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Milwaukee Youth at Risk for Sex Trafficking ::BY ERIN BERGE

he Polaris Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating modern-day slavery, reported the staggering national number of 23,078 survivors of sex trafficking in 2018. Those numbers could be even higher, according to Ozaukee County Board Supervisor Linda Krieg. In her time as a former FBI section chief, Krieg stated Milwaukee consistently ranked among the top five hubs for sex trafficking.

“It’s happening everywhere. Recognize this isn’t somebody else’s problem. It’s happening everywhere, and Milwaukee happens to be one of the notoriously high-ranked cities with the trafficking problem,” said Krieg at a recent presentation on sex and human trafficking by Impact100 Greater Milwaukee, a local women-led philanthropy group.

Krieg defines “human trafficking” as “a business of stealing someone’s freedom for profit; in some cases, traffickers trick to fraud or physically force victims into selling sex.” In Milwaukee, the Medical College of Wisconsin identified 340 individuals, aged 25 and under, as victims of sex trafficking from 2013 to 2016. Almost all were identified as female, and 65% were African American. Boys, men, transgender and non-gender-conforming persons are also affected, and the average age of an exploited individual was 15-17, according to the Polaris Project.

Milwaukee may be considered a sex trafficking “hub,” but the characteristics of the city are not unique to other major cities, according to Daria Mueller, doctoral candidate at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at UW-Milwaukee. “It certainly is not exclusive to Milwaukee, but what I think are some of the issues that are very relevant to Milwaukee is that we have very high poverty; and you know, really, that’s a fundamental cause, because it’s what drives people into situations where they’re trying to survive by any means necessary,” says Mueller.

Identifying the Vulnerable

Unresolved traumas can create vulnerabilities for a person, making it easier for a trafficker to lure a child or adult into sex trafficking. Those traumas can include running away from home, homelessness, poverty, racism and childhood abuse; and, if the traumas are not addressed or when basic needs are not met, a person is vulnerable. “A young person is not equipped to understand how this is unhealthy and inappropriate, but some of it is they are more vulnerable because of their unresolved trauma,” says Mueller.

The lack of investment in the public school system—and central city neighborhoods that need more resources and programs for at-risk youth—also can influence a trafficker’s ability to lure a child or adult into sex trafficking. “And those predators are not just traffickers and pimps, the predators are also the people who are creating the demand. Nobody would be selling sex or being trafficked or sold for sex if there wasn’t a demand for it. This is the hidden part of this issue… all the adult males who are buying sex from these young people,” says Mueller.

According to criminal defense attorney Lew A. Wasserman, the hyper-segregation seen in Milwaukee contributes to the amount of sex trafficking seen in the city, and the business of human trafficking is “market driven.” “Milwaukee is apparently the city where hyper-segregation and hyper-sexual trafficking are occurring simultaneously. A just society would not permit that,” said Wasserman at the Impact100 sex and human trafficking presentation.

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‘Like a Kidnapping in Slow Motion’

The idea that children are abducted in parking lots or kidnapped and kept in basements is a little outdated, according to Democratic state Rep. Robyn Vining.

Today, social media and social circles are the main channels where people can lure children into sex trafficking. “Now, it’s a slow lure, and it looks less like kidnapping. but it’s still forced, everything is still coercion, and it’s just like a kidnapping in slow motion,” she says.

Vining has had a long history in sex trafficking advocacy, working with the nonprofit Exploit No More and speaking on the Wisconsin Assembly floor in favor of Assembly Joint Resolution 116, which named January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month. Vining continues to advocate for the passage of a Safe Harbor law in Wisconsin to shelter minors arrested for prostitution by diverting their cases from criminal penalties into rehabilitation. In other states, minors covered by Safe Harbor laws can be given access to medical and psychological treatment, job training, housing or other programs. In 2015, the Polaris Project reported 34 states passed Safe Harbor laws; Wisconsin wasn’t one of them. “[Sex trafficking] is wrong, and there is a moral imperative that we fix this, and there is a moral imperative that it’s wrong. And to me, it’s just very clear—these are children, their lives are being destroyed and their childhood, and we can stop that from happening, so why aren’t we?” says Vining.

According to the Polaris Project, the top recruiting or “luring” that is used on victims are intimate partners or marriage propositions, familial relationships, posing as a benefactor, job offers or advertisements, false promises and fraud. Comparable to dealing drugs, a dealer sells a product to a buyer. In sex trafficking, the trafficker can sell a person as a reusable product, selling to a buyer again and again for profit, according to Krieg. “The victims often can’t break away to confinement, humiliation, shame, dependency and mostly hopelessness,” she says. On social media, traffickers look for children posting statements like, “nobody gets me,” and will respond with, “I understand you,” she adds.

While criminal justice looks to combat sex trafficking, it’s not the only avenue needed to end the crisis in Milwaukee, according to Jeanne Geraci, executive director of the Benedict Center. Working with legislation and organizations within the city such as Lotus Legal, Pathfinders and others can help victims of sex trafficking. “The good news is there are so many good organizations and good people who are working so hard to fight this… We appreciate each other’s work, and we partner, and that’s really good news. We are not spending our time and energy fighting with each other about who can fight trafficking better; we are partnering, and that’s really good news for Milwaukee,” says Vining.

The DNC and Sex Trafficking

With the state Legislature perhaps allowing bars to remain open until 4 a.m. during the Democratic National Convention in July, Milwaukee could see an increase in sex trafficking, according to Wasserman. Large events often increase sex trafficking because there will be people with money and a “sense of anonymity,” according to Krieg. “There is an increase in paid sex ads; ads that traffickers take full advantage of,” she says.

Organizations like Exploit No More provide education to hotels on sex trafficking for employees about the warning signs and what to do. Wasserman also thinks everyone in the city should be aware. “A flyer should warn people coming to this city that we take human sex trafficking very seriously in this city and county, and if you are caught, you will be indicted; not just prosecuted—indicted—and face the full wrath of federal law,” says Wasserman.

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NOBODY WOULD BE SELLING SEX OR BEING TRAFFICKED OR SOLD FOR SEX IF THERE WASN’T A DEMAND FOR IT. THIS IS THE HIDDEN PART OF THIS ISSUE… ALL THE ADULT MALES WHO ARE BUYING SEX FROM THESE YOUNG PEOPLE.” SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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LAWMAKERS SEEK TO PASS LEGISLATION AIMED AT CLEANING UP ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ ::BY DAN SHAW

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ime is running short for a pair of bills meant to clean up pollution from hazardous “forever chemicals” known to be present at sites in the Milwaukee area and at more than 30 other locations throughout Wisconsin.

With the Assembly likely to wrap up its business for the current legislative session this month, lawmakers have only a few weeks left to pass legislation proponents hope will set statewide standards for concentrations of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

These chemicals, often used in firefighting foam, have been linked to cancer and other diseases. The “forever chemicals” name comes from their resistance to breaking down in nature.

The two pieces of PFAS-related legislation— Wisconsin Senate bills 772 and 773—received favorable votes from the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy on Tuesday, Feb. 11. If passed into law, they would put in place an “emergency rule” setting the upward limit of acceptable groundwater concentration at 20 parts per trillion for two types of PFAS: perfluorooctanoic acid (also known as C8) and perfluo-

rooctanesulfonic acid. That would be in line with recommendations put forward by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and similar to limits set in our neighboring states of Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan.

The legislation would also provide $5 million worth of grants to help local governments clean up known sites of PFAS pollution and $1 million to test local water supplies. Still more money would be spent on hiring state personnel, on blood testing for people living in affected areas and on research to learn how much PFAS contamination can be linked to individual industrial operations and other single “point sources” of pollution. In the Milwaukee area, PFAS has been found in high concentrations at Mitchell International Airport, the Biogenesis Enterprises site in Oak Creek and the former Air Reserve Station at 300 E. College Ave., among other places.

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If the cleanup bills make it all the way to Gov. Tony Evers, they will almost certainly be signed into law. First, though, they must go through the state’s Republican-controlled Assembly and Senate, where they’ll encounter opposition of the sorts that’s common for environmental legislation. Already, businessaligned groups like Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and the Wisconsin Paper Council have advanced strenuous arguments that more research needs to be done to make sure the proposed restrictions don’t overreach.

There is an interesting and unusual twist on this piece of legislation. The Assembly sponsor of Senate bills 772 and 773 is state Rep. John Nygren, a Republican from Marinette, whose position as co-chairman of the state’s Joint Finance Committee makes him one of the most powerful politicians in the Capitol. Nygren’s hometown and district in northwestern Wisconsin put him right in the middle of the PFAS controversy. Much of the contamination has been traced back to fire-fighting products that Tyco, Inc. (which was bought by Johnson Controls International in 2016) started making in Marinette in the 1960s. At a public hearing on

“I don’t think this is an issue where you can thread the needle between what the powerful corporate interests want and what needs to be done to truly protect people in our environment,” Wadd says. “And so it’s going to be interesting to see whether Rep. Nygren’s Republican colleagues understand what he’s trying to do and support him in these efforts.”

the two bills, Nygren said: “For me and several others in the room today, this issue hits close to home, literally and figuratively.”

A spokesman for the other chief sponsor of the legislation, state Sen. Dave Hansen, a Democrat from Green Bay, says Nygren’s support does, indeed, improve the bills’ chances of adoption.

Even if Rep. Nygren could get the bills passed in the Assembly, which would be no easy task since many of the other 62 Republicans in the Assembly have close ties to businesses and related interests who oppose any legislation of this kind, they would have literally no chance to pass in the Senate. The Senate has scheduled very few session days this year because the majority leader is running for Congress and doesn’t want to offend any of his check-writing supporters and second the author of the Senate bills author is a Democrat and with the current state of hyper-partisanship they will not even get a hearing.

During the deliberations, Wadd explains, he saw little sign that the manufacturing lobby was willing to even try to reach a compromise.

Wadd says there’s little doubt more legislation is needed. So far, the only major bill state lawmakers have passed to deal with PFAS— signed by the governor on Wednesday, Feb. 5—merely prevents further pollution by limiting the use of PFAS to emergency situations or testing at specially designated sites. In other words, it does practically nothing to clean up existing contamination.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is also conducting a series of public hearings around the state to gather as much information as possible about exposure to PFAS and resulting ailments. Whatever is learned will no doubt be useful to some extent on its own, according to Wadd, but to really make a difference, the DNR and other state agencies will need additional money of the sort that would be provided by bills 772 and 773.

Laura Olah—executive director of the Merrimac-based nonprofit group Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB)—said yet another crying need is for research into the extent of PFAS contamination. So far, the forever chemicals have been found mostly at sites where they could be expected: military bases and industrial sites. Further testing could reveal the pollution is much more widespread than anyone currently suspects. Most importantly, Olah adds, Wisconsin needs to be taking action to combat what has been a long-recognized threat to public health.

“It’s primarily resources,” she says. “Because you can have the all the regulations in the world, but you have nothing if you haven’t got the resources to implement those plans.

And the second thing is the timeline. We needed this yesterday.”

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Community Organizing Through Food

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avid Boucher and Stephanie Shipley are celebrating 14 years of connecting people through food with Amaranth Bakery and Café. The pair always shared a love for community organizing and knew that food has a way of bringing cultures together. In 2000, they bought the rundown building at 3329 W. Lisbon Ave. with the intention of building a public meeting space in a neighborhood that needed more access to public places.

The bakery was founded on an idea that change can happen in a community if people are given a space that allows them to feel comfortable and interact with one another. From the beginning, the café was meant to help ideas grow. That’s why the seating area consists mostly of large tables which organically allow people to start conversations. Movements and local initiatives happen through relationship building, explains Boucher, and “none of this happens without trust.”

As their budding business developed, so did their food and Shipley’s knowledge of baking. “I feel like this place created me as the baker, as the food person,” she says, as someone who never had experience in baking previous to the café. She was first inspired by the large red plant she saw being grown by her neighboring Hmong gardeners. “The amaranth plants that grew in the community gardens were strong, anchored and unwilted,” says Boucher. Shipley’s research of the plant led her to discover the many cultures that have a history of cultivating it. That helped her realize the importance food and crops hold in different ethnicities and religions.

So, she intentionally built the menu to be inclusive and healthy. Even though Shipley is vegetarian, she makes a point to add meat into their hearty vegetable-filled soups because meat is so valued in the culture of the neighborhood. By simply adding meat to her soups, she gets more people to try something they wouldn’t normally eat.

Their menu has adapted over the years because of the people from various cultures that they’ve invited into their café. Boucher and Shipley have made a point to hire people wanting to learn the trade who bring their own perspectives on food. By being willing to take extra time to teach those with less experience, the couple, in return, learns from their workforce. They also support neighborhood businesses and budding entrepreneurs who help develop new products that the couple otherwise wouldn’t have thought of. The support they’ve offered has not only created an open safe space in the café, it’s also built up the surrounding neighborhood. Boucher and Shipley view the world in very different ways, but their goal has always been the same: Empower the people in the neighborhood so they can improve their community as well as their own well-being.

Looking back on their 14 years in business, Boucher believes they have stayed true to that mission through the relationships and trust they’ve built, whereas Shipley has seen what can happen when a space truly becomes a refuge. When people feel safe and valued, she explains, their abilities and potential shine. However you look at it, Amaranth Bakery and Café has become a bedrock of the neighborhood.

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s the campaign begins to end what many Americans consider the most corrupt, divisive, demagogic presidency of their lifetimes, there’s a nagging fear about the difficulty of ridding the nation of Donald Trump despite a widespread public awareness of what a terrible president he is. A stroke of historic luck could benefit the most unfit president in modern history.

Since World War II, no U.S. president has ever lost reelection when the unemployment rate was below 7.4%. It’s now 3.6%.

Billionaire Tom Steyer is unlikely to win the Democratic nomination, but in the last debate, he stated the challenge clearly: “We’re going to have to take Mr. Trump down on the economy, because if you listen to him, he’s crowing about it every single day. And he’s going to beat us unless we take him down on the economy, stupid.”

“It’s the economy, stupid,” is remembered as the guiding principle posted by election strategist James Carville on the wall of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s Little Rock presidential campaign office credited with limiting the first Republican President George Bush to one term.

It’s often been said, though, that Trump doesn’t follow any of the conventional rules of politics, so why should a favorable rule regarding the economy be any different?

Trump’s State of the Union speech was a dramatic reminder that no matter how good the U.S. economy may be for many people right now (especially those at the very top), voters would be absolute fools to believe anything Trump ever says about it.

Pack of Lies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accurately described Trump’s speech as a “pack of lies” after calmly tearing the pages in half. Presidents always exaggerate accomplishments to put themselves in the best possible light, but Trump keeps setting new world records for the astronomical number of provable lies any president has ever packed into a single speech, constantly praising himself for completely non-existent accomplishments. The Washington Post documented 16,241 false or misleading statements in his first three years in office.

Trump’s biggest and most brazenly racist lie

is that the U.S. economy was a smoldering ruin of American carnage under the nation’s first African American President Barack Obama until Trump instantly transformed that economy into “the best it has ever been.” The truth is Trump is still riding the wave of Obama’s economic success. The longest economic expansion in U.S. history began in June 2009 under Obama. That means our current boom is the result of seven-and-a-half years of economic growth under Obama and three years under Trump. In fact, job creation in the last three years of Obama’s presidency averaged 227,000 a month, far exceeding the monthly average of 191,000 in the first three years under Trump.

Obama’s economic success was even more impressive because he took office when 800,000 jobs a month were disappearing during the worst national economic crisis since the Great Depression. Republicans irresponsibly opposed Obama’s economic stimulus program in a cynical political attempt to delay the nation’s economic recovery and inflict more pain upon American workers and their families in hopes of limiting Obama to one term.

Reckless Policies

Instead of thanking Obama every single day for the rising economy his Democratic predecessor handed him, Trump did his best to destroy it by waging a reckless trade war with China, throwing manufacturing into a recession and bankrupting more than 1,000 family farms throughout the Midwest over the last two years.

One of Trump’s most outrageous State of the Union lies was that his administration added 12,000 new factories. That’s news to laid-off factory workers. It turns out that 80% of those “manufacturing establishments” employed five or fewer people. Trump was using a government definition of manufacturing that includes bakeries, candy stores, tailor shops and anyone making a product at home to sell.

Trump’s lies are vicious and cruel. Trump brags about getting Americans off food stamps by sending children and the elderly to bed hungry. He claimed he’d never cut Medicare or Social Security days before releasing a budget removing half-a-trillion dollars in funding from Medicare over 10 years, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs and tens of billions from Social Security. With the world panicking over a possible coronavirus pandemic, Trump proposed cutting $1.27 billion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trump promises to protect health coverage for pre-existing conditions while his administration is in federal court trying to destroy those protections along with subsidies to reduce health care costs.

Polls in early voting states this year indicate the top voter concern remains protecting health care, just as it was when it fueled the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in 2018.

Truth will be the most powerful weapon Democrats have this year to defeat a pathologically lying president who can’t be trusted to protect the American economy or the health and well-being of the ordinary Americans.

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Thursday, Feb. 20 MythBusters—The “Great” Economy Under Trump @ Grassroots North Shore office (5600 W. Brown Deer Road), 7-8:30 p.m.

Discover how the economy is performing under President Trump and hear from UW-Milwaukee emeritus economics professor Bill Holahan.

Saturday, Feb. 22 Pollution Solution: Rethink Road Salt @ The Mitchell Park Domes (524 S. Layton Blvd.), 1 p.m.

Discuss the impact of road salt and why it is a growing concern for the Milwaukee River Basin with Milwaukee Riverkeeper staff. Learn how to save money and how to protect Milwaukee’s waters.

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of 92nd Street and North Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

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

Monday, Feb. 24 Housing Working Group Exploratory Meeting @ Milwaukee Public Library (310 W. Locust St.), 6 p.m.

Join this meeting to discuss community land trusts, rent control, public housing and tenants’ unions.

‘Grrrl Justice’ Screening @ UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.), 7 p.m.

Produced by Visionary Justice StoryLab with support from the Right of Return Fellowship, Grrrl Justice is a film that explores the lives of three characters, all impacted by systemic oppression. View this free screening and stay after for a discussion by Black and Pink Milwaukee.

Tuesday, Feb. 25 Wisconsin 2020: Milwaukee Public Schools Referendum Discussion @ Good City Brewing (2108 N. Farwell Ave.), 6-8:30 p.m.

The start of a year-long event series, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and WUWM 89.7 FM join Zeidler Group to discuss the Milwaukee Public Schools Referendum.

Rob Henken, president of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, will share facts on the topic.

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Seeding Your Subconscious Mind ::BY PHILIP CHARD

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ver heard of seeding your subconscious mind to help bring about change? If not, you may find Gerry’s journey instructive.

“You’re my final shot at this,” he told me during our first visit.

The “this” in question was his persistent but futile efforts to break out of the longstanding grip of depression. “I still function, but it’s like swimming through molasses, and I’m tired of fighting it day in and day out,” he explained.

Married with three kids, gainfully employed and nearing his 50th year on the planet, Gerry’s descent into melancholia crept up on him gradually over many years. “The down feelings would come, then go, then come again. Now, they’re just a permanent part of my life.”

This man’s version of depression was the more common variety—moderate in intensity but exhaustingly chronic. He tried all the usual approaches, including medication, talk therapy, exercise, meditation and the like, but to no avail.

“You may be overlooking a key point,” I told him. “After so much effort, your conscious, rational mind has nothing left in its toolkit. So, that one last shot you’re looking for may require seeding your subconscious.”

The Deep Self

Call it what you like—the subconscious, the intuitive mind, the deep self or some other epithet. The label matters little. What does matter is tapping into the foundational reservoir of the mind that gives birth to creativity, intuition, epiphanies, gut feelings, dreams and, most relevant for folks like Gerry, the power of personal transformation. The conscious, thinking mind is but a thin veneer of awareness covering a much deeper and

more powerful mental capacity, one we often overlook when wrestling with emotional issues. What some neuroscientists call the “subcortical brain” strives to maintain and, when necessary, restore biological and emotional homeostasis. While obviously not allpowerful in this regard, it has mental capabilities well exceeding those of the thinking mind. Throughout human history, it has served as a wellspring for creativity, innovation, intuition and many an emotional and spiritual awakening.

Granted, as Freud reminded us, the hidden mind harbors a dark side that, in some, overcomes their better angels. Yet, for most, this deep cognitive well offers many benefits. Few of us, however, make an intentional effort to establish a direct relationship between these two states of mind—the conscious and subconscious. Fortunately, it can be done, which is what I told Gerry.

His homework: Each night before falling asleep and every morning upon waking, he closed his eyes, took several deep breaths, and then, in his mind’s eye, he visualized what he was asking his subconscious mind to do. In his case, he would see the words “Please bring me back to my life,” repeat them silently to himself and imagine them sinking down through his brain and into his heart.

“Will it give me an answer? Will it let me know if it’s going to work on it?” Gerry asked.

“It doesn’t give literal answers. It becomes the answer. You feel it, experience something moving in yourself and recognize how it changes you and your behavior. It’s a lived answer,” I explained.

For Gerry, that lived answer first bubbled up after just a few days of seeding. It was subtle at first, and he was a tad skeptical, thinking it might just be the so-called placebo effect, but as the changes grew and expanded, he became a believer. His cognitive bias gradually shifted from pessimism to realistic optimism. He became more present and engaged with family, friends and colleagues. Activities he’d put by the wayside years before drew him back.

Seeding isn’t the only conduit for mind-to-mind communication. Many exist. However, for most of us, it is often a good starting point. In doing so, it is important to ask your deep mind for what you want in a respectful manner. After all, when it comes to personal change, it knows a lot more than you do.

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aul Mitchell is a professor with the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison. He’s also the state specialist of cropping systems and environmental management of the UW-Division of Extension and serves as director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute.

As part of a hemp research team put together by the UW-Division of Extension, along with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Mitchell is researching the economic side of hemp, considered one of the state’s specialty crops along sweet corn, soybeans, cranberries and potatoes.

Mitchell recently spoke about hemp economics at the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum and at the Shepherd Express-sponsored Wisconsin Cannabis Expo on Saturday, Feb. 8. Like most of his colleagues on the UW-Extension hemp research team, Mitchell didn’t know much about hemp because the crop had been illegal for so long. Last summer, he issued a grant to UW-River Falls associate professors Amber Remble and Shaheer Burney, of the Agricultural Economics Department, to collect data from focus groups and discussions. Remble and Burney assembled a four-page report consisting of economic data and considerations for growers. The report is available on the Renk website: renk.aae.wisc.edu.

Although Wisconsin got a late start in the current hemp industry, Mitchell is optimistic that Wisconsin can eventually catch up to other states—and even lead. “I’m not worried about our ability to do hemp. We’ll figure out the agronomics side of it,” he affirms. “We’ve done that for other crops; we’re the world’s largest producer of cranberries, we do ginseng, potatoes and processing vegetables, like sweet corn.”

He adds that Wisconsin has excellent farming infrastructure and the support of experienced farmers willing to try specialty crops, along with a strong food processing industry.

As examples, he cites Wisconsin stalwarts like Standard Process, the Palmyra-based, whole food supplement company; Penzeys, producer of high-end spices; as well as cheesemakers and organic dairy and vegetable farms. “That’s a major advantage for us,” he says. “States like Colorado or Oregon don’t have that major industry like we do.”

One of the biggest economic challenges he’s observed is how quickly prices for cannabidiol (CBD) hemp had plummeted. “The days of high prices for CBD are gone, at least for a long time. One thing we learned in the assessment we did this past summer was that growers complained of a lack of a grower network,” he says. “Two-thirds of the farmers growing hemp last summer didn’t have a place to sell it yet, and they are still sitting on plants.”

Mitchell also notes that seed availability, as well as the high cost of seedlings, plants and actual seeds, add to challenges. He heard about some people who purchased seeds below market value, only to get seeds that were poor quality, non-feminized or “hot”— meaning the THC level was too high to be viable. “Cheap seed is typically non-feminized, or it might be just bad marijuana,” he emphasizes.

A lack of reliable labor was another challenge, Mitchell notes, as well as a lack of specialized hemp farming equipment. Hemp farmers also dealt with issues that stymie farmers of all crops—weather, disease and insects. “In the longer term, I think crop insurance will help with some of that,” he adds.

Mitchell predicts that plunging hemp CBD crop prices will continue into 2020. Because hemp CBD plants, when dried properly, are storable, some in the industry will work through this past year’s production of plant biomass. “If you’re going to grow CBD this coming season, you’d better have a market already contracted with a reputable buyer who wants fresh stuff,” he advises. “Otherwise, I’d say CBD is a risky market right now.”

Because CBD is not technically a medicine, companies cannot make specific health claims, thus hindering the sale of CBD to larger markets. Mitchell notes that CBD hemp cannot be used in livestock feed, either. But he’s optimistic about hemp’s uses in food items such as hemp seeds and protein powders.

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The Everchanging Promises of Democratic Candidates ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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he past two presidential elections were turning points for cannabis. In 2012, Colorado and Washington were the first to legalize adult-use marijuana, and 2016 was the moment when most Democratic politicians came out in support of drug reform.

Public opinion had been evolving for years prior, but national elections can provide the spark for such an idea to spread like wildfire. It stands to reason that each Democratic candidate tries to “out-progressive” their opponents, pulling from the pool of ideas that have been slowly maturing in the collective unconscious to distinguish themselves. Currently, being in favor of marijuana is just smart politics.

As could be expected, the 2020 presidential election is also bringing change in the stances that candidates have been defending. Let’s look at the cannabis-related promises of the Democratic candidates still in the race.

JOE BIDEN

Former Vice President Joe Biden stands out in the Democratic roster as the only viable

candidate who explicitly refuses to consider marijuana legalization. Biden always carried the heavy burden of his role in the War on Drugs; far from opposing it, the former vice president actively supported bills that facilitated incarceration on drug charges, civil asset forfeiture and “tough on crime” laws. He even wrote the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the “largest crime bill“ in U.S. history, which largely contributed to the mass incarceration issues that most of the Democratic candidates currently denounce and fight against.

Biden did change his stance to keep up with the times: Almost immediately after announcing his bid for president, he followed up by supporting the decriminalization of marijuana, saying that nobody “should be in jail simply for smoking or possessing marijuana.” As the Iowa caucus approached, he reiterated that he wants to keep marijuana illegal, but he expanded that position, declaring that “anyone who has a record, it should be immediately expunged.” After he finished fourth in Iowa, far behind Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, he acknowledged the more progressive stance, saying that “it is at the point where it has to be basically legalized [...] but I’m not prepared to do it.”

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

There is a clear trend in favor of cannabis reform. Like former President Barack Obama said about same sex marriage, “his views were evolving,” and the same can be said for Democrats running for president in 2020. It now seems like being pro-legalization is a requirement to be considered a serious candidate in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG

It’s hard to know what Mayor Pete’s stance on cannabis outside of the election cycle is because he’s a newcomer to politics. At age 38, he’s never held an elected office besides that of mayor of South Bend, Ind., giving him little opportunity to express his opinion on the matter. However, his record as mayor is often pointed out. Under Buttigieg, black people in South Bend were 4.3 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana offenses, which is far worse than the national average.

Before joining the race, Buttigieg was quiet about marijuana, making the media wonder whether he would take a stance on the topic at all. In July 2019, he announced a major marijuana legalization plan, going so far as pledging to decriminalize all drugs. Ahead of the Iowa caucus, he doubled down and declared that, if Congress failed to legalize marijuana during his presidency, he would personally board Air Force One and “fly it directly into the home district of a member who is standing in the way” to rile up pressure from the constituents.

AMY KLOBUCHAR

Marijuana was never a first-priority issue for Sen. Amy Klobuchar—nor was it a second- or third-priority issue, either—as she virtually never talks about it. She was initially opposed to it, going so far as to earn a “D” rating from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), indicating a “hard on drugs” stance. “I am opposed to the legalization of marijuana,” she allegedly said in a 1998 debate, according to MPR News.

Since then, she signed pro-cannabis legislation emanating from others without taking any initiative on the topic herself; she did co-sponsor Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s STATES Act, but she didn’t support initiatives calling for legalization.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders was the first of the lot to defend drug reform, calling for it at a time when talking about marijuana was political suicide. In the early 1970s, when the Controlled Substances Act had just passed and a decade before Republican President Ronald Reagan ramped up the War on Drugs dramatically, Sanders was already outspoken about his desire to fully legalize adult-use marijuana. Ever since, he fought relentlessly as a congressman to bring about reform.

However, even Sanders’ stance evolved as the election loomed closer. In November 2019, he promised that he would legalize marijuana within 100 days of taking office. That was seemingly not enough, as he doubled down a few months later, two days before the Iowa caucus, when he promised he would legalize it on day one as president. While it is a sweet promise that follows the trend of the party and the executive branch does have the authority to reschedule cannabis without Congress’ approval, his plan would require cooperation from the attorney general and other appointees, who wouldn’t be Sanders’ own on day one.

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Unlike others who always supported cannabis reform, like Buttigieg and Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren fundamentally changed her opinion on the topic in recent years. She used to “oppose the outright legalization of marijuana” in 2012, when the question was brought up in her home state of Massachusetts, the Associated Press reports.

Her stance had already evolved in 2016, when she refused to endorse a recreational marijuana ballot initiative in Massachusetts but claimed to have personally voted in favor of it. She has steadily increased her support for marijuana since then, introducing the STATES Act in 2018, which would allow states that legalized cannabis to be free from federal interference. She went so far as to cosponsor the MORE Act of 2019, which aims to federally legalize cannabis, and she is now championing full legalization.

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ach year, we let our readers choose the best local fish fry. For the 2019 Shepherd Express Best of Milwaukee, our readers turned the Best Fish Fry category into a hotly contested one, indeed. Of course, we had a winner—and no less than seven runners-up, with many tied votes.

Milwaukee’s been called “The City That Means Beer” and “The City of Festivals,” but the persistence—and proliferation—of the traditional Friday fish fry is just as important a marker of our city’s identity. While Milwaukee’s Catholic community may have established the fish fry as essential during Lent, it has far outgrown those origins. In the Cream City, every Friday is a Good Friday when it comes to a great fish fry.

Clifford’s Supper Club

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Clifford’s is one of those places that seems like it’s been there forever. The sign out front features a martini glass and an arrow made up of small light bulbs, which lends an old-school credibility to the place before you even enter. Upon entering,

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you can almost feel the clock turning back to a simpler time. Lots of dark wood paneling, wallpaper and a Formica-topped bar surrounded by bucket-seated stools will appeal to patrons who long for days gone by.

Clifford’s offers a full complement of classic comfort food. Lightly battered Icelandic cod is served daily with the traditional creamy coleslaw, rye bread, homemade tartar sauce and crispy French fries—or a baked potato. (Lake perch is also tasty, but it’s not as delicately breaded as the cod.) On Friday, the wonderful fish fry is available in the dining room, but for larger groups. Or, for another take on the nostalgic route, eat in the banquet hall for a traditional Wisconsin experience of an all-you-can-eat family style fish dinner. The all-you-can-eat version of the cod is delicious and includes the same yummy coleslaw, fries and rye bread, along with a cozy feeling of camaraderie and togetherness. (Susan Harpt Grimes)

Kegel’s Inn

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Kegel’s Inn is a remnant of old Milwaukee in West Allis: A German restaurant and corner tap whose Old World charm is authentic. The dark, Teutonic interior boasts the original mahogany bar and wooden tables and chairs that could date from the place’s opening in 1924. The high, wooden wainscoting is surmounted by murals of hunting and merriment. Beautiful leaded glass windows suggest an old ratskeller and, no surprise, beer steins line a wall. The environment is remarkable, but people keep coming back for the food, including the many Bavarian dishes and the fish fry served Wednesdays and Fridays.

Kegel’s Inn offers a half-dozen options, including baked fish and a seafood combo. At a recent lunch visit, Kegel’s “Classic Fish Fry” included five pieces of lightly battered, golden brown cod. The fish fry comes with two slices of hearty rye bread, homemade coleslaw and a choice of soup. French fries and mashed potatoes are the standard sides, but Kegel’s also offers some unusual alternatives: potato pancakes, red cabbage or spaetzle (German egg noodles).

Kegel’s offers a good wine list, plenty of beer and—as they say auf Deutsch— plenty of gemütlichkeit! (David Luhrssen)

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This year’s Best of Milwaukee winner, Lakefront Brewery, is an old favorite. The raucous, convivial atmosphere at Lakefront Brewery on Friday evenings is second to none in Milwaukee. It’s everything a beer hall should be— from the family style seating prompting you to make new friends to the live polka music from the Brewhaus Polka Kings. You’ll have to wait for a seat during peak times, but the fish is worth any hassle.

Cod loins in a crispy beer batter are clearly the most popular order, but the menu doesn’t stop there. Baked cod with lemon and capers, baked salmon with new grist ginger, fried shrimp, perch and smelt round out the seafood offerings. The smelt fry, with whole fish in a light coating of breadcrumbs, is especially well done. Potato pancakes come with a cup of better-than-usual applesauce, and German potato salad beats French fries on the side any day. Unlike many restaurants, Lakefront serves plenty of other food on Fridays as well, making it a great stop for large groups that may include (gasp!) fish haters. Plus, you can always count on great beer. (Lacey Muszynski)

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The neon lights on The Packing House sign are warm and welcoming, and the jazz music played by local combos instantly makes the restaurant a classy establishment. The curved bar is enticing, but by taking a right, a small hallway leads to candle-lit tables with white tablecloths for a great fish fry dinner.

Pickled vegetables placed in the center of the table are perfect for snacking on while waiting for a frosty glass of beer to arrive. Before your fish fry plate arrives, a creamy clam chowder with salty rye bread pair nicely as a starter. Served with a choice of potato pancakes or French fries, the cod dinner comes to

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Papa Luigi’s Pizza may not be the first restaurant that comes to mind for a fish fry. The star of their culinary show is the Milwaukeestyle pizza on a cracker-thin crust. But, they certainly do get it completely right when it comes to fish as well.

With a parking lot in back and a roomy dining area, at Papa Luigi’s there’s little wait time, even on a busy Friday evening. We sampled the baked cod, which comes with a salad and pasta with marinara sauce (potato options are also available), as well as the broiled pike, which comes with a cup of soup and a baked potato. Service as quick and attentive. The meals provided delicious, stick-to-your-ribs fare in a family run environment. Memorabilia depicting the Rat Pack and vintage Hollywood icons complement this restaurant’s old-school décor. (Blaine Schultz)

Sandra’s on the Park

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Like every good neighborhood bar, Thistle & Shamrock’s menu brims with snacks, appetizers, sandwiches and many daily specials.

Friday nights, though, are when the kitchen really shines. They go all out for their fish fry, cooking up some 26 (!) different types of fish, including cod, haddock, smelt, northern pike, salmon, perch, grouper and walleye. Most options are available either fried in a thin, finely textured crumb coating or baked with butter. Opt for fried if you can, as the breading is delicate and clings to the fish better than a heavier coating. It’s an especially great way to bread smelt without it turning into a fish sticklike finger.

The fish fry comes with the standard sides, including homemade coleslaw and tartar sauce. Skip the crinkle-cut fries and order either the homemade potato chips or the potato pancakes. The cakes are deep brown, crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, with just a bit of onion. They come with a cup of applesauce or none-too-commonly found maple syrup. (Lacey Muszynski)

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Located inside the distinctively painted tavern called Redbar, this near-hidden restaurant’s nondescript location only adds to its over-all mystique. The festive bar area gives way to a quiet back room dining area.

A barbecue-centric place, The Saucy Swine offers a Friday fish fry sub-menu, and we dove in. The potato chip-encrusted cod dinner comes with four large pieces of mild, flavorful fish, a cup of coleslaw and a generous heaping of potato skins. The shrimp boil platter is loaded with medium-sized shrimp with drawn butter, sausage, boiled potato, a small cob of corn dusted with cayenne and flavorful rye bread. Both meals are certainly large enough to share. We started off with the Korean Brussels appetizer (crispy, fried brussels sprouts, chopped bacon, sesame seeds, Korean Kick barbecue sauce and curry aioli), and to be

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Joey’s Yardarm Continues the Tradition ::BY BLAINE SCHULTZ

Last year, after 37 years, Racine fish-centric favorite The Yardarm was sold to Joey and Anna LeGath who also own several other food and tavern business in the Racine area. Now known as Joey’s Yardarm (920 Erie St.), the eatery’s menu has changed slightly.

On a recent Friday, we took our maiden voyage to the updated restaurant.

The bar area has been changed a bit, the oversized aquarium was gone, and it looked like music may no longer be featured. But they still boasted a dozen or so craft beers on tap, and the dinner menu listed plenty of fish entrées.

The blue gill with panko breading was a healthy portion of lightly encrusted mild filets. Served with a side of horseradish, the meal brought back memories of fishing for these tasty panfish as a kid in small lakes up north. A side of sand dollars (Yardarm’s trademark fried potato slices dusted with parmesan), coleslaw and rye bread (included with all fish frys) rounded out the meal. We also sampled the fried perch dinner. The ubiquitous entrée was prepared to flaky perfection, proving that simple equals good. The side of sweet potato fries was a savory change of pace. A slice of Key lime pie for desert capped the evening. With ample dining available in the bar, as well as two side rooms, the nautical-themed restaurant is well worth the drive to Racine.

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Outpost Celebrates Half a Century LOCAL CO-OP HAS TAKEN THE LEAD IN TURNING MILWAUKEE INTO A FOODIE TOWN. ::BY MICHAEL CARRIERE

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020 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of what evolved into Outpost Natural Foods, a member-based cooperative that has proven instrumental in helping Milwaukee develop into a true “foodie” town. Well before the city came to host a myriad of “farm-to-table” restaurants, Outpost Natural Foods was introducing Milwaukeeans to the tastes of fresh, organic produce. After 50 years, it is hard to imagine the city’s food culture without them.

What is often overlooked, however, is that the roots of the Outpost were as political as they were culinary. In early April 1970, the Street S heet—a Milwaukee-based

countercultural newsletter—published details for meeting for individuals interested in starting a food co-op on the city’s East Side. By June 1970, the Kane Street Co-op, under the guidance of Steve Pincus, Pat Small, Janet Baron, Mike Stevens and a cadre of similarly devoted members, had opened for business at 1158 East Kane Street. Seeing the opening of the co-op as an inherently political act, the countercultural Kaleidoscope newspaper came up with a slogan for the new store, one that paraphrased an already popular New Left slogan: “UP AGAINST THE WALL, CHAIN STORES!” Yet, many involved with the co-op quickly realized that their inventory was not as revolutionary as they had hoped. By the fall of 1970, such individuals concluded that they had to move towards selling healthy, organic food.

“It is now our belief that in order to build an alternative culture in America, one of the first things we must do is teach people about alternative styles of eating, both for our own bodies and heads,” co-op organizers proclaimed.

And while the East Kane Street Food Co-op would close in November 1970, such developing ideas set the stage for the enterprise that would help make organic mainstream in Milwaukee: Outpost Natural Foods.

Many of those involved with the East Kane Street Food Co-op were instrumental in opening Outpost Natural Foods, at 800 East Clarke Street, in May 1971. The name was chosen because, according to one founder, “we felt our effort in carrying pure organic foods at low cost is a pioneering one in this vast wasteland of depleted and

processed foods.” For those that worked and shopped at Outpost, such a mission was a continuation of 1960s-era activism on a different—more human—scale.

As the co-op’s O.N.F. Newsletter detailed in 1976, the Outpost’s goal was to “take control over nutritional content and distribution of food, in order to free ourselves from agribusiness.” More specifically, the Outpost saw itself as “acting as a political force to break the hold that agribusiness has over consumers.” Most importantly, the Outpost wanted to insure access to such alternatives for all Milwaukeeans. Healthy products had to be available to everyone, so the cooperative quickly adopted the motto of “making good food and knowledge about good food open to all people—not just those who can pay.” And customers responded: In July 1972, the co-op moved to a larger store, at 833 East Locust Street. A move to an even bigger location, at 3500 North Holton Street, occurred in November 1979.

It is this commitment to inclusivity that has allowed Outpost to continue to grow well into the 21st century.

The co-op’s flagship store has been located at 100 East Capitol Drive since 1990; Outpost branches have also opened in Wauwatosa (2000), Bayview (2005), and Mequon (2014). And while shopping at the co-op may no longer be perceived as an act of political protest, Outpost continues to provide a challenge to the status quo by offering organic, non-processed food options for residents of the Milwaukee metropolitan regime. Here’s to another 50 years, Outpost.

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First Stage Invites You to Lean in with ‘Gretel!’ ::BY JOHN JAHN

pon hearing of a musical named Gretel!, I suppose all those familiar with a certain beloved and famous German fairytale written by the Brothers Grimm might ponder, “Where’s Hansel?” “In a way, this could be looked at as an origin story for Hansel and Gretel,” explains Jeff Frank, director and artistic director of this First Stage production. “Hansel has yet to arrive on the scene. Gretel is on her own for much of the adventure, but she is not without helpers and supporters along the way.”

First Stage is presenting Jason Tremblay’s and Suzan Zeder’s Gretel! as part of its “Foundry Stage Series,” which was launched four seasons ago. The Foundry Stage Series pilots new programs and presents readings of plays in various stages of development, thereby offering First Stage audiences a chance to be a part of the process by giving them a voice and an opportunity to help craft plays that may eventually become First Stage productions. Based on the overwhelmingly positive response First Stage received from the Gretel! play reading last season, Frank decided to include it in their 2019-’20 regular season. “Our audience raved about the power of the story, the music, the vivid characters and the incredibly strong protagonist,” he says.

First Stage also offers pre- and post-show workshops and discussions for their Gretel! audiences, as Frank explains. “As part of the Foundry Stage Series, with Gretel!, we wanted to provide opportunities for families to dive deeper into the world of the play. I think theater at its best provokes thought and discussion, and between Saturday performances, our education and academy staff will conduct workshops exploring creative storytelling, folk tales, the power of emotions and how we harness that power. We’re hoping families take advantage and join other families in some fun and enriching activities.”

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A TALE OF TWO JOURNEYS

Gretel!, described as a “folk rock musical,” combines the tale of Hansel and Gretel with that of the far-less familiar Vasilisa the Brave (or the Beautiful, depending on which version you read), which is the Russian version of the time-honored Cinderella story. In this modern folktale reimagination, audiences encounter Gretel as a spirited, young, female protagonist with many hardships to overcome, including absent parents and a stepmother and stepsister who constantly belittle her. Then, with only a gift from her mother (and some hope in her heart), she treks into the wilderness to find the mysterious Baba Yaga—a witch-like character of Slavic folklore.

So, this is some sort of mixture between two fairytales?

Well, whatever it is, it’s certainly intriguing, given the characters. “Gretel! follows much of the plot line of Vasilisa the Brave,” Frank says. “Both that story and our play feature the notorious Baba Yaga, but in our story, there is more to her than meets the eye. This is one of the things I love about the piece. Gretel’s journey is rich and complex—full of pain and joy, fear and wonder—and Baba Yaga is not merely a twodimensional villain; her own journey is equally complicated.”

Music will not be provided by a plugged-in rock band nor a symphony orchestra in a pit, but by the rather unusual and fascinating combination of guitar, cello and ukulele.

“The cello is the heartbeat of the piece—almost existing as another character while providing base themes for several of the other characters,” Frank explains. “The guitar propels the action forward (along with some percussion work), and the ukulele adds some gentle accents. The combination is simultaneously powerful and haunting, and I think just right for the intimate performance space.” Gretel!’s vocal and instrumental music was composed by Jenn Hartmann Luck; cello arrangements are by Nora Karakousoglou.

In describing their production, First Stage also references an element described as “found-object puppetry,” which surely invited the obvious question, “Huh?” Frank provided a very precise and helpful explanation that certainly added to this production’s allure.

“So, if you think back to the origins of folk tales, to oral storytelling, to the very first stories, you might imagine people sitting around a campfire sharing tales of wonder.

Maybe, as they are telling the tale, they pick up a stick, a piece of rope or a cup to suggest a character from the story to help illuminate a moment. A puppet can really be First anything that you pick up and bring to Stage life, and I love the imaginative power of Gretel! that concept. Tremblay—who started Feb. 21 this piece on its journey before passing away at far too young an age—had a March 22 Milwaukee note in his first draft for an actor to represent the stepmother and her daughter Youth Arts with garden utensils. I thought that Center was amazing, and we’ve built on that concept in our approach. So, you’ll see actors creating characters using their bodies sometimes, but at others suggesting characters by manipulating a rake, a pail or a piece of cloth. I like theater that asks the audience to lean in and join us in our imaginings.”

Feb. 21-March 22 at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut St. For tickets, call 414-267-2961 or visit firststage.org.

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No Wake

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s (MCT) season continues with a world-premiere theatrical staging of No Wake by Wisconsin playwright Erica Berman. Previously, it had been featured as a reading in the 2017 Wisconsin Wrights Festival in Madison, as well as at MCT’s Montgomery Davis Play Development Series (2017-’18 season).

MCT producing artistic director C. Michael Wright says, “Erica Berman is a gifted young playwright who just happens to reside in Madison. How lucky for us! I could not be more excited, or proud, for MCT to be the first company to produce her work. I’ve always been attracted to stories that explore complex relationships between people, especially when they involve an unlikely pairing of individuals; No Wake is such a play—it’s funny, insightful, moving and hopeful, and it makes me feel good about the human race.”

The play’s director, Kayleigh Kitzman, adds, “I believe in the healing power of theater and the mirror-like quality of live performance. As a multifaceted theater-maker, my primary focus is on storytelling and the link of shared experience. No Wake has a little something for everyone: humor, heartache and healing. I’m most excited to take audiences on this therapeutic journey with these characters as we tread through the murky waters of life and living.” (John Jahn) Feb. 21-March 15 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com.

Othello

Othello (a.k.a. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a legendary William Shakespeare tragedy. Its story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, and his treacherous ensign, Iago. Given Othello’s varied and, alas, all-too enduring themes of racism, jealousy, betrayal and revenge, it’s still often performed throughout the world not as a museum piece but as something quite relatable. Taking on Othello currently in Milwaukee is Mad Rogues Theatre Company.

You may know Mad Rogues from their (in)famous series known as “Bard & Bourbon,” which consists of classic Shakespearean plays performed by increasingly inebriated cast members. But that is not what their production of Othello will look like. Rather, it will be part of their “Gravediggers” series, created this season (as they explain it) “to open our doors to those members of our community who might not be interested in watching a drunk Shakespearean performance,” as they “understand that not everyone is comfortable in an environment where getting someone drunk is a part of the spectacle.” So, this is serious Shakespeare! (John Jahn) Feb. 20-29 in Studio 4A of the Marcus Performing Arts Center, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org.

Fighting for Home

Based on interviews with women about issues related to being a female in the military over the last 30 years, Fighting for Home, by professor Martin McClendon and directed by Marcella Kearns, highlights their struggles to protect their country from its foes, while these women of the military also deal with rapidly changing policies and deeply entrenched—often chauvinistic—beliefs within the armed forces.

How do the stated military policies and declarations of support match up with the realities confronting women as they fight for their country and for their place within the military? Fighting for Home addresses the ongoing battle of female soldiers to serve their country and to do so within a safe place—“safe” including not being sexually harassed or assaulted by their fellow soldiers. Safe also means being free of policies that don’t let them advance, free of stigma, stereotypes and the infamous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policies of past decades. In this powerful play, the audience hears stories of courage, hope and struggle as the U.S. comes to grips with these vital issues facing so many families today. (John Jahn) Feb. 21-29 at Wartburg Theatre on the Carthage College campus, 2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha. For tickets, call 262-551-6661 or visit carthage.edu.

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Lahna Vanderbush and Lizzie Tripp in ‘Ballet Russe’

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::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

n an act of great confidence or remarkable hutzpah, Milwaukee Ballet artistic director Michael Pink challenged three of his company’s dance artists—including two with limited choreographic experience—to “reimagine” modernist works created by legendary Paris-based company Ballets Russes early in the last century. To music by one of that troupe’s house composers, Igor Stravinsky, each choreographer was to create an original one-act ballet with company dancers.

The results are truly unforgettable. With imaginative nods to Ballets Russes, all the new works are actually more indebted to Pink’s world-class story ballets, known in their bones to the choreographers Nicole Teague-Howell, Garrett Glassman and Timothy O’Donnell.

Ballet Russe Reimagined was a portrait of Milwaukee Ballet in its 50th season.

Teague-Howell has starred in many of Pink’s fairytale adaptations. In The Firebird: Rise, she’s created a deeply felt parable of female empowerment. Lahna Vanderbush was excellent as a woman whose self-worth is shattered by an abusive partner, bravely danced by Josiah Cook. Vanderbush’s character is buoyed by the charismatic Lizzie Tripp, in stunning command of her body, who’s found the strength to rise from a similar defeat. A sisterhood of beautifully choreographed women joins the recovery process. Can Vanderbush trust a new partnership with a prince of a fellow, the charming Randy Crespo? The dance doesn’t end with their romantic duet (that’s earlier) but with knowing women and good energy.

Glassman excels in highly theatrical roles. In I Do, Don’t I?, he’s set five men into hilarious motion: fast (until it’s hyper-slow), athletic, physical theater with masterful slapstick and dazzling ensemble work. Four drunken groomsmen descend on an anxious groom the night before his wedding for a nearly catastrophic bachelor party. Male dancers the world over would love performing this, I’m sure, but they couldn’t do it better. With his natural gravitas, Davit Hovhannisyan was the perfect straight man. Parker Brasser-Vos, Marko Micov, Ben Simoens and especially Patrick Howell were screamingly funny.

To music from The Rite of Spring, resident choreographer O’Donnell staged the tragic story of the Ballets Russes’ dancer and choreographer, Vaclav Nijinsky. In what must be the high point of his career to date, Barry Molina danced the harrowing role sublimely; likewise, Ransom Wilkes-Davis as Ballets Russes founder, Sergei Diaghilev, who both used and abandoned Nijinsky. Alana Griffith also shone as Nijinsky’s sacrificing wife. I hope O’Donnell’s ambitious, important Sacre joins Pink’s ballets in the company’s repertory.

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e can almost always expect Present Music to bring on the unexpected, as was the case last Thursday evening at the Jan Serr Studio. Various trends showed up in a concert called “The Avant-Garden of Love;” not exactly a typical Valentine’s Day-themed program.

A commission was premiered with Frank Pahl’s imaginative score to the expressionistic 1927 silent film, The Love of Zero, directed by Robert Florey. The composer and three other musicians played an assortment of instruments, including baritone saxophone, trombone, guitar and toys of various kinds. It’s a sweetly absurd film about a trombone-playing, Harlequin-like character, Zero, his love for Beatrix and ultimate heartbreak. Pahl’s fascinating and delicate score, inventively orchestrated,

captures joy and melancholy, with a haunting theme that is heard as a recorded whistle then comes around again on various instruments.

Jacob TV (aka Jacob fer Veidhuis) created his own magical surrealism in the multi-media The Garden of Love, which sets text from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Co-artistic director David Bloom elegantly conducted the program, which included Dobrinka Tabakova’s Such Different Paths, beautifully played by the string ensemble.

Yehuda Yannay, dressed in outlandish garb, brought to vivid life Gadji Beri Bimba, a nonsense word poem by Hugo Ball, first performed in 1916 as a parody of the German kaiser. An almost straight-faced Bloom was delightfully busy as a solo performer with a filled bathtub, goose call, five radios and other objects in John Cage’s “happening” piece, Water Walk, first presented on primetime television in 1960.

Most of the second half of the concert was devoted to the attractive, arty jazz of Swedish composer and singer Sophie Dunér. Her voice spanned well more than two octaves as she freely spun out Something to Say, Rain in Spain, Red Sailor Girl and The Express Train.

I loved her edgy scat singing in Hey Doctor, in which a frenzied woman asks the physician for a remedy of love. It was fitting that the concert ended with a lovely jazz ballad, with Dunér and the ensemble performing Ornette Coleman’s What Reason Could I Give? in a stylish arrangement by Eric Segnitz.

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Large, Confident, Superbly Composed Exhibit by Recent UWMilwaukee Grads ::BY SHANE MCADAMS

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am asked regularly whether my art school experience was worth the money. I usually say what I got in return for my tuition was eight really good artist friends who I’ll know forever, but that I might have been able to buy on the free market for half the price. That’s my snarky answer. There’s also a more romantic and nuanced response. Those eight friends were also, hopefully, emboldened by my presence in their lives, and we were all simultaneously energized by our mutual decision to immerse ourselves inside an unpredictably fertile crucible at a specific time. Therein lies nebulous and incalculable value of a program.

The work in “We Might Have Been Born Yesterday, But We Stayed Up All Night” at Var Gallery West (Between Two Galleries) features the examples by recently minted painters from the UW-Milwaukee painting program. It was organized by Shane Walsh, a professor, painter and sometimes mentor to the artists in the show.

Despite superficial differences, the work maintains a streak of continuity that verges on being a “thing.” Not quite the East Village in 1982, but its filiated swagger is enough to make one want to know what well they were all drinking from.

The paintings in the show are generally large, confident and superbly composed. Take Jordin Alanis’ fluid, close-cropped figural composition, Us, Together built from luscious linear brushstrokes on a large, raw canvas. It checks the boxes of de rigueur figuration but is also firmly aware of the grammar of abstract painting. Its compositional sensibilities and elegant restraint allow it to avoid offhand classification. It’s simply a great painting—upside down, it could pass as a late Willem De Kooning.

There’s nothing new under the dim glow of an Instagram feed. Given this, we visual foragers at the end of history can only look for the jarring, compositional, phrase-turning present in work by artists like Emily Tripp and Alyssa Krause.

Both work in mid-20th century idiom, yet we intuitively glean the 2020-ness in the work. But how? Is it Krause’s juicy reimagining of Arthur Dove’s high-chroma forms in seas of parched tonality? Or perhaps it’s Tripp’s construction SHEPHERD EXPRESS

of spatially confounding abstractions that seem only possible from the mind of digital-age mind.

Yes, maybe. And so, we scour their work for clues, tells and final resolutions, ultimately left with ambiguity and the infectious presence of both temporal and universal signs of painting’s endless recombinatory possibilities.

Nicholas Perry conjures truly weird portraits in oil paint that almost defy classification. You could say—and I think I have in a past review— that Perry is channeling a little Pablo Picasso and some Francis Bacon, but the thrust of the work is his own idiosyncratic vision. Finally I Can Cry, his contribution to the show, presents a skewed and fractured image we identity as a figure only by a single eye, a shock of hair and the basic conventions of figure ground separation in traditional portraiture. Despite the controlled

chaos, one can tell Perry knows how to make a painting in the most traditional sense. In fact, it would be difficult to manage such chaos if he didn’t. Joe Steiner’s painting Hawthorn also presents us with a portrait, rather, two of them, in profile. It also has referents in modern painting, namely German expressionists like Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Kirchner, but after the vague nod to these predecessors Hawthorn goes off in its own visual journey. Steiner’s paint passages are willful and fluent, building to a richly colored figural painting wrapped around the sturdiest of abstract scaffoldings.

Rachel Horvath, too, treads a fine line between the language of abstraction and representation.

There’s no identifiable worldly content in her 30 x 20-inch painting (slightly smaller than others in the show,) but the space created by formal elements is so crisp her painted forms read as physical constructions. Like the rest of the work in the show, Horvath’s Cardinal demonstrates a deep grasp of the elements of painting and form, which she uses to effortlessly build her own language.

The common denominator here seems be a structural understanding of the craft. We would assume this came through the program they all shared. While many of the works in “We Might Have Been Born Yesterday” display the sort of fashionable indulgences— lumpy figuration, pink and teal in combo—it’s to be expected from young artists; our mature world would be far less interesting if kids weren’t inventing their own private cool every generation. But this group wears it all with class because they’re anchored in the bedrock of painting, right down from Peter Paul Reubens, Nicolas Poussin, Henri Matisse et al.

To make an art world, we can consult New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl’s beloved recipe: “You move to a city…You form a gang, turn it into a scene and turn that into a movement.” But what turns a group of individuals committed to making and learning into a “school” of ideas? And what turns it then into a movement? Knowing for sure requires a cultural sorcerer’s level of dark magic that maybe only Malcolm McLaren and Charles Baudelaire ever grasped in real time. But based on the work that’s come out of UWM painting over the past few years, receptive students introduced to foundational knowledge, mixed with a little local fairy dust can make a bunch of things into a “thing.” (top) Jordin Alanis, “Us, Together,” 48 x 42 inches, oil on canvas (bottom) Joe Steiner, “Hawthorn,” 42 x 48 inches, oil on canvas

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Feb. 21-April 4 Schlueter Art Gallery, Wisconsin Lutheran College 8815 W. Wisconsin Ave. This art exhibition features the work of guest artists who were inspired by Aldo Leopold’s classic text, A Sand County Almanac. The book was selected as Wisconsin Lutheran College’s 2019-’20 “Campus Read.” The exhibit is one of several campus events planned that will highlight the thoughts and perspective of this renowned Wisconsin author, ecologist, philosopher and conservationist. Wisconsin artists whose works will be on display as part of this exhibit include Shelley Heath, Ellen Anderson, Brett Henzig, Laura Gottlieb, Colette Odya Smith and many others, all hailing from throughout southeastern Wisconsin. For more information, call 414-443-8800 or visit wlc.edu/ sand-county-reflections.

“The Trajectory Series”

Feb. 28-July 26 Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum 2220 N. Terrace Ave. Villa Terrace’s “The Trajectory Series” is a new exhibit that is guest-curated by Christopher Willey, director of UW-Milwaukee’s Immersive Media Lab. The series is an art exhibition that examines how creative behaviors advance cultures and technologies. This 21-week-long, immersive exhibition will feature works by 10 artists, and, through artworks, interactive media, events, storytelling and an artist residency by Marianne Fairbanks, “The Trajectory Series” will seek to explore a future we are only now beginning to imagine. For more information, call 414-278-8295 or visit villaterrace.org.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Brahms: The Boy II PG-13 William Brent Bell returns to direct this stand-alone sequel to The Boy. Young Jude (Christopher Convery) hasn’t spoken following a traumatic home invasion. When his therapist recommends the family relocate, Liza (Katie Holmes) and Sean (Owain Yeoman) mistakenly choose an isolated, creepy, country house as their new abode. The couple believes Jude has found a means to heal after he begins keeping company with Brahms, a life-sized doll he found buried outside their new home. Eventually, Liza’s increasing concern prompts her to unearth the property’s unsavory history. Though the original film was panned, this by-the-numbers sequel hopes for more of the same since its predecessor, made for less than $11 million, grossed $74 million. (Lisa Miller)

The Call of the Wild PG The seventh film adaptation of the 1903 Jack London novel exposes the frequent ill-treatment of sled dogs. Buck, a St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd mix is the protagonist, modeled after director Chris Sanders’ own adopted dog. He’s fully animated for this live-action production, complete with facial expressions that indicate Buck perfectly understands English. Sold to sleddog trainers in the Yukon, he survives animal attacks and human abuse before being rescued by a kindly gold miner, John Thornton (Harrison Ford). Together, the pair seeks treasure, but Buck increasingly feels the “call of the wild.” Will the film depict the brutality that culminates in Buck’s emancipation? Good arguments can be made for going either way. (L.M.)

Emma PG Adapted numerous times for the large and small screens, this version of Jane Austen’s classic carefully respects the period in its costumes and sets. Anya Taylor-Joy portrays the 20-year-old socialite, a snob fancying herself to be a caring and proactive friend. Despite good intentions, Emma routinely harms and misjudges others. When we meet her, Emma considers herself smarter than her indulgent father (Bill Nighy) and certainly superior to her boring, uber-rich bachelor neighbor, Mr. Knightley (Johnny Flynn). As Emma’s misdeeds become clear even to her, she begins to learn humility. Gently comedic and dramatic, Emma is a must-see for young women, and it is simply a pleasure for the rest of us. (L.M.)

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Writer-director Jennifer Kent’s previous film, The Babadook (2014), is a great horror thriller. In The Nightingale, the horror is entirely of human origin in a story that examines quarrelsome states of servitude that set men over women, officers over soldiers, English over Irish, white over black. With the help of an Aborigine, Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), Clare embarks on an odyssey to hunt down the commander across forest and hills—a landscape where genocide is casually committed against indigenous people. Clare and Billy find it hard to get along and get past their cultural assumptions, but they learn something about what it means to be human.

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(TIMELIFE) Sonny was the comic relief to sultry Cher throughout “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” (1971-1974). Although brightly colored by contemporary pop art, the format played within the conventions of TV variety shows. There was humor based on the personae of its stars, hits accompanied by a brassy orchestra, silly costume skits and old-time guest stars (Jimmy Durante?). The best moments reveal Cher’s acting talents. The five-DVD set includes 10 episodes and an interview with Cher.

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Photographing the ‘Ghost Signs’ of Old Milwaukee ::BY MATTHEW PRIGGE

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host signs,” the fading advertising murals usually found painted on old brick buildings, are something that a lot of people never notice. Many of them quite literally blend into their surroundings, and they are often located on parts of buildings—and in parts of the city—that do not generate as much eye-traffic as they did when the companies they promoted were still in business. Take the time to start noticing them, however, and you’ll be surprised how many you’ll find.

Adam Levin, administrator of the “Old Milwaukee” Facebook group and self-described “history buff and amateur photographer,” started to really notice them about five years ago. And he started taking pictures for fun. A collection of his photos—along with histories of many of the companies featured in the collected signs—has been published by History Press.

In his book, Fading Ads of Milwaukee, Levin does a great job of telling both the stories of the businesses that commissioned these signs and the stories of how some of the more obscure signs came to light. A beautiful sign for Air Glide Gasoline was

uncovered during the demolition of the old Comedy Café building on Brady Street. Another photograph is of a series of paper ads found plastered underneath the aluminum siding of a Walker’s Point structure. He found another hidden on the building that houses Axel’s Inn on Oakland Avenue on Milwaukee’s East Side. He was only able to shoot the sign after asking the owner of Oakland Gyros, who lives above the restaurant, for permission to access the roof. He ordered a gyro first and made sure to have his camera out and at the ready (“When you have your camera with you, people take you seriously,” he says) to help soften the blow of what might have been a taxing request. In the end, Levin was able to get the shot through a window in the man’s upstairs apartment.

“They have a kind of vibe to them.” Levin says of the signs. “I’m very interested in the history of Milwaukee, and this is just another way of documenting Milwaukee’s past.”

The signs are indeed unique markers of the past in that, unlike written histories or photographs or most archived physical mementos, they are very slowly leaving us. While many of the signs documented in the book are still bold and vibrant, others have faded to the point of barely being visible. Others, like the Air Glide sign on Brady Street, have been outright destroyed since Levin shot them.

On a long-enough timeline, each of the painted signs featured in the book will eventually fade away. But to Levin, that is part of the beauty of these signs. The only way to truly preserve them, he feels, is through photography. “It’s like someone who is older but who doesn’t want a facelift or anything like that, just to age naturally,” he said. “If you try to touch these signs up, you lose some of the history.”

Levin will discuss Fading Ads of Milwaukee at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 21, at Boswell Book Co., 2559 N. Downer Ave.

UW-Milwaukee Honors College instructor David Southward teaches literature, film and comics. He’s also a prolifically published poet. His latest collection, Bachelor’s Buttons, is drawn from work previously published in dozens of journals and anthologies. Southward’s words are solid and chosen carefully, like the cathedral stones of a medieval artisan.

The elliptical nature of his focused observations sometimes recalls William Carlos Williams; in more metaphysical moments, another William, by the name of Blake, comes to mind.

For his latest collection of poems, he chose as his topic one of history’s—and mythology’s— most significant figures, Jesus.

His Apocrypha is (perhaps after William Carlos Williams?) a seamless convergence of the dignified and the vernacular, rhythmic in its quick storytelling. And those stories are familiar, yet the perspectives are sometimes unusual. Mary Magdalene complains about the words men put into her mouth, and Judas argues that “without the likes of me, his tortured faith would have no poetry.”

Southward will read from Bachelor’s Buttons at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 26, at Boswell Book Co.

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Feb. 19—Drag Queen Bingo to Save Kitties at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Save the pussies! Milwaukee’s original drag bingo partners with Urban Cat Coalition to raise money for the city’s four-legged friends. This night of free bingo involves more than $1,000 worth of prizes, bawdy drag queens, frosty drinks and juicy burgers. Come on down for a 7:30 p.m. night of fun and see why this ain’t your granny’s bingo!

Feb. 21—Rainbow Gala Masqueerade at Tripoli Shrine Center (3000 W. Wisconsin Ave.): It’s Mardi Gras... let’s party! Join me during this incredible, 6 p.m. to midnight fundraiser for B.A.H. Angels Against Bullying, Red Fez and Courage MKE. Your $85 ticket gets you an open bar, a complete dinner, appetizers, a dessert buffet, dancing and more! Let your pride shine during the $500 costume contest as well. See event page “Rainbow Gala Masqueerade” on Facebook for tickets, as well as passes to the dance party. Enter code “Ruthie” for a discount. See you there... at the open bar!

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The answer to your question depends on what you’re looking for, honey. You want a night of fun? Take one of those twinks up on his offer at bar close and knock boots all night long. You looking for your next husband? Stick to people within 10 years of your age. (That’s 10 years older or 10 years younger.) This recommended age gap means you’ll have plenty in common without having to explain every pop-culture reference that comes up in conversation. Floating around someplace between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now? Keep this little 10-year rule in mind, but don’t cement your wiener to it. Instead, use it to explore what works for you age-wise when it comes to long-term loving. Good luck, sugar-booger!

Feb. 21—Our Voice Milwaukee: ‘Broadway Our Way: A Musical Theater Cabaret’ at Second Time Around Realty (3121 W. Wisconsin Ave.): Formerly known as City of Festivals Men’s Chorus, this delightful group of gay men and their allies promise a 6 p.m. concert that sheds The Great White Way in a whole new light. Hosted by Karen Valentine, the evening includes light finger food and plenty of hearty laughs. Get your $25 ticket at cityoffestivalsmenschorus.org.

Feb. 21—Dripping in Melanin: ‘Noir Amour’ at Walker’s Point Music Hall (538 W. National Ave.): This sensational production company is offering an all-new night of excitement. Spotlighting the city’s most-celebrated African American entertainers, businesses and supporters, this 10 p.m. variety show includes raffles and what’s billed as “sexy games.” Check it out!

Feb. 22—UW-Milwaukee Annual Drag Show at Miller High Life Theatre (500 W. Kilbourn Ave.): It’s back! The “UWM Drag Show” has grown larger and more popular every year. See why when you hit up the 7 p.m. event. Open to the public, a $5 donation is recommended. Bring your singles for tipping and your shoes for dancing because this is one show that’s truly a party. The main stage show starts at 7 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m.

February 22—Depeche Mode vs. Duran Duran at Mad Planet (533 E. Center St.): Two kingpins of the ’80s spar off during this 9 p.m. dance party. If you haven’t been to Mad Planet in a while, this evening of music is a great way to return and kick it all night long.

February 23—Eddie’s Annual Birthday Bash at Harbor Room (117 E. Greenfield Ave.): Eddie, co-owner of Harbor Room, is having a B-day bash, and you’re invited! Stop by the bar between 2-11 p.m. for savory snacks, good friends and free beer (while it lasts). Happy birthday, Eddie!

February 23—‘The Titties’ Award Show at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): Think you have The Best Beard at This Is It? Are you the friendliest customer out of their cast of regulars? Find out which patrons win the awards (could it be you?) as the staff of this popular watering hole honors guests, drag performers and others. Alex Corona hosts the 7 p.m. evening, which includes drink specials, drag performances and more.

February 25—Coffee Connection at YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee (161 W. Wisconsin Ave.): It’s that time again... time to make some new connections via an earlymorning coffee clutch. Swing by, grab a cup of joe (from 8-9 a.m.) and meet the crew behind Wisconsin’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, as well as other like-minded business owners, professionals and community supporters.

Ask Ruthie a question or share your events with her at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Now in its second season, her reality show, Camp Wannakiki, is available on YouTube.

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OLD, OUT AND PROUD— THE LEGACY OF LGBTQ AGING ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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he 2020 Symposium on Aging by Saint John’s on the Lake takes place at its lakefront retirement home and licensed-care facility on March 8-12. The Symposium’s schedule on Tuesday, March 10, is dedicated to aging diversity and includes a panel presentation and discussion entitled “Old, Out and Proud—The Legacy of LGBTQ Aging.” Full disclosure: I am one of the panelists.

Of course, everyone endures the myriad aches and pains, memory loss, loneliness and depression associated with aging. But for baby boomer LGBTQs, there are additional complications and vulnerabilities, ones that are unique to their generation. For those born in the mid-20th century or so, LGBTQ life existed as a shadowy subculture. For many, self-imposed straight assimilation was their only choice. Compliance was a matter of survival—at least until one could move away, perhaps to college, seminary or convent or just leaving on a jet plane for San Francisco or other destination of the gay diaspora. And for that, unlike straight seniors, older LGBTQs often have no traditional family ties and can only rely on friends for support.

The subject of aging in the LGBTQ community is often avoided or relegated to passing conversation. More often than not, the discussion takes place around anecdotal

experiences of ageism (I just experienced an awkward moment of that while having a drink with a senior Milwaukee activist at a local downtown gay bar when a young woman stopped in her tracks, stared at us and blurted out a caustic “What are you doing here?”).

And everyone can recount a romance scam perpetrated upon themselves or another senior by a younger lover or spouse (always get a prenup), or an acquaintance’s homophobic harassment in sotto voce micro-aggressions or outright abuse by staff or other residents in a senior home and, perhaps, their re-closeting themselves as a result. The latter is usually followed by wishful thinking musings about LGBTQ-dedicated senior housing.

Beyond that, the broad spectrum of legal, financial, physical and mental health issues faced by elder LGBTQs seems too daunting for most to even begin to express, much less address and resolve.

Not surprisingly, Milwaukee is not listed among the nation’s top LGBTQ retirement cities. However, it is fortunate to have two LGBTQ senior organizations. Established in 1978, GAMMA began as a gay men’s athletic group.

Today, decades later, its longevity is reflected in its membership that is now largely comprised of seniors. The group’s tag line reads “social, recreational, cultural,” reflecting its mission of keeping nearly 100 GAMMA members active and engaged. The LGBT Community Center offers its Fifty and Better senior adult program.

Affiliated with the national SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) organization, it partners with the Milwaukee County Department on Aging and other health organizations to provide its participants access to social services. It also offers coffee hours and other activities. More comprehensive programs, I’m told, are in development.

Still, these groups serve relatively few members of the ever-growing LGBTQ senior population and barely scratch the surface of its needs.

It’s against this backdrop that the “Old, Out and Proud” panel takes place. Hopefully, it will begin a process to improve LGBTQ seniors’ lives. While LGBTQ seniors achieved significant advances in equality for subsequent generations, they mustn’t be denied its benefits.

Information about the Symposium on Aging may be found at saintjohnsmilw.org.

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“I liked the idea of being in a dance troupe, but there weren’t a lot that were open and available to me. It’s not something my mom could afford when I was a kid and a teenager,” Williams explains. “I had done cheerleading and I had done step, and all the girls were very catty and cliquey, and I was like, ‘I don’t want to be involved in that.’ And the problem was lots of times people wouldn’t listen when I’d put in input.

They’d be like ‘yeah, but no,’ and it wouldn’t happen. I was like, ‘oh, boring. Annoying.’”

Williams would find an opportunity where she wouldn’t be ignored and also found a way to channel her creativity into stage movement, dance and lip-syncing to become a burlesque and drag performer. One of her favorite parts is the costuming.

“The first time I saw Moulin Rouge, I was like, ‘I don’t know what that is, but I want to do that,’” Williams says. “Corsetry, garter belts, fancy undies and tights and all that. I was like, ‘that’s what I want, I love that.’

My first two years, my acts were a lot of that and not going down to pasties ’cause I wasn’t comfortable with that. I feel OK about my body now, but I still like that beautiful shell.”

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ulian Williams, or “Lavish Jules” as she’s known on stage, remembers her first burlesque performance. It was a Halloween-themed show by local group Brew City Bombshells at Company Brewing about four years ago. Williams did a routine based on the classic horror-comedy Beetlejuice. She worked on the number for a couple months before the show, practicing the dance number in a small studio apartment. At show time she was “nervous and excited,” but she entered into the burlesque world with a memorable act.

“I wanted it to be fun, a little campy, I still wanted it to be sexy... loud, like Beetlejuice is... definitely silly, scary. The way I did that was some fun, sexy, little bit of salsa, did my lip sync, had my fun umbrella which was really campy. I took off these shorts and had a bunch of eyeballs on my butt, it was really fun,” Williams laughs.

Williams would dance around her house, but finding a way of connecting to something that worked for her—burlesque—took time.

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After her debut, Williams continued to perform with the Brew City Bombshells and other local troupes. She also developed an interest in producing her own shows and is currently working on putting together classes for people interested in trying out burlesque themselves.

For the last three years, Williams, along with coproducers and performers Afrodisiac Slays and Avery Ex-Machina, has put together a showcase to tie into Valentine’s Day called “Dripping in Melanin,” which is “an all-black variety show celebrating black love.” This year, the show is called “Noir Amour.”

“We need to highlight performers of color and black performers specifically, because I feel we do not get enough recognition within our community and within the burlesque community,” Williams says. “It’s crucial to have our own communities come out and support us, because we might not have family come out to our shows and support us.”

As for what you can expect at the show, Williams ‘Noir Amour’ says, “You’re going to see Friday, Feb. 21, lots of booty, and not just 10 p.m. mine,” adding that in addiWalker’s Point tion to burlesque and drag Music Hall performance, there will be games, crowd interaction and raffle prizes.

“This show is going to be lots of hearts on our sleeve, ’cause I know whenever I perform that’s what I do. Hopefully, It’s going to be lots of self-love,” Williams says. “I feel black people specifically loving themselves—the way they want to be loved—is a big, radical form of self-care. I’m saying that and I’m trying to walk that walk, but it’s still difficult. Doing burlesque helps bridge that for myself.”

Dripping in Melanin Productions presents Noir Amour at Walker’s Point Music Hall, 538 W. National Ave., on Friday, February 21, at 10 p.m. There will be a $5 cover.

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019 was quite the year for Mil- helped the songwriting process for the next waukee-based indie act Nega- Negative/Positive LP. “We have a lot of songs tive/Positive as the band cranked started for the album,” says Gessner, “and they out three records over the 12-month sound very different, which is something I perspan: An LP, Kick Me in Both of My sonally really like about our music.” Gessner Shins at the Same Time (January), and two sin- herself has been drawing inspiration from such gles, “Space Smells Like Lilacs” (September) disparate acts as Tessa Violet, King Princess and “Rebel Girl” (November). While all three and St. Vincent. “I sometimes get caught up records highlighted a young band maturing at a in thinking that since we’re labeled as a rock rapid pace, most intriguing was “Rebel Girl,” a band,” says Gessner, “I need to be writing more song originally recorded by Riot grrrl pioneers punk rock songs. But I’ve found that it’s okay Bikini Kill. Would Negative/Positive’s next re- to have an album where some songs are punk, lease draw further from such a storied history? some are more bedroom pop.”

Such an attitude helps explain the allure But by the end of 2019, the band’s future was in doubt. In late November, members of Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” to the young Ava Gessner (vocals-guitar) and Ava Antonie band. Though the band is moving away from (drum) announced that founding member Lola a strictly punk-rock sound, the Riot grrrl era will, according to Gessner, “alFlores (bassist) was leaving the ways somewhat inspire us, since band. The band played one last it was so pivotal for women in show as a three-piece before anNegative/ bands—not just the singular nouncing that they would carry Positive singer or bass player in a group on as a combo. “Well, at first we Friday, Feb. 21, of ‘dudebros,’ not non-male inthought that a two-piece was sustrumentalists, songwriters and per easy and manageable,” notes 7 p.m. performers all coming together Antonie. “But as we started X-Ray Arcade for their own art.” It is such an writing new stuff, we realized understanding of their roots that that with just the two of us evmakes the next Negative/Posierything seemed a little empty.”

Antonie and Gessner quickly made the deci- tive album one of the most anticipated local releases for 2020. sion to bring another musician into the fold.

Negative/Positive perform on a bill with The In fact, the Avas decided to welcome in two new players: a bassist and rhythm guitarist, Nile Club, Neptune’s Core and Cherry Punch which, as Gessner explains, “is new territory at X-Ray Arcade, 5036 S. Packard Ave., Cufor us.” And the addition of new voices has dahy, on Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 21

The Midnight Purchase w/ Ali J @ Twisted Path Distillery, 7:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 20

Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson with Band ‘Breakfast in America World Tour’ @ The Northern Lights Theater, 8 p.m.

Six albums into their discography, English band Supertramp made a commercial splash in the States. Their 1979 album, Breakfast in America, included hits “The Logical Song,”“Goodbye Stranger” and “Take the Long Way Home.” Frontman Roger Hodgson finishes up a four-night run with a performance likely to include songs “Dreamer,”“Fool’s Overture,”“School,”“Give A Little Bit” and “It’s Raining Again.”

Flutter and Sea Heikes: Formations Series for New and Improvised Music @ Woodland Pattern, 7 p.m.

Flutter (Christine Ingaldson) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and philosopher based in Mount Pleasant. Flutter speaks her truth in dark, mysterious, glitchy tones. Sea Heikes uses video and audio recordings taken over the winter to develop a new performance concept for relating bodies of water in Milwaukee and her own water body. The live performance will involve video projection, pre-recorded sound and live manipulations from inside a 2’x2’x2’ plexiglass box.

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Orlando Peña’s sturdy songwriting gives The Midnight Purchase room to roam. The group’s four-song EP, National Sessions, reveals The Band-like sounds of young folks older than their years.

Groove Grease @ Fire on Water, 9 p.m.

This Milwaukee Hammond B3-driven instrumental combo recalls the improvisational interplay of The Meters and Medeski Martin & Wood. The band’s Soundcloud page reveals a treasure chest of nocturnal grooves.

Johnny Padilla @ Blu in The Pfister Hotel, 8 p.m.

Saxophonist Johnny Padilla has toured and recorded with Jimmy Buffett and has performed with Mongo Santamaria. With a pair of performances this weekend, Padilla and his quartet play tunes from his recording “Bright Morning” on the BP Music label. (Also Saturday at 11:30 p.m. at the Jazz Estate.)

The Carlos Adames Group @ The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee’s The Carlos Adames Group follows in the footsteps of great Latin jazz innovators, combining elements of traditional and modern Latin rhythms with jazz harmonies.

Panamanian-born conguero Carlos Adames leads the group, drawing from his knowledge of the rhythms of the world on the congas, batá and drum kit. Experienced bandleader and timbalero Tony Ayala provides the rhythmic backbone with timbales and bongo. A native of Puerto Rico, his tight grooves and dramatic breaks are the perfect complement to Adames.

Oberlin-trained Milwaukee pianist Elias Holman gives the group its melodic voice, exploring the vast space of jazz and Latin music.

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The Smoking Flowers w/ Cullah @ Riverwest Public House Cooperative, 9 p.m.

East Nashville duo Kim and Scott Collins, aka The Smoking Flowers, haul a small music store with them: drums, accordion, mandolin, harmonica, shimmering tambourine and electric and acoustic guitar. Their sets range from pin drop Appalachian ballads to full on rockers. A cancer scare figures into the duo’s backstory, and it only adds to the intensity they bring to the stage. Their recent album, Snowball Out of Hell, begs the question: Why would Nashvillians tour Milwaukee in February?

Benefit for Mike Romans @ Sugar Maple, 2 p.m.

Compassion, yes. Competition, not so much. Romans’ Pub offers a selection of craft beers with personality. In response to Mike Romans’ recent cancer diagnosis, the Sugar Maple’s Adrienne Pierluissi is hosting this event to celebrate the forerunner of the craft beer scene in Milwaukee. From 2-6 p.m., 100% of the proceeds from a list of craft beers and raffles, donated by supportive bar owners, brewers and restauranteurs, will go towards Romans’ medical costs.

The Fifth Annual Punk Rock for Socks @ Walker’s Point Music Hall, 8 p.m.

The folks from Summerfest’s Rebel Music Stage present the Fifth Annual Punk Rock for Socks. All donations go to Robyn’s Nest, the charity of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

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Man or Astro-Man? w/ Wray and Devils Teeth @ Colectivo Back Room, 8 p.m.

Hailing from the Grid Sector in deep space, with current location as Earth, Man or Astroman? specializes in a space-age surf music.

Formed in 1992, the quartet originally consisted of members who went by such off the wall aliases as Birdstuff, Star Crunch, Dr. Delecto & his Invisible Vaportron and Electronic Monkey Wizard. Man or Astro-Man? combined the classic surf sounds of the ’60s along with the quirky humor and approach of groundbreaking groups like Devo.

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::ALBUM Star Parks

The New Sounds of Late Capitalism (MODERN OUTSIDER) The title of the second Star Parks album is slyly misleading because it isn’t a directly accurate description of the music. It is, however, thoughtfully anachronistic, and in that way, it does resemble these Sounds.

Four years after its debut long-player, Don’t Dwell, the Texas-based ensemble follows up with meaningfully pretty grandiosity, spinning pastel webs around the shards of a broken heart. The shards belong to frontman Andy Bianculli, whose voice—high, courtly, hazy, aware of its own fragility—feels more quotidian than anything else in these 11 tracks, which spiral outward and upward into elaborations of influences ranging from Burt Bacharach to the Flaming Lips.

Sometimes, those influences make for pile-ups, as when a George Harrison riff, by way of the Archies, marches alongside a Motown rhythm, by way of the Four Seasons, and the result is “Something More,” until a bright blast of horns tumbles everything into the air. Or when a pace suitable for a very old-fashioned and intricately constructed carousel turns out to be just as suitable for an acid trip accompanied by early Pink Floyd, and that’s the path clipclopped by “Hobby Horse.”

There are simpler—if hardly simple— songs, too, like “Landlady,” a plausible companion piece to My Morning Jacket’s “Librarian,” working off the vocal similarities between Bianculli and MMJ’s Jim James while taking an economic rather than erotic approach.

Even as interludes like “Not Now Brian” restate melodic themes, Star Parks illuminates the shards that Bianculli holds up. Soon, he and the band reach the resigned clarity of “Standing in the Daylight” and the smiling-through-sadness promise of “All Your Saturdays at Once.” At its close, the truly sly thing about The New Sounds of Late Capitalism is not its title but how it stays in the mind, like a lost love whose memory remains tangible, beautiful and painful.

Star Parks will play the Cactus Club, 2496 S. Wentworth Ave., on Saturday, Feb. 22.

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

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75. — juris 76. Charge against property 77. Fire-extinguishing agent 78. Related 79. — Browne belt 80. Place near Syr. 81. Glacial ridge 82. Booklets 85. The day before 86. Swamp 87. Black: Hyph.

89. Self-disqualified 91. DNA segment 92. Fields 94. Colleen 95. Animals common to regions 98. Mummy 100. Laborious 105. Infernal Prince — — 107. Substance posited by cosmologists: 2 wds.

109. Vaunt 110. Efface 111. — citato 112. Lab burner 113. Charged particles 114. Of birth 115. Mountain ash 116. Staves DOWN 1. Chapeaux 2. Eliot’s Bede 3. Aught 4. Went on and on 5. Horse barns 6. Scut 7. Blundered 8. Lemon or lime suffix 9. Average 10. Alaskan island 11. Eskers 12. Makes public 13. Money in Albania

14. Jonesboro native 15. Market sign 16. Therefore 17. Glassware oven 18. “Thin Man” pooch 24. City in Germany 26. Artist’s subjects 29. Mud 33. “— — a Nightingale” 34. Molding edge 35. Cookie 36. Poplar 37. Portable light with a shutter: 2 wds.

38. Try 40. Glories 41. Speechify 42. Shades: 2 wds.

43. Call forth 44. Deodar 47. Charter 52. Some Europeans 53. Audio component 55. Gaze 56. Something unfortunate 57. Cap 58. Rich dough 60. Over 61. Hotshot 62. — and rave 64. Tyrannical Phoenician deity

65. Adjoin 66. A state: Abbr.

67. Come to be 68. Fond — — 69. Arctic 70. Sophisticated 71. Used a stopwatch 73. — blanche 74. Do a certain dance 77. Dutch brewer 78. Bullfighter 81. Fishgig 82. Old MacDonald’s place 83. Special program 84. Milan’s La — 88. One in distress, at times 90. Belted overcoat 91. Bites on 93. Scatter 95. Points of convergence 96. Frizzy do 97. Japanese noodle 98. Substance 99. Greek peak 101. Gumbo ingredient 102. — von Bismarck 103. Heal 104. Periods 106. New Deal org.

108. Abbr. in addresses

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 19 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Trees galore Solution: 19 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Slothful 5. Cook a certain way 10. Marsupial creature 15. Creme — — creme 19. Notion 20. Slow, in music 21. Willow rod 22. Son of Zeus and Hera 23. Like a brunette: Hyph.

25. Batman, alternatively: 2 wds.

27. Like some illicit drugs 28. Rulers 30. — borealis 31. Annex 32. Doomed ship Andrea — 34. Garcia or Williams 35. Walks 39. Unexpected winner: 2 wds.

42. Calendar abbr.

45. Lawyers’ org.

46. Art lover: Var. 48. Tapestry 49. Old greeting 50. Chemin de — 51. Ceremony 52. Obvious 53. Walked on 54. Deer kin 55. — Theodore Agnew 57. Kicks 58. First-class 59. Sib 61. Fracas 62. Texas lawman 63. Form of quartz 64. Female ones 65. Swiss city 66. Bird in a coal mine 68. Pigeons 69. Difference 72. Shaw the bandleader 73. Cousin to a bezel 74. — cochere

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Koda Larch Laurel Leaf Lime Mango Maple Nightshade Palm

Pear Plum Rain Red gum Riberry Root Sequoia Teak Walnut

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1908, British playwright W. Somerset Maugham reached the height of success. Four of his plays were being performed concurrently in four different London theaters. If you were ever in your life going to achieve anything near this level of overflowing popularity or attention, I suspect it would be this year. And if that’s a development you would enjoy and thrive on, I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to set your intention and take audacious measures.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you feel ready to change your mind about an idea or belief or theory that has been losing its usefulness? Would you consider changing your relationship with a once-powerful influence that is becoming less crucial to your life-long goals? Is it possible you have outgrown one of your heroes or teachers? Do you wonder if maybe it’s time for you to put less faith in a certain sacred cow or overvalued idol? According to my analysis of your astrological omens, you’ll benefit from meditating on these questions during the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was alive more than 2,500 years ago, the Greek poet Sappho was so famous for her lyrical creations that people referred to her as “The Poetess” and the “Tenth Muse.” (In Greek mythology, there were nine muses, all goddesses.) She was a prolific writer who produced more than 10,000 lines of verse, and even today she remains one of the world’s most celebrated poets. I propose that we make her your inspirational role model for the coming months. In my view, you’re poised to generate a wealth of enduring beauty in your own chosen sphere. Proposed experiment: Regard your daily life as an art project.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever dropped out of the daily grind for a few hours or even a few days so as to compose a master plan for your life? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to give yourself that necessary luxury.

According to my analysis, you’re entering a phase when you’ll generate good fortune for yourself if you think deep thoughts about how to create your future.

What would you like the story of your life to be on March 1, 2025? How about March 1, 2030? And March 1, 2035? I encourage you to consult your soul’s code and formulate an inspired, invigorating blueprint for the coming years. Write it down!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) is famous for Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of 19th-century British society.

The phrase “Vanity Fair” had been previously used, though with different meanings, in the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes, as well as in works by John Bunyan and St. Augustine. Thackeray was lying in bed near sleep one night when the idea flew into his head to use it for his own story. He was so thrilled, he leaped up and ran around his room chanting “Vanity Fair! Vanity Fair!”

I’m foreseeing at least one epiphany like this for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. What area of your life needs a burst of delicious inspiration?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Who loves you best, Leo? Which of your allies and loved ones come closest to seeing you and appreciating you for who you really are? Of all the people in your life, which have done most to help you become the soulful star you want to be? Are there gem-like characters on the peripheries of your world that you would like to draw nearer? Are there energy drains that you’ve allowed to play too prominent a role? I hope you’ll meditate on questions like these in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you can access a wealth of useful insights and revelations about how to skillfully manage your relationships. It’s also a good time to reward and nurture those allies who have given you so much.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Doom and gloom dominate the forecasts made by many prophets. They experience perverse glee in predicting, for example, that all the rain forests and rivers will be owned by greedy corporations by 2050, or that extraterrestrial invaders who resemble crocodiles will take control of the U.S. government “for the good of the American people,” or that climate change will eventually render chocolate and bananas obsolete. That’s not how I operate. I deplore the idea that it’s only the nasty prognostications that SHEPHERD EXPRESS

are interesting. In that spirit, I make the following forecasts: The number of homeless Virgos will decrease dramatically in the near future, as will the number of dreamhome-less Virgos. In fact, I expect you folks will experience extra amounts of domestic bliss in the coming months. You may feel more at home in the world than ever before.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I don’t require everyone I learn from to be an impeccable saint. If I vowed to draw inspiration only from those people who flawlessly embody every one of my ethical principles, there’d be no one to be inspired by.

Even one of my greatest heroes, Martin Luther King Jr., cheated on his wife and plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation. Where do you stand on this issue, Libra? I bet you will soon be tested. How much imperfection is acceptable to you?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio comedian John Cleese co-founded the troupe Monty Python more than 50 years ago, and he has been generating imaginative humor ever since. I suggest we call on his counsel as you enter the most creative phase of your astrological cycle. “This is the extraordinary thing about creativity,” he says. “If you just keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.” Here’s another one of Cleese’s insights that will serve you well: “The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer, and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) developed a vigorous and expansive vision.

That’s why he became a leading intellectual influence in the era known as the Enlightenment. But because of his inventive, sometimes controversial ideas, he was shunned by his fellow Jews and had his books listed on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. Understandably, he sometimes felt isolated. To compensate, he spent lots of time alone taking wideranging journeys in his imagination. Even if you have all the friends and social stimulation you need, I hope you will follow his lead in the coming weeks—by taking wide-ranging journeys in your imagination. It’s time to roam and ramble in inner realms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Absolute reason expired at eleven o’clock last night,” one character tells another in Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. I’m happy to report that a different development is on the verge of occurring for you, Capricorn. In recent days, there may have been less than an ideal amount of reason and logic circulating in your world. But that situation will soon change. The imminent outbreak of good sense, rigorous sanity and practical wisdom will be quite tonic. Take advantage of this upcoming grace period. Initiate bold actions that are well-grounded in objective rather than subjective truth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Renowned Aquarian composer Franz Schubert (1797– 1828) created more than 700 compositions, some of which are still played by modern musicians.

Many of his works were written on and for the piano—and yet he was so poor that he never owned a piano. If there has been a similar situation in your life, Aquarius—a lack of some crucial tool or support due to financial issues—I see the coming weeks as being an excellent time to set in motion the plans that will enable you to overcome and cure that problem.

Homework: I declare you champion, unvanquishable hero and titleholder of triumphant glory. Do you accept? Freewillastrology.com.

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former employee of a finance firm is behind bars in Macon County, Tenn., after allegedly stealing $51,000 in customer loan payments, WATE reported. Serena Swindle, 41, was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 5, after a yearlong investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. She was held on $3,500 bond at the Macon County Jail.

What’s in a Name?

Shareeka Strawn, 28, must have panicked when the car she was riding in was pulled over by police in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, for a minor traffic violation. According to the probable cause affidavit, Strawn, who had several outstanding warrants, falsely identified herself as “Porshala” Strawn, apparently unaware that a records check would reveal a real Porshala Strawn that had an outstanding warrant, so she was duly arrested. The Times Record News reported Shareeka is currently facing a number of charges, including giving a false name.

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Oops Giovanni Palmiero, 101, has been living in the United Kingdom since 1966, so logically, he applied to remain there after Brexit.

Alarmingly, the Home Office demanded that Palmiero’s parents confirm his identity and accompany him to an office in north London to make his application. Dimitri Scarlato, a volunteer helping Palmiero, immediately realized the computer had read Palmiero’s birth year as 2019 instead of 1919. “I phoned the Home Office, and it took two calls and half an hour for them to understand,” Scarlato told The Guardian. Palmiero has been married to his 92-year-old wife, Lucia, for 75 years. Yes, they will be able to remain in the U.K.

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Ryan Sentelle State, 37, has been arrested in Salt Lake City after police said he admitted using mice, hamsters and gerbils to get free hotel rooms. KUTV reported on Thursday, Jan. 30, that authorities allege State would release the rodents in a hotel room and then complain about the “infestation,” prompting hotel workers to apologize and offer him a room for free. State faces charges of theft by deception and criminal mischief.

Juan Zamora, 63, of Kissimmee, Fla., needed directions on Saturday, Feb. 8, and flashed his headlights at a Marion County Sheriff’s squad car to ask for help, the Ocala Star-Banner reported. Deputy Calvin Batts obliged, but during the conversation, he noticed Zamora smelled like alcohol and was unsteady on his feet, according to the arrest report. Zamora then resisted Batts’ request to take a breath test, saying, “You didn’t pull me over; I pulled you over” and told the officer he is “legally disabled,” which might account for his instability. However, it wouldn’t explain the bag of white powder found in Zamora’s shirt pocket, which field-tested positive for cocaine, according to the report. Batts also reported finding a 2/3rds-full bottle of Canadian whiskey and a 15-year-old passenger in the vehicle. Zamora was arrested and charged with DUI and possession of cocaine.

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Residents of an apartment building in Kerala, India, were surprised on Monday, Feb. 3, when a pungent mixture of beer, brandy and rum began flowing from their faucets instead of water. Officials told the BBC that about 6,000 liters of alcohol confiscated on court orders had been buried in a pit nearby, but it seeped through the soil into the well used as a water source for the building. “The children couldn’t go to school, and even their parents couldn’t go to work,” Joshy Malyiekkal, the building owner, said.

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which each will house 92 bikes, was $600,000 apiece. “Quality control issues with contractors can take time to sort out,” the Metro said in a statement, “but Metro determined it was important to get the project done right rather than get it done quickly.” It hopes the projects, first set to be completed in December of 2015, will be finished in the next few months.

Racking Up a Bill The Washington, D.C., Metro has spent five years and $3.8 million building two stillunfinished bike racks at two of its stations, WJLA reported on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The original budget for the two covered racks,

An unnamed 47-year-old Italian woman convicted of fraud in 2017 in Sicily has been on the run since then, The Guardian reported, eluding authorities by hiding in convents.

The woman moved to the northern region of Italy and phoned convents pretending to be a sister “looking for help and claiming she was severely ill,” investigators said. As she moved from convent to convent, she changed her identity, duping nuns who trusted her and thought her to be kind. Finally, a Benedictine nun grew suspicious and phoned police, telling them her stories were “full of contradictions.” Authorities verified her identity and arrested her. She now faces further charges of claiming false identity. © 2020 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION F E B R U A R Y 2 0 , 2 0 2 0 | 33

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I was over by my buddy Little Jimmy Iodine’s the other day getting ready for us guys’ annual Presidents’ Day costume contest at the Uptowner tavern/charm school when Jimmy said Trumpel-thinskin would’ve been better off for his Union speech if instead of his usual lying bullshit, he had read some Mickey Spillane—Kiss Me, Deadly, or Vengeance Is Mine!—for the crowd. And I suggested that the set of the Encyclopedia Americana he had just picked up at a rummage sale would be good reading for our oh-so literate leader.

So I was perusing the volume “Caste to Civil Law” when it occurred to me I couldn’t recall when the writer Raymond Chandler was born, so I thought I’d take a look-see. Guess what? He wasn’t in there and he wasn’t indexed, neither. Focking-A, according to this “encyclopedia” (my ass), Ray’s never been born, means he never existed, means he never wrote this: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.”

It means he never wrote, from his The Big Sleep, “Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean; who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”

Means he never wrote The Big Sleep, means a great American known as Bogie was never a movie Marlowe—wait a cotton-focking-picking minute… Nope.

Volume “Birds of Paradise to Bullfinch,” no entry for Bogart, Humphrey, means all of a sudden I’m living in some kind of focking alternate universe where what I think I know has destructed into nothingness.

Who the hell’s going to turn up never-been-born next, I wondered. “Orley to Photographic Telescope”: There’s no Charlie focking Parker there. Are they telling me the Birdman of Alchemy-jazz never swung gold out of sky-high-moon-June-blue? What the fock.

All of a sudden I got a nervous sweat like a retired file clerk whose shapely, new, too-young bride is going out for drinks and laughs with a former beau who

came suddenly into a lot of dough, who’s got a big boat, the kind of boat that would give her an excuse to try out that new swanky two-piece swimsuit and ask the former beau which piece he liked better—the top or the bottom. Yeah, a nervous sweat like that.

I had to keep my cool, use my head. Then it hit me, like a couple of slugs to the gut sent packing from the gray tunnel of a .32. William focking Faulkner. He put the ink on The Big Sleep movie script. I grabbed “Falstaff to Francken,” and a toe-hold on sanity. Bill’s there, resting pressed between Faulhaber, Michael von (German cardinal, born 1869) and Fault (as in earthquake). Pretty crappy sanctuary for a guy like The Faulk, who needed a couple, 10 stiff eye-openers to keep the shakes at bay so’s he could read his own goddamn handwriting. I know that drill.

But not a word about the years he spent hacking in LA-LA Land to pay the bills; so I go back to “Caste to Civil Law” ’cause maybe I simply missed Chandler, Raymond the first time I looked. Nope. Where Ray should’ve turned up instead is Chandler, Richard. This Chandler, Dick was an “English classical antiquary,” what the fopping fock, and I can’t believe this encyclopedia’s got the perniciously sheer unrelenting gall to go on about some foreign knob born in 1738 and his “elaborate description of the Arundel marbles” but doesn’t have the time to mention a guy who could really drape an “elaborate description” all over up and down a gorgeous dame in distress; and the focksticks who put out this encyclopedia call it Americana? You got to be jerking my beefaroni.

Now I don’t know if it be exactly Ray C. Chandler who wrote “She had an ass like two duck eggs in a napkin”—the greatest piece of description ever described by mankind—but you can bet this Americana won’t help you find out who did. You also won’t find out about Jackson Pollock, another great American not in this Americana. But what you will find a whole lot of in this so-called Americana is about a hundred million entries for croaked white guys who only spoke European, and this sucks manure, I kid you not.

You can keep your Louis Marie de focking Bourbon, your Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobels-fockingdorff, and give me more Americans of the group of Americans who know what Americans do best, and what Americans do best is working out with the freedom of expressing whatever they got needs expressing, expressing anything that moves, expressing like minks, without intimidation, in this one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek, and I told you so.

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Fri 2/28

Sunny Sweeney

Church of Cash

Seaside Zoo

ERIN ENDERLIN

$15 adv/ $20 dr Mon 3/2

Nektar, District 97 $25

JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE

$12 adv/ $15 dr

Tues 3/3

Howard Jones Acoustic Trio RACHAEL SAGE

$40

GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE

$10

Sat 2/29

Anthony Gomes $15

Fri 3/6

Sat 3/7

Klassik

Damaged Justice

“QUIET” VINYL RELEASE SHOW

$15 adv/ $20 dr /

$40 INCLUDES VINYL

(METALLICA TRIBUTE) FREAK ON A LEASH (KORN TRIBUTE)

$15

3/11 Ana Popovic 3/12 The Bel Airs 3/13 Albert Cummings 3/14 Duke Tumatoe & the Power Trio 3/16 Flying Buffaloes 3/18 Ward Davis, Josh Morningstar 3/19 The Nielsen Trust featuring Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick 3/20 Jeffrey Gaines, Cassidy and the Music 3/21 No Quarter 3/25 Joe Louis Walker 3/27 Koch Marshall Trio 3/28 Brand X 3/30 Talisk 4/1 Tinsley Ellis 4/2 The Claudettes 4/3 NightSnake, Diver Down 4/4 Jagged Little Pill, Don’t Speak 4/10 The Lovin’ Kind, Failure To Launch 4/17 Altered Five Blues Band 4/18 Benjamin Trick, Hi/Jack and The Dayrollers 4/21 Yak Attack 4/23 Jazz Is Phsh 4/24 Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush 4/25 New Wave Fest 4/29 The Minks 4/30 24-7 Spyz, Joker’s Henchmen 5/1 Pundamonium: The Milwaukee Pun Slam 5/2 Wayne Baker Brooks 5/3 Pierre Bensusan 5/8 Cowboy Mouth 5/9 Super-Unknown, Big Bang Baby, TEN Chicago 5/15 Katie Toupin 5/16 The Monochrome Set 5/23 Cloud Zero, Big Time 6/4 Steve Forbert, Dana Erlandson 6/5 Webb Wilder 7/10 Electric Six, Speedealer 11/2 Hoodoo Gurus 36 | F E B R UA RY 2 0 , 2 0 2 0

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