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n November 2018, Earnell Lucas was elected Sheriff of Milwaukee County after almost 16 years of Sheriff David Clarke. Clarke was a rightwing extremist who mismanaged and totally politicized the Sheriff’s Office, causing Milwaukee County to be sued numerous times and costing our taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. As the new sheriff in town, Lucas has brought both competence and tremendous experience to the job.

Sheriff Earnell Lucas

You’ve been sheriff now for nine months.

In your campaign, you talked about restoring honesty and trust to an office that, for the past 16 years, had been pretty tarnished. Tell us what you’ve done to restore that honesty and trust.

We came in with the approach of restoring the honor, the integrity and trust back to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office. First thing is that entails not only that we are going to treat people with dignity and respect, but we had to start and begin the process of treating one another with dignity and respect, because that had been lost. It is important that people know that everybody has a past, but we’re looking forward, we’re not looking back. We told everyone to do their jobs and not worry about what somebody else is doing, and let’s just restore this organization to the proud organization that it once was.

I brought in a team to work with me. That is a team of individuals who are accomplished in their own rights. My number two in command is deputy Denita Ball, 25-year member of the Milwaukee Police Department, Ph.D. in criminology, an instructor at some of the area’s criminal justice colleges, highly respected in the law enforcement community. I brought her in as the number two, and I have every confidence in her ability to make good decisions not only in my presence but also in my absence. I brought in, for the first time in the organization, a chief legal and compliance officer, Molly Zillig, who worked in the Corporation Counsel’s office and handled a number of the issues that arose in the Sheriff’s Office. Her responsibility was two things: to ensure that we do the right things and to ensure we do them right.

Since that time, we have done nothing but look at our organization from top to bottom and address the issues, and I am very confident that the creation of that position has put us at the forefront of being one of the leading law enforcement agencies, not only here in the state but in the country. We needed to address our relationships with the community, and I brought in a professional with a 30-year career in media, Faithe Colas, for whom I have immense respect. Faithe has made many contributions to our community, and I brought her in as our director of public relations and community engagement. She’s done nothing but going out and taking our organization out to the community and introduced us to people and groups that we had no connections to beforehand. Thus far, we’ve been very pleased [with what we’ve been doing].

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One of the things that you did inherit were a lot of problems with the county jail. You inherited some lawsuits; you inherited the fact that somebody had recently died there in a way that could have easily been prevented.

So, what have you done to make changes to the county jail?

It was important that we changed the culture, because the correctional officers and the people who were working in the jail were not treated with respect; they had not had pay increases in almost 18 years, they were being made to work mandatory overtime and couldn’t take days off. While we’re still confronted with the challenges of shortages in correctional officers, I restored the honor in the position to the extent that they know the sheriff supports them.

We have gone to the board and asked for increases and we just accomplished that as of Monday, July 1; about a 6.5% increase was made for correctional staff. We are about to ask for a similar increase in the 2020 budget as well.

Also, I felt it was important to make them feel included in the administration; thereby, there is no separation or distinction in a deputy versus a correctional officer. Sheriffs’ offices across the country have both functions, and both functions are dual or equal in term of stature in the organization, and that was not the case here.

So, the correctional commanders are now part of the command staff; they sit at the command meetings, and they make decisions in respect to personnel and treatment of inmates. We also had to look at how those persons in our care are being treated. We’ve seen improvements in attitudes, in approaches and outcomes at the jail. We had to get away from the past in which seven individuals lost their lives, for which the county is going to be paying for years and years to come. One thing we got to do is to be able to deliver a level of service with dignity and respect, and where we are not finding ourselves in costly litigation and judgments awarded to families of individuals who lost their lives being treated inhumanely.

I’m confident that, where we are today, we’re much better off than where we were a year or two or three ago.

You mentioned budgets and getting more money for folks working in the county jail, but it looks like there is a proposed budget cut this year. How are you going to handle that?

Right now, our budget is roughly at about $47 million. We were given a number, like every other department in the county, to decrease our budget; in my case, it was about $670,000, so thereby it is reduced by less than a million.

If we are going to restore the honor and integrity of this organization and the high level of service that the people of Milwaukee County truly deserve, then we need to restore the positions back to the Sheriff’s Office. I’ve advocated for more patrols in our parks and our freeways; I’ve advocated for more resources to address our responsibilities in the courts as well 6 | SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

as in the jail, two areas that are required by the state for the Sheriff’s Office to provide services to. We find ourselves short in those areas, and I am forced to bring individuals in on overtime just to meet the minimum staffing level.

So, I am going to continue to ask for what I think is needed in order to make Milwaukee County strong and safe. That means you need to increase the number of deputies on our freeways so we can address some of the problems with our reckless driving. The incidents of shots fired is alarming; any one incident is alarming, but we have multiple incidents happening. There is a recklessness out there, and we need to address it from both an enforcement standpoint and an educational standpoint. Right now, I need more resources to do that.

We need to be able to address safety in our parks; there are more than 150 parks in Milwaukee County and, on any given day, there are just not enough men and women out there to address the needs in our parks so seniors

iff’s Office that are doing the right thing. For years, Milwaukee County was finding itself in a situation where, if we detained an individual beyond the time that he or she satisfies their local charges, we could be violating their constitutional rights and thereby putting Milwaukee County in jeopardy. Our administration simply said that we aren’t going to do that any longer. Skip the politics of it, we just aren’t going to be placing Milwaukee County in a situation where taxpayers would be paying for errors or the misapplication of procedures.

Thus, we simply indicated that we aren’t going to hold an individual for any period after he or she satisfies their local charges.

I’m comfortable in that we are keeping our community safe, and that if an individual has committed egregious acts and needs to be turned over, he or she will be turned over; but those individuals who have committed municipal or county ordinance violations and have satisfied them, or those who have been released by a magistrate, to detain that indi-

SO, I’M COMMITTED TO ASKING FOR MORE, AND I’M SAYING TO THE PEOPLE OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY, “PUT YOUR TRUST IN ME, YOUR ELECTED SHERIFF, TO DO WHAT WE SAID WE WOULD DO, AND I WILL DELIVER ON THE PROMISE OF RESTORING THE HONOR, INTEGRITY AND TRUST BACK TO THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE.” can feel safe to go for a walk and where young people can play games. We need adequate resources there to meet that responsibility. We need to address some of the other social issues that we find, like the problem with homelessness that we see is an issue, as well as the opioid addiction problem that we have here.

We need to have the ability to address those issues, but quite frankly, with the resources that we currently have, we are challenged at best to meet those demands.

So, I’m committed to asking for more, and I’m saying to the people of Milwaukee County, “Put your trust in me, your elected sheriff, to do what we said we would do, and I will deliver on the promise of restoring the honor, integrity and trust back to the Sheriff’s Office.”

The Trump administration has developed a lot of policies that are getting a lot of pushback by local units of government or sheriff departments across the country. What kind of issues have you experienced here with ICE and the Feds in terms of immigration?

I say we need to be on the right side and do the right things. We research what is going on around the country and then try to implement policies and procedures here within the Sher-

vidual for any minute longer would be a violation of his or her rights, and thereby we aren’t going to do that anymore.

Next summer, we have the Democratic National Convention coming here. What role is the Sheriff’s Office going to play visà-vis the Secret Service and all the federal folks coming in?

Since the awarding of the convention to Milwaukee, we have been in dialogue with federal, state and local partners, and we have a great working relationship with many of them, in particular with the Secret Service, which is going to be the lead agency in executing security for the DNC next July. Our agency is going to be a partner and a support agency for the U.S. government, the Secret Service and the U.S. military in developing and executing our plan to ensure everyone’s safety here at the DNC. Conversations have begun in multiple disciplines, work has begun in all parts of our community, and already we’re starting to put in place a plan that I feel we’re going to execute successfully. We will learn from experiences of previous cities that have hosted conventions.

I have the benefit of having spent 16 years at

Major League Baseball, where we put on major events, all-star games and world series alike, with the only exception that we didn’t have the full force of the U.S. government behind us in planning those events. In these instance, having that, I am proud to be a part of a group of professionals around the city, around the state and around the country who are going to come here to Milwaukee and help us showcase Milwaukee as a world-class city that can host major conventions and execute a security plan to ensure everyone’s safety.

I am excited. I know all of the partners are excited—the Milwaukee Police Department, the other federal, state and local agencies here in the area—and we are looking forward to hosting the convention next year and showcase Milwaukee.

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Finally, you have in a short period of time become one of the most popular locally elected officials, and rumor has now started saying that you might be running for county executive next year. What do you have to say about that?

I hope you add to the story that I chuckled when you asked the question! I am humbled by the good will of a number of people in this community. I am humbled by the fact that Milwaukee County residents came out in a way unlike ever before, giving me 30,000 more votes than Tammy Baldwin, 40,000 more votes than Gov. Tony Evers, 50,000 more votes than Attorney General Josh Kaul...

On Tuesday, Nov. 6, Milwaukee County gave me 310,000 votes, which was the secondhighest total ever in Milwaukee County, except for former president Barack Obama. I am truly humbled by that.

I feel that, right now, I have the best job in county government. I get to walk into boardrooms, offices of CEOs and presidents all around Milwaukee County, saying “I am Sheriff Earnell Lucas. We have problems in our community, I am trying to solve them, can I count on your support?” And, by and large, without fail, I have gotten many to extend a hand and reach out and say, “Sheriff, we were waiting for a partner to work with us; we’re looking forward to it.”

I have a job to do right now, one that I take a great deal of pride in. I am humbled by the many well-wishers. I have not placed any thought in consideration of pursuing any other political office at this time, but I truly am humbled by others that have thoughts of me in a higher office.

I don’t know what the future holds. I go to work every day to do something to inspire hope in some young boy or some young girl that they can do anything, and thereby not ruling anything out in their futures. So, I am not ruling out anything in my future, but right now, I have the distinction of being the sheriff of my hometown, the Sheriff of Milwaukee County.

Well I didn’t hear a “No,” so I hope you seriously consider it. I also encourage our readers to let you how they would feel about you running for county executive next year.

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MILWAUKEE PROTESTS TRUMP’S EDUCATION SECRETARY BETSY DEVOS’ ANTI-PUBLIC SCHOOLS MESSAGE ::BY EVAN CASEY

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round 50 protesters took to the streets Monday while Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, visited a private school in Milwaukee. Protesters stood outside of St. Marcus Lutheran School (2215 N. Palmer St.) and held signs that said, “Save our Public Schools,” and “Stop the Bullies: Full funding for Public Schools.”

“We are here to say we’re not going to be quiet when it comes to our children,” said Ingrid Walker-Henry, vice president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA), during the protest.

DeVos used the trip to talk about the education freedom scholarship program, which the Department of Education says would provide for a $5 billion annual federal tax credit for voluntary donations to state-based scholarship programs. However, protesters said DeVos’ actions so far are worrisome.

“Americans and Wisconsinites want public schools,” said Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. “We want our government to support us instead of taking funds away from public education.”

Protesters—including parents, MTEA members, Democratic lawmakers and others— said that DeVos’ attention towards private schools and support towards proposed cuts for public education are not wanted here in Wisconsin.

Walker-Henry said that the proposed federal cuts would impact students’ learning as less funding would be given towards before- and after-school programs and art, music, language and other programs. Milwaukee Public Schools’ current Before and After School Care program offers homework assistance and other benefits at over 100 MPS locations during non-school hours.

“It’s past time to demand that this country provide opportunities for every child to be successful,” said Walker-Henry. “We’re tired of the finger pointing and the blame on school

systems that can’t make do with the problems that they’re given.”

During her visit, DeVos talked to members of the private voucher school about the importance of putting students first. However, she also stated that changes need to occur in public education, as she told those present that the U.S. ranks “24th in reading, 25th in science and 40th in math in the world,” according to DeVos. “What we’re doing, what we’ve been doing, isn’t working,” said DeVos on Monday.

However, protesters said that cuts to public education won’t help. “They want to make it harder for schools to meet their basic needs,” said Christopher Walton, chairman of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County. “If we are going to trust in generation after generation to pick up the mantle and move this nation forward, we can’t have cuts to quality education that makes this city a better place to live.”

Alex Brower, the president of the Milwaukee Substitute Teachers Association, has taught in many different MPS schools. He said he has seen firsthand the need for more staff, resources and funding. “The way that we solve issues is by putting more resources into public education and not by making public education some sort of free market nightmare,” he explained.

DeVos also participated in a roundtable at the event with Republican lawmakers. She spoke about her support of school voucher programs.

Brower called the voucher programs in Milwaukee a “failed experiment.” Voucher program opponents say they are a way to privatize education.

“MPS educators will continue to stand united with parents, students and our community to resist Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump’s privatization plans and to win the fully funded public schools that Milwaukee students, families and staff deserve,” MTEA President Amy Mizialko said in a press release.

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bout a half hour into the third debate by Democratic presidential candidates, Mayor Pete Buttigieg probably spoke for many viewers when he declared: “This is why presidential debates are becoming unwatchable.” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar was more ominous, warning: “A house divided cannot stand.”

That totally idiotic low point was an ugly schoolyard squabble with everyone sniping at each other’s incremental differences regarding what is definitely the Democrats’ strongest political issue going into 2020. That’s health care, which less than a year ago was the driving force behind Democrats winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterms. The good news for Democrats is that, after embarrassing themselves with that juvenile spat, the candidates pulled back, and viewers finally got to see what they’ve been waiting for: The top Democratic challengers together on one stage presenting positive ideas to restore competent national leadership.

Many Americans regardless of ideology are exhausted by a chaotic, erratic president constantly making, then reversing, ill-informed, contradictory decisions. We’re a nation on edge, because no one—least of all an unstable president with a tenuous grasp on reality—has any idea what he’ll do next.

With the field cut in half, there were fewer inconsequential candidates slinging knives at the front runners. Once the serious contenders stopped disparaging each other, they all came off looking better. Occasionally, they even gave credit to each other for leadership on critical issues, and they finally honored former President Barack Obama’s popular establishment of access to affordable health care as a human right.

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sitioning to single-payer government health care.

Republican repeated attempts to kill government subsidies providing health care for tens of millions of Americans were extremely unpopular.

Republicans are still trying to get their own appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. If Chief Justice John Roberts ever reversed his constitutional support for government health care under Republican pressure, it would destroy the court’s legal reputation and end a lot more Republican political careers.

Voters are so concerned about defeating Donald Trump they’ll turn against any candidate who damages another Democrat who could be the nominee. California Sen. Kamala Harris’ boost from confronting former Vice President Joe Biden over busing was fleeting. Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro drew boos for asking whether Biden had forgotten something he’d said two minutes earlier. It didn’t help that Castro was completely wrong about what Biden had said.

Like many long-winded speakers, Biden has rambling moments that look pretty funny written down. (Trump transcripts look certifiably insane.) But it appears Biden’s supporters will consider him the safest choice to beat Trump until someone proves he isn’t. Those who remember Hillary Clinton as the safest choice in 2016 will continue to worry.

With mass murders becoming commonplace, Democrats are free to outlaw civilian access to military assault weapons and enormous ammunition magazines designed to kill hundreds of human beings in seconds. Republicans passing minimal measures on background checks will never be enough for most Americans.

The highest-polling candidates may continue to be Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for some time. Debates may change little until people start casting real votes in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Then change could come fast and furious. Within weeks, the New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina primaries will be followed immediately by the possibly decisive, 14-state primaries on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

Few can endure three hours of televised political debate, which is too bad. Anyone who failed to stick around for the last half hour of the third debate missed some of the most moving, personal moments in the lives of the candidates.

Instead of arguing over often meaningless policy conflicts, candidates described moments of resilience in their lives. Biden’s well-known loss of his wife and daughter and seeing two young sons seriously injured in a car accident at the start of his career was humbly told. “There’s still a lot of people who have been through a lot worse than I have who get up every single morning, put their feet one foot in front of another, without the help I had.” We may have forgotten other stories. That before Warren was a Harvard professor, she grew up poor and could only afford community college, beginning her adult life as a “special needs” schoolteacher and struggling single mother.

Such real, human demonstrations of character are important in a presidential election. We’ve learned from the current occupant of the Oval Office that the total absence of character and human decency really matters.

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rnesto Atkinson has always been motivated to help others, even if it meant putting himself in dangerous situations. Now living in Milwaukee, Atkinson runs his own art therapy practice out of his small office in the Third Ward, but his work was not always calming and quiet. Originally from Guatemala, he dedicated the earlier part of his life to human trafficking prevention.

He would often find himself in brothels and garbage dumps offering support to people in the sex trade and providing them a way out.

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That’s when Atkinson immigrated to the United States, seeking ways to continue his work. At first, he traveled around, working with different organizations trying to solve human trafficking-related issues. The experience allowed him to see different cultures and gain a better understanding of how people deal with trauma. After a few years, he chose to go to school to pursue art therapy because he was driven to help people on a deeper level, rather than attending to their immediate needs. After finishing school in Chicago, he moved to Milwaukee in 2017 to start his bilingual art therapy practice.

The soft-spoken social worker chose art therapy because he is an artist and understands the healing potential that art provides. “For me, art therapy is a way of expressing and discovering your maximum splendor through the art process,” says Atkinson. He is a painter but, depending on his client, he uses different mediums such as writing, music, sketching, painting or cooking to allow them to express themselves. Art is a way for people to discover more of themselves by working through trauma or other issues in the subconscious. In essence, it provides a different outlet rather than using words.

Atkinson often speaks with a smile on his face that creates wrinkles in the corners his eyes. He reflects on his work over the past two years and feels like he has helped people in lasting ways. His experiences with his patients have taught him “that we need to be more empathetic. We need each other.” In order to be more compassionate to each other, he explains, we must first love ourselves.

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Attendees can hear previews of both the City of Milwaukee’s and Milwaukee County’s 2020 budgets. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele will be the featured speakers; they’ll be on hand to highlight the challenges in their upcoming budgets and set the stage for their budgets’ release later in the month.

There will also be time for discussion. The event will include complimentary appetizers and a cash bar.

The benefits made at this wine-tasting fundraising event will go toward providing the programming and resources veterans need to sustain permanent, supportive housing while at Milwaukee’s Veterans Manor. The event features live music, a silent auction and raffle. Tickets can be purchased online.

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This event, which is aimed at nonprofits, will feature discussion concerning how to improve such organizations in terms of their diversity. As the community center explains, “In this workshop, you can develop tools to assess, implement and evaluate strategies to keep your nonprofit’s policies and procedures, board and staff composition and programs more diverse, equitable and inclusive.” Register online for free admission.

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and North Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

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

Discussing Trauma in the Black Community @ Coffee Makes You Black, 2803 N. Teutonia Ave., noon-2 p.m.

This roundtable event is designed to “facilitate a meaningful discussion about trauma in the black community,” as the organizers describe it. Its goal is to involve mental health professionals and community members in a meaningful discussion to brainstorm potential solutions to “break the trauma cycle.” This discussion will also bring awareness to the importance of mental health and wellness. Register online for free admission.

Moment with Africans @ Nō Studios, 1037 W. McKinleyAve., 2-5 p.m.

This storytelling event focuses on accounts about the Africa with a Q&A session, an allyou-can-eat buffet (with food from various African countries) and sales of different African products. Guest speakers include UWMilwaukee’s Abera Galan and Fessahaye Mebrahtu, director of Black Catholic and Ethnic Ministries for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Topics discussed will include economic and social development in African countries. Tickets can be purchased online.

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Currently, there are only 68 music teachers in all of MPS; that’s one for every 1,120 students in the city’s school system. The Milwaukee Music Educators Association has proposed to the school board an official policy and procedure for music education in MPS that provides accountability to the district to ensure equitable access to comprehensive music education for all students taught by certified music educators. Teachers, students, parents and community advocates are encouraged to attend and speak about the importance of music in education at this meeting.

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o, one of my recent columns lauded the benefits of letting go of an unattainable or too costly goal, with an emphasis on knowing when enough is enough.

Well, knowing the when is one thing, but determining the how is another.

If you missed the previous piece, the primary premise was that knowing when to let go is as vital a life skill as dogged perseverance. But, how can we apply that skill?

Once one has determined it is time to relinquish something or someone, making this happen draws more from art than science. Consider a person, Naomi, a business executive who always longed to bear a child. Several miscarriages, failed fertility treatments and some related health problems left her dream hanging by a very thin thread. So, she had to decide whether to keep trying, with all the machinations that would entail and little prospect of success, or to let go and move on. Given the emotional damage and exhaustion her persistent efforts exacted, she opted for the latter, but she still faced the considerable challenge of how to make it happen.

“First, you need to let yourself grieve your loss,” I suggested. “When we relinquish something as vital as a lifelong dream, a period of mourning is part of letting go.”

Many of us struggle with this kind of bereavement, often striving to move it along quickly.

After all, feeling bad is not pleasant. Still, one needs to give the heart and spirit the necessary time and space to unhitch one’s personal wagon from that star-like dream. Given that, there are still actions one can take to support the process.

When facing the considerable challenge of letting go, there are two primary paths before us— rational or ceremonial. As you might expect, a few folks can simply make a pragmatic decision, let go and move on. These Spock-like souls are the exception, and Naomi was not among them.

For her, I recommended a ceremonial approach.

Just like it sounds, ceremonial efforts involve the use of symbols and ritualistic actions that engage subconscious resources necessary for healing and moving on. Funerals are one example of a ceremonial approach, although our cultural approach to this process leaves much to be desired. For Christians, baptismal cleansing of one’s sins is another example. However, the most powerful ceremonies are those which individuals design themselves, finding or creating their own symbols and crafting a transformative ritual.

In Naomi’s case, this involved taking some items (symbols) she made in anticipation of bearing a child, and then using fire (transformative power) as part of her ritual. After selecting the symbolic items, she also composed a letter to her never-born child, then she selected a day, time and place for the ceremony.

“It was almost dusk, and I went to a secluded spot by the river near my home. I started a small fire, and, one by one, put the symbols and letter in the flames, watching them burn. It was painful, but I also felt a great weight lifting,” she reported. Gathering the ashes, she later buried them in her flower garden, planting a favorite perennial in that spot. It was her way of using what had died (her dream) to nurture new life and beauty.

These kinds of “releasing rituals,” while sometimes seemingly weird to the rational psyche, make perfect sense to the subconscious mind. So, when one’s conscious self feels stuck and unable to relinquish whatever it is and move on, engaging the healing capacity of the subconscious self often wins the day.

Rarely can we think or talk ourselves into letting go of what we deeply want but cannot have.

More often, we must symbolically act and feel our way toward this kind of healthy surrender.

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or years, Derek Smars had suffered from back pain caused by disc problems. Desperate for relief, he considered back surgery but then tried SunMed cannabidiol (CBD) tincture, also referred to as oil, available from the Your CBD Store franchise. “I was surprised by how well it really worked,” he says. “As we did more research, we wanted to open a store and get it out to other people.”

Derek and his wife, Kinga, opened a Your CBD Store location in August at 4156 S. 108th St., in Greenfield. Your CBD Store is a franchise that formed in Florida a year ago and has locations throughout the United States. The location owned by the Smars is separate from Your CBD Stores in Menomonee Falls and other Wisconsin cities.

SunMed has its own farms in Denver where they grow hemp for their CBD products. Their extraction and processing take place in Florida. Derek notes that SunMed uses supercritical CO2, an extraction method that can pull not just CBD but also other minor yet beneficial cannabinoids from the hemp plant along with the terpenes, which are the oils that give cannabis its aromatic diversity.

Kinga adds that CO2 extraction is a better choice over solvent extraction because some of ingredients used in solvent extraction don’t dissolve. “You end up ingesting those, so at that point, you can’t claim your product is pure or organic.”

SunMed products have a bar code scanner on the labels where, upon being scanned, will pull up the lab reports to show what’s in each product. Derek says that if they don’t have an answer to a customer’s question, they have access to a work chat group with other Your CBD Stores where they can get answers quickly. Store owners can ask questions directly to SunMed’s chemists.

There are both broad spectrum and full spectrum tinctures in SunMed’s line. The broad spectrum includes the whole plant cannabinoids and terpenes, with no tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The full spectrum is the whole plant and includes up to 0.3% THC. They come in several strengths of 250 to 3,000 milligrams and are available in several flavors such as orange, lemon, cinnamon or blueberry. There’s also a fast-acting, water-soluble tincture that can be added to beverages.

“SunMed uses a coconut carrier oil, which is absorbed through body slower and stays in the system longer,” Derek explains. “It also tastes better and doesn’t leave an oily taste in the mouth.” Additional SunMed CBD products include gummies, hard candies, soft gels, honey sticks, bath and beauty products and topical pain cream.

Your CBD Store Greenfield has a boutique ambiance, and customers can enjoy coffee or tea while discussing CBD. Kinga says they also help customers analyze labels on bottles from other products they’ve tried. She often hears from people who bought CBD online or from an outlet that doesn’t specialize in CBD products, and who didn’t get what they paid for. She says their location on busy Highway 100 is convenient for many people, and she praised the City of Greenfield and other area businesses for being helpful and receptive.

Derek and Kinga notice that although cannabis is not new, CBD products are new territory and there is still skepticism. “They think it can’t work because it’s just a plant,” Derek says. But he believes CBD could also be an ‘in’ for further cannabis legalization in Wisconsin; as state legislators continue to see benefits of CBD and how the hemp plant works, they will at least pass a medicinal marijuana bill in the coming year.

“But in states like California and Colorado that have recreational marijuana, the CBD stores are still thriving. Some people don’t want that head high, and with CBD, you don’t get that,” he affirms.

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an vaping be deadly? It would appear so, after an outbreak of lung disease unexpectedly hit the United States in the past few weeks. As of Tuesday, Sept. 10, six people have died from lung issues related to vaping, health officials announced. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified more than 450 possible similar cases in 33 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The tally keeps increasing as the investigation is ongoing.

“While the investigation is ongoing, the CDC has advised that individuals consider not using e-cigarettes, because as of now, this is the primary means of preventing the severe lung disease,” Dana Meaney-Delman of the CDC told Business Insider.

According to health officials, no evidence of infectious diseases has been identified, which seems to indicate that the illness is likely caused by chemical exposure. Patients exhibit similar symptoms: a substance denser than air gets stuck in the lungs, causing cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, diarrhea, fatigue and more. The symptoms developed over the course of a few days to a few weeks.

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Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of cannabis, has been quickly linked to the outbreak, as several patients report-

ed vaping products containing cannabinoids, THC in particular. Even now, the CDC recommends avoiding “e-cigarette products with THC or other cannabinoids” specifically, mirroring the Food and Drug Administration’s claim that “consumers can help protect themselves by avoiding THC-containing vaping products.”

This is partly linked to the fact that at least one of the victims, a senior Minnesota resident, died after vaping illicit THC products. However, a single cause hasn’t been determined, and a significant portion of the patients who contracted the disease reportedly didn’t vape THC. Out of 53 patients in Wisconsin and Illinois questioned during the investigation, 80% reported having vaped THC, whereas 17% reported using nicotine-containing products only. Even among the subset of patients who used THC products, many different brands and devices were used.

“Many of the samples tested by the states or by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been identified as vaping products containing THC, and further, most of those samples with THC tested also contained significant amounts of Vitamin E acetate,” the FDA declared. Vitamin E acetate is a thickening agent popular in THC vaping products. “Vitamin E acetate is a substance present in topical consumer products or dietary supplements, but data are limited about its effects after inhalation. Because consumers cannot be sure whether any THC vaping products may contain Vitamin E acetate, consumers are urged to avoid buying vaping products on the street.”

It is unclear whether Vitamin E acetate is really responsible, if THC or all forms of vaping can induce this illness or even if it is limited to unofficial products. It could be due to illicit products that were tampered with or to a legal, poorly regulated substance like Vitamin E acetate. As the investigation continues, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, issued subpoenas to three companies selling thickening agents, as laboratory tests have shown “very high levels of Vitamin E acetate in nearly all cannabis-containing samples analyzed.”

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When I walked into the first MACS in the Wisconsin Dells years ago, not If you know someone who wants more meat all the time, the three little long after Dells natives Nick and Jackie Morse opened it, I immediately suspiggies mac ($7.99-$10.99) should satisfy them with shredded pulled pork, pected that they were going to succeed. Even then, in 2013, the counterdiced ham, bacon and barbecue sauce. The sauce is described as spicy, but service restaurant felt like a well-oiled machine. They did everything it’s unfortunately very sweet. Its tanginess does help cut through all that that the big chain fast food restaurants do well—from the eye-catchmeat and cheese richness, though. Similarly, the buffalo ing wall graphics (Wisconsin themed!) to getsauce on the buffalo chicken mac ($6.99-$9.99) does the ting food out expeditiously enough to prevent same heavy lifting.

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arb Drewry-Zimmerman, farm manager of Drewry Farms, comes from a long line of maple product producers. In 1847, ancestors of the Drewry family left their farm in Vermont and settled in Wisconsin, where they continued their maple syrup making. Today, Drewry-Zimmerman and her siblings, her children, her nieces and nephews are all involved with carrying on past generations of maple sugaring at Drewry Farms Maple Products, W5762 Winooski Road, Plymouth.

For years, maple sugar farmers had typically harvested sap for personal use or to exchange or sell with other nearby farmers. Drewry-Zimmerman says her generation has taken it to the commercial level because she’s observed a renewed interest in local and artisan foods. “I saw the trend coming 10 years ago, so I thought we needed to take it to the next level,” she explains.

“We got away from buckets and implemented new technology, and we’ve extended pipelines.

We did it gradually over a four-year period.

Modernizing gave us the ability to expand without taking on a lot of debt.”

The Drewry family has 120 acres of sustainably managed hardwood trees, of which they tap nearly 100 acres. They start the process in fall by walking along every tubing line and checking for damage. They replace all the spiles, the spout-like piece that goes into the tree. By the end of December, the process is usually complete, and in February, they’re ready to start tapping the trees. Tapping all the trees takes approximately two weeks. The sap is collected via vacuum systems and put into tanks at four different locations in the woods. Everything then gets hauled to the syrup house for processing.

Drewry Farms offers three varieties of maple syrup: amber, dark and very dark. They’re

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available in assorted size bottles, gift boxes, or in decorative bottles shaped like a maple leaf.

“Customers like a choice of colors,” DrewryZimmerman observes. “I personally can’t tell any difference in flavor, but some people can.”

She notes that darker syrup seems to hold flavor better when using it for cooking or baking. In addition to maple syrup, they also offer maple granola or maple caramel corn made by Julie’s Country Confections, which operates out of Campbellsport, Wis. Few things taste better on a chilly weekend morning than a stack of hot pancakes with pure maple syrup (and not that artificially flavored corn syrup that’s mass-produced, found on major supermarket shelves!) drizzling down the sides. But maple syrup has many other uses. “You can use it in anything you’d use white or brown sugar in and replace with real maple syrup,” Drewry-Zimmerman says. She suggests replacing sugar with maple syrup when making homemade cranberry sauce or basting the Thanksgiving turkey with an apple cider and maple syrup mixture; that recipe and others are on their website, drewryfarmsmaple.com. Other artisan food companies also use pure maple syrup in their mustard, ketchup and sauces.

Drewry-Zimmerman believes that pure maple syrup could be the next superfood because ongoing research, which still has to be proven, shows maple syrup contains vitamins, minerals like zinc and potassium, as well as antioxidants. Drewry Farms Maple Products can be found in Milwaukee at the South Shore and Fox Point farmers markets, Outpost Natural Foods, Glorioso’s Italian Market or ordered online. The farm also hosts a popular annual open house the last Saturday of every March, offering tours and wagon rides.

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Talking About Race in America An interview with ‘The Niceties’ director Annika Boras ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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n The Niceties, opening next week at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, two women have a conversation that grows increasingly fraught as they stumble into the racial fissures of American society.

The older woman is a white liberal arts professor and the younger is her student, a black activist. What begins as a routine chat about a term paper turns ugly.

Eleanor Burgess wrote The Niceties during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The tension between women who, on paper, should be on the same page politically echoes the chasm that divided Hilary Clinton from many younger African American voters. As Burgess puts it, America needs to learn “the consequences of a white woman failing to win over people who aren’t white and the consequences of a woman in her 60s failing to win over a millennial.”

And the consequences of allowing the worst-case scenario to occur? The Milwaukee Rep’s version of The Niceties stars Kate Levy as professor Janine Bosko and Kimber Sprawl as student activist Zoe Reed. Director Annika Boras—a theater and TV actress with a long resume—answered some questions about the production.

How did you come to the Milwaukee Rep’s attention?

I’ve been teaching acting at New York University for the last two years and have been directing there as well. My last project as assistant director was at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City, and I’m in the midst of assisting director-writer John Patrick Shanley on his current film adaptation of Outside Mullingar. I flew here to Milwaukee from pre-production in Ireland. As soon as we open The Niceties, I’ll fly back to Dublin for principal photography.

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[Milwaukee Rep artistic director] Mark Clements and I connected when I was in the La Jolla production of Junk. We reconnected as he was doing it last season. I mentioned my desire to assist him, and I was thrilled when he invited me on. We had a great working relationship on Junk, and that led to him asking if I was interested in directing The Niceties here in Milwaukee. I leapt at the chance!

What does the play’s title have to say? Is it an ironic comment on our willingness to disguise social problems behind polite or politically correct language?

Yes. Exactly. Niceties mask the deeper issues, and they end up being dispensed with when the heat gets turned up.

What are the particular challenges of directing a two-person play?

Stamina. There are two actors on stage at every moment. It’s a lot for them to carry and do. This play is two scenes, each an act long, both played in real time; there’s nowhere to stop and pause. The demand to keep the energy moving and shifting and always building—that’s a real challenge, but it’s also what’s wonderful about the experience for an audience—and for the two of them—when it works.

What triggers the escalating argument between the two protagonists?

Insensitivity and disagreement. And also, in a way, the belief in what history is— whether it needs to be an imaginative exercise, which is what Zoe argues, or whether history is bound by what evidence we can uncover about it, which is what Janina argues.

What do the women reveal about their deeply held (and perhaps unexamined) attitudes?

That our perspectives are always shaped by our experiences, our position in the social order, our livelihoods and our desires. The play stages that disheartening tendency for us to not really listen to one another, always to hear what we expect, what we already know.

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Does the script attempt to apportion audience sympathy equally between the two women?

I think the play is sensitive to the audience’s relationship to both of the characters and tries to inspire the audience to see themselves in both of the characters. Ultimately, it attempts to create a space where, even if the characters are not listening to each other, we are listening to them.

Is The Niceties a play likely to be misunderstood?

Probably. What holds true for the characters on stage is probably true for every audience member. Perspective is shaped by experience. I think what’s brave about the play is that it allows the space for that reality.

Is The Niceties, in part, about America’s refusal to acknowledge its past?

Maybe even more than its refusal, its inability to do so. I think it asks the question: What is really dividing us? Generation? Sensibility? Experience? Identity? What is the common ground? Is there really none? Perhaps sitting in the experience of these questions without answers is the experience most worth having. That may be the real value of any artistic exploration.

The Niceties runs Sept. 25-Nov. 3 at the Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

Community Conversations The Niceties sets the stage for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s fifth annual ACT II community discussions program. Presented in association with the Zeidler Center for Public Discussions, ACT II will feature small group discussions with panelists from Wisconsin organizations such as ACLU Wisconsin, Public Allies Milwaukee, Marquette University, Youth Justice Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Schools, UW-Milwaukee and others. These discussions take place after most performances of The Niceties. For a complete list of dates and topics, visit milwaukeerep.com.

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Fires in the Mirror

In 1991, in Brooklyn, N.Y., a Hasidic man’s car jumped a curb, killing a seven-

year-old black child. Shortly after, a Hasidic rabbinical student was killed in what appeared to be an act of retaliation, sparking riots that made national headlines.

But behind those headlines, there are people—politicians, religious leaders, victims and perpetrators—who each have their own story to tell. For Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities, playwright Anna Deavere Smith interviewed more than 50 people to create a work of documentary theatre, which is composed of 29 monologues taken directly from her interview transcripts. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production features two actors, Elyse Edelman and Marti Gobel, playing all 26 roles.

“The question of how to coexist with neighbors whose values or even simple daily practices radically contrast has no easy answer, especially now,” Marcella Kearns, co-director of the production, says. “This piece, a tour de force for the excellent actresses undertaking multiple roles, throws us in a room to weep and laugh together.” (John Jahn) Sept. 20-Oct. 13 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway.

For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com.

The Feast

Deep in the Russian interior where nothing is safe, an elite team of mercenar-

ies retrieve an ultimate weapon, but hidden forces unleash an insatiable hunger, and the hunters become the prey. Quasimondo Physical Theatre’s The Feast comes from the mind behind The Depths, ensemble member Andrew Parchman, who summons a sinister tale of fear and corruption. Set in the near future where the U.S. is at war with Russia, this ferocious thriller, as Quasimondo explains, “cuts crimson conspiracy with predatory agents” and is “gorged with puppetry, action and horror.” The company also says the production is intended for mature audiences. (John Jahn) Sept. 20-Oct. 5 at the North Milwaukee Arthaus, 5151 N. 35th St. For tickets,

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“The Grand Finale” SEPTEMBER 25 – NOVEMBER 3

by Eleanor Burgess | Directed by Annika Boras

In this riveting new play, a polite clash of views quickly leads to an explosive discussion of race, history and power.

In May 2009, the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee celebrated its 100th anniversary. Named in honor of American pianist and composer Edward MacDowell (18601908), the club worked for more than century on fulfilling its purpose: “To further musical interests in Milwaukee, provide performing opportunities for professional and amateur musicians and acquaint the general public with the number and excellence of local artists.” Alas, the club has reached its end, its swan song being a final concert at Villa Terrace featuring several instrumentalists and vocalists.

The Stiemke Studio Season is presented by ED SEABERG & PATRICK SMITH

Works on the MacDowell Club’s “Grand Finale” farewell concert (and there are many) include its namesake’s beloved solo piano chestnut To a Wild Rose; Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Franz Liszt’s Paraphrase on Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi; and George Gershwin’s “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess. (John Jahn) Sunday, Sept. 22, at 5 p.m. at Villa Terrace, 2220 N. Terrace Ave. This concert is free and open to the public.

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Quiet Grace of Waukesha Civic Theatre’s ‘Little Prince’ ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

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he beloved children’s classic The Little Prince is now 76 years old, but its themes are timeless: What it means to become friends, learn to love, suffer loss and ultimately move on. And for the Aviator, he rediscovered his “inner child” through this little man, this “little prince.”

The whimsically strange tale of the boy from another planet who fell to Earth by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was dramatized for the stage by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar. It recently landed at Waukesha Civic Theatre in a production that underscores its quiet grace with a Zen-like quality that perfectly captures the mood and sense of the stranded pilot in a desert with no one around. That is, until the Little Prince shows up.

Over the course of eight days, the two struck up a friendship, the younger sharing stories of his intergalactic adventures while the Aviator rediscovers his lost love—drawing. Turning into a grown-up and doing grown-up stuff can do that sometimes.

Directors Laura Hughes and Shannon Sloan-Spice have brought a thoughtful, focused perspective to this production, the large children’s ensemble moving in balletic unison amid the simple yet effective set pieces and rear-screen projections of the Aviator’s drawings. The main actors do a fine job, with the Little Prince played by three of the young actors, Olivia Vitrano, Azure Schroeder and Max Vitrano. As the lone “grown-up,” Brant Allen solidly handles the key role in animating the storyline to the Prince’s steady, gentle approach. And kudos to Bret Abel as a forlorn fox yearning to be tamed, as well as playing the puppet King. Puppet Master Michael Pettit’s life-sized creations are just plain fun to watch.

The production’s main challenge on opening night was vocal projection at times, but as the production found its rhythm, it also found its voice. As that forlorn but wise fox tells the Prince: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

And as the Aviator looks for his friend, gone back to the stars, the Little Prince is right there with him—in spirit. Friends forever.

Through Sunday, Sept. 29, at Waukesha Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha. A “sensory-friendly” performance will be performed on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 2 p.m. For more information, call 262-547-0708 or visit waukeshacivictheatre.org.

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‘Thread in Open Waters’ at Museum of Quilts and Fiber Art ::BY SHANE MCADAMS

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here’s a museum just off of County Road T, east of Cedarburg, Wis., that is easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. I’d passed it from the main road half-a-dozen times without noticing it before eventually turning down a side road to make a U-turn one day. I’d heard of this place, but until I drew eyes on the converted barn inhabited by the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, I hadn’t considered what I was missing.

My ignorance has no excuse given that I reside in the area, but others might be forgiven for missing it. For those who are so inclined, the museum’s current exhibition, “Water,” might be the perfect opportunity to break from one’s standard visual art routine to see a fascinating series of work about a most relevant Wisconsin subject.

Entering the barn-like gallery space, one sinks into a casual calmness; the kind usually stymied by the sanitized oppressiveness of white-walled institutions. The rustic, high-ceilinged and slightly darkened interior builds a tranquil ambience that welcomes reflection. A video by local artist Nirmal Raja is projected on draped fabric on the near north wall of the main gallery.

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Creating sculptural works, especially those larger in scale, has historically been viewed as a male-dominated field within the arts. The reality, however, is that many significant female artists have influenced and shaped the sculptural conversation in Wisconsin.

This exhibition, presenting 10 Wisconsin artists, highlights some of the impactful work being done by women sculptors in our state. The exhibiting artists are Emily Belknap, Prithika Deivasigamani, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Katie Martin Meurer, Nirmal Raja, Lisa Beth Robinson, Mary Roley, Jill Sebastian, Valaria Tatera and Kristin Thielking. There will be an opening reception and artist panel starting at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20. ing fabric and waves lapping repetitively on a beach. The natural cadence of the surf appears to interfere with the subject’s manual operation and frustrates viewer’s desire for resolution and closure. The soothing interplay of nature and culture here is a satisfying aperitif for the show.

Heidi Parkes, a local notable quiltmaker and educator, offers some stunning examples of her work, though they are less direct in their association to water that others. Examples such as The Beach (Milwaukee) and The Beach (Chicago LSD) are obviously inspired by water, with each quilt manifesting a sense of places she’s resided on Lake Michigan, both through process and material transformation. Where Parkes evokes water impressionistically and psychologically, Karyl Sisson’s work could have come directly from the bottom of the ocean. Her accumulations of zippers and rivets from discarded clothes would be mistaken for living sea creatures if they weren’t on pedestals in a museum. Strange formations of undulating and zigzagging forms turn out to be recycled hardware from used clothing. Flight III, which looks like a scarlet-red octopus, is comprised of “deconstructed cotton zippers and thread.” Deconstructed might be too academic a term, as she’s not breaking the material down in any structural linguistic sense, but Sisson has thoroughly reimagined and formally transformed her chosen media.

The formal and material range of “Water” is admirable and demonstrates the chances curator Emily Schlemowitz has taken to tease possibilities out of a medium and a concept. Her choice to include Susan Falkman’s carved marble abstractions alongside Terese Agnew’s representational quilt, PROPOSED DEEP PIT MINE SITE, LYNNE TOWNSHIP, WISCONSIN, creates a fascinating and unlikely collision between material, art making and conservation.

The connections in the show are deep and wide but eventually surface.

Falkman’s Statuario marble is, in fact, the ocean-born sediment of millions of years of accumulated life, while Agnew’s painstakingly involved quilting and embroidery represents the accumulated marks of a single existence, hoping desperately to prolong her own species’ timeline through effort and awareness. These are only a few of the stories I pulled from the depths.

Countless more material connections, ecological lessons, personal yarns and competing timelines are still bobbing beneath the surface and just off the beaten path at the Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts though Nov. 17.

Installation view of works by Terese Agnew (left) and Frank Connet (right). COLLECTION OF JOHN M. WALSH III (AGNEW) AND COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

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A Celebration of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture” Saturday, Sept. 21 Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust St.

Woodland Pattern collaborates with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater for this afternoon of poetry, music, art, food and conversation honoring Puerto Rican culture. It all kicks off at 1:30 p.m., when artist Erick “Ck” Ledesma of Cosecha Creative Space will introduce his new mural on the Woodland Pattern façade—painted in tribute to the lives lost in Puerto Rico during 2017’s Hurricane María. At 2 p.m., a panel of prominent Puerto Rican scholars and community activists from Chicago and Milwaukee will speak on “Puerto Rican Identity: The Young Lords and Belonging.” The event concludes with a performance by poet Urayoán Noel from New York. He appears as part of “Unwriting Borders: Latinx Voices in the U.S.”—a Woodland Pattern poetry series curated by Milwaukee Poet Laureate Roberto Harrison. This is a family friendly event, free and open to the public, and kids’ activities will also be held all day long.

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Displaying the Art of Sign Language

OFF THE CUFF WITH DEAF STORYTELLERS MAYRA CASTREJÓN-HERNANDEZ AND JOSE BARRAZA ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

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n Sunday afternoon, Sept. 22, Ex Fabula will open its 11th season with the first ever “Deaf StorySlam.” The 10 storytellers in this free juried performance at the Mitchell Street Public Library are members of Milwaukee’s deaf community. American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters will translate for hearing audience members. “Labels” is the theme. Performers Mayra Castrejón-Hernandez and Jose Barraza also served as ASL coaches for the storytellers. Interpreters Tim and Sadie (names are irrelevant, they said) translated our conversation.

Were you born deaf?

Jose Barraza (JB): I was. It was the 1960s rubella epidemic. That’s what led to me being born deaf.

Mayra Castrejón-Hernandez (MCH): No. I have a deaf sister. She’s four years older.

As we grew up, I teased her at lot. Our parents didn’t know sign. I didn’t know sign. We lived in Guadalajara. In Mexico, they look at you as if you’re a monster if you can’t hear.

So, my parents refused to let us learn sign language because they were afraid it would “out” her. So, I teased her about being deaf. She got very angry and, when I was 5, she took a bobby pin and forced it so deep into my ear it caused me to go deaf in that ear.

She didn’t know. I was 5, she was 9; she didn’t know my language, I didn’t know hers.

Fast forward to us moving to Wisconsin. I started losing hearing in my other ear. I have a hearing aid in that ear. It helps me pick up certain things in the environment. I can’t distinguish sound at all without it. Fortunately, now I have my own language and I’m able to talk with my sister. I actually really love this language, American Sign Language.

I’m learning Mexican Sign Language, as well. They’re completely different.

How did you learn ASL? MCH: I went to high school at a boarding school in Delavan, the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. That’s where I actually began to grow my knowledge.

JB: I went there, as well.

Were you born here, Jose?

I was born in Milwaukee. When my parents found out I was deaf, they connected me with a speech therapist at the Milwaukee Hearing Society. At that time, there was a lot of suspicion about sign language and a lot of interest in keeping deaf children from learning it. This came from the Alexander Graham Bell organization. They believe that deaf children should look and sound like hearing people; they should learn to talk and read lips. So, a deaf movement arose—Wisconsin Diverse Deaf Concerned Citizens—to take a stand against organizations like A.G. Bell. We want people to know that we have a language and that we should not be deprived of language. Growing up, I was expected

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to be like a hearing person. Wisconsin School for the Deaf was my first exposure to ASL. It was the first time I was able to access education. I was 11.

I understand that we should view deafness as a culture and a language, rather than a disability.

JB: That’s right. I deal with hearing people every day. Sometimes I’ll sign and talk at the same time. My voice is not great. Sometimes, people will say they want to learn sign language. That’s great. People expect me to learn English and read lips, and I think if I’m going to learn that, you need to make a commitment to learn my language. In the ’70s and ’80s, people would label me deaf and dumb, or deaf-mute. That really angered me. Those labels need to be removed. I don’t want to insult hearing people, but they think we can’t do anything. They’re shocked when they hear I have a driver’s license, that I raised my own son and that deafness was not a barrier. I have a family, I have everything you have; we are exactly the same. People don’t understand how you can be deaf and live life.

MCH: We really need to drop the label “disability.” We can just say “deaf” or “someone who can’t hear.” We have a lot of people in this community who are actually being hidden because of the pain and frustrations that come with labels. This project is a great way to show deaf people that we’re celebrating them. And I think it’s our time to be recognized. Our language is an art form.

JB: It’s hands, it’s face, it’s body—our language is the whole person.

The StorySlam runs 2-4 p.m. on Sept. 22 at the Mitchell Street Library, 906 W. Mitchell St. Admission is free, but RSVP is requested. For more information, visit exfabula.org or call 414-286- 3021.

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‘Downton Abbey’: The Family Saga Continues ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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ownton Abbey” is a phenomenon. It’s far from the first multi-year British television saga to find an American audience on PBS. However, none of its predecessors, neither “Upstairs Downstairs” nor “The Forsyte Saga,” seized the uplands of the popular imagination as successfully. For six seasons, a significantly large audience followed a noble family, and their servants, across decades and through the Great War into a less certain future.

The Downton Abbey film picks up the story’s threads and weaves them in familiar patterns.

The core of the original cast is reunited, and the movie opens with a glimpse of Buckingham Palace stationery. A liveried footman bears the letter down the regal hall; it’s packed in a Royal Mail sack and carried by train to the village near the Crawley estate. A motorcycle postman runs the special delivery up the winding road as the Ab-

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bey’s stone-wedding cake façade looms in view.

Eyes are arched when Barrow (Rob JamesCollier), the butler, reads the return address. The Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) and Lady Mary Talbot (Michelle Dockery) look up from breakfast when the message is brought to them.

“Just arrived my lord,” the servant says. The king and queen intend to visit Yorkshire and stay at Downtown Abbey. “Just for a night,” Lady Mary says, visibly relieved at the short duration.

The royal visit triggers the mechanism of a plot that involve key characters from the series.

However, in this chapter of the saga, the Earl and Countess of Grantham hover in the background.

Much of the story concerns the enmity between Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith), whose sharp tongue animates the dialogue, and Lady Maud Bagshaw (Imelda Staunton). As in many families, even of more modest means, the terms of

[ FILM CLIPS ] Ad Astra PG-13 Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) leads a mission to neutralize a destructive energy emanating from the vicinity of Neptune. Roy is chosen because his father, astronaut Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), and his crew went missing near Neptune 30 years prior.

This prompts speculation that Clifford is behind the mysterious energy surges. Roy’s mission requires a lunar stop-over, where he becomes caught up in a battle between forces competing to control the moon’s resources. Next, Roy’s spacecraft stops on Mars, where he encounters further complications. Visually arresting, the film portrays Roy as a fearless space cowboy, but it focuses less on its future vision in favor of Roy’s efforts to resolve feelings of loss after his father disappeared. (Lisa Miller)

Hustlers R Writer-director Lorene Scafaria wrote this screenplay drawing on Jessica Pressler’s 2015 New York magazine article. After Destiny (Constance Wu) is charged with stealing from strip club clientele, she confides all to a seemingly sympathetic journalist (Julia Stiles). The scheme began when newbie stripper Destiny became protégé to seasoned exotic dancer Ramona (Jennifer Lopez). Aided by a ring of conspiring strippers, the pair prey on wealthy married men, drugging them in order to charge big bucks to the men’s credit cards. Giving a nuanced performance as ruthless mastermind Ramona, Lopez nearly steals the movie while Wu tugs at its heart, displaying moments of regret that are defanged by greed. (L.M.)

Rambo: Last Blood R Sylvester Stallone has waffled regarding whether to continue or end the Rambo franchise. Following a half-dozen false starts, the actor is back as ex-Green Beret soldier, John J. Rambo. Having raised his friend’s daughter, Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal), Rambo goes all Rambo when she is kidnapped by a sadistic Mexican drug cartel. Rambo finds a friend in Carmen (Paz Vega), a reporter whose half-sister was kidnapped by the same cartel.

Rambo’s famous crossbow is prominently featured, along with knives, guns and an array of explosive devices. Stallone enjoyed making this film and promises to continue the franchise if audiences support this one. (L.M.) 30 | S E P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

inheritance become a source of strife.

The downstairs corridors of the Abbey receive as much attention as the drawing rooms above.

The former butler Carson (Jim Carter) returns from retirement to help the fussbudgetty cook, Mrs. Patmore (Lesley Nicol), and the staff contend with the arrival of their majesties. But before the maids can even polish the silver, a team of Buckingham Palace servants invade Downton with the blunt force of a commando raid. The supercilious king’s page (David Haig) announces that he’s in charge. The Abbey’s servants plan an insurrection.

A note of uncertainty sounds with the arrival in town of a mysterious figure who might be a police detective eying the Irish Republican, Tom Branson (Allen Leech), the onetime chauffeur who married into the Crawleys in a love-driven leap of social mobility. But uncertainty is in the

air as Lady Mary wonders how they will find money to repair the roof and retain the army of servants necessary to maintain their lordly way of life in a rapidly changing world. Some of the staff, especially Daisy (Sophie McShera), are rebellious and chafe under the old norms.

Aspects of Downton Abbey are silly, even caricatured, yet on the whole, the movie accommodates the stories of a wide expanse of characters of different classes, temperaments and even sexual persuasion. Barrow, a gay man at a time when indiscretion could lead to ruin (and jail), discovers an underground men’s club where the band Downton plays hot jazz. Even newcomers to the saga will have Abbey no trouble understanding the Maggie characters and their motivaSmith tions.

Michelle The allure of Downton Dockery Abbey? It offers an escape Directed by into an imagined world where our own society is Michael comfortably reflected amidst Engler the baronial luxury. JealRated PG ousy, class envy and condescension, family secrets, the possibility of reconciliation—the human stories are nicely drawn. Downton Abbey is a gilded palace of dreams where continuity is valued but change is acknowledged—where affairs of state are conducted with a dignity inconceivable in the America of 2019.

And yes, the story has no end. Expect a sequel.

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] n Clarence Clemons: Who Do I Think I Am? Although continually threatening to be more about the arty tics of director Nick Mead than about Clarence Clemons, whenever the camera points to people who knew “the Big Man,” the documentary becomes interesting. Clemons grew up in segregated Virginia with white friends (they couldn’t be together in public). More than an onstage foil for Bruce Springsteen, the affable saxophonist was essential to the Boss’ sound, his horn picking up the story when Springsteen’s words trailed off.

n Get Out Your Handkerchiefs Gérard Depardieu was seldom better than in his role as the husband in the arthouse hit, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). He’s besotted with his wife, but, unable to relieve her depression, tries to match her with a stranger in the opening scene.

“You need a change,” he insists. Witty, conversational, with clever verbiage that survives in subtitles, the Oscar-winning film is a sophisticated comedy of sex and romance. Out now in an anniversary Blu-ray edition.

n “The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 3” The latest Buster Keaton Blu-ray release features Seven Chances (1925), which stands alongside The General as the silent comedian-director’s best work. It’s a story of frustrated romance, with Keaton’s protagonist thwarted through his own bungling lack of confidence, in a sequence of mishaps. It’s still funny nearly a century later. Keaton’s character is racing against the clock in a world where every clock is wrongly set. Seven Chances is coupled on the Blu-ray with Battling Butler (1926).

n The Mad Adventures of “Rabbi” Jacob Victor (played by rubber-faced comic Louis de Funès), an obnoxious and motormouthed French xenophobe, stumbles into a green, gooey vat at the Yankee Chewing Gum factory—and the fun begins. The Mad Adventures of “Rabbi” Jacob (1974) is a hilariously slapstick flick of chase scenes, bungling cops and mistaken identity. Kidnapped by a rhetoric-spouting leftist Middle Eastern revolutionary, the anti-Semitic Victor and his captor wind up disguised as Hasidic rabbis as they evade pursuers.

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Ed Garvey Unvarnished: Lessons from a Visionary Progressive (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS), BY ROB ZALESKI Ed Garvey was always eager to take on the biggest guys in the room.

He was the attorney who coached the NFL players’ strikes that changed pro-football’s lineup, but he also challenged mining and tobacco companies and the monied interests behind elections. Although the Wisconsin activist lost his bids for public office, as Rob Zaleski reveals in Unvarnished, Bernie Sanders and Tammy Baldwin were inspired by his example. A longtime reporter for Madison’s The Capitol Times, Zaleski closely observed his subject for many years and concludes, “there was no one I came to respect more than Ed Garvey.” Zaleski acknowledges mistakes but finds “a kind, compassionate man and a fierce, uncompromising fighter for the have-nots.” Few people who knew him would disagree. Full disclosure: I sat on the board of the Shepherd Express’ parent company with Garvey in the 1990s and can vouch for Zaleski’s impressions. (David Luhrssen)

National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945 (UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS), EDITED

BY RICHARD MCMAHAN Consciously or not, many Americans still see the world as a hierarchy of races. Census forms and other documents prompt us to choose where we fit. A century ago the social sciences—promoters of the term “Caucasian”— busily defined homo sapiens as a set of related species and ranked them based on skull measurements. Prejudice and politics were never far from the project. As shown in this essay collection, anthropologists of many nations competed to rank their ethnicities higher than their neighbors. As one contributor wryly put it, “The classification of humans by humans is inherently messy.” (David Luhrssen) 32 | S E P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9

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Award-Winning Novelist Jacqueline Woodson at Boswell Book Co. ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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Murdoch & Company, View West of Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, from Pabst Building, 1923/25. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Friends of Art, M1989.410. Copy photo by John R. Glembin.

acqueline Woodson has secured her reputation as one of America’s most accomplished contemporary writers. The current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature has accumulated a lengthy list of book awards, including four Newbery Honor Medals, two Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Caldecott Medal, among others. Much of her fiction is shelved in the children’s section, but her writing has a sturdy maturity and her characters—no matter their age—display an extraordinary human depth that leaps off the page.

Jacqueline Woodson Her 2014 memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, written entirely in lyrical free verse, won Woodson the National Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller. In it, she tells a tender tale of the family that raised her in both Midwestern Ohio and the South during the 1960s and 1970s (Woodson was born in 1963).

Since the 1990s, Woodson has penned poignant and timely stories that explore topics including race, economic class, history and family. Now she’s out with a much-anticipated full-length (but not lengthy) novel that follows two Brooklynbased families over the span of three generations. Red at the Bone is a compelling story that forever connects individual lives after a teenage romance results in pregnancy. This powerful narrative demonstrates how the decisions we make as young people follow us long into the future and often have sweeping consequences.

Milwaukee is excited to welcome the acclaimed author to Boswell Book Co. for a ticketed event on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7.p.m. Woodson will be in conversation with Milwaukee writer and performer Dasha Kelly Hamilton. Tickets cost $28 and include a copy of Red at the Bone.

BOOK|HAPPENING Memoirs of a Draft Resistor

Daniel Holland was a rebellious kid in the 1960s before he found his way into the era’s anti-Vietnam War protests. Holland wasn’t content to carry signs. He studied the voluminous Selective Service regulations and became a draft resistance counselor. “Each small victory felt like a potential life saved,” he writes in his memoir, Death Wins All Wars: Resisting the Draft in the 1960s. The Milwaukee writer recounts his experiences, culminating in a trial for refusing to be inducted into the army. Death Wins All Wars zigzags between events of the era (Vietnam casualties, assassinations) and his own experiences in challenging the system.

Daniel Holland will talk about Death Wins All Wars on Wednesday, Sept.

25, 7 p.m. at Boswell Book Co.

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The gods of good times have certainly shined down on Milwaukee this week! Just look at my social calendar below, and you’ll see what I mean. From my monthly brunch bunch to a Bay View bash, the week is packed with fun-loving festivities. Open your calendar and pencil in a few plans; just be sure to say “hi” if we bump into each other, sugar.

There are so many happenings this week, in fact, that I’m going to skip this week’s advice letter to make room for the city’s many soirees. I’ll be back next week, however, with a little advice for a guy with a teeny (weenie) problem. Until then, party on, Milwaukee!

::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Sept. 18—Lecture by Richard Wagner, author of ‘We’ve Been Here All Along,’ at UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library (2311 E. Hartford Ave.): Join Richard Wagner for a free reading and discussion of the early history of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ community. The 7 p.m. talk includes an exhibit of some of the source materials for Wagner’s book, We’ve Been Here All Along, as well as copies of the book for sale.

Sept. 19—Women Exploring Options in Love Workshop at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): If you’re a woman who has been involved with a man but who also experiences sexual feelings toward women, this monthly support group might be of help. Send an e-mail to nzanoni@mkelgbt.org for more information about the free 7-8:30 p.m. ongoing workshop.

Sept. 19—Ladies Night: Around the World in Downtown Menomonee Falls (various locations around N88 W16712 Appleton Ave.): Grab your gal pals and get ready for a 4-8 p.m. evening of shopping, dining and fun (and maybe just a pinch of drinking, too). More than 20 shops and restaurants open their doors to feature freebies and specials for the night. Grab a “passport” and visit each participating vendor for a chance at the big raffle prize.

Sept. 20—T-Rex at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): The infamous T-Rex takes a break from Chicago to breeze into Milwaukee with his must-see variety show featuring talent from across the Midwest. The insanity starts at 10 p.m. with the show kicking off at 11 p.m. Don’t miss seeing the Windy City queen doing what she does best while enjoying drink specials, shots, dancing and more.

Sept. 21—Bay View Bash (between Potter and Clement avenues on Kinnickinnic Avenue): One of the city’s favorite street fests is back for another round of craziness. The Bay View Bash has been an end-of-summer highlight for thousands of folks since 2004, and this edition will surely be no exception. Enjoy dozens of vendors, cash bars, food stations, beer stands, stages of live entertainment, shopping and so many other must-see highlights. Enjoy the bash at 11 a.m. with your family and little ones or get ready to get wild later in the night, since the party lasts until 10 p.m.

Sept. 21—OctoBEAR Fest at Woof’s (114 King St., Madison): Usher in fall when you head to Madison’s favorite leather bar for a fun, furry night. A polka band, German food, Oktoberfest beer, DJ and dozens of hot bears make this 4-10 p.m. party one for the books.

Sept. 21—Mr. and Miss Trans Pageant in Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall (929 N. Water St.): Celebrate the successes of this incredible community with a night to remember. Take in the red-carpet fun at 5 p.m., with the main event starting at 6 p.m. This evening of glamour, good times and more can be yours for $23; visit marcuscenter.org for tickets and more information.

Sept. 22—Ruthie’s Brunch Bunch at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): Belly up to the all-you-can-eat buffet during this popular drag bunch! Doors open at 10 a.m., with the Brunchettes and me hitting the stage with two fast, funny, family friendly shows (11 a.m. and 1 p.m.).

Come for one or stay for both, but order up some bottomless mimosas for a heck of a Sunday Funday! Call 414-488-2555 for reservations.

Sept. 22—‘Rachael Bloom Live’ at the Pabst Theater (144 E. Wells St.): Everyone’s favorite crazy ex-girlfriend brings her Golden Globewinning voice to Brew Town for a smile-fetching concert of her show’s best songs (and others, I’m sure). Not only can this funny lady sing, but Rachael Bloom’s hilarious tunes promise to keep you in a good mood all week long. If you loved her TV show, “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” you know exactly what I’m talking about. Nab your seat to the 8 p.m. show at pabsttheater.org (tickets start at $29.50).

Sept. 25—Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce Business Awards and Showcase at the Italian Community Center (631 E. Chicago St.): You’re invited to honor the 2019 business award winners and celebrate the great things on the horizon for the city’s LGBTQ community. The free 5:30-7:30 p.m. night includes resources from local companies and the chance to meet likeminded business owners. What a great way to break up the work week!

Ask Ruthie a question or share your events with her at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Watch, like, subscribe to and share her reality show, “Camp Wannakiki Season 2,” on YouTube today! Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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The LGBT Film/Video Festival Carries On ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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mong autumn’s seasonal community diversions was once the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival. Over its three-decade-long history, it provided the community with an international cultural experience, bringing a broad spectrum of relevant films to an appreciative audience. It was one of our annual rituals, a gathering as eagerly anticipated as Christmas with each film like a present waiting to be opened.

It managed to congeal our LGBTQQIP2SAA alphabet soup into one glacial mass.

Preceded by a reception at the charming

lower East Side residence of festival supporter Jack Smith (and, in more recent years, at the elegant Villa Terrace), the opening screening, often with the filmmaker making a guest appearance, at the glittering Oriental Theatre, was our red-carpet extravaganza. Attendees represented a who’s who of Cream City queerness, from leadership and literati to radical fems, transgender folks, random homo-hoi polloi and allies.

A week-and-a-half of communal viewing followed. Screened at the UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema, dozens of carefully selected films and videos covered the length and breadth of genre and thematic spectra. There were the ever-popular nights of women’s, men’s and trans shorts. Whether intended or inadvertently, diverse audiences shared a common experience that, over the decades, created both individual and community development. Organizations had their outreach and information tables in the corridor near the cinema entrance. Pre-screening presentations, talkbacks and panel discussions facilitated by community partners offered audiences deeper insights and connectivity into the varied aspects of the LGBTQ world.

Then came the competition, the original Milwaukee International Film Festival (MIFF), and that changed everything. Originating in 2003 as an 11-day event, it took place before the LGBT Film/Video Festival. At first, it was simply another festival with its own following.

Eventually, MIFF’s growth began to impact the LGBT Film/Video Festival. Perhaps in part to accommodate the reality that after MIFF, filmgoers experienced cinema burnout, the LGBT festival shifted its format to a gala opening followed by monthly screenings. That didn’t go over well with supporters, so it returned to the original 11-day event.

Meanwhile, last year, the now 15-day Milwaukee Film added a GenreQueer category.

In fact, our community organizations, the ones that would have otherwise funded the LGBT Film/Video Festival, sponsored the Milwaukee Film’s LGBTQ films. That same year, there was no LGBT Film/Video Festival opening night event, and the format returned

again to monthly showings.

There are various schools of thought within the LGBTQ political philosophy. One strives for assimilation and full integration. Another, to which I subscribe, remains skeptical of compromising identity for the sake of acceptance. It’s easy enough to point to history and find ample arguments for the latter. Blending in rarely means equality.

Like any corporate takeover, Milwaukee Film’s de facto absorption of our beloved institution might seem efficient and a natural next chapter of the grander scheme of things, but I’m saddened by the dilution of our essential community essence.

The LGBT Film/Video Festival may never return to its glory days, but it behooves us to continue our support. I’m planning on going to its upcoming film, End of the Century, on Thursday, Sept. 19, and next month’s pair by lesbian director Barbara Hammer. See you there!

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The Zombies

The Zombies Invade Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater ::BY DAVE GIL de RUBIO

reg Lake once said that making a comeback with dignity was one of the most difficult things to do. That said, the late Emerson, Lake & Palmer founding member must have missed out on what was going on with his fellow countrymen, The Zombies.

That latter group broke up virtually penniless in 1967, only to see Odessey and Oracle, their oddly spelled 1968 sophomore bow, spawn the 1969 American hit, “Time of the Season.” By then, the individual members had moved on to other projects.

Fast forward to six dates in 1999. Founding members Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent hit the road to perform as a duo, evolving into a full-blown Zombies reunion that’s carried on to the present day. It’s an astonishing turnabout for this beloved baroque pop act that not only wound up getting critical acclaim but earned a devoted cult following that translated into the group’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The ever-modest Blunstone is humble about the response and affection his band has been receiving at this late date.

“Isn’t our upcoming induction incredible? I’m really thrilled, actually. Firstly, that loyal and tenacious fans voted over 320,000 times for us in the fan vote. It’s just mind-boggling to me that you can get 320,000 votes. And secondly, that the members of the Rock Hall should have voted to induct us,” he says. “It’s such a lift to get that kind of reaction from fellow professionals. I’m extremely grateful.”

Also known for their 1964 hits, “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” The Zombies arrived as part of the British Invasion alongside The Animals, Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, Hollies, Kinks and Dave Clark Five. Only 18 when the band was started, Argent and Blunstone were joined by fellow St Albans natives Hugh Grundy, future A&R exec Paul Atkinson and Paul Arnold, who was replaced by Chris White when the band went to record their first album. The combination of Blunstone’s airy vocal phrasing and Argent’s deftly played organ runs gave the band’s material a sophisticated, chamber pop nuance that took them beyond the charts and earned them a number of latter-day famous fans, including the late Tom Petty and Paul Weller.

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The posthumous fame The Zombies had after their first break-up led to an odd situation where American promoters wound up putting three different fake Zombies groups on the road in 1969 to capitalize on “Time of the Season.” In those pre-internet days, when fans only knew what the band sounded like, it was an easy scam to pull off. One outfit even included Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, the future rhythm section of ZZ Top. The actual Zombies were eventually told about this, and White wound up talking to the manager of one of these fake groups for an article about this scenario. Blunstone gets a kick out of this anecdote.

“Someone at Rolling Stone got Chris White to come into their office and phone the manager of one of these bands and not say who he was,” Blunstone recalls. “Chris then asked him to explain about The Zombies band. So the manager told him this story about how they were all huge fans of The Zombies and since the lead singer was killed in a car crash, they wanted to honor him and the band by keeping the music going, and that’s why they were playing under our name. Then Chris White told him he was The Zombies bass player and that the lead singer wasn’t in a car crash. Reading this in print, it was almost like reading my obituary when I was 22 years old.”

Despite breaking up, the real Zombies stayed in touch. Argent and White went on to find success, while Blunstone reaped his own solo acclaim in the U.K. with a string of hits that never quite cracked the American market. For the latter-day Zombies roster, Blunstone and Argent rounded out the lineup with guitarist Tom Toomey, the late Jim Rodford on bass and Rodford’s son, Steve, on drums.

Rodford, who was Argent’s first cousin, was previously the Kinks bassist from 1978 until 1996. He joined The Zombies in 2004 and played with them until his death on Jan. 20 of last year. A recent memorial service/musical performance was held on the year-anniversary of his death in his hometown of St Albans. Joining Argent and Blunstone were the surviving members of The Zombies, Chris White and Hugh Grundy (Atkinson died in 2004) and opening the show was ARC, made up of Rodford’s granddaughters, Anya and Cara, and his son, Russ.

Showing no signs of slowing down, Blunstone is busy touring solo and with The Zombies, with The plans to record a new album with Zombies the latter this year. It’s all a bit of a whirlwind that the slight vocalist Riverside is being sure to embrace at every Theater turn.

Sunday, “So, in the last few years, things Sept. 22 have gone very well for The Zom8 p.m. bies. We’re mature enough now to really appreciate it, because we know how tough this business is,” he says. “That’s why I think we’re very fortunate to enjoy this kind of adventure at this time in our lives. It doesn’t happen to many people that they get these kinds of opportunities at this time in their lives. Believe me, we’re really, really enjoying it and what we’re thinking about is what comes next.”

The Zombies co-headline with Brian Wilson in concert at the Riverside Theater on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m.

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arting amicably” is a rare description for a band’s last show.

After five years, two albums and two EPs, NO/NO is calling it a day on their own terms. With the release of Diagnostic (digital album and cassette on Gloss Records), the band will offer a last waltz at Mad Planet.

Going in, Harrison Colby (Guitar, synth, vocals) said the band’s objective was “to write pop songs that really connected with people. We made music I’m really proud of—I don’t ever cringe at early stuff.”

NO/NO emerged from the ashes of the much-missed The Delphines. When vocalist/synth player Cat Ries joined, the overall vibe changed. “We generally wrote in the studio first,” Colby said of the band’s work process, “then brought that to a live setting. For three of us it was the same personalities on / off stage, but Cat would definitely transform into the High Priestess of Pop.” Diagnostic collects eight songs presenting the band’s melodic new wave/synth pop/call-it-what-you-will music. “The Last Thing You Said” takes swirling keyboards pushed by an insistent tick-tock groove. “The Tourist” is easy on the ears; so well mixed, it could’ve been a radio hit in another era. “Gutterfly” relies on a hook built from a descending riff and a bassline that never quits. Standout cut, “The Whistleblower,” utilizes a NO/NO buoyant synth line balanced with crunching guitar to make timeless dance pop.

Mad Planet With television and film credits on the band’s resume, Saturday, Colby is satisfied with NO/NO’s run. “I think with hindsight Sept. 21, closing in, I can say we pretty much did what we set out to do.

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Wanting to connect with people with pretty personal songs and make records we really stand by. I think as a musical project it was a success.”

As for the future, the members of NO/NO don’t show signs of slowing down.

Ries is in the band Credentials, Colby in Sex Scenes and the band Rexxx with Ryan Reeves (bass)—who is also in Surgeons in Heat, and drummer Jeremy Ault is in Pay the Devil.

NO/NO perform with Dirty Dancing, Holy Shit! and Storm Chaser at Mad Planet on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19

SUNDAY, SEPT. 22

Jennings, Braun, Klagstad and Fredrickson? Nah, sounds too much like a law firm. Let’s just call the band Bristlehead. Drawing from Mike Fredrickson’s 20-plus albums of original songs, this quartet of local music veterans begins a monthly residence at Milwaukee’s oldest and longest-running tavern and charm school. See why it is also known as “Home of the Beautiful People” on Thursday.

During halftime of every Green Bay Packer game, the Cactus Club cranks up the volume with a live band. DJs play before the game and during commercials, drink specials, touchdown shots and complimentary snacks.

Indie-folk band Neidhoefer, whose debut album comes out early 2020, takes the stage this week.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 20

TUESDAY, SEPT, 24

Bristlehead @ The Uptowner, 7 p.m.

We Will Rock You @ Miller High Life Theater, 7 p.m.

Not just for the typical Broadway crowd, the touring Queeninspired musical stops in Milwaukee. Based on the songs of Queen with a book by Ben Elton (“The Young Ones,”“Blackadder, “Popcorn”), the original West End production featured music supervision from Brian May and Roger Taylor, and Elton fashioned this futuristic story around more than 24 of Queen’s biggest hit songs.

SATURDAY, SEPT, 21

Bay View Bash between Potter and Clement on Kinnickinnic Avenue, 11 a.m.

Neidhoefer @ Cactus Club, noon

Les Filles de Illighadad w/ Abdou Kambaye and Buffalo Nichols @ Ivy House, 7 p.m.

Les Filles are all from Illighadad, a secluded commune in central Niger, far off in the scrubland deserts at the edge of the Sahara. Fatou Seidi Ghali, lead vocalist and performer of Les Filles, is one of the only Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. Sneaking away with her older brother’s guitar, she taught herself to play. While Fatou’s role as one of the first female Tuareg guitarists is groundbreaking, it is just as interesting for her musical direction.

The sound that defines rural Niger is a music known as tende. It takes its name from a drum, built from a goat skin and stretched across a mortar and pestle. If tende is a music that has always been sung by women, the Tuareg guitar was its gendered counterpart, and Tuareg guitar music is a male-dominated scene.

Now in its 15th year, the Bay View Bash is summer’s last street festival. Situated on Bay View’s main drag, the event is a fine stroll filled with plenty of food, art, music, crafts, books and community organizations. The music stages offer a wide range of talent: from the skacore of 5 O’Clock Charlie to the up-tempo punk of Minneapolis’ Von Tramps to Immortal Girlfriend, Kevin and Will Bush’s electronic duo.

Try to catch Retoro; these youngsters are the wildcard in the deck.

This is an opportunity to see a talented band at square one—where they go from angular pop is anyone’s guess.

Marielle Allschwang & The Visitations— “Precession of a Day: The World of Mary Nohl” @ Oriental Theatre, 7 p.m.

Mary Nohl (1914-2001) was an artist whose life and work is the stuff of legend. Her home and sculpture garden invited curiosity seekers, often to the consternation of her Fox Point neighbors.

Commissioned by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Milwaukee Film, Wisconsin Union Theater at UW-Madison and the Cedar Cultural Center, Marielle Allschwang & The Visitations are releasing a deluxe LP and book. For this event, they will present a multimedia exploration of the life and work of Nohl, creator of a legendary Wisconsin art environment.

Featuring a song cycle set to footage (filmed by Allschwang, Heather Hass and Adam Krause) from Nohl’s home, Allschwang and her band take a deep dive into a little-known, astoundingly prolific and complicated artist deserving much more renown.

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KEB’ MO’ KEEPS THE BLUES ALIVE ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

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is given name is Kevin Roosevelt Moore, but his legions of fans know him as Keb’ Mo’. And he is living proof that the blues are still as alive as ever and as well as they can be in 2019. That’s due to the mastery of Mo’s mix of country and Delta blues, Americana with bit of swing and plenty of sass. Throughout last week’s performance at the Pabst Theater, he gave the impression that he was born in the bayou, not Compton, Calif. He plays and sounds like a true bluesman, and that’s all that really counts here.

At almost 68, Mo’ has an extensive catalog of his own original music as well as classic covers, and they were both in abundance as well as music from his new release, Oklahoma. There are the upbeat ditties like the show’s opener, “You Can Love Yourself,” to the encore, “She Just Wants to Dance.” Then, there are showcases for his technical prowess like “Am I Wrong,” with its fast-moving guitar picking, to a stunning version of “Just Like You,” with a simple strumming on acoustic guitar.

New songs like “I Remember You” showcased a rockier blues side while the title track “Oklahoma” (not your Rodgers and Hammerstein version) brought out his Latin jazz inflections, proving that there are many sides and sounds to the Mo’.

He is just as comfortable talking and laughing with his audiences, and songs like “Old Me Better” (about a man preferring his old self to the changes made by his woman) elicited many laughs as well as furtive, nodding (male) heads in the darkness.

That burning blues torch got passed along to the show’s opener, Jontavious Willis, in a stellar 40-minute set of country blues. The 23-year-old from Greenville, Ga., established an immediate rapport with his audience, interspersing stories and anecdotes amid some fine guitar work. “She Might Be Your Woman,” about another man’s woman sneaking around, elicited laughs early on as Willis clearly pointed out, “I didn’t write the song. I’m just singin’ it.” Willis has the poise and experience of a veteran blues musician and, by set’s end, got a well-deserved standing ovation.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), Negative/Positive w/LUXI Cactus Club, Tunic w/Sex Scenes Caroline’s Jazz Club, Brian Dale Group w/Lynda Lee Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Ginni & JoAnna Marie (6pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/ Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Andrew Trim Trio Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Roadhouse Rave-Up Open Jam Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s On The Square, Open Mic Night Mezcalero Restaurant, Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Jam Band O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), All-Star SuperBand (6pm) On The Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, The Ultimate Queen Celebration w/ Marc Martel Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Tinker Boys Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Sazzy B, Gypsy Jazz Shank Hall, Roger Clyne Acoustic - Honky Tonk Union 20-Year Anniversary w/Dalton Domino The Back Room @ Colectivo, Leslie Stevens w/ Zach Pietrini The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), A Night of Magic w/Professor Pinkerton (6:30pm) The Packing House, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) The Uptowner, Bristlehead Transfer Pizzeria Café, Latin Sessions: Johnny Padilla Turner Hall Ballroom, Twin Peaks w/Slow Pulp and Dehd

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Alley Cat Lounge (Five O’Clock Steakhouse), Brian Dale Group American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Los Boys American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Falcons (6:30pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Bremen Cafe, DubNDoom Cactus Club, Rupert Angeleyes w/L’Resorts & Anthony Jr. Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Mike Dowling Caroline’s Jazz Club, Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Larry Tresp, Eric Jacobsen & Jason Goldsmith Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Ethers w/Bad Wig (8pm); DJ: DJ Dolls (10pm) ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Nasty Boys w/S2D & Size 5’s County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Iron Mike’s, Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & the Liquor Salesmen Jazz Estate, Darren Sterud and the New Orleans Quintet (8pm), Late Night Session: DJ Gramma Matrix (11:30pm) Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Modern Joey w/Underground Hive & Good Grief Mamie’s, Harvey Westmoreland Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Cover Me Orson’s Saloon (Cudahy), Open Mic Cudahy w/ Sunday Driver Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Caleb Caudle Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: The Twintones Rave / Eagles Club, Galantis (all-ages, 8pm), Muscadine Bloodline w/Faren Rachels (all-ages, 8pm) Red Rock Saloon, Lee Gantt SHEPHERD EXPRESS

Riverwest Public House Cooperative, MKE SemiAcoustic Showcase Shank Hall, Nobody’s Girl w/Colin Gilmore The Back Room @ Colectivo, Strand of Oaks w/ Frankie Lee The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Friday Night Live: Scotch & Soda (6pm) The Knick, 5 Card Studs The Miramar Theatre, Hatcha x Youngsta (all-ages, 9pm) The Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) Up & Under, Tonbi Claw

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Drive With Horns Cactus Club, Horse Jumper of Love w/Slow Mass & Vanity Plates Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Luray Caroline’s Jazz Club, Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Larry Tresp, Eric Jacobsen & Warren Wiegratz Cedarburg Wine & Harvest Fest, Acoustic Blu Duo (1pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Warm Leather w/Ten High & Bob Piggins (8pm); DJ: WarLock (10pm) ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Dead Feathers w/Genau & CRLSS Crush Wine Bar (Muskego), The Dave Miller Trio w/ Mike Cascio & Hal Miller Five O’Clock Steakhouse, Rafael Mendez Fox Point Farmers’ Market, Milwaukee Hot Club (10am) Jazz Estate, Mike Kubicki Trio (8pm), Late Night Sessions: Yanni Chudnow Trio (11:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Frugal Stu & The Coupons w/Wurk & Funk Summit Bass Team Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Suave Nice Ash Cigar Bar (Waukesha), Jude and The Acousti-Dudes Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Wild Love: A Doors Tribute & Model Stranger Pabst Theater, Capitol Steps Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Chris Schmidt Acoustic Rave / Eagles Club, Marianas Trench w/The Unlikely Candidates (all-ages, 8pm) Richy’s D.S. Bar (Big Bend), The B Side Band Riverside Theater, Cedric “The Entertainer” Route 20, Warbringer w/Enforcer & Conniption Shank Hall, TWRP Stolley’s Hogg Alley (Oconomowoc), Gin Mill Dogs The Back Room @ Colectivo, The Last Revel The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Starkweather Bay Blues Band The Coffee House at Plymouth Church, International Peace Day Concert w/Fitzgerald and Drake The Landing Food & Spirits, Joe Kadlec The Miramar Theatre, Marvel Years & Defunk (allages, 9pm) The Packing House, Lem Banks & Top Shelf (6:30pm) The Rock Sports Complex, In the Umbrella Bar: Michael Scott Band (6:30pm) Up & Under, Avida Dollars

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), Cherry Punch w/Negative/Positive & Repeat the Process Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery, Brewtown Brewgrass (1pm) Cactus Club, Milwaukee Record Halftime Show: Neidhoeferfer (12pm), Jason Hawk Harris (8pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), An Evening w/Lucy Kaplansky

::ALBUMS Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Circle A Bluegrass Band (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Ed Bassmaster J&B’s Blue Ribbon Bar and Grill, The Players Jam Lakefront Brewery, Rhonda Jean on the Patio (12pm) Pabst Theater, Rachel Bloom Live Riverside Theater, Brian Wilson & The Zombies Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic The Back Room @ Colectivo, Lankum The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Sunday Funday: Andrew Gelles & Friends Open Jam (4pm)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Bremen Cafe, Comedy Open Mic (8pm), Music Open Mic (10pm) Cactus Club, Darsombra w/Gnarrenschiff Jazz Estate, Blues Night w/Misha Siegfried Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Kelsey Marie Harris (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/hosts Josh Becker, Annie Buege, Ally Hart or Marr’lo Parada Turner Hall Ballroom, Crash Test Dummies w/Mo Kenney Up & Under, Open Mic

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Brewtown Eatery, Blues & Jazz Jam w/Jeff Stoll, Joe Zarcone & David “Harmonica” Miller (6pm) Cactus Club, Milwaukee Record Halftime Show: Tell Me (7pm), Captured! By Robots (9pm) Club Garibaldi, Bloodletting North American Tour (5pm) Holiday Inn Milwaukee Riverfront, Sonic Boomers (6pm) Jazz Estate, The Erotic Adventures of the Static Chicken Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts / Riverwest Artists Association, Tuesday Night Jazz Jam Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s (Racine), Jim Yorgan Sextet Postman Square, Postman’s Porch Unplugged: Roxie Beane (5pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Sazzy B, Top Shelf Tuesday & Open Mic Night The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Alive After 5: Jordan Kroeger & Ernest Brusubardis IV (6pm) The Ivy House, Les Filles de Illighadad w/Abdou Kambaye & Buffalo Nichols Transfer Pizzeria Café, Transfer House Band w/ Donna Woodall Turner Hall Ballroom, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real w/Los Coast & Hunter Elizabeth

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Bremen Cafe, Ponce w/Racket Man, So Zuppy & Bum Alum Caroline’s Jazz Club, Ryan Mesiel Quartet Iron Mike’s, B Lee Nelson & KZ Acoustic Jam Jazz Estate, Pocket Change Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/ feature Anja Elise (sign-up 7:30pm, start 8pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Larry Lynne Trio Morton’s (Cedarburg), The B Side Band Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/ Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Shank Hall, Shook Twins w/Nickel&Rose The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), CP & Stoll w/ Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll (6:30pm) The Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm)

Blame It On Cain Amp Grease Give Milwaukee’s Blame It On Cain credit for the title of their third long-player, Amp Grease. It’s an apt harbinger for the hard rockers’ burly, fuzz-drenched guitar tone and walloping beats. If that description gives the impression of the primal boogie bludgeoning of Grand Funk or Brownsville Station, the Cainsters are only about halfway into that camp. Often as not on Grease’s eight tunes, they adapt those sorts of ’70s-derived energies to song structures and introspective sentiments familiar to listeners of current commercial-rock radio.

The guys have made strides establishing a national presence through unconventional means, such as licensing their music to an animated TV series. Amp Grease has the potential to spread their rollicking noise even further.

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THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

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

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70. The fool in “Pagliacci” 71. Outlets 73. Stream 74. Homophone for seize 75. Bill of fare 76. Dodge 77. — nostrum 78. Part of NATO: Abbr.

79. One of 52: 3 wds.

81. — -Coeur 82. Invertebrates 84. Rules: Abbr.

85. Imperiled 86. Fateful day 87. Ore strata 89. Dorothy’s dog 90. Lacking sense 93. Step 94. Sir Walter Scott novel 98. Conceited fellow 101. Running toad 104. Genu 105. Full of vim and vigor 106. Woolen fabric 107. Commedia dell’— 108. Shortening 109. Ached 110. Burn superficially 111. Interpret DOWN 1. Soft stone 2. Jewish month 3. City in Repubblica Italiana 4. Vague: Var. 5. Mustard type 6. — corda 7. Attachment: Abbr.

8. Coup d’etat 9. Great 10. Stockpile 11. Edgar — Burroughs 12. Sign 13. Expression of amazement 14. Hulled corn

15. — mater 16. Texture 17. Political conservative 19. Make ready 23. Old Roman official 25. By surprise 28. Get, in a way 31. Hemorrhage 32. The “final frontier” 33. Select 34. Officers: Abbr.

35. Ill-treat 36. — — terrier 37. “Volsunga Saga” king 38. Send packing 39. Ace 40. Cotton thread 41. Used up 43. Garlic and onion 44. In an unconvincing way 45. “Fur —” 48. — peritura 50. Noted pioneer 52. Masculine title 53. Storied mission 54. Remnants 56. Lapse anagram 57. Conviction 60. Kind of bean 61. Pokes 62. Towline

63. English philosopher 64. Deal with: 2 wds.

65. Splits into branches 67. Pied-a- — 68. Equine 70. Turns, as a boat 71. False coins 72. Busy airports 75. Etui 76. Severe weather 77. Canning container: 2 wds.

79. Old Roman province 80. Tor 81. Stringed instrument 83. Concatenated 85. Traveled 87. Forbes or Buscemi 88. Slackened 89. Solution’s concentration 90. H-M connection 91. Zola work 92. Genus of maples 93. Interpretation 95. Long-eared creature 96. Number prefix 97. Got with effort 99. Doze 100. — Pasha 102. Wonder 103. Reception

9/12 Solution

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

Man's best friend Solution: 32 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Wetlands bird 5. Pas de deux 9. Nintendo mascot 14. Handle 18. Succulent plant 19. Auricle 20. — acid 21. Tub contents 22. Logger 24. Drilling tool 26. Composer — Monteverdi 27. Toothed 29. Flat roll with onions 30. Depict 31. Dutch South Africans 32. Bridge 34. Sweet-talk 37. Menlo Park name 38. Orbit around an orbiting point 42. Humble 43. Worker on high structures 46. Estuary 47. Purplish brown 48. Farm machine 49. Smart — 50. Phloem 51. Disapproving interjection 52. Sturdy 53. Liturgical vestment 54. Plinth 55. Obsolete wind instrument 57. Sanctified 58. Symbol 59. Skeletal parts 60. Norman Vincent — 61. Do a garden job 63. Bone: Prefix 65. Diaphanous 66. Barbara Millicent — (aka “Barbie”) 69. Millan or Romero

Solution to last week’s puzzle

Akita Beagle Bitch Borzoi Boxer Briard Cairn Chow Coat Collie Corgi Dingo Elo

Guide Harrier Heeler Huntaway Husky Jug Labrador Laika Lap-dog Leonberger Lhaso apso Loyal Mastiff

Mongrel Otterhound Poodle Pug Puli Pup Ridgeback Samoyed Sloughi Spaniel Spitz

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9/12 Solution: Popular or unusual?

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1959, scandal erupted among Americans who loved to eat peanut butter. Studies revealed that manufacturers had added so much hydrogenated vegetable oil and glycerin to their product that only 75 percent of it could truly be called peanut butter. So began a long legal process to restore high standards.

Finally, there was a new law specifying that no company could sell a product called “peanut butter” unless it contained at least 90 percent peanuts. I hope this fight for purity inspires you to conduct a metaphorically comparable campaign. It’s time to ensure that all the important resources and influences in your life are at peak intensity and efficiency. Say NO to dilution and adulteration.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1936, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, staged the Great Lakes Exposition, a 135-acre fair with thrill rides, art galleries, gardens, and sideshows. One of its fun features was The Golden Book of Cleveland, a 2.5-ton, 6,000-page text the size of a mattress. After the expo closed, the “biggest book in the world” went missing.

If it still exists today, no one knows where it is. I’m going to speculate that there’s a metaphorical version of The Golden Book of Cleveland in your life. You, too, have lost track of a major Something that would seem hard to misplace. Here’s the good news: If you intensify your search now, I bet you’ll find it before the end of 2019.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1990, the New Zealand government appointed educator, magician and comedian Ian Brackenbury Channell to be the official Wizard of New Zealand. His jobs include protecting the government, blessing new enterprises, casting out evil spirits, upsetting fanatics and cheering people up. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find your personal equivalents of an inspirational force like that. There’s really no need to scrimp. According to my reading of the cosmic energies, you have license to be extravagant in getting what you need to thrive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Do silly things,” advised playwright Anton Chekhov.

“Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.” I think that’s a perspective worth adopting now and then. Most of us go through phases when we take things too seriously and too personally and too literally. Bouts of fun absurdity can be healing agents for that affliction. But now is NOT one of those times for you, in my opinion. Just the reverse is true, in fact. I encourage you to cultivate majestic moods and seek out awe-inspiring experiences and induce sublime perspectives. Your serious and noble quest for a meaningful life can be especially rewarding in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Before comedian Jack Benny died in 1974, he arranged to have a florist deliver a single red rose to his wife every day for the rest of her life. She lived another nine years and received more than 3,000 of these gifts. Even though you’ll be around on this earth for a long time, I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time to establish a comparable custom: a commitment to providing regular blessings to a person or persons for whom you care deeply. This bold decision would be in alignment with astrological omens, which suggest that you can generate substantial benefits for yourself by being creative with your generosity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Actress and author Ruby Dee formulated an unusual prayer. “God,” she wrote, “make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” As you might imagine, she was a brave activist who risked her reputation and career working for the civil rights movement and other idealistic causes. I think her exceptional request to a Higher Power makes good sense for you right now. You’re in a phase when you can generate practical blessings by doing the very things that intimidate you or make you nervous. And maybe the best way to motivate and mobilize yourself is by getting at least a bit flustered or unsettled.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Syndicated cartoon strip “Calvin and Hobbes” appeared for 10 years in 2,400 newspapers in 50 countries. It wielded a sizable cultural influence. For

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example, in 1992, six-year-old Calvin decided “The Big Bang” was a boring term for how the universe began, and instead proposed we call it the “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” A number of real scientists subsequently adopted Calvin’s innovation, and it has been invoked playfully but seriously in university courses and textbooks. In that spirit, I encourage you to give fun new names to anything and everything you feel like spicing up. You now have substantial power to reshape and revamp the components of your world. It’s Identify-Shifting Time.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We’re in the equinoctial season. During this pregnant pause, the sun seems to hover directly over the equator; the lengths of night and day are equal. For all of us, but especially for you, it’s a favorable phase to conjure and cultivate more sweet symmetry, calming balance and healing harmony. In that spirit, I encourage you to temporarily suspend any rough, tough approaches you might have in regard to those themes.

Resist the temptation to slam two opposites together simply to see what happens. Avoid engaging in the pseudo-fun of purging by day and bingeing by night.

And don’t you dare get swept up in hating what you love or loving what you hate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” So said singer and activist Nina Simone. But it’s doubtful there ever came a time when she reached the perfect embodiment of that idyllic state. How can any of us empty out our anxiety so completely as to be utterly emancipated? It’s not possible. That’s the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the potential to be as unafraid as you have ever been. For best results, try to ensure that love is your primary motivation in everything you do and say and think.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some things don’t change much. The beautiful marine animal species known as the pearly nautilus, which lives in the South Pacific, is mostly the same as it was 150 million years ago. Then there’s Fuggerei, a walled enclave within the German city of Augsburg. The rent is cheap, about one U.S. dollar per year, and that fee hasn’t increased in almost 500 years. While I am in awe of these bastions of stability, and wish we had more such symbolic anchors, I advise you to head in a different direction. During the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to be a maestro of mutability, a connoisseur of transformation, an adept of novelty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Granny Smith apples are widely available. But before 1868, the tart, crispy, juicy fruit never existed on planet Earth. Around that time, an Australian mother of eight named Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of French crabapples out her window while she was cooking. The seeds were fertilized by the pollen from a different, unknown variety of apple and a new type was born: Granny Smith. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically comparable event in your future: a lucky accident that enables you to weave together two interesting threads into a fascinating third thread.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way,” writes storyteller Chuck Palahniuk, who has completed several novelistic masterpieces.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Leos have assembled much of the dirt and ash necessary to create your next masterpiece and are now ready to move on to the next phase. And what is that phase? Identifying the help and support you’ll need for the rest of the process.

Homework: Say these words in front of a mirror: “It’s bad luck to be superstitious.” Freewillastrology.com.

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he Sharonville, Ohio, police department found a way to turn a resident’s misconceptions about marijuana laws in Hamilton County into a teaching moment on Sept. 3. The department posted on its Facebook page a recording of a call received on Aug. 25 from “Mr. Marilyn Manson,” who complained that “two Sharonville cops stole my fucking weed last night.” The angry man insisted that anything “under 100 grams is cool.” But he was, in fact, wrong: It is legal to possess up to 100 grams of marijuana in the city of Cincinnati, but that law does not cover the entire county—including Sharonville. In a second call to police, the caller also complained that the officers had taken his carryout order from Red Lobster. “It was fresh Cajun fucking pasta!” he ranted. Fox19 reported that a police supervisor later met with the man to clarify the laws about marijuana and explain what had happened to his dinner.

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Rep. Raul Ruiz, 47, a California Democrat representing the 36th Congressional District, may face an unusual opponent in the November 2020 election: Republican candidate Raul Ruiz, 57, a construction contractor. “I want to give the citizens another option,” challenger Ruiz told Politico. “I’ll say this. I had the name first.”

Let’s Make It Easy Gary Lambe, 54, made the job of the Toronto (Canada) Police Service easier on Aug. 23 when he allegedly made a photocopy of his face during a break-in at a commercial property there. Police said the suspect “ate some food items” and created the picture of his face, which he left behind on the copying machine.

Fox News reported that police eventually charged Lambe—who was already in custody for an unrelated incident—with breaking and entering and failing to comply with probation.

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Calling Marvel Studios Yusuke Taniguchi, 34, a shopping mall clerk in Koto City, Japan, was arrested earlier this year for using his superpower—a photo-

graphic memory—for evil. According to police, Taniguchi was able to memorize more than 1,300 numbers from credit cards as people used them at his shop register, SoraNews reported. He admitted to investigators that he would remember the name, card number, expiration date and security code, then write the information down as the customer walked away, later using the accounts to make online purchases of items he would then sell. Police, who tracked him to his address by using orders for two expensive handbags, found a notebook with hundreds of accounts listed.

You’re a Grand Mother In the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, 74-year-old Mangayamma Yaramati gave birth to twin girls on Sept. 5. Yaramati and her 82-year-old husband had wanted children for years, but they had been unable to conceive.

“We tried many times and saw numerous doctors,” Yaramati said. “So, this is the happiest time of my life.” The Washington Post reported that Yaramati had already gone through menopause, so a donor’s egg was fertilized with her husband’s sperm and then implanted in her uterus. Her doctors, who claimed she is the oldest person in the world to give birth, delivered the twins via cesarean section.

The Bot-y Beautiful The SC-Club, a nightclub in Nantes, France, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a new attraction: robot pole dancers. The bots will wear high heels and sport a CCTV camera for a head, along with mannequin parts overlaid on their robot bodies, reported Sky News on Sept. 1. The camera-head is designed to “play with the notion of voyeurism,” designer Giles Walker explained. Club owner Laurent Roue assured patrons the robots won’t replace his 10 human dancers.

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The town of Porthcawl, Wales, is fighting back against the misuse of its public restrooms by installing high-tech toilet stalls with water jets that will spray users who are smoking, taking drugs or having sex. Sky News reported on Aug. 17 that the new stalls will have weight-sensitive floors to make sure only one person is using the facilities at a time, smoke detectors, and the walls will be graffiti-resistant. There will also be a time limit to discourage overnight stays. © 2019 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION S E P T E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 | 41

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