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I am so glad you asked. As the CEO of the credit union that works with many small business owners and has provided more Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in the state of Wisconsin than any other credit union for six years in a row,* I am excited to address this. Congratulations on your business and on saving to start it! Keep saving as you develop your idea and business plan. As part of the process, entrepreneurs often share their ideas with family or friends willing to provide funds from crowd-sourcing or directly; most start-ups are initially funded this way. These funds are important because lenders want to know that you have a financial stake in your business’s success. Not having enough capital is the number one reason businesses fail. It’s key to have a couple years of savings to cover cash flow, so you can make the right spending decisions along the way. Other key points to remember when approaching your financial institution:

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three years of personal federal tax returns and a personal financial statement. And there may be a few SBA forms as well. I strongly recommend working with groups like the UW Small Business Development Center, Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC) or SCORE. These organizations provide technical assistance, and offer classes and consultants/mentors whose focus is to support business planning and startup business success. They’re good at what they do, and they will help you prepare a complete business plan to have available for your visit with a lender. Summit can help you prepare for your business launch and give you the knowledge and tools you need before, during and after you make your business dream a reality. Best wishes in your business venture! *

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

Scott Walker’s Gift to the One Percent HOW TAX CREDITS ARE COSTING WISCONSIN MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS ::LBY ELIZABETH ELVING

n 2011, at the tail end of deliberations on the first budget of Scott Walker’s administration, lawmakers added something new: a credit that would minimize income taxes in two of the state’s biggest industries. The Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit (MAC) was passed without receiving a public hearing and phased in over the next several years, reaching its top rate of 7.5% in 2016. Now fully in eﬀect, it all but eliminates tax liability on qualifying income for individuals and corporations in those sectors. The MAC is expected to cost the state more than $1.4 billion by the middle of 2019. In theory, this credit stimulates economic growth by encouraging businesses to build in Wisconsin. In practice, it depends who you ask. Supporters like the business lobby Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) have long touted the credit as a powerful investment, citing the 34,000 manufacturing jobs added since 2011 as evidence of its success. By contrast, a 2016 report from the Wisconsin Budget Project frames it mainly as a tax giveaway for millionaires with a negligible impact on employment. As the Wisconsin Budget Project’s report explains, businesses do not need to create jobs to claim this credit. They can, in fact, outsource jobs or close facilities and still receive it. Individual claimants might invest the money back into their companies, but they don’t have to. This lack of accountability, combined with the high cost, has led some to wonder whether the MAC is easing the state’s economic woes or adding to them. “As we’re debating the state budget, it’s important to look at why we don’t have enough revenue to do a lot of the things that the governor wants to be committed to,” says Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh). “One of the big reasons we don’t is because of decisions like this tax credit.”

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The Question of Jobs In April 2017, UW-Madison professor Noah Williams released a report called “The Impact of the Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit in Wisconsin.” The study compared the rate of job growth in Wisconsin border counties with that of neighboring counties in other states. Williams, a former adviser for Walker and Marco Rubio, found that manufacturing employment had, on average, grown faster in Wisconsin than in the other counties. Applying these results statewide, he concluded that more than 20,000 manufacturing jobs had been created because of the credit. The MAC’s most vocal critics were unconvinced. Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) put out a press release describing the study as “severely flawed.” Hintz says the report mistakenly attributes all job growth to the credit, stating that more manufacturing jobs were gained in the two years before it was implemented than in the four years after. Nevertheless, Williams’ study adds substance to a narrative that MAC supporters have promoted for years: The tax credit gives Wisconsin a competitive edge by making it a more attractive place for businesses to be. Reduce the tax burden and established manufacturers expand. Outof-state companies relocate. Start-ups start up. Once all that happens, they argue, the jobs will come. There are examples of this happening. In a report on the MAC from Wisconsin Public Television, Belmark president Karl Schmidt describes how the credit motivated the packing company to expand facilities in De Pere. “That’s about 240 jobs that we added here that would not have been here. That would have been in another state,” Schmidt declares in the segment. Is Belmark one of a few isolated cases or part of a large-scale change? It’s hard to answer that, because it’s hard to know how big of an incentive taxes really are. Andrew Reschovsky, professor at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, says research indicates that taxes are among the many factors that businesses consider when deciding

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where to expand, but not necessarily one of the main ones. “Generally the conclusion is that taxes are on the list, but nowhere near the top,” says Reschovsky. He lists access to things like raw materials, a customer base and a skilled labor force as a few of the bigger motivators. More opportunities have emerged over the last few years as the country climbs out of recession. Still, Wisconsin’s rate of job creation has lagged behind the national average. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveals that in 2016, the rate of private sector employment growth slowed to 0.5%, and that nearly 3,800 manufacturing jobs were lost. In an email, Williams writes that this most recent release does not affect the conclusions of his study, which included data through the third quarter of 2016. “The MAC helped to increase growth in manufacturing employment over what it would have been in the absence of the credit,” he writes. “Wisconsin would have lost more manufacturing jobs in 2016 if the credit were not in place.”

Unequal Distribution While the MAC’s effect on job growth remains debatable, one thing is clear: The credit has cost a lot more than intended. According to the Wisconsin Budget Project, the credit was initially projected to cost $129 million in reduced income tax collections in 2017 after it was fully phased in. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau now estimates that it will cost more than twice that much this fiscal year and $320 million in 2018. Some degree of miscalculation was to be expected: Estimates are based on a business’ future profits, making their eventual cost hard to predict. Still, for those who oppose the MAC, the inflated price tag makes a damaging decision even worse. “If we had a spending program that cost twoand-a-half times the amount it was budgeted for, there would be outrage,” Hintz says. “There’d probably be public hearings. Somebody would be in trouble.” The frustration is not just about the amount of money, but where the money goes. A 2016 memo from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau showed 88% of the credit going to people who make more than $500,000 a year. It also estimated that 11 individuals with annual incomes of more than $30 million would each receive nearly $2 million in 2017. “This is the most tilted credit I have ever seen in Wisconsin,” says Wisconsin Budget Project research analyst Tamarine Cornelius. In March 2017, Taylor and several other Democrats proposed an alternative: legislation that would cut taxes for middle class families instead. Under this plan, a family of four with an income of $45,000 would get a roughly $600 credit. They proposed paying for it in part by repealing the MAC, which Rep. Chris Taylor calls “a total scam on the

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working people of this state.” The middle class pays the highest percentage of their income in state and local taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, and although unemployment in Wisconsin has returned to pre-recession lows (an estimated 3.2% in April), wages have stagnated, making it harder for working families to get by. “These massive tax giveaways are not trickling down,” Taylor says. “When you don’t have a vibrant middle class, you’re not going to have a vibrant economy; end of story.” The 2017-’19 budget includes one proposed change, closing a loophole that allowed some to essentially claim the MAC and credits paid to other states on the same income. Cornelius describes this change as a “minor tweak” that does not signal a fundamental shift in lawmakers’ thinking.

Investing in Communities At the same time that the MAC has phased in, many public services have been slashed. Spending on transportation, K-12 schools and the UW system has been drastically reduced. Reschovsky connects these decisions to “the mythology that taxes are the only thing that matters.” Part of the trouble with this mindset is that these same services are important for attracting businesses and driving economic growth. “The rationale that’s often used is that these tax credits will attract people to our communities and help us grow economically,” says Heather Bourenane, director of the Wisconsin Public Education Network. “But when you ask someone why they’re moving to a community, the first thing they say is the schools,” Walker’s 2011-’13 budget cut public school funding by nearly $800 million. Since then, districts have increasingly relied on referendums, voting to raise taxes to make up for the loss of state support. Bourenane describes schools going to referendum for “the most heartbreaking of basic maintenance,” and says that increasing funding is “an economic question as much as a moral one,” given the importance of schools to communities. Cornelius regards investments in these services as a way to support not just one or two industries, but business in general. “Businesses need a lot of things to thrive. They need a solid transportation network, healthy, well-educated workers, communities that people want to live in,” she says. “So, to have this narrow focus on tax cuts as the only way to help Wisconsin businesses is short-sighted.” Hintz cites long-term investment in priorities like education as the most important thing that state governments can do to stimulate economic growth. Tax policy can also play a role, he says, provided it meets certain standards. “Fairness, accountability, effectiveness,” he says. “Any tax policy should have to pass that test.” Comment at shepehrdexpress.com.

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What’s on Tap at the App Brewery? A NEW SMARTPHONE APP SAVES YOUNG LIVES ::BY MARY SUSSMAN

two-year-old girl who accidentally swallowed an adult dose of an opioid medication has just been picked up by an ambulance and is on her way to the emergency department at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Her respirations are depressed and, without proper medical care, she is in danger of dying. The paramedic has called the emergency pediatric team to let it know that a poisoned child is on the way. The paramedic doesn’t know much about the child’s medical history, but he does know that she just turned two. This scenario is one of many that the pediatric team at Children’s Hospital encounters regularly. A child might require resuscitation because of a poisoning, a drowning, a house fire or because of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In all cases, the doctors must work quickly, knowing that delivering timely and effective treatment may make the difference between a good and poor outcome for their young patients. A child’s life may be at stake. With the help of a Smartphone app recently developed though collaboration between the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Children’s Hospital and the UW-Milwaukee App Brewery Lab, the pediatric team prepares carefully for the threatened toddler to arrive. By entering the child’s age into the app, the doctors are quickly able to obtain the correct dose of medicine needed to save the child’s life. Once the app determines the correct dose, based upon the child’s age and weight, the emergency department nurses and pharmacists can prepare the medication for the patient before she even arrives in the emergency department. Once she is there, the doctors can calmly and confidently give the child the proper dose of the lifesaving medication.

It Wasn’t Always So Straightforward

Before the development of the app, physicians were required to do manual calculations while attending to the patient. In resuscitation scenarios, every second counts, and physicians have only one chance to get it right. Dr. Amy Drendel, a pediatric emergency physician at Children’s Hospital, along with her colleagues—physicians Michael Meyer and Danny Thomas and nurse Robin Saxe, saw the need for such an app and proposed it to MCW Dean Joseph E. Kerschner, who was running a competition among physicians from different fields for the best proposal. The winners would be funded to have their proposal developed by the App Brewery. Dr. Drendel’s team was one of the winners. The App Brewery is a lab at UWM that provides hands-on training for students who develop useful apps for the commu8 | J U LY 6 , 2 0 1 7

nity and for researchers at the university. “We were interested because we perform resuscitations on babies and young children, and much of what we do in terms of choosing the right dose or the right size equipment requires you to do calculations or remember proper sizes because a child’s physical size changes so much between birth and 18 years,” Drendel says. “In a stressful resuscitation scenario, that is not an easy thing to do.” She believes that the app has resulted in better care for her young patients. “It definitely makes care more standardized and efficient,” she says. “It takes away a lot of stress because doing those calculations can be stressful in an already stressful environment.” Dustin Hahn, project manager of the App Brewery, says working on the app for Children’s Hospital has been one of the most rewarding experiences he has had since joining the lab in 2015. “It is one of the most simple, most impactful and most widely talked about apps that we’ve done,” Hahn says. “When can you come in at the end of the day as a computer scientist or as someone in computer technology and say, ‘Wow, without this app, who knows what would have happened?’” Drendel says negotiations are ongoing regarding the app’s future, but hopes that it will eventually be available to other hospitals for free at the App Store, once negotiations are complete. “Our hope is that this app will make a difference in advancing the health and well being of all children and really provide high quality care and make a difference in their outcomes,” Drendel says. Because of its simplicity, she hopes that, one day, it might be used by paramedics when they come to the rescue of a child requiring resuscitation. She also is hopeful that it may be used in non-pediatric emergency rooms, where resuscitations are not common. “At Children’s, we’re used to handling kids, and we commonly do these calculations; but in an adult emergency room, 10-20% of the population is pediatric, and it is much more rare to have to face these resuscitations,” Drendel says. “The adult emergency rooms could also use this app and be prepared to take the best and safest care of kids.”

Hahn believes that, in addition to serving the community and local businesses by developing helpful technology, the App Brewery also gives students like Evan Timmerman real-world experience that helps him build his soft skills. (Timmerman, a paid student intern at the App Brewery, took about 3 to 4 months build the resuscitation app.) As an App Brewery intern, Timmerman learned to interact with an employer or client and also how to navigate and negotiate—skills that might not be taught in the lecture hall. Timmerman agrees. “It was a fantastic experience for me when I first started at the App Brewery,” he says. After having switched his major from physics to computer science the semester before, Timmerman discovered a new mindset and outlook in the world of industrial app development. “The App Brewery gave me more scope into this whole huge world of development in computer science and software engineering.” He likes the fact that the internship helps prepare students for graduate school or employment. In his case, he wants to get a job in the field. “There’s very high demand for the computer science field,” he says. “My ideal job market would be in the health care field. Working here at the App Brewery, I got a huge appreciation for technology in the health care area in hospitals. Looking for different opportunities in that area would be my highest interest.” Timmerman graduated from UWM in May. The App Brewery has developed a number of other apps, including one that self-guides visitors through the Streets of Old Milwaukee at the Milwaukee Public Museum, as well as one that helps parents track the books they have read to their children in the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program. It has also worked with the Sojourner Family Peace Center to develop an app that leaves no browsing history—useful to women living in fear in abusive home situations whose spouses might retaliate if they found out about an association with the Sojourner Family Peace Center. Another app helps coaches and parents track and evaluate concussion symptoms for athletes using the SCAT3 checklist from the 2012 Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport. The App Brewery typically employs five paid interns and four full-time staff people. Their funding comes from UWM, as well as from the fee the Brewery charges its clients for app development. Clients like MCW often receive National Institutes of Health grants for the projects they work on with the App Brewery. Since its inception in 2013, the App Brewery has worked on some 15 projects for the college. The App Brewery, now housed on the fourth floor of the Physics Building at UWM, began life at the Zilber School of Public Health, which was once part of Pabst Brewery (hence the “brewery” nomenclature). The App Brewery actively seeks proposals from the community, which are carefully evaluated. Some considerations include whether the proposed projects would be good résumé builders for students and if they would be sound investments for the university. Comment at shepehrdexpress.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( JULY 6 - 12, 2017 )

ach week, the Shepherd Express will serve as a clearinghouse for any and all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Trump administration and other activities that promote social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking/discussion gettogethers or any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

25, 50 or 100 mile route options Saturday, July 29, in the Milwaukee area!

Thursday, July 6

Rid Racism MKE @ Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee (2819 W. Highland Blvd.), 7-8:30 p.m.

Rid Racism Milwaukee is holding an event at the Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee that will feature Anna Dvorak, lead organizer of Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative (CAOC), sharing information about the ongoing struggle for fair elections, health care, economic justice and media accountability.

Can You Become Radio-Active? @ Camp Bar Shorewood (4044 N. Oakland Ave.), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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The Radio-Active campaign seeks to restore balance to Southeastern Wisconsin’s airwaves. The Radio-Active team and Resistance Radio’s Dom Salvia will be on hand to let you know how you can help get more progressive voices on the radio.

Saturday, July 8

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

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

Fired Up for Tammy! @ Humboldt Park Pavilion (3000 S. Howell Ave.), noon

This picnic will also serve as an opportunity to learn more about voter registration drives, canvassing and phone banking. Local and state representatives, as well as Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s local campaign organizer, will speak.

Monday, July 10

Our Wisconsin Revolution—Milwaukee Chapter Meeting @ International Association of Machinists (2609 W. Oklahoma Ave.), 6-8 p.m.

Our Wisconsin Revolution’s Milwaukee Chapter, whose mission is to “fundamentally transform through popular power a system rigged by the political, social and economic establishment to realize the promise of just, equitable, sustainable and democratic society,” will hold their monthly meeting.

Support a Fair and Welcoming Shorewood @ Shorewood Village Hall (3930 N. Murray Ave.), 6:30-8:30 p.m.

The Shorewood Solidarity Network aims to build a “safe, inclusive and just Shorewood” and is taking to the Shorewood Public Safety Committee to support the village as a “safe and welcoming place for everyone.”

Wednesday, July 12

Refuel the Resistance @ Bounce Milwaukee (2801 S. Fifth Court), 5-8 p.m.

Every Wednesday, Bounce Milwaukee offers a space to organize, as well as a free drink to anyone who brings evidence of resistance in the past week, including protest signs, an email to an elected official or a selfie at the capital.

Solidarity March @ Corner of Spring and Graham Streets (Racine), 6-7 p.m.

The Racine Interfaith Coalition’s Immigration Task Force is hosting a march in solidarity with undocumented immigrants as a call to stop the profiling and deportation of undocumented immigrants in the country. 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 this administration has planned for our great country. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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You don’t believe a singlepayer system is a likely Obamacare replacement The debate over replacing Obamacare has exposed some of the problems and difficulties with America’s current health care system. Last week, we asked whether this debate has made the country more likely to adopt a single-payer system. You said: n Yes: 46% n No: 54%

What do you say? Are Donald Trump’s tweets strategically calculated to distract the media from other stories or are they a manifestation of his immaturity? n They are calculated n They are manifestations of his immaturity Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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ver since Republicans controlling the presidency and both houses of Congress embarked on their mission to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthy by destroying health care for more than 20 million Americans including the sickest, the most disabled and those least able to pay, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been waiting for that first authentic Republican Profile in Courage. Profiles in Courage, the 1957 Pulitzer Prizewinning bestseller by rising political star John F. Kennedy, celebrated politicians throughout American history with enough principles to publicly stand up against egregious wrongs in times of moral crisis. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such Republican in sight. Sure, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have had a fight on their hands passing the truly ugly transfer of nearly $800 billion dollars funding health care for people who need it into the already bulging pockets of the ultra-wealthy who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Such appalling political acts should never be easy. But even among House Republicans, who dragged their feet before voting to destroy health care for millions, and now among grousing Republican senators, representing those enormous numbers of Americans whose lives theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting at risk, not a single Re-

publican has had the courage to stand up and state the obviousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Republican destruction of public health care for tens of millions to make their richest supporters richer is immoral and indefensible. Instead, both extreme right-wingers and slightly less extreme right-wingers (the only kinds of Republicans there are these days) are happy to negotiate, nudging McConnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vicious, inhumane destruction of health care to make it slightly less appalling in some ways and more appalling in others. That provides both groups of Republicans with excuses to vote for a truly appalling law, claiming they somehow made it better in ways too small to be seen with the naked eye.

Do-Nothing Senator Does the Wrong Thing One of the most surprising Republican senators to pretend to take a stand, sort of, against the health care bill was Wisconsinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sen. Ron Johnson. Surprising, of course, since Johnson never bothered to do much of anything in Washington during his first term as far as anyone in Wisconsin could tell. Well, Johnson still hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Johnson raised one legitimate objection against McConnellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to bum rush the law through the Senate within days to prevent the overwhelming U.S. opposition that rose up against the House bill when Americans found out about its horrific provisions. But that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t why Johnson attacked McConnell. His reasons were more petty and personal. Johnson was still seething because McConnell wrote off his chances of winning reelection against former Sen. Russ Feingold (as did many other observers who saw the polls) and refused to allocate any substantial Senate Republican campaign funds to Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race. Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twisted, ideological reasons for opposing the Senate health care bill were spelled out in an op-ed column Johnson wrote for The New York Times. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ugly

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The Health Plan that Just Won’t Die

f you’re someone who is upset about what you have been hearing about the current debate on health care, you’re not alone. According to a USA Today poll, only 12% of the American public currently supports Congress’ current health plan. So, you could be forgiven for celebrating last week when the Senate announced they did not have the votes and would delay a fasttracked attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The problem is that the GOP health plan refuses to die. The Congressional Budget Office, the very well-respected nonpartisan agency tasked with presenting the repeal bill’s impact, has received a lot of attention this week for the number of people they estimate will be forced off their coverage. But there are many more CBO revelations on this bill that bear consideration as we remember this Independence Day how our very health care freedom is being challenged. Here are three parts of the Senate health bill you may not have heard about yet. Tax credits—84% of Wisconsinites who use healthcare.gov currently receive tax credits to reduce out-of-pocket costs and monthly premiums, often to purchase a mid-level “Silver” plan. The Senate repeal bill makes three big changes to them. First, it pushes people into riskier “Bronze” plans with thousands of dollars in higher deductibles, exposing us more in emergency situations. Second, it completely ends any out-of-pocket cost reductions for moderate-income consumers. Someone at the poverty line would have to pay half their annual income in deductibles before their insurance company would pay a dime for their care. And, lastly, it suddenly cuts off middleincome families and older Americans in a substantial way from any tax help. A family of four earning $88,000 a year with two kids in college would see their tax credits to reduce premiums drop from $7,500 a year to $0, leaving them to make up the difference.

Discrimination—the Senate health bill doesn’t allow outright discrimination in the same way Paul Ryan’s House repeal did, where insurers could charge people with preexisting conditions like cancer more upfront. Instead, it allows for a back-door style of discrimination where insurers can’t tell a cancer patient to pay more in premiums, but could decide not to cover their cancer drugs. The same is true for diabetes, childbirth, mental health, opioid treatment, basically anything insurers would consider “preexisting.” It was prevalent before the Affordable Care Act; many insurance companies would not cover vital health, services. Maternity, ambulance use, substance abuse treatment, prescription drugs and far more. In the world that the Senate health bill would create, you’d have to either prepare for diseases you don’t know if you’d get, or weigh the potential damage of delaying certain treatments just to save a little money now. Medicaid—but the worst part is saved for the poor, which both Senate and House bills go out of the way to sabotage. Medicaid covers one out of every five Wisconsinites, from seniors in nursing homes to children in BadgerCare and people with disabilities. The differences between the two chambers’ bills are not huge, but they both represent a major restructuring that effectively ends Medicaid as we know it. The short explanation is that every year federal funds for Medicaid will be short of what’s needed, leaving states to make up the difference or, more realistically, make drastic cuts. And there isn’t a way to shield certain groups of consumers. Everyone, from children with disabilities to grandparents in long-term care, will be at risk. 22 million Americans are at risk of losing their coverage. Four million are people who have employer coverage and don’t even use healthcare.gov. The rest of us get to look forward to higher deductibles, fewer consumer protections on annual out-of-pocket costs, and nothing done to rein in pharmaceutical costs or for-profit medicine. We cannot allow ourselves to develop a false sense of security about the fate of health care repeal just because the Senate delayed the vote; it isn’t dead yet. Let’s be clear: This is the moment when the very American promise of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is put to the test. You cannot be free when for-profit insurance companies decide your fate. Lives truly hang in the balance. At this point, only by building on top of the Affordable Care Act can we provide freedom from preexisting condition discrimination, freedom from outrageous medical bills and freedom from those who want to decide who’s “worthy” of health coverage. Essentially these changes will determine who can afford to live and who will die. Kevin Kane is organizing director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin. Comment at shepehrdexpress.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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t’s weird to write—or talk with my friends—about Ardent without feeling Ah, but the food! The food at Ardent is so absurd. It plays around with Midcompelled to attach a ton of qualifiers. I’m not ritzy! I’m not hoity-toity! I’ll western notions of giant portions by giving you tiny, delicious portions: Beer still shoot that rail whiskey with you! And so on. cheese soup in a pretzel bowl becomes a bite; egg salad becomes a two-bite Ardent’s reputation precedes itself. It’s a relatively unassuming spot—adjacent dish—which I didn’t take enough notes on ’cause I just wrote, verbatim, “wow to Zaffiro’s and next-door north to owner and chef Justin Carlisle’s other thing, the egg salad dish.” (Actually most of my notes were not helpful for this because Red Light Ramen—and it has a sort of oh-wow ineffableness to it. Deservedly they just said stuff like “clever,”“dope” and “bravura,” which is a word I have literso. For the Milwaukee dining and eating experience, it’s one of a kind. And, most ally never used any other time in my life.) importantly for the kind of space Ardent cultivates, it’s not stuffy. It’s not pompous. Like most tasting-pairing menus, Ardent’s builds carefully to a climax of It’s accessible, with the exception of its wow-but-only-once-in-a-while price tag, density, but not necessarily in complication, which I appreciated—the openwhich is earned. I had a blast there, sitting at the end of the bar on my own and ing “snacks” (not amuse-bouches, for what it’s worth) were every bit as fun and watching couples and groups of folks talk about dishes in the way most folks hunstrange as the closing mignardises (OK, you got me on that one). But the staff grily (pun intended) consider a new record or book of poems. seemed to be actually having fun serving each dish—each Ardent works like this: A tasting menu is set for each seatworker will bring you out something here or there and be ing. What you get varies based on what’s available seasonally happy to thoroughly answer your (maybe dumb; mine were) Ardent and from local farms (meat from Carlisle’s dad’s beef farm had questions about it—and generally seemed to like it there. 1751 N. Farwell Ave. a couple appearances at my sitting). When you roll into Ardent, Laughter in a kitchen is always a good sign. 414-897-7022 all you know is you’re going to get full-on tasty food. I suggest Ardent is one of the finest dining experiences Milwaukee $$$$ when you eat there that you go for it and choose the pairing has to offer; something every Milwaukeean should put on ardentmke.com menu in which a beverage (beer, wine or champagne in my extheir bucket list. You go there and it’s beautiful; two hours Handicap access: Yes perience) is tied with each dish. Although the food is killer—see later it’s over and there you are—on Farwell Ave., looking CC, FB, RS the subsequent paragraph—the pairings, which heavily skewed around—all the world’s problems whooshing back. But for French and were all tasty, did complement and converse with two hours, Ardent, like some kind of magic trick, makes them W, Th, F, Sa the dishes in ways that gave them an extra dimension. all disappear. 6 p.m.-8:45 p.m.

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n 2012, a new hot rod-custom bike event debuted on the New Jersey shore, but the event, held every year since, has long roots in custom car culture. “The Race of Gentlemen” (affectionately known as “TROG”) honors the mid-century endeavors of backyard mechanics, linking them to the DIY and Maker Faire ethos of today. Like the revival of vinyl LPs, TROG is a pushback against the digitalization of our world. And yes, despite the deliberately retro affectation of “Gentlemen,” women are also getting their hands dirty, building, restoring and racing hot rod cars and custom bikes. This summer, a Harley-Davidson Museum exhibition, “The Race of Gentlemen,” examines the people as well as the machines they ride. Huge color panels display the varied faces of the driver-builders in portraits by photographer Cory Piehowicz. Most of the faces are young, including Sushi, a Tokyo, Japan resident in a Harley-Davidson cap, and Andy Wood, clad like a circa-1920 Harley rider complete with English racing cap and bowtie. TROG’s principal founder, Mel Stultz, is a bearded artist who makes TROG’s retro-looking signage and props. Tom Row, 79, is a wizened veteran from the post-World War II drag races, a living link to the past TROG seeks to invoke. Also on display are smaller black-and-white action photos by David Carlo that capture the splatter of

sand under bike tires as well as pensive moments in the cockpits of race cars. Videos from TROG show the vehicles and their owners as they race along the Wildwood, N.J., beach at low tide on tightly packed sand. Of course, much of the space in the exhibit, spread across the Harley-Davidson Garage, is devoted to the handiwork of the ladies and gentlemen of TROG. As described by the exhibit’s curator, Kristen Jones, the vehicles culled for the exhibit from recent TROGs “are a throwback to a time of ingenuity when people had to figure it out without the resources of the Internet at their fingertips.” Most TROG participants work within a set of boundaries, using only pre-1932 auto bodies, no motorcycles built after 1947 and no parts introduced after 1950 or so. Aside from combing scrapyards and warehouses for vintage components, some TROGers make their own parts or seek out boutique companies that fabricate them according to old-time specifications. Every vehicle in “The Race of Gentlemen” has its own story. Some were handed down as family heirlooms from previous generations of dragsters and bikers. Some were recovered from scrapheaps and lovingly resuscitated with parts scrounged from here and there. Some were built from scratch and assembled from remnants. A 1942 Harley-Davidson Model WLA, designed for the U.S. military, was assembled from spare parts donated by collectors. Text panels tell those stories. Unlike traditional car and motorcycle collectors who paint and polish their vehicles to the bright gleam they wore on the day they rolled from the assembly line, most TROGers prefer to maintain the patina of age. Typical is the exhibit’s 1946 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead with exhaust pipes coated in rust and saddle seat worn from many rides. Through a shared love of gritty technology from the Industrial Age, a loose community has been born. The annual gathering in Wildwood has grown rapidly. According to Jones, 15 motorcars and 15 motorcycles participated in the 2008 TROG. This year’s run drew 150 vehicles along with over 25,000 spectators. Mark your calendars for June 2018 if you like, but meanwhile, catch the spirit at Harley-Davidson. Through Sept. 4 at the Harley-Davidson Museum, 400 W. Canal St. There will be many special events over the summer, including the July 8 “Wild Ones: Vintage Motorcycle Rally” featuring an antique motorcycle ride-in show, slow races, plank rides and stunts. For more information, visit harley-davidson.com.

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State of Contemporary Midwestern Art in Tory Folliard’s ‘Salon Show’ ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

he English term “salon” derives from the Italian salone, denoting a large hall. It’s also the origin of the term “saloon,” which might seem a far cry from the refined atmosphere of the salons organized by the matrons of the Italian Renaissance. But the difference is not so great after all. Salons and saloons alike are gathering places for political debate, intellectual exchange, artistic exhibition and, of course, good-natured revelry. Tory Folliard’s second biannual “Salon Show” gathers the gallery’s stable of 43 contemporary artists for its largest exhibition of the year. “I really enjoy gathering so many talented artists together to exhibit their work in one large show,” says Tory Folliard. “The gallery will be hung with more than 100 works of art. Many of these artists have been with the gallery since it began 29 years ago.” The “Salon Show” is on display from July 7 through Sept. 9. An artists’ reception will be held on Gallery Night, Friday, July 21, 5-9 p.m., followed artists’ talks during Gallery Day, Saturday, July 22 at 2 p.m.

“Katy Cowan: reflected-intothemselves-into-reflected” Lynden Sculpture Garden | 2145 W. Brown Deer Rd. Lynden Sculpture Garden boasts 50 monumental sculptures situated across 40 acres of Grade A Wisconsin landscape. Such fast company so beautifully installed must strike fear in the hearts of visiting exhibiting artists. With “reflected,” Wisconsin native Katy Cowan suppresses her creative equivalent of a fight-or-flight instinct, electing instead to engage Lynden’s permanent collection with her new sculptures. “Katy Cowan: reflected-into-themselves-into-reflected” opens with a reception from 3-5 p.m. on July 9 and is on display through Oct. 29.

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Walker’s Point Center for the Arts | 839 S. Fifth St. Join the artists of the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts’ current exhibition, “Transplant Eyes,” for brunch and conversation on Saturday, July 8, 12-2 p.m. The discussion—“Art Bites: Social Conversation Over Food and Art”—picks up where the exhibition leaves off, with reflections on being a “transplant” in an adopted city and the benefits of building an inclusive and diverse arts community. The food will be provided by Antigua Latin Inspired Kitchen. Tickets are $30 for WPCA members and $45 for non-members. ‘The Race of Gentlemen’ exhibition at Harley-Davidon Museum SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Milwaukee RapperPoet Returns to Woodland Pattern ::BY JENNI HERRICK

(OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS), BY DAVID CANNADINE Humorless but hardworking, Margaret Thatcher leaped boundaries of class and sexism to become the U.K.’s first female prime minister. In his sensibly reasoned account, British historian David Cannadine describes her as an unpopular populist whose floundering political fortunes were reversed early on when she defeated Argentina’s fascist regime in the Falklands War. Single-mindedly devoted to free market ideology, she denied any connection between social unrest and economic deprivation. As the wrecking ball that smashed Britain’s quasisocialism, Thatcher swam in the rightward tide that swept the democratic world in the 1980s. She encouraged a culture of self-interested greed, was on the history’s wrong side by backing apartheid but on the right side by supporting change in the Soviet Bloc. Her legacy continues to overshadow the U.K. as the kingdom grapples with its future. (David Luhrssen)

Fun: Spies, Puzzle Solvers, and a Century of Crosswords (SELFMADEHERO), BY PAOLO BACILIERI

With Fun, Italian comic book artist Paolo Bacilieri undertakes an imaginative pop culture archeological dig: the hardcover graphic work investigates the origin and spread of the world’s most ubiquitous word game, the crossword puzzle. In lavishly sketched panels, Bacilieri identifies the crossword’s beginnings in a 1913 edition of the New York World’s Sunday supplement, a section titled “Fun.” His narrative hopscotches through time, detailing the crossword’s viral spread following World War I and a fictional contemporary story concerning an esteemed professor who enjoys crosswords and explores their connection with comic strips in conversations with a young admirer. Fun is informative, entertaining and, yes, a fun read. (David Luhrssen)

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ilwaukee native Derrick Harriell’s contemporary poems echo with stanzas both emotionally raw and lyrically moving, taking inspiration from his time in the hip-hop group Black Elephant in the early 2000s. Since his days as the wordsmith behind a popular local rap group, Harriell has completed his doctorate in English at UW-Milwaukee, worked as the poetry editor for The Cream City Review literary magazine and currently serves as director of the Master of Fine Arts-Creative Writing Program and assistant professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. His poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in his third complete collection, Stripper in Wonderland, the poems pulse with a musical energy as they explore complex topics (including death, racism and religion) by employing a heavy funk influence. Each dynamic poem is filled with surprising imagery and a strong musical cadence, revealing personal memories of Harriell’s childhood in Milwaukee and his current life in the Deep South. Harriell’s second book of poetry, Ropes, which was awarded the 2014 Poetry Award by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, took inspiration from the lives of black boxers in a fascinating and fluid ode to pugilism. In his new compilation, the accomplished poet again uses bewitching and at times graphic imagery to summon the ghosts of his past and confront the harsh realities of the present day. In Stripper in Wonderland, this locally raised writer beautifully ponders multi-layered questions of gender, addiction and reality through the lens of a whimsical wonderland. Derrick Harriell returns to Milwaukee to perform a free live reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 6.

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n the corner of Sixth Street and Wisconsin Avenue, Mauricio Ramirez stands in the hot sun with two large crates of spray paint at his feet. He’s covering a utility box—once an industrial gray—with shaded triangles that will form an image of Vel Phillips when he is finished. The current Wisconsin Avenue artist in residence is a Chicago native, but spent childhood summers growing up in Milwaukee attending his cousins’ birthday parties. Now, Ramirez is transforming 10 utility boxes along Wisconsin Avenue to honor important icons and events in Milwaukee’s wide-spanning history. From the settling of Native American tribes to the days of Milwaukee founding father Byron Kilbourn and the 1960s fair housing marches, Ramirez renders eye-catching images that make Downtown prettier. Learning about Milwaukee’s history, as well as exploring a bit of his own, has been an exciting experience for Ramirez. Of all the places he’s worked, “Milwaukee takes it,” Ramirez said. What personal ties do you have to the city? My mom passed away about two and a half years ago and I have this weird thought in my head that it’s kind of like she wanted me to come back and do research about where she grew up. We were really close but she rarely talked about Milwaukee because we were in Chicago, so I think this is a cool way to see what type of environment she grew up in and some of the things she got to experience. How did you get on board with this project? I was lucky enough to get selected for it. It was a dream come true

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because I’ve always wanted to live and work in Milwaukee so I couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to do both. I’m literally just soaking it all in, doing all the Milwaukee stuff like Summerfest, Summer Solstice and getting my haircut at Mr. V’s. You’ve done projects for big companies. Do you prefer corporate projects or working on street art like you’re doing for the city of Milwaukee? Anything goes, really. At the end of the day I just want to create art, whether it be for corporate entities or fine art. I’m a worker first and an artist second, so I just really want to work. What’s your history in doing art as work and how do you approach it as a career? I’ve been doing it for a strong seven years. I was an English teacher/education major (in college) but started sneaking into art studios and secretly doing work there because I was always interested in painting and graffiti. It was really weird because these art teachers would see me and say, “Hey, you’re not a student here but you’re spending a ton of time here.” I kind of approach it from the entrepreneurial standpoint as opposed to the traditional route where you go to school for it. I kind of just wanted to do it, present it to people and showcase it so I hustled it. What does the Wisconsin Avenue project mean to you? There are a lot of aspects to this project. It’s something professional to me to be able to showcase work to the public and have it relate directly to the public in that sense. And also, being a worker and learning the trade of painting and doing industrial painting on something metal that’s going to be outside, I take pride in that and I’m super enthusiastic about painting that. What have you learned from living here so far? The history, for sure. Just all the different projects, site-specific boxes I’ve done, learning a lot about the important figures that shaped Milwaukee to this day, starting from the Native Americans to Byron Kilbourn … I’m starting to understand a lot of the geographical landscape here that kind of dictates why people live in certain areas. It’s awesome.

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A brief program and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project will take place next Tuesday, July 11 at noon inside the lobby of 411 East Wisconsin Center (and then outside on the corner of Wisconsin and Jeﬀerson) to celebrate the 10 finished murals.

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July 8: New Pride Alive at Joannes Park (Doty St. and S. Baird St., Green Bay): Keep the pride love flowing with this Northeast Wisconsin festival. Party with the boys and girls from Green Bay with live entertainment, food, beverages and more. What a great reason for a road trip! Explore the social scene in Green Bay, meet new friends and celebrate! For a lineup of entertainers, volunteer opportunities, maps and more, see newpridealive.com. The fest runs noon to 10 p.m. July 9: Show Tune Sunday at Club Charlie’s (320 E. Menomonee St.): Life is a cabaret and this Sunday Funday proves it! In addition to the music, hilarious videos and cute bartenders, you’ll find great food and beverages to whet your whistle. The mingling, laughing and dancing are all free during this 2-7 p.m. singa-along. July 10: Full Moon Hike at the Ice Age Trail at Holy Hill (via UWM University Recreation-Outdoor Pursuits, 3409 N. Downer Ave.): A “full moon” stroll in the woods might sound naughty to some of you, but this exciting outdoor adventure is actually a great way for all ages to experience nature! The moon illuminates this incredible hike, hosted by the team at UW-Milwaukee’s Outdoor Pursuits. For more on the 9 p.m. excursion, see uwm.edu. There you’ll find more on the $10 ticket, which includes transportation to the Ice Age Trail, headlamps and more. July 11: Testing Tuesday at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): Knowledge is power so know your HIV/AIDS status with free testing at this popular Cathedral Square bar. You’ll also find complimentary STD tests, information on PEP and PrEP, safe-sex kits and more starting at 9 p.m. Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation? Email dearruthie@shepex.com.

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Remembering Wisconsin’s Forgotten Gay Artist, Dudley Huppler ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

once interviewed a museum curator, who was gay, about an exhibit of African American art. Because several of the show’s artists, notably Kehinde Wiley, were LGBTQ, I asked how being both black and gay influenced their art. With an eye-rolling rebuff he replied, “They were over it.” The follow-up got us no further. Maybe he was concerned about the effect of the “gay stuff ” on the exhibit’s attendance or the institution’s future funding. I moved on to easier questions. It’s odd. By contrast, straight celebrities’ lives are often measured by their marriages, affairs and lovers. Take Marilyn Monroe or artists like Pablo Picasso or Jackson Pollock whose bios are chronicled in periods of evolving styles that reflect their serial intimacies. Some gay ones, like Rudolfo Valentino, Bessie Smith and Andy Warhol, are as well, but only when there’s something particularly titillating or scandalous about them. Speaking of Warhol and Smith, I have a pair of 1945-dated pen-and-ink drawings by Dudley Huppler (1917-1988). Who? Yes, I know. I hadn’t heard of him either until a local art picker sold me the drawings a decade ago. Beyond their eccentric style, the selling point was the Wisconsin artist who drew them and his impeccably gay credentials including an association

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Aesop Rock Confronts Life after 40 ::BY ALAN SCULLEY

s Aesop Rock tours behind his latest album, The Impossible Kid, he realizes that as a rapper who is now 40 years old, he doesn’t have much company in pursuing his goal to stay relevant, grow his audience and continue to progress musically. “I have very few role models in rap that are still not only going, but really trying to push what they’ve done somewhere new,” said Aseop (real name: Ian Bavitz) in a recent email interview. “It’s actually pretty disheartening. Sure, you could name me a handful of older rappers that still do it. Fine. But there’s no real precedent for continued progress to be the norm. People hang it up, or fall off or just get involved in other endeavors. It’s also difficult to pop my head up and attempt to compete for promo space with the newest 20-year-old who is out there killing it. It’s much harder to say, ‘Hey, I’m still here,’ no matter what the product sounds like.” What might work in Aesop’s favor is he is still a fairly fresh face, at least when it comes to the hip-hop mainstream. He didn’t just burst onto the scene with a major label deal and an initial breakout hit or two. Instead, Aesop spent much of his career proving himself in indie-underground rap circles. A graduate of Boston University, he self-released a full-length album and EP before getting signed by Mush Records and releasing his full-fledged debut, Float, in 2000. He then signed to El-P’s Def Jux label, releasing five full-length albums (the last of which, 2007’s None Shall Pass, debuted at No. 50 on Billboard’s all-genre Top 200 album chart). By that time, Aesop had begun to emerge from the underground scene and was making his presence felt in the mainstream hip-hop/rap world. His deal with Def Jux ended when the label was put on “hiatus” in 2010. Aesop then surfaced on the Rhymesayers label in 2011, collaborating with producer, rapper and former Def Jux label mate Rob Sonic in the group Hail Mary Mallon before his next solo album, Skelethon, arrived a year later. That album debuted and No. 21 on the Top 200 album chart and at number one on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart, and found Aesop gaining more of a mainstream music audience.

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As an artist who says he didn’t really seek the spotlight, Aesop said he was fine with the way his career has developed. “The path I took is just me taking baby steps in an attempt to stay comfortable,” Aseop said. “Being underground, or less popular, etc., it’s just a side effect of what I did, anyway. I liked a scene that wasn’t really that popular to begin with. This is all niche shit. As I got older, I attempted to twist it into a job, which so far has maintained. But this is the only path I’ve really known. I always just do my thing and assume people will seek it out if they’re that interested.” Now with The Impossible Kid, Aesop appears poised to further expand his audience. The album has received strong reviews and opened at number two on the Independent Albums chart and at number three on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. As on past albums, The Impossible Kid doesn’t go for the kind of big, poppy hooks that are common on Top 40 hip-hop hits, but instead concentrates on a more angular, synthy sound that has melody but works more as a backdrop for Aesop’s rapping and the beats than as a Aesop Rock focal point for the tracks. Friday, July 7 The reality of reaching age 40 was a major source Harley-Davidson for inspiration for the record as Aesop examines his Roadhouse life—looking back all the way to his childhood—as he attempts to figure out who he is as a person and how he got to where he is now. Some of the lyrics are fairly straight-forward, a surprise considering Aesop has had a long-running reputation for being cryptic in his lyrics. “That’s pretty much what the Impossible Kid is largely about; just kinda staring at 40 and thinking, ‘OK, what now?’” he said. “It’s a lot of reflective songs, and some are even an attempt to regather and not let old baggage hold me back,” he continues. “I do have this desire as of late to diversify and really attempt to get involved in as much as possible. My skill set is so niche that it starts getting a little scary at my age. I don’t know what I want it to be. I just want to learn to be happy.” Aesop Rock performs with Rob Sonic on Friday, July 7 at Summerfest’s Harley-Davidson Roadhouse as part of an evening of music that also includes Rhymesayers-affiliated acts Soul Position (Blueprint and RJD2), Grieves, Brother Ali and Atmosphere.

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needed to be concentrating on finishing this if we were only going to get one chance a week to meet up. A big part of recording it was being a secretary, just trying to get everybody together.” In some ways, maybe it’s for the best that Blonder came to an early end, because they’re not really the kind of band you’d want to hear get old, anyway. Blender’s mix of lopsided, Pavement-esque lo-fi and shouty coed singalongs are the kinds of things that bands can only really pull off when they’re young—as bands age, those rough edges almost always get sanded away. A handful of prettier songs, like the violin-kissed “Heat and Secrete,” tease some of the directions the band might have pursued had they lasted longer, but for the most part, the band was uninterested in polishing their sound. They were always drawn to rawer recordings. “There’s something magic about those first recordings from bands—when they aren’t really sure about what they’re doing,” Risser says. “We always enjoyed listening to demos of bands we like, since they capture the rawer end of things, and they show where all the ideas come from.” Given their inability to tour or promote the record in any meaningful way, Risser knows it’s unlikely Blender will ever find much of an audience. Adding insult to injury, a few years ago, a New York artist also adopted the name “Blonder” and trademarked it, and he seems to be gaining some traction. Because of the name confusion, his tour dates sometimes display on the Milwaukee Blonder’s Bandcamp page, so “it looks like we’re constantly on a nationwide tour,” Risser say. It must be odd, watching another artist with the same name gradually erase your own online presence. Ultimately, though, Blonder’s legacy will be greater than any of the scattered recordings they left behind on their Bandcamp page. “Matt and Mina actually met because of us starting this band and are getting married next year,” Risser says. “So, even if only a few people hear the album, there’s still a lot of good that came out of the band.” You can stream Blender at blonder.bandcamp.com.

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FRIDAY, JULY 7

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Larry Lynne Band (6:30pm) Angeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Cactus Club, A Giant Dog w/Platinum Boys, WHIPS & Sweet La La Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Mark Dvorak, Bill Camplin & Rick Harris Carolineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, The Bob Monagle Jazz Quartet Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Company Brewing, Sleeping Jesus & Waldemar w/Cabin Essence County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Power Plant, Symptoms w/Size 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, The Jims, Secondhand Souls & Mud Dog House of Guinness (Waukesha), Burgundy Ties Iron Horse Hotel, The B Side Band (5:30pm) Iron Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jokerz Comedy Club, Mike Marvell Lakefront Brewery Beer Hall, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Mamieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Stokes & The Old Blues Boys Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Miaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Waukesha), The B Side Band Milwaukee Ale House, Big Al Dorn and the Blues Howlers Miramar Theatre, Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carnival w/Prof. Pinkerton & The Magnificents Packing House, Chanel le Meaux & the Dapper Cads w/Jeff Stoll (6:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Joe Hite (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadors w/Three in a Tree (9pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Julieta Venegas (all-ages, 9pm) Site 1A, Savoy St. Lucy Catholic Church (Racine), Eddie Butts Band (6:30pm) The Bay Restaurant, Rick Aaron w/The Men in Black Trio Trinity Three Irish Pubs, Dan Harvey w/DJ Richie Rich Up & Under Pub, The Zimmer Effect

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Angeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Bootz Saloon, Stateline Cactus Club, Melkbelly w/Fox Face & Clementine Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Krause Family Band Carolineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Larry Tresp, Mike Miller & Dave â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smittyâ&#x20AC;? Smith Company Brewing, Strangelander w/The Joshua Catania Trio & Etherium Ensemble Fly By Saloon, Rockabilly Rebels Fox Point Farmers Market, Jaems Murphy & Kenesha Armon (10am) Fox & Hounds Restaurant, Larry Lynne Solo (6pm) Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Power Plant, The Mound Builders w/The Dead Morticians, VexNation & Satanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dealer Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jokerz Comedy Club, Mike Marvell Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Milwaukee Ale House, Coyote Packing House, Donna Woodall Trio (6:30pm) Pillars Pub (West Bend), Vinyl Road Pizzeria Piccola, Texas Dave (6pm)

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Mirage III (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadors (10:30pm) The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Joe Hite Up & Under Pub, Entropy w/Arch Funk & Conundrum West Racine Farmers Market, Jack & Jill Jazz: Jack Grassel & Jill Jensen (8:30am) Yardarm Bar and Grill (Racine), The Blues Disciples (6:30pm)

SUNDAY, JULY 9

Angeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Cactus Club, Stargazer Lilies w/Brief Candles & Panda Riot Fire On Water, Burgundy Ties Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Power Plant, Mary Rodgers Showcase & guests (2pm), Nevalra w/Order of Unukalhai, Magnetic Minds & Black Frost (8pm) Iron Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Franklin), Jamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Lions Legend Park (Franklin), Floor It! (2pm) Newport Shores (Port Washington), Joe Kadlec (1pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Devour the Day w/Sons Of Texas & Year Of The Locust

MONDAY, JULY 10

Cactus Club, Bethlehem Steel w/Haunter, Sundial Mottos & Apollo Vermouth Italian Community Center, Frank Demiles & Friends (6:30pm) Linnemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Riverwest Inn, Poetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Tom Jones (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic

TUESDAY, JULY 11

C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill Cactus Club, General B and the Wiz album release tour w/ Pretty Beggar & Morangutangs Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Abby Jeanne w/Fainting Room & Bryn Lorraine Johnson (6pm) Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, Angelica Garcia Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Highbury Pub, Sweet Sheiks Italian Community Center, Tweed Funk (6:30pm) Kilbourn-Kadish Park, Skyline Music Concerts: De La Buena (5:30pm) Linnemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Riverwest Inn, Mystery Loves Company Mamieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Open Blues Jam w/Stokes Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Saloon on Calhoun, CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

Carolineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Harvey Westmoreland w/Knee Deep Blues Jam Conwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smokinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson District 14 Brewery & Pub, Wednesday Open Mic Golden Mast Inn, Joe Kadlec (6pm) Hot Water Wherehouse, The Ricochettes Iron Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Kochanskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linnemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Seth Hoffman (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Stage Right Pub: JP Spencer Nomad World Pub, Locals Only Oak Creek Community Center, Outdoor Summer Concert Series: Streetlife w/Warren Wiegratz Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Paulieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: Chicken Wire Empire (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: Geoff Landon & Friends (6pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Tallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk w/Red Deacon & Gary Fiedler (3pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Southern Culture on the Skids w/The Exotics Washington Park, Summer Concert Series: Cigarette Break w/ DJ Bizzon (6pm) Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market: Claire Kelly (11:45am) SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Ludacris @ Miller Lite Oasis, Summerfest July 2, 2017 ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

f you’re at all familiar with Ludacris’s “Thong Song”-sampling latest single “Vitamin D,” it’s probably not because you heard it on the radio. Released early this spring, the track never charted, but it did find a little infamy online— thanks to some horrendous CGI that gave the rapper the lusty abs of a bodybuilder. The internet had a long laugh at Ludacris’s expense, snickering at the notion that the diminutive, nearly 40-year-old rapper would be delusional enough to cast himself as a sex symbol. The idea that maybe those superimposed muscles were supposed to look ridiculous never even crossed most people’s minds. In his heyday, nobody would have doubted that Ludacris was in on his own joke. For years, the Atlanta wild card was one of the funniest, most creative and entertaining rappers on the radio, and his videos distorted his body in all manner of grotesquely comical ways. But that was the early 2000s, before Lil Wayne invented himself as a Martian and before Atlanta’s rap scene had fully actualized into the avant-garde mecca that it is today. Like nearly every rapper before him, with age, Ludacris has tamed and fallen behind the times. Whatever sense of danger and combustibility he brought to the radio was gone by the time he started doing Fast and Furious movies. Ludacris did slip “Vitamin D” into his set during his latest return to Summerfest Sunday night, but mostly he stuck to the hits, pumping them out one after another: “Southern

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Hospitality,” “Area Codes,” “Roll Out (My Business),” “What’s Your Fantasy,” “Pimping All Over The World” and “How Low” among them, along with his verses from Usher’s “Yeah!” and DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is When.” That’s one of the most unimpeachable singles runs of the 2000s, and mostly the material sold itself, each song firing up the young, tightly packed crowd. The crowd often seemed more animated than Ludacris himself, who slowed the show’s momentum with rehearsed stage banter between nearly every song. He talked about his 18 years in the music industry and the “people supporting me since day one,” complemented the beautiful women in the crowd and repeatedly commented on how the crowd was inspiring him to “do a little something extra tonight,” though for all that talk there was little evidence of going above and beyond. When, midway through the set, he said “we were supposed to be off stage like 10 minutes ago,” usually a surefire applause line, nobody seemed to believe him. He also shouted out a few times to the real Ludacris fans in the crowd, but as best I could tell they don’t exist. Even at peak stardom, Ludacris never had a dedicated following the way an Eminem or a Jay-Z did; listeners saw him more as a singles bot than an artist. His gracious but halfhearted Summerfest show reaffirmed that impression. The songs have held up amazingly well; most felt as fresh and exhilarating as they did a decade ago. It’s Ludacris himself who seemed past his prime.

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72. Cisterns 73. Child’s wheels 74. Descendant 75. Backtalk 76. Like a churl 77. Simple song 78. Rouses 79. Printer’s measure 80. — de la Cite 81. Excavations 82. Watery porridge 83. Plait 84. Topping for spaghetti 86. Onion roll 87. “Wuthering Heights” author 88. A cable network 89. Louver 90. Part of Q.E.D. 91. End of the quip: 6 wds. 99. Diplomacy 100. Instruct 101. — acid (a B vitamin) 102. Chela 104. Caliber 105. Alleviated 106. Being of service 107. River in England 108. Aspersion 109. Pee Wee of baseball 110. Loads up 111. Latvian

10. Decelerated 11. Ricochet 12. Car-for-hire app 13. Feather scarves 14. French department 15. Persian sun god 16. Celebes buffalo 17. Shock 18. Radioactive 28. Unmixed, as liquor 29. Kind of British gun 30. Toddlers 34. Prison guard 35. “— Will Be Blood” 36. Distance-measuring device 37. Abridge 38. Affirm 39. Summer Olympics game: 2 wds. 40. ABA mem. 41. Dissolute 42. Not fresh at all 43. Fathers 45. A joint 46. Further down 49. Word in a palindrome 50. Kitchen mishaps 51. Mendes or Michaels 53. Septs 54. False alarm 55. Kind of store

57. Duck 58. Like a backroom meeting 62. Blue-pencils 63. Bay window 65. Anchor position 66. Deen or Abdul 69. John — Passos 70. Lawful 71. Pip on a card 73. Fey or Turner 74. First king of Israel 77. Calamity 78. Irate 79. Standard of conduct 81. Jumble 82. — Carlo Menotti 83. Laugh loudly 85. Grumble 86. Fair-haired girl 87. Supports 89. Wild blue yonder 90. Roman official: Var. 91. British lockup 92. Beige 93. Dies — 94. Instance 95. Least tiny bit 96. Went effortlessly 97. Conduit for gases 98. Eat nothing 99. Cable channel 103. Dank

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

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ACROSS 1. Concern of underwriters 5. Bowl cut feature 10. — diver 15. Make pulpy 19. Soreness 20. George or T.S. 21. Part of NLRB 22. Dividing 23. Peaty region 24. Osmond or Hathaway 25. Nymph in Greek mythology 26. Ballyhoo 27. Start of a quip by anonymous: 5 wds. 31. Faction 32. Particular 33. Part of Scand. 34. Long mark 37. Daunted 39. Visionary ones 44. Intone 45. Like most fabrics 46. Mouthfuls 47. — Ben Canaan 48. Descartes or Coty 49. Miscalculated 50. Borscht ingredient 51. To-do 52. Work unit 53. Town — 54. Besmirch 55. Water park attraction 56. Well-tended, as a garden 58. Haddock 59. Leverets 60. Monk’s title 61. Part 2 of quip: 3 wds. 64. Arista 65. Relating to bees 67. Bouquets 68. First, second and third, e.g.

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s prime time for you to break through any inhibitions you might have about accessing and expressing your passion. To help you in this righteous cause, I’ve assembled a batch of words you should be ready to use with frequency and sweet abandon. Consider writing at least part of this list on your forearm with a felt-tip pen every morning so it’s always close at hand: enamored, piqued, enchanted, stirred, roused, enthused, delighted, animated, elevated, thrilled, captivated, turned-on, enthralled, exuberant, fired up and awakened. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Matt Groening, creator of the cartoon series The Simpsons, says that a great turning point in his early years came when his scoutmaster told him he was the worst Boy Scout in history. While this might have demoralized other teenagers, it energized Groening. “Well, somebody’s got to be the worst,” he triumphantly told the scoutmaster. And then, “instead of the Earth opening up and swallowing me, instead of the flames of hellfire licking at my knees, nothing happened, and I was free.” I suspect you may soon be blessed with a comparable liberation, Leo. Maybe you’ll be released from having to live up to an expectation you shouldn’t even live up to. Or maybe you’ll be criticized in a way that will motivate your drive for excellence for years to come. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Nineteen of my readers who work in the advertising industry signed a petition requesting that I stop badmouthing their field. “Without advertising,” they testified, “life itself would be impossible.” In response, I agreed to attend their re-education seminar. There, under their tutelage, I came to acknowledge that everything we do can be construed as a kind of advertising. Each of us is engaged in a mostly unconscious campaign to promote our unique way of looking at and being in the world. Realizing the truth, I now feel no reservations about urging you Virgos to take advantage of the current astrological omens. They suggest that you can and should be aggressive and ingenious about marketing yourself, your ideas and your products. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 2003, the American Film Institute announced the creation of a new prize to honor acting talent. Dubbed the Charlton Heston Award, it was designed to be handed out periodically to luminaries who have distinguished themselves over the course of long careers. The first recipient of the award was, oddly enough, Charlton Heston himself, born under the sign of Libra. I hope you’re inspired by this story to wipe away any false modesty you might be suffering from. The astrological omens suggest it’s a favorable moment to create a big new award named after you and bestow it upon yourself. As part of the festivities, tell yourself about what makes you special, amazing and valuable. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s your riddle: What unscratchable itch drives you half-crazy? But you’re secretly glad it drives you half-crazy, because you know your half-craziness will eventually lead you to an experience or resource that will relieve the itch. Here’s your prophecy: Sometime soon, scratching the unscratchable itch will lead you to the experience or resource that will finally relieve the itch. Here’s your homework: Prepare yourself emotionally to fully receive and welcome the new experience or resource. Make sure you’re not so addicted to scratching the unscratchable itch that you fail to take advantage of the healing it’s bringing you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The best way to go forward is to go backward; the path to the bright future requires a shadowy regression. Put another way, you should return to the roots of a triumph in order to find a hidden flaw that might eventually threaten to undo your success. Correct that flaw now and you’ll make it unnecessary for karmic repercussions to undermine you later. But please don’t get all solemn-faced and anxious about this assignment. Approach it with humorous self-correction, and you’ll ensure that all goes well. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you familiar with the psychological concepts of anima and animus? You’re in the midst of being intoxicated by one of those creatures from

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What I wish for you, Taurus, is toasted ice cream and secrets in plain sight and a sacred twist of humorous purity. I would love for you to experience a powerful surrender and a calm climax and a sweeping vision of a small but pithy clue. I very much hope that you will get to take a big trip to an intimate turning point that’s not too far away. I pray you will find or create a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the Dr. Seuss book Horton Hatches an Egg, an elephant assumes the duty of sitting on a bird’s egg, committed to keeping it warm until hatching time. The nest is located high in a tree, which makes the undertaking even more incongruous. By the climax of the tale, Horton has had to persist in his loyal service through a number of challenges. But all ends well, and there’s an added bonus: The creature that’s born is miraculously part-bird, part-elephant. I see similarities between this story and your life right now, Gemini. The duty you’re carrying out doesn’t come naturally, and you’re not even sure you’re doing it right. But if you keep at it till it’s completed, you’ll earn a surprising reward. Homework: What was the pain that healed you most? What was the pleasure that hurt you the worst? 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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