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Lifting the Stigma

Legalizing Marijuana in Wisconsin Despite widespread public support, Republicans continue to block reform ::BY ELIZABETH ELVING s a freshman legislator in 2014, Rep. Melissa Sargent (D-Madison) introduced a bill to fully legalize marijuana in Wisconsin. At the time, she found that a lot of residents supported the idea, even if they couldn’t bring themselves to say it out loud. “People would come up to me and quietly say, ‘I’m a fan of the stuff you’re working on’ or ‘Keep up the good work with that one policy,’” Sargent recalls. “It was almost like a wink and a nod. Code words were used.”

Just a few years later, Rep. Sargent has seen a “seismic shift” in public perception. People are much more comfortable talking openly about cannabis, and national polls show a majority of Americans are in favor of its legalization. A 2016 Marquette Law School poll found that 59% of Wisconsinites believe it should be legal and regulated like alcohol.

Eric Marsch, executive director of the Southeastern Wisconsin chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), agrees there is more momentum behind legalization today. Still, he cautions, momentum is not a guarantee. In Wisconsin, the Republican legislative majority continues to resist ideas for reform, and Gov. Scott Walker, a frequent promoter of the “gateway drug” theory, supports prohibition even for medical use.

If Wisconsinites don’t vote pro-cannabis candidates into office, Marsch says, legalization is unlikely to happen anytime soon. “When we talk to people now, they say, ‘It’s coming soon, we’re going to get there,’” Marsch says. “But we’re only going to ‘get there’ if people push for it. It’s not just going to happen on its own.”

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In 1970, Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act which classified marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug with high potential for abuse and no medical benefits. Two years later, the Richard Nixon-appointed Shafer Commission released a report stating that marijuana was, in fact, harmless and recommending alternatives to prohibition. The recommendations were ignored, and the classification remained—as did the negative stereotypes that accompanied it. Against that backdrop, legalization efforts were easy to dismiss.

“It’s been such a fringe issue that most people never took it seriously,” Marsch says. “They were told, ‘weed is bad, it makes you stupid and lazy.’ People didn’t have any reason to challenge those misconceptions.”

Advocates have long tried to overcome this stigma by promoting the medical benefits. Gary Storck, an activist and author of the blog cannabadger.com, was a teenager when he started treating his glaucoma with marijuana. He has now spent decades pushing for legal medical marijuana in Wisconsin by lobbying elected officials, attending demonstrations and writing hundreds of articles and letters to the editor to combat the “media demonization” that he says has kept cannabis on the fringe.

At hearings, Storck has joined fellow patients in testifying about how medical marijuana helps them treat a range of conditions. Although the pro-cannabis message has historically been “a hard sell,” he says, it’s often the medical benefits that turn people around. “Someone might say it’s a bad thing, and then if they or someone they love gets sick, they’ll see that it can help them,” he says. “Suddenly, they’ll think this is a very useful plant, and if patients can use this safely for debilitated health, why can’t anybody use it?”

As marijuana’s reputation pivots from gateway drug to multi-purpose medicine, support has gone up, and many elected officials have taken note. Legalization and regulation of marijuana is now part of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s platform, and many of the candidates for governor are openly pro-cannabis. Candidates like Democrats Matt Flynn and Mike McCabe and Libertarian Party candidate Phil Anderson have participated in Southeastern Wisconsin NORML’s events. For Storck, seeing candidates be upfront with their support signals a major change. “For years, we’d have to do things like call in to radio shows with loaded questions and try to get candidates’ comments about it. But they would never voluntarily comment,” he said. “This time around, they understand. They’ve seen the polling.”

Watching Other States

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. Today, marijuana is legal in nine states (and Washington, D.C.) and decriminalized in 13. A total of 29 states now allow medical use of marijuana.

The impact of legalization and regulation can be felt, and measured, in a lot of ways. State agencies and media are closely tracking rates of criminal activity, arrests, impaired driving incidents and economic bumps. On its website, NORML has collected peer-reviewed reports linking regulation to benefits like job creation, tax revenue and reduced alcohol consumption. A pair of 2018 studies suggested it might even help curb the opioid epidemic.

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Additionally, some of the biggest fears around legalization seem not to have materialized. Surveys in Colorado and Washington show no significant increase in teenage marijuana use and no rise in criminal activity. The rate of traffic fatalities also has not changed, although both states have seen an increase in traffic fatalities in which the deceased driver tested positive for marijuana. Sargent says that impaired driving is always a “major concern,� and that marijuana should be included in the bigger traffic safety conversation, alongside alcohol, texting and fatigue. As more states reform their laws, Sargent observes that it’s important to consider all of the results—both good and bad—rather than be swayed by any one study or data point. “You can always find a scientific paper out there that’s going to reinforce whatever you believe,� she says. “So it’s really important to study this from all dimensions.�

Marsch says the fact that legalization “didn’t make the sky fall� in other states has helped normalize the concept in Wisconsin. In 2018, the state did take the unexpected step of legalizing industrial hemp farming with a unanimous vote in the Wisconsin Senate. “That was huge,�

Storck says. “I never expected that under Walker.�

Nevertheless, the Republican-controlled legislature continues to block broader reforms. In the 2017-’18 legislative session, lawmakers introduced a number of cannabis-related bills, proposing ideas like reduced fines for possession of less than 10 grams, legal medical use, and an advisory referendum on medical marijuana. All of them failed to pass.

Marijuana and the Criminal Justice System

been criticized not only for their harshness but also because of how they are enforced. Research shows that black and white people use marijuana at roughly the same rate, but African Americans are three-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested for it, according to the Brookings Institute. In Wisconsin, records show the disparity is much more severe.

The Wisconsin Justice Initiative, analyzing Milwaukee County arrest records from 2015 and 2016, found that 86% of the people arrested for second-offense possession (with no other crime involved) were African American.

In the city of Milwaukee, it found that 70% of marijuana possession cases filed were against African Americans, who make up only 40% of the city’s population. In Madison, a city widely thought of as pot friendly, black people account for about 7% of the population and more than half of marijuana arrests.

The disproportionate enforcement of drug offenses is a prominent cause of the glaring racial disparity in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system.

Even in states like Colorado, where pot is legal and arrests have plummeted, the imbalance in enforcement persists. For this reason, advocates regard legalization not as solution to racial bias in the criminal justice system but as a step toward it. “Once we legalize marijuana, we will be able to address things like our egregious racial disparity,� Sargent says. “This is one way that we can have a direct impact.�

At the local level, some Wisconsin cities have decriminalized pot by reducing the penalty for possession. In 2015, Milwaukee voted to reduce the penalty for marijuana possession from $250 to $50. In 2017, Monona (in Dane County) voted to remove possession fines altogether.

Taxes and Jobs

In Wisconsin, first offense marijuana possession is punishable by fine or up to six months of incarceration. A subsequent offense is a Class I felony, which can carry a sentence of up to threeand-one-half years in prison. These laws have

Proponents also frame legalization as an economic solution, providing opportunities to save money and to make it. Wisconsin currently spends millions of dollars a year on the criminal enforcement of marijuana. A given marijuana arrest, for example, costs more than $400 in law

enforcement resources. In 2016, the state arrested 16,000 people for possession alone. And, of course, with legalization comes tax revenue. Colorado reportedly made some $500 million in tax revenues from marijuana sales between 2014 and 2017. Sales in Washington generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year, much of which goes toward public health programs like Medicaid.

Under a bill Sargent introduced in 2017, medical dispensaries would pay annual fees to the state, and producers and sellers of recreational marijuana would be subject to a sales tax and excise tax. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue has predicted that the bill would generate $138 million in tax revenue by 2021. In addition to the potential windfall, Sargent says legalization and regulation would boost the economy in other ways, including job creation.

Even without legalizing marijuana, some lawmakers say, the state’s workforce could benefit from a more lenient approach to it. In 2018, Rep. David Bowen (D-Milwaukee) proposed legislation to bar employers from drug testing for THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol, one of at least 113 cannabinoids identified in cannabis and the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis). Although it did not pass in this session, Bowen says the bill received “overwhelming support� across the state, and he plans to introduce it again. While he supports legalization, Bowen admits it’s unlikely to go very far under Wisconsin’s current political leadership.

This bill would address a specific problem without having to wait for that longstanding debate to change course. “Legalization is not what we’re proposing,� he says. “We’re talking about people having access to jobs and not being discriminated against because they consume THC.�

With employers trying to fill positions, and many people looking for work, Bowen says, cannabis should not be a barrier to employment. “We need those folks to be working, to be able to provide for their families,� he says. “That should be the number one concern, not punishing people because they consume a harmless substance.�

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A Popular Movement; a ‘Homegrown Solution’

Since 2014, Sargent has continued to introduce bills that would legalize marijuana. The legislation has evolved during that time as she has spoken to more people about it and incorporated their perspectives and concerns. “This is a homegrown solution,� she says. When legislation passes quickly, Sargent notes, it’s often because it happened behind closed doors, with little chance for public input. By contrast, marijuana reform in Wisconsin has been a long, slow process. But it’s also been out in the open and driven by the public.

In May, Southeastern Wisconsin NORML held its eighth annual March for Cannabis in Milwaukee, attended by several hundred people including activists, elected officials and several gubernatorial candidates. “I think it fires people up that we can have this conversation,� says Bowen, who spoke at the march. “Voters are hungry for a chance to further the conversation, rather than the Republican majority saying, ‘We’re not going to talk about it.’�

On the national scale, Marsch says that marijuana legalization “has only happened because of the people.� Apart from Vermont, he notes, all of the states that have fully legalized did so through a ballot initiative. Since Wisconsin does not allow ballot initiatives, change will have to come through the legislature. In May, the Milwaukee County Board voted in favor of a referendum for the Nov. 6 ballot, which will ask voters if they support legalizing cannabis for adults.

Milwaukee County residents will then be able to weigh in on the legalization debate, and voters statewide will elect the governor and lawmakers who will shape it in the years ahead. “These decisions on legalizing and decriminalizing have a vast impact on citizens all over the state, from our economy to our workforce to our future,� Bowen says. “And I look forward to a legislature and a governor that will really give this issue the time of day.�

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North Point Lighthouse a Beacon for Community and Environmentalism ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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hen the architect of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmstead, came to Milwaukee to design Lake Park, he worked around a landmark already on the bluffs—the North Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse was situated between a pair of ravines that Olmstead connected with a bridge guarded on both sides by stone lions. Olmstead planted the bald bluffs with trees, which grew so thick and tall that by 1912, the ship-guiding beacon was obscured. To compensate, a steel addition was added to the cast-iron lighthouse, raising it above treetops to a height of 74 feet.

The historic structure’s future fell into doubt when the U.S. Coast Guard decommissioned it in 1994. The adjacent, whitewashed Queen Anne house—the lighthouse keeper’s quarters—crumbled until it was saved through the efforts of neighborhood activists and historic

preservationists. Leasing the property from Milwaukee County, the North Point Lighthouse Friends opened the keeper’s quarters and the lighthouse as the North Point Lighthouse Museum in 2007. It became part of the Milwaukee Museum Mile in 2011.

“There were lots of questions as to what would happen to this,” says North Point Lighthouse Friends Board president John Scripp. He refers to proposals including turning the house into a youth hostel or a bed and breakfast. The community association he headed liked neither idea. “We decided we had to do more than say ‘no’ before someone came along with a bad idea and the funds to do it,” Scripp continues.

The Friends’ good idea—self-funded through admissions, donations and rentals (albeit aided at the onset by a federal historic restoration grant)—has blossomed into a small but ample museum and a successful experiment in environmental management. As North Point board

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member Kevin Walzak recounts, the North Point Lighthouse Friends installed a driveway of porous pavers to filter rainwater and received funding for it with the help of the Fund for Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District—conditional upon constructing a Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance (RSC) system on the grounds.

“It was a new concept for managing storm water where it falls in places with steep inclines,” Walzak explains. The North Point’s RSC consists of a series of step pools designed to catch storm water as it descends the bluffs toward the lake carrying bacteria and debris as well as causing erosion. Several raingardens have also been planted around the lighthouse with flowering plants indigenous to Wisconsin to absorb pollutants.

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Climbing to the top of the lighthouse for a 360-degree panorama of Milwaukee is only one of the museum’s attractions. The keeper’s quarters house a collection of North Point Lighthouse memorabilia, including keepsakes from the most interesting among the lighthouse’s keepers, Georgia Stebbins. She climbed the spiral stairs to the top of the tower and tended the beacon from 1888 through 1907, an era when American women were seldom the boss anywhere save, perhaps, their homes. But the collection encompasses not just North Point but Great Lakes maritime history.

Arrayed among the timelines and text panels is the brass fog bell that once warned sailors at the mouth of Milwaukee harbor and a batch of relics from ships that sank on the lakes. There are paintings and models of the schooners and steamers that plied the waters in earlier times.

Two of the great multi-faceted Fresnel lanterns, resembling giant glass Brussels sprouts or as-

paragus heads, give museumgoers a close-up on the source of light that guided mariners through the dark.

On loan from the Milwaukee County Historical Society and covering much of one wall is a large WPA-era painting depicting the original Milwaukee lighthouse, which stood at the deadend of Wisconsin Avenue roughly where Mark di Suvero’s The Calling (the orange sunburst sculpture) sits today. “We used to be a beacon for ships; today, we are a beacon for visitors from all over the world,” says curator Mark P. Kuehn. “We aren’t just a receptacle for artifacts,” he continues, pointing to the museum’s use as a meeting place for community organizations and weddings as well as lectures on Milwaukee and Great Lakes history. Kuehn is currently planning an exhibition on the Kaszube, the fisher folk who inhabited Jones Island when it was an island.

The North Point Friends gained money and expertise through the diverse backgrounds of its members and supporters. “We had park-oriented people and East Side-oriented people,” Scripp says. “And then we had an influx of lighthouseoriented people who weren’t necessarily from the neighborhood but who brought an understanding of what went on here. We want people to realize that this is more than just a Nantucket postcard.”

Walzak adds, “There’s a natural draw to a lighthouse; people are attracted to the romance of it, but once they’re in the door at North Point, people are surprised by what’s in here—the artifacts that tell stories about Milwaukee and the Great Lakes. The mission of the Friends was not just to restore the buildings but to reach out to the community, the East Side and beyond, to embrace the property as part of the region’s history.”

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

Thursday, July 19

Restoring Driver Licenses to Wisconsin Immigrants @ Voces de la Frontera (1027 S. Fifth St.), 6-7 p.m.

State Reps. David Crowley and JoCasta Zamarripa will join Voces de la Frontera to discuss the fight to restore driver’s licenses for Wisconsin immigrants. Zamarripa and Crowley will introduce legislation in 2019 to ensure that immigrants have the right to drive in Wisconsin.

Thomas Frank @ Shorewood Public Library (3920 N. Murray Ave.), 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Thomas Frank, a political analyst, historian, journalist and the author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas?, will come to the Shorewood Public Library to discuss his new book—Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society—a collection of essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in our daily lives.

Friday, July 20

‘Milwaukee 53206’ Screening @ Transformation City Church (6725 W. Burleigh St.), 7-9 p.m.

Milwaukee 53206 gives an inside look at how mass incarceration effects not only the person doing the time, but also everyone around them. It follows three families in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code, where the highest percentage of black men are incarcerated in America.

Freedom Flicks @ Peace Action Wisconsin (1001 E. Keefe Ave.), 6-8 p.m.

This Friday’s Freedom Flicks film is Why We Fight, a 2005 documentary directed by Eugene Jarecki describing the rise of the U.S. military-industrial complex. There will be a group discussion session after the film.

Saturday, July 21

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

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

Protecting Our Elections @ Milwaukee Public Library (3501 W. Oklahoma Ave.), noon-4 p.m.

Fair Elections Project Director Sachin Chheda and Molly McGrath of the ACLU will lead a teach-in on how to fight against gerrymandering, protect voting rights and combat big money interests from influencing our elections.

Sunday, July 22

Keeping Up with the Candidates @ Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery (901 W. Juneau Ave.), 7-9 p.m.

NextGen America, a progressive political organization, will host a gubernatorial candidate debate targeted toward young voters, with all proceeds going to Urban Underground. Tickets also include free food and drink.

Tuesday, July 24

Dan Kaufman and ‘The Fall of Wisconsin’ @ Boswell Book Co. (2559 N. Downer Ave.), 7-8 p.m.

Wisconsin native and contributor to the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker Dan Kaufman will come to Boswell Book Co. to discuss his new book, The Fall of Wisconsin: “a searing account of how the state’s progressive tradition was undone and turned into a model for national conservatives in other states,” according to the event’s Facebook page.

Wednesday, July 25

Police and Youth Listening Circles @ Davis Boys and Girls Club (1975 S. 24th St.), 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Frank Zeidler Center for Public Discussion will host a “Police and Youth Listening Circle,” where people ages 13-24 are encouraged to come share ideas and experiences about their community. Participants will leave with $10, but there are only 40 spaces available. RSVP through the Zeidler Center Facebook page.

Candidate Forum: Healthy Babies, Healthy Communities @ United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County (225 W. Vine St.), 1-3 p.m.

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County will host a forum to find out where candidates stand on issues related to healthy births. Invited candidates include: Frederick Kessler and LaKeshia Nicole Myers from Assembly District 12; Rick Banks, Danielle McClendon-Williams, Supreme Moore Omokunde, Kalan Haywood and Brandy Bond from Assembly District 16; and Evan Goyke and Travis Spell from Assembly District 18.

Milwaukee Lieutenant Governor Forum @ First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee (1342 N. Astor St.), 6-8:30 p.m.

Candidates running to be Wisconsin’s next lieutenant governor will participate in a forum at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee. Questions from the audience will be accepted.

Contemporary Issues in Latino Immigration @ Jewish Museum Milwaukee (1360 N. Prospect Ave.), 7-8:30 p.m.

Former National League of United Latin American Citizen’s Midwest Vice President Darryl D. Morin will come to Jewish Museum Milwaukee to discuss contemporary immigration issues, legislation and policy affecting the Latino community and the local and global implications.

Admission is $5 for museum members and $7 for nonmembers.

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::BY JOEL MCNALLY

n the chaotic, incoherent presidency of Donald Trump, there are times when it seems as if there’s no one in charge who knows up from down.

But Trump’s nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court so far have been remarkably consistent in deciding exactly who’s going up and who’s going down.

There were a couple of interesting Wisconsin side issues to Trump’s nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh. One was to immediately increase the danger that Wisconsin’s Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel might succeed in destroying cost reductions and other government-protected health benefits nationally. The other was the likely end of the judicial advancement of Chicago-based Federal Appeals Court Judge Diane Sykes, who’s been prominently mentioned as a possible high court

nominee for more than a decade and as recently as last year’s opening under Trump.

Both developments raise larger questions about the Supreme Court even though Sykes, formerly on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, could have matched any partisan Republican extremist ever considered.

Ending Health Care?

Much of the alarm over Kavanaugh’s nomination has focused on the threat to Roe v. Wade, the 45-year-old Supreme Court decision protecting the right of a woman to decide for herself whether to give birth if she becomes pregnant based upon her own health and circumstances. But Trump’s court could go far beyond endangering women’s health to destroy access to affordable health care for everyone.

Kavanaugh’s record includes decisions explicitly hostile to both abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That’s particularly brazen when voters cite protecting health care as the most important issue in this year’s elections.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Trump that Kavanaugh’s record could make him harder to confirm than other candidates.

Schimel is no legal heavyweight at home, but Trump just made him one in Texas. That’s where Schimel and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are jointly trying a federal lawsuit for 20 Republican states to destroy the ACA’s government subsidies to reduce health care costs and cover-

age of pre-existing conditions. If they succeed in ACA-hostile Texas, they could go before a more Trumpian Supreme Court next year visibly salivating to throw out affordable government health care.

Schimel hasn’t had much legal presence in Wisconsin, but Sykes certainly has. She’s been Wisconsin’s most prominent potential candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. There’d been only a few other suggestions over the years, including former Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson (recently deposed by conservatives) who’s not seeking re-election, and the late Terry Evans, also a former Chicago Federal Appeals Court judge.

What About Judge Sykes?

Here’s a personal disclaimer. I consider Sykes and her ex-husband, Charlie, a former right-wing radio host in Milwaukee, to be personal friends.

We all worked together as journalists at The Milwaukee Journal before Diane went to law school.

But I’m perfectly happy to pass up all the namedropping that goes with knowing a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice to keep Sykes’ extreme political ideology off the nation’s highest court.

That doesn’t mean the most likely reason for Sykes’ sudden disappearance from contention isn’t disturbing. A year ago, Sykes was a finalist right up until Neil Gorsuch’s selection. The excuse Trump advisers gave for picking a white male instead was that, as a woman, Sykes would be a stronger candidate for the next vacancy.

They expected that opening to be a harder fight, since it could permanently shift the balance of the court for decades.

So, Sykes remained on the list of pro-life,

right-wing judges created by the ultra-conservative Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation for Trump. But, now the second vacancy went to another white male. Sykes was never mentioned as a finalist or even on longer lists of alsorans. What happened? It was a familiar pattern for Trump. He threw Sykes over for a younger woman.

During all those years of being prominently mentioned, Sykes was getting older. She’s now 60. That’s not very old in Supreme Court years, but the petty Trump has bragged about appointing justices who could be rendering decisions for the next 40 years. Add age discrimination to Trump’s notorious offenses against women. The only woman on Trump’s short list was Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett—a member of the far-right charismatic Catholic group “People of Praise” that, I’m not making this up, refer to women as “handmaids” to men. She’s 46. Kavanaugh is 53.

The reason right-wing organizations insist Trump stick to their list of preferred judges is they’ve long suspected he’s an unprincipled conman with no real political ideology other than self-aggrandizement and using the presidency to increase his own wealth. Kavanaugh, no doubt, clinched the nomination when Trump learned he’d written that presidents should be exempt from criminal investigations and indictments while in office. Cruelly punishing Trump’s political enemies—despised minorities and millions of other Americans who could lose their constitutional rights, health care and needed government services under a mean-spirited, far right-wing Supreme Court—is just gravy.

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Are States Winning the Marijuana Tug-of-War? :BY RONALD FRASER

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t might appear that sooner or later state initiatives legalizing marijuana use, contrary to federal law, will be crushed in federal courts. After all, federal laws, according to Article IV of the U.S. Constitution, are the supreme laws of the land and preempt state laws. But

wait. States, not the U.S. Congress, are showing greater responsiveness to the will of the people—a core American political value, and James Madison’s promise that states must be able to fend off unwanted federal initiatives has not been forgotten.

The successful passage of state marijuana statutes owes much to 19th century-era ideas that, to this day, define what it means to be an American. Most Americans accept that the will of the people, individualism and deep suspicion of despotic, central governments are legitimate American political traditions. With the expansion of suffrage and the use of ballot initiatives and referenda among states in the 19th century, citizens gained wider participation in the political process, and populism— the belief that the will of the people should guide public officials—took hold.

The Pew Research Center reports that when

Americans were asked in 2017, “Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?” 61% responded, “legal.”

American Individualism

While European societies honored a class system calling for persons in lower social status to show deference to their social betters, 19th-century immigrants in America adopted more egalitarian values and a desire for personal liberty. In America, each citizen was, and still is, free to conduct his life in accordance with his or her own conscience and to control his or her own destiny. This tradition of independent thinking among our citizens no doubt accounts for the popularity of state marijuana statutes that grant personal freedoms and choice.

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Resistance to federal marijuana laws is widespread. Thirty states, representing 67% of the U.S. population among them, have authorized the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Nine of these states (21% of the population) and Washington, D.C., have also approved marijuana as a recreational drug.

James Madison’s Promise

To sell the new U.S. Constitution, James Madison argued more than 200 years ago that state governments should have the power to manage their own affairs. He wrote in The Federalist Papers: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people….”

Madison would certainly agree that both the use of medical marijuana under a doctor’s supervision and the possession of a small amount of marijuana for personal use by adults are “objects” concerning “the lives, liberties, and properties of the people” and are reserved for the states to decide. He also wrote: “If an act of a particular State [legalizing marijuana, for example], though unfriendly to the national government, be generally popular in that State … the opposition of the federal government, or the interposition of federal officers, would but inflame the zeal of all parties on the side of the State….”

On June 7 of this year, James Madison’s words echoed throughout the U.S. Congress when a bill titled “Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act” (aka the STATES Act) was introduced by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), as well as by U.S. Reps.

David Joyce (R-Ohio) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) which, as it states, is aimed at “[ensuring] that each state has the right to determine for itself the best approach to marijuana within its borders.” Sen. Gardner has stated: “This act fixes this problem once and for all by taking a states’ rights approach to the legal marijuana question.”

The STATES Act has been endorsed by more than a dozen organizations, including the Massachusetts Bankers Association, National Conference of State Legislatures and American Civil Liberties Union. If it becomes law, it will not only revive the Founding Fathers’ original view of how states should manage their own affairs but also remind us that traditional American values—individualism, populism and personal liberty—still matter.

Ronald Fraser writes on public policy issues for the DKT Liberty Project, a Washington-based civil liberties organization. He can be reached at fraserr@erols.com.

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avocado are all $1 to add. That same list of toppings is available for a build-yourown burger or brat patty ($7.95) option too.

For more traditional toppings, stick to the classic sausages portion of the menu.

The German Style ($8.95) is a bratwurst topped simply with sauerkraut and sautéed onions on a pretzel roll. The Farwell ($9.95) brat is a little more far-fetched with onions, roasted poblanos, diced bacon and melted pesto gouda cheese.

The specialty sausages section of the menu is where you’ll find some real winners. The Thai style Tiger Brat ($9.95) is made with a massive Bunzel’s smoked sausage with a crisp casing. In a riff on a banh mi, it’s topped with spicy Tiger Sauce— like a mashup of hot buffalo and sweet Asian chili sauce—and pickled julienned carrots and cucumbers. The sauce has a lot of heat, but the crisp veggies cool it off.

The Johnny Utah ($10.95) is for those with a hearty appetite. A Usinger’s Ken::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI tucky bourbon smoked sausage is surrounded by pulled pork in the hefty roll and topped with coleslaw. The sausage is smaller than that of the Thai brat, but the he Milwaukee Brat House has been a fixture on Old World shredded pork makes up the difference and then some. Get the pork mixed with Third Street for years now, serving up sausages of all kinds in a barbecue, hot barbecue, teriyaki or Tiger Sauce. Stick with one of the barbecue classic Wisconsin tavern setting. It’s a popular spot for barhopsauces because the Asian flavors will overpower the sausage in this one. ping and shuttles to events like Brewers games, plus it’s one of If you’ve got a group interested in sharing, the Brat House sausage sampler the bars on that strip with better-than-average bar food. ($15.95) lets everyone try a number of sausages. The platter comes with a brat, A second Milwaukee Brat House location in Shorewood builds on those Italian, Polish and hot Hungarian, all sliced partway through for easy doling out. same strong points, but in a more reserved neighborhood. If you’re looking They’re served on a bed of sautéed onions, red peppers, sauerkraut and mushfor the same sausages and convivial atmosphere but prefer to avoid roving rooms along with a pretzel roll. gangs of barhoppers on Saturday night, then the Oakland Avenue location Though the focus is clearly on sausages, the menu goes beyond with a Philly is the one you’ll want to patronize. cheesesteak ($9.95), the Third Street Reuben ($9.95) with Thanks to the original location’s proximity to beef brisket, and a chicken bacon chipotle wrap ($9.95).

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Meat on a Stick (and Legumes Too!) at Armenian Fest ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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n what turned out to be one of the final episodes of “Parts Unknown,” Anthony Bourdain flew to Armenia. He toured the ancient country—wedged between Turkey, Georgia and Iran—in the company of Armenian American rock star Serj Tankian from System of a Down. Bourdain remarked that he was expecting Armenia to be a “meat on a stick” nation. Tankian, who doesn’t eat red meat, smiled. While it’s true that shish-kabob has always been the party food of choice among Armenians, Armenian cookbooks are filled with vegetarian and vegan entrées.

A wide sampling of that nation’s culinary traditions will be served this Sunday at Armenian Fest. The annual event features plenty of meat, including chicken and beef shish-kabob, luleh kabob (ground beef) and lahmajoon (similar to a beef tortilla).

But there will also be lentil kufta (a patty of lentils, cracked wheat, onions and olive oil), cheese and cheese-and-spinach boreg (served in flat squares), Near Eastern salad (drizzled in olive oil and lemon), homemade hummus and hand-rolled yalangee (grape leaves stuffed with rice, tomato and parsley). The fresh-from-the-kitchen desserts start with the baklava familiar from Greek and Middle Eastern restaurants but ranges into more exotic realms with sweet cookies and pastries such as kadayif, shakerlama and nazoog.

Armenian beer will be among the beverages offered. Chicago’s Hye Vibes will perform traditional Armenian music through the afternoon and the Hamazkayin Sardarabad Dance Ensemble will perform at 3:13 p.m. Armenian Fest also features church tours and a culture booth selling books, artifacts and Armenian wine by the bottle.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, July 22 on the grounds and in the culture hall of St. John the Baptist Armenian Orthodox Church, 7825 W. Layton Ave. Parking and admission are free.

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::SPORTS The Best and Worst Possible Outcomes of Jesus Aguilar’s Home Run Derby Appearance

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he Milwaukee Brewers limped into the Major League Baseball All-Star break on Sunday and, for much of the roster, the next four days will be a welcome break for a team that played 21 games in 20 days and struggled mightily to complete that stretch. For Jesús Aguilar, however, it’s going to be another busy week.

Aguilar was one of five Brewers in the AllStar Game that took place on Tuesday, July 17—the largest All-Star contingent in franchise history. Before that, however, he was the number-one seed in the Home Run Derby on Monday night. Aguilar is the ninth different player to represent the Brewers in the Derby since the event’s inception in 1985, and the first since both Rickie Weeks and Prince Fielder were in the field in 2011. It was certainly exciting for fans to see Aguilar represent Milwaukee in the Derby—though undoubtedly, they held their collective breath hoping that he wouldn’t be injured or mess up his swing while aiming for the fences.

The evidence supporting something of a “Derby Jinx” is at best anecdotal and, to a point, largely can be explained away by other factors. Participants in the Derby are, by definition, the players who outpaced their peers in slugging in the first half of the season. Many are having the best stretches of their careers and, as such, many of them would have experienced second-half downturns due to normal regression—whether they had participated in the Derby or not. The average Brewers Derby participant has seen his OPS (On-base Plus Slugging) drop by 66 points in the second half of the season. Five of the 11 had theirs decrease by 100 points or more.

Here are some of the best- and worst-case scenarios presented by previous Brewers participants in MLB’s Home Run Derby:

The Best Richie Sexson participated in the Home Run Derby twice as a Brewer, including the 2002 Derby at Miller Park. Following that exhibition, his production dropped off slightly, with his OPS falling from .882 to .847. SexSHEPHERD EXPRESS

son’s second shot at the Derby, however, was a different story: He had a great second half for an awful 2003 team, hitting 20 home runs in 69 games and raising his OPS from .889 to .980.

The reigning National League Rookie of the Year, Ryan Braun participated in the Derby in his first full MLB season in 2008 and continued to improve afterwards. He hit .286 with a .324 on-base percentage and .549 slugging and improved upon all three marks in the second half, batting .282/.351/.560.

In 2007, Prince Fielder had one of the best first halves in franchise history, posting a .996 OPS that was identical to Jesús Aguilar’s as he entered play last Sunday. Fielder was actually better in the second half of that season with a 1.034 mark and 21 home runs en route to the first 50-homer season in franchise history.

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The Worst Greg Vaughn was the first Brewer ever selected to participate in the Derby in 1996, and he did so in the middle of a breakout year.

His .952 OPS in the first half of that season was 160 points higher than his career numbers as a Brewer. His production dipped by 119 OPS points in the second half, but the Brewers weren’t harmed by the drop off as they traded him to the Padres shortly after the All-Star break.

Carlos Lee represented Panama in an international-themed Home Run Derby in his first season as a Brewer in 2005 and reached the semifinals, becoming just the second Brewer ever to do so. The second half wasn’t as kind to him, as he saw his production fall by 117 OPS points.

Finally, over the course of his career, Corey Hart was a nearly identical hitter in the first and second halves, but his two All-Star seasons were the exceptions. He struggled mightily after the break in his first such year in 2008, and in 2010, when he also participated in two rounds of the Derby, he saw his OPS drop from .918 before the break to .802 after.

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CELEBRATING 13 YEARS OF MAKING MILWAUKEE LAUGH Milwaukee Comedy Festival 2018 ::BY JOHN JAHN he Milwaukee Comedy Festival celebrates 13 years of laughs during the first five days of August with, appropriately enough, 13 different shows and events at several local venues. As it has throughout its history, the festival will feature the best professional comedy acts from across the country—including stand-up, sketch and improvisational comedy routines. Given the nasty, unprincipled demagogue currently occupying our nation’s highest office, people seem to be in a worse-than-normal overall mood these days. Perhaps a good dose of laughs—and the concomitant endorphin release—is just what the doctor ordered.

Attendees are certain to experience political humor, but Matt Kemple, the festival’s creator and co-producer, said they shouldn’t expect that to be the whole picture by any means. “The Milwaukee Comedy Festival is not a political event and does not take a political side when choosing performers or making decisions on the content the festival will present,” he wrote in an email to the Shepherd Express. “We try to create an environment that everyone can be a part of and feel welcome. Will there be Trump jokes? Of course, but there will also be intelligent humor— jokes about unicorns, puns and who knows what else.”

When asked how he thought the Milwaukee Comedy Festival should be described or viewed, Kemple wrote, “I would love to see the festival presented as one of the highest quality live comedy shows you can see outside of New York or Los Angeles, and that’s why it’s special—because we can bring a group of people together to laugh together—a really positive way to interact, as opposed to bringing people together with anger or fear.”

The Milwaukee Comedy Festival (MCF) was founded in 2006 as the “Sketch and Improv Comedy Festival” to

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embrace and spotlight comedy in Milwaukee. From somewhat humble origins, it’s grown over the years into Wisconsin’s foremost annual comedy event. Rather than just featuring one local comic after another telling jokes, as the event’s website states, it has a larger mission and vision: “MCF aspires to cultivate an active comedy community where performers can hone their craft, create new and exciting comedy and foster an inviting environment for both audiences and fellow performers.

Over the years, more than 18,000 people have laughed with the Milwaukee Comedy Festival. Audiences have traveled from all parts of Wisconsin to attend the state’s biggest comedy event of the year.”

From its very beginning, the festival has brought in performers from across the U.S. and Canada. MCF performers have gone on to appear in movies and TV shows, the latter including shows on Comedy Central, HBO, Saturday Night Live, MAD TV, Netflix, BET and more.

No single stage will see all the MCF performers; as usual, locations throughout the greater Milwaukee area are hosting live comedy as part of the festival. These venues include The Underground Collaborative, Lakefront Brewery and Turner Hall Ballroom. Club Garibaldi hosts the “unofficial” kick-off with a “Roast of Milwaukee” on Monday, July 30.

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The most attention-grabbing MCF special event this year includes “The Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead with comedy/political-social activism show Lady Parts Justice League’s “Vagical Mystery Tour” on Thursday, Aug. 2. As MCF’s website describes it: “LPJL’s secondannual Vagical Mystery Tour will make you laugh, dance and learn how to fight for reproductive rights! This show will not only present some of the most hilarious and sought-after comedians in the business, but will also include an informal postshow talkback with abortion providers and activists who will break down what’s at stake for abortion rights in your state and offer tangible ways for you to roll up your sleeves and fight back.”

“LPJL is the reproductive rights organization that uses humor and outrage to fight back online and on the ground against enemies of reproductive freedom,” says the festival’s organizer, Matt Kemple. “Part USO, part Habitat for Humanity, LPJL is the only nonprofit that travels the country doing comedy and providing aid and comfort to independent clinics in hostile states.” Given Republican (i.e. anti-choice) control over the governor’s office and state legislature, a visit to the hostile state of Wisconsin seems most apropos. The show features comedians Aida Rodriguez, Gina Obedapo Yashere and South Milwaukeeborn Jackie Kashian.

In summary, the 2018 Milwaukee Comedy Festival official line-up currently is as follows: Wednesday, Aug. 1

Official Kick-Off at Lakefront Brewery, featuring Jake Snell, Omar Nava, Amanda Averell and Pranav Behari.

Thursday, Aug. 2

Lady Parts Justice League at The Underground Collaborative, featuring Lizz Winstead, Aida Rodriguez, Jackie Kashian and Gina Obedapo Yashere.

Friday, Aug. 3

Festival Headliner Event at Turner Hall Ballroom featuring Colin Quinn, and comedians Jeena Bloom, Sharup Karim, Mike Hover and Buzz Off Lucille at The Underground Collaborative.

Saturday, Aug. 4

Five different comedy shows featuring several stand-up, improv and sketch performers at The Underground Collaborative throughout the afternoon and evening. Performers include Ilana Gordon, Personal Space, Elijah Holbrook, Goodlanders, Dana Ehrmann, The Comic Thread, Brittany Tilander, U Name It Improv, Drew Flagge and more.

Sunday, Aug. 5

Three different comedy shows featuring several stand-up, improv and sketch performers at The Underground Collaborative. Performers include Jared Wing, Commitment Issues, Adam McShane, Kristin Lytie, Vik Pandya and more. The final show, “The Best of the Fest,” takes place at 7:30 p.m.

For the complete 2018 Milwaukee Comedy Festival schedule and tickets, visit mkecomedyfest.com.

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May 10 - Oct. 21

Charles Allis

JULY 20 - 29

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Armored Saint with special Act of Defiance $25

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Esmé Patterson

FRIDAY, JULY 20

Esmé Patterson w/ Abby Jeanne @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Esmé Patterson is the kind of performer who makes it feel like every other country singer is doing it wrong. A veteran of the indie-folk ensemble Paper Bird, the Colorado singer specializes in a particularly ebullient style of Americana—all rollicking electric riffs, forward hooks and cheery, jumpy vocals. Even the weepy numbers on her memorable 2016 solo effort, We Were Wild, have an uplifting energy to them. In 2016, she also released a 7-inch split with fellow troubadour William Elliott Whitmore.

Festa Italiana @ Summerfest Grounds

One of the first of Milwaukee’s major 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. Performers this year include comedians Carmen Vallone and Vince Carone, Anita’s Dance Company, Italian Dance Group of Milwaukee, the Tom Sorce Band and the Festa Italian Marching Band. That’s in addition to parades, fireworks (some of the largest of any Milwaukee festival) and the annual “Italian Idol” singing competition.

(Through Sunday, July 22.)

Black Milk

SATURDAY, JULY 21

Black Milk and Nat Turner Band w/ CRASHprez and Zed Kenzo @ Cactus Club, 9 p.m.

Consider this bill a celebration of Midwest hip-hop: Three masterful artists from three different cities with three very distinct visions. Black Milk, who will be performing with the Nat Turner Band, is a Detroit veteran who’s collaborated with neighbors like Jack White, Slum Village and Danny Brown, but he saves his best for his own albums, which are soulful, political and unapologetically exploratory, often drawing inspiration from electronic music. Milwaukeean Zed Kenzo’s take on hip-hop is weirder and wilder, a witchy hip-hop/trap hybrid with a pitch-black sense of humor. Minneapolis’ magnificent CRASHprez, meanwhile, channels political rage into bombastic, flame-throwing, fascist-punching poetry. Milwaukee’s Dope Folk DJs will spin between sets at this show.

Milwaukee Air & Water Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 21 Sylvan Esso w/ Collections of Colonies of Bees @ The Pabst Theater, 7 p.m.

For much of the ’00s, Nick Sanborn was one of the more prolific contributors to the Milwaukee music scene, playing in bands like Decibully and Collections of Colonies of Bees while producing electronic music under the moniker Made of Oak. But it wasn’t until Sanborn left Milwaukee for North Carolina that he found success on the national level with Sylvan Esso, his collaboration with Amelia Meath, formerly of the folk trio Mountain Man. Together the two make wily, vibrant electronic pop that zigs and zags in continually creative new ways. More politically charged than the band’s 2014 self-titled debut but every bit as fun, the duo’s 2017 sophomore album, What Now, was nominated for a Best Dance/ Electronic Album Grammy. The duo shares a pair of sold-out shows at the Pabst Theater this weekend with Sanborn’s former band Collections of Colonies of Bees, which has a new lineup and a wonderful new album, HAWAII, which they just released this month on Polyvinyl. (Also Sunday, July 22.)

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If they insist on doing this thing every year they should at least pass out complementary paper bags for Downtown workers to breathe into as weapons of war scream through the sky. Milwaukee’s loudest, most stressful summer tradition returns for another two days of zipping, zooming, roaring military and competitive aircraft displays that will give dogs panic attacks and force East Siders to close their windows despite the summer heat. For those who somehow enjoy this noise pollution, free viewing is available at Bradford Beach; reserved seating is available at McKinley Park.

SUNDAY, JULY 22

Drop The Needle Fundraiser @ Radio Milwaukee, 1-5 p.m.

Once again a huge cast of area DJs, musicians and artists will assemble for the second annual Drop The Needle fundraiser to promote awareness and understanding of drug and alcohol addiction and combat the opioid epidemic. The $10 donation includes catered food and beverages for guests and live music. There will also be information tables and a raffle with prizes including Bucks tickets, Admirals tickets and gift baskets from Milwaukee businesses. All proceeds will be donated directly to Stop Heroin Now and The Guest House of Milwaukee.

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The War on Drugs

SUNDAY, JULY 22 The War on Drugs w/ James Elkington @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

What does indie-rock even mean anymore? Over the years the genre’s umbrella has widened to include not just noisy guitar acts and punk-leaning underground bands, but folk songwriters, chamber-pop ensembles, electronic producers and everything in between. But more so than most acts, Philadelphia’s War on Drugs tests the boundaries of the term. The band’s breakthrough 2014 album, Lost in the Dream, and its similarly lauded 2017 sequel, A Deeper Understanding, play like oddball period pieces, drawing deeply from the expensive, commercial production of ’80s releases from Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen and other crossover boomer icons. In other words, they’re created from the very sounds that indie-rock once positioned itself against. Coming from a lesser songwriter, this throwback production could easily play like a shtick, but The War on Drugs principal Adam Grandueciel uses them in service of unforgettable mood pieces.

AlleyWayz: Nickel & Rose @ Black Cat Alley, 8 p.m.

In conjunction with some vibrant new pieces, the East Side’s only alley-turned-streetart-gallery has introduced a new biweekly concert series this summer. Black Cat Alley’s AlleyWayz series kicks off with a performance from the Milwaukee folk duo Nickel & Rose, who imagine a more musically and culturally inclusive version of classic Americana, then continues with Lorde Fredd33 (Aug. 5), Lex Allen (Aug. 19), Amanda Huff (Sept. 2) and “The Voice” contestant Hannah Mrozak (Sept. 16).

MONDAY, JULY 23

A little bit inspiring.

A little bit unexpected.

Vans Warped Tour @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater, 11 a.m.

How will the Vans Warped Tour be remembered? For nearly 25 years, the tour has been one of punk’s most influential institutions, helping break dozens of bands while giving fans direct access to musicians. It’s possible the tour gave too much access: Over the years there have been multiple allegations of sexual abuse of misconduct against artists on the tour, and concerns that the event puts predatory musicians too close to underage fans. With ticket sales falling in recent years, promoter Kevin Lyman has announced that this year would be the Warped Tour’s final cross-country run (though he hasn’t ruled out possible 25th anniversary events for next year). Less Than Jake, The Main, Simple Plan, We The Kings, Twiztid, Every Time I Die, Senses Fail, Trash Boat, Farewell Winters, Reel Big Fish, Asking Alexa and 3OH!3 are among the dozens of bands performing at what may be the festival’s final Milwaukee stop ever.

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All sorts of art of every sort of taste.

Duane Hanson, Janitor, 1973. Polyester, fiberglass, and mixed-media. Gift of Friends of Art M1973.91. Photo by John R. Glembin. © Estate of Duane Hanson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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The Children’s Hour

Written by Lillian Hellman and directed by Dylan Sladky, The Children’s Hour is

a dramatic play set in a fictional New England town in the 1930s. Given the political atmosphere of our country today, its plot involving small-minded intolerance and homophobia is surely relevant. The Children’s Hour tells the story of two women unjustly “accused” of being lesbians by one of their students. The fuming community—with only the accusations to go on—swiftly withdraws all its students from the school at which the women teach. Given the ensuing witch hunt and lynch mob atmosphere in the wake of the accusations, the school is forced to close. Meanwhile, the women, themselves, see their lives quickly fall apart as they become pariahs.

After graduating from New York University, Hellman became a play reader in the office of theatrical producer Herman Shumlin. In May 1934, Hellman asked Shumlin to read a draft of a play she had been quietly working on—The Children’s Hour. After he read the first act, Shumlin’s response was, “Swell.” Upon finishing its second act, he remarked, “I hope it keeps up.” When he’d finished reading Hellman’s play, Shumlin said, “I’ll produce it.” (John Jahn) July 20-29 in Milwaukee Entertainment Group’s Subterranean Theatre at the Brumder Mansion, 3046 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, visit outskirtstheatre.org/tickets.

Peter and the Starcatcher Peter and the Starcatcher is a play based on the 2004 novel Peter and the

Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson that amounts to a backstory for the time-honored characters of Peter Pan, Mrs. Darling, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook. After a 2009 premiere in California, it moved Off-Broadway two years thereafter and opened on Broadway in 2012. It received nine Tony Award nominations, winning five.

Brimming with pirates, jungle tyrants, mermaids, a nameless orphan and his friends, and the eponymous Starcatcher, this adventure musical takes a fresh look at celebrated fictional characters in a prequel written by Rick Elice and composed by Wayne Barker.

This Racine Theatre Guild production will be directed by Kara Ernst-Schalk and features Evan Klinkhamer, Nic Cicerale, Andrew Dorst and many others. (John Jahn) July 20-29 at Racine Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave., Racine. For tickets, call 262-633-4218 or visit racinetheatre.org.

Lost Girl

The Milwaukee Repertory Theater produces Kimberly Belflower’s Lost Girl, which

will be performed by The Rep’s Professional Training Institute (PTI) ensemble. Lost Girl is a coming-of-age exploration of first love and lasting loss that asks what became of Wendy Darling in the years after she parted company with Peter Pan. The latter, remember, never grows up, but Wendy, a girl lacking Pan’s magic, does. This production will be directed by Wisconsin native Ryan Quinn, who directed the inaugural production of PTI’s So Thrive My Soul last season.

PTI students hail from local high schools. The 2017-2018 ensemble features 16 theatrical arts students from 14 high schools throughout the greater Milwaukee area who have received intensive training for many months from top local theater production staff and actors. These world premiere performances mark the capstone of their studies. (John Jahn) July 19-22 in the Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

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Sunset Playhouse’s ‘The Producers’

Sunset Playhouse Satisfies with ‘The Producers’

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unset Playhouse embraces an ambitious comedy with its staging of Mel Brooks’ The Producers. Director Tommy Lueck juggles a massive cast with a humble pairing of talents at its center.

There’s a tumbling precision to Robert A. Zimmerman’s comic instincts of disheveled desperation as down-on-his luck Broadway Producer Max Bialystok. Zach Zembrowski delicately assembles the neurotic fragility of Bialystock’s meek business partner Leo Bloom, who stumbles onto the idea of getting rich by producing a mega-flop Broadway show. Zimmerman and Zembrowski have a charming dynamic as Bialystock and Bloom embark on a journey to epic failure.

The first figure the two producers encounter is Franz Liebkind—the demented author of surefire failure Springtime for Hitler. Towering Steven Sizer plays the role of the crazy German with a smart musicality and just the right level of insanity—positively dwarfing the two producers who are clearly in over their heads in many ways.

Bialystock and Bloom’s second stop on the way to failure finds them in the presence of fabulous diva Broadway director Roger DeBris. Eric Safdieh-Nelson is a glittering drama queen in the role. He reaches a point of near combustion when the production’s Hitler drops out due to a broken leg opening night. As DeBris, Safdieh-Nelson is a dazzlingly effeminate comic Hitler.

More than simply a spoof of big Broadway-style musicals, The Producers is a massively overwhelming musical all its own. Under the direction of Lueck, the show gracefully manages the blindingly subtle irony of being precisely the sort of thing it’s making fun of. It’s a delicate balance between joke and punchline that Lueck and company manage quite well.

Through Aug. 5 at Sunset Playhouse’s Furlan Auditorium, 700 Wall St., Elm Grove. For tickets, call 262-782-4430 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com.

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OPENINGS Elsa Ulbricht and the WPA Milwaukee Handicraft Project

July 19 • Haggerty Museum of Art • 520 N. 13th St.

In this free event, attendees can learn about the life of Milwaukee artist Elsa Ulbricht in a gallery talk with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Jacqueline M. Schweitzer. Find out how Ulbricht devised the Milwaukee Handicraft Project—a WPA initiative that provided jobs for some 5,000 people during the Great Depression. Meet in the Haggerty Art Museum lobby for this talk, which will eventually lead to a formal exhibit at the Haggerty titled “A Perfect Thrill: Else Ulbricht and the Milwaukee Handicraft Project.”

PaulYank, Twilight of The Sioux, Monoprint

Paul Yank’s Surprising ‘Perspective’ at Cedarburg Art Museum ::BY SHANE MCADAMS

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n her groundbreaking text “The Art Museum as Ritual,” theorist Carol Duncan discusses the similarities between religious institutions and secular art museums in shaping our experiences through structures of power and expected behavior. She famously identified the threshold of a museum’s entrance as a site where individuals suddenly shift their frames of reference and degrees of reverence as they become seduced by the majesty of the institution.

Take our own dedicated temple of fine art, the Milwaukee Art Museum: Santiago Calatrava’s white-winged vision is an unmatched architectural achievement, housing a world-class collection of works from the canon of historically anointed makers. But it’s designed to astound, not to catch you off guard to be surprised by what’s inside.

Twenty miles north of the Milwaukee Art Museum, in the bedroom community of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, there lives a humble museum that reflects the mellow sweetness of its local community as surely as it rejects the institutional sterility that we’ve come to expect from most urban art palaces.

It’s the exception that proves the rule in Duncan’s analysis. Opened in 2013 and located in a converted Victorian house on the town’s picturesque main avenue, it stands as a rare case of an art museum being, uh, welcoming.

Veteran artist Paul Yank’s exhibition “Process and Perspective,” on view at the museum through Aug. 26, adds some visual surprises to those welcomes. Yank has lived and practiced in Cedarburg for five decades and might be considered its unofficial artist-in-residence—his home/studio has become something of a town landmark. The cozy inSHEPHERD EXPRESS

terior galleries of the museum are lined with dozens of his wildly diverse monoprints, featuring appearances by Samurai warriors, Native shamans and the divine Greek creator, Prometheus. It’s a little dense at times, but this is because the galleries are small and intimate, and Yank’s prints are big presences.

There is no typical Yank monoprint, some are more figural while others accumulate collagraphic layers until they flirt with total abstraction. Some, like Twilight of the Sioux, are compelled by process, while others, such as Celtic Armor, are more graphic and illustrative. Dreamweaver, from a series of Native American imagery, demonstrates how his objective content sources grapple with his more aleatory art-making process. The head and hand of a figure sink into a complex tissue of process-made forms, eventually becoming secondary to them. A sense of Native American inspiration remains, but the work thrives more on formal invention than legible content.

Yank spent eight years as a sculptor-in-residence creating dioramas for the Milwaukee Public Museum, a four-year residence making art in Kyoto, Japan, and countless trips around the world to gather ideas for his work. This helps explain his range and choice of subject matter. Still, his work walks a fine line in 2018 between being anthropologically omnivorous and culturally fetishistic. But times have changed radically over Yank’s 60-year career as an artist, so we might cut him some slack. I can’t tell you day-to-day what the current rules of cultural appropriation are.

It’s worth noting that Milwaukee-based sculptor Richard Taylor is also exhibiting a wonderful series of musically inspired bronze sculptures throughout the grounds of the Cedarburg Art Museum. I discovered them while walking toward an acoustic guitarist who was playing “Brown Eyed Girl” in the beer garden during a regular summer event. It was a fortuitous discovery. The type of discovery I wouldn’t have bothered making in a more oppressive setting.

So in this case a little Van Morrison and institutional informality was to my advantage. Sometimes art takes discipline, sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes it takes Van Morrison and an accident. As Carol Duncan suggested decades ago, a little bit of ritual may lead us to a higher place, and a little bit more might lead to cultural paralysis, so it’s up to us to decide what, where and how much “a little” should be.

Sheboygan Visual Artists Exhibit and Sale July 19-Aug. 26 • Cedarburg Cultural Center W62 N546 Washington Ave., Cedarburg

The Cedarburg Cultural Center’s West, East and Lobby galleries host an exhibit and sale that highlights artworks by 38 amateur and professional Sheboygan artists working in many media.

July Gallery Night at Hudson

July 20 • Hudson Business Lounge + Cafe • 310 E. Buffalo St.

Hudson Business Lounge celebrates Gallery Night with a VIP reception for the participating artists of the Third Ward Plein Air Painting Competition (5-6:30 p.m., $10 to attend). The gallery is open to the public 6:30-9 p.m.

Tom Shelton: The Fruits of Analysis

July 20-21 • David Barnett Gallery • 1024 E. State St.

Downtown Milwaukee’s David Barnett Gallery presents new works by artist Tom Shelton, presenting large-scale paintings of fruit and conceptual drawings and some of his earlier paintings of nature. Shelton’s analytical works are innovative and visually captivating—a science-art hybrid. He’ll be on hand for the exhibition’s opening reception.

The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?

July 20-Sep. 1 • Frank Juarez Gallery • 207 E. Buffalo St., Suite 600

This wholistic installation is an experiment in group dynamics and addresses complexity in a made and experienced world. Viewers will experience paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, furniture and more in an interactive exhibition that features five artists responding to the same theme: Tillman’s book’s complex text.

Small Scale Landscape Design

July 21 • Lynden Sculpture Garden • 2145 W. Brown Deer Road

Garden design is at least a craft and at most, it rises to an art form. Michelle Zimmer discovered that designing a garden to complement a newly installed Bonsai exhibit at Lynden Sculpture Garden. Join her for an informal presentation and discussion of the design process for perennial gardens.

Midsummer Festival of the Arts

July 21-22 • John Michael Kohler Arts Center • 608 New York Ave.

Works of art, live music and art-making activities will fill the grounds of Sheboygan’s John Michael Kohler Arts Center in this event, now in its 48th year.

Some 135 artists from across the country have been juried into this festival which includes diverse creative items such as painting, jewelry, leather, sculpture, ceramics, art glass and more.

Yoga in the Garden: Asanas and Art

July 29 • Lynden Sculpture Garden • 2145 W. Brown Deer Road

Each of Heather Eiden’s yoga classes begins with chai and ends with reflective journaling. In between, participants follow her lead in the ongoing process of discovery that is yoga. More specifically, beginning-intermediate Hatha yoga, focused on mindfulness, centering and alignment.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] The Equalizer 2 R Denzel Washington, 63, broke his decades-long “no sequels rule” to reprise retired CIA operative Robert McCall in The Equalizer 2. This time, McCall brings vigilante justice to bear on killers of McCall’s long-time colleague and confidante. Director Antoine Fuqua also returns, mining 50 shades of bloody revenge, including, say, death by credit card. Reteaming, this frequently collaborating pair works for Sony. In 2014, the first Equalizer grossed $192 million on a $55 million budget. Look out Liam Neeson (66); the race for supreme senior butt kicker is on!

(Lisa Miller)

‘Leave No Trace’

‘Winter’s Bone’ Director Returns with ‘Leave No Trace’

asin McKenzie) care for and support each other in a loving family bond tested by dad’s insistence on living outside the limits of a society in which he no longer believes. They play chess and read together in their forest tent. Her intelligence tests higher than average. However, after she’s caught, the social worker insists that Tom must go to school.

Although he reveals no ideology—no paranoia about an impending apocalypse, race war or world dictatorship—dad is as skilled a survivalist as anyone since Davy Crockett.

He can kindle sparks from friction and cook a meal over the fire. He knows which leaves are edible and how to suck water from plants.

Gathering and gleaning, dad and daughter are able to live outside the edge of the settled world.

With bureaucratic compassion, the social worker sends them to a Christmas tree farm where a decent-enough taskmaster puts dad to work with a saw. But for dad a life of distracting possessions, the cellphones he refuses, ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN the TV he pushes into a closet, the alienation of labor and the forced-friendly evangelical lerted by the barking hounds, church the taskmaster points him to, is a prisdad snaps: “This is not a drill” on. They sneak off again and make for higher and his daughter, Tom, grabs ground. what she can and runs. But The conflict in Leave No Trace is between the sniffing dogs and the po- dad’s desire to free himself from society and lice handlers close the net around them in the Tom’s need for friendship and community. thick woods. Busted for the crime of living on Directed and co-written by Debra Granik public land, they are brought to a social ser(Winter’s Bone), Leave No Trace vice center in nearby Portland, teases with Hollywood solutions a drab gray jungle compared to (will Tom fall in love with the Leave the woodlands they called home. boy from 4-H?) before following But the story isn’t over. Their No Trace a more idiosyncratic trail. While flight has only begun. lacking the coherent drama of Ben Foster The enigma at the heart of Winter’s Bone, Leave No Trace Thomasin Leave No Trace is gradually but glances sideways at rural AmerMcKenzie never entirely clarified. Mom is ica in decay—at homeless camps a barely acknowledged absence.

Directed by being bulldozed, hoboes riding Clues that dad (Ben Foster) Debra Granik freight cars and Greyhounds and served in one of America’s rea community in the woods whose Rated PG cent inconclusive wars are verimembers have decided to escape fied without specifics; a PTSD the grid of contemporary life. diagnosis is premature. Maybe Leave No Trace is a dark jourhe’s just sick and tired and wants to opt out— ney brightened by the redeeming goodness to check none of the above for the rest of his that persists in human nature and the low-key life. “Are you a strong team player?” the psy- realism of the performances by Foster and chologist asks. Dad pauses: “I used to be.”

McKenzie.

What’s evident is that dad and Tom (Thom-

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Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! PG-13 The original Mamma Mia grossed $616 million, mostly scooped up in foreign markets, thanks to Swedish pop group ABBA’s enduring, worldwide appeal. Ten years on, the group’s songs again tell Donna’s (Meryl Streep) story—this time, largely of her past—as well as her daughter Sophia’s (Amanda Seyfried) present-day search to find herself. Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgård return as Sophia’s potential fathers, but the big surprise is Cher’s appearance as Donna’s estranged mother. This being Cher’s first film in eight years, the singer— resembling an aged Lady Gaga—brings her husky swells to ABBA’s breezy creations. (L.M.) Unfriended: Dark Web R Matias (Andrew Lees) juggles Skype game night with friends (played by Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Connor Del Rio and Savira Windyani) while secretly carrying on a Skype conversation with his deaf girlfriend (Stephanie Nogueras). Then, Matias stumbles upon a hidden folder depicting the torture and killing of young women. He shares the find with his friends, only to learn the flagged folder has led the killer straight to each of them. A standalone sequel to Unfriended, once again the Internet channels dark and dangerous forces. Computer and phone screens depict the story, but paper-thin characters leave us unable to invest in the outcome. (L.M.)

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] Double Lover

Derived from a Joyce Carol Oates story, Double Lover is an elegant hall of mirrors, a puzzle of spirals and twists. French director François has Vertigo-era Alfred Hitchcock in his DNA as he follows the erotic fantasies and inconsolable guilt of a young woman (Marine Vacth) seduced by her psychiatrist (Jérémie Renier)—and then his twin brother. Secrets are concealed within secrets and psychiatrists are a doubtful lot in this hallucinatory, disturbing thriller.

The Good Postman

A dying Bulgarian village has become a transit point for Syrian refugees and the locals are divided. Some feed them while others—alarmed by sensationalized media—fear crime and terrorism. In the mayoral election, the postman runs on a platform of welcoming refugees to rebuild and revitalize the town while his opponent, trading on nostalgia (for Communism), wants them out. The Good Postman is a fascinating look at a local manifestation of a global situation.

I Called Him Morgan

The documentary begins with a black screen and a voice—a ’70s late-night jazz DJ debuting the upcoming LP by Lee Morgan. “He’s really flying high on this one,” the announcer says, but the flight soon ended. It was 1972 and the trumpeter would soon be dead, killed by his wife, Helen. They seemed good for each other, friends recall. Concert footage is scant but the soundtrack is built around the trumpeter’s cool, confident playing.

Vigil

A father dies, a mysterious brooding stranger appears, and things get strange on a remote New Zealand farm. Vigil’s elliptical story of repulsion and attraction is less remarkable than director Vincent Ward’s memorable images, the brooding sense of menace, the silences broken by murmured voices and the cries of unseen birds and the rich colors drawn from the darkest hues of the palette.

Shown at Cannes 1984, Vigil put New Zealand on the world cinema map.

—David Luhrssen

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‘To the Edge of Thought’

Exploring the far side of science in ‘When Einstein Walked With Gödel’ (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX) ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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veryone has heard of Albert Einstein, but Kurt Gödel will need explaining. He was the German refugee mathematician who—although he sometimes disagreed with Einstein—became friends with the man behind the general theory of relativity. They spent hours together at Princeton, walking the wooded grounds discussing the equations of reality. Their leisurely rambles inspired the title and general thrust of the latest book by science writer Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Like Einstein and Gödel, Holt rambles through a universe of related topics for which definitive answers remain elusive. How far do the infinite and the infinitesimal extend? What is time? What about string theory, anyway?

How will the universe end (and are there other universes parallel to ours)? Although sometimes too dismissive of ideas that don’t factor into his worldview, Holt writes lucidly and with humor.

And at least when it comes to the hard facts of biography, he brings clarity to his subjects. Holt debunks the popular idea that Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, was the first computer programmer, as well as the infelicitous portrayal of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

Carefully unpacking and examining theories pro and con on the effects of the worldwide web on the human mind, he finds that the skills involved in videogames sharpen decision-making, but the reliance on Google for memory blunts the creative dynamism linking remembering with conceptualizing.

As physics and mathematics ascend together up the ladder of abstraction, the conflicting theories arrived at are often closer to poetry than science. Maybe the “final theory of everything” Einstein sought can never be written.

“Perhaps the most fundamental truth about nature is simply beyond the human intellect, the way that quantum mechanics is beyond the intellect of a dog,” Holt concedes.

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elieving that the mind and body are interconnected when it comes to health and wellness, Ellice Plant, a holistic health counselor and licensed social worker who identifies as a cisgender queer woman, and Kellen Grimm, a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist who identifies as a non-binary trans person, recently opened North Node Clinic, 231 E. Buffalo St., Suite 306. Offering services on a sliding-fee scale, the practitioners are committed to maintaining a holistic health practice inclusive to all that is designed to meet the needs of the LGBTIQ community, which they feel is an underserved population.

Tell me a little bit about your background.

How did it prepare you for your work at the clinic?

EP: Before opening the clinic, I worked as a high school teacher. For a while, I worked as a guidance counselor and as a school social worker. Being a social worker, I used the same skills I used as a teacher. Now Kellen and I have a clinic.

Working as a teacher, I felt that so much of what I was supposed to be doing was missing the point. If you can’t address someone’s emotional trauma, you can’t get them to pass a state exam.

How did you decide to open up a clinic in Milwaukee?

EP: I grew up in Cedarburg; Kellen, in Michigan. We met in New York and were living there quite happily. We tried opening up a clinic in Brooklyn, but ultimately decided to move to Milwaukee to have the life we wanted and to be closer to family.

Can you tell me a bit about the services you offer, such as gua sha and acupuncture?

KG: In gua sha, the skin is gently scraped by a spoon-like device to loosen up muscle layers and stuck fluids. This process releases anti-inflammatory chemicals. It’s helpful to treat colds and the flu, as lots of pathogens get stuck in the neck. Instead of taking NyQuil or DayQuil, try gua sha, instead.

If the practitioner is doing this right, you will feel a huge relief. I feel that I should also talk a little bit about acupuncture. It’s a dynamic practice, good for more than pain. It’s good for chronic illnesses and can also help treat insomnia and anxiety, dread and overarching discomfort.

In acupuncture, between five and 18 stainless steel needles thin as a hair are used. There’s no pain involved. You may feel different sensations, but it’s not like a bee sting or anything.

EP: We also use EFT—Emotional Freedom Technique. It’s an energy-healing practice that activates acupuncture channels, but it’s not related to acupuncture at all. It’s used to reduce emotional toxicity, but any type of traumatic history can be addressed. EFT can also be used to deal with food cravings or to help you stop yelling at your kids. It’s also referred to as a self-help technique.

Do you feel that there is a need for clinics in the Milwaukee area geared to serve the community’s LGBTIQ population?

EP: Absolutely. We have the knowledge base to help treat that community, and we feel really welcomed here.

For more information about North Node Clinic, visit northnodeclinic.org.

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ne of the great things about living in Milwaukee is that you can grab an overpriced cup of Starbucks Joe, hop in the car and arrive in Madison a few hours later. Loaded with beer, boys and booze, this party town also offers a sense of support and solidarity for its LGBTQ community.

Check out my social calendar this week which includes several great Madison events so see what I’m talking about, honey.

In the meantime, let’s read an email I recently received from a Madison gal, looking to make it big in Milwaukee. Until then, see you out and about Milwaukee!

Dear Ruthie,

I’m an aspiring drag queen, looking to kickstart my career by moving to Milwaukee. I feel the drag scene there offers more opportunities for a young performer like me. By that I mean that I’m 22 years old, and I have only performed in drag once before. Is that bad?

My friends say I’m crazy and moving too quickly. Am I? They tell me to wait awhile, but I’m not sure what it is that I am supposed to be waiting for. What do you think? I pick up your paper whenever I’m in Milwaukee, so I thought you’d be the perfect person to ask.

Drag Racer, Stephanie

Dear Steph,

Milwaukee simply does not have enough drag queens, so it’s imperative you get your Madison keester here as quickly as possible! (Note the sarcasm, sugar.) But seriously, I see your friends’ point, and I’d suggest considering hitting the stage a few more times to make sure performing is more than a novelty before you make a move to another city.

On the flip side, you’re not moving across the country and you’re young, so if you want to make the move do it now before you set roots in Madison. Just have a B plan for yourself (housing and a day job) if drag bookings don’t come rolling in, and you’ll be fine, honey pie.

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July 20-22: Anniversary Celebration at Harbor Room (117 E. Greenfield Ave.): Harbor Room bar is turning 18, and you’re invited to the three-day party! Enjoy drink specials and a leather marketplace during all three days; The Squeezettes polka band at 9 p.m. Saturday; and a cookout and beer bust at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Stop by any day (or all of them) and see why this Levi/Leather bar has been a staple in Cream City for nearly two decades.

July 20: Opening Night of ‘Trunk Songs’ at Off the Wall Theatre (127 E. Wells St.): Milwaukee director Dale Gutzman wrote, directed and stars in this original comedy, focusing on two aging Broadway composers. One gay and liberal, the other straight and conservative; the pair tackle creative hurdles and a changing (younger) world with humor and song during the seven-performance run. Visit offthewalltheatre.com or call the box office at 414484-8874 for $30 tickets.

July 21: Name & Gender Change Clinic at Trans Law Help (2312 S. Park St., Madison): This insightful clinic offers the necessary info regarding the process of obtaining name and gender marker changes. Volunteer attorneys answer questions, provide identity documents and answer legal questions. The free clinic runs 1-3 p.m.

July 21: MATA Social/Support Group Meeting at OutReach LGBT Community Center (2701 International Lane, Suite 101, Madison): As Bette Midler sang, “Ya got to have friends!” That said, join this support group that hosts frank, candid and supportive conversations between those in the trans community. Non-binary, agender, genderqueer and genderfluid folks (and their spouses, friends and family) are also encouraged to attend the 3-5 p.m. meeting.

July 21: Red, White & Brew City at Art*Bar (722 E. Burleigh St.): Mix up your weekend with some sparkle, shine, bump and grind when you shimmy and shake the night away.

Art*Bar joins forces with the Brew City Bombshell burlesque troupe to bring you this free 9 p.m. show.

July 21: Pride King and Queen Contest at FIVE Nightclub (5 Applegate Court, Madison): Shake your tailfeathers to Mad City for a pageant honoring the next pairing of OutReach Pride Parade royalty. The event includes a $5 cover, with the glitz and glamor hitting the stage at 9 p.m.

July 21: Glow Party at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Eat, drink and be “Mary” during this new late-night drag show at Milwaukee’s burger palace. When the lights go down, the neon comes up for this fun and festive 11:15 p.m. treat, featuring local favorite Jaida Essence Hall as emcee. Call 414-488-2555 for reservations.

July 23: Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Event at Milwaukee Public LibraryMartin Luther King Branch (310 W. Locust St.): Looking for a change-of-pace evening?

Check out this free all-ages event that features poetry and other LGBTQ writings as read by local artists. The readings begin at 6 p.m. and last for roughly two hours.

July 24: Cream City Foundation’s Summer Social at South Shore Terrace (2900 S. Shore Drive): Friendship, food, cocktails and a helluva silent auction make this 6-8 p.m. social a warm-weather bash you won’t soon forget. Mix, mingle and rub elbows with new and old friends as you help raise money for the city’s LGBTQ+ community.

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

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hether on the beach, in the comfortable confines of your backyard lanai or curled up in front of an air conditioner, summer offers that rare moment to relax and read. This season’s summer reading suggestions range from familiar titles to a new one and they’re all by local LGBTQ authors.

A good romance novel is, of course, standard fare for your beach bag. I’ll recommend Cuffed (again) by gay black cop Jermel Wilder. It’s not your cookie cutter Brad-meets-Bruce romance by any means. Set in the some of the seedier streets of Cream City, Cuffed is a thriller cum romance with characters fueled by testosterone, adrenaline and shots of Hennessey. The actionpacked page-turner’s cast of bad cop/gay cop, thugs, drug lords and unlikely lovers are thrown into a twisting plot of raw emotion and raw energy. Have a box of tissues handy.

For more introspective and thought-provoking fare, Tim Clausen’s Not the Son He Expected: Gay Men Talk Candidly About Their Relationship with Their Father is a collection of two dozen personal essays around the dynamics of gay sons and their dads.

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Simply put, Sullivan was instrumental in establishing the trans community and motivated its self-discovery as an empowered entity. That, in turn, has led to extraordinary progress in legal, political, medical and social aspects of trans life.

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Japanese Breakfast Turns Lemons into Lemonade ::BY LAUREN KEENE

t’s often expected that artists put their deepest, darkest emotions on full display for others to consume. For Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, it’s rare if an emotion goes untouched.

The 29-year-old boasts a discography latent with songs about death, sex and heartache that are inspired by some of the most traumatic, impactful experiences of a young person’s life.

Zauner began playing guitar when she was 16, but it wasn’t until college that her music career began taking strides. She didn’t spend the majority of her youth dreaming of rock ’n’ roll glory; it wasn’t until age 19 that she considered a full-time career in music. “When I had my college band, whether I wanted to admit it or not, it was definitely my dream to become a professional, touring musician,” she says. “I had tremendous doubts it would ever happen.”

Zauner quit her day job when she was 25 and began touring extensively.

Prior to Japanese Breakfast, she played in smaller indie projects, including Philadelphia-based emo band Little Big League. It was under bleak circumstances that Zauner made the decision to fly solo and release her own music under the name Japanese Breakfast.

In 2013, Zauner received news that everyone hopes they’ll never hear. Her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The diagnosis prompted Zauner to return to her small hometown in rural Oregon to comfort her ailing mother and then to console her newly widowed father. It was during that fragile, unhinged time that Zauner began reconstructing songs from her previous projects and transforming them into Japanese Breakfast tracks.

Even though her return home wasn’t under ideal circumstances, Zauner says her Oregonian roots were impactful on her music’s sound. “I think my spirit is very Pacific Northwestern,” she says. “All of the bands that were really important to me in my teenage years were these Pacific Northwest indie rock bands—really dynamic bands with sort of confessional lyrics; that’s my bag for sure. Bands like Death Cab for Cutie, Built to Spill, Elliott Smith, Mount Eerie, Sleater-Kinney—those were definitely my idols.”

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Three years after her mother’s untimely passing, Zauner released Japanese Breakfast’s debut album, Psychopomp. Naturally, the album features a few tracks about her mother’s death and processing the uninhibited heartache that one feels after losing a parent. Zauner’s songwriting has been described as “uncomfortably personal,” and she tends to explore sensitive topics that are oftentimes hard to talk about—much less perform on stage in front of an audience.

“Sometimes, ‘Body Is A Blade’ and ‘Rugged Country’ are hard to play,” says Zauner.

“There are some lines in those songs that really transport me back to a painful moment of my life and can be hard to sing about. But when I’m writing songs, I don’t think much about other people. It’s really a private thing where I work through my own emotions.” Death isn’t the only darkness that is present in Zauner’s music.

Japanese Breakfast’s discography features songs that touch on frank sexuality, emotional abuse and painful breakups.

Unfortunately, these traumas are almost universally understood among people—young and old. Many fans can connect with Zauner over these shared experiences.

Japanese She says relating with her listeners is “a special, sacred Breakfast thing” that gives her career a purpose. “I definitely didn’t anticipate so many listeners relating to me, and it is an Turner Hall overwhelmingly sad honor,” she says.

Ballroom Thanks to the project’s bedroom-and-basement Friday, roots, Japanese Breakfast is often categorized as “lo-fi” July 20 , 8 p.m. music. Zauner says she doesn’t really agree with the label anymore—especially following the release of her sophomore album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet.

“I’d like to think I graduated into making hi-fi records; it’s certainly what I aspire to,” says Zauner. “I do think my beginnings were in lo-fi, though, and that is a gateway to a lot of experimenting—not having the pressures of paying a lot to be in an expensive studio by the hour, really opening things up and being playful in a bedroom studio environment or working on your own.”

Japanese Breakfast plays Turner Hall Ballroom on Friday, July 20, at 8 p.m. with Mothers.

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t could be argued that Shooter Jennings followed his father’s footsteps by tracking his own path apart from them.

With a dad as legendary as country singer Waylon Jennings, it would have been a guaranteed route to a degree of notoriety for the scion to take up where pop’s career left off. But the elder Jennings’ insistence on independence from Music Row’s cookie-cutter business and stylistic strictures has earned him a place as one of his genre’s original outlaws. At Shank Hall on Thursday night, the junior Jennings manifested defiance on his own terms.

The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree in some ways, though.

When he’s in a mood to menace, as in “The Gunslinger,” the undercurrent of his father’s ornery growl remains evident. And when he wasn’t seated behind an electric piano for a few numbers among his encore-free set, the tone he caressed from his guitar bore some resemblance to the fluid, Bakersfield-indebted flavor that anchored many of his father’s 1970s and ’80s singles.

Cribbing his papa’s history and gumption to call out commercial radio country’s current pretenders to the throne on “Outlaw You” may be a touch too on the nose, but it was also easily one of the night’s most rousing numbers for the throng gathered in front of the stage. His own, lone flirtation with hitmaking—2004’s “4th of July” (from his debut album titled as an eff-you to the Nashville establishment, Put the O Back in Country)—wasn’t given any special attention, placed in the middle of his performance, generating singing along and some applause as it began.

The three songs he and his fiddle-inclusive, four-member band played from his forthcoming eighth studio album, Shooter, sounded as if they could reverse the not-quite-yet-40 Jennings’ radio fortunes, though. “Rhinestone Eyes” and “Fast Horses and Good Hideouts” would be worthy, downtempo successors to the breakthroughs made over the past couple years by artists such as John Pardi and John Michael Morgan to pull popular country away from dunderheaded bro-ism and quasi-R&B. “D.R.U.N.K.” could find favor among the fans who helped make stars out of Luke Bryan and Brantley Gilbert, despite its more traditional country underpinnings.

Jennings concluded on a melancholy note, casting the countrypop of Danny O’Keefe’s “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” into his own somewhat wistful, somewhat somber mold. It did allow for the band to jam a mite before the lights went up on a satiating night of country path-finding.

Alt-country stalwarts The Bottle Rockets were supposed to have opened for Jennings, but one member’s family emergency allowed crazed Milwaukeeans The Grovelers to pick up the slack. Where aggro rockabilly, pummeling surf rock, snotty garage punk and vein-popping punk of the hardcore variety converge is where the band’s sweet spot lies. They mined that epicenter with giddy, intense vigor through a slew of skewed tunes.

Lead singer Skip played his occasional harmonica solos into the earpiece of a rotary telephone’s handset for a goofy gimmick (though perhaps of some practicality, as his mouth harp is on the small side), while mutton-chopped guitarist Graff showboated like an adrenalized peacock. They made for a fun prelude to what would have already been a fulsome evening of music.

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Collections of Colonies of Bees Press Reset, Again ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

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eyond guitarist Chris Rosenau, there haven’t been a lot of constants in the Milwaukee post-rock ensemble Collections of Colonies of Bees. For 20 years, the project has operated with a rotating lineup and a fluid vision, cutting ties with the past to run with whatever muse presents itself next. Yet even for a band that’s never been sentimental about change, Collections of Colonies of Bees’ latest evolution feels radical. “It’s completely unprecedented,” Rosenau says of the group’s new album, HAWAII. “This is the first Bees record with a lyrics sheet.”

Despite priding itself on operating without rules, it turns out the band had inadvertently clung to one: They’d always been an instrumental project, and Rosenau had assumed they’d always stay that way. So, when bandmate Daniel Spack pitched Rosenau on adding vocals to the group, he reflexively shot the idea down. In hindsight, he says, his logic was close-minded. “This is dumb,” Rosenau says, “but I was thinking if we’d been an instrumental band for 20 years and now we added vocals, people were going to think we were just doing it to be accessible.”

Nonetheless, the band was in the market for a change.

The group had been on hiatus for a few years as members moved on to other projects—most notably, former keyboardist Nick Sanborn, who found success in North Carolina with his duo Sylvan Esso—when on a whim, Rosenau committed them to playing the 2017 Eaux Claires festival, despite not knowing what form their new set (let alone their new lineup) would take.

“We weren’t burnt out on the stuff we had been doing, but we definitely wanted something new,” Rosenau says.

And eventually, after considering Spack’s repeated pitches to incorporate vocals, Rosenau landed on an angle that excited him. “We’d approach the vocals the way I normally approach the guitar, which is chopping them up and looping them live,” he says.

Resistant to using computers, the band instead as-

signed drummer Ben Derickson the task of building a custom rig to run those vocals through, and recruited singer Marielle Allschwang—also of Hello Death and Group of the Altos—to operate it. “There was just something about the sensibility and beauty of her voice and having these singular vocals in the middle of this bigger rock situation that was really interesting,” Rosenau says. “We invited her into the band without telling her that she’d have to work this completely new instrument.”

There was some learning involved. “It’s unlike anything I have ever played before, which was exciting and part of the appeal,” Allschwang says. “I think when I was first playing around with it, I was excited, because it allowed me to access this musical space that I haven’t gotten to explore before—this Terry Riley/Laurie Anderson ecstatic minimalism, which is part of what I’ve always loved about Bees.

“I wasn’t sure how vocals would fit into the band, but once I saw that I had this machine where I could layer chopped sounds, it made so much more sense right away,” Allschwang continues. “I was like, ‘OK, so I’m making these abstract textures and all these rhythms, but in a cool, more analogue way that’s up my alley.’ It’s a lot more tactile than a lot of electronic instruments I’ve encountered, so it felt more true to the way that I make music but also really compatible with what they’re doing.”

Presented in dreamy counterpart to Spack’s own hushed, unmanipulated vocals, Allschwang’s vocals are often front and center on HAWAII, yet they never disrupt the intricate instrumental interplay that’s always been Collections of Colonies of Bees’ signature. Ironically, Rosenau’s initial reservations came to pass: HAWAII is the band’s most accessible project by some distance, thanks largely to those vocals. But the album is accessible in the same way as Repave, the second release from Bees’ sister project, Volcano Choir, an uncompromised reimagining of pop music.

“There have been a bunch of iterations of Bees that have felt new and exciting, but I think this one has the most potential to evolve,” Rosenau says. “With that vocal rig, I think we’ve only scratched the surface with the technology, so there’s a lot more that Ben can wrangle from that thing to make it sound more interesting. It’s informed our band brain so much it’s even changed how we write. From here, maybe the music could get weirder, because now it’s tethered to these more accessible kinds of vocal melodies.

Or maybe the music gets super normal, and the vocals get way out. Or maybe both. There’s so many directions we could take it.”

HAWAII is out now on Polyvinyl. Collections of Colonies of Bees open for two sold-out Sylvan Esso shows at the Pabst Theater on Saturday, July 21, and Sunday, July 22. They’ll also play the Washington Park Summer Concert Series on Wednesday, Aug. 8.

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Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Cactus Club, The Go Rounds w/Certain Stars & The Atomic Spins Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), In the Five Points Pub: Ginni & JoAnna Marie (6pm) Colectivo Coffee (Lakefront), Colectivo’s Música del Lago Company Brewing, Tigernite w/North by North & Ako County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Frank’s Power Plant, Line of Outcasts w/Carrying Torches & Ignition 89 Italian Community Center, Oldies But Goodies Spectacular (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Blues Night: Father and Sons w/the Libans & Koenigs Jazz in the Park (Cathedral Square Park), Jay Edward Blues Band (6pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Open Jam: Roadhouse Rave Up Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Yum Yum Cult w/FuzzySurf Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Matty’s Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Smokin’ Live & Local Mezcalero Restaurant, Ricky Orta II Mitchell Park Domes, Mitchell Park Amphitheater: ULOVE Universal Love Band (6:30pm) Nixon Park (Hartland), The Ricochettes On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pizzeria Piccola, Texas Dave Trio (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Brecken Miles Duo Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (12pm) Rave / Eagles Club, A$AP Ferg w/IDK (all-ages, 8pm) Rotary Waterfront Park (Jefferson), Steve Meisner Band Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show The Back Room at Colectivo, Boy Named Banjo The Bay Restaurant, Jeannine Rivers w/Kirk Tatnall The Landing at Hoyt Park, Paul Rebek (6pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Latin Sessions: Johnny Padilla Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic Village Hall Park (Waterford), Jackie Brown Band (6pm)

FRIDAY, JULY 20

American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Danny Miller Band American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Nite Trax Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Cactus Club, Esmé Patterson w/Abby Jeanne Central Standard Craft Distillery, Andrew Gelles Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Sin Dealers (8pm); DJ: The French Connection (10pm) Colectivo Coffee (Lakefront), Friday Nite Music Series ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Wilder Maker w/Telethon & Tapebenders County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Cudahy Park, Sweet AppleWood Festival: Larry Lynne Band 4:30pm) Doctors Park, Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Ben Stueve Duo

Frank’s Power Plant, VexNation w/Radio Hate, The Hullmen & Fallen Angels Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jackson Park (Milwaukee), Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Jazz Estate, Salsa Night Hermanitos Ayala (8pm), Late Night Session: Gypsy Jazz w/Scott Hlavenka & Friends (11:30pm) Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Dropbear Collective w/Bandoleer Bacall Mamie’s, The Blues Disciples Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Mia’s (Waukesha), The B Side Band Mikes Bar and Grill (Campbellsport), Jonny T-Bird & Big Dad Miramar Theatre, Afton Shows presents: Xobie Gang, BBN Carter, Green Creek, Dollamann, Opa Tay, Tribe Music, YGNC1CK, FAC, MANNYBABBY, Foreign, Trilogy Tril, Pharoah West, Lil Maj, Mella, Bella, Jay McGhee, C Wren, Ace Cauzi (all-ages, 6pm) Monument Square (Racine), Music on the Monument: The Sentinels (11:30am) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Geoff Landon & Friends (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Riding Shotgun (9pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Lupe Fiasco w/DJ Natasha Jewels (all-ages, 8pm) Shank Hall, Split Lip Rayfield w/Liar’s Trial Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Starry Nights Concert Series: CNJ Latin Jazz (6:30pm) The Baaree (Thiensville), Thiensville Hot Club (6pm) The Bay Restaurant, Karen Cameron Trio The Cooperage, Howlin Rain w/Mountain Movers, Moss Folk & Space Raft The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) The Port of Kenosha Beverage House, Cool Blues Night Turner Hall Ballroom, Japanese Breakfast w/Mothers Up & Under Pub, Ethel Shank

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Company Brewing, Amanda Huff Music Video Debut Party w/ Pleasure Thief, Taj Raiden & Paper Holland Doctors Park, Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Final Approach, Dave Miller Blues Trio w/Carole Hanzel & Craig Gyland Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Kirk Tatnall Fox Point Farmers Market, Holly Haebig & Jeff Bray (10am) Frank’s Power Plant, Dreadnought w/Lost Tribes of The Moon & Dead Pink

Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jackson Park (Milwaukee), Traveling Beer Garden w/music (5pm) Jazz Estate, The Dave Stoler Trio (8pm), Late Night Session: Matt Heilmann Trio (11:30pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Miles Maxwell Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Little Frankie and the Creeps w/The Nightenjails & Red Card Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Zona d’ Fuego Bachata and Merengue Monument Square (Racine), Saturday Sounds on the Square: Folkswagon (2pm) Newport Shores (Port Washington), Fish Days: Max & the Invaders w/Rudie Hoskins (3:30pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Bourbon House (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Rich Trueman and the 22nd Street Horn Band (9pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Latin Heat Rooftop Party w/DJ Kalibre (allages, 8pm) Shank Hall, Ca$h Value Spoondoggers (Genoa City), Cactii The Cheel (Thiensville), Texas ‘55 The Packing House Restaurant, Lem Banks, Jeff Stoll, Alvin Turner & Omar (6:30pm) The Rock Sports Complex, Summer Concert Series in Umbrella Bar: The Toys (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Honey on the Biscuit

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7 Mile Fair (Caledonia), Eddie Taylor Jr. (12pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Beanies Mexican Restaurant (Port Washington), Joe Kadlec (5:30pm) Bilda’s Friess Lake Pub, Scotch and Soda (3pm) Black Cat Alley, AlleyWayz: Nickel & Rose Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Matthew Davies & Alex Ballard (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (5:30pm) Drink Wisconsinbly, Curd Fest: Vinyl Groove ‘50s, ‘60s & ‘70s (12pm) Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Frank’s Power Plant, The Panoptics w/Uncle Salty (2pm) Hops & Leisure (Oconomowoc), Fulll Band Open Jam w/host BIG MUrFF & the Divers (6pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Kenny Todd (3pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Transistor Radio (4pm) Shank Hall, Armored Saint w/Act of Defiance Sugar Maple, Punk Rock Brunch: Atheists & Airplanes, American Spirits & 2 1/2 stars (3pm) The Baaree (Thiensville), Andrew Gelles (4pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Jazz Unlimited Jazz Jam: Frank DeMiles Quartet (1pm)

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Jazz Estate, Megaphonic Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Annie Grizzle & Sam Pekarske (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John & Dave Wacker Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Plays the Blues The Astor Cafe & Pub, The Chris Hanson Band w/Robin Pluer (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers Yardarm Bar and Grill (Racine), The Blues Disciples (6:30pm)

TUESDAY, JULY 24

Chill On the Hill (Humboldt Park), Hot and Dirty Brass Band w/ They GuanUs & Milwaukee Rep Theater highlights from “In the Heights” (6pm) Cudahy Family Library, Route 66: America’s Main Street w/Craig Siemsen (6:30pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Italian Community Center, Jim Liban Combo w/Joel Paterson (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Soul Night with Cameron Webb Kilbourn-Kadish Park, Skyline Music: Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound (5:30pm) Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm, all-ages) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (12pm) The Baaree (Thiensville), Alive After 5: Jay Matthes (5:30pm) The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Larry Lynne Trio (6:30pm) Cactus Club, Varsity w/Tallies & Northern Haunts Cafe Hollander (Downer), Patio Performance Series: Jake Williams (5pm) Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson High Dive, The Voodoohoney Pirates Jazz Estate, Steve Peplin/Neil Davis Duo Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Lake Park Friends, Traveling Beer Garden: Keg Tapping w/Vern & the Originals (5pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Zakk Daniel (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Pere Marquette Park, River Rhythms: Brother (6:30pm) Pewaukee Lakefront Park, Waterfront Wednesdays: Geoff Landon (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Richard E. Maslowski Glendale Community Park, Music in the Glen: Easy Days Barbershop Quartet Rotary Performance Pavilion (Wauwatosa), Tosa Tonight Summer Concert Series: Motherfolk w/Well-Known Strangers (6pm) Sanger House Gardens, Jazz in the Garden: Jack and Jill Jazz w/ Jack Grassel & Jill Jensen (6pm) Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Cheel (Thiensville), Spike & April Duo (6:30pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Tracy Hannemann & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Totalgame Sports Bar, Wacky Wednesdays w/host The Original Darryl Hill Washington Park, Washington Park Wednesdays: Rumbambere w/ Danny Balderas (5pm) Westallion Brewing Company, Rick Holmes Pro Jam w/host Robert Allen Jr. Zeidler Union Square, Westown Farmers Market: Michael Tinker Tierney (11:45am)

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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Kaidoku”

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

Let’s Play Sport Solution: 21 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Cough 5. Roof of a kind 9. Grinder 14. Pother 18. Common symptom 19. Black 20. Ammonia derivative 21. Opposer 22. Making introductory remarks 24. Start of a quip by Mitch Hedberg: 5 wds.

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Solution: A sport to suit everybody

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::NEWS OF THE WEIRD

::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY CANCER (June 21-July 22): Self-described skeptics sometimes say to me, “How can any intelligent person believe in astrology?

You must be suffering from a brain dysfunction if you imagine that the movements of planets can reveal any useful clues about our lives.” If the “skeptic” is truly open minded, as an authentic skeptic should be, I offer a mini-lecture to correct his misunderstandings.

If he’s not (which is the usual case), I say that I don’t need to “believe” in astrology; I use astrology because it works. For instance, I have a working hypothesis that Cancerians like myself enjoy better-than-average insight and luck with money every year from late July through the month of August. It’s irrelevant whether there’s a “scientific” theory to explain why this might be. I simply undertake efforts to improve my financial situation at this time, and I’m often successful.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are some of the fine gifts you’re eligible for and even likely to receive during the next four weeks: a more constructive and fluid relationship with obsession; a panoramic look at what lies below the tip of the metaphorical iceberg; a tear-jerking joyride that cracks open your sleeping sense of wonder; erasure of at least 20% of your self-doubt; vivid demonstrations of the excitement available from slowing down and taking your sweet time; and a surprising and useful truth delivered to your soul by your body.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): During the last three months of 2018, I suspect you will dismantle or outgrow a foundation. Why? So as to prepare the way for building or finding a new foundation in 2019. From next January onward, I predict you will re-imagine the meaning of home.

You’ll grow fresh roots and come to novel conclusions about the influences that enable you to feel secure and stable. The reason I’m revealing these clues ahead of time is because now is a good time to get a foreshadowing of how to proceed. You can glean insights on where to begin your work.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A reader asked Libran blogger Ana-Sofía Cardelle, “How does one become more sensual?” I’ll ask you to meditate on the same question. Why? Because it’s a good time to enrich and deepen your sensuality.

For inspiration, here are some ideas that blend my words with Cardelle’s: “Laugh easily and freely. Tune in to the rhythm of your holy animal body as you walk.

Sing songs that remind you why you’re here on earth.

Give yourself the luxury of reading books that thrill your imagination and fill you with fresh questions.

Eat food with your fingers. Allow sweet melancholy to snake through you. Listen innocently to people, being warm-hearted and slyly wild. Soak up colors with your eager eyes. Whisper grateful prayers to the sun as you exult in its gifts.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If people aren’t laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.” So says bodybuilder Kai Greene. I don’t know if I would personally make such a brazen declaration, but I do think it’s worth considering—especially for you right now. You’re entering into the Big Bold Vision time of your astrological cycle. It’s a phase when you’ll be wise to boost the intensity of your hopes for yourself, and get closer to knowing the ultimate form of what you want, and be daring enough to imagine the most sublime possible outcomes for your future. If you do all that with the proper chutzpah, some people may indeed laugh at your audacity. That’s OK! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This minichapter in your epic life story is symbolically ruled by the fluttering flights of butterflies, the whirring hum of hummingbird wings, the soft cool light of fireflies and the dawn dances of seahorses. To take maximum advantage of the blessings life will tease you with in the coming weeks, I suggest you align yourself with phenomena like those. You will tend to be alert and receptive in just the right ways if you cultivate a love of fragile marvels, subtle beauty and amazing grace.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I swear the astrological omens are telling me to tell you that you have license to make the following requests: 1. People from your past who say they’d like to be part of your future have to prove their earnestness by forgiving your debts to them and asking

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your forgiveness for their debts to you. 2. People who are pushing for you to be influenced by them must agree to be influenced by you. 3. People who want to deepen their collaborations with you must promise to deepen their commitment to wrestling with their own darkness. 4. People who say they care for you must prove their love in a small but meaningful way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will never find an advertisement for Nike or Apple within the sacred vessel of this horoscope column. But you may come across plugs for soulnourishing commodities like creative freedom, psychosexual bliss and playful generosity. Like everyone else, I’m a salesperson—although I believe that the wares I peddle are unambiguously good for you. In this spirit, I invite you to hone your own sales pitch. It’s an excellent time to interest people in the fine products and ideas and services that you have to offer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you do me a favor, please? Would you do your friends and loved ones and the whole world a favor? Don’t pretend you’re less powerful and beautiful than you are. Don’t downplay or neglect the magic you have at your disposal. Don’t act as if your unique genius is nothing special. OK? Are you willing to grant us these small indulgences? Your specific talents, perspectives and gifts are indispensable right now. The rest of us need you to be bold and brazen about expressing them.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

Whenever that quote appears on the Internet, it’s falsely attributed to painter Frida Kahlo. In fact, it was originally composed by poet Marty McConnell.

In any case, I’ll recommend that you heed it in the coming weeks. You really do need to focus on associating with allies who see the mysterious and lyrical best in you. I will also suggest that you get inspired by a line that Frida Kahlo actually wrote: “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” (If you don’t know what a bourbon biscuit is, I’ll tell you: chocolate buttercream stuffed between two thin rectangular chocolate biscuits.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s what author Franz Kafka wrote in his diary on August 2, 1914: “Germany has declared war on Russia. I went swimming in the afternoon.” We could possibly interpret his nonchalance about world events to be a sign of callous self-absorption. But I recommend that you cultivate a similar attitude in the coming weeks. In accordance with astrological omens, you have the right and the need to shelter yourself from the vulgar insanity of politics and the pathological mediocrity of mainstream culture. So feel free to spend extra time focusing on your own well-being.

(P.S.: Kafka’s biographer says swimming served this role for him. It enabled him to access deep unconscious reserves of pleasurable power that renewed his spirit.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Am I delusional to advise a perky, talkative Gemini like yourself to enhance your communication skills?

How dare I even hint that you’re not quite perfect at a skill you were obviously born to excel at? But that’s exactly what I’m here to convey. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to take inventory of how you could more fully develop your natural ability to exchange information. You’ll be in robust alignment with cosmic rhythms if you take action to refine the way you express your own messages and receive and respond to other people’s messages.

Homework: Tell a story about the time Spirit reached down and altered your course in one tricky, manic swoop. 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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I’ll Have the ‘Crying and Vomiting,’ Please

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n Ghana, the reaction of mourners at a funeral is a measure of the deceased’s position in the community.

But for family members who are unable to express their emotions openly, professional mourners will cry on their behalf.

A leader of one team of criers told BBC Africa in July that they charge based on the size of the funeral, and the Kumasi Funeral Criers Association offers different styles of crying, such as crying with swag, crying and rolling on the ground, and crying and vomiting. Ghanaian funerals also feature dancing pallbearers and giant billboards to announce the funeral arrangements.

What’s ‘OCD’ in Armenian?

In 1985, Tosya Garibyan of Arinj, Armenia, asked her husband, Levon Arkelian, 44, to dig a pit under their home where she could store potatoes. But once he got started, Radio Free Europe reported, he just couldn’t stop.

Twenty-three years later, the underground oasis Arkelian created is a tourist attraction.

Working as many as 18 hours a day with only a hammer and chisel, Arkelian created seven rooms, stairwells and passages running as deep as 65 feet—adorning them with carvings and decorations made from found objects.

Arkelian passed away in 2008, and his widow welcomes tourists to her museum, which includes his shredded work boots and tools.

Bad Weather? Blame Israel!

Brigadier Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, the head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, announced in a press conference on Monday, July 2, that Israel has been manipulating the weather over Iran to prevent rain. “Israel and another country in the region have joint teams which work to ensure clouds entering Iranian skies are unable to release rain,” Jalali posited, according to YNet News. “On top of that, we are facing the issue of cloud and snow theft.”

However, the head of Iran’s meteorological service was skeptical: “It is not possible for a country to steal snow or clouds. Iran has suffered a prolonged drought, and this is a global trend that does not apply only to Iran.”

A Fourth of July to Remember A 62-year-old security guard named Ramdin in the city of Kanpur, India, told doctors he was robbed in June of about $722 (proceeds from the sale of his motorbike) by muggers who attacked him and knocked him out.

When he woke up, Ramdin was suffering from severe abdominal pain, which brought him, 10 days later, to Rama Hospital, where a scan revealed a steel cup lodged in his abdomen. Senior surgeon Dr. Dinesh Kumar told Metro News: “It seems that the metal cup was inserted into Ramdin’s rectum by the goons, and it got stuck near the intestines.” Doctors couldn’t remove the cup using the route it went in, so they had to operate. Ramdin was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, July 4.

Weird Canada In what can only be a testament to curiosity, a Staffa, Ontario, Canada, man has created an eBay listing for the McDonald’s meal he placed on a shelf in his home six years ago to see what would happen to it, according to a CBC Radio report on Thursday, July 5. The McDonald’s meal has held up—perhaps not surprisingly—rather well over the years. “The fries are stunningly good looking,” Alexander said, “and the burger itself has darkened a little bit. The bun is about as hard as a hockey puck, but it looks just like it’s brand-new cosmetically.” He has listed the meal as “original owner, never eaten” for $29.99. “We live in the country, and we’ve never seen a fly land on it. Ever,” he said.

Finished with her shopping at a Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, Walmart in late June, an unnamed woman returned to the parking lot and drove off in her black rental car she had just picked up. Two weeks later, when she returned the car to the rental agency, she complained about the car’s overall messy condition and the set of golf clubs that had been left in it—apparently by a previous renter. But she was returning an Infiniti, the Nation Valley News reported, when the “slightly confused” manager informed her the car she had rented was a Nissan Sentra. Meanwhile, Cornwall Police had received a report of a stolen black Infiniti that had disappeared from the same Walmart parking lot. When the woman and the agency manager returned to the lot, the Nissan Sentra was still there. The woman was reportedly “a wee bit embarrassed,” the police reported. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION J U LY 1 9 , 2 0 1 8 | 37

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a? So listen, considering the recent Helstinki scummit between the two dear world leaders, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past time to start learning the Russian language since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be only a matter of time until U.S. citizens are required to speak the Slavic tongue. Hey, maybe learning Russian would be the thing to do to fill the hours of your waning summertime besides stirring up another Tom Collins and cranking the AC, what the fock.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already started, as you can see by the headline to this here quasi-essay. As close as I can figure, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Russian for â&#x20AC;&#x153;fock offâ&#x20AC;? and/or â&#x20AC;&#x153;go fock yourselfâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been the first words out of my mouth had I been in the audience at the post-summit press conference, I kid you not.

Anyways, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been too pissing hot this summer to groan and moan even for a guy like me, a guy who practically, but not quite, makes a living at it. But you got to stay positive, so I hear. After all, we still do live in the greatest city in the upper Midwestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if it feels like it got relocated to Missis-focking-sippi. So instead of a regular essay, I thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d trot out a list I provide for the readers once in a while of â&#x20AC;&#x153;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tsâ&#x20AC;? to help ensure that the remaining days of your summer-

time are safe and maybe even tolerable, what the fock, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re welcome.

Not Quite a Hundred Things Not To Do the Rest of Summertime Do Not:

n Eat your shorts. n Eat my shorts. n Have a buddy putting all the cocktails on his tab and at some point during the evening before bar time you say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No thanks, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had enough.â&#x20AC;? n Watch any movie with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dameâ&#x20AC;? so-and-so somebody in it unless you got the insomnia bad. n Get stinking drunk in a boat out on the water and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you why. I knew these three guys years ago who went out fishing along with a couple, three cases of icecold bottled beer. So theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out there all goddamn day catching nothing but one hell of a buzz under the hot sun. At one point, one of the tipsy trio stands up to take a leak, loses his balance and flips head-over-heels right over the side of the boat into the water and starts to sink.

The other two bozos are so blasted that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even notice their buddy has jumped ship until maybe a half-hour later. No sooner do they realize that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re no longer three-men-in-a-tub but two, do they then dive into the water and frantically grope around for the missing mariner. Eventually, one of the loopy lifeguards grabs ahold of his overboard buddy down deep, hauls him into the boat and commences with the mouth-tomouth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus H. Christ!â&#x20AC;? he says, recoiling in revulsion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember Corkyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breath stinking to the high heaven like this, do you?â&#x20AC;? And the other guy says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fock no. And not only that, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember him wearing that snowmobile suit, either!â&#x20AC;? Ba-ding! n Tell your girlfriend you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take her kids to the church festival â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause you got a hot date with her sister.

n Forget to tip. n Make an appointment for a routine medical checkup. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a no-win situation. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling OK and you go to the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and he says youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re OK, what have you gained? Not a focking thing, but you certainly have lost time and money. Now, if you go and the doc says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uh-oh, we got a problem here,â&#x20AC;? well, now not only do you have a problem but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bound to be depressed about it, and who in their right mind needs that kind of combo? You tell me. n Walk into a biker bar and shout, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, which one of you candy asses used to own the wuss Electra Glide out front I just backed into with my Chevy Volt?â&#x20AC;? n Order a salad instead of a steak. n Find a pair of bumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underwear on the street and wear them before laundering. n Forget about performing at least one good deed daily.

n Get sick without health insurance. n Vote Republican. n Just stand there. n Look back.

Hold the curtain, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one nice DO for youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s:

Go to the Festa Italiana down there by the Summerfest this weekend. (Or as some wags would describe it, not unlike the way I have many, many times, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s See How Many Over-the-Hill Guys Named Johnny We Can Get to Sing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;New York, New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fest.â&#x20AC;?) Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have everything molto bene you could possibly want down there. History? Fashion?

You want fashion history? Hey, if you ever wondered where the leisure suit went after it died, you come to Festa, so forget about it â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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