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DEMAND FOR RECYCLABLE MATERIALS IS IN DECLINE Wisconsin officials look for ways to make recycling efficient and profitable ::BY DAN SHAW

ortunately for recycling advocates, Wisconsin law prohibits municipalities from eliminating their recycling services. This doesn’t mean, though, that local officials here aren’t subject to the same pressures that have led their counterparts in other parts of the country to either curtail or abandon their programs. Faced with declining demand from China and other market headwinds, recycling advocates are looking for ways to ensure recycling services remain in place for years far into the future.

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The biggest change will probably have to come from the public. Opinion poll after opinion poll shows that the services remain popular, yet too often, people do things that cause more harm than good. One troublesome behavior is a lazy habit that industry ofﬁcials have taken to calling “wish-cycling.” This refers to the act of tossing something into the recycling bin in the hopes that it can be recycled or, at the very least, that it will be sorted out by a line worker once it gets to a recycling center. Wish-cycling has been encouraged to some extent by the now common practice of single-stream recycling. With single-stream recycling, people no longer have to worry about sorting out recyclable materials into different categories and keeping them apart to be collected in separate containers. The trouble is that non-recyclable contaminants are also being tossed in large numbers. Even when these sorts of things—plastic grocery bags, greasy pizza boxes, dirty diapers and the like—don’t render a batch completely undesirable to buyers of recyclable materials, they still have to be removed. The costs in time and money are both steep. Jennifer Semrau, waste reduction and diversion coordinator at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, says plastic grocery bags are only the beginning of the problem. Semrau explains that people have also been known to throw things like Christmas lights and extension cords in recycling bins. These sorts of things can not only get wrapped around processing equipment and bring the whole works to a stop but also endanger the line employees responsible for untangling the mess. “I know people are well-intentioned and are trying to recycle as much as possible,” Semrau says. “But it’s really not helpful.” Eliminating contamination is even more important at a time when the supply of recyclable materials far outstrips the demand. Buyers of these materials are now in a position to reject all but the cleanest batches.

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In early 2018, China—long the biggest buyer of recyclable materials from the U.S.—imposed new rules prohibiting the acceptance of any imported load that was more than 5% contaminated. The limit was far too strict for most batches from the U.S., where nearly one out of every four things tossed into a recycling bin doesn’t really belong there. With demand choked off at its once-greatest source, the decline in prices for recyclable materials has been precipitous. Semrau says that recyclable paper was going for about $60 a ton a few years ago; now the same amount fetches only about $5. With their margins reduced, some recycling centers have taken to fining municipalities that bring in overly contaminated hauls. Others simply reject batches, sending them instead to landfills and undermining the point of recycling anything in the first place. Despite all

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this, Semrau says she has yet to hear from any city official who thinks the state’s mandatory recycling law imposes too great of a burden. Samantha Longshore, resource recovery program manager for Milwaukee, says support for recycling remains strong, and that what’s perhaps most needed is a concerted public information campaign to help people better understand what things are, indeed, truly recyclable. Some officials would also like to try to prevent certain products from ending up in bins by imposing local controls, she adds. Moving in this direction with the current Republican-controlled state Legislature might be difficult, however. Many cities throughout Wisconsin have started banning the sorts of plastic grocery bags that wreak havoc at recycling centers. But under former Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin adopted a law in 2016 prohibiting such bans.

Public Demand is Strong Despite all this, some municipalities have actually found ways to increase their services. Just north of Milwaukee, in the village of Whitefish Bay, local officials recently went from having recyclable materials picked up once a month to every other week. John Edelbeck, Whitefish Bay director of public works, says the change was made largely in response to public demand. With village residents having more and more material to recycle every year—the advent of next-day delivery from Amazon has been a big contributor to this trend—once-amonth collection was proving inadequate.

THE TROUBLE IS THAT NON-RECYCLABLE CONTAMINANTS ARE ALSO BEING TOSSED IN LARGE NUMBERS. EVEN WHEN THESE SORTS OF THINGS —PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS, GREASY PIZZA BOXES, DIRTY DIAPERS AND THE LIKE —DON’T RENDER A BATCH COMPLETELY UNDESIRABLE TO BUYERS OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS, THEY STILL HAVE TO BE REMOVED.

Still, the economics of recycling do not bode well. With China unlikely to change its stance on contamination, some are calling for a fundamental reconsideration of the goals behind recycling. According to Meleesa Johnson—director of the Marathon County Solid Waste Department and president of Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin—the monetary value of recyclable materials has perhaps been oversold. No matter how strong the market, collecting these materials is always going to be an expensive enterprise. Trucks, in many cases, have to be bought and fueled up, and people have to be paid to drive them and to sort materials at recycling centers, which themselves aren’t cheap to operate. When prices were strong, Johnson says, some recycling advocates had come to look at recycling as something that would not just be good for the environment but also become a moneymaker. “It was a noble message, but it was a stupid message,” she says. “The reality is that, just like all markets, the market for recyclables goes up and down based on demand.” Given the market’s fitfulness, Johnson and others are saying now’s the time to return to basics and remember what recycling was meant to be about in the first place: protecting the environment by reducing the landfilling of waste. “And for that reason, we are working to change our message to make it about recycling right, and that quality control starts in every single household in the state,” Johnson concludes. “So, don’t wishcycle. Don’t just put [anything] in the recycling bin.” Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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-First-time Homebuyer Dear First-time Homebuyer, Well that is exciting! Being a first-time homebuyer, I’m sure you will have a lot of questions along the way. The homebuying and mortgage process has many steps that we are happy to help you with. First, let’s establish how much you can afford to borrow. This may seem easy but there are several variables to consider. A general guideline is that you can comfortably afford a payment that is roughly 28% of your gross income. What does comfortably mean to you? People generally want to know what the maximum amount they can be approved for is. I recommend you find a home that is under that amount. Borrowing up to that amount may mean a pretty big change in lifestyle. While you can “technically” afford it, you may not want to afford it. With new homeownership comes unexpected costs that you also want to make sure you have money for when they happen. Plus, you want to keep saving

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money after you buy your home. Start with a price range that is under the maximum amount approved. Test that against the new expenses that come with homeownership to make sure you still have money to do the other things you want to do. As a first-time homebuyer, you likely won’t get your dream house to start. Start smaller, build up some equity in the home and when you are ready for the upgrade, buy your next home! After you have a feel for the price range you can afford, work with the lender to determine which mortgage loan product is right for you. There are many mortgage products and one that is right for your friend may not be right for you. Numerous factors figure in to your best options, including disposable income, the amount you’re financing, how long you plan to own the home, the amount of your down payment and how quickly you plan to pay down the mortgage. Well-trained mortgage loan officers can discuss all of this to get you into the best mortgage product for you. A home is often the biggest purchase of your life, and the difference in the cost of your mortgage can vary by thousands of dollars. Also, it’s important to find a lender that services your mortgage locally and will be available if you ever need assistance. Helping members find their best options and servicing locally is what we do at Summit Credit Union. You will be in a stronger position in negotiating an offer if you obtain a preapproval letter. A Summit preapproval carries a great deal of weight as you search for a home because it means we’ve reviewed your financial picture and approved you for financing. It also helps to ensure that your closing on the home will be timely and go smoothly.

The process is more efficient if you have gathered the following items: recent pay stubs, W-2s, checking, savings, and investment account statements, and your recent tax return. If you are still saving for a down payment, think about setting a goal and cutting back significantly on any splurges for a time period while also paying down debt more aggressively. After that, it’s a matter of contacting us and getting the process started. It is exciting to own your first home and we are excited to help make that happen!

-Kim Kim Sponem is CEO & President, since 2002, of Summit Credit Union, a $3.4 billion, member-owned financial cooperative with more than 186,000 members. Kim has a passion for empowering people to improve their financial well-being for a richer life. Ask Kim your money questions by emailing: moneysmarts@ summitcreditunion.com M AY 2 , 2 0 1 9 | 5

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How Sleepy Oak Creek Became a Boom Town ::BY CATHERINE JOZWIK

t one time, the City of Oak Creek consisted of little more than open land and residential areas. Today, it’s become a most desirable place in Milwaukee County in which to live, work and play. Though rooted in tradition, the city is moving towards the future and attracting a number of diverse residents, especially young professionals. “There’s a lot of things Oak Creek has to offer,” says Andrew Vickers, Oak Creek city administrator. Vickers, 35, who has a wife and three young children, moved to Oak Creek in 2016. Just over 10 miles from downtown Milwaukee, Oak Creek has experienced considerable economic, population and housing growth over the past several years, with the building of major housing development and shopping center Drexel Town Square and Swedish home goods retailer Ikea in 2018. An Amazon fulfillment center, to be constructed at 9700 S. 13th St. in Ryan Business Park, is expected to open in 2020 and employ 1,500 workers. In the next few years, aviation manufacturer Astronautics Corporation of America will relocate its headquarters from Milwaukee’s North Side to the former Master Lock campus, 135 W. Forest Hill Ave. According to Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz, Astronautics is expected to bring about 450 engineering and factory jobs to Oak Creek. Bukiewicz, who succeeded radio personality Steve Scaffidi as Oak Creek mayor after Scaffidi’s resignation in March 2017, feels that the city’s willingness to embrace change is one of its many positive attributes. The mayor, who grew up on Milwaukee’s southwest side, moved to Oak Creek 30 years ago. “We have a great history, but as the city is changing, we are taking new people into account,” Bukiewicz says. Besides residents, the city’s convenient freeway access is also attracting new business owners, according to Barbara Wesener, executive director of the South Suburban Chamber of Commerce, which represents Oak Creek, Franklin and surrounding communities. “We have such amazing access to I-94. There’s an easy way to get your products in and out,” Wesener explains. 6 | M AY 2 , 2 0 1 9

Ashley and Nick Timber are lifelong Oak Creek residents. The couple, who met at Oak Creek High School, opened City 13 Escape Room in January 2018. “When we decided to open up our business, we couldn’t think of a better place to do it,” says Ashley Timber. “Oak Creek was getting so many new and trendy places in which to live and eat, but there was not much in terms of entertainment. You still had to drive to Downtown Milwaukee to go out and do something.” Oak Creek is home to people of many ethnicities and religions, from Sikhs to Hispanics to African Americans to Caucasians, and all age groups. “You wouldn’t think of Oak Creek as a diverse community, but we are. We have a very diverse minority population, and our leadership embraces that,” says Vickers. The city’s stable taxes (Oak Creek taxes are the thirdlowest in Milwaukee County) and quality school system with plenty of athletics and extracurricular activities are other factors that appeal to residents, especially those with children. “If you’re a parent, it’s just a hub of activity to keep kids busy,” Bukiewicz says. Oak Creek’s economic boom has spurred a demand for housing over the last several years, with homes selling at a rapid pace. Starter homes range from $200,000-$300,000. The city, which spans 28 miles, contains many subdivisions and lots for home-building. Oak Creek contains a variety of housing options, from new townhouses and apartments to single-family and larger homes, including the recently-built The Waters, a retirement and assisted living community in Drexel Town Square. With major business and housing developments like Drexel Town Square, the city scores high on the walkability factor. “Being in a walkable community is a great draw,” Wesener says.

Plenty of Green Space

Business development in Oak Creek may be booming, but the city still boasts a considerable amount of green space. Oak Creek contains 25 well-maintained parks. These include Lake Vista on Lake Michigan, which opened last year, and Abendschein Community Park, with nature trails, a baseball ﬁeld, a disc golf course and a skate park. Both Lake Vista and Abendschein have summer beer gardens. Graphic designer and artist Gwendolyn Granzow, who has lived with her family in Oak Creek for 28 years, witnessed the city undergo many changes. “When we moved in, it felt like the country,” she recalls. Although houses have replaced Oak Creek’s many open ﬁelds, Granzow still spots plenty of wildlife in her own backyard. “Deer walk through our yard every evening, year-round,”

she says. Located in close proximity to Lake Michigan, Granzow’s home has inspired the artist’s creativity and offered many beneﬁts to her family. “Living close to the lake and on nearly an acre of land has given us the space to create art, to raise a family and to plant an amazing garden,” she continues. Oak Creek’s increasing amenities means that residents can enjoy nightlife without having to drive to downtown Milwaukee. “We love living here. Almost everything we need is right in Oak Creek,” Ashley Timber says. Drexel Town Square is the city’s premier hot spot, hosting numerous events, from ethnic festivals, including Cuban Fest, to live music, farmers markets and food truck events. “The community is just teeming with activity. There’s something going on there all the time these days,” Bukiewicz says. Despite looking towards the future, Oak Creek hasn’t let community traditions go by the wayside. Each year, the city hosts an annual Easter Egg hunt, Fourth of July festivities and a Christmas celebration, events that help bring neighbors together. “We love the sense of community. Everyone is friendly,” Ashley Timber said. “We have a lot of cool stuff to do here,” Vickers adds. According to Bukiewicz, Oak Creek is currently revising its comprehensive city plan with a 10-year vision for the future; it’s a strategic action plan, good through 2020, whose objectives include implementing “thoughtful development and a prosperous economy,” “vibrant and diverse cultural opportunities” and creating “a safe, welcoming and engaged community.” To Oak Creek ofﬁcials, community feedback is paramount. To receive input from residents, the city hosts several workshops a year. “We are looking at our 10-year plan and taking all age brackets into account,” says Bukiewicz. “We like to feel that we are really getting the pulse of the community.” The mayor noted that the city is also considering revising—and adding— ordinances that pertain to LED lights, lot space and distilling spirits. Bukiewicz says his constituents’ requests include more environmentally-friendly businesses and green space, increased dining and shopping options, upscale health clubs, arts festivals and family-friendly community activities. “We are open-minded as to what we are doing for the future,” he adds. “Instead of telling the residents what they need, we have residents tell us what they’d like.” Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n (above - left to right) Drexel Town Square, LakeVistaBeerGarden, Abendschein Park (left) Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz PHOTOS COURTESY OF CITY OF OAK CREEK

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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( MAY 2 - 8, 2019 ) The Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Trump administration and other activities that seek to thwart social justice.

Thursday, May 2

‘The Brink’ (film) @ Oriental Theatre (2230 N. Farwell Ave.) 4 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.

When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Donald Trump’s inner circle and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post—though some say he still has a direct line to the White House—he became free to peddle influence as a perceived kingmaker, turning his controversial brand of nationalism into a global movement.

Friday, May 3

Demand Fair Maps @ Grassroots Northshore (5600 W. Brown Deer Road) 3–4:30 p.m.

Send pre-printed postcards demanding a nonpartisan redistricting process to the Joint Finance Committee. Show GOP legislators that you care and vote.

Saturday, May 4

Re-imagining Villard Forward @ Villard Square Library (5190 N. 35th St.) 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Momentum is building as the Villard Avenue business corridor is currently being revitalized. However, this cannot be done without input directly from current and former residents, businesses, and our community partners. You are invited to come out and join your fellow neighbors in re-imagining Villard Avenue.

Saturday, May 4

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of 19th St. and W. Wisconsin Ave. 11–11:45 a.m. (EARLY TIME in deference to the Annual Luncheon of the United Nations Association)

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

Sunday, May 5

Metro Milwaukee Has the Most Segregated Housing in the Country. Why? @ Plymouth Church (2717 E. Hampshire St.) 2:30-5 p.m.

Who is perpetuating the situation? What can we do to change it? Is this who we really are? Reggie Jackson, Head Griot of the Black Holocaust Museum, gives insight into the past, present and possible future of Milwaukee housing in the city and suburbs.

133rd Anniversary of the Bay View Tragedy @ Historical Marker 275 (corner of S. Superior Street and E. Russell Ave.) 3-5 p.m.

On the Fifth of May 1886, thousands of Milwaukee workers marched peacefully on the huge Bay View Rolling Mills as part of a nationwide effort to bring about the eight-hour day. When the marchers were 200 yards away, the State Militia fired, killing seven. This was the bloodiest labor disturbance in Wisconsin’s history and began a new struggle for a more humane workplace and just society.

Brew City Safari/Jane’s Walk: East to West Night Hike @ The Calling (931 E. Wisconsin Ave.) 3:30-7 a.m.

Is a city still a city when you take away the people? Does it have the same solitude as an empty forest? Come explore Milwaukee’s empty streets at night to find out. From the commercial Downtown area to the industrial South Side and the natural space of the Menomonee Valley, see what our sleeping silent city has to offer. Jane’s Walk seeks to embody urban activist Jane Jacobs’ legacy by organizing free, citizen-led neighborhood explorations and building community connections through observation and dialogue, education and storytelling, and collectively reimagining and changing the places in which Milwaukeeans live, work and play.

Monday, May 6

Plastic Free MKE Meeting @ Urban Ecology Center, Riverside Park (1500 E. Park Place) 6-7 p.m.

Anyone interested in reducing single-use plastics in Milwaukee is welcome. The main focus of this meeting will be to match volunteers up with tasks for the group that will further the cause.

‘Citizen Jane’ (film) @ Brown Deer Library (5600 W. Bradley Road, Brown Deer) 4-6 p.m. (Also Tuesday at Milwaukee Public Library Villard Square Branch, 5190 N. 35th St., 6-8 p.m.)

Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, helped change the way we look at urban living. Citizen Jane focuses on Jacobs’ most consequential battle in the 1960s, when she went up against a ruthless New York City power broker—and won.

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You Doubt Foxconn’s Jobs Promise Last week, we asked if you believe that Foxconn will create the 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin that they and the Republicans promised. You said: n Yes: 10% n No: 90%

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After all of the allegations regarding Donald Trump’s questionable financial activity from people under oath, do you believe that Trump has a right to block Congress from getting his tax returns? n Yes n No Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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Sorting Through the Democratic Crowd ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

ith 20 Democratic presidential candidates vying for public attention, it will take a while even for voters eager to defeat one of the worst presidents in history to sort through the crowded ﬁeld of alternatives to decide upon the strongest possible candidate. That’s actually a good thing. There’s no hurry. The Iowa caucuses aren’t until Feb. 3, 2020. Next month, the most diverse group of presidential candidates in history will begin nationally televised debates. That’s when we’ll start seeing which candidates rise above all the others. The long-distance runners will emerge, and the strongest possible nominee—perhaps even the strongest possible ticket—will become obvious before July’s 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. Here are some differences among the candidates that will be resolved along the way:

Who’s Too Old?

It’s an odd issue for Democrats since the incumbent Republican president is an alarming, emotionally unstable 72-year-old who raves incoherently about his own awesome intellect and unprecedented greatness. Former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 77, the two best-known Democratic candidates, aren’t much older than Donald Trump, but neither has ever lost touch with reality and shouted more than 100 lies in a single speech or had any difﬁculty in interviews ﬁnishing intelligible sentences. Biden’s political stature grew after being utilized by President Obama as a central player in his presidency. But now, as many Americans long for the return of rational, progressive leadership, the media is casting Biden as past his prime. Is he too moderate for today’s young, activist Democrats? That completely misrepresents Biden’s career on the cutting edge of most progressive issues. Without losing his strength among white, working-class voters, Biden was out in front of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in supporting same-sex marriage. Obama also chose Biden to lead the drive for common-sense gun regulations after the slaughter of children at Sandy Hook before many Democrats worked up enough political courage to speak out. Sanders, too, is rightfully proud of how many years he’s been promoting progressive ideas. He’s the old guy who ignited political passion among young voters all over America in the last election for the same sort of SHEPHERD EXPRESS

social-democratic ideas that made Franklin Delano Roosevelt one of America’s greatest presidents. Trump and Republicans who long to return to the good old days that led to the Great Depression are the ones hopelessly behind the times.

What About Gender and Race?

Here’s a safe bet. The 2020 Democratic ticket will include a man, a woman, someone white and either an African American or a Latino. The Republican ticket will be two white guys. Only one of our two major national parties looks like America. Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are the most prominent female candidates. Harris is a skillful former prosecutor, once considered a plus for female candidates to prove they were tough. With a snarling bully as president, it may be more important that she talks about protecting health care and keeping children out of cages. Harris also is the biracial daughter of immigrants from different countries; her father is from Jamaica and her mother from India. Warren is an endless source of creative plans to protect the public from abuses by ﬁnancial institutions and to force the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes. Republicans hate her ideas, but most Americans think they’re long overdue. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, another former prosecutor, is also getting attention from those hoping a Midwestern candidate could help take back Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, traditionally Democratic in presidential elections until Trump narrowly won. Democrats got a big head start in the midterms by sweeping all three states.

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TACEY WILLIAMS-NG IS A MURAL ARTIST WHO HAS FOUND HER CALLING AS AN ORGANIZER. When asked why she is inspired to bring street art to the buildings of Milwaukee, her response was simply, “the empty walls.” Originally from Memphis, Williams-Ng moved to Milwaukee and saw a blank canvas waiting to be filled with color. Her background in illustration and chalk art led her to painting murals, but her life changed when Tim Decker, an animation lecturer at the UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts suggested they convert a dirty alley into an art festival. That alley is now Black Cat Alley. The transformation of Black Cat Alley was an important change in Williams-Ng’s life because it allowed her to do more than create art; she was able to provide opportunities for other artists. In the two years it took to bring Black Cat Alley to life, she learned the intricacies of fundraising, legal paperwork, marketing and everything in between. “The biggest thing I’ve learned is that I like helping other artists better

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than I like painting the murals myself,” she says. “I feel like if I stop and paint one wall, it’s a waste of my time. I could do so much more work to help the other artists.” The hype that followed Black Cat Alley opened doors for her to develop more street art throughout the city.

Williams-Ng’s next venture came in 2017 when she was approached by the Kinnickinnic Avenue BID to decorate Kinnickinnic Avenue with five murals. Painted by female artists from Bay View, the murals start at Café Lulu and go as far south as Sprocket Café. With this project, WilliamsNg founded her company, Wallpapered City, and her new career was officially born as an organizer for street art. Since the Bay View mural project, Williams-Ng and her new company have only gained momentum and they have big plans for the future. She is currently working with the Wauwatosa neighborhood to adorn the walls of North Avenue. Her goal is to connect the city with murals along North Avenue from Wauwatosa to Black Cat Alley on the East Side by 2021. “Public art, and murals in particular, bring communities together and create conversations,” explains Williams-Ng. She envisions completing this project neighborhood by neighborhood, allowing each one to tell their unique story and history through art. Eventually, those stories will build a bridge across Milwaukee, helping Milwaukeeans discover their affinity. One thing Williams-Ng stresses is that street art does so much more than beautify a wall, “it gets people talking.” In the case of Black Cat Alley, it reinvigorated the area, brought in new business and became a destination for portraits. “I want to help elevate the discussion and help people realize that what [mural artists] are doing is going to have a much greater impact.” Street art represents culture, it opens conversation and it brings life to a colorless space. Learn more at wallpapered.city. For more of Erin Bloodgood’s work, visit bloodgoodfoto.com. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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e hear plenty about the deleterious health impacts of obesity, which now affects more than a third of Americans. However, a new study examined another and equally disquieting downside of this condition—dehumanization. Folks struggling with obesity and those overweight but not obese (another third of us) have long suffered the indignities of fat jokes and denigrating terms like “pig out” and “beached whale,” to name a few. These insults permeate our cultural mindset toward those with this issue, reflecting a set of deeply ingrained attitudes we rarely challenge. However, dehumanization goes beyond ridicule, and it can be far more psychologically damaging. Why? Because it assaults one’s essential worth. The research in question examined whether people believe obese individuals are “less evolved and human” than their thinner counterparts. Sadly, most do. As part of the study, the researchers also obtained BMI readings for the 1,500 or so folks who participated; this was to determine if thinner people are more likely than overweight ones to dehumanize those with obesity. Perhaps to your surprise, even overweight individuals in the study often dehumanized obese folks. However, I don’t find this odd, because many who struggle with weight internalize the negativity they experience from others and the culture at large, essentially turning on themselves. The bottom line? Many of us view people with obesity as “less human.” The causes of obesity are multi-faceted and complex, incorporating such factors as genetics, environment, lifestyle choices, socio-economic status, metabolic set point and cultural attitudes (such as those in the study). There is evidence the negative social stigma attached to obesity undermines efforts to address it. Shaming, mocking and ostracizing fail to motivate people to better manage this condition. Au contraire, these verbal sticks-and-stones diminish the self-esteem and can-do mindset required for meeting this health challenge. Many who dehumanize the obese believe they lack willpower, assuming they are lazy and

indifferent to their physical well-being. The opposite is often true. A large percentage of obese folks struggle to lose weight and, despite repeated failed efforts, keep trying again and again. Many exhibit a level of persistence their naturally thinner counterparts never have to summon; not to mention the mettle they must muster from within themselves to maintain their self-respect when so many seem intent on taking it from them. So, where does this seemingly innate bias come from? In part, it is a sidebar to our ridiculous standard for physical attractiveness. The stereotypic fashion model comes to mind. Obviously, overweight folks violate this absurd cultural value. Within this whacky standard, lean and hard-bodied is beautiful, while large and Rubenesque is not. Who says? From what mountain top was this commandment handed down? Another contributor to this dehumanization is the human penchant for denigrating others in an effort to puff up one’s self. Many of us take private satisfaction in playing and winning the comparison game. This research tells us that, often, folks with obesity get treated more as things than persons and, in many instances, are made to feel less than human. Weightism, if we may call it that, is just as dehumanizing a bias as sexism or racism. In some instances, it has similar effects, messing with employment opportunities, promotions, acceptance in certain social circles and so on. As is true with all the other -isms that plague us, we will become a better society if we see people, first and foremost, as just that—fellow human beings. All of us struggle, we have failings and endure suffering, so the challenges of this existence, however they emerge in our individual lives, are something we have in common. Meaning it’s a shame so many harbor a disparaging view of large people. And the shame is on us.

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USCIS to Deny U.S. Citizenship to Legal Immigrants Linked to Legal Cannabis ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

oes smoking cannabis make you a bad person? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) think so, as they clarified in a document published on Friday, April 19. The note explicitly states that “an applicant who is involved in certain marijuana-related activities may lack good moral character [...], even if such activity has been decriminalized under applicable state laws.” In other words, a Green Card holder (or other documented immigrant) who smokes a blunt in Colorado or uses legal medical marijuana to ease his pain in Illinois could be denied citizenship for it. Even worse is the fact that a person can be denied citizenship for simply working in a dispensary or participating in the ever-growing cannabis industry. Only one exception is made for people found guilty of a single offense for simple possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock took a stand against this after he met with U.S. residents who were denied citizenship for their involvement in the cannabis industry, as ABC News reports. Additionally, the applicants for citizenship were advised not to travel outside of the U.S. for any reason, as they could be denied reentry despite being having legal residency in the country. “Legal immigrants shall not be penalized for working in the legitimate cannabis industry,” Hancock stated in a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

What Exactly Is ‘Good Moral Character?’

The onus is on immigrants to prove they are “good” people if they want to become U.S. citizens. What constitutes good moral character is defined by precise rules, according to which people are found lacking if they have ever partaken in murder, polygamy, habitual drinking, gambling, criminal activities (with or without an actual conviction for same), failure to support dependents, extramarital sex (if it hurt a marriage), moral turpitude and more. These rules are obviously derived from a subjective sense of morality; many of these are quite clearly outdated. In a more general manner, USCIS defines good moral character as “character which measures up to the standards of average citizens of the community in which the applicant resides.” However, according to the latest CBS poll, 65% of Americans are in favor of marijuana legalization and 55% admit to having tried marijuana, and most states have legalized it already to some degree. So, aren’t the “average citizens” in favor of cannabis consumption rather than against it? How, then, can it a breach of “good moral character” to partake in activities that most wouldn’t consider immoral? Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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Jelly Belly Creator Rolls Out CBD Jelly Beans ::BY SHEILA JULSON

n 1976, Californian David Klein created a line of gourmet jelly beans better known as Jelly Belly. After selling the Jelly Belly brand to the Herman Goelitz Confectionery Company in 1980, Klein watched Jelly Belly soar to stardom and beyond. Astronauts on the 1983 Challenger mission snacked on Jelly Belly beans while in outer space, and President Ronald Reagan regularly served them in the White House. But today, Klein is back with another gourmet jelly bean line that has a little something extra in it: cannabidiol, better known as CBD. Klein said the sale of the Jelly Belly brand included a 20-year non-compete cause, which kept him from making jelly beans for two decades. He stayed busy creating other candy with his signature extraordinary twists, like Sandy Candy Edible Sand Art. Klein, who had relocated to Florida since selling the Jelly Belly brand, discovered CBD when his wife, Rebecca, and he were in Colorado. Rebecca injured herself after slipping on a patio, and Klein went to a CBD dispensary to ﬁnd her some relief. She felt remarkably better after eating a CBD cookie, and that’s when the idea struck to make a jelly bean infused with CBD. After a long experimentation process, Klein launched the product this past January. The CBD jelly beans are sold under Spectrum Confections, a division of Klein’s Candyman Kitchens. Some earlier reports credited the Jelly Belly Candy Co. with manufacturing CBD jelly

beans, which prompted Jelly Belly to put out this statement on its website: Due to confusion in the marketplace, Jelly Belly Candy Co. would like to take this opportunity to clear up the misconception that it is involved with CBD jelly beans. David Klein—the creator of the CBD jelly bean product gaining attention within the media this week—is not associated with Jelly Belly Candy Co., its brands or products. In 1976, Mr. Klein, an independent third party, came up with the name ʻJelly Bellyʼ and other novel marketing ideas. Jelly Belly Candy Co. has not had a relationship with him since 1980, when it acquired the trademark. The statement further confirmed that Jelly Belly is not pursuing the development of any CBD products at this time. Each Spectrum Confections jelly bean contains 10 milligrams of CBD, Klein said, and the fruity, unique flavors mask the grassy taste of CBD. They’re also coated with a light dusting of sugar to keep them from sticking in humid climates. There’s no CBD in the coating, but it’s infused right into the bean. “The coating also allows the first taste to be sweeter, rather than getting a taste of the CBD right away,” Klein said. Flavor categories include regular, sour and sugar-free, with flavors like FireBurst, a hot and sweet combination; Triple Dipple, mimicking Neapolitan ice cream by combining chocolate, vanilla and strawberry; Prickly Pear; Root Beer; Strawberry Cheesecake; Toasted Marshmallow; and yes, Buttery Popcorn. There are 37 total flavors, and Klein uses real fruit juice whenever possible. CBD jelly beans are sold directly to retailers in bulk quantities, and retailers can package them for their own markets. Klein said he helps retailers develop their own names and concepts. “We have one customer who packages them under the name ‘Doctor Sweet Beans,’ because she wants to sell them to chiropractors. We’re helping her create a brand around our product.” Locally, Spectrum Confection’s CBD jelly beans are available at Closet Classics, 1000 E. North Ave. Anyone heading on a road trip to the Steven’s Point, Wis., area can also find them at Green Thumb Alternatives, 824 Main St., in that city. For more information, visit spectrumconfections.com. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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ith states like New York, Vermont and California upping their cheeseproducing game in recent years, does Wisconsin still hold the cheese title? DeďŹ nitely, according to local food and travel writer Kristine Hansen. She has extensively toured Wisconsin creameries and interviewed numerous cheesemakers for her new book, Wisconsin Cheese Cookbook: Creamy, Cheesy, Sweet and Savory Recipes From the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Creameries. The stories of 28 cheesemakersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as a few chefs and restaurateurs that promote Wisconsin cheese in their offeringsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are accompanied by page after page of tantalizing recipes featuring the creameryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s products. The book also serves as convenient guide for all things cheese-related. Hansen breaks down the characteristics of cheese made with cow, goat and sheep milk, cheese pairings, cheese award winners, annual cheese events and cheese retailers. Hansen, who had also penned articles about Wisconsin cheese, considered several factors when choosing which creameries to include in the book: cheesemakers with compelling stories; creameries that had been around for a while; creameries that had won awards over the years; and creameries with some kind of ethnic heritage and currently owned by third- or fourth-generation cheesemakers who still use the techniques of their predecessors from the old countries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was also really intrigued by couples that had left other careers to become cheesemakers,â&#x20AC;? Hansen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those like HighďŹ eld Farm Creamery, near Lake Geneva. The owners [Terry and Denise Woods] had worked in IT and in other careers and had lived in California for a while, but it was their dream to make cheese and have a farmstead.â&#x20AC;?

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The cheesemakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stories and recipes are broken down into four regions of the state: Southwest (which includes the Driftless region), Southeast, Northeast and Northwest. Getting a behind-the-scenes look showed Hansen how hands-on the cheesemakers are with the day-today operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was common for me to arrive for the interview and see them mowing the lawn in front or handling some part of the business that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do with cheese,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was really impressed by how hands-on these cheesemakers are with their entire operations. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re true family businesses.â&#x20AC;?

Most recipes are approachable for home cooks of all skill levels. When Hansen compiled the recipes, she wanted to go beyond the expected. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We already know we can make macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese and pizza, so I really like how the recipes cover everything from breakfast to midnight munchies. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very inclusive, with recipes like quiche and goat cheese brownies. I also looked for recipes that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just used in marketing materials for the creameries and for recipes that had a family connection.â&#x20AC;?

Hansen didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate long when asked if she has a favorite cheeseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Carr Valley Cheeseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cocoa Cardonaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that she also gives nod to in the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introduction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just really liked how that cocoa rub added ďŹ&#x201A;avor and a little sweetness,â&#x20AC;? she enthuses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still like that cheese. Sometimes we just go back to what we loved initially, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reason for that.â&#x20AC;? Hansen will be at Hunt Club Steakhouse (555 Hunt Club Court, Lake Geneva, Wis.) on Thursday, May 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. The cost is $20 per person and includes a six-foot cheeseboard spread and a mac and cheese recipe from the book. Hansen will sign books and talkâ&#x20AC;Ś cheese! She will also appear at the Grafton Public Library (1620 11th Ave.) on Thursday, May 16, at 6 p.m. in celebration of the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 30th anniversary. For more information, visit kristineahansen.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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was looking for opposites, like ‘happiness and anger,’” says Concord Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jamin Hoffman. “It was just a coincidence that ‘Hardanger’ contains ‘anger.’” That may sound cryptic, but it’s actually a perfect example of the quite commonly serendipitous way we classical music lovers discover “new” music, though it may actually be decades—or even centuries—old. The theme for Concord Chamber Orchestra’s 2019-’20 season has been “Yin // Yang,” and each of its concert programs has featured musical opposites. CCO’s next concert, “North // South,” includes music from and about different parts of the European continent; specifically, the densely forested north, with its long, cold winters and the sunny south with its warm summers. But when setting out, Hoffman thought about opposites of mood rather than location; hence the initially sought-after dichotomy of happiness and anger. A search for the latter led him to find Hardanger—a district in the western part of Norway. This then led to his discovery of an exceedingly obscure Norwegian composer, Geirr Tveitt (1908-’81), and his Hundred Folktunes from Hardanger, Op. 151, which Tveitt organized into several orchestral suites. “We are doing six selections from the First Suite of Tveitt’s Folktunes from Hardanger: ‘Be Ye Most Heartily Welcome,’‘O Please Preserve Me from My Sweetheart,’ ‘Consecration of the New Beer,’‘Norwegian Peasant Harp,’‘The Goodness of God’ and ‘The Last Farewell,’” says Hoffman. “I think Tveitt is a master of orchestration, and I love the colors he gets out of the orchestra. It was a real treat to find these pieces, and I think they will be a real treat for the audience, as well.” The north is also represented on the program by the Karelia Overture, Op. 10, by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), the first movement of the com-

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ments, rhythms, etc., constitute the very essence of poser’s famous Karelia Suite, bringing to your mind’s the composition, not its garb or orchestration. Spanish eye a reindeer-drawn sleighride through a pristine, themes furnished me with rich material for putting in snow-blanketed Finnish landscape. use multiform orchestral effects.” Central Europe (in a much earlier time) comes Responding to the composer’s obvious anto the fore by way of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s noyance, Hoffman says, “I don’t know why he would beloved Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, be so quick to diminish the importance of the which he completed in 1785. The work achieved orchestration for this piece. I think it is a brilliant modern fame by way of pop music and film. Its piece of music that is also brilliantly orchestrated. second movement—a gently flowing andante— There is no doubt that the Spanish/Arabic influences was featured in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madiprovide good solid bones for the piece that will algan; as a result, the concerto has become widely most stand up to any kind of handling! When I think known as the “Elvira Madigan Concerto.” Also, Neil about the piece or sing it to myself ‘in my head,’ I ofDiamond’s 1972 hit, “Song Sung Blue,” is based on a ten find myself melding it with other similar pieces, theme from this same movement. like Rodrigo’s guitar concertos. It’s a wonderful The soloist for the concerto is the winner of CCO’s evocation of the bright, sunny Spanish coast, which 2016 Concerto Competition, Gregory Hartmann. He (I believe) inspired Rimsky-Korsakov to write it in the will have graduated with two master’s degrees (piano first place (while on duty in the Russian navy).” and music theory) from the University of Cincinnati Concord Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1975 College-Conservatory of Music by the concert date. and is comprised of an all-volunteer, non-paid group He’s won prizes in piano, concerto and composing of approximately 50 musicians from a competitions throughout the past several variety of professions and backgrounds. years around the U.S. Hartmann will suThe Its repertoire is chosen to provide concertrely be in his element here, as he counts goers with both familiar and unfamiliar Mozart as his favorite composer. Concord works; their upcoming concert certainly Mediterranean warmth is repreChamber fits their musical mission. sented by one of the most brilliantly Orchestra “The players in the CCO are doctors, orchestrated pieces by a composer North // South lawyers, teachers, medical researchers, renowned for such, Nikolai Rimsky-Korpsychologists, realtors, gardeners, ensakov. This is his Capriccio Espagnol, Op. St. Sebastian gineers and people retired from those 34—a five-movement orchestral suite Parish fields, as well as students working towards based on Spanish folk melodies from Saturday, careers as yet unnamed,” says Hoffman. 1887. The composer (whom I adore) May 11, 7 p.m. “What unites us all is a love of music and a would not be happy with my complicommitment to bringing the best performenting his orchestration, however. mance we can to our audiences.” “The opinion formed by both critics and the public The Concord Chamber Orchestra’s North // South that the Capriccio is a magnificently orchestrated piece is wrong,” Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in his autobiography. concert takes place at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 11 at St. Sebastian Parish, 5400 W. Washington Blvd. For tickets “[It] is a brilliant composition for orchestra. The change and more information, call 414-750-4404 or visit the of timbres, felicitous choice of melodic designs and orchestra’s website at concordorchestra.org. figuration patterns, brief cadenzas for solo instru-

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P!nk @ Fiserv Forum, 7:30 p.m.

After a decade of touring behind multiplatinum albums, P!nk knows how to entertain an arena crowd. In an era where Top-40 tastes change rapidly, her hybrid of pop and glam rock has proven surprisingly resilient, changing little from album to album but sounding fresher for it. 2012’s fiery The Truth About Love yielded some of the biggest hits of her career, including the bitter “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” and the ballad “Just Give Me a Reason,” a duet with fun singer Nate Ruess, while 2017’s Beautiful Trauma was the world’s third best-selling record that year. Last week, she released her most recent album, Hurts 2B Human, which features collaborations with singers Khalid and Chris Stapleton and a single co-written by Ruess, “Walk Me Home.”

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Cullah & The Comrades w/ Thriftones and Clear Pioneer @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Old Time Relijun @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Even on K Records, a label filled with oddities, Old Time Relijun stood out. The Olympia group’s jumpy blend of jazz, funk and punk was all the more striking for its low production values. After a decade of relative silence and inactivity, the band returned this spring with a new record, See Now and Know, which picks up right where they left off, filtering the worldly pop sensibilities of Talking Heads through the noisy filter of no wave—as always, the music is an acquired taste. During their downtime, bandleader Arrington de Dionyso immersed himself in the music of Indonesia, Japan and Morocco, and some of those influences shine through in unexpected ways.

Genre-busting Milwaukee singer Cullah is a restless soul, a natural crooner whose tastes lean toward a little bit of everything. His records blend soul, electronic, trip-hop and blues, modernizing classic sounds in the spirit of The Black Keys while drawing from outside influences that group has never touched. No matter what style Cullah is tackling, though, he makes it funky. He’ll share this record release show with his latest project, Cullah & The Comrades, along with the Milwaukee electro-rock band Clear Pioneer and local rockers Thriftones.

Dane Cook @ The Riverside Theater, 7 p.m.

Dane Cook was one of the most prolific comedians of the ’00s, and perhaps not coincidentally, also one of the most hated. Critics loathed his unpretentious, every-bro observations, and his fellow comedians shun him with a distain once reserved only for Carrot Top. Despite all the vitriol, though, Cook was one of the first comedians of that era to fill arenas—for a while, he even drew audiences to some of the worst-reviewed films of his generation, like Employee of the Month and Good Luck Chuck. Cook is well aware of his low critical standing, though: He addressed it in his 2009 comedy special Isolated Incident, and he stood up for himself in an unexpected cameo on “Louie,” a show written by one of his biggest detractors, Louis C.K.—in a segment that now seems ironic, given C.K.’s own fall from grace.

Big Beat MKE @ The Wicked Hop, 9 p.m.

Milwaukee music fans of a certain age fondly remember the Miltown Beat Down, the annual producer battle that brought together the city’s hip-hop community for a solid decade. That event ended in 2015, but last year a predecessor carried on in its footsteps: Big Beat MKE, which returns for a second season at the Beat Down’s former home, Wicked Hop’s Jackalope Lounj. Founded by the Milwaukee music website Breaking and Entering, the event doesn’t veer too far from the old Beat Down formula. The weekly competition pits 16 Milwaukee music producers spanning hip-hop, EDM and beyond. The tournament runs through June 20.

Starz w/ Electric Revolution @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

Starz came from unlikely origins for a hard-rock band. The core of the lineup had played in the ’70s pop band Looking Glass, best remembered for their schlocky 1972 hit “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl).” But when singer Elliot Lurie left that band, the remaining members linked with new singer Michael Lee Smith to form a band with a decidedly harder edge. Inspired by groups like Kiss and Aerosmith, Starz recorded four late-’70s studio albums—Starz, Violation, Attention Shoppers! and Coliseum Rock—that paired loud guitars with huge hooks and were credited as influencing the hair-metal sound of ’80s acts like Mötley Crüe, Poison and Twisted Sister. Since reuniting in 2003, they’ve toured regularly.

Hunter Hayes w/ Levi Hummon @ The Rave, 8 p.m.

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One of Hunter Hayes’ first big breaks came in 2011, when he was selected as the opening act for Taylor Swift’s world tour, which seemed fitting given how more than a few critics had compared Hayes’ pop-minded, teen-friendly approach to country music to Swift’s. On 2014’s Storyline and 2015’s The 21 Project, the country star didn’t do much to downplay those comparisons—he’s still singing big, chorus-heavy songs intended to have as much impact on pop radio as country radio—but unlike his former tourmate, he isn’t likely to abandon his rural base in favor of New York City any time soon. Both albums opt for more of a liveband feel than his 2011 self-titled debut, frequently showcasing Hayes’ twangy electric guitar. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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SUNDAY, MAY 5 Buckethead @ The Rave, 7:30 p.m.

Buckethead is one of the most distinctive guitarists of his time, not only sonically but visually, given how he blurs the line between music and performance art by wearing an eerie, Halloween- inspired white face mask and a KFC bucket on his head. You’d also be hard pressed to find a guitarist with a more versatile resume. Since the 2000s, he’s played with artists as diverse as Serj Tankian, Les Claypool, Mike Patton, Iggy Pop, Guns N’ Roses (during perhaps the oddest era of that band’s history) and actor Viggo Mortensen. Last year, he released his 305th and 306th albums—yes, you read that right—which were titled Fourneau Cosmique and Dreamthread.

Bill Maher @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

Forever infamous for his turn-of-the-century show “Politically Incorrect” (and the controversies that show spawned), Bill Maher hasn’t left political humor behind. The proud libertarian has continued hosting a political roundtable for HBO, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and touring behind a stand-up set that focuses heavily on Washington, D.C., dysfunction. Like all TV comics of his sort, Donald Trump has given him plenty to work with in recent years.

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mewithoutYou w/ Cursive and The Appleseed Cast @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

For years, brothers Aaron and Michael Weiss exorcised their demons in the band The Operation, setting low expectations for their experimental side project, mewithoutYou. To their surprise, it became more successful and creatively gratifying than its predecessor. The Philadelphia-based rock band released its debut full-length, [A→B] Life, in 2002, then it picked up critical steam with its second release, 2004’s Catch for Us the Foxes, produced by Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate). Their albums have grown denser, musically and lyrically, in the years since, while the band has only grown more acclaimed. Their 2018 album, [Untitled], garnered some of their most glowing reviews yet. They’ll share this bill with emo heroes Cursive, the Saddle Creek veterans who reconnected with their roots on their latest album, Vitriola. It’s their first record, since their breakout 2003 album The Ugly Organ, to feature a cellist. Kansas emo stalwarts The Appleseed Cast kick off this incredibly loaded bill.

Partner w/ Telethon and Kat and the Hurricane @ Cactus Club, 8 p.m.

“Gay but not for each other,” is how the Canadian alt-rock duo Partner describe themselves, and sure enough, musicians Josée Caron and Lucy Niles draw inspiration from a wide range of queer music icons, from k.d. lang to Melissa Etheridge to Prince, beefing up all those sounds with a heavy dose of classic rock. The duo’s 2017 record In Search of Lost Time paired their cheeky songs with seriously heavy riffs, and on stage, the band has been known to shred even more, thanks to their expanded five-piece lineup. They’ll share this show with Milwaukee power-pop heroes Telethon and the exploratory Janesville folk-pop duo Kat and the Hurricane. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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for a ladies-only holiday away; they reluctantly recruit two upper-class women to share costs and the experience. All four women clash but also start to bloom and bond under the Mediterranean sun; that is, until men once again emerge to upset the balance. Enchanted April is a 2003 stage play by Matthew Barber, adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel titled The Enchanted April. This Windfall Theatre production will be directed by Carol Zippel and features Amanda Hull, Alicia Rice, Gloria End and Chris Goode. (John Jahn) May 3-18 in Village Church, 130 E. Juneau Ave. For tickets, call 414-332-3963 or visit windfalltheatre.com.

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First Stage’s ‘Tinker Bell’

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here’s no shortage of pixie dust in Tinker Bell, the magical reframing of the Peter Pan story at First Stage. As the title implies, this is a tale told from the perspective of the feisty little fairy who becomes Peter Pan’s best friend. This delightful story was adapted for the stage by Patrick Flynn. The stage set is outfitted as Captain Hook’s pirate ship, with rigging, sails, masts, nets and—of course—a Jolly Roger flag to top it off. The set also doubles as Peter Pan’s Neverland, his hidden lair for the Lost Boys and the nursery where he finds a motherly spirit in Wendy. Many of the familiar characters in the Walt Disney animated version appear here, such as Captain Hook and his nemesis, the crocodile; the Lost Boys; Wendy and her brothers, John and Michael; and the faithful but willful Tinker Bell. It is “Tink” who begins the show in Neverland. She claims that all the other fairies who inhabited this faraway place have died, leaving her lonely for a friend. When Peter Pan shows up, they pledge eternal friendship. Interestingly, it is Mr. Smee, Captain Hook’s righthand man, who defines the context of friendship for Tinker Bell in one of the play’s quieter moments. “It was easier (in Neverland) before the boy came,” Tinker Bell says in her introductory monologue. But she is glad that Peter Pan showed up, bringing a host of humans with him. As for Wendy—well, that’s another matter for the jealous Tink. Of course, the key question in any Peter Pan story is how to make the children fly, and this is cleverly done with kokens (adults who wear dark clothing and can effortlessly lift a cast member and send him or her “soaring” through the air). Japanese theater techniques are also used in creating some of the puppetry, particularly a pair of gaggling ducks and the life-size crocodile. A thin, nearly transparent “skin” shows the mechanical workings of each creature, forcing the audience to use its imagination to create a fully realized duck or crocodile. Kudos to scenic designer Sarah Hunt-Frank and the properties department for so completely transporting the audience to Neverland. In the opening night performance, the “Dream” cast was featured (First Stage double-casts its children’s roles). Both Meguire Hennes (as Tinker Bell) and Anna Fitzsimmons (as Peter) deliver top-notch performances and are well supported by the rest of the cast. Adult cast members include Ryan Schabach as a nasty, arrogant Captain Hook. He looks his swashbuckling best in costume designer Theresa Ham’s frilly red jacket, pirate hat and boots. Always dogging his steps is the dim-witted Mr. Smee (Chris Klopatek), who oscillates between his obedience to Hook and his softening feelings toward Tinker Bell. Two other pirates, Austin Winter and Solana Ramirez-Garcia, round out the adult cast. The play ends with the shipboard battle between Captain Hook and Peter Pan. The scene is extremely well choreographed under Jeff Frank’s direction, with exciting swordplay and minimized rough play between the lost boys and the pirates. Through June 2 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’ Todd Wehr Theater, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, visit firststage.org or call 414-273-7206.

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late April snowstorm seemed fitting for the “anything goes” philosophy of comedy troupe Monty Python, but it did not deter a near-capacity crowd from attending the Sunset Playhouse’s production of Spamalot. Director Karl Miller has assembled a mix of veteran and young actors to tackle the farce that Eric Idle assembled as a stage production drawn largely from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and other odd bits with occasional updated references. This warped legend of King Arthur opens with the cast’s ode to Finland. By the time they are corrected to England the evening’s modus operandi is in place. Sight gags, puns and witty wordplay fuel the performance. As King Arthur gallops onstage, his faithful

companion Patsy claps two halves of a coconut together to create the sound of hoofbeats. “Alms for the poor” becomes “Arms for the poor.” When a reading from a holy book goes on too long, King Arthur suggests the reader “Skip a bit.” And on cue he begins skipping. Some of these gags we recognize a mile away. The Lady of the Lake’s attendants, known as the Laker Girls, are costumed in Los Angeles Laker cheerleader outfits. Others are subtler, like when The Lady in question (Hannah Esch) powerfully belts out “What Ever Happened to My Part.” The self-referential meta-lyrics knock down the wall between the diva and audience. Likewise, the location of the Holy Grail itself comes into play. But that would spoil the surprise. When the Knights of the Round Table come upon a French castle, they plan to employ a Trojan Rabbit (instead of horse) to capture the fortress. When this fails miserably the rude French guard insults them and is joined by a band of French clichés including a mime, Inspector Clouseau, Marie-Antoinette and Napoléon. Corey Richards’ King Arthur perfectly captures the aloof, lording behavior of his Royal Highness. Jacob Cesar as his faithful sidekick Patsy offers subtle, crafty reactions from shaking his head in disbelief each time the King hands him his horse’s “reins” to comically duetting as the self-absorbed King sings “I’m All Alone.” Through May 12 at Furlan Auditorium, 700 Wall St., Elm Grove. For tickets, call 262-7824430 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com.

‘The Fabulous Lipitones’ Closes In Tandem Theatre on a High Note

fter 21 years of producing some incredible theater in Milwaukee, In Tandem Theatre is closing its doors. But its final show, The Fabulous Lipitones, has In Tandem leaving on a high note—and that is a particularly bad pun most definitely intended. That “high note” to be exact, is a B-flat. And when barbershop quartetter Andy Lipinski hits it during the semi-finals, he drops dead of a heart attack, two weeks before the national competition. “He sang his heart out,” reminisces a fellow crooner. You get the humor—corny but still funny in the hands of this talented cast. So, what’s the remaining trio to do? Search quickly for a replacement. And therein lies the fun, the frivolity and overall very good time of this story by John Markus and Mark St. Germain. Director Jane Flieller (In Tandem’s Producing Director) and Artistic Director (and husband) Chris Flieller really have saved the best of this season for the last show given the amount of laughs, jokes and harmonies as the remaining threesome introduce “Bob” the mechanic to the world of barbershop harmonies. There are no spoilers here. The visual gags are many, starting with Bob’s entrance. We can

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just see what’s coming based on that alone. And it’s a laugh-a-thon. The playwrights have constructed a show that delves into social and racial stereotypes while keeping the comedy front and center. And it works, given director Flieller’s sharp eye for keeping the hijinks moving at high energy, ably aided by Adam Estes’ comical choreography. And then there’s the accomplished cast of four; Steve Koehler, Nathan Marinan, Rick Pendzich, and in the role of “Bob,” Ethan Brittingham. They work so well together, it’s easy to believe they’re life-long friends with their goodnatured sniping and familiar quarreling, as they try to help Bob get them to the finish line of the final competition. And can these guys harmonize! Half the fun of this production is hearing old time tunes sung so well and in the style of “one voice, no vibrato.” The Fabulous Lipitones is a great sendoff to a talented theater company that has provided many moments of sheer entertainment over the years— B-flats and all. Through May 19 at Tenth Street Theater, 628 N. 10th St. For tickets, visit in intandemtheatre.org. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

Lake Arts Project Looks at Art and PTSD in ‘The HeART of War’ ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

ake Arts Project performances are potentially transformative in the making and giving. The HeART of War, the company’s concert last weekend, grew from workshops between U.S. military veterans suffering from post-deployment trauma and high school sophomores from the Alliance School, the MPS charter school for students traumatized by bullying because of ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, religion or other factors. Add dancer Adam McKinney’s DNAWorks, an international art and service organization that uses movement as a means of healing. Add performers, including army veteran actors from Milwaukee’s Feast of Crispian; students from Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy; dancers from the preprofessional Milwaukee Ballet II; Milwaukee Ballet professionals Barry Molina and Lizzie Tripp; and visiting dancers drawn by the choreographers Katharina Abderholden, Thom Dancy, Ashley McQueen, Catey Ott Thompson, Bonnie

Watson, and Lake Arts Project directors Jennifer Miller and Karl von Rabenau. Finally, add musicians Ryan Meisel and Ben Kramer and production director Matt Carr to this battalion. “In a democracy, we need to know the stories of our warriors,” said Feast of Crispian’s Jim Tasse before the performance. The Alliance School students broaden the meaning of warrior. Army veteran Tim Schleis sat onstage in a chair marked “reserved” during Miller’s Beautiful Agony. He’s the reason for the dance. The women dancers know he stopped the rape of a Middle Easterner by a fellow NCO, an act for which he suffered professional consequences. That story isn’t danced; sorrow, gratitude and healing are. In Abderholden’s Le Petit Fou, scary circus music accompanied a squad in white masks living an anxious nightmare. Bang, all but one mask was stripped off, that of the “little fool” who kept going while the others lay dead. In von Rabenau’s beautiful Salvare Un’Anima featuring Moline and Tripp, dangerous humans overcame distrust to partner as dancers and lovers. In Catey Ott’s graceful I Will Be Okay, victims insisted they’d recover while Ryan Meisel’s saxophone screamed center stage. In Miller’s I’m Your Voice, Julio Pareto embodied the hurt of fellow performer, army veteran Carissa DiPietro who lost her daughter to domestic violence while serving. In hopeful contrast, Watson’s intricate, thrilling Enable to Function or Act showed dancers Madeleine Rhode, Sage Feldges, Ellie Kumar and Libby Flunker in top form: a tough, strong, proud, ready and able team. In Reclamation, McQueen and Dancy used handheld lighting, shadows and great dancing to take us to the heart of war. How is recovery possible?

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Milwaukee is the Background for ‘Springdances 2019’ ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

he site of Landing Sites was overwhelming. The audience at UWMilwaukee’s 2019 spring dance concert was seated facing the great two-storied window that is the entire south wall of the sixth-floor studio of the university’s building on Prospect and Kenilworth. The concert’s 7:30-9:30 p.m. running time meant that we watched dusk turn to night over the lower East Side and distant Downtown, the streetlamps brighten, lights in the windows of high rises multiply, the gas company’s flame burn, the reflections of countless automobile headlights streak the street as rain fell. The dances were moody, so lighting designer Ellie Rabinowitz kept things mostly dim and dark-colored, allowing a dual focus outdoors and onstage. The city was part of the beauty and intellectual impact of each dance. Choreographers grouped the student dancers at the windows in provocative ways, had them dance on the ledge that runs beneath the glass, or simply stand, their backs to us, watching the city, our true landing site. The dances were harder to access. Maria Gillespie’s Wild Gods and Daniel Burkholder’s There is so much sea, so little land were for me the richest in meaning and visual beauty. Gillespie’s featured haunting full-head masks by Shannon Massman: deer, fox, rabbit and bird. These were worn in different passages by each SHEPHERD EXPRESS

of eight dancers. The glowing, rainy city behind became a land where young folk of various ancestries examined their relationship to nature, history and mystery, against moving mystical music by bassist Barry Paul Clark and drummer Devin Drobka. Burkholder’s dancers, dressed in white (Lisa Schobert costumed every dance), dropped armfuls of crushed white paper that smothered the dance floor. Dancers slowed, crawled and were buried in the debris, bonded by it, too. Somehow, they’d make ground to stand like ghosts or beautiful sculptures. Well-spoken recorded poetry (“There’s nothing as complex or as simple as rain.”) encouraged personal interpretation. I saw the trash as greenhouse gases, rising seawater, environmental degradation. Mair Culbreth’s dance also had me worried for the futures of the young performers, trembling, running, falling and climbing on architectural constructions by Nicole Bauguss. Gina Laurenzi’s dancers landed in apartment-like interiors by Tony Lyons; hands were wrung, live and on video, but the dancing was jazzy and experimental like the accompanying music by Chicago’s Twin Talk. And in Melanie George’s work, the vintage jazz stylings of Parker, Gillespie and Mingus were smartly embodied. These kids can swing. M AY 2 , 2 0 1 9 | 25

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A&E::VISUALART

“Visual Ideas From a Life Long Lived”

May 2-June 29 Frank L. Weyenberg Library of Mequon 11345 N. Cedarburg Road

The artist of note in this retrospective exhibition is Laeh Bensman McHenry, with each decade of her creations revealing new media and subject matters inspired by her personal experiences, artistic growth and interests. “I make art for a few reasons. Long ago, I first began creating ‘art’ secure in the knowledge that someone was paying attention, however briefly, to feel close. In life, we experience so much fragmentation of thought and feeling. For me, creating art brings things back together,” McHenry says. “The body of my work is like a catalog of the events and thoughts of my life. For me, making art is like keeping a journal.” McHenry will be present on Saturday, May 5, 1-3 p.m. to meet visitors and discuss her creations.

“Greta Mikkelsen: Tobacco Silks Reimagined”

‘Mise-en-Scène’ a Metaphor for Visual Art at Kohler Arts Center

::BY SHANE MCADAMS

he current exhibit “Mise-en-Scène” at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a series of four shows (multiple end dates) within a single show bringing together artists who approach art as a visual stage. It’s a potentially fruitful metaphorical conceit for a visual art exhibition that demonstrates the power to provide a tidy, extra-dimensional, metaphorical platform to play out visual intent, but it’s not without limitations. The four individual exhibitions at the Kohler apply the stage metaphor in a variety of ways; some more on-point than others. In “Visual Reality Outpost,” artist Saya Woolfalk reimagines the art gallery as a day spa, encouraging mindfulness and mental centeredness. Trippy violet walls are covered with teeming configurations of repeating shapes, mandalas and mysterious, backlit images and figures. The peaceful and meditative setting encourages a shared interactive equanimity; a stage of visual and mental wellness, perhaps. Mark Baum’s paintings in the show, “Collective Consciousness,” emerge from a coded vocabulary of personally significant marks, often made against darkened backgrounds. Like Woolfalk’s installation, his idiosyncratic figures often feel lit from behind, though his appear like 8-bit Atari figures more than meditative invitations. The metaphor of a stage in his case might make less sense than one of a set of rectilinear video game consoles playing out the sequences of an esoteric personal cosmology. The exhibition in the main gallery space titled “Autotopographers” is derived from a term coined by art historian Jennifer A. González referring to how biographical material functions as a physical index of life; a deposited “topography” of individual existence. We see the personal “topographies” of 10 artists in enthusiastic variety—from Beatriz Cortez’s sheet metal and stone in “Lakota Porch,” to Yoshi Sakai’s soap opera-based funhouse in “Koko’s Love.” But every one of the individual installations, too, bears its own rich supply of random personal elements, splurges of color and ephemeral jangle. The delightful assortment of effects feels purposeful and composed more than poured out and deposited, though. Each wonderful work reads like an individually arranged 26 | M AY 2 , 2 0 1 9

curiosity-cabinet more than they do a pile of dirty, random, psychic laundry; more stagecraft than sediment, which might be OK after all, given the show’s objective. Scott Reeder’s contribution to the “Mise-en-Scène” fits the show’s bill perfectly. “B-Side of the Moon” is, in fact, an installation comprised of portions of the set he used for his feature length film, Moon Dust. The contiguous monochromatic environments in “Moon World”—including the sherbet-colored “Five Seasons Lounge” and bright red control room—will obviously make more sense to those who have seen or are aware of the film, but the actual movie is so driven by its set design that interacting with it and viewing it are fairly similar experiences. Moon Dust as a film feels kind of like an improvised reenactment of a futuristic version of “The Love Boat” if executed by Pee-wee Herman, Ellsworth Kelly and Stanley Kubrick—which pretty much describes Reeder’s consciousness. The movie always seems on the verge of veering off either into the realm of soft-core porn or a PBS kids’ show at any moment. Given its slack, surreal, funny and slightly juvenile sensibilities, the work provides an appropriate setting for viewers (especially children) to play out their own improvised narrative fantasies. I wasn’t the only parent who exited “B-Side” with an iPhone film starring their own kids. To think of an art practice as a performative extension is a fertile context for work to grow in meaning and association. But it also suggests theatricality and artifice—terms that have been artistic Kryptonite for the past century. The stage is also a concept just as likely to be watered down as poisonous: Any keyhole can be a proscenium; any barrier a fourth wall; any physical or psychic enclosure a theater of alternative reality. Basically, all the world’s a metaphorical stage if one has the visual-rhetorical skills. “Mise-en-Scène” throws a lot of art against the stage walls, hitting it most of the time, and lands a curatorial bullseye with “B-Side of the Moon.” The Autotopographers installation view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, artwork by Andy Coolquitt, 2019

May 2-Aug. 11 Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts N50 W5050 Portland Road, Cedarburg

This exhibition debuts Mikkelsen’s stunning contemporary quilts inspired by antique tobacco silks. Found in cigarette packages, tobacco silks were used at the turn of the 20th century as a marketing strategy intended to increase competition among brands and ultimately to entice women to smoke. Women clientele were encouraged to collect the precious silk inserts with images of glamorous women, decorative objects, birds, flowers and more and incorporate them into sewing projects. The exhibition features 23 quilts by Mikkelsen on view for the first time. For more information, call 262-546-0300 or visit wiquiltmuseum.com.

The Clay Collective Pottery Tour May 4 and 5 various locations

Everyone is invited to this eighth-annual pottery tour, featuring 12 studios and galleries located throughout south-central Wisconsin—in Cambridge, Lake Mills and Johnson Creek. On display will be new pots and other works by 18 guest artists that have been specially invited to show with The Clay Collective this year. For more information, visit theclaycollective.org.

Patrick Doughman and Columbia Road Artists Exhibition May 2-June 2 Cedarburg Cultural Center W62 N546 Washington Ave.

A life in Wisconsin has given Patrick Doughman strong Midwest roots. Being the son of an artist and educator instilled a passion for the arts at an early age. The Cedarburg Cultural Center hosts an exhibit and sale that highlights artworks by Doughman (the center’s May artist-in-residence), along with a small group of Columbia Road artists selected by him; the latter include Bruce Hustad, Tom Kubala and Vicki Reed. The exhibit is located in the CCC’s west and corridor galleries. For more information, call 262375-3676 or visit cedarburgculturalcenter.org.

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A&E::FILM

[ FILM CLIPS ] The Intruder PG-13

Having spent his entire life in one Napa Valley home, widower Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid) states he’s happy to sell the house to young marrieds, Scott and Annie Russell (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good). Once the sale in complete, Peck doesn’t follow through on his plans to move to Florida. Instead, he repeatedly shows up at his old home, where he takes an unnatural interest in its condition—and in Annie. Having failed to persuade Peck to leave them alone, Scott beefs up the home’s security. But Peck, whose great grandfather built the house, knows all its secrets and, apparently, all of Scott and Annie’s secrets as well. It’s been a while since Quaid starred in a major film, so it’s a great time for him to play against type as the villain. (Lisa Miller)

Long Shot R

‘Sunset’

A Melancholy ‘Sunset’ on the Old World

::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

regnant with calamity, 1913 ject, the Holocaust, from an unusual angle— is a melancholy date for any- the one-step-ahead-of-death Jewish cadre at a one knowing anything about Nazi extermination camp tasked with disposhistory. It was the final year of ing of the dead. Identifying Sunset’s subject a long European peace, the year is hard. It adheres to no genre and presents before the beginning of World War I, the an enigmatic scenario from Irisz’s uncomprebloodiest conflict ever. Sunset unfolds in the hending perspective. We see little of the world summer of 1913 in what was one of Europe’s beyond her blinkered field of vision. Suffice to say that Irisz is as unwelcome in great cities. In those days, Budapest was the second capital of the Austro-Hungarian Em- Budapest as a noisy ghost. The Leiter salon’s pire, a multi-ethnic state doomed by the com- new owner (Vlad Ivanov) is unhappy with her presence, but makes a tepid show of accoming war and the rise of extreme nationalism. The protagonist is a melancholy, distracted modation. The landlord of the house where yet stubborn young woman, Irisz Leiter (Juli she was born is openly hostile. Irisz is atJakab). She has the face of one who has lost tacked there by a deranged coachman jabbereverything and can no longer muster anger ing about a brother she never knew she had. or even sadness. Panic, however, darkens her The agency that handled her adoption refuses otherwise blank visage. Irisz arrives alone to show her the case file. Sunset is at first an intriguing in Budapest, and as a woman mystery as Irisz learns of her alone is vulnerable to predafamily’s tragic past in piecemeal tory men. She seems especially Sunset fashion. There is talk of a deadendangered because of the famJuli Jakab ly fire that killed her parents ily she never knew. Orphaned at Vlad Ivanov and rumors about the shocking age two, Irisz understands only murder of a count—possibly by one thing about her family: Her Directed by her unknown brother. And then parents once owned the palatial László Nemes Sunset gets tricky to follow as women’s hat salon where she Rated R Irisz wanders into an ill-defined applies for work. underworld of criminals? RevoSunset is directed by Hungarlutionaries? Maniacs? A sense of ian filmmaker László Nemes, whose debut, Son of Saul (2015), earned an unfathomable evil lurks in the shadows—and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language the shadows are deep in this 20-watt world of Film. Stylistically, Sunset is similar to Son gaslight, candles, dim incandescent bulbs and of Saul with its austere natural lighting and lanterns swinging from rattle-wheeled coachits tendency to hover alongside or behind its es like angry specters in the darkened streets. protagonist as if to show reality from a delib- Sunset is suffused with an angst over unerately subjective, limited perspective. How- known forces, the id of a vulnerable society, ever, thematically, Sunset is a more difficult that might suggest the writings of an author film. Son of Saul looked into a familiar sub- contemporary to Sunset’s time, Franz Kafka. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

When classy U.S. presidential candidate Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) runs into sloppy journalist Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), her wheels start turning. Field was 13-year-old Fred’s babysitter and now thinks he might help her public image by assisting her in being a more likable candidate. Soon enough, the backwards baseball cap, windbreaker-wearing Fred is virtually Field’s shadow. His public outbursts may be a disaster, but privately, he wins her affections. With opinion polls showing the public wouldn’t approve of Field dating a rumpled, penniless writer, the question becomes, will she, or won’t she? I wouldn’t vote for an on-screen romance between Theron and Rogen, but fortunately, it’s also hilarious. (L.M.)

Movie Collectable Show

Dale Kuntz has long been Milwaukee’ genial advocate of classic Hollywood. If Ted Turner had gotten wind of him, this charmingly garrulous gentleman might have been auditioned as a host on TCM; but instead, Kuntz has remained a local

phenomenon. Twice a year, Kuntz hosts a Movie Collectable Show, featuring dealers from the Midwest peddling movie posters, press kits, stills, lobby cards, DVDs and assorted movie industry memorabilia. Admission is $3. (David Luhrssen) 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, at Burnham Bowl Hall, 6016 W. Burnham St.

UglyDolls PG

Big-eyed, snaggle-tooth “ugly dolls” are central characters in this animated production celebrating inner beauty. Kelly Clarkson leads the cast as Moxy, an empathetic, enthusiastic ugly doll. Nick Jonas portrays a “perfect doll”— manufactured with standardized good looks. He teaches other perfect dolls to become cookiecutter-perfect children’s dolls. UglyDolls recalls Monsters, Inc. However, unlike that film, this one’s musical aspirations outweigh those of its plot. Clarkson, Jonas, Pitbull and several others contributed original songs that are being released by Atlantic Records. Let the cross-promotional marketing begin! (L.M.)

Zen Film Festival

It all started with Robert Pirsig’s 1974 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book that inspired many Americans to look at the objects around them and the world they move through in different ways. Surely, Pirsig is in the DNA of UWMilwaukee’s “Zen and the Art of Filmmaking”—a class dedicated to rethinking how films are made and to pushing the limits of creativity and ideas. For the past 10 years, short films produced by students in that class have been shown in a minifestival. This year’s offerings include a love story involving puppets, a crazed clown determined to throw pies in the faces of the innocent, and much more. (D.L.) 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 7, at UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Admission (and pizza!) is free.

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] n The Great Buster

With his sad but otherwise expressionless eyes, his somber, unresponsive face, Buster Keaton played an everyman who fumbled his way through the calamity of modern life. Until his final film (1966), he used no doubles and did all of his own stunts. As film historian Peter Bogdanovich relates in his documentary, Keaton was born for pratfalls. As part of his family’s traveling vaudeville act, he was a human projectile at an age when most kids started kindergarten. The Great Buster encompasses Keaton’s entire professional life. He is remembered for his deadpan, sometimes surreal masterworks from the 1920s, but Bogdanovich also shows snippets from earlier silent shorts from before he hit his stride as writer-director-star. Except for short breaks, Keaton was seldom far from a stage or a camera. The Great Buster includes many fascinating scenes from the TV commercials and variety-show guest shots he did in the ’50s and ’60s.

n The Strange Door

Lordly in manner, Charles Laughton was well cast as a malevolent 18thcentury French nobleman. He finds a visit to the torture chamber “diverting.” Adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson story, The Strange Door (1951) is a late entry in the Universal Studios horror catalog. It features a fiendish plot, a castle wrapped in fake fog and plenty of maniacal laughter. The Strange Door also boasts Boris Karloff as a servant loyal to another master.

n Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp (1935) is a historically important film, finally available in a clean print for home viewing. Based on a stage adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, director Rouben Mamoulian’s production was the first successful Technicolor feature film. The innovative Mamoulian (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) was unusually anchored to the stage for this production, but worked out elaborate color schemes and directed one scene with his usual dynamism. Miriam Hopkins plays the manipulative, sharp-tongued protagonist. —David Luhrssen M AY 2 , 2 0 1 9 | 27

A&E::BOOKS

BOOK|PREVIEW

Novelist Peers Into the Intimate Life of Abraham Lincoln

::BY JENNI HERRICK

here is no shortage of books that pay homage to the 16th president of the United States. Even 150 years after his death, writers continue to pen moving portraits of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on historical milestones in his political career, his debilitating depressive episodes, and some even speculating on his sexuality. In the new novel Courting Mr. Lincoln, acclaimed author Louis Bayard recreates two of Lincoln’s most intimate and formative relationships. This subversive novel reconstructs Lincoln’s life between 1839 and 1842 and is told from the alternating viewpoints of Lincoln’s future wife, Mary Todd, and his roommate and bedfellow, Joshua Speed. Long before he was revered as the “Great Emancipator,” Abraham Lincoln was a struggling lawyer trying to break into Illinois politics. He was also a socially inept but kind bachelor hesitant to tie himself down in marriage. Americans know that he eventually married Lexington socialite Mary Todd, but they may be less familiar with another close acquaintance who has long been rumored to have courted Lincoln, his mentor and confidant, Joshua Speed. At its heart, Courting Mr. Lincoln is an intimate portrayal of this complicated and compassionate romantic triangle. By the end of the novel, who’s courting Lincoln remains a delicious mystery. Bayard is a New York Times Notable Book author. Like Courting Mr. Lincoln, Bayard’s previous novels have reimagined the lives of such historical figures as Edgar Allan Poe (The Pale Blue Eye) and Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt’s Beast) by transporting readers to the past through a masterly told story. Louis Bayard will speak at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m., on Thursday, May 2.

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::OFFTHECUFF

A New CEO for Milwaukee Boys & Girls Clubs OFF THE CUFF WITH KATHY THORNTON-BIAS ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

“I

’m running one of the most important businesses in the city,” said Kathy Thornton-Bias, the Milwaukee Boys & Girls Clubs’ new CEO. “I’m in the business of helping children succeed, the business of changing lives one at a time.” Born and raised in Louisville, Ky., a 30-year resident of Manhattan and a Milwaukeean for the past two and a half years, she was hired in late February. Our conversation took place on her “46th amazing glorious day” on the job. How did you come to this position? My name was passed by different people to the trustees, and I received a call from the Chicago recruiting firm they’d hired. I came to Milwaukee for another role, working for Marcus investments. I’ve spent most of my professional career in Manhattan in the retail industry. New York was an eye-opening experience, one that I really valued in terms of getting my corporate skills and little bit of grit. You can’t be faint-of-heart and survive there. It takes lots of energy—that kind of pushing to get on the subway, elbowing your way through life. As I’ve gotten older and maybe mellowed a bit, that’s not where I want to focus my energy. I want to focus it on things that actually leave a legacy, that leave the world better than I found it, that help someone along the way. How do you see the role of the Clubs? As the largest agency serving youth in Greater Milwaukee, I believe it’s our obligation to lead our community through some very choppy waters. It’s our responsibility to be a good community partner, not just with the community but also with the other agencies that are serving in that community. I very much believe in a collaborative operating model. Instead of working in silos, we are now going to work

Kathy Thornton-Bias

much more horizontally, partnering with agencies who can add benefits and services, agencies that have very precise expertise in a thing we don’t have expertise in. By coming together, we can have much greater relevance and much greater impact. We’re the largest Boys & Girls Club in the country. We get access to almost 50,000 kids a year. I think donors and foundations and other philanthropists are looking for someone to lead in this idea of being collaborative, of reaching out to our brother and sister agencies and talking about services we can combine to get more reach. You’re a businesswoman, then. There’s always been this uncomfortable tension between the idea of running a business and having a mission-based organization, if those things are viewed as mutually exclusive. My business outcomes aren’t about how many pairs of shoes I sell next week. It’s how many children I get to graduate high school, how many kids I get to college or trade school or community college. It’s about families being transformed because kids are becoming educated and have options. Our job, first of all, is to provide a really safe place for kids after school, but we don’t do this in a bubble. That’s why if we lock arms and do the lifting together with

our partners—like MPS, the United Way, the list goes on—it becomes much more feasible. We’re still going to be great providers of educational enrichment and tons of fun. We do that better than anyone. We need to work with other agencies and do other things that our kids need, as well. Can you spend time with the kids? What I do to get money or create endowments or organize programs, those are operating tasks. The work, our product, is in serving the consumers that happens to be 18 and under. They’re my customers. So, I need to be really close—using a retail mindset—to know who my customers are, where they are, what their needs are, what they like about what I’m doing, what they don’t like. I’m spending as much time as humanly possible in our clubs and our camp, asking the kids, reading to the kids, making swans with the kids—things I never thought would be part of my day job. They are joyous beyond belief. And spending time with the teams. We have a great group of people. They go above and beyond on a daily basis that just floors me. They will do anything for the kids and the families that we serve. When you work with people like that and see their passion, it’s infectious.

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::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR May 2—‘P!nk: Beautiful Trauma World Tour’ at Fiserv Forum (1111 Vel R. Phillips Ave.): America’s favorite crimson-topped chartreuse rolls back into Cream City with this all-new concert that’s dropping jaws from coast to coast. Never caught P!nk when she’s hit Milwaukee? See why so many say her shows are “the best” with this 7:30 p.m. concert. (Opening act is Julia Michaels.) May 2—Vers: Motown Party at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): The city’s weekly event celebrates the kings and queens of Motown during this 9:30 p.m. party. You never know what the Vers parties might bring, but you can always expect friendly bartenders, $3 Long Islands and a whole lotta fun. May 3—Karaoke Night at Harbor Room (117 E. Greenfield Ave.): Sing a song or watch the fun when this Levi/Leather bar goes karaoke for a night. Enjoy drink specials as the tunes start heating up at 8:30 p.m. And remember... at Harbor Room, shirtless men drink for less! May 4—Drag Queen Story Hour: May the Fierce Be With You at Bay View Community Center (1320 E. Oklahoma Ave.): This installment of the free family friendly party is out of this world! Enjoy Star Wars books for children, wear a sci-fi costume and get the little ones ready for a galactic-sized good time during the 3-4 p.m. story time. May 4—‘The Miltown Kings Present SNL’ at Riverwest Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): Living in a van down by the river? Need more cowbell? Looking for help from a Target cashier? For a $5 door charge, you’ll see your favorite drag performers act out classic skits from “Saturday Night Live.” The show starts at 10 p.m. May 5—Tammie Brown’s ‘A Little Bit of Tammie’ at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Make it a Cinco de Mayo to remember! A little kooky, a little crazy and a whole lotta of adorable, RuPaul royalty Tammie Brown skips into Brew City with her musical one-woman show. Enjoy a burger, cocktail or appetizer when the doors open at 5:30 p.m. (for VIP ticket holders) for the 7 p.m. show. May 7—‘Come From Away’ Opening Night at Uihlein Hall (929 N. Water St.): Don’t miss this chance to see the musical that took Broadway (and the country) by storm. The Best Musical Tony Award winner has wowed audiences with its heartwarming salute to friendship and the enduring human spirit during the turmoil of an American tragedy. Catch it through May 12. May 8—Milwaukee Coffee Connection at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (929 N. Water St.): If you’re a morning person looking to network, this is the event for you! The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts this 8-9 a.m. coffee hour, where the coffee is free and so is the conversation. Ask Ruthie a question or share your events with her at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Contemplating Stonewall: 50 Years Later

GBTQ Pride Month is barely a month away. As 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this year is of particular significance to the community. That salient convulsion in our LGBTQ history on which the celebration of Pride Month is founded began on June 28, 1969, when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay, Mafiarun, unlicensed “bottle bar” frequented by drag queens, lesbians and an otherwise regular crowd of gays. Its popularity was primarily in the fact that it was the city’s only gay dance bar. Throughout the country back then, police raids of gay bars were commonplace. But this time, the standard police practice of seizing alcohol, checking identification and arresting drag queens went awry. There was resistance. A crowd gathered, and a riot ensued. Marked by violence and a face-off of cops in riot gear and gays in a chorus line performing a coordinated kick routine, the Stonewall Riot (also referred to as the Stonewall Uprising or the Stonewall Rebellion) represented a breaking point. As one witness purportedly said, “The fags have had it with oppression.” And, in a symbolic moment of institutional impotence, when the police tried to turn a firehose on the rioters, it failed for lack of pressure. The rest is history. In 2016, President Barack Obama declared the site a U.S. National Monument. Of course, there are those who don’t see Stonewall as “the event.” I’ve heard a younger gay man shrug off the Stonewall story with an eye-roll and “so what?” while an older gay man wondered why we put so much value in it. Political movements often simmer almost unnoticed for prolonged periods while the forces behind them evolve and gradually grow. Along the way, they often seethe quietly

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with an occasional hint of building pressure before reaching the boiling point. The litany of LGBTQ oppression goes back decades. Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy’s crusade against communism evolved into the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950s that, similar to today’s military trans ban, sought to purge the U.S. State Department of gay employees. In Milwaukee, some years before Stonewall, there was a famous bar brawl in which drag queens duked it out with a pair of inebriated sailors who made the mistake of presuming drunken straight might means right. Historical examples of such a pattern in revolutionary movements abound. The American Revolutionary War, itself, broke out into pitched battles years before the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. While I was a member of the PrideFest board of directors, it was the inevitable annual exercise to discuss moving the festival to a more weather-reliable weekend. While PrideFest’s traditional early June dates gave us the cachet of being the season’s first Milwaukee Lakefront festival (and among the first LGBTQ pride events in the nation), we were at the mercy of Wisconsin’s fickle late spring weather. Alternative dates were considered, but the simple argument always won out: Weather be damned, June is Pride Month—the celebration of Stonewall and LGBTQ liberation. But clearly, like other social revolutions, ours, even a half-century after Stonewall, continues as an ebb and flow of victories, retreats and defeats. So long as hate and discrimination remain as a cause for our enemies, Stonewall must remain a living inspiration for our continuing struggle. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

A CROWD GATHERED, AND A RIOT ENSUED. MARKED BY VIOLENCE AND A FACE-OFF OF COPS IN RIOT GEAR AND GAYS IN A CHORUS LINE PERFORMING A COORDINATED KICK ROUTINE, THE STONEWALL RIOT (ALSO REFERRED TO AS THE STONEWALL UPRISING OR THE STONEWALL REBELLION) REPRESENTED A BREAKING POINT. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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You and your older sister Haydee started out as dancers before turning to singing. What attracted you to music in the first place? Our parents used to sing and play music all the time at home when we were growing up. It’s safe to say that music is my life. Musicians often have their own muses and other performers who have inspired them. Who are your muses? The list is quite wide, actually, and ranges from artists I have had the chance to perform with and composers whom I admire. The list ranges from Ibrahim Ferrer and Nat King Cole to Chucho Valdés, Natalia Lafourcade, Roberto Fonseca and many others. A few years ago, I interviewed your former colleague Juan de Marcos González and asked him to describe Cuban jazz. He quickly corrected me to say there was no such thing. Can you clarify? Cuba has a very deep musical heritage, with roots and influences from African music, Spanish guitar melodies and danzón, as well as Latin American sounds. We have great music schools and great young musicians who can perform everything from classic to modern sounds. You could say that music is part of our DNA.

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t’s been more than two decades since American guitarist Ry Cooder and Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos González assembled a host of aging Cuban musicians in Havana to record The Buena Vista Social Club. The album, and the subsequent film of the same name, took the U.S. by storm, launching a renewed appreciation for Cuban and Latin music. Over time, that appreciation for son cubano, a blend of Spanish guitar with percussion and clave rhythms that originated with Africa’s Bantu people, has continued to grow. So has notoriety for the group and its various musicians, including vocalist and three-time Grammy Award nominee Omara Portuondo. The Cuban chanteuse will bring her Ultimo Beso (Last Kiss) worldwide tour to the Pabst Theater on May 2. It will be the last time Portuondo will perform in the United States. A founding member of the Cuban female singing group Cuarteto d’Aida, Portuondo and the group toured the U.S. in the 1950s, performed with Nat King Cole and in 1957 recorded for RCA Victor. In 2004, the International Red Cross appointed her an International Ambassador, the first Cuban musician accorded the honor. In 2007, she performed the title role in the sold-out Montreal production of Lizt Alfonso’s dance musical Vida, the story of modern Cuba seen through the eyes and memories of an old woman. Portuondo, a lifelong Havana native who turns 89 on Oct. 29, has weathered a variety of political administrations in Cuba. Sitting in a rocking chair on her son’s porch, she declined to discuss politics during a recent interview. Instead, she spent time talking about music and her love for her homeland.

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That music came alive again in the U.S. thanks to the Buena Vista Social Club. How has that success affected Cuba’s music community? The success of that album, film and he subsequent tours we took of the U.S. was something unexpected and helped everyone get to know traditional Cuban music. Not just the son cubano rhythm, but also other styles such as cha-cha-chá, guajira, Omara danzón and bolero suddenly Portuondo became popular all over the world! Pabst Theater I love to interpret the different Thursday, styles, such as trova Cubana, and May 2, I am so happy and satisfied that 8 p.m. people have come to know this kind of music. Is your “Last Kiss” tour the last time you will perform? “Last kiss” is my last worldwide tour, but actually I’d like to keep singing and collaborating with other artists and on my own projects. As I said, music is my life. More and more U.S. tourists are traveling to Cuba. What would you recommend to first time travelers, and what is Cuba’s best-kept secret? Oh, I see. That’s a tricky question because secrets are secrets and we can’t tell them [laughs]. Actually, my tip is to enjoy Cuba just as it is. Smile and talk to the locals, listen and dance to the different styles of music that you will find at every corner. Enjoy and discover, because Cuba is unique! Omara Portuondo plays the Pabst Theater Thursday, May 2, at 8 p.m.

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Jay Anderson’s Inspiring Homecoming with Stomata ::BY JOSHUA MILLER

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ver the past couple years, sax player and songwriter Jay Anderson has slowly made the transition from Milwaukee to New Orleans resident. While he has found plenty to love about his new surroundings and has filled up his schedule on a weekly basis, he’s far from done being involved with his birth city of Milwaukee. Not even New Orleans jazz and French Quarter fests could sway him from making a special return recently. He reunited with his longtime band Stomata—also featuring drummer Dave Schoepke and bassist John Simons—in Riverwest to record its sophomore album Crawfish and High Life. “Stomata is really the heart and lungs of my musical body,” Anderson says. “When I play with them, it’s like a psychic connection and we just get it. It’s because of the level of trust… With all the material I’ve been thinking about and cooking up, it just made total sense.” The album’s songs were shaped by Anderson’s experiences in New Orleans and Milwaukee, hence the references in the title. “A recording is a documentation of a moment in time,” Anderson says. “It’s like my own personal diary entry.” For example, on the Paul Cebar co-write “Wildflower Honey,” which features Cebar on vocals, Anderson muses about a New Orleans cop that he has a crush on, who let him off easy. “Lan Dog” is about his roommate Lana, who is “one of the toughest and hardest party animals you’ve ever meet, that just keeps on going.” “It was hilarious working with Paul,” Anderson says. “He’s so incredibly humble and easy to

learn everything,” he says. “It wasn’t easy and I’m still learning every day. I’m constantly being introduced to new music styles that sometimes I’m completely unfamiliar with. But at this point, I like the challenge.” He’s taken on the philosophy of a New Orleans drummer he’s played with—“it’s all just music.” work with. And he’s a funny guy. Right before “There are barely any styles that don’t have we tracked his song, we did a song with Genesis bleed-through to other styles,” he says. “So, I Renji and Paul was in a corner dancing around just enjoy playing music. I don’t really see it as because he liked the groove. Him dancing in the jazz music or Latin music or hip-hop or swing. corner to a song I wrote the groove for was al- I don’t really see genre anymore. I see the song. most just as much of a compliment as him agree- If the song is written in a certain way, I’m going to be on the album.” ing to play the song the way it’s written. I don’t Milwaukee is represented sonically with a even know what to call Stomata. I can’t really multitude of guest musicians. The album also call it a jazz band. Can’t really call it a funk features Foreign Good’s Randy K, Rick Aaron, group. It’s all just music.” Mrs. Fun’s Connie Grauer, Wisconsin ConservaThe album features his recorded vocal debut, tory of Music’s Mark Davis, Peter Roller, Don something he’s worked on in recent months in Witt and Dylan Ovanin. New Orleans. The jazz standard “St. James Infir“I got to hire some of my favorite artists mary” was one of the first songs he felt confident from the city of Milwaukee,” Anderson says. enough to sing. “When you’re a horn player in “It only worked because of the level of talent New Orleans, or any kind of instrumentalist, you in the other musicians in the room… I feel very have to sing something at some point in time,” honored and humbled by the level of talent that he says. “Some of the people I’ve had the opporwe were able to get in one room. tunity to perform with here have And I felt honored and humbled been incredibly encouraging in the by the level of professionalism development of my singing voice. Stomata everyone acted with and perSo, if I’m going to do a new album Sharon Lynn formed with.” about my experiences in MilwauHe also appreciated their blunt Wilson Center kee and New Orleans, and singing honesty. “One of the tracks, my for the Arts is a thing I learned here [in New saxophone solo was just gratuOrleans], then I wanted to incorpoFriday, May 3, itous. The song was seven minutes rate that. And songwriting is some7 p.m. long and I was soloing for four thing I also wanted to incorporate. minutes on it,” Anderson says. “It’ll be my first time singing in “And my drummer said, ‘Hey Jay, Milwaukee after I started studying you can say a lot less.’ So, let’s cut the track again singing. And maybe the audience will be surand I’m going to say more in a shorter amount prised with my voice out, and honestly, the level of time.” I’ve been able to grow as a musician since I left.” The album further shows evidence of AnStomata will perform with B~Free on Friday, derson’s natural ability to weave between dif- May 3, at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the ferent genres. Arts at 7 p.m. Crawfish and High Life will be re“[As a sax player] you have to be versatile and leased on Anderson’s label VoodooHoney.

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o catch Foals in concert is to witness the amplification of the British band’s grand yet somewhat reserved studio energy. In other words, they rock. Or so they did with accelerating intensity throughout their set Sunday night at The Rave, supporting their fifth long-player, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1. Singer Yannis Philippakis strained with the urgency of a man ablaze. Befitting a rock band with dance music forebears and a DJ who has hosted a club night in London, Foals’ seamless segues from song to song in the middle of the show fit their aesthetic handily. That move may also have served to loosen the feet from the floor for at least some attendees. If alt-rock show crowds aren’t given to dancing nowadays, some succumbed to the challenge, be it on their tip of the hat to Division at their most furious, “White Onions,” or the only superficially more somber “Spanish Sahara.” The quintet had a U.S. radio breakthrough earlier this spring with the majestically arch, yet still danceable “Exists.” Fans, however, may have a handle on what song from Everything should be its next single, as the galloping skitter of “In Degrees” received more applause than their recent hit. Satiating as Foals were, it would have been a shame to miss the opening acts. Atlanta trio Omni proffered skeletal, compact angularity through their guitar-drum-bass format with emotionally askew minimalism. Canadian ensemble Preoccupations used their industrial-sounding drum triggers and other electronic accompaniments in caustic ways. Foals came off as the middle ground between the extremes of the acts preceding them. It made for a brilliant lineup headlined by a band coming into their own brilliance.

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THURSDAY, MAY 2

Anodyne Coffee, Barbaro w/Chicken Wire Empire Bass Bay Brewhouse, The All-Star SUPERband w/Muskego High School Big Band (6pm) Cactus Club, Old Time Relijun w/Dorth Nakota, Aluminum Knot Eye & Gnarrenschiff Caroline’s Jazz Club, Bryan Dale Group w/Lynda Lee County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Estabrook Biergarten (Estabrook Park), Maifest 2019 Fiserv Forum, P!nk Jackalope Lounj, Big Beat MKE 2019 First Round Battles: Mr. Killerlain vs. Bennie D & Penny Beatz vs. Fearjoy. MKE Performers: Spaidez and Yogie B & Keez Jazz Estate, Mitch Shiner Latin Vibes w/Michael Spiro Journey House, Ex Fabula StorySlam: “Neighborhood” Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Ricky Orta Jr. & Michael Bucholtz Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Kurt Allen (Formerly Titanium Blue) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Writer’s Round w/Christopher Porterfield, Martha Cannon, Joseph Huber & Sarah Vos Mary’s Caddyshack (New Berlin), CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Jam Band Miramar Theatre, Sonic Destruction: Datcat, ET, Kilo Dubz, Mumbee & YUNIT. (all-ages, 9pm) On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, Buena Vista Social Club® presents Omara Portuondo Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Mark Croft Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, PENtastic! Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Boys of Summer - A Don Henley Tribute Band Shaker’s Cigar Bar & World Cafe, Prof. Pinkerton & the Magnificents Shank Hall, Starz w/Electric Revolution The Back Room at Colectivo, MC Lars & MC Frontalot & Mega Ran w/Schaffer The Darklord The Bay Restaurant, Ian Gould The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Martini Jazz Lounge: Anthony Deutsch Trio Turner Hall Ballroom, IAMX Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

FRIDAY, MAY 3

Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), Christopher’s Project American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Sawyer Road Band American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Hit-Men Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee, Them Coulee Boys w/Driveway Thriftdwellers Art*Bar, Heidi Burson Band Bubs Irish Pub (Germantown), Blame It On Cain album release party Cactus Club, Bridge City Sinners w/Tejon Street Corner Thieves, Jayke Orvis & We the Heathens Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Mark Gulezian

Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Warren Wiegratz, Michael Ritter & Victor Campbell Cedarburg Cultural Center, First Fridays: Mic Over Matter (6pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Fifth Star Band w/Fallen Angels (8pm); DJ: Seedy (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee! Company Brewing, DJ Bizzon presents The Turn UP! County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Dandy - Midventurous Modern, A Dandy Comedy Show Estabrook Biergarten (Estabrook Park), Maifest 2019 Harry’s Bar & Grill, 5 Card Studs Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Open Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Mike Harmon Vinyl/CD album release (8pm), Late Night Session: Ben Dameron Quartet (11:30pm) Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Birdbrain Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant, The Jammers Mamie’s, Stokes & the Old Blues Boys Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Pabst Theater, Michael Schenker Fest w/Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, and Robin McAuley & Doogie White Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Saddlebrook Trio Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Metal Church w/Doro & Images of Eden (ages 18-plus, 7pm) Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Insane Octane Shank Hall, Pat McCurdy Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Stomata and B~Free The Back Room at Colectivo, Seaway w/Free Throw, Heart Attack Man & Young Culture The Bay Restaurant, Larry Moore Trio The Brass Tap, Joe Kadlec The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) Unitarian Church North, Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series presents: Griffin House Up & Under Pub, The Night Howls

SATURDAY, MAY 4

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Falcons Angry Brothers Pub (Mt. Pleasant), Drive with Horns Cactus Club, Hear Here Presents: Cullah & The Comrades album release w/Thriftones & Clear Pioneer Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Andy Spadafora, Michael Ritter & Victor Campbell Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Voot Warnings (8pm); DJ: Stephan & Ana (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee! Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), Orange Whips Estabrook Biergarten (Estabrook Park), Maifest 2019 Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Charles Barber Glen Cafe, Jim the Piano Man (5pm) Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jazz Estate, Janet Planet w/Mike Kubicki Group (8pm), Late Night Session: The Jack Reed Group (11:30pm) Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), The Now Kuhtz General Store (Oconomowoc), The B Side Band Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Freddy & the Blifftones

Mad Planet, Y2K! A 2000s Danceparty w/Elechronic DJs (Andrew Optimist & Milkman) Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Suave Milwaukee Ale House, 33 RPM Miramar Theatre, Emo Nite at The Miramar Theatre presented by Emo Nite LA (all-ages, 9pm) Nice Ash Cigar Bar (Waukesha), Jude and The Acousti-Dudes Pabst Theater, The Australian Bee Gees Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Ryan McIntyre Rave / Eagles Club, Lany (all-ages, 8pm), Hunter Hayes w/Levi Hummon (all-ages, 8pm), Overkill w/Death Angel & Mothership (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Dane Cook Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, DIY Chamber Music Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Bella Cain (ages 18-plus, 10pm) Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, 10-Year Anniversary Party w/76 Juliet Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, 76 Juliet Shank Hall, Terry McBride Slinger House (Slinger), Joe Kadlec The Cheel (Thiensville), Mas Soul “May the 4th be with You” Latin Fusion The Coffee House, Food Pantry Benefit: “Grateful Dead Covers” w/ Will Branch, Dr. Ruth and the Naughty Freshmen, Bob Estes, J.P. Spencer, Ives Iverson, Paul Smith & Andy Jehly The Packing House Restaurant, Maureè! (6:30pm) The Suburban Bourbon (Muskego), Derby Day w/Larry Lynne Band (2pm) The Thistle & Shamrock, The Ronny Starr Motown Xperience Up & Under Pub, Star Wars Cantina Night

SUNDAY, MAY 5

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Blues Disciples w/ Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys w/Westside Andy (3pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Cactus Club, FemFest Fundraiser w/Peshtigo, Chris Porterfield & Vanity Plates Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: A.L.Williams w/Soulfoot Mombits (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Estabrook Biergarten (Estabrook Park), Maifest 2019 J&B’s Blue Ribbon Bar and Grill, The Players Jam Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Sunday Matinee w/Max & The Invaders (2pm) Lakefront Brewery, Keg Stand Up Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In The Buffet: Voces De America (11am) Rave / Eagles Club, Los Inquietos Del Norte / Banda Los Sebastianes (all-ages, 4pm), Buckethead (all-ages, 7:30pm) Riverside Theater, Bill Maher Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Larry Lynne Solo (4pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, The Steel Wheels The Tonic Tavern, Third Coast Blues w/Jim Liban & Joel Paterson (4pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Preacher Lawson Woodland Pattern Book Center, Performance: The Bridge #2.1

MONDAY, MAY 6

Cactus Club, Partner w/Telethon & Kat and the Hurricane Crimson Club, Metal Mondays Jazz Estate, MATC Group (7pm), Jazz Estate Jam Session (8pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Greg (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Pabst Theater, Joe Jackson Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam: Christopher John & Friends w/ featured band Turner Hall Ballroom, mewithoutYou w/Cursive & The Appleseed Cast Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers

TUESDAY, MAY 7

Cactus Club, The Smokes w/Bandoleer Bacall, Whiskey and the Devil & The Keystones Club Garibaldi, WMSE Local Live presents: Lauryl Sulfate & Her Ladies of Leisure (6pm) Jazz Estate, Funk Night with Araminati Funk Night with Araminati Kim’s Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. & Friends Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), The Parkside Reunion Big Band Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm, all-ages) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session The Baaree (Thiensville), Barefoot Duo Series: Jimmy Schwarz & Stephen Hull (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Jesse Montijo

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

Bremen Cafe, Folk Night : Annie Bacon, Ben Harold & Anja Elise Cactus Club, Nadah El Shazly w/Marielle Allschwang & The Visitations LP release & Names Divine Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Ray Bonneville Caroline’s Jazz Club, Dean Lea Jazz Quartet Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson Hudson Business Lounge and Cafe, Jazz at Noon: Don Linke and Friends Iron Mike’s (Franklin), B Lee Nelson Acoustic Jam Jazz Estate, Larry Tresp Trio Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Rotfairly Well (sign-up 7:30pm, start 8pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Morton’s (Cedarburg), Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys w/ Westside Andy (6:30pm) Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Rave / Eagles Club, Bring Me The Horizon Scarlxrd (all-ages, 7:45pm) Shank Hall, Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra w/Brett Newski Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. & Friends Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Cheel (Thiensville), Blue Highway (6:30pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm)

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

70. Farm machine 71. Up-and- — 72. — -awful 73. Lee or Laurel 74. A foreign currency 75. Scrap 76. So 77. “— — a Camera” 78. Proposes: 2 wds. 80. Coffee drink 81. Fissure 83. Not of this world: Var. 84. Cheap decoration 85. Med. specialty 86. Shouted 88. Weasel relative 89. Hammerhead 92. Show off 93. Sweetened wine beverage 97. Acts the snob: 3 wds. 100. Settles: 3 wds. 102. Bone: Prefix 103. Stands 104. Expunge 105. Near and — 106. Muffled sound 107. Winged 108. Kind of management 109. Skid DOWN 1. — up (increases) 2. Defeat 3. “— —, Brute?” 4. Lover of art 5. Take 6. Handrail for dancers 7. Singer Ramazzotti 8. Reply: Abbr. 9. Wood for smoking 10. Pork jelly 11. Horny plate 12. Spade or Hudson 13. Urban railways 14. Sodden

15. Flap of skin 16. Melville title 17. Father 18. Part of BPOE 24. Make expiation 26. “Odd Couple” name 29. Nullify 32. Statistical fact 33. Minerals 34. Yearned 35. — Island Red 36. Totally surpasses: 3 wds. 37. Governed 38. Supporting piece 39. In that case 40. Straighten out: 3 wds. 41. Inbox item 42. Mends 44. More wan 45. Like a surgeon’s hands 46. Stand of a kind 49. Manservant 51. Typeface type 53. Factions 54. Pugilist 55. Bird used in falconry 57. Incendiarism 58. Old Roman orator 59. Gave a hoot 61. Rice dish 62. Ranted and raved

63. Foundational 64. Rose essence 65. — macabre 66. Lacking merit 67. Traveled way 68. Failed Ford from 1957 70. Snippets 71. Variety of beet 74. Kind of devil 75. Climbing plant: 2 wds. 76. Cups 78. Japanese breading 79. Check 80. Patter, or patois 82. Knowledgeable 84. Salon worker 86. Mark used in proofreading 87. Charlotte — 88. En — 89. See 90. Sudden silence 91. Large island in the Aleutians 92. Pass of a kind 93. Hart 94. Film spool 95. Birthright seller 96. Raison d’— 98. Hunters’ org. 99. Trouble 101. Ossuary

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

A break on the coast Solution: 13 Letters

ACROSS 1. Bailiwick 5. At right angles to the keel 10. Lopsided 15. Prescribed portion 19. Speck 20. Chili con — 21. Magnitude 22. Gilels or Jannings 23. Conveys, as an idea: 2 wds. 25. Utilizes: 3 wds. 27. Stammers 28. Fully 30. Flavoring for gin 31. Dream 32. Muttonhead 33. Wood sorrel 34. Old French measure of land 37. Incursion 38. Out of money, problematically 43. Slide 44. Assemble: 2 wds. 47. Genus of lizards 48. Table d’ — 49. Treasure 50. — Familiares 51. Headliner 52. Wynn and Norton 53. Willamette River city 54. Ship’s officer 55. Take root: 2 wds. 56. Intricate 58. Word in a commandment 59. Songs 60. Fiat 61. Dot on a display 62. Hindu ascetic 63. Hunting dog 65. Chopped 66. Certain: Hyph. 69. A fictional musketeer

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I invite you to explore the frontiers of what’s possible for you to experience and accomplish. One exercise that might help: visualize specific future adventures that excite you. Examples? Picture yourself parasailing over the Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, or working to help endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica, or giving a speech to a crowded auditorium on a subject you will someday be an expert in. The more specific your fantasies, the better. Your homework is to generate at least five of these visions. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “We must choose between the pain of having to transcend oppressive circumstances, or the pain of perpetual unfulfillment within those oppressive circumstances,” writes mental health strategist Paul John Moscatello. We must opt for “the pain of growth or the pain of decay,” he continues. We must either “embrace the tribulations of realizing our potential, or consent to the slow suicide in complacency.” That’s a bit melodramatic, in my opinion. Most of us do both; we may be successful for a while in transcending oppressive circumstances, but then temporarily lapse back into the pain of unfulfillment. However, there are times when it makes sense to think melodramatically. And I believe now is one of those times for you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will set in motion plans to transcend at least 30 percent of your oppressive circumstances. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You Cancerians can benefit from always having a fertility symbol somewhere in your environment: an icon or image that reminds you to continually refresh your relationship with your own abundant creativity; an inspiring talisman or toy that keeps you alert to the key role your fecund imagination can and should play in nourishing your quest to live a meaningful life; a provocative work of art that spurs you to always ask for more help and guidance from the primal source code that drives you to reinvent yourself. So if you don’t have such a fertility symbol, I invite you to get one. If you do, enhance it with a new accessory. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my horoscopes, I often speak to you about your personal struggle for liberation and your efforts to express your soul’s code with ever-more ingenuity and completeness. It’s less common that I address your sacred obligation to give back to life for all that life has given to you. I only infrequently discuss how you might engage in activities to help your community, or work for the benefit of those less fortunate than you. But now is one of those times when I feel moved to speak of these matters. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to perform specific work in behalf of a greater good. Why crucial? Because your personal well-being in the immediate future depends in part on your efforts to intensify your practical compassion. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves,” writes educator Parker Palmer. That’s the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that you are in prime position to escape from the whiplash. Cosmic forces are conspiring with your eternal soul to coalesce a well-balanced vision of your true value that’s free of both vain misapprehensions and selfdeprecating delusions. Congrats! You’re empowered to understand yourself with a tender objectivity that could at least partially heal lingering wounds. See yourself truly! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The country of Poland awards medals to couples that have stayed married for 50 years. It also gives out medals to members of the armed forces who have served for at least 30 years. But the marriage medal is of higher rank, and is more prestigious. In that spirit, I’d love for you to get a shiny badge or prize to acknowledge your devoted commitment to a sacred task—whether that commitment is to an intimate alliance, a noble quest, or a promise to yourself. It’s time to reward yourself for how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve given. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Sylvia Plath wrote, “I admit I desire, / Occasionally, some backtalk / From the mute sky.”You’ll be wise to borrow the spirit of that mischie-

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vous declaration. Now is a good time to solicit input from the sky, as well as from your allies and friends and favorite animals, and from every other source that might provide you with interesting feedback. I invite you to regard the whole world as your mirror, your counselor, your informant. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In January 1493, the notorious pirate and kidnapper Christopher Columbus was sailing his ship near the land we now call the Dominican Republic. He spotted three creatures he assumed were mermaids. Later he wrote in his log that they were “not half as beautiful as they are painted [by artists].” We know now that the “mermaids” were actually manatees, aquatic mammals with flippers and paddle-shaped tails. They are in fact quite beautiful in their own way, and would only be judged as homely by a person comparing them to mythical enchantresses. I trust you won’t make a similar mistake, Sagittarius. Evaluate everything and everyone on their own merits, without comparing them to something they’re not. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I want what we all want,” writes novelist Jonathan Lethem. “To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.” Even if you haven’t passionately wanted that lately, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon. That’s a good thing, because life will be conspiring with you to accomplish it. Your ability to express yourself in ways that are meaningful to you and interesting to other people will be at a peak. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Using algorithms to analyze 300 million facts, a British scientist concluded that April 11, 1954 was the most boring day in history. A Turkish man who would later become a noteworthy engineer was born that day, and Belgium staged a national election. But that’s all. With this non-eventful day as your inspiration, I encourage you to have fun reminiscing about the most boring times in your own past. I think you need a prolonged respite from the stimulating frenzy of your daily rhythm. It’s time to rest and relax in the sweet luxury of nothingness and emptiness. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Blue Room is a famous Picasso painting from 1901. Saturated with blue hues, it depicts a naked woman taking a bath. More than a century after its creation, scientists used X-rays to discover that there was an earlier painting beneath The Blue Room and obscured by it. It shows a man leaning his head against his right hand. Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield says that there are some people who are “like a painting hidden beneath another painting.” More of you Pisceans fit that description than any other sign of the zodiac. You may even be like a painting beneath a painting beneath a painting—to a depth of five or more paintings. Is that a problem? Not necessarily. But it is important to be fully aware of the existence of all the layers. Now is a good time to have a check-in. ARIES (March 21-April 19): “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. “How slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!”Your first assignment in the coming days, Aries, is to devote yourself to quenching the hunger and thirst of your soul with the same relentless passion that you normally spend on giving your body the food and drink it craves. This could be challenging. You may be less knowledgeable about what your soul thrives on than what your body loves. So your second assignment is to do extensive research to determine what your soul needs to thrive. Homework: What are the five conditions you’d need in your world in order to feel you were living in utopia? Write to freewillastrology.com.

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Easter Bunny on the Lam

he news on Easter was full of videos of the man in a bunny costume involved in a brawl in Orlando, Fla., who claimed innocence by saying he was defending a woman who had been spit on. “I am the type of person who avoids fights by any means necessary, but in that situation, I would fight any day,” 20-year-old Antoine McDonald told the media. But the Tampa Bay Times reports McDonald has a rap sheet that belies this chivalrous image. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said McDonald is wanted in New Jersey in connection with a vehicle burglary and was a person of interest in a carjacking and two armed robberies in Florida. Police in Dover, Del., report arresting McDonald for two armed robberies there in 2017. No arrests were made in the Orlando incident.

Science: 1 Religion: 0 Over Easter weekend, hundreds of people visited a gum tree in a suburb of Perth, Australia, after the tree appeared to start “weeping” on Good Friday, which the faithful took to be a “divine” sign. For three days, the tree continued to leak water from a branch stump, provoking people to drink the “holy” water and bathe in it. “What made it exciting yesterday, a man decided to take all his clothes off and have a shower,” remarked neighbor Jacqui Bacich to 9News. The religious excitement died down after the Water Corporation discovered the tree’s naturally growing roots had simply wrapped themselves around a cracked iron water pipe about a foot underground, leaking water had slowly begun to fill a hollow part of the trunk.

Femur Fetishist In St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, Lucas Dawe, 20, appeared in court on April 11 to face charges of possessing stolen skeletal remains. According to court documents reported by The Chronicle Herald, Dawe is suspected of stealing a skeleton, estimated to be more than 100 years old, from the All Saints Parish cemetery. The skeleton was found along a

walking trail on April 6, and police were led to Dawe after an anonymous witness reported seeing him licking the bones. He was also charged with interfering with human remains, after he was accused of boiling the bones and drinking the water.

How About ‘Hitler Heights’? Residents of a particular neighborhood in the Denver suburb of Cherry Hills Village may not have ever known the name of their subdivision: It didn’t appear on signs but could be found in the fine print of real estate documents. Nonetheless, the Cherry Hills Village City Council voted unanimously on April 16 to change the neighborhood’s name from its historic name—Swastika Acres—to Old Cherry Hills. Councilman Dan Sheldon explained that the name came from the Denver Land Swastika Co., which divided the land into plots in the early 20th century, before the Nazis appropriated the symbol: “There was nothing wrong with (the name) at that time,” Sheldon told KDVR-TV.

I’ll Have the Alpaca Asti, Please In College Station, Texas, the Peach Creek Vineyard is trying out a new concept for its wine-tasting events: wine with alpacas. Teaming up with the Bluebonnet Hills Alpaca Ranch, the vineyard offers customers the chance to pet and take selfies with alpacas while sipping wine and shopping for yarn, wool or clothing. “In 24 hours, we were sold out,” vineyard owner Kenneth Stolpman told KTRK-TV. One event sold out so quickly that Stolpman had to turn away more than 1,000 people.

Doing the Walmart Waltz At a Rotterdam, N.Y., Walmart, two men pulled off a well-choreographed scam on April 13 that cost the store $2,000. The men purchased three laptops, for which they paid cash, according to The Daily Gazette. But after the cashier counted the money, one man asked for it back, saying he wanted to make sure he hadn’t paid too much. The other man then started dancing around the checkout area as a distraction. The thief with the money gave some of it back to the cashier, but pocketed the rest, and the clerk did not recount the cash. Police are still looking for the suspects, who were captured on surveillance video. © 2019 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION M AY 2 , 2 0 1 9 | 37

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So I Went to the Corner ::BY ART KUMBALEK

’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, what with all the racist spew cycling through our national discourse, lo, these days, like crap through a goose, I’m forced to remember a time past where I took a day off so as to think about, perhaps even mull, my vowel-challenged Polish immigrant forefathers and foremothers who had to cross a pretty gosh darn big ocean to find a country where they could serve as the dupa of humorous anecdotes to help cure an ailing nation ’cause laughter is the best medicine. To wit: How many Polish guys (Polacks for you’s unrehabilitated old-schoolers) does it take to go ice fishing? Seven. One to drill the hole in the ice and six to put the boat in. Ba-ding! And on that day, I recall that I went to the place where I always do my best thinking, over by the Uptowner tavern/charm school on the wistful corner of Center & Humboldt, where self-medication sure beats the cost of the prescription variety, what the fock. So come along, again, if you feel like it, and like last time, you buy the first round. Let’s get going. Julius: So I’m driving my 8-year-old granddaughter to school and I beep the horn by mistake. She looks at me and I say, “I did that by accident, sweetheart.” She says, “I know that, Grandpa.” I ask

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her how she could know and she says, “Because you didn’t say ‘focking asshole!’ afterwards.” Little Jimmy Iodine: You’s guy hear Wally Brzscziewiczynsky passed away? Herbie: Who? Little Jimmy Iodine: Wally Brzscziewiczynsky. Herbie: You got to be jerking my beefaroni. I thought “Brzscziewiczynsky” had two “e’s” in it, what the fock. Little Jimmy: You must be thinking of Teddy Brzescziewiczynsky. He’s still with us. Ernie: So what happened to Wally? I heard he never drank a day in his life. Julius: And that was his problem right there. I read a study somewheres that said when you pound a couple of ounces of booze every day, you can avoid keeling over from the Big One. Emil: I’ve been saying that for years. The more you drink the longer you live. I spit on the tomb of the teetotalling knobshine. Herbie: I never listen to those bullshit testimonials from geriatric geezers who say the reason they’re so old is ’cause they never touched a drop, and then before you know it, they go just like that at 95 or something. The knobs. If they knew their way around a bottle like they do a load of crap, they’d live to a hundred and focking twenty-five, the focksticks. Ray: Speaking of focksticks… Little Jimmy: Hey, Artie! Over here. Art: Hey gents, what do you know, what do you hear. Little Jimmy: I heard Wally Brzscziewiczynsky passed away. Art: No kidding. And here I thought “Brzscziewiczynsky” had three “y’s” in it. What the fock happened?

Little Jimmy: Here’s what I know. I called Wally’s widow to express my sympathies and find out what happened. Artie, Wally was really getting up there in age, plus he never drank a day in his life. Art: For crying out loud, that’s his problem right there. Good guy, though. I remember once he says he went to the DMV for his driver’s license and had to take an eye exam. The optician holds up a card with the letters “C Z W S Y N E S T A C Z” and asks Wally if he could read the card. Wally says, “Sure I can read it. I know the guy.” Little Jimmy: So anyways, the widow says Wally had a heart attack last Sunday morning whilst they were having the hootchie-cootchie. Ray: Laying the Polish pipe at his age—god bless him, but that’s just asking for trouble when you’re that old, I don’t care who you are. Little Jimmy: That’s what I said, but she said that wasn’t a problem ’cause they stopped going at it like a couple of barnyard animals years ago. You know they lived over by St. Stanislaus there, and they figured out the best time to enjoy the pleasures in the connubial bed of the man and wife would be when the church bells would start to ring. She said it was the perfect rhythm, slow and even. Nothing too strenuous. Art: I can see that. Makes sense—in on the Ding and out with the Dong, ain’a? Little Jimmy: That’s right. Then she kind of choked up a little and said, “What with the nice weather, we had the windows open and I swear to god, Jimmy, he’d still be alive if that focking ice cream truck hadn’t come along.” (Hey, I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear again, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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