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::BY MELANIE CONKLIN ong before Donald Trump demeaned the presidency of the United States by telling lie after lie, Gov. Scott Walker was working on his own Pinocchio nose, telling voters whatever he thought would allow him to keep his job. His fabrications are more subtle and cunning (and, therefore, less obvious to busy Wisconsinites), but they add up to a very serious pattern of deception from Walker, and he gets far worse during an election when he is desperate to keep his job.

The fact that anyone is debating whether Walker can call himself the “education governor” after he gutted public schools in Wisconsin points to a serious problem: Scott Walker’s pattern of mangling the truth is rarely called out.

Here is what his past practices show to be likely if Walker is reelected: Public schools will take further damage, roads and bridges will continue to crumble, people with pre-existing health conditions will lose insurance, and the economic ladder to success will be ripped away so people at the top can have even more.

Then, Walker will again turn away from the problems he’s caused Wisconsin and jet around the country boasting of his “reforms” while he runs for president in 2020. But, he says he only wants to be governor? That is exactly what he said a month before being reelected in 2014.

Anyone who believes Walker is the education governor after the past seven years might as well also believe that he’s the pro-union governor, he wants more Democrats voting, and he has a bald spot because he once hit his head on a kitchen cabinet.

Walker utilizes most types of falsehoods: lies, misdirection, false excuses, breaking promises, mangling statistics and dodging questions. He counts on busy Wisconsinites not to have time to focus on how often he mangles the truth. So, the Shepherd Express has gathered a list of his deceptions from sources on the frontlines of Wisconsin politics. It easily topped 100, but below are some of the most egregious.

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“I’M THE EDUCATION GOVERNOR”

Walker’s current campaign theme is based on his belief that, if he makes a false, vague statement often enough, people will buy it. We are not that naïve. He cut $250 million from the University of Wisconsin System (though he requested an even bigger cut). K-12 public education is funded below 2010 levels due to three budgets of drastic cuts, despite his election-year claim of historic commitment that doesn’t even cover inflation. He demonized and cut pay for teachers, causing a severe shortage and a drop in teacher experience, harming students. He broke his promises of free technical college tuition, universal access to college courses and expanding tuition tax credits.

“THE LAW GOING FORWARD SHOULD SAY THAT PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS ARE COVERED”

Walker has often said this. It’s an incredible statement given his hard push to wipe out the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He even authorized a lawsuit against the ACA—the very law that banned discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. During an ACA repeal debate, Walker suggested allowing insurance companies to charge higher rates to people with pre-existing conditions.

“WE’RE BROKE”

So Walker declared to justify Act 10—a ‘budget repair bill’ which gutted collective bargaining. He said that without it, state employees would get pink slips, and 200,000 children would lose Medicaid.

But the fact is that Act 10 was not remotely about a need to save money, as he quickly padded his budgets with big tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations. Proof it wasn’t a fiscal need came during the fight when employees offered up pay and benefits cuts to just keep their bargaining rights. He ignored them. Furthermore, state government can’t kick kids off Medicaid. Walker actually stated that Act 10 would leave collective bargaining “fully intact” in a Milwaukee radio interview on Feb. 18, 2011. Needless to say, PolitiFact Wisconsin rated this lie “Pants on Fire.”

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250,000 NEW JOBS?

Walker won election in 2010 vowing to create 250,000 jobs over the next four years. He even joked he’d brand it on his cabinet members’ foreheads. He did not create those jobs.

He did not have a plan to do it. Nor did he ever take responsibility for his failure, instead ludicrously blaming his failure on everything from the weather to protests to European debt.

Nearly eight years in, his job promise remains broken, yet he has the nerve to talk endlessly about how well he is doing in job creation. He misuses statistics, like low unemployment, that do not prove his point. This disproves it: Under Walker, Wisconsin has lagged behind the nation in job creation ever since he passed his first budget. Currently, Wisconsin is 31st among the 50 states.

WOMEN AND THEIR DOCTORS MAKE “THE FINAL DECISION?”

“I support legislation to increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options. The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor…

Our priority is to protect the health and safety of all Wisconsin citizens.” In 2014, Walker looked straight at the camera and said this in a campaign ad. Then, he signed a 20-week abortion ban without exceptions—even for victims of rape or incest. Lawmakers had an exception only to save the life of the mother and Walker publicly said he was against that too.

NO WALKER FOR PRESIDENT?

In 2014, Walker said he would not run for president. He stated: “My plan is, if the people of the state of Wisconsin elect me on Nov. 4, is (sic) to be here for four years... it’s a position I’m committed to.” One month later, he was re-elected; eight months later, he announced his run for president. When Walker exited the presidential race in September 2015, pundits blamed his extravagant spending, lackluster debate performance, terrible poll numbers and flip-flops on such issues as immigration restrictions. However, Walker insisted the reason was his desire to unite the Republican Party against Donald Trump and provide “a positive conservative alternative.”

Now, he panders to Trump and is “happy” Trump will campaign with him.

A “DRAFTING ERROR?”

In his 2015-’17 budget, Walker eliminated the Wisconsin Idea—a commitment to public service to better society—as part of a bigger assault on the UW System. Caught, he tweeted on Feb. 4, 2015, that it was a “drafting error.” He stood by that lie while both PolitiFact and The New York Times challenged him on it.

Then, he was forced in court by the Center for Media and Democracy and The Progressive to reveal documents with the truth: There was no drafting error. The elimination of the UW mission came from Walker.

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LYING ABOUT EVERS

Walker told Milwaukee TV personality Mike Gousha in May 2018 that the Democrats gave the right to take over failing schools to Superintendent of Schools Tony Evers, then blaming the latter for failing to do that with schools in Milwaukee. Not only is that power not given to the State Superintendent of Schools, but Milwaukee schools do not even qualify for lesser intervention powers any longer.

“THE LEVEL CLOSEST TO THE PEOPLE IS GENERALLY THE BEST”

Walker has touted his support for local control, including telling an American Legislative Exchange Council conference in 2015: “When you send power back to the local level, the level closest to the people is generally the best.” A Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo one year later showed that, since Walker took office, he approved 128 bills and measures usurping local control or shifting unfunded mandates onto the backs of local government.

REFUSING TO ADMIT BEING WRONG

After the Sandy Hook shooting, reporters asked Walker about his views on gun control.

He responded saying there is too much focus on the weapon. To illustrate this, he said there was a homicide with a bow-and-arrow near a Neenah school last week. There was no homicide. A bow-and-arrow was wielded in a domestic violence incident several miles away from the school. He stood by his statement for four days—until his spokesperson admitted Walker had been mistaken.

REFUSING TO CALL AN ELECTION

After hiring two legislators at the end of 2017, Walker refused to call special elections to replace them, saying it was to save the taxpayers money and that he did not have to do it. Both statements were false. If he had called them right away, they could have been held as part of the spring elections at no additional cost. After three courts said he was breaking the law, he was forced to comply—but too late for the spring elections.

NO “LEGISLATION AFFECTING PRIVATE-SECTOR UNIONS?”

“The governor said repeatedly during the intense battle over Act 10—his 2011 law that repealed most collective bargaining for public workers—that he would not let legislation affecting private-sector unions reach his desk,” reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

A bill doing exactly that called “Right-toWork” was rammed through the state legislature in just two weeks, and Walker signed it on March 9, 2015—on a factory floor where workers were reportedly cleared out. Since then, he’s pushed other officials, including Trump, to pass such bills.

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Where Does the Streetcar Go from Here?

THE HOP BEGINS SERVICE NEXT WEEK, BUT QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN ::BY ROB HULLUM

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n Friday, Sept. 7, a 67-foot, 83,000-pound streetcar was delivered to the City of Milwaukee from a Brookeville Equipment Corporation plant in western Pennsylvania.

It joined four others that had already begun gliding across tracks doing test runs throughout Downtown. At a press conference celebrating the delivery, Mayor Tom Barrett told a crowd of onlookers, “People who are in the heart of the city will see these cars moving around, and in the weeks ahead they’ll see them even more.” In one sense it was the end of a fight that had spanned decades. In another, it was just the beginning.

The contention surrounding this project is not lost on Barrett, but the mayor believes in the streetcar even if it has not always been the most popular position to take.

“There are many issues where we’ve decided that you have to do what’s right for our community,” he said.

“Some of them generate controversy, and some of them don’t. I always felt that this was going to be a significant step forward for the residents of the city, for connecting people and for economic development.”

But, even after the votes have been counted and the tracks have been laid, not everyone agrees. “I feel that the funding priorities in a number of areas are higher than for a streetcar,” said Alderman Tony Zielinski. The Bay View alderman is running against Barrett for mayor in 2020 and has used the streetcar as a wedge issue. He said one reason for running is “because of initiatives like this where the city isn’t listening to the residents of this community.”

He also said there will be no expansion of the system if he becomes mayor.

The streetcar, dubbed “The Hop,” opens to the public with a weekend-long celebration taking place Friday, Nov. 2, through Sunday, Nov. 4. As the city awaits the debut of its new $128 million transportation system, questions remain about expanding the route, its economic impact and a growing list of injury claims being taken on by a major local law firm.

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The Hop

Expansions and Backup Plans Even staunch streetcar supporters like Downtown Alderman Robert Bauman use words like “a start” and “modest” when referring to the initial 2.5-mile route. “It’s kind of the model for streetcar projects around the country to start out with a mile-and-a-half to two-mile route and then expand off it,” said city engineer Jeffrey Polenske, who has been involved in the design and implementation of the project since the beginning.

The city already has extensions in varying stages of development. The first is a 0.4-mile loop that will connect the initial route to lakefront attractions like Discovery World, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Summerfest grounds. Plans for the extension, which is fully funded and expected to open in late 2020, include a stop at the much-delayed Couture high-rise. The Couture’s issues— which include a Wednesday, Oct. 31, financing deadline from the City of Milwaukee to avoid a default notice according to the Journal Sentinel—could cause problems for the streetcar if the high-rise is not built.

If this were to happen, Bauman said that there is a backup plan that is “arguably as attractive, if not more attractive.” That is to run the tracks across Lincoln Memorial Drive to the front of Discovery World. “Rather than forcing people to get off at the Couture and walk across Lincoln Memorial Drive, they would basically ride across and be put at a station that is actually quite a bit closer to the destinations,” Bauman said. Polenske said he is confident the current route will move forward as planned.

The second planned extension would connect the Milwaukee Intermodal Station to the Fiserv Forum through Vel R. Phillips Avenue, then west to the Pabst Brewery Complex. The Common Council has approved $20 million for the $40 million project; the city has applied for a federal grant for the rest. But, with the current admin-

istration in Washington, D.C., federal funds are increasingly difficult to come by. “I don’t anticipate one dime out of the federal government for this project, so long as Trump’s people are in charge,” Bauman said.

Again, there is a backup plan. Depending on costs and the status of the grant, the city could use the money that is already approved to advance the route just to Wisconsin Avenue. This would bring streetcar access to the Wisconsin Center District, Hilton Milwaukee City Center and the Shops of Grand Avenue. “Ideally, we’re always trying to leverage as much federal funding as we can,” Polenske said. “But we are looking at our options.”

Why rush, when the city could wait for federal funds and complete the whole route at once? “Part of the reason we are looking at this with some urgency is that it would be a big piece of serving the Democratic convention,” Bauman said. “It would provide additional connectivity and really help our bid package.” Meanwhile, Polenske said that it is “an extraordinarily aggressive schedule” and “hard to say one way or the other” if the timeline is even possible. “But we are looking at our options to see how we could best advance the project, and, in part, be able to accommodate an event like that being held Downtown,” he said.

Some opponents have derided the streetcar as a shiny toy that only serves a narrow group of upwardly mobile Milwaukeeans who live and work Downtown. Preliminary plans are in motion to change this. Through a federal grant, the city was able to study how a streetcar route could benefit the Walker’s Point and Bronzeville neighborhoods. “We’re already starting that planning exercise, and that will help us determine how we reach out beyond just the central business district,” Polenske said. Findings from the study have been released, but an extension to either neighborhood is “probably five years away,” according to Bauman.

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NEWS&VIEWS::FEATURE ‘An Economic Development Tool’ As Mayor Barrett sold the idea of a streetcar to the city, he did not simply tout its merits as a transportation option. “I look at this as an economic development tool,” Barrett told the Chicago Tribune in 2012, a claim he has often repeated since. Though it is early, the results have been positive so far. Earlier this month, the city announced that property values within a quartermile of the initial route have increased by nearly 28% since the project was approved in 2015.

This is twice the rate of citywide property value growth according to the statement.

The real estate development community has also, by and large, embraced the project. Paul Dincin, principal at Catapult Realty, said that the streetcar was a factor in his firm’s decision to purchase and develop the Underwriters Exchange Building on North Broadway, which will be renamed Street Car Flats. “I see the new streetcar line as a positive factor for Downtown development,” he said in an email. “It shows a commitment by the city to continue to make the Downtown area a vibrant place to work and live.”

“The exception would be a real estate developer who does not say this is a significant factor in their decision to acquire a site, to develop a site, to invest in a site,” Bauman said. “The rare case would be a developer who does not say the streetcar is relevant to them.”

According to Mayor Barrett, “The market is speaking.” “We’re seeing office buildings, we’re seeing hotels, we’re seeing apartments, because people understand that, when you have fixed transit like this, it’s an investment in the future,” he said. “When they see the city investing in the future, they want to invest in the future as well.”

But, as development dollars flow in, liabilities may be on the horizon.

Is the Streetcar Safe for Bikes and Motorcycles?

In August, the law firm Hupy and Abraham announced that it had taken on a client who was injured while riding his motorcycle across streetcar tracks. The statement claimed that the rider was switching lanes when his front tire wedged between the tracks, throwing him off of his motorcycle and breaking his arm. By late September, Hupy and Abraham managing partner Jason Abraham said the firm was representing “about

a dozen” bicyclists and motorcycle riders who were making claims against the city for streetcarrelated injuries. He expected that there would be more. “I look at it and think of car accidents,” he said. “They’re a function of miles driven. The more we go, the more likely it is that something happens to us. I think the same thing applies here.”

Polenske referred any specific questions about the claims to the City Attorney’s office, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment. He did speak about the Department of Public Works’ response to the issue. “With any accident that we become aware of, we will evaluate and investigate it,” he said. “In general, our goal is to make people more familiar with the infrastructure that’s been put in place… It does take time, and it’s not just that we’re going to start, do it now and be done with it. It’s something that we will have to continue to do.”

Still, the growing number of claims could become a real concern for the city and is already becoming a talking point of streetcar opponents.

“That’s just going to be another cost to the city that is associated with the streetcar,” Zielinski said. “We don’t have the money to pay for these lawsuits that are going to be coming.” Whether or not lawsuits are filed remains to be seen.

When suing a governmental entity, litigants must first file a notice of injury. This is where Abraham is currently with his clients. Time must pass, and additional paperwork must be completed before an attorney is able to file a formal lawsuit.

Abraham is going through these steps and doing his homework in the meantime.

“I’m going to take the cases, I’m going to do the research, and if it turns out that I believe that the city is negligent—and that means they could have done something differently to prevent these accidents—then I’m ultimately going to file a lawsuit,” he said.

Despite the unanswered questions, the streetcar is coming. Supporters are as energized as ever, while many doubters remain just as skeptical. As for the latter, Barrett thinks that many of them will come around. “I anticipate people who haven’t been Downtown in decades to still be critical of it,” he said. “But, people who see how this fits into the other pieces of the incredible renaissance that’s going on in Milwaukee right now will have a better understanding of it.”

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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( OCT. 25 - OCT. 31, 2018 ) The Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump administration, as well as others who seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinkingdiscussion get-togethers and any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

Saturday, Oct. 27

Thursday, Oct. 25

Rally for our Ancestors @ Leaders Igniting Transformation Headquarters (2201 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), 10 a.m.-noon

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. 26

Unstoppable Together: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s Annual Luncheon @ Italian Community Center (631 E. Chicago St.), 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Artists and community leaders will join Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin for the organization’s annual luncheon. “Being in a community with other supporters of women’s health care is particularly important during these historic times,” says the event’s Facebook page. Tickets can be purchased at support.ppwi.org/MKE.

An Evening with Kathy Kelly @ Friends Meeting House (3224 N. Gordon Place), 7-9 p.m.

Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, will present “The Humanitarian Crisis from the U.S. Wars in Yemen and the Middle East.” The event is sponsored by Peace Action of Wisconsin.

Do Black Lives Matter: The Hidden History Behind Today’s Headlines @ Parklawn Assembly of God Church (3725 N. Sherman Blvd.) 10-11:30 a.m.

This is the second of three free presentations by Reggie Jackson—head griot of America’s Black Holocaust Museum—about the history and current impacts of the devaluation of black lives. This lecture will focus on devaluation in science and medicine.

Leaders Igniting Transformation and NextGen Wisconsin will come together to host a rally about the importance of young black voters participating in the political system. Following the rally, participants will go door-to-door giving out information on what is needed to vote.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of Farwell and North Avenues, noon-1 p.m.

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

Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.

Monday, Oct. 29

Pizza, Popcorn and Professionals: Careers in Politics @ Milwaukee Public Library (310 W. Locust St.), 5:30-6:30 p.m.

State Sen. Lena Taylor will join Teens of Milwaukee Public Library to speak about the array of jobs that are available in the world of politics. Teens can get pizza, popcorn and advice on careers that will make a difference in the community.

To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com. Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that Donald Trump and others of his kind have planned for our great country.

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You Say a Blue Wave is Coming in Wisconsin Last week, we asked if Wisconsin will experience a significant “Blue Wave” in November. You said: Yes: 72% No: 28%

What Do You Say? Do you buy Gov. Scott Walker’s claim that he’s the “education governor”?

Yes No Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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Democracy Isn’t a Dangerous Mob

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epublicans have come up with a brand-new threat to terrify voters into supporting them just in time for the midterm elections. Brace yourselves for it.

If Democrats are elected, America will be under the control of angry, leftwing mobs rioting in the streets.

That’s an odd nightmare for Republicans to be tossing out right now. It’s certainly true we’ve seen a lot of dangerous mobs on television ever since Donald Trump was elected president, but they’re rightwing, not leftwing. They wear red hats and scream “Lock her up!” because some woman used the wrong email server. They recently added 85-year-old U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein to their incarceration wish list. They really don’t like women very much.

We also saw a lot of emotionally distraught female survivors of sexual assault during the hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court appointment, but they weren’t much of a threat, either. They felt threatened themselves by the blazing speed with which Republicans ignored Christine Blasey Ford’s “100% certain” identification of Kavanaugh as her drunken attacker to put Kavanaugh on the nation’s highest court without a thorough investigation.

Republicans don’t appear to understand the

difference between a red-faced, lawless mob shouting about taking justice into their own hands and ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional right of peaceful assembly to express their opinions about the actions of their government. The latter is a basic tenet of democracy. All those marches by women, African Americans protesting unequal treatment by police, the proscience march, those led by surviving kids from the Parkland, Fla., school massacre and those leading protests against inhumane treatment of immigrants are as American as apple pie.

Protest is an American Responsibility

Throughout American history, both political parties have engaged in mass protests against policies of their government. What citizens choose to protest is what matters. It’s tough to convince anyone protesters are dangerous leftwing mobs when they’re demonstrating for affordable health care, human rights for immigrants or to ban military weapons of mass destruction from our city streets. Back when rightwing tea parties were protesting President Barack Obama, a popular bumper sticker read: “Democrats Protest Wars.

Republicans Protest Health Care.”

What Republicans call angry, leftwing mobs are just the majority of decent Americans—

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Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans—who disagree with many of Trump’s cruel, divisive, un-American policies. Trump intentionally inflames anger among his most rabid supporters toward people of color, Muslims, immigrants, women and anyone who disagrees with him. When that provokes righteous political anger on the targeted side, that’s the sign of a healthy political democracy.

It’s obvious Trump would be more comfortable living in a much less democratic society. His professed love for North Korea’s Kim Jong-un may just be a passing fling, but he’s clearly fallen head over heels for Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Lately, Trump has also embraced the idea of a single royal family having total control over a country and all its laws like King Salman and the Crown Prince do in Saudi Arabia. The Trump and Saudi royal families became close, working out a cover story for the murder and dismemberment of an exiled Saudi journalist who lived in the U.S. (Safety tip: Never start a fistfight with 15 Saudi assassins armed with a bone saw.)

Trump’s opposition to the basic principles of democracy is extreme when he openly advocates denying equal rights based upon race, religion and national origin. But Trump was not the first Republican to scorn such fundamental democratic principles as the right to vote and equal treat-

ment under the law.

Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan pay lip service to supporting democracy, but they’ve long-supported voter suppression laws to make voting more difficult for racial minorities and anyone else likely to vote Democratic. Corrupt Republican gerrymandering of voting districts distorts the outcomes of elections by making it nearly impossible for a majority of opposition voters to elect legislative or congressional majorities.

Even before Trump was elected president, he had a long history of lucrative business dealings with the Saudis. Trump grossly exaggerates the value of a U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia as an excuse not to issue any serious economic sanctions against it for the savage murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. What Trump really doesn’t want to lose are the tens of millions of dollars the Saudis have continued to pour into his hotel and condo businesses for years.

It’s extremely dangerous for Trump to pal around with the Saudis and find out what brutal, murderous regimes get away with. For the safety of our own democracy, the Secret Service never should have allowed our president to touch that glowing, hypnotic orb on his trip to Saudi Arabia. Trump has the mentality of an impressionable, overgrown child. We’ll know we’re in trouble if the war cry against Trump’s political enemies at his hate rallies escalates from “Lock ‘em up!” to “Off with their heads!”

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What Former Top Walker Cabinet Secretaries Think of Scott Walker’s Leadership and Character It is rare for a former cabinet official to be critical of his/her former boss, but it is totally unprecedented in Wisconsin’s history for four recent Walker cabinet members to speak out so strongly against their former boss. The secretaries Peter Bildsten, Paul Jadin and Ed Wall formerly of the Departments of Financial Institutions, Commerce and Corrections respectively wrote and signed the letter below. It takes a lot of courage and integrity at this very partisan moment in history to speak out for future of Wisconsin and put truth above party politics. See their letter below.

A fourth former cabinet member, transportation secretary Mark Gottlieb, is also speaking out on how our highway system is in trouble. Gottlieb says that Governor Walker is not telling the truth about road projects.

He goes on to say that Walker is “Fear-mongering” when he says that Tony Evers would raise the gas tax by a dollar a gallon. Gottlieb states that a dollar a gallon gas tax hike is “totally ridiculous.”

Finally, he says “We’re not going to have enough revenue to meet our needs. Congestion and delay are going to increase. That is fact. If that’s your position, accept the consequences of that.” This is all coming from the man who had to try to manage the Walker transportation department for six years under Walker’s policies and direction. Mark Gottlieb is being totally honest with the public and is putting the future health of Wisconsin and its roads above party politics.

The following is an Open Letter to Wisconsin Residents from three of Governor’s Walkers former cabinet secretaries Peter Bildsten, Paul Jadin and Ed Wall.

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t some time in the past eight years, each of us was asked by Scott Walker to serve as a cabinet secretary in his administration. Individually, we arrived at our constitutional duties with an intense desire to serve the people of Wisconsin and a fervent belief that Scott Walker had that same desire.

We further believed that Gov. Walker’s agenda was one we were willing to embrace and to help implement. We were proud to lead the way on some of his bold initiatives in our state agencies. That pride evaporated at various times for each of us as we found ourselves disagreeing with both policies and practices within the Walker administration that lacked integrity. It became clear that his focus was not on meeting his obligations to the public but to advancing his own political career at a tremendous cost to taxpayers and families.

As we come to a critical election, we find it imperative that we share with Wisconsin voters why we will not be voting for Gov. Walker. It starts with transportation, education and safety issues and extends to pervasive questionable practices within his administration.

There can no longer be any dispute over the fact that Wisconsin’s infrastructure is deteriorating, and that we have gone from bragging about our roads and leading the way in innovation to being endangered and embarrassed by them. A highway system that is safe, efficient and in good repair is critically important to industry, agriculture and tourism. Despite his earlier pledge that “Investing in Infrastructure”

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would be a theme for his administration, the governor’s record on transportation has been marked by an unwillingness to deal responsibly with the issue.

His decision to ignore the unanimous recommendations of his own bipartisan Commission on Transportation Finance has resulted in increased debt, delayed and canceled projects and deteriorating highway conditions. In fact, data provided by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation shows that inflation-adjusted spending on highway construction is currently the lowest it has been in 20 years.

A constant theme during Gov. Walker’s tenure has been to put off difficult decisions, drive our state further into debt and kick the can down the road for future generations to tackle at higher costs with opportunities lost. He lacks the basic understanding that investing in our state’s infrastructure spurs economic growth.

Meanwhile, our education systems are still reeling from the historic cuts we’ve experienced since 2011. Gov. Walker’s first budget cut funding for public schools by $1.2 billion—including $800 million from K-12 schools, and, just two years later, he went on to enact the biggest cuts to education in Wisconsin state history. Two years after that, the governor cut our University of Wisconsin System by $250 million while attempting to abolish the Wisconsin Idea. The magnitude of these cuts has compromised the quality of higher education in our state and greatly diminished the mission of the UW System to serve the people of Wisconsin. Gov. Walker fundamentally doesn’t understand that the quality of education in our state has a direct impact

on economic growth.

Next year, Wisconsin will invest less in public school districts than it did in 2011, which is one of the reasons that, between 2010 and spring 2017, more than 72% of Wisconsin school districts went to referendum—some of them doing so multiple times. More than one million Wisconsinites have been forced to raise their own property taxes to support their local schools. Economic and workforce development are driven by our schools and, once again, we see what was once our biggest boast becoming one of our biggest laments.

All of us have witnessed how job preservation and the siren call of higher office have influenced the governor’s approach to conducting business in Madison. During the recall in 2012, he stopped attending cabinet meetings and delegated state business to his chief of staff and Department of Administration secretary. When he decided to run for president in 2015, he subordinated Wisconsin interests to those in Iowa and New Hampshire, and his policy/ budget proposals started to clash with members of his own party who still would have to stand for election in Wisconsin.

The team he assembled closest to him had strict orders with respect to the way we, as former colleagues, did business. Those practices bore no resemblance to sound management or transparency. In fact, while those with the greatest access to the governor were making important decisions and steering others who do likewise, posterity would have no record of their existence. The governor and his team do not like to leave a paper trail or state record of their actions relating to the conduct of state business; they simply did everything in their power to avoid transparency in his decision-making process so they could not be held to account.

Internally, Gov. Walker has consistently eschewed sound management practices in favor of schemes or coverup and has routinely put his own future ahead of the state. The result is micromanagement, manipulation and mischief. We have all been witness to more than our share of this. It’s time to build a more open and transparent government to ensure the integrity of our public agencies and institutions.

We have served our state and local governments in many capacities over our careers and have voted for and supported Republicans. Therefore, we come to this next statement only after a great deal of reflection and discernment. On Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, please vote with us for Tony Evers.

Peter Bildsten, Secretary, Department of Financial Institutions (2011-2015) Paul Jadin, Secretary, Department of Commerce (2011-2012) Ed Wall, Secretary, Department of Corrections, (2012-2016)

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Voter Registration, Absentee and Early Voting ::BY JOHN JAHN

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any Wisconsin voters are under the impression that they must have a good reason to present to election officials in order to be “allowed” to vote via absentee ballot or to vote early (that is, prior to Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6). Voting doesn’t require an excuse from your doctor or parents; you can vote in person at a polling station, by mail, by fax (!) or at your local municipal clerk’s office without need to explain your choice to anyone. But, there are certain rules and deadlines you must be aware of. The foremost is that you must be registered to vote. Even if you think you are, it’s a good idea to check before it’s too late. You can do both by visiting myvote.wi.gov/ en-us/registertovote.

We hear a lot about “early voting” these days, but what exactly is it? It’s in-person absentee voting; contact your local municipal clerk’s office for dates, hours and locations for early voting, as these change from place to place throughout Wisconsin. A registered voter can visit his or her municipal clerk’s office (or other designated early voting location) in order to request a ballot; they will need to show an acceptable photo ID. Be prepared to vote right then and there, because when you are “early voting,” your ballot must be completed, sealed in the envelope provided and returned to the clerk when you receive it. By the time you read this, early voting will have begun in all Wisconsin municipalities.

Thursday, Nov. 1, is the deadline to request an absentee ballot by mail for all regular and permanent overseas voters. Your request must be received by your municipal clerk’s office no later than 5 p.m. Registered voters can download the application by visiting elections.wi.gov/forms/el-121-english.

Friday, Nov. 2, is the deadline to request an absentee ballot for all indefinitely confined and military voters. Your request must be received by your municipal clerk no later than 5 p.m. Friday is also the deadline to register to vote in your municipal clerk’s office. Voters may register in-person in their community’s municipal clerk’s office during their normal business hours. Finally, this is also the last day to early vote (vote in-person absentee) at your local clerk’s office for most Wisconsin municipalities (but not the City of Milwaukee); check with your local clerk’s office.

Sunday, Nov. 4, is the deadline to early vote (vote in-person absentee) in the City of Milwaukee at the Zeidler Municipal Building and at several other locations.

Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 7 a.m.-8 p.m., you can register to vote at your local polling place on Election Day. Where you live determines where you can go to cast your ballot. If you’re not sure where to go, enter your address at myvote.wi.gov/en-us. If you recently moved, you must vote at the polling place for your new address if you’ve resided there for at least 10 days; and, yes, you will have to register first. (If you moved within Wisconsin less than 10 days before Election Day, you’ll have to vote at your previous address’ polling place.) Election Day is also the deadline for voters to return an absentee ballot. If you have already received an absentee ballot, you must return your absentee ballot by mail or by personal delivery to your municipal clerk.

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New in Milwaukee THE LATEST IN PIZZA AND POKE plus THE REBIRTH OF TURNER HALL ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI With the opening of the Fiserv Forum comes a lot of new openings Downtown, including a Chicago pizza chain that we’ve been anticipating for years, a new spot from Mazen Muna and the rebirth of Turner Hall’s restaurant. Plus, there’s poke in Wauwatosa and pizza in Whitefish Bay.

Pizano’s Pizza and Pasta

A Chicago pizza chain has opened in the MSOE Grohmann Tower apartments Downtown. Pizano’s announced their plans to open in that spot almost two years ago. This is the sixth location of the restaurant, with the others all in the Chicagoland area. The large space seats 220 diners and is decorated in Wisconsin-themed sports memorabilia, not Illinois (phew!). Pizza—deep dish ($13.45-$29.95) and thin crust ($19.20-$26.70)—are the focus, but the menu is lengthy and includes all types of Italian American dishes. Fried calamari ($14.25) is the highlight of the appetizer menu, while Chicago-area favorite chicken vesuvio ($16.95) with wine, garlic, oregano and potatoes is something you won’t find anywhere else in our neck of the woods. A long list of pastas, including homemade lobster ravioli ($18.95) and sandwiches, burgers and desserts round out the menu.

1154 N. Water St. • 414-217-1777 pizanoschicago.com • $$

Taco Bar

A modern taco shop has opened in the former Peking House space Downtown.

Taco Bar is owned by Mazen Muna, who also owns Plum Lounge next door as well as the Dogg Haus—one location of which is opening right next door. The shiny, upscale space includes a dramatic backlit tree sculpture holding tequila bottles behind the bar. About 18 types of tacos are offered, which you have to order at the counter or bar. Inspiration for the tacos comes from all over the globe. The Mongolian beef ($4.50) includes grilled steak, scallions, cucumber and sesame; tika taco ($4.25) has spicy tikka chicken, jalapeños, cilantro and raita sauce; falafel ($3.75) is topped with hummus, Jerusalem salad, tahini and mint; and the three-legged pig ($4.25) contains herb-roasted pork, bacon, chicharrónes and apple vinaigrette.

782 N. Jefferson St. • facebook.com/tacobarmke • $

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A poke, sushi and smoothie restaurant has opened in Wauwatosa. R&R Poke is named for owners Ren Zhang and his wife, Rachael Zhao. Zhang grew up in the restaurant industry and previously owned Cheng Wong in West Milwaukee. The storefront, counter-service restaurant allows diners to see their poke being made behind the counter. Signature poke bowls include the seafood harvest ($13.95) with tuna, salmon, shrimp, avocado, mango, spicy mayo and eel sauce; and seafood-less chicken gone wild ($8.95) with chicken and sweet teriyaki. Diners can also build their own poke in a rice bowl, sushi, burrito or salad format. The restaurant also offers a large selection of fruit and herbal teas ($2.25+), fresh juices ($4.75-$5.75), fruit smoothies ($4.25-$5.25) and bubble milk tea ($3.55-$4.55).

1460 Underwood Ave. • 414-585-0882 rrpokewi.com • $-$$

Tavern at Turner Hall

The restaurant inside Turner Hall in Downtown Milwaukee has reopened. The Tavern at Turner Hall (as it’s now called) is being operated by Mike Eitel and his Caravan Hospitality group, which also operates Nomad World Pub and SportClub.

The décor is vintage social club with some Cuban influences. The food menu is an eclectic mix of bar favorites, sandwiches, trendy bowls and substantial entrees. Four types of wings ($14 for a dozen), from piri piri to lemon parmesan garlic, are offered. Burgers are one-third pound and come with toppings like caramelized onions, pepperjack cheese, chipotle aioli and avocado ($12). Cubanos ($9) and brats ($6) span the sandwiches, while entrees range from herb-crusted salmon ($20) to a 12-ounce ribeye ($28).

1034 N. Vel Phillips Ave. • 414-346-0800 tavernmke.com • $$-$$$

Trouble and Sons

A new pizzeria has opened in the location of the former Roman Candle pizzeria in Whitefish Bay. Trouble and Sons is owned by Anne Marie Arroyo and Temela Greene, who also own Moxie just down the street. The new space has similar quirky, shabby-chic décor with an emphasis on artwork and accommodating families. Pizzas have a medium-thick, doughy crust, described as “homestyle.” At opening, the focus is on pizzas, soups and salads, but there are plans to add pasta to the menu in the future. A full bar is available, including cocktails, draft beer and a curated selection of Italian wines.

133 E. Silver Spring Drive • troubleandsonspizzeria.com

CLOSINGS

Swig in the Third Ward and Ka-Bobs in West Allis have both closed. Meanwhile, Antigua, a Latin fusion restaurant in West Allis, has moved to new location—6207 W. National Ave.—a space that is larger and allows for more catering operations.

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Aaron Schmude has only lived in Milwaukee for just over a year, but he’s already got a couple favorite restaurants. He loves the feel of Tre Rivali and appreciates that chef Heather Terhune sources from local farms for her Mediterranean menu. “I would definitely start with the chicken liver mousse,” he says, “then move on to the octopus, which is cooked impeccably and has the perfect amount of spice and a vinegar pop.”

He also loves The Diplomat, where he always sits at the bar and orders a couple small dishes. “I’m inspired by how [chef Dane Baldwin] plays with different flavor profiles and ingredients,” he says.

“The gnocchi never fails to bring a smile. I can’t leave without having one of the chicken-in-abiscuit; it’s the perfect balance of savory and sweet with a flaky, buttery vehicle to shove in my face!”

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FUEL CAFE AND LAKEFRONT BREWERY HOST ‘DOOMSDAY’ EVENT ::BY TEA KRULOS

A post-apocalyptic-themed street festival called “Doomsday” is described as “beer, food, vendors, bands and anarchy,” though the latter part will (probably) be pretty well contained. The end-times event fits into pre-Halloween weekend on Saturday, Oct. 27, and was built on the release of a new Lakefront Brewery beverage: a bourbon-barrel-aged Fuel Cafe imperial coffee stout, aptly named Doomsday, and made just for this event.

The special brew is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Fuel Cafe’s and Lakefront Brewery’s partnership on a Fuel Cafe Organic Coffee Stout.

“We were really excited to celebrate with a new collaboration,” explains Andy Menchal, director of operations at Fuel Cafe. Dystopian partying was added, because “we thought it fit the boldness of the beer and season; we wanted something fun and loosely Halloween.” Appropriately loud and apocalyptic bands lined up to play the festival include sludge-metal band Northless, Moon Curse, Cashfire Sunset and Tan. Doomsday takes place at Fuel Cafe, 630 S. Fifth St., noon-6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27.

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COOKIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS ::BY MORTON SHLABOTNIK For many people, cookie baking is part of their holiday season traditions. Drawn from the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Holiday Cookie Contest, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book gathers well more than 100 recipes, many of them relatively easy to prepare. A few of them nod to the state’s Scandinavian heritage—the Swedish almond chocolate macaroons are cocoa filled and chocolate coated—but most emerge from that great eclectic mixing bowl of middle America.

The color photographs are enticing, especially those orange chocolate cookies and the cherry pinwheels. Each recipe comes with an origin story. “A skeptic may wonder how many new cookie recipes there can be,” editors Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson quip. The Cookie Book begins to answer the question, showing how the chassis of flour, butter, sugar and eggs can be customized in innumerable ways.

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GenoPalate Uses Genetics as a Guide Toward Healthful Eating ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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irect-to-consumer genetic testing services are all the rage right now. While many of these services provide valuable information that satisfies curiosities or estimates some health risks, Milwaukee-based GenoPalate takes it a step further by analyzing DNA and combining the results with thousands of nutritional variables to empower people to eat smarter.

GenoPalate was formed by molecular biologist Sherry Zhang. She holds a doctorate in molecular biology from Marquette University and, after earning it in 2007, continued her endeavors in research through a fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The lab she joined did pioneering research in single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs (pronounced “snips”), which are genetic variations among people.

Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide.

Dr. Zhang had also studied obesity and realized that using science and technology to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art panel of nutritional genomics could serve as a guide toward helping people improve their food choices, thus remaining healthier. “We wanted to build an entity to channel knowledge directly from the scientists in the lab to the public to use at home,” she said. “GenoPalate is a potent, powerful tool to help consumers who want to eat more intelligently.”

To begin, customers can order the core GenoPalate kit that includes a welcome card from Zhang, convenient instructions, a spit tube to collect the DNA and a return box with a mailing address. Once the lab receives the tube for analysis, the tube is de-identified so there’s no information about the individual who sent it.

“Privacy is of the upmost important to us, but also the genetic industry in general, so every-

thing comes off a barcode number and a secure registration system,” explained Neil Giugno, COO of GenoPalate. Giugno has a background in marketing and product development. When he met Zhang and learned about GenoPalate, he thought it was a great idea and wanted to help Zhang execute her vision.

Eating More Intelligently

After the lab uploads the DNA and processes the results, the customer receives an easy-to-read yet detailed report with pages of results based on genotype and more than 100 biomarkers that the GenoPalate has read. “With that, you see the meaning of each gene and genotype in terms of nutrition,” Giugno said. “Also included is an information packet with a detailed shopping list to guide the customer in 14 different categories at the grocery store, such as vegetables and meat.

The product takes your genes, plus nutritional science, and identifies your foods.”

GenoPalate’s information provides a personalized approach to eating and delves further than most of the one-size-fits-all nutrition information available online. The core kit is available for $199, but if you want to go even deeper, GenoPalate also offers a concierge-style coaching service that provides customers with meal plans based on their results and tailored for any dietary restrictions or eating preferences.

Zhang noted that many of their customers already use other genetic services like ancestry. com. Customers who already have results from those services can send their data to GenoPalate for just the nutritional analysis, which costs $99.

Zhang said the journey has been exciting since GenoPalate officially launched last fall.

The company has grown to 16 part-time and full-time employees with interns from Milwaukee and other areas of Wisconsin.

For more information, visit genopalate.com.

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Brandon Woodruff Was a Rare Postseason Highlight ::BY KYLE LOBNER

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here weren’t a lot of highlights for the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night as they struggled through a season-ending 5-1 loss in game seven of the NLCS. One of the few was a player who has been an afterthought much of the season before turning a corner under the bright postseason lights. Thirteen different pitchers threw more regular-season innings for the Brewers in 2018 than Brandon Woodruff—including several that didn’t make the postseason roster—and eight Brewers pitchers started more games than he did. Time and again during the postseason, however, the team put Woodruff in a prominent position, and he rewarded them for doing so.

First, Woodruff was the surprise “initial out getter” for Craig Counsell when the Brewers went with a bullpen day in the first game of the NLDS on Thursday, Oct. 4. He allowed just one baserunner on a walk and faced the minimum through three innings in his first postseason appearance. The Brewers turned to Woodruff again that game, calling upon him for two innings in relief of Gio Gonzalez, who was lifted early.

Woodruff faced six batters, retired them all and recorded four strikeouts. He needed just 27 pitches to work through his outing.

The only blemish on Woodruff’s postseason record came in the fifth game, where he was the surprise first-inning reliever following the Brewers’ decision to remove Wade Miley after just one batter. He allowed three runs but pitched 5 1/3 innings in that game, meaning the secondlongest outing by any Brewers pitcher this October was a relief appearance.

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Finally, the Brewers turned to Woodruff one final time with the task of keeping the game as close as possible in the eighth inning of Saturday’s seventh game of the NLCS. Woodruff once again worked two scoreless innings, working around two hits and a walk and getting five of his six outs via strikeout.

All told, Woodruff was second among all Brewers with 12 1/3 innings pitched this postseason. Despite having pitched for just one playoff team, he’s already tied with Yovani Gallardo for the Brewers’ all-time lead with 20 postseason strikeouts. He routinely stifled a Dodgers offense that led the National League in runs scored, walks and home runs in 2018 and, in so doing, he may very well have forced his way into the conversation for a prominent role with the Brewers in 2019.

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The Brewers are going to have tough questions to answer around their pitching staff this winter and next spring. Even if both Wade Miley and Gio Gonzalez leave via free agency and no further additions are made, they’ll still have Jhoulys Chacín, Jimmy Nelson, Zach Davies, Chase Anderson, Junior Guerra, Freddy Peralta, Corbin Burnes and Woodruff as candidates for a limited number of spots in their starting rotation. Something’s going to have to give to allow all those pitchers opportunities to get innings at the major league level.

Given that logjam, Woodruff may have been something of a long-shot to crack the starting rotation as recently as Saturday, Sept.

1. He deserves credit, however, for making the most of his recent opportunities to demonstrate that he belongs on the mound in key situations.

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THE BLOOD OF ‘DRACULA’ Milwaukee Ballet’s Luz San Miguel’s finale as the vampire Lucy ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER

y last bow will be in blood, sweat and tears,” says the great Milwaukee Ballet dancer Luz San Miguel. Blood because, before she dies as the vampire Lucy in the last act of Michael Pink’s Dracula, she will have feasted on the ravaged Renfield, smearing herself with that liquor; sweat because the dancing is ferocious; tears because this weekend’s run will mark her retirement from the stage.

“It’s like a full circle,” she says. “Knowing about Dracula attracted me to the work of Michael Pink, and the first ballet I danced in Milwaukee was Dracula, so it just made sense that the last one would be Dracula.” She’s never danced better than in recent years, but, as she says, “a ballet career is so unfair, because you reach your artistic maturity when your body is saying ‘slow down.’”

In her native Madrid, from age 8 to 17, she studied ballet with Carmina Ocaña whom she calls her second mother and who’ll be in the audience to honor her student’s farewell performance on Saturday night. “Everything I am I owe to her,” San Miguel says.

“She believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself.”

At 17, San Miguel left Spain with a one-year scholarship to Antwerp’s Municipal Institute of Ballet.

At 18, she was dancing professionally in Germany, first with Leipzig Ballet, then Dresden Ballet where she stayed for five years. It was during those years (1996 to be precise) that Pink’s Dracula premiered at England’s Northern Ballet Theatre. “It was all over the dance magazines,” she says. “We all knew about this great Dracula. Somebody showed me a little clip of it, and I thought, oh my god, I want to be part of that!” She was, in fact, unhappy with ballet. “I was working in an environment that I didn’t like, and I just thought, if this is the ballet world, I don’t want it.”

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Across the English Channel, Pink had had a similar experience. He’d trained at the Royal Ballet School. He’d wanted to act in musicals and needed dancing lessons.

Since he excelled, the school’s directors pushed him to a ballet career. After a decade dancing with international stars in the English National Ballet, “I woke up one morning saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore; it’s nonsense,’” he told me. He quit.

His dear friend, the late Christopher Gable, was director of England’s Central School of Ballet. Gable coaxed him into teaching. Pink created a company of young dancers at the school, the model for Milwaukee Ballet’s MBII. Then, Gable was hired as artistic director at Northern Ballet. He asked Pink to make a ballet, one he could believe in. With composer Philip Feeney and designer Lez Brotherston, they made Dracula. None of them expected it to be the hit it was, much less remain in the international repertory as it has.

“Chris Gable shared the same frustrations about dance and its meaningless, vacuous traits at its worst,” Pink says. “This had to be different. And this is what it meant to be different: To take a serious story and tell it well and yet provide all the dance opportunities, the theatrical opportunities. Dracula is the beginning of the reason I stayed in dance.”

‘This is my place. I found home’

Gable died in 1998. San Miguel’s ballet master in Dresden was hired as Northern Ballet’s director. He offered San Miguel a job there. “Oh great, I thought, I’m going to work with Michael Pink!” she remembers. “Then, I learned he’d left England. I didn’t take the job. To make a long story short, my career took me to America.” She was hired by Tulsa Ballet where again she felt misplaced.

“Then I heard that Michael Pink was director of Milwaukee Ballet.”

When her contract with Tulsa ended, San Miguel auditioned for Pink and was hired. “The first ballet I did was Dracula,” she says. “I was Lucy right away. This is the fourth time I’m doing it. I fall in love with this ballet every time. Every time it’s new because I’m older; things have happened in my life. The ways in which Lucy is different each time are the ways in which I am different.”

About Milwaukee Ballet, she says, “Right away, I felt this is my place. I found home.” In the past 13 seasons, she’s created leading roles in Pink’s La Boheme, Peter Pan, Dorian Gray, Mirror Mirror, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Coppélia, Don QuixMilwaukee ote and Cinderella and in dozens of premieres by guest choreogBallet raphers. She’ll continue to work Dracula with the company now as one of Uihlein Hall two ballet masters, sharing that title with Denis Malinkine, Pink’s Oct. 25-28 original Dracula. But this Dracula is San Miguel’s. “For somebody as important as Luz, such a great artist who’s contributed so much,” Pink says, “it’s good to think: How would she like to go out?”

Milwaukee Ballet performs Dracula Oct. 25-28 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’ Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St. For tickets, visit milwaukeeballet.org/ performances.

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::THISWEEKINMILWAUKEE SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Jawbreaker Fest @ Wisconsin Center, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee’s downtown convention center the Wisconsin Center traditionally hasn’t been used as a concert space, though it’s certainly large enough to host some huge ones. This weekend, the venue will give the whole concert thing a go when it hosts Jawbreaker Fest, a two-day EDM festival on Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sunday, Oct. 28. The concerts will take place in the Wisconsin Center’s third floor exhibition hall and have a capacity of 10,000 each night—well over twice the capacity of the Eagle’s Ballroom, the Milwaukee venue where these kinds of big EDM shows have historically been most likely to take place. Saturday’s lineup will feature EMD star Zedd—whose crossover hits include “Clarity,”“Stay The Night” and “Stay”—as well as Louis the Child, Parker, RCKT PWR and Crystal Knives. Sunday’s lineup features ODESZA, RL Grime, Slumberjack, Plaid Hawaii and Moses.

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Just like the movie it’s named for, Riverwest’s annual Nightmare on Center Street concert crawl keeps returning for more installments. Curated by Jay Anderson of VoodooHoney, the event returns for its fourth year on Saturday, Oct. 27, with music at six Center Street venues (Jazz Gallery, Quarter’s Rock N’ Roll Palace, Company Brewing, Club Timbuktu, Mad Planet and High Dive, which is hosting a dance party DJed by the No Stress Collective). There will also be a zombie bike ride. Performers include Taj Raiden, Chalice in the Palace, Genesis Renji, Phat Nerdz, ORB, and the Cowboy Beebop Anime Orchestra. All-access passes are $15 and include a “special surprise perk.”

Individual tickets for admission to each venue are $10, except for the High Dive dance party, which is free.

THURSDAY, OCT. 25 “Standing Rock: Take Me From The River” @ Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, 7 p.m.

In 2016, a group of Milwaukee activists traveled more than 800 miles to Standing Rock’s Oceti Sakowin camp to support the tribe and oppose the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens to pollute the reservation’s water source, the Missouri River.

Their journey was documented by Milwaukee activist and musician Denny Rauen, who presents this free screening of his film Standing Rock: Take Me From The River. It’ll screen with a short film about regional water activism presented by filmmaker Dusan Harminc and Milwaukee’s Overpass Light Brigade (the protesters frequently spotted about 1-43).

There will also be a panel discussion about water preservation and a performance from classical guitarist Michael Bootzin.

Skulloween Bike Night @ Harley-Davidson Museum, 5 p.m.

The Harley-Davidson Museum’s restaurant Motor will host this celebration of all things Halloween, featuring carved pumpkins, outdoor firepits, live music from the Jackie Brown Band and the inaugural Ghost Riders Boonie Bike Race, a minibike race. The first heat starts at 6:30 p.m. and the final laps are at 8:15 p.m. There will also be a contest to win a brand-new Harley-Davidson Iron 1200.

The Milk Carton Kids w/ The Barr Brothers @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

JOSHUA BLACK WILKINS

Ever since the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack popularized the roots-music revival in 2000, traditional folk acts of all stripes have been getting their due. But there’s one style of folk act that’s been mostly ignored: the old-fashioned folk duo. Singer/songwriters Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan of The Milk Carton Kids model their act after the wholesome harmonic interplay of Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers, an approach that’s earned them frequent appearances on “A Prairie Home Companion” and the fandom of producer T Bone Burnett, who featured them in the concert documentary Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis. This year they released their latest album, All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do.

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Mirah w/ Tomberlin @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 8 p.m.

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One of the more underrated indie-rock songwriters of her generation, Brooklyn singersongwriter Mirah has released a series of gorgeous albums (many of them for K Records) with an adventurous, otherworldly edge. Phil Elvrum of The Microphones and Mount Eerie produced her early albums, which share his sense of in-the-studio experimentation, but her recent records have been more high fidelity. This fall she released her latest, Understanding, which spotlights her wise songwriting and ear for unexpected sounds. She’s joined on this bill by Tomberlin, the nom de plume of singer/songwriter Sarah Beth Tomberlin, who released her confessional debut album At Weddings this summer.

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Doyle: As We Die World Abomination Tour @ Miramar Theatre, 5 p.m.

It’s not quite the same as a Misfits concert, but it’s close to Halloween, so we’ll take it. The hulking, musclebound Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein was the legendarily horror-obsessed punk band’s lead guitarist in the early ’80s, and he also played with the band during their ’90s reunion before later touring with Danzig. These days he’s still wearing his classic Frankenstein makeup, but he’s fronting his own project, a band simply titled Doyle, with Alex Story of Cancerslug on vocals. They’re joined on this bill by a bunch of similarly heavy acts: Beaker, The Dead Morticians, Dorothy’s Worst, Cyanide Son, Billy Dreamer and Primal Enemy.

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Maria Muldaur @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

To listeners of a certain age, Maria Muldaur is best remembered for her leisurely 1973 soft-rock hit “Midnight at the Oasis,� though Grateful Dead fans know her from her long association with that group and her time as a backing singer in the Jerry Garcia Band. Over the years she’s also collaborated with artists like Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Dr. John and even Stevie Wonder. This year the 75-year-old singer released her first new album in five years, Don’t you Feel my Leg, a tribute to blues and jazz singer Blue Lu Barker.

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Ray LaMontagne has garnered steady comparisons to greats like Van Morrison and The Band for his earthy, rugged style of folk music, but on recent albums the songwriter has been reaching beyond his usual bubble. The shift started with 2014’s Supernova. Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, the album experimented with ’60s influences and a greater sound palette, including electric guitar and organ riffs. In support of his latest album, this spring’s Part of the Light, LaMontagne is presenting this “Just Passing Through� acoustic tour, where he’ll be joined by Wilco’s John Stirratt on bass.

SUNDAY, OCT. 28 Fleetwood Mac @ Fiserv Forum, 8 p.m.

True to their reputation for drama, when Fleetwood Mac returns to Milwaukee for their first show at the new Fiserv Forum they’ll be performing with a different lineup than the one that played their last Milwaukee show at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in 2015. Singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, according to his account, was kicked out of the band after a spat with singer Stevie Nicks. He’s been replaced by singer-guitarist Neil Finn (of Crowded House and Split Enz) and former Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell. Maybe Buckingham should take it as a complement that they needed two musicians to replace him?

Citizen w/ Vortex @ The Back Room at Colectivo, 7:30 p.m.

Maybe it’s that whiff of post-hardcore music, with its suggestion of bottled male rage, that’s turned the indie-rock establishment off of bands like Citizen, but it’s the establishment’s loss. While Citizen doesn’t slot cleanly into any given genre (their music is a hybrid of emo, alternative and indie-rock), they’ve produced several of the most passionate rock records of the last few years, including their latest, 2017’s As You Please. It’s everything alternative rock records used to be: heavy, ambitious, unpredictable, earnest. It’s the work of musicians willing to bleed for their art.

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Billy Elliot the Musical

The plot of Billy Elliot (originally a 2000 feature film) revolves around a British motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. His story of personal struggle and ultimate fulfillment is balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife amid the 1984-’85 miner’s strike in northeastern England. Elton John wrote the music, and Lee Hall contributed the book and lyrics for the musical version of the story.

From its 2005 West End premiere, Billy Elliot the Musical quickly moved on to Australia, Broadway and Europe. Its New York production garnered 10 Tony and 10 Drama Desk Awards, including (in both cases), those for Best Musical. Waukesha Civic Theatre’s production features a 32-member cast and, despite the title character being an 11-year-old boy, is recommended for mature audiences due to language. (John Jahn) Oct. 25-Nov. 11 at Waukesha Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St., Waukesha. For tickets, call 262-547-0708 or visit waukeshacivictheatre.org/current-season.

The Lion King JR

The African savannah comes to life with Simba, Nala, Pumbaa, Timon, Mufasa and Scar as these beloved Disney characters journey from Pride Rock to the jungle and back again in Elton John and Tim Rice’s inspiring, coming-of-age musical, The Lion King. The animated film proved immensely popular and has remained so with kids too young to have seen it when it premiered in 1994. The live musical adaptation premiered three years later in Minneapolis.

To date, more than 95 million people worldwide have seen The Lion King on stage, and it has won numerous honors, including six Tony Awards. It remains Broadway’s third longest-running show and grossed more than $1 billion, making it The Great White Way’s all-time money-making champ. The “JR” in Falls Patio Players’ production references the fact that this already kid-friendly show features a virtually all-kid cast. (John Jahn) Oct. 26-28 at North Middle School Auditorium, N88 W16750 Garfield Drive, Menomonee Falls. For tickets, call 262-255-8372 or visit fallspatioplayers.com.

The Pillowman

Directed by Jaimelyn Gray and written by Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman is described by The Constructivists as “the blackest of dark comedies,” and as “a stunner of a play surrounding two siblings (Katurian and Michal) who are being held in prison under suspicion that the former may have murdered three small children in a way that eerily reflects tales she has written.”

The Constructivists—a new Milwaukee-based non-equity theatre company—is opening its inaugural season with this production (which closes just days shy of the 15th anniversary of its world premiere). The company has assembled a cast of eight for The Pillowman, which includes Rose Grizzell (Katurian) and Logan Milway (Michal). (John Jahn) Oct. 26-Nov. 10 at The Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., Lower Level (one block west of the Riverside Theater). For tickets, call 414-858-6874 or visit theconstructivists.org.

The Miró Quartet

Frankly Music welcomes the Miró Quartet for a concert of three, well, quartets. Its members are violinists Daniel Ching and William Fedkenheuer, violist John Largess and cellist Joshua Gindele. Miró Quartet, an internationally performing, professional, classical string quartet based in Austin, Texas is the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas; its members are on the faculty of the Butler School of Music.

On the program are three works. The Quartet in A Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, is by early Romantic Era composer and important music critic Robert Schumann (1810-’56); the Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13, is by Schumann’s contemporary, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-’47); finally, there’s the Quartet No. 2, subtitled Intimate Letters, by Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher Leoš Janáček (1854-1928). (John Jahn) Monday, Oct. 29, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. For tickets, visit franklymusic.org/event/miro-quartet.

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ackyard gardening becomes a metaphor for life’s injustices in Renaissance Theaterworks’ Native Gardens, which opened last weekend in the Broadway Theatre Center’s intimate Studio Theatre. This excellent production, written by Karen Zacarías and directed by Marti Gobel, probes the cultural and age differences between two couples who suddenly become neighbors.

The older couple, who have lived in the same house for decades, consists of Frank (Norman Moses) and Virginia (Linda Stephens). At first, they express their delight at the prospect of newcomers who will tackle the fixer-upper next door. They come bearing welcoming gifts of wine and chocolate for the new neighbors, which includes Pablo Del Valle, a rising, Chilean-born attorney (Andrew Joseph Perez) and his very pregnant wife, Tania (Kelsey Elyse Rodriguez).

The couple’s backyards (beautifully rendered by set designer Madelyn Yee) visually reinforce the “dividing line” between them. Frank has tended his garden with care (and pesticides) for many years. He is proud of the fact that it looks like a photograph from a gardening catalogue, with rows of colorful flowers bordered by a manicured lawn. In the center of their backyard is a painted wrought-iron patio set, which rests perfectly on the circular brick pavement below. On the other side of an ugly, metal fence dividing the two yards sits an overgrown mess, dominated by an unkempt-looking, mature tree.

Frank and Virginia demonstrate a WASPy preference for their neat and tidy niche. They stare in disbelief when Tania preaches the ecological preferences for a “native garden” consisting of indigenous plants. “You mean you’re going to plant weeds?” bellows Frank.

The comedy begins subtly and then goes somewhat over-the-top when a land survey reveals that Frank and Virginia cultivated some adjoining property that it turns out they do not own. The newcomers plan to remove the unsightly metal fence and replace it with an attractive wooden one on the “proper” property line. This unleashes a type of “border war” between the two couples. Before a consensus is reached, Tania is on her hands and knees pulling out some of Frank’s beloved flowers. Meanwhile, Virginia is ready to attack the unsightly tree with a chainsaw. All traces of civility go out the window.

It’s little wonder that Native Gardens is among the top plays being produced at regional theaters across the country. The play’s comedy keeps the tone relatively light, while the plot examines some very serious issues of racism, sexism, ageism and cultural privilege.

Through Nov. 11 in the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, visit r-t-w.com or call 414-291-7800.

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OPENINGS: Día de los Muertos Ofrendas Group Exhibition Oct. 26-Nov. 16 Latino Arts Gallery 1028 S. Ninth St. In addition to local artists and organizations who share their artistic interpretations of the traditional and celebratory Mexican “Day of the Dead,” this year’s exhibit at Latino Arts on Milwaukee’s South Side features a special photography collection on loan from the Mexican Consulate of Milwaukee—“La Muerte en La Piel” by Mauricio Silerio—which depict scenes from traditional celebrations in Mexico. For more information, call 414-384-3100 or visit latinoartsinc.org.

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land tells the story of indigenous child removal in Maine and the broader United States through the stories of the people and communities impacted by the practice.” Two free screenings of this film take place on Tuesday, Oct. 30 as part of the arts center’s Indie Pop-Up series. A community discussion of the film and the issues it raises follows both screenings. For more information, call 920-458-6144 or visit jmkac.org.

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arol Zippel is a founder of Windfall Theatre, a non-profit theater group that celebrated their 25th anniversary last year. Their three-show seasons are staged in an intimate environment of the Village Church Arts building (130 E. Juneau Ave.) where she sat down to talk about the company and its 2018-2019 season.

Tell us how you developed an interest in theater and how Windfall came to be.

I majored in theater at the UW-Eau Claire, I always wanted to pursue that and Eau Claire was a really nice place to go for that—close to Minneapolis, the Guthrie Theater, cool regional theaters. When I graduated, I did an acting internship at the Milwaukee Rep, I met an intern director and we founded Windfall a couple years after we were done being interns at the Rep. We’ve been at Village Church Arts since 1992. This church is very into artistic things, we have quarterly gallery nights as well as concerts, so they were onboard with having a theater here right away. Initially, we were concerned they might limit what we do, but they’re very open to all topics and all things, so that’s been great for us because we’re eclectic with what we do.

What’s your life like outside of Windfall?

Well, the theater takes up a lot of time. But it’s one of the great joys of my life, I’ve enjoyed producing and directing, and I’ve also been an actor. Outside the theater, I’ve had a variety of different jobs in my life. Right now, I’m at a marketing firm and we specialize in fundraising for non-profit organizations and political candidates.

What’s going on for season 26?

We’re opening with a show called Red Herring (which ran through Oct.13) by playwright Michael Hollinger, we did a play of his three or four seasons ago, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, and I always wanted to revisit his work because I think his writing is terrific. We’re following that up with a concert version of the musical Grey Gardens (Feb. 8-23), a show that’s interesting in its characters and relations, we choose pieces that are really ensemble driven.

We’re closing the season with Enchanted April (May 3-18), about two Englishwomen who are suffering from the effects of post-World War I, with their relationships with their husbands and the oppressiveness of their lives. They decide they want to break away from that, so they organize a trip to a villa in Italy.

What are some future goals for Windfall?

I’m always looking for ways to expand our ensemble, over the years we’ve had several different iterations. It’s primarily been a core of eight people and that has shifted as people have gotten married and kids, so I think it’s nice to create an ensemble setting where you can give people a chance to expand their range of roles.

For more information on upcoming productions and tickets, visit windfalltheatre.com.

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Johnny English Saves the Day, Again ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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owan Atkinson has proven himself in drama (see Netflix’s “Maigret”) but he’s made his widest mark in comedy. Playing the title character in the new episode of the enduring Johnny English franchise, Atkinson deadpans his way through global meltdown. He remains, as ever, indefatigable in the face of catastrophe.

As Johnny English Strikes Again begins, the crack MI7 agent has been put to pasture. He’s teaching spycraft to eager pupils at an exclusive

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British grade school, running the kids through commando drill as well as how to hold a martini glass at a rakish angle. But when a cyber attack has exposed the identity of every active U.K. agent, English is called from retirement and reteamed with his faithful sidekick, Bough (British straight-man comic Ben Miller), on a mission to the south of France where the villainy appears to originate.

Decidedly old school, English surveys the dull lineup of identical contemporary cars he’s offered for the trip and chooses instead a mothballed red Aston Martin. He’s more astute than he looks: a vintage car without a chip or a GPS will be invisible to a cyber criminal. Handed a smartphone, he dismisses it saying, “I need a weapon, not a box of gobbledygook.” The analogue avenue he travels proves the best route as he pursues his thoroughly wired quarry.

With a face as creased and inexpressive as an old leather shoe, English engages in a comedy routine worthy of Charlie Chaplin or Peter Sellers while impersonating a waiter at a posh French restaurant. He tangles with a seductive Russian agent (Bond girl Olga Kurylenko), but the Russians are only one facet of the game being played. As the cyber criminal shuts down air traffic over Europe, traffic lights in London and keeps a Ferris wheel in perpetual rotation, English begins to suspect that the mastermind is the mediagenic Silicon Valley billionaire Jason Volta (Jake Lacy).

Volta is one of those casually clad tech-wizzes whose promotional videos in front of adoring

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tently funny spy-thriller audiences of sycophants and Johnny English spoof that also delivers a investors are filled with proStrikes Again hilariously apt assessment nouncements about “delivof a real problem: by linkering change through a few Rowan Atkinson ing everything to the web, lines of code.” To Volta, the Olga Kurylenko everything is vulnerable. world is nothing but data and Directed by David Kerr No matter how high the he wants to have it all. Britfirewall, someone will ain’s hapless prime minister Rated PG scale it. The imperturb(Emma Thompson), a Theable English may be a resa May stand-in, is conbungling fool besotted vinced that Volta embodies the future in all its shiny hope and glory. Volta with false ideas of his own charm, but while snickers to himself that “politicians are even his foes play with their smartphones and his bosses are duped by dreams of digital utopia, more gullible than venture capitalists.”

Johnny English Strikes Again is a consis- he gets the job done.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Halloween R

John Carpenter’s franchise returns for its 11th outing on the original film’s 40th anniversary. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises brave babysitter Laurie Strode, survivor of Michael Myers’ slasher rampage. Nick Castle returns as masked Myers, while younger James Jude Courtney performs the killer’s more physically demanding scenes. On Halloween Eve, Myers escapes prison to grow his body count via gruesomely inventive murders. Finally, he reaches Strode, now a 60-year-old, gun-toting granny intent on having her revenge. Pitting Strode’s pure determination against Myers’ pure evil, the film allows comic moments as both characters “take a licking but keep on ticking.” When it’s all over, we can only guess whether Curtis fortified Strode’s endurance with Activia or whether William Shatner makes a royalty from Myers’ iconic mask. I’d like to think she did and he does. (Lisa Miller)

Hunter Killer R

Adapted from 2012’s Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace, this film casts Gerard Butler is as Cpt. Joe Glass, whose U.S. Navy nuclear submarine is sent to investigate a mysterious underwater tragedy. What he uncovers is a conspiracy of global proportions. One hundred meters beneath the waves, Glass and crew engage the Russians in goosebump-inducing cat and mouse games. Meanwhile, a parallel storyline follows four Navy SEALS during an impossible mission, which must succeed to avert World War III breaking out. Therefore, it’s frustrating that the script treats the SEALS like cardboard cutouts. Oh well, we still have Butler going against type to portray a thinking man’s officer. (L.M.)

Indivisible PG-13

This religious faith-based film follows real-life U.S Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife, Heather (Justin Bruening and Sarah Drew, respectively). In the wake of a difficult Iraq tour, Turner and his fellow soldiers return home unable to relate to their loved ones. The film reports soaring military divorce rates, so seeing Turner and his wife fighting to save their marriage and family may be gratifying. Because it’s a faith-based movie, prayer looms large; but, hopefully, so should non-supernatural elements such as compromise and mutual understanding. (L.M.)

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[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] The Official Story

“No people can survive without memory,” Alicia tells her history class. But in post-junta Argentina, memory was often selective. In the Oscar-winning The Official Story (1985), Alicia gradually grows aware that her foster daughter was the child of a mother killed by the military. Not everyone in her complicit circle is a monster, but in a shocking climax, she learns that the relentless logic of torture is closer to home than she ever imagined.

Love, Cecil

He was an accomplished painter, writer and Oscar-winning costume designer, yet Cecil Beaton made his deepest mark as a photographer, especially from the photo shoots he choreographed for Vogue starting in the 1930s. Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Love, Cecil is a sparkling documentary that captures Beaton’s endearing charm. Grounded in fin de siècle aestheticism, he was forever in search of beauty, and when he couldn’t find it, he built it from the materials of life.

La Madre, El Hijo y La Abuela (Mother, Son, and Grandmother)

Photographer Cristóbal (Gonzalo Aburto) arrives in a small, remote Chilean town recently damaged by a volcanic eruption. He’s not documenting the damage but conducting a “project” to find his identity. Cristóbal falls in with an ailing grandmother and her shopkeeper daughter in a story that is sad and sweet but somehow never melodramatic or cloying.

Writer-director Benjamin Brunet imbues Mother, Son, and Grandmother with some fine filmic moments wrapped into an intimate, human-scale drama.

Rodin

Vincent Lindon plays Auguste Rodin in this nicely turned out biographical drama. The French language film by Jacques Doillon depicts the self-taught artist as something of an outsider who achieved acclaim relatively late in life as a groundbreaking sculptor. He has two mistresses, long-time companion Rose (Séverine Caneele) and fetching young artist Camille (Izïa Higelin) and is admired by the great Impressionists. Rodin spends much time where it belongs, in the artist’s studio amidst damp clay.

—David Luhrssen

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marquette.edu/haggerty/mkemodel.php This keynote conversation kicks off the community symposium The Milwaukee Model: Envisioning the Role of the Arts in Criminal Justice Reform, organized by the Haggerty Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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Author Explores the Anxieties of ‘Cold War Wisconsin’ ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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n some minds, the U.S. and Russia appear to be on the verge of a second Cold War, but for a growing number of Americans, knowledge of the first Cold War is increasingly scant. The Cold War, which ran from after the end of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, continues to impact today’s landscape both here in Wisconsin and around the world. Cold War Wisconsin, a new book by Wisconsin author Christopher Sturdevant, takes readers behind the era’s espionage and propaganda campaigns to explain the war’s origins as well as its local impact in the Badger state.

The term “cold war” was coined

by English writer George Orwell to refer to a world living in the shadow of nuclear war, and there are a surprising number of ways that Wisconsinites were at the center of the decades-long dispute. In Sturdevant’s book, he explores these local connections, highlighting some of the principal actors in the conflict, including Milwaukee native George Kennan, the Moscow-based diplomat who authored the containment policy that formed the basis of U.S. strategy against the Soviets; and Lana Peters, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, who spent her later years living in tiny Richland Center. This concise compendium also profiles the Kewaunee shipyards that built U.S. destroyers and uncovers the location of eight nuclear missile systems that were deployed in the Milwaukee area alone. Told through historical events and anecdotal stories, Cold War Wisconsin is an enlightening portrait of the wide-ranging legacy of Cold War policies both locally and around the world.

Sturdevant is a Milwaukee librarian and current chairman of the Midwest Chapter of the Cold War Museum.

He will discuss Cold War Wisconsin at Boswell Book Company at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

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Don’t believe me? Check out the incredible events in my social calendar. Whether you want to party your costume-clad ass off at a club or enjoy a spooky-yet-silly show, Brew City has a fright fest that’s right for you. From sinister soirees to autumnal eats, these Halloween happenings promise to get you in the spirit. In fact, there are so many sinful socials to tell you about, I’m forgoing my advice column this week to help you raise a little hell. Trick or treat, kids!

::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Oct. 25—Closing Night ‘Silence of the Clams’ at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): The universe drops me into the Jodie Foster classic during this hilarious Halloween parody. Written by local playwright Anthony Torti and directed by Milwaukee favorite Jeremy Welter, the show also stars Don Lobacz and Dita Von. Your $30 ticket includes a choice of four special entrees, dessert and, of course, the comedy. Visit brownpapertickets.com (event “3620622”) and reserve your spot for the 6 p.m. night.

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Oct. 25—Food Fright! at Lakefront Brewery (1872 N. Commerce St.): Sink your teeth into the yummiest Halloween party in town. Your $30 ticket includes samplings from more than a dozen of the city’s favorite restaurants and caterers, as well as a haunted brewery tour, beer tokens, dancing, costume contest, silent auction and more. The fun starts at 7 p.m. See the Food Fright at Lakefront Brewery Facebook Page for tickets.

Oct. 25—Oh, Honey! It’s Halloween with Trixie Mattel at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): Breakout gal Trixie Mattel struts her sexy (and silly) stuff into Cream City to host this popular costume contest. Hundreds of dollars are on the line when Trixie judges the 8 p.m. lineup. (Winners are announced at 11:45 p.m.) Meet the RuPaul star, check out the heated outdoor bar and make this a Halloween to remember!

Oct. 26—Día de los Muertos Celebration at the Mitchell Park Domes (524 S. Layton Blvd.): Pack up the family and enjoy this change-of-pace party featuring music, dancing, food, crafts and more. The 6-9 p.m. event costs $8 per adult. Call 414-2575608 for tickets to the colorful cultural celebration.

Oct. 27—Bachelorettes from Hell Halloween Bash at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): The baddest, bitchiest, bawdiest bachelorettes invade this Walker’s Point hot spot to turn your Halloween upside down. Two drag shows, two bars and two rooms of craziness help you escort the haunting honeys down the 9 p.m. aisle without a cover charge.

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Oct. 27—Halloween on Brady Street at Various Locations: This Halloween, hit the street... Brady Street! Eighteen bars and restaurants hold mini costume contests starting at 9:30 p.m. The winners from each contest advance to the midnight judging at Hosed on Brady. Someone will walk away with $1,000. Beer specials, food and all the frightening fun you can handle await you at this popular street party. See bradystreet.org for more eerie info.

Oct. 27—Big Gay Halloween Party and Drag Show at Pabst Milwaukee Brewery (1037 W. Juneau Ave.): This free Halloween

bash offers up prizes for best costume as well as a DJ and cash bars for a scary spectacular you’ll never forget. Don’t miss the 9:30 p.m. drag show and get ready to dance the night away, too!

Oct. 27—Halloween Costume Contest at Harbor Room (117 E. Greenfield Ave.): The weekend turns wicked with the boys of this Levi/Leather bar and DJ Rob. Men without shirts drink for less, and prizes will be awarded to the winners of the 11 p.m. costume contest.

Oct. 27—The Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Oriental Theatre (2230 N. Farwell Ave.): Don’t want Halloween to end? Hit up the 11:55 p.m. showing of the The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast shadowing the film. Dress up or come as you are; regardless, don’t dream it, be it!

Oct. 29—The Laramie Project at the Cabot Theatre (158 N. Broadway): Courage MKE honors the 20th anniversary of the passing of Matthew Shepard with a one-night-only performance of The Laramie Project. Directed by Michael Stebbins, this staged reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Call 414-291-7800 for tickets today.

Oct. 29—Miz Cracker’s “It’s Time!” at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): The blonde bombshell from season 10 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” brings her one woman show to Milwaukee with RuPaul alumni Jaymes Mansfield. Two performances make it a snap to catch the superstar (7:30 and 9:30 p.m.) with meet-andgreet opportunities after both. See crackermilwaukee.eventbrite. com for $30 to $40 tickets to the 18+ show.

Oct. 30—A Twisted Halloween Tuesday at Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.): Fighting Stigma and UMOS, Inc., host this 6 p.m. bash that offers cash bars, free HIV testing, DJ, dancing, a 10 p.m. drag show and, of course, a great costume contest.

Oct. 30—“Hallowine” Ghost Dinner at Edgewater Supper Club (W278 N2315 Prospect Ave., Pewaukee): Press the “adult button” on Halloween this year when you celebrate with great friends, great wine and great food. Ghost stories told by Mount Peak Winery staff highlight the spooky soiree that runs 6:30-9:30 p.m. Call 262-696-6254 for your reservation and $90 ticket.

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.

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Kenyan film ‘Rafiki’

The State of Milwaukee’s LGBTQ Cinema ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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t’s film festival season, and movie buffs are all abuzz about the Milwaukee Film Festival extensive (and seductive) program of cinematic offerings. There’s even a brand-new “GenreQueer” category dedicated to LGBTQ documentaries and fiction filmmaking.

The half-dozen features traverse contemporary themes—from Chedeng and Apple, a lesbian Thelma and Louise-style road trip comedy, to the starkly contrasting 1985, an intense and emotional black-and-white flashback to our past confrontation with AIDS. The remaining four include an energetic documentary, When the Beat Drops, about an underground Atlanta-based African American dance style known as “bucking;” Rafiki, a Kenyan film (and banned there) telling a tale of forbidden love; a Brazilian documentary on black trans performance artist and activist Linn da Quebrada, Bixa Travesty; and, finally, the comedy Ideal Home, in which a pair of very gay bon vivant gastronomes take in a 10-year-old grandson with a taste for Taco Bell, and the perfect family ensues.

Most of the films are co-sponsored by a range of LGBTQ community partners like the LGBT Community Center, the LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Outwords Books, This Is It!, The Tool Shed and the LGBT Film/Video Festival.

Speaking of which, the 33rd Annual LGBT Film/Video Festival is also underway. Unless you follow it on social media or the SHEPHERD EXPRESS

UW-Milwaukee website, you may not have noticed. Abandoning decades of tradition, there was no gala launch reception or grand opening screening at the Oriental Theatre.

As reported last month’s Shepherd Express WTF? (“Where’s the Festival?”) interview with long-term festival director Carl Bogner, the event’s format has again reverted to one that had been in place (briefly) several years ago. Namely, rather than the classic, fullfledged, 11-day festival, there will be monthly screenings. While the interview didn’t fully explain the rationale for the change, Bogner mentioned “resources” and referenced the fact that UWM’s film department, the event’s host, “has other things going on.”

This subject has come up before and may reflect funding cuts imposed on the UW System by the current state administration.

There’s simply less money to go around, and outside funding for non-priorities may not be making up the difference. That, and conservative state government policies (resulting, for example, in an attempt to cut health benefits for trans employees) certainly impact extracurricular activities—especially ones celebrating the LGBTQ community.

And there’s the reality of falling attendance.

In a conversation I had with Bogner several years ago, I asked about the lack of younger attendees, surprising as it was, given the festival’s location on the city’s largest university campus. His response cited the various media alternatives students enjoyed, like watching movies on a phone.

One would like to be optimistic and hope the LGBT Film/Video Festival might return to its former days of glory, when the entire community, in all its diversity, thronged into the Oriental Theatre lobby, and one found oneself immersed in the vibe and giddy anticipation of a communal cinematic experience. Perhaps a major change in the political landscape might bring that about. Or, perhaps, a greater integration into the Milwaukee Film Festival might be in the offing. Either way, I’ll look forward to a grand reception, a red carpet opening and an after-party—maybe next year.

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PETER, PAUL BUT NO MARY

Survivors of the historic ’60s trio continued to perform songs of hope ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN he raw sound of unadulterated American folk, as filtered through the sensibilities of a sophisticated college-educated audience, found a growing audience as the 1960s began. But to a large extent, it was a trio of folk singers formed in the scene’s New York mecca, Peter, Paul and Mary who sold folk to the widest possible audience. Their 1962 debut LP held on at the top of the album charts for 10 months and netted a slew of singles that were all over AM radio: “Lemon Tree,”“500 Miles,”“If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” A year later they struck gold again with an original song that permeated childhood for most anyone growing up at that time, “Puff, the Magic Dragon.”

They earned an important place in history for introducing Bob Dylan to mainstream America with their 1963 cover of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which became the troubled era’s anthem of hope. In keeping with Peter, Paul and Mary’s commitment to social justice, they performed along with Dylan and Joan Baez at Martin Luther King Jr.’s “March on Washington” later that year.

Mary Travers died in 2009 but Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey have continued. The remnant of the history-making trio will perform Friday at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. “It does tend to be Peter, Paul and Mary-centric,” Stookey says of their repertoire. He adds that their occasional tours are also opportunities to introduce newly written material.

The “topics will run the full range from political to environmental statements,” he continues. “Peter’s latest [album] is called The Children Are Listening, which is a powerful commentary on how much of the current acerbic political discourse is observed and then modeled by kids in schools and on playgrounds—increasingly resulting in bullying or violence.”

After racking up nearly 20 songs that entered the

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Mary. “It was never a consideration. There’s no replacTop-100 charts in the U.S., Peter, Paul and Mary dising Mary!” Stookey insists. “I think to face Mary’s loss banded in 1970—sort of. They continued to regroup publicly and not to try to dodge around it—to refer to for special events, usually benefit concerts. “We had it directly and in many instances compliment the audilived 10 years of a quite demanding schedule—over ence as they sing Mary’s part—was an important part 200 shows a year plus recording and TV appearances,” of defusing any ill will.”

Stookey says. During the ’70s all three released solo Stookey’s musical interests began in a genre far albums, performed separately and found time to firemoved from Peter, Paul and Mary. “I was a rhythm nally take some time off. and blues wanna-be singer with my own group, The “We moved from New York City to the coast of Birds of Paradise, in my Birmingham, Michigan high Maine where we had livestock and a garden and school. When I came to New York with my electric guilearned so much about self-sufficient life styles: solar tar it was only a matter of a year or so before I traded panels on the roof, raising ducks, chickens, sheep,” it for an acoustic nylon[-stringed] guitar.”

Stookey says of his wife and daughters. “I The jazz scene attracted him, but “it was a actually put an 8-track recording studio surprise to find myself smitten more with into the third floor of an abandoned folk music—its ethic and conversational henhouse and recorded several Maine Peter accessibility. The lyric to me is everything artists and even did a talking book reYarrow and folk music is the only realm I know of cording E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s and that has such a wide embrace of subject Web, reading.”

Noel Paul material.”

Unlike many groups who grudgPeter, Paul and Mary was purposeingly put aside old grievances for an Stookey assembled by Dylan’s manager Albert opportunity to cash in on past fame, South Grossman and was criticized, as Stookey Peter, Paul and Mary fell back together Milwaukee recalls, for being “slick” and inauthentic. more organically as a regularly touring But singing like an Appalachian would and occasionally recording act. “It was PAC have been “pretending and less authentic 1978 that the call came from Peter and Friday, than finding the deeper meaning and Mary asking if I would join them in an Oct. 26, message of the songs so that we might anti-nuke rally in California. I thought 7:30 p.m. sing them honestly and contemporarily.” that was an important cause but didn’t He adds that in the deepest sense rock, realize that it would lead so swiftly to reggae and hip-hop are folk music “bereuniting,” Stookey recalls. “We put out cause it’s all about the addressing of coman album called Reunion after that and munity, not the musical style.” from there on out did 30-60 events per year that took Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey will perform on into account that we had all agreed our personal lives Friday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the South Milwaukee Perneeded tending.” forming Arts Center, 901 15th Ave., South Milwaukee. For After Travers’ death, some suggested that Stookey and Yarrow find another female vocalist—preferably a tickets visit southmilwaukeepac.org.

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Emmylou Harris Explored Melancholy at the Pabst Theater

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::BY JAMIE LEE RAKE

mmylou Harris’ fondness for the Pabst Theater she played Tuesday night could lead her to extremes.

She threatened to chain herself to the venue that has served as her frequent Milwaukee tour stop if ever anyone had a mind to demolish it to make way for a shopping mall, enlisting the five members of her Red Dirt Boys band in the protest if need be.

If the silver-haired Harris sounded passionate for the Pabst, her fervor may have fueled her throughout her performance. That her career starts at country rock’s late-1960s beginnings and included a decade-plus stretch as an eclectic commercial country radio hitmaker and her current status as a foremother of Americana allowed her an estimable body of work to draw from.

The closest thing to an album she was touring to support would be this year’s Rhino Records reissue of 1985’s The Ballad of Sally Rose—a semi-autobiographical country-rock opera that her record company at the time labeled a “concept album” (a corporate disparagement for an album bereft of hit singles, she snarked). From that, she performed “The Sweetheart of the Rodeo.” That title reprises the seminal country album The Byrds recorded with Harris’ early mentor, Gram Parsons. She summoned Parsons’ influence elsewhere throughout the evening, presenting his sprightly “Ooh Las Vegas” and Parsons’ Flying Burrito Brothers’ keening “Sin City.”

Parsons was far from the only artist whose work Harris recast.

She introduced her rendition of bluegrass group The Country Gentlemen’s gospel-informed “Calling My Children Home,” given an a cappella treatment with some of her Boys, with a nonpartisan expression of concern for refugee children separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border. More harrowing still was her own “My Name Is Emmett Till,” her recounting of the life and murder of the teenager whose 1955 slaying helped give birth to the Civil Rights movement. Harris humbly related how she felt like a vessel for a song that was destined to be written.

Other songs were similarly melancholy. Numbering among her encores was a rendition of Townes Van Zandt’s sorrowful “Pancho and Lefty,” which she recorded several years before Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard made a hit of the song on country radio. Harris’ most quietly mournful song of the night, however, may have been her take on Steve Earle’s “Goodbye.” Her appreciation for Earle was evident earlier on when his ode to the tolls of life on the road, “Guitar Town,” became her second song of the night, following the opening salvo of one of her country chart-toppers, Delbert McClinton’s “Two More Bottles of Wine.”

Would that Harris dust off a few more of her radio biggies next time she hits town. Her run at that level of popularity exemplifies how country’s traditions and an artist’s desire to expand the parameters of the genre can coexist with commercial appeal and critical acclaim. Time will tell whether that kind of creative freedom could ever again generate success for Nashville’s country industrial complex, but Harris has rarely made an artistic misstep since her commercial heyday, too. Reflecting that consistency, overheard on the way out of the Pabst, one concertgoer could be heard saying to her partner, “That was special.” Indeed it was, and Harris is. May this be far from her last time in Milwaukee, whatever she cares to sing.

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Brett Newski Looks to Turn Some Heads ::BY JOSHUA MILLER

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ilwaukee’s Brett Newski is the very definition of a DIY nomadic touring musician. He frequently travels around the globe, constantly looking for new ways to create and showcase his music. But even the staunchest nomads need a dose of stability every now and then.

After touring at a breakneck speed for several years, Newski couldn’t help but feel burned out by the touring pace hew was on. “I had experienced a pretty significant burnout, going out and doing almost 200 shows a year for three years straight, that I had to lay low for a while and rebuild,” Newski says.

Up until that point, he had felt like there was an unspoken pressure to constantly produce and stay active musically. He suspects many DIY and indie artists feel this way.

“You’re constantly in measurement with others and I think that’s BS. You can’t be cranking out stuff all the time,” he says. “You have to go hide for a while, recharge, rebuild, make really good things and then come back and blast out of hiding and show the best work you’ve made over the past year and a half.”

That strategy’s worked wonders so far, with Newski coming out of his self-imposed break more confident both mentally and creatively. In the past year, he’s been very prolific with new music releases, including his latest album Life Upside Down. The album gleans its title from a song he co-wrote with Tommy Shears, frontman of Milwaukee band The Living Statues.

“We like to do some co-writing when we’re in the same city,” Newski says. “It worked out as a title track because it was a song about getting your ass kicked and having to start over and trying to bounce back.

“Some might see it as a coming of age song. It’s a new beginnings song about starting from a clean slate,” he continues. “When everything comes to a head and crashes and burns in your life, the daunting task of starting over seems impossible at the time but you realize it was the best thing that could have happened to you.”

The song that surprised him most in writing was album closer “So Long,” a song written for his girlfriend.

“That was the first love song I had written in two years, which is pretty weird,” he says. “I was in this phase where I was very transient and singular and lonely but not writing about any kind of personal relationships. More about getting free and bending the old guard of society. So, I wrote that song for her. I’ve been happier since not being a completely aimless, wandering sad bastard.”

Lyrically, he’s focused on writing meaningful songs.

“You have to write a lot of shitty songs to get 10 good

ones. I think we’ve got 10 really good tracks here,” he says. “It’s important to bend the rules in making an album and have a great story behind it. Otherwise, you’re just another cluster of mp3s on the cloud somewhere.”

He’s had many memorable performances the past year.

He and his band performed a pop-up show at the Berlin Wall, covered a David Hasselhoff song in Germany (“we love to cover him”) and did an unlicensed performance at a Walmart, where he was kicked out.

“Just making an album isn’t satisfying enough for us,” says Newski.

Brett “We want to explore a second aveNewski nue and clown around a bit on the Anodyne side and make stuff other people Coffee aren’t making and come up with bizarre concepts that might turn some Friday, heads.”

Oct. 26, Newski says he’s hoping to re7 p.m. lease an all-ages book at some point and is always thinking of “off-kilter ways to make an album.” That includes pipe dreams like traveling to Cuba someday to record an album on his cell phone and flying down to Antarctica to record a lo-fi acoustic album with profits benefiting an organization like EPA. Whatever the route, he’ll always feel at home in Milwaukee.

“I’ll always want to nomad around and be able to exist in multiple places,” he says. “But at the same time, I do want to form roots. Community is the key to happiness. I want to have a good, friendly, like-minded community and I feel like I’ve found that in Milwaukee.”

Brett Newski and the No Tomorrow play an album release show on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. at Anodyne Coffee with Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts, and Jonah Matranga.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS To list your event, go to shepherdexpress.com/events and click submit an event Amelia's, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) Art*Bar, Open Mic Comedy Cactus Club, Jonah Matranga & Friends Celebrating 20 Yrs Of Water & Solutions w/Chris Rosenau & Flat Teeth Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Song Circle w/Tricia Alexander (6:30pm) Caroline's Jazz Club, The Group w/Eddie Butts County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Soul Night: Cameron Webb Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Acoustic Blu at Mezcalero Restaurant Miramar Theatre, Seven Lions w/MitiS & Jason Ross (all-ages, 9pm) O'Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, The Milk Carton Kids w/The Barr Brothers Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Amber & Adam Rave / Eagles Club, Watsky Feed w/The Biirds & Chukwudi Hodge (all-ages, 8pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World's Funniest Free Comedy Show Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin' Altar Boys w/Westside Andy Shank Hall, Matt Hires w/JD Eicher & Dan Rodriguez The Back Room at Colectivo, The Moth StorySLAM: DISGUISES The Bay Restaurant, Matt MF Tyner The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Martini Jazz Lounge: Cream City Jazz Manouche Quintet Turner Hall Ballroom, Yonder Mountain String Band w/The Lonesome Days Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Tomm Lehnigk (6:30pm) Angelo's Piano Lounge, Julie's Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee (Walker's Point), Brett Newski & The No Tomorrow LP release w/Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts, and Jonah Matranga Art*Bar, All Good Things Big Head Brewing Company, Zosia Holden Blu Bar & Lounge at the Pfister, Scott Napoli Quartet w/Mark Davis, Clay Schaub & Johnathan Greenstein (8pm, 9:30pm &11pm) Caroline's Jazz Club, Sam Belton Jazz Experience Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Fox Face w/Head On Electric & Matt Joyce (8pm); DJ: Fazio (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Camel Toe Truck ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Sabbath x MKE w/members of Calliope, Amanda Huff, Ruth B8R Ginsburg, No/No, Shogun, Ahabs Ghost, Public Access, Old Prospectors & Axelhound County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Harry's Bar & Grill, 5 Card Studs Halloween Spooktacular Pt. 1 Hudson Business Lounge and Cafe, Jazz at Noon: Don Linke and Friends Iron Mike's (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Respect: Aretha Franklin Tribute w/Marcya Daneille (8pm), Late Night Session: Outer Dimensions Trio (11:30pm) Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Hot & Dirty Brass Band Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Underground Hive w/Wonderful Bluffer Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant, Larry Lynne Band Lucky Chance, 4th Fridays Open Jam w/Craig Omick & Friends All Star Jam Band Lyon's Irish Pub (Watertown), Derek Byrne Solo Mamie's, The Blues Disciples Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) McAuliffe's Pub (Racine), Halloween Bash w/Ratbatspider, The Biscaynies & The Red Flags Milwaukee Ale House, Andrew Gelles Pabst Theater, Lake Street Dive w/Jalen N Gonda Paulie's Pub and Eatery, King Kong Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: The Twintones (9pm), In the Fire Pit: The WhiskeyBelles (8:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers (all-ages, 8pm) Rock Country, Mt. Olive Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), CKY w/Nekrogoblikon Sam's Tap, Matt MF Tyner Shank Hall, Thunderstruck: America's AC/DC tribute band South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, ACG presents: Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary Tally's Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Ethan Keller

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25

The Back Room at Colectivo, Pond w/Purr The Bay Restaurant, Mark Meaney The Cooperage, Cactus Club Presents: Slothrust, Mannequin Pussy & Winter Bear The Packing House Restaurant, Tracy Hannemann Group (6:30pm) Traditions Pub (Fredonia), Joe Kadlec Turner Hall Ballroom, The Weight Band (members of The Band, Levon Helm Band & Rick Danko Group) Up & Under Pub, Young Revelators

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Nostalgia Art*Bar, Caleb Miller Best Place @ the Historic Pabst Brewery, A Bazaar Revue Cactus Club, Pete Donnelly Combo (NRBQ/The Figgs) w/Dusk • The Poison Hearts (Tabman & The Obsoletes play The Ramones) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Bill Camplin and the Ghoulish Figures Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Voot Warnings (8pm); DJ: Quixotic Control (10pm) Cleveland Pub & Grill (New Berlin), The Now Club Garibaldi, Aces High Presents: Tales from the Beast Club Timbuktu, Nightmare on Center Street: Sunkin Suns (10:30pm), Father Sky (11:20pm), Cowboy Bebop Anime Orchestra (12am), & DJ Marcus Doucette ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Nightmare on Center Street: Genesis Renji (10:15pm), ORB (11:15pm), Voodoohoney Presents A Very Emo Valentine’s (1am) & DJ Dripsweat Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), Mixtape '80s Fuel Cafe (5th St.), Doomsday Festival: Northless, Moon Curse, Cashfire Sunset & Tan (12pm) Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Iron Mike's (Franklin), Matt MF Tyner Jazz Estate, Kevin Hayden Band (8pm), Late Night Session: Streetlight Society (11:30pm) Joe's K Ranch, The Sensations Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Hocus Pocus on Locust; Conundrum, Spare Change Trio & Tobi Claw Mad Planet, Nightmare on Center Street: Chalice in the Palace (9pm), They Guanus (10pm), Chalice in the Palace (11:30pm), R.A.S Movement (12am), Chalice in the Palace (1:30am), & DJ Robert G Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, The Headless Hessian of Sleepy Hollow Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Matty's Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Fall Music: Dean Richard Mezcalero Restaurant, Montage On the Bayou, Haunted Bayou Halloween Bash Orchard Inn (Menomonee Falls), 11. One Louder Paulie's Pub and Eatery, 76 Juliet Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Christopher’s Project (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Shag (9pm) Quarters Rock and Roll Palace, Nightmare on Center Street: Taj Raiden (9:15pm), Dirty Dancing (10pm), Avantist (11pm) & DJ Tarik Moody

Rave / Eagles Club, Mayday Parade w/This Wild Life, William Ryan Key & Oh, Weatherly (all-ages, 7pm) Riverside Theater, Ray LaMontagne w/Liza Anne Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Nightmare on Center Street: Phat Nerdz (7pm), Joe Quinto (8pm), Yogie B and Keez w/ Vincent Van Great (9pm) & DJ Alpine Rock Country, 33 RPM Seven Hills Pub (Port Washington), Reverend Raven & The Chain Smokin' Altar Boys w/Westside Andy Shank Hall, Maria Muldaur Silver Spring House, "Bluz & BBQ" w/Rick Holmes & Robert Allen Jr. South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, ACG presents: Bruce Cockburn Spanky's (Waterford), Ethan Keller The Back Room at Colectivo, Mirah w/Tomberlin The Cheel (Thiensville), Leroy Airmaster The Knick, 5 Card Studs Halloween Spooktacular Pt. II The Packing House Restaurant, Joe Jordan & The Soul Trio (6:30pm) Three Lions Pub, 'Gangster & Gals' Speakeasy Halloween Party w/Pupy Castello Turner Hall Ballroom, Maggie Rogers w/Mallrat Up & Under Pub, Honey on the Biscuit w/Z Circus and Freakhow Washington House Pub (West Bend), Washington House Open Jam (2pm) Westallion Brewing Company, Derek Byrne & Paddygrass Willie's Lakefront Lanes (Port Washington), Halloween Bash w/ Leadfoot Blues Band (6pm) Wisconsin Center, Jawbreaker Fest Yardarm Bar and Grill (Racine), The B Side Band (6:30pm)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28

Angelo's Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Anodyne Coffee , CCSWING Halloween Dance Party w/Milwaukee Hot Club Cactus Club, Milwaukee Record Halftime Show: Telethon (3pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Derek Pritzl & Friends (8pm); DJ: Sextor (10pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (5:30pm) Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Fiserv Forum, Fleetwood Mac Pabst Theater, Chris Botti Rave / Eagles Club, Freaky Deaky 2018: Boombox Cartel w/Gammer & Kompany (all-ages, 8pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Schauer Arts Center, The Mark Croft Band Shank Hall, Passafire w/Hot By Ziggy The Back Room at Colectivo, Citizen w/Vortex The Packing House Restaurant, Jazz Unlimited Jazz Jam: Mike Mecha Quartet (1pm) Wisconsin Center, Jawbreaker Fest

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29

Jazz Estate, Poetry Night w/Bryon Cherry & Isaiah Joshua Junior's Hook, Bomb Shelter Reunion w/Singing Bartender Quartet (5pm)

Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Poet's Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Bethany Price (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie's Pub and Eatery, Open Jam: Christopher John & Friends w/featured band Turner Hall Ballroom, SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

Frank's Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Jazz Estate, Funk Night w/Araminati Kim's Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. & Friends (6pm) Mamie's, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miramar Theatre, DOYLE - As We Die World Abomination Tour 2018: Beaker, The Dead Morticians, Dorothy's Worst, Cyanide Son, Billy Dreamer & Primal Enemy (all-ages, 5:05pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (signup 7:30pm, all-ages) Pabst Theater, Craig Ferguson Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Rave / Eagles Club, $uicideBoy$ (all-ages, 8:30pm) Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Silver Spring House, Rick Holmes Bluz Jam The Back Room at Colectivo, David Cook Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31

Cactus Club, MKExpanded HALLOWEEN Edition w/Shun Million, Tru West, Spaidez, PaperStacks, ADHD, Troy Tyler & Marques Carson Caroline's Jazz Club, Jimi Schutte American Blues Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Dogs In Ecstasy w/Social Caterpillar (8pm); DJ: Hunchback Lars (10pm) 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, Bad Habit Rabbit Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman's Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Charlie Raddatz (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, The Jammers Miramar Theatre, DJay Mando w/Bravo, YD, Charlie Urick, Spice God & Main Key (all-ages, 9pm) Morton's (Cedarburg), The Blues Disciples (6:30pm) Pabst Theater, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul Paulie's Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Riverside Theater, Ghost Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. & Friends (6pm) Tally's Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Cheel (Thiensville), Guitarman Dave (6:30pm)

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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Kaidoku”

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “He believed in magic,” writes author Michael Chabon about a character in his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. “Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings,” nor “dowsing rods, séances, weeping statues, werewolves, wonders, or miracles.” Then what kind? Chabon says it’s the “impersonal magic of life,” like coincidences and portents that reveal their meanings in retrospect. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because now is a favorable time to call on the specific kind of magic that you regard as real and helpful.

What kind of magic is that? Halloween costume suggestion: magician, witch, wizard.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” Sagittarian author Jane Austen wrote that in her novel Northanger Abbey, and now I’m passing her message on to you, slightly altered. My version is, “If adventures will not befall Sagittarian people of any age or gender in their own neighborhood, they must seek them abroad.” And where exactly is “abroad”? The dictionary says it might mean a foreign country, or it could simply mean outside or in another place. I’d like to extend the meaning further to include anywhere outside your known and familiar world. Halloween costume suggestion: traveler on a pilgrimage or explorer on a holy quest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): PR executives at a beer company offered to pay me a lot of money if I would sneak a product placement ad into your horoscope. They asked me to pretend there was a viable astrological reason to recommend that you imbibe their product in abundance. But the truth is, the actual planetary omens suggest the opposite. You should not in fact be lounging around in a haze of intoxication. You should instead be working hard to drum up support for your labor of love or your favorite cause. Very Important People will be more available to you than usual, and you’ll be wise to seek their input. Halloween costume suggestion: the Ultimate Fundraiser; Networker of the Year; Chief Hobnobber.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What kind of idea are you?” asks author Salman Rushdie.

“Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damn fool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?” I pose this question to you, Aquarius, because I think you could be an effective version of either idea in the coming weeks. If you’re the latter—the cussed, damn fool notion—you may change your world in dramatic ways.

Halloween costume suggestions: revolutionary; crusader; agitator; rabble-rouser.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is no beauty without some strangeness,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ventured further, declaring, “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” She also added another nuance to her definition: “For something to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be pretty.” I’ll offer you one more seed for thought: wabi-sabi. It’s a Japanese term that refers to a kind of beauty that’s imperfect, transitory, and incomplete. I bring these clues to your attention, Pisces, because now is an excellent time to refine and clarify your own notion of beauty—and re-commit yourself to embodying it. Halloween costume suggestion: the embodiment of your definition of beauty.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her poem “Shedding Skin,” Harryette Mullen compares her own transformation to the action a snake periodically carries out to renew itself. Since you now have an excellent opportunity to undertake your own molting process, you may find her thoughts helpful. (I’ve rendered them in prose for easier reading.) “Pulling out of the old scarred skin—old rough thing I don’t need now—I strip off, slip out of, leave behind. Shedding toughness, peeling layers down to vulnerable stuff. And I’m blinking off old eyelids for a new way of seeing. By the rock I rub against, I’m going to be tender again.” Halloween costume suggestion: snake sloughing its skin.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Only the young

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and stupid are confident about sex and romance,” says 49-year-old author Elizabeth Gilbert, who has written extensively about those subjects. I agree with her. I’ve devoted myself to studying the mysteries of love for many years, yet still feel like a rookie. Even if you are smarter about these matters than Gilbert and me, Taurus, I urge you to adopt a humble and curious attitude during the next few weeks. The cosmos has prepared some interesting lessons for you, and the best way to take advantage is to be eagerly receptive and open-minded. Halloween costume suggestion: sex researcher, love explorer, intimacy experimenter.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery,” wrote Gemini author Dashiell Hammett. But I recommend that you use his approach very rarely, and only when other learning methods aren’t working. Most of the time, your best strategy for getting the lessons you need is to put lubricating oil into the machinery, not a monkey-wrench. That’ll be especially true in the coming weeks. I suggest that you turn the machinery off for a while as you add the oil and do some maintenance. Halloween costume suggestion: repair person; computer techie; machine whisperer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was a Cancerian like you and me. One of the factors contributing to his success was that he put his demons to good use, “by harnessing them to his chariot.” He also testified that he gained control over his demons by taking long walks after breakfast. “Demons don’t like fresh air,” he said. “They prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet.” I suspect that now would be an excellent time to adopt his advice. Halloween costume suggestion: walk your demon on a leash, or make it into a puppet, or harness it to your chariot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Throughout the Halloween season, I encourage you to fantasize extensively about what your dream home would look like and feel like if you had all the money necessary to create it. What colors would you paint the walls? Would you have carpets or hardwood floors? What would be your perfect lighting, furniture, and décor? As you gazed out your windows, what views would you see? Would there be nature nearby or urban hotspots? Would you have an office or music room or art studio? Have fun imagining the sanctuary that would bring out the best in you. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate homebody.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look,” writes novelist Jodi Picoult. That’s crucial for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. Why? Because your superpower is going to be the ability to find extraordinary things that are hiding in places where people have almost never thought to look. You can do both yourself and those you care for a big favor by focusing your intensity on this task. Halloween costume suggestions: sleuth, treasure hunter, private eye, Sherlock Holmes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.” Author Shauna Niequist wrote that. In accordance with the astrological omens, I endorse her perspective as true and useful for you. You’ve zipped through your time of fertile chaos, conjuring up fresh possibilities. When January arrives, you’ll be ready to work on stability and security. But for now, your assignment is to blossom. Halloween costume suggestions: beautiful creature hatching from an egg; strong sprout cracking out of a seed.

Homework: What part of you is too tame? How can you inspire it to seek wilder ways of knowing? 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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ury Zhokhov, 41, a factory worker in Donetsk, Russia, was found kneeling in a field in early October with a knife handle sticking out of the top of his head.

Zhokhov was conscious, and when questioned by police, he revealed he had stuck the 8-inch blade in himself. He was having trouble breathing through his nose, he explained, and hoped to make another hole he could breathe through. But the knife became stuck, and he couldn’t remove it. Odditycentral.com reports doctors at the local hospital were afraid to touch the knife for fear of killing Zhokhov or causing brain damage. “It was horrific,” a hospital spokesperson told local media. X-rays showed the blade “exactly between the two hemispheres of the brain.”

Specialists were called and Zhokhov survived the surgery without apparent brain damage, although surgeons are concerned about infection.

antenna, on the ground,” the director said. Finally, about two hours into the flight, ground control convinced the pilot to return to India, where the plane landed in Mumbai. Indeed, there was a huge gash in the plane’s underbelly, and mesh fencing was wrapped around the landing gear.

All 130 passengers arrived unharmed and were booked on other flights, and the pilot and copilot have been grounded pending a review.

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West Virginia MetroNews reported that, for Jackie Fullmer, 37, of Fairmont, W.V., Oct. 9 started with trying to steal car keys from a woman at knife point. When police caught up to her, she ran toward their car with a hatchet and knife, prompting a deputy to shoot her with a stun gun. Fullmer turned to verbal attacks while being transported to the Fairmont Police Department, warning officers she was going to “stab them in the neck and watch their blood drain as she drank it,” which, as it turns out, she could have done—because she had a third weapon (a knife) hidden between her butt cheeks. That weapon was found during booking, and Fullmer admitted she had slashed the seat belt in the police cruiser with it before threatening to slit the officers’ throats. She was charged with threats of terrorist acts and attempted robbery. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Getting Your Goat In Olympic National Park in Washington, the mountain goat population has grown to an unnatural 700 or more animals. The park is also becoming more popular with humans, which has led to an unsavory consequence: In their constant quest for salt and other minerals, the goats have developed a strong taste for human urine and sweat left behind by hikers and campers.

Goats will lick clothing and paw at the ground where people have urinated or disposed of cooking water, making them a nuisance, according to the National Park Service. Popular Mechanics also reports that the increased likelihood of human-goat interactions has park officials worried, especially since a goat gored a hiker to death in 2010. The answer: Park officials are tagging, blindfolding and airlifting mountain goats to nearby Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, which should be more hospitable to their needs.

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On Oct. 12, an Air India Express pilot guided a Boeing 737 up and away from Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tamil Nadu, India—but not quite enough up and away. As the plane took off shortly after midnight, it hit the top of a five-foot-tall perimeter wall and destroyed a small landing guide tower. The Washington Post reported that, despite the audible collision, the pilot told the airport director the plane’s systems were functioning normally and he was continuing toward Dubai—across the Indian Ocean.

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