webpage. Citizens recounted family picnics, beach outings, softball games, dog walking, bird watching and other park activities. Several people honored the contributions of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American parks who designed three early Milwaukee parks. Others lauded the vision of Milwaukee’s parks-creating Democratic Socialists including Charles B. Whitnall, who one vivid poster said was “spinning in his grave.” Some proposed funding solutions. Cheri Briscoe suggested raising the tax levy about $3 for a $100,000 home to bring in $2 million. Others supported a dedicated sales tax for parks. Ken Leinbach called for “harnessing the energy in the room to go to Madison together to lobby” to get more of the revenue that local taxpayers send to the state. Many predicted negative ramifications. An Ultimate Frisbee spokesperson said his group would stop leasing fields in county parks that charge for parking. “Then there will be zero revenue captured,” he said. “When fees go up, use goes down. That’s not the way to run a park system.”
A Groundswell of Rejection
The Winter Farmers Market coordinator calculated that shoppers and vendors would have to pay $75,000 in proposed parking fees to attend the popular Saturday morning market in the
Domes Annex. She said they would surely relocate if parking fees are imposed. A parks friend who volunteers at three parks and walks his dog in Brown Deer Park twice daily said a $1 hourly parking fee for those outings would cost him $60 a month. All this venting represented a groundswell rejection of Abele’s seven-year tenure as county executive. It’s now clear that parks are no longer sacrosanct community assets. He has initiated transfers and an attempted sale. Citizens should be nickel-and-dimed to fund their parks operations through ever-higher fees. But with such clear collective resistance to paid parking in parks, it seems likely the Milwaukee County Board will soon reject any proposed vendor contract. Nevertheless, any board decision could be rendered moot. Abele has acquired a new trump card. He invested at least $350,000 in lobbying of the Wisconsin State Legislature to get legislation introduced in Madison last week that would allow him to proceed with this scheme, and others, without board approval. The Legislative Reference Bureau states that Senate Bill 777 “gives the county executive sole authority to exercise the powers… establishing parking areas” on lands owned or leased by the county, as well as giving the executive exclusive authority over procurement and contracting decisions, without county board review. When Abele was asked why he wanted more power, he told Channel 58 that the bill would let executives run government “more efficiently,” to which Supervisor John Weishan responded: “I’m sure that Mussolini and Hitler said the same thing.” Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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You Say the Nunes Memo Doesn’t Vindicate Trump Last week we asked if the Nunes memo, which Donald Trump declassified despite the objections of the intelligence community, vindicates Trump. You said: n Yes: 13% n No: 87%
What Do You Say? Was it irresponsible for Republicans to dramatically cut taxes for the wealthy using borrowed money, leaving our grandchildren to pay off that debt? n Yes n No Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Shepherd Express Proudly Endorses both Tim Burns and Rebecca Dallet Either candidate would make a great Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice PRIMARY ELECTION: TUESDAY, FEB. 20
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n Tuesday, Feb. 20, Wisconsin will have a primary election for the State Supreme Court. This is theoretically a non-partisan race since candidates do not run under a party banner. Three candidates are vying for this position. The top two vote getters will move on to the Tuesday, April 3, general election. The incumbent Justice Michael Gableman was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court 10 years ago under the cloud of a racist campaign and the fact that his campaign received more than $2.5 million from dark money special interest groups, many funded by the Koch brothers. His performance on the court was what one would have expected from a rather poorly qualified candidate that was bought by special interest money. We are pleased that he had the dignity to not seek re-election. Right now, our seven-person State Supreme Court has five “conservatives” and two “liberals.” We desperately need more balance on our top court with more justices who believe in an honest judiciary who were not elected with millions of dollars from rightwing special interest groups. Of the three candidates, two are highly qualified candidates with different backgrounds and somewhat different positions on some issues. We believe either one—Tim Burns or Rebecca Dallet—would make an excellent addition to our State Supreme Court and a vast improvement over the exiting Gableman. Both Burns and Dallet have distinguished legal careers and are highly respected as individuals of extraordinary integrity, whether or not you agree with them on every issue. The Shepherd Express is proud to endorse both Tim Burns and Rebecca Dallet. We believe that either Burns or Dallet would make a great contribution to Wisconsin as a Supreme Court Justice.
Tim Burns
Tim Burns is proudly a self-made man. His parents were poor, and they had to drop out of high school to go to work. Though his parents couldn’t give him an academic head start, they instilled good values of hard work, honesty and a strong sense of fairness and justice. After law school, Burns carried his values of fairness and justice into his legal work fighting the huge insurance industry on behalf of average Americans. He is a nationally recognized attorney and a partner at the national law firm of Perkins Coie working out of their Madison offices. He has also served as chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Fair and Impartial Courts. Burns is also carrying his progressive values into 10 | F E B R U A R Y 1 5 , 2 0 1 8
this Supreme Court race where he is speaking out on the inequities in our economy, the growing concentration of wealth in society and the corrosive role of special interest money. He argues that the court needs to do more to protect our civil rights, workers’ rights, reproductive rights and our natural environment. He has also been vocal about Wisconsin’s disgraceful level of incarceration of people of color. Burns is getting support from both traditional Democrats and from the progressive wing—including many Bernie Sanders’ supporters. Burns and his wife, Pam, live in Middleton where they are raising their three children. Among the people endorsing Tim Burns are former Congressman Dave Obey, former Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, Congressman Mark Pocan, Marquette Law Professor Ed Fallone and Our Wisconsin Revolution, a liberal political organization inspired by Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
Rebecca Dallet
Rebecca Dallet has spent the past two decades working in the Milwaukee County court system— first as an assistant district attorney (for 11 years) and then as a Circuit Court judge (for 10 years). As both a prosecutor and a judge, she has been involved in thousands of cases and has seen firsthand the challenges of many average Wisconsin citizens struggling to get through difficult times in their lives. She has seen firsthand how a major illness can cause a family to lose its home because the mortgage money had to go to the medical bills and how quickly the opioid crisis can devastate a family and an entire community. As a circuit judge, Dallet has overseen hundreds of both civil and criminal cases and has had to make some very tough decisions as a judge. Dallet is viewed as a liberal-leaning moderate, and she has been an advocate for women throughout her legal career. As an assistant district attorney, she prosecuted individuals from domestic violence cases to criminal sexual predator cases. She has been highly critical of the State Supreme Court for blatant partisanship, lack of transparency and the corrupting influence of special interest money. She also spoke at last year’s Wisconsin Democratic Convention, criticizing the Supreme Court’s right-wing decision regarding Act 10. She lives in Whitefish Bay with her husband and three daughters. Dallet has been endorsed by former State Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler, as well as more than 200 other judges throughout the state and more than 150 locally elected public servants—including school board members, alderpersons, county supervisors and state legislators.
The Third Candidate
The third candidate, Michael Screnock, has a history of extreme right-wing activism, which resulted in his getting arrested a couple of times in his earlier life. As an attorney, he participated in the drawing of the gerrymandered Wisconsin legislative districts, which a special federal judicial panel has declared unconstitutional. This participation in the blatantly unconstitutionally drawn districts shows a total disregard for any level of fairness and justice. Screnock also participated on the legal team that defended Governor Scott Walker’s union-busting Act 10. We don’t need another right-wing ideologue on the Wisconsin Supreme Court bought by the likes of the Koch brothers. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n
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he Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Trump administration, as well as other activities by all those who seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking-discussion gettogethers and any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.
Thursday, Feb. 15
Milana Vayntrub @ Marquette’s Weasler Auditorium (1506 W. Wisconsin Ave.), 7-9 p.m.
As a part of the Marquette University Student Government Speaker Series, Milana Vayntrub, best known for her role as saleswoman Lily Adams in a popular series of AT&T commercials, will speak at Marquette’s Weasler Auditorium. Vayntrub is a refugee advocate and cofounded the grassroots #CantDoNothing organization, created to encourage others to give their time, money and voice to assist refugees worldwide.
Saturday, Feb. 17
Voter and Civic Engagement Campaign @ Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin (221 S. Second St.), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin, Latino Voting Bloc of Wisconsin and Citizen Action of Wisconsin have organized a weekly Saturday campaign of knocking on doors and phone banking to get people thinking about the 2018 elections. Volunteers can go out and talk to voters about the issues that they care about and get them involved in different events happening in the community.
Guns, Grief and Grace in America @ Mitchell Street Library (906 W. Historic Mitchell St.), 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Milwaukee County League of Women Voters will host a panel discussion about “a framework of public health prevention to inspire and assist urban, suburban and smaller communities to engage in civil dialogue around prevention of suicide, homicide, domestic violence, accidental and mass shootings,” according to their Facebook event page.
Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Capitol Drive and Teutonia Avenue, noon-1 p.m.
Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action Wisconsin to protest war and “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those
who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.
Laughing Liberally Milwaukee One-Year Anniversary Show @ ComedySportz Milwaukee (420 S. First St.), 8-10 p.m.
Milwaukee’s monthly progressive satirical political comedy show is celebrating their one-year anniversary. This month’s comedians include: Brian Green, Dana Ehrmann, Marcos Lara, Jen Durbent, Stevie Leigh Crutcher and sketch comedy group, The Accountants Of Homeland Security.
Sunday, Feb. 18
Defend Abortion Access @ Affiliated Medical Services (1428 N. Farwell Ave.), 2-4 p.m.
“40 Days for Life,” a right-wing antiabortion organization, plans to protest outside of Affiliated Medical Services from Feb. 14-March 30. A counterprotest is being organized for Sunday, Feb. 18. This day was chosen because the clinic is closed and will cause the least amount of stress for patients attempting to enter the clinic.
Tuesday, Feb. 20
Redlining, Racism and Reflection, Part Two: Redlining in Context with Ralph Hollmon @ Jewish Museum Milwaukee (1360 N. Prospect Ave.), 7-8:30 p.m.
This event features a screening of Wisconsin Public Television’s “City Within A City: When Pretty Soon Runs Out.” After the screening, Ralph Hollman, former president and CEO of the Milwaukee Urban League, will discuss about what was built and destroyed during Milwaukee’s 1968 urban renewal project. To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@ shepex.com. Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that the administration of Donald Trump and others of his kind have planned for our great country. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Don’t Believe Everything You Hear about My Gender ::BY JOEL MCNALLY
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ncharacteristically, I’ve hesitated to jump into one of the hottest controversies roiling the worlds of politics and popular entertainment at this moment in history. I fear anything I might say will be drowned out by some deplorable males who are doing everything possible to destroy the reputation of my gender. Millions of bad apples can spoil it for everyone. I’m talking, of course, about the ugly controversy over that man vs. woman thing. Or, as the woman closest to me throughout my adult life keeps asking these days, “What’s wrong with your kind anyway?” So let me make something perfectly clear from the outset. Men who beat up women or force themselves on them sexually are creeps. I haven’t actually known very many of these creeps in my life, but one thing the current debate has made clear is that a whole lot of women have. We’ve also learned violent creeps exist at all levels of society. They’re not just dumpy, lowlife brutes in so-called “wife-beater” sleeveless T-shirts drinking canned beer. Some are Rhodes Scholar Harvard grads with respectable White House jobs. Of course, the White House itself is no longer so respectable since the president was caught openly boasting about being a sexual predator and more than a dozen women confirmed it.
The Perils of Sexual Pressure The power dynamic now being recognized between those in powerful positions and vulnerable folks in subservient jobs is shifting perceptions. Sexual pressure in relationships isn’t always explicit. It really does go without saying when an individual’s livelihood depends upon pleasing someone with power. There’s also been a lot of dishonest exaggeration from males who claim they’re suddenly thrust into some frightening new world where they no longer know how to behave around women without being accused of sexual harassment. Adults learn to make it through life without offending everyone else around them, male or female. Welcome to the modern world where most workplaces are open to all genders, races and social backgrounds. Figure out how to act. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
By the way, discouraging offensive behavior does not preclude workplace romance. Reallife relationships seldom result from crude, offensive interactions. Some workplaces try to discourage office relationships, but it seldom works, and it’s not usually any of their business, anyway. Offices are rich habitats where people often spend more time together than anywhere else. The best relationships are still rooted in mutual attraction, respect and kindness. The worst ones, well, let’s not even get into the full range of disturbing human possibilities. Many of us still have bad dreams from the film Fatal Attraction.
The Absence of Respect But let’s get back to mutual attraction, respect and kindness. The complete absence of those three key elements of any healthy relationship are what’s driving the current uproar over the way far too many women are treated by far too many men. More broadly, the absence of feelings, respect and kindness toward the diverse variety of people, communities and cultures that make America great is the most glaring failure of our current national leadership. In Donald Trump’s America, real respect and kindness have disappeared even as we’re encouraged to show respect for, say, “some very fine people” who joined a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, N.C., and the beleaguered men who are being hounded by accusations of domestic violence against their wives. “People’s lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation,” Trump said on Twitter this weekend. “There is no recovery for someone falsely accused— life and career are gone.” We haven’t actually heard about any man’s life ending as the result of being falsely accused of domestic abuse, but we do know that wives’ jaws can be shattered and their eyes blackened even more than their husbands’ reputations. I actually may have defended the idea of violating political correctness even before the concept was invented as a battle cry of the right. In response to complaints that immediately arose when I began writing a column, I replied: “There are some people one would wish to offend.” I had in mind neo-Nazis and Klansmen. Now it turns out neo-Nazis and Klansmen have a president who supports their right to offend other races, religions and genders. The example Trump sets with his profane attacks on women and dark-skinned people are directly linked. Those bombastic vulgarities are designed to appeal to people who are angry, sickened and frightened by the changes they see in the world around them. Thankfully, neither he nor they can really do anything to stop those changes. They’re finally moving us closer to the equal rights and opportunities we’ve always claimed as our guiding, national principles. So women will continue to have access to every job—one day, soon, even president of the United States. Black and brown people will continue to demand equal protection and treatment under the law. And decent people everywhere, including more decent males than you realized ever existed, will embrace it. Comment at shepherdexpress.com.
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What the Hell Happened to Paul Ryan? ::BY MELANIE CONKLIN
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hen Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted, then quickly deleted, his boast that a school secretary was reaping the benefits of his GOP tax bill with a $1.50 a week to cover her Costco membership, the Twitterverse howled back: “Have you no soul?” It remains to be seen if this was a blunder akin to former President George H.W. Bush’s ignorance on the price of milk or Mitt Romney’s blithe dismissal of 47% of Americans that showed them to be out-of-touch. Or, given what President Donald Trump tweets daily, it may already be forgotten. That question on Ryan’s soul, however, appears settled. His elated grins and whoops of glee as the House passed Trumpcare or the GOP Tax Scam answer that. He joked with a reporter after passage of the tax bill— which will take away health care from millions, drive up premiums for others and explode the deficit—that he’d been dreaming of that day since he was a youth drinking out of a keg circa 1993.
He won his tax cut for the rich with a side of healthcare gutting for the rest. But what he sacrificed this past year to get there may explain why his confidants say he’s considering fleeing Washington D.C. The first thing Ryan has surrendered the past year was the carefully crafted personal reputation he invested years in making that let most voters to look past his right-wing fantasies. Adios, supposed “Budget Policy Genius.” Farewell, “Boy Scout Midwestern Nice Family Guy.” Gone are the aw shucks and the backward baseball cap dad people want to chat up at the local track meet. Ryan’s desire to gut entitlement programs is no secret— he’s always been honest about that—but people overlooked it. His “alternative budget” of 2010 was unveiled with so many numbers and such earnest demeanor that he seemed to be a smart, thoughtful Republican—especially when compared to the right-wing, ranting Tea Party. I recall in 2016 when a friend couldn’t bring herself to vote for Republicans anymore as they’d become so nasty and extreme. “Except Paul Ryan,” she added. “He’s smart and seems like a good guy.” I haven’t asked, but I’m guessing this friend may now be among the majority of the people in the country and Wisconsin who have helped shove Ryan’s poll numbers off a cliff. The far deeper piece of the Ryan transformation is this unanticipated change: overlooking vile racism, hatred and potential harm to our elections and global standing from the Trump Administration. The man who once called out President Donald Trump’s slam on a Mexican American judge as “the textbook definition of racism” and held back his endorsement after Trump’s boast of “grabbing women
by the pussy” is now playing water boy to curry favor with The Donald. To wit: He called Trump’s “shithole” comments on African nations and Haiti “not helpful.” The Costco tweet was a moment of candor revealing the elitism of Ryan Republicans. Cozying up to Trump to get his tax plan may cost more than personal and party brand. Ryan’s district is home to many laid-off workers, shuttered factories and constituents barely scraping by—people rural and urban who believed Trump when he talked about the regular, forgotten people. They are the high school secretary getting the $1.50 a week for a few years while the Koch brothers, Big Pharma and corporations that ship jobs overseas get millions a week. Indefinitely. The Ryan alliance with Trump has brought the id of the Republican Party into clear view with no check or balance. Ryan can’t admit he’s going to leave D.C. this year—it would seriously hamper fundraising. But here’s a thought: He could return to Janesville, venture a mile or two from his elegant Georgian Revival home and talk to his neighbors who have lived in their cars or skipped meals after a factory closed, a farm had to be sold or a family member without good insurance was diagnosed with cancer. By so doing, Ryan could see the chasm he’s helping to grow between the haves and have-nots with his tax policies, health care gutting and cuts to the social safety net. He may be able to bridge that disconnect from reality so obvious in his tweet and find what he’s lost in Washington D.C. as well. Melanie Conklin is Communications Director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n
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Wedding Cupcakes are Here to Stay ::BY JOHN JAHN
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got married in 2009 and wanted cupcakes at my wedding, but there were no cupcake bakeries in Milwaukee when I was doing the planning,” recalls Erica Elia. “So I decided to bake them myself. A friend asked me to bake their wedding cupcakes shortly thereafter, and I decided to explore baking cupcakes for weddings on the side,” she continues. Wedding cupcake website and about three dozen bookings later, Elia opened Classy Girl Cupcakes retail bakery on Cathedral Square in November 2010; she opened a second location a year ago at the Brookfield Square Shopping Center. Cupcakes in general—and wedding cupcakes specifically—are having a bit of a moment these days, but that “moment” may not pass, for as Elia explains, “They may have started as a trend or fad, but they are surely here to stay.” Understandably so, because cupcakes in lieu of the traditional multi-tiered wedding cake offer many benefits. For one, they’re easier to serve to a large group in a self-serve fashion. They’re also available in a plethora of flavors, whereas a single large cake is, by its nature, uniform. Rather than having to compromise on a single cake’s design, size, flavor and so forth, both partners can make their own choices—and these can be of a flavor that no one would ever order a whole cake in—such as salted caramel fudge, banana split, cinnamon pecan French toast, strawberry champagne and more (just to name a few of Classy Girl’s options). Offering a bit of a warning against going totally nuts over the options, Elia explains, “We generally recommend two-to-four flavor selections so as not to overwhelm the guests with choices, though we have had couples order 10 or more flavors!” What follows is the Shepherd Express’ guide to the now multitudinous cupcake-making bakeries to be found throughout the greater Milwaukee area.
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7328 W. Greenfield Ave. 414-482-1288 aggiesbakery.com
Baked Custom Desserts 1101 E. Brady St. 414-467-8848 bakedcustomdesserts.com
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3801 N. Oakland Ave. 414-810-3997 misscupcakebakery.com
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400 N. Water St. 414-271-1871 cadamsbakery.com
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825 N. Jefferson St. 414-270-1877 95 N. Moorland Road, Suite FC4 Brookfield 262-794-3323 classygirlcupcakes.com
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bout a month ago, we talked about “Crazy Idea Season” and the opportunity early spring presents for Major League Baseball teams to talk a big game about trying out major changes to the way they operate. Sure enough, as the Milwaukee Brewers report to spring training this week, they’ve selected their possible “major change”—moving Ryan Braun, at least part of the time, to first base. With 1,458 games played, Braun is the fifth-longest tenured Brewer in franchise history and will likely pass Cecil Cooper (currently fourth on that list) sometime this season. He’s spent nearly all of that time in left field—having moved out there after playing his rookie season at third base in 2007. Early in the 2017 season, Braun played his 1,219th game in the outfield, passing Robin Yount for the Brewers’ franchise record for longevity in that defensive role. It’s not unprecedented, however, for a player like Braun to make a mid-career positional switch. Here are some of the notable Brewers that have done it over the years.
Robin Yount Any conversation about positional changes for star players has to include Yount, who spent the first 11 years of his MLB career at shortstop but never played the position again after 1984, moving into the outfield and eventually settling in center field for his final nine seasons. The move was born of a sense of necessity: A pair of shoulder surgeries had created questions about Yount’s ability to remain healthy while making the array of throws required to play shortstop. Yount is the model example of how well a position change can work out for all involved: In the outfield, Yount was healthy enough to be a regular player (averaging 145 games per 18 | F E B R U A R Y 1 5 , 2 0 1 8
season) for nine more years, during which time he passed 3,000 hits for his career. He was also the American League MVP while playing center in 1989, picking up a second trophy to store next to the one he won playing shortstop in 1982.
Charlie Moore Moore is a good example of a player who made a positional switch after offseason transactions created a crowded roster at his original spot. He had played in nearly 700 games as a Brewer and had spent almost all of that time behind the plate when Milwaukee acquired veteran catcher Ted Simmons before the 1981 season and left Moore without a regular position. Moore spent most of the 1982 season in right field and remained out there for several years after—even though Simmons had largely vacated the catching position by 1983. In 1985, Moore moved back behind the plate and finished his career there.
Corey Hart A longtime contemporary of Braun’s and a two-time All Star in the Brewers’ outfield, Hart provides both positive and negative precedents for a move from a corner spot to first base. Hart made the switch during the 2012 season, where a spring meniscus surgery had created questions about his mobility. Hart filled a glaring need for a Brewers team that already had Braun, Carlos Gomez and Norichika Aoki in the outfield and did so admirably. Unfortunately, the 2012 season wasn’t the end of Hart’s knee issues. A second offseason injury and a slow recovery led to him missing the entire 2013 season and never playing full-time in the majors again. The move from the outfield to first base isn’t what abruptly derailed Hart’s career, but it certainly didn’t save it, either. The Brewers’ move from the American League to the National League two decades ago renders a fair number of other comparable player situations moot. The Brewers extended the careers of Paul Molitor, Don Money and the aforementioned Ted Simmons, for example, by keeping them in the lineup as designated hitters, but that’s not a luxury available to Braun at this point. At the end of the day, most of the major changes like this that teams discuss in the opening weeks of spring training are forgotten by opening day. When Craig Counsell makes out his first lineup card against the San Diego Padres at the end of March, we’ll almost certainly see Ryan Braun in left field, as we have in eight of the last 10 years. If Counsell and company do decide to make a change with Braun, however, there’s a wide array of historical precedents to suggest how things might turn out. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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In Tandem Explores Family and Aging BRUCE GRAHAM’S ‘THE OUTGOING TIDE’ ::BY SELENA MILEWSKI remiered in 2011 at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre, Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide enlists humor and heated discussion to touch the heart of family and aging issues. The late John Mahoney originated the lead role of Gunner, a man experiencing the first stages of dementia, who has made an unusual plan for his future. Gunner’s wife and recently divorced adult son disagree with him and argument ensues. Confined to their cabin on the Chesapeake Bay, the family must come to an agreement before the titular tide goes out. Under Chris Flieller’s direction, In Tandem Theatre’s upcoming production will feature James Pickering as Gunner, Susan Sweeney as his wife, Peg, and Simon Provan as their son, Jack. In Tandem’s relationship with the playwright began several years ago when the company produced his Any Given Monday. I recently spoke with Flieller and Graham to learn more about the script and our local production. Asked about the play’s style, Graham replies, “Tone wise, it’s a little tough to describe because the subject matter is kind of serious but there’s a lot of big laughs and because it deals with tough people dealing with a tough situation.” Flieller adds, “As with any family and any real exchange, even at the most serious of times, humor emerges. That’s what makes the script so believable.”“It’s like On Golden Pond, only funnier,” Graham summarizes with a laugh. The piece employs a number of artistically challenging yet narratively effective devices, especially flashbacks, to handle its weighty exposition. “It’s tough, especially, for the actor playing Jack. He’s got to become a 10-year-old kid without being a silly cliché,” says Graham. “Bruce has done a marvelous job in layering In Tandem Theatre the thing—the flashback not only explains what was The Outgoing Tide just said about a particular Tenth Street Theatre character or situation, but Feb. 22 - March 18 also informs what’s going to come right after,” says Flieller. Moreover, he adds, “his dialogue is tremendous. It’s natural. The dialogue and the relationships are so well wrought, and the characters are so well defined.” What does Graham hope the play will accomplish? “You know what I love as an audience member? I want to walk out of the theater and think, ‘I wonder what
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happened to them the next day?’ If someone feels that way after one of my plays, then I feel I’ve done my job. If you get something else out of it—a message, a moral, a theme, whatever—that’s great, but personally I want to take two hours and put you into another world and get you caught up with these characters and go on a little journey with them. I know it’s kind of an old-fashioned way to be, but I’m an entertainer.” Asked about his approach as director, Flieller says, “My job is to try and get out of way of the thing as much as possible: hire the right actors, have the right script and shape it in such a way that the essence of the thing, the story, comes through, without putting too much of my comment on it.” Of The Outgoing Tide, he adds, “I think the audience is going to be very conflicted about the characters in the show, especially Gunner. That’s what makes good theater: There is no clear-cut position that the playwright takes.” Says Managing Director Jane Flieller, “The most important take-away in the play is not to solve this mystery and get a button ending, but rather to spur conversation. This isn’t a diagram for how you should do something or how something should end up. It is what it is, just like the world of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Everybody’s story is a little bit different; everybody’s needs are a little bit different; everybody’s solutions are a little bit different.” In addition to its veteran performance ensemble, audiences can look forward to work from an impeccable team of Milwaukee designers. Flieller terms set designer Steve Barnes’ concept “decon-
structed realism. There are very few walls representing any of the structures so we can go back and forth between the inside and outside and different places in time. It kind of represents the fragmentation of Gunner’s mind.” Sound designer Jonathon Leubner creates “a soundscape that’s going to put you environmentally on the Bay—nature sounds, water, geese, the outgoing tide,” Flieller continues. Lighting designer Holly Blomquist and costume designer Kathy Smith, both In Tandem regulars, complete the team. The Fliellers also highlight the accompanying events and art exhibit in the theater’s lobby. John Kowalczyk’s “Myriad of Murals” features two largescale abstract pieces the artist created after reflecting on the show’s exploration of mind, along with other pieces from his oeuvre. Kowalczyk will be on hand for a talkback after the Thursday, March 1 performance. After the Thursday, March 8 performance, Dr. Bashir Easter of the Milwaukee County Department on Aging will be present to continue the conversation on dementia and related conditions. The Outgoing Tide runs Feb. 22-March 18 at the Tenth Street Theatre, 628 N. 10th St. For tickets, call 414-271-1371 or visit intandemtheatre.org.
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::THISWEEKINMILWAUKEE FRIDAY, FEB. 16
THURSDAY, FEB. 15 The Infamous Stringdusters w/ The Last Revel @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.
Backstage at the Miller High Life Theatre Presents: Becca Stevens, Nicholas David & Stephanie Brill @ Miller High Life Theatre, 8 p.m.
With their first album, 2007’s Fork in the Road, The Infamous Stringdusters joined the hordes of fellow young bands revolutionizing bluegrass by playing to the sensibilities of the jam scene. Well received by critics and fans alike, it picked up several awards at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, including Emerging Artist of the Year. In the decade since the band’s following has ballooned, both in the jam scene and in roots-music circles. Recorded on the road, the band’s most recent album, 2017’s Laws of Gravity, peaked at number one on Billboard’s bluegrass albums chart.
For its “Backstage at the Miller High Life Theatre” series, the historic Milwaukee venue presents intimate performances at Plankinton Hall, on the venue’s second floor. Headliner Becca Stevens, an ambitious folk-pop Becca Stevens BY SHERVIN LAINEZ artist who’s performed with David Crosby and Esperanza Spalding, will be joined by 2012 “The Voice” contestant Nicholas David, whose five studio albums have highlighted his showy piano playing. Rounding out the bill is Stephanie Erin Brill, a Milwaukee songwriter who also uses the piano as the foundation for her gentle folk-pop.
FRIDAY, FEB. 16 Anime Milwaukee @ Wisconsin Center
Founded by UW-Milwaukee student organization the Japanese Animation Association, Anime Milwaukee has grown into the state’s largest anime convention, attracting nearly 10,000 gamers and anime enthusiasts last year. This weekend’s enormous lineup includes a large exhibition hall, video-game tournaments, cosplay events (including an unusual cosplay chess tournament), webcomic workshops, a charity ball, a burlesque show, a variety of late-night events and parties for attendees 18 and older, and a host of film screenings. Though many of the titles contain adult content, there also will be extensive children’s programming. (Through Sunday, Feb. 18).
Turtle Island Quartet: Bird’s Eye View, The Legend of Charlie Parker @ South Milwaukee PAC, 7:30 p.m.
Brockhampton @ The Rave, 9 p.m.
With their explosive, youthful energy, the internet-born California hip-hop crew Brockhampton can’t help but draw comparisons to another provocative California rap collective, Odd Future, though their music is never quite as angry and incendiary as Odd Future’s formative releases were. Instead Brockhampton’s records are lively, inclusive and all over the place, filled with as many divergent ideas as you’d expect from a group that contains a dozen or so active members. Last year the released of the most explosively entertaining rap albums of 2017—Saturation, Saturation II and Saturation III, each better than the last—and they’ve already announced plans for a 2018 album aptly titled Team Effort, but first they’ll play in Milwaukee as part of their first-ever headlining tour. ASHLAN GREY
Since 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been reimagining a wide range of jazz, folk and pop sounds through the lens of a string quartet. For this bill, the two-time Grammy winners will pay homage to one of jazz’s all-time greats: Charlie Parker. In addition to the Bird’s signature works, this program will also include a mix of original compositions and other favorites from the bebop era, including pieces by Sonny Rollins and Charlie Mingus.
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Bon Iver w/ Field Report and Collections of Colonies of Bees @ BMO Harris Bradley Center, 8 p.m.
Few records from the past decade have had more impact than Bon Iver’s majestic debut For Emma, Forever Ago, the cabin-born album that cemented songwriter Justin Vernon as one of Wisconsin’s most influential musicians and inspired countless struggling songwriters to plan their own retreats to the woods in hopes of capturing the same inspiration. Even as Vernon has shed his folk image on recent albums, opting instead for more electronic, experimental sounds, that album has remained near and dear to the hearts of listeners. In conjunction with a limitededition reissue of the album, featuring new artwork and liner notes, Vernon and his band will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the record that helped put Eau Claire on the map with this special one-off concert, which will feature performances from two fellow Wisconsin bands that Vernon’s success helped call deserving attention to: Field Report, who have a sunny new album Summertime Songs set for release next month, and Collections of Colonies of Bees.
Dre Day @ Company Brewing, 10 p.m.
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One of the true lions of hip-hop, producer Dr. Dre helped lay the template for gangsta rap, recorded one of the most replayable rap albums of all time with The Chronic, and sired stars from Eminem to Snoop Dogg. Don’t let his headphone-hocking, Dr. Pepper-drinking later years confuse you: The guy is a legend, and if you were a teenager in the ’90s, odds are good you grew up quoting his lyrics. Milwaukee DJs Madhatter and Bizzon will celebrate Dre’s birthday and his legacy with this party, which will feature a “$20 Sack Pyramid” game shoe contest, Dre and Friends Karaoke and a “Best West-Dressed” contest. Iron Grate BBQ will be serving barbecue at the event, which attendees can wash down with—yup, you guessed it—gin and juice. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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SATURDAY, FEB. 17 Davina and the Vagabonds @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.
Led by singer Davina Sowers and her huge, throaty voice, the Minnesota ensemble Davina and the Vagabonds celebrates blues music in all its forms, from the boogiewoogie of the genre’s 1930s barrelhouse incarnations to the brassy swing of New Orleans’ R&B and the smooth sounds of Memphis soul, with splashes of cabaret and gospel thrown in for good measure. All those sounds are nicely captured on the group’s spirited latest album, 2016’s Nicollet and Tenth, which they recorded live at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis.
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TUESDAY, FEB. 20 BĂŠla Fleck and Abigail Washburn @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7:30 p.m.
BÊla Fleck may be the most renowned banjoist of his time, celebrated for his expansive, forward-thinking approach to the instrument and for his forays away from bluegrass and into jazz, funk and classical music. Abigail Washburn, meanwhile, takes a much more traditional approach to her banjo, proudly playing in the classic, old-timey claw hammer style. Those contrasting sensibilities have led to some exciting collaborations between the two, who as fate would have it, have found chemistry off the stage as well—they’re married. Since Washburn gave birth to their son, they’ve kept the family together by touring as a duo, while recording a series of albums together. Their third and most recent duo album, Echo in the Valley, came out last year on the famed folk label Rounder Records.
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A club promoter, record producer and founder of Dim Mak Records, Steve Aoki injects tricked-out trance beats into even the tamest tracks to create thumping house music thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s virtually impossible to listen to while standing still. Aoki found fame by adding layers of scratches and dubs to hits like Drakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foreverâ&#x20AC;? and Kid Cudiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pursuit of Happiness,â&#x20AC;? reinventing them for the dance floor, but it was his own hard-hitting solo output that made him one of EDMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top-grossing touring DJs. His latest album, last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steve Aoki Presents Kolony, featured a litany of guests including Lil Yachty, 2 Chainz, Lil Uzzi Vert, Gucci Mane, T-Pain and Migos, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brought that collaborative mindset to his latest live tour, which will feature Desiigner, Deorro, Grandtheft, Bad Royale and Bok Nero.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
(and Being Good at It) ::BY JOHN JAHN
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scar Wilde’s send-up of the upper class of Victorian Era Britain, The Importance of Being Earnest, was his biggest hit, and rightfully so. Its humor holds up even today; especially in capitalist societies, the difference between social classes remains thoroughly recognizable. Wilde certainly knew how to skewer the rich of his day and age and doing so remains very much relatable so many years later. Relatability aside, mounting Wilde’s play is no mean feat; his dialogue, loaded with clever puns and crashing repartees that follow one another like waves hitting a beach, really needs to be seamlessly uttered to have it all work. The cast of the current Village Playhouse production does a reasonably good job of it—though there were some stumbles witnessed as Wilde’s tongue-twisting verbiage flowed along with barely a moment of silence. What concerned me the most was the decision to have the cast attempt to speak in faux upper-class British accents, as these proved to be very unevenly accomplished—ranging from the very British of Clayton Mortl’s Algernon (“Algie”) Moncrieff to the barely-there British of Derek Jacobs’ Jack Worthing. Yes, this can show a social gap between characters, of course, but the accents just didn’t fully convince. Perhaps American English would have worked better; it would certainly have been less distracting. That said, I must give kudos to this small cast of dedicated players. I came to like Algie through Mortl’s charming portrayal and to sympathize with the hope-to-be-wed couple of Jack and Gwendolen (Audrey Thompson-Wallace). Scott Sorensen, as both a butler and a manservant (roles that work well combined into one actor’s performance), convincingly gives you a fly-on-the-wall view into this world of the rich. Another stand-out is Maggie Wirth as Lady Bracknell, mother of Gwendolen and not at all amused with the latter’s romantic interest in Jack. She looks, dresses, acts and speaks her part quite well, and her going ballistic over finding out that the man who aspires to wed her beloved daughter was orphaned and found “in a handbag” is something to behold; all the puffery and affect of “polite society” vaporizes in a moment, and true human sentiment pours forth like lava from a volcano. Through Feb. 25 at Inspiration Studios, 1500 S. 73rd St. For tickets, call 414-207-4879 or visit villageplayhouse.org/the-importance-of-being-earnest.
Cooperative Performance’s ‘Ellis’ a Celebration of Immigration ::BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF
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ooperative Performance presents a premiere, Ellis, a work pulled together from a diverse group of personal narratives about being an immigrant in the U.S. The show’s creators Kelly Coffey and Don Russell, in collaboration with Alejandra Gonzalez and Alverno College, bring together stories of those who have come here from Latin America, Europe, India and elsewhere. Stories of displacement, identity and belonging scatter across an intimate stage as spoken through an ensemble from a variety of ages and ethnicities. Seating is onstage. Audience and actors are one in a conceptual space where we are all immigrants. There are more than half a dozen stories that cascade across the stage over the course of a single hour without intermission. It’s quite a journey. From the story of a man who has become obsessed with donuts from a chain restaurant to the story of Punjabi cuisine to a family of Italian Americans being bullied in another era, humor, love and human drama are packaged tightly enough to fit into a tidy, little suitcase that leaves plenty of time for contemplation into the evening. Of particular note are a couple of topical tales including one in which Gonzalez tenderly talks about romantic attraction and the unique dating concerns of those lacking citizenship. It’s the type of story anyone would want to snuggle up with. Later on, the show tilted to heroism from an altogether darker end of immigration as Kait Muehlhans delivered a story of an anonymous DREAMer. A mixture of spoken word and movement illustrate the horrors of being an undocumented victim of a crime. It is one of the more memorable moments in a vivid show. Through Feb. 24 at Alverno College’s Pitman Theatre. For more information, visit cooperativeperformance.org/current-season. 24 | F E B R U A R Y 1 5 , 2 0 1 8
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Rep Lab Short Play Festival
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s eighth annual Rep Lab Short Play Festival is like nothing else in live theater in our area. This acclaimed series features several diverse plays acted and directed by The Rep’s own Emerging Professional Residents. In a mere two-hour time span, attendees will see all eight one-act plays from these young artists; there is no “theme”—the plays will vary greatly—essentially everything can be had from the most serious drama to the lightest farce. In addition to a “Devised Piece” that has been created by the Emerging Artists collaboratively, this year’s offerings are Don Nigro’s Letters from Quebec to Providence; Leah Nanako Walker’s Linus and Murray; Sophiyaa Nayar’s (via Leda Hoffmann) Missed Connections; One for the Chipper by Adam Seidel; Something Like Loneliness by Ryan Dowler; The Lachrymatory Factor by Clare Barron; and Nick Jones’ Welcome, Parents. Nine actors take on numerous roles in these worldpremiere productions. (John Jahn) Feb. 15-19 at the Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.
The Brothers Size
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Matthew Reddin describes Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size as “a tough, tender drama based on West African myths about two brothers who seek to be truly free.” The “brothers” of the play’s title refers to the main characters—Ogun and Oshoosi Size—the former a hardworking mechanic and the latter an aimless ex-con. Ogun tries to get his brother back on the “straight-and-narrow,” but his efforts are seriously challenged when a former prison mate of Oshoosi, Elegba, shows up. There will be four actors in this production: Travis A. Knight, Andrew Muwonge, Marques Causey and Jahmés Tony Finlayson. Intriguingly, the set design by Madelyn Yee—evocative both of Milwaukee’s inner city as well as the story’s Louisiana setting—“will stretch far beyond the ‘fourth wall,’” Reddin says, “spilling into the whole of the Studio Theatre.” (John Jahn) Feb. 21-March 18 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com.
Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland has nothing to do with a quest to visit the California property once owned by Michael Jackson. It does have something to do with the 2004 British-American historical fantasy film about playwright J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) and his creation of the beloved character Peter Pan. This film eventually spawned a 2012 stage musical with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and book by James Graham. After an initial opening in Great Britain, the musical was reworked somewhat and received its world premiere in its present form in the U.S. in 2014. Two years thereafter, it embarked upon a national tour. Finding Neverland has now found its way to Milwaukee. It’s not a story with Peter Pan but a story about Peter Pan; a wonderfully inspirational story of how J.M. Barrie invented the character based on a family he came to know comprising a widowed mother and her four young sons. This Marcus Center production will be directed by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus. (John Jahn) Feb. 20-25 at Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org/ show/finding-neverland.
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Student Body
Coming amid the #MeToo Movement is a compelling drama about sexual relationships on college campuses that quite literally could have been taken from newspaper headlines. Student Body by Frank Winters involves a group of college students brought together by a winter storm; they don’t all know one another, but they soon will. They happen upon a video that seems suspicious—and elicits a very topical debate. Feb. 15-18 and Feb. 21-25 at Marquette University’s Helfaer Theatre, 1304 W. Clybourn St. For tickets, call 414-288-7504 or visit showclix.com/event/ student-body.
The First Church of Texaco
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Christian-based Morning Star Productions produces a comic farce that trace the paths of a man and woman, Stanton and Alice, brought together under the most unusual circumstances, meeting at a burned-out Texaco gas station in tiny Blessing, Texas. As Morning Star’s Mary Atwood puts it, “Our hero may seem lost, but he’s about to meet someone who gets him right where he needs to be.” Feb. 16-25 at Eastbrook Church, 5385 N. Green Bay Ave. For tickets, call 414-228-5220 ext. 119 or visit morningstarproductions.org.
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Ballet’s ‘MXE Milwaukee Mixed’ Felt Like Milwaukee ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER
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omewhere in the second break, Milwaukee’s superb new Bonifas Electric Band with jazz trumpeter Brian Lynch began playing. Lighting virtuoso Jason Fassl threw brilliant purple and turquoise beams on the bandstand in front of the Pabst Theater’s stage. The house lights were up; patrons wandered from the lobby and engaged in lively conversation. Dancers hung out, taking in the scene. The Pabst felt like a nightclub. Cued by light, the audience settled, the dancers took places, some on stage, some beside the band, and the world premiere of Petr Zahradnícek’s “Conflux” began—the closing number of MXE Milwaukee Mixed, Milwaukee Ballet’s cool program of premieres by company choreographers with local composers, musicians and poets. Let ballet elsewhere be tied to the styles of dead men; not here. Zahradnícek’s four-part work, each in a different groove, was ballet set to jazz. The ballad worked best since the dancers had time to move with feeling. The fast tunes were tougher, all about technique. The swing finale had the dancers almost drunk, I thought, on music, dance, art, love, the city and the best things we can give one another. In Garrett Glassman’s Affixed, set to a darkly beautiful score by the Tontine Ensemble, video screens are objects of devotion. The dance includes a pas de deux in which a women (Lizzie Tripp) surrenders to a partner’s (Davit Hovhannisyan) screen obsession. No one sees anyone. They’re in their minds, isolated. Nicole Teague-Howell’s Pull is in perfect contrast: The dancers’ faces are hidden by mesh masks. The focus is physicality: tugs and embraces, shared energy, transformation, flight. Expansive, ecstatic music by LUXI encourages a meditative state, breath, body. Amazingly, the dancers in Timothy O’Donnell’s more truth than poetry timed intricate movements to the patterns of Dasha Kelly Hamilton’s live spoken word performance. Unfortunately, I could make no sense of her complex poem. I loved the dancers’ fascinating movements but my effort to follow the poem distracted me. I conclude that I need practice interpreting complex audio and visual information simultaneously, which is to say that I need more experiments like this one. O’Donnell’s work is important. Neither did I understand the lyrics of The Vitrolum Republic’s songs that accompanied Isaac Sharratt’s We Roam, but I enjoyed the good beats and warm melodies. This honest, sometimes funny piece was easy to absorb. The dancers gave it lots of personality. It felt like Milwaukee. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Flanders Recorder Quartet
Milwaukee’s Early Music Now brings one of the world’s top ensembles, the award-winning Flanders Recorder Quartet, to Milwaukee’s East Side for a concert titled “The Final Chapter: 30 Years.” After three decades of live performances—more than 1,800 concerts in 42 countries spanning five continents—they’re disbanding at the conclusion of 2018. They’ve been acclaimed worldwide for, as Early Music Now’s Charles Grosz describes, their “clarity of ensemble playing, technical perfection, homogeneous sound and true-to-style interpretation” of great music. Their Milwaukee concert features a program focused on recorder transcriptions of music spanning nearly five centuries; composers include Michael Praetorius, Pieter Campo, Robert Parsons and Johann Sebastian Bach. The concert’s location, Grosz explains, includes a most apropos “Flemish tapestry created in 1510” as well as “the largest stained-glass window ever created by the Tiffany studios.” (John Jahn) Saturday, Feb. 17 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. For tickets, call 414-225-3113 or visit earlymusicnow.org/this-season/flanders.
Flanders Recorder Quartet The Final Chapter: 30 Years Feb 17 | 5:00pm St Paul’s Episcopal Church
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“…combining the breathy timbre of a portative organ with the expressive interplay of a fine string quartet.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES
Peter Stathas Dance
Hales Corners native Peter Stathas was a professional dancer and emerging choreographer in New York City from the late ’70s to the mid-’80s when he left his dance career to study physical therapy. In the early ’90s, he returned to Milwaukee to open the highly successful Freedom Physical Therapy Services. In 2016, after raising a son as a single dad, he revived his NYC dance company, Peter Stathas Dance, and presented new and old works. This weekend, he’s showing Conundrum, a new work-in-progress for four dancers to Brahms' String Quartet No. 1. The showcase/lecture demo is both a fundraiser for his dance company and a chance for audiences to meet him and see him work. The finished Conundrum will be performed later this spring with three other pieces. (John Schneider) 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 18 at Danceworks. For tickets, call 414-277-8480 ext. 6025 or visit danceworksmke.org/purchase-tickets. ERIC RICHMOND
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Turtle Island Quartet
Winners of two Grammy Awards, this string quartet consists of violinists David Balakrishnan and Alex Hargreaves, cellist Malcolm Parson and violist Benjamin von Gutzeit. Their upcoming concert is titled “Bird’s Eye View: The Legend of Charlie Parker,” and is thus something of a classicaljazz-fusion homage to the legendary musician. Iconic Parker works will be juxtaposed with original responses by Turtle Island players—intertwined with other thematic material from the bebop era and beyond. Friday, Feb. 16 at the South Milwaukee PAC, 901 15th Ave. For tickets, call 414-766-5049 or visit southmilwaukeepac.org/event/turtleisland.
Globalfest on the Road
This event, subtitled “The New Golden Age of Latin Music,” reflects the music of the emerging Mexican American communities of the U. S. Southwest. Two exciting bands that specialize in this music and which are forging new paths for the Latin sound, Orkesta Mendoza and Las Cafeteras, will join forces for a lively concert that blends eras and styles galore. Friday, Feb. 16 at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield. For tickets, call 262-781-9520 or visit wilson-center.com.
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Restless Youth, Regime Change, in ‘As I Open My Eyes’ Award-winning Tunisian entry in Festival of Films in French ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN
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om’s angry words battle with a face furrowed with worry. “Where were you? We were going to call the police!” She yells at her 18-year-old daughter, Farah. It’s the last hours before dawn and Farah is trying, unsuccessfully, to slip into her parents’ apartment unnoticed. Her excuses are lame and not believed—that bit about car trouble was old when Model Ts were on the road. We’ve seen parent-teenage arguments many times in movies, but never in one set in Tunisia on the eve of the upheaval that triggered the otherwise failed Arab Spring. As I Open My Eyes, the award-winning film by Tunisian writer-director Leyla Bouzid, evokes a particular time and place while engaging with universal emotions and experiences. However, universality aside, mom (Ghalia Benali) has more to worry about than the usual concerns over teen pregnancy and social reputation. A bright girl who laughs easily, Farah (Baya Medhaffar) is also a bit of a rebel, socially and politically. She stays out late with her boyfriend in a society where parental supervision is no dead letter. And although Tunisia is relatively benign culturally, far from the dark-age Islam proffered by extremists, the nation’s kleptocratic ruler tolerates no rebuke to his authority. Farah sings in a band whose songs sometimes seek to rattle the powerful. And yet, for much of the movie, the scenario could be unfolding anywhere where hip kids have embraced a version of alternative culture. The partying at clubs and homes, the beer and loud music, the tricky emotional and sexual navigation Farah must endure, will remind anyone who was ever young of their own experience. Farah’s band brings distinctly local influences into droning minor key rock powered by oud as well as synthesizer, bass guitar and a drum set as simple as Mo Tucker’s kit for the Velvet Underground. Farah sings with the heart-rending passion of Umm Kulthum and other classic Arabic singers. The poetic lyrics with their images of closed doors and their call for “new troubles different from those I know” contain implied criticisms of the status quo. Gigs are cancelled abruptly and there’s always a chance that words expressed too fervently might lead to the regime’s blood-splattered interrogation rooms. As I Open My Eyes is an unusual entry in this year’s Festival of Films in French given that most of the dialogue is in Arabic. But the Franco-Tunisian coproduction is an example of how France has continued its cultural engagement with the former protectorate on the North African coast.
21ST FESTIVAL OF FILMS IN FRENCH Feb. 16-25, UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Admission is free.
Friday, Feb. 16
7pm Visages Villages (Faces Places) 9pm Tour de France
Saturday, Feb. 17
5pm Tour de France 7pm Montréal la Blanche (Montreal, White City) 9pm Le Jeune Karl Marx (The Young Karl Marx)
Sunday, Feb. 18
1pm Avril et le monde truqué (April and the Extraordinary World) 3pm Montréal la Blanche (Montreal, White City) 5pm Visages Villages (Faces Places) 7pm Le Jeune Karl Marx (The Young Karl Marx)
Monday, Feb. 19
7pm Je ne suis pas votre nègre (I Am Not Your Negro) 9pm I Am Not Your Negro
Tuesday, Feb. 20
7pm Arabesques followed by Finis Terrae
Wednesday, Feb. 21
7pm La Glace et le Ciel (Antarctica: Ice and Sky)
Thursday, Feb. 22 7pm Panique (Panic)
Friday, Feb. 23
7pm Fatima 9pm À peine j’ouvre les yeux (As I Open my Eyes)
Saturday, Feb. 24
5pm Examen d’État (National Diploma) 7pm Dernières nouvelles du Cosmos (Latest News from the Cosmos) 9pm Fatima
Sunday, Feb. 25
1pm Avril et le monde truqué (April and the Extraordinary World) 3pm Examen d’État (National Diploma) 5pm Dernières nouvelles du Cosmos (Latest News from the Cosmos) 7pm À peine j’ouvre les yeux (As I Open my Eyes) For more information, visit uwm.edu/frenchfilm-festival. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Stan Lee created the first mainstream black superhero, Marvel’s Black Panther, in 1966. He’s reminiscent of Batman, but sleeker. Panther’s alter ego is African king, T’Challa, ruler of fictional Wakanda. T’Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) surrounds himself with loyal female generals who debate weighty issues and have T’Challa’s back. Co-written by director Ryan Coogler, Black Panther’s fictional universe is immersed in philosophical ideas. The screenplay is packed with fun, showcasing action, gadgets and technological wizardry. (Lisa Miller)
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In an effort to keep the peaceful valley they call home, the Stone Age tribe of Dug (voiced by Eddie Redmayne) challenges Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) and Bronze Age City, the latter’s sprawling metropolis, to a soccer match. Creator Nick Park, re-embracing his Wallace and Gromit roots, returns to hand-rendered characters with Chiclet teeth. Jokes complement Parks’ stop-and-go animation. Dug’s animal sidekick is the brainy one, while it’s up to Bronze-Age girl Goona (Maisie Williams) to coach the knuckle-headed caveman team. Giggle-worthy accents add silliness to the snappy jokes. Frequent sight gags are kid friendly, as are extra-credit gags occurring at the fringes of the screen. (L.M.)
Virtual Reality Production
Milwaukee Creative Media Professionals is a local group of artists, technicians and techies focused on film, video and digital work. They are hosting a session with Jeff Fitzsimmons, co-founder of Custom Reality Services. Starting as a videographer in the early-’90s Seattle grunge scene, Fitzsimmons moved on to guerilla marketing, voice technology and 3D imaging. He brings with him a pair of VR workstations and will discuss CRS’s 360 Video series for the New York Times and their Sundance-selected documentary, Across the Line. (David Luhrssen) 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21, at Company Brewing, 735 E. Center St. The event is open to the public but reservations are suggested. Visit mkecmp.com.
[HOME MOVIES /OUT ON DIGITAL] n The Tiger Hunter
Sami (Danny Pudi) is an Indian engineer eager to make it in America. He wants to get the girl back home (by winning over her unimpressed father) and “achieve absolute greatness” like his dad. Director Lena Khan’s sweetnatured immigrant comedy follows the plucky Sami as he makes his way through mishaps and misunderstandings in disco-era America. If he makes it, it will not be alone but with the help of the community he falls in with.
n Conduct! Every Move Counts
The biennial Georg Solti competition draws as many as 500 applicants from 70 nations. Twenty are chosen, given 20 minutes to rehearse an orchestra and half an hour to conduct a composition. The winners are likely to find prestige careers. The losers? Conduct! documents a recent contest, focusing on five up-and-comers as they face make or break. Unlike sports, the unquantifiable intangibles of the human spirit are in play. Cut to judge’s comments: “Terrible! Hacking it up!”
n Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
“Truth is now,” says trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Bad philosophy, but it does describe an ideal of what jazz can be. The documentary explores the meaning of that music at a time when many players don’t like the word jazz. For them, jazz so-called is more a way of approaching music than anything else. But as one critic notes, jazz no longer communicates much of anything to the wider world if it means nothing more than jamming.
n The Way West
Robert Ryan and Kirk Douglas affect raspy cowboy accents as sleepyvoiced Robert Mitchum looks on with bored dismay. The Way West (1967), a western from the Hollywood genre’s declining years, places three great stars of ’40s film noir onto a wagon train bound for Oregon. Filmed in Panavision and Deluxe color, The Way West catches the vastness of the frontier and is notable for Sally Field’s debut—barefoot on the back of a wagon. —David Luhrssen SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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SHADES OF BLACK AND BRIGHTNESS IN PAUL ANTHONY SMITH’S GREEN GALLERY SHOW
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aul Anthony Smith’s drawings at Green Gallery East are like flat, solid walls, until you approach more closely. They are like concrete bricks of a foundation, but mysteriously dissolved. Smith is a Brooklyn-based artist and retains a strong connection to Jamaica where he was born and lived until age 9. His work often touches on autobiographical elements, but that is more hidden in his series Blurred Line Drawings, which is the focus of this exhibition. In patterns like a brick wall, blocks of various shades of black are joined by ones in brighter, vivid colors. They are drawn in curlicues of oil stick and color pencil over inkjet prints, and quite large ones at that. It is hard to say what the prints actually show. They are almost entirely disguised by the drawings but you get the feeling there are figures or rooms beneath. They form a foundation as their tones and shapes work like a subtle underpainting. The architectural nature of the drawings is enlivened by what happens beneath their surface. The exhibition includes one piece that is even more characteristic of Smith’s work, particularly for his use of picotage. This technique is usually connected with textiles, but he applies this to photographs and printed images. The surface is punctured and pulled, creating a mottled and nuanced texture. In an untitled work, a figure peers out from a subtlety ruptured surface and a dematerialized chain-link fence. Also on view is a video titled Walk Bout. According to the gallery attendant, it was filmed in the front yard of Smith’s grandmother’s house in Jamaica. With the camera as our eyes, we are on top of a hill, just at the side of the road. The asphalt is smooth and voices waft in the air 28 | F E B R U A R Y 1 5 , 2 0 1 8
ach morning, the relentless 24-hour news cycle presents us with fresh outrages and up-to-date disasters, which divert our overwhelmed minds from ongoing situations of need. Such is the case in Puerto Rico, still reeling from Hurricane Maria of September 2017. In celebration and solidarity with the Puerto Ricans who are rebuilding their world, Adrienne Pierluissi, artist and owner of Bay View’s Sugar Maple, has organized an event from 2-6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18. Pierluissi will be auctioning and raffling off more than 30 of her abstract paintings, some of which have spent the past few months tuning the Sugar Maple’s singular ambiance. Gift certificates from local businesses will also be in the raffle and auction. All the proceeds will go directly to Casa Pueblo, a non-profit environmental organization based in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. The funds will contribute to water filtration and solar panels for Puerto Rico’s mountainous regions, which have received less attention in the relief efforts and from which Pierluissi’s parents hail. “These people aren’t waiting for handouts,” says Pierluissi, “They’re working together to build sustainable systems that they can be accountable for.” Puerto Rican food will be supplied by Iron Grate BBQ, DanDan, Lazy Susan MKE and Merriment Social. A selection of beers from Latin-American inspired micro-brewery 5 Rabbit Cervecería will also be available. Adrienne Pierluissi, Untited II, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 3’x6’, 2016
“REPLAY”
Oshkosh Public Museum | 1331 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh The recent Google Arts & Culture craze proved how gratifying it is to look at a work of art and see oneself peering back. “REPLAY,” opening Sunday, Feb. 18 at the Oshkosh Public Museum, also focuses on the familiar, but reflects back pop culture tropes that have fired our imaginations, shaped our conception of heroism and accompanied our relaxation. The more than 30 works on display draw inspiration from iconic figures including PAC-MAN, Wonder Woman, Teletubbies and Darth Vader. as we watch passersby. A man converses on a phone, then jogs off camera someplace. A horn beeps, and there is nearly a collision between a mint green truck and dark sedan. It is a lowkey way of showing a place that is ordinary, yet graced with personal importance and a familial foundation. Through Feb. 24 at Green Gallery, 1500 N. Farwell Ave. Paul Anthony Smith’s Blurred Line Drawings PHOTO BY MYRICA VON HASELBERG COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND THE GREEN GALLERY. BOTTOM PHOTO BY PAUL ANTHONY SMITH.
“High Thread Count: Art Quilts by Pat Kroth”
Saint John’s On The Lake | 1840 N. Prospect Ave. Many art quilts blur the boundaries of form and function. They enchant the eye and warm the body. They invite disinterested contemplation while framed by bedposts. Pat Kroth’s quilts flip this script by doing away with functionality. The Wisconsin fiber artist’s quilts are installed to hang from the ceiling with spotlights illuminating them like stained glass become textile. An exhibition of Kroth’s work opens on Feb. 15 at the Museum of Wisconsin Art’s satellite location, Saint John’s On The Lake. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Kroth will give an artist’s talk at 7 p.m. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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‘Call Me by Your Name’ Author at Boswell ::BY JENNI HERRICK
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tories of youthful love affairs inevitably involve complications of the heart, and when authors mix together coming-of-age tales with comingout stories, the characters often move through emotional peaks and valleys, from acute fear, doubt and anxiety to hopeful lust and deep desire. In André Aciman’s 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name, these intense emotional pendulum swings are beautifully captured through the eyes of two young men as they struggle to understand themselves and the strange uncertainties of youth. For shy 17-year-old Elio, it has become an annual tradition for his academic parents to take on a house guest/doctoral student during their summers on the Italian Riviera, something the boy has come to dread since it forces him to temporarily move out of his bedroom. But in 1983, a young American doctoral student (seven year’s Elio’s senior) moves in for six weeks, and the duo soon begin a tumultuous love affair. Call Me by Your Name is a meticulously crafted novel, told almost entirely in a streamof-consciousness from teenage Elio’s point of view. This dramatic and ultimately tragic romance was brought to the silver screen last year in a film adaptation that had its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and is scheduled for digital download at the end of this month. Aciman will discuss his novel and its screen production at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 19. He currently serves as a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches history and literary theory. His 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, won a Whiting Award.
Gallery exhibition special events Free admission / open to the public February 21, 7 p.m.
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February 22, 7 p.m.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY 2017–18 THEATRE SEASON
Student Body By Frank Winters
Feb. 15 – 25 Several college students, brought together in a snowstorm, learn about a video taken during a recent party. Find yourself pulled into the argument in this engaging and compelling drama about sexual assault on campus.
Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Theatre Order tickets by phone or online: 414.288.7504 marquettetheatre.showclix.com
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PANEL DISCUSSION / Markets for Furniture Makers and Collectors With Michael Puryear, Tom Loeser and Sarah Anne Carter
March 7, 7 p.m.
GUEST SPEAKER / MIAD alumna and furniture maker Mollie Ferguson
April 2018 – date to be announced
GUEST SPEAKER / Curator, writer and scholar Glenn Adamson “Make or Break: Inside and Outside the Rules”
These programs are generously sponsored by the Caxambras Foundation. MIAD’s galleries are open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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his week, Off the Cuff spoke with Milwaukee native Flow Johnson about his 10-month-old publication and event space, After Magazine & Gallery, 2225 N. Humboldt Blvd. We discussed his background, After’s mission and some of the artists, community members and charitable organizations that have benefited so far.
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Tell me about the magazine component. It’s a completely artist submission-based magazine. I was sick of submitting my work to different magazines and publications around the world and not getting replies and feeling really trapped outside of an industry that doesn’t have that many opportunities. I wanted to create something where other artists feeling the same way could showcase their work in a professional publication. Everything you can think to submit to a magazine you can submit. In our next issue, we’ve got poetry, art, a couple of great editorials and some interviews. Submission is open internationally. It’s released quarterly, and our fifth issue comes out at the end of March.
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Please tell me about your background and how you decided to found an event space in Milwaukee. I spent the last eight or nine years in Chicago basically doing event management. I worked a lot with nonprofits and River North Art District. Honestly, I’ve just been throwing parties and events so long that I’ve been wanting my own space, and I was finally able to make that happen here. Originally, I was looking for a live-work photo studio. After finding this space and seeing how big the basement is, I was like, “Looks like I’m going to do a little bit more than I thought!” [laughs] Basically, I’ve been doing this my whole life without realizing this was what I was looking to do.
How has the event space been used so far? It kind of evolved on its own. I’ve had dinner parties here. I’ve had kid birthdays. I’ve had a fashion show. We did a fundraiser for Puerto Rico. We’ve had a holiday market. I really want people to recognize this as a community space. We’ve had a lot of great musical performances here, too. Nathan Pflughoeft, Siren, Bear In the Forest, Amanda Huff… WebsterX performed and had his birthday party here. Our current visual art show [through Thursday, March 15] is Robert Sebanc. He is a professor out of Chicago from Milwaukee. We also have Bigshot Robot making our new mural and having a show that’ll be up on Friday, March 16.
Any other upcoming events you’d like our readers to be aware of? College Creative Night. We’re doing that on Friday, March 16, from 6 p.m.-midnight, and it’s going to feature more than 30 artists from UW-Milwaukee, MIAD and Marquette University. We’re really trying to bridge the gap between the campuses and give kids the opportunity to be in a space where they would never otherwise be. Also, Lex Allen is going to be performing that night around 9 p.m. How would you sum up After’s mission? To inspire artistic collaboration, community involvement and social justice. It’s in the contract when people rent the space that a portion of proceeds go to charity. We also do events for the homeless every month, which have included #HashtagLunchbag and clothing drives. We consistently donate to Repairers of the Breach, the Salvation Army and Attic Jams. For the one-year anniversary on Saturday, May 5, 40% of everything we make is going to go to Turnaround Arts—an arts program for Milwaukee Public Schools. To learn more about After Magazine & Gallery, make a purchase, submit to the magazine or inquire about space rental, visit after.gallery. You can also find After on Facebook, facebook.com/afterxmagazine/, or Instagram, @ after_gallery.
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::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Feb. 15: Chica Group Meeting at Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (1032 S. Cesar Chavez Drive): Meet other members of Milwaukee’s Transgender community during this social meet and greet that kicks off the 2018 season of get-togethers. Enjoy food, fun and great conversation during the 4-6 p.m. social. Feb. 16: Doggy Happy Hour at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): You read that correctly! The geniuses as This Is It have lined up a 5-8 p.m. party for your pooch! Bring your potty-trained, good-with-other-dogs fur baby while you enjoy 3-for-1 rails and taps. Make sure to grab a leash, too, as puppies must be on leashes at all times. Feb. 16-18: Anime Milwaukee 2018 at Hyatt Regency and Wisconsin Convention Center (333 W. Kilbourn Ave. and 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., respectively): Help celebrate more than 30 years of fantasy fun with this annual nod to anime, gaming, cosplay, music, Asian culture and more. Not sure what that means? Visit animemilwaukee. org and find out. While there, you’ll discover info on the event’s special guests, hotel arrangements and the many ticket packages available. Feb. 17: Beard (Oh) Bonanza at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): Whether you’ve got a beard, like beards or simply love beer and brats, this is the event for you! Register at 3 p.m. for the 5 p.m. beard competition, which includes categories such as “Freestyle Beard,”“8+ Inches Natural Beard” and “Mustache.” After the awards are handed out, enjoy live music, drinks and socializing with the contestants. Feb. 17: A Valentine’s Cabaret at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): They’re baaacck! Gino De Luca and Karen Valentine bring their all-live tongue-in-cheek cabaret show back to the popular Cathedral Square bar. Enjoy happy hour drink specials, all-live vocals and plenty of laughs during the 7-9 p.m. performance. Feb. 17: Food & Froth at the Milwaukee Public Museum (800 W. Wells St.): What offers samples from more than 65 breweries, three floors of music, food tastings, dinosaurs and an old lady rocking on her front porch? It’s this awesome 20th annual party held at the museum! Tip back a few brews, take a few bites and hang out with your favorite attractions during the 7-10 p.m. fundraiser. Tickets start at $75 and can be ordered at mpm.edu/beer. Feb. 17: Heartbreaker Kings at OZ Nightclub (320 Washington St., Wausau): Looking for a naughty night of drag king fun? Head to Wausau for a crazy-good night with five of the state’s favorite kings. A $5 cover charge gets you into the 10:30 p.m. hot-to-trot performance. Feb. 20: Opening Night ‘Finding Neverland’ at Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (929 W. Water St.): Take in this must-see musical that tells the tale of how one of our favorite stories came to be. You see, Peter Pan is alive and well in the mind of playwright J.M. Barrie, but it isn’t until Barrie meets a few charming siblings (and their pretty widowed mother) before he’s able to bring Peter to life on the stage. Visit marcuscenter.org for tickets for the magical six-day run. Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com. Be sure to follow her on Facebook (Ruthie Keester) and Twitter (@DearRuthie). SHEPHERD EXPRESS
Awakening Activism and Advocacy ::BY PAUL MASTERSON
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everal weeks ago, Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth offered his remarks about a local robbery and resulting police pursuit that ended with a crash. With understandable frustration and anger, the sheriff vented with comments that were easily construed as racist. He later apologized, saying he “should have not allowed his emotions to get the best of him.” Of course, one might argue, in an Anglo American sherrify tellus-how-you-really-feel moment, those “emotions” revealed an unfiltered honesty. In response, Kenosha County Supervisor Dayvin Hallmon, who is an African American gay man, offered his thoughts in a video posted on social media. Equally emotional, if not more so, Hallmon not only addressed the sheriff’s dog-whistle statement but also the role of elected officials as well as all citizens in dealing with racism, homophobia and other forms of institutionalized injustice. And while some in Kenosha continue to call for the sheriff’s resignation, Hallmon merely requested that the man “do his job.” He was, however, even more adamant in his admonishment of his fellow politicians and public servants for their lackluster reaction to the affair, repeating the mantra “What you permit, you promote. In our silence we are complicit” and calling for change. And he didn’t stop there. Speaking of unbridled candor, in his own tell-us-how-youreally-feel moment, he condemned as “charlatans, con-artists and self-interested hacks,” those in public life who proclaim they are for the people yet fail to act on their behalf. In these divisive days, it is refreshing to hear a clear voice of advocacy. Locally, that voice will be heard at the Wisconsin LGBTQ Summit. First held in 2012, the one-day event takes place here in Milwaukee on Saturday, Feb. 24. A collaboration of Fair Wisconsin and Diverse & Resilient, its mission is to a build a skilled, connected network of empowered LGBTQs and their allies working to achieve and protect equality throughout the state. A capacity attendance of nearly 300 representatives from throughout Wisconsin and Northern Illinois is expected. The Summit will address themes of Advocacy, Policy, Transgender/Gender Nonconforming/Gender Nonbinary, Health and Wellness, Faith and Racial Justice. There will also be a voter registration booth. The event will also feature the launch of the Colors in Bloom campaign. In collaboration with D&R, local queer musician Lex Allen has produced a song and video to help end LGBTQ violence. D&R President and CEO Gerry Coon described the effort’s intended impact saying, “It intends to create a culture that nurtures LGBTQ youth. By promoting loving, resilient and diverse experiences of LGBTQ communities, it fosters self-love and acceptance. Colors in Bloom will remind LGBTQ people that we are beautiful, loved and worthy.” Recently premiered by Lex Allen at the Creating Change Conference in Washington, D.C., the song’s Wisconsin debut takes place at the Summit’s noon plenary. Billboards and bus ads in Milwaukee and the Fox Valley are also planned. This surge of awareness, advocacy and activism should kick start a more extensive campaign, not only within the LGBTQ community but beyond. As if we needed a reminder, in a recent media conference call, the Tammy Baldwin campaign cited the ever-increasing threats to our equality. It’s about time to create the Rainbow Wave. F E B R U A R Y 1 5 , 2 0 1 8 | 31
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any rock musicians start bands hoping they’ll have enough success to never have to work a typical day job—or in some cases, avoid college and the studying it takes to earn a degree. Dustin Bates, the man behind the band Starset, is not one of those musicians. In fact he holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Ohio University and was positioned to work on leading-edge technology before the opportunity to have a viable music career opened up before him. He had finished his course work and was doing a dissertation, while also doing research for the Air Force when music intervened.
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“I did numerous projects in automated robotics and highly accurate navigation,” Bates said. “My goal was to be in the forefront of automated vehicles, and it was timed just right that I really could have done that and been part of that movement.” But instead, the band Bates had during college, Downplay, started making the right kind of noise. Specializing in a mainstream rock sound with a bit of an alternative slant, Downplay released several independent albums, and in 2010 signed to Epic Records, which green lighted a first album for the label. “Almost simultaneously with the completion of the record, the label got a new president, and we were dropped instantaneously as they changed the direction of what they wanted to do,” Bates said. “They wanted to focus on pop.” This, obviously, was a major disappointment and a genuine setback for Bates. But looking back, Bates feels seeing the Epic deal end was not such a bad thing. “I didn’t know if I was going to go back into studying. It was a very low point,” he admitted. “But it was good, though. It didn’t feel like it at the time, but it allowed for a sort of cleansing of the palate. I was able to [reconnect] with finding a direction in a weird way.” Bates began thinking about a new musical direction and forming a band with a much more substantial message, one that actually tied back into his collegiate and post-graduate studies. He came up with a concept for a fictional science organization known as the “Starset Society” led by an equally fictional president, Aston Wise. The society had received a transmission from outer space that foretold the demise of humanity on Earth but also included instructions on how to prevent this catastrophic outcome. This message would be brought to the masses through a very real band called Starset. That group released its second album, Vessels, last January, and its music and message have connected on a fairly major scale during its brief existence. Starset’s 2014 debut album, Transmissions, spawned a single, “My Demons,” that set the record for the longest run of any song to stay in the top five on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart at 41 consecutive weeks. The album’s impact was perhaps even more considerable online. The band opened two YouTube accounts to host its videos and other content. According to a Billboard article, those pages generated more than 85 million views. But Starset’s music exploded primarily in the gaming and anime communities on YouTube where account holders uploaded video content from the band and/or created videos set to Starset’s music. A whopping 534.8 million views were generated by fan-created content. The music Bates has created fits with the scientific and technologyrelated themes of the lyrics. The music brings together elements of electronic music, hard rock and metal (at times, the new album even incorporates a few metalcore-ish screams into their otherwise Starset melodic vocals), while also adding in a good bit of expansive pop (“Satellite” and “Die For You”) The Rave and even a touch of progressive rock (“Starlight”). Thursday, Despite its diverse ingredients, Starset’s sound is Feb. 15, cohesive, cinematic and impactful. 7 p.m. Bates is excited to take the latest music to the live stage; the group is bringing some visual bells and whistles to its show when possible. And with Bates out front on vocals, keyboards and guitar, the other band members—bassist Ron De Chant, guitarist Brock Richards and drummer Adam Gilbert—continue to wear the space suits that have become the band’s signature. But there will be differences from previous tours. “We’ve upgraded the suits this time,” Bates said. “We’re calling them the ‘Mach III.’ They’re a lot different. We’re excited about that. We’re actually going to continue upgrading those as the tour goes on.” Starset headline The Rave on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. with openers Palisades, Grabbitz and Year of the Locust.
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ost famous for penning the anti-national anthem “This Land Is Your Land,” Woody Guthrie is one of America’s founding fathers of folk music. Even though “This Land” remains his magnum opus, the songwriter has a hearty catalogue complete with hundreds of songs. Becoming familiar with a musician with such an extensive repertoire can be overwhelming for some potential fans, but those unfamiliar with Guthrie’s work would surely be intrigued after Friday night’s ambitious “Uncovered” performance. Curator Johanna Rose seamlessly married Guthrie’s timeless tunes with contemporary messages alongside a massive group of Milwaukee musicians. Rose enlisted an army of more than 30 local musicians to pay tribute to the songwriter, and artists from every nook and cranny of Milwaukee’s music scene came out of the woodwork in full force. Rappers, rockers, soul singers and, of course, folk troubadours graciously shared the Turner Hall Ballroom’s giant stage. Not one creative muscle went unflexed as Guthrie’s music began to transcend genre. Though beautifully performed, most of the night’s folky covers couldn’t help but be overstaged by the night’s bolder, more experimental interpretations. The night’s real show-stoppers were the covers outside of Guthrie’s own comfort zone. Bo & Airo’s jolly “Dust Bowl Blues” and Jordan Davis’ aggressive “Jesus Christ” were standouts among the 28-track setlist. The night’s two most memorable performances were easily Treccy MT’s slick, soulful rendition of “This Train” and Josh Evert’s groovy take on “Jolly Banker.” Uncovered shows are famed for paying a unique tribute to legendary American artists, but they often pay a unique tribute to the Milwaukee music scene itself. GuthrieUNCOVERED was no exception; the gorgeous, well-deserved ode to Woody Guthrie also served as a rare chance to see the many diverse, sometimes hidden talents within the Milwaukee music scene. Sure, the performers played to their own greatest strengths, but they also highlighted those same great strengths of their peers sharing the stage. Uncovered shows are a critical reminder of our city’s musical versatility, and it’s a shame that local audiences are only allotted two per year. Guthrie’s spirit thrived as almost every artist told the story behind their selection with passion and earnestness. The added context enhanced the entire evening’s performance and reminded audience members just how relevant Guthrie’s music remains. The famously leftist musician sang about immigration rights, killing Nazis and even hating a certain Mr. Trump—Fred, his landlord (and, yes, father of Donald). Uncovering Woody Guthrie’s body of work seems especially timely in the dicey political climate of 2018, and nearly all his songs feel as fresh today as they did when they were originally written and recorded.
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After Years in Experimental Music, Adam Michael Krause Gives ‘Folk Songs’ A Try efore he quietly shared an EP titled Folk Songs to Bandcamp late last month, it had been nearly 20 years since Adam Michael Krause had released anything resembling a singersongwriter project. He’d begun to expect he might not ever again—not, he says, because of any aversion to the form, but simply because his interests led him elsewhere. In between playing percussion with Group of the Altos and backing Marielle Allschwang in her band, he focused his efforts on a series of solo noise and experimental projects. “I did one on a label in New York called ‘A People’s History of February 24,’ where I recorded 24 hours of my day and sped it up to 24 minutes,” Krause says. “So that’s been my background before now. I was sort of the weirdo who comes in and does weird stuff for people and does weird, experimental conceptual stuff on my own.” Over the years, Krause had carved out a satisfying niche for himself. “I just fell into this role where I would play in bands Adam Michael Krause or on people’s recordings when they’d ask, ‘We need some distorted saw on this song,’ or ‘Can you make us some tape loops?’” Krause says. “I’d gotten so deep into experimentation and noise, so I’d do that stuff when bands asked me to, but I wasn’t so much involved in the songwriting process.” The first song he wrote for Folk Songs, a fluttering, finger-plucked sigh of a tune called “Put Away Childish Things,” came about almost by accident. He’d been working closely with Allschwang on her solo work, which he suspects may have put him more in a songwriting headspace, but he wasn’t expecting to use the song himself. “I had a guitar part and I thought, ‘I’ll present this to Marielle as a potential song,’” he recalls. “Then I hummed something to myself that I thought could be a vocal melody. And then I wrote the words, and I thought, ‘Well, since I wrote a song I better record it so I don’t forget it.’ And so suddenly I had a song that’s me recording and singing the parts all the way through. I could give this to a singer-songwriter to run with the idea, but it was mine now, and it would ring false in someone else’s voice.” Folk Songs took shape from there, as Krause expanded on the anti-war themes of that first song, writing a song cycle that juxtaposed human fragility with society’s thirst for confrontation. Most of its songs are fairly naked—often just Krause’s voice and prickly guitar, with periodic backing vocals from Allschwang—though the EP is rarely as straightforward as its title. “Just Like a Seed” and “Put Into the Past Tense” jerk and jostle like Phil Evrum’s tactile early recordings as The Microphones, while the unsettling instrumental “Waltzing Off To War” plays on Krause’s more experimental impulses, casting his guitar against barely audible warmongering sound bites. This style of songwriting seems to come to Krause so naturally that it’s a surprise it took him so long to record a project like this. But, he explains, he just never saw the need before. “The reality is, when you’re playing in two bands, performing songs and recording records, whatever desire you have to write music and play shows is being entirely satisfied,” he says. “The itch to do it wasn’t there, especially since I could pitch whatever ideas for songs I had to whatever bands I was in.” Krause says he intends to stay in this lane at least for a little while longer and hopes to release another EP or two this year—or possibly even a full-length album. What he’s not ready to do, though, is perform these songs live. “At this point, it’s still new for me—using my voice as an instrument—and I don’t yet have the confidence to know that I’m going to do a good job,” he says. “I’d hate to have people pay $5 to hear me sing flat for 30 minutes.” Adam Michael Krause’s Folk Songs is streaming at adamkrause.bandcamp.com. F E B R U A R Y 1 5 , 2 0 1 8 | 33
MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Amelia's, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Angelo's Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Cactus Club, OSHUN w/SistaStrings Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), The New Pioneers Caroline's Jazz Club, Milwaukee Hot Club Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), That 1 Guy County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Frank's Power Plant, Sarah’s B-day Show w/Aluminum Knot Eye, Doubletruck & Lucky Bone Gibraltar Mke, Alex Wilson Blues Guitar Jazz Estate, Mike Standal Quartet Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Roadhouse Rave-Up Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Nice Ash Cigar Bar (Waukesha), The Jude - Acoustic O'Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Duo (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Scooter Brown Band w/Alyssia Dominguez (8:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Starset w/Palisades, Grabbitz & Year Of The Locust (all-ages, 7pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, Comedy College Standup Showcase Shank Hall, Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones w/The High Divers The Bay Restaurant, Sherwood Alper & Jeff Stoll The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Martini Jazz Lounge: Swing Chevron Turner Hall Ballroom, The Infamous Stringdusters w/The Last Revel Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic
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C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/host The Original Darryl Hill Frank's Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Jazz Estate, Funk Night w/Nick Lang Mamie's, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Parkside 23, Andrew Gelles (6pm) Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Jam Tuesdays The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The posh magazine Tatler came up with a list of fashionable new names for parents who want to ensure their babies get a swanky start in life. Since you Aquarians are in a phase when you can generate good fortune by rebranding yourself or remaking your image, I figure you might be interested in using one of these monikers as a nickname or alias. At the very least, hearing them could whet your imagination to come up with your own ideas. Here are some of Tatler’s chic avant-garde names for girls: Czar-Czar; Debonaire; Estonia; Figgy; Gethsemane; Power; Queenie. Here are some boys’ names: Barclay; Euripides; Gustav; Innsbruck; Ra; Uxorious; Wigbert; Zebedee. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now that you have finally paid off one of your debts to the past, you can start window-shopping for the future’s best offers. The coming days will be a transition time as you vacate the power spot you’ve outgrown and ramble out to reconnoiter potential new power spots. So bid your crisp farewells to waning traditions, lost causes, ghostly temptations and the deadweight of people’s expectations. Then start preparing a vigorous first impression to present to promising allies out there in the frontier. ARIES (March 21-April 19): At 12,388 feet, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest peak. If you’re in good shape, you can reach the top in seven hours. The return trip can be done in half the time—if you’re cautious. The loose rocks on the steep trail are more likely to knock you off your feet on the way down than on the way up. I suspect this is an apt metaphor for you in the coming weeks, Aries. Your necessary descent may be deceptively challenging. So make haste slowly! Your power animals are the rabbit and the snail. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a few short jaunts through the air in a flying machine they called the Flyer. It was a germinal step in a process that ultimately led to your ability to travel 600 miles per hour while sitting in a chair 30,000 feet above the earth. Less than 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ breakthrough, American astronauts landed a space capsule on the moon. They had with them a patch of fabric from the left wing of the Flyer. I expect that during the coming weeks, you will be climaxing a longrunning process that deserves a comparable ritual. Revisit the early stages of the work that enabled you to be where you are now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 2006, 5% of the world’s astronomers gathered at an international conference and voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a “dwarf planet.” Much of the world agreed to honor their declaration. Since then, though, there has arisen a campaign by equally authoritative astronomers to restore Pluto to full planet status. The crux of the issue is this: How shall we define the nature of a planet? But for the people of New Mexico, the question has been resolved. State legislators there formally voted to regard Pluto as a planet. They didn’t accept the demotion. I encourage you to be inspired by their example, Gemini. Whenever there are good arguments from opposing sides about important matters, trust your gut feelings. Stand up for your preferred version of the story. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ray Bradbury’s dystopian bestseller Fahrenheit 451 was among the most successful of the 27 novels he wrote. It won numerous awards and has been adopted into films, plays and graphic novels. Bradbury wrote the original version of the story in nine days, using a typewriter he rented for 20 cents per hour. When his publisher urged him to double the manuscript’s length, he spent another nine days doing so. According to my reading of the planetary configurations, you Cancerians now have a similar potential to be surprisingly efficient and economical as you work on an interesting creation or breakthrough—especially if you mix a lot of play and delight into your labors. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Poet Louise Glück has characterized herself as “afflicted with longing yet incapable of forming durable attachments.” If there is anything in you that even partially fits that description, I have good news: In the
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coming weeks, you’re likely to feel blessed by longing rather than afflicted by it. The foreseeable future will also be prime time for you to increase your motivation and capacity to form durable attachments. Take full advantage of this fertile grace period! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 2004, a man named Jerry Lynn tied a battery-operated alarm clock to a string and dangled it down a vent in his house. He was hoping that when the alarm sounded, he would get a sense of the best place to drill a hole in his wall to run a wire for his TV. But the knot he’d made wasn’t perfect, and the clock slipped off and plunged into an inaccessible spot behind the wall. Then, every night for 13 years, the alarm rang for a minute. The battery was unusually strong! A few months ago, Lynn decided to end the mild but constant irritation. Calling on the help of duct specialists, he retrieved the persistent clock. With this story as your inspiration, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you Virgos to finally put an end to your equivalent of the maddening alarm clock. (Read the story: tinyurl.com/alarmclockmadness.) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Was Napoléon Bonaparte an oppressor or liberator? The answer is both. His work in the world hurt a lot of people and helped a lot of people. One of his more magnanimous escapades transpired in June 1798, when he and his naval forces invaded the island of Malta. During his six-day stay, he released political prisoners, abolished slavery, granted religious freedom to Jews, opened 15 schools, established the right to freedom of press and shut down the Inquisition. What do his heroics have to do with you? I don’t want to exaggerate, but I expect that you, too, now have the power to unleash a blizzard of benevolence in your sphere. Do it in your own style, of course, not Napoléon’s. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit,” said French playwright Molière. I’m going to make that your motto for now, Scorpio. You have pursued a gradual, steady approach to ripening, and soon it will pay off in the form of big bright blooms. Congratulations on having the faith to keep plugging away in the dark! I applaud your determination to be dogged and persistent about following your intuition even though few people have appreciated what you were doing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The growth you can and should foster in the coming weeks will be stimulated by quirky and unexpected prods. To get you started, here are a few such prods. 1. What’s your hidden or dormant talent, and what could you do to awaken and mobilize it? 2. What’s something you’re afraid of but might be able to turn into a resource? 3. If you were a different gender for a week, what would you do and what would your life be like? 4. Visualize a dream you’d like to have while you’re asleep tonight. 5. If you could transform anything about yourself, what would it be? 6. Imagine you’ve won a free vacation to anywhere you want. Where would you go? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may think you have uncovered the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re just a bit more than halfway there. In order to get the rest of the goods, you’ll have to ignore your itch to be done with the search. You’ll have to be unattached to being right and smart and authoritative. So please cultivate patience. Be expansive and magnanimous as you dig deeper. For best results, align yourself with poet Richard Siken’s definition: “The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet.” Homework: Confess, brag and expostulate about what inspires you to love. Go to freewillastrology.com and click on “Email Rob.”
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Canadian goose got its final revenge on Feb. 1 when, after being shot out of the sky by a hunter in Easton, Md., it struck Rob-
ert Meilhammer, 51, of Crapo, Md., seriously injuring the waterfowler. NPR reported that Meilhammer was hunting with a group when one of the large geese flying overhead was killed and fell about 90 feet—hitting Meilhammer’s head and knocking him out; it also dislodged two of Meilhammer’s teeth. Adult Canadian geese weigh about 12-14 pounds and can have a wingspan of up to six feet. At press time, Meilhammer was in stable condition after being airlifted to a hospital.
So Many Questions Aaron Meininger, 29, of Hernando Beach, Fla., was arrested on Feb. 2 after Hernando County deputies caught him stealing items from the Demarco Family Funeral Home in Spring Hill. When officers arrived, Meininger was carrying a tub of formaldehyde out of the building (they also found makeup, nail polish, electric clippers, soap and other items used in funeral preparation in Meininger’s car). Curiously, the Tampa Bay Times reported, Meininger told deputies that he was “bored and messed up.”
Precocious! When a Texas stripper arrived at her 11:30 a.m. gig on Feb. 1, she just knew something was amiss. Her destination turned out to be Noel Grisham Middle School in Round Rock, Texas. Rather than going inside, the performer called the school and reported what most assuredly had to be a prank. Jenny LaCosteCaputo, a district spokesperson, told the Aus-
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a new nickname these days: The Taco Lady. Since late 2017, Lopez has incorporated a novel incentive for buyers of homes she’s listed: $250 in free tacos with the purchase of a home. “Let’s be honest, everyone in Texas loves tacos,” Lopez told KHOU-TV. Lopez cited as proof of her success a $170,000 home that’s under contract, “and they are super excited for their taco party at the end of this month!”
Got Milk? Prason Sukkorn, owner of Coffee on the Day in Chonburi, Thailand, had his marketing idea laid bare after he posted “obscene materials” online: photos and videos of his barista, Arisa Suwannawong, 22, wearing nothing but an apron while drawing shots and serving customers. Suwannawong, who goes by the nickname “Jaenae with the big boobs,” glances down at her breasts in the video while gushing, “The coffee is so good; they use plenty of milk!” Police commander Thanachai Usakit told Metro News that Sukkorn, “didn’t realize it would break the law, because the model in the photos wasn’t fully naked.” Sukkorn faces three-to-five years in jail and a fine of 100,000 Thai baht (about $3,200 U.S.).
For Your Convenience Undoubtedly, many records will be set during the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, but before the games had even begun, one Winter Games record was already in the books. Organizers distributed 110,000 condoms to the participating athletes—about 37 condoms per competitor. “We hope to aid the athletes visiting from various countries to complete their events successfully and safely,” said a spokesperson for Convenience, the South Korea condom manufacturer that supplied most of the prophylactics. The Korea Biomedical Review reported on Feb. 1 that finely conditioned athletes have been notoriously “sexually unrestrained” before—both during and after Olympics contests. Free Olympic Games condom distribution began in 1988 when a mere 8,500 were handed out during the Seoul games.
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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a? So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to publish a heavy-duty treatise about the meaning of mankindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existence that I wrote for a publication I found out about in the classified section of Bendover magazine. The ad said that many people are scholars and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know it, so people should send them a highfalutin thesis on whatever they focking felt like and if their judges deemed it highbrow enough, for $75 they would publish it in a professorial journal somewheres. Lo and behold, they accepted my work and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to charge me $100 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that good, but I now offer it to youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for free.
Victims of Circumstance by Art Kumbalek As Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon who-the-fock (c. 16331685) was famous for telling you: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Choose an author as you choose a friend.â&#x20AC;? And let me tell you, if our young people in these troubled times that clean the clock of goodness from our American streets would only choose authors as friends instead of the pimply scumbag gang-ridden snotnose jerk-off adolescents they seem to choose to fall in with, then we as a responsible public who courageously choose obligation over internment wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be constructing all these goddamn jails for juveniles on every other block, what the fock. But before you choose to read further, a simple choice that might not only affect your entire future but also go down on your permanent record to boot, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d feel like a totally irresponsible dickwad if I did not choose to relate the following concerning the matter of choice. So this guy goes to the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not feeling well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not feeling well,â&#x20AC;? he says. The doctor does a quick checkup. Seems the guyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a carrot in his left ear, a banana in his right ear, a couple of green
peppers up his nose and a kumquat up his youdonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-want-to-know-what but between you and me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up his dupa, I kid you not. Guy says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;So Doc, what the heckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the matter with me?â&#x20AC;? Doctor says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well sir, just off the top of my head Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not eating properly.â&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;Ś two, three.) Guy says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well then the hell with being a vegetarian.â&#x20AC;? My friends, so is the conceit concerning the very nature of â&#x20AC;&#x153;choiceâ&#x20AC;? proven to be the folly that it is through the story we have just read. The man believes he is wise vis-a-vis his personal wellness by choosing to be a vegetarian as so many seem to choose in these health know-it-all times. However, as the story illustrates, the man is not well. No man with a kumquat up his butt can be well, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care who you are. But what if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d chosen a different diet? What then? Would the man in our story feel better if stuck in his orifices were meat by-products instead? The answer is no. The man in our story can never be better no matter what he chooses because the man in our story is a focking idiot, and not because he stuck a banana in his ear or a kumquat up his heinie. No sir, the man in our story is a focking idiot because his conclusionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;the hell with being a vegetarianâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;says to me he is thinking a different choice mightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kept him out of the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office that fateful day. It is to laugh. And so should we take away from our little story the following: Any knucklehead who chooses to believe they got a choice about anything has only proven that the first choice they made was to be a moron. And so should we disregard the moral prig pigs who spout the latest conservative political fashion, to wit: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, any focking thing bad happens to you itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your own damn fault, so suck-up and shut the fock up about it and leave the rest of us alone. For christ sakes, somewheres you made a wrong choice all by yourself so learn to live with it, asshole.â&#x20AC;? Yeah, right. These pisspots say that we control our destinies, and I say you got to be jerking my beefaroni â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause the enlightened modern free-
thinker would argue that there is no free-thinking, no free-will, no choice; that there exists in the world only unseen and unknown authority, not to mention dogma with a serious case of rabies. The free-thinker would argue that since you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t choose to be born and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t choose not to croak; any piddly so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;choiceâ&#x20AC;? in-between is just a focking joke and if it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, it damn well ought to be. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure the arguments regarding free-will and choice and responsibility and blah-blah will go on and on, but for my money all questions concerning the significant meaning of mankindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existence on this planet and in this universe were answered forever but good the day the late philosopher Jerome Howard remarked to his brother Moe following the repeated application of the business end of a ball-peen hammer to his curly pate, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, Moe! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just a victim of circumstance!â&#x20AC;? So put that in your halfpipe and smoke it, America. But if you still insist on choice, please choose to brush your teeth and stay in school â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.
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