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Public Invited to Weigh in On the Domes’ Future

FEEDBACK CAN BE GIVEN IN PERSON OR ONLINE ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL hat should become of Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory—the landmark trio of glasshouses perched above the Menomonee Valley more commonly referred to as the Domes? Some practical, visionary and imaginative proposals have been offered by consultants advising a committee considering future paths for the Domes.

The public will have an opportunity to express feedback about proposed options on Tuesday, June 26, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Mitchell Park Domes, 524 S. Layton Blvd.

The horticultural complex includes three display domes, a greenhouseand-annex complex added in 2015, as well as support and educational structures. Designed by Donald L. Grieb and built between 1959 and 1967, the Domes have gradually fallen into disrepair after decades of deferred maintenance. The Tropical Dome, Desert Dome and Show Dome were all closed for several months in 2016 after ongoing leaking caused some concrete coating on steel beams to deteriorate. As a stop-gap measure, mesh netting was installed in each dome to prevent any flaking concrete from falling.

The structure has been declared a “national treasure” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and named to the Trust’s “11 Most Endangered” list in 2016. The Cultural Landscape Foundation also named the Domes an “at-risk landscape” in 2016. The Milwaukee County Task Force on the Mitchell Park Conservatory is evaluating long-term options for the conservatory, its grounds and associated activities. The task force will recommend a course of action to the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and County Executive Chris Abele.

Since convening in November 2016, the Domes task force has reviewed a report about repair options presented by Milwaukee-based GRAEF USA and a peer review by Chicago-based Wiss, Jenney, Eltsner (WJE)—an engineering firm which has worked on many high-profile historic buildings. The latter study was funded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Following a request for proposals, Milwaukee County then enlisted a consulting team headed

by HGA, a Milwaukee architectural firm, along with Boston-based ConsultEcon, an economic consulting firm, to evaluate conditions, constraints and opportunities for the Domes to continue serving the community. Quorum Architects of Milwaukee, also part of the team, is conducting the project’s public input phase.

Task force members also engaged in brainstorming to consider ways to maintain and possibly enhance the cone-shaped Domes. ConsultEcon’s Robert Brais suggested “using their uniqueness and where they are

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in their life cycle to make the conservatory a regional destination.” ConsultEcon’s report also presented ways to increase the Domes’ programming, promotion and attendance.

Despite minimal marketing, the Domes are the fifth most popular attraction in Metropolitan Milwaukee among public and nonprofit institutions. With 210,000 visitors in 2015—81% of whom are from Wisconsin— it trails only the Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee Public Museum, Discovery World and Milwaukee Art Museum in attendance. Nonetheless, ConsultEcon’s report stated that Domes attendance could rise, in some cases dramatically, with “targeted investments.”

Numerous options “would not be huge undertakings but could make a big difference” in positively improving the visitor experience and increasing attendance, according to Brais.

Options for the Domes include higher quality changing exhibits and interpretative displays; integration of science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) education within programming; exhibits and programs about native-plant ecology, sustainability and landscaping; night-time educational events; children’s gardens and butterfly or “insectarium” exhibits and programs. Other upgrades could include a visitor orientation-theater space and food service facilities. New on-site greenhouses could also be integrated into public programming or used to grow plants for sale to the public.

Eight Options Identified

Following extensive research and numerous task force meetings, the consulting team presented eight options for immediate and long-term planning. Input is also being gathered during focus groups with representatives of varied community institutions and constituencies. The public may also complete a short survey (visit mitchelldomes. org) about the options by Monday, July 9.

Consultants said they did not include an option to demolish the Domes and build a conservatory elsewhere since there have been no indications of support for that approach. The Domes’ role as an economic and community anchor within the Clarke Square neighborhood has also been discussed. The options presented for the park facility by the consulting team are as follows:

Do Nothing

This would mean that Milwaukee County continues to neglect maintenance, and water will continue to seep into the structures. ConsultEcon reports that this course of action would eventually lead to the Domes’ demolition, possibly within five years.

Demolish the Domes; Keep the Greenhouses

Some, or even most, of the Domes’ multimillion-dollar horticultural collection would be lost if the county does not then construct another conservatory facility or move the plants to another proper location.

Address the Deferred Maintenance

Completing Domes maintenance needs would cost between $20 and $30 million. The WJE analysis states that, “Overall, the glass cladding and precast concrete have performed well considering that minimal maintenance and repairs have been completed on the Domes. The primary issues are water leakage and spalling concrete at the embedded connections... Past repairs have not addressed water leakage into the Domes.”

Targeted Investments

This option would include conducting deferred maintenance along with making other capital investments. It could cost $40-50 million dollars, which planners envision coming from county coffers, public-private partnerships and community philanthropy. New investments could include additional classrooms or meeting spaces, an improved or expanded guest entrance, more retail space, parking and programmatic options and food service.

EcoDome Destination

An “EcoDome” concept would include deferred maintenance of the Domes and targeted investments and greatly expand upon the Domes’ ecological experiences and educational opportunities and functions. It would include a new im-

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mersive Ecological Habitat Zone with canopy walks, aquariums, live animals, expanded outdoor gardens, a children’s garden and a destination restaurant.

Adventure Dome

The “Adventure Dome” concept envisions aspects like those of the EcoDome plan (as outlined above), but it would have an “adventure” focus with amenities like ziplines, climbing structures, a playground and water-play features rather than more ecological displays and experiences.

Hybrid Redevelopment: EcoDome Destination Attraction

This option is the same as the EcoDome, except for razing the existing Show Dome and replacing it with a new EcoDome Destination Attraction.

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UPDATE: WINTER FARMERS MARKET AT THE DOMES ANNEX Milwaukee County is currently reconsidering its announced ousting of the Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market from its location of five years at the Domes. Karina Henderson, County Executive Chris Abele’s spokesperson, wrote by email: “We are still working with Fondy and Zilli toward a solution or solutions that will be beneficial for everyone.”

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he Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump administration, as well as other activities by all those who seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking-discussion get-togethers and any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

Thursday, June 21

Police and Youth Listening Circles @ Mary Ryan Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee (3000 N. Sherman Blvd.), 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Frank Zeidler Center for Public Discussion will host its first “Police and Youth Listening Circle” of the year. People ages 13-24 are encouraged to come to the Mary Ryan Boys & Girls Club to share ideas and experiences about the Sherman Park neighborhood. There are only 40 spaces available. RSVP at facebook.com, event 241300596645016.

Jail, Justice and Community @ Linneman’s Riverwest Inn (1001 E. Locust St.), 6-7:30 p.m.

This ACLU of Wisconsin “Civil Liberties On Tap” event will include updates from community organizations such as Youth Justice MKE, #CloseMSDF and the NAACP about the Mil-

waukee Secure Detention Facility, Lincoln Hills and the Milwaukee Police Department.

Friday, June 22

Impact of Segregation on Wauwatosa and Milwaukee @ Medical College of Wisconsin Alumni Center (8701 W. Watertown Plank Road, Wauwatosa), 7-8:45 p.m.

Black Holocaust Museum head griot Reggie Jackson, with the YWCA and City of Light Church, will lead a talk about the impact of segregation on poverty and race relations in Wauwatosa and Milwaukee. A facilitated roundtable discussion will follow the talk.

Saturday, June 23

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Oakland Avenue and Capitol Drive, noon-1 p.m.

Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action 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 afterward.

Gail Walker @ Central United Methodist Church (639 N. 25th St.), 5-8:15 p.m.

Gail Walker, executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization

(IFCO) and Pastors for Peace, will speak at the 29th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba at Central United Methodist Church. Walker spent many years as a community organizer in Milwaukee.

Sunday, June 24

Socialism is a BBQ @ Kern Park (3614 N. Humboldt Blvd.), noon-3 p.m.

The Milwaukee chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America will host a potluck cookout at Kern Park in Riverwest. A “BBQ,” according to the event’s Facebook page, is “Socialism in practice, enacted in real time” because, “What you eat and drink aren’t based on your ability to pay or some other privilege you were born with.”

Tuesday, June 26

Wisconsin Assembly Democrats Fundraiser @ Milwaukee Public Market (400 N. Water St.), 4:30-6 p.m.

The Wisconsin Assembly Democrats’ fundraiser will include appearances from Democratic leader Gordon Hintz, as well as other Democratic state representatives. There is a suggested donation of $100, with higher sponsorship tiers up to $1,000.

Mitchell Park Domes Task Force Public Meeting @ Mitchell Park Domes (524 S. Layton Blvd.), 6-7:30 p.m.

The public will be able to weigh in on the future of the Mitchell Park Domes at this pub-

lic meeting of the Domes task force. See feature news article on this subject in this issue!

Wednesday, June 27

Meeting of the Whole @ Milwaukee Community Justice Council (633 W. Wisconsin Ave.), 9:30-11 a.m.

Every other month, the Milwaukee Community Justice Council, a committee of Milwaukeearea criminal justice agencies created by the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, hosts community meetings to gather information and receive feedback. The meetings are open to the public.

Refugee Resettlement Volunteer Information Meeting @ Lutheran Social Services (3974 S. Howell Ave., Suite 2), 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan host monthly one-hour information sessions that give an overview of the refugee process and how people can get involved as volunteers.

To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com.

Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that Donald Trump and others of his kind have planned for our great country.

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You Don’t Think Trump Has Handled North Korea Responsibly

Last week we asked if you believe Donald Trump has handled his negotiations with North Korea responsibly. You said: n Yes: 32% n No: 68%

What Do You Say? Will the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border hurt Trump and his supporters in the general election? n No, this will motivate his base n Yes, he’s gone too far for independents and even many Republicans Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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Is Milwaukee Surviving Off the Backs of the Poor?

Sharing traffic ticket revenue with the indigent ::BY GRETCHEN SCHULDT

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ity officials weren’t kidding when they promised a crackdown on crazy, dangerous driving in Milwaukee. There were 34,770 traffic cases opened in municipal court from January through April this year, up 289% from the 8,944 cases opened during the same period last year. Those cases reflect police ticket-writing activity. It is difficult to say whether the increased enforcement will convince reckless drivers not to be reckless, but it is sure to increase city revenue through the collection of trafficrelated forfeitures.

So, a modest proposal: Take a portion of the increased traffic citation revenue and use it to pay for full-time lawyers to represent indigent defendants in municipal court. This would not require bigger forfeitures or a reduction of any other city service. It simply would use a share of new revenue to offer legal representation to those generating most of the money.

The city goes all in to catch, prosecute and collect from ordinance violators. It has police officers to write tickets; it has assistant city attorneys who prosecute accused violators; and it has contracted collection agencies to track down those who don’t pay their forfeitures. But when it comes to helping municipal court defendants make their cases, the city is much, much tighter with its cash. To its credit, the Milwaukee Common Council did approve $45,000 as part of the 2017 budget to hire a part-time contracted attorney to represent indigent defendants. To the city’s discredit, however, it now is the middle of 2018, and the contract has yet to be executed.

City’s Poor More Heavily Ticketed

Drivers from poor neighborhoods are more likely than those from wealthier areas to be issued traffic tickets, according to 2017 municipal court data. Milwaukee police also issue far more traffic citations to African Americans, demographically more likely to be poor, than to Caucasians. In 2017, tickets in 69% of municipal court traffic cases were issued to African American drivers, while just 13% went to white drivers.

Lawyers are needed to help indigent defendants tell their stories and to help them negotiate the municipal court system. Lawyers aware of traffic stop patterns also can ensure they do not follow the method of “stop-and-frisk”—the systematic harassment of mostly young black men that thrived under Police Chief Edward Flynn. Independent lawyers representing indigent defendants also can help negotiate deals with prosecutors and help clients avoid a significant consequence of traffic citations and poverty: driver’s license suspension.

The most frequently cited offense in Milwaukee is (surprise!) driving on a suspended license. There were 6,501 municipal court suspended license cases opened during the first four months of 2018, up from 2,033 during the same period last year. These suspensions have a big poverty factor. People facing traffic fines who can’t afford to pay them simply don’t. Statewide, 56% of driver’s license suspensions are due to failure to pay forfeitures, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Unfortunately, traffic forfeitures are not income-indexed. A traffic ticket that is a mere annoyance for some is an impossible budget breaker for others. Prosecutors can cut deals, though, and do it all the time. A good defense lawyer can help find that necessary middle ground, where the forfeitures are not so onerous they leave the defendant angry and hopelessly unable to pay, while still penalizing the driver for breaking the law. Municipal court defendants don’t have the knowledge or savvy to negotiate well on their own behalf with prosecutors entirely familiar with the judges, the court and the law.

The City of Milwaukee uses its police and prosecutors to generate money from some of its poorest residents. It seems a very small thing indeed to use a share of that money to ensure that they are fairly represented in court.

Gretchen Schuldt is executive director of the Wisconsin Justice Initiative, which advocates for progressive change in the Wisconsin justice system by educating the public about its real-life impacts and partnering with other organizations to achieve more just outcomes.

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Wisconsin Still Leading War Against Affordable Health Care ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

W

ith all the recent distractions of President Donald Trump threatening war with Canada and publicly declaring his love for a murderous little North Korean dictator, it was easy to miss the news about the latest Republican attempt to destroy affordable health care in America. But everyone in Wisconsin should be aware that their state’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, and attorney general, Brad Schimel, are leading another attempt to eliminate all the most popular protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the widely supported provision preventing insurance companies from denying coverage or charging exorbitant premiums for anyone with a preexisting medical condition.

That may surprise a lot of people since, during the repeated Republican attempts to destroy the ACA last year, Trump and congressional Republicans always promised to retain the provisions that even members of their own party overwhelmingly supported. Besides, everyone remembers Arizona Sen. John McCain’s famous “thumbs down” vote that ended all those cruel Republican attempts to destroy health care for tens of millions of Americans.

For a while, it seemed like all Republicans actually accomplished with their relentless votes to destroy health care was to make voters much more aware of all the protections of the ACA they really didn’t want to lose. According to polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation, large majorities in both political parties supported subsidies for lower- and middle-class Americans buying individual insurance, ending the routine practice of charging women higher premiums than men, requiring insurance to cover a set of basic health benefits and, above all, prohibiting insurance companies from cancelling policies when people get sick and then refusing to cover preexisting conditions or charging exorbitant premiums to those individuals most desperately in need of coverage.

Sabotaging Health Care

So, now that Republicans are no longer publicly voting to destroy affordable health care, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, right? Not for a moment. Trump and Republicans really never stopped their behind-the-scenes sabotage of the ACA. And that’s where Walker and Schimel come in with one of the most serious threats yet to all the law’s health care protections.

Since it’s an election year, Walker

hypocritically pretended to be concerned about possible “catastrophic” increases of 90% in the rates of ACA insurance plans in Wisconsin experts are predicting over the next three years as a result of continuing Republican sabotage of the ACA. Walker got the state legislature to allocate $200 million to hold down those rate increases.

It was a stunning act of political dishonesty, since the governor simultaneously authorized Schimel to jointly lead a federal lawsuit (along with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton) supported by Wisconsin and 19 other Republicanled states that once again seeks to have the entire ACA declared unconstitutional. That would immediately destroy all the protections and federal subsidies that hold down health care costs for nearly 30 million Americans.

But wait a minute. The U.S. Supreme Court twice upheld the constitutionality of the ACA and its provisions—first in 2012 by a 5-4 vote and in a separate case in 2015 by 6-3. In both cases, conservative Chief Justice John Roberts wrote both majority decisions upholding the law.

So, what’s changed?

Where’s the Logic?

The logic is extremely convoluted, but Schimel and Paxton claim that the obscene $1.5 trillion tax cut Republicans passed last year didn’t just give the overwhelming share of those enormous tax cuts to billionaires, millionaires and multimillion-dollar corporations, but they claim it also completely destroyed the constitutionality of the ACA. That’s because Roberts ruled the health care law was constitutional based on the federal government’s taxing authority.

Schimel and Paxton claim Republicans destroyed that constitutional basis for the ACA when their tax law eliminated financial penalties for anyone violating the ACA’s individual mandate requiring everyone to buy health insurance. No taxes, no more health care law—and no more benefits of any kind, including coverage for preexisting conditions or government subsidies to make insurance affordable.

It’s an absurd legal stretch, but that might not matter. That’s because U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions publicly announced the federal government will no longer defend the law in that Republican lawsuit before a Republican federal judge in Texas who has ruled against the ACA in the past. Sessions acknowledges ignoring the Justice Department’s “longstanding tradition of defending the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes if reasonable arguments can be made in their defense.” Apparently, Sessions couldn’t think of a single reasonable argument to support all the promises by Trump and congressional Republicans to protect Americans from ever being denied coverage or charged excessive premiums because of preexisting conditions.

Normally, replacing a Democratic administration with a Republican one has never automatically changed all of the nation’s laws and legal protections. But Trump’s government has never been a normal one. Wisconsin voters can do their part to preserve America’s health care protections—including coverage for preexisting conditions—by removing Walker and Schimel from office this November.

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urcumin, a substance in the turmeric root, is becoming popular in the United States as more research becomes available about its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. But brothers Qasim and Asim Khan, who grew up consuming turmeric, are familiar with this gift from nature’s medicine cabinet and want to make it accessible to today’s consumers. Through SUR Natural Health Brands, LLC, Qasim’s and Asim’s Milwaukee-based business, they launched ZYN curcumin-infused beverages.

The Khans grew up in Pakistan and emigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1980s. Ayurvedic medicine was always part of their lives, but what Qasim describes as the “ah-ha moment” came while traveling with their father, a Type 2 diabetic. During the trip, their father experienced painful inflammation in his toe. Qasim and Asim’s aunt made a paste with ground turmeric and olive oil and applied it to the inflamed toe. Within an hour, their father’s pain was gone and he was able to resume their planned activities.

Qasim and Asim had both spent 20 years working in the financial world, and they got to the point where they no longer enjoyed what they were doing. Inspired by the incident with their father, they decided to change direction.

“Since we were familiar with turmeric, we thought, ‘Let’s start there and reach into why turmeric has the benefits that it does,’” Qasim said. They researched turmeric and talked to physicians in Western and Eastern medicine, and they discovered that curcumin is one of the main bioactive ingredients in turmeric.

“We narrowed down the healing powers of turmeric and began crafting a curcumin drink in our kitchens. We ruined a lot of pots,” Qasim recalled, “but once we got a base formula down, we took it to firms to take it to the next

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ZYN is short for the word “zyndagi,” which means life. There are four flavors—mango lychee, pomegranate cranberry, mixed berry and lemon ginger, the latter having a tangy zing of lemon complemented with a pop of warming ginger. ZYN is low in sugar, and the drink is gluten-free. Although ZYN isn’t Non-GMO Project verified, Qasim said their products are made with non-genetically modified ingredients.

“We connect with the right farmers and right supply chain to meet our standards,” he said.

Their curcumin comes from turmeric grown on solar-powered farms in India. The piperine, or black pepper fruit, which helps the body better absorb curcumin, is ethically sourced from farms in India. Other ingredients come from United States farms.

Qasim said ZYN has been well received at Outpost Natural Foods, where they first launched the product this past November. It’s now available at more than 150 locations, including Sendik’s, Health Hut and Beans & Barley, and in many corporate cafeterias. Although ZYN is doing well on the market, Qasim said it’s just the first of their products. “Our vision is more than just a curcumin beverage,” he said.

“Our mission as a company is to bring ancient wisdom from around the world to the modern consumer.”

SUR Natural Health Brands, LLC is a certified B Corporation, Qasim said, which means they met rigorous standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. They give back to causes they are passionate about— health care, fighting hunger and education. They are sponsoring a diabetes walk in Minneapolis, and they’re working with Aurora Health Care to sponsor cancer walks.

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::SPORTS Chase Anderson’s First Inning Struggles ::BY KYLE LOBNER

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wo batters into Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Chase Anderson was already in trouble. The situation, unfortunately, was not unusual.

Anderson allowed Cesar Hernandez to single and Rhys Hoskins to homer, and the Brewers were down 2-0 before they had recorded an out. He eventually rebounded to get out of the inning without further damage, but it continued a worrisome trend for him. Even before Sunday’s game, Anderson had allowed 11 runs in the first inning of his 13 starts this season, and opposing batters had an .887 OPS against him during those innings. With Sunday’s results included, Anderson now has an 8.36 ERA in the first and a 3.69 mark over the remainder of his innings.

It makes sense, of course, that any pitcher would be a little worse than the norm during the first inning; It’s the only inning where pitchers are guaranteed to face the top three batters in an opposing lineup. It’s also, at least historically, a time when pitchers have been taught to establish their fastball and avoid using their secondary pitches against hitters they’ll face multiple times over the course of a game. The numbers confirm that suspicion: So far this year, MLB pitchers have a 4.63 ERA in the first frame, as compared to a 4.04 mark overall.

That makes it all the more impressive that, even with Anderson, Brewers pitchers have actually been better in the first inning than the others. Baseball Reference’s tOPS+ statistic measures players or teams in certain situations against their overall performances. Entering

play Sunday, the Brewers were one of just nine teams with a tOPS+ under 100 in the first inning, meaning hitters fared worse against them in their first opportunity than they did later in games.

A deeper look into the numbers further highlights Anderson’s first-inning struggles: A 100 tOPS+ would imply that a player’s performance in a given situation is roughly neutral as compared to his overall numbers. Anderson, at 151, is the only regular member of the Brewers’ rotation rated above 100 in this category, coming in about 51% worse than his overall numbers would suggest. There’s a big gap between him and the next three regulars: Junior Guerra (84); Brent Suter (63); and Jhoulys Chacin (62).

Too Much Plate

Finding too much of the plate in the first inning isn’t a new problem for Anderson.

Hoskins’ home run on Sunday was the 22nd Anderson has allowed in the first inning in his career, easily the most of any inning. For his career, he’s allowed about 1.3 home runs per nine innings across all appearances, but in the first, it climbs to 1.7. Hitters are also making a lot of contact against Anderson overall, with a swinging strike rate of just 8.1%, and when they make contact, they’re hitting the ball hard.

Of course, it’s important to note that there are very small sample sizes at play here. Anderson’s first inning numbers are based on just 66 plate appearances over 14 innings pitched from a sample of more than 75. One of Anderson’s teammates is a great example of how quickly trends like this can change. Opposing batters had a .916 OPS against Zach Davies in the first inning in 2016, .809 in 2017 and .529 thus far this season. Small sample sizes make it possible for wild fluctuations in numbers like this.

Anderson, however, is aware of his first inning struggles and discussed them with reporters following Sunday’s game.

Whether this is a real issue or simply a function of bad luck and timing remains to be determined, but Anderson’s shot at being a long-term member of the top of the Brewers’ rotation may depend on his ability to get off to stronger starts.

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‘An American in Paris’ Offers a Modern Take on a Classic Romantic Tale STAGE MUSICAL OF HOLLYWOOD FILM HAS DEEP ROOTS ::BY JOHN JAHN he pedigree of An American in Paris: A New Musical, which is coming to Milwaukee for a one-week engagement starting June 26, is both fascinating and unique to the annals of the stage musical. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Christopher Wheeldon, the history of the piece goes back to American composer George Gershwin’s attraction to the music of French composer Maurice Ravel and a serendipitous trip to Paris Gershwin made in 1926.

Though Gershwin’s desire to become Ravel’s student didn’t come to fruition, the great French composer introduced him to composer, conductor and teacher Nadia Boulanger, which did bear fruit. Two years later, when Gershwin returned to Paris intent on formal studies with Boulanger, she quickly discovered him to be well beyond her teaching prowess.

But it was that momentous first trip to Paris that inspired Gershwin to compose what he described as “a rhapsodic ballet,” An American in Paris, dedicating it to his French hosts. “My purpose is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city,” Gershwin wrote, “and listens to the various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.”

While the public loved the new piece, critics scoffed at the idea of its appearance on concert programs that might include music of “serious” composers like Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven or Johannes Brahms. “It’s not a Beethoven symphony, you know,” Gershwin responded to critical comments such as these.

“It’s a humorous piece; nothing solemn about it. It’s not intended to draw tears. If it pleases symphony audiences as a light, jolly piece, a series of impressions musically expressed, it succeeds.”

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The work’s popularity proved the critics wrong. Enough so that, in the ensuing decades, An American in Paris grew ever more popular in both live concert performances and on records. In 1951, director Vincent Minnelli and producer Arthur Freed created one of the greatest movie musicals ever in the MGM film of An American in Paris, complete with a magnificent, 17-minute dance sequence set entirely to Gershwin’s original “rhapsodic ballet” score.

The story was fleshed out by script writer Alan Jay Lerner, Ira Gershwin provided the lyrics to the many hit songs, and the film memorably starred Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron and Oscar Levant. It was a box office smash, garnering eight Academy Award nominations (winning six, including Best Picture, Writing and Music), as well as other movie industry honors. It was the first time a full-scale musical film had ever emerged from an orchestral piece.

In 2014, Paris’ Théâtre de Châtelet saw the world premiere of a stage musical version of An American in Paris as adapted by Wheeldon. Like its original orchestral tone poem and feature film versions, An American in Paris: A New Musical, with book by Craig Lucas, has found success—as well as a seemingly permanent home on the world’s theater stages. Among its many accolades are four Drama Desk and four Tony awards (the latter for Best Choreography, Lighting and Scenic Design and Orchestration). The Broadway production closed in October 2016 after more than 600 performances, with a U.S. national tour soon following (a London West End production took place last year).

The upcoming Milwaukee engagement marks the final city for the American tour.

An American in Paris is a romantic story about an American soldier, an enigmatic French girl and, of course, the “City of Light,” Paris—all striving for a fresh beginning in the aftermath of a shattering world war. Like the film, the show pays homage to the timeless music and songs of George and Ira Gershwin, in fact, drawing upon several more of their works beyond the orchestral original.

In adapting the iconic film for the stage, Wheeldon and Lucas have not merely changed genres from film to stage but have, in fact, created a new piece of musical theater not beholden to the ’51 film.

‘A Different Kind of Journey’

“We set about making our version of the story, but we didn’t want to completely turn our backs on the movie,” Wheeldon says. “We were eager to make a show that would appeal to people who love the movie, but at the same time take those who hadn’t seen it on a different kind of journey.” The bare bones of the story are the same as the movie, but the characters have been rethought and fleshed out, and the narrative reconsidered and deepened for a contemporary audience.

“The show is about the characters’ struggles to find life, love and happiness again after this dark period,” Wheeldon explains. “The movie was made [when] the war was still very fresh, so Paris An American was treated in a kind of hyper-unrealistic way. in Paris With the distance of time, there was so much Marcus more we could do… [We could] talk about what the city was like after the Nazis left and how roCenter for the mance, art and music were balm to the wounds.

Performing Arts Paris behaves as a character in the show, and we June 26 - July 1 see the city open up and breathe again—and take on all the beautiful qualities that we associate with it.”

For those wondering if the great American in Paris ballet sequence survived in the reimagined show, Wheeldon offers reassurance; it is the production’s culminating point. “It contains the first truly romantic moment for [the characters of] Jerry and Lise,” he says. “Earlier in the show, they have a flirtatious dance by the Seine, which marks the beginning of their romance. The pas de deux is the emotional, romantic climax of the whole show.”

An American in Paris: A New Musical plays June 26-July 1 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’ Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, call 414-2737206 or visit marcuscenter.org/show/an-american-in-paris.

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Bay View Potluck Picnic Make and Music Day Summer Solstice Concerts @ Beulah Brinton House, 4 p.m.

The Bay View Historical Society invites the public to celebrate the longest day of the year at the new gazebo of the historic Beulah Brinton House (2590 S. Superior St.) where there will be a potluck and free concerts from a variety of folk musicians including singer-songwriter David HB Drake, the Americana ensemble Wilderland, the Four Winds Clarinet Quartet and the group Dangerous Folk, who specialize in the music of the ’50s and ’60s. Guests are welcome to bring their own lawn chair and a dish to share.

FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Hart Fest @ Hart Park, Wauwatosa

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Every city has its own cherished summer tradition. For Wauwatosa, it’s Hart Fest, a two-day family event that draws nearly 10,000 attendees each year. This year’s celebration features music from festival staples like Rebel Grace, The Love Monkeys and Pat McCurdy, as well as kids activities, skateboard and martial arts demos, a half marathon and a Toned Body Fitness body boot camp session Saturday morning, for anybody who wants to burn off some of the calories they’re likely to take in at the festival’s many food vendors. (Also Saturday, June 23.)

Diplo @ U.S. Cellular Connection Stage, Summerfest, 7 p.m.

Summerfest may not begin until June 27, but music fans won’t have to wait quite that long to see a big show at one of the festival’s main stages. This season the festival upgraded its aging U.S. Cellular Connection Stage with a 25-foot digital screen, a VIP backstage loft and mobile charging stations, and to show off its new amenities, the stage will host this free concert from taste-making Los Angeles DJ-producer Diplo, who’s helped helm hits for artists as wide ranging as Usher, Beyoncé, No Doubt and Madonna.

No tickets are required but entry will be permitted on a first-come, first-serve basis and gates will close if capacity is reached.

Griffin House

FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Griffin House @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

As his music career took off singer-songwriter Griffin House relocated from his native Ohio to Nashville, a natural destination for a musician with his folky, Americana-leaning sound, but the Midwest still looms large over his songs about romantics and idealists. His most recent album, 2016’s So On and So Forth, closes with a song dedicated to “Omaha.” He recorded the album at Lakehouse Recording Studio in New Jersey’s Asbury Park, an area near and dear to his heart after he shared a tour with E Street Band member Patti Scialfa in 2004.

Greek Fest @ Wisconsin State Fair Park, 11 a.m.

As is the case with most of the city’s big summer ethnic festivals, food is one of the biggest draws at Greek Fest, though there’s plenty to do while you’re enjoying gyro, souvlaki or saganaki.

Each day is filled with traditional music and dance performances, in addition to a Greek market and carnival rides on the midway (wristbands for unlimited rides from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. are $20).

Admission is free for this 53-year-old family tradition hosted by Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. (Through Sunday, June 24.)

Brews & Bites @ West Allis Farmer’s Market, 5 p.m.

Local First Milwaukee and the City of West Allis have brought together nearly 50 area brewers and food and beverage vendors for its Brews & Bites event, which will celebrate the joys of eating local. The $30 ticket includes tasting opportunities from participants including Cedar Teeth Pizza, Beans & Barley, Tabal Chocolate, Drift, Urbal Tea, Lakefront Brewery, Westallion Brewing Company, Central Standard Craft Distillery and Corinva Wine Company. For those who want to start snacking early a $50 VIP ticket includes early admission starting at 4 p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

Summer Soulstice Music Festival @ North Avenue, noon

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Now in its 18th year, North Avenue’s Summer Soulstice Music Festival has soundly established itself as one of the East Side’s destination music events. This year’s lineup features an impressive three stages of music including performers like Abby Jeanne, B~Free, Chicken Wire Empire, Amanda Huff, Space Raft, Tigernite, Jaill, Rusty Pelicans, Sat. Nite Duets, Greatest Lakes and Paper Holland. But the event also features a variety of unique attractions of the non-musical variety, including a BMX stunt bike show, yoga practices, Roll Train roller skate dancing, a live painted mural, mini golf, a maker market and cartoon-drawing demonstrations for kids.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 24 Garlic Fest @ Braise, noon-4 p.m.

Milwaukee’s smelliest festival is also one of the ones with the most bona fide culinary credentials. Each year the Walker’s Point restaurant Braise organizes this free outdoor celebration of all things garlic with the support of the city’s finest kitchens, which offer up an array of pungent, garlic-centric dishes. The Iron Grate, Morel, The Diplomat, Transfer Pizzeria, Sabrosa, Snack Boys and Café India are some of the many participating vendors at this year’s festival, which will also feature a yoga practice, a rowing contest, kids games, craft vendors, live music and a garlic eating contest. And as always, Braise will be serving the festival’s iconic green garlic Bloody Marys.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Imagine Dragons w/ Grace VanderWaal @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m.

Imagine Dragons’ last show at Summerfest was unforgettable for anybody who attended. It was 2013, and the Las Vegas alternative band’s breakthrough single “Radioactive” had just become one of the year’s most inescapable radio hits, leading to one of the most packed side-stage concerts in the festival’s history. The band’s popularity hasn’t waned any in the half decade since.

Last year, Imagine Dragons released their third album, Evolve, which true to its name dabbles in some new sounds, with heavy accents of hip-hop and electronic music reverberating through the band’s signature bombastic rock. The record was nominated for an unlikely Best Pop Vocal Album award at this year’s Grammys. Singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal, winner of season 11 of “America’s Got Talent,” is currently touring with Imagine Dragons.

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Can you guess which famous musician California songwriter Lukas Nelson is related to? Hint: He’s a long-haired country legend with a fondness for a harvestable recreational drug and prominent ties to Farm Aid, a festival that the younger Nelson and his band Promise of the Real have played as well. At his father’s request, Lukas took up guitar at a young age, and now fronts this group, which over the years has built up a reputation of their own in outlaw country circles (they also backed Neil Young on his 2015 album, The Monsanto Years). Last year Concord Music released the group’s self-titled album, which peaked at number 2 on the country charts. It featured guest vocals from Lady Gaga; Nelson and his band also appear in an upcoming remake of the movie musical A Star Is Born, which will star Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

Lil Uzi Vert @ Harley-Davidson Roadhouse, Summerfest, 10 p.m.

Philly native Lil Uzi Vert is at the forefront of a generation of rappers who draw as much from the spirit of rock ’n’ roll as they do hip-hop, and he’s helped pave the way for a huge new class of rappers who carry themselves like rock stars while sporting fashionable colored dreadlocks.

Though he doesn’t shy away from rapping about his emotions, Uzi’s music is lighter and more buoyant than that of many rappers of his generation, marked by the same breezy spirit that made his Migos collaboration, “Bad and Boujee,” his first number one hit in 2017. Last year, he released his debut studio album, Luv Is Rage 2, which featured guest spots from Pharrell Williams and The Weeknd.

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resent Music is ending its 2017-2018 season with a walk around the garden—the Lynden Sculpture Garden. The wooded park-like landscape, adorned with works in stone and steel, has become an inspiration for Milwaukee performing artists looking to make site-specific work. For the city’s contemporary music ensemble, the acreage provides ample space for a wide array of performances pertinent to the sculptures.

The “Sound and Sight� concert is a bundle of moving parts revolving around static objects. “It’ll be a very still thing, in a sense,� explains Present Music’s artistic director Kevin Stalheim. “Usually people move past the sculptures. Here they will be frozen during threeto-five-minute performances at each sculpture. It’s not about looking at the musicians! It’s a more contemplative, observant, deeper experience with the sculpture.�

Early arrivals are encouraged to “picnic and meander,� Stalheim says. When concert time arrives, the crowd will gather and be divided in four groups identified by colored wristbands. Each group will walk along different paths through the program at its 13 destination points within the Lynden Garden. By evening’s end, each concertgoer will have seen and heard the same sculpturally inspired performances.

A few of “Sound and Sight’s� compositions already existed and were chosen for how they relate to a particular sculpture. However, most were written for the program by Stalheim and Present Music members. The program is largely aural—with some exceptions.

Quasimondo Physical Theatre will enact its version of the ancient myth of Pan and Syrinx, set to Claude Debussy and accompanied by a flutist. As usual for Present Music, subtle humor will be threaded through the program. At a sculpture that reminds Stalheim of the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Also Sprach Zarathustra will be performed, not by a resounding orchestra but by two individuals dwarfed by the music’s immensity.

Part two of “Sound and Sight� will involve audience participation, including opportunities to draw pictures and make gamelan-like music with an array of pot lids. “It’s never been done this way before at Lynden Sculpture Garden,� Stalheim says. “There have been dance concerts on the grounds and people singing opera, but at ‘Sound and Sight,’ the sculpture isn’t just a backdrop. It’s a collaboration between sound and sculpture.�

5 p.m., Saturday, June 23 at Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 W. Brown Deer Road. For tickets, visit presentmusic.org or call 414-271-0711 ext. 3.

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Jason Powell Begins Tenure as Milwaukee Metro Voices’ Artistic Director with Audience Favorite, ‘Fortuna’

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::BY SELENA MILEWSKI

ast week, Milwaukee Metro Voices Artistic Director Trefor Williams announced that he will pass the torch to Jason Powell. Williams co-founded the company in 2006 and has produced and directed more than 30 shows during his tenure.

Although he will be missed, he assured the opening night audience of Powell’s comic opera, Fortuna the Time Bender Vs. The School Girls of Doom, that the vocal music ensemble is in great hands.

The sparkling Fortuna attests to this bright new beginning.

Written in a style that perfectly melds the fun and excitement of super hero comic books with the heightened artistry of opera, this piece truly is a great choice for all ages. Genre-appropriate stage direction and choreography by James Zager and spot-on musical direction by Donna Kummer allow the talented ensemble of actor-singers to flourish on a simply set stage with a projection screen for comic book locations.

Powell’s witty lyrics come to vibrant life in the hands of the impec-

cable performers. As over-the-top villain, The Headmaster, Nathan Wesselowski steals the show. Employing everything from prat falls to falsetto, he’s an ideal comic foil to our heroine, Fortuna. Played

by Samantha Sostarich, she’s stoic, statuesque and downright philosophical as she fights crime through her remarkable ability to slow time. Diane Lane charms as the Narrator, delivering key plot points as well as Powell’s entertaining meta quips, often in ravishing harmony with the other characters.

Anna Van Nuland, Lisa Morris and Dana Vetter are delightful as the Headmaster’s henchwomen, their signature number, “Good Things Come in Threes,” devilishly reminiscent of The Mikado’s “Three Little Girls From School.” At the center of the action are Joe (Jonathan Stewart), an idealistic wannabe superhero, and his down-to-earth girlfriend, Elizabeth (Melissa Kelly Cardamone).

These two sing some of the show’s best duets; their relatable spats about timeliness and getting “in sync” are perfect fodder for operatic harmony and text overlay.

The current production is Fortuna’s third staging. It was originally developed and produced by Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and its enduring popularity is a fine testament to what collaborationminded artists like Powell can accomplish in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Metro Voice’s production of Fortuna the Time Bender runs through June 24 at The Tenth Street Theatre, 628 N. 10th St. For tickets, visit milwaukeemetrovoices.org.

Milwaukee Metro Voices ‘Fortuna’

An Intimate, Dreamy Political Fantasy ::BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF

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ff the Wall Theatre glides into a dreamy political fantasy with its staging of The Madwoman of Chaillot. A soulfully charismatic Marilyn White plays the title character: an eccentric who aids Paris in thwarting the business interests of a group of unscrupulous investors. White’s performance exhibits an intimate understanding that the inner strength drawn from extreme empathy can appear to be madness to the rest of the world. It’s an earnest performance that lends its warmth to the entire cast.

Michael Pocaro complements White as the Ragman who points her sensitivities in the right direction. Playwright Jean Giraudoux is far from subtle in this starry-eyed fugue of a fairy tale. As the Ragman, Pocaro is perhaps given some of the most emotional reflections on society and the direction in which is seems to be going. Pocaro gives the intensity of the emotion a firm grounding that helps balance White’s performance.

Pocaro’s biggest challenge comes as the Ragman is given the dauntingly unenviable task of defending the morally bankrupt investors in a mock trial before local citizens and a group of madwomen. Caitlin Kujawski Compton, Christine Horgen and stately Milwaukee drag queen Maple Veneer serve as a vividly charming trio of madwomen who have come to aid in the proceedings. An establishing dialogue between White and the three of them has a life all its own. The fantasy of their madness is the production’s single most seductive element. Globally, we’ve fallen into a bit of a mess. The world needs the sensitivities and sensibilities of its madwomen now more than ever.

Through June 24 at Off the Wall Theatre, 127 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-484-8874 or visit zivacat.com/offthewalltheatre.

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ELEGANT ENERGY AT MSO’S SEASON FINALE ::BY RICK WALTERS

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udwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is an icon of European culture.

As long as you don’t hear it too often (as with any of the “war horses” of the repertory), it can bowl you over with its expressive power and invention. How this irritable, insufferable deaf man came up with the “Ode to Joy” is a mystery of where art comes from.

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra ended its classical season with a strong account of Symphony No. 9 last weekend, led by guest conductor Jun Märkl. In general, the Friday evening performance was characterized by elegant energy. I always look forward to the cellos and basses playing the free “recitative” section in the fourth movement, which was particularly arresting this time around.

Märkl’s tempos worked very well. He was able to hold together the brief solo vocal quartet section in the last movement, which sometimes verges on disaster. Of the soloists it was bass Morris Robinson who made the biggest impression, with a commanding presence and rich voice. The Milwaukee Symphony Chorus was solid in the piece.

The 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein has been celebrated around the world this season, and also at MSO. Bernstein famously led Beethoven’s Ninth in Berlin in 1989, not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One couldn’t help but recall that with Chichester Psalms on the same MSO concert. Bernstein’s most often performed concert work was written for a 1965 summer festival in the British city of Chichester. Sung in Hebrew, it captures both the composer’s Jewishness and his lifelong spiritual quest.

Chichester heavily features the chorus, which did well in the piece. Bernstein’s rhythmic energy drives the first movement. His more sentimental side comes out in the second movement, featuring a boy soprano soloist, Evan Bagwell.

Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1 obviously plays off Aaron Copland’s famous Fanfare for the Common Man. I don’t find the music to be that interesting, to be honest, but it was an opportunity to hear the agility of the horn section and Dean Borghesani in a brilliant, virtuoso timpani solo.

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he fabled divide between left brain and right brain, between science and art, never troubled Wisconsin painter Terrill Knaack. He graduated from UWMadison with degrees in wildlife ecology and art. His mentors were Madison professor Joseph Hickey, who led the fight to ban DDT, and Wisconsin wildlife artist Owen Gromme.

The painter’s interests come together in an exhibition at Landmarks Gallery, “Terrill Knaack: Dialogue with Nature.” The oil paintings on display were inspired by his experiences while hiking, canoeing or just watching in environmentally well-preserved locations such as Blueberry Lake or Wild Rice Lake. He dabbled in wildlife art during the genre’s commercial peak in the 1980s, yet the tendency of his work, as he says, “brings artist and naturalist together.” Fuzzy bears and doe-eyed ducks aren’t his chief concern.

Knaack is probably more aware than most landscape painters of the taxonomy of the trees he paints—“my background in science,” he explains.

However, the often filtered lighting, soft reflections on placid lakes and vibrant autumn colors of the forests on his canvases are not necessarily meant as documentation of the empirical. “I look for the inherent symbolism in nature,” Knaack says. “When I’m in nature, it’s speaking to me. I try to bring that out.” His work operates on the level of emotional suggestion and the powerful presences behind the surface. “I thought the trees could be like notes on a score—and how those notes could create resonance,” he continues.

In his way, Knaack as painter is a quiet advocate for the ecosystems he depicts. “We are primarily an urban population but people do need nature and to understand nature,” he says.

Through July 31 at Landmarks Gallery, 231 N. 76th St. For more information, visit landmarksgallery.com.

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British Actor Alastair Sim Stole Many Scenes Over a DecadesSpanning Career ::BY RICHARD G. CARTER

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Dinosaurs still roam the abandoned Jurassic World island, but their existence is threatened by imminent volcanic eruption. Tasked to rescue the reptiles, Claire and dino wrangler Owen (Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, respectively) arrive as saviors—a job that prompts blaming one another for their failed romance. Disaster porn ensues as they, along with a handful scientists and a military escort, are stalked by the very animals they intend to save. Owen reunites with Blue, the velociraptor he trained to follow his commands, but new dino hybrid predators seem to materialize from thin air. James Cromwell and Rafe Spall appear as wealthy businessmen planning to auction the lizards to the highest bidder, while Jeff Goldblum (the only actor-character from the original Jurassic Park) returns as the cautionary voice everyone

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ver the years, British character actors have made their mark with discerning movie audiences in America and the world over. The likes of Cyril Cusack, Mervyn Johns, John Laurie and many others, became household names.

To this observer, one of the very best was Alastair Sim. Combining a wry sense of humor with a commanding presence, inimitable diction and gestures, a mischievous, charming personality and take-charge manner when needed, he was simply wonderful.

Whether playing a bumbling police official, a clockmaker and incompetent assassin, in drag as a school headmistress, a doting father or Charles Dickens’ miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, the tall, balding, middle-age Sim was a scene stealer. And he was loved by Alfred Hitchcock, who cast him as Jane Wyman’s father in Stage Fright (1950).

From the 1930s into the ’70s, Sim provided riveting performances in more than 50 films, many of which are familiar to viewers of cable TV’s Turner Classic Movies. Included were Inspector Hornleigh (1939), Waterloo Road (1944), Scrooge (1951), Escapade (1955), School for Scoundrels (1960) and The Ruling Class (1972).

In his final movie, Sim is the wizened Earl (Peter O’Toole’s uncle) in the British television film Rogue Male (1976), a nifty remake of Geoffrey Household’s Man Hunt (1941). In the film, sportsman O’Toole, assisted by a lawyer (Harold Pinter) and hounded by a Nazi agent (John Standing), seeks to assassinate Adolf Hitler. An amused Sim—wrapped in a towel in a steam bath—calls O’Toole “Bobbity” and warns him about being “provocative.” After O’Toole leaves, he bores a friend by delightfully describing the failed Hitler escapade.

To many film critics, the highlight of Sim’s movie career was his sterling portrayal of Scrooge in the sparkling 1951 remake of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Some feel his stingy Scrooge surpassed masterly work by Reginald Owen in the stunning 1938 original, and in later versions with Albert Finney in 1970 and Jim Carrey in 2009.

But to me, the most memorable performances by the London stage-trained Sim, were the facetious Inspector Cockrill in Green for Danger and the droll assassin Harry Hawkins in The Green Man.

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continues to ignore at their peril. (Lisa Miller)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? PG-13 Every day for decades, Fred Rogers (1928-2003) hung up his blazer, took off his penny loafers, donned sweater and deck shoes and talked to children. And yes, he listened. Sometimes he spoke face to face, sometimes through sock puppets, prompting a dialogue that may have influenced millions of impressionable viewers. But how? Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a fascinating and moving documentary constructed from interviews, archival TV footage and imaginative animation as it explores the story behind the long-running children’s TV show, “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.” It was a place where difficult issues were presented to children, but where the answer to every question was love. Rogers would certainly be saddened by the present-day society of gridlock, irrational rage, uncomprehending idiocy and bullying from the presidential bully pulpit. (David Luhrssen) Alastair Sim

In Green for Danger, a fedora-wearing Sim arrives at a rural British emergency hospital in World War II to investigate the mysterious operating-table death of a postman during attacks

by German V-1 rockets. Happily brandishing his Scotland Yard authority, Sim’s Inspector Cockrill suspects the death was murder. As he throws his weight around to prove his theory, he incurs the wrath of the doctors and nurses, including noted actors Trevor Howard and Rosamund John.

After yet another murder, Sim discovers the devious method in a stirring finale, implicating one of the nurses. But he accidentally helps cause her death by stopping her from administering an antidote to a poison pill she took. As a deflated Sim departs, he scurries for cover at the sound of an incoming rocket stumbling over his own feet.

In The Green Man, Sim’s docile Harry Hawkins lives a double-life as a middle-age watchmaker and freelance assassin. Contracted to blow-up a cabinet minister (Raymond Huntley), Sim trails him to the nondescript, countryside Green Man hotel, where he was spending an illicit weekend with a young, female typist.

Hiding a bomb in a small radio, Sim charms and kills time at the bar with a female musical trio. His plot is uncovered by a vacuum cleaner salesman (George Cole), and friend (Jill Adams). Unable to oust the guests—including a befuddled Terry-Thomas—Cole tosses the radio out a window to explode.

Meanwhile, Sim escapes in a car driven by a confederate, only to crash into an oncoming police car, ending his colorful career. And The Green Man lives on.

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] n “The Invaders: The Complete Series”

Long before “The X-Files,” the 1967-’68 series “The Invaders” warned of alien conspiracies. Out now on a 12-DVD set, it features the adventures of protagonist David Vincent, an architect who witnesses a UFO landing on his way home late one night. Rather than keep the sighting to himself, he goes to the police and when the skeptical cops refuse to believe him, he continues to poke around and raise a stink. The aliens—who look almost human—are annoyed. They want Vincent dead.

“The Invaders” was filmed in color and the directors used color and sound as effective low-budget special effects. With no wasted moments, the show maintained forward motion and tension within its terse framework. Since the aliens could be anywhere and everyone, and since some humans have thrown in with them, Vincent is forever on his guard as he tries to thwart them. Paranoia is the reigning emotion.

n La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker)

It’s unfashionable nowadays to speak of an artist and his muse, but that’s the theme of the 1991 film La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker). Director Jacques Rivette adapted an Honoré de Balzac story and filmed it in gorgeous European art-house style with splendid settings and smart conversation. Noiseuse is about the fumbling process of art and inspiration but also about love curdled into need and successful marriage as an armistice between sides.

n The Two of Us

Claude Berri became known for ’80s art-house hit Manon of the Spring, but emerged out of the French New Wave. One of his greatest early films, The Two of Us (1967), has a bit of New Wave irony with a lot more humanity. Berri’s story of a Jewish boy hiding in occupied France is emotionally authentic, and his sympathy encompasses the grumpy bigot who takes him in and even the plight of animals in wartime.

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BOOK|REVIEW

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX), BY ELIZA GRISWOLD The dog died mysteriously. People came down with headaches, stomach aches, burning throats and eyes. The new factor in their economically depressed Pennsylvania town was fracking, pushed by an arm-twisting, bullying energy company from Texas. And some residents tried to fight, their struggle recorded in sober prose by The New Yorker’s Eliza Griswold.

Ranged against them were unsympathetic courts and regulators, along with the usual cast of internet trolls and poison pens. Griswold worked for seven years covering this story and her familiarity with the principal victims is evident. (David Luhrssen)

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS),

BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, EDITED BY JAMES MILLER

Most of what we know about many of the ancient Greek thinkers who laid the groundwork for our attempts to understand reality came from a book written circa 200 CE, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. The author, Diogenes Laertius, was an untrustworthy biographer by modern standards, a gossip columnist who recorded whatever he heard from whatever source, albeit making clear that the accounts he assembled were often contradictory. The beautifully produced new translation includes artwork inspired by those philosophers over many centuries and cultures plus a brace of essays describing Laertius’ influence on how we think about the thinkers. To contemporary eyes, Eminent Philosophers is surprisingly unstuffy— a far more readable gateway to philosophy than most philosophy treatises (David Luhrssen) SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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‘Reaper at the Gates’ Author Comes to Milwaukee

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::BY JENNI HERRICK

ans of Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes book series already know just how brutal the Martial Empire can be. In the first two bestselling books in the planned quartet (An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night), readers were introduced to a high-fantasy world based on ancient Roman times that is filled with gritty warmongering tyrants, complex evil villains, and brave slaves and soldiers fighting for their families.

The highly anticipated third installment, A Reaper at the Gates, takes us deeper into the harrowing, haunting lands and continues the epic tale that first introduced readers to Helene, Laia and Elias, ordinary citizens who, since the early days of the story, have increasingly maneuvered themselves into dangerous positions to challenge the mighty Empire itself. In A Reaper at the Gates, war is looming ever closer, but so are other dangerous threats, from the growing power of the ruthless Commandant to the machinations of the Nightbringer.

All across the Empire, characters are preparing for the ultimate showdown. Like the previous books in the series, A Reaper at the Gates is jam-packed with action and unexpected twists that are as captivating as the characters themselves.

Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave desert and graduated from UCLA. Before becoming a New York Times bestselling young-adult author, Tahir worked for The Washington Post. She currently makes her home in the San Francisco Bay area but will be in Milwaukee for an appearance at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 22. This event is free but registration is required.

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June 21: Pride Night with the Brewers at Miller Park Stadium (1 Brewers Way): Are you a pitcher or a catcher? The Milwaukee Gay Sports Network paired up with the Milwaukee Brewers for this special Pride Night. The fun starts with a 5:30 p.m. tailgate (at the stadium’s The Brew Crew Bar) before the 7:10 p.m. game. Visit eventbrite.com for tickets that range in price from $10 to $55. Batter up!

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Getting Ripped (On) Dear Ruthie, I moved my girlfriend in four months ago.

All was going well until she started drinking.

Now she gets drunk at least once per week if not more often. When she’s inebriated, she makes comments to me about my weight and what she calls my “laziness” because I don’t exercise.

This hurts me very much.

In the morning, I tell her about how she made me feel and she apologizes. She says she doesn’t remember and promises not to do it again but it happens again and again. I love her, but this is not looking good for us, is it?

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Dear Sue, Sorry to say, Sue, but you’re correct in thinking this doesn’t look good. Your girlfriend’s drinking and verbal abuse are not cool. You deserve better! I’m not about to say your honey is an alcoholic but her drinking certainly seems like an issue she needs to address with a therapist. That said, if this is indeed a relationship you’d like to see grow, I’d suggest seeing a couple’s counselor, too.

If she refuses to get help, I’d ask her to move out, giving you both time to sort through your emotions, needs and expectations of one another.

June 22: TGIF Party at Jimmy’s Island Grill & Iguana Bar (2303 N. Mayfair Road): The team at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center hosts this monthly 5:30-7:30 p.m. happy hour. The no-RSVP event is open to those over 21, and free to everyone looking to meet friendly faces, network and kickstart the weekend.

June 22: Absolut 90s Party at D.I.X. Milwaukee (739 S. First St.): Bust out your fanny pack and your best dance moves because it’s hammer time! Turn back the clock and celebrate the ’90s with music, trivia, Absolut drink specials and more. Don’t miss the costume contest and two drag shows during the 10 p.m. party.

June 23: Eric Peterson’s Big Gay Sendoff at Woody’s (1579 S. Second St.): From Cream City Foundation to SSBL and MGSN sports leagues, Eric Peterson has contributed much to the LGBTQ community in Milwaukee. Unfortunately, Mr. Congeniality is moving away for bigger and better opportunities. Swing by this 6-11 p.m. sendoff that’ll be loaded with laughs, memories and fun. (And maybe even a little karaoke!)

June 24: Lesbian Pop-Up Bar at Milwaukee Ale House/Hopside (233 N. Water St.): Feeling blue over the lack of women’s bars in the city? Turn those frowns upside down! These monthly pop-up bars offer women the chance to mix and mingle in a safe and secure (and fun) spot. The ladies-only meet-up switches gears this month with an 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. brunch.

June 24: Sangria Fest at Hotel Madrid (600 S. Sixth St.): Yes, you read that correctly. Sangria....fest! Try the red, white or surprise sangrias from local mixologists and order up a few fiery bites from the hotel restaurant. Enjoy the 3-6 p.m. event after you pick up your $25 ticket at exploretock.com/hotelmadridmke.

June 24: Rooftop Pre-Demolition Tea Dance at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Everyone’s favorite blonde is getting a facelift! A new rooftop paradise is in store for the burger joint, but not without a tea dance to see the old roof off first. Enjoy individual pitchers of Sweet Tea Lemonade, two bars, a DJ and dancing during the 4-8 p.m. rooftop party.

June 26: Adult Swim on the Green at Veterans Park (1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive): The craziness of the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim rolls into Milwaukee with this insane night of fun, frolic and, well, Adult-Swim-ness. The live experience includes a beer/wine garden, games and activities hosted by comedian Zack Fox and sneak peeks at new Adult Swim programs. Sorry kids, but this party is only open to those over 18.

June 27: Opening Day of Summerfest at Summerfest Grounds (200 N. Harbor Drive): Need I say more, folks? The biggest celebration of music is back for its muchanticipated annual appearance. Visit summerfest.com for tickets, concert lineups and more regarding the city’s biggest bash that runs through July 8.

Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com and follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie.

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On LGBTQ Pride and Community ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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ere we are in the midst of Pride Month, our commemoration of that moment when, on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, drag queens, lesbians and gays, largely of color, rebelled against straight oppression. I’m proud of that and of being gay.

Someone recently asked me what it was like growing up gay in Connecticut. My answer probably disappointed them. I didn’t have the trauma of some. I had a partnered gay uncle, my mother was a big band singer from New York City whose only real criteria in judging a person was whether they could carry a tune, and I attended a small Catholic, all-male school with none of the obligatory, pubescent sexual jockeying I might have experienced in a large co-ed public school.

Forced or enforced heterosexual conformity wasn’t really a part of my life until coming to Milwaukee to go to college. By that point, I had pretty much figured things out but straightness was still the pervading tone (I even dated girls). My first experiences of specific animus towards my orientation were those fag jokes in the dorm. But, it really didn’t matter, although it did awaken me to certain realities.

In fact, now that I think of it, although a lot has improved for LGBTQs since then, that pervading tone still persists—like when people propose a Straight Pride Month, as if

they deserve it. It’s based in that same mindset as the argument for White History Month to counter Black History Month. What they fail to recognize, perhaps because they are immersed in it, is, like White History, Straight Pride is a 24/7 frenzied bacchanal in all its incessant and crass monotony. Whether in the ennui of straight sexual innuendo on TV sitcoms, in political discourse, or in the nude “art” of the First Lady herself (with a nod to lesbian love for the titillation of straight guys), the force-fed pap is unrelenting.

And then there’s the straight-washing and straight-’splaining LGBTQ people endure as a quotidian matter of course. When I wrote that French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte was likely gay, a straight colleague reacted with “I’m not buying it.” Another chimed in, “He was maaar-ried.” Well, no, he wasn’t married.

Besides, even if he had been, that would have at best been that conformity issue I mentioned.

The thing is, neither offered any real proof of their premise other than the presumption that because their world is essentially straight, any accomplished individual must necessarily be so as well.

Back in 2009 when Milwaukee’s SSBL hosted the gay softball world series, there was a bit of gushing local press about it. In response, some readers’ commentaries were not “buying” that, either. One, I recall, went, “If they want equality, why do they need their own world series?” Silly straight people…it’s not about that sort of equality (which sounds more like assimilation to the point of surrendering LGBTQ identity because it makes straight folks more comfortable). Maybe it’s because, like having an Italian Community Center or a Methodist Church, we just enjoy our own company, culture and commonality... birds of a feather, and all. Besides, we’re more fun. Of course, everybody is welcome to our table, proudly.

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Grizzly Bear Dial Back the Tension ::BY BILL FORMAN ike Wilco and Grandaddy before them, Grizzly Bear have had to get used to the “American Radiohead” label. It was pretty much unavoidable, especially after the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band was chosen as opening act for Radiohead’s 2008 North American tour, during which guitarist Jonny Greenwood told fans that Grizzly Bear was his favorite band in the world.

Grizzly Bear’s most recent album, Painted Ruins, is unlikely to change all that. Ed Droste’s ethereal vocals and Daniel Rossen’s echo-laden guitar remain at the center of the band’s orchestral-pop sound, and there are still enough otherworldly synthesizers, electronic beats and complex arrangements to keep the band’s art-rock reputation alive and twitching.

Even so, it’s worth remembering that Radiohead was a pop band that did its best to deconstruct that role as time went on.

Grizzly Bear, on the other hand, appear to be following the opposite trajectory, with Painted Ruins being arguably their most accessible album to date.

“I think we’ve always wanted, in theory, for the music to have less moving parts,” said bassist and multiinstrumentalist Chris Taylor, who has also produced all of the band’s studio albums. “That’s the ideal; it’s just hard for us to get that to work. As you’ve heard, we like to layer stuff quite a lot.”

But much of that was before recording Painted Ruins songs like “Cut-Out,” a catchy mid-’60s-sounding psych-pop number that Taylor says barely made it onto the album. While Grizzly Bear’s po-faced fans can take comfort in the song’s opening line (“You are like an invading spore, growing inside of me”), the song’s musical simplicity initially made the band uneasy.

“I remember us thinking, ‘Does this song stand up to the other ones on the record?’ Because it just felt so minimal,” Taylor said. “It was like, ‘Are we overlooking something?’ But it was also sort of refreshing, I guess, and people seem to have taken to it.”

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The track may also be an indicator of where the band’s sound is heading after its comparatively complicated predecessor. “Shields had a lot of very carefully done arrangements,” Taylor said of the 2013 album, “which is really cool. But I feel like this is a little closer to how we play live, with a bit more of a band feeling and less kind of tense arrangements.”

Grizzly Bear first developed their orchestral-pop sound in a Brooklyn church that they converted into a studio. It was the mid-2000s. Taylor had already left what would turn out to be his last day job, working in a coffee shop alongside TV On The Radio’s Kip Malone and David Sitek, and Grizzly Bear was part of a closely knit Brooklyn scene that included bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bear in Heaven and Liars.

“It’s like, what else are you going to do when you’re 23?” said Taylor with a laugh. “It was pretty special, going out to see what your friend’s band is doing and how they’re sounding. It’s like growing up together in a way. I feel lucky to have been in that place at that time.”

Meanwhile, back in church, the band recorded its 2009 breakthrough album, Veckatimest, which quickly propelled them into the alt-rock Top 10. “We’d record in the balcony where the choir would be,” Taylor said,

“and it was always magical. I’m not Christian by any means, but yeah, a space like that is inspiring and sacred, even if it doesn’t mean anything to you religiously. It has a sort of spiritual kind of gravity to it.”

It was also there that Taylor recorded his solo project, CANT, and produced albums by artists like Blood Orange until he finally closed up shop a few years ago.

“So much of my career happened in that church,” said the musician, who has since relocated to Los Angeles, where Droste and drummer Christopher Bear also now live. “I remember carrying the last box out and getting super teary-eyed,” he said.

Still, it all paid off. Painted Ruins is the kind of album that invites listeners to drop what they’re doing, take a seat, and spend the next 48 minutes staring at the sound coming out of the speakers. “I love the idea of someone listening to the album like that,” said Taylor, who studied jazz at New York University Grizzly Bear back when the only pop Summerfest’s band he listened to Briggs & Stratton was, according to a SeBig Backyard attle Times interview, June 27, 10 p.m.

Radiohead.

“I bought a nice copy of [the Miles Davis album] Sketches of Spain on vinyl, and when I listened to it, my mind was blown once again. It was transcendent,” Taylor said, “and the idea of someone listening to our album and taking it all in like that—like you say, looking at the speakers—is really nice.”

Grizzly Bear plays Summerfest’s Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard, Wednesday, June 27, at 10 p.m.

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British New Wave Veterans Midge Ure and Paul Young Shared the Stage ::BY THOMAS MICHALSKI

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hile neither may have achieved the same kind of massive stateside success that some of their U.K. contemporaries enjoyed during the 1980s, Midge Ure and Paul Young both had a sizeable impact on the sort of sounds coming out of English new wave, their respective strings of hit singles making them one-time household names across the pond.

The pair have more in common than a time and place, however. Both demonstrate an easygoing flair for collaboration that led them to share the studio with a surprisingly diverse list of artists, resulting not only in plenty of great

songs, but also some rather fascinating behindthe-scenes stories. Thankfully, both were on full display as the duo shared the Shank Hall stage Sunday night, much to the delight of their many diehard fans.

Though technically co-headliners, Ure kicked things off, leading his backing band through a crowd-pleasing, discography-spanning set. This, of course, touched on the best of what Ure called the dark old days of Ultravox, such as “I Remember (Death in the Afternoon),” through to his Visage work with a more muscular take on their sleek synthpop classic, “Fade to Grey,” and on to his solo material—most memorably via a full-throated rendition of “If I Was” from his 1985 debut, The Gift.

While the old hits played best with a nostalgiac crowd, new songs, top among them “Become,” off his latest original album, Fragile, also got ample attention; in fact, one of the few things of note not touched on was his somewhat incongruous stint with Thin Lizzy (a mistake that would soon be rectified).

Paul Young’s smooth, synthesized take on blue-eyed soul hasn’t aged as well as Ure’s punk-tinged new romanticism, and his soughtafter voice seems a tad the worse for wear, but there was certainly no lack of heart as he belted out his hits to the back of the club. Known for eclectic covers as much as his originals, Young’s raspy baritone lent obligatory tunes some muchneeded life and really shined during a rendition of Ann Peebles’ stone-cold funk classic, “Slipped, Tripped and Fell in Love” (as reimaged by famed dance producer Arthur Baker), along with his own starkly political “No Parlez.”

Together, Young and Ure’s sets were each satisfying, but the collective closing jam on “The Boys are Back in Town” sealed the deal, capping off an interesting night with two often under-appreciated artists.

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Surgeons in Heat Make the Most of Odd Circumstances ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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s bandleader Johnathon Mayer tells it, Surgeons in Heat recorded their new album, Bored Immortals, almost in reverse.

The band began tracking the record with producer Josh Evert at Silver City Studios before the studio was situated in its current Washington Heights location, and because of permitting issues, they had to keep the noise to a bare minimum. “So, we tracked the whole record live without drums and without our guitar amps, then we did the bass, guitar and keyboards together and just started overdubbing,” Mayer says. “We just kind of did it all backward. Usually bands record the drums first and tracks everything else live together.”

Though he admits those first few weeks of recording were strange—“We’re a rock band so it’s a little weird to be like, ‘OK, everybody put on your headphones,’” he says—Mayer was less flummoxed by the situation than most musicians might be. Since he began Surgeons in Heat nearly a decade ago, he’s been making the most of whatever the world has thrown at the band, be it unorthodox studio arrangements or a revolving door lineup. He’s the lone constant member in the group, which is currently rounded out by bassist Ryan Reeve, keyboardist Bradley Kruse and their new drummer, Sam Reitman—the latter also of Midnight Reruns.

The band has gone through so many drummers over the years that Mayer can’t even count them off the top of his head. All of that suggests drama, but Mayer says that isn’t the case. Band members simply move on with their lives. “Usually, they just leave because they can’t make it work with their other commitments or aren’t able to tour,” Mayer says. “It’s OK. There’s no reason to get upset about someone not wanting to play in your band. Nobody’s ever going to be as passionate about your songs as you are.”

And so, partly out of necessity, Surgeons in Heat has gradually become a much weirder, more studio-minded project than the garagy

power-pop group they originally introduced themselves as. More so than its predecessors, Bored Immortals takes advantage of guest musicians. In addition to producing, Evert lent some drums, vocals and keyboards. Vincent Kircher of Jaill, whose currently lineup also includes Evert and Mayer, contributed some glockenspiel. Sean Hirthe of Paper Holland and Soul Low played saxophone.

The result is a heavily tinkered, endearingly odd, pop-rock record, filled with nods to jazz, R&B, prog and yacht rock. One beat-heavy standout, “In My Sight,” plays like a remix of a water-warped Hall & Oates 45. Even though the audio fidelity can vary wildly from song to song, somehow it all hangs together.

Mayer says there was a part of him that was worried whether the band’s drumless early sessions for the record would even be usable. “In the back of my mind it was like, ‘Are we going to have to re-track this or start over?’” he says.

“But it ended up working great. Trying out that process led me to try new ideas. I even started taking some of the demos that I Surgeons had and would inin Heat corporated into what we were recording.

Cactus Club It seemed like it Friday, would be a limitaJune 29, 9 p.m. tion at first, but eventually it was like, ‘I can bring anything of any audio fidelity into this studio.’ If I didn’t like something we’d been working on at home, I could bring it in and reconstruct it. There was just this total freedom to explore all these different sounds.”

Bored Immortals is out Friday, June 22, via Chicago’s Maximum Pelt Records. Surgeons in Heat play an LP release show with Jaill, Cafe Racer and Ravi/Lola on Friday, June 29, at 9 p.m. at Cactus Club.

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Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Beulah Brinton House, Make Music Day Summer Solstice Concerts & Bay View Potluck Picnic: David HB Drake (4pm), Wilderland (4:30pm), Four Winds Clarinet Quartet (6pm), Dangerous Folk (7pm) Bilda’s Friess Lake Pub, Maple Road Blues Band (6pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Bill Anderson w/Jo Walston & Dean Schlabowske (8pm); DJ: (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Ginni & JoAnna Marie (6pm) Colectivo Coffee (Lakefront), Colectivo’s Música del Lago Company Brewing, King Eye & The Squirts w/A Deer A Horse & El Wrongo County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Frank’s Power Plant, Pope Paul & The Illegals w/Midnight Liedtke Jazz Estate, Jeannine Rivers Trio Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), The People Brothers Band (6pm) John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series on the City Green: Boogát w/Cold Soda Club (6pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Open Jam: Roadhouse Rave Up Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Matty’s Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Smokin’ Live & Local Newport Shores (Port Washington), The Grovelers (12pm) O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Blue Ribbon Comedy Show Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Marcell Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (12pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show The Back Room at Colectivo, Trout Steak Revival The Bay Restaurant, Sherwood Alper & Jeff Stoll on Stage The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Latin Sessions: Cecilio Negron Jr. Turner Hall Ballroom, Betty Who w/Jaira Burns Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic Village Hall Park (Waterford), Waterford River Rhythms: Altered Five Blues Band (6:30pm)

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Danny Miller Band American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Tomm Lehnigk (6:30pm) American Serb Hall, Dinner & Some Music w/Bobby Way (5pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee , Voodoohoney Brass Band Arriba Mexican Restaurant (Butler), The B Side Band Art*Bar, Erisa Rei Kopp Bender Park, Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Cactus Club, Sweet Knives w/Craig Brown Band, Space Raft & Red Stuff Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Shawn Butzin Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Voot Warnings w/Chain Drive (8pm); DJ: Fazio (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Colectivo Coffee (Lakefront), Friday Nite Music Series ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Rap For A Stack: MKE Edition County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Veronica & Doug Duo Frank’s Power Plant, Symptoms w/Size 5s, Final Ultimate & Beaker Froemming Park, Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Henry Maier Festival Park, Diplo Historic Turner Hall, Aunty Donna: Big Boys Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Steve Einerson Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Jay Anderson Trio (11:30pm) Konkel Park, Rev. Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys w/ Westside Andy Kuhtz General Store (Oconomowoc), Maple Road Blues Band SHEPHERD EXPRESS

Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Lyric Advisory Board CD release w/SistaStrings, B~Free & Quinten Farr Mamie’s, Harvey Westmoreland Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), We Killed the Lion w/Magnetic Mind & High Gallows Monument Square (Racine), Music on the Monument: Free Time (11:30am) Potawatomi Carter Casino and Hotel, Larry Lynne Band Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Keith Pulvermacher (9pm); In the Fire Pit: Joe 2.0 (9pm) Rave / Eagles Club, The Horrors (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Barenaked Ladies w/Better Than Ezra & KT Tunstall Shank Hall, Griffin House The Back Room at Colectivo, David Ramirez The Blind Horse Restaurant & Winery, Joe Kadlec (5pm) The Landing at Hoyt Park, Swing & A Miss (5pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Tracy Hannemann Quartet (6:30pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Aunty Donna Up & Under Pub, Audio is Rehab Urban Ecology Center - Riverside Park, Family Power Music Presents: Eric Blowtorch and the Welders, J-Scribe The Journeyman & Tiffany “Covergirl” Miller (all-ages, 6pm) Wisconsin State Fair Park, Greek Fest: 4 on the Floor

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

7 Mile Fair (Caledonia), Billy Flynn (12pm) Anodyne Coffee (Walker’s Point), Hello Death album release show w/Liv Mueller & Mark Waldoch Art*Bar, Mike Felton Bender Park, MC Smith & John Minard (5pm) Bender Park, Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Cactus Club, Sex Scenes & Doubletruck w/Detenzione & Florida Brothers Band Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), John Stano w/Kaia Fowler Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Loud Library w/Naomi Marie & Chris Haise Band (8pm); DJ: Quixotic Control (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Faithless Followers single & music video release party w/Lotus Fankh and band, & DJ DRiPSweat East Side Summer Solstice Music Festival (E. North Ave.), EAST STAGE: School of Rock (1pm), Paper Holland (2:30pm), Bo and Airo (4pm), Sat. Night Duets (5:30pm), Greatest Lakes (7pm), Jaill (8:30pm), Rusty Pelicans (10pm) East Side Summer Solstice Music Festival (E. North Ave.), WEST STAGE: Negative Positive (1:30pm), Soulfoot Mombits (2:45pm), Vincent Van Great (5:30pm), B~Free (7pm), Kal Bergendal Project (8:30pm), Abby Jeanne (9:30pm) East Side Summer Solstice Music Festival (E. North Ave.), MURRAY STAGE: Paladino (12:30pm), Devil Met Contention (1:15pm), Kevin Hayden Project (2:30pm), Amanda Huff (4pm), Kyle Feerick (5:30pm), Chicken Wire Empire (7pm), Space Raft (8:30pm), The Young Revelators (10pm) Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Frank’s Power Plant, Ghost Cuts w/We Killed The Lion, The Snarlz & The Stallones Froemming Park, Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub (Downtown), Jackie Brown Jazz Estate, Choir Fight Returns (8pm), Late Night Session: Alec Aldred Quartet (11:30pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Cigarpalooza w/ The Incorruptibles Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Bill Camplin Band Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), The November Criminals Miramar Theatre, Broken w/URBAN Assault, Si-Dog/Rollin & MC Vision (ages 18-plus, 8pm) Monument Square (Racine), Saturday Sounds on the Square: High Stakes Band (2pm) Old German Beer Hall, Steve Meisner Band On the Bayou, Get Lit Showcase: RNB Edition Pewaukee Beach, The Ricochettes (2pm) Pizzeria Piccola, Texas Dave Trio (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Kevin Kennedy is Special K (9pm), In the Fire Pit: The Kingfish Band (9pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Jake Paul w/Team 10 (all-ages, 7:30pm)

::ALBUMS Riverside Theater, Tim Allen The Back Room at Colectivo, Erin Rae The Cheel (Thiensville), Sweet Sheiks The Packing House Restaurant, Joe Jordan & The Soul Trio (6:30pm) The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Superfly (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Groove Gun Wisconsin State Fair Park, Greek Fest: Liam Ford (1pm), Miller Rhythm & Brews Revue (7pm)

SUNDAY, JUNE 24

7 Mile Fair (Caledonia), Billy Flynn (12pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Cactus Club, eMC w/Adi Armour, Pearl Gates, Kareem City & host DJ Bizzon Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Derek Pritzl and Friends w/Curtis McMurtry (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) Cubanitas (Downtown), Cuban Fest w/Nabori, Clave y Afinque, DJ RICK & Salsabrositas (12pm) Dugout 54, SheRocks Wisconsin Singer-Songwriter Session (12pm) Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Gingerz Sportz Pub and Grill, Summer Patio Sessions: Bockenplautz (2pm) Hops & Leisure (Oconomowoc), Full Band Open Jam w/host Blues Addiction (6pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Kenny Todd (3pm) Lions Legend Park (Franklin), Larry Lynne Band (2pm) Miramar Theatre, Afton Shows Presents: The Rogue Electrics, Delaine, Tru West, King Courteen & The Waley Brown (all-ages, 6:45pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Transistor Radio (4pm) St. Bernadette Parish, Coffee House Music Tent: Tom & Barb Webber, Heather Styka, Curt Joa, John Higgins, Shannon Govern & Joe DeLucia (12pm) Sugar Maple, Paal Nilssen-Love’s Large Unit The Packing House Restaurant, Jazz Unlimited Jazz Jam: Sherwood Alper Quartet w/Jeff Stoll (1pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Colin Jost Wisconsin State Fair Park, Greek Fest: Vintage Groove (1pm)

MONDAY, JUNE 25

Jazz Estate, Poetry Night w/Bryon Cherry & Isaiah Joshua Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Jacob Larsen (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John & Dave Wacker Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes - Blues The Astor Cafe & Pub, The Chris Hanson Band w/Robin Pluer (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/host The Original Darryl Hill Cactus Club, Bodega w/Dogs in Ecstasy & Dirty Dancing Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Milwaukee American Legion Band (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Kim’s Lakeside (Pewaukee), Full Band Open Jam w/host Big Murff & the Divers Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Pat Stone & The Dirty Boots w/The Verdict Band & SilverFoxxx Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Jim Yorgan Sextet Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm, all-ages) Parkside 23, Andrew Gelles (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (12pm) The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Neal Chandek B-day Bash w/the Transfer House Band

Neil Young

Roxy – Tonight’s the Night Live (REPRISE) The drug overdose deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry hit Neil Young hard. Young’s best album, Tonight’s the Night, served as a musical wake for them.

Recorded in 1973 as a follow up to Harvest (which included the number one hit “Heart of Gold”), Tonight’s the Night was the opposite of easy listening and was shelved until 1975. But before that decision was made Young and his band, provisionally titled The Santa Monica Flyers, took the stage for three nights in September of 1973 to christen the 500-seat Roxy nightclub in Hollywood. Opening acts were Graham Nash and Cheech & Chong.

As a companion piece to its studio namesake, Tonight’s the Night Live shows how deeply the masterful Young and his band dug into this material, which the audience is hearing for the first time. (Young would similarly confound his fans debuting new songs on subsequent tours for his albums Times Fades Away and Greendale.)

Opening and closing with the title tune, the music veers from elastic to claustrophobic. Some tunes offer attempts at sun-dappled reverie (“Mellow My Mind,”“New Mama”) but Young is at his best at his weariest (“World On A String,” “Albuquerque”). While he goes so far as to dedicate “Roll Another Number For the Road” to the policemen in the audience and David Geffen (with whom Young would later tangle in legal battles for “not sounding like Neil Young”), the masterpiece here is “Tired Eyes,” the audio vérité look at a drug deal gone wrong that asks: Well tell me more, tell me more, tell me more I mean was he a heavy doper or was he just a loser?

He was a friend of yours.

What do you mean, he had bullet holes in his mirrors?

Ever the contrarian, Young introduces the encore “Walk On” as an “old one.” It would not be released for another year.

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Makes Cents Variety Store

A TRIP IN TIME THROUGH TOYLAND

Off the Cuff with Makes Cents’ Charles Deau ::BY TEA KRULOS

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akes Cents Variety Store is located on the very outskirts of Milwaukee on Howard Avenue—cross the street and you’re in Greenfield. Walking through the aisles is a trip backward in time—the shelves will catch your eye with familiar faces if you were a toy consumer in the ’80s, ’90s or 2000s. You’ll find He-Man toys, old video games, Garbage Pail Kids, autographed pictures of wrestlers, Smurfs, Gremlins, Barbies, and old issues of Fangoria and Nintendo Power. It’s a trip down memory lane that’s brought good business for the store’s proprietor, Charles Deau, who buys and sells toys and memorabilia by the item or entire collection.

Just walking in here, I’m seeing things I haven’t seen since my childhood.

Absolutely, we get that all the time, people come in and relive their childhood right before your eyes. It’s a beautiful thing to watch everyone come in and geek out on the ’80s merch and the nostalgia of it. We get a lot of parents that come in and want to turn their kids on to simpler times gone by and the things they had.

Tell me more about the history and inspiration for the store.

I’ve worked in coin-operated amusements since I was 18, I earned my stripes in the professional industry and in my side times I’d go out and pick. I would go to flea markets and yard sales, get up early and hit maybe five sales before I got to work. I drove the truck for the company, so if I saw something—video games on a table—I’d pull over. Eventually going to work got to be a burden for me because I was doing better financially from my side jobs.

Tell me what item coming in through the door immediately has your attention?

Personally, I’m a huge wrestling fan, classic wrestling, if I see things from that original early ’80s era, whether it be toys, autographs, store promotionals, anything, that’s what gets me excited, I always thought I’d be a professional wrestler. Now I’m a retail store owner, but life has a way—I meet a lot of the guys, show them pictures of the store, they love that we have wrestling on the TV at the store every day.

What about financially? What sells well here? ’80s toys and video games. Boxed is probably five times what a loose one is, financially. So when we see collections of hundreds of games boxed, you could be talking about a down payment on a home or a car in full. You’re talking serious money—until the bubble bursts.

This market is like anything else, good bubble right now, but that bubble is swelling, and prices fluctuate. It’s almost like the video game stock market.

Why do people respond so strongly to these items?

The item is just a representation of that memory or time in their life, so when they see something, be it a cup from McDonald’s or a Dragon Ball figure, they remember. There’s always a story—you can see it in their face—we don’t know what it is until they tell us, but you see them stop, look, and they’re deep in thought, and they smile or get a little teary eyed. We kind of address each person differently: some we’re fun with, some we’re serious with.

Makes Cents Variety Store is located at 5027 W. Howard Ave. Learn more online by visiting makescentsvariety.com.

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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Kaidoku”

Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you won’t see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com 21 22 6

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99. Inactive 103. Spoken 104. Wetlands tree 105. Chassis 107. End of the quip 108. Indigenous Japanese people 109. Solar event 110. Not at all cool 111. Bladed weapon 112. Light meals 113. Knockoffs 114. Lists 115. Judge DOWN 1. Military title 2. Quote 3. Siesta 4. Not yet disputed 5. Conflagrant 6. Gray color 7. Bill 8. A state: Abbr.

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43. Bracket cousins 44. “Let’s Make — —” 45. Hot drink 47. Dessert choice 48. Trickery 52. Plait 53. Thread used in embroidery 55. Encircle 56. — meridiem 57. Genus of cats 60. Tries to capture 61. Weary

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93. Ark 94. Ohio’s lake 95. Genus of frogs 96. Jazz great 97. A state: Abbr.

98. River in Ireland 100. Uh-uh 101. First Nations people 102. Be abundant 106. Eureka!

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

Bites and Frights Solution: 24 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Fawn, a color 5. John Jacob — 10. Moved quickly 15. The incus, e.g.

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32. Looked 34. Signals 35. File a claim against 36. Guarantee 39. Raises 41. Budge not: 2 wds.

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::NEWS OF THE WEIRD

::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest you ignore the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champions. It would only distract you from your main assignment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a hero and champion yourself. Here are some tips to guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest self-image and explore the liberations that may be possible when you give yourself more credit. Tip #1: Finish outgrowing the old heroes and champions who’ve served you well. Tip #2: Forgive and forget the disappointing heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their own ideals. Tip #3: Exorcise your unwarranted admiration for mere celebrities who might have snookered you into thinking they’re heroes or champions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, even though it’s funny and I like funny ideas. Normally, I would regard such a negative assessment of the waterfall’s true nature, even in jest, to be unproductive and enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde’s declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise to meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stage magicians may seem to make a wine glass hover in mid-air, or transform salt into diamonds, or make doves materialize and fly out of their hands.

It’s all fake, of course—tricks performed by skilled illusionists. But here’s a twist on the old story: I suspect that for a few weeks, you will have the power to generate effects that may, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance to magic tricks—except that your magic will be real, not fake. And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks easy and natural. And the marvels you generate will, unlike the illusionists’, be authentic and useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to accentuate and brandish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran nature. In other words, be extreme in your moderation. Be pushy in your attempts to harmonize.

Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of your famous balancing act. I’ll offer you a further piece of advice, as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I were your mom, I’d nudge you out the door and say, “Go play outside for a while!” If I were your commanding officer, I’d award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best possible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts. Get out of the loop and into the open spaces that will refresh your eyes and heart.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sex education classes at some high schools employ a dramatic exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engaging in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control. Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around a 10-pound bag of flour. It’s a way for them to get a visceral approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the coming days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration or making a stronger commitment, you’ll be wise to undertake a dress rehearsal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Members of the Dull Men’s Club celebrate the ordinary.

“Glitz and glam aren’t worth the bother,” they declare. “Slow motion gets you there faster,” they pontificate. Showing no irony, they brag that they are “born to be mild.” I wouldn’t normally recommend becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourself with their principles might be healthy

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and smart. If you’re willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, make the Swedish term lagom your word of power. According to the Dull Men’s Club, it means “enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the Georgian language, shemomechama is a word that literally means “I ate the whole thing.”

It refers to what happens when you’re already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious that you can’t stop eating. I’m concerned you might soon be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of shemomechama. That’s why I’m giving you a warning to monitor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a good thing. Pleasurable and productive activities will serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please do not send me a lock of your hair or a special piece of your jewelry or a hundred dollar bill. I will gladly cast a love spell in your behalf without draining you of your hard-earned cash. The only condition I place on my free gift is that you agree to have me cast the love spell on you and you alone. After all, your love for yourself is what needs most work.

And your love for yourself is the primary magic that fuels your success in connecting with other people.

(Besides, it’s bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with another person’s will.) So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, demonstrate that you’re ready to receive my telepathic love spell by sending me your telepathic authorization.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have cosmic permission to enjoy extra helpings of waffles, crepes, pancakes and blintzes. Eating additional pastries and doughnuts is also encouraged.

Why? Because it’s high time for you to acquire more ballast. You need more gravitas and greater stability.

You can’t afford to be top-heavy; you must be hard to knock over. If you would prefer not to accomplish this noble goal by adding girth to your butt and gut, find an alternate way. Maybe you could put weights on your shoes and think very deep thoughts.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re slipping into the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing more robust. Your willingness to be taught and influenced and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, identify a subject you’d love to study, a skill you’d eagerly stretch yourself to master and an invigorating truth that would boost your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. Beckett wrote all of them in a two-year span during the late 1940s. During that time, he was virtually indigent. He and his companion Suzanne survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation may be.

Homework: Make a guess about where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing 10 years from today. Testify at freewillastrology.com.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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The Litigious Society

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f you’ve ordered a Quarter Pounder recently and specified “no cheese,” you may be interested in a $5 million class-action lawsuit brought against McDonald’s on Tuesday, May 8, by Cynthia Kissner of Broward County, Fla., and Leonard Werner of Miami-Dade. According to the Miami Herald, the two are angry that they’ve been paying for cheese even though they ordered their sandwiches without it. The lawsuit contends: “Customers continue to be overcharged for these products by being forced to pay for two slices of cheese, which they do not want, order or receive.” Also, Kissner and Werner, “have suffered injury as a result of their purchases because they were overcharged,” and “McDonald’s is being unjustly enriched by these practices.” While attorney Andrew Lavin admits the mobile app ordering option does offer a Quarter Pounder without cheese, he notes in-store customers have no such choice.

Oh, the Irony Charlotte Fox, 61, an accomplished mountain climber who summited Mount Everest in 1996, met an unlikely death on Thursday, May 24, when she fell down the hardwood stairs at her home in Telluride, Colo. Fox was part of the infamous 1996 Mount Everest expedition chronicled in Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, when eight climbers died. Friends referred to her fatal fall as “shocking,” according to The Aspen Times. Climbing partner Andrea Cutter said of the news: “It made me think, ‘Jeez, it’s just so wrong.’” Mount Everest—Earth’s highest mountain above sea level—is more than 29,000 feet tall.

Sore Loser In a bid to unseat his boss, Bon Homme County, S.D., deputy sheriff Mark Maggs thrashed incumbent sheriff Lenny Gramkow—who was seeking reelection—in the Tuesday, June 5, Republican primary by a vote of 878 to 331. So, Gramkow didn’t waste time: Less than a minute after the polls closed, he fired Maggs, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader

reported. “As of this moment, you are no longer an employee of Bon Homme County,” Maggs’ termination notice read. Maggs will not become sheriff until January 2019, but he’s confident the county commission “will stand with [his] family and insure that [they] will not be left hanging without an income or insurance.”

Pratt Falls Fall Flat Car salesman Brett Bland in League City, Texas, finally had enough and filed a lawsuit in May against his employer, AutoNation Acura Gulf Freeway, and Jeremy Pratt, a co-worker. Pratt, the suit alleges, engaged in “constant taunting, making extremely crass, vulgar and rude comments, and reinforced dominance over his subordinates by regularly entering their enclosed offices, intentionally passing gas and then laughing,” as well as “pinching and touching his male subordinates’ nipples.” KPRC-TV reported Pratt was fired, but that afterwards, AutoNation continued to allow Pratt to “loiter at the dealership” and continue harassing employees. The plaintiff, Bland, however, has been threatened with termination if he didn’t sell a minimum of eight vehicles a month. Bland is seeking damages and court costs.

How Do You Say “Yuck!” in Chinese?

In Beihai in southern China, an unnamed 51-year-old man had been experiencing nonstop nosebleeds for 10 days when his wife told him she saw something “peek” out of his nose. In June, Metro News reported, the man went to Beihai People’s Hospital, where Dr. Liu Xiong-Guang removed a slithery, severalinches-long leech from his nostril as a nurse filmed the procedure. The doctor said the leech might have entered the patient’s nose as he swam in a river.

Road Rage Number Two In a gross twist on road rage, Henry George Weaver, 69, of New Tripoli, Penn., ended an argument with another man on Friday, June 8, by defecating on him. According to Lehigh Valley Live, Pennsylvania state police reported that: “The accused and the victim got into a road rage argument, leading the accused to defecate on the victim,” but they did not disclose what started the argument or precisely how the offense occurred. Weaver was charged with harassment. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Let’s Have One More ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? And because it’s that time of year, again I’m reminded that the only thing people want to read are the directions on a can of bug spray, and they do so with the attention span of a United States president who lost a popular vote by a boatload. So I’m declaring my independence from delivering a full-blown essay this week, what the fock.

Besides, you’re probably too busy keeping up with the World Cup soccer to bother with anything I’ve got to say. Me? No way, José. Now, if they could use more balls than just one, like maybe four or five; then maybe they’d have a focking score you could write home about and I might warm up to the game.

I’ve always maintained that if they want the American viewer to watch the TV soccer, they ought to add a little mystery and danger, say, before every match they plant a landmine somewheres on the field. Now maybe somebody’d step on it, and maybe not. But they’d sure have my attention, yes sir.

And gosh darn and damn it, just last week as I was handing out kudos to a couple, three readers for sending my way encouraging words, I plum forgot a nice note from reader David S. who enjoyed a quote I used by way of the great Groucho Marx—a quote the reader had once used in a song he had written, I kid you not.

So David, here’s a pair of Groucho quotes perhaps

for future songs you got percolating: “I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.” Ba-ding!

And here’s one where Groucho, who left us in 1977, whips out his crystal ball and assays the 2016 presidential election result: “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

Oh Julius, how I miss you.

OK, one more: “I intend to live forever, or die trying.” Yes sir, that’s the spirit. Ba-ding-ding-ding.

And about this immigration brouhaha hullabaloo here in the Amber Waves of Grain, it surely appears to me that God must be clean out of grace for the shedding on thee, what the fock. Allow me to quote an old proverb from sunny Spain: “A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is under ground.”

And this: Who better to quote than my favorite ancient Greek philosopher, Anonymous? “More important than where you are from is where you are going”—which, for the politically fanaticized ass-hat kingpin white-collar criminals in this presidential “administration” I pray would be straight to hell and not soon enough, you betcha.

Hey, and speaking of Greece, don’t forget about Greek Fest out at State Fair Park this weekend. Geia sou! Yeah yeah, the Greeks have been having a hard time of it lately, but I’ll tell you one thing: When it comes to trend setting, those ancient Greeks from the fossil age had it down stone cold. Every single one of their top celebrities were known by one name only, as some of ours are today in the modern times—take Euripides for example, one of their hot-shot playwrighter guys from the theater, sort of the David Mamet-type of his day but without all the dirty focking language.

But why I think of him as we round that middlecorner of June with this year’s Father’s Day recently past, is that ol’ ’Rip once wrote something I can’t get out of my head: The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Yeah, focking swell. Hey, there’s a sentiment bound to make a guy or gal rush right out on any given Father’s Day to go buy a goddamn necktie or gift-wrapped box of pipe cleaners for the old gent who wears the pants in the family, ain’a? And to think Eurip’ wrote that before the trouser was even discovered. What a world.

Although it is true what they say—that you can pick your friends but not your family (which by the way, blows big-time)—I truly hope that what Euripides

wrote more than 2,400 years back ain’t necessarily so.

Let us not forget that a lot of the science findings those methuselah Greeks invented were later to be proved as nothing but a steaming pile of so much bull-shish kebab.

But if the old Greek’s words are true, then you got to do your best to think that maybe it’s not your old man’s fault you are as unwittingly screwed up as he is—so blame it instead on the gods for the world going to hell in a handbasket but good, generation after generation after generation. After all, chances are pretty damn good pop’s a heck of a wreck through good intentions only, what the fock.

Anything’s possible, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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