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Has Milwaukee Fallen Behind in High-Tech Startups? A close look at the data behind jobs numbers and investment dollars ::ROB HULLUM s technology becomes more ubiquitous in our lives, the companies behind these innovations are growing increasingly paramount to the economy. The technology industry accounted for 7.1% of overall GDP and employed 6.7 million people in the U.S. in 2015 according to data by CompTIA, a nonprofit technology trade association. Forty-six states saw an increase in tech industry jobs during this time. While these numbers show the industry’s growth on a national level, some recently released statistics are not as optimistic for Milwaukee. For the third straight year, the Milwaukee metro area (which includes Waukesha and West Allis) ranked 39th—tied for last place with Pittsburgh—in the Kauffman Foundation’s annual startup activity rankings. These numbers have caused alarm among the local startup community. “It should be a serious wake up call,” said Matt Cordio, founder of both Skills Pipeline, a recruiting company geared to the tech industry, and Startup Milwaukee, a nonprofit organization that provides resources to local tech entrepreneurs. “It’s data, and anytime data doesn’t rank you in the top 10, there’s room for improvement. We’re not in the top 10, and that should concern people.” The index is compiled through publicly available data and comprised of three factors: rate of new entrepreneurs, or the percent of the adult population that became entrepreneurs in a given month (0.15% for Milwaukee); opportunity share of new entrepreneurs, or the percentage of new entrepreneurs who were not unemployed before starting their business (67.53%); and startup density, which measures the number of startup firms (defined here as firms less than one year old that employ at least one person besides the owner) per 1,000 firm population. Some business leaders have criticized the index for the narrow factors taken into account. “The thing that we believe really requires our attention and effort is to support the ability for businesses to grow,” said Elmer Moore Jr., executive director of Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the Greater Milwaukee Committee that seeks to drive business growth in Southeast Wisconsin. “I don’t think that is necessarily captured in this index.”
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A Risk-Averse Investor Class
While the Kauffman ranking isn’t perfect, it is the “gold standard” according to Joe Kirgues, co-founder and managing director of gener8tor, a startup accelerator with offices in Milwaukee and Madison that was recently given a gold ranking by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project. “We believe that the Kauffman numbers are credible in part because we see such a scarcity of venture capital going into the Milwaukee market,” Kirgues said. In fact, startups in nearby Madison, which was ranked the number 10 high-tech metro area in the nation by a 2017 Cushman & Wakefield index (the Madison metro area is not large enough to be ranked by the Kauffman index), have seen more than three times the number of venture deals in recent years according to Chicago Inno, a Chicago tech publication. Experts cite an older, more risk-averse investor class as a reason for the lack of capital going into local startups. “There’s a lot of older money in the Milwaukee area,” Cordio said. “It’s traditionally put into less risky investments because you’re focused on preserving wealth. There is some investor education that needs to be done on getting more people into the venture capital or angel investor space. I think a lot of people have gone out there and maybe invested $25,000 in a family friend’s startup and never seen that money returned. Good angel investors say that it takes 10 investments to get one that pays you back and then some for all of your failed investments. There just isn’t a strong culture of that here in the Milwaukee area. That’s something that needs to change.” This risk-averse attitude, perhaps more alarmingly, emerges once deals are finally in the process of being made through strict terms that heavily favor the investor. “There are people in the area whose proposals for investment are unfair to entrepreneurs,” said Tim Keane, director of Golden Angels, a group of angel investors based in Brookfield and the former director of the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University. Golden Angels, and many other investors in the area, use standard National Venture Capital Association documents, which give investors some normal rights when putting money into companies. But some local investors go beyond these standard terms. He cited a specific term sheet for a company he was advising, which asked for: the right to force the entrepreneur to sell their company in a pre-set amount of years; participation rights, which is a set percentage that the investor receives on top of their stake at the sale of the company, just for being investors; and annual compounding dividends, which multiplies the amount of money the company owes the investor every year until the company is sold. “It’s very unfavorable!” Keane said. “I’ve never seen anything set up that way come out well.” If these terms were so unfavorable, why would anyone agree to them? The entrepreneur Keane was advising did not, but inexperienced entrepreneurs
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who need funding can sometimes have little other choice than to take these bad deals. “If you’re not very savvy, and this is the only offer, and you’ve been looking for three months and think this is it, you take it,” Keane said. “But, if you take it and later find out that you’re in a difficult situation, it’s too late.” A lack of options puts those with capital in even more control. These particular investors also put people on boards that “have no experience,” according to Keane. “They say things like, ‘I’m here representing Investor Group B,’” he explains. “Corporate law says that the directors are responsible to the stockholders of the company, not some group that got the right to elect them. [These investors] try and control the company with people that maybe don’t exactly have a grasp and are not adding a lot of value.” Keane said these are not terms entrepreneurs would see in West Coast startup hubs like Seattle and Silicon Valley, and that some startup founders have hired out-of-state law firms that agreed that these are not standard terms.
A Lack of Available Tech Talent and Mentorship
“For a startup community to be successful, you need to have a strong tech community,” Cordio said. “That’s where you get the talent from.” While most agree that there is plenty of tech talent in the city, most of the qualified tech workers are not working at startups. Milwaukee unemployment is currently at its lowest level since 1990, and big firms like Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual and Rockwell Automation employ many of the qualified workers in engineering, software, hardware and other tech-related fields. “I think that for the tech talent in Milwaukee, it’s less that they’re not here and more that it seems irrational to associate with a startup because of the comparatively poor outcomes those startups have achieved in the last 10 years,” Kirgues said. “In that case, it’s better to go to a corporate job.” While the shortage is a challenge, many of these young companies have successfully built staffs with local talent. “We’ve grown the team, and a good portion of them come from UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison,” said Richard Yau, co-founder and CEO of Bright Cellars, a subscription-based wine startup. Yau and his co-founder, Joe Laurendi, created the company while they were students at MIT before bringing it to Milwaukee through gener8tor. “I think we’ve been able to grow the team very well locally, and, in a lot of cases, we have employees who would’ve otherwise moved to Silicon Valley or Chicago,” Yau said. “I do get the sense that there are people with the right talent to grow startups here.” Yau sees the lack of mentorship in the area
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“THIS PLACE IS PERCOLATING WITH INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO START AND GROW BUSINESSES. WHAT’S EVEN BETTER IS THAT WE ARE GETTING TO A PLACE WHERE WE ARE COORDINATED AND WORKING IN CONCERT.” as a challenge. Without many successful startups, there aren’t many leaders entrepreneurs can turn to for advice. “Both my co-founder and I got to work at a Boston startup for three and four years before starting Bright Cellars,” Yau said. “So we got the chance to be early employees at venture funded startups. I think that’s something that may be missing, or not yet developed, here. So, when I think about why the rate of startup creation is relatively low, I think a new crop of entrepreneurs that have startup experience is still developing. We’re still in the early stages of that.” Like all successful startups, they had to begin small, taking risks and seizing opportunities to get to where they are today. Milwaukee’s startup community is no different.
The New Resources for Milwaukee Startups
“There has been an incredible amount of effort in the last couple of years to organize
the many stakeholders and actors working to support entrepreneurship in this region,” said Moore of Scale Up Milwaukee. “This place is percolating with incredible opportunity for people who want to start and grow businesses. What’s even better is that we are getting to a place where we are coordinated and working in concert.” Organizations like Scale Up Milwaukee, Startup Milwaukee, BizStarts, Startup Grind Milwaukee, Ward4, The Commons and many more are working to strengthen Milwaukee as a hub for entrepreneurs. No event more perfectly encapsulates this synchronized effort than Wisconsin Startup Week. Launched last year by Matt Cordio as “Milwaukee Startup Week,” the event featured more than 25 events hosted by more than 28 community partners over six days at various locations around Southeastern Wisconsin. Coby Skonord, founder and CEO of Ideawake, a software company that allows managers to crowdsource ideas from their employees, participated in a number of workshops at last year’s Startup Week. He praised the event’s potential to create a useful community around people’s individual businesses. “It’s really helpful to connect with other entrepreneurs,” he said. “There’s always synergy—even if you’re in completely different industries.” This year, Cordio is expanding the event to the full state and is hoping that, through networking and education, he can help jumpstart the state’s startup community. “[The event] is an easy way to plug in to the community and see all of the different organizations that are there to help entrepreneurs, and there are a lot of serendipitous things that happen throughout the week,” he said. And, while venture and angel funding remains relatively low, a number of grants and programs are now available to entrepreneurs that can get them tens of thousands of dollars to help grow their businesses. Kiva, WWBIC, WEDC, WERCBench Labs and even a local “Shark Tank” styled television show now all have options for entrepreneurs to fund big ideas. While three years in a row of last-place rankings is definitely disheartening, entrepreneurs are carrying on. “The community has built a lot of momentum, and there is still a lot of momentum,” Cordio said. “I think that a lot of people in the community don’t really care that we’re ranked dead last. Where there’s a dearth of activity, there’s a lot of opportunity. There are people that say that it takes about 20 years to build an entrepreneurial community in your community, and I don’t think that it really started until maybe 2010. We’ve still got a ways to go.” Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n
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ReciproCITY Builds Community in Milwaukee ‘Mobile collective’ collaborates with other groups to curb violence, promote culture and increase awareness ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL
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quartet of creative catalysts and activists is quietly making things happen in Milwaukee. Since its founding in 2012, ReciproCITY, a “mobile cultural collective,” has initiated many community-based projects that relate to cultural history, urban agriculture, curbing violence and promoting community. Sometimes their respective professional work intertwines with ReciproCITY projects. They collaborate with other individuals, grassroots groups and major institutions for specific ventures, including sustainability projects, exhibitions, permanent art installations and a neighborhood park. ReciproCITY’s initiatives frequently involve helping young people cultivate skills. ReciproCITY’s latest effort was the blocklong mural on Historic Mitchell Street just west of First Street. The Butters Fetting Company provided a building wall for the mural depicting events in the history of Milwaukee’s Latino immigrants. The project started in 2015 when Michael Carriere, Associate Professor of History at Milwaukee School of Engineering, led a team of undergraduates and high school students in conducting oral histories for the project. “We used the 50-year history of United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS) as an entry point into a broader story of the Latino civil rights movement in Milwaukee,” says Carriere. Those narratives then informed the mural’s imagery. Raoul Deal of the UW-Milwaukee’s Community Arts Program at Peck School of the Arts was the project’s lead artist. All interns were young people of color who were paid for their work through the nonprofit ArtWorks for Milwaukee.
‘Placemaking From the Bottom-Up’
Interns also learned about translating words into images and how to brainstorm design ideas and paint the mural’s final design. Carriere calls the UMOS mural project “placemaking from the bottom-up.” It was funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council and with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, CDBG Milwaukee, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Manpower Group and the Partnership for the Arts & Humanities. Carriere, an occasional writer for the Shepherd Express, also directs MSOE’s University Scholars Honors Program, and ReciproCITY 8 | J U LY 2 0 , 2 0 1 7
often works with honors program students on community projects. Carriere launched ReciproCITY in 2012 with Paul Kjelland and Nicolas Lampert. It began as an experimental cultural space located inside the Sweet Water Organics aquaponic farm “as a means of fostering collaboration between urban farmers, artists, activists and the greater community,” he says. Their early projects included designing and building a mobile farmstand and screen-printing unit with funding from the Wormfarm Institute’s Roadside Cultural Stands program. It’s now part of the Victory Garden Initiative’s Concordia Gardens in Harambee. Lampert, a senior lecturer in UWM’s Peck School of the Arts’ Department of Art and Design, teaches seminars in art and ecology as well as art and social movements. He authored A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements. (The late Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of America, was the series editor.)
Instigating Projects for Positive Change
Kjelland is a multimedia artist and “project instigator” who has worked on diverse ventures, including co-founding Climate Prints— a web space for artists and activists to share work for use in climate-justice movements. He co-founded the Riverwest24, “a community event combining bicycles, neighborhood organizing, barber’s choice haircuts, crowdsourced projects and thousands of meals—all in 24 hours.” He served as engagement director for “Precious Lives,” a recently concluded 100-part, two-year radio, podcast and engage-
ment series exploring the impact of gun violence in Milwaukee. In 2013, ReciproCITY designed a crowdsourced “bonus checkpoint” during Riverwest24 at the Career Youth Development (CYD) building on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. ReciproCITY had previously worked with the CYD on building garden beds at the Victory Over Violence Park adjacent to their building. Bicycle riders helped complete a new rooftop garden by hauling buckets of dirt to the roof to fill 22 garden beds constructed the day before. Community activist, educator and hip-hop artist Fidel Verdin joined ReciproCITY in 2014. He has organized “Summer of Peace” projects since 2002, citywide youth efforts to curb violence and recognize young people doing good things in the city. He worked with the City of Milwaukee to develop the Peace Park located at Locust and Fifth Streets before becoming involved with ReciproCITY. Verdin is currently co-executive director of True Skool, a nonprofit that uses hip-hop to engage young people and build community. In late 2015, ReciproCITY, in collaboration with HeartLove Place, launched Peace Place, which transformed blighted lots into a community park in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood. HeartLove Place is an anchor institution in the neighborhood, providing family resources, child development center, culinary training program and other services. ReciproCITY members first contacted the City of Milwaukee with ambitious plans for two of the lots, which the city owns. They envisioned a green community space with food production and rainwater harvesting, as well as public art, a performance stage and other community amenities. Officials in the Department of City Development were initially reluctant to use the land for a park because they wanted commercial development there, says Carriere. However, they eventually warmed to the project when HeartLove Place got on board to donate its adjoining lot for the park.
Working Together to Make it Happen
Una Van Duvall, HeartLove Place’s development director, says that when the nonprofit was approached about teaming up, its leaders decided, “We have some land; let’s work together to make something happen.” HeartLove, founded in 1995, had built a sizable headquarters across the street. They recently sold that building to Hope Christian Schools for its high school. (HeartLove is temporarily renting space at St. Francis of Assisi Church as they pursue plans for another building nearby.) The City of Milwaukee’s Environmental Collaboration Office, the Partners for Places Initiative and HOME GR/OWN Initiative helped to install the sustainable urban-agriculture aspects, including 20 fruit trees, raised gardening beds and rainwater catchments. Groundwork Milwaukee, a nonprofit land trust, leases the land from the city on behalf of the project partners. Carriere applauds city officials for being
open to a new model of neighborhood development for the lots, which had been vacant for 22 years, and, according to Van Duvall, “sheer networking, communication and trust are what allowed this park to move forward,” adding, “our little project is a labor of love. This is what collaboration can accomplish.” Verdin says Peace Place “is about, health, fitness, food and a safe green space that allows people to connect, learn and organize.” The park has since become a gathering place for many people. Van Duvall says a serpentine wooden bench near the street is a popular spot for transit users in all seasons. (Ray Chi, who teaches art at UWM, designed and built the bench as a project donation.) Students at nearby schools visit the park during recess and after school. The Wisconsin Bike Federation recently set up a free bicycle repair clinic at Peace Place for four days. True Skool conducts service-learning days there to engage young people in urban agriculture and art projects. Elementary school children helped design and build birdhouses for the park. HeartLove has held its annual fundraiser under a tent in the park for the past two summers. Last year’s Summer of Peace major rally was held in the park.
Remembering Milwaukee’s Urban History
One driving force for Peace Place involved creating a home for two massive murals Lampert and Kjelland created to honor the civil rights and housing marches held in Milwaukee starting in 1967. The murals are based on historic photos of the Milwaukee’s Commandos—NAACP Youth Council activists led by the late Father James Groppi. However, the project soon broadened through what Carriere says was an extensive community engagement process. After enlisting a broad base of partners and gathering direct input from neighbors, UWM’s Community Design Solutions helped craft a master plan for the site. Walnut Way’s Blue Skies Landscaping consulted on removing existing nuisance trees and brush, as well as options for pathways and landscaping. Current goals for the park include securing funding for an innovative installation that will serve as performance stage, outdoor classroom and fitness area. Jordan Nelson, who recently graduated from the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning, has donated the design. Verdin also would like the park to have Wi-Fi, solar-powered lighting and other amenities and to become a “world-class destination.” Van Duvall appreciates how Peace Place is evolving as part of developing the Martin Luther King Drive corridor. She also enjoys working with ReciproCITY and True Skool as project partners. “Every four or five weeks we meet to talk about park stuff,” she says. If you’re interested in donating to Peace Place, contact Una Van Duvall at 414-3721550. HeartLove Place is the project’s fiscal agent. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Reginald Jackson, board chair of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, will be the guest speaker at Unitarian Church North’s Sunday service. His presentation will discuss the history of segregation in the region and the effects on those who live in segregated spaces.
This public forum will be a chance for the public to share their thoughts about what the group should be putting their energy towards in the Milwaukee area. There will also be a short presentation about MASA’s current initiatives and upcoming events.
MSDF Picket @ Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (1015 N. 10th St.), 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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St. John Church in Germantown is hosting a knit-in to welcome new immigrants to the U.S. “Imagine if, instead of a concrete wall to keep people out, 3,500,640 yards of yarn became blankets to welcome people in?” says the event’s Facebook page.
Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Lincoln Memorial Drive and Lafayette Hill, 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.
Laughing Liberally @ ComedySportz Theater (420 S. First St.), 8 p.m.
Laughing Liberally is a progressive comedy show held monthly at ComedySportz Theater. It is hosted by Matthew Filipowicz, whose work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC and other notable outlets. This month’s comedians include Jason Hillman, Dina Nina Martinez, Marcos Lara, Dana Ehrmann, Kelsey Claire Hagen and the sketch comedy group The Accountants Of Homeland Security. There will also be an interview with transgender activist James Carnell.
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Milwaukee’s Industrial Workers of the World and Ex-Prisoners Organizing will protest outside of the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility in an ongoing effort to shut the facility down. This picket happens every 23rd of the month, and it is usually held at or very near the Milwaukee County Courthouse or MSDF.
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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.
Alice’s Garden Black Lives Matter Event @ Alice’s Garden (2136 N. 21st St.), 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Alice’s Garden is holding a Black Lives Matter event as a way to “lift up community voices and concerns, as we all struggle to find our way through the … lack of justice and compassion in this nation for black people.” The event is free and open to the public.
Drinking Liberally Glendale @ Bar Louie (5750 Bayshore Drive), 7-9 p.m.
Drinking Liberally events are great a time for like-minded people to get together to discuss the resistance, or just unwind and have a good time in these troubling circumstances. 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. Comment at shepherdexpress.com.n SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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epublicans who hate the big, bad federal government often argue state governments are better suited to become “the laboratories of democracy.” States are smaller, more flexible and, for a while at least, can get away with conducting experiments on their citizens. The problem is mad scientist Republican governors keep creating terrifying monsters in their laboratories that rampage through their states, devouring school children and destroying their economies. The carnage got so bad in Kansas and Illinois that legislative Republicans finally wrestled two of the nation’s most deranged right-wing governors into straitjackets and began repairing the damage they’d done. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker remains at large with no intervention in sight. Massive, irresponsible Republican tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy are politically popular right up to the point where government can no longer deliver basic services that make
every community livable and ordinary lives bearable. And it’s all to make the richest people on Earth richer.
Welfare for the Wealthy The diabolical experiments in Kansas and Illinois—just like Walker’s experiments on Wisconsin workers—exposed the fraudulence of a rightwing myth: that taking money and government services away from poor people and middleclass workers struggling to survive to give massive tax cuts to the wealthy benefits everyone. Well, at least it benefits everyone Republicans care about. Most economists say the only beneficiaries of trickle-down economics are those at the top who amuse themselves by trickling down on all the rest of us. That doesn’t stop Republicans from continuing to give their wealthy donors bigger and bigger tax cuts. At least until their states go broke from all the lost revenue. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, like Walker, was a Republican extremist elected in the 2010 racist Tea Party backlash against President Barack Obama. Brownback vowed to make Kansas “a real live experiment” to prove once and for all the Republican theory that cutting taxes for the wealthy would create an unbelievable economic boom. It turned out to be totally unbelievable, all right. Brownback eliminated his state’s top tax rate, resulting in a 26% tax cut for the state’s wealthiest taxpayers. He also exempted owners of Kansas businesses from having to pay any income tax at all.
Brownback created a sort of business boom, but not the kind he expected: Before the business tax cut, Kansas had 191,000 small businesses; after he created that handy loophole, 330,000 Kansans suddenly pretended they were small businesses so they wouldn’t have to pay any taxes. Instead of an economic boom, Brownback’s enormous tax cuts over seven years created an economic disaster. Guess what? Enormous state tax cuts create enormous state deficits. After burning through every cash reserve and drastically cutting all state services, Kansas still faced a $900 million budget shortfall this year. School years were cut short under what the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in March was an unconstitutionally underfunded school system. Brownback’s completely unfounded belief that enormous tax cuts for the wealthy would somehow magically create more government revenue as a result of a booming economy should sound familiar. One of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s earliest political jobs in Washington in 1995 was as Kansas U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback’s legislative director.
GOP Lawmakers Back Away from Economic Extremists Kansas Republicans joined Democrats last month to override Brownback’s veto of their budget proposal to begin rolling back the state’s massive tax cuts, restore a higher tax bracket for the wealthy and raise $1.9 billion in needed revenue. Illinois Republicans and Democrats
did much the same a few weeks later, overriding a veto by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner to finally pass a budget to fund public services. Illinois was in even worse shape financially than Kansas, facing $15 billion in unpaid bills, a $6 billion state deficit and threats that credit-rating agencies would reduce state borrowing to junk bond status. Finally, Republican governors are paying for their reckless tax cuts and financial mismanagement. In Wisconsin, Walker got away with murder in his first budget when he closed a $3.6 billion budget deficit by destroying public employee union rights and taking those billions directly out of the paychecks of state workers and his state’s economy. Now, Walker is actually running for re-election bragging about producing $8 billion in tax cuts as governor. It might not be so smart to remind voters of that. Walker’s tax cuts, like all Republican tax cuts, overwhelmingly went to the wealthy. Walker not only balanced his budget on the backs of working people but rubbed it in by showering the money he took from them on millionaires and billionaires. And, as his second term closes, Walker still hasn’t created the 250,000 jobs he promised for workers in his first term. With working people throughout the state still struggling to climb out of the deep economic hole Walker dug for them, he might not want to boast about sending billions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest people in Wisconsin. Comment at shepherdexpress.com.
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n a democracy, candidates and elected officials build their support by meeting and listening to the voters. County Executive Chris Abele made it clear in his campaigns that he does not want to spend his time meeting with average voters. Instead, Abele used his family money to win three elections and is now using family money to launch a war against some of Milwaukee’s most respected elected officials. His line of fake news consists of half-truths and some outright lies.
With the assistance of his faithful minion, attorney Dan Adams, Abele established and primarily financed a website and various glossy mailers, launching a war against Mayor Tom Barrett, Sen. Chris Larson and Milwaukee County Board President Theo Lipscomb. Abele is also praising some of our more questionable elected officials.
A Brief History of the Last Six Years Abele came into office attacking the county board and county government. He was going to be the great disrupter, similar to the way Donald Trump came to Washington. Actually, there were quite a few similarities. Like Trump, Abele knew little of policy, how government works or how to manage a large public institution. He has been a slow learner at the expense of the voters. Like Trump, his top appointments were not the best or the brightest. Also like Trump, he attacked the legislative body he is obliged to work with, and its members, mostly because he didn’t understand how democratic institutions work and what checks and balances actually mean. They both had wealthy fathers who opened all the doors for them and learned early in life that because they had money and you didn’t, they could play by different rules or simply ignore the rules. During his first campaign, Abele’s attacks
were primarily directed against the Milwaukee County Board and its then chair, Marina Dimitrijevic. The daily newspaper and most of the local news programs—with encouragement from the Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC)—naively bought his narrative. Then, Abele, aided by legislation passed by the Republican-controlled legislature, crippled the important concept of checks and balances for Milwaukee County and consolidated power in the hands of the county executive. Legislators from upstate, many of whom actually dislike Milwaukee, restructured Milwaukee County government contrary to the wishes of the voters in the county. Today, the Milwaukee County Executive has more unchecked power than virtually any other county executive in the country. That lends itself to incompetence and corruption.
The Current State of Affairs The state of affairs in Milwaukee County government has deteriorated over the past six years under Abele’s mismanagement. He has hired people for top-level positions who are not effective managers. He gave them massive raises while he fought to cut the real income of the average county employees, the secretaries and manual laborers, leaving much of the county workforce demoralized. After six years, he has been unable to get the county pension system right; we have seen literally hundreds of errors in the administration of the pension system under his watch. That alone is totally unacceptable. We have seen blatant cronyism including “sole source” contracts to benefit his pals at the expense of Milwaukee County taxpayers. Finally, he tries to do everything possible in secret. Ironically, he talks transparency and does the exact opposite. As a result, his aggressive and incompetent approach toward the county and his numerous failures have resulted in his having only one solid ally on the county board. You have to ask yourself: When only one county board member consistently supports him, perhaps there are some serious problems with his policies and practices. Those board members were elected by going door-to-door
and listening to their constituents. They know what their voters want and try to create policies that represent their wishes. Abele, on the other hand, is always at odds with them. That is just one problem when someone buys an election rather than earning the support of voters.
Abele’s Response to His Problems So, how does Abele respond to his failures? Well, when in doubt, go back to Daddy’s money for help. After coming in second in the primary for his re-election (behind State Sen. Chris Larson), he then spent more than $5 million directly and indirectly to win his re-election. Senator Larson spent about $250,000—a 20-to-one advantage for Abele. This is a reelection, not a first election, for Abele. In an election when the public knows you and doesn’t particularly like or respect you, getting re-elected requires running a nasty, negative campaign to demonize your opponent. If you can’t get people to like you, you might be able to get them to vote against your opponent. So, essentially, it was Boston family money again that paid for Abele’s reelection. Now, Abele has taken things to a new level. Since the latest election, he not only attacks the county board chair with half-truths and distortions, he is also going after the mayor and various Democratic state legislators either directly or by bolstering their opponents. He also seems to be attacking or undermining many of the honest and well-regarded local elected officials and providing support for some of the more dubious elected officials. So, if you receive a jumbo-size glossy postcard attacking an elected official paid for by Milwaukee Works, Inc., you can safely assume that it is connected to Abele, and it is full of misinformation. Instead of attacking honest elected officials, it might be better for Abele to own up to his mismanagement, cronyism and many policy failures, and to take some responsibility rather than strike out at the successful public servants. Unfortunately, Chris Abele’s ongoing temper tantrums do not move Milwaukee County forward.
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We were fortunate to stumble upon Mussel Monday where you can get a ienvenue a la Maison means “Welcome Home” in half kilo of mussels with crusty bread and a glass of house wine for $15. The French. The new place is in Washington Heights, mussels were tender and sweet and you get your choice of the more classic housed in the former Meritage Restaurant. Although French white sauce or a red sauce. The house red wine was a perfect complethe layout is the same, the modern bistro décor has ment to all the flavors in both sauces. been updated with light-colored walls and a newly There were two soups to choose from, but when in a French bistro it is pretrefaced bar. Chef and owner Michael Quinn brings ty hard to pass up soupe à l’oignon ($5). The onion soup broth was rich with his talent for French cuisine, creating thoughtful, layers of complex flavors and lots of gooey Gruyere on top of the baguette, modern takes on classic French bistro food while almost a meal by itself. The salads range from the Maison salad with pickled paying homage to Meritage and its patrons. mustard vinaigrette ($8) to a Niçoise ($14) that was beautiful in presentation. Maison’s craft cocktails are what you would ex“Plats Principaux” includes the classic coq au vin ($25) with wild black trumpet pect from a French bistro, blending imported French mushrooms, poisson du jour ($26) and a 10-ounce calotte de boeuf (cap steak, ingredients with some modern twists as in the Saz$26) or 14-ounce entrecote de boeuf (bone-in ribeye, $38). The saumon aux erac ($10), which is made with Peirre Ferrand 1840 lentilles ($25) was a beautiful wild caught salmon with a cold lavender-French cognac, demerara, house aromatic bitters, atomlentil salad. The salmon was grilled medium and balanced well next to the ized GLD Absinthe Verte and cedar wood-smoked bright lentil salad. lemon oil. They have a nice variety of biere includThe agneau fumé (smoked lamb shank, $27) caught my eye and was paired ing both local and imported selections and a well-chosen vin menu to enjoy with the apero “bar with roasted parsnips and tart cherries, but the special that evening was duck confit with sliced sunchokes, pickled plums and baby arugula ($24). The duck snacks” ($4-$14), including pommes frites avec aïoli, leg confit was tender with crisp skin, a little salty which I moelle roti (a roasted bone marlove and expect from French preparations and together row served with a parsley salad) with the sunchokes and plums was a divine combination. and gougeres au foie gras (delicate Maison The food at Maison was spot on in every level including savory gruyere puffs filled with a foie the dessert menu, which has several bon bons to choose gras mousse with brandied cherry and 5921 W. Vliet St. from and an even larger selection of dessert wine and diapricot preserves). 414-323-4030 | $$-$$$ gestif. The petite tarte tatin was replaced that evening with The plateau fromage come with five different cheeses and maisonmke.com a trio of macarons ($7), Maison’s signature orange blossom accouterments ($16) and the charcuterie ($16) with pickled Handicap Access: Yes sabayon ($8) and—homage to Mertiage—Chef Jan’s chocovegetables and apple Dijon. The cheese and charcuterie are CC, RS, FB, OD, GF late ganache cake ($8). Go “toot sweet” and enjoy Milwauput together like works of Monet bringing color and nature to kee’s newest addition to French cuisine. the plate. Hours: M-Sa 3-10 p.m.
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on Money felt like he was going to hit one out. It was Saturday, April 10, 1976, and the Milwaukee Brewers trailed the New York Yankees 9-6. The Crew had jumped out to a 6-0 lead that afternoon, but Yankee rallies in the seventh and ninth innings had run up nine unanswered runs on the Brewers. In the bottom of the ninth, Robin Yount led off with a single, followed by a Pedro Garcia walk. Bobby Darwin, pinch-hitting for Gorman Thomas, reached on an error, leaving the bases loaded for veteran slugger Money. “I had that feeling,” Money said after the game. “I felt right.” After taking a ball, Money drilled a Dave Pagan pitch deep into the left field bleachers. As the crowd of more than 10,000 rejoiced, Money circled the bases. Few people noticed Yankees manager Billy Martin fly out onto the field in a rage, screaming at first base umpire Jim McKean. Ten minutes later, the Yankees would win the game, and the Brewers would be left with one of the most improbable losses in franchise history. Two days earlier, the Brewers had spanked the Yankees 5-0 in the season opener. Billy Martin was in his first full season as manager of the Bronx Bombers, and expectations were high for the team. The Brewers, meanwhile, were still looking for their first winning season, but made some major strides as a franchise the year before by trading for Henry Aaron and hosting the MLB All-Star Game.
Sore Loser Hurls Accusations Winning the opener was a big deal for the young Brewers, and the loss needled Martin enough that he lashed out at the Brewers after the game, accusing the team of using an illegally sloped pitching mound that had caused Catfish Hunter’s poor performance. Martin, of course, had had run-ins with the Brewers in the past. In 1973, while managing the Tigers, he had dismissed the Brewers’ hot start saying, “If they can win with this club, then I’m a Chinese aviator.” Milwaukee fans were still booing him over the remark.
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For all his faults, Martin was a keen observer of the game. So, on that Saturday afternoon as Money settled in at the plate, took the first pitch and then awaited Pagan’s 1-0 meatball, Martin noticed his first baseman, Chris Chambliss, turn to McKean and ask for time. And just as Pagan was going into his windup, he saw the umpire raise his hands. Eyewitness accounts of the scene vary, but it seems that McKean began to raise his hands to stop play, but then pulled them back as Money’s shot cleared the fence. But Martin was sure that play should have been stopped. And he was damn sure not going to lose another game on a raw deal. As the Brewers congratulated Money, Martin screamed himself red at McKean. The umpire at first denied that he had granted Chambliss time-out. But after two full minutes of Martin’s tirade, the second base umpire admitted that he had seen McKean raise his hands from the very corner of his eye. McKean backtracked and confirmed the time-out call. The umps conferred and called the teams back out onto the field. Now it was first base coach Harvey Kuenn’s turn to explode. Kuenn insisted McKean had never raised his hands and needed to be physically restrained by the other three umpires. Meanwhile, the crowd roared in disapproval and showered the field, the Yankees and the umps with beer cups and other debris. When order was restored, Money popped out, George Scott lofted a run-scoring sac fly and Darrell Porter grounded out, handing the Yankees a 9-7 win.
Victory Snatched from Their Hands In the clubhouse after the game, the Brewers were apoplectic. “To come back and win a game like that and have it taken right out of your hands with the winning run crossing the plate,” manager Alex Grammas told the press. “I thought I’d seen it all before, but I’ve never seen anything like that. I cannot believe it.” Don Money sat by his locker, taking a long pull on a can of beer. When he finished it, he quickly opened another. “What gets me mad is that he gets in the argument for two minutes and then changes his mind,” he told reporters. “If he had called timeout, he would have said it right away. But they had to have a two-minute argument. They’re gutless.” McKean, talking after the game, insisted that he had not been bullied into changing his story. The whole thing, he claimed, was a misunderstanding. “[When he first ran out on the field] I couldn’t comprehend what Martin was saying,” the umpire said. “Finally, he said, ‘Jimmy, you called timeout.’ I said, ‘I know, I was going to tell [home plate umpire] George Marloney now.” The Brewers went on to lose 95 games that season and, perhaps having earned Martin’s scorn, fared particularly poorly against the Yankees, dropping 13 of their 15 match-ups that year. Meanwhile, Martin and the Yankees went on to win 97 games and take the AL Pennant. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Clint Eastwood: Jazz Aficionado ::BY RICHARD G. CARTER
ctor-director Clint Eastwood has carved an indelible niche in American cinema. From his star-making turn in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) to his signature role as San Francisco cop Dirty Harry (1975) and on to Unforgiven (1992)—for which he won an Oscar as Best Director—Eastwood’s name has become synonymous with gritty cinema realism. And as a lifelong jazz aficionado, Eastwood has artfully injected his love for this distinctly American art form into several of his successful films, notably Play Misty for Me (1971), Bird (1988) and In the Line of Fire (1993). His most notable achievement as a film-making jazz buff, was directing Bird—the complex, bittersweet story of ill-starred jazz legend Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Future Oscar winner Forest Whitaker played Parker in, arguably, his finest performance. More on this one later. In Play Misty For Me (the first of 39 films he directed), Eastwood played a late-night jazz DJ in California. A homicidal caller (Jessica Walter) repeatedly requests Erroll Garner’s “Misty.” The film is enhanced by Monterey Jazz Festival footage featuring Cannonball Adderley and Johnny Otis. In the Line of Fire casts Eastwood as an aging, loner Secret Service agent haunted by failure to properly protect President Kennedy in Dallas. Now
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hot on the trail of a plotting presidential assassin (John Malkovich), he relaxes by playing jazz piano. A female agent (Rene Russo), whom Eastwood is romancing, asks what demographic he represents. Eastwood’s answer: “White piano playing heterosexual males over the age of 50. And there ain’t a lot of us, but we do have a powerful lobby. I’ve played for presidents and I’ve played with presidents.” In Bird, Eastwood presented a heartfelt biography of Parker, the virtuoso who revolutionized jazz in the 1940s, and delved heavily into the drug use that led to his death at age 34. Parker’s astounding alto sax on the soundtrack helped earn the film an Oscar for Best Sound Recording. Believable work by Whitaker as Parker and Diane Venora as Chan, his jazz groupie common-law white wife, lift this riveting film. Samuel E. Wright scores as Dizzy Gillespie, Parker’s bebop trumpet colleague and fellow jazz legend. Sensitive support is provided by Michael Zelniker as trumpet virtuoso Red Rodney, with a snarling Keith David as envious, hard-driving tenor sax phenom, Buster Franklin. The film begins as Parker, who first tried heroin at 15 in Kansas City, yearns to become big time. Arriving in New York at 20, young Parker (played by Whitaker’s real-life son, Damon), is ridiculed after
playing at an open jam by Franklin, who had introduced him as “Charlie from just around.” Undaunted, Parker’s prodigious talent evolves, and his explosive riffs establish him as a force to be reckoned with. Eastwood’s film follows his selfdestructive life of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity, courtship of the wealthy Chan and open affairs with two other white women. Some of the best of many memorable musical interludes takes place as Parker and his quintet tour the segregated South by car. Eastwood’s love for jazz comes through by reminding viewers how Parker enhanced his solo career in 1950 with his success on Charlie Parker with Strings, recording the likes of “Autumn in New York,” “April in Paris,” “Laura” and “Stella By Starlight.” Late in the film, Parker shows up backstage at the New York Paramount Theater and winces as Franklin plays rock ’n’ roll. As he takes his bows, Parker steals the gold-plated sax bearing the initials BF. Apprehended outside the stage door by Franklin and his band mates, he explains: “I just wanted to see if it can play more than one note.” After a dissipated Parker succumbs to a heart attack while watching a TV variety show in the home of Baroness Nika (Diane Salinger) on March 12, 1955, a medical examiner described him by telephone to his office as “a stocky male Negro approximately 65 years of age.” Nika, who had been trying to reach Chan, then said: “He was 34.” Among on-screen lead-ins to lengthy closing credits filled with many musical acknowledgements, director Eastwood lovingly cited Chan Parker’s contribution to the movie as “invaluable” and added: “This picture is dedicated to musicians everywhere.”
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Violent Femmes and Echo and the Bunnymen w/ Ava Mendoza, 7:30 p.m.
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The term “Milwaukee’s own” has been affixed to countless local bands, but rarely is it used with more pride than when it’s in reference to the Violent Femmes, the most successful, important rock band the city has ever spawned. Few albums have managed to evoke feelings of teenage angst and sexual frustration better than the group’s near-perfect 1983 self-titled debut, a classic that only grows more iconic with each decade. They nodded to that album’s simple, perky sound on their latest release, last year’s We Can Do Anything, a fun if low-stakes exercise in their signature folk-punk that original members Gordon Gano and Brian Ritchie recorded with Dresdon Dolls drummer Brian Viglione. The band will co-headline this show with post-punk greats Echo and the Bunnymen.
Guthrie Brown w/ Future Thieves and Clear Pioneer @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.
Nashville singer-songwriter Guthrie Brown has opened for artists such as Jonny Lang, Willie Nelson, The Lumineers, The Thermals and Robert Randolph. Though he’s only 18, Brown’s music is suggestive of an old soul. His debut EP, 2016’s Natural, is the type of nuanced alternative rock that takes some artists a lifetime to cultivate. Brown will share this show with fellow Nashville band Future Thieves, who are set to release their follow up to their 2015 album Horizon Line this fall.
FRIDAY, JULY 21 Festa Italiana @ Summerfest Grounds
Festa Italiana returns to Milwaukee this year for its 40th anniversary. The first of all the city’s ethnic festivals, Festa Italiana originated to reunite an Italian community separated by urban development projects. Now the largest Italian festival in the country, it unites many communities in the celebration of Italian culture. This year will feature performances by rock bands The BoDeans and Gin Blossoms, opera trio The Sicilian Tenors, the UW Marching Band and “America’s Got Talent” season 11 finalist Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti, as well as nightly parades, fireworks and the annual “Italian Idol” singing competition. (Through Sunday, July 23.)
Super Serious Poetry Reading @ Voyageur Book Shop, 7 p.m.
As part of its ongoing efforts to debunk the perception of poetry as an inherent buzzkill, Milwaukee’s Vegetarian Alcoholic Press hosts this reading featuring two of its authors, along with Indiana poet Steve Henn, a retired drummer who published his latest book, Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year, in 2016. Representing Vegetarian Alcoholic will be Oshkosh’s Troy Shoultz, author of Biographies of Runaway Dogs, and Milwaukee’s Annie Grizzle, who recently published the collection Return to the Gathering Place of the Waters.
JD Eicher w/ Mike Mains & Matt Brown @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.
Previously performing as JD Eicher and the Goodnights, singer-songwriter JD Eicher released his fourth album, The Middle Distance, in 2016 under a new, shortened name (though the Goodnights are still present in the album’s full sound). The change marks a musical shift for Eicher, whose latest album is more personal than ever before. He’s taken the “longer, scenic route,” as he puts it, to get to this point of truth and understanding in his career, but he’s glad he did. The Middle Distance, diary-like in its lyrics, expresses a self-awareness that isn’t found by taking shortcuts. 24 | J U LY 2 0 , 2 0 1 7
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SATURDAY, JULY 22 Milwaukee Firkin Beer Fest @ Cathedral Square Park, 4 p.m.
More than 150 ales and ciders will be available for tasting at Milwaukee Firkin Beer Fest, including more than 40 firkins, i.e. small barrels of cask-conditioned ale. These are more special than other beers because they’re completely unprocessed aside from natural yeast fermentation. After sampling the firkins, attendees can vote for their favorite and help determine which will receive the “Big Firkin Award.” Event-goers can also enjoy live music from the polka-pop group The Squeezettes, food from three beer-compatible food vendors (think pretzels and deep-fried cheese curds) and a free commemorative pint glass just for attending.
All Time Low w/ SWMRS, Waterparks and The Wrecks @ The Rave, 7 p.m.
Who said emo is something you outgrow? All Time Low first received national attention in 2003, when its members were still in high school, but adulthood hasn’t stopped the quartet from continuing to wallow in teenlike angst—albeit to a new background of R&B sounds. Their seventh studio album, The Last Young Renegade, came out earlier this year to favorable reviews, including one from Rolling Stone which, noting the band’s newfound pop influence, commended them for broadening their sound “without jeopardizing what has made them so appealing to young listeners for more than a decade.” JD Eicher PHOTO BY DAVID BEAN SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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SUNDAY, JULY 23
Lydia Lunch Retrovirus w/ Aluminum Knot Eye and Suffer Head @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.
Musician, poet, writer and actor Lydia Lunch is an icon of the late-’70s New York no wave scene, in which artists rebelled against predictable punk rock in favor of experimental noise rock. Lunch’s use of dissonance and atonality pushed sonic boundaries, while her socially and sexually deviant subject matter pushed cultural boundaries. She tours now with a backing trio, Retrovirus, which features former Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore member Bob Bert on drums, performing an assortment of songs spanning her career from her knockout solo works on Queen of Siam to covers like Alice Cooper’s “Black Juju.”
Armenian Fest @ St. John the Baptist Armenian Orthodox Church, 11 a.m.
What began as a family picnic in the ’30s has grown into one of the Midwest’s largest celebrations of Armenian culture. Each year, Milwaukee’s free Armenian Fest at St. John the Baptist Armenian Orthodox Church (7825 W. Layton Ave.) provides a glimpse into the traditions of one of the world’s oldest surviving civilizations, celebrating the American Armenian heritage with a vast sampling of Near Eastern music and Armenian culinary traditions. Snack on homemade shish-kabob, grape leaves, baklava and other Mediterranean favorites between visits to the culture booth, which will sell a variety of Armenian artifacts. Chicago’s Hamazkayin Sardarabad Dance Ensemble will perform around 3 p.m. Blues musician Walter Trout has some real endurance. After nearly 50 years of playing music—releasing more than two dozen solo albums and playing with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Joe Tex and Big Mama Thornton, among others—it seemed likely that Trout’s career, and possibly life, would end in 2013 when he was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. He spent the following year laying low, re-learning how to speak, walk and play music. This led to the intense, cathartic album Battle Scars in 2015 and, more recently, to his collaborative new album, We’re All In This Together. The album features Joe Bonamassa, John Mayall, Randy Bachman and Kenny Wayne Shepherd and showcases Trout’s palpable new zest for life.
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Margaret Glaspy w/ Liza Anne @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m. GREG WATERMAN
Walter Trout @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.
Margaret Glaspy PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ
Margaret Glaspy sets herself apart from other indie singer-songwriters with her genredefying approach to creating music. On her debut 2016 album Emotions and Math, Glaspy’s vulnerable lyrics were complemented by her strong vocals, with each component threaded together over a patchwork of folk, blues, rock and pop influences. Publications that took notice of Glaspy included the New York Times, NPR Music and Billboard, which all included Emotions And Math on their “Best of 2016” year-end lists. Glaspy is joined on tour by folk singer-songwriter Liza Anne.
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Tim and Eric: 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour Live @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.
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Though Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim aren’t cartoons, for several years they were fixtures of the Cartoon Network, filling late-night airtime with their surreal sketch comedy show, “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” With the poorly lit sets and sad production values of late-night public access shows, the duo (and their bounty of celebrity guests) acted out prolonged, deliberately uncomfortable skits about social outcasts and grotesque entertainers. They celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the show with this tour.
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Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and More al Fresco ::BY JOHN JAHN
Sardarabad Dancers at Armenian Fest
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ilwaukee Musaik’s Philomusica Quartet will be performing the second in a series of chamber music concerts at SummerStage of Delafield. Generally speaking, any classical music performed live in summer months tends to be of the more lighthearted, accessible kind; the Philomusica Quartet’s program falls well within that anticipated norm. A highlight of this outdoor concert is the Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato (slow movement) to Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1 in F Major—a lovely piece that, according to the composer’s friend, Karl Amenda, was inspired by the Tomb Scene of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Another is Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, from whence we get one of this splendid-melody-weaving composer’s greatest hits: the Andante cantabile second movement, said to have been inspired by an overheard tune being whistled by a housepainter. 6:30 p.m., Sunday, July 23 at SummerStage at Lapham Peak, W329 N846 County Highway C, Kettle Moraine State Forest. For tickets, call 262-337-1560 or visit summerstageofdelafield.org.
Last fall, the Sardarabad Dance Ensemble gave a spectacular multi-media spectacle of music, motion and light at their Milwaukee debut. This weekend they will focus on the timeless dance steps of Armenia, an ancient nation from the borders of Asia and Europe whose rhythms are in keeping with the traditions of Greece, Persia and other nearby nations of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Afternoon of Sunday, July 23 at Armenian Fest, 7825 W. Layton Ave.
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If/Then
If/Then is a musical set in contemporary New York City. Premiering on Broadway in 2014, it ran there for a year, racking up more than 400 performances. Its cast album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200—the highest-charting Broadway cast recording since 1996’s Rent. In If/Then, composer Tom Kitt and lyricist and writer Brian Yorkey tell the story of Elizabeth—a divorced, middle-aged woman who’s returned to The Big Apple to hit the reset button on her life. Fortuitous encounters with old pals in Madison Square Park present her with some options. The action then follows two possible life paths for Elizabeth out of the park. Which one—if either— might lead her to the success and personal fulfillment she seeks? This production is by the Greendale Community Theatre. July 20-29 in Henry Ross Auditorium, Greendale High School, 6801 Southway, Greendale. For tickets, call 414-817-7600 or visit greendaletheater.org.
Jesus Christ Superstar!
Jesus Christ Superstar! is a rock opera take on the Biblical story of Jesus’ last days. Interestingly, it started as a 1970 concept album, not as a musical, play or film. But composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice took it to Broadway in ’71, and the rest is history: Apart from something of a performance break in the 1980s, Jesus Christ Superstar! has continually been on U.S., U.K. and Australian tour productions (and famously made into a 1973 feature film). It boasts several terrific musical highpoints: a thrilling Overture and songs such as “Hosanna” and the dynamic “Superstar,” sung by Judas, the Soul Sisters and Angels. The West Allis Players present the show. July 21-30 at West Allis Central Auditorium, 8516 W. Lincoln Ave. For tickets, call the WAWM Recreation Department at 414-604-4900 or visit recreation.wawmrec.com.
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Theater RED’s Shakespeare-Inspired ‘Wayward Women’ is a Mash-up of Role Reversals
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hat’s this? A new Shakespeare comedy recently unearthed from some dusty archives? Not quite. A new play written in Shakespearean verse by Chicago playwright Jared McDaris, Wayward Women, is playing at the Alchemist Theatre. The Theater RED production, directed by co-founder Christopher Elst, underlines the company’s goal to present meatier roles for women actors. Wayward Women is a mash-up of sorts that alludes to characters and situations from many of William Shakespeare’s plays. The twist here is that the roles are reversed, with women taking the “men’s” parts, and a pair of men assuming the submissive “women’s” roles. It begins with two men who are washed ashore in a strange land ruled by Amazons. They are alerted to the male-female situation by a male pirate (Bryan Quinn), right before he leaps into the water and swims away from the island. Wayward Women is a fast-paced, wicked romp that doesn’t require any previous knowledge of Shakespeare plays. (It might be a bit funnier if one knows the Shakespeare characters that appear in some form in Wayward Women.) But the show doesn’t really have anything to offer other than entertainment. The Amazon “Duchess” is played by Alicia Rice. She’s the most believable of all the characters, which also include two feuding Amazon knights (Jennifer A. Larsen and Madeline Wakley). As in many of Shakespeare’s plays, some minor characters are more interesting than the main roles, and that’s true with the squires who attend each knight (Brittany Curran and LeAnn Vance). Interestingly, these empowered women end up vying for the attention of one of these male intruders who washed up on their shores. Timothy Rebers gives us a testosterone-fueled Cordelius—the hunk that has these women salivating. Cordelius, who is infatuated with a girl from Switzerland, puts aside loneliness to caper with the women at hand. In an initial effort to gain the women’s sympathy, he has his valet (Zach Thomas Woods) pose as a woman. Woods needs to tone down his performance to realize his character’s full comic effect. Before the show ends, many Shakespeare–themed plot devices such as switched identities, forged letters, swordplay and mistaken intentions all appear before us. Wayward Women can’t hold a candle to Shakespeare’s writings, but its goofy antics are good for an evening of laughter. Through July 22 at the Alchemist Theatre, 2569 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. For tickets, visit theaterred.com.
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unset Playhouse is staging a rhythmically enchanting production of Hello, Dolly! The crispness of a dreamlike early 20th-century New York City dances with grace, poise and wit. Sunset delivers on the classy, whimsical fugue of a musical story with the casual magic of graceful semi-symmetry and brisk pacing. Costuming is light and colorful. Big dance numbers fill the stage with an enjoyably balanced pulse. Liz Norton is a powerful presence onstage as the cunningly compassionate matchmaker, Dolly Levi. Norton is a towering diva as Dolly, with a presence that can fill the entire theatre. Norton has a sparkling charisma in the role, but it’s the deftness with which she shows vulnerability that really makes this an impressive performance. There’s strength. There’s vulnerability. And there’s vulnerability in her strength. On top of it all, she’s got a very sharp and clever sense of humor that serves the production well. Glenn Villa is charmingly harsh as Horace Vandergelder, the half-millionaire Dolly has, through no fault of his own, decided to marry. The character serves as a point of imposing authority throughout the plot. Villa has the kind of affability in the role that lends to it a softer edge that amplifies the character’s gruff likability. Enjoyable performances in and around the edges of the production include Eric Welch’s ambitious innocence as Cornelius Hackl, an employee of Vandergelder who is in way over his head. Briana Lipor adds some brilliantly witty accents to the production as a hat shop girl Hackl and his friend run into. Through Aug 6. at Furlan Auditorium, 800 Elm Grove Road. For tickets, call 262782-4430 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com.
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‘Dunkirk’ a War Film Like No Other
the troops at the fireside as the enemy closes in. There is no strategy beyond figuring out survival and not much talk beyond “Bloody hell!” Except for a brief blur at the end, the Germans are invisible, apparent only for the markings on the planes they fly: the Stuka dive bombers, shrieking as they descend; lumbering Heinkel bombers circling like vultures; the Messerschmitt fighters engaging not in dogfights with the handful of British flyers who sally forth, but in deadly aerial ballet. Land, sea and air: Nolan tells his story in three panels, flipping back and forth through seamless editing. The British and French forces maintain remarkable discipline on ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN the beach, waiting with uncertainty for what will come next and ducking as German warhe much-circulated line about planes swoop upon them. The British pilots “snatching victory from the crammed into tight cockpits are few in numjaws of defeat” could have been ber but determined to shoot down as many coined to describe Dunkirk. The Germans as ammunition and fuel will allow. 1940 evacuation from the French The sea story is most remarkable as the Britcoastal town saved nearly 350,000 British, ish people rallied to save their endangered French and other Allied troops from German army. Civilian craft by the hundreds crossed captivity. Confident in the superiority of its air the choppy English Channel, evacuating the force, the Nazis surrounded the retreating Al- troops from the beach as Nazi planes buzzed lies at Dunkirk and expected to bomb them overhead—fishing boats, sailing yachts, tugs, into destruction or submission. Instead, they scows, dinghies. were given a lesson in British Although Dunkirk’s cast ingenuity and fortitude—and includes familiar faces the improbability of winning a such as Tom Glynn-Carney, Dunkirk war from the air alone. James D’Arcy and Kenneth With Dunkirk, British writBranagh, the story is the star, Fionn Whitehead er-director Christopher Nolan not the actors. The bravery is Tom Glynn-Carney turns away from the form and collective as well as individDirected by content that had preoccupied ual. Nolan’s decision to shoot Christopher Nolan him in recent years. In contrast Dunkirk on IMAX 65-milto the special effects sprawl limeter film stock provides a Rated PG-13 and global comic book themes richly immersive experience of the Dark Knight trilogy, he whose drama is heightened embraces an inspiring episode by his use of period airplanes from his nation’s history, skillfully condens- and boats, thousands of extras and minimal ing it in less than two hours. deployment of computers. It’s a story about Dunkirk is a World War II movie unlike one of history’s turning points—failure at any other. We see no generals huddled around Dunkirk might have led to a Nazi victory in maps plotting strategy; there are no sentimen- World War II—and a movie to be seen on the tal Steven Spielberg conversations among biggest screen possible.
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Baby Driver R This action flick, directed and written by Shaun of the Dead’s Edgar Wright, features a young savant of a car driver known as Baby (Ansel Elgort). Hired by ambitious crime boss Doc (Kevin Spacey) to pilot the getaway car for Doc’s heists, Baby continuously plays music that soothes him as he drives. His choices, an eclectic assortment of songs, lend the film emotional heft while controlling its tone. Heart-stopping car chases give way to love when socially awkward Baby falls for diner waitress Carla. Hoping to start a life with her, Baby agrees to one final heist. With Doc bringing on board crazed criminal Bats (Jamie Fox), a difficult caper soon becomes ultra-dangerous. (Lisa Miller)
Girls Trip R Following the raunchy, buddy-comedy groove of Bridesmaids and The Hangover, Girls Trip mines both bodily function jokes and explicit sexual acts for comedic gold. Longtime girlfriends Ryan (Regina Hall), Sasha (Queen Latifah), Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Dina (Tiffany Haddish) join forces for an overdue girls’ weekend. Having worked hard to “have it all,” some of the friends now confront deeply repressed denial. Meanwhile, newcomer Haddish runs off with the film as the unrepentant, fiercely loyal friend. Her character, steeped in African American perspective, ties sweetness and aggression together into an appealing bundle. (Lisa Miller)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets PG-13 Ever the crazy pants auteur, Luc Besson adapted this sprawling, overreaching screenplay from the 40-year-old French comic book series “Valerian and Laureline.” Set in the 25th century, top-level spies Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) head for an enormous intergalactic space station that serves as home to representatives from a thousand planets. In order to preserve this Eden-like paradise, Valerian and Laureline must capture and preserve an endangered armadillo-like animal that poops pearls. Meanwhile, Valerian’s crush on Laureline motivates much of his churlish behavior, but these mismatched, miscast actors are a pretty chore. Besson delivers stunning visuals, however, this sci-fi mishmash bends or breaks most of the rules with clunky results. (L.M.)
[HOME MOVIES/OUT ON DIGITAL] My Favorite Brunette Road to Rio Road to Bali Bob Hope is remembered for entertaining the troops—and a string of mediocre post-1950s pictures. But in his day, he was fast and smart, the master of one-liners and quips whose rubbery face expressed determination against ridiculous odds. Three of his films have just been reissued on Blu-ray—two of them among his best. My Favorite Brunette (1947) spoofed film noir, a genre still unnamed but whose conventions were already ripe enough for parody. As usual, Hope
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plays a hapless character whose aspirations exceed his abilities: He’s a children’s photographer dreaming of becoming a private eye. Wish granted when a beautiful woman of mystery (Dorothy Lamour) walks into his studio. Lamour also co-starred in the equally funny Road to Rio (1947) and the lesser Road to Bali (1952) along with Hope’s buddy partner, Bing Crosby. Bali was bright on the eyes, a Technicolor tiki lounge spectacle, but not especially funny.
“The Borgias: The Complete Series” The Borgia name is vaguely familiar even to people who never paid attention in history class. In director Neil Jordan’s Showtime series, the powerful, corrupt Borgia family is the prototype for the Corleones and “Game of
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E MUST EAT, WE MUST SLEEP, WE MUST WEAR…SOMETHING. For some people this is a nonissue, solved by simply grabbing the nearest T-shirt and jeans. For others, the question of what to wear is both sport and obsession. You don’t need to be in a world capital to be part of the fashion parade these days, and the Museum of Wisconsin Art explores local connections through four exhibitions in “A State of Fashion.” Clothing and couture exhibitions are becoming more common in art museums, as the pieces may be considered forms of wearable sculpture. This is particularly true in “Contemporary Threads: Wisconsin Fashion,” which includes 10 designers, four of whom are “Project Runway” alums. The designers are not shy about their influences, some of which are distinctly worn on their sleeve, so to speak. Sara Terrell discloses, “If I could dress one woman in my clothing it would be Blondie singer Debbie Harry.” Her punk glam outfits also draw color and form from artists like Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky and Vincent van Gogh. Peach Carr’s modish ensembles meet her litmus test, “When designing, I ask myself: Would Warhol’s muse Edie Sedgwick wear this?” Linda Breshears Marcus’ elegantly poignant Coat of Arms is a yellow felt coat with a pale cotton sheath inside, upon which are embroidered names and likenesses of inspirational women, including a beautiful image of civil rights and political leader, Milwaukeean Vel Phillips. For visitors who are not devoted fashionistas, noting the inventive materials and exquisite detail makes for a satisfying show. Miranda Levy-Adler creates clothing with clear plastic instead of fabric, and includes generous pockets—a detail that comes from her experiences as a mother. To that end, the pockets are filled with colorful alphabet letters. Alex Ulichny laboriously fastened thousands of hot pink plastic zip ties to create a stunning, fluffy full-length coat.
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“Contemporary Threads” represents the playful, imaginative side of fashion. A more practical side is revealed in “Florence Eiseman: Designing Childhood for the American Century.” Since the 1940s, the designs of Eiseman and her Milwaukee-based company have intended to “make a child look like a child.” Details such as appliquéd flowers, animals and toys hit this mark, but the quality material used sets these garments apart from today’s big box store apparel. Eiseman was a pioneer in designing clothing for children with disabilities, an endeavor meant to help them to fit in while accommodating
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needs for movement or different types of garment closures. Even at a young age, a sense of worldly sophistication is also encouraged in things like the League of Nations dress. Made in 1964, the dark blue pinafore is sparsely decorated with small flags of different nations. The overall Eiseman aesthetic eschews faddishness in favor of classic colors and cuts. This is also very true of the “The Roddis Collection: American Style and Spirit,” an assembly of clothing amassed over 100 years by the Roddis family from Marshfield, Wisconsin. The garments were passed down through generations and rediscovered as a trove of fashion history. The oldest piece is a black velvet and satin evening dress with high neck and long sleeves, purchased in Paris around 1879 by Jane Prindle Gammon. One of the most recent pieces is an Yves Saint Laurent evening dress from 1985, worn by descendent Jane Prindle Lempereur. In between, wall text and 26 outfits tell stories of weddings and anniversaries, vacations and work, hard times as well as prosperity. Clothing can communicate something of our character and the adventures of life. This particularly energizes “Daniel Arnold: A Paparazzo for Strangers.” The Milwaukee native, now based in New York, has taken this moniker to describe his work. He has been singled out as the “Best Photographer on Instagram” by Gawker. Arnold’s photographs show the flickering details of New Yorkers, often in unexpected juxtapositions. In one picture, a guy rides the subway dressed in chainmail and armor, complete with giant play sword. The blue-suited businessman next to him looks the other way, inwardly sighing at the thought of another Monday. Or something like that. There are any number of possible stories here. Arnold’s photography freezes a little bit of life, reminding us of how odd, unique and fascinating people are, whether in New York, or even in a state of fashion like Wisconsin. Through Sept. 17 at Museum of Wisconsin Art, 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend. To learn more, visit wisconsinart.org. (upper right) Katelyn Pankoke, Winnie (dress name), 2016, Elaya Vaughn gown collection; (middle) Florence Eiseman, Sailboat Sunsuit, Cotton/polyester poplin, appliqué, 1985, photo by Andrea Waala; (bottom right) Daniel Arnold, Untitled, Photograph, 2017; (left) The Roddis Collection, Dress, c. 1934, Cotton/rayon, shirred beaver, metal belt, From the collections of The Henry Ford, Photo by Gillian Bostock Ewing, Copyright Jane Bradbury
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rtist-in-Residence” is a plum gig. The position generally involves just “doing you”—giving free rein to one’s creative inclinations with institutional support and without regard for the fickle demands of the market place. In “TimeLine 2017,” RedLine Milwaukee’s 12 artists-inresidence will demonstrate how much uncompromising work can be created in a year under the right conditions. Blanche Brown, for instance, spent her residency ruminating on the state of human connections in the age of Facebook “friends.” Brown’s paintings possess a cartoonish charm, eschewing realism to mine the expressive potential of color, symbol and perspective. Marc Tasman’s “Transformative Commentary” series juxtaposes monochromatic drawings of politicians and activists with lyrics from Leonard Cohen’s 1988 album, I’m Your Man. Tasman conceived the prescient project well before Cohen’s death and the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 7 and 8, respectively. “TimeLine 2017” opens with a reception from 5-9 p.m. on Friday, July 21, and is on display through Oct. 1. Artwork by Blanche Brown
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Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum | 2220 N. Terrace Ave. “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture,” asserted Frank Zappa. “The air in the performance is sculpted into something.” In conjunction with “Strata and Cipher: Barbara Manger and Richard Taylor,” the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum presents “Sculpt-cussion.” Four sculptures from Richard Taylor’s “Chess” series, inspired by the decision-making process in chess and life, serve as inspiration for percussionist Dave Bayles and saxophonist Aaron Gardner. Their four-part, improvisational musical performance will be interspersed with terpsichorean interludes by Wild Space Dance Company. “Sculpt-cussion” takes place 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25.
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A one-day-only exhibit at West Allis’ Inspiration Studios chronicles the history of the Nationalist Movement in Puerto Rico through rare photographs and memorabilia. “The purpose of this exhibit is to offer the community a connection to Puerto Rico’s history outside of a textbook,” says curator, educator, historian and Puerto Rico native Luis López, “but through original artifacts that tell a story.” Along with López’s gloss of the artifacts, the exhibition features a revolving media presentation as well as refreshments. “A Historical Thumbnail View of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Movement” takes place 4-9 p.m., July 20. Admission is $15.
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n 1976, the year Bianca Marais was born, the Soweto uprising in South Africa ended with the violent deaths of hundreds of black school children who were gunned down by police for protesting against apartheid. Tens of thousands of students gathered at their schools on June 16, 1976 to participate in a nonviolent demonstration to resist the introduction of Afrikaans (the “language of the oppressor”) as the language of instruction in all local Johannesburg schools. This massive student uprising was the most fundamental challenge to apartheid yet, and its violent effects echoed across all racial groups in the extremely divided country. Marais, a South African native, takes an unflinching look at the governmentsanctioned discriminatory policies and laws of apartheid-era South Africa in her debut novel Hum If You Don’t Know the Words. This literary chronicle fearlessly examines the country’s long era of racial “separateness” by bringing readers the unique voices of a 10-year-old white girl in Johannesburg and the Bantu village woman who becomes her caretaker. After both characters lose family members in the Soweto uprising, precocious 10-year-old Robin and struggling domestic worker Beauty form an inexplicable bond. Their choices, prejudices and personal tragedies will challenge both of them to confront a highly racist society, ultimately transforming their understanding of love and redemption. Marais spent 10 years in Soweto providing aid to HIV/AIDS orphans. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada, and holds a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Marais will speak at a ticketed event at the Lynden Sculpture Garden (2145 W Brown Deer Road) at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 23. Tickets are $30, and copies of Hum If You Don’t Know the Words will be provided compliments of event co-sponsor Boswell Book Co.
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he South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center (SMPAC) covers a lot of ground, but what makes the organization unique is its connection to the school district and focus on outreach programs. They’ve brought comedy groups to teach students how to do standup routines. They host free performances at the theater and put on monthly programs in nursing homes. Currently, SMPAC is in between youth theater shows, a popular program that SMPAC President Cyndi Kieck says draws more students every year to tryouts. What makes SMPAC special to you and the community? I love being here because it’s such a gemstone in our community. It’s a beautiful theater—we’ve had musicians come and say it’s one of the best stages they’ve ever performed on with the acoustics and feel. It’s about an 800-seat theater, so it’s not too large, it’s not too small, it’s just the right size—it’s like home. For some people it’s their first time being there and they love the experience and they want to come back and they do…for those that didn’t like the show, they are willing to come and tell you what they would like to see
next time or what would make it better, and I like that. Explain the connection between SMPAC and surrounding schools. They of course do their musicals; plays; performances for band, orchestra and vocal music, but when we bring in acts to the PAC, if the acts do any kind of student workshops or enrichment-type activities, the performing arts council will pay a fee for that group to do student workshops as well. We try to collaborate as much as possible. At night, we have had collaborations where the student groups have gotten on stage and performed with award-winning artists and comedians throughout the evening. Parents love it. It’s just wonderful. Do you have an example of that kind of collaborative performance? We’ve had Jackie Kashian, she’s a comedian from California but is from South Milwaukee herself. She has performed on late shows like “Conan” and she came back and did a show, but right before she did the show she talked to students about comedy and the students had come to the performance and then would do some of their jokes that evening. How has the youth theater program impacted students in the surrounding school districts? The kids love it. Each year from when it first started until now, we get more and more students, more and more kids trying out for parts and they love it. They’re committed to it. You don’t see kids drop out of it … my career is within the school district so I see a lot of my students at the theater performing, which I love as a teacher. They see me seating their parents or greeting them or congratulating them after a show, and it’s a big thrill when their teachers come and see them and it gives them a sense of pride and accomplishment. It makes it special to the kids [to show] we appreciate the time and talent they put into this and it means something to them. To learn more about SMPAC’s Summer Youth Theatre program and its current productions, call 414-766-5049 or visit southmilwaukeepac.org/youth-theatre/.
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July 21: The Big Top at This Is It (418 E. Wells St.): Everyone loves being under a big top, and the boys at This Is It are no exception! Check out the bar’s carnival games, prizes and drink specials during the 8 p.m. three-ring circus. July 22: African Cultural Festival at Brown Deer Park (7835 N. Green Bay Road): Enjoy music, dancing, food, soccer, cultural lectures, a fashion show and more at this exciting fest! Free with a nonperishable donation to Hunger Task Force, the noon to 10 p.m. celebration takes place at picnic areas 2, 3, 4 and 5. July 22: Mr. Gay USofA 2017 at FIVE Nightclub (5 Applegate Court, Madison): The guys take to the stage in this competition to crown a new leader among the state’s male entertainers. The $10 door charge includes access to the pageant, which includes performances by numerous entertainers and a 50/50 raffle. The fun starts at 8 p.m. July 23: Show Tune Sunday at Club Charlies (320 E. Menomonee St.): Sing a song, sip a spirit or just sit a spell and watch the craziness unfold as the gang at Club Charlies shows you why this is the spot to be at 2 p.m. on a Sunday funday! July 23: Bubbles & Beauties at Karma Bar & Grill (600 E. Ogden Ave.): Emcee Nova D’Vine serves the bubbles and the beauties at this free 6 p.m. drag show held in the Sutra Lounge. Come for the glamor, stay for the Champaign specials, savory bites and fun. July 26: Cream City Foundation’s 35th Summer Social at The Pritzlaff (333 N. Plankinton Ave.): Formerly known as the “My Best Friend is Straight” gala, this cocktail party has proved the place to be seen year after year (35 years to be exact)! Your $75 ticket includes access to the silent auctions, raffles and 6:30 p.m. program. Proceeds help support numerous LGBT initiatives. Registration opens at 5:30 p.m. with the night concluding at 8:30 p.m. Catch BJ Daniels when she hosts Dining with the Divas at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. 50th St.) on Friday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Call 414-488-2555 for reservations. Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Summer Reading From a Gay, Black Milwaukee Cop ::BY PAUL MASTERSON
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t’s high summer. And what better way to while away the hours on Bradford Beach than to lose oneself in a sexy romance novel? I’d suggest Cuffed by Milwaukee author Jermel Wilder. It’s about “A lawful cop, a lawless lover,” as the trailer goes. The title Cuffed is more than a double entendre. Beyond the obvious reference to restraints, “cuffed” is urban slang for being intimately and inescapably involved. One might ponder an even broader interpretation—as in that inexplicable and unavoidable emotional and physical chemistry that turns the impossible mix of oil and water into one as seemingly natural as Hennessy and ice. Here the unlikely elective affinities are a gay, black Milwaukee cop, Kwame King, and a drug dealer, Braz Galarza. Following the writer’s mantra, “Write what you know,” the 30-yearold author does precisely that. Wilder is a gay, black Milwaukee cop. There’s a formula for the genre. But Wilder manages to finesse the classic man-meetsman romance, melding imagination with his true blue life experiences. In this case, it was his guarding of a prisoner in a hospital. “He told me his life story. It dawned on me everyone has a story. People pretty much see a criminal as a criminal and a cop as a cop. I took our conversation and turned it into a love story to show we are all people. We all have a past and present. It explores the minds of the people involved.” The result is an action- and sex-packed page turner. But, beyond that, the psychological and social dynamics provide insights into conflicted heroes, conflicted villains, urban lives, motherhood and male-on-male love. Set in Milwaukee, locations and seasons are recognizable. The action takes place mainly on urban streets but spills into the Latin barrio and white suburbs. For some readers, the situations may be all too familiar. For others they’ll be enlightening. A Rufus King High School graduate, Wilder began writing in second grade. He wrote stories in his notebook that included classmates so
they would read them. “Writing provides an escape from reality but also creates a reality and brings things to life,” Wilder says. He published his first novel, Season Sistahs in 2013. Cuffed appeared last March. Both are self-published. An avid reader, Wilder confesses he hasn’t read many romance novels. “It’s funny, when it comes to writing overall, I never wrote a love story. People love love and I wanted to make Cuffed a love story. Everyone is turned on by something forbidden. That’s what it is. I wanted to go beyond the typical. The characters know who they are and have to cross moral lines by dealing with each other. When it comes to love, there are uncertainties,” Wilder explains. By contrast, his career in law enforcement didn’t begin as passionately. After graduating high school Wilder became a police aide and that guaranteed him a spot in the police academy. “I am a bit of a super hero geek so it fit me well,” Wilder admits. Cuffed is available through jrwilder.com and at Outwords Books. An author’s reading may be in the offing there as well.
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Apollo Vermouth Expands Her Ambient Vision on “Crashing into Nowhere” ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI
iscovering Apollo Vermouth’s music can feel a bit like getting into a TV show that’s already been on for six seasons—exhilarating, yes, but also daunting, since you’ll have some catching up to do. Since she began exploring ambient music as a teenager seven years ago, Apollo Vermouth’s Alisa Rodriguez has released at least 10 albums, EPs and splits under the moniker, some minor variations of their predecessors, others radical breaks. “They almost come too fast sometimes,” Rodriguez says of her releases. “Sometimes I feel super compelled to record or to do something, so I’ll just go out and do it. That was how I worked when I first started out. I felt like I had so much in me that I needed to record, then, after a while, I started looking at my Bandcamp and realized I have too many releases, almost. I was thinking about the audience feeling overwhelmed. There are some acts out there that have hundreds of releases, so you never know where to start. I don’t want to be that person who makes music for the sake of making music.”
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And so, for her new album, Crashing into Nowhere, Rodriguez did something she’s never done before: She slowed down. The album arrives more than two years after her last major Apollo Vermouth release, and although she didn’t completely stop recording during the interim—she posted a few enchanting, barely promoted releases under the moniker A Crushed Rose to Bandcamp—she challenged herself to record less—and only when inspiration struck. “The last thing I want to do is force myself,” she says. “I was recording when I felt compelled.” In part, because of that break, Crashing into Nowhere feels both like a fresh start and a reintroduction. Conveniently, it’s also a welcoming entry point for newcomers who understandably don’t want to commit to catching up on hours of music that Rodriguez herself admits isn’t always an easy sell. “My parents will listen to the music and they’ll say it just sounds like the same thing over and over,” she says. “It’s hard for people to understand it, and it’s hard for even me to say what people should take away from it. I feel like it’s something you just experience. For me, the reason I make this kind of music is to deal with a lot of personal things. It’s easier for me to express myself through music than through talking.” As with most Apollo Vermouth releases, the songs on Crashing Into Nowhere draw their power from slight deviations instead of dynamic shifts, summoning a surprisingly vast range of emotions from a very limited range of sounds. But the record also expands the project’s scope in some significant ways. Released on cassette through the boutique New York label Orchid Tapes and mastered by label founder Warren Hildebrand, who gives the album a professional finish none of its rough-edged predecessors had, it features several collaborations, a significant departure for what had always previously been a one-woman project. The ambient artist Wretched Excess lends some subtle loops to the delicate “He Dreamt of Blue Apollo Skies.” More radically, the album Vermouth features vocals for the first time on an Apollo Vermouth project. A pair Tuesday, July 25 of Rodriguez’s friends wrote lyrRiverwest ics for and sang on two romantic, Public House downtempo numbers: Travis Johnson on “Always There” and Eli Smith on “Reflections Of.” “It can feel a little weird, putting your music in somebody else’s hands,” Rodriguez says. “But I gave it to two people that I really trust and that I admire musically, so in some ways it wasn’t as nerve-wracking as it probably sounds. It felt good giving my friends a piece of my music and saying, ‘I trust you.’” Tucked on the album’s second half after three cinematic instrumentals, those vocal tracks hint at the dreamier, poppier directions Apollo Vermouth could take going forward. Rodriguez provides some half-buried vocals of her own on the album’s closing title track and says she hopes to do more singing on future projects, but that’ll take some resolve. “I’ve always kind of admired pretty much anybody who can just go up on stage and sing,” she says. “For me, it’s a scary experience, and I’m not used to it. I guess I don’t like the sound of my voice so much when I sing. Then again, I don’t think anybody likes the sound of their own voice.” Apollo Vermouth and Honeymooners kick off their tour to the East Coast with a free show at the Riverwest Public House on Tuesday, July 25 at 7 p.m. featuring Broodmother and Sugar Stems.
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Elvis Costello Took a Return Trip Through ‘Imperial Bedroom’ at the Riverside ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI
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hile most artists in Elvis Costello’s shoes by now would have whittled their set lists down to a knockout 95 minutes of hits and fan favorites, coasting on easy paychecks and even easier applause, Costello has taken the harder route. Always one to shake things up, for his latest tour he’s celebrating the 35th anniversary of Imperial Bedroom, the critically adored record that broke from his usual rock ’n’ roll and revealed the scope of his compositional ambitions, luxuriating instead in the soft tones and slow tempos of jazz and orchestral pop.
It’s an odd album to tour behind since, loved as it is, it’s not exactly a party starter—even its biggest defenders would admit that it has a tendency to drag. He had a workaround for that, though. Instead of playing the album in its entirety Sunday night at the Riverside Theater, he put it on shuffle, alongside numbers from his songbook both expected (“Alison” and “Watching The Detectives”) and not (most of the set, really). At times it felt less like the “Imperial Bedroom Tour” and more like the “Mellower Songs I Don’t Usually Get To Play Live Tour,” detouring frequently for deep cuts like “Poor Napoleon,” leisure jams like “Every Day I Write The Book,” and Bacharachian ballads (including one he actually wrote with Burt Bacharach, “This House is Empty Now.”) For most of the show, Costello and his backing band, the Imposters, were joined by two powerhouse backing soul singers who injected some extra energy into the songs but sometimes had a tendency to overpower an already often very busy mix (did anybody expect an Imperial Bedroom-heavy show to be this loud?) Some of the set’s most memorable moments offered relief from that volume, scaling the stage down to just Costello and his longtime pianist Steve Nieve, who accompanied him on a couple of torchy new songs—“A Face in the Crowd” and “Stripping Paper.” At nearly two-and-a-half hours long, the show was almost too generous, and some of Imperial Bedroom’s lesser numbers began to bleed together (there’s a reason “Pidgin English” and “Town Cryer” never became staples of his live shows). At the end of the night, after 26 songs and two encores, Costello ended the night with the two big crowd-pleasers it seemed as if he might skip: “Pump It Up” and “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding”—a little tease of the livelier, safer show he could have performed instead.
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amiliarity is a fertile soil from which many bands grow. Kate Moths’ singer-guitarist Charlie Hoehnen and drummer Scott Emmerich know this well. “[Scott and I] have been playing together since Partisan,� Hoehnen said. “None of these songs are anything but ancient.� From the slow core of Partisan to the angular rock of The Spur and now Kate Moths, the duo has spent over a decade playing music together. In three-and-a-half years together as Kate Moths, the duo has expanded from guitar and drums to include cellist Crystal Rausch and guitarist Kevin DeMars. “Charlie wanted it to be a punk band,� Emmerich said. “It doesn’t really sound like a punk band, but it’s what our collective result would be.� Their collective sound has sonic similarities to the emo-tinged pop of Milwaukee greats The Promise Ring. Hoehnen’s lyrical acumen and distinct vocals combined with Rausch’s cello playing keep the band from sounding like another nostalgia act. Lyrically, the songs have a real literary sense, like they were written by a writer. “I guess I’m pretty oblique, but I also think that I’m trying to describe things that aren’t easily described,� Hoehnen said. With this broader approach, it allows the songs room to breathe. “It has more of an effect if the lyrical content is approaching that wider spectrum,� said Emmerich. “Then you compress it down into a nice, tight, short song.� Though the lyrics stand as a unique focal point, band members feel that no individual piece is more important than the others. “It is always a shared band; all these songs are Kate Moths songs,� said Hoehnen. The band recently formed a partnership with local label Triple Eye Industries to release their debut cassette, Reverse Kate Moths Earth After Birth. “Kevin’s in Volunteer, and they run [the label], so that helped,� said Hoehnen. Band member overlaps Saturday, aside, Kate Moths don’t see the pairing as nepotism. “They July 22 wanted to branch out a little bit, because they have been doRiverwest ing a lot of Noise Rock stuff,� Emmerich said. “They’re just Public House really open and want to put stuff out.� Cooperative While the label tends to lean toward vinyl releases, the band’s choice of the cassette format was a no-brainer. “A lot of local bands just want to do 7-inches, and that’s expensive,� said DeMars. “And a lot of bands don’t tour enough to sell them.� The fact that the cassette format is a “cheap and fun way to own something� was not the sole deciding factor. “It’s like a secret tome, like you’re opening up a story waiting to be told,� said Hoehnen “[It’s] like opening up a magic spell.� When asked which Kate Moths song is his favorite, Hoehnen replied, “My favorite is always the next one.� Emmerich quickly said, “That’s a cop out.� He added that his favorite is “Read the Death Sentences� because of its anthemic qualities. “It’s like George Gershwin or something,� said DeMars. Be it through decades-old songwriting partnerships or through abstracted strains of indie rock’s past, Kate Moths are a band built on familiarity; even so, they have no problem turning familiarity on its ear. “I’d rather have it be strange than overly sentimental or overly familiar,� said Hoehnen. “Just a whiff of familiarity; that shadow of nostalgia.� Kate Moths will play a release show for Reverse Earth After Birth on Saturday, July 22 at the Riverwest Public House Cooperative, 815 E. Locust St., with Blue Unit, Snag and DJ sets from the Comfy Ones..
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FRIDAY, JULY 21
18 West (Delafield), The Blues Disciples (6pm) American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Tomm Lehnigk (6:30pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Art Bar, Art Show Opening: CoPa (7pm), music w/Jackson Howard (9pm) BMO Harris Pavilion, Violent Femmes Summer 2017 w/Echo & The Bunnymen Cactus Club, Modular Addict & Radiograffiti Present: Synth Fest MKE Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), A Rose Among Thorns Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Indonesian Junk w/Stickarounds (8pm); DJ: Daniel James (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) Company Brewing, Voodoohoney Presents: The Amy Winehouse Supper Club County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Cudahy Park, Sweet Applewood Festival: Larry Lynne Band & The Unbelievables (4:30pm) Dom and Phil DeMarinis, Tom Sorce
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Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Piano Night Art Bar, Michael Gay Bavarian Bierhaus, Jonny T-Bird & the MPs (6pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Corky Siegel & Howard Levy Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Liv Mueller w/Andrea Wittgins (8pm); DJ: Lemonie Fresh (10pm) Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, Colin Stetson w/Justin Walter ComedySportz Milwaukee, Laughing Liberally Milwaukee Company Brewing, Voodoohoney Presents: The Amy Winehouse Supper Club Delafield Brewhaus, Mr. E of E is for Epic Five O’Clock Steakhouse , Rafael Mendez Fly By Saloon, Victims of Symmetry w/Floor Model Fox Point Farmers Market, Milwaukee Hot Club (10am) Frank’s Power Plant, Glamour Junkies Burlesque presents: We Love The Nine-Tease! George’s Tavern (Racine), The Blues Disciples Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub (Downtown), Sam Guyton Jazz Estate, Match Stick w/Mitch Shiner (8pm), Late Night Session: Soul Session with Bryan Cherry (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Josh Alton Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Boonduggies w/Woodrow Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm)
Milwaukee Ale House, H2-OH Ollie’s Sports & Spirits (Burlington), Joe Kadlec (12pm) Pabst Theater, Hijas De Su Madre Packing House, Donna Woodall Trio (6:30pm) Pizzeria Piccola, Texas Dave Duo (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In the Fire Pit: Mt. Olive (9pm), In Bar 360: Jackie Brown Acoustic (9pm) Rave / Eagles Club, All Time Low w/SWMRS, Waterparks & The Wrecks (all-ages, 7pm) Shank Hall, Chocolate Ice 2 The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: Dirty Boogie The Tonic Tavern, Maitri w/Bum Alum & Fivy Up & Under Pub, Bootleg Bessie Urban Harvest Brewing Company, I Should Know This Yardarm Bar and Grill (Racine), Group Therapy Band (6:30pm)
SUNDAY, JULY 23
Anodyne Coffee Walker’s Point Roastery & Cafe, Peter Asher and Abert Lee Blum Coffee Garden, Mambo Surfers Cactus Club, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus (weasel walter, bob bert, tim dahl) w/AluminumKnotEye & Suffer Head Cafe Corazon (Bay View), RUMBRAVA w/MRS. FUN & Luis Diaz (4pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Derek Pritzl & Friends (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) Cudahy Park, Sweet Applewood Festival: Sensations (6pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jammin’ Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Packing House, Jazz Unlimited of Greater Milwaukee Jazz Open Jam: Frank DeMiles Quartet (1pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Wheeler Walker Jr. w/Kasey Tyndall (all-ages, 8pm), Born Of Osiris w/Volumes, Betraying The Martyrs & Widowmaker (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Dancing with the Stars: Live! Riverwest Gardeners Market, The Jonny T-Bird Trio (12pm) Rosco’s Sports Bar, The Ham Jam Open Jam (4pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Shank Hall, Walter Trout The Tonic Tavern, Sunday Matinee Live Music Series: Bootleb Bessie (4pm) Von Trier, On the Patio: Xeno (4pm)
MONDAY, JULY 24
Colectivo Coffee On Prospect, Margaret Glaspy w/Liza Anne Italian Community Center, Jack Grassel, Jill Jensen & Andy LoDuca (6:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Valerie Pogue (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John The Astor Cafe & Pub, The Chris Hanson Band w/Robin Pluer (6:30pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Melvins w/Spotlights Up & Under Pub, Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Open Mic
TUESDAY, JULY 25
C Notes Upscale Sports Lounge, Another Night-Another Mic Open Mic w/Darryl Hill
Cactus Club, BAR WORK 3: Taiyamo Denku, Rambunxious, Taks One, Conscious Object, Jahmarri Deal & john doe Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Devil Met Contention w/Cow Ponies & Bruce Dean (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Gibraltar Mke, The Lion’s Ball II w/Arsene Delay, Stomata, SistaStrings, DJ Tarik Moody & The Voodoohoney Marching Band Highbury Pub, Sweet Sheiks w/Mumblin’ Drew & Kyle Ollah Italian Community Center, Reverend Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, The Erotic Adventures of The Static Chicken Kilbourn-Kadish Park, Skyline Music Concerts: Urban Empress and the Urbanites (5:30pm) 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) Pabst Theater, Tim and Eric Riverwest Public House, Apollo Vermouth, Honeymooners, Broodmother and Sugar Stems The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich
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Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Irish Session Caroline’s Jazz Club, Harvey Westmoreland w/Knee Deep Blues Jam Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson Discovery World, Live at the Lakefront (Amphitheater): Willy Porter & Carmen Nickerson (5:30pm) District 14 Brewery & Pub, Wednesday Open Mic Hot Water Wherehouse, Larry Lynne Trio Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Record Session: The Tony Williams LIfetime “Emergency!” w/Neil Davis Trio Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Bob Smoke & Dee La Belle (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Stage Right Pub: Brendan Demet Nomad World Pub, Locals Only Oak Creek Community Center, Outdoor Summer Concert Series: Daryl Stuermer Packing House, Tracy Hanneman & Theo Merriweather (6pm) Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: Charles Walker Band (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: No Tan Lines Band (6pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk Washington County Fair Park, Vinyl Road (6pm) Washington Park, Summer Concert Series: Clave y Afinque & Salsabrosa (6pm) Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers’ Market: Ian Gould (11:45am)
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For this ‘Greater-Than Sudoku,’ I’m not giving you ANY numbers to start off with! Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1-9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1-9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1’s and 9’s in each box first, then move on to the 2’s and 8’s, and so on). psychosudoku@gmail.com
72. Faction 73. Brogue or brogan 74. Wilson’s predecessor 75. Eye socket 76. Grew wan 77. Office machine 78. Down Under bird 79. Cautious to a fault 81. Bony plate 83. Bear 85. Summertime treats 86. Unemotional 87. — segno 88. Illegal acts 91. Headliner 92. Condescend 95. Ersatz butter 96. Candor 100. Perceptive 104. Like a penitent 106. Cabbage 107. Notched, as a leaf 108. Well-informed 109. Start for business 110. Something spouted 111. Mellow 112. Slow, in music 113. Exuviate DOWN 1. Southern constellation 2. Queue 3. — mater 4. Certain college member 5. Underworld goddess 6. Originate 7. Balsa 8. R-V link 9. Stocks and bonds, e.g. 10. Cries softly 11. Soaproot 12. Source of balsam 13. — a boy! 14. Kind of blonde
15. Peekaboo, the game 16. — Romeo 17. Disparaging remark 18. Dutch painter 24. Swelter 26. Ego — 29. Employer 32. Exodus leader 33. Settings 34. Cleat on a tire 35. Legendary king 36. — — a customer 37. Notably able 38. Flexible joint 40. To a great distance 41. Insalubrious 42. Wicked looks 43. Cruise and Clancy 45. Name in a Blackmore title 46. Diverts 47. Gets along 50. Bar bills 52. Warrior in Greek myth 54. Cue 56. Material for sarees 57. Lump in a fabric 59. Performing group 60. Per — 61. Schlepped 63. Thaumaturgy 64. Object in miniature
65. San Antonio landmark 66. Lip piercing 67. Hair 68. Raccoon relative 69. Bewitched 70. Dele’s undoing 71. Fingerboard ridge 72. Yegg’s targets 75. Racetrack 76. Of the chest 79. A simian 80. Rampant 81. Getz and Laurel 82. Parts of eyes 84. More jumpy 86. Two-channel 89. Lodge 90. Talk show name 91. Wear with pride 92. Casino items 93. Sufficient, formerly 94. Presque — 96. Muscat and — 97. D-I link 98. Positive 99. Slipped 101. A pronoun 102. Number prefix 103. Coxcomb 105. Fleecy beast
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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 23 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.
Hook, Line and Sinker Solution: 23 Letters
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ACROSS 1. Winglike parts 5. Draconian 10. AKA Cosa Nostra 15. Party 19. Pep or poison 20. Inspirational goddess 21. Releases 22. — podrida 23. Cruel 25. Adoring 27. Sandy region 28. Ho-hum 30. Beloved ones 31. London gallery 32. Failures 34. Bishop’s jurisdiction 35. Ill-humored 38. Whetstone 39. Medieval war engine 44. Slow to act 45. Scandalous 48. “Matrix” role 49. — Plaines 50. Strobili 51. Single note in music 52. An attention-getter 53. Surmounting 55. Farm denizens 56. Really, really good 57. Lagers 58. Mute for violins 60. Cartridges 61. Skipjack and yellowfin 62. Way to go 63. Chums 64. Kind of mushroom 65. Tops 66. — lazuli 67. Certain ceremonial feast 70. Rested 71. Fence in “Oliver Twist”
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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY CANCER (June 21-July 22): I predict that four weeks from now you will be enjoying a modest but hearty feeling of accomplishment—on one condition: You must not get diverted by the temptation to achieve trivial successes. In other words, I hope you focus on one or two big projects, not lots of small ones. What do I mean by “big projects”? How about these: taming your fears, delivering a delicate message that frees you from a onerous burden, clarifying your relationship with work and improving your ability to have the money you need. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Spain’s most revered mystic poet was St. John of the Cross, who lived from 1542 to 1591. He went through a hard time at age 35, when he was kidnapped by a rival religious sect and imprisoned in a cramped cell. Now and then he was provided with scraps of bread and dried fish, but he almost starved to death. After 10 months, he managed to escape and make his way to a convent that gave him sanctuary. For his first meal, the nuns served him warm pears with cinnamon. I reckon that you’ll soon be celebrating your own version of a jailbreak, Leo. It’ll be less drastic and more metaphorical than St. John’s, but still a notable accomplishment. To celebrate, I invite you to enjoy a ritual meal of warm pears with cinnamon. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define,” says Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons. I’d love for you to adopt that attitude, Virgo. You’re entering the Season of Generous Mystery. It will be a time when you can generate good fortune for yourself by being eager to get your expectations overturned and your mind blown. Transformative opportunities will coalesce as you simmer in the influence of enigmas and anomalies. Meditate on the advice of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’ve compiled a list of four mantras for you to draw strength from. They’re designed to put you in the proper alignment to take maximum advantage of current cosmic rhythms. For the next three weeks, say them periodically throughout the day. 1. “I want to give the gifts I like to give rather than the gifts I’m supposed to give.” 2. “If I can’t do things with excellence and integrity, I won’t do them at all.” 3. “I intend to run on the fuel of my own deepest zeal, not on the fuel of someone else’s passions.” 4. “My joy comes as much from doing my beautiful best as from pleasing other people.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The world will never fully know or appreciate the nature of your heroic journey. Even the people who love you the most will only ever understand a portion of your epic quest to become your best self. That’s why it’s important for you to be generous in giving yourself credit for all you have accomplished up until now and will accomplish in the future. Take time to marvel at the majesty and miracle of the life you have created for yourself. Celebrate the struggles you’ve weathered and the liberations you’ve initiated. Shout “Glory hallelujah!” as you acknowledge your persistence and resourcefulness. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to do this tricky but fun work. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect you may have drug-like effects on people in the coming weeks. Which drugs? At various times, your impact could resemble cognac, magic mushrooms and Ecstasy—or sometimes all three simultaneously. What will you do with all that power to kill pain and alter moods and expand minds? Here’s one possibility: Get people excited about what you’re excited about, and call on them to help you bring your dreams to a higher stage of development. Here’s another: Round up the support you need to transform any status quo that’s boring or unproductive. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” So said psychologist Carl Jung. What the hell did that meddling, self-important know-it-all mean by that? Oops. Sorry to sound annoyed. My cranky reaction may mean I’m defensive about the possibility that I’m sometimes a bit preachy myself. Maybe I don’t like an author-
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ity figure wagging his finger in my face because I’m suspicious of my own tendency to do that. Hmmm. Should I therefore refrain from giving you the advice I’d planned to? I guess not. Listen carefully, Capricorn: Monitor the people and situations that irritate you. They’ll serve as mirrors. They’ll show you unripe aspects of yourself that may need adjustment or healing. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A source of tough and tender inspiration seems to be losing some of its signature potency. It has served you well. It has given you many gifts, some difficult and some full of grace. But now I think you will benefit from transforming your relationship with its influence. As you might imagine, this pivotal moment will be best navigated with a clean, fresh, open attitude. That’s why you’ll be wise to thoroughly wash your own brain—not begrudgingly, but with gleeful determination. For even better results, wash your heart, too. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A “power animal” is a creature selected as a symbolic ally by a person who hopes to imitate or resonate with its strengths. The salmon or hare might be a good choice if you’re seeking to stimulate your fertility, for example. If you aspire to cultivate elegant wildness, you might choose an eagle or horse. For your use in the coming months, I propose a variation on this theme: the “power fruit.” From now until at least May 2018, your power fruit should be the ripe strawberry. Why? Because this will be a time when you’ll be naturally sweet, not artificially so; when you will be juicy, but not dripping all over everything; when you will be compact and concentrated, not bloated and bursting at the seams; and when you should be plucked by hand, never mechanically. ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Greek word philokalia is translated as the “love of the beautiful, the exalted, the excellent.” I propose that we make it your keyword for the next three weeks—the theme you keep at the forefront of your awareness everywhere you go. But think a while before you say yes to my invitation. To commit yourself to being so relentlessly in quest of the sublime would be a demanding job. Are you truly prepared to adjust to the poignant sweetness that might stream into your life as a result? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a favorable time to strengthen your fundamentals and stabilize your foundation. I invite you to devote your finest intelligence and grittiest determination to this project. How? Draw deeply from your roots. Tap into the mother lode of inspiration that never fails you. Nurture the web of life that nurtures you. The cosmos will offer you lots of help and inspiration whenever you attend to these practical and sacred matters. Best-case scenario: You will bolster your personal power for many months to come. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Two talking porcupines are enjoying an erotic tryst in a cactus garden. It’s a prickly experience, but that’s how they like it. “I always get horny when things get thorny,” says one. Meanwhile, in the rose garden next door, two unicorns wearing crowns of thorns snuggle and nuzzle as they receive acupuncture from a swarm of helpful hornets. One of the unicorns murmurs, “This is the sharpest pleasure I’ve ever known.” Now here’s the moral of these far-out fables, Gemini: Are you ready to gamble on a cagey and exuberant ramble through the brambles? Are you curious about the healing that might become available if you explore the edgy frontiers of gusto? Homework: In what circumstances do you tend to be smartest? When do you tend to be dumbest? 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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China Southern Airlines flight between Shanghai and Guangzhou was delayed for five hours on June 27 after an 80-year-old passenger, identified only as Qiu, was spotted tossing coins into the engine as she boarded “to pray for a safe flight.” Passengers already onboard were asked to deplane while crews searched inside the engine and around the area, ultimately finding nine coins totaling the equivalent of about 25 cents; local news outlets estimated the cost of the delay and the search at $140,000.
Compulsions Could it have been overconsumption of caffeine that provoked Londoner Kit Lovelace to scan all 236 episodes of “Friends” to chronicle how much coffee each character drank? Lovelace told the Huffington Post in June he was disappointed that no one had ever collected data about the characters’ coffee habits, so he meticulously studied how much they drank, how their consumption changed over the years and how much they spent on coffee. (Spoiler alert: Phoebe drank the most coffee, and collectively the group spent more than $2,000 on joe over the course of the 10-season series.) A California man’s 2,000th visit to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on June 22 made him a celebrity in the park. Jeff Reitz began visiting Disneyland every day after receiving an annual pass as a gift in 2012. At the time, he was unemployed, but he continued his habit even after finding a job, using the $1,049 Disney Signature Plus Passport. “Until today, cast members would think I looked familiar, but now they know who I am,” Reitz said. “It’s been positive, it’s been a motivator, and it’s been my workout gym. This past year I’ve lost about 40 pounds.”
Great Art! Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., were hunting in late June for the artist tagging buildings with...butt cheeks. At least 20 downtown fanny paintings, sporting from two to seven buttocks, have been reported. “It’s not very creative,” sniffed one office worker. “The bottom line is, whoever is doing this is destroying property,” Assistant Police Chief Jim Pre-
viterra said. Property owners are wiping the butts away as fast as they appear, but police say the vandal, when caught, will have to pay for cleanup.
Police Report A SWAT team from the Sumter County, Fla., sheriff’s department raided The Villages retirement community on June 21, uncovering what they believe is a golf cart chop-shop operation (along with illegal drugs) in the sprawling complex near Ocala. Souped-up golf carts are a popular way to get around in the community, which is home to more than 150,000 people. Windshields, seat cushions, wheels and tires were found in the garage, along with drugs “in plain sight” in the home, Deputy Gary Brannen said. Five people, ranging in age from 38 to 63, were arrested. A hopeful driver, pulled over by Dakota County, Minn., Deputy Mike Vai in June, produced a “Get out of Jail Free” card from a Monopoly game in an effort to escape charges on a controlled substance warrant. The amused officer shared the incident on his department’s Facebook page, but took the unidentified man into custody, nonetheless.
Digital Cocktail If you visit Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory, you can’t skip one of its famous traditions: sipping on a Sourtoe Cocktail at the Sourdough Saloon. The drink, conceived in 1973, comprises the cocktail of your choice garnished with a pickled, amputated human toe. (“You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips have gotta touch the toe!” says “toe master” Terry Lee.) On June 18, one of the saloon’s toes went missing when a patron, who identified himself as “a drunken fool,” took the digit (specifically, a second toe). Although the thief mailed the toe back with an apology, Travel Yukon has launched a campaign for an “insurance toe,” saying, “Our toe was returned, but we can always use backups!”
The Continuing Crisis Demit Strato of New York took to Facebook on June 26 from his throne room to excoriate his local Starbucks for making his venti iced coffee with regular milk instead of soy milk, as he ordered it. “I’ve pooped 11 times since the a.m. My bottom hurts from all the wiping. Do you think I enjoy soy milk? ... I don’t order soy milk because I’m bored and want my drink order to sound fancy. I order soy milk so that my bottom doesn’t blast fire for 4 hours.” For its part, Starbucks sent Strato a $50 gift card, and he told Buzzfeed that “many women are trying to go out on a date after this, too.” © 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication J U LY 2 0 , 2 0 1 7 | 45
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Name That Throne ::BY ART KUMBALEK
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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, the other day I happened to mosey past the twinkle-in-the-eye new Bucks’ Shangri-La on my way to a nearby George Webb Restaurant and remembered the joint didn’t yet have a moniker slapped on it that somebody shelled out some big-time dough for, what the fock. And what kind of ballpark figure are we talking for what-you-call your “naming rights”? I thought I’d scout a potential price ’cause it might be nice to have something named after myself besides a tombstone or a court case. And HOLY FOCKING COW. To have your name affixed to a basketball court goes for about $120 million paid over 20 years—about $6 mil per year. Yeah, tell me about it, that’s a little rich for my blood, too. That’s one pricey shingle to hang out, I kid you not. But maybe I’ve got a deal for you’s. And that is I’m offering naming rights to this here weekly column, “Art for Art’s Sake,” to the highest bidder. So what would it run you to affix your handle atop this page? Let me run some numbers here. Somewheres around 60,000 Badgerlanders and what-not sit down to read this paper at a weekly crack—not to mention a whole bunch of younger people who read this paper on a screen ’cause they’re too lazy to stop and pick up the hard stuff. In the newspaper game, it’s called “circulation” rather than “attendance” like in the sports business,
but it’s the same goddamn thing. Of interest to all potential pigeons who’d like to land my naming rights, out of these 60,000-plus weekly fans, 60,000-plus of them turn to this page first. And not just 41 times a fall, winter and spring—at only a max 17,500 fannies per Bucks game—but 52 focking times a year at 60,000 fannies, Jack. So do the math: 52 times a conservative 60,000 equals 3,120,000, 3,120,000 satisfied and enlightened consumers of this column come rain, sleet, snow, mad dogs, hell, Englishmen and high water who each and every week will associate your name with truth, justice and the American Way. And what am I asking for these naming rights? Let me tell you this. If you think forking out $120 million to have your moniker identified with an up-and-down basketball squad that—with a significant injury here and there, and/or free-agent desertion—would promise only disappointment is good advertising, then I got a weekly column I’d like to peddle you the naming rights to at a fraction of the cost. It won’t cost you $120 million. It won’t cost you $60 million. It won’t even cost you a paltry $1 million, no sir. I’m not here to rob you blind. What I propose to soak you for the right to impress 3,120,000 potential customers per year with your corporate/store/product/restaurant name at the top of this page is two-bits a head. That’s right, a mere one-time $780,000 to name this column whatever the fock you want in perpetuity. Be it “Oscar Mayer for Oscar Mayer’s Sake,” “Chesterfield for Chesterfield’s Sake,” “Jim Beam for Jim Beam’s Sake” or “Hooters for Hooters’ Sake”; hell, makes no difference to me what kind of racket you’re in. If your business is selling the Lord, you can name this column “Christ for Christ’s Sake,” for christ sakes. All’s fine by me. Believe me, I could care less what you call it. As
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Leo: See “Aries” for special message, hairball. Virgo: Ditto. Libra: Hey knob, where’s my check? Scorpio: See “Libra” for special message. Sagittarius: Fock if I know. Capricorn: It’s a wonderful life, but what would it be like without you around? Before you try to find out, take out a life insurance policy. Stars indicate “Art Kumbalek” to be beneficiary. Go jump off the Hoan, but make it look like an accident. Aquarius: Hey waterboy, bear me a couple, three Jacksons why don’t you. Pisces: Fish got to swim, and eagles got to fly from you to me. Assclown: Yeah, you may never have heard of this sign before, but you know who you are and if you don’t, I do, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.
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