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::NEWS&VIEWS FEATURES | POLLS | TAKING LIBERTIES | ISSUE OF THE WEEK

Is Sen. Alberta Darling

Disappointing Her Constituents?

HAS HER DISTRICT CHANGED? HAS SHE CHANGED? ::BY LOUIS FORTIS tate Senator Alberta Darling was on a fundraising trip in Washington, D.C., when she released a memo, along with her Joint Finance Committee (JFC) co-chair, John Nygren, announcing her intent to strip Medicaid expansion from the state budget. In the missive, she drew an uncooperative line in the sand rejecting that, as well as other popular measures Gov. Tony Evers made cornerstones of both his winning campaign last November and his proposed budget. Since the election, opinion polls have shown that these policies are more popular than ever.

Darling dropped that memo just before attending a Republican Party of Wisconsin fundraiser put on by BGR Group, which, according to Open Secrets, lobbies on behalf of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, among others. Evers’ spokeswoman, Melissa Baldauff, issued a stinging rebuke from her Twitter account: “Not an episode of @VeepHBO—Wisconsin Republicans announced their plan to ignore the will of the people and deny health care coverage to 82,000 more Wisconsinites during a $1k-per-person (minimum) fundraiser in DC.” Evers’ plan to bring Medicaid expansion money to Wisconsin—which reputable studies show will bring down costs for Wisconsin taxpayers—has grown in popularity. It saves costs, and it saves lives. Wisconsin is one of only 14 states that have not done so, and the question is why? Many staunchly Republican governors in such states as Arizona, Iowa and Ohio accepted that money, noting that, when a state like Wisconsin does not, the money simply goes to other states.

Eight days later, after the JFC voted along partisan lines to reject the federal health care money, Evers replied, “Today’s vote was disappointing, but it’s not the end. I’m going to keep reminding Wisconsinites what’s at stake, and I’m going to keep fighting to expand Medicaid.”

Darling and Evers not being on the same page is hardly breaking news, but Darling’s extremism in rejecting health care funding, nonpartisan redistricting, proposed funding increases for students (including those in special education) and refusing to consider legalizing even medicinal marijuana use in Wisconsin are also out of step with much of the Eighth Senate District that she has represented for more than 25 years. Legalizing, regulating and taxing medical marijuana, for example, will bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the state coffers and provide help for people with certain serious medical issues.

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Twisted Logic, Unpopular Positions

On a rightwing MacIver podcast last month, host

Matt Kittle played devil’s advocate with Darling, asking her how she can go against the narrative when Wisconsin has a governor saying it’s going to open the door to health care for 80,000 people; Darling’s response: “The reason we don’t want to take the Medicaid expansion, it’s worth a lot of money today, but will the federal government be able to give it tomorrow?” (By that twisted logic, Wisconsin should reject billions from the federal government for education, transportation and dozens of other programs.)

Asked about the opinion polls and what they have shown on several contentious budget issues, director of the Marquette Law School Poll Charles Franklin notes that Medicaid expansion is “pretty popular across the whole state and has been for a while; it is even more so now.”

Indeed, there is even far less of a partisan divide in support for strong funding for education in general and even greater support for special education. Franklin—who is viewed as Wisconsin’s premier pollster and whose frequent polls give him a grasp on opinion changes on current issues over time—has seen a “big transformation,” even among Republicans, in support of marijuana legalization. He says medical marijuana support is so lopsided in favor now that, “given the trend, it’s hard to imagine it won’t happen.”

As for the conservative suburban Milwaukee counties, often called the “WOW” counties (Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington), they are still very much Republican, he says, but that is slowly changing, as evidenced in not just the 2018 governor’s race, but also the most recent U.S. Senate, state Supreme Court and presidential races as well. “The bottom line is that there is a lot of evidence that the WOW counties are less Republican,” Franklin states. There were many reports that attributed Donald Trump’s razorthin margin in 2016 and Scott Walker’s defeat in 2018 to lower turnout and decreased enthusiasm in those counties—once called “Walker Country” (Ozaukee and Waukesha counties were where Walker saw the two biggest drops in support).

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert, in his 2018 Wisconsin Voter post-election analysis, noted, “Milwaukee’s North Shore has been growing more Democratic for decades.” Sen. Dale Kooyenga is another Republican whose district is evolving in ways somewhat similar to Darling’s. He announced in a recent public forum that he is open to Medicaid expansion saying, ” I’m personally flexible.” But when it comes to Darling, whose district is made up of portions of all three WOW counties and a piece of Milwaukee County, one Capitol observer offers this: “Politicians generally head in the direction of their district or at least change their focus. She seems to be gunning it in the opposite direction.”

Flip-Flopping on the Issues

Sen. Darling, 75, has some history of altering her views with changing circumstances. She has served in the Wisconsin Senate for 25 years and survived a recall in 2011. The Shepherd Express pointed out that, when she was first elected to the state Assembly in 1990, “the media glowingly referred to her as a ‘liberal prochoicer’ who recognized the wisdom of gun control.”

But when the Republican Party began shunning any-

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one without anti-choice views on women’s health, Darling ipped from serving on the board of Planned Parenthood during her early years in ofďŹ ce to championing extreme anti-choice measures to ďŹ t in with this new brand of Republicans.

Once an English teacher, she also led Republicans on budgets that gutted education funding under Walker. And at a time when many of her Republican constituents could not stomach Trump as a GOP candidate for president, she was one of just two elected Republican women to step forward to lead a group called “Wisconsin Women for Trump.� The Republican Party of Wisconsin’s own internal report, released this month before its annual convention, noted that the party is losing support with women and independents, and that people did not want to publicly admit support for Trump (something the party is seeking to make more socially acceptable using yard signs, apparently).

Darling has openly shared how she values quality health care, having survived both breast and skin cancer. She married her college sweetheart, a surgeon who lived with diabetes most of his life until he passed away in 2015 awaiting a transplant,

a heartbreaking event for Darling. She was recently injured in a fall while in Washington, D.C., for the fundraiser that has kept her from being able to travel back to Wisconsin to attend the JFC meeting where the budget committee took its party-line vote against expanding Medicaid. Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos reported that she said she’s recovering well and told him she’s getting great care.

Now, as she leads the budget committee at a time when the Milwaukee northern suburbs she represents are moving in the opposite political direction, having a polite and reasonable Democrat in the governor’s ofďŹ ce should give her the opportunity to shift with her changing constituency.

She could be a consensus builder who ďŹ nds common ground, but thus far, she’s shunned that role. She’s turned her back on constituents and rejected proposals like Medicaid expansion and medical marijuana that would lower their taxes—the issue she has emphasized most in the budget debate. But the state budget is currently being crafted, and there’s still plenty of time to work with Gov. Evers and honor her Milwaukee suburban constituents’ evolving views.

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Sen. Alberta Darling offers this on her website: As always, if you have any concerns or ideas on how to improve our great state, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone at 608-266-5830 or by email at sen.darling@legis.wi.gov.

If you are part of the majority that supports these issues as tracked by the April 2019 Marquette poll, it’s critical the co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee hears your opinion on items she has cut.

These include: n Expanding Badgercare/Medicaid to care for more Wisconsinites and save money for all taxpayers. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau says not doing so has cost Wisconsin $1.1 billion thus far. Marquette’s poll shows 70% want this. n Meaningful funding boosts for schools and special education. The poll shows 74% want more for special education. n Decriminalizing marijuana for social justice and legalization for at least medicinal situations.

Medical marijuana legalization showed 83% approval and full legalization 59% approval in the poll.

Louis Fortis served in the Wisconsin State Assembly with Alberta Darling when she was ďŹ rst elected.

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Solar Eclipse?

CRITICS SEE WE ENERGIES TRYING TO MUSCLE COMPETITION OUT OF RENEWABLEENERGY MARKET ::BY DAN SHAW

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ne of the biggest questions as solar panels and related components continue to drop in price is: How much of the market for solar power will belong to large utilities?

Renewable-energy advocates believe that a couple of policy proposals put forward by We Energies will leave little room for anyone but big companies like itself.

We Energies, a company whose service area takes in not only Milwaukee but much of southeastern Wisconsin, officially sought regulators’ permission on May 3 to begin charging solar customers a $3.53 “fixed cost recovery charge” for every kilowatt they generate with their own equipment. The new proposed charge, which would take effect in 2021, is expected to cost homeowners who generate solar power from $12

to $15 a month. It’s also undeniably similar to a so-called demand charge that We Energies had put forward nearly five years ago only to see it rejected in Dane County Circuit Court.

This time around, We Energies is back not only with what it says are new data supporting its request but also an old argument. Back in 2014, We Energies officials had contended their proposed demand charge would prevent people from getting out of paying their “fair share” for the upkeep of the electrical-distribution grid that even solar users still must rely on from time to time. According to We Energies, those who come close to eliminating their electricity bills by producing their own power are no longer doing their part to pay for the grid. That burden is then shifted onto other, non-solar customers.

It’s a contention that many renewable-energy advocates regard as specious. Tyler Huebner, executive director of the nonprofit group RENEW Wisconsin, says one flaw in the argument is that it fails to take into account the many ways generators of solar power benefit other energy users.

People with solar arrays, for instance, are often producing more power than they can use during the daytime and putting the excess onto the grid.

“We think they are providing peak power and reducing the pull on the transmission system,” Huebner explains.

Brendan Conway, a spokesman for We Energies, says it’s nonetheless undeniable that solar producers aren’t paying for the full benefits they continue to receive from the power grid. And even with an additional charge, solar producers will still be paying about $600 less a year for energy than other utility customers, he said. “So it’s not only a reasonable amount of money,” he says. “Just as importantly, it creates fairness.”

Monopolize the Sun?

For many who are interested in solar, We Energies’ proposed policies seem aimed chiefly at muscling possible competitors out of the solar market. Another policy the utility is pursuing would, if accepted by regulators, further add to the obstacles standing before anyone who might be considering going solar.

Last year, We Energies rejected a proposal to let a separate company, Eagle Point Solar, connect 1.1 megawatts worth of solar arrays that were to be installed atop seven Milwaukee municipal buildings. In making that decision, We Energies argued that state law gives it the exclusive right to produce power “for the public” in its service territory. Since Eagle Point is not proposing to generate electricity for itself but rather for public buildings, We Energies argues it is trying to act like a utility.

Sadly for renewable-energy advocates, the regulators on the Wisconsin Public Service Commission recently declined once again to take up the question of whether companies like Eagle Point Solar do fit the definition of a utility. That leaves only the question of whether We Energies was within its rights to deny a connection to the Eagle Point municipal project.

So, no matter the outcome, the sorts of “thirdparty financing” arrangements that are used in many other states to ease the cost burden of solar installations are likely to remain in a gray legal area in Wisconsin. In Eagle Point’s proposed solar project with Milwaukee, third-party financing would let the city own only about 20 percent of the solar arrays upfront. The rest would belong to Eagle Point and be essentially leased to the city, which would have the option to buy remaining parts of the project outright after seven years.

For renewable-energy advocates, the current lack of third-party financing is one of the biggest obstacles now standing before the solar industry in Wisconsin. Even political conservatives, long skeptical of the benefits of renewable energy, are questioning why We Energies’ monopoly should extend to solar projects.

“If we believe in free markets and competition, you have to believe in allowing thirdparty providers,” says Scott Coenen, executive director of the Wisconsin Conservative Energy Forum.

Ed Zinthefer, owner and president of Arch Electric, says that installation costs remain insurmountable for many homeowners and small businesses. Third-party financing would greatly lessen that burden by letting people pay for equipment over a period of 25 years, a time in which they would also be lowering their utility bills.

As for the new proposed solar charge, Zinthefer warns that We Energies’ plans might backfire. Back in 2014, when We Energies officials put forward a similar charge—which was approved by utility regulators before being shot down in court—they infuriated many customers. Some of those people decided to express their displeasure by going out and buying a solar-generation system.

“And we were there to support their needs,” Zinthefer says. “We put in far more systems that year than the previous year.

We did more battery systems that year than in the previous five years combined. We don’t know what’s going to happen this time around. But if last time is any indication, it could be another uptick.”

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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( MAY 30 - JUNE 5, 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 Donald Trump regime, as well as other activities that seek to thwart social justice. To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com

Thursday, May 30

Human Rights Campaign Milwaukee Volunteer Open House @ MobCraft Beer (505 S. Fifth. St.), 6:30-8 p.m.

Members of the Milwaukee Steering Committee and Human Rights Campaign staff will be on hand to share upcoming volunteer activities and leadership opportunities for those looking to step up and join HRC in the fight for equality.

Friday, May 31

Green New Deal Milwaukee Fundraiser @ Freight 38 (838 S. First St.), 6-10 p.m.

Our communities, our city and our state need to be more proactive in making sure our planet is sustainable. The issue disproportionally affects communities of color. Green New Deal is a fundraise for Milwaukee’s campaign on Economic Justice and Jobs.

Come and learn about the campaign and opportunities on how to get involved. Hosted by Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin.

Saturday, June 1

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of National Avenue and Cesar Chavez Drive, noon-1 p.m.

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

Guns Down Miltown Peace Park Party @ The Peace Park and Garden (2904 N. Fifth St.), noon

Fed up with the gun violence in our community? So is the Milwaukee-founded Cease Fire Movement for Communities Across America. Guns Down Miltown seeks a gunviolence free life and call for a city-wide cease fire. Proceeds will be used for youth programs in the city of Milwaukee.

Tuesday, June 4

Domestic Human Trafficking 101 and Volunteer Training @ New Berlin Public Library (15105 W. Library Lane), 6:30-8 p.m.

It happens in all 72 counties of Wisconsin. What is domestic human trafficking? Who is being trafficked? Why do the victims not run away? Why do they need special attention? Can we help them find a new job? Organized by the Redeem and Restore Center.

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You’re Willing to Pay More for Public Education Last week, we asked if you’d be willing to pay a little more in Wisconsin taxes if the money went directly to fund public schools? You said: n Yes: 80% n No: 20%

What Do You Say?

With the addition of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and a number of “red states” passing extreme, unconstitutional, antichoice legislation in hopes of getting their laws approved by the court, do you believe that Roe v. Wade will be overturned sometime within the next two years? 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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The Dishonor Roll of America’s Most Corrupt Republican Presidencies ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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hen Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, announced he would violate a 95-year-old federal law to hide Trump’s tax returns from a congressional investigating committee, his presidency permanently secured its place in history. It officially became the third corrupt Republican presidency in American history to begin battling a public investigation into whether the president of the United States and his political cronies were a pack of criminals.

Many people these days trace Republican political corruption to the 1970s Watergate scandal of Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon. (Spoiler alert: He was.) The president and his gang tried to cover up a burglary ring operating out of the White House that had broken into Democratic National Committee headquarters and the office of the psychiatrist of an anti-war activist.

But tracing back only to Watergate completely overlooks the very first corrupt Republican presidency in U.S. history.

Until Watergate, Warren G. Harding’s Republican administration in the 1920s was America’s most scandal-ridden presidency. It actually prompted that 1924 law requiring the Internal Revenue Service to turn over the tax returns of administration officials for congressional investigation. Criminals surrounding President Harding included his attorney general who sold government alcohol supplies during Prohibition as well as pardons; his Veterans Bureau chief imprisoned for soliciting bribes; and his interior secretary, Albert Fall, who holds the distinction as the first cabinet secretary ever convicted and imprisoned for a felony in what infamously became known as the Teapot Dome scandal.

Fighting Bob Took a Tough Stand

Wisconsin’s progressive Republican Sen. Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette led the Senate investigation uncovering the details of Teapot Dome, named after the shape of a Wyoming mountain holding government oil reserves. Fall leased those oil reserves without competitive bidding to two multimillionaire oil men in exchange for bribes and no-interest personal loans worth more than $5 million in today’s dollars.

La Follette’s major role is significant. Many people forget that his progressive movement was the liberal, activist wing of Wisconsin’s Republican Party. Unlike modern-day Republicans, La Follette opposed government corruption committed by members of his own party. During Watergate, it also was three powerful veteran Republicans—Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, Pennsylvania Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and Arizona House MiSHEPHERD EXPRESS

nority Leader John Rhodes Jr.—who met with Nixon and convinced him to resign.

Only a tiny number of elected Republicans have ever had enough political courage to stand up to Republican presidential corruption.

The first current Republican senator to publicly oppose Trump’s brazen corruption of the presidency will be one in a row. That’s unfortunate, because Trump has at long last achieved his dream of appointing an attorney general who will tell him he can do anything he wants. Atty.

Gen. William Barr now backs Trump’s open defiance of congressional subpoenas of financial records and testimony sought to investigate criminal activity in the government, as well as Trump using the presidency to enrich himself and his family through money laundering and profiteering in his private businesses.

The only significant legislation successfully passed by Republicans in 2½ years of Trump’s presidency was a $1.5 trillion tax cut that overwhelming went to multimillion-dollar corporations and the wealthiest individuals in America, including Trump and his family. But that didn’t stop Trump from publicly lying to the American people and claiming he received absolutely no personal benefit.

Our Right to Know

You and I and every other American, regardless of political party, has a right to know whether our president is pursuing policies that benefit our country or to simply fill his own pockets. Instead, Trump denies our elected representatives have any right to investigate his corruption of the presidency. They do.

Those powers are spelled out explicitly in Article One of the U.S. Constitution.

Trump doesn’t merely claim whatever he does as president is none of our business; he bellows it to the heavens like a madman. He stormed out of a White House meeting with leading Democrats last week to hold a raving, incoherent press conference in the Rose Garden declaring he will never again work with Democrats on any legislation until they cease all their infernal investigations and allow him to commit his crimes in peace.

This recounting of historically corrupt U.S. presidencies can be criticized for failing to recognize Ronald Reagan’s substantial contributions to Republican corruption. It was his presidency that illegally sold U.S. missiles to the hostile government of Iran to finance a secret war in Nicaragua. Fourteen administration officials were indicted, and 11 were convicted—many of whom were pardoned later

by President George Bush (who was Reagan’s vice president). Somehow, Republicans succeeded in papering over Reagan’s corruption with heroic conservative mythology. Republicans weren’t even ashamed to name airports and government buildings after him.

It’s encouraging that the universally recognized corrupt Republican presidencies of Harding and Nixon both ended badly. If the nation successfully rids itself of the corrupt Trump Republican presidency, history suggests it could be another 50 years before Americans have to suffer through anything like it again.

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HONORING THE VOICES OF YOUTH WHILE ‘IGNITING TRANSFORMATION’ ::BY ERIN BLOODGOOD

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endi Trujillo Tena is soft-spoken and humble, but as soon as she starts talking about the youth she works with at Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT), her eyes light up, and you can hear the passion in her voice.

Trujillo Tena has worked with young people at other organizations in the city but explains that their voices aren’t always honored or valued. However, at LIT, the number-one goal is to put power in the hands of the youth and teach them how to advocate for themselves.

The young organization started in January 2018, fueled by the issue of the school-toprison pipeline. At least 12 Milwaukee schools have metal detectors and law enforcement officers who are enforcing school policies with the use of restraints and seclusions.

Those schools predominantly serve students of color. Many see the added security as an answer to the violence and disruptions occurring in the schools, but the founders of LIT see it differently.

In April 2018, the organization partnered with the Center of Popular Democracy to publish a report that looks at the outcomes of these extra security policies. They found that there were much higher expulsion rates among black and brown youth and those with learning disabilities. According to the report, 80% of suspensions were of black students, and 85% of referrals to law enforcement were black students, but only 53% of total students enrolled were black.

Let that sink in for a moment. As a student of color, you are far more likely to be suspended or get involved in the criminal justice system. The report shows suspensions lead to lower academic performance, a higher likelihood of dropping out and a higher chance of being entangled in the criminal justice system. Rather than tackling these issues alone, Trujillo Tena and the staff at LIT decided that the youth being affected should be the ones making the decisions.

When Trujillo Tena came on to the team, she emphasized that “the youth have to be in every step of the process.” LIT now has chapters of students advocating for their rights located in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) high schools with high security. The leaders in the organization start by building trust with the youth. Then, they teach the students about the school-to-prison pipeline and show them that these practices are unjust.

Together, they have created the Youth Power Agenda—an action plan that presents an alternative to harsh discipline practices. The adults let the youth take it from there.

“They are the ones who decide what they want to bring up and what they see as the solutions to these issues,” Trujillo Tena says. LIT simply provides a platform to amplify their voices, such as taking the students to Madison, Wisc., to let them speak with their elected officials. Trujillo Tena and the staff understand that the youth’s experiences are real, and that their values matter just as much as any adult’s. “I let them lead, and they know what they are doing.”

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::BY PHILIP CHARD

he game is rigged,” Ned told me. He wasn’t referring to a table at the casino or Wisconsin’s approach to drawing legislative districts.

“I’ll give you one example. We all imagine if we had a particular something or someone, that would make our lives better and bring happiness. That motivates us to work to get what we want. But the truth is, you can’t know if something will give you more happiness until you actually have it,” he explained.

Sure, we all realize nobody can foretell the future. We also know, from research, that people are really crappy at predicting what will make them happy. So, as Ned suggested, we create stories in our minds about which person, possession, situation or experience will make us happy. And we’re wrong more often than not. Many people, upon obtaining their presumed key to the happiness kingdom, whatever that might be, discover they miscalculated.

“So, how are rational beings supposed to make good decisions about the future when all they can do is guess, and usually guess wrong?” he continued.

Pursuing that magic whatever or whomever in hopes of upgrading one’s life gets people into lots of gnarly spots. The classic example is marriages that end in divorce or— sometimes worse still—drag on miserably. Surveys show most betrothed couples harbor high expectations for the positive impact marriage will bring to their lives. And well over half of them later realize they were wrong, with many concluding matrimony worsened their well-being.

“You see, life is set up to guarantee we make a lot of bad choices. It’s designed to mess with our lives,” Ned maintained.

He offered other examples, of course. “Everybody thinks a good education and hard work are the keys to success. But, in almost every instance, there is luck involved. Some other schmuck who did all the right things crashed and burned instead, or never even got off the launch pad, because of a twist of fate,” he asserted.

Ned is an angry fellow. He feels life is patently unfair and designed to create suffering and disappointment. His mindset attracts him to the theory that our universe is a highlyadvanced game simulation, a form of entertainment for a technologically superior yet somewhat-sadistic being or species.

After a bit of digging, I discovered the source of this middle-aged man’s seething discontent. Death. Specifically, the tragic death of his teenage daughter at the hands of a drunk driver. “We all die, and if the game was fair, we’d precede the people we love the most. But that’s not how the universe works, at least not for many of us,” he lamented.

As Ned sees it, death is the ultimate example of a rigged system. We don’t choose to be born into this mortal life, but we have no choice but to exit it, often not on our terms. “You get attached to people, to things in life, and then you lose it all by dying. Everything you ever loved or cared about, gone,” he concluded.

Obviously, there are plenty of people who view life more positively. Folks who adhere to various religious or philosophical tenets attach entirely different interpretations to the same events Ned views as proof of a rigged existence.

Our experiences shape how we perceive life, and the death of Ned’s daughter sculpted his perception deeply and painfully. Others who have suffered this agonizing loss adopt entirely different perspectives. Some devote themselves to positive causes, find solace in their faith or re-dedicate themselves to family and friends.

Regardless, one can make a case, as Ned does, that life isn’t fair. All of us skew that way at times, but feeling consistently victimized and cheated by the game of life is a tough way to transit existence.

You end up cheating yourself out of some measure of happiness.

OUR EXPERIENCES SHAPE HOW WE PERCEIVE LIFE, AND THE DEATH OF NED’S DAUGHTER SCULPTED HIS PERCEPTION DEEPLY AND PAINFULLY. OTHERS WHO HAVE SUFFERED THIS AGONIZING LOSS ADOPT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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aren Lillie has long known about the sustainable benefits of the hemp plant. As owner of Weeds (W62 N588 Washington Ave., Cedarburg) and its sister store Lillies, she features fair-traded, eco-friendly goods; hemp products tie in with her ethos. Weeds has hemp T-shirts, socks, pet toys and accessories, as well as cannabidiol (CBD) products.

“Hemp-based clothing is really durable and breathable. The more you wash it, the softer it becomes. It’s the strongest natural fiber on Earth. It’s anti-bacterial and anti-fungal, it prevents bacteria from growing in your socks or your clothes, and it resists odors,” Lillie explains. “It also wicks away moisture.”

While CBD has been getting the most attention lately, hemp has many practical uses. Lillie says that hemp is a good alternative to cotton or other fibers because it’s a more sustainable, environmentally friendly crop that requires less water and needs little to no pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer. Hemp seeds, and the oil produced from them, have many culinary uses and industrial purposes. It grows easily and can be cultivated in diverse climates.

“One acre of hemp will produce as much as two-to-four acres of cotton. It’s also good for paper products and can be used for tissue paper or cardboard,” Lillie continues. “It takes years for trees to grow, whereas hemp can be harvested as soon as 120 days after it is planted.” Weeds has Soul Flower hemp T-Shirts with an array of designs, Weeds sells summer sun hats made in Nepal (hemp has been grown and used in Nepal for many generations), messenger bags, wallets and Kind Hemp Co. socks. For our fur babies, Weeds has Eco-fetcher hemp dog toys such as flying discs and balls.

Weeds also carries bath and body products made with hemp (with no CBD) such as lotions, massage oils, skin butters and shower gels. One can also find Rosemary Mint Hemp Soap, made by Wisconsin-based Good Earth Soap Co. “Hemp is also great for the skin. It restores elasticity, flexibility and overall skin health,” Lillie says.

For those looking for CBD items in the Cedarburg area, Weeds has CBD tinctures, pain-soothing salves and roll-ons by Milwaukee area Canna Infuzions; Elixinol capsules and balm; MedTerra tinctures and capsules, which Lillie says are free from tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); and CBD teas in peppermint or chamomile. They also have some CBD gummies. She notes that many people come in just for information about CBD, and her staff is trained to answer questions.

“So many people are making CBD products, so we’re picky about what we offer and make sure the products we bring in are third-party tested,” Lillie says. “We want to support Wisconsin products, but we’re limited as to what we can bring in because there aren’t many.”

But she’s optimistic that will change. “I think Wisconsin’s hemp industry is going to go gangbusters, now that we can grow it here,” she says. “I think it will be used for all types of products, like clothing. Not only can hemp be used as substitutions for pulp and paper products, it can be used for building materials and so many other applications.

It is a strong, fast-growing material and a superior product.”

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A latecomer to the discussion, he made marijuana legalization a secondary goal of his criminal justice reform plan. Rather than focusing on marijuana itself, he frames legalization as a social justice issue, stressing the importance of reversing the harmful effects of the criminalization of cannabis as well as racial inequality within the justice system. “The safe, regulated and legal sale of marijuana is an idea whose time has come for the United States, as evidenced by voters demanding legalization in states across the country,” he declared.

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he 2020 U.S. presidential election is going to determine the future of marijuana legislation nationwide. In recent years, marijuana entered the public debate and garnered support from a vast majority of Americans, culminating in efforts like the recent Marijuana Justice Act, which aims to legalize it federally. As a whole, the Democratic Party has made cannabis reform into a central issue that their presidential hopefuls all support to different degrees. Here are some of their positions on the subject:

n JOE BIDEN

Biden supports decriminalization but not legalization on the federal level. His plan includes rescheduling cannabis as a Schedule II drug (what cocaine currently is) and letting states choose whether to legalize it. He wants to automatically expunge prior criminal records for marijuana possession. “Nobody should be in jail for smoking marijuana,” Biden said.

n CORY BOOKER

Booker introduced the Marijuana Justice Act in Congress, making full legalization a central tenet of his platform. He particularly cares about addressing the racial

Despite admitting to smoking marijuana in the past, she used to oppose cannabis reform. She has since changed her mind, however, and now expresses support for legalization and regulation of marijuana—though her stance may mirror public opinion rather than a genuine conviction. “Legalizing marijuana is the smart thing to do and the right thing to do in order to advance justice and equality for every American,” Harris wrote in support of the Marijuana Justice Act.

n BETO O’ROURKE

O’Rourke defends the idea of full legalization on the federal level and a nationwide reform of the prison system. Marijuana reform is one of the main talking points of his campaign and has been since his first years in politics.

“Let us not just end the prohibition of marijuana, or the expungement of the records of those arrested solely for possession of a substance legal in most of this country, [but also] confront the true legacy of slavery, segregation and suppression,” he wrote in his political program.

n BERNIE SANDERS

Sanders is currently one of the most outspoken proponents of cannabis legalization. He wants to reform the criminal justice system and end the War on Drugs by entirely legalizing marijuana. “Right now, marijuana is at the same level as heroin, which is basically insane,” Sanders said. In a tweet, he wrote, “The time is long overdue for us to take marijuana off the federal government’s list of outlawed drugs.”

n ELIZABETH WARREN

After skirting around the issue for years, Warren has expressed support for and co-sponsored several marijuana reform bills, in particular to expunge the records of people convicted of marijuana possession. She wants the federal government to reschedule marijuana and leave it up to states to legalize it, although she supported the Marijuana Justice Act earlier this year. “The federal government needs to get out of the business of outlawing marijuana. States should make their own decisions about enforcing marijuana laws,” she wrote.

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Restaurants are popping up from Silver City to the Deer District ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI There’s a little bit of everything in this month’s restaurant openings, including second locations for sushi and Mexican restaurants, another brunch spot and a Deer District sports bar. Plus, two places to get your fresh pasta fix.

Ca’Lucchenzo Pastificio & Enoteca

An Italian restaurant has opened in the former Juniper 61 spot in Wauwatosa.

Ca’Lucchenzo is owned by Zak and Sarah Baker, who between them have worked at Ristorante Bartolotta, c. 1880 and Pizza Man. The menu features snacks, antipasti, freshly made pastas and risotto and will change seasonally, inspired by northern Italy in winter and southern Italy in summer. Focaccia ($5), giant braised meatballs ($10) and polipo alla piastra ($14), octopus with ‘nduja vinaigrette, are some of the starters. Pastas include garganelli di nero ($20) with calamari and crab, gnocchi with lamb ragu ($18) and ravioli ($18) filled with ricotta and chard in brown butter and pesto.

6030 W. North Ave. • 414-312-8968 calucchenzo.com • $$-$$$

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The final previously announced vendor has opened in the Crossroads Collective food hall. Egg & Flour Pasta Bar is run by chef Adam Pawlak and features handmade pastas made fresh every day. The menu will change seasonally, and there is a featured pasta special every day. Bucatini ($12) is served with a creamy Grana Padano and black pepper sauce, shell pasta ($12) is served with cheese sauce and bacon and pappardelle can be topped with seven-hour Bolognese ($14) or tomato sauce ($11). Daily specials have included pacherri pasta with foie gras and duck salami cream sauce and various types of ravioli.

2238 N. Farwell Ave. • greateffingpasta.com • $$

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A restaurant by the folks at Rice n Roll Bistro has opened in Wauwatosa. Kin serves sushi and other Japanese and Thai dishes in a bright, modern space with a small sushi bar. A long list of appetizers includes steamed buns with chashu pork ($8), salmon tartar ($15) and miso soup ($3). Crab fried rice ($18), khao soy chicken

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($14) and panang curry ($12) are some of the Thai items on the menu. Nigiri and sashimi can be ordered by the piece or as a set, with 12 pieces selected by the chef ($22.95). Some of the maki rolls from Rice n Roll make an appearance here, like the Milwaukee ($14) with shrimp tempura, while many others are new, such as the Tosa fab ($16) with yellowtail, avocado and curry mayo.

7484 W. State St. • 414-524-9056 kinbyricenroll.com • $$

Little Cancun

A Mexican restaurant in Franklin has opened a second location in the former Hector’s in Bay View. Little Cancun, known for its chips and salsa, sports a renovated interior in a purple color scheme and abundant daily food and drink specials. Combination plates ($6.95-$14.50) with anything from chile relleno to chicken flautas are popular here, along with classics like bistec ranchero ($13.50), fried milanesa ($10.95) and camarones a la diabla ($14.50). Guacamole ($7.95), pico de gallo ($3.95) and loco beans ($8.95) topped with steak all make good chip dips.

3040 S. Delaware St. • 414-761-6200 littlecancunrestaurant.com • $$

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A breakfast and lunch restaurant has opened in the Silver City neighborhood.

Orenda is in a newly renovated building that feels like a diner, with counter seating at the bar and a row of comfortable booths. Breakfast items make up the majority of the menu and include many Mexican-inspired dishes, like carnita hash ($12) and chilaquiles ($9) with eggs and pork belly. On the sweet side are s’mores French toast ($11) and chia seed pancakes ($10.5) with buttermilk caramel syrup. Lunch items include cucumber salmon ceviche ($9), an apple and goat cheese salad ($10) and a burger topped with roasted poblanos, Swiss and mushrooms ($11).

3514 W. National Ave. • 414-212-8573 orendacafe.org • $$

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A massive new sports bar and grill has opened in the Deer District across from Fiserv Forum. The MECCA can hold up to 750 people with the focal point being a 42-foot-wide TV screen that spans two floors above the main bar. The menu is brief but full of sports bar favorites, like garlic fries ($6) with herbs, shallots and garlic aioli, nachos ($14) with smoked barbecue chicken and chicken wings ($12) with garlic and rosemary seasoning, buffalo or Asian barbecue sauce. Burgers ($12-$14), a salmon sandwich ($14), tacos ($4.50) and entrées like fried chicken ($16) with biscuits and slaw round out the offerings.

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J Kowalske lived in Boston for a decade, but whenever he returned home to Milwaukee to visit family, he was always wowed by beer brewed by his cousin, Jonathan Kowalske. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At Christmas, I tried some of his home brews, and I was really impressed. I just paid $8 for a beer in Boston, and his was just as good, if not better, than what I paid for.â&#x20AC;?

DJ also dabbled in home brewing. When he moved back to Milwaukee, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get together with his brother, Steve, and Jonathan, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hang out and brew beer in the garage while their children played. They hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t planned on turning their hobby into a business, but when their friends at Eagle Park Brewing Company were vacating their space in Lincoln Warehouse for larger digs, the Kowalskes saw an opportunity they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass up. DJ, Jonathan and Steve launched Component Brewing Company in June 2018. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was somewhat turnkey, and we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to build everything from scratch,â&#x20AC;? DJ says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought that if we were going to do this, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now or never. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still a little surprised we made it happen.â&#x20AC;? Component Brewing Company is nestled on the second ďŹ&#x201A;oor of Lincoln Warehouse, near Twisted Path Distillery. Visitors can enter on the north end of the

building or ring a buzzer near dock 17 on the other side of the building.

Component Brewingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm, family friendly space has 10 tap lines (sometimes there are fewer beers on tap if they sell out quickly). Patrons can get a full pour, a taster or 16-ounce cans to go. There are board games to keep kids busy, although DJ jokes that games end up getting played more by adults than the kids. Socialized dogs are welcome.

The Kowalskes use a small, one-barrel brewing system, which allows for experimentation with different hops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a beerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not up to our standards, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the end of the world if we have to dump it down the drain. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re high critics of ourselves. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect someone to spend their hard-earned dollars on something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not up to our standards.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to a rotating selection of brews like Bay View Brunch II brown ale or Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Named Franz lager, they make a base portfolio of four beers: Mosaic Theory, an American IPA; the popular Chase Ave. Chaser, a refreshing, easy-drinking, German pilsner for patrons not used to hoppy craft beer; Coffee, No Coffee imperial stout; and Roseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sour, a kettle sour named after the Kowalskeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great-grandmother, Rose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The raspberry and mango give it a beautiful color, and like most sours, this oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little lighter in alcohol content, so you can have a couple and not fall asleep at the bar,â&#x20AC;? DJ says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the right amount of tartness for a sour, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for people who want to dip their toes in the water when trying different craft beers.â&#x20AC;?

Component Brewing will hold a one-year anniversary celebration on Sunday, June 30.

DJ observes that since they started, Milwaukeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s craft brewing scene has grown, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room for more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been pretty friendly and collaborative with each other, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great to have more people in the business. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten a lot of help along the way. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hyperlocal; we get customers from all over, but we have a nice base of local people in Bay View supporting us.â&#x20AC;?

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For us, the sidewalk outside Larry’s was the spot to hang out in the ’50s. Anyone might show up, such as the “Brown Bomber” himself, Joe Louis, explaining how he’d whipped everyone in the ring. Also, there was the night the Five Notes, a youthful Chess Records vocal group, sang a cappella for what seemed like hours, repeating their two-sided hit “Show Me the Way” and “Park Your Love.” You could swear it they were The Moonglows.

Back in those days, most taverns (or “joints” as we called them) on and around Walnut sponsored Sunday morning softball teams, which was something of a miracle in itself.

Why? Because Saturday nights on the scene were fast and furious, and this meant each joint was the setting of some serious post-game partying. One of the set’s landmark joints was the 700 Tap at Seventh and Walnut. The 700 meant different things to different people, but for those who thrived on booze-oriented mingling, its multi-level ambience couldn’t be topped on any night, and neither could Sunday noon gatherings of its star softball team and their hangers-on.

Hard by the 700 Tap was the storied Regal Theater—our Apollo—which we called “The Flick.” The small, unassuming movie house was the most noteworthy indoor gathering place in Milwaukee’s vibrant black community of the ’50s. Youngsters and adults alike piled in to swoon for Lena Horne or tap their feet to Cab Calloway soundies.

The Regal interspersed its entertainment with Saturday night amateur shows and enticed us on weeknights with a 25-cent admission for a movie-and-a-half after 9:30 p.m.

Sundays were given over to triple-feature cowboy shoot’em-ups, and everyone seemed to get totally caught up in the goings-on up on the screen. It truly was a trip.

REMEMBERING MILWAUKEE’S BRONZEVILLE ::BY RICHARD G. CARTER

ith the warm weather upon us, summer memories have a way of sticking together like the pages of a book. Many of us remember Milwaukee’s Walnut Street from the late 1940s to the early ’60s, which my young black running buddies and I called “the set” and “the scene.”

Old-timers called it Bronzeville. It wasn’t New York’s 125th Street, Upper Fifth Avenue, 42nd Street or Times Square, but it was really something for black people—day or night—especially night; and it was all ours.

Upbeat Walnut Street, a half-block from my childhood home, started near the southwest corner of North Sixth Street with Deacon Jones’ Chicken Shack, whose name even now makes my mouth water. People came from all over town, white folks, too, to get their lips around that succulent, tender stuff. Moving on toward North Seventh Street, there was Larry’s Frozen Custard, home of the Orange Blossom, an out-of-this-world ice cream concoction. Although offering many eating delights, Larry’s mainly served as a place where teenagers and young adults listened to rhythm and blues on the jukebox and sought non-binding, boy-girl relationships, and as someone observed, a boy would have to be a monk to strike out.

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Walnut Street: Milwaukee’s Harlem

Our little Walnut, like big Harlem, wasn’t confined to a place or activity, but the short stretch from North Sixth to North 10th Street buzzed with energy—from Manny Mauldin Jr.’s Harlem Records to the Booker T. Washington YMCA, Roosevelt Junior High School and the Milwaukee Globe newspaper, run by my late father, Sanford Carter. Like most special places, Walnut featured colorful characters. Among them were old, blind A.C., who regaled patrons at Mr. Brown’s with tales of his close ties with Jack Johnson, the fabled heavyweight champion of yore. And there was Dan Travis, called the “Bee Man” because, for years, he happily hawked a black newspaper, The Chicago Bee. Day or night, indoors or out, Walnut Street was the best place in town for black folks of all ages to be and be seen. It was something special. Those who lived it wouldn’t trade the experience, and those who are still around fondly remember it.

Tellingly, on a recent night at the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in Upper Manhattan—taking in the sights and sounds of the center of the Universe for black people in America—I found myself thinking of Walnut Street, where I grew up. There I was, in the heart of Harlem, sidewalks dripping with people, streets choked with vehicles, the Apollo Theater marquee lit-up, and the “A” train beckoning. Yet, my mind’s eye saw the Walnut Street of my youth. What a wonderful vision it was.

Granted, Walnut Street in my hometown never quite approached Harlem’s 125th Street, but Walnut was black Milwaukee. It was our street of dreams. It was the set. It was the scene. It was our Harlem. And I remember it like it was yesterday.

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Side Show

Side Show is based on the true story of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton who became stars during the Great Depression. As such, it is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bond brings them fame but denies them love. With book and lyrics by Bill Russell, music by Henry Krieger and additional material by Bill Condon, Side Show—an After Sunset Studio Series presentation—is recommended for mature audiences.

This Sunset Playhouse production will be directed by Becky Spice and feature music direction by Paula Tillen and stage management by Danielle Lemmermann.

Violet Hilton will be played by Amy Barrett, and Daisy Hilton will be played by Isabel Manel—among a cast of nearly 20 performers. Side Show will be in a concert version performed in the Marla Eichmann Studio Theater. (John Jahn) May 30-June 2 at Sunset Playhouse, 700 Wall St., Elm Grove. For tickets, call 262-7824430 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com.

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“A Night at the Oper(etta)”

This Master Singers of Milwaukee concert seeks to delight audiences with the antics of pirates, policemen and bats; it features excerpts from two beloved operettas: W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance (1879) and Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus (1874). There will also be several other memorable choruses from other operettas—all sung in English. The Master Singers of Milwaukee, now in its 46th season, is an adult mixed-voice choral ensemble composed of talented vocal musicians from the greater Milwaukee area.

Operetta as a music genre developed out of earlier theatrical forms such as commedia dell’arte, vaudeville and ballad opera. A popular form of live music entertainment that flourished throughout Europe during the mid-to-late 19th century, the typical operetta featured light, romantic melodies or a satiric look at then-contemporary life. In the early decades of the 20th century, it gained a strong foothold in this country. (John Jahn) Saturday, June 1, at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 3906 W. Mequon Rd., Mequon; and Sunday, June 2, at Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, 2366 N. 80th St., Wauwatosa.

For tickets, call 888-744-2226 or visit mastersingersofmilwaukee.org.

DANCE

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Milwaukee Ballet, with its orchestra, second company and school children— along with the Milwaukee Children’s Choir and the Florentine Opera Studio Artists—closes its 49th season with American choreographer Bruce Wells’ smash dance theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy set to Felix Mendelssohn’s wonderful music, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Last presented here in 2008, it was an all-around joy. Dancer Barry Molina has the lead role of Puck—the magical trickster and master of ceremonies in Wells’ telling.

“It’s fun to play, because you’re invisible,” Molina says. “The other fairies can see you, but none of the human lovers know you’re there. You do a lot of interacting with them—partnering them and dancing around them—but the dancers you’re partnering have to pretend they don’t see you. You’re like the wind or some strange force of nature. It’s fun and it’s freeing, too. Puck is the only character who interacts directly with the audience. He’s telling the story, but he’s also part of it. He’s in the whole story, and the challenge for me is to make a cohesive storyline and tie myself into it. I’m constantly trying to figure out new ways to think about it and to make it lively for the audience.” (John Schneider) May 30-June 2 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’ Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-273-7206 or visit marcuscenter.org.

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effrey Kahane has been a reliable guest conductor in several stints with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO). His specialty is to play a piano concerto and conduct at the same time, which occurred with his return to the MSO in Wolfgang Mozart’s Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major, K. 449, at the Friday morning concert. It’s odd that this solid and interesting concerto, which Mozart wrote for himself to perform in 1784, had never before appeared on an MSO concert.

Kahane moved seamlessly in his two roles, with his back to the audience, playing a piano with the lid removed. The music came forth with lively, in-the-moment presence. I think of Kahane as an excellent musician first, and his conducting and playing flowed from that perspective. His performance came from the clearest of musical intentions. This was not a stuffy account of Mozart in the least.

More Mozart came with his Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra, K. 622, with MSO principal Todd Levy as soloist. We’ve heard him in this music a few times over the last 20 years, and each time he confirms he’s a master in it, whether athletically bubbling up and down the instrument or in poignant slow phrases. Levy’s way with the simple descending phrase in the second movement could melt the hardest heart. When he returned to the theme again with the tenderest softness, I was surprised by tears rolling down my face. The appreciative audience gave Levy several curtain calls. The MSO is lucky to have him.

No one knows why Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (sometimes renumbered as No. 7) of two movements was left “unfinished” (hence its nickname), or maybe he intended this to be complete as is. This was a rich and lovely account by Kahane and the orchestra. The tight ensemble playing seemed effortless in all sections. The superb oboist Katherine Young Steele played her solos with a poet’s earnestness.

The audience was sent out with a flashy and colorful account of the overture from Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, culminating in an exciting tempo that was on the edge of what’s possible.

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Choice Works of 20th-Century Wisconsin Art ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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ilwaukee was never comparable to Paris or New York as a mecca for innovators. And yet, throughout the last century, Milwaukee was home to an accredited art school and a Central European fine arts heritage while being open to some of the modern ideas that changed the face of visual art.

Accompanying its extensive exhibition of work by George Raab, Landmarks Gallery is mounting “Wisconsin: The 20th Century” (through July 3), a small selection of paintings by other Wisconsin artists, most of them contemporaries of Raab. Especially striking are a pair of WPA-era oil paintings by Gerrit Van Sinclair.

Jones Island depicts wooden houses and picket fences from the district’s final years as an off-

shore fishing village. The West travels far from Wisconsin and into a mythic American image of ox-drawn covered wagons pulling toward the viewer against the backdrop of purple mountains.

Perhaps even more outstanding is the oil on Masonite painting by Eugene von Bruenchenhein, a true outsider artist (the term has been much abused) who worked in Milwaukee from the 1930s through his death in 1983. The untitled 1955 painting on display includes patterns of arches and spires suggesting an alien cathedral or city skyline on a distant planet.

The greenish atmosphere glows slightly as an unknown sun pierces the clouds.

Untutored, Bruenchenhein worked in obscurity at his kitchen table and was undiscovered until after his death. The founder of Landmarks Gallery, Huetta Manion, along with the Milwaukee Journal’s late art critic, Jim Auer, played a role in identifying the value of Bruenchenhein’s oeuvre.

Among other works included in “Wisconsin: The 20th Century” is a 1942 watercolor in the Audubon manner of a pheasant in flight by Bruno Ertz; and a circa 1930 watercolor by J.R. Hampel of a Wisconsin farm, the scene vibrating with life from improvisatory brushstrokes that suggest, like quantum physics, that the world we see is less solid than we know.

OPENINGS: “Among the Wonders of the Dells: Photography, Place, Tourism”

June 1-Sept. 8 Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) • 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend From remote natural wonder to “Waterpark Capital of the World,” the Wisconsin Dells has reigned supreme as the state’s premier tourist destination for nearly 160 years. MOWA’s latest exhibition features more than 100 photographs from eight artists that recount the fascinating history and transformation of the Dells. “Among the Wonders of the Dells” includes the earliest surviving photographs of the region that date back to the 1860s; a collection of original panoramas, stereoviews and photographs by H.H. Bennett, John Trumble and Dennis Darmek; and also three contemporary artists MOWA enlisted to capture the modern Dells: Kevin Miyazaki, Mark Brautigam and Tom Jones. The exhibit (and accompanying catalogue) highlights historical and contemporary themes of place, travel, family vacation, tourism and Ho-Chunk Nation influence and culture. For more information, call 262-334-9638 or visit wisconsinart.org.

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“Rarely has ballet achieved such comic relief as this Midsummer production, while still retaining the grace and beauty of the dance.”

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he summer movie season is traditionally a time for blockbuster fluff. However, with a bevy of superhero movies (Shazam!, Avengers: Endgame), sequels (John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum) and feature-length brand marketing campaigns (Aladdin, Pokémon Detective Pikachu) hitting theaters in the last couple months, you have to wonder whether there are any brain cells left for the 2019 summer movie slate to kill. Luckily, a surprising number of auteur-driven wide releases and intriguing independent films fill out this season’s schedule. California-based film critic Daniel Barnes pored over this year’s release schedule and found 10 films to look forward to over the summer.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (MAY 31) I did not like the 2014 Godzilla, but with heavy-handed director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One) gone, the possibility of fun exists again. This time around, the giant lizard battles old-school nemeses Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah for the fate of the world. Considering that Godzilla vs. Kong already has a March 2020 release date, the outcome of the battle seems obvious, but you never know.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (JUNE 7) This indie drama from rookie director Joe Talbot received rave reviews earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Of course, you should always take Sundance raves with a pillar of salt, but the trailer for The Last Black Man in San Francisco indicates a thoughtful and heartfelt film about a young black man (Jimmie Falls) trying to find a home in a city that priced him out.

The Dead Don’t Die (JUNE 14) Leave it to Jim Jarmusch to assemble an all-star cast for a low-budget zombie movie. This horror comedy pits small-town oddballs versus the walking dead, and it features Tilda Swinton (the star of Jarmusch’s 2014 vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive), Chloë Sevigny, Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Selena Gomez, Danny Glover, RZA and Iggy Pop, among others.

Anna (JUNE 21) La Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element director Luc Besson continues his obsession with willowy, ass-kicking women in this spy thriller. In Anna, 5’10 ½” Russian supermodel Sasha Luss plays the titular ass-kicker, a government assassin posing as a tall Russian supermodel. It sounds a lot like the

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unmemorable Jennifer Lawrence vehicle Red Sparrow, but I trust Besson’s knack for making brainless movies full of big ideas.

This film seems sure to test my remaining faith in Pixar as anything more than a content spigot for Disney theme parks. The first three Toy Story films form a collective miracle, but Disney is determined to tempt fate. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return as Woody and Buzz, still counseling neurotic misfit toys. Meanwhile, new characters get voiced by Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves and Timothy Dalton.

Hot on the heels of last year’s Hereditary, writer-director Ari Aster delivers another creepy movie about a creepy family doing creepy stuff. Florence Pugh stars as a young woman who joins her boyfriend on a creepy vacation to a creepy Swedish village with a creepy set of summer traditions.

The enigmatic trailer is light on details, but it’s safe to say that we’re not talking about sun tea and Slip ’N Slide here.

The Lion King (JULY 19) Given the abysmal track record for live-action adaptations of Disney animated classics, even I find this pick slightly appalling. On the bright side, director Jon Favreau made 2016’s The Jungle Book, the only one of these live-action cartoons that worked. He also assembled an outstanding voice cast, even getting James Earl Jones to reprise his role as Mufasa.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (JULY 26) After Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight, writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes his fourth straight period film, this time offering his unique take on New Hollywood circa 1969. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as fictional actor Rick Dalton and Brad Pitt as his body double, but the story touches on the real-life Charles Manson murders, with Margot Robbie portraying Sharon Tate.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (AUGUST 2)

Punctuation fans, please take heed: This Furious-adjacent film could be the first in cinema history with two ampersands and a colon in the title.

Franchise supporting players Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) take center stage, teaming up to battle a genetically enhanced superhuman (Idris Elba, typecast).

Where’d You Go, Bernadette (AUGUST 16) Cate Blanchett plays Bernadette Fox, a seemingly contented Seattle woman who unexpectedly disappears one day, leaving a trail of clues for her husband and daughter to follow. It feels like a lighthearted Gone Girl, not exactly a perfect fit for director Richard Linklater. Still, with the likes of Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers relegated to Netflix, I’ll take my director-driven cinema wherever I can get it.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Aladdin PG After finding a magic lamp containing a genie, Aladdin (Mena Massoud) is determined to use his wishes to win the heart of Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott). Aiding Aladdin, the genie (Will Smith) imposes his magic on the youth when the genie deems it necessary. Meanwhile, the magic lamp is pursued by the slippery Grand Vizier Jafar (Marwan Kenzari). Being a Disney “family movie,” we get familiar-sounding songs while Smith (painted dusty blue), dominates the screen wearing a constant, knowing smirk. (Lisa Miller)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters PG-13 The newest Hollywood Godzilla features kaijus—giant beings—in a battle for supremacy. In all, 17 giant creatures emerge from deep inside the Earth, each planning the claim the planet for its own. Blue-fire-spitting Godzilla takes on Mothra, Rodan and three-headed Ghidorah, along with many new monsters. He’s determined to kill all his rivals—no matter how strong or nimble they may be. Fortunately for Godzilla, he is our anointed savior and therefore receives military back-up.

Meanwhile, a couple of divorced scientists (Vera Farmiga; Kyle Chandler) argue over their young daughter’s future while they configure sonar devices to talk to the monsters. Next year, King Kong vs. Godzilla. I’ll be rooting for Kong. (L.M.)

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Ma R Lonely Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) resides in a small Ohio town where she befriends a group of teens by purchasing them liquor to drink in her basement. Unbeknownst to the teens, Sue Ann’s troubled past gives her an ulterior motive for inviting them into her life. The film’s intriguing premise will resonate, provided Sue Ann’s revenge motive is credible. Learning that others may not be who they seem represents a coming-of-age milestone—for those lucky enough to survive the lesson, that is. (L.M.)

Rocketman R The story of Elton John’s (Taron Egerton) rise from a shy, awkward child to pop-music superstar is lovingly depicted using his songs as a narrative backdrop. The film addresses the performer’s difficult childhood, substance addiction, search for sexual identity and love, all while becoming famous and developing his larger-than-life stage persona. Bouncing back and forth chronologically, fantasy and reality sometimes blur in an effort to reveal John’s psychology. We get glimpses of his major influences from his mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), grandmother (Gemma Jones), friend and lyricist Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) and manager John Reid (Richard Madden). The film also serves as a musical showcase sure to pump up John’s album sales. (L.M.)

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] n Princess Mononoke Collector’s Edition

The opening frames of Princess Mononoke (1997) suggest the sparseness of traditional Japanese wood-block prints before expanding into a lush green primeval forest world. In those woods dwell gods and demons.

Beast-riding humans maintain a fragile bridgehead in an age when they are not the supreme species. Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki’s film appealed to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and similar fantasy authors. The Collector’s Edition includes a thoughtful essay in a lavishly illustrated booklet.

n Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out

With much self-deprecation, Police drummer Stewart Copeland narrates this travelogue from the band’s early years. Lacking punk credibility in London, they toured America in 1978, packed into a van, and returned to Europe in ’79 with the wind at their back. The footage, shot by Copeland on Super 8, reveals the goofy hijinks of an unknown band on a long road trip, sleeping in cheap motels, playing small clubs and sitting through record store LP signings.

Join us lakeside and enjoy one of the country’s top art festivals. Artists from across the nation will showcase work inside the Museum’s spectacular building and outdoors in a state of the art clear span tent. Art lovers will also take in all the family fun, music, food, and more!

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n The Gospel According to André

He is ebulliently regal, given to wearing capes and making sweeping gestures. As a Vogue editor, André Leon Talley influenced the direction of the fashion industry. Talley is a visually (and verbally) ideal subject for a documentary. His story: an African American in the segregated South where excellence was expected; reading Vogue and dreaming of constructing a cosmopolitan persona. The discipline and focus he learned in childhood underlie an exquisitely aesthetic life Oscar Wilde would applaud.

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Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot

(UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS), BY JEFFREY J. MATTHEWS Colin Powell was a good soldier all his life. Trustworthy, loyal, he obeyed orders while exercising a measure of judgment and initiative within the scope of his authority. It was a sterling career, tarnished only by his notorious Weapons of Mass Destruction speech at the U.N., where he presented the Bush administration’s case for invading Iraq. Powell’s judgment and initiative went only so far, Jeffrey Matthews writes in his biography. For the U.N. speech, Powell weeded out many dubious assertions called for by Dick Cheney but fell nevertheless to confirmation bias. Everyone assumed that Saddam Hussein had WMD, and so did Powell, ignoring all the holes in the story. Alone in the circle around George W. Bush, Powell could have steered America away from the shoals of Iraq.

Matthews examines Powell’s formative experience and finds the key to his success as well as his limitations.

The child of hardworking, aspiring immigrants, Powell went from an obedient family into ROTC. The Army provided him with structure and hierarchy. A colonel gave him advice as a black lieutenant in 1950s America: Don’t rock the boat. Powell followed suit, rising through his ability and his “followership.”

Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa into the Twenty-First Century (BECKER&MAYER! BOOKS), BY VELMA MAIA THOMAS

It’s true: As Velma Maia Thomas writes in the introduction to Lest We Forget, “America was built on the backs of enslaved Africans.” Until the Civil War, cotton was America’s export economy and the hard work was done by slaves. A richly illustrated coffee-table book, Lest We Forget goes deep into the origins of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, contrasting its peculiar brutality and social destruction with more traditional forms of bondage that existed in Africa and elsewhere. Thomas takes the African American story through the Civil War and the disappointing second-class freedom that followed, leading the narrative into the civil rights movement and up to the stark divisions that persist today.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas (W.W. NORTON), BY STEPHEN BUDIANSKY

Nowadays, many judges spend dozens of pages writing a ruling on a procedural matter. Oliver Wendell Holmes could interpret the Constitution in a few elegant, cogent paragraphs. Stephen Budiansky convincingly rescues Holmes’ reputation from the sort of drudges he always disparaged—especially obscurantist academics and moralizers who believe law is an abstraction rather than a force that influences lives. The Holmes that emerges in Budiansky’s illuminating biography seems almost paradoxical for his willingness to uphold the rights of people he held in “magnificent contempt.” Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt, he resembled that president in his vigor as well as his refusal to be constrained by easy, ordinary categories of thought.

The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best —and Worst—Chief Executives (PUBLICAFFAIRS), BY BRIAN LAMB, SUSAN SWAIN AND C-SPAN

Rating the presidents from best to worst was a political parlor game before C-SPAN got hold of it. Once again, the cable channel surveyed several American historians and commentators who rank each president and offer thoughts and context. C-SPAN imposed criteria on the game, with presidents earning or losing points in categories such as crisis leadership, moral authority, international relations and the pursuit of justice. Holding the top two spots are Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, without whom the U.S. as we know it wouldn’t exist. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt come in third and fourth with Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman right behind. Eisenhower is an especially interesting case. His reputation as an old man asleep at the wheel of state has changed over the years into a shrewd poker player who never revealed his hand. Listed as worst president, thus far, is James Buchanan, an ineffectual man who stood by as America slipped toward Civil War. Donald Trump goes unranked, as this study concerns only former presidents, but several contributors make comments about him at the end.

Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate

(WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS), BY JONATHAN KASPAREK William Proxmire took his job as U.S. Senator seriously. Representing Wisconsin from 1957 through 1989, Proxmire was present at nearly every roll call and raced back to his home state on many weekends. He was in tune with his constituents but aware of the higher purpose of serving the nation. UW-Waukesha history professor Jonathan Kasparek examines the career of a politician who confounds 21st-century political divisions. The Democrat was as fanatical about balanced budgets and government waste as any Republican but unlike them, was willing to call out the military for abusing the taxpayers’ dollar. As Kasparek writes, Proxmire was “an incorruptible, dedicated public servant thoughtfully guiding the republic and protecting it from executive tyranny and popular passions.” He played the role of senator as the framers of the Constitution intended.

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Alan Bean from Astronaut to Artist ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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n the history of mankind, only 12 men have ever walked on the moon. Alan Bean was the fourth person to do so. After serving as a Navy jet pilot, he was selected by NASA as part of the Apollo program, and in November 1969, after a flight of 250,000 miles, he realized his boyhood dream as he explored the lunar surface.

By the end of his career as an astronaut in 1975, he had logged more than 10 hours moonwalking. But he didn’t stop there.

Bean, who died in 2018, was also a prolific painter, and his dream was to use his artistic eye to recreate the out-of-this-world images he witnessed in space. As an adroit artist, Bean designed an entire collection of colorful lunar landscapes that emphasized his deep sense of awe in the cosmos.

Alan Bean’s exceptional life journey is featured in a new book

by Madison-based journalist and children’s book author Dean Robbins. In The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean, readers will learn about Bean’s extraordinary life, journey to the moon through his mind’s eye, and view whimsical recreations of his artwork. This captivating story blends art and science to showcase the electrifying thrill of space travel and the beauty of its otherworldly imagery.

Robbins in the author of awardwinning children’s books, including Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. He will visit Boswell Book Co. at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4.

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Haitifest: A Milwaukee Festival to Support a Country in Need OFF THE CUFF with YOUTHAITI’S GIGI POMERANTZ ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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igi Pomerantz was a Milwaukee-based nurse practitioner when she went to Haiti in 2006 on a medical mission. There, she was moved by the poverty and hygiene issues plaguing the country. As a reaction, she partnered with local youth to create Youthaiti—a program of ecological sanitation that expanded over the years to include hygiene education, sustainable gardening and reforestation. The organization will be sharing some of its work during Haitifest—a fee, family friendly event taking place on Sunday, June 9, in Milwaukee. Pomerantz agreed to tell us more about it.

Can you tell us about Youthaiti’s work?

Sanitation projects focus on replenishing soils through composting toilets. Since our founding in 2008, we have built 31 community composting toilets and more than 450 household arborloo composting latrines. Every toilet is accompanied either by a community demonstration garden or instruction in household gardens. Our onsite Haitian experts help community members use diluted urine as fertilizer and treat composted waste as soil amendment.

After Hurricane Matthew in 2016, we established a tree nursery and have planted more than 10,000 forest and fruit trees.

For a nation with just 1/3rd of 1% land-tree cover, this is a huge deal. The drive behind all our work is health: healthier communities, less disease and increased agricultural output in healthier

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food options. In that vein, we expanded our hygiene education program in 2018 to include menstrual hygiene education in 20 schools to help girls stay in school post-puberty.

What have you been focusing on recently?

Hurricane Matthew devastated the area where we work in October 2016. Immediately after the hurricane, we provided shelter for 85 people, food and clean water for 1,300 families, and we ran 11 mobile medical clinics providing urgent care.

Although Haiti is largely deforested, this area remains one of the few that still has some indigenous forests; we began our tree nursery shortly after the hurricane, and it continues to be a strong program. We are teaching people to graft fruit trees to produce a quicker harvest, and we are working with schools and other youth to reforest mountainous areas. Wednesday, May 1, was national Agriculture Day in Haiti, and we did a large outreach and tree planting.

What is Haitifest?

Haitifest is Youthaiti’s first community-wide event to introduce the work of Youthaiti and the culture of Haiti to the Milwaukee community. We’ve got amazing music—Dave Wake and Peter Roller will open, followed by Bryan Rogers, Nickel&Rose and the Urbanites. We will have Haitian food, including chicken and vegetarian options and shave-ice—a special treat in the heat of Haiti. We bring in a wide variety of metal art and other crafts from Haiti, as well as a local silent auction and kids’ activities. Our program director, ‘Junior’ Pierre Oreus, will be here from Haiti.

It is a free event with donations requested at the door, and all donations are going straight to Haiti and our ongoing work there. We have a staff of 13 local Haitians who run all of our programs, so it is important to pay them a family supporting wage for the incredible work they’re doing. One-third of our budget goes to education and outreach; the rest goes toward building toilets. Each community toilet costs $4,000; each household arborloo costs $150; sustaining our tree nursery costs $3,500 a year. Our goal is to build two community toilets and 100 arborloos this year.

Haitifest takes place on Sunday, June 9, from 2-6 p.m. at the Urban Ecology Center, 1859 N. 40th St. For more information, visit youthaiti.org.

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Throw Shade at the Sun Thank you, Mr. Sun, for finally getting your sorry ass outta bed and sending a few spring rays our way! Sure, we’re hardcore Midwesterners quite familiar with the painstaking process of a winter thaw, but this is nuts! So, yea...thanks for finally doing your damn job and warming things up a bit! Loser.

You know what, buddy? We’re going to take advantage of your generosity (insert calorie-burning eyeroll here) and take to the streets in celebration. After all, PrideFest is nearly here, and it wouldn’t kill the boys in Brew Town to get some color on their legs before hitting the dance pavilion this year.

So take that, Mr. Sun! We’re going to hit the streets this week where we’ll shop, eat, drink and revel in your (un)timely return.

Check out my social calendar below for some outdoor fun (and indoor parties) you’re not going to want to miss. I’ll be back next week with messages of advice, but until then, I’ll see you out and about. And as for you, Mr. Sun, you better plan on sticking around, because we’re going to make summer in Milwaukee a hot one!

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::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR May 30—Award Celebration at C3 Designs (2110 10th Ave., South Milwaukee): Help one of Milwaukee’s favorite jewelers celebrate winning the CASE Award—one of the most prestigious awards in the jewelry biz. Check out the grand prize, sterling silver, 14-karat, yellow gold earrings designed by C3 owner Chris Jensen during this 5-8 p.m. cocktail bash. Hors d’oeuvres, drinks and more make for a fun change-of-pace evening. Congratulations C3 Designs!

May 30—Opening Night of ‘Side Show’ at Sunset Playhouse (700 Wall St.): See why this musical has captivated audiences for decades when the After Sunset Studio tackles the tale of conjoined twins working the Depression-era circus circuit. Only four performances mean you’ll have to nab your tickets soon. See sunsetplayhouse.com for more information.

May 31—TGIF Happy Hour at Birch (6610 W. North Ave.): The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center is at it again with this 5:30 p.m. social that includes appetizers, drinks specials, mixing and mingling. Whether meeting up with old friends or making a few new ones, you’ll find this mixer a great way to start the weekend.

May 31—Marvel Comix Night at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): Comics and cosplay take centerstage during this 10 p.m. party. A themed drag show, drink specials, a DJ and dancing (not to mention the hottest bartenders this side of the Mason-Dixon line!) turn this hot spot into your Friday night home-away-from-home.

June 1—Riverwest Spring Rummage Sale and Flea Market at Art*Bar (722 E. Burleigh St.): More than 150 venders, crafters, makers and good old-fashioned rummagers offer up their wares during this annual street sale. From vintage clothing, toys and furniture to artwork, jewelry and more, this popular rummage certainly proves that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Enjoy live music and food trucks while you shop the streets from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 1—Spring on Brady: Annual Art Walk (various locations along Brady Street): Art, shopping, food and beverages, this annual art fest has it all, and it takes place on one of the city’s most popular streets! Check out goods from more than 30 sellers as well as sidewalk sales from Brady Street shops during the noon-4 p.m. street fair.

June 1—Pride Night at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (2400 N. Casaloma Drive, Appleton): Head up to Appleton, Wisc., for some great baseball and pride! The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce and Lakeland University host this 7 p.m. game. Your ticket gets you a pride T-shirt and a box seat; visit the “Theme Nights” area of milb.com/wisconsin for yours!

June 2—Drag Brunch at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Sunday Funday just got sillier and tastier, because the pink-and-purple hamburger haven expanded its popular drag brunch to two seatings! The all-you-can-eat buffet opens, and the bottomless mimosas start flowing at 10 a.m. Enjoy fast, funny and family friendly shows by The Brunchettes at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., then continue the fun on the restaurant’s incredible rooftop.

June 2—Sunday Show Tunes at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): My gal-pal, Karen Valentine, hosts this 3 p.m. singalong. Belt out a few tunes while watching some of your favorite movie and TV clips on the monitors—all while sipping frosty two-for-one rail drinks and beers.

June 3—TGNCQ Support Group at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): This ongoing drop-in group is open to all adults who identify under the trans umbrella, including gender non-conforming, genderqueer, non-binary and trans folx. Join the 6-8 p.m. discussion (topics are chosen by the group) or send an email to acorona@mkelgbt.org with questions.

Ask Ruthie a question or share your events with her at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Season one of her reality drag competition, “Camp Wannakiki,” is currently available on YouTube.

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Finally, Milwaukee’s LGBTQ Community Musters Common Council Candidates ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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ne major impact of the Stonewall uprising half-a-century ago is LGBTQ access to political office. Unheard of prior to Stonewall, today dozens of openly LGBTQ elected or appointed officials hold offices at all levels of government in all 50 states. Currently, a governor, numerous mayors (including recently elected lesbian mayors of Tampa, Chicago and Madison) and 10 members of the U.S. Congress (all Democrats), including Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Mark Pocan, identify as LGBTQ. We even have a presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg.

Ironically, Milwaukee has never had an (out) LGBTQ member of its Common Council.

Almost a dozen years ago, in 2008, three candidates ran for the office. One lost outright and the others, running in the same district, effectively cancelled each other out, losing to a third candidate. A previous attempt was made a dozen years prior. But that could change in the April 2020 election: two community members are currently in the race.

Vying for alderperson in the South Side’s Eighth District is JoCasta Zamarripa. Her political career began in 2010 when she was elected to a Milwaukee state Assembly seat, an office she holds today. She has been endorsed by Voces de la Frontera Action.

The incumbent, Bob Donovan, one of two aldermen who, in 2018, voted against the gay conversion ban, has decided not to run for another term.

In District 11 on the Southwest Side, facing incumbent Mark Borkowski, is mortgage banker Peter Burgelis. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cream City Foundation, the city’s LGBTQ philanthropic organization.

Why do LGBTQ candidates matter? The answer is simple: for the sake of equality, diversity and inclusion. Milwaukee’s population is growing ever more diverse. Its various demographics, in the time-honored tradition of that famous revolutionary motto “no taxation without representation,” deserve to be heard.

I’ve always believed in our own representation. Some argue our allies are better qualified to speak for us politically. To some degree, given the tone of national politics, that may be true. After all, where would we be without the stunning advances in LGBTQ equality under President Barack Obama? Under his watch, the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy was rescinded, allowing patriotic LGBTQs to serve openly, and marriage equality was achieved. However, because we are not yet a protected class, having community members in local government is critical to protecting those advances. Besides, we can best speak for ourselves.

In that context, Zamarripa wants every Milwaukeean “to have a seat at the table,” adding “for too long, too many voices have been excluded from the governing of the city.” Burgelis agrees, explaining, “The Common Council is tasked to represent the entire Milwaukee community and fight for a better city and better local governance. Yes, our city’s broad diversity is underrepresented on the council in many ways, so it’s great that candidates like JoCasta Zamarripa and I are running. I’ve long been a proud member of and advocate for the LGBTQ community. I strongly believe our people’s governing body will benefit from diverse perspectives and experience.”

Meanwhile, 13th District Alderman Terry Witkowski just announced he’s vacating his seat as well. Perhaps a third LGBTQ candidate will run in his district. After all, all good things come in threes.

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teve Wynn has helmed The Dream Syndicate since 1981. The following year, the band recorded the modern classic The Days of Wine and Roses.

Since regrouping in 2012, the quartet has not made a misstep. Their 2017 “comeback,” How Did I Find Myself Here, found them seamlessly picking up where they left off nearly three decades before. As the punchline goes, “That’s a long time between drinks!”

Wynn is one of his era’s great raconteurs.

The years and experiences have only deepened his perspectives. He brings The Dream Syndicate to town for the new album These Times, released on the Anti- label.

Like sands through the hourglass, Wynn looks ahead yet has no problem taking the long view. “When I think about how long it has been since The Days of Wine and Roses, it is pretty incredible that I can call this my job,” he says “It is 38 years at this point. If you play the numbers game and go back 38 years from when we started, it would be 1944. Glenn Miller was really rocking at that point.

“If someone would have said back then that 38 years from now you would still be making records and developing as a band, I would have said, ‘When is the Swing Era coming back?’”

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Decades ago, when it seemed like record companies had a license to print money, the circuit for alternative bands was ripe. But the record/tour/record/tour grind wore artists thin. “I think it helped that we broke up for a while,” he continues. “In 1988, it felt like a dead end psychologically and creatively. I felt like an old man at 28 years old. The solo records and side projects made it feel exciting when we got back together.”

The current line-up of original drummer Dennis Duck, longtime bassist Mark Walton and frequent foil guitarist Jason Victor makes for a versatile band that can nail the punchy tunes or ride the waves of improvisation, depending on the mood of the evening.

“We have the benefits of being a heritage band combined with the freedom to do whatever we want. I feel like we are a new band,” Wynn says.

In 1982, Wynn might have laid a stack of 20 records on the table: Modern Lovers, Big Star, The Velvet Underground, Only Ones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, as if to say, “These records The Dream add up to what we are trying to do.” Today, a young band might Syndicate add The Dream Syndicate to that stack.

Instead of lamenting how tough the business side of the muBack Room sic biz has become and moaning how difficult it was to search at Colectivo out obscure music in the old days, Wynn takes the opposite Thursday, approach.

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“As a music fan, [the internet] is great. If you get curious about something anywhere in the world, you can hear it within minutes! And, as a musician, it is great, because when we started out, we could only be discovered by people who had a cool record store in their town or subscribed to New York Rocker or Bucketful of Brains magazines. We reached the people who knew how to reach us.”

Nowadays, anyone in the world googling “’80s psych-rock” will find The Dream Syndicate.

“It also means when we show up, people already know us,” Wynn adds. “We don’t have to say, ‘All right, here is who we are,’ and give you the two songs you know and try to help you wade into the waters of everything else. Everyone knows we can play anything!”

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Wynn’s side projects dwarf many of his peers’ careers, beginning with Danny and Dusty (with Green on Red’s Dan Stuart and others), the legendary Gutterball (with members of the Silos and House of Freaks) and handfuls of others.

Then, there are solo albums as well as records with his band, The Miracle Three. As a songwriter, he may have bowed to the altar of Dylan and Cohen early on, but his characters revealed a bookshelf stocked with William Faulkner, Flannery O’Conner and Jim Thompson.

For a kid from sunny California, Wynn has evolved into a hybrid of Raymond Chandler and John Prine, using a Fender Jazzmaster as his paintbrush. Prolific? An upcoming 10-CD box set on Real Gone Records includes 40 previously unreleased tracks from1995-2005.

How does Wynn measure success these days?

“I just saw a review of the new album,” Wynn says, admitting that he sometimes reads reviews. “And it was really enthusiastic, but the perspective was ‘…and it is a shame they never made it or made money.’ Which made me think, that wasn’t the intention. It wasn’t what we set out to be when we started. We were just proselytizing this thing that excited us. And we wanted to convey that through the music.

And we did that. And it worked. We completely did what we wanted to do.

“Look at it this way. Thirty-eight years later, we are on a great label; we get to travel around—in some comfort—and play to people. I think we did the right thing. We are who we were and got to do it for the bulk of our lives. That is success,” he says.

Along the way, Wynn was fortunate enough to learn lessons that he has applied to his career.

Opening for The Dream Syndicate on their current tour is Chicago’s Eleventh Dream Day. They were contemporaries of The Dream Syndicate, even serving as Wynn’s backing band at one point. Over time, bassist Doug McCombs’ work with Tortoise and Janet Beveridge Bean’s work with Freakwater took priority over Eleventh Dream Day. Emerging from the shadows every few years, the band released Works For Tomorrow in 2015.

Frontman Rick Rizzo’s thoughtfulness in conversation is the yin to the onstage yang that gets channeled through his guitar playing. “The nature of the band is not a full-time working band,” he explains. “Since 1993, everything is based on the opportunity of everyone getting together. Pretty much every year, someone will ask us to do something. If there is a record, we have gone to Europe for a short tour and a few cities in the states.”

The friendship between the bands goes way back, and the complementary sounds bode well for fans of intelligent music that rocks. Considering Eleventh Dream Day’s last trip to Milwaukee was in the early ’90s, this would be a night to circle on the calendar.

The Dream Syndicate with Eleventh Dream Day play The Back Room at Colectivo on Thursday, May 30, at 8 p.m. For tickets, visit pabsttheater.org.

Noisy, Rollicking Fun from IfIHadAHiFi ::BY MICHAEL CARRIERE

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ands seeking advice on how to remain relevant as they age would be wise to listen to We’re Never Going Home, the first album in seven years from local scene veterans IfIHadAHiFi. From the first note of album opener “Gremlins on Demand,” the band is intent on making a noisy, rollicking and fun album—one that draws from the Devo-meets-Brainiac sound that they’ve cultivated since 2000.

Yet We’re Never Going Home also highlights the band’s maturation, as anthemic songs like “Death Van” and “Little Plastic Dinosaurs” see IfIHadAHiFi moving closer to the indie rock territory charted by the likes of the New Pornographers. Listening to the album’s 12 tracks is like hearing from a longtime friend who has only gotten cooler since you last spoke. But why release a new album now? “Because we finally got around to finishing it,” explains drummer-vocalist DrAwkward with a laugh (IfIHadAHiFi members prefer to go by pseudonyms).

The band started working on many of the songs that appear on We’re Never Going Home in 2012, but as band members inched towards middle age, life often got in the way of completing the tracks. In 2015, the band recommitted to working on the album; since then, he continues, “it just took that long to

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get a group of songs together and finished that we were happy with.”

At the same time, the band was intent on putting out an actual album. “I grew up with albums and the idea of an album as a collection of songs,” notes DrAwkward. “It’s hard for me to get out of the album mindset of ‘here’s a collection of 12 songs, and we’ll figure out what the theme is that strings them together.’” While the band understands that current music fans and performers alike may view things differently, the decision to stick with the album format for We’re Never Going Home pays off: The record successfully captures the anxiety—often rooted in politics and economics—that has become just another part of surreal day-to-day life under the Donald Trump administraIfIHadAHiFi tion. “Dad thought High Dive this was a black Friday, July 19 comedy,” begins a couplet in “Gremlins on Demand” that could serve as the album’s mission statement, “but I can’t take it anymore.”

This sense of anxiety and the institutions that perpetuate it—perfectly captured on “The Wrist,” a dark-yet-catchy ode to workinduced carpal tunnel syndrome—sounds like something overlooked underground musician Al Burian would have written for such acts as Milemarker or Challenger. In just two lines, the band gets at the unequal dynamic that informs our current service economy: “There’s a pressure in the nerve behind my eyes/As I subordinate, and you dehumanize.” Elsewhere on We’re Never Going Home, the band tackles the angst created by climate-change deniers (“Space is Fake”); the anxiety stoked by social media (“Instagramming Olive Garden”); and the everyday uncertainty of being an adult in these trying times (“No More Jokes for Today”).

DrAwkward is aware that such subject matter can be overwhelming, stoking the sentiment that “we’re through the looking-glass and never coming back, and nothing is going to ever be the same.” This is one reason why the band chose to name the record We’re Never Going Home. Yet he is also quick to point out that such a title can also “speak to the thrill of exploration and the journey.” As bad as things have been and may be right now, We’re Never Going Home usefully reminds us, there is always something new ahead.

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FRIDAY, MAY 31

Joe Richter w/ Lisa Gatewood @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

While Joe Richter is the headliner, make it a point to arrive early and catch opener Lisa Gatewood. Her unflinching lyrics and clear melodies are the focus on her third release, the stark 4 song ER, When It’s the End, You Feel It in Your Bones. Joe Richter’s 2017 album, Revival, which follows up an earlier EP, features a solid band serving up a rootsy groove.

LovaNova CD Release w/ They GuanUs @ Pabst Brewery and Taproom, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee quartet LovaNova returns with their fourth album, Apachalypse. Songwriter Paul Kneevers delicately balances the warm analog sound of Hammond organ with digital keyboards—except when he is slamming those sounds together. LovaNova is not a shy band. Prog-rock tendencies and muscular rock coexist in a band that incudes drummer Dave Schoepke, guitarist Sean Williamson and bassist Joey Carini. Leadoff single “Da Crusher” takes issue with anyone who thinks pro wrestling is fake.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 2

The Skatalites w/ The Invaders @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

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June at Juneau (Juneau Park, 900 N. Prospect Ave.) 3–9 p.m., Saturdays in June Milwaukee’s summer just got a little more crowded. Hosted by Beer Me, the opening event is a bags tournament at 4 p.m. and live music by Joe Wray at 5:30 p.m. Food vendors include Nimble Coffee Bar, Collinsville Sweet Wheels, Juniors BBQ, L&A Concessions, Kreative Fruitz and Timbers BBQ.

As one of the building blocks of Jamaican ska music, the original Skatalites served as the backing band for the likes of Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Alton Ellis and Ken Boothe. In the late ’70s, British two-tone bands The Specials, Madness and The English Beat drew from the Skatalites music. While the 55-year-old band has juggled members over the years, the DNA remains the same high-energy, rock-steady sound.

Johnny Burgin and Quique Gomez @ Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, 2 p.m.

Johnny Burgin and Quique Gomez’s new album, Dos Hombres Wanted, brings them to town for a matinee show. Burgin’s sound echoes Chicago West Side greats Otis Rush and Magic Sam. The distance from Madrid to the Windy City may seem like a long trek, but versatile harpist Gomez has also sung Frank Sinatra tunes with a Spanish big band.

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THURSDAY, MAY 30

Anodyne Coffee, FemFest Songwriters in the Round Cactus Club, Ages and Ages w/Kyle Emerson Caroline’s Jazz Club, Lo Marie & Cliff Fredrickson Cathedral Square Park, Jazz in the Park: Altered Five Blues Band (6pm) Club Garibaldi, War Curse w/Tyrant, WSG, Viogression & Ara Company Brewing, The Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers w/Adam Remnant County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Jackalope Lounj, Big Beat MKE 2019: King Dozzi and Rich P. Jazz Estate, Rick Krause w/Mark Davis Trio Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), Xeno Lucky Joe’s Tosa, Andrew Gelles Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Matty’s Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Smokin’ Live & Local: Ben Wagner (5pm) McAuliffe’s On The Square, Open Mic Night Mezcalero Restaurant, Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Jam Band Miramar Theatre, Sonic Destruction: 8Hertz, Audek & Rsier, Jeevus Christ, J.Slay & Wreq (all-ages, 9pm) On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, Cody Jinks w/Ward Davis & Alex Williams Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Hambo and the Meemops Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Tony MacAlpine w/Arch Echo & District 97 (ages 18-plus, 7:30pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, The Dream Syndicate w/ Eleventh Dream Day The Local/Club Anything, Sanctuary Festival The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Martini Jazz Lounge: The Group Turner Hall Ballroom, Aly & AJ w/ARMORS Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

FRIDAY, MAY 31

Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), Date Night w/ Sam Maclaine & Sean Bost American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Larry Lynne Trio American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), David Hall Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee, “Be The Reason For A Smile” benefit w/ Cherry Pie & Jake Sippel (6pm) Art*Bar, Art Show Opening: Wisconsin Visual Artists, music w/ Oceana Cactus Club, Femfest 2019: Voulouse, Reina Del Cid, Caley Conway, Grey Genius, Kia Rap Princess, Juke Marciano & Shle Berry Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Karen Johnson Camp Dundee Bar & Grill (Campbellsport), Joe Kadlec Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Andy Spadafora & Michael Ritter Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Ex-Bombers w/Soulfoot Mombits (8pm); DJ: Mr. Action (10pm)

Club Garibaldi, Banana Fish w/Mi Lotus Can Kit, Holly & the Nice Lions, Laurly Sulfate, Witch Bolt & Faux Fiction ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Open Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Mark Colby Quintet (8pm), Late Night Session: Tomas Antonic Electric Trio w/Steve Peplin (11:30pm) Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Rusty Ps w/Dana Coppafeel & DopeKnife Mamie’s, Robert Allen Jr. Band Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Sammy Marshall Miramar Theatre, Blessthefall Slaves w/Capsize & Glass Houses (all-ages, 5:30pm), Funtcase KTRL w/D-Ski & Phox (all-ages, 9pm) Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Lovanova CD release show Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Eric Barbieri Acoustic Duo Rave / Eagles Club, Juice WRLD w/Ski Mask The Slump God & Lyrical Lemonade All-Stars (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in Concert with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Spirit Animal w/The Lately & Łegacies (ages 18-plus, 8pm) Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Sliver Shank Hall, Joe Richter w/Lisa Gatewood The Baaree (Thiensville), Friday Night Live: Derek Pritzl Band (6pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, Diane Coffee w/Disq The Local/Club Anything, Sanctuary Festival The Packing House Restaurant, Cameron Webb Trio (6:30pm) The Thistle & Shamrock, The Ronny Starr Motown Xperience The Underground Collaborative, The Warm-Ups Show!

Turner Hall Ballroom, Ben Seidman & Marcus Monroe: A Magical Evening of Comedy Up & Under Pub, Milwaukee Mule Walker’s Point Music Hall, Hip-Hop Against Heroin

SATURDAY, JUNE 1

American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Plumb Loco American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Boomer Nation Art*Bar, Anna p.s.

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Bud Pavilion - Wisconsin State Fair Park, Wednesday Night Live: Cherry Pie (6pm) Cactus Club, Isharai Artist Management Presents: MKE Live Groove Edition w/Teawhyb, Young Deuces, Serita Campbell, Dres, Felix Ramsey, Center City, AG Da Gift, Troy Tyler & Lake Homie Caroline’s Jazz Club, Billy Flynn American Blues Deer District, Beer Garden: Ryan McIntyre (5pm) Hudson Business Lounge and Cafe, Jazz at Noon: Don Linke and Friends Iron Mike’s (Franklin), B Lee Nelson Acoustic Jam Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Steve Silver (sign-up 7:30pm, start 8pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Insane Clown Posse - Fury Fest w/Mushroomhead, DJ Paul, Rittz, Mac Lethal, Ouija Macc & Kissing Candice (all-ages, 5:30pm) Pabst Theater, Ani DiFranco w/Diane Patterson Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. & Friends Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Cheel (Thiensville), Absinthe Minded Trio (6:30pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm)

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IT’S A SMALL WORLD

THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

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

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17. Ended 65. Tropical fish 18. Wrongdoer, for short 66. Some investors, at times 24. Sheep genus 67. Prize 26. Strange 68. More than vexed or 29. Longbow part annoyed 32. Eastern Europeans 69. Having land 33. Patron 71. Area of specialization 34. Misjudges 72. Plinth 35. Over 6,000 islands, 75. — monster collectively 76. Worker on a train 36. A vestment 77. Mattress anagram 37. Oversee, in a way 79. Puzo or Lanza 38. Panic 80. Gamboled 39. Turf 81. Believe — — not!

40. Infinitesimal 84. Rubble 41. John the singer 86. Undoing 42. Bean and Penn 88. Madden or Martin 44. Hotshots 89. Ravine 45. Peace goddess 90. Therapeutic plants 46. Spiral-horned creature 91. Servant in the East 51. Of a grain 92. — bean 53. Disney mermaid 93. Something in a silo, 54. — fund for short 55. Lilliputian 94. Commotion 56. Mouthfuls 95. Cicatrix 58. Of the bishop of Rome 96. Home to billions 59. Pear variety 97. Surround 60. Most wan 98. Goes on and on DOWN 62. Catchphrase 100. “The — Squad” 1. Avatar of Vishnu 63. LuPone or LaBelle 101. Guido’s note 2. “That ‘70s Show” name 64. Celerity 103. Mountain on Crete 3. Part of CPA: Abbr.

Solution to last week’s puzzle 4. Tars 5. Pin 6. Gemstones 7. Old Roman historian 8. Formula — 9. Put to different use 10. Like 11. Hackneyed 12. Paddy plant 13. Neighbor of Syr. 14. Vietnamese soup 15. Plant bristle 16. Prohibited (Var.)

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

Underwater world Solution: 18 Letters

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74. Abbr. in citations 75. Nanny 76. Fasteners 77. Support for sails 78. Work unit 79. Electronics component 82. Little bit 83. Builder of the Cretan labyrinth 85. “— — of Two Cities” 86. Sped 87. Times 88. Support for a rim 89. Indian wild ox 91. Excuse 94. One meter, cubed 95. Place for a jailbird 99. Screw gauge cousin 102. Part of Oceania 104. Both: Prefix 105. Picholine 106. Saw 107. Settle 108. Showy actors 109. Was sufficiently bold 110. Nostrils 111. Labels

Abyss Algae Bass Breath Clam Cod Coelacanth Conch Coral Crab Cuttlefish Dart Deep Depth Eel

Euphotic zone Gar Gull Kelp Krill Loggerhead Magic Mako Marine Mask Nautilus Neap Octopus Orca

Otter Perch Pipi Prawns Rips Rust Seals Shells Shoal Shrimps Squid Tide Waves Wrecks Zooplankton

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Solution: Frontiers to explore

ACROSS 1. Paper purchase 5. Sorrow 10. Gaza — 15. Crowning 19. Medieval strongbox 20. Think 21. Dubliners 22. All-night dance party 23. Cooked a certain way 25. Ultrasuede is one 27. With gusto 28. The cream 30. Supplant 31. Musician — Lofgren 32. Plug for a cask 33. Fellow 35. — Paul McCartney 38. Alabama River city 39. Cognomina 43. Ruler: Var. 44. Craft-beer plant 47. — -de-France 48. Flicks 49. “The Sheik of —” 50. Maiden 51. A number prefix 52. Summit: Prefix 53. Affirms 54. Move suddenly 56. Tycoon 57. Synthetic rubber 59. Unquestioning 60. Spikes for mountain climbing 61. Where Augusta is 62. Anthill 63. Spreads for crackers 64. Ear bone 66. Controlling 67. City in Spain 70. Kind of code or colony 71. Sell for 72. Fills 73. Middle-earth creature

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I prefer live theater over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers’ unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can’t.

Even if you’re not like me, Gemini, I invite you to experiment with my approach for a while—not just in the entertainment you choose, but in all areas of your life. As much as possible, get your experience raw and unfiltered.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ve got a message for you from Cancerian poet Tyler Knott Gregson. Please read it every day for the next 15 days, including when you first wake up and right before sleep. Here it is: “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2003, a group of thieves in Antwerp, Belgium pulled off the biggest jewelry heist in history. To steal the diamonds, gold and other gems, together worth more than $100 million, they had to outsmart security guards, a seismic sensor, a protective magnetic field, Doppler radar, infrared detectors and a lock.

I mention this, Leo, because I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have a comparable ability to insinuate yourself into the presence of previously inaccessible treasures and secrets and codes. You’ll be able to penetrate barriers that have kept you shut off from valuable things. (P.S. But I hope that unlike the Antwerp thieves, you’ll use your superpowers in an ethical manner.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the northeast corner of Spain, bordering France, is an area known as Catalonia. With its own culture and language, it has a long history of seeking complete autonomy. On four occasions it has declared itself to be independent from Spain. The most recent time was in 2017, when 92 percent of the Catalans who voted expressed the desire to be free of Spain’s rule. Alas, none of the rebellions have succeeded. In the latest instance, no other nation on Earth recognized Catalonia’s claim to be an independent republic. In contrast to its frustrated attempts, your own personal quest to seek greater independence could make real progress in the coming months. For best results, formulate a clear intention and define the precise nature of the sovereignty you seek. Write it down!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A Libran blogger named OceanAlgorithms wrote, “I’m simultaneously wishing I were a naturalist whose specialty is finding undiscovered species in wellexplored places; and a skateboarding mathematician meditating on an almost-impossible-to-solve equation as I practice my skateboard tricks; and a fierce forest witch who casts spells on nature-despoilers; and a gothic heroine with twelve suitors; and the sexiest cat that ever lived.” I love how freewheeling and wide-ranging OceanAlgorithms is with her imaginative fantasies. In light of current astrological omens, I encourage you to do the same. Give yourself permission to dream and scheme extravagantly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Geologists aren’t exactly sure why, but almost six million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed up. As a result, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean, and within 1,000 years, it had mostly disappeared. Fast forward 600,000 years.

Again, geologists don’t understand how it happened, but a flood broke through the barrier, allowing the ocean to flow back into the Mediterranean basin and restore it to its previous status as a sea. I propose that we invoke that replenishment as a holy symbol for the process you’re engaged in: a replenishment of your dried-out waters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I invite you to meditate on this proposal from freelance writer Radha Marcum: “The spiritual definition of love is that when you look at the person you love, it makes you love yourself more.” I hope there’s a lot of that kind of action going on for you in the next four weeks. According to my assessment of life’s secret currents, all of creation will be conspiring to intensify and deepen your love for yourself by in-

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tensifying and deepening your love for other people.

Cooperate with that conspiracy, please!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is there a creature on earth that’s more annoying than the mosquito? I’ve never heard anyone gaze upon one of the pesky monsters sucking blood out of her arm and say, “Aw, what a cute little bug.” And yet every year there is a town in Russia that holds a jokey three-day celebration in honor of the mosquito. The people who live in Berezniki even stage a “most delicious” competition, in which people allow themselves to be pricked by mosquitoes for 20 minutes, with an award going to whomever accumulates the most bites. I highly approve of the spirit of this approach for your own use in the coming weeks, Capricorn. If you have fun with the things that bother you, I bet they won’t bother you as much.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the Forever Season, Aquarius. You have a poetic license to act as if your body will live for 100 years and your soul will live for all eternity. You are authorized to believe that in the coming decades you will grow steadily wiser, kinder, happier and wilder. During the Forever Season, you may have dreams like flying over a waterfall at sunset, or finding the lost magic you were promised before you were born, or discovering the key to a healing you feared would always elude you. As you careen through this unpredictable grace period, your understanding of reality may expand dramatically. I bet you’ll get practical epiphanies about how to express yourself with greater effectiveness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A musical historian from Cambridge University decided it would be amusing to perform forgotten songs that were written in the Rhineland 1,000 years ago. His research wasn’t easy, because musical notation was different back then. But he ultimately reconstructed the tunes in ways that he felt were 80 percent faithful to the originals. He and other musicians subsequently performed and recorded them. I propose a somewhat comparable assignment for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. You will benefit, I believe, from trying to recover the truth about events that occurred a long time ago and/or by trying to revivify old beauty that has new relevance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, it will make good sense for you to travel down winding paths replete with interesting twists and provocative turns. The zigzags you’ll be inspired to pursue won’t be inconvenient or inefficient, but rather will be instrumental in obtaining the healing you need. To honor and celebrate this oddly lucky phase, I’ll quote parts of “Flying Crooked,” a poem by Robert Graves. “The butterfly will never master the art of flying straight, yet has a just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and here by guess and God and hope and hopelessness. Even the acrobatic swift has not his flying-crooked gift.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Has a part of you become too timid, docile or prosaic? Is there an aspect of your beautiful soul that is partially muzzled, submissive, or housebroken? If so, now is a favorable time to seek an antidote. But listen closely: The cure isn’t to become chaotic, turbulent, and out of control. It would be counterproductive to resort to berserk mayhem. Here’s a better way: be primal, lush, and exciting. Be wildly playful and unpredictably humorous and alluringly intriguing. Try experiments that rouse your rowdy sweetness, your unkempt elegance, your brazen joy and your sensual intelligence.

Homework: Finish this sentence: “The one thing that really keeps me from being myself is _______.” Testify at truthrooster@gmail.com.

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China’s Sensitive Side

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og owners in China are advised to take great care when naming their pets, as was demonstrated by the case of a man from Anhui Province. The man, a dog breeder named Ban, was summoned by police on May 13 after posting on social media that he had two new dogs named “Chengguan” and “Xieguan”— which are titles given to law enforcement personnel who deal with petty crimes and traffic issues, the BBC reports. He was sentenced to 10 days in a detention center in Xiangyang.

One police officer said Ban had “caused great harm to the nation and the city’s urban management—in terms of their feelings.”

Hernandez Harassment Jennifer Hernandez, 58, is nothing if not persistent. On April 22, she walked through the vehicle gate at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., where she was stopped by a police officer. She explained that she had an interview in the complex, but the officer discovered she had no official business there and told her to leave. On May 1, Military Times reported, Hernandez returned, this time in a Lyft vehicle, asking to see her “recruiter.” She was issued a written warning and directed to leave. On May 2, she was back (this time in an Uber), telling officers she returned because her “recruiter’s phone was off.” On that day, when officers again told her to leave, they inadvertently kept her ID card. The following day, she came back to pick it up and also asked if she could speak to “Agent Penis.” Again told to leave the premises, Hernandez refused, telling an officer, “Do you really think I’m going to leave?” Finally, they’d had enough; she was arrested and charged with trespassing.

Castellion’s Pad-Cast Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 877873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

We don’t know what brought 29-year-old Coffii Castellion of Largo, Fla., to the Mease Dunedin Hospital emergency room on May 13, but we know where she went afterward: Pinellas County Jail. According to The Smoking Gun, Castellion first caused a stir when she was caught stealing seven bath cloths

and 10 pairs of hospital slippers (total value of $10.79), earning her a felony charge due to two previous theft convictions. But, her most grievous crime that evening: taking a (used) feminine pad from underneath her pants and throwing it at a health care provider, striking her in the stomach. For that, Castellion was charged with battery.

Birthday Bash Georgia Zowacki of West Newton Borough, Pa., celebrated her 55th birthday on May 15 by drinking vodka all day, according to her boyfriend, David Rae. They also went out to dinner to mark the occasion, but after they returned home, Zowacki became angry that there were no gifts, cards or a cake. “Next thing you know, I’m getting stabbed,” Rae told KDKA. He told Westmoreland County Police that Zowacki came at him with a box cutter: “She went to my neck, she says, ‘I’m going to kill you!’” She ended up cutting his arm, then “destroyed” his bedroom, throwing his TV to the floor and breaking his bed.

She was charged with aggravated assault and spent the rest of her birthday in jail.

Don’t Show and Don’t Tell!

A preschool student at St. Cyprian Children’s Center in Philadelphia arrived at school on May 14 with a little something extra in his pocket: a baggie containing 22 purple plastic bags of crack cocaine. Fox29 News reported that a teacher’s aide noticed the bulge in the 5-year-old’s pocket and asked him to take the item out. He told her the person who had handed him the bag had asked him to hide it.

Philadelphia police are still investigating.

Jesus Take the Wheel Leonard Olsen, 70, was arrested in Lakeland, Fla., on May 10 for reckless driving after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy filmed him sitting on his sunroof while his Cadillac motored down the road at about 40 m.p.h. When Florida Highway Patrol troopers asked him about riding on his sunroof, Olsen said he “didn’t know about that” but later admitted that the car was on cruise control. “The car drives itself and has a gigantic computer in it,” he said, according to WTSP. “I thought it would be a nice way to praise God for a minute, and that’s what I did.” After his arrest, Olsen told officers he would rather be taken to jail than back to his wife, who “treats (him) like a servant.” © 2019 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION M AY 3 0 , 2 0 1 9 | 33

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Righteous in Word and in DEET ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Hey, how ’bout an update on the Art Kumbalek Spring Fund Drive? Okey-doke, can do.

So, a big thanks to reader J.E. from out of the great state of Maryland (where the Black-eyed Susan remains the state flower, even during these #MeToo times, yikes!) for the buck two-eighty and the medicinal solvent of which I have followed the doctor’s orders—“two ounces over ice repeatedly as needed.” However Dr. J, I still feel like I’m running a couple, three quarts low. Any additional donation in this regard would be greatly appreciated, I kid you not.

And to my dear reader Ingrid/Mae, hope you are well, wherever you be.

Anyways, I got to say, again, that now we’re post-Memorial Day, we got the goddamn summer season smacking us square in the face. All that racket. All that festive ethnic hoopla. And all the knuckleheads complaining about the mosquitos and the goddamn persistent yellow-jacket bee stingers. Seems like I say this every year, and cripes, maybe I do, what the fock. But, onward into charted territory we go.

Listen: Any knobshine bitching on mosquitos is obviously some knobshine who’s spending time outdoors. What the hell’s the matter with you?

You want to duck the mosquitos? Park your whining butt indoors just like any right-thinking guy does each and every season of the year. Case closed.

You got a problem with outdoor bugs, don’t come crying to me. I told you what to do.

And while we’re on the subject, do we really need the infinitudinal number of focking species of bugs we seem to have on god’s green Earth every time you turn around? For christ sakes, according to my research we got upwards 500 billion types of insect species on and in our world—all created for the purpose of nothing other than to bug the hell out of you and me, or at least give us a good case of the heebie-jeebies, ain’a?

These goddamn insects go parading around all the time so high and mighty, and yet even though they know that one eventual day they will inherit the Earth and be the big cheese-olas ’cause Al Qaeda finally got hold of some kind of big-time nervy biological germ/gas/spray that wipes out everything on two legs, beard or no beard—oops!—these insects are still supremely motivated to bug us all the time because the average sapien

Homo gets dealt an average lifespan of 65-70 years if everything breaks right, while the average focking bug gets cut like a day and a focking half. And they are pissed but good about the disparity. Don’t ask me how they know but they do, I kid you not.

Well, fock ’em. If I were in charge of things, I’d make it that only two kinds of bugs were necessary on this planet: Squished, and more squished.

These focking insects and what have you don’t know when they got it good. Jeez louise, if you were a bug criminal and got sentenced to do hard time, what would that come to? About 22 focking hours I figure. And you could get through bug high school in about two and a half hours (still more time than a lot of sapien students put in, granted); so big focking deal.

I wish these bugs could find some time to learn to do something constructive during their puny lifespan period instead of just bug us all the time. But until those bugs get some sense into whatever they got for heads; I say we squash ’em, and squash ’em good.

Yeah yeah, it would be a hoot to come back in a couple, three million years or so when the bugs are the top dogs, ain’a? I wonder if they’ll still be eating each other, or if evolution will have provided them a more reasonable if not relaxed disposition. I’ll bet a buck two-eighty their museums would be mighty interesting. Instead of dinosaurs, they’ll have a life-size Mom, Pop, Buddy, Sis and Grandma, burning the bird on a grill at the backyard picnic. The insects will clatter into the flashy exhibit room and there’ll be these snazzy illusional lighting effects that cram the span of the picnic into about three minutes. Sure, there’ll be sound effects: music from a crappy classic-rock radio station; Grandma wondering where the fock she left her teeth; Pop yelling at Buddy to go get a focking job; and Sis on her phone figuring out what to wear at the funeral after she kills herself ’cause her family sucks.

You bet it’ll be a popular display at the bug museum, but I’m betting the petrified pile of dog shit will always be numero uno with the winged and many-legged crowd, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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