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Wisconsin Falls Behind on Solar and Wind Energy

OUTDATED POLICIES RESTRAIN OUR CLEAN POWER OUTPUT ::BY MARY SUSSMAN innesota greatly outpaces Wisconsin in clean energy production. A new report from the Environmental Law & Policy Center, A Tale of Two States, finds that the Badger State is much more dependent on burning fossil fuels than its neighbor to the west.

Since 2015, Minnesota’s solar power capacity grew by leaps and bounds, while Wisconsin’s remained relatively flat, and since 2007, Wisconsin’s installed wind power capacity has done likewise, while Minnesota’s has almost doubled. Minnesota currently has almost seven times Wisconsin’s wind power capacity. In 2018, Wisconsin produced half its energy from coal and 5% from non-hydroelectric renewables. Minnesota, by contrast, produced 37% of its energy from coal and 23% from non-hydroelectric renewables.

Minnesota has five times the wind capacity and more than 16 times the solar capacity of Wisconsin. Nationally, Minnesota ranks 13th in solar power generation, while Wisconsin ranks 41st. In wind power generation, Minnesota is eight, while Wisconsin ranks 25th.

Although Wisconsin has 76,383 clean energy jobs—leading Minnesota by about 15,000—our state’s clean energy companies thrive through out-of-state sales and miss out on the increased in-state sales that would result if renewable energy policies here were more robust, according to the report.

The report cites several causes for Wisconsin’s low ranking. These include the following: A low renewable energy standard in Wisconsin.

Antiquated interconnection standards, which allow utilities to obstruct or complicate solar users from connecting to the electrical grid.

A lack of community solar policies.

A lack of customer-friendly net-metering policies for solar users.

A lack of policies that reflect the “true value” of solar, which considers both the environmental and economic value of solar energy.

A lack of “pollinator-friendly” policies to encourage planting native pollinator plants underneath and around solar panels to provide a habitat for bees, reduce storm water runoff and improve water quality and soil health.

A lack of an adoption of energy-efficient standards for utilities.

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Though Wisconsin was an environmental leader in both the Tommy Thompson and Jim Doyle administrations, during Republican former Gov. Scott Walker’s two-terms, little was done to advance clean energy or to protect the environment.

Previously, there was strong bipartisan support for conservation and renewable energy. But after redistricting in 2011, the Wisconsin legislature became far less bipartisan, and both Gov. Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature grew hostile to protecting the environment and supporting clean energy, according to Dale Schultz, former Republican state senator.

“Redistricting made the incumbents insulated in a way they had never been before,” he says. “Suddenly the process was awash in sums of money that no one ever dreamed could be available. People only had to do one thing. If they followed the leader, they could keep a job for 10 years, and life was good. But they had to stop thinking. They had to do what the team wanted. When partisanship went from being a lens to view the issues to a straitjacket, where you were absolutely hemmed in and had to follow the leader, things begin to go awry.”

Under these circumstances, “it is very hard for the ordinary citizen to get heard,” Schultz explains.

Winds of Change Are Blowing Elizabeth Ward, conservation programs coordinator for the Wisconsin Sierra Club, says during the past decade, fossil fuel interests really pushed and tested out ways to stifle clean energy, thwarting progress on getting to “the inevitable:100% clean energy.”

“Unfortunately, fossil fuel interests were successful for a long time, but I do think that is changing,” Ward says. “We are seeing more and more demand for clean energy. I think the elected officials will have to come around.”

Indeed, new winds of change that support clean energy are blowing in local communities around the state and now, as well, in Tony Evers’ administration. In August, Governor Evers signed an executive order with a goal of ensuring that, by 2050, all energy consumed in Wisconsin will be carbon free. He also established the Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy. On Thursday, Oct.17, Gov. Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes both signed an executive order that established the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change, located at the Urban Ecology Center in Riverside Park on Milwaukee’s East Side.

“Minnesota is the leader in clean energy policy,” says Andy Olson, co-author of the Tale of Two States report. “Wisconsin’s policies are ad hoc, patched together and not keeping up with the times.” He says in the previous 10 years, Republican legislators have been dedicated to having an energy economy with a high-carbon footprint and that a lot of climate change deniers made energy policy. In that decade, solar, wind and battery technology have become vastly more affordable and efficient, making them desirable choices for many consumers and utilities.

“What we need from those who say, ‘let the market decide,’ is to allow Wisconsin to have a stronger, more robust, more open clean energy market,” Olson says.

“We need to move away from a high-carbon footprint to a clean energy economy.”

He adds that, for many years, Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission has been known to have a bias in favor of utilities. “They are supporting the monopoly utilities at the expense of the majority of Wisconsin citizens. Poll after poll shows that support for wind and solar power is off the charts across the spectrum. We need policies that reflect the will of the people.”

Mark Redsten, president and CEO of Clean Wisconsin, is hopeful that our state will start moving in the right direction soon. In January, Gov. Evers appointed Rebecca Cameron Valcq as a public service commissioner. Redsten hopes that when Evers appoints a second commissioner in 2021, the Public Service Commission will give robust support to clean energy. “The Public Service Commission makes really important decisions about our energy future,” he says. “They haven’t been helpful in the past, but I have to hope that because of the economics of clean energy and because the arguments against it are by people who are fighting a battle that is a decade or more old, that will change,” he says.

“We believe Gov. Evers is a strong leader on climate change,” Redsten adds, “and it is important for him that the agency responsible for climate change solutions has commissioners that support his agenda to get to 100% carbon free by 2050. Ultimately, you will start to see the policies and the decisions of the Public Service Commission reflect that.”

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3. Remember that all those $1 “deals” add up, and they are 10. Re-use and recycle-conscious people will really like white elephant gift giving. With the right resourceful group it can usually things you think are neat but really don’t need. Pass be fun, creative, and help everyone stay out of holiday debt. them up.

11. Babies and toddlers are cute, and they need very little. If 4. Before buying, think about things you are looking at as you are buying for them, buy something they need. We all ending up in a garage sale for 25 cents. want to get them their “first” holiday gifts but really, you 5. All the good deals can make you want to shop for yourself. can save money as the parent and help parents save money if If you do, just limit yourself to two or three gifts for you. No you buy their child something they need too. Even a pack of more. Now that you have a limit, you’ll need to be picky. diapers is fun to open with this group. It’s the paper they like.

6. If you send holiday cards, resist buying upgrades on photo Have fun thinking of this, too: What if I spend less than my cards. They start out at one price and quickly become 25- holiday budget? It may help to have a plan ahead for using 50% more. By the time you check out, you have so much time the savings for a reward, a donation or savings. It makes invested you may not want to go back and start over. If you saying no to things you don’t need a bit more fun! go ahead and buy, it can take a chunk out of your holiday -Kim budget. Each card and stamp could cost you $2.50-$3.00, so Kim Sponem is CEO & think about who you’re sending to and consider sending some President, since 2002, greetings through email or social media. of Summit Credit Union, a $3.6 billion, member-owned financial cooperative with more than 193,000 members.

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8. For office gift giving, something small is really nice, or consider giving to a nonprofit in all your coworkers’ names.

Announce the donation in a card with a treat attached and 1. Holiday decorations are appealing, but you probably don’t everyone’s happy, including the people benefiting from the need them. If you are drawn to decorations, you likely have donation.

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Indigenous Peoples’ Park

Indian Community School Students Succeed Beyond Their Dreams AFTER GETTING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY RECOGNIZED, THEY ALSO WITNESSED RENAMING OF A MILWAUKEE PARK ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL

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TUDENTS AT THE INDIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL (ICS) IN FRANKLIN, WIS., have learned firsthand that they can foster meaningful change. Starting in 2016, fourth-graders at the K-8 school in Franklin initiated a grassroots campaign to get Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognized in Milwaukee County on the second Monday in October, on what is federally designated as Columbus Day. After generating enthusiastic support within their school and beyond, that goal was achieved in December 2016, when the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to that effect. Then, ICS students turned their attention to gaining statewide recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Although that effort was stymied at numerous turns, ICS students did not give up.

After Milwaukee County Supervisor Felesia A. Martin was elected in 2018, she was inspired to introduce a resolution to rename 10-acre Columbus Park, which is located in her district on Milwaukee’s northwest side (at 7301 W. Courtland Ave.). That initiative, approved by the County Board this year, culminated in last week’s dedication of Indigenous Peoples’ Park. Milwaukee’s Common Council also passed a resolution last week recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day within the City of Milwaukee.

At a spirited, well-attended celebration on Monday, Oct. 14, members of the Indian School Community took center stage as they spoke, sang and drummed before the park’s new sign was unveiled. Jason Dropik, head of the school, emceed the celebration. Chief Clayton Winneshiek of the Ho-Chunk Nation, accompanied by numerous politicians involved in various phases of the many-pronged effort, also spoke. A repeated refrain was, “This is just the beginning” of recognizing contributions of indigenous people in the region and state.

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Learning by Engaging

Around 2014, longtime fourth-grade teacher Allison Jornlin began annually teaching a segment at Indian Community School about how Indigenous Peoples’ Day was starting to be honored in many places. Such efforts sought to balance onesided and misleading narratives about Christopher Columbus and the “founding” of the United States of America.

“That really ignited a spark in my class in 2016,” Jornlin said. “They wanted such a day recognized in Milwaukee. The whole class got fired up and wanted to learn more” about what it would take to make that happen. They believed, “We can do this,” even though they were only nine years old, she said.

The students set out to learn together about how government works. They invited Milwaukee County Supervisor John F. Weishan Jr. to visit their class to explain the legislative process: how resolutions are written, introduced, reviewed and ultimately voted upon.

Jornlin said that students then “studied a ton of resolutions about Indigenous Peoples’ Day” that had been approved in other communities. After analyzing those documents, they chose language they liked and also drafted original text relevant to their greater Milwaukee community. The final draft wove a detailed narrative about indigenous history locally and nationwide.

Weishan agreed to introduce the resolution, and students attended the Personnel Committee hearing when it was reviewed and unanimously approved that November. Several students “were brave enough to testify at the hearing,” said Jornlin. Students wrote their own “heartfelt statements, which came together easily for the students, since it meant so much to them,” said Jornlin. They also wrote many letters urging support of the resolution.As they prepared for the meeting of the full county board, students took an innovative—and ambi-

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tious—approach. Since the public could not speak when the full board deliberates, students decided to create “support mosaics.” Each student carried a different poster with affirmative statements and photos enlisted from over 100 individuals from nearby and around the world. When the vote was called, the entire class stood and silently held their posters. The resolution passed 16-1. The meeting’s invocation had been read in both Ojibwe and English by Michael Zimmerman Jr., who teaches the Ojibwe language at ICS.

The Long Road to Statewide Recognition

In 2017, state Rep. David Bowen of Milwaukee introduced a bill in the state legislature, for the second time, to create Indigenous Peoples’ Day statewide. He was invited to ICS to engage with students about the issue. During that visit, he urged them to attend a “Lobby Day” for the bill at the state Capitol in November 2017. All students from third grade and higher traveled to Madison for the day. Dozens of students spoke before microphones on behalf of the proposed legislation. A YouTube video of the students’ testimony displays their poise, persuasiveness and thoughtful research. Many introduced themselves first in their native language. Students acknowledged that native peoples, their language and culture are not extinct. “We are still here,” declared one student.

Jornlin said that even though that state bill was defeated, “students saw it all as a learning process.” That made it even sweeter early this month when Gov. Tony Evers used an executive order to create Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the second Monday in October throughout Wisconsin, which will coincide with the federal Columbus Day. He chose to visit ICS to make that announcement and “to meet the students who had worked long and hard to help make that happen,” said Jornlin. Although she left ICS after 13 years to pursue writing and history projects, Jornlin was delighted that the effort continued and that the park was also renamed. The Indian Community School has a long history of activism since its founding 50 years ago. “It’s an amazing testament to what can happen when you believe in kids because they don’t have to wait until they are adults to make a change,” Jornlin said.

As for Indigenous Peoples’ Park, proposals have been floated to interpret tribal history there in some manner, including how the park came to be renamed and the Indian Community School students’ campaign to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. One idea is to plant trees honoring tribal ancestors and the fact that “native land in Southeastern Wisconsin was taken from the Ojibwe, Menominee and Potawatomi for the building of our current community.”

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There’s Nothing Scary About Democrats Nominating a Democrat ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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T’S PROBABLY JUST AS WELL THE RACE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION will fade into the background for several months with Donald Trump’s impeachment dominating politics. Without any dramatic changes among frontrunners to report, campaign commentary was drifting into the absurd.

The most ridiculous suggestion was that with the largest and most diverse field of candidates of every flavor imaginable, the Democrats might need some new ones because they still don’t have anyone absolutely guaranteed to defeat one of the most divisive, corrupt Republican presidents in American history.

That theory was mostly being spread by anti-Trump conservatives like George Will who want Democrats to nominate a conservative-enough candidate to attract Republicans.

Guess what? Democrats are going to nominate a Democrat. If conservative Republicans repelled by Trump (and there are legions) can’t bring themselves to vote for a Democrat, they may want to stay home and begin cleansing their party of Trump and his elected enablers who are destroying the Republican Party.

Besides, until primary voters start casting ballots in February, no one really knows which Democratic candidates will have the broadest national appeal. That’s when frontrunners frequently change, and the momentum behind the winning candidate begins to build.

Running on Real Issues

Here’s one thing we do know about all the Democratic candidates. They’re all running on real issues such as affordable health care, good-paying jobs and easing the tax burden on working Americans by requiring wealthier taxpayers to begin paying their fair share, all issues wildly popular with many Trump voters.

How do we know that? Because those are the same issues Trump used to attract overwhelming support from Wisconsin’s small towns with boarded-up main streets and rural areas with family farms facing foreclosure. The big difference between the Democrats and Trump is Democrats have actual plans to reduce the problems facing working-class Americans, and Trump was simply lying to all those voters.

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ing taxes for the wealthy, including himself and his family. He actually made life harder for his Wisconsin voters with a self-destructive U.S. trade war that halted most international exports of farm products and created a recession in manufacturing. Even a dog knows the difference between being stepped on and kicked.

Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman documented the true effect of the Republican tax cut Trump signed in December 2017. Their study, The Triumph of Injustice, reached a shocking conclusion about taxes paid by the ultrarich vs. the working class. In 2018, for the first time in American history, the average effective tax rate for all taxes paid by the 400 richest U.S. families was 23%, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2% tax rate paid by the bottom half of all American households.

Trump’s family, and the families of America’s richest billionaires, intend to continue stuffing their pockets for the next 10 years by adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt. That enormous tax cut for the ultrarich was the last major act of former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, and it violated everything he claimed to believe about the necessity of reducing federal deficits. On his way out, Ryan grabbed everything he could for his own wealthy family.

Trump’s Fake Tax Cut

Resentment over those who received that massive tax cut was a major factor behind Democrats winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. That, and continued attempts by Trump’s Republicans to destroy affordable health care for 20 million Americans, will continue to be election issues in 2020.

Even before Republicans dropped all pretense of acting as responsible stewards of the national economy, the Democratic agenda of restoring economic fairness for working Americans had far broader public support than the Republican agenda of cutting taxes for multimillion-dollar corporations, millionaires and billionaires. For the past 15 years, Gallup has found nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the wealthy pay too little in taxes. The economic study by Saez and Zucman of Trump’s tax cut proves how right they are. That’s why a recent poll on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “wealth tax” on millionaires and billionaires showed support by 74% of Democrats, 56% of independents and even 50% of Republicans.

All the leading Democrats still face challenges. Joe Biden needs to demonstrate sustained success in political debates. Warren has to show how she’ll fulfill her promise of Medicare for all without raising taxes on the middle class. Sen. Bernie Sanders needs good health.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg has to demonstrate support among religiously conservative African Americans. Any Democrat who takes a lead will be challenged in other ways.

But there’s nothing too scary or out of the mainstream about any of the plans of Democratic candidates to create a fair economy for working Americans. The American people have seen what scary looks like, and it’s a corrupt, self-centered billionaire manipulating government for his benefit to increase his fortune.

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Joann Henriques’ Beacon of Hope to Single Mothers ::BY ERIN BLOODGOOD

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t 20 years old, Joann L. Henriques’ life was just starting. On the verge of moving to New York for school, she got pregnant, and the father chose to leave her to raise the baby alone. Unprepared and terrified, she began calling organizations for assistance.

“I remember swallowing my pride and asking for diapers,” she says. When she met with people working at the larger nonprofits in the city, she recalls their insensitivity, making her feel like just another number on a long list. She never wanted to feel that way again and wanted to prevent other single mothers from going through that same experience.

Since she was a teenager, Henriques dreamt of a career in helping women, and after living through the hardships of being a single mother, that dream only grew stronger.

She lost motivation in her 20s, but in her early 30s, she was finally back on her feet. One day while listening to a sermon in her church about finding one’s purpose, she decided it was time to pursue the dream she had put on hold.

‘All This Started With a Dream’

She didn’t waste time trying to figure out logistics or funding; instead, she went straight to the source to provide single mothers with what they need most: diapers.

So, Henriques began walking the streets handing out free diapers, and before long, she was being called “the diaper lady.” When word got out, members of her church began bringing her diapers to distribute, and women in need began contacting her for help. “All this started with a dream,” says Henriques.

She soon realized that these women needed more than diapers; they needed resources and someone who would show them compassion. She thought back to her horrible experiences at large nonprofits and knew she could do better. So in 2005, Henriques rented a small office space with her own money, and JLH Women’s Mentoring Services was born. Fourteen years later, Henriques is still in that space handing out diapers, connecting women to services in the city and crying with them when all they need is someone to listen.

Determined to act and follow her dream, Henriques never felt the need to become a certified counselor, because to her, it didn’t matter: She knew that she could positively impact women’s lives simply by dedicating her time and energy. While working a full-time job, Henriques has showed up at her office space every Friday and Saturday for 14 years, helping more than 3,000 women so far.

Humble and soft-spoken, Henriques puts her heart into her work. When she is with her clients, she is gracious, but when they need her to stand up for them, she is relentless. She has done everything from confronting pimps, to leading prayer sessions in brothels, to fighting for restraining orders in court. She is a beacon of hope for struggling mothers and will stop at nothing to support them.

“I always tell people that babies are not going to stop coming, and girls are not going to stop finding love, so keep the diapers coming.”

JLH Women’s Mentoring Services is located at 3846 W. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 109. For more information, call 414-934-0216, send an e-mail to jlhmentoring@live.com or visit rehobothnewlife.com/jlh-womens-mentoring-services.

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Saturday, Nov. 2

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of Sherman Boulevard and North Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

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

Monday, Nov. 4

Public Hearing on the 2020 Milwaukee County Budget @ the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (929 N. Water St.), 6 p.m.

The public is encouraged to attend the annual hearing on the Milwaukee County Budget, hosted by the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors.

Neal Plotkin for Senate Kick-Off @ Libby Montana (5616 W. Donges Bay Road), 5:30 p.m.

Small business owner, teacher, family man and Glendale resident Neal Plotkin kicks off his Wisconsin state senate campaign at this event. Hear his take on the issues, including public education, the environment, the state transportation plan, property taxes, the Wisconsin economy and more.

Tuesday, Nov. 5

Coming to Milwaukee: Immigration Stories @ Nō Studios (1037 W. McKinley Ave.), 5:30 p.m.

In partnership with Ex Fabula and Nō Studios, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee’s “Community Stories Live” brings you a new perspective on immigration. Several Milwaukeeans will hereby share their experiences with immigration from their own varying perspectives.

Wednesday, Nov, 6 Election 2020: Spotlight on Wisconsin @ Birch (6610 W. North Ave.)

The 2020 elections are approaching, and Wisconsin is once again expected to play a crucial role.

Next summer, of course, Milwaukee will host the Democratic National Convention for the first time in the city’s history. From the race for president to local elections, what can we expect over the next year? Join WUWM’s LaToya Dennis and Bonnie North as they moderate conversations about the role Wisconsin will play in 2020.

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Bump in the Night or Bump in the Brain? ::BY PHILIP CHARD

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n Halloween, we celebrate things that go bump in the night (and candy).

Nonetheless, this macabre holiday evokes a longstanding debate in the world of psychology: Do things actually go bump in the night, or do they simply do so in our psyches? Are so-called paranormal phenomena like poltergeists, telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis and the like indications of real happenings occurring largely outside our scope of perception, or do they represent over-active imaginations, projected fears or outright delusions?

Mainstream psychological scientists scoff at the notion that these experiences have any basis in fact. They point out that, despite many efforts to do so, no reputable study has provided scientific evidence in support of paranormal occurrences. It’s a powerful argument.

While psychology is far from an exact science, it increasingly utilizes evidence-based methods to establish what it considers true and false in the workings of the mind.

A counter-argument from proponents of the paranormal is that we currently lack the means to detect these mysterious happenings. After all, they assert, human history is replete with examples of how improved means of scientific inquiry upended our view of reality.

For example, until 1895, the existence of X-rays, routinely used in healthcare today, was unknown. New technology (a cathode-ray tube) made detection possible. So, paranormal folks maintain that what we know is based on what is currently observable, and, as our means of detection improve, there is much more to be discovered “out there.” Their most popular ad-

age in this regard is, “The absence of proof is not the proof of absence.” Fair enough, but it’s not the proof of presence, either.

Puzzles of Precognition

As a psychotherapist, I hear many accounts from clients of things going bump in their nights. Often, these occurrences, whatever their true nature, include “visitations” from spirits or lost loved ones, precognitive dreams, telepathic communication, hauntings and the like.

While some of these accounts seem too self-serving and nebulous to warrant much validity, others are, at the least, puzzling.

A variety of surveys show most Americans believe they’ve experienced some form of paranormal phenomenon (70% in some instances). Most of those surveyed reported having premonitions that, they claim, later came true. Believing in psychics, spiritual healing, hauntings, demonic possession and ghosts was also common.

Now, I am cognizant of the mind’s capacity for self-deception. Many studies show we can trick ourselves into seeing, hearing and feeling things that are not, in fact, physically present, and that our memories of paranormal events (as well as normal ones) are subject to confabulation. How so? Well, when we recount an event from memory, we often modify or embellish the nature and sequence of what took place, and then, subsequently, we believe these modifications are the real deal.

I am also aware that we have a long, long way to go before closing the book on our understanding of the mind and consciousness, if ever that should prove possible. For example, we have yet to demonstrate exactly how consciousness arises in the brain. In terms of accurately discerning things in our external environment, we face a similar uphill climb.

Astrophysicists tell us only about 7% of the matter and energy in the universe is detectable using current technology, meaning there is far more we don’t know than we do. Given that, I’d caution both sides of this debate, the “show me” empiricists and the woo-woo true believers, to keep an open mind.

In addition to its primary purposes, perhaps Halloween should remind us how little we understand about so-called reality. Maybe our costumes, decorations and paranormal claims, while depicting the surreal or outrageous, are simply ways to remember that, despite all we profess to know for certain, existence remains, at its essential core, a mystery.

For more, visit philipchard.com.

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What Do You Say? Under what circumstances do you think the police should engage in high-speed chases in Milwaukee?

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Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation Took Leading Role in Hemp Legislation ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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ob Richard was the Senior Director of Governmental Relations at the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation (WFBF) from 2014 through 2019 and a key player in WFBF’s hemp legislation efforts. Although he left WFBF to pursue another opportunity, he’s still active in industrial hemp issues; he volunteers as president of the Wisconsin Hemp Alliance and occasionally helps the WFBF team advocate for hemp.

The WFBF was instrumental in supporting hemp on state and national levels. “The Farm Bureau was the driving lobbying force behind former state Rep. Jesse Kremer and state Sen. Patrick Testin’s effort to legalize hemp in the state under the hemp pilot provisions of the 2014 Farm Bill,” Richard states. He recalls how, in August 2016, he received a call from Kremer regarding WFBF’s position on hemp.

“I told him we didn’t have one. He asked if I could do something about that.” In December 2016, the voting delegates of WFBF adopted policy to support hemp legalization at their annual meeting. That gave Richard the green light to start lobbying on hemp, but he dove into uncharted territory because there were few others to rely on for expertise.

Throughout 2017, Richard worked with Kremer and Testin to write the bill and advocate for its passage. By mid-October of that year, the bill had unanimously passed in the Wisconsin legislature. Richard notes former Gov. Scott Walker had initially expressed hesitation but eventually signed the bill that November.

The WFBF led other state Farm Bureaus across the country in supporting Kentucky congressman James Comer’s work to remove hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). WFBF president Jim Holte wrote a letter to the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Purdue, co-signed by 26 other state Farm Bureau presidents, urging him and President Trump to take action to remove 10 | O C T O B E R 3 1 , 2 0 1 9

hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. Those efforts helped demonstrate that hemp had finally gone mainstream, Richard observes. WFBF had secured the Wisconsin delegation’s support, with representatives Glenn Grothman, Ron Kind, Mark Pocan, Gwen Moore and Mike Gallagher, as well as senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, sponsoring the legislation. Holte and Comer penned a column (published in February 2018

by USA Today Network), which Richard credits as signaling the country was ready to move forward on hemp.

WFBF held the state’s first educational hemp seminar at Chippewa Valley Tech in January 2018, which drew more than 250 attendees and was covered by Wisconsin Eye. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) issued approximately 250 grower applications that spring. “No other state had blown the doors off of this thing like Wisconsin did in its inaugural year,” Richard notes. Further educational sessions hosted by WFBF drew standing room-only crowds.

Wisconsin’s hemp program had some hiccups—Richard references how then-Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel’s office in April 2018 almost derailed the hemp program by issuing a statement that essentially declared any cannabidiol (CBD) products outside of Lydia’s Law illegal. Kremer, Testin, Richard and others met with the attorney general’s office and stated why they believed CBD production was legal under the 2014 Farm Bill. The attorney general’s office reversed their decision shortly after. “This pretty much saved the 2018 growing season for a couple hundred hemp farmers,” Richard says.

Wisconsin’s 2018 inaugural hemp growing season was met with wet weather, and Richard says some farmers didn’t properly plant seed at appropriate depths or at the right time. The 2019 season saw a six-fold increase in growing applications filed with DATCP. Richard observes this year’s crop is better, but wet conditions and insects persist. He says there’s still a general lack of hemp agronomics and product and market development.

Richard is optimistic about the future of hemp in Wisconsin but believes there’s still work ahead, whether it be educating policy makers, business leaders, law enforcement and the general public or upgrading infrastructure to process hemp grains and fiber.

“Product and market development is in its infancy, but if this country and the younger generations truly believe in sustainability, then I think hemp can play a major role in making that happen,” he concludes.

For more information, visit wfbf.com.

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Legal Recreational Marijuana in Mexico Is the Next Big Step ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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exican lawmakers are on the verge of legalizing recreational marijuana nationally, and a legalization bill has just been unveiled. If it passes, it would make Mexico the third country in the world to have fully legal pot—after Canada and Uruguay.

“The end of the prohibitionist policy is good for the country,” Sen. Ricardo Monreal, the leader the MORENA Party in the Mexican Senate, told Reuters. Monreal promised a swift victory for the bill, which seems likely as MORENA and its allies hold majorities in both chambers of Congress. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, promised he would sign the bill into law if it passes the legislative process.

According to a translation provided by Marijuana Moment, the bill includes provisions allowing anyone 18 or older to possess cannabis for personal use, cultivate up to four plants and purchase marijuana from licensed retailers. Low-income and indigenous people, rather than big corporations, would have priority when it comes to licensing, which would be overseen by an independent institute. The psychoactive potency of all legal marijuana would be tightly regulated, and edibles would be reserved to medical marijuana patients.

The bill is, among other things, an attempt to smother organized crime. Last week, Deputy Mario Delgado Carrillo, leader of the MORENA majority in the Chamber of Deputies, called for the legalization of all drugs, starting with cannabis. “It would be necessary to start now to regulate the drug market to eliminate these markets that give so much power to organized crime,” he announced.

Mexican Supreme Court Weighs In

This decision does not come out of the blue. Starting in 2015, the Mexican Supreme Court has issued five rulings stating that marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional, in particular due to “the right to the free development of the personality,” as guaranteed by the country’s constitution.

As per Mexican law, the fifth ruling, which was made in October 2018, possesses the force of law, binding all judges in the country to follow the Supreme Court’s decision. As such, cannabis benefited from a de facto decriminalization through the judicial branch. For the past year, anyone could get their charges thrown out for marijuana possession, use or cultivation thanks to the ruling.

However, a formal change of the law—which would be the only way to properly legalize marijuana, making it possible to sell it out in the open, tax and regulate it—needs to come from the legislative branch. Following the decisive ruling, the Mexican Supreme Court gave lawmakers until Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, to establish the exact guidelines of recreational marijuana’s legalization.

The Senate took the order seriously, going so far as dedicating an entire section of its website and activity to cannabis, studying its effects and leading an international forum on the topic. Numerous tentative bills were drafted, before the definitive project was revealed. As such, it seems inevitable that marijuana will be legalized by the end of the year in Mexico; the bill is designed to go into effect immediately after passing.

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Medicare and the Alphabet Soup ::BY RICHARD LAVIGNE WITH BOBBY PETERSON, HEALTHWATCH WISCONSIN, INC., WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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EDICARE FOR ALL REMAINS A RALLYING CRY FOR SOME WHO SEEK HEALTH CARE SYSTEM SIMPLICITY AND RADICAL TRANSFORMATION. But in reality, Medicare is a complicated program with an alphabet soup of provisions, features and of course, rules. Medicare may include parts A, B, C and D. And those are just the main features! Understanding the basic elements of the Medicare program takes time and patience and can trigger urgent family meetings to review and select the best options for parents or family members seeking to identify the best path to health care coverage with lower costs and strong benefits. We’ll try to breakdown the program components and help people understand some of the big picture choices available in Medicare.

Medicare Parts A and B

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When most people think about Medicare, they think in terms of the two components of the original Medicare program: Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B. Loosely speaking, Part A covers hospital expenses while Part B covers non-hospital medical expenses such as doctor visits, ambulance rides and medical equipment.

Eligibility for Medicare is purely a function of age and citizenship status. Any person over the age of 65 who is a U.S. citizen or has been a legal permanent resident for at least five years can enroll in Medicare. People under the age of 65 can also enroll in Medicare if they have been determined disabled and received Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Railroad Retirement Board disability payments for at least 24 months.

For most people, Medicare Part A enrollment is free. Part A premiums are waived for anyone who has paid Medicare taxes, or whose spouse has paid Medicare taxes, for at least 10 years.

Although Medicare Part A may be free, enrollment is not automatic. Most people will need to contact a local Social Security office to sign up and can do so as early as three months prior to turning 65. Those who don’t have 10 years of Medicare tax history can still enroll in Part A but will have to pay a monthly premium that ranges between $240 and $437 per month for 2019.

Medicare Part B is an optional, premiumbased benefit. For 2019, the standard monthly Part B premium is $135.50 per month, but it can run as high as $460.50 for higher-income enrollees. Although Part B enrollment is optional, failing to sign up as soon as you turn 65 can be a costly mistake. You’ll pay a late enrollment penalty of 10% on top of the standard premium for each year you wait to enroll after your eligibility date. One exception to the late enrollment penalty is when you have health insurance through your job or your spouse’s job when you turn 65.

In that case, you can enroll in Part B with no penalty whenever the job insurance ends.

Medicare Part C or Advantage Plans

Medicare Part C or “Medicare Advantage” plans originated as demonstration projects as early as the 1970s with the goals of providing Medicare enrollees with access to private insurance plans offering coordinated care and more comprehensive benefits than traditional Medicare, while also controlling costs through managed care organizations. Advantage plans became available to all Medicare enrollees in the late 1990s and now are mostly run by private insurance companies.

Advantage plans have been growing in popularity over the past two decades, with about one-third of all Medicare enrollees in Advantage plans, but they have their pros and cons and may not be the best choice for everybody.

On the good side, Advantage plans usually include prescription drug coverage and may offer more comprehensive services than traditional Part A and Part B coverage. Advantage plans also cap the maximum amount you will pay out of pocket each year, ranging on average between $5,000 and $6,000, whereas there is no limit to out of pocket expenses with Part A and Part B alone. Advantage plans also offer the simplicity of carrying a single member card rather than separate cards for Medicare, Medicare Part D and Medigap.

On the down side, Advantage plans are managed care plans that may have limited provider networks, especially in rural communities. They may provide no coverage or charge more for visits to out-of-network providers.

Advantage plans may also have complicated copayment or coinsurance schemes for different types of services, which can lead to outof-pocket costs building up quickly when you have a serious health problem. Although Advantage plans can be a good choice for some circumstances, people with chronic or complex health conditions may find pairing a Medigap plan with traditional Part A and Part B coverage to be a better option in terms of cost and choice of providers.

Advantage plan members pay their standard Part B monthly premium plus an additional Advantage plan premium. Many basic Advantage plans offer a $0 additional premium, but for those who choose plans with more robust benefits, the average additional premium is around $65 per month. Choosing the right Advantage plan is much the same as shopping for individual health insurance. It requires a good understanding of your own medical needs and some careful investigation to make sure the plan you choose offers a good balance between costs and benefits.

Medicare Open Enrollment

Medicare Part C and Part D plans can change from year to year, changing providers, networks or drug formularies. An annual

open enrollment period from October 15 to December 7 allows plan participants an option to review and select a new plan. Remember to review your plan benefits and make sure your providers and medications are still covered— see “Finding Help” on the next page.

Medicare Part D and SeniorCare

Prescription drugs played a much smaller role in treating medical conditions when Congress enacted Medicare in 1965, so the original Medicare program offered no prescription coverage. It would be nearly 40 years later before stand-alone drug plans came under the hallmark of Medicare with the introduction of Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D plans are run by private companies under contract with the federal government. Although every Part D plan is required to offer benefits worth at least a standard minimum value, plans can vary widely in terms of specific drugs covered and outof-pocket costs for different classes of drugs.

With more than 700 different Part D plans available nationwide, choosing one that best suits your needs can be a real challenge.

On top of the challenge of choosing the right plan, Medicare Part D features a confusing “donut hole” gap in prescription coverage. The coverage gap kicks in after you have spent a certain amount out of pocket for prescription medications—$3,280 for 2019.

Reaching the coverage gap, though, doesn’t mean that you will have to pay full price for prescriptions. Parts of the Affordable Care Act aimed to phase out the donut hole by requiring drug manufacturers to offer discounts to Part D plan members in the coverage gap. In 2019, the manufacturer discount is 70% for brand name medications and the Part D plan pays 5%, leaving 25% as out-of-pocket costs to the plan member. For generic drugs, the manufacturer discount is 63%, leaving 37% as out-of-pocket costs. The full amount of the discount and the member’s out-of-pocket costs count toward closing the coverage gap. Once your total costs reach $5,100, you are out of the coverage gap and will only have to pay 5% of prescription costs for the remainder of the year. Under current law, the donut hole phase out will be complete in 2020, but that doesn’t mean the coverage gap will be eliminated entirely. Part D members will still be required to pay 25% of the cost for both generic drugs and brand names until their total costs put them out of the coverage gap.

In 2019, the average monthly premium for a Medicare Part D plan is around $33, but it can be more or less expensive depending on where you live and which plan you choose.

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eligible. You’ll pay a penalty of 1% of the average monthly premium for each month you wait after becoming eligible. Again, like with Part B, you won’t have to pay a penalty if you maintain other prescription drug coverage before enrolling in a Part D plan. That could include insurance through a job or a spouse’s job, enrollment in a Part C plan that offers prescription coverage or enrollment in a state prescription assistance plan, like Wisconsin’s SeniorCare program.

SeniorCare is an income-based program operated by the State of Wisconsin that may offer a good alternative to a Part D plan, especially for lower income individuals who qualify for program benefits that cover medications with low copayments and no deductible. You can have SeniorCare instead of a Part D plan, or you can have both at the same time. Lower income people may also qualify for the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy, or “Extra Help,” to reduce copayments and deductible costs and pay some or all of the monthly plan premium. The combination of SeniorCare with a Part D plan and Extra Help can provide comprehensive prescription coverage with very low out-of-pocket costs.

Medicare Supplements and Wrap Around

The main purpose of Medicare supplement plans, also known as Medigap plans, is to cover the out-of-pocket costs connected with Medicare Part A and Part B. In most of the country, Medigap plans are required to follow a set of standardized federal benefit packages.

Wisconsin, though, is one of three states that was granted a waiver on the federal rules. Instead of the 10 different Medigap plans available under the federal standards, Wisconsin has just one basic plan standard with the option to purchase additional benefits available under seven different rider options.

Wisconsin’s “basic benefits” Medigap plans cover Medicare’s 20% coinsurance on medical services as well as some additional benefits, including inpatient mental health and home health benefits beyond what Medicare will pay for, as well as certain state mandated benefits like dialysis and chiropractic care.

Some of the optional rider benefits include coverage of Part A and Part B deductibles, extra days of home health services and foreign travel insurance. Medigap plans cannot offer prescription drug coverage.

The first six months after a person enrolls in Medicare Part B are considered the open enrollment period for Medigap plans. During that time, insurance companies cannot deny coverage or charge higher premiums based on health status or preexisting conditions. Medigap plans are, however, allowed to impose a waiting period on coverage for preexisting conditions. There are also other situations when Medigap plans are not allowed to discriminate or impose waiting periods on preexisting conditions. For example, people who enroll in a Part C plan as soon as they become eligible and leave the plan in less than a year qualify for guaranteed issue as long as they SHEPHERD EXPRESS

enroll in a Medigap plan within 63 days.

For those who can afford the added premiums, Medigap plans offer protection against potentially unlimited out-of-pocket costs for serious health problems, but for those at the lowest end of the income scale, Medicare Savings Programs can serve the same purpose.

There are four flavors of Medicare Savings Programs, all features of the federal Medicaid program. At the lowest end of the income scale is the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary program, which pays deductibles, coinsurance and premiums for Medicare Part A and Part B. For slightly higher-income individuals, two similar programs cover premiums for Part B. The fourth program covers Part A premiums, if any, for working people with disabilities.

Other types of supplemental or Medicare “wrap around” insurance products are available, but it’s important to remember that these are not Medigap plans. They may offer services not covered by Medicare, like vision and dental, but they won’t pay your standard Medicare coinsurance or deductible expenses. The term “wrap around” may also be used to describe certain types of Medicare Part C plans that provide extra services for people who are dual-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid or who have certain chronic health conditions.

Finding Help

The Medicare program provides a critical layer of security for many of the nation’s seniors and people with disabilities. But the program complexity can leave folks feeling ill and confused. That’s why knowing where to get help is so important. And as always, programs like Medicare need to provide consumers the information, education, and patient advocacy assistance they need to secure the medical services they are entitled to and deserve under the law.

Official US Government Site for Medicare: Find information on open enrollment, program coverage, services, local help and resources at medicare.gov. Phone: 800-633-4227.

Wisconsin’s Aging and Disability Resource Centers: Provide information on programs, services, long-term care options and benefits at dhs.wisconsin.gov/adrc/index.htm.

Medigap Helpline: This statewide toll-free helpline operated by the Wisconsin Board on Aging and Long Term Care can help you make informed insurance decisions. Call with questions about Medicare supplement or Medigap policies. Toll-Free: 800-242-1060.

Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee: Provides free advice, referrals and assistance to Milwaukee County residents 50 years of age and older in matters involving public benefits, health issues, advanced directives and basic estate planning, including estate recovery.

Phone: 414-727-5300.

SeniorLAW: Provides free legal assistance to Milwaukee County residents who are 60 and older. Benefit specialists provide legal information, while attorneys provide representation in appropriate court cases. Phone: 855-947-2529.

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New in Milwaukee Restaurants, cafés and a diner open; a steakhouse gets a makeover ::BY LACEY MUSZYNSKI October was a busy month for restaurant openings, with a Puerto Rican bakery and café, a new coffee chain and a fun diner appearing on the scene. Two hotels got new restaurants, and a casino steakhouse reopened after a makeover.

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A hearth-focused restaurant has opened in the former Smyth space in the Iron Horse Hotel. Ash is headed by Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite, who also own DanDan and other local restaurants. A wood-fired hearth is the centerpiece of the restaurant and visible to diners. The menu focuses on seasonal wood-fired dishes that are meant to be shared, including an American Kobe steak ($55), head-on prawns with chili butter ($26) and baconwrapped rabbit loin with cherries ($27). There’s also a menu of small plates, like venison tartare ($12), grilled avocado with onion spread and cheddar ($8) and spätzle with bone marrow ($10). At brunch, expect smoked trout toast ($14), shakshuka ($15) and fried chicken and waffle ($14).

500 W. Florida St. • 414-831-4677 theironhorsehotel.com/ash 8 • $$-$$$

Dream Dance Steakhouse

Dream Dance Steakhouse has reopened in the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino after a months-long, $1.8 million renovation. The dining room has been completely revamped and now includes an arched entryway filled with wine bottles all around, larger bar, new furniture, lighting and finishes. A new chef, Matthew Molli, is also in place, and he’s developed a classic, simple steakhouse menu. Starters include cheese curd fritters ($6) and plenty of seafood, like scallops three ways ($15), mussels casino ($10) and a shellfish platter for sharing ($90). Steaks—like the 12-ounce filet mignon ($45) and the 14-ounce prime dry-aged ribeye ($48)—come with bearnaise sauce. Roasted chicken ($22), salmon ($26) and a Dream Dance burger ($16) are also available.

1721 W. Canal St. • 414-847-7883 paysbig.com/dining/dream-dance-steakhouse • $$$

Fairgrounds Coffee & Tea

A Chicago-based coffee shop and café has opened in the Vantage on the Park apartments in Yankee Hill. This is the eighth location of Fairgrounds Coffee & Tea, which carries

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Fairgrounds Coffee & Tea

coffee, teas on tap and other beverages from companies like Colectivo, Frothy Monkey and Vosges Haut Chocolat. Breakfast, lunch and snacks are served, including a fried egg and bacon sandwich with harissa aioli, huevos rancheros breakfast tacos and a lox and bagel platter. An andouille sausage and pepper sandwich, grilled cheese and tomato soup and a roasted vegetable sandwich round out the lunch menu.

916 E. State St. • fairgrounds.cafe/cafe-milwaukee • $$

414 Bar + Kitchen

A restaurant and bar has opened inside the Cambria Hotel Milwaukee Downtown. 414 Bar + Kitchen has an upscale bistro and bar concept and serves breakfast and dinner (no lunch) in a cozy, contemporary space. At breakfast, diners can get croissant sandwiches ($11-$12), omelets ($12) or buttermilk pancakes ($10). The dinner menu includes small plates like cheese curd and duck confit poutine ($16) and margherita flatbread ($11) and large plates like lemon seared salmon with broccoli couscous ($18), a bacon, mushroom and Swiss burger ($15) and seared flat-iron steak frites ($19).

503 N. Plankinton Ave. • 414-223-4484 cambriamilwaukee.com • $$

Johanna’s Cakes & Desserts Café

A Puerto Rican bakery and café has opened in Walker’s Point after a long renovation process of a previously vacant building. Johanna’s Cakes specializes in elaborate celebration cakes and desserts and also serves breakfast, lunch and daily specials. At breakfast, customers can get combo plates ($8-$10) with items like tostadas, arepas, pancakes, eggs and bacon. Sandwiches are pressed and include pernil ($8), Philly steak ($9) and a jibarito served with arroz con grandules ($10). Seafood salad with toastones ($14), fried pork chops ($11) and sancocho (a beef stew; $13) are some of the entrees and specials.

1239 S. 11th St. • 414-210-2702 facebook.com/johannascakesmke • $-$$

Wonderland

An all-day diner has opened in Riverwest in the former West Bank Café space. Wonderland is owned by Don Krause, who also owns Art Bar, and the vibe is similarly funky and whimsical with colorful wallpaper and vintage décor. For breakfast, choose from cornbread waffles with toasted pecan butter and caramelized apples ($9) or a meatloaf skillet ($12).

Sandwiches include a turkey club with house-roasted turkey ($11), a shrimp roll ($12) and a fried green tomato sandwich with vegan herbed cream cheese ($9). “Supper” options include roasted salmon ($15), turkey pot pie with a buttermilk biscuit topping ($13) and loaded poutine with crispy pork belly ($9). Homemade desserts like sweet potato pie are available every day.

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Brew City Booch Raises a Glass to a Different Kind of Brew ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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avid Anderson, owner of Brew City Booch (2018 S. First St.), realizes there’s still a mystique about his product, kombucha, a sparkling fermented tea drink with live probiotic cultures, served cold and fizzy. The non-alcoholic beverage has been popular on the West Coast for years, but now, here in the Beer Capitol, more people are enjoying kombucha along with other consumables in the fermentation wave, such as sauerkraut and kimchi.

“It’s a low-sugar alternative to soda, but with a bold flavor, refreshing effervescence and a natural tangy profile,” Anderson says. Brew City Booch flavors include berry hibiscus; ginger turmeric, flavored with raw ginger and turmeric root; jasmine; and lemon thyme, which is on the tarty side and made with lemon thyme herbs grown in Anderson’s garden, with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice added to produce a summery taste. The chai flavor is a little sweeter, with notes of cinnamon, cardamom and molasses. Anderson is currently perfecting a fig mint flavor.

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“With all flavors, we use all-natural components and simple, raw ingredients. Nothing is processed,” he adds. “Kombucha has possibilities for a multitude of flavors; the spectrum is a wide-open playground.” He produces Brew City Booch in small batches in Bittercube’s former space in Lincoln Warehouse.

Anderson sold Brew City Booch at the South Shore Farmers Market, where people new to kombucha can sample the flavors. “I get mostly positive reactions. Kids, adults and people from all walks of life are trying it,” Anderson says.

“Some people who never heard of it are not prepared for tartness that is characteristic of kombucha, and they make sour faces. We’ll also get avid kombucha drinkers that appreciate it. We often hear that Brew City Booch is not as potent as the commercial kombucha available in grocery stores.”

Two brothers, Justin and Ryan Dworak, originally started Brew City Booch last year. Anderson grew up with the Dworaks in West Bend, and they all had attended Lubar School of Business at UW-Milwaukee together. When the brothers started Brew City Booch, Anderson, who has a background in food science, was brought on board to help develop the business. The brothers eventually found other priorities and pursuits, so Anderson took the helm to see what he could make of Brew City Booch. Before becoming involved with the business, he had never tried kombucha. “The brothers turned me on to it.”

As an avid sailor and member of the South Shore Yacht Club, Anderson hopes to make Brew City Booch a beacon for Great Lakes stewardship and give back to programs that support Lake Michigan.

Brew City Booch can be found at Groppi’s; Sendik’s, on Downer Avenue; West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe’s location in the Milwaukee Public Market and at their store and café on 68th and Burnham; Beans & Barley; Celesta vegan restaurant; and on tap at 1840 Brewing Company, Component Brewing and MOR Bakery and Café—the latter two being his neighbors in Lincoln Warehouse.

For more information, visit Anderson’s Instagram @brewcityboochmke or email brewcityboochmke@gmail.com.

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GUARDIANS OF MILWAUKEE ART

Menomonee Valley warehouse becomes a holding place and gallery for visual art ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN ome collectors will winnow their holdings to make room for more items or to upgrade their collection. For art collectors John Shannon and Jan Serr, upgrading was beside the point; they bought for love, not investment. With more than 3,600 artworks—from Henri Matisse through David Hockney and contemporary artists from around the world—and no place to display or safely store the entire collection, the couple developed a business, Guardian Fine Art Services (1635 W. St. Paul St.), in a five-story building constructed in 1924. Aside from housing Shannon-Serr’s artwork, Guardian rents space to other collectors, providing a secure environment for irreplaceable items.

The public face of the venture, called The Warehouse, is a gallery and performance space on the building’s ground floor. A circa-1900 painted wood carving of the Hindu god Hanuman greets visitors with outstretched palms. He’s an appropriate marker for The Warehouse’s current exhibition, “Jan Serr: A Painter’s Photographs of India” (through Dec. 13). A student of the late Milwaukee painter Schomer Lichtner (think whimsical cows), Serr’s paintings and prints have been hung in galleries across North America.

“A Painter’s Photographs” is her first photography exhibition but not The Warehouse’s first show. The Warehouse has displayed art from the Shannon-Serr collection and mounted, earlier this year, “On Belonging”—a collaboration between Milwaukee photographers-videographers Lois Bielefeld and Nirmal Raja, along with dance performances by Wild Space and Maria Gillespie. Adjacent ground-floor rooms have been used for theater readings and community meetings.

“A Painter’s Photographs of India” is a meaningful and visually dazzling body of work taken by Serr while traveling the subcontinent with a point-and-shoot camera. The technology allowed her to wait, inconspicuously and patiently, for a telling moment to appear. In Sacred Cow Cart, that moment involved a pair of men in Western clothes on a motorcycle zipping past a traditionally garbed farmer riding behind a pair of white cows with blue painted horns. Washday, as the work had

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been done for millennia, occurs on the left hand of Woman in Stream; much of the photo concerns the fleetingly impressionistic play of sunlight on rippling water.

Work is featured in several photographs. In Ironing, a man labors at a long table with an old-fashioned steam iron, a stack of clean and pressed linens at his side. Serr’s formal composition shows unfailing vision. The subject of Monk with Bell walks forward through a pillared Buddhist shrine toward blinding white light—a sunny portal or a glimpse of infinity? Exotic Market comes closest to making an explicit social statement with its billboard—smiling Anglo faces, pristine condos and the message of “Living in Luxury”—looming over a bustling but impoverished “Exotic Market” on a gritty street corner.

High-Security Zone

Aside from the spacious Warehouse gallery, the building’s remaining 61,000 square feet is devoted to Guardian Fine Art Services. The facility houses the bulk of the Shannon-Serr collection and provides state-of-the-art storage for private collectors and institutions, including the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA). “Confidentiality is something we provide our clients,” says Shannon.

The soft-spoken entrepreneur adds, “We visited facilities on the East Coast, the West Coast and Chicago to learn best practices.”

The Guardian building is a fortress with bank-grade security alarms and cameras trained on the parking lot and on St. Paul Street. The loading dock is TSA-approved; only Guardian employees with favorable FBI background checks can enter the room where crates and boxes are prepared, allowing the shipments to bypass normal airport cargo handling once they arrive at Mitchell International Airport.

Among the many services Guardian provides clients is an art transportation truck with a two-man crew, alarms and tracking devices in case of trouble.

Climate control is essential in any state-of-the-art storage facility where temperature and humidity can be neither too high nor too low. Every 30 seconds, computers verify levels for the temperature and humidity inside Guardian’s storerooms. In case of power failure, a generator kicks in within half a minute.

Inside the vaults, works on paper are kept in acid-free archival boxes. Paintings are hung on portable metal racks. Guardian also stores furniture, unloaded firearms and objects of all sorts in the same carefully maintained climate.

“We offer security, climate control, professional people and procedures,” Shannon says, adding, as a surety, “We store our art here.”

The Warehouse gallery is open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during Gallery Night and Day and by appointment. For more information, call 414-252-0677 or visit thewarehousemke.org. ( l ) Installation view of “Jan Serr: A Painter’s Photographs of India” at The Warehouse ( r ) Jan Serr, Monk with Bell, 2019, Inkjet print on aluminum

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True crime writer Brian can’t get over the disappearance of his first wife, which presents quite a problem for his practical, down-to-earth second wife. Enter Kendrick, a mysteriously eccentric young man who tells Brian he is going to commit a murder in Brian’s study. The intended victim is a conservative, highly strung lawyer named Douglas, who not only has a thing for guns, spies and secret codes, but a mousy, emotionally abused wife.

Then, there’s the intrepid policeman, who holds some secrets of his own.

“The Stranger in the Attic by John Kaasik is a witty, stylish thriller in the style of the great Alfred Hitchcock films,” says Off the Wall Theatre director Dale Gutzman, “and features a multi-talented cast of theater veterans and exciting newcomers. It presents a new twist every 10 minutes. A murder is promised, but is it a serious threat or just a joke?” (John Jahn) Oct. 31-Nov. 10 at Off the Wall Theatre, 127 E. Wells. St. For tickets, call 262-509-0945 or visit offthewallmke.com.

Mrs. Wrights

The “Mrs. Wrights” we meet during the performance are the mother, third wife, two ex-wives and a lover of the famed Wisconsin architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A presentation of Quasimondo Physical Theatre, this solo dance theater work is performed by its creator, Jenni Reinke, a founding member of the Quasimondo ensemble. She’s based the piece on extensive research. “Growing up in Wisconsin,” she says, “I’d heard much about Frank Lloyd Wright and his buildings, but nothing of the women who influenced his work and were influential in their own right. Out of this void, Mrs. Wrights was born. I use my body to make visible women whose histories have been overshadowed by the tower of male ‘genius.’ I want to upend the construct of ‘the woman behind the man.’”

Mrs. Wrights premiered in 2018 at Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis., then toured to high praise across the country from Chicago to Vermont, including performances at Wright’s SC Johnson complex in Racine and the Frederick C. Bogk House in Milwaukee. Now Reinke will give a three-weekend run at the Charles Allis Art Museum (1801 N. Prospect Ave) so hometown audiences can meet the women and learn their place in our history.

Nov. 1-16. For a schedule and tickets, visit quasimondo.org.

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“Fantasmagorique”

Halloween has not only inspired many an author and movie director but also many composers—if not directly, then certainly indirectly through all its concomitant spookiness and ponderings of the realm of the fantastic. The Wisconsin Philharmonic has put together a really interesting program of both classical and contemporary music from the orchestral, operatic, musical and film score repertoires with the general ambiance of the most haunted time of the year in common.

Classical works include the symphonic poems L’apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) by Paul Dukas and Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman) by César Franck.

There’s also the March from La damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust)—a work for solo voices, chorus and orchestra by Hector Berlioz. From opera comes the Ballet Music from Faust by Charles Gounod. Contemporary music is represented by works by Danny Elfman and Andrew Lloyd Webber. (John Jahn) Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield. For tickets, call 262-547-1858 or visit wisphil.org.

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‘Hamilton’ a Glorious Revolution in Song and Dance ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

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ithin Hamilton’s first two numbers, a shy, young immigrant from the West Indies grows into a towering intellect worthy to help found a new nation. Before you know it, Alexander Hamilton is spinning rhymes on taxation without representation.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s audacious reimagining of the American Revolution and its aftermath occupies Uihlein Hall with a multi-ethnic spectacle of music and dance. The touring company executes the production brilliantly. Even when the cast is frozen in tableaux, the revolving stage keeps the story in motion. No one stands still for long—there is a revolution to win and a country to define once the battle is won.

Directed with pinpoint precision by Thomas Kail, the cast members pull it off no sweat. They rap and segue into more conventional Broadway melodies without missing a beat, and the leading characters are endowed by their actors with personality. Hamilton (Joseph Morales) is a good man burning with ideas and driven (to his detriment) to speak honestly. His opposite number, Aaron Burr (Nik Walker), is charmingly sinister, cynical, resentful over every perceived slight and envious of Hamilton’s success.

They are the yin and yang that propels the story.

Also impressive is George Washington (Mar-

cus Choi), brought to life from the mythical portrait of the Founding Father without doing harm to the myth. He strides out almost piratical in his black tricorn, gold epaulets and long sword, but his dynamism is tempered by the wisdom many of his colleagues lack. “Dying is easy, young man, living is harder,” he tells Hamilton. As president, he is the conciliator between polarized personalities and factions.

To everyone’s dismay, including Hamilton, he chooses to step aside, setting a precedent for the orderly transfer of power.

Yes, there is a love story, a happy marriage eventually marred by Hamilton’s sexual indiscretions and embodied heartfully by Erin Clemons as Eliza Hamilton. But the main thrust of Hamilton is on the body politic. The struggle against the British and over the authoring of the Constitution is neatly summarized. Rapping on “The Federalist Papers” and the need for a national bank? Miranda shows how those arguments continue to resonate today.

Burr isn’t Hamilton’s only opponent. Thomas Jefferson (Warren Egypt Franklin) is depicted as a slithering schemer who sat out the Revolution in Paris. He drops fancy words about life and liberty but, as Hamilton quips, “We know who’s really doing the planting.” One of the central arguments of the early republic was between Jefferson’s agrarian nostalgia and Hamilton’s groundwork for commerce and industry.

Jefferson gets the temple-like monument, but Hamilton deserves his place on the $10 note for establishing the good credit of the United States.

Hamilton is strangely memorable in the quieter moments when George III appears. Snide and fey, in his first scene he plays the jilted lover who fails to grasp the reasons for the breakup. His numbers have the slight suggestion of 1960s baroque pop—a lost number by The Left Banke? The routine is part of Miranda’s omnivorous set of sources, starting with Ron Chernow’s biography and embracing references to Gilbert and Sullivan, 18th century balladry and Grandmaster Flash.

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Bleak Tale of Economic Oppression in UWM’s ‘Fen’ ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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aryl Churchill’s Fen is unlike most plays you will ever see, for better or for worse.

The play discards traditional storytelling for a fragmented and elliptical narration. It presents a mosaic of the lives of women laborers in the English wetlands from which there is no escape. While the script is off-putting, the playwright was called “one of the boldest theatrical imaginations to emerge in this decade”

by The New York Times when the play came out nearly four decades ago.

Throughout the short scenes, a few strong personalities stand out, starting with Val (Bekah Kalb), who abandons everything to join her lover, Frank (Dan Persino), and Angela (Tiff Polzin), who severely abuses her step-daughter, Becky (Aly Radar). It is strongly advised not to get too attached to these characters, as the life in England’s coastal fens does not leave much room for a “happily ever after.”

This is a tale of economic oppression and capitalistic greed. It is a glimpse into human misery. It shows that working hard and doing your best will not necessarily lead anywhere—besides on your knees, working the difficult ground of the fen. It is also a feminist story, as it presents many aspects of women’s lives, from back-breaking fieldwork to household chores, from passionate love to intense hatred, from an active 32-year-old grandmother to an ancient granny lost in her own mind. The latter, played by Crystalia Varelis, brings a much-needed whiff of humor to an otherwise bleak tale.

The students of the Peck School of the Arts do a fine job delivering a difficult story, and Ralph Janes’ directing is commendable. With few props, most of the ambiance is provided by an animated backdrop showing, in turn, the natural land or indoor décor surrounding the story. The actors’ shadows dance and play on the background, giving the story an otherworldly feel at times. The performance is bite-sized, running 90 minutes without intermission, making the heavy themes of the play easier to stomach.

Fen runs through Oct. 27 at Kenilworth Five-0-Eight, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.

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verything was perfect when Col. Kenneth Penmark (Joel Marinan) left for an extended business trip. He returned to find the scorched earth of what was left of his family. Directed

by Kelly Goeller, Waukesha Civic Theatre’s production of Bad Seed is based on the novel by William March, but theatergoers might be most familiar with the 1956 film version.

The Colonel’s daughter, Rhoda (Maddie Dixon), is the apple of his eye. The family’s landlady, the verbose Monica Breedlove (Elizabeth Tannehill), dotes on the little girl as well. When the radio reports a drowning during a class field trip, it sends the Colonel’s patrician wife, Christine (Kelly Simon), into near hysterics fearing it may have been her daughter. Simon’s pitchperfect performance is just this side of camp.

When it turns out the child who drowned was the boy who beat Rhoda in a penmanship contest, Christine is wor-

ried that her daughter has little reaction and speaks of the tragedy without emotion. As Christine’s mind begins churning, she recalls the shadow of a memory cast by a recurring dream. Could her daughter be a sociopath and have inherited the trait from herself? An impassioned visit by the deceased boy’s drunk and distraught mother, and her comment, “When you can’t sleep in the night, you can’t sleep in the daylight,” only heightens Christine’s state.

The slow-witted handyman Leroy (Mike Owens) reveals to Rhoda that he knows she is the killer. Leroy suffers the same tragic fate as an elderly lady Rhoda had crossed paths with some time ago.

Dixon does a wonderful job of conveying Rhoda’s goody-goody insincere flattery. Likewise, Simon balances the precarious weights of maternally protecting her child and wishing to stop evil. How she chooses to resolve the problem may surprise you. And you may never look at your children the same way again.

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RUE STORY: I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST JON HORVATH AT THE OPENING RECEPTION AT THE WISCONSIN TRIENNIAL IN MADISON, letting him know how much I enjoyed his series of photographs on display, when a boisterous voice interjected, “Yes, I totally agree, they are incredible, aren’t they?” I confirmed politely and enthusiastically, trying to match her energy, when she squared me up and asked me what I thought about the rest of the exhibition.

I said, “It’s great to experience a rich variety of local work, but it’s also a tall order to curate such a broad survey with any semblance of thematic coherence.” The woman responded promptly, “Well I think it’s all wonderful, but of course I do, because I curated the show!” She then introduced herself as Leah Kolb, to my slight chagrin, the head curator at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (where the Triennial is running through Feb. 16, 2020).

Kolb relieved me by concurring: “Yeah, it is impossible to curate a survey of this sort to everyone’s satisfaction, but we think it’s a great exhibition given the objectives at hand.”

Imagine selecting 34 visual artists from hundreds of hopefuls of different backgrounds, using different media, pursuing divergent concepts and shoehorning them into a single show. If Kolb and her team had arrived at something like focus or consistency, one might rightly accuse her of not reflecting the diversity characteristic of the state and its art makers. On top of this, many at the reception seemed as focused on who was not included as they were with the work up on the walls. So yes, putting together a show like the Wisconsin Triennial can be a thankless task, indeed.

Don’t just take it from me, here’s Claire Bishop’s merciless takedown of the world’s largest and proudest survey, the Venice Biennale, in this month’s Artforum: She writes that the most positive way to describe the Biennale is that the art on display is

OPENINGS: “A Mobile Home”

Nov. 2-30 • Var Gallery • 643 S. Second St.

“A Mobile Home” is a two-person exhibition featuring works from Milwaukee-based artists Siara Berry and Melissa Dorn, both of whom herein explore the objects that are associated with labor, women’s work and domesticity. For this exhibition, Dorn and Berry present work that explores the function of home; specifically, its mobility, impermanence and our ever-changing relationship to the physical structures we leave behind. As the artists wrote: “A Mobile Home: a place so static, a place long gone, a place so mobile, home must move on. As domestic environments evolve, as do our memories, our relationship to place and how we cope with the discomfort of change. ‘A Mobile Home’ is an exhibition focused on what stays, what goes and the space in between.” For more information, call 414-763-5585 or visit vargallery.com.

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“good enough to survive a lousy curatorial premise. But just for fun, let’s start at rock bottom: that much-discussed title, ‘May You Live in Interesting Times.’ I can understand the Biennale’s artistic director—this round, Ralph Rugoff—wanting to puncture the ludicrously inflated rhetoric of previous editions’ titles, but his use of this fake Chinese curse oozes such privileged detachment that you wish the entire exhibition had simply been left untitled. It would also have been a more accurate descriptor of the show.”

Ouch! If the title “May You Live in Interesting Times” alone inspires such bile, it seems the curator had no chance from the outset. Embrace the usually beloved values of open-endedness, inclusivity and diversity, it seems, and you’re only creating additional opportunities for failure; focus up, and you’re betraying the show’s very raison d’être.

This natural conundrum also makes the Wisconsin Triennial difficult to write about it. The yawning diversity is the point; it’s supposed to be a reflection of the collective visual outlook of the state. To cherry-pick individual works creates a Heisenbergian kind of problem: pulling out particulars is to disturb the integrity of the whole. So, what I will say is that seeing this show made me proud to live in the state of Wisconsin and to contribute to its prosperity in the small ways I can. Sure, it looks a little like a yard sale, all surveys do, but oh what a yard and oh what an estate it represents.

Leah Kolb selected 34 artists who together reflect Wisconsin’s eclecticism, vitality, diversity, weirdness, outsiderness, disobedience, skill, style, wisdom and class. And those things together will always look slightly incongruent and a little unorthodox; fine and fitting metaphors for our funny little state.

( top left ) Timothy Brenner, Purple and Yellow Still Life, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8 in; ( bottom left ) SPOOKY BOOBS, You Have the Right to Remain a______.: 8008069 Aggressive, 2018.

Digital print, 24 x 18 inches. Courtesy the Artists; ( above ) Tom Berenz, Drowning in a Bathtub, 2018. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 94 inches. Courtesy the Artist.

Fine Art and Craft Festival

Sunday, Nov. 3, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Grace Center • 250 E. Juneau Ave.

“The Fine Art and Craft Festival provides a unique opportunity to make connections between Downtown residents and great local artisans,” says Brian Hackmann, who oversees community outreach at Grace Lutheran Church, host of this event, now in its 11th year. This year’s artisans include Cream City Caramels, Square One Soaps, Filigree Jewelry, Lady Catie Art, Jack and Joie (Milwaukee- and Wisconsin-inspired kitchen accessories and home décor), Essential Raw Naturals (organic, vegan and multi-purpose body balms), Cultivate Taste (assorted, fine, loose-leaf teas), Thai Village (various handcrafted baskets and ornaments), photography prints and more. There will also be live music and a raffle for various pieces of artwork. Admission is free. For more information, visit gracedowntown.org.

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‘The Current War’

The Edison-Tesla ‘War’ to Light the World

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::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

HE LIGHTBULB CHANGED station every mile or so. Westinghouse favored THE WORLD. The power it Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), working with AC, capabottled and the know-how be- ble of transmitting electricity through wires over hind it brought modernity to life. long distances.

All three are seen as proud, driven men. The The Current War concerns the battle between tech titans George Westinghouse Current War delves a bit deeper into Edison than and Thomas Edison—along with the visionary the other two, depicting him as a flawed idealNikola Tesla—that marked the emergence of the ist. Unwilling to admit that his power plan isn’t the future, Edison launches a war of lies claimelectric power grid in the late 19th century.

The Current War has a troubled history with ing AC is unsafe and is drawn into inventing the rising and falling interest from prospective stars electric chair, AC-powered, to demonstrate the and directors. It sat for years in Hollywood pur- dangers of the Westinghouse-Tesla plan.

The story begs for a better dramatization— gatory, homeless after the collapse of Harvey Weinstein’s empire. Perhaps The Current War one that depicts key players more substantially. was never completed to anyone’s satisfaction. The cast act as if they were given little time to The film’s often animatronic acting and photo- comfortably fill the clothes of their characters. shopped settings might play well enough when Everyone seems stamped from a mold.

Still, The Current War can’t help but make streamed on a cellphone but the big screen does it no favors. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s some interesting points. If Edison was the genius of organization and marketvisual jumble reveals nothing—the Steve Jobs of his ing. Like a bad episode from day—Tesla was the genius the last seasons of “Peeky The Current War who saw beyond the near Blinders” or “Life on Mars,” term and glimpsed the metait’s all quirk and little subBenedict Cumberbatch physics behind technology. stance.

Michael Shannon He imagined harnessing the The wonky title refers to Directed by energy of Niagara Falls and the conflict between Edison Alfonso Gomez-Rejon a world connected without (Benedict Cumberbatch as Rated PG-13 wires. Edison and Westinganother mad genius) and house became millionaires Westinghouse (Michael while Tesla died poor and Shannon) to control the fuforgotten until recent years ture of electric power. The battle was fought in the lab as well as the board when, his insights unearthed, he was finally room and concerned the best method for gener- recognized. Edison and Westinghouse were sucating and delivering current. Edison was fixated cessful, can-do Americans of their day. Tesla was on DC, an impractical system requiring a power the immigrant from the future.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Arctic Dogs PG Jeremy Renner voices Swifty, an Arctic fox whose goal is to pull a big sled, the exclusive domain of huskies. To prove he can be a top-dog courier, Swifty helps himself to a mysterious package that must be delivered to a secret location. Upon reaching his destination, Swifty discovers an evil-doer who means to use the package’s contents to melt the Arctic ice and ruin their habitat. In this familiar family trope, Swifty teaches kids they can do anything they set their minds to. (Lisa Miller)

Motherless Brooklyn R Edward Norton writes, directs and stars in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel. Set during the 1950s, private detective Lionel Essrog (Norton) struggles with Tourette Syndrome.

After Lionel’s mentor (Bruce Willis) is murdered, the detective is determined to find out why and bring the killers to justice. The investigation leads Lionel to Harlem’s night clubs and requires he rubs elbows with shady New York City planner Moses Randolph (Alec Baldwin).

Gumshoe Lionel is an engaging, nostalgic character, but the film is bogged down by confusing, unnecessary scenes. (L.M.)

Terminator: Dark Fate R In this sixth Terminator film, Linda Hamilton returns as a seasoned warrior, the destroyer of numerous terminators. Arnold Schwarzenegger reprises his role as the first terminator, now reprogrammed to save mankind. Mackenzie Davis portrays a bionically enhanced human assigned to protect Hispanic factory worker Dani (Natalia Reyes) destined to become leader of the resistance. Sent back in time to kill Dani, the most advanced terminator yet (Gabriel Luna) is a terrifying threat to all who cross his path. Sixty-two-year-old Hamilton sets the pace with attitude to spare and strong action chops. (L.M.)

[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] n Billy Bathgate

The gripping opening scene features a mobster (Bruce Willis) with feet in wet cement and ready to be executed. Billy Bathgate (1991) stars Dustin Hoffman as gravel-voiced, emotionally erratic kingpin Dutch Schultz, and Nicole Kidman as the WASP drawn to the underworld. The titular protagonist (played by Loren Dean) is a Bronx tenement kid for whom crime in Depression-era America is a way out of poverty. The great supporting cast includes Stanley Tucci and Steve Buscemi.

n Ulysses & Mona

Mona (Manal Issa) is a young art student and Ulysses (Eric Cantona) an aging artist—once the toast of the scene but gone to seed and seclusion.

Unfulfilled with her surroundings, Mona nudges her way into Ulysses’ life, triggering (along with his failing health) his odyssey of redemption. If the plot looks a bit pro forma on paper, the performances and lack of Hollywood resolution lifts the quirky French film by Sébastien Betbeder above expectations.

n Il Divo, Timeless: Live in Japan

They used to call it light classical. Il Divo, a quartet of operatically trained voices, apply themselves—like modern-day Mario Lanzas—to a repertoire of pop. For their 15th-anniversary concert (2018), the international ensemble (Spain, Switzerland, France, U.S.) chose Tokyo’s storied Budokan stadium. The well-crafted concert documentary reveals production lessons learned from such classy rock acts as Peter Gabriel and David Bowie—dry ice, mood lighting and giant video screens add vision to the sound.

n The Eagle

In this 1925 romantic historical drama, Rudolph Valentino stars as a dashing cavalry officer in 18th-century Russia. In a variation on Robin Hood, he becomes the protector of the poor against a rapacious nobleman; in a variation on Zorro, he wears a mask and calls himself the Black Eagle. There are chases and a romantic entanglement (the Eagle falls in love with the nobleman’s daughter). Art director William Cameron Menzies provided the striking architectural settings.

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Tom Uttech Artist Talks with Tom Uttech | 2:00–3:00 Saturday, November 16 Saturday, December 28 Gallery Conversations with Tom Uttech Saturday, December 7 Anytime from 12:00–3:00 Plus, enjoy these upcoming activities:

Gallery Talks with Laurie Winters | 2:00–3:00 Saturday, November 2 Friday, November 29 Author Talk with Steve Hannah | 10:30–11:30 Saturday, December 7 Meet Steve Hannah, longtime CEO of The Onion and former managing editor of the Milwaukee Journal.

Tom Uttech: Into the Woods On view through Sunday, January 12, 2020 Wisconsin native Tom Uttech is recognized as one of the leading landscape painters working today in the United States. Often categorized as a Magic Realist, his paintings weave together a mystical world of both imagined and real elements. Into the Woods is the artist’s first full-career retrospective, featuring more than 150 paintings, photographs, and drawings.

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Writing About America’s Past to Understand America’s Present

::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN

The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town

Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

On Sept. 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, 5, wandered into the woods outside Massena, N.Y., near the Canadian border. When she failed to return home, the townsfolk began searching. The town’s mayor and a state trooper spread a rumor that Jews were behind the disappearance.

Massena became one of the only sites in the U.S. where the “blood libel” was hurled at Jews.

It’s an idea worthy of gothic horror, the prolific tales of Jews killing gentile children and using their blood in rituals (or in food). Blood libel originated in medieval England and spread across the European continent; although it was behind notorious incidents in Russia, blood libel rumors were more widespread in Western Europe, popularized by a French bestseller widely read in Quebec. The Accusation points a finger at French-Canadian workers at Massena’s Alcoa plant.

The Accusation’s author, New York University history professor Edward Berenson, can’t prove where the Massena rumor originated but has many interesting anecdotes to relate.

Griffiths was found unharmed, but during her 24-hour absence the blood libel spread across the American press with the viral speed of today’s social media. Berenson summarizes the history of blood libel in Europe, Christian anti-Semitism and the immigrants who fled in large number to the U.S. to escape the mounting wave of anti-Semitism. They found prejudice here, too.

Berenson has a stake in The Accusation. He is descended from the small Jewish community in Massena at the time of the events he chronicles and incorporates family lore without getting in the way of the larger story.

Twenty-eight years before Lewis and Clark’s expedition to survey the West, a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélezde Escalante, set forth from Santa Fe to explore the West for Spain. While the barely literate Clark penned only a disjointed account, David Roberts finds that Escalante left behind a journal “coherent, succinct, yet full of curious asides.” The friar failed in his mission of converting American Indians to Roman Catholicism, and yet, unlike conquistadors before him and Anglos to come, he killed no one and did no harm. Roberts is struck by Escalante’s journal, which fused moral humility with a sense of cultural superiority while avoiding “the modern caricature of Native Americans living in wise and stoic harmony with the earth and their fellow man.”

(W.W. NORTON), BY EDWARD BERENSON

Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896

(FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX),

BY CHARLES POSTEL America had always been a nation of joiners, but according to Charles Postel, Americans joined more organizations than ever once the Civil War ended—including many groups that pursued equality of opportunity for all citizens. The latest book by Postel, a San Francisco State University history professor, is a rebuke to the American folklore of rugged individualism and Horatio Alger success stories. In the late 19th century, labor unions, farmers associations and women’s groups were “widely understood as a means to pursue one’s individual social, economic and political interests, as well as the social good.”

Postel also explores the dark side to this earlier vision of collective action: Unions excluded immigrants, the farmers allied themselves with white Southern planters and women’s temperance groups worked with the Ku Klux Klan. Growing disparity of wealth in our own time threatens to return America to the era that is Postel’s subject. The author concludes that the problem of establishing “living forms of solidarity” in a socially divisive nation “remains unresolved.”

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(W.W. NORTON), BY DAVID ROBERTS

Murder, Inc.: The CIA Under John F. Kennedy

(POTOMAC BOOKS), BY JAMES H. JOHNSON

John F. Kennedy was obsessed with Fidel Castro. He wasn’t content to overthrow the Cuban leader. He wanted Castro dead. In Murder, Inc., James H. Johnson examines the declassified documents and wonders why the Warren Commission and the FBI resolutely refused to investigate the possibility that Castro might have ordered Kennedy’s assassination as payback. After all, for three years, Kennedy’s CIA, working with the Mafia and Cuban exiles, tried to kill Cuba’s dictator by any means—even poison cigars. Johnson is not just another conspiracy theorist. A lawyer for the Senate committee that investigated the CIA in 1975, Johnson recalls the disingenuous testimony and, sifting through the trove of recently declassified Kennedy assassination documents, finds missing pieces. A negative portrait of the U.S. president emerges. His assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, remains murky as ever.

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (W.W. NORTON), BY ERIC FONER

Books on the Reconstruction have been pouring from the presses. The latest, by Pulitzer-winning historian Eric Foner, opens with the full text of the 13th-15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which he credits as a “constitutional revolution” that forged new ideas about citizenship and equal rights. The Reconstruction period was intended as a time to implement those new standards, but good intentions were thwarted by the resistance of white Southerners and the endemic racism influencing policymakers in all parts of the country. Foner makes his case clearly: Citizenship is not to be taken for granted, and the rights enshrined in those amendments were first proposed by abolitionists and other pre-war reformers. However, it took a century for those amendments to be fully implemented and, in some sense, “Reconstruction never ended.”

Poets, Filmmakers Are ‘Telling the Future Off’ at Woodland Pattern ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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pair of West Coast poets will join a Milwaukee-based experimental filmmaker for a live performance at Woodland Pattern Book Center next week. Stephanie Young is the author of the poetry collections Telling the Future Off, Picture Palace and Ursula or University, as well as Pet Sounds, her recently released medley of restive love poems. Much of Young’s poetry explores topics of labor politics and examines unjust institutional practices, yet she also explores broader themes of activism and feminism in much of her work.

Young also teaches at and directs the Graduate Programs at Mills College in Oakland, Calif.

Trisha Low, another Bay Area resident, writes lyrical poems that read like novels, deep and sometimes personal recollections that mix realism, surrealism and the completely unconventional. Her newest collection, Socialist Realism, was released this year as a follow-up to her 2013 debut, The Compleat Purge. Low has authored numerous articles, and her work was featured in the 2011 anthology, Against Expression. Her writing is ironic and relatable, self-deprecating and aspirational, oftentimes confessional and always artistic.

For current graduate student Zachary Epcar, California is where he was born and raised, but it is at UWMilwaukee that he now studies. Epcar has already earned a name as a filmmaker, and his work has been screened at the San Francisco Film Festivals, the Rotterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and elsewhere. He will appear alongside poets Young and Low for a screening of his film Billy at Woodland Pattern Book Center at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1.

BOOK|HAPPENING The Case for ‘New Deal 3.0’ David Riemer was easily the smartest, most articulate man on the podium when he ran for Milwaukee County Executive against Scott Walker in 2002. While Walker’s ambitions in Milwaukee and statewide embodied the most destructive tendencies toward privatization and deregulation, Riemer seeks to define the proper role for the public sector in his new book, Putting Government in Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0.

As Riemer reminds us, without government (and the taxes that pay for it), streets would be unpaved and unploughed in winter and only the rich would enjoy police and fire protection. New Deal 3.0 includes many proposals to simplify taxes, constrain health care costs and reduce deficits. Now a senior fellow at Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, Riemer will speak at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Boswell Book Company.

(David Luhrssen) SHEPHERD EXPRESS

::HEARMEOUT ASK RUTHIE | UPCOMING EVENTS | PAUL MASTERSON

::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Oct. 30—Closing night Gay Chorus Deep South at Times Cinema (5906 W. Vilet St.): Don’t miss your last chance to see this vibrant film, shown as part of the Milwaukee Film Fest. Brought to the fest by Outwords Books, the heartwarming documentary follows members of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir as they tour the deep South. The film starts at 9:30 p.m., but for additional offerings from the film fest see mkefilm.org.

Oct. 31—Haunted Brewhouse: Twisted Oz at Lakefront Brewery (1872 N. Commerce St.): You’ll experience the Yellow Brick Road like never before when taking this terrifying tour. The evening includes beer samples, a souvenir take-home glass and the chance to escape from Oz. This ain’t your grandma’s Dorothy! See what I mean when you sign up for one of three $20 tours at etix.com.

Oct. 31—Naughty or Nice Thursday at La Cage Niteclub (801 S. Second St.): Get naughty (or nice) on Halloween with this weekly fetish party. Celebrate your sexy side with incredible all-you-can-drink specials, dancing and more. It all takes place during the 9 p.m. bash.

Oct. 31—Scooby Doo Halloween at D.I.X. (739 S. First St.): Grab your Scooby snacks and load up the Mystery Machine for an anime-cosplay night of craziness.

Drink specials, DJ and dancing accompany a Scooby-themed drag show to bring this Saturday-morning classic to life. Party down with “those meddling kids” from 9 p.m. until bar close.

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Selfishly Spooky this Halloween Dear Ruthie,

I think I’m dating a narcissist. He talks about himself constantly, nothing he offers me or gives me doesn’t somehow circle back to benefitting him, he has a breakdown when he doesn’t get his way and he carries a chip on his shoulder that’s nothing more than entitlement.

Plus, he’s a selfish lover and sucks in bed (and not in a good way). How might I broach the subject with him that he’s a narcissist and needs help?

Love you, Fed-Up Fred

Dear Freddy,

Wow! He sounds like a real keeper! You want to hold on to that Prince Charming as long as you can, sugar.

Are you listening to yourself? Re-read your own email! Why do you want to keep this guy around? Yuck! Kick this guy to the curb and find yourself a man who really knows how to melt your butter. After all, honey, you can’t build a road to the future together when you’re the one carrying all the bricks.

Before you dump the chump, tell him exactly why and suggest he seek professional help for his narcissism. It likely won’t do any good in the immediate future, but if enough of his relationships fail due to his personality issues, he might begin to look at himself deeper and seek out professional help.

Oct. 31—Costume Contest at Harbor Room (117 E. Greenfield Ave.): One of the city’s craziest costume parties is back at this Levi-Leather bar. Nab a prize at the 11 p.m. contest, but arrive by 9 p.m. to register, toss back of few libations (one free drink to those in costume!), and plenty of sexy (and spooky) socializing. Make it a Thursday night to remember at Harbor Room.

Nov. 1—The Secret Garden Gala for Courage MKE at The Pritzlaff (315 N. Plankinton Ave.): Come explore the magic that is the secret garden... and Courage MKE! Food stations, hors d’oeuvres, auctions, raffles and a royal drag show make this a memorable fundraiser for all. Enjoy a keynote speech from Shea Freedom, meet this year’s scholarship recipients and cheer on one of the city’s favorite charities while helping support Wisconsin’s displaced LGBTQ youth. See shepherdtickets.com for your $40 to $50 pass to the 6 p.m. party.

Nov. 2—2019 LGBTQ+ Families Thrive Conference at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino (1721 W. Canal St.): The team at Cream City Foundation host this 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. day for LGBTQ families and those that hope to have a family soon. Enjoy workshops, discussions and lectures on parenting, growing up with LGBTQ parents and so much more. Networking with families like your own, community building and resource gathering are just a few of the benefits to be during the enriching day.

Nov. 3—Celine Dion’s ‘Courage World Tour’ at Fiserv Forum (1111 Vel R. Phillips Ave.): The iconic songstress brings her national tour to Cream City with this 7:30 p.m. concert. Experience the diva in all her glory when you buy your $79 to $285 ticket via fiservforum.com. “Welcome to Brew Town, Celine! We’re thrilled to have you!”

Nov. 6—50+ Support Group at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): This popular group is a wonderful way for adults 50 and older to meet and discuss issues they’re facing, living within the city’s LGBTQ community. The free discussion starts at 6 p.m. Swing by mkelgbt.org for additional information.

Ask Ruthie a question or share your events with her at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Don’t miss the Halloween special from her reality show, “Camp Wannakiki Season Two,” on YouTube now.

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::MYLGBTQPoint of View

Boulevard Theatre opens its season with ‘Bakersfield Mist’ ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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ark Bucher and the Boulevard Theatre are at it again. Launching the 34th season of this venerable Milwaukee institution, Bucher—a winner of the Shepherd Express’ LGBTQ Progress Award—directs Stephan Sachs’ Bakersfield Mist, a comedy based on a true story of the discovery of a painting allegedly by 20th-century abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.

The plot focuses on a single interaction of two characters, Maude Gutman, who discovered the would-be Pollock in a thrift shop, and Lionel Percy, an art expert who has been sent to evaluate the work and confirm or deny its attribution. The scene is set in Maude’s trailer home amidst a clutter of her possessions.

As a collector, I understand the mentality and emotion of acquisition and possession of something of beauty or of historical significance. Whether a worn smooth pebble from the shores of Lake Michigan, a Civil War sword or a Picasso print, the true collector associates with the item’s intrinsic value, however subjective, and is personally enhanced by it. As in Bakersfield Mist, the problem arises when that value is questioned.

Ultimately, such an assessment is based on subjective criteria—the result can be either an affirmation of worth or a crushing dismissal.

That process of trash or treasure judgment, as the play reveals, is universal. Whether a work of art or the heart and soul of any individual, who and how one determines what (who) is genuine and what (who) has value is the very crux of the matter.

The cast reflects Bucher’s innately sensitive craft in finding the perfect actor for any particular role. Relatively recent to the Milwaukee stage scene is Carole Herbstreit-Ka-

linyen who performs the role of Maude Gutman, the painting’s owner. Having seen her in this production’s preview at Saint John’s on the Lake back in June, I can only say her heartfelt and nuanced portrayal of Maude belies her brief theatrical career. She’s a natural. Her portrayal is steeped in an emotional sincerity that explores every individual’s need for the validation of their worth.

David Flores plays the effete yet fragile Lionel Percy, the art expert sent to establish the painting’s authenticity. Flores has a knack for characters of this sort and has an extended history of portraying them. In his manifestation of Lionel, he exudes a condescending sovereignty of purpose that becomes unraveled by his questioning of his own value that could be undone by a mistake. And he’s gay.

This Boulevard production is an enhanced concert reading. Devoid of set and the oftenexcessive folderol of a traditional staging, the format relies on the cumulative powers of the script, the director, the actors and the audience’s creative imagination to deliver the experience. As proven in past Boulevard seasons, concert presentations are often more effective and impactful because they engage the intimate focus of all participants. To propel the action, veteran actor David Ferrie narrates, providing stage direction and context to the comedy’s dialogue.

As Bucher told me, “a Renoir is a Renoir even without a frame.” Indeed, brilliance is inherent regardless of the packaging. Ultimately, the production itself reflects the essence of Bakersfield Mist’s ultimate message.

Bakersfield Mist runs through Nov. 30 at Plymouth Church, 2717 E. Hampshire St. For tickets and more information, visit the Boulevard Theatre Facebook page.

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Working for Equality OFF THE CUFF WITH LGBT CENTER’S SHELLEY HICKMAN ::BY JENNY MAURER

THE LGBT CENTER OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MARKS ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY THIS OCTOBER, AND IT’S CERTAINLY BEEN A MILESTONE OF A YEAR. They held their eighth annual “Equality Prom” for LGBTQ high schoolers in the spring and were key advocates with the successful passing of a ban on conversion therapy in Racine. They also gained more recognition within the state of Wisconsin through their sponsoring of Greta Neubauer’s bill that would ban the gay and trans “panic” defense used to defend physical assault. The Center’s interim board vice president, Shelley Hickman, took time to sit down and discuss the Center’s work throughout the past few years and what she hopes for the future.

How did you become a part of the LGBT Center?

My wife and I attended the center’s Valentine event in February of 2019 at Uncork’d. We had been looking for a community for a long time, so we decided to give it a shot. We’re extremely grateful that we did because we found a community that has been open, accepting and amazing.

How has your experience in the business world aided the work that you do now?

When I got involved with the center in May, I joined the board. I have 20 years of experience in corporate leadership and three years of experience running my own business in Racine. A big part of what I do is community-based, but I’m able to leverage the experiences I’ve had in my career to help put processes and systems in place at the center.

Shelley Hickman

What is a typical day like at the center?

Every day at the center is different, but the one thing that’s in common is community is always first. We work on programs at the center regularly that support the people we’re there for. Sometimes, we are out in the community, executing or delivering those programs. Other times, we’ll have a person in crisis walk into the center and we have to deal with that crisis in the moment. We’re constantly providing a safe place for people to come to in times of need and in times of celebration.

What effect has the LGBT center had on the City of Racine in these past 10 years?

The center has had a tremendous impact on Racine. The thing that’s been amazing to see is that the center was first opened to provide a place for the LGBTQ community to get together. It quickly became a place where people went for help. The leadership in the past ten years has done an amazing job of providing those services. With the help of the current leadership in Racine, we’ve had remarkable progress in reaching so many more people.

What would you say is the organization’s biggest accomplishment?

We’ve had some pretty significant accomplishments in the advocacy arena; we’ve had the ban on conversion therapy passed, we completed safe zone training for a lot of corporations and the Racine Unified School District throughout the year. It helps to educate and provide awareness of what our community is up against and how we can help them feel more included. However, I would say one of our greatest accomplishments is not only being here with 10 years under our belt but being here with a really strong plan to be here for many years to come.

What does the future look like for the center? What are some future goals?

The future for this center is bright. There are a lot of great people involved with the work that we do every day and we have phenomenal leadership in our executive director, Barb Farrar. Our future goals are to continue developing programs that provide a safe place that the LGBTQ community needs to thrive and to continue to expand our outreach beyond Racine. We support Racine, Kenosha and Walworth County, as well as Lake County, Ill. So, how do we get into the community where the needs are the greatest? I see that as being part of our future plan.

For more information, visit lgbtsewi.org.

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John Lodge Marks ‘10,000 Light Years’ and ‘Days of Future Passed’ ::BY DAVE GIL DE RUBIO

he past few years have seen several milestones for The Moody Blues. Two years ago, it was the 50th anniversary of Days of Future Passed, the concept album that featured a song cycle that took place over the course of a day and included contributions by the London Festival Orchestra. And last year saw what many consider to be the group’s belated induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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For John Lodge, the group’s bass player, it’s a welcome ride that’s found him staying busy outside the band with his own solo efforts.

He’s currently on the road supporting 2015’s 10,000 Light Years Ago, a solo album that proved so popular that it was followed up by 2017’s Live from Birmingham: The 10,000 Light Years Tour concert album. The interesting footnote to his 2015 recording was that this sophomore bow came 38 years after his solo debut, 1977’s Natural Avenue. As to the inspiration for him to return to the studio, it was something as simple as the resurgence of an old recording format.

“I wanted to get involved and make an album because vinyl was, and still is, making a really good comeback. I thought that I’d really like to get back into the studio, make an album, release it on a double-gatefold sleeve and 180-gram vinyl and get that full-frequency sound back,” Lodge explains. “So, I sat down and wrote the songs.”

While The Moody Blues are currently dormant, as both Lodge and vocalist Justin Hayward are touring solo, fans can still get a taste of material from the former as part of his current set list that includes “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band),”“Gemini Dream” and “Ride My See Saw.” The show will also serve as a nod to the late Ray Thomas, the bass player’s flute-playing bandmate in The Moody Blues and his childhood friend who passed away on Jan. 4, 2018.

“I’m a Moody Blue and I’ll always be a Moody Blue really. So, I’ll be playing some of my Moody Blues songs and songs from my album 10,000 Light Years Ago, along with a couple of songs that The Moody Blues will never play again,” Lodge says. “Ray Thomas was my best friend in the Moodys. We grew up together since we were 15. Unfortunately, Ray passed away and so I’m going to do a song of his on stage called ‘Legend of the Mind,’ because I want to keep his music alive. I was an integral part of making that song work for Ray, so I’m really pleased to be doing that. And I’m going to be doing a song of (former Moody Blues keyboardist) Mike Pinder’s as well called ‘The Sunset’ from Days of Future Passed. Hopefully, it’s going to be a set of songs that will take the audience on an emotional journey through The Moody Blues and through John Lodge.”

As for the Moody Blues’ 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Lodge found himself even more touched than he expected by the honor. “On the day when we were at the Hall of Fame, I suddenly realized that my heroes were in there. I’m thinking to myself, ‘I’m standing next to Buddy Holly in the Hall of Fame.’ And there’s this young kid from Birmingham who was 13, me, who actually saw Buddy Holly on stage at Birmingham Town Hall,” he John Lodge says with a pause. “There’s me looking Northern Lights at Buddy Holly on stage—this incredTheater ible person who’d written all these Wednesday, songs and was performing them and Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

I’m watching him. He’s my total hero and now to suddenly be able to say in a strange way that I’m standing shoulder to shoulder with Buddy Holly at the Hall of Fame. It was an amazing and fantastic experience.”

“I think what sort of got to me was that when they announced that we were going to be nominated and the fan vote started, it got up to one million people. It was mind-blowing, belittling and humbling at the same time. All those people taking the effort and time to vote. I realized that it started to build up there. And I realized the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was special, but I didn’t realize how special it was until that day. The other thing is that it’s always very special to be honored in a country which isn’t yours. I’m from England, but to be honored in America is just fantastic. I want to thank everyone who did that for us and for me.”

John Lodge performs 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Northern Lights Theater at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 1721 W. Canal St.

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Cinderella’s Tom Keifer ‘Rises’ to Rock Again ::BY MICHAEL PFLUGHOEFT

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et’s get right to the point.

After conquering a series of life challenges that would have relegated most musicians to the “where are they now?” dustbin, it’s absolutely freakin’ amazing that Tom Keifer, frontman for ’80s multiplatinum rockers Cinderella, is still on the road, rocking as hard as he did 30 years ago. And not content to just play the hits live, Keifer’s producing new music that stands alongside the best of his back catalog.

He’s on the road now in support of his new album, Rise, with his new band, #keiferband, numbering Savannah Keifer (vocals, percussion, piano), Tony Higbee (guitars, vocals), Billy Mercer (bass, vocals), Kendra Chantelle (vocals, percussion), Jarred Pope (drums) and Kory Myers (keyboards, vocals).

Vocal paralysis leading to seven surgeries, the breakup of a massively popular band, well-

publicized physical meltdowns and legal battles to secure master recordings of a comeback album while his record label disintegrates, would seem to be more than enough to crush the spirit and aspirations of just about anyone. But not Tom Keifer.

“It was really grim for a long time,” says Keifer. “From early diagnosis [of vocal cord problems] in the early ’90s through when I started talking with [vocal coach] Ron Anderson, it was a really up and down roller coaster. There were times when my voice kinda worked well and other when it really sucked so yeah, there were times I thought about throwing in the towel. I remember working on The Way Life Goes, throwing microphones across the room but the bottom line is—I’ve been singing and playing guitar since I was 8years old and it’s what I love, what I do— so I may have had thoughts [of giving up] along the way, but the stronger thought was keep pushing, try to find an answer, try to overcome it.”

Many people believe that the best way to exorcize your demons is to take them on directly, and Keifer decided he was willing to put in the blood, sweat and tears required to get back in the game.

That battle is bluntly addressed throughout Rise, especially the “The Death of Me” and particularly in the accompanying video, which violently dispatches the hurdles Keifer’s faced.

“The Death of Me” is a lyric that his wife and bandmate Savannah wrote. “It immediately struck a chord with me,” he says. “I’ve been through many challenges in my life and the lyr-

cally and personally and the chemistry is great.

People seem to really like the new record—it’s always really nice to hear that—since when you spend a lot of time on a record you get so close to it and by the time you get done, you’re not really sure what you have, you know?”

The More Things Change…

Echoing the title of one of Cinderella’s best songs, Keifer said that “in a lot of ways, things have changed—but really, not much. I’ve been out there touring for over three decades, and there’s an amazingly loyal fan base whom I’m incredibly grateful for.”

“Playing live has always been my favorite aspect of what I do as a musician. There’s nothTom Keifer PHOTO BY TAMMY VEGA ing like jumping up on the stage and feeling that release of just going for it in the moment—there’s no ‘do-overs.’ ics are kind of an anthem for The people are out there, and you Tom Keifer overcoming your adversity. I have the connection with the audithought, not only can I relate to Northern Lights ence, so that all still feels the same. this, but a lot of people could Theater I have a really kick-ass band that I relate to this.”

Thursday, love, they are all great musicians.”

The video shows the catharOct. 31, 8 p.m.

Keifer promised that fans both tic experience of Keifer literold and new will enjoy his new ally smashing through barriers show. “What they would expect he faced during his comeback to see with me and my old band is exactly what at the expense of a few guitars and amps.

He explains: “We put those specific challenges they’ll see with the new band. It’s a high-energy in the video by way of example, because fans are show, tons of sweat, screaming vocals, pounding familiar with them and then smashing them with drums.

“We play the Cinderella stuff, because they’re a guitar was a really great feeling. So, the idea of that the song and the power of it when people part of me—as much a part of me as the new watch that video and listen to the song, is that I stuff. I wrote the songs, I sang them, I did the mahope they are visualizing their own challenges jority of the guitar work and even was involved on the screens and imagine destroying them. The in the production. So, I love doing those songs, power of that visualization is really strong—it they feel as new now as they did 30 years ago, helps and is cathartic. We hope that song helps and people still want to hear them. New matepeople push forward and through the things they rial is a part of the show as well—we’re a sevenpiece band with six amazing singers and the mufeel are holding them back or down.”

Rise is the natural outgrowth of the band Keif- sicianship is incredible.”

“I’d love for people to check out the new reer has been touring with for the past six years (in front of increasingly large audiences )in support cord and come out and sing some songs with us.”

Tom Keifer plays Potawatomi Hotel & Casiof that “nearly lost” comeback album, 2013’s no’s Northern Lights Theater, 1721 W. Canal St., The Way Life Goes.

“We really become a band—bonded musi- Thursday, Oct. 31, at 8 p.m

10/31 The Golden Grenades 11/7 Klassik

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SATURDAY, NOV. 2 DANIELLE SIMONE CHARLES PHOTOGRAPHY

Breakfast with Rodney L. Washington @ Hilton Garden Inn, 9 a.m.

Milwaukee music producer and songwriter Rodney L. Washington marks the release of his new book, Lyric Line: Thinking Out Loud—Is Anyone Listening?, with a breakfast celebration honoring veterans. The book collects 214 songs about life, love, faith and justice.

Día de los Muertos Celebration @ Kenosha Creative Space, 4 p.m.

Following the vibrant Imagenes de Latin America exhibit of modern art form in Latin America, the Día de los Muertos Celebration will be again overtaking the corner of 57th Street and Sixth Avenue for a street festival and alleyway celebrating the traditional Day of the Dead festivities. The authentic Day of the Dead experience includes ofrendas, the collection of objects placed on a ritual altar during the annual and traditional Mexican Día de los Muertos celebration; a Community Art Project; live music; a food and beer garden and arts and crafts demonstrations.

SUNDAY, NOV. 3 Larry Penn: Sixth Annual Tribute Concert @ Anodyne Coffee, 5 p.m.

Anthony Deutsch

THURSDAY, OCT. 31 Third Coast Blues @ The Jazz Estate, 8 p.m.

The late Eric Dolphy, horn player supreme, used to practice listening to birds. Milwaukee pianist Anthony Deutsch said, “Some of my favorite music is that of birds in a park or natural space—Bach is nice, too.” Deutsch teams up with harmonica virtuoso Jim Liban and a rhythm section of Kurt Koenig and drummer Matt Liban. While the latter three are steeped in the blues, this gig could be open to plenty of improvisation.

Larry Penn was a folk singer and songwriter best known for the songs he wrote about hard work, labor, social justice and trains, but he also sang about love and wrote songs for children. He was considered to be Milwaukee’s dean of folk music. He was a member of the Rose Tattoo with Utah Phillips. Penn was an extremely talented man and a man of principles. He leaves behind a large body of songs and poetry for others to enjoy. Performer include: Brett Kemnitz, David Drake, Lil Rev, Bob and Diane Suckiel, Patty Stevenson and Craig Siemsen.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 1

Jarabe Mexicano: Amor Eterno: Un Homenaje A Juan Gabriel @ Latino Arts, 7 p.m.

San Diego-based Jarabe Mexicano’s mariachi sound encompasses traditional boleros, huapangos, sones, rancheras and cumbias, as well as reimagined reggae and rock ’n’ roll music. In collaboration with the Latino Arts Strings Program, this Día de los Muertos performance shows how life and personal struggles shaped Juan Gabriel’s extensive musical catalogue. Dance and sing Juanga’s classics and learn how a boy from the border became an international phenomenon.

Chain Drive w/ Arcade Mode and Smoke N Mirrors @ Bremen Café, 10 p.m.

Enjoy a night of instrumental combos featuring Milwaukee trio Chain Drive, who create soundtracks for ‘70s movies that never got made. Veteran drummer Vic Demichei plays his kit like an orchestra.

The Moth StorySLAM: Gratitude @ Colectivo Back Room, 8 p.m.

This time around, The Moth asks storytellers to serve up a tale of gratitude: Five-minute stories about blessings you can count or the ones in disguise or the times you looked a gift horse in the mouth or thanked your lucky stars or a story about a wave of relief, a favor just for you or a hand to hold when you need it most.

Yipes! @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.

One of the few bands brave enough to include punctuation in its name, Milwaukee power poppers Yipes! formed in 1977 and released a pair of albums for RCA subsidiary Millennium Records, but they were done by 1981. (For you collector types, they also appeared on the Minnesota-centric compilation Big Hits of Mid America Volume Three.) The band regrouped for the first time in 2013 to play the WAMI awards and have not been strangers to the stage since. The band’s 2018 album Yipes!!! ups the ante, at least in terms of exclamations!

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Sunday, November 3, 2019 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Grace Center • 250 E. Juneau Ave. Milwaukee Enjoy a day at Grace, where 25 local artisans will sell their original and handcrafted work, including: • Woodwork • Greeting cards BUY GIFTS FOR THE • Jewelry • Artisan chocolates UPCOMING HOLIDAYS • Scarves • Organic and (OR SPOIL YOURSELF!) • Caramels high-quality teas gracedowntown.org • 414-271-3006 • Candles • Vegan and organic • Artwork body care products • Photography • Illustrations O C T O B E R 3 1 , 2 0 1 9 | 29

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Cadillac Baby’s Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection (EARWIG MUSIC) For a shorthand description, let’s call Bea & Baby a Triple-A farm club for Chess Records.

Artists went back and forth between the labels on the way up and on the way down; Leonard Chess owned the pressing plant where B&B’s singles were manufactured. According to the extensive essays included in this box set, Chess snatched ideas from B&B and held up their releases to give his records time to hit the charts.

Bea & Baby saw little chart action, but as heard in the tracks compiled for The Definitive Collection, their discs were mostly crafted on a level that matches the bigger labels. When B&B began in 1959, many of the recordings were Chicago blues at the cusp of R&B—the urban honk of tenor sax added fuel to the potent rhythms of the hard-to-the-beat drumming and electric bass. Electric guitar parts were occasionally innovative and inevitably drenched in the blues. Many of the recordings were filled out—like Chess’—by astute use of reverb.

Blues was B&B’s mainstay, and their roster included such familiar names as Hound Dog Taylor, Sunnyland Slim and a guitarist with Milwaukee ties, Hubert Sumlin. But the label also released several doo-wop discs and dabbled in jazz-influenced vocalists and Elvis-esque rock ’n’ roll.

The Baby in Bea & Baby, Narvel “Cadillac Baby” Eatmon, was a Mississippi-born hustler who migrated to Chicago and set himself up as a bar owner. The live bands he booked led to the recording business.

In later years, he ran a record shop where a generation of (mostly white) blues aficionados gathered to hear his stories, some of them recorded and included on The Definitive Collection.

—David Luhrssen

Tune Town

There From Here (SLAMMIN MEDIA) Judging by the number of albums by Toronto musicians, Canada’s biggest city has pushed New York City aside for honors as North America’s jazz capital. The latest is from Tune Town, a trio pushing at the edges without losing sight of melody. Those often playful, even funky melodic lines are set by saxophonist Kelly Jefferson with agile support from acoustic bassist Artie Roth and nimble on-the-beat drumming by Ernesto Cervini. The material is all original aside from a deep dive into the melody of Duke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady.”

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

1175 Sports Park & Eatery (Kansasville), Blacktop Mojo w/Otherwise Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), Funk Summit Bass Team w/Big Style Brass Band Bremen Cafe, Billy Dreamer w/Nasty Boys & Titty Citty Cactus Club, Halloween Show! Hot By Ziggy w/Red Flags & North Breese Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Song Circle w/Tricia Alexander (6:30pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Voot Warnings w/ Aluminum Knot Eye & Powerwagon (8pm); DJ: Psychotronic Roadshow (10pm) County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Third Coast Blues w/Jim Liban & Anthony Deutsch Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s On The Square (Racine), Open Mic Night Mezcalero Restaurant, Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Jam Band 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, Rumours of Fleetwood Mac Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Xeno & Joe Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Route 20, September Mourning w/Cold Kingdom & Seilies Sazzy B (Kenosha), Gypsy Jazz The Back Room @ Colectivo, Old Man Luedecke The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Halloween Masquerade Party (5pm) The Miramar Theatre, Mandos Haunted House w/ DJ Mando & Riptide The Packing House, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Café, Martini Jazz Lounge Turner Hall Ballroom, Toro y Moi w/Channel Tres Up & Under, Comedy Open Mic Nite w/Honey on the Biscuit X-Ray Arcade, Halloween Bash! Masked Intruder, Direct Hit as The Ramones, and Frankenstein (6pm)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Ally’s Bistro, The Kaye Berigan 4tet American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Sawyer Road Band American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Blaine & Jake Duo Art Bar, New Art Show: “mini” w/music by Cave Paintings Blu Milwaukee, Janet O’Mahony Bremen Café, Chain Drive w/ Acade Mode and Smoke N Mirrors Cactus Club, Agua De Rosas Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Smoke N Mirrors w/ Brendon Demet Trio (8pm); DJ: Seedy (10pm) Clarke Hotel (Waukesha), Dick Eliot Jazz Guitar (6pm) ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, The R&B, Soul & Trap Show w/ Bizzon, Dripsweat & Nustylez County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Crush Wine Bar (Waukesha), CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll Iron Mike’s, Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & the Liquor Salesmen Jazz Estate, Soul Night with Cameron Webb (8pm), Late Night Session: Gramma Matrix Late Night Vinyl (11:30pm) Kim’s Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. Band Lake Lawn Resort, Brian Fictum Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm)

Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Riverwest Jam Fest: Undercover Organism, Spare Change Trio, Modern Joey, Color Blind Chamileon & Tialok Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant, Larry Lynne Revue Mamie’s, Stokes & The Old Blues Boys Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Mezcalero Restaurant and Bar, The Falcons Milwaukee Ale House, Frog Water Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, The Blues Disciples Pabst Theater, Masur Conducts Beethoven Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Rudy ’N Vee Rave / Eagles Club, LOST SOULS: Alesso & Infected Mushroom w/Masteria, Nate Derus, Kedzie, Athenis & Colton Duwe (all-ages, 8pm) Rock Country MKE, Dustin Arbuckle & the Damnations w/Tommy Bentz Band & Luke Cerny Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Robert Allen Jr. Band Shank Hall, Yipes!

The Back Room @ Colectivo, The Moth StorySLAM: Spooky The Ivanhoe Pub & Eatery (Racine), The Subtle Undertones The Miramar Theatre, Chris Webby (all-ages, 7pm) The Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) Up & Under, Ghostman on Bass X-Ray Arcade, Glass Houses w/These Fading Visions, Hartwell, Sacred & The Martyr Complex

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Ricochettes Art*Bar, NightinJails Blu Milwaukee, Jenny Thiel Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Ernie Hendrickson Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Girl Fight w/Athiests And Airplanes (8pm); DJ: Edina Flo (10pm) ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Armstrong Ransome w/Pocket Change & guests Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), The Rush Tribute Project Fox & Hounds (Hubertus), Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys w/Westside Andy (6:30pm) Jazz Estate, Pat Metheny Songbook! 40 years of Opus! (8pm), Late Night Session: Johnny Padilla Quartet (11:30pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, The Grave Robber’s Ball w/Scorn’d Rott’n, Ratbatspider, Satăn’s Dealer & Horror Burlesque by Grindhouse Tease) LD’s BBQ (East Troy), Katz Sass (5pm) Lake Lawn Resort, Terry Sweet (6pm) Lindey’s On Beulah (East Troy), Mt. Olive Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, HomeBrewed: Benefit for the Penfield Children’s Foundation (6pm) Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Pabst Theater, Masur Conducts Beethoven Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Saturday Detention Rave / Eagles Club, Melanie Martinez w/Lauren Ruth Ward (all-ages, 8pm), Blue October w/New Dialogue (all-ages, 8pm), Ice Nine Kills w/Fit For A King, Light The Torch, Make Them Suffer & Awake At Last (all-ages, 8pm) Reefpoint Brew House (Racine), Jake Williams Rock Country MKE, Warp Drive w/Moxxy Roxx Shank Hall, Think Floyd USA Slinger House (Slinger), Scotch and Soda The Back Room @ Colectivo, Rose of the West w/ Lady Cannon & Palm Ghosts The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Flood Brothers The Coffeehouse, Living Activism Series: The J. Ryan Trio The End Zone Sports Bar & Grill, Rogue

The Miramar Theatre, EAZYBAKED w/Milano & sumthin sumthin (all-ages, 9pm) The Packing House, Maureè (6:30pm) Traditions Pub (Fredonia), Instrument Drive w/Brady Wycklendt, Andrew David Weber & Milwaukee Mode (2pm) Unitarian Church North, Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series: A (3rd Annual) Community Sing w/Mark Dvorak, Julie Thompson & Craig Siemsen Up & Under, Dr. Sinclair X-Ray Arcade, Encarsia w/Djunah, Corridore, Moustache Bride & Brandon Logic (6:30pm)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), 6th Annual Larry Penn Memorial Concert (5pm) Cactus Club, Milwaukee Record Halftime Show: Pete Freeman (3pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Twila Jean w/Paulette (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Sunday Jam w/Rockbound (4pm) J&B’s Blue Ribbon Bar and Grill, The Players Jam Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Larry Lynne Solo (4pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Neighhem Festival 2 (5pm) Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Café Sopra Mare w/Jack Grassel (10:30am)

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Jazz Estate, Jazz Estate Jam Session Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Mario The Poet (signup 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/hosts Josh Becker, Annie Buege, Ally Hart or Marr’lo Parada Up & Under, Open Mic

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), Anna Tivel w/Maya de Vitry Brewtown Eatery, Blues & Jazz Jam w/Jeff Stoll, Joe Zarcone & David “Harmonica” Miller (6pm) JC’S Pub, Open Mic w/host Audio is Rehab Jazz Estate, B~Free & Quinten Farr Duo Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts / Riverwest Artists Association, Tuesday Night Jazz Jam Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s (Racine), The Parkside Reunion Big Band Parkside 23 (Brookfield), Sleepy Andy (6pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Red Circle Inn (Nashotah), Dick Eliot and Greg Shaffer (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Café, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Julia Michaels

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Cactus Club, Lisa Prank Iron Mike’s (Franklin), B Lee Nelson & KZ Acoustic Jam Jazz Estate, Late Night Poetry Open Mic Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/ feature Mark Lefebvre (sign-up 7:30pm, start 8pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Pabst Theater, Highly Suspect w/Slothrust Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/ Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Shank Hall, Savoy Brown w/Kim Simmonds Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. Band The Back Room @ Colectivo, Betcha The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Standard Issue w/Sue Russell (6:30pm) Wicked Hop, Jazz at Noon w/Don Linke X-Ray Arcade, Bridging The Music Presents: Milwaukee Fall miniFEST (6pm) SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Thievery Corporation’s TransGlobal Music Experience

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::BY THOMAS MICHALSKI

lending pop and world music genres can often be a difficult proposition. The results too often slip into either watered-down, pseudo-exotic mush or simplistic mash up-style juxtapositions, but for well more than 20 years now, Washington, D.C., duo Thievery Corporation has been making it look downright easy. They effortlessly absorb a myriad of genres into their heady and endlessly evolving trip-hop concoction. Pulling that signature style off in a live setting would only seem to pose additional challenges, but true to form, their easygoing yet ambitious approach made for a concert-going experience that was simultaneously exciting and chill in equal measure.

Not having a new album to tout this time around did not seem to affect the attendance tally at all, with the crowd creeping into The Pabst’s third tier of seats by the time local opener, the up-and-coming brothers in Immortal Girlfriend, got into their set. Cinematic

and stylish, the pair’s modern synthpop sound is perfect for being either in your feelings or on the dance floor, but they could also stand to branch out into less controlled territory from time to time. Quibbling aside, they received a warm welcome from their hometown crowd and ably set the mood for the headliner.

For their part, Thievery Corporation came equipped with everything necessary to bring their multi-dimensional sound into the real world. This included a backing band of skilled hands and a rotating cast of vocalists. Yet, while it’s thrilling to hear classics like “Lebanese Blonde” or selections from their recent dancehall-influenced releases recreated in full, the most memorable moments were strippeddown, such as a tour bus-style acoustic jam session, or impromptu, like Mr. Lif’s localized freestyle and the riff from “Blister in the Sun” underpinning the musician introductions.

Whatever they set their mind to, Thievery Corporation seems to master it with ease.

Bob Dylan Delivers Again

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::BY BLAINE SCHULTZ

o no one’s surprise, Bob Dylan did not speak to the audience during his performance Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Rave Hall in Milwaukee’s The Rave/Eagles Club. But one defiant fan made his presence felt during Dylan’s final encore number, “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.” That fan walked along the front of the stage with his camera aloft and was presumably filming the performance. He, in effect, flipped the bird to pre-concert announcements, dozens of security personnel, the warning card handed out at admission and flyers posted around the venue saying, “DO NOT RECORD OR YOU WILL BE KICKED OUT.” Dylan gave up being the voice of a generation long ago, and now he is simply focused on being, in his words, “a song and dance man.”

As a songwriter, he is in a league of his own. As a performer, he has continued to the beat of his own drum. Think for a moment and see if you can come up with another 78-year-old performing a two-hour set.

Eight old-time spotlights circled the stage, lighting a trio of mannequins and offering the perception of Saturday night at the county fair.

Decked out in a tuxedo, playing guitar, Dylan opened with his lifetime mission statement, “Things Have Changed.” To his right, the ageless, rail-thin guitar slinger Charlie Sexton appeared to have been assembled from a mailorder rock and roll kit, a lock of hair falling to his forehead as if by script. For the span of the 17-song set and a two-song encore, Dylan and his five-piece roadhouse band offered rearrangements of many of his best-known songs.

Yet this could hardly be called a run-through of his greatest hits. As the man says, you buy your SHEPHERD EXPRESS

ticket and you take the ride.

Though the ballroom was constructed long before loud rock and roll were even imagined, the band’s medium volume often allowed listeners to pick up on a song’s first line (“Girl From the North Country” and “Simple Twist of Fate”). Other times, you had to wait for the chorus to access the tune’s reimagined road map. For “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” Dylan sat at his upright piano and asserted the choruses as if he were lightly poking you in the chest with his finger to make a point. “When I Paint My Masterpiece” found him dramatically overenunciating “Brussels” and “mussels.” With his songs “Lenny Bruce” and “Gotta Serve Somebody,” he acknowledged his trio of gospel albums. “Early Roman Kings” recalled the primal stomp of Muddy Waters blues.

As a leader, Dylan allowed his players plenty of room to vamp and solo. When not at the piano, he preferred to stroll (shuffling not unlike Charlie Chaplin) into the midst of the band instead of frontstage. Donnie Herron effortlessly moved from violin to steel guitar. And on “Thunder on the Mountain,” drummer Matt Chamberlain played like a kid who just figured out the fills on “Wipeout.” Dylan’s harmonica playing these days resembles the stylized notechoices of Toots Thielemans instead of his traditional flurry of sound. On “Honest With Me,” he pounded and stabbed at the piano like his idol Little Richard.

It is easy to get the impression that Dylan changes for the sake of change. Did he sing different words to his own songs? Hell, if I could tell. It was not until the leaden arrangement of the evening’s final tune that it sounded like he was running out of gas. By then, the audience could leave with a rare experience.

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By James Barrick

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

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72. Sacred chest 73. Look 74. Of a point of convergence 75. Recovers 76. Old Greek portico 77. Supped 78. Thanks — —!

79. Large artery 80. Itsy-bitsy 81. Part 4 of quip: 4 wds.

85. Some dwellings 86. Performs 87. Waken 88. Sunfish 89. Harsh in tone 92. Sudden thrust 93. Outcasts of a kind 97. Heavy hydrogen 100. End of the quip: 4 wds.

102. Competent 103. Gumbo ingredient 104. Ancient region in Anatolia 105. McEntire’s sitcom 106. Regretted 107. Youngster 108. Easily bugged 109. Dross DOWN 1. Boaters 2. DOL agcy.

3. Quite a small distance 4. Number a manuscript 5. Viewpoints 6. Puccini work 7. Irish Gaelic 8. Object 9. Rap session 10. Rio — 11. Down Under parrot 12. French friend 13. — Plaines 14. The elect 15. OT book

16. Stare at 17. Man with a title 23. Peruses 24. A pronoun 26. Instruct 29. “— if by land ...”

32. Engage in swordplay 33. Cite 34. Toward the mouth 35. The dodecahedron, e.g.

36. Soap substitute 37. Eased a certain way 38. Vaunt 39. Kind of orange 40. Checkered in appearance 41. Golf club socket 42. Ingress 44. Pamphlet 48. Sheer nonsense 49. Scholarly work 50. Culture medium 51. Tool for boring 53. Scute 54. Hungarian composer 55. Hall-of- — 57. Bring out 58. Any thrusting weapon 59. Gluts 61. Stew pot 62. Kind of lily

63. Narratives 64. Noted luthier 65. Succulent plants 66. — Berry Stapp Earp 67. Maine town 68. Sanctions 70. — and saddles 71. Laconic 74. Conduit for smoke 75. Help a vacationing homeowner: Hyph.

76. Ottawa players 78. Quarters 79. Mint family plant 80. For rent sign: 2 wds.

82. Redacted 83. Capote the writer 84. Prodigal — 85. Killer of Marat 88. Worth 89. Jewish month 90. A Philippines island 91. Precept 92. Come-on 93. Gruber or Andersen 94. Island nation: Abbr.

95. — libre 96. For fellows only 98. Decompose 99. Presidential nickname 101. Scuffle

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WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 22 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

A speedy recovery Solution: 22 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Sanitarium: Abbr.

5. Stand in good — 10. Willing 14. Field’s yield 18. Old Hollywood canine star 19. Japanese gate 20. Apple variety 21. Colossal 22. Start of a quip by Little Richard: 3 wds.

25. Onassis 27. Sagacity 28. Out to lunch 30. Cinema worker 31. Zilch 32. Set up 33. Memory alone 35. Tossed and tuna 38. Part 2 of quip: 4 wds.

43. Drops 44. Muscle quality 45. Remotely 46. Years upon years 47. Rounded body part 48. Vestige 49. Like a walkway 51. Aide: Abbr.

52. — Saint-Louis 53. Green gem 54. Pale or dark beverage 55. Laser printer part 56. Negligent 58. Modified leaf 59. In a manner showing wisdom 60. Make fit 61. Part 3 of quip 62. Saddle animal 63. Show of respect 65. Unblemished 66. Famed final defeat 69. Priest’s vestment 70. Farm machine 71. Durden of “Fight Club”

Solution to last week’s puzzle

Acid Acute Airway Ankle Arm Asthma Bed Bite Blood Break Broken Care Cooks

Cost Drink Drug Duty Error Fibula Gloves Heart Idle Ill Isolate Leg Lint

Need Nurse Pain Pale Pans Patient Plan Psychiatric Pulse Room Sick Sleep Sponge

Swabs Toe Tube Ulna Unconscious Uniforms Ward Wound X-ray

10/24 Solution: Housework is never ending

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” He means it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his meme for my own purposes. I propose that when you stop pretending and shed fake politeness, you may indeed resemble an ugly monster—but only temporarily. After the suppressed stuff gets free rein to yammer, it will relax and recede—and you will feel so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able to express more of your monumental beauty.

Halloween costume suggestion: your beautiful, fully exorcised monster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you. I suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: the personification or embodiment of your valuable mistake.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen who ruled for 21 years. She was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian portrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo spread in a fashion magazine. But the facts are that Cleopatra was a well-educated, multilingual political leader with strategic cunning. Among her many skills were poetry, philosophy, and mathematics. I propose we make the REAL Cleopatra your role model. Now is an excellent time to correct people’s misunderstandings about you—and show people who you truly are. Halloween costume suggestion: your actual authentic self.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Around the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the eleventh sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable of strenuous feats; will have the power to achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will be authorized to attempt a brave act of transcendence that renders a long-standing limitation irrelevant. As for the eleven days and eleven hours before that magic hour, the eleventh sign of the zodiac will be smart to engage in fierce meditation and thorough preparation for the magic hour. And as for the eleven days and eleven hours afterward, the eleventh sign should expend all possible effort to capitalize on the semi-miraculous breakthrough. Halloween costume suggestion: eleven.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Musil made a surprising declaration: “A number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the coming months.

I think you have the potential to be a flawed but inspiring individual who’ll serve as a dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant social unit. So, let me ask you: what would be your dream-come-true of a brilliant social unit that is a fertile influence on you and everyone else in the unit? Halloween costume suggestion: ringleader, mastermind, orchestrator or general.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have any skill in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want?

Do you sometimes have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the right time to help people do what they haven’t been able to do under their own power?

If you possess any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to put them in play. More than usual, you are needed as a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: angel, fairy godmother, genie, benefactor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Amy Tan describes the magic moment when her muse appears and takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as

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though the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.” Even if you’re not a creative artist, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power. Halloween costume suggestion: your muse.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than a century ago, author Anton Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never cure what ails you. But if you sit still in a safe place and ask your inner genius to identify the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.” Halloween costume suggestion: physician, nurse, shaman, healer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a pioneer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric outsider who invented his own visual language. In the 1950s, Picasso observed that Chagall was one of the only painters who “understood what color really is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 million. What was the secret to his success? “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works,” he testified. “If from the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your heart to rule everything you do. Halloween costume suggestion: a heart.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and Israel, is far saltier than the ocean. No fish or frogs live in it. But here and there on the lake’s bottom are springs that exude fresh water. They support large, diverse communities of microbes. It’s hard for divers to get down there and study the life forms, though. The water’s so saline, they tend to float. So, they carry 90 pounds of ballast that enables them to sink to the sea floor. I urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What would be the metaphorical equivalent for you of descending into the lower depths so as to research unexplored sources of vitality and excitement? Halloween costume suggestions: diver, spelunker, archaeologist.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We have stripped all things of their mystery and luminosity,” lamented psychologist Carl Jung.

“Nothing is holy any longer.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, your assignment is to rebel against that mournful state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find and create holiness that’s worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: mage, priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, sacramentalist.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One language is never enough,” says a Pashto proverb. How could it be, right? Each language has a specific structure and a finite vocabulary that limit its power to describe and understand the world. I think the same is true for religion: one is never enough. Why confine yourself to a single set of theories about spiritual matters when more will enable you to enlarge and deepen your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough Month” for you. Assume you need more of everything. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha who intones prayers in three different languages.

Homework: “Be homesick for wild knowing,” wrote Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Try that out. Report results to Freewillastrology.com.

Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio

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Oh, Rats!

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he San Diego Humane Society was summoned to a convenience store parking lot in Del Mar, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 8, after law enforcement officers responded to calls of concern about a van parked there, near one of San Diego’s toniest neighborhoods. Officers found a woman living in the van—with more than 300 rats. Humane Society Capt. Danee Cook told The San Diego Union-Tribune, “This was not a cruelty case. This was pure negligence.” The unidentified owner said she had started with two pet rats, but the situation had gotten out of control, and she agreed to surrender all of them, many of which were juveniles or pregnant. Officers spent several days tearing the van apart and recovered 320 animals, about half of which were put up for adoption. Meanwhile, the woman has found a place to live with the help of a GoFundMe page.

Blackwell Not Well Andrew Blackwell, 25, has his sights set on a particular home in Salt Lake City, Utah, and apparently will stop at nothing to make it his own. Since late August, Blackwell, a neighbor of the property, has been repeatedly entering the home, according to court papers, even after being told by police that he does not have authority to do so. He has been doing work around the house, including removing trees and shrubbery, installing new locks and telling other neighbors he had bought the house.

Blackwell told police he offered the elderly owner of the home, who lives elsewhere, $9,000 for her property, which has a market value of $363,000. Court documents state that, after the owner refused the offer, he told her he would “forge any document needed to get the property from her,” according to KUTV. Finally, on Friday, Oct. 18, police issued a warrant for Blackwell’s arrest on charges of burglary, forgery, stalking, theft, three counts of criminal trespassing and criminal mischief.

Marques, Brazil, was just trying to make his wife happy when he launched an effort to rid their backyard of cockroaches. “She begged me to destroy their nests under the ground once and for all,” Schmitz, 48, explained.

After chemicals failed to do the job, The Daily Mail reported, Schmitz decided setting fire to their holes would work, so on Friday, Oct. 18, he poured gasoline into them and tossed in lighted matches. After a couple of misfires caught on his home’s security camera, one match worked, perhaps a little too well. Schmitz and his dogs are seen ducking for cover as the resulting explosion sent turf and lawn furniture flying through the air. The gasoline itself had ignited, but it had also set off the highly combustible methane from the bugs’ venom that had accumulated in an air pocket under the grass. “I wish I’d thought this through,” Schmitz said. For the time being, however, the cockroaches are gone.

Cody Gets Cozy Twenty-year-old Cody Meader of St. Petersburg, Fla., entered a Pinellas Park Target store on Tuesday, Oct. 22, where he sought out a large “Olaf” stuffed doll from the Disney movie Frozen, the Smoking Gun reported. Meader then placed the doll on the floor, climbed on top of it to… have his way with the doll and, after “finishing,” he returned the character to the shelf and proceeded to the toy department, where he “selected a large unicorn stuffed animal” and repeated his bizarre, offensive behavior. Meader was detained in the store and later charged with criminal mischief. His father told police that his son “has a history of this type of behavior.”

I Give You Jail A quick-thinking employee of a Boost Mobile store in Philadelphia helped police catch a thief on Tuesday, Oct. 22. According to CBS3, the employee was in the store alone when a 19-year-old man entered, pulled a gun and demanded money. “Can you wait a few minutes?” the employee responded. “I give you money. I have another employee outside and he took the key, but after that I give you,” he explained. The robber agreed, and the employee left the store, locking the door from the outside and trapping the criminal inside until a SWAT team arrived. The frustrated suspect shot his gun through the glass door, but no one was hurt.

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