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Wisconsinites Walk and Run to Confront a Deadly Enemy Annual AIDS Walk and 5K Run is your way to join the fight ::BY JOHN JAHN

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uman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) comprise a spectrum of human health conditions caused by infection with the virus. It has an insidious way of behaving post-infection; other than perhaps a brief period of flu-like symptoms, the HIV-infected person may not notice anything amiss for a long period of time. Without an HIV screening, he or she often lives completely oblivious to the pernicious virus inside them—that is, until symptoms of serious illness do finally come about.

As an HIV infection progresses, it interferes with the immune system, thus rendering the person with it increasingly defenseless against further viral infections. A person is generally spoken of as “dying from AIDS,” but the fact is that such an unfortunate individual has, instead, died of a much more common infection against which they were rendered helpless due to HIV’s decimation of their immune system.

HIV/AIDS was long associated exclusively (and erroneously) with gay men, sometimes being referred to as “gay cancer” or the “gay disease.” But the virus cares not what your age, race, sex, skin color, nationality, income level or sexual orientation is; you only have to be human. It is spread primarily by unprotected sex, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding, and, alas, HIV has thus far proven itself rather immune to a curative vaccine. However, antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease and may lead to a near-normal life expectancy.

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Treatment is most successful when an HIV infection is diagnosed early; without treatment, the average survival time after infection is 11 years.

Recent medical breakthroughs have increased both life expectancy and quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS, but there is no “medical breakthrough” for its proliferation. Throughout the world, about 36.7 million people were living with HIV (and it resulted in one million deaths) in 2016, the most recent year for which we have reliable numbers. From the time AIDS was identified in the early 1980s to 2017, it has killed an estimated 35 million people. HIV/AIDS is an ongoing global pandemic which continues to have an enormous impact on society—both as an illness and as a source of discrimination.

“Unfortunately, there is a misperception about how patients manage HIV and AIDS,” explains Michael Gifford, president and CEO of AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW)—the organization that is putting on its 29th-annual AIDS Walk and 5K Run on Saturday, Oct. 6.

“Many pharmaceutical companies will have paid advertising showing people with HIV mountain climbing, and, while we’re happy for those folks, the reality is that the one-pill-a-day regimen only works for a portion of our patients; the issues of side effects and accelerated aging make HIV very complicated to live with.”

Bigotry against those living with HIV/AIDS remains a problem. “The history of the AIDS epidemic is full of commentary that I have found at times to be sad and at other times ridiculous and maddening, but almost 15 years into my work, I’ve come to a brighter realization that the AIDS epidemic will not be defined by this,” explains Dan Mueller, ARCW’s vice president and chief development officer. “I think over time it will be known for the human achievement in response to this disease. This includes how effectively the LGBTQ community organized to address this, how science improved lives through new, powerful drugs, amazing software that helps our clinics do their jobs even more effectively and even how the democratization and mobilization of philanthropy is helping bring health to those with HIV.” “We cannot give up this ground, though,” he continues. “When you register and raise pledges for AIDS Walk Wisconsin, you’re providing social justice by leveling a playing field for people who really need our help, you’re ensuring equal access to high-quality healthcare; you’re strengthening the very medical home model of care that is an example to the country in how HIV patients live longer and healthier lives with their disease.

Plus, we promise a good time. Activism still counts even if you’re having fun.”

Making Good on a Promise Those are certainly sobering words for anyone today who thinks that, though there may not be a cure per se for HIV/AIDS, there certainly are veritably cure-like treatments available. ARCW’s professionals know better, however, and their goal

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is not only to offer a full range of services— including medical, mental health and dental treatment, access to a food pantry and to social service professionals—but also to educate and inform. Much of the funding for these precious services comes from ARCW’s largest fundraiser, their Milwaukee Lakefront annual walk and run.

“This benefit makes good on a promise that everybody with HIV in Wisconsin gets access to outstanding health care, regardless of their ability to pay,” Gifford said. “Wisconsin is one of the few states in the country that has never had a waiting list for HIV care treatment, and efforts like the AIDS Walk and Run allow us to keep it that way.”

AIDS Walk Wisconsin and 5K Run is not only the largest ARCW fundraising event of the year, but it is the largest HIV/AIDS fundraising event in Wisconsin. Since 1990, the annual walk/run has raised more than $13.1 million and has brought together more than 128,000 walkers, runners and volunteers—all of whom raise pledges from friends, family and coworkers in the community. “One hundred percent of the pledges raised from AIDS Walk Wisconsin has stayed in Wisconsin for the fight against HIV here,” says Mueller. The event starts and finishes at Henry Maier Festival Park, 200 N. Harbor Drive. Highlights include morning entertainment and activities, refreshments and an opening program with special guests. The route is fully supported with themed rest stops, medical support and food and water locations.

The AIDS Walk/Run also has a long tradition of notable honorary chairs; these have included Jane Lynch, Taye Diggs, Lance Bass, Michael Turchin, Tim Gunn, Clay Matthews, Bette Midler, Ryan Braun, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Bon Iver. This year’s honorary chair is actor, producer, director and singer Matthew Bomer. Known for his many theater, film and television performances, Bomer’s accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his supporting role as Felix Turner on the HBO film The Normal Heart (2014). He is married to publicist Simon Halls, with whom he parents three children.

Bomer has also been the recipient of the Steve Chase Humanitarian Award and a 2012 Inspiration Award for his work at the GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) awards. “He has said coming across the script for The Normal Heart in high school set him on the course to pursue acting as a career,” says Mueller. “He directed The Assassination of Gianni Versace and recently completed a run on Broadway in The Boys In The Band, to high acclaim. He is an attractive personality whose life and work has supported the fight against AIDS, and we are excited to be working with him.”

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At ARCW, no one is ever turned away due to an inability to pay for its services. Among ARCW patients, in fact, 94% live in poverty.

Currently, some 60% of young people with HIV don’t even know they are carrying the virus. As the need for services continues to grow, ARCW seeks to remain on the forefront of HIV health care and AIDS prevention.

What does the annual walk/run accomplish? The event’s website explains it best: “We walk to make the fight against AIDS stronger. Today, more than 6,900 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Wisconsin, and it’s estimated that an additional 1,000 are undiagnosed but living with the disease. We walk to make sure that anyone who is living with HIV in Wisconsin has access to life-saving health care and social programs. When you register and fundraise, you help people living with HIV live longer, healthier lives.”

Lest you think it’s way past time to get involved yourself, Mueller says, “I have a saying: It’s never too late to get involved in the fight against AIDS, and our outstanding Milwaukee Brewer, Ryan Braun [2012’s honorary chair], thinks so as well. Ryan has issued a challenge to the good people of Wisconsin: For every dollar raised in the last eight days before the walk, he will personally match every pledge—dollar for dollar—up to $25,000 through the Brewers Community Foundation.

So, not only is not too late to get involved, someone who registers now and makes a pledge (or secures someone else’s pledge) can help us acquire an extra $50,000 by the time of the walk. It all counts!”

At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, the gates open at the Summerfest grounds with open registration for walkers and runners, a continental breakfast, children’s tent activities and even beer samples from AIDS Walk Wisconsin/5K Run’s presenting sponsor, MillerCoors. An hour later, the 5K Run begins, followed closely by mainstage entertainment and an awards ceremony for 2018’s top fundraisers. At noon, there’s an opening ceremony, and the Walk kicks-off at 12:30 p.m. Though online registration for the 5K Run closes Thursday, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m., walk-up registration is available for $35 the day of the event. The event’s deadline for fundraising incentives is Monday, Nov. 12.

For more information about the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, call 800-3599272 or visit arcw.org. For more information about the 2018 AIDS Walk Wisconsin/5K Run, call 800-348-WALK (9255) or visit aidswalkwis.org.

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‘On Time and On Budget?’

MANY QUESTION WALKER’S CLAIMS ABOUT THE ZOO INTERCHANGE ::BY DAN SHAW

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fter seeing his now infamous promise to create 250,000 private-sector jobs in his first term in office fall flat on its face, Republican Gov. Scott Walker was no doubt happy to be able to check off a different priority from his to-do list. Speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Milwaukee’s Zoo Interchange on Monday, Aug. 27, Walker declared that the long-planned reconstruction of the massive interchange had been “completed on time and on budget.”

But rather than being greeted with a chorus of celebratory voices, Walker’s announcement was mostly damned with faint praise—if it was given any credit at all. Yes, more than one observer acknowledged, a major milestone had been reached. But if the governor was claiming the project had been “completed on time and on budget,” he and they were getting their definitions out of different dictionaries.

Typical was an official statement released

by Pat Goss, executive director of the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association.

Goss said it was indeed an accomplishment to have gotten the Zoo Interchange to where it is today. Then came the disclaimer: “The vital reconstruction of the north leg of the Zoo Interchange sits idle, and the east-west [I-94] corridor, which links the Marquette and Zoo interchanges, has been abandoned.”

The “north leg” mentioned by Goss is a section of I-41 running from Swan Boulevard to Burleigh Street. Plans had originally called for adding a fourth lane to that stretch, in part to eliminate a dangerous bottleneck that forces drivers coming from I-94 and heading north on I-41 to go from a roadway with five lanes to one with only three. State transportation of6 | OCTOBER 4, 2018

ficials have abandoned plans for those additional lanes, at least temporarily. Beyond that, they have separated the north leg from the rest of the Zoo Interchange work and pushed back its completion date. Rather than wrapping up this year, the north leg now won’t be done until 2020 at the earliest, and that’s only if lawmakers find money for the work in the state’s next budget.

Time Slips By, Costs Keep Rising

The longer the project takes, the more time inflation will have to push up its cost. In 2017, state officials had estimated the work could be done for $202.6 million. Now they think $232.6 million is more likely. Of course, the final cost won’t be known until the state awards a contract. But the rising estimate is enough by itself to raise questions about Walker’s claim that the Zoo Interchange will be completed “on budget.”

As for the project being completed “on time,” work on the north leg was originally supposed to be wrapped up at the same time as the rest of the Zoo Interchange. It was only during the debates about the state’s current budget—when Walker was tussling with his fellow Republicans about how much debt the state should take on for road construction— that the north leg was separated from the rest of the project and given a separate completion date.

That sleight of hand let Walker save face in two ways: He could claim he was sticking to the original schedule for finishing up the “core” phases of the Zoo Interchange, and he could do that work without getting crossways

with GOP lawmakers who were anxious about the state’s increasing debt burden. But people close to the project were not deceived.

Craig Thompson, executive director of the Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, said before the most recent budget debate, nobody had really considered the north leg as something distinct from the “core” of the Zoo Interchange project. “There was no such thing as the ‘core’ of the Zoo and the ‘north leg,’” Thompson said. “That’s been purely a political construct.”

For many observers, the postponement of the north leg is doubly embarrassing for Walker because delays to the Zoo Interchange were the cause of much of the criticism he had once lobbed at former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.

“It is amazing that Gov. Doyle and [Milwaukee] Mayor [Tom] Barrett can advocate $810 million on a new ‘high-speed’ rail line while the state government cannot even fix one of the busiest interchanges in Wisconsin,” Walker said in a statement released in 2010, during his first campaign for governor.

Walker’s criticism of Doyle was not unfair.

At one point, the former governor had the project scheduled for completion by 2012.

But those plans were abandoned after Doyle decided instead to shift state resources toward rebuilding the section of I-94 running north and south between Milwaukee and the Illinois border. If anything, Thompson said, Walker should get credit for making the Zoo Interchange a priority again. “He did move money over from I-94 north-south and get the project moving,” he said. But Walker (who couldn’t be reached for this article) evidently thinks he deserves a lot more than that.

After the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran an article questioning his claims about the Zoo Interchange, Walker’s Twitter account appeared with a message calling the paper out for what he deemed “media bias.” Why, the governor wondered, were only critics of the project being interviewed?

For Thompson and others, though, the debate over the Zoo Interchange is merely a symptom of a much deeper-lying disorder. For years now, they say, the state has been without a true long-term plan for its transportation system. Yes, they concede, Walker was largely able in his first two terms to keep major projects on schedule by increasing the state’s debt obligations. That approach allowed him to stick to his road-building promises while avoiding any need to make an unpopular decision to raise the state’s gas tax.

Highway Budge Debacle

But it eventually put Walker at loggerheads with people in his own party. Many fiscal conservatives pointed out the state was fast reaching a point at which 25 cents of every

dollar flowing in the state’s transportation fund would be going to pay off debt. Forced to trim his borrowing in his latest budget, Walker simply chose to put less money toward certain types of projects. The state, for instance, now has nearly $246 million less set aside in its current budget for its highway-improvement program than it had in its previous plan from two years ago.

One of the first casualties of the slimmeddown transportation budget have been plans to widen I-94 between Milwaukee’s Zoo and Marquette interchanges, work many say is needed to prevent yet another traffic bottleneck. A federal approval of that project was rescinded after it became evident the state wouldn’t be setting aside money for the expansion anytime soon. The I-94 north-south project, at one point, had also seemed headed for endless delays. It became a priority again only after state officials decided the work was needed to accommodate the massive factory Foxconn Technology Group is building near Racine.

Walker’s transportation policies have made for strange bedfellows at times. Predictably, many of the opponents of the project have come from the political left. His pursuit of the Zoo Interchange landed the state in a lawsuit after the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin and MICAH (Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope) contended the $1.7 billion project would almost exclusively benefit wealthy, mostly white residents living in the city’s western suburbs. The state settled the suit in 2014 for $13.5 million, money that will be used mostly to provide new bus routes.

Walker has never endorsed the idea that projects like the Zoo Interchange do little to benefit inner-city residents, but he did recently take up a stance that has hitherto been usually associated with his critics on the left. Speaking at an event held by the Milwaukee Press Club and Rotary Club of Milwaukee on Tuesday, Sept. 4, Walker said he sees no reason why he and other policymakers should place a priority on widening highways. What transportation money the state does have should instead be reserved for repairs and maintenance.

It was a line that left-leaning organizations like the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) have been using for years.

Peter Skopec, state director of WISPIRG, said he maintains that projects like the Zoo Interchange tend to backfire. Rather than reducing congestion, the additional space they provide for vehicles simply encourages more people to drive, he said.

Others like Thompson can do little more than hope that someone soon comes forward with a commitment to giving the state a wellthought-out, long-term transportation plan.

He said the Transportation Development Association has endorsed neither Walker nor his Democratic opponent, Tony Evers, in the gubernatorial race. “We believe we need a coherent plan, and we need funding,” Thompson said. “We are hoping to get as many people elected to office that agree with that as being possible.”

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Canvass and Phone Bank for Democrats @ Tom Palzewicz Campaign Headquarters (12201 W. Burleigh St., Suite 7), 4-8 p.m.

Tom Palzewicz, Julie Henszey and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin will host a weekly canvass and phone bank every Thursday from 4-8 p.m. until the Tuesday, Nov. 6, election. Volunteer opportunities include canvassing, phone banking and more.

Friday, Oct. 5

The Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture in Geography @ UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library (2311 E. Hartford Ave.), 3-4 p.m.

Joe T. Darden, a professor of Geography at Michigan State University, will present his lecture titled “Understanding Harold Rose’s Geography of Despair.” The lecture focuses on “the persistence of the black ghetto and neighborhood socioeconomic inequality,” according to the Facebook event page.

Saturday, Oct. 6

to protest war and, literally, “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.

Sunday, Oct. 7

UBLAC Mass Potluck Meeting @ Wisconsin African American Women’s Center (3020 W. Vliet St.), 5-7 p.m.

Uplifting Black Liberation and Community (UBLAC) will host a mass meeting to develop and foster relationships, connections, ideas, movement and action plans. Attendees can find information on how to join and learn about the organization’s mission.

Monday, Oct. 8

#CLOSEmsdf Anti-Anniversary @ St. Benedict the Moor (1015 N. Ninth St.), 5-8 p.m.

The Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) opened 17 years ago on Oct. 8. To observe this “anti-anniversary,” organizers working to close the facility will host an event to commemorate the lives of the 17 people who have died while imprisoned at the MSDF.

Frank P. Zeidler Memorial Lecture @ Todd Wehr Auditorium (1047 N. Broadway), 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee native and associate professor of Law and Sociology at Yale University Issa Kohler-Hausmann will discuss her book Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing, a study of New York City’s broken windows policing and its consequences. Kohler-Hausmann will also participate in a panel discussion with Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm and Circuit Court Judge Carl Ashley.

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There’s No Mystery about Kavanaugh’s Testimony ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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t’s certainly welcome that Republicans finally were shamed into approving an FBI investigation into accusations of reprehensible conduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before they “plow right through”—as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promises—to vote Kavanaugh onto the court. But there’s really no mystery to investigate about how a vulnerable, traumatized woman who survived a terrifying attempted rape as a teenager and her snarling, angry, vitriol-spewing accused attacker could tell completely contradictory stories about the same incident in high school with both swearing with 100% certainty they’re telling the truth.

Many of us who drank way too much in our youth and into adulthood heard descriptions of our embarrassing and even appalling behavior

while we were drinking which we could not remember once sober. That’s why I no longer drink alcohol. That’s also why, to me, the most glaring weakness in Kavanaugh’s testimony was his total failure to recognize the serious drinking problem that was obvious to many others around him, including friends.

Kavanaugh repeatedly minimized his drinking. “I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. . . I still like beer.” Dozens of others said Kavanaugh’s drinking went wildly beyond the usual heavy drinking at both his high school and Yale: “Frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk.” “He frequently drank to excess. I know because I frequently drank to excess with him.” “I definitely saw him on multiple occasions stumbling drunk where he could not have rational control over his actions or clear recollection of them.”

Kavanaugh’s high school graduation yearbook page contained the sort of embarrassing revelations that destroy young people’s job opportunities on Facebook these days. He described himself as treasurer of the “Keg City Club (100 Kegs or Bust!).” He called himself the “biggest contributor” to the Beach Week Ralph Club, a reference to drunken vomiting Kavanaugh dishonestly tried to pass off to senators as having a weak stomach after… eating spicy food.

Justice Mean Drunk

Donald Trump reportedly hated Kavanaugh’s wimpy performance on Fox Television portray-

ing himself as a high school choirboy focused on athletics, church and public service projects. So, after Christine Blasey Ford’s compelling public testimony about his alleged drunken sexual attack, Kavanagh came out shouting belligerently at opponents of his nomination just like the “mean drunk” his former classmates have described.

Questioning his fitness for the court, Kavanaugh raged, was “a national disgrace,” a “searchand-destroy” mission designed “to blow me up and take me down” as “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.” The scathing political attack on every Democrat in sight was startling from an applicant for a non-partisan judicial position on the nation’s highest court. Kavanaugh lashed out personally at Democratic senators who asked him about his drinking. “Senator, what do you like to drink?” he kept repeating to Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. When Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar described the pain of growing up with an alcoholic father and asked whether Kavanaugh had ever blacked out or forgotten what he’d done while drunk, Kavanaugh said he wondered the same thing about her.

Kavanaugh claimed Blasey Ford’s allegation was “refuted by the very people she says were there, including a longtime friend of hers.” That wasn’t remotely true. No one else had any way of knowing whether Kavanaugh was assaulting her in a locked bedroom while he and his seriously alcoholic friend, Mark Judge, laughed together.

For everyone else, it was just another party.

Kavanaugh made many other misleading and

provably false statements in his testimony, including his laughable explanations of references to drunken and salacious behavior on his yearbook page. Lying under oath to the U.S. Senate is a crime, too. That’s why the political battle that immediately broke out between Republicans and Democrats over whether the White House was placing limits on the FBI’s investigation into Kavanaugh is important.

One of the biggest lies perpetuated by Kavanaugh and his Republican supporters is the claim that Blasey Ford’s testimony was some kind of 11th-hour or last-minute Democratic sabotage of Kavanaugh’s nomination. The U.S. Senate is free to take as many hours or minutes as it needs to investigate any information it receives about a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Blasey Ford comes from the same sort of conservative, Republican, suburban Maryland family as Kavanaugh. She first identified Kavanaugh as her attacker to her husband and a therapist in 2012—long before he was ever mentioned for the U.S. Supreme Court. She said she began thinking about coming forward confidentially when Kavanaugh was added to a list of possible nominees, so Trump would choose someone else from his list of strong conservatives.

The FBI should be allowed to follow its investigation where ever it leads. The only political conspiracy so far is among Republicans hell-bent on confirming Kavanaugh despite all his sordid baggage and dishonest testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap 8:30-11:30 am • Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union

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any of our city’s men are struggling because they are dealing with poverty, child support and other issues, but they don’t know where to turn. These men have grown up being told to “act like men” and show no signs of weakness, so instead of asking for help, they often turn to crime, because, as they see it, it’s the only avenue available to them.

Sitting tall and speaking with a strong voice, Natasha Dotson talks about her brother, who fell into the same cycle that many of Milwaukee’s men have fallen into. She speaks of his extreme frustration when he needed support but couldn’t find it. “Nobody is going to help him. Nobody is here for us,” thought Dotson at the time. With no one to work with him to find a job or figure out his child custody issues, her brother ended up committing a crime and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. “His choices were his choices,” explains Dotson, but the fact remains that “he didn’t know what to do or who to call.”

What happened to her brother was Dotson’s motivation for reaching out to the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative (MFI) 11 years ago. When she first called the organization, she screamed at them on the phone, furious that they weren’t visible enough for her brother to find them in time.

That’s when Terence Ray, the director at the time, got on the phone and said two very powerful words to Dotson: “Get involved.”

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ganization for the next nine years and eventually become MFI’s full-time project director. “I’m going to do all that I can to help this not happen to somebody else’s brother,” she says, and she has acted on that incentive, working to broaden MFI’s outreach in the community.

The Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative was started in 2005 by Mayor Tom Barrett, who recognized the issue of fathers missing from the family. The overarching goal of the organization is to promote healthy fatherhood engagement and connect men with the resources they need to succeed. MFI has community partners that provide services for child support, health, legal issues, housing, job searches and much more.

Presenters: Sean Thomas-Breitfeld and Frances Kunreuther Co-Directors of the Building Movement Project

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Thomas-Breitfeld and Kunreuther present key findings of the Nonprofits, Leadership and Race Survey: • Analysis of survey respondents’ current nonprofit positions, personal and professional backgrounds, views on leadership, interest in leading a nonprofit, training and supports needed, and more; • Challenges to how the nonprofit sector has approached the racial leadership gap; • Strategies for transferring responsibility for bridging the racial leadership gap from aspiring leaders of color to those setting the norms and hiring practices of the nonprofit sector.

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Service and Social Change 1:30-4:30 pm • Marquette University Sensenbrenner Hall • $30 Thomas-Breitfeld leads this hands-on social change workshop centered on: • Integrating social change values and practices into nonprofit work; • Ways service providers can more deeply engage clients and residents.

The afternoon session features Tools to Engage: Resources for Nonprofits, an interactive, multilevel search portal that connects people and organizations seeking to align the values and principles of their work with the best tools, research and resources from across the social sector compiled by the Building Movement Project.

Sponsors: YWCA Southeast Wisconsin, Urban Economic Development Association (UEDA), Greater Milwaukee Foundation, UWM Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management (HBI), Marquette University Office of Community Engagement, Project PIVOT, Safe & Sound, Forward Community Investments (FCI), The Center for Public Skills Training, Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission (Sponsor list in formation)

‘Something for and About Men’

Some of MFI’s most impactful events have been “Real Men Real Talk” and the annual “Fatherhood Summit”—events that bring men together from throughout the community to talk about their struggles and show them the resources that are available to them. The 2018 Fatherhood Summit, taking place on Oct. 5 and 6, will have health screenings, legal services, a job fair, driver’s license recovery services and child support services all in one room. Men will have the opportunity to solve those problems and attend workshops about fatherhood, trauma, personal care and conflict resolution.

“The Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative was created to say that this is something for and about men,” Dotson says. There are many programs focused on women, but people don’t realize how little assistance is available for men looking for guidance. Dotson and the team at MFI are making it clear that they are here as a support system, and they are helping fathers understand what being ‘manly’ really means.

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Sandwiches Stand Out at West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe

thick portion of tuna salad and some veggies was all I chose. But the construction and attention to detail were exemplary. The cucumbers were shaved thin and shingled on the sandwich; there were two slices of cheddar; the lettuce was used as a barrier to keep the lightly toasted bread from getting soggy; the tomato was completely ripe and the red onion mild. When you’re dealing with an item so simple as a tuna sandwich, you better get everything right, and they did. Even the homemade chips that come with every sandwich were crunchy throughout and seasoned with a light barbecue-type blend.

There’s also a long list of signature sandwiches to choose from, including a BLT ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI ($6.99) made with bacon from Nueske’s (add turkey and a third layer to make it a clubhouse for $8.99), a grilled Reuben on rye ($8.99) and an Italian ($8.99) with five he West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe on Becher meats and olive tapenade. Nueske’s liver sausage ($6.99), a grilled roast beef ($8.99) Street doesn’t fit one single mold. Instead, it’s a little bit of many restaurant types all rolled into one. Most people with caramelized onion, garlic mayo and blue cheese and a homemade meatloaf sandwich ($8.99) are the more unique offerings. This is probably one of the few know it first as a retail store, and that is what it started as (I places you can still get the throwback grilled summer sausage sandwich ($7.99) remember going there when I was young since we lived with muenster cheese, brown mustard and onions on rye. close by). But about six years ago, an eat-in cafe was added There are also monthly and daily specials, like the classic Cubano ($8.99) or to the store. Now, it’s part coffee shop, brunch spot, bar and Mexican chicken tinga with avocado and queso fresco. Many of these are insandwich shop, and it wears all those hats effortlessly. spired by the cafe’s cooks and are announced on West Allis Cheese & Sausage Breakfast and brunch items form the foundation of the menu and are served until closing time, which is late afternoon to early evening, depend- Shoppe’s Facebook page.

An all-important “fried foods” section of the menu includes poutine ($6.99) ing on the day. The theme, naturally, is cheese. Breakfast skillets ($11.99) in a smaller portion and without the eggs and sausage, a great rendition of are covered in a thick blanket of melted three-cheese blend that oozes deep-fried cheese curds ($5.99) and chili fries ($5.99). All go well with a Usover the sides of the ceramic dish it’s served on. The basic skillet includes inger’s bratwurst on a pretzel bun ($4) or a hot dog ($3). three meats, potatoes and eggs, while the deluxe version adds pepFor sharing, there are cheese and meat boards ($12+) that include various pers, onions and mushrooms to the mix. Breakfast poutine ($9.99) is one of the more unusual items and makes a filling brunch on its own. local cheeses, charcuterie, crackers and preserves. They’re great eaten with a group outdoors on the little patio.

Skin-on, crispy fries are topped with white cheese curds (of course And remember I said something about a bar? Don’t miss the opportunity to they’re squeaky fresh), diced sausage, a heavy ladle of gravy and two have a bloody Mary here ($9.99+). There are four different types, all made with a eggs. Order your eggs over easy and let the yolk seep into the fries. tangy house tomato mix. Garnishes include Nueske’s bacon, a whole hard-boiled There are a couple items that don’t include cheese, but they’re plenty good egg, a grilled cheese slider, cheese and sausage kabob and without. The gravy served with biscuits and gravy ($9.99) is full those fried cheese curds. of ground pork sausage and about as rib-sticking as you can While West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe is a restaurant get. (I’m sure they’d sprinkle some cheese on top if you asked West Allis Cheese with multiple personalities, they all come together to form nicely.) One of the lone sweet items is French toast made with & Sausage Shoppe a neighborhood spot that’s hopping at breakfast and lunch.

Simma’s morning buns ($8.99). Those cinnamon sugar-covered There is a second location at the Milwaukee Public Market (400 morning buns are amazing but tend to be dry. French toast 6832 W. Becher St., N. Water St.), but, as the name suggests, the original location takes care of that problem.

West Allis is where it all started, and where you should start your own For lunch, deli-style sandwiches are the star. A simple 414-543-4230 • $-$$ cheese-filled adventure as well, and don’t forget to grab some build-it-yourself tuna salad sandwich ($7.99) was one of the wacheese-gifts.com cheese for your fridge on the way out. best I’ve ever had. Toasted wheat bread, cheddar cheese, a

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VIP tickets include a special French whiskey tasting (aged eight years in cognac barrels), an extra hour of socializing with vendors and a ticket to the Racine Zoo to use later. All VIPs will be entered in our contest for the opportunity to feed the giraffes! Proceeds from this event benefit the health and well-being of Racine Zoo’s wonderful animals, education programs, conservation efforts, grounds maintenance and more.

Competing vendors for this event include Carriage House Liquor Co., The Brickhouse, Butcher & Barrel Gastropub, Dewey’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, The Ivanhoe Pub & Eatery, Joey’s West, Main Hub, The NASH, Pub On Wisconsin, Pepi’s Pub and Grill, Reefpoint Brew House, Sazzy B Kenosha. All the Old Fashioneds will be made with brandy, whiskey and bourbon from Driftless Glen Distillery.

Tickets for the Old Fashioned Cocktail event at the Racine Zoo (2131 N. Main St., Racine) are $28 (6-9 p.m.) or VIP for $45 (5-9 p.m.). It takes place on Saturday, Oct. 6. You must be 21 or older to attend.

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Pete Cooney

ost of us have relished the cool, fruity goodness of a frozen pop on a sweaty summer day, but Pete Cooney of Pete’s Pops knows people enjoy cool confections year-round. After selling his artisan frozen pops—including blueberry basil lemonade, avocado, Vietnamese iced coffee and coffee ’n doughnuts varieties—from carts at farmers markets, street corners and festivals for five years, this past August, Cooney celebrated the grand opening of a 1,000 square-foot brickand-mortar location at 3809 W. Vliet St. Cooney won the Near West Side Partners, Inc.’s 2016 Rev-Up MKE competition. The pitch-style contest, similar to the TV show “Shark Tank,” allows people to present their business ideas for prize money to start or expand their businesses.

“The contest vision is to help improve a section of the city, and it’s exciting to put my business somewhere different, somewhere that isn’t the most popular neighborhood in the city, and somewhere that could use a boost of positivity,” Cooney said.

NWSP’s partners include Marquette University, from where Cooney is an alumnus. He said it’s been exciting and even a little scary to put in his first purchase order for very expensive freezers, but it feels good to have a permanent home.

“We’re serious about the business, but not too serious, because it’s pop that’s supposed to be fun and carefree,” he said.

Cooney had always been interested in food and worked as an accountant for the Bartolotta Restaurants. He heard about little frozen pops businesses that were starting all over the country, and while visiting his hometown of St. Louis, he tried an avocado frozen pop. He

thought small batch frozen pops would go over well in Milwaukee.

His first few flavors—such as avocado, strawberry basil and pineapple jalapeño—were made in a rented commercial kitchen. “I bought a cart and some molds on Amazon, and I said I’d do it just for the summer and see how it goes. It was fun, and I didn’t lose any money. Then I decided to do it another summer, and it kind of snowballed. Over the last couple of years, it’s turned a corner from a side project to a business,” he said.

Pete’s Pops still has six carts that appear at farmers markets, street festivals and catered and corporate events. The frozen pops are Cooney’s original recipes and experimenting with seasonal selections inspires new flavors. Cooney works with Tree Ripe Citrus, a local company that imports quality peaches from Georgia and blueberries from Michigan.

“Once we get these great blueberries, we think ‘what can we do with them?’ So, we’ve had blueberry pie, which is an ice cream bar with a homemade crust swirled into the middle. Blueberry season also coincides with basil season, and that’s how the popular blueberry basil lemonade pop came about,” he explained.

Cooney shops at area farmers markets and Pete’s Fruit Market; he also has relationships with local growers. Milwaukee-based Rishi Tea makes tea for the Thai iced tea pop, and the sweet corn and blackberry swirl pop is made with local corn.

The cream style pops have a real custard base.

Flavors rotate, and at any given time, there are six to eight flavors available at the carts and more than 20 at the storefront, sold individually or in larger qualities. Pop prices average $2 to $4 each.

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t this point, it’s probably safe to say the Milwaukee Brewers won the Christian Yelich trade.

With all due respect to Lewis Brinson, Isan Diaz, Monte Harrison and Jordan Yamamoto, all of whom might go on to have long professional careers in the Marlins organization, the spark Yelich has provided the Brewers during their 2018 postseason run is nearly unparalleled in franchise history.

Even if Yelich never played another game as a Brewer, he’s carved out a niche in the annals of Wisconsin baseball history with his remarkable year.

Yelich’s full-season numbers stand out in their own right: He collected the Brewers’ first batting title, made a late run at the National League’s first triple crown since 1937 and led all National League position players in Wins Above Replacement (7.4, according to Baseball Reference). But those numbers fail to show just how effective Yelich was when it mattered most.

Yelich was one of five Brewers selected for the 2018 All-Star Game and got there by having a nice first half: He was hitting .292 with a .364 on-base percentage and .459 slugging across 82 games; all solid performances but numbers that would not have put him in the conversation to be selected as his league’s best hitter. In 63 games since the break, however, he’s hit .361/.445/.770 and crushed 25 home runs.

Even within that incredible split, there’s a smaller notable split. Yelich finished the season with the best final month in franchise history, entering Monday’s tiebreaker game hitting .352, getting on base at a .500 clip and slugging .807.

His 1.307 OPS (on-base plus slugging) was easily the best in franchise history in the season’s final month.

Given a minimum of 100 regular-season plate appearances in September/October, here are the previous top five: 1. Prince Fielder, 2007, 1.212 OPS Fielder closed out one of the most dominant offensive seasons in franchise history with a solid finishing kick, going 30-for-90 with 11 home runs to become the first Brewer ever to reach 50 in a season. He was on base 54 times in 27 games, hit for prodigious power and still produced numbers about 100 OPS points behind Yelich. That’s how good Yelich has been.

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2. Prince Fielder, 2011, 1.163 OPS Throughout his MLB career, September was easily Fielder’s best month, and his .982 career OPS that month is easily the best in franchise history among players who played at least 50 September games as a Brewer. In 2011, he was a major factor in the Brewers’ first NL Central championship, going 29-for-88 with nine home runs to help the Brewers hold off the late-charging Cardinals.

3. John Jaha, 1996, 1.123 OPS Jaha spent seven seasons with the Brewers and showed notable offensive skills when healthy but struggled to remain on the field: 1996 was one of just two seasons where he played more than 90 games for Milwaukee. He showed no signs of wear in the season’s final month in 1996, as 14 of his 29 hits went for extra bases and he scored 21 runs.

4. Paul Molitor, 1989, 1.109 OPS In the middle of a list of players whose primary calling card was their power, Molitor earned his way to the top of the leaderboard in a different way. He set a Brewers franchise record with 49 hits in September 1989, batting .458 for the month. Thirteen of those hits were doubles, but just two were home runs.

5. Richie Sexson, 2001, 1.091 OPS Sexson wasted no time making an impression as a Brewer, demonstrating durability and massive power in his first full season in Milwaukee.

He went 35-for-108 in the season’s final month (which stretched well into October) and hit 12 home runs, tying Gorman Thomas’ single-season franchise record with 45.

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Milwaukee Opera Theatre stages ‘Antiology’ at Boswell Book Company ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN ill Anna Ponasik is clear: Antiology is not a world premiere, even though it’s never been seen before. As the producing artistic director of Milwaukee Opera Theatre (MOT) explains, “With Antiology, we are making the development process into art. It’s jumping inside the process of developing a new work in a way that’s both entertaining and sharable.”

The new work is being developed from Dana Spiotta’s well-regarded 2006 novel, Eat the Document.

The novel’s dovetailing storylines shift between a militant radical milieu circa 1970 and the early ’90s.

The word “antiology” appears in the text and alludes to the refusenik stance of one of the main characters, Nash, a Weatherman-like fugitive in the ’70s who, in the ’90s present, runs a grungy anarchist book store. The other main character, Mary, was once his girlfriend and was also on the run—until reinventing herself under a new name as a suburban mom. Her 15-year-old son, Jason, spends most of his time immersed in the music of his mother’s era.

Antiology is the third collaboration between MOT and the talented trio consisting of composer John Glover, librettist Kelley Rourke and singer Andrew Wilkowske. “I love it that they are using our modest commissions in three unique ways,” Ponasik says. The first, the cheekily titled Guns N’ Rosenkavalier, was a rock-song/art-song recital. The second, Lucy, was an opera based on the true story of a psychologist who tried to raise a chimpanzee as a human. Both works debuted with MOT in Milwaukee and went on to performances elsewhere. Ponasik apologetically explains that MOT is “too small” to fully commit to staging Antiology as an opera at this time, “so we built a container for them to conduct their research together as a public event.”

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A Three-Part Performance

To be staged at Boswell Book Co., the event has three components. First, Spiotta will read excerpts from Eat the Document and answer audience questions.

Then, MOT’s multi-instrumentalist 1970s Operatic Jam Band will perform a dozen period songs mentioned in the novel—an eclectic repertoire ranging from Bob Dylan to the Beach Boys to Charles Mingus. Finally, Wilkowske will sing a handful of compositions by Glover intended for the finished opera. “[Glover] says that new opera should be memorable to the audience, who should be able to sing it! He wants to end with a sing-along! It’ll be like the coolest book club ever,” Ponasik says.

The completed opera will be an exploration of the novel’s three protagonists. “Nash refuses to bust anyone for shoplifting,” Ponasik says. Instead, he places signs around shop imploring: “Don’t Steal—We’re Not the Man.” Milwaukee the “Nash is determined to live in the world but not be in the Opera world,” she continues. “Jason has a geeky knowledge of a Theatre tiny niche art form—he’s musically obsessed and makes finely grained distinctions between different takes of Antiology Brian Wilson recordings.” As for Mary, “She’s quiet, stoic, Boswell mysterious.” Part of the story comes as Jason attempts Book Co. to plumb the mystery of his mother, who, like outlaws Oct. 10 - 12 from an earlier epoch, tried to remake herself on a new frontier.

Eat the Document, Ponasik explains, connects with the American ideal of self-invention, “the idea that you can be whoever you want to be. The characters in the novel show us that it’s possible but there are grave consequences. It says that we can’t let go of our past—as a country or as individuals. We can ignore the past, but it’s still there.”

Antiology will be performed 8 p.m., Oct. 10-12 at Boswell Book Co., 2559 N. Downer Ave. For more information, visit milwaukeeoperatheatre.org.

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Vliet Street Fall Festival

SATURDAY, OCT. 6

Vliet Street Fall Festival @ Vliet Street, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Eleanor Friedberger

THURSDAY, OCT. 4

Eleanor Friedberger w/ Pill and Greatest Lakes @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 7:30 p.m.

Never a group beholden to convention, or even their own past, The Fiery Furnaces played a curious, unpredictable blend of experimental rock, pop, 18th-century American music and whatever else their restless ears desired. Since that sister/brother duo of Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger went on hiatus in 2011, Eleanor has continued to record imaginative, form-breaking indie-rock records under her own name.

Released this may on Frenchkiss Records, her fourth and most recent solo album, Rebound, is one of her most unique yet, a deeply personal album she recorded on her own using drum machines and synthesizers.

Shawn Mullins w/ Jennifer Lynn Simpson @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

A throwback to James Taylor, Jackson Browne and other folky, soft-rock singersongwriters of the ’70s, Shawn Mullins scored one of the biggest adult-alternative ballads of the ’90s with his uplifting single “Lullaby.” Though he’s never topped that success on the charts, he’s continued to record at a steady pace. In 2015 he released his ninth album, My Stupid Heart, through the independent labels Sugar Hill and Rounder Records.

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More than 60 vendors and makers will line West Vliet Street from Hawley to 53rd for the neighborhood’s second annual Fall Festival, selling everything from jewelry, soap, herbal tinctures, clothes, pottery and other handcrafted goods. The family-friendly event will feature many of the traditional trappings of a harvest festival—including seasonal snacks and a pumpkin pie caking contest—as well as some colorful unexpected ones, like tarot readings, henna, a Lego build station and live metalworking demos from Milwaukee Blacksmith.

In addition to a 1 p.m. community drum circle led by members of De La Buena and King Solomon, there will also be music from West End Conservatory students and singersongwriters Alie Kriofske-Mainella, Matthew Davies and Eston Bennett. Come hungry, because there will be dozens of food options, including grass-fed burgers and brats from Kettle Range Meats, savory pies from Drift, Brazilian cuisine from Tudo Sabor Brazil, Filipino street food from Meat on the Street, incredible fried chicken sandwiches from Foxfire, and sweet treats from Baby Cakes, Cotton Mouth Cotton Candy, Dawn’s Yummy Delights, Happy Dough Lucky, Pete’s Pops, Nothing Bundt Cakes and more.

Hip-Hop Royalty Tour @ Miller High Life Theatre, 8 p.m.

In recent years these kinds of hip-hop nostalgia bills pairing big names from the genre’s past have become more common.

They’re always a great way to see some of rap’s living legends in action, but the city has never hosted one with a lineup quite as stacked as this one, which features some of the most critically acclaimed and influential rap acts of the ’80s: Rakim (who is still considered the greatest rapper of all time in many circles), Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shante, who became one of rap’s first female stars while she was only 14 years old. Her story was depicted in last year’s Roxanne, a Netflix biopic co-produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell Williams.

Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls w/ Bad Cop/Bad Cop and CSam Coffey and The Iron Lungs @ The Pabst Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Robbie Fulks @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

Robbie Fulks, one of many singer-songwriters to emerge from Chicago’s fruitful ’90s alt-country scene, is nothing if not multifaceted. He loves stripped-down, sparse country, but he also likes hard-driving roots rock. He’s the rare songwriter as deft and silly toss-off songs and serious ballads. That approach has made him a favorite in songwriting circles for decades, but in recent years he’s received more mainstream recognition, too. His 2016 album, Upland Stories, received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, and its opening track “Alabama at Night” was nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Song.

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Frank Turner

It was in the great tradition of so many other punk artists turning to folk that Million Dead singer Frank Turner ditched scorched-vocal hardcore punk in favor of hard-strummed, rustic Americana in the mid-’00s, an approach that’s helped him reach a wider audience than ever. This spring, he released his seventh solo album, Be More Kind, so he’ll have plenty of new material to perform when he returns to Milwaukee with his raucous backing band, The Sleeping Souls.

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Michelle Wolf

SUNDAY, OCT. 7

Michelle Wolf @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7 p.m.

Former “Daily Show with Trevor Noah” performer Michelle Wolf didn’t receive a particularly warm welcome when she performed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where she made some harsh cracks about Donald Trump’s press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. That performance made her an enemy of the right, but also increased her profile significantly, so much so that she landed her own weekly Netflix show, “The Break with Michelle Wolf.” The show was refreshingly lighter than other similarly styled talk shows—and certainly a lot less histrionic than “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” Unfortunately, it didn’t find much of an audience. Netflix announced in August that it had canceled the show.

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MONDAY, OCT. 8

L.A. Guns w/ Teeze @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

L.A. Guns are best known for their ties to an even more successful Los Angeles hard-rock band: Guns N’ Roses. Axl Rose was even the band’s singer for a time, before the group merged with the band Hollywood Rose to become Guns N’ Roses.

Although L.A. Guns would never do Appetite For Destruction numbers, they scored some big hits in the late ’80s and early ’90s, including “It’s Over Now” and “The Ballad of Jayne.” There have been many touring versions of the band over the years, sometimes two at once, much to the confusion of fans, but this lineup features heyday members Tracii Funs and Phil Lewis.

TUESDAY, OCT. 9

The Doobie Brothers @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

One of the most prominent of the mellowed-out California rock bands of the ’70s, The Doobie Brothers broadened their sound throughout that decade before reinventing themselves as a surprisingly effective soul-pop band under the direction of former Steely Dan contributor Michael McDonald, who replaced original vocalist Tom Johnston. Johnston rejoined the band in 1987, while McDonald pursued a solo career, and Johnston has been touring with them ever since, singing hits like “Black Water,” “Listen to the Music” and “China Grove” for audiences that still hear those songs almost daily on classic-rock radio.

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disABILITY: The Evolution disABILITY explores the human experience of disability throughout the world. Natalie Bushman, Prescott Doebler and many others travel through time starting with the birth of recorded history up through 20th-century America, making stops along the way in Greece, Palestine and during the Middle Ages. Despite a whimsical cast of characters, this performance chronicles the many hardships those with disabilities faced in the past, along with how people still endure them to this day. Discounted “Terrific Tickets” are available for those wishing to attend multiple shows. (Parker Thompson) Oct. 4-7 at Waukesha Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha. For tickets, call 262547-0708 or visit waukeshacivictheatre.org.

Disney’s Aladdin Jr. An adaptation of the Disney movie, Aladdin Jr. follows the story of a poor young man who discovers a lamp with a genie that grants him three wishes. Along with each wish intended to improve his life, Aladdin must face trials to prove his will and moral character. However, things only get more difficult when he meets Princess Jasmine. Parents and children alike will find a moment to remember as Aladdin embarks on his adventure. The Union Grove High School Performing Arts Department has found a way to expand on the beloved story. This new take is sure to open “a whole new world” for its viewers.

Oct. 5-7 at the Racine Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave., Racine. For tickets, call 262-633-4218 or visit racinetheatre.org.

Posthumous Fame The description reads: “Four icons of artistic accomplishment, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, Billie Holiday and Tupac Shakur, have a supernatural encounter and discover how they are connected.” In association with Bronzeville Arts Ensemble, Black Arts MKE aims to take viewers on a journey to envision how four characters of various backgrounds and disciplines can share similarities. Attendees can expect to learn details of each artist’s life that may not be of common knowledge, regardless of your familiarity with each artist. Posthumous Fame looks to push the ideas of pos-

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ively Irish music, a finely detailed kitchen/living room set and a backdrop that features the changing colors of the Irish countryside provide a perfect setting for Outside Mullingar by playwright John Patrick Shanley. This engaging play by Next Act Theatre opened last weekend to a well-earned standing ovation.

Some of the area’s best actors give life to characters that are undeniably quirky but also are deeply rooted in the rural, Irish soil. With their attempts at subtlety ranging from little to none, they all plainly speak their minds. There’s widower Tony (James Pickering), a lifelong farmer; his next-door neighbor, Aoife (Carrie Hitchcock); and their middle-aged children, Anthony and Rosemary, played by real-life marrieds David Cecsarini and Deborah Staples. She’s an associate artist at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and he is Next Act’s artistic director.

The bucolic farm scene is set for dark humor, as the play begins on the same day as a funeral for longtime resident Christopher, who was also Aoife’s husband. Tony comes home from the funeral in an irritated mood, as he was planning to spend the rest of the day in solitude. But Anthony spoiled his plans by extending an invitation to the grieving relatives to stop by after the service.

Tony, still unhappy when the pair arrives, announces to the weepy Aoife that she’ll “probably be dead herself within a year.” This kind of

blunt remark provides much of the play’s humor.

These plain-spoken farmers banter back and forth, mostly about issues affecting the adjoining farms and who will take care of them. Tony reflects that he’s “drawn strength” from the land over the years, a trait he believes that Anthony lacks. Anthony, who takes little joy in the tasks of farm life, seems to have given up on the prospect of a happy life.

For better or worse, all these characters (even the unseen and recently deceased Christopher) can hold a grudge for years. This comes into play in the longest-courtship-on-record between a reluctant Anthony and the more eager Rosemary.

Apparently, she has never forgiven him for (nor forgotten about) a typical boyish prank when he was 6 years old.

Director Edward Morgan has crafted a masterful tale of Irish storytelling in Shanley’s material.

He delineates each character with an individual sense of pride, spirituality and stubbornness that has molded them through good years and bad.

Shanley, the playwright, draws from his own Irish background in the “old country” to make these characters compellingly real, which adds richness and authenticity to their story. For an exceptional example of Irish-inspired storytelling, there’s no place better to go than Next Act Theatre.

Through Oct. 21 at the Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St. For tickets, call 414-278-0765 or visit nextact.org.

sibility and unity in the format of a staged reading. (Parker Thompson) Monday, Oct. 8, at Saint John’s On The Lake, 1840 N. Prospect Ave. this event is free and open to the public.

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ach fall, the performing arts scene starts momentum with a new season. Frankly Music jumped on that bandwagon last week in its first concert of its 15th season of high standards in chamber music, led and curated by Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond. A large audience turned out to hear a program of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on the lower East Side. As usual, the crowd was charmed by Almond’s informal remarks about the composers and the music.

This concert featured a chamber orchestra of 15 players supporting Almond as solo-

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e was a poet, writer and editor. A soldier, hobo and a folksinger. He was a man of endless talent and a keen observer of American life in the early 20th century. He was Carl Sandburg, and his clever wit and multi-faceted writing have been brought to the stage, showcasing an extraordinary life in The Eagle in Me: An Evening of Carl Sandburg at In Tandem Theatre.

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ist in Bach’s Concerto for Violin in A Minor (BWV 1041) and Vivaldi’s ever-popular The Four Seasons, a set of four violin concertos.

Almond ably conducted the ensemble when needed or played along as leader. These were lively, well-played and well-balanced performances which often found a happy Baroque groove. There was a sudden change of weather late that day that made humidity a minor factor in the tuning of the instruments.

We’ve rarely, if ever, had the chance to hear MSO principal oboist Katherine Young Steele in Baroque music, which is a mainstay of her instrument. She was featured with Almond in Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe (BWV 1060R). This showed a different color in Steele’s playing—a slimmer, yet still handsome, sound.

Steele and Almond traded melody lines back and forth with ease and grace.

On Friday evening came the rare chance to hear Symphony No. 12 by Dmitri Shostakovich, never heard previously at an MSO concert. Yaniv Dinur (impressively conducting without a score) and the orchestra made the best case possible for this 1961 symphony written to commemorate the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Vladimir Lenin.

Shostakovich’s mastery of orchestral writing is always there, but, politics aside, I’m just not sure this symphony adds up in the end. Vadim Gluzman gave a blazing account of Piotr Tchaikovsky’s famous Violin Concerto. The tempos he took in the first and third movements were impressive, but perhaps a bit too fast, blurring definition in the intricate solo lines at times.

In a world premiere conceived, adapted and performed by veteran actor and playwright Jonathan Gillard Daly, the man who was best known as a poet becomes so much more given Daly’s own passion and innate understanding of one of America’s finest writers and observers of the world around him.

In this two-hour production, Daly’s “21stcentury tribute” to Sandburg is poetry in motion itself, quoting extensively from his works as well as his writings. It soars and flies under the imaginative direction and staging by Gale Childs Daly (the actor’s wife), and we come to understand just how Sandburg came about writing some of his most famous works. This adaptation educates as well as engages, for example, as we learn about Sandburg’s socialist leanings and how it gets him “accidentally” into trouble with the law as a reporter in a foreign country.

One of the many delightful parts in The Eagle In Me comes at the very end of the play, as we watch Daly play multiple characters within minutes as part of a children’s story.

It’s funny, charming and showcases Daly’s many talents as an actor—a mirror image of the man he is portraying. “I don’t know where I’m going. But I’m on my way,” is one of Sandburg’s humorous quotes used in the play. The Eagle in Me shows us the adventure and the joy of getting there—and what we discover along the way.

Through Oct. 21 at Tenth Street Theater, 628 N. 10th St. For tickets, visit intandemtheatre.org.

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The Cost of Complicity at The Rep’s ‘Guards at the Taj’

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irector Brent Hazeltine’s production of American playwright Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj at the Milwaukee Rep’s Stiemke Studio is beautifully crafted and extremely moving. The play opens just before dawn rises for the very first time on the just-completed Taj Mahal in Agra, India, in 1648. Two of the lowliest royal guards, Hamayun and Babur, have orders to stand silent, swords in hand, their backs to the wall that surrounds this newborn wonder of the world. They’re forbidden to look when first light strikes. For imaginative Babur, that’s impossible. Not even his soul brother, Huma, concerned with orders and consequences, can restrain his friend. Nor, when the moment arrives, can he harness his own need to see such beauty. What follows is monstrous for both men.

The shocks the play delivers in its uninterrupted 85 minutes are profound and ultimately heartbreaking. It would be wrong to spoil them. “I killed beauty,” Babur will cry in extreme spiritual anguish when what’s he done is follow orders in hopes of advancement, or at least survival, in his crummy job. The play makes real the cost of complicity in power’s crimes.

It’s also a love story. The 44-year-old American playwright drew national attention with his earlier two-hander, Gruesome Playground Injuries, another highly original love story between friends inclined to hurt themselves. As you might imagine, there’s plenty of black humor in Joseph’s work, so dark and so true is the subject matter.

Though set in the mid-17th century, nothing feels at a remove. Joseph notes in his script that the actors shouldn’t use dialects. It’s a contemporary fantasy for adults, and it’s no mean feat to stage. Costumes, lighting and sound demands offer major opportunities for artistry— beautifully met by Alison Siple, Noele Stollmack and Barry G. Funderburg, respectively.

The setting and props pose unusual challenges. Cheers to designer Scott Davis and the stage crew and to director Hazelton for perfectly orchestrating the many effects.

But, if for nothing else, you’ll want to see Guards at the Taj for the actors. It’s been a while since I have fallen so in love with two performers. The characters are in extremely vulnerable predicaments, and the actors’ tasks are demanding, even frightening. Yousof Sultani (Hamayun) and Owa’Ais Azeem (Babur) perform with complete transparency and impeccable timing. Their speech has music. Their silence has meaning. They make you care.

Through Nov. 4 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre’s Stiemke Studio, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, call 414-224-9490 or visit milwaukeerep.com.

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ainting has more in common with God than one might care to admit. Both get declared dead by cultural theorists every few years, and both face ongoing crises about how effective they are at challenging life’s most pressing issues.

Painting inhabits dimensions mostly removed from the social universe, and, as a result, doesn’t do the most precise job of attacking, say, world hunger or government corruption in Nigeria. And since the Enlightenment, God’s earthly agency, too, seems limited—unless you’re an excited linebacker who’s just returned a tipped pass for a touchdown, on death row, or you’re Joel Osteen. But, with a little metaphorical imagination, God and painting are both well equipped to indirectly confront the greatest truths of all.

“Cicada Seen,” Peter Barrickman’s show at Green Gallery, buzzes… as its title suggests. It buzzes metaphorically, of course. The exhibition consists of a suite of paintings that lives in the tightest crease between representation and abstraction. Barrickman’s obscure vignettes aren’t fully abstract, but their objective subject matter takes a minute to come into focus. One of the basic joys of viewing his work is determining where the vague residue of the real world meets the idiosyncratic, painterly universes they merge into.

Completed in various media—acrylic paint, colored pencil, foil paper collage and flashe (the latter a dense, matte-finish vinyl paint)—they walk a razor-thin line between the materiality and theatricality of painting. Take the painting Lobby 5, for example, with its relatively homogenous field of vertically oriented red and orange paint licks. The work might reside between Mark Tobey and Clyfford Still in the modernist wing of a museum if it weren’t for the faintest traces of architecture: a staircase; a door; sconces;

a tile floor. As soon you recognize real stuff and real space, it is impossible to imagine how non-objective the painting was two minutes prior—and will never be again.

The tendency of the marks in “Cicada Seen” to align across paintings as well as within them helps further delay a representational read of them.

Locating moments from the known universe in Barrickman’s work is like eying individual fish in a roiling, churning school—or training your eye on a single cicada in a swarm of them. Our frontal cortexes are designed to privilege the whole over the individual parts of a visual system. But, despite the potency of these tactics, Barrickman interrupts his own demonstration in gestalt psychology as if to keep things organic and unpredictable.

Loops By D is the most obvious example. It’s an oddball in the scheme of things with its slightly skewed geometry on the right side, next to some clumsy backward lettering and a large, red, painterly sore jutting in from the left; the “punctum in the studium” as Roland Barthes would’ve put it.

Are these relationships the marks of shrewd intelligent design or random improvisational noises from the painterly universe?

Keeping you guessing is the ultimate metaphor for playing God. The most divine prospect of painting is establishing a universe from the void, full of constraints and contradictions; being everything and nothing at once.

The artist, like a humble, terrestrial god, must create a cosmos replete with all the dualities, joys and inquiries that make that place worth inhabiting— and to have those searching for meaning in it searching endlessly.

The paintings in “Cicada Seen,” and painting in general at its best, lives as a metaphor for all other aspects of life. It’s this indirect agency that keeps painting relevant even when our direct passions might want us to scream obscenities as televisions, make picket signs or confront senators in elevators. Creativity’s virtues are what the philosopher Michael Oakeshott called “adverbial” qualities—indirect governing agents and actions, less visible but more fundamental than direct interventions. Or a version of that old BASF tagline: Painting doesn’t solve your social problems, but it lays the foundations to make solving them possible.

Let’s face it, Barrickman’s painting probably won’t turn this troubled world upside down, but it might have done better by inventing another one entirely.

Through Saturday, Nov. 3, at Green Gallery, 1500 N. Farwell Ave. (left) Peter Barrickman, Lobby 5, Oil on panel, 44.5” x 36”, 2018 (right) Peter Barrickman, Mount Onetone, Acrylic, pencil, flashe and paper collage on canvas, 68” x 54”, 2018 SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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This fourth version of a favorite Hollywood story, stars Bradley Cooper, who also directs and co-writes. He’s terrific as country rock legend Jackson Maine, a melancholy drunk barely holding it together on tour. One night, Jackson chances upon singer Ally (Lady Gaga), as she performs movingly in a gay bar. The two strike up a romance, with Jackson using his concerts to introduce Ally and her songs to audiences. When Ally’s a mega-hit, savvy manager Rez (Rafi Gavron) scoops her up, causing Jackson to struggle with his fears and jealousies. Lady Gaga reflects her own story in Ally’s, bringing strength and vulnerability to match that of Cooper’s Jackson. Their stories resonate, along with music that fits the production to a “T.” (Lisa Miller)

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Journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) hosts an extraterrestrial known as Venom. The two share a common enemy in Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), founder of a foundation that experiments on Venom’s alien species, the Symbiotes. On its own, Venom is a sticky ooze, but when inhabiting Brock’s body, Venom’s snake-like tongue is hideous and his jagged teeth can inject deadly toxin into victims. Without Venom’s protection, Brock would be an easy target for Drake’s minions. He asks Venom to hurt only the evil-doers, but the enraged creature could lose control at any moment. Released in an IMAX version, this edgy characterization holds promise. (L.M.)

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he 21st Annual Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival looks around the world for content with seven films meant to be entertaining while thought-provoking.

Take, for instance, An Act of Defiance. This story, set in South Africa, follows 10 political activists working with Nelson Mandela during apartheid who face a death sentence after being arrested during a raid. It is up to Bram Fischer, a lawyer and secretly a collaborator of theirs, to defend them while risking his career and freedom in the process.

The Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center’s special events director Micki Seinfeld recalls some of the festival’s history. “Up until 22 years ago, we were showing [occasional] films here at the center,” Seinfeld says. “But we saw the popularity of film festivals at JCCs around the country and we began to create our own.” Each year, Seinfeld and the rest of the festival staff gather and view a selection of films and, one by one, narrow them down to seven or eight to screen.

She says they try to tell a different story every time, especially themes that haven’t been presented before.

Another film featured this year, Shalom Bollywood, depicts the unlikely roll of Jewish women in the prominent Indian film industry.

During the early 1900s, Hindu and Islamic women were forbidden from acting in film as it was seen as taboo. Instead, producers recruited Jewish women living in India to perform the leading roles and thus contribute to that growing culture. “The Bollywood movement is known all around the world, and yet little is understood of Jewish involvement,” Seinfeld says.

She adds, “We have been lucky to have Marcus North Shore Cinema host us every year; they really bend over backwards for us, and I can’t be more thankful.” As for the future, “expanding it is on the horizon but not necessarily a priority. Maybe some year the festival will be a full week and include more films, but Milwaukee we will just have Jewish Film to see. We watch what other festivals Festival around the country Marcus North are doing, and they Shore Cinema watch us,” she conOct. 7-11 tinues. “If we ever need anything, we can reach out to our vast network of members.” While organizing the event can be hard work, Seinfeld says the best part is seeing the reaction of the crowd when the films make their appearance on the silver screen.

The Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival runs Oct. 7-11 at Marcus North Shore Cinema. For tickets and more information, visit jccmilwaukee.org/filmfestival.

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BY ANNA LARDINOIS Ghosts aren’t as common in Wisconsin as they are in England, but then again, even the Marshall Building in Milwaukee’s Third Ward has its legends. In Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends, local writer Anna Lardinois collects tales from across the metro area, from the benign sport-coated ghost who moves the scenery at Sunset Playhouse to the spectral child seen scampering across the tiles at Villa Terrace. “There seems little doubt that the theater is haunted,” Lardinois writes of the Modjeska, citing the top-hatted Balcony Man, a smoky presence in the gallery. She also reports a mysterious cold breeze in the lobby of the Journal Sentinel building, but the likely source for that is Gannett’s corporate management. (David Luhrssen)

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Arthur C. Clarke was already one of science fiction’s prominent authors before his work with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey catapulted him to a higher level of acclaim.

He’s been written about many times but Gary Westfahl asserts that Clarke was “never properly understood.” His compact critical biography closely yet succinctly examines everything from Clarke’s British childhood through his last years on the island of Sri Lanka, his juvenilia through the numerous “collaborations” that fill the last pages of his bibliography. Westfahl identifies Clarke’s influences as primarily non-fiction, not literature, and explores the paradox of a proponent of “hard science fiction” who repeatedly warned of technology’s unanticipated consequences. In his sequels to 2001, even alien technology falters. (David Luhrssen)

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The Dangerous Ghosts of Laini Taylor’s ‘Muse of Nightmares’

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Egon H.E. Lass

9 p.m., Oct. 8 • Linneman’s Riverwest Inn • 1001 E. Locust St. As an archeologist interested in ancient Palestine, and as a poet, it’s unsurprising that Milwaukee’s Egon H.E. Lass would be drawn to Gnostic manuscripts for inspiration. His latest collection of poems, Burlesques on the Secret Book of John, uses one such codice for structure and material. The first-century manuscript describes the creation of Adam, not simply molded from clay by God as in Genesis but as a step by step—head to toe—process that was outsourced to various angels. Lass follows that process poem by poem in the voices of each angel, some of whom have an ironically high estimation of their own abilities and status. The tone is humorous yet reflective on the foibles and possibilities of humankind. (David Luhrssen)

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Oct. 5, 6, 12 & 13–7:30pm | Oct. 14–2pm West Allis Central Auditorium 8516 West Lincoln Avenue

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muse is defined as a source of inspiration, especially a guiding genius. In the acclaimed New York Times bestselling youngadult book Strange the Dreamer, readers were introduced to the enchanting city of Weep and a tempestuous and fantastical world of science-fiction, magic and supernatural forces.

In the highly anticipated follow-up novel, Muse of Nightmares, Oregon fantasy writer Laini Taylor continues the complex, imaginative story of Lazlo, a shy librarian whose benign interest in otherworldly phenomena led him to an ancient lost city embroiled in a centuries-old war between gods, alchemy and nightmares. There he met Sarai, a half-human muse who continues to be haunted by the horrors of other people’s realities in her nightly dreams. In the wake of tragedy and despite her own death, Sarai, the muse of nightmares, battles threats of blue-skinned gods, alien invaders and phenomenal monsters in a daunting, heroic attempt to bring peace to the broken land of Weep. In the Muse of Nightmares, everyone is haunted by something, and these ghosts—both real and imagined—will alter the entirety of civilization.

Taylor is the author of the National Book Award Finalist Lips Touch: Three Times, as well as the novels Blackbringer and Silksinger.

She has also written short stories and a graphic novel. Taylor will speak at the West Allis Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at 6:30pm.

This free event is co-sponsored by Boswell Book Co.

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Fish Harbor Hotels: Off the Cuff with Lindsay Frost

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::BY CATHERINE JOZWIK

o help protect Milwaukee’s inner-harbor fish population and habitats, which can be damaged by sheet piling (vertical sections of interlocking metal material), the Harbor District has implemented a creative solution: “fish harbor hotels”—structures that provide food and a respite for fish, such as sunfish, blue gills and bass.

The organization has brought the community on board, working on the project with several area schools, including Bradley Tech High School and Christ-St. Peter Lutheran School. Grants supplied by Sweetwater and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation enabled the initial start-up phase, which began last year. So far, 17 hotels have been installed near the Becher Street Bridge and the Bruce Street Boat Ramp in Walker’s Point, with more installations expected in the coming year.

Off the Cuff caught up with Harbor District Water Projects Manager Lindsay Frost to ask her a few questions about fish harbor hotels.

How did the fish harbor hotels project come about?

I was brought in to the inner harbor, where the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic Rivers meet, to look at problems and the project area; 90% of the inner harbor is vertical walls—it’s just essentially an open bathtub.

Steel sheet pilings promote shipping and protect properties from erosion, but they can damage fish habitats, and fish have to pass through the inner harbor to get to Lake Michigan. Harbor hotels are not created to be homes; we’re not building places for fish to move into. They’re just places for fish to hang out and get a snack.

How are the hotels constructed? What materials are they made of?

Hotels consist of two fryer baskets bought from restaurant supply stores and little shelves—like those on a bookshelf. Baskets are filled with soil, gravel and native aquatic plants. Crayfish perch on top of the shelves, and fish swim below the structure. Everything is underwater and connected to a 10-12-foot pole. These hotels serve as cropping structures as well. Fish can go underneath them. Above the water, there is artwork—silhouettes of native fish.

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The Harbor District has been working with several area elementary schools on this project. Can you talk a little bit about this experience so far?

Welding students at Bradley Tech did all the cutting and drilling for these structures.

Some students were really excited about this project. Teachers, such as Mark Hoedel at Bradley Tech, feel it’s much more meaningful for kids to make a project that will benefit the area environment. We introduce students at Christ-St. Peter elementary school to food webs, ecology, etc. Students go on field trips to the inner harbor and help plant native plants in the fryer baskets.

The kids come up with ways to help fish in urban environments. It’s really interesting to hear the ideas that fifth grade students come up with—a mix of practical and creative.

Some ideas, like cutting chambers underwater so fish have caves to swim in and sinking baskets down to the bottom of the water, are ingenious.

Some kids would like to add lights and color to the structures.

What are your future plans for the fish harbor hotels?

The grants we received have helped us work with area schools on this project, which we plan to continue doing. Our goal is to build 40 hotels in two years. We should have about 50 hotels total installed in Milwaukee by the end of next summer.

Lindsay Frost

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::HEARMEOUT ASK RUTHIE | UPCOMING EVENTS | PAUL MASTERSON

Be Your Own Prince Charming I’ve gotten several inquiries lately from readers looking for “sugar daddies” (partners who pick up the checks) and for men who are “generous” (men who pay for play). What’s the deal, folks? Let’s read a few messages and see what’s going on with gold digging here in Cream City.

Dear Ruthie,

I’m ending my 11-year relationship with the man I thought I’d be with forever. He’s 15 years older, and he did pay for just about everything. I have a job, so that’s good, but I don’t have much savings, and I’m not sure what I’m going to do now, and it f-ing sucks. Basically, I’m saying that I need a gay prince to ride in on a white horse, swoop me up and save the day. So, what’s the quickest way to meet a new Prince Charming?

Thanks, Penniless Prize

Dear Penniless,

The good news is that you have a job; the bad news is that your priorities are outta whack, honey. This is a new beginning for you, so tackle the challenges as such. Looking for Prince Charming? Look in the mirror. Be your own Prince Charming! Ride that white horse into your future, and, in the end, you’ll own the horse, the castle and, hopefully, a great hubby to boot! Don’t look to another man for your success, security and happiness. Look to yourself for that. Okay, sweetness? Okay!?

Dear Ruthie,

Last month, the rug was pulled out from under me. By that, I mean my boyfriend (no, we’re not married) hooked up with another guy. He’s been helping with my rent, Ruthie! Plus, he was paying a lot of my car payment, bought clothes for me and paid for our nights out. He just dumped me for this a-hole. Now what? I don’t have a damn job, and you can’t get one in this city.

What’s a Boy to Do? Totally Pissed-Off Hottie

Dear Pissed,

Oh, no! What horror! How unfair life is, sugar pit! Here’s an idea: Get a job, make your own money and pay your own way. Even if you shack up with a millionaire, make your own money. Always. When you make your own cash, you don’t have to worry about the rug being pulled out from underneath you, because you own the damn rug.

Make that rug your bitch! Own the rug, the house, the car… then you don’t have to rely on anyone else to provide those things for you.

::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Oct. 3—Open Studio for Trans-Lucent: A Transgender Empowerment Exhibition at UWM Union Art Gallery/Studio Arts & Craft Centre (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.): If you’re a transgender or non-binary artist, consider submitting your work for this upcoming exhibit.

Works of all mediums will be considered for the show, exploring themes of self-identity, resilience, relationships and interactions with society. Doors open at 4 p.m.

Oct. 6—AIDS Walk Wisconsin and 5K Run at Henry W. Maier Festival Park (200 N. Harbor Drive): It’s here! The largest HIV/AIDS fundraising event in the state is upon us, and it kicks off (or should I say, “steps off?”) at 12:30 p.m. this Saturday. The gates open at 9:30 a.m. for registration. Be sure to catch opening ceremonies at 11:45 a.m., featuring honorary chair, actor, activist and all-around great guy Matt Bomer. See aidswalkwis.org for more information— including about making a pledge even if you can’t make the walk.

Oct. 6—Art to the Rescue at Taylor & Burton (3405 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.): The group Canine Cupids has been finding homes for Milwaukee dogs for years, and they’re celebrating with a 6-10 p.m. night of art and photography. The third annual fundraiser includes a changeof-pace whiskey tasting, making it one art show you’ll never forget (or maybe you will, depending on how much of that whiskey you actually taste).

Oct. 7—Packers Party at Woody’s (1579 S. Second St.): If you haven’t watched a Green Bay Packers game at this LGBTQ sports bar, you haven’t watched a Packers game at all. Cheer on the green and gold with a beer bust, pizza buffet and touchdown shots. The game starts at noon but get there early for a good seat!

Oct. 10—Second Annual Stonewall Dinner at Backstage (101 S. Washington St., Green Bay): Remember the past and celebrate the future with an extraordinary dinner. Honor the rebels who paved the way for LGBTQ progress and embrace the challenges ahead with this 5:30 p.m. evening. Hosted by the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the event includes a cocktail reception, dinner, guest speakers and more. Tickets start at $50 for non-members but swing by wislgbtchamber.com for additional options.

Ask Ruthie a question and share your events at DearRuthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Listen to Ruthie every Friday on Energy 106.9 at 10:05 a.m. and watch Ruthie on YouTube’s new reality show “Camp Wannakiki.”

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ast week began with a guffaw heard ‘round the world at the United Nations. In an inadvertent stand-up bit, our dear leader made himself (and the nation as a whole) an international laughing stock. Then came the U.S. Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who is accused of sexual assault. They may not have achieved the same level of hilarity as the U.N. Comedy Hour, but they did manage the emotional arc of high-performance art.

The alleged victim, Christine Blasey Ford, appeared credible and demure. Then, with all the petulant ire of a venomous opera queen insisting Maria Callas sang a better ombre legere than Dame Joan Sutherland, Sen. Lindsay Graham, in a hissing fit of pique, denounced her sexual assault accusations. For his part (speaking of divas), Kavanaugh dutifully ranted, cried, screamed and apparently perjured himself in an opera buffa-worthy performance of too much protesting— admitting only that he did, indeed, like beer. His unstable belligerent rage, unambiguous animus towards Democrats and just pure dry drunken behavior would disqualify him as a Walmart greeter let alone a Supreme Court judge for life.

What it all reveals is something that should have been painfully obvious long ago, since the first gloating over pussy-grabbing or making fun of a reporter with disabilities: Republicans remain unapologetic for their strident

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wealthy-white-male amorality. And, speaking of amorality, amid all this mayhem, a local gay Republican just held a fundraiser for Leah Vukmir—the virulent homo-hating conservative, ALEC board member and candidate vying for Tammy Baldwin’s senate seat.

There’s an irony for you. The Republican candidate is opposed to LGBTQ rights. The host is gay. But the conservative candidate would play a key role in the push to end the Affordable Care Act. Rescinding it would end protections of those with pre-existing conditions. In other words, among others, many with HIV/AIDS would be uninsurable. Vukmir would also vote for more corporate tax breaks. The host, the gay guy, a CEO of a computer software corporation serving private healthcare companies, stands to gain.

Strange bedfellows, perhaps, but wealth is as addictive as political power.

Fortunately, Wisconsinites aren’t laughing. Our regime’s approval rating has slipped from +6 in January 2017 to -12 in May 2018, a precipitous fall of -18. It’s not surprising.

Apart from the daily barrage of nationally embarrassing tweets and tirades, trade sanctions have hit Wisconsin farmers and, in the row with Harley-Davidson, our state pride has been bruised.

People are tired of mass shootings, the unbridled corruption of the Republican “power and profits” first mantra, concentration camps for children, the loss of our national respect and kowtowing to enemies.

Locally, there’s the sorry state of infrastructure, education and environment. So, at least for the moment, Sen. Tammy Baldwin—our out advocate for LGBTQ rights—is leading by 11 points according to recent polls. But that can easily change.

With just weeks to go before we vote, it really is time to wake up. We need to actively protect our hard-fought rights starting right now! This time, the LGBTQ vote is essential, and our leaders had better get on the ramparts and lead.

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CHRVCHES TAKE A TURN TOWARD POP ::BY JOEY GRIHALVA

ince the May release of Scottish synth-pop trio Chrvches’ third studio album, Love is Dead, two principle narratives have surrounded the band.

One focuses on how lead singer Lauren Mayberry’s feminist critique of the music industry predates the #MeToo movement. The other revolves around the band’s decision to record in New York City and Los Angeles with powerhouse producer Greg Kurstin rather than self-produce in the Glasgow basement where previous projects were born.

“We know we have this base foundation, this safety net that is the three of us,” Mayberry says over the phone from California. “I don’t want to write the same record again and again, so we try to be open to things, but also confident and secure in what we have.”

Chrvches met with a handful of producers before teaming up with Kurstin, the reigning Grammy Producer of the Year, who co-produced eight of the 12 songs on Love is Dead. One song, “My Enemy,” features guest vocals from The National’s Matt Berninger, a duet that speaks to Chrvches’ indie-rock roots.

Before joining forces with Martin Doherty and Iain Cook, Mayberry sang in a handful of unsuccessful underground groups back in Scotland. Doherty and Cook spent years in alternative Glasgow bands. Doherty was a touring member of the Twilight Sad, though he never formally joined the band. Cook and Doherty produced the demos for what would become Chrvches’ early material, which they invited Mayberry to sing over. During that first session together they knew they had struck upon something special.

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Little was known about Chrvches when the band’s initial singles appeared on SoundCloud in early 2013. The futuristic, fist-pumping electro-pop quickly made the rounds on music blogs and inspired a cadre of imitators.

The band’s debut, The Bones of What You Believe, may go down as a benchmark record of the 2010s for its innovative, infectious blend of indie-pop and electronic dance music.

“There’s a real art in being able to take emotions that can be quite complex and distilling them into something very direct,” Mayberry says of pop music, which she admits is looked down upon in certain circles.

“When you find those pop songs, whether it’s from Robyn or Cyndi Lauper or someone like that, the artists that really get you in the gut and articulate what you’re thinking and feeling and make you feel a lot less alone, that’s a very powerful thing,” she says.

Kurstin has helmed some of the most successful pop music of recent years, including Adele’s record-breaking hit “Hello.” He has worked with artists such as Kelly Clarkson, Sia, Tegan and Sara, Lana Del Rey and Paul McCartney. Kurstin’s presence on Love is Dead signals Chrvches’ mainstream crossover aspirations. Though his work gives the record a thorough sheen, Mayberry says Kurstin encouraged them to jump in the booth whenever inspiration came, resulting in the band’s most dynamic record to date.

For calling out the callous treatment of women in the entertainment industry, Mayberry has been viciously lambasted online and occasionally in person. Doherty and Cook have also spoken out about injustice and the need for art to be a voice of resistance. This line in the sand has occasionally resulted in snide reviews of the band. Despite the pitfalls of being in the public eye, Mayberry cherishes her job as a musician and writer.

“What is beautiful and great about art is that you’re basically making something out of nothing,” she says. “You’re making something out of whatever it is that is rattling around in your Chrvches head.”

Riverside Of her songwriting process Theater Mayberry says, “You’re trying to Thursday, crack your head open a little and Oct. 4, 8 p.m. see what comes out. It’s about finding a place to be properly honest, to say things that I probably wouldn’t say as bluntly or as brazenly to people in real life. It’s weird because being in a band is the most exposed that we are, but it’s also the place where I can be the most open.”

Between moving to New York City, Trump’s election and Brexit, Mayberry has had a lot to process. Love is Dead may be a declarative statement, but the album expertly balances light and dark. It finds a way to transcend the frustration from what feels like a decline in our global empathy reserves. Love is Dead is a both an evolution and a return to form for one of the sharpest architects of modern dance music.

Chrvches headline the Riverside Theater on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 8 p.m. with Lo Moon.

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The Coffee House Keeps a Half-Century Tradition Alive in a New Home ::BY JAMIE LEE RAKE

“PREPARE TO BE WELCOMED.” Brett Kemnitz gives that warm invitation to The Coffee House, a Milwaukee locus for acoustic music, poetry and social activism since the late 1960s. On Saturday, Oct. 6, the venue will begin its 52nd season of programming in its new location at Plymouth United Church of Christ, 2717 E. Hampshire St. A host of circumstances prevented the cooperatively run non-profit venue from starting a second half-century at its former location, Redeemer Lutheran Church, across from the Marquette University campus on West Wisconsin Avenue. But Kemnitz, who acts as master of ceremonies for some Coffee House dates and organizes its food drive concerts, expresses gratitude for the club’s new space. “Their mission statement and ours are almost identical,” he says of Plymouth’s guiding principles. “They do good work, and so do we.”

Although The Coffee House had been at its old address for longer than some of its regular attendees have been alive, that location was beginning to present logistical challenges. Kemnitz speaks of volunteers “toting the coffee and water up and down, which made work for the volunteers four times as much.” Of the venue’s new digs, Kemnitz says, “This looks like a match made in heaven,” adding with strictly secular cheekiness, “and coming from an atheist!”

As was the case at Redeemer and remains so at Plymouth, one need not subscribe to the host church’s spiritual tenets to feel at home at The Coffee House. Of the concept’s origin, Kemnitz shares, “It’s a meeting place where people of different backgrounds can gather and discuss concerns and problems. It was a positive response to the open housing marches and general turmoil of the late ’60s.”

That emphasis on social action not only extends to The Coffee House’s frequent food pantry benefit gigs, but also to monthly “Living Activism” concerts for different causes on its monthly fall-to-spring schedule. Kemnitz has a long personal history there. He’s been attending since 1969, and if tradition holds, the former city employee and prolific writer of tunes both silly and serious will be on the House’s schedule later this season with another of his annual new song concerts.

That show will doubtless attract many of the venue’s regular crowd from throughout its history. “There’s always a lot of the old guard,” Kemnitz says of The Coffee House’s consistent patrons. Of the likelihood that they will follow The Coffee House to its new space, Kemnitz predicts, “I think most of them will come to the new place. In fact, a lot of them live closer to the new place than the old.”

But attracting younger aficionados of acoustic music has been a challenge of late. Though its space at Redeemer stood on the other side of the street from MU’s campus, he’s hopeful that Plymouth being situated three blocks from UWMilwaukee will draw a more youthful patronage. “UWM has a more diverse student body, so I think we’ll have more success in bringing younger folk in,” Kemnitz hopes.

The Coffee House draws on the traditions of folk veterans such as Bob Dylan, but it also presents the work of many more recent artists. Its 2018-’19 season opens on Saturday, Oct. 6, with “a salute to women who have made a lasting contribution to music,” according to its website, and will feature the founder of the 43-year-strong National Women’s Music Festival, Kristin Lems, with local openers Andy Jehly, Kristin Kornkven and Sandy Weisto. Admission is two canned goods for the food pantry and $5-$15. Other dates are subject to the same sliding scale cover charge, but, Kemnitz adds, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

The Coffee House’s complete calendar is online at the-coffee-house.com.

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f course, Greensky Bluegrass have songs with lyrics. The Kalamazoo, Mich., band with their genre in the name have filled several albums full of them since their formation at the turn of the 2000s. But those songs, however articulately written and emotively and resonantly sung, largely act as anchors grounding some of the most exploratory of improvisations. The band’s first time at The Riverside Theater since March 2017 drew a near-capacity crowd for two sets of the kind of bluegrass that Bill Monroe could likely never have imagined when he birthed the genre about three-quarters of a century ago.

Bluegrass as the jump-off point for jam acts is nothing new. The Yonder Mountain String Band can fill halls of respectable size in Milwaukee, and Trampled By Turtles will be playing The Riverside come January. But darker and more unorthodoxly nuanced textures informed the journeys on which they took their listeners Saturday night. Adding several of those sonic surfaces outside the realm of standard bluegrass instrumentation—already without fiddle in Greensky’s case—was an electric guitarist not in the band’s usual lineup. He would at least on one occasion conjure rickety, percussive effects from his axe more akin to the abrasive work of Eugene Chadbourne or John Fahey than those associated with more common notions of what constitutes roots music.

That may have been an outré touch for what was once considered a subset of country music, but more subtly, the regular bandmates’ own interactions bucked norms as well. Michael Arlen Bont’s economical, occasionally melodically askew turns on banjo might be more often featured as leads in other ‘grass acts, but here was roughly as prominent as Dave Bruzza’s folk guitar, which was given opportunities for ear-grabbing solos. The upright bass was played with thumping and throbbing aplomb by Mike Devol, while dobroist Anders Beck added metallic twangs at intriguing junctures with no signs of showboating.

Neither did Paul Hoffman ply his mandolin for the mere sake of virtuosity. As the group’s main lead singer, he discards the protocol of high tenor vocal attack typical of bluegrass singers for something more naturalistic, though lonesome as anything. Hoffman’s wizened weariness adds piquant melancholy to lyrics relating hard luck, disappointment and, less often though perhaps more bitterly, dissatisfaction with spirituality.

For the last few numbers of their first of two sets, Greensky was joined on electronic piano by Holly Bowling of their opening act, Ghost Light. Bowling’s lively, often arpeggiated contributions to the headliners’ walls of jamming lent the music a welcome bumpiness. With her own band, she was a part of what came off as an intermittently jangly permutation of the aesthetic pioneered by the peripatetic forebears of jam rock, The Grateful Dead. Their iteration of the form was a tad bogged in noodliness emanating from the grooves they produced, but a combination of male and female lead vocals was a sweet exception in a scene that is too frequently a dude-dominated domain on stage.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4

Amelia's, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Anodyne Coffee , Jared Rabin w/The Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers & The Radio Wranglers Beulah Brinton House, David Roth in Concert Bremen Cafe, Seal Eggs w/David Poole & The Unitaskers Caroline's Jazz Club, Wicked Long Day County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Bossa Nova Night Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) McAuliffe's Pub (Racine), House Of Hamill Mezcalero Restaurant, Ultimate Open Jam w/host Abracadabra On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, Iron & Wine w/Erin Rae Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Hambo and the Meemops (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Justin Adams w/Alyssia Dominguez (8:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Logan Mize (all-ages, 8pm), Jakubi (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, CHVRCHES w/Lo Moon Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World's Funniest Free Comedy Show Shaker's Cigar Bar, Prof. Pinkerton & the Magnificents Shank Hall, Shawn Mullins w/Jennifer Lynn Simpson The Back Room at Colectivo, Eleanor Friedberger w/Pill and Greatest Lakes The Bay Restaurant, Bruce Dean & Chrissy Dzioba The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Jeremy Kuzniar Organ Trio Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5

Alley Cat Lounge (Five O'Clock Steakhouse), Christopher's Project Ally's Bistro (Menomonee Falls), The Kaye Berigan 4Tet American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Andrea & The Mods American Legion Post #69 (Mayville), The Ricochettes Angelo's Piano Lounge, Julie's Piano Karaoke Art*Bar, Art Show Opening: FEAR15, music w/JJ Fall Train & Invisible Cartoons Bubs Irish Pub (Germantown), 5 Card Studs Cactus Club, Newvices w/The Millennium, Clear Pioneer, Skyline Sounds & Mario Lanza Cafe Bavaria, Cafe Bavaria Oktoberfest w/music Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Lucy Kaplansky Caroline's Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Hal Miller & Aaron Gardner Cedarburg Cultural Center, First Fridays: Loudmouth Soup & Stephanie Hayes w/Ryan Webster (6pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: GoGoSlow (8pm); DJ: Miss LaFontaine (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Frank's Power Plant, Reflection of Flesh w/Angrboda, No Conviction & Siren of Sorrow Iron Mike's (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends

Jazz Estate, Jazz Orgy (8pm), Late Night Session: Sam Winternheimer Group (11:30pm) Kenosha Moose Lodge #286, Joe Kadlec Kuhtz General Store (Oconomowoc), Jonny T-Bird & the MPs Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman's Riverwest Inn, The Flood Brothers w/Bella Brutto Mamie's, Stokes & the Old Blues Boys Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Miramar Theatre, Dead Man's Carnival w/Prof. Pinkerton & The Magnificents Pabst Mansion , Retro Beer Night w/The Squeezettes (6pm) Pabst Theater, Hippo Campus w/The Districts Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Matt & Karla as Subtle Undertones (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Justin Adams w/Alyssia Dominguez (9:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, NF w/Nightly (all-ages, 8pm), Neck Deep w/ Trophy Eyes, Stand Atlantic & WSTR (all-ages, 7pm) Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), David Ellefson of Megadeth w/ Wrath & Green Death Shank Hall, Foreigner 4 Ever w/Insane Octane The Baaree (Thiensville), Friday Night Live: Soulfoot Mombits (6pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, Robbie Fulks The Bay Restaurant, J. Ryan Trio The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) Twisted Path Distillery, MRS. FUN Unitarian Church North, Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series presents: Johnsmith w/Dan Sebranek & Michelle Held Up & Under Pub, Modern Joey w/Dogbad & Pineapple Migraine

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6

AJ's Bar & Grill (Muskego), 5 Card Studs American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Ricochettes Cactus Club, Extension Cord presents: Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, The Trongone Band, S.S. Web & Driveway Thriftdwellers Cafe Bavaria, Cafe Bavaria Oktoberfest w/music Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Open Stage Caroline's Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band w/James Sodke, Andy Spadafora, Hal Miller & Eric Jacobson Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Hungry Williams (8pm); DJ: Theresa Who (10pm) ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), Aftermarket Switch w/Six Pack Sammy Five O'Clock Steakhouse, Charles Barber Fox Point Farmers Market, Carlos Adames Trio (10am) Frank's Power Plant, Mo’ynoq w/Air Raid, Population Control & Winterbourne Glen Cafe, Jim the Piano Man (5pm) Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jazz Estate, Jacknife (8pm), Late Night Session: The Ladies’ Club Quartet (11:30pm) Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Tower Avenue Band Mamie's, Fall into the Last Hurrah: Marvelous Mack (12pm), The Incorruptibles (4pm), Motown DJ (9pm)

Mamie's, Motown at Mamie w/Spinscapes DJs Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Orson's Saloon (Cudahy), Jonny T-Bird & the MPs Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, 1st Oktoberfest w/ November Criminals & Uncle Kenny Polka Pabst Theater, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls w/Bad Cop/ Bad Cop, and Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs Plymouth Church UCC, The Coffeehouse presents Food Pantry Benefit: "Foremothers' Show" w/Sandy Weisto, Andy Jehly, Kristin Kornkven & Kristin Lems Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Kirk Tatnall (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Justin Adams w/Jackie Brown (9:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, The Devil Wears Prada w/Fit For A King & '68 (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Brett Eldredge w/Devin Dawson & Abby Anderson Shank Hall, KICK - The INXS Experience Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes & guest "Bluz & BBQ" Slinger House (Slinger), Scotch and Soda The Back Room at Colectivo, Ryley Walker w/Health & Beauty The Bay Restaurant, VIVO w/Warren Wiegratz The Cheel (Thiensville), The Blues Disciples The Packing House Restaurant, Mauree! (6:30pm) Up & Under Pub, Hot By Ziggy Urban Harvest Brewing Company, Polish Moon Polka Trio (3pm) Washington House Pub (West Bend), Washington House Open Jam (6pm) Westallion Brewing Company, Robert Allen Jr. Band

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7

Angelo's Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Cactus Club, Milwaukee Record Halftime Show: Population Control (12pm) Cafe Bavaria, Cafe Bavaria Oktoberfest w/music Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Dale Kellison & Friends (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Iron Mike's (Franklin), Jam Session w/Kenny Todd (3pm) Lakefront Brewery, Keg Stand Up Milaeger's Great Lakes Market (Racine), Mambo Surfers (10am) Miramar Theatre, JAUZ Presents: Bite This! w/Holy Goof & Skepsis (all-ages, 9pm) Pabst Theater, Ben Rector w/The Band Camino Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic The Baaree (Thiensville), Sunday Funday Open Jam: w/Colin Loman & Friends (4pm) The Tonic Tavern, Third Coast Blues w/Blues Disciples' Barefoot Jimmy & Pauly Walnutz (4pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Michelle Wolf Wehr Nature Center, Cider Sunday w/Bluegrass All Stars & The Sweet Sheiks (11:30am) Woodland Pattern Book Center, Alternating Currents Live: Tandem Trio

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Jazz Estate, Mark Davis Trio Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Poet's Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Egon H.E. Lass (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie's Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John & Dave Wacker Shank Hall, LA Guns w/Tracii Guns & Phil Lewis, and TEEZE Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9

Frank's Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Jazz Estate, Sweet Sheiks Kim's Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. & Friends (6pm) Landmark Lanes, Voyager Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Tyne Darling w/Micah Schnabel & Vanessa Jean Speckman Mamie's, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe's Pub (Racine), Jim Yorgan Sextet Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm, all-ages) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Rave / Eagles Club, 10 Years & Tremonti w/Skyharbor (all-ages, 7pm) Riverside Theater, The Doobie Brothers Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Bluz Jam Sugar Maple, StorySlam: “Misunderstood” The Cheel (Thiensville), Alive After 5: Matt MF Tyner (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band 10-Year Celebration

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10

Cactus Club, Rookie Of The Year “Sweet Attention” 10-Year Anniversary w/Challenger, A Brilliant Lie, Steve Pitzl, Monorail Central & Victory Drive/Sean O’Shea (6pm) Caroline's Jazz Club, Jimi Schutte American Blues Conway's Smokin' Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson High Dive, The Voodoohoney Pirates Iron Mike's (Franklin), B Lee Nelson Acoustic Jam Jazz Estate, Larry Tresp Duo Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Ben Harold (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Pabst Theater, Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen Paulie's Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. & Friends (6pm) Tally's Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Back Room at Colectivo, Your Smith (fka Caroline Smith) w/ Baum The Cheel (Thiensville), DL3 - The Dan Lloyd Trio (6:30pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm)

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When Time Off Means More Work Time Dear Shrink,

I was just on a week-long vacation, but I feel more exhausted than I did before I left.

I came back to an overflowing inbox and a bunch of stuff that fell through the cracks while I was away. Sometimes I think it’s not even worth it to take time off. What do you think?

The Shrink Replies,

There’s a lot of post-summer blues going around. It’s a real bummer when taking a little time off doesn’t even make a dent in your pent-up work stress. Still, taking time away from work is a good idea. Studies show that Americans leave an awful lot of vacation time on the table each year. Our European neighbors, on the other hand, have no qualms about taking an entire month off and going to the beach. What sounds like an impossible luxury to us is a matter of course for them. It’s an enviable way to live, but let’s rethink vacations and create some opportunities for respite that are more compatible with our own culture.

Work-life balance is more than just a buzzword. Our physical health, mental acuity, psychological and emotional stability are supported by good food, moving around a bit, getting enough rest and hanging out with people we enjoy. Sadly, the demands of work often bump these necessary life ingredients to the bottom of our list of priorities. Yet, if you’re not taking care of yourself, you’re ultimately not going to perform any of those priority tasks very well. When we were younger and operating on an academic schedule, September marked the beginning of a new year for us. So, now’s a good time for you to look at some new strategies to manage your worklife stress more effectively. Try some of these suggestions:

Don’t save your limited time off for one precious week in summer.

Is there anything more irritating than waiting all year to be able to get outside and enjoy some sunshine, then learning that the weather forecast is calling for pouring rain and damaging winds? We’ve all been there. Always have a “Plan B” option for what to do if the weather doesn’t cooperate. If you’ve booked a campsite a year in advance and the weather is less than ideal for camping, is it worth it to keep that reservation and resign yourself to being soaked all week? Or, is this where you cut your losses, bag the camping trip altogether and do something else? Make “Plan SHEPHERD EXPRESS

B” something that can be easily implemented at the last minute. Think of it as an equally acceptable way of getting your long-awaited R&R even though it might not be your first choice. As the old saying goes, don’t leave home without it!

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Many people look forward to spending their time off with families, in-laws or at a high school or college reunion. But, for some, these visits feel more like an obligation or they involve so much emotional work that they add to the exhaustion you’re already experiencing.

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If possible, add a day onto a weekend now and then. Create a quarterly micro-vacation for yourself by arranging a day or a half-day off during the week vs. on the weekend. Put it on the calendar and make it something to look forward to. Even if you spend that day doing errands, there’s something to be said for grocery shopping on a low-key Wednesday morning instead of a crowded Saturday afternoon or being home alone while the kids are in school and the spouse is at work. Plus, there’s a psychological bonus in knowing that the rest of your team is working away in their cubes while you’re playing hooky! Don’t be afraid to use your sick days as mental health days. Sometimes you just need to stay home and reboot your system.

Managing stress and balancing the demands of your job with all the other things and people in your life is an ongoing challenge. Since most of us don’t have unlimited time or money to spend on the things we’d really love to be doing, it takes some creativity to think about what types of things will give you a restorative time-out. Then, it takes assertiveness and permission to consider it a priority.

So, for a moment, shut down your computer and your devices, close your eyes and imagine what you would do if someone gave you the gift of a day off in the next month.

Now, look at your schedule and challenge yourself to make it happen. Your body, mind and spirit will thank you.

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THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Sum Sudoku”

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25. Pediatrician: 2 wds.

27. Antiquated 28. Digits 30. Part of USSR 31. Ship’s galley 34. Old length measure 35. Soak 36. “— — Day’s Night” 37. Colony of rabbits 39. Tolerable 44. Bumpkins 45. Music maker: 2 wds.

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85. Sidestep 87. Posies 89. Where Jaffa is 91. Spiced wine beverage 92. Kind of pre-LCD monitor 93. Audibly 94. Points in orbits 96. Swaggers 99. Duds 100. Stopped snoozing 101. Child of the ‘50s: 2 wds.

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54. Sends 55. Let slip 56. Adams the actress 57. Short-billed rail 58. Spike 60. Cote d’— 61. Coil of yarn 62. Artistic category

63. “The Prophet” author Khalil — 64. Cheese variety 65. Primed 66. Cat’s-paw 68. — and drabs 69. Reproach 71. Laugh out loud 72. Place 74. Provide 75. Windblown loam 77. Slaughterhouse 78. Prepared for surgery 81. Break a code 83. Pin grass 84. Biblical instrument 85. Kind of mushroom 86. Composed of plants 88. Eats 90. Advocate 93. — provocateur 95. — comitatus 96. PM of Japan 97. Ski lift: Hyph.

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 25 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Governing body Solution: 25 Letters

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::NEWS OF THE WEIRD

::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson offers this observation: “When you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. [But] the most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.” I think Tyson’s simple wisdom is exactly what you need to hear right now, Libra. You’re primed for a breakthrough in your ability to create your own fate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Japanese entrepreneur Hiroki Terai has created a business that offers crying therapy. His clients watch short videos specially formulated to make them weep. A professional helper is on hand to gently wipe their tears away and provide comforting words. “Tears have relaxing and healing effects,” says an Okinawan musician who works as one of the helpers. Hiroki Terai adds, “It has been said that one drop of tear has the effect of relieving stress for a week.” I wish there were a service like this near where you live, Scorpio. The next two weeks will be a perfect time to relieve pentup worry and sadness and anxiety through cathartic rituals like crying. What other strategies might work for you?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fling out friendly feelers! Sling out interesting invitations! Figure out how to get noticed for all the right reasons! Make yourself so interesting that no one can resist your proposals! Use your spunky riddle-solving powers to help ease your tribe’s anxieties. Risk looking odd if that will make you smarter!

Plunk yourself down in pivotal places where vitality is welling up! Send out telepathic beams that say, “I’m ready for sweet adventure. I’m ready for invigorating transformation!”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth,” writes poet Dorianne Laux. “I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working. Now I remember only the flavor.” I offer these thoughts, Capricorn, in the hope that they’ll help you avoid Laux’s mistake.

I’m quite sure that crucial insights and revelations will be coming your way, and I want you to do whatever’s necessary to completely capture them so you can study and meditate on them at length.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a young man, Aquarian poet Louis Dudek struck up a correspondence with renowned poet Ezra Pound, who was 32 years older. Dudek “admired him immensely,” and “loved him for the joy and the luminosity” of his poetry, but also resented him “for being so magnificent.” With a mix of mischief and adulation, Dudek wrote a poem to his hero. It included these lines: “For Christ’s sake, you didn’t invent sunlight.

There was sun dazzle before you. But you talk as if you made light or discovered it.” I hope his frisky tone might inspire you to try something similar with your own idols. It would be healthy to be more playful and lighthearted about anything or anyone you take too seriously or give enormous power to.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his book Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis writes, “Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.” In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I suggest you seek out dark holy places that evoke wonder and reverence, even awe.

Hopefully, you will be inspired thereby to bring new beauty into your life. You’ll be purged of trivial concerns and become receptive to a fresh promise from your future life.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Electra is an action-packed story written by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. It features epic characters taking drastic action in response to extreme events. In contrast to that text is Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, which draws from the sensitive author’s experiences growing up, coming of age, and falling in love, all the while in quest for meaning and beauty. Author Virginia Woolf compared the two works, writing, “In six pages of Proust we can find more complicated and varied emotions than in the whole of the Electra.” In accordance with astrological

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omens, I recommend that you specialize in the Proustian mode rather than the Sophoclean. Your feelings in the next five weeks could be as rich and interesting and educational as they have been in a long time.

Honor them!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Researchers in Maryland have created a new building material with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s eight times better than steel. It’s an effective insulator, and in some forms can be bent and folded. Best of all, it’s biodegradable and cost-effective. The stuff is called nanowood, and is derived from lightweight, fast-growing trees like balsa. I propose that we make it your main metaphor for the foreseeable future.

Why? Because I think you’re primed to locate or create your own version of a flexible, durable, robust building block.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The U.S. Secretary of Defense paid an official visit to Indonesia early this year. The government arranged for him to observe soldiers as they demonstrated how tough and well-trained they were. Some of the troops shimmied through broken glass, demolished bricks with their heads, walked through fire, and bit heads off snakes. I hope you won’t try stunts like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be a favorable time for you to show off your skills and make strong impressions. You’ll be wise to impress important people with how creative and resourceful you are. But there’s no need to try too hard or resort to exaggeration.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): i confess that i have a fuzzy self-image. With odd regularity, i don’t seem to know exactly what or who i am. For example, i sometimes think i’m so nice and polite that i need to toughen up. But on other occasions i feel my views are so outrageous and controversial that i should tone myself down. Which is true?

Often, i even neglect to capitalize the word “i.” You have probably experienced some of this fuzziness, my fellow Cancerian. But you’re now in a favorable phase to cultivate a more definitive self-image. Here’s a helpful tip: We Cancerians have a natural talent for inspiring people to love us. This ability will come in especially handy as we work on making an enduring upgrade from i to I. Our allies’ support and feedback will fuel our inner efforts to clarify our identity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I am a little afraid of love, it makes me rather stupid.” So said author Simone de Beauvoir in a letter she wrote to her lover, Nelson Algren. I’m happy to let you know, Leo, that during the next twelve months, love is likely to have the opposite effect on you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it will tend to make you smarter and more perceptive. To the degree that you expand your capacity for love, you will become more resilient and a better decision-maker.

As you get the chance to express love with utmost skill and artistry, you will awaken dormant potentials and boost your personal power.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your theme in the coming weeks is the art of attending to details. But wait! I said “the art.” That means attending to details with panache, not with overly meticulous fussing. For inspiration, meditate on St. Francis Xavier’s advice, “Be great in little things.” And let’s take his thought a step further with a quote from author Richard Shivers: “Be great in little things, and you will be given opportunity to do big things.” Novelist Tom Robbins provides us with one more nuance: “When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

Homework: At what moment in your life were you closest to being perfectly content? Recreate the conditions that prevailed then. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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

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The Kids are All Right

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awrence Mitchell, 53, gets this week’s Most Helpful Dad award for graciously driving his 15-year-old son and his son’s girlfriend (also 15) to a Port St. Lucie, Fla., park on Sept. 6 so they could “do their thang,” as Mitchell described it. The Smoking Gun reported that, when Port St. Lucie police officer Clayton Baldwin approached Mitchell’s car around after the park had closed, Mitchell told him the kids “aren’t out there stealing, they are just having sex. They could be out there doing worse.” When the teenagers returned from the nearby soccer field, Mitchell’s son told the officer they were “just smokin’ and fuckin’.”

Mitchell was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor.

Try a Little Harder While shopping at a Peoria, Ill., Walmart on Sept. 20, an unnamed 30-year-old woman filled her cart but also added a few items to her backpack: leggings, pencils, a quart of oil and a Jesus Calling Bible. After she paid for only the items in her cart, a loss prevention officer stopped her before she left the store. Peoria police were summoned, reported the Peoria Journal Star, and the woman explained to them she was hoping the Bible could help her spiritually. “(She) told me that she was trying to be more Christian,” an officer reported. She was charged with misdemeanor theft.

County Animal Services visited the warehouse where the animals were housed. Kathie Davidson, a volunteer with Claws N Paws, said: “If she hadn’t done what she did, then they’ll be charging her with animal neglect and cruelty.

What was she supposed to do!?” Hedges was released on bond, and the charges were later dropped.

Good Neighbor Policy The Martin County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office has received repeated calls about a man in a Stuart neighborhood who conducts chores around the outside of his house in the nude.

“I came out Sunday night to put the trash out, and I look over and he is bent over, winding up his hose, and I’m like, that’s my view of the neighborhood,” huffed Melissa Ny to WPBF TV on Sept. 19. Other neighbors are taking a more measured approach. “Literally, they are the nicest people you’ll ever meet; they would give you the clothes of their back,” neighbor Aimee Canterbury told WPTV. The sheriff’s department says there is nothing they can do as long as the man is on his own property and not touching himself inappropriately. The nudist declined to be interviewed, saying he and his family are private people. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Those Privileged Prius Owners After trying repeatedly on Sept. 12 to pull over a Toyota Prius driving swiftly and with expired tags on I-5 near Marysville, Wash., a Washington State Patrol officer finally caught up to the car at an intersection and verbally instructed the unnamed 42-year-old female driver to pull over, reported the Everett Daily Herald.

“I will not; I drive a Prius!” was the woman’s reply. The officer then asked her to step out of the vehicle, which she also refused to do, so he forced her out. “I will own your bank account!

I will own your house!” I’m a Prius owner!” she told him. When he asked her name, she responded, “None of your business.” Finally, she was arrested for failing to obey instructions, failing to identify herself and obstruction.

Going Unpunished Tammie Hedges of Goldsboro, N.C., founded the nonprofit Crazy’s Claws N Paws in 2013 to help low-income families with vet bills and pet supplies, so it was natural for her to take in 27 animals displaced by Hurricane Florence in September. Hedges treated many of the animals, found in the streets or surrendered by fleeing residents, with antibiotics and painkillers for fleas, cuts and other ailments. For that, The Washington Post reported, she was arrested on Sept. 21 for practicing veterinary medicine without a license, after an official from Wayne O C T O B E R 4 , 2 0 1 8 | 37

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VOTE!!! ::BY ART KUMBALEK

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’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I’m not going to take up any of your time this week ’cause you’ve got a job to do. And that is that Early Voting/In-Person Absentee Voting season is upon us, so I want you to drop whatever it is you’re doing right now and proceed directly to your polling joint and get your ballot into the hopper—especially you diehard and couldbe-Democrat-this-time voters, what the fock.

Here in Brewtown, this is the schedule on a silver platter for you’s early birds ’cause that’s the kind of guy I am: September 24 – October 12 Monday—Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Zeidler Municipal Building, 841 N. Broadway (no voting at Market Street entrance)

Monday, October 15 – Sunday, November 4 Monday—Friday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturdays (Oct. 27 & Nov. 3 only) 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sundays (Oct. 28 & Nov. 4 only) 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Zeidler Municipal Building, 841 N. Broadway Midtown Center, 5700 W. Capitol Drive Mitchell Street Library, 906 W. Historic Mitchell St. Zablocki Library, 3501 W. Oklahoma Ave. Center Street Library, 2727 W. Fond du Lac Ave. Mill Road Library, 6431 N. 76th St. UWM Peck School of the Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. (located in the Helene Zelazo Center across from the student union) MATC, 700 W. State St. (MATC students and faculty only for this location, schedule subject to MATC hours) *Voting hours at UWM on Friday, October 26 are 8am to 12pm only *No voter registration on November 3 or November 4

Midtown Center, 5700 W. Capitol Drive (located west of Pick ‘n Save, enter lot at 58th & Capitol) Mitchell Street Library, 906 W. Historic Mitchell St. AND:

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*No Sunday hours at MATC location OK, so let’s get going—the sooner we get our voting done, the sooner we can all have a nice cocktail or three as reward for a job well done, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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