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YOUR VOICE MATTERS This is probably the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Midterm elections are often a referendum on the president even though he’s not on the ballot. At the same time, there are many excellent candidates running for state offices for all the right reasons: to serve their constituencies and to make their community and Wisconsin a great place in which to live, work and play. On Tuesday, you have the opportunity to elect some good people and to send a message to the president and the politicians who embrace him that you approve or disapprove of his words and actions. Your voice matters. Please exercise your vote. Don’t waste it.
Tony Evers for Governor
Tony Evers
On Election Day, the people of Wisconsin can decide if our state will, once again, lead the nation in education, equity, public service, health care and creating good-paying jobs. That should not be a Democratic vision or a Republican vision; it’s a Wisconsin vision we need to focus on again. Over the last eight years, however, political ambition—with an eye on the White House and a desire to please billionaire donors—has caused Gov. Scott Walker to move Wisconsin in a different direction. Walker turned down $810 million in federal dollars for high-speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison and, eventually, to the Twin Cities. He also declined the Medicaid expansion that would have provided health care to hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites, brought more than $1.1 billion dollars into the state and created thousands of jobs. He severely weakened our educational systems from kindergartens through the UW System. He seriously cut back on environmental protections and has stood firm against innovative policies such as medical marijuana for alleviating sickness. We are providing you with the top-12 reasons to make a change in our governor’s office, but the final choice is up to you. Why does Tony Evers deserve your vote to be the next governor of Wisconsin?
1. Every kid deserves a good school. Remember when our public schools were tops in the nation? Who better to fix the disastrous mess Walker has made of our public education system than a former teacher, principal, district superintendent and Wisconsin superintendent of schools? Evers is an educator so talented that former President Barack Obama tapped him for advice on public education. We will take a career in education over a career politician. As Evers says, “What’s best for our kids is what’s best for our state.”
2. Balance.
Mandela Barnes
Republicans have a stranglehold on state government controlling the governor’s office, the State Senate and the State Assembly, and they have abused that power by fixing the game in every way—from crippling opponents, to gerrymandering districts for a ridiculous, undemocratic advantage, to ramming through big handouts to special interest
donors who, in turn, keep them in office while disenfranchising voters not likely to support them with various voter suppression laws. Even the conservative Republican Wisconsin State Journal, the state’s second largest newspaper, agreed in its endorsement of Evers: “Change is needed at the top after eight years of Gov. Walker sowing division, undermining good-government protections and skimping on basic services such as roads while running up debt.” We agree.
3. No border wall between Wisconsin and Canada. Evers is a class act. He does not embarrass himself with ridiculous answers or dodge simple questions with excuses like, “That’s a federal issue,” or “I’m going to punt on that one,” as Walker said when asked if he believed in the scientific fact of evolution. Walker is king of staged spotlights and refusing to be pinned down on. The reason is obvious when he had to answer questions about foreign policy while running for president and endorsed a Canadian border wall and compared fighting teachers and other workers to fighting the Islamic State: “If I can take on 100,000 protestors, I can do the same across the world.” You’ll never hear words like that from Evers.
4. Better roads. Evers will take the high road when it comes to working together, and he’ll focus on repairing and rebuilding our roads. Walker’s excessive use of a state airplane funded by taxpayers even for short trips proves he is not fiscally conservative when it comes to taxpayers funding his lifestyle. Lack of familiarity with “Scott holes”—as ubiquitous potholes are now called in Wisconsin—may mean he has no clue how badly Wisconsin needs better infrastructure. Evers drives our roads and knows what Walker’s neglect costs us in terms of safety, economic development and wear on our vehicles.
5. Honesty and hard work beat fake bravado. As the Dairy State, Wisconsin recognizes that true dedication and quality beat showy and fake any day. Republicans who accuse Evers of being vanilla or boring can just leave the state along with Walker as he jets off to boast of a “bold” national image in his second run for president, which, according to close associates of the governor, Walker said he is definitely planning, despite what he is saying on the campaign trail. Endorsements continued on page 6 >
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NEWS&VIEWS::ENDORSEMENTS Tammy Baldwin for U.S. Senate
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6. Tax relief for the middle class. Evers plans to make sure it is the middle class—and those aspiring to join it—that get a break from the tax burden. Under Walker, corporations like Foxconn have virtually zero in tax liability, and a small handful of the wealthiest in our state, those who need them least, got the real tax breaks. Meanwhile, more than a hundred communities across the state have had to vote to raise their own taxes to fund their schools and pay thousands of dollars more to repair cars driven on pothole-filled roads, just so Walker can boast he didn’t raise taxes.
7. Proven bipartisanship. Democrats who have worked with Evers like him and trust him as a man of his word—and so do Republicans. Evers has been endorsed by Republicans, including several former members of Walker’s cabinet and former State Senate Republican leader Dale Schultz.
8. No dodging problems. If a vital issue is messy, controversial, unpopular, likely to bring up uncomfortable questions or risk public exposure, Walker stays miles away. To wit: Even after being confronted with proof that a judge had warned him about a dangerous situation that was harming both juveniles and staff at Lincoln Hills youth prison, Walker ignored the warnings for years. Only after his neglect showed him to be an uncaring, hands-off governor did he claim he had a plan in the works to address it. Still, he has refused to visit the state facility or talk to people who have been harmed there and who have asked to meet with him.
9. A healthy state. Tony Evers believes every Wisconsinite deserves to have highquality, affordable health care—even those with pre-existing conditions. Walker and his GOP legislators have sided with insurance companies over Wisconsinites with pre-existing conditions over, and over, and over again. Now they want you to believe they won’t do it again. We are not that easily fooled.
10. Mandela Barnes. The lieutenant governor post is on the ballot with the governor, so a vote for Evers is also a vote for his running mate. A former state representative from Milwaukee, Mandela Barnes brings legislative experience to the ticket, along with a deep knowledge of his community. He describes himself as born in the state’s poorest zip code but given opportunities that he wants others to have as well. He was elected at age 25 to the State Assembly, where he championed such issues as criminal justice reform, closing the gap of income inequality and health care. We endorse Mandela Barnes as a major asset— not only to the ticket, but as a leader who will benefit our state’s wellbeing.
11. Halting corruption. Walker did not end up in jail as a result of the John Doe investigations, but six of his close associates did, and he was never willing to say who funded his criminal defense fund. Despite past corruption on his team, he’s flooded taxpayer-funded jobs with his own political cronies. Not only did he replace public servants in dozens of top state jobs, he hired cronies who were completely unqualified at outrageously high salaries. By comparison, Evers has had three successful terms as State Superintendent of Public Education without a hint of a scandal.
12. Science is real. Evers is a former science teacher who is not afraid to say that climate change is real and is an environmentalist who will address the issue. “I know we have work to do to mitigate and adapt to it in Wisconsin,” says Evers. “As your governor, I won’t bury my head in the sand or play politics with our future.”
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Senator Tammy Baldwin
In her years of service to the people of Wisconsin, voting and advocating on issues from lowering prescription drug prices to defending veterans to holding Wall Street accountable, Sen. Tammy Baldwin has always put the people of her home state first. One issue stands out right now as the top reason to keep her in the U.S. Senate. In the high-stakes battles over health care of the past decade, she’s been a strong advocate for health care for all. Her defense of people with preexisting conditions and making sure everyone has high-quality health care is strong. She knows these issues from personal experience as a 9-year-old child who had to be hospitalized for an extensive period of time and as a caregiver to her aging grandparents who raised her. It’s clear in listening to Baldwin that she has a lot of enthusiasm and passion for continuing to stand strong against anyone who tries to undermine our health care. Given that the majority of Wisconsinites support affordable health care, it’s hard to believe that her opponent, State Sen. Leah Vukmir, has cast so many votes siding with insurance companies against people with pre-existing conditions such as hearing loss, autism and cancer. Vukmir sides with insurance companies and tries to cover up her position by implying that, because she was once a nurse, she would protect health care for everyone. Her voting record shows the truth: She has not. Unlike Vukmir—whose own Republican colleagues gave her the nickname “Nurse Ratched” from Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Baldwin is liked by politicians on both sides of the aisle. She’s worked on 10 bills that have been signed by Trump, who appreciates her support for Buy American. She’s also worked with Republican Senators Marco Rubio, the late John McCain and Susan Collins, among others. Baldwin is willing to listen to anyone and to work across the aisle when it helps Wisconsinites, and she’ll always side with Wisconsin, even if it means taking on some of the most powerful special interests.
Josh Kaul for Wisconsin Attorney General
In former federal prosecutor Josh Kaul, our state has the incredible opportunity to hire an attorney general so qualified, talented and experienced that, even with bigger races at the top of the statewide ballot, Kaul should have your full consideration. After which, he is bound to earn your enthusiastic vote, no matter what your political party. The differences between the approach favored by Kaul and his partisan opponent, Brad Schimel, could not be more striking. Kaul would be the people’s attorney general. He wants the very best for his fellow Wisconsinites. At the same time, his history as a federal prosecutor has shown that he will hold people accountable for their actions no matter who they are or how much money they have. In contrast, Schimel jets around the country, rubbing elbows at fancy Mar-ALago with Donald Trump bedfellows, National Rifle Association (NRA) executives and Big Pharma lobbyists. Schimel even spoke at a conference held by the homophobic Alliance Defending Freedom, which is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. He tried to hide his participation, but after his attendance was uncovered, he claimed it was a personal trip. However, at the conJosh Kaul ference he spoke in his capacity as Wisconsin’s attorney general and used taxpayer money to bring one of his top attorneys with him to the gathering of anti-LGBTQ, rightwing extremists. With actions like that, how can he claim to be fair and objective? That alone is enough to disqualify him from our state’s top-cop job. Schimel’s first term included spearheading a lawsuit to kill the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—even though it protects the health of Wisconsinites, especially the estimated 2.4 million of us with pre-existing conditions. He wants to arm teachers, putting guns in classrooms because he is beholden to his big donor, the NRA. And, in pursuit of this rightwing, out-of-touch agenda, he has ignored the basics of his job: testing rape kits, DNA and other vital evidence needed to keep Wisconsin residents safe and criminals off our streets. Furthermore, Schimel botched the Lincoln Hills juvenile corrections probe, lets polluters off the hook and, believe it or not, spent $83,000 of taxpayer dollars on self-promoting swag including golden coins and custom fortune cookies. These are certainly all good reasons to vote against the biased, extremist and partisan Schimel. On the positive side, there are even more reasons that Kaul would make a stellar top cop for our state. Kaul is thoughtful, dedicated to his work, incredibly intelligent and has a reputation as a tough and fair prosecutor. He emphasizes the need to get justice for survivors of sexual assault and other crimes. And, unlike the incumbent, he believes in enforcing the laws that protect us against consumer fraud and laws that defend Wisconsin’s natural resources. After working closely with law enforcement to clean up the streets in Baltimore, one of the country’s roughest cities, he returned to his home state of Wisconsin to defend the cornerstone of democracy that has been under assault in Wisconsin and across the country: our right to vote. He’s also the son of the late former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, so he’s been cultivating his legal acumen and his love of our state all his life. A vote for Kaul is a vote for principle, talent and an attorney focused on defending the law and the people of Wisconsin. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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SMART ONLINE SHOPPING Dear Kim, With the risk of fraud when online shopping, I want to make sure I’m being smart. What’s better to use, my debit or credit card? Should I close credit cards I no longer use?
-Smart Shopper Dear Smart Shopper, I’m a big online shopper. I love the convenience. I like to shop at companies I know about and I make sure I see the lock sign in the address bar verifying it is a secured payment site. As a reminder, your card can be compromised by using it in person, too, as many merchants store your card information. There certainly have been a lot of merchant breaches of wellknown retailers over the years. The unfortunate reality is that merchants are not liable for your lost data, and that can mean less care in protecting it. When someone hacks a merchant site and obtains your credit card information, you and the financial institution that issued the card do the work of reporting fraudulent transactions. In my role as the CEO of one of the SHEPHERD EXPRESS
largest consumer-owned financial institutions in Wisconsin, I testified in front of a subcommittee, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the House of Representatives, stating that businesses that hold consumer data are not being held to high enough security standards. Higher cyber security standards for merchants would be a step in the right direction. When ordering online, you are often asked if you want to store your credit card for that site. Never say yes to that. Once a charge is determined to be fraud, the card issuer absorbs the fraud on your card, not you. Generally, card issuers have systems and processes in place to reduce the occurrence of fraud on accounts, but no system is foolproof. Card issuers use algorithms to identify potential fraud. You may get a call or text when you are shopping asking if it is you using your card. You might get blocked from unusual purchases. While these are frustrating and inconvenient situations, it is the only way for card issuers to try to rein in fraud. It is important to notify us when you are traveling, and you can do that online! Using Summit’s mobile app or online banking to check balances and transactions regularly helps you quickly catch any unexplained activity on your account. And, now, Summit Credit Union members with an Amazon Alexa can check their Summit accounts with voice banking. We are one of the first credit unions in the country to offer this, and we’re excited about the ease and security it provides our members. To your second question: closing credit cards that you don’t use, I think, is generally good practice. Having two to four credit cards total where you do not charge up to the maximum amount seems to have a positive impact on credit scores, and I recommend this practice. Here are some things to keep in mind: • All the merchant offers to get their credit card to save
money can add too many cards to keep track of and also can lower your overall credit score. • The longer you have a card, the better the impact on your credit rating. So, if you are looking to close a card, you may want to close one you have not had for a long time. • Calculations by credit rating services are complex and protected. While we know some ways that credit ratings can be impacted positively or negatively, and we help members with that every day at Summit, how much impact any one aspect will have on your own credit score will vary by your own credit history. • Cutting up a card does not cancel it. You will need to contact the issuer at the number on your card to start the process. Happy safe shopping!
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NEWS&VIEWS::ENDORSEMENTS Gwen Moore for U.S. House of Representatives
Congresswoman Gwen Moore is a proven fighter for Milwaukee, especially the underrepresented groups Republicans regularly ignore and demean. Her Fourth Congressional District includes distressed areas hit hardest by Republican policies that threaten communities of color, seniors, veterans, students, the poor, the LGBTQ community, women and veterans. Her vocal advocacy is even more important under the terrifying partnership of Walker and Trump, who have worked together to benefit the wealthy and corporations while disenfranchising everyone else in Wisconsin. Congress would benefit immensely from more tireless fighters like Moore, who will always stand up for the underdog. Milwaukee should continue to do its part by enthusiastically sending Moore back to Washington, D.C., to fight for our communities.
Tom Palzewicz for U.S. House of Representatives
Tom Palzewicz
Navy veteran and small-business owner Tom Palzewicz is taking on 40-year career politician James Sensenbrenner to bring bipartisanship and a focus on equality back to the Fifth Congressional District. We endorse Palzewicz for his proven ability to create jobs, along with his beliefs that healthcare is a right, and public education is the most important path to opportunity. A hunter and former NRA member (back when the group focused on firearms training and safety), he now fearlessly stands up to the NRA, insurance companies, polluters and politicians who have neglected our state’s roads and other infrastructure.
Dan Kohl for U.S. House of Representatives
This third-generation Wisconsinite grew up and raised his family in the Sixth Congressional District, where he has been extremely active in civic groups to make life better for Wisconsinites. The former assistant general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks knows business and finance. Kohl’s overarching goal in running for Congress is to pull politics back from the extremes. That’s in opposition to his opponent, right-wing extremist Rep. Glenn Grothman, who panders to Trump and votes with him 94% of the time. We join Vice President Joe Biden in endorsing Kohl, who will focus on protecting Medicare and Social Security and bringing down skyrocketing prescription drug costs.
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Randy Bryce for U.S. House of Representatives With House Speaker Paul Ryan retiring, the First Congressional District has a timely opportunity to reject the divisive, hate-fueled politics of the Republican majority in both Congress and the White House. Time and time again, Ryan has timidly enabled Trump and fought to take health care away from millions of people, embarrassing and betraying Wisconsin. Furthermore, the last thing Congress needs is some like Bryce’s opponent. Bryan Steil got the Republican nomination because of his father’s connections as a prominent Republican lawyer who served as Tommy Thompson’s personal lawyer and whose law firm benefitted from millions of dollars from a massive tobacco settlement. These connections also got him a position as a staffer for Paul Ryan. Now Steil is running to replace him. By contrast, iron worker Randy Bryce—or, as voters have come to know him, “Iron ’Stache”—is true Wisconsin. Like most of us in the Badger State, he didn’t have a father to open all the important doors for him. Bryce had to do it all on his own and learn from his mistakes—and he did make mistakes. Having learned and grown, he now offers a new and dramatically under-represented voice of the blue-collar worker in a Congress largely composed of wealthy lawyers such as his opponent. Throughout the campaign, Bryce has fought for the little guy, stood up to the wealthy special interests and shown the spirit of independence and forward thinking that used to set Wisconsin apart as a leader in our nation on civil rights, worker representation and advocating for the middle class. We strongly endorse sending Bryce to Congress to shake up the millionaires’ club that currently has a stranglehold on Congress.
Sarah Godlewski for Wisconsin State Treasurer
The Wisconsin State Treasurer’s office was designed as the fiscal watchdog to monitor and sustain our state’s financial well-being. The office works as a check and balance on the rest of state government, much like a company’s chief financial officer. If a private business tried to get rid of its CFO, as the Republicans tried and failed to do, investors would not go near that company as it’s a major warning sign of fraud and abuse. Last spring, when the question of whether Wisconsin should get rid of the office was on the ballot, 62% of Wisconsin voters said no, we want a fiscal watchdog. Sarah Godlewski Sarah Godlewski, 36, worked hard to save the office, even getting invited to attend a national nonpartisan gathering of state treasurers because no one would come from Wisconsin. Convinced of the good the office can do, she decided to run for treasurer. “It’s an independently elected officer that is empowered by the people to do the right thing,” says Godlewski. “For eight years now, the office has been run by people who don’t want it to exist. It’s like having the fox watching the hen house.” Godlewski, an Eau Claire native, is well prepared for this job. She owns an investment business focused on socially responsible investing, worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as a watchdog that saved taxpayers millions of dollars and co-chairs UNICEF USA’s Advocacy Leadership Group. She’s thoughtfully researched all the ways a state treasurer can make lives easier for Wisconsinites and help the fiscal health of our state. For example, Godlewski sees the many small banks that shut down over the past three decades as harmful to entrepreneurs, farmers and small businesspeople in both rural and urban areas who used to know their lenders personally. In Rhode Island, the state treasurer partnered with credit unions to revive local lending. In Massachusetts, the treasurer does equal pay work that actually shrunk the gap. The office also teaches citizens economic empowerment, offering classes and tools to raise financial literacy and getting people through the financial side of such life changes as job loss, divorce, losing a partner and college graduation. In Illinois, the state treasurer cancelled transactions with Wells Fargo over its financial improprieties. Godlewski would also like to see the office working in partnership with the private sector to refinance their student loan debt at significantly lower rates. She cites this idea as a potential tool to stop Wisconsin’s brain drain of recent graduates. When Gov. Walker and Republicans moved to get rid of the state treasurer, Godlewski correctly labeled it a power grab. The office should have been able to help identify financial mistakes the state made on everything from rejecting the Medicaid expansion monies to the risky Foxconn payout. “When 62% of the public voted to save this office, I saw what it could do and decided to step up and run for it,” she says. “These are tasks I’ve been doing my whole career—from looking to save taxpayers money at the Department of Defense to starting a socially responsible investing firm. I’m sick of Wisconsin not being a leader, and if your state isn’t financially healthy, your state isn’t healthy.” Endorsements continued on next page > SHEPHERD EXPRESS
NEWS&VIEWS::ENDORSEMENTS Godlewski’s opponent voted to eliminate the office and is focused on issues such as abortion that have no bearing on the state treasurer’s job. In contrast, she’s attracted such Republican support as former State Treasurer Jack Voight and political veteran Bill Kraus, who was campaign manager for former Republican governor Lee Dreyfus. Godlewski will make a wise financial watchdog and creatively empower the office of state treasurer to serve financial needs and address the financial issues of the citizens of Wisconsin. That’s why we strongly endorse Sarah Godlewski for state treasurer of Wisconsin.
Julie Henszey for State Senate
If you live in the Fifth State Senate District (which includes Brookfield, Elm Grove, Wauwatosa, West Allis, the northern part of New Berlin and far western Milwaukee), your vote for Julie Henszey is key to flipping the State Senate to Democratic control and providing some checks and balances. But, that is far from the only reason to cast that vote enthusiastically. Henszey believes health care is a right, and she is adamant about protecting Wisconsinites against discrimination due to pre-existing conditions. She is a strong supporter of our public schools and, living in the district of the Zoo Interchange, she has seen just how badly Republicans in our state have neglected our infrastructure. That’s something she would not do. Also running for this open seat is Rep. Dale Kooyenga, who likes to believe that he is above the law. He caused a $30,000 kerfuffle by stealing a sign he didn’t agree with in the Capitol in Madison, even though the sign had the approval document from the Capitol Police attached to it, Julie Henszey and then blamed others instead of taking personal responsibility. He lied and changed his story several times and was eventually fined $30,000 for theft with no jail time. He then tried to have Wisconsin taxpayers pay for his fine! He also appeared drunk on the State Assembly floor in a separate incident he denies. Another belief at Henszey’s core, which will make her an asset to the State Senate as a whole, is teamwork. She’s a political newcomer who bravely stepped forward to run after being sickened by the scorched-earth politics of Trump and his followers like Gov. Scott Walker and her opponent, Kooyenga. Her record of success at working together comes from leading teams outside politics. She runs her own business as an executive coach and wilderness guide who leads annual trips to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. There is some very rough and wild terrain, and she knows surviving it requires working together in sometimes tense situations. Henszey will bring that life skill to the State Senate, too. She sums it up like this: “In the Grand Canyon, I create a space where trust can develop, and people can make decisions together. Then you can deal with tension that comes up.” Smart, down-to-earth and pleasant, Henszey will make a valuable contribution to the State Senate in helping to get that body’s Democrats and Republicans working as a team trying to create more opportunities for all Wisconsinites.
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NEWS&VIEWS::ENDORSEMENTS Doug La Follette for Secretary of State
Secretary of State Douglas J. La Follette has brought transparency and honesty to Wisconsin government for many years, diligently serving the people of Wisconsin without seeking the spotlight. We endorse La Follette for not only his commitment to public service, but also for his love for Wisconsin’s natural environment and his tough, principled stand against the Republican establishment as it rammed through Act 10.
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Chris Larson for State Senate
Our respect for State Sen. Chris Larson has grown throughout his years in public service from the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors to becoming among the youngest Democratic Senate leaders to serve in 2013. The Shepherd Express also supported Chris Larson when he ran for Milwaukee County Executive against Chris Abele in 2016. Larson won the primary and eventually lost to Chris Abele in the general election after Abele put more than $4 million of his family’s money into negative and untruthful ads. The Shepherd gives its enthusiastic support to Larson for reelection to State Senate District Seven as a champion for public schools, equality, job creation and health care for all Wisconsinites.
Robyn Vining for State Assembly
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In the 14th Assembly District, which includes portions of Wauwatosa, Brookfield and Waukesha, Robyn Vining made such an impression on her Democratic primary opponent that he withdrew from the race to enthusiastically endorse her; she made a great impression on us, too. From her civic work against gun violence and child sex trafficking to her innovative professional work as a pastorturned-entrepreneur, she serves and empowers others. In that vein, she was a founding member of Help Portrait Milwaukee—an initiative that served some of our cities’ most vulnerable citizens. We urge a vote for Vining so that this district will once again be represented with integrity by someone who puts people first.
Liz Sumner for State Assembly
Small-business owner Liz Sumner knows her community well. A native of Milwaukee, she serves as a trustee on the Fox Point Village Board and believes in local control. A concept her Republican opponent, Rep. Jim Ott, has abandoned as he votes with Republicans nearly 100% of the time when they pass state laws that override local ordinances. Liz Sumner believes strongly in working across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions. She is running to bring her business acumen and willingness to work with all her colleagues to help residents of the 23rd Assembly District. We endorse Sumner for her commitment to public education, health care for all Wisconsinites, and her focus on a new generation of leadership in the State Capitol.
JoCasta Zamarripa for State Assembly
We strongly endorse Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, a passionate voice for the community where she was born, raised and has represented in the State Assembly since 2011. Zamarripa is a perfect fit for the Eighth Assembly District, which has the highest Latinx population in Wisconsin. She is driven by a commitment to equality and opportunity for all. We also admire that Zamarripa is dedicated to increasing voter turnout, strong public schools and representing the LGBTQ community.
Vote “Yes” on the Cannabis (Marijuana) Referendum If you live in Milwaukee County, the cities of Racine or Waukesha, or in 15 other counties, not only will Election Day give you an opportunity to change the direction of our state and begin to move it forward again, but it will also give you a chance to express your opinion on whether Wisconsin should legalize medical marijuana or even recreational marijuana. It is advisory since Wisconsin doesn’t have binding referendums, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important. A strong vote will let legislators know that their constituents are serious and want Wisconsin to move into the 21st century. Assuming a positive vote on the referendum, legislation will then have to be drafted and introduced, and there will be more opportunities to provide input and to help shape the legislation. Cannabis (marijuana) has gone mainstream, and residents in 31 states have legal access to cannabis in some form—either medical alone, or both medical and recreational. After Tuesday, Nov. 6, if the polls are accurate, voters in Michigan, Missouri and Utah will join those 31 states with legal cannabis. States like Colorado and Washington have been the leaders in this movement, and all the fears promulgated by the right have not come to be. Research in those states has shown, for example, that auto accidents did not increase nor did the other scare tactic predictions come to be. What has happened, however, is that people with PTSD, epilepsy, asthma and nausea from cancer and other medications can now find relief due to cannabis. In some states where marijuana was legalized, nonviolent individuals incarcerated for simple marijuana use have been released from prison, saving hundreds of millions of dollars that can be used to lower taxes or provide more resources for education and roads. Furthermore, legal medical marijuana is regulated for purity and strength. Also, legal marijuana is taxed, thus bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars that, again, can either lower you taxes or provide more resources for education and roads. Gov. Walker has aggressively opposed legalization of cannabis—including medical marijuana—because he feels it would hurt his chances in some of the Republican primaries throughout the country in 2020; yes, according to some of his close friends, Walker is definitely planning to run again for president if he wins re-election. Along with providing a strong vote for legalization of cannabis on Tuesday, Nov. 6, it is important to vote for Tony Evers and Josh Kaul who will listen to the voters on the issues of marijuana. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n
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::SAVINGOURDEMOCRACY ( NOV. 1 - NOV. 7, 2018 ) The Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump administration, as well as others who seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking-discussion get-togethers and any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.
Thursday, Nov. 1
Canvass and Phone Bank for Democrats @ Tom Palzewicz Campaign Headquarters (12201 W. Burleigh St., Suite 7), 4-8 p.m.
Tom Palzewicz, Julie Henszey and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin will host a weekly canvass and phone bank every Thursday from 4-8 p.m. until the Tuesday, Nov. 6, election. Volunteer opportunities include canvassing, phone banking and more.
Friday, Nov. 2
The Milwaukee Model: Artist-Led Panels and Discussion @ Milwaukee Art Museum (700 N. Art Museum Drive), 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
At this event, there will be three artist-led panel discussions, which will also include educators, scholars and students, focusing on how the arts can advance criminal justice reform. Artists include Maria Gaspar, Nigel Poor and Sable Elyse Smith. Register at mam.org/mkemodel.
Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of Capitol Drive and Oakland Avenue, noon-1 p.m. Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action Wisconsin to protest war and, literally, “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterward.
Tuesday, Nov. 6
Election Night Party @ Riverwest Public House Cooperative (815 E. Locust St.), 7 p.m.-close
Whether it is to celebrate or drown your sorrows, one of Milwaukee’s most famous progressive watering holes, Riverwest Public House, will have special drink deals while showing coverage of the election results.
Wednesday, Nov. 7
Milwaukee Youth in Crisis: The State of Youth Homelessness @ The Pfister Hotel (424 E. Wisconsin Ave.), 7-9 a.m.
Pathfinders, a nonprofit organization that works with youth in crisis, will host a discussion about why youth homelessness remains largely invisible, what the risk factors are and what the organization is doing to serve vulnerable youth.
Popular Feminisms Roundtable @ UW-Milwaukee Curtin Hall (3243 N. Downer Ave.), 3:30-5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 3
This roundtable discussion, moderated by UWM journalism, advertising and media studies associate professor Elana Levine, will address how we identify and define feminism in 21stcentury Western culture. The roundtable features Kristen Warner of the University of Alabama and Jessalynn Keller of the University of Calgary, Ontario, Canada.
Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America’s Socialist Feminist Working Group will host a brunch for “woman-identifying/genderqueer/non-dude comrades” to meet like-minded individuals and brainstorm ideas to further the group’s cause.
To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com. Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that Donald Trump and others of his kind have planned for our great country. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n
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n the brink of one of the most important midterm elections in our lives, a major emphasis is on Democrats and independents desperate to restore a system of checks and balances and some common decency to our national and state politics. But there’s another group with just as much interest in halting the appalling deterioration of our politics over the past two years. They’ve been publicly silent for so long many people aren’t even sure they exist anymore. I’m talking about honest, decent Republicans. We’ll know they exist if they join Democrats and independents in voting against the vile corruption of their own party under Donald Trump and his enablers on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Here’s why they should do so. If they want to stop their party’s nightmarish descent into murderous racial, religious and partisan hatred. A madman mails homemade bombs to Trump’s personal enemies list, including former Democratic presidents, Trump’s Democratic opponent, other leading Democratic and African American politicians and wealthy Jewish philanthropists. That’s followed by the worst anti-Semitic synagogue massacre in American history. Even as Trump denies responsibility for political violence, he can’t stop spreading hatred and outrageous lies against the bomber’s targets. Rational Republicans should vote to support democracy for all Americans, including Democrats. If they need affordable health coverage for pre-existing conditions. Republican Gov. Scott Walker claims if Wisconsin succeeds in destroying health coverage for pre-existing conditions, he’ll pass a state law to cover them again. So, why destroy those protections? Every state law Republicans propose would allow insurance companies to charge much higher rates for pre-existing conditions and cancel policies for sick people who cost those companies too much money. The federal lawsuit Republican Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is leading in Texas specifically seeks to end coverage of pre-existing conditions. The best way to assure coverage for pre-existing conditions is to remove Republicans from office who are trying to destroy those protections. If they want to protect Social Security and Medicare. The most dangerous threat to Social Security and Medicare is Republicans. Democrats created Social Security in the 1930s and Medicare in the 1960s to protect all Americans from poverty as they age. Republicans have fought both programs ever since. Republican Senate Majority
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Leader Mitch McConnell warns that, if Republicans control Congress after the election, they’ll slash both programs to pay for the $1.5 trillion Republican tax cut that went overwhelmingly to wealthy corporations, billionaires and millionaires. It’s a strong argument to prevent Republicans from ever again controlling both houses of Congress. If they’re fiscal conservatives appalled that Walker rejected $1.1 billion in federal funds to provide health care for Wisconsinites who desperately need it. Instead, Walker charges state taxpayers $200 million a year more to cover fewer people. It takes a special contempt for the poor, including many white people in dying small towns who voted for Trump, to refuse a billion dollars to expand Medicaid for the poor and disabled. That’s not conservatism, it’s class hatred. If they’re women disturbed that their freedom to make their own decision about reproduction isn’t respected by any Republican legislators, male or female. Women also deserve health insurance for the same cost as men. They deserve funding for Planned Parenthood clinics providing women’s health services, cancer screenings and access to birth control to make abortion largely unnecessary and compassion instead of contempt when they’re victims of sexual assault. If they’re constantly embarrassed by the stream of pathological lies coming out of Trump’s mouth. The current tally by The Washington Post is an average of nearly eight lies or misleading statements every single day since Trump’s been president. Voters have to be fools to believe much of anything he says. Most of all, if they’re Republicans who want to stop their party from destroying itself by relying on despicable racists to win elections. It’s really not hard for a political party to rid itself of repugnant racists. All the Democratic Party had to do half-a-century ago was fully embrace civil rights and voting rights for all Americans. That’s when racist Southern Democrats fled the party and became racist Southern Republicans. Democrats continued to be successful nationally after Richard Nixon created the racist Republican “Southern Strategy” to win two elections before resigning ahead of impeachment. Democrats have won five presidential elections since, and Republicans six. Even the South is finally changing. Democratic civil rights attorney Doug Jones won an Alabama U.S. Senate seat last year, and African American Democratic gubernatorial candidates are running strong races this year in Georgia and Florida. The sooner Republicans drive the racists out of their party that Trump intentionally attracts— including David Duke’s KKK and neo-Nazi antiSemites chanting “Jews will not replace us!”— the sooner they can start rebuilding their party around honest conservative principles instead of hate. Bigots, mad bombers and mass murderers can then crawl back under their rocks. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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s a child in the late 1960s, Brenda Coley remembers being in the attic of her grandmother’s house, feeling the footsteps of marchers as they walked through the streets of Milwaukee demanding justice. Living in Milwaukee during the civil uprisings shaped Coley’s thinking and influenced her life’s work as an activist and community advocate. “You’re formed by what’s happening in your environment,” says Coley. She has always had a way of understanding people from differing backgrounds, and she goes on to say that she has spent much of her life explaining one group of people to another. Coley’s drive comes from the many eye-opening experiences throughout her life. For a time, Coley was one of five women out of 800 employees, which made her aware of issues involving gender. Later, she moved on to work in HIV research in the ’80s while taking care of her brother when he was diagnosed with HIV. She experienced first-hand how the gay community was shunned by the general public, fueling her passion to speak for people identifying as LGBTQ. Coley was never one to sit back and accept the inequality that is ever-present in our country; she has always been one to speak loudly and get her hands dirty. Her community work and reputation eventually led her to her current role as the coexecutive director of Milwaukee Water Commons (MWC). “What we’re about is connecting the community to water,” states Coley. “We want to engage and educate people about being stewards of water.” The organization achieves that goal by reaching out to all races and ethnicities, then asking those communities what being a “global water city” means to them. MWC has created a community inspired Water City Agenda with six initiatives and gets people involved through cultural events, art and education. According to Coley, “Every culture has a water story, and one has to understand that story in order to re-engage people who have been disengaged from water.” The Mississippi River, for instance, was a pathway of freedom for African American slaves along the Underground Railroad. By using water as the vehicle to engage the community—and by believing that “water belongs to no one and everyone”—the organization can address some of the problems we face in Milwaukee. So, how can everyday people of the Milwaukee community help address segregation? Brenda Coley has a few thoughts. Follow the examples put out by the leaders in the civil rights movement, who pushed for change on an individual level and on a systemic level. Go into an unfamiliar neighborhood with the intention of integrating and discover what that neighborhood has to offer. On a systemic level: vote, write to your congressperson and attend city council meetings. But whatever you do, says Coley, don’t just talk about the problem, because that’s not enough. You need to act. For more of Erin Bloodgood’s work and to find ways to get involved, visit bloodgoodfoto.com. Comment at shepherdexpress. com.
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with techniques unique to each of their preparation and presentation. Take, for instance, the Ruffled Feathers—smoked duck fat (duck fat seems to make an appearance on quite a few dishes), washed rye whiskey, egg whites and blackstrap bitters. I have a fondness for a “smoky-flavored” cocktail, and this one was over the top. The Eastside Wild Turkey cocktail included pecan-infused wild turkey bourbon, and the Fallen Cadillac is made with brown butter-washed Plantation pineapple rum. Among other ingredients in their long list of cocktails are Cinchona bark and lemon grass taking the place of tonic, a grilled pineapple syrup and acidified grapefruit. A cocktail called Love for Sale is made with butternut squash and a whole egg. The dinner menu includes the usual salad and a soup du jour, but the line-up of starters ($8-$22) is so impressive we had to come back on a second occasion just to ::BY ALISA MALAVENDA get to the entrée portion of the menu! Starters included a Crispy Pig Ear with Carolina gold aioli, a grilled octopus dish that had a pairing of pickled apple and a warm riginal, as in unusual, not a copy or an imitation. As The Origi- ’nduja (a spicy pork sausage made with Calabrian peppers) vinaigrette. The octopus nal passes its one-year mark, it continues to create superb was charred and tender, and the acid from the apple and onion balanced out the food and unique craft cocktail pairings synonymous richness. The cheese and charcuterie had a few special additions on a recent night, with its name. which included pork belly rillettes and seafood mousse, as well as house-pickled The Original’s concept of pairings is both thoughtful veggies served up in a small mason jar—all paired well with the cheese and meat and creative. If you are one of those diners that thinks selection ($20). The brussels sprouts were studded with sweet dried apricots, Sriraabout what you will drink based on what you eat, and cha cider vinaigrette and the earthy flavor of Dunbarton blue cheese ($9). vice versa, you will love how effortlessly this menu comes The enticing entrées are paired with creative sides, along with fitting cocktail, together and helps make those sometimes-difficult decibeer or wine suggestions to bring all the flavors together like a symphony. The sions a dream. The menu alone had me enamored with bone-in porkchop ($30) with sauerkraut cake was a supremely satisfying dish, and this restaurant, but the atmosphere is a plus. The historic it replaced the pork belly dish that paired with the ruffled feather cocktail on my 1800s building has warm lighting from the sparkle of the first visit. At first, the braised chicken seems like a standard dish, but when paired chandeliers over our booth, an art deco bar with the bacon-braised collards, parsnip puree and pan jus and a casual neighborhood vibe. And, yes, that laced with duck fat “slicks” ($18), it rose close to the top of their menu: It can rival any “upscale” restaurant in the city. The Originoteworthy dishes. Other selections included a seasonal marThe Original nal’s contemporary take on American cuisine appeals to both ket catch (it was trout that evening), lamb loin ($34), New York timid and sophisticated palates. 2498 N. Bartlett Ave. strip ($42), a vegetarian mushroom ragout over crispy polenta The drink menu includes wines by the glass and bottle, ($18) and a scallop dish served with a Johnnycake and hot 414-763-4811 sparkling by the split, an extensive spirits list, and the beer smoked maple syrup ($28). $$$ in both tap and bottle has a decent selection without being The Original serves brunch on Saturday and Sunday, featurCC, FB, SB, RS, GF overly complicated. The cocktail menu is stellar, with all the ing house doughnuts that are a must ($6) and brunch items Handicap classics from margaritas to a hot toddy ($8-$12). The menu for ($11-$18) as creatively prepared as the dinner menu, offering The Original’s own cocktails ($10) reads like a musical stanza, Accessible: Yes nostalgic American cuisine in the most “Original” way.
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Garfield’s 502 (502 W. Garfield Ave.) bills itself as “What a neighborhood bar should be,” and, sure enough, you’ll find patrons gathered at the bar watching football on TV. The menu offers a tavern grill take on sandwiches and a few soul food favorites. Catfish comes in long, flat, cornmeal-fried filets with crinkle-cut French fries (a salad may be substituted) and a slice of white bread—quite similar to meals served at inner-city seafood take-out places. The fish is fine, but the creamy coleslaw, with large shreds of white and red cabbage, carrots and spinach, stands out so much that it’s a shame the serving isn’t larger. Worth a return trip is the Jewel Burger: A beef patty complemented by lettuce, tomato, onion, bacon and avocado. Garfield’s 502 is an anchor of the annual Garfield Avenue Blues, Jazz, Gospel & Arts Festival and hosts community fundraising events.
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aleri Lucks knows a thing or two about pie. She’s been crafting the delectable treats for years as proprietor and chief executive pie maker at Honeypie, Palomino and PieGram, an offshoot of Honeypie that bakes small-batch mini-pies to be shipped as gifts. Lucks has now fulfilled a long-time vision for a new establishment— SmallPie (2504 E. Oklahoma Ave.)—a counter-service bakery and café, featuring small hand pies, along with breakfast, lunch and dinner fare. “I had the idea for SmallPie at the back of my brain for a long time,” she said. “I always wanted to grow my business, but I didn’t want to duplicate Honeypie or Palomino all over the place.” For 14 years, Lucks was in business with her brother, Adam. The siblings were original co-founders of Comet Café, along with Leslie Montemurro and Scott Johnson. This past year, Adam decided to go in a different direction and focus on woodworking. Lucks brought in her long-time baker, Meagan Lewinski, to help develop SmallPie. “Meagan’s been there since we developed Comet, and she came up through the ranks. We’ve had great chefs and bakers that grew with us, and we have a great team,” Lucks said.
The menu has a nice selection of sweetand-savory, scratch-made hand pies, quiches, bagels, sandwiches, salads, sweet breads, cookies and brownies. Most items listed on the menu are less than $10. You can even get a scoop of Amazing Ice Cream Company’s ice cream (available in four flavors) for $3 per scoop. Also unique is the pasty: A folded pastry with fillings that originated in Cornwall, U.K. Lucks said the pasties were always on the menu at Honeypie and had been well received, so she added those to SmallPie’s offerings. Lewinski has also been developing breads and making focaccias for a daily melt. “It’s kind of a mash-up of what Meagan and I have been passionate about and have been making over the years,” Lucks said. The drinks menu is Wisconsin-friendly, featuring Anodyne and Pilcrow coffee, Rishi tea and Sprecher and Wisco Pop sodas. Customers can also choose from a selection of craft beers, wine and a small but eclectic list of specialty cocktails. Lucks said the beverage menu was compiled for easy drinking on an afternoon or evening. For the upcoming autumn and winter seasons, Lucks will add soups and pot pies. She will also fine-tune the menu as they learn more about what the neighborhood wants. SmallPie is located in a vintage building that was once Al’s Triangle gas station and, later, Tri-Mart and Bud E.’s Filling Station. The building sat shuttered for many years, and when Lucks heard that developer Scott Genke bought the building, she called him and asked if she could have it. The building was remodeled with a new garage door that opens onto a spacious patio. Adam did the build out, using his woodworking skills for the cabinetry, tables and finish work. “That pocket of Bay View was mostly residential but empty of food businesses,” Lucks remarked. “It’s been fun, and everyone is so excited about that building because a lot of neighborhood residents remember its history. I was so glad we were able to take the building and make it useful again.” For more information, visit smallpiemke. com.
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ashed Potatoes and Gravy was the one Thanksgiving dish that I would have seconds of, if not thirds. It wasn’t until I cut out dairy from my diet that I realized that mashed potatoes always have a generous amount of cream, butter and milk. So disappointing! Luckily, these fluffy, buttery, smooth potatoes are dairy free! In fact, they only use 3 ingredients and 30 minutes to make! They’re delicious on their own but the gravy should never be forgotten! It’s super creamy, thick, savory and delicious. Enjoy everyone! For more vegan Thanksgiving recipes, visit bunnysbite.com
MASHED POTATOES INGREDIENTS: • 3 large russet potatoes, peeled and cut in half lengthwise • 1/2 cup unsweetened non dairy milk • 1/4 cup vegan butter • salt and pepper to taste MUSHROOM HERB GRAVY INGREDIENTS: • 2 tbsp olive oil • 4 garlic cloves, peeled and minced • 8 oz package of cremini mushrooms • 2 tbsp fresh rosemary, finely chopped • 8 fresh sage leaves, finely chopped • 1 tbsp onion powder • 1/2 cup all purpose flour (use glutenfree flour if necessary) • 1 cup unsweetened non dairy milk • 1/2 cup low-sodium vegetable broth • Salt and pepper to taste MASHED POTATOES INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Place the potatoes into a large pot, and cover with salted water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until tender, 20
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Performances are at Inspiration Studios in West Allis—a striking, church-like, former funeral home built in 1930 that is now home to the Village Playhouse. March 2019 will mark the fifth anniversary of Inspiration Studios’ opening, so this season is also notable in that respect. The group was homeless and transient after the school in Wauwatosa that had housed them for years was unexpectedly torn down. Artist and board member Erico Ortiz bought the building at 1500 S. 73rd St. especially for them in 2013. The ground floor holds a homemade, 50-seat theater and an art gallery. The second floor has a collection of artist studios and space for Ortiz’ own paintings. The basement provides storage for Village Playhouse sets, props and costumes. The performance space is also rented to other theatre, music and dance artists for performances. Inspiration Studios has become the arts center of West Allis.
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THEATER GROUP OPENS ITS SEASON WITH THE MYSTERY-SUSPENSE OF ‘NIGHT WATCH’ ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER illage Playhouse continues its 40th-anniversary season celebration with a production of Lucille Fletcher’s 1972 suspense mystery Night Watch. The well-regarded community theater (formerly known as the Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa) staged this play for the first time during its premiere 1978-’79 season. “It’s a little bit dated,” says director Larry Beckley, “but since we’re doing it as a period piece, we’re kind of playing on the ’70s nostalgia to celebrate the anniversary.” Fletcher is best known as the playwright of Sorry, Wrong Number. Night Watch began Off-Broadway and had a successful Broadway run but is better remembered as a 1973 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor played the protagonist Elaine Wheeler. Unable to sleep one night and gazing out the bedroom window of the Manhattan townhouse she shares with her husband, Elaine is certain she sees the murdered body of a man through the next-door window. The police find only an empty chair. Things worsen when Elaine later sees the body of a murdered woman there. The police ignore her. Arguing that her visions are signs of a nervous breakdown, her husband and the female psychiatrist he enlists push Elaine to commit herself to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. So, what is really going here? “We’re looking to build this as a character play,” Beckley says. “Elaine is on stage for all but nine or 10 minutes. She’s got most of the lines. You could almost describe it as a one-woman show with other people. The central question is, is Elaine crazy? Did the murders happen or not? Or, did they happen and is she still crazy? But, we want the audience to care about all of the nine characters. There’s no detective that comes in to solve the mystery. We leave that to the audience. We’re throwing in some red herrings here, some dead ends there, trying to emphasize the suspense while we build up the characters, trying to show their emotional states so that, as the mystery deepens, and we reach the conclusion, the audience will say ‘Wow!’ We want to get a wow out of the audience.” Jackie Benka will play Elaine. Mark Wyss will play her husband.
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“Just before we opened the space,” Ortiz recalls, “the phone rang, and the voice says, ‘This is Dan Divine, the mayor of West Allis. I just want to welcome you. I heard about what you’re doing, and I’m so thrilled you chose our city to do this in.’ He talked for, like, 40 minutes. He’s been here many, many times with his wife and friends. He so much wants the city to have the arts.” Ortiz, a native of Puerto Rico, taught Spanish at Riverside University High School in Milwaukee. Because of his strong background in the arts, he was appointed by Milwaukee Public Schools to create Lincoln Middle School of the Arts. He opened the school and was its supervisor in 1990-’91, but the district was reorganized, and he was made assistant principal at Milwaukee High School of the Arts. “From there,” he says, “I got transferred to South Division. During my first year there, 12 of my students died. So, I retired in 2011 after 33 years.” He joined the Village Playhouse in the late-’90s as an actor and later joined its board of directors. Since becoming the company’s landlord, he’s resigned from the board. He continues to act and direct. The afternoon I visited, the room was alive with warm energy. A Playhouse crew Village was painting the Night Watch set. Artist Leah Robertson Playhouse was showing visitors the art Night Watch exhibit on the nearby walls. Inspiration It was an impressive, monthStudios long show by members of Nov. 2-18 Momentum—a group led by Milwaukee artist Thea Kovac featuring works by May Klisch, Deb Marett, Robert Zontag, Kovac and Robertson. “One of my commitments,” Ortiz explains, “is that whenever there’s a performance here, you’ll see art.” Night Watch runs Nov. 2-18. “Cherie Burbach’s Art & Faith Exhibit” fills the gallery Nov. 2-26. Inspiration Studios is located at 1500 S. 73rd St. Visit villageplayhouse. org or call 414-207-4879 for more information.
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Fostering Art and Community Along Chavez Drive Off the Cuff with Artist Isabel Castro ::BY TEA KRULOS
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rtist Isabel Castro got her career rolling attending Escuela Verde, where she got a grant for her senior thesis, a mural project. Now a student at UWMilwaukee, she also is an artist-in-residence on Cesar Chavez Drive, awarded by the Farm Project. That program is produced by the Chavez Drive Business Improvement District and the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative to help foster art in the neighborhood. As part of the residency, the Farm Project found Castro an empty storefront at 1000 S. Cesar Chavez Drive to set up her studio and project, Soy Quien Soy (I am who I am), which will include community classes creating vision boards and other art, as well as a piece installed in the neighborhood. “The focus of Soy Quien Soy is your individual identity and how that is displayed in the world around you, your environment and your neighborhood,” Castro says. Let’s start by talking about your interest in art growing up and art experience. I’m from Sheboygan, and I moved to Milwaukee five years ago with my family. Before moving here, I lived with my grandparents in Mexico for a year; this was all happening in the transition of high school. I identified with Milwaukee; I felt such a sense of belonging here. I went to Escuela Verde, which is a project-based school, and I feel it really gave me freedom and encouraged me to build up my voice and my network in the community.
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I’ve always been into the arts. Since I was little, my grandmother had to put paper on the walls because I was always drawing on them, so that was the beginning of my career (laughs). Tell us more about your workspace here on Chavez Drive. There’s a bus stop here, so there’s constant movement all the time. I see a lot of individuals taking the bus to work, or coming back from work, and they have their kids with them, and the kids look through the doors and the windows. For my own individual art, I want to reflect what I’m doing in the community, which is going to be tied into my own cultural identity, experience and the things I’m learning as a young individual. How did you think of the Soy Quien Soy project? The way I brainstormed the title of the project is because soy con soy, “I am who I am,” sounds very powerful if you say it in Spanish or English. I hope to empower the youth of different generations who walk through these doors—to let them know it’s ok to be who you are and to embrace that through the arts. It’s an inclusive and safe space to express those emotions. Can you give us a timeline of the residency? It goes to the end of December. I started in August. I got the keys to the building, which was packed with various things, glass cases and a bunch of junk, so for the first month we had to clear it out and have the inspectors come in and approve everything. We’re working on the projects from October through December. Another thing I’ve started thinking about is the community art project that will be installed on this street. I have an idea of what I’d like to do, but I’m seeking community input on what they would like to see. I’d like to see a big papel picado mural—paper art where you cut shapes into the paper. This is my first residency, and it is a whole different experience because I’m in charge of my own building. I’m making sure things are going on track and a step is being made every day; that’s something I live by. You can find photos from the Soy Quien Soy project studio at instagram.com/soy_quien_soy_ estudio.
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Keith Sweat @ Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 8 p.m.
Since emerging as the first true star of R&B’s New Jack Swing era in the late ’80s, ladies’ man Keith Sweat has periodically updated his sound or dabbled in new styles. Unlike some of his contemporaries, though, Sweat is largely content to act his age, embracing his grown-man image while playing to the audience he’s grown through his syndicated radio show “The Sweat Hotel,” which he’s hosted since 2008. On recent albums like 2016’s Dress to Impress and this year’s Playing for Keeps, Sweat has focused on what he does best: slow jams.
FRIDAY, NOV. 2
Tlen-Huicani @ Latino Arts Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
In conjunction with its popular annual Día de los Muertos Ofrendas Group Exhibition, which the venue will hold an opening reception for at 5 p.m., the Latino Arts Auditorium hosts this concert from Tlen-Huicani, a long-running Mexican folk group that performs in traditional costumes. The singers sing in their Indian language of Nahuatl and spotlight the “harpa jarocha,” a folk harp. The venue’s Día de los Muertos exhibition, which this year features a special photography collection on loan from the Mexican Consulate of Milwaukee, will be on view through Nov. 16.
SATURDAY, NOV. 3
Martin Lawrence @ UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, 7:30 p.m.
Ween @ The Rave, 8 p.m.
During the ’90s, Martin Lawrence was one of comedy’s most prominent stars, a host of HBO’s influential “Def Comedy Jam,” star of his own hit sitcom “Martin” and a major box office draw, thanks to his 1995 Will Smith buddy-cop blockbuster Bad Boys. His stardom was almost undone, though, by his erratic offstage behavior (some of which was reportedly the inspiration for Tracy Jordan’s shenanigans on “30 Rock.”) In recent years, Lawrence has been working steadily again, and ahead of his return in another Bad Boys movie tentatively set for a 2020 release, he recorded his first comedy special in 14 years, 2016’s “Martin Lawrence Doin’ Time: Uncut,” which aired on Showtime. He returns to Milwaukee with this “Lit AF” tour, featuring comedians DeRay Davis, Rickey Smiley, Michael Blackson and Benji Brown. PATRICK JORDAN
Ween’s Dean and Gene Ween didn’t let the breakup of their oddball psychedelic rock group prevent them from making new music. In 2012, Gene announced that he was disbanding the group—not out of any personal animosity between him and his bandmate, but because he wanted to focus on his sobriety. Both artists continued to tour with their own projects, and both performed in Milwaukee, but this will be their first show together in Milwaukee since Ween reunited for their first shows together in 2016. They currently have no plans to record a new studio album together, and both frontmen have said they plan to remain active with their individual projects.
Soul Low w/ Whips and Amanda Huff @ Cactus Club, 3 p.m.
It wasn’t too much of a surprise when the popular Milwaukee indie-rock quartet Soul Low announced they were breaking up in September. Most of the band members had moved away from Milwaukee, making it difficult for them to carry on. Still, the band will cast a long shadow. Their 2013 debut, UNEASY, was one of the most perfect debut indie albums to come out of the city in decades, “a weird, jittery, lovable record that captured the heightened anxieties of youth just about as well as any record since the first Violent Femmes LP,” as we once wrote. And each of their follow-up EPs and albums has had a fascinating character all its own, including last year’s swan song Cheer Up, a ceaselessly catchy portrait of depression. Fans will have two final chances to say goodbye with two farewell shows at Cactus Club: an all-ages one with Whips and Amanda Huff at 3 p.m. and a 9 p.m. late show with Sundial Mottos and Taj Raiden.
Taste of New Orleans: A Pure Joy Benefit Concert for Adams Garden Park @ MSOE Todd Wehr Auditorium, 7 p.m.
With so much development happening in the city, this good news fell a little under the radar: A vacant lot in Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights neighborhood is being transformed into Adams Garden Park, a community space that will house Milwaukee Environmental Consortium, the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters Institute and the Milwaukee Water Commons, as well as gardens and orchards. This benefit concert for the project will feature music from the Milwaukee acts Immortal Girlfriend and the Jay Anderson Band featuring New Orleans Jazz Sound.
Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market @ Mitchell Park Domes, 8 a.m.
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The end of outdoor farmer’s market season doesn’t mean you have to go without fresh, local produce. After some uncertainty about its future, this summer, Fondy Food Center, Milwaukee County Parks and Zilli Hospitality Group worked out a lease that will allow the popular Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market to return to the Domes’ Greenhouse Annex for another season. Around 50 vendors will sell fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products and poultry, along with other specialty foods, most Saturday mornings at the Domes between 8 a.m. and noon through March 30. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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SATURDAY, NOV. 3
James McMurtry w/ Bonnie Whitmore @ Shank Hall, 8 p.m.
It’s a safe bet that James McMurtry has some thoughts about the Trump administration. The acclaimed Texas roots-rocker’s records often play like dispatches from a country at war with itself. John Mellencamp helped McMurtry get his foot in the door, producing the songwriter’s 1989 Columbia Records debut Too Long in the Wasteland, but McMurtry’s subsequent albums have been much more political than that album, including 2005’s Childish Things and 2008’s Just Us Kids, both of which documented George W. Bush-era despair. His most recent album, 2015’s Complicated Game, attracted some of his strongest reviews yet.
TUESDAY, NOV. 6 Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson @ Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, 8 p.m.
As one of the two frontmen as the center of the British prog-rock institution Supertramp, Roger Hodgson wrote and sang hits like “Dreamer,�“Give a Little Bit� and “Take The Long Way Home.� He left the group in 1983 to pursue a low-key solo career and focus on raising his family, but since resuming touring in 2001, he hasn’t been shy about dipping into Supertramp’s back catalogue. Hodson has spent much of this year on the road, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Supertramp album Breakfast in America. He’ll be joined by an orchestra as he parks in Milwaukee for four nights of concerts at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s Northern Lights Theater. (Through Friday, Nov. 9.)
Judd Apatow @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7:30 p.m.
Few figures have left a bigger imprint on modern comedy than Judd Apatow, the “Freaks and Geeks� creator who went on to direct several of the most influential comedy movies of the century (including The 40-YearOld Virgin, Knocked Up and Trainwreck) and produce films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Bridesmaids and The Big Sick. It’s only in recent years, though, that Apatow has returned to the stage as a standup. “I started four years ago when we were working on Trainwreck,� he tells the Shepherd. “I was seeing Amy Schumer performing at the cellar, and I just got jealous. She was having so much fun. So I started going up again. It reminded me that standup always was the reason why I got into the business.� Apatow’s return to the stage was documented in his 2017 Netflix special, “Judd Apatow: The Return.� “I literally had to sit down and listen to comedy albums again and remind myself how standup joke structure worked,� he says. “After about a year, I felt like I figured out who I was up there. I generally observe that everything I write about has to do with not knowing whether I’m doing a good job at anything.� You can find our full interview with Apatow at shepherdexpress.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee
It’s A Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee is described by vocalist Stacy Sullivan as “a journey of discovery through the extraordinary musical legacy of Peggy Lee and the personal struggles of a woman whose voice captivated millions.” The classic songs, intricate rhythms and exquisite arrangements that defined Lee’s successful career are elegantly portrayed in this loving homage, created with jazz master, pianist and arranger Jon Weber. The show allows attendees to experience Lee’s rise from a tragic childhood on the desolate plains of North Dakota to the elite company of popular song legends—becoming one of the first and foremost successful female singer/songwriters in history in the process. The audience members will hear selections from Lee’s famous canon, including such timeless hits as “Fever,” “Lover,” “Johnny Guitar,” “I Love Being Here With You,” “He’s a Tramp” and “Is That All There Is?” (John Jahn) Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Harris Theater of the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive. For tickets, call 262-781-9520 or visit ticketing.wilson-center.com.
“Friday Flix! Classic Hollywood Scores”
The Wisconsin Philharmonic presents its first Friday night subscription concert in decades with a program of great American film music—an increasing presence on orchestra programs, and, I believe, rightfully so. Film scores, at their best, are modern-day adaptations of classical music’s time-honored incidental music, tone poems and opera scores. The concert features America’s foremost living film composer, John Williams. “Most of these scores will be presented in their original Hollywood orchestrations—the same lush sound as in the original cinema presentations,” according to the Philharmonic’s website. Violinist Tim Kamps, the orchestra’s new concertmaster, will make his solo debut in Williams’ hauntingly beautiful music from Schindler’s List. And, yes, there will be music from the Star Wars films! (John Jahn) Friday, Nov. 2, in the Harris Theater of the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive. For tickets, call 262-781-9520 or visit ticketing.wilson-center.com.
The Jealous Revolver, Episode 2
With this second installment of a trilogy, Cabaret Milwaukee takes audiences on a “criminally noir trip back to 1932” and, specifically, to a “Prohibition Era, sleazy speakeasy on the seedy side of Milwaukee with all the gangsters, dames, bullets and vengeance you can handle,” according to Cabaret’s Facebook page. Lest you’ve missed the first part (which ran through Sept. 14), Episode 2 will begin with a recap to bring you up-to-date. Episode 1 opened with a robber tied to a chair, in the back of a speakeasy, who’s about to be executed by Vick Marconi, a rash gangster played by Kerric Stephens. But, that was just the beginning. Expect plenty more action this time as well, interspersed with segments from the radio show’s host, Richard Howling, and the rest of the “Howling Radio Hour” cast of characters. (John Jahn) Nov. 2-17 at the Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave. For tickets, visit facebook.com/cabmke.
Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility
“Ko-Thi Dance Company’s November concert is comprised of a totally engaged and culturally proud multigenerational cast between the ages of 5 and 40 years old,” says Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker, the troupe’s founder and artistic/executive director about its upcoming show. “Audiences will be thoroughly amazed by an intentional, collaborative, seamless choreographic and orchestrated quilt of vibrant movement and rhythmic vocabulary.” Ujima, named for the third principle of Kwanzaa, represents Ko-Thi’s stated commitment to “build and maintain our community together.” It’s a fully collaborative ballet that takes the audience back in time to a village in West Africa during the preparation for the annual harvest. Using traditional West African dance and music styles to immerse the audience in this milieu, Ujima presents a full afternoon of dance and music. (John Jahn) Sunday, Nov. 4, at the UW-Milwaukee Helene Zelazo Center’s Bader Auditorium, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. For tickets, call 414-229-4308 or e-mail psoatix@uwm.edu. 30 | N O V E M B E R 1 , 2 0 1 8
The Constructivists ‘The Pillowman’
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Basement Interrogation Drama with The Constructivists ::BY RUSS BICKERSTAFF
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he Constructivists stage a taut and claustrophobic interrogation drama in the basement studio space of The Underground Collaborative. The production’s star, Rose Grizzell, is engaging as a short fiction author who has been detained for questioning in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. As the play begins, Grizzell sits onstage, blindfolded in a chair. She’s touchingly vulnerable as a couple of dystopian cops question her regarding a series of murders that appear similar to her stories. Grizzell is a deeply moving presence onstage, vividly delivering revelation, emotion and frustration with beautifully expressive eyes as the subtle shadow of emotion plays across her face. Grizzell is a good storyteller and has some haunting things to deliver on stage, which she expresses with deft thoughtfulness. A couple of the stories are delivered with a disturbing reality, playing out onstage behind and around Grizzell as she speaks. Jaime Jastrab and Rob Schreiner play the author’s captors. Jastrab’s lead detective is an affectless man with a bored and dismissive demeanor. His vague disinterest amplifies the sense of doom and futility permeating the entire production. Schreiner resonates with weary aggression as the more emotionally explosive cop. There is a cleverly muted interplay between the two policemen, which falls just flat enough to accentuate the emotional intensity of the captive writer and the tragically hapless ignorance of her brother in the next cell. Logan Milway tackles the challenge of playing a childlike adult who is quite unaware of his own potential cunning menace. The intimate complexity of Milway’s scene with Grizzell lends the production some of its most powerful moments. Through Nov. 10 at The Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, visit theconstructivists.org. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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Meeting the Monster in Milwaukee Ballet’s ‘Dracula’
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look mindless. Only Harker senses what’s coming; he curls up and cowers. With a crash, David Grill’s blue-purple lighting drenches the stage. Dracula has come to lure Lucy—the belle of the party—up the grand steps of Lez Brotherston’s gorgeous set to a balcony that could belong to Juliet. He drinks her blood as the oblivious citizens below continue to party in hyper-slow motion. Soon we’ll see the vampire Lucy infect a child. Chaos is spreading. All we hold dear is threatened. Act Three belongs to the empathetic Mina Harker, whom Dracula determines to control. This act includes a pas de deux for Mina and the mentally ravaged Renfield who partners her with arms strapped in a straight-jacket. The evening performances boasted the incomparable Luz San Miguel, ending her onstage career. What struck me most about her Lucy this time was her generosity, her evident love for everyone on stage. Both casts gave ideal performances—a credit, also, to Pink’s direction. If Davit Hovhannisyan owns the role of Dracula, Patrick Howell was just as stunning in the matinee performance. Nicole Teague-Howell remains an ideal Mina. In major role debuts, Annia Hidalgo’s Mina, Marize Fumero’s Lucy, and the Harkers of Randy Crespo and Garrett Glassman were wonderful.
Wild Space Dance Company’s ‘Acts of Discovery’
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Enthralling ‘Acts of Discovery’ at Dairy Distributor’s Plant ::BY JOHN SCHNEIDER
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racula is in great shape at Milwaukee Ballet. Michael Pink’s early masterpiece is both terrifically entertaining and a manifesto of his values as a ballet choreographer. Those include a commitment to serious storytelling with fully-dimensional characters and resonant themes, great respect for dancers and designers, for virtuosity and artistry in service to a greater whole and to equality and inclusiveness. The story holds up. We meet the monster in the literal nightmare that is Act One, Jonathan Harker’s dream recollection of his time in Transylvania. Pink’s Dracula is alluring, physically powerful, imperious and several kinds of animal—so male. Harker is utterly vulnerable. Half-naked and agonized, he’s forced to partner Dracula in an all-consuming dance, unable to escape this creature lusting to feed on him. What could be worse for a man or woman? For me, the genius stroke occurs in Act Two when Philip Feeney’s masterful score goes deliberately haywire. Ugly music slowly collides with, and ultimately demolishes, the lively dance melodies to which the wonderful Milwaukee Ballet dancers, dressed as well-to-do Brits of the late 19th century, have been treating us; sillyskillful classical ballet corps dances that start to
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y family had a milkman when I was a child in the ’50s. He’d set bottles of milk inside our unlocked back door early each morning. Wild Space Dance Company’s latest site-specific dance theater performance was conceived in an East Side dairy distributor’s plant from that long-ago era. The performance opened with a seated young woman pouring glasses of milk from old-style bottles and drinking it while absorbing old time radio infomercials extolling the importance of pasteurized milk to our diets. We, in the audience, stood at one end of the building’s garage space where milk trucks must once have been loaded. The seated woman, appealingly androgynous, intensely focused on her tasks, interrupted the pouring and drinking with rapid mysterious hand and finger moves that would be echoed by others throughout the performance. A sudden light change directed our attention to an open area on our left. It featured a narrow passageway, five feet high at most, leading to another area invisible but for what could be glimpsed through that opening. Women were moving there. One came and went through the passageway. Now other women appeared in shadows further left, and we saw hints of a large room beyond the peeling concrete pillars. Another light shift told us to move to the opposite end of that initial garage area to discover what a deep red light might be signaling. That red light came from an area below ground level—who knows what it might have held? It made a rich backdrop for a trio of women dancing alone and together, always with engaging internal focus, mutual connectedness and mystery. We sat on narrow benches in haunted house lighting, took in the yellowing tiled walls, peeling paint, ceiling fan and what sounded at first like a distant alarm but was, in fact, composer/sound designer C. Olivia Valenza approaching from the darkness playing clarinet. So it went, discovery after discovery, passing through four further areas of the building’s ground floor, enthralled by changing lighting, textures, and live music while eight women interacted with walls, pillars, floors and metal milk crates. We were taken to every area twice, but our gazes were directed so differently on the second visit that it seemed a new site. Finally, we were freed to explore as we pleased. The dancers we’d met were now scattered like spirits. And I haven’t even mentioned the toy cows and tiny milkman.
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Inside the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Conservation Lab ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN
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t the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), there are subterranean levels which make the journey to the Conservation Lab all the more exciting—and definitely adventurous. Walking down flights of stairs, winding our way through galleries, then storage areas with who knows what treasures concealed in crates and boxes, we arrive at what looks like a well-organized, well-lit office, better suited to an architectural firm. But the surfaces are flat and contained very largesized drawers. What hidden treasures await? Jim DeYoung, senior conservator, has been running the lab long before it even WAS a lab. “Around 1984, the museum was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts lab equipment grant that I applied for. I had been doing some conservation in the space starting with my NEA Fellowship in 1982-’83,” says DeYoung. “During this transition period, it mostly functioned as a matting and framing space. The grant allowed me to reconfigure the space for more advanced treatments of works on paper.” One of the challenges in understanding the term “conservation” is understanding what it actually means. “Conservation” applies to the overall care and maintenance of an artwork. “Restoration” can actually affect the overall composition and change it, based on adding paint, repairing torn or weakened canvas or dealing with various types of actual damage. And then there’s “stabilization,” which is an interim process to prevent an artwork from any further deterioration. The number of works in the lab can vary based on the extent of the stabilization and/ or restoration and who exactly is doing the work. “Major treatments of works on paper and objects by staff number about 50 per year,” DeYoung explains, “with an addition of five per year, on average, by contract paintings conservators in the museum lab or private lab undertake. Most paintings are stable as we do inspections on every piece that we can.” DeYoung then walks over to those large, oversized drawers and opens the bottom one. That’s when the pleasant shock—and incredible surprise—of discovery and delight set in.
Shock and Awe
Inches away from an actual Degas! The French painter, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), to be exact. But this is a pastel chalk drawing on tan paper, Conversation at the Racetrack (1882/’85). At first glance it looks just fine. Absolutely astonishing, in fact. The drawing’s focus is on three women leaning over a railing at a racetrack. There is no visual reference to the race; only the women absorbed in conversation, with the central figure being Degas’ friend, the American artist Mary Cassatt. So, why would this magnificent piece of art need fixing? It turns out that this was the only chalk drawing Degas created that did not have any type of spray adhesive to keep the chalk particles attached to the paper. No one knows why; perhaps he was interrupted? Took a break and forgot where he 32 | N O V E M B E R 1 , 2 0 1 8
OPENINGS: “Feed Your Soul”
was in the process? “The flecks are just sitting on the surface,” DeYoung explains. “So, we do everything we can to stabilize the work. This is a non-travel piece. It will never leave here.” DeYoung now pulls out a much larger piece by Chicago outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1973). With an extremely long title, the piece itself is just as long (24x73 in.) and in need of major restoration. Labeled as a graphite, carbon transfer and collage on paper, the work was acquired in 2001 and is torn in spots, with missing pieces and worn to the point of tearing where it has been folded and inserted into a large type of
Nov. 2 Flux Design 811 E. Vienna Ave.
Now in its 15th year, “Feed Your Soul” has raised more than $650,000— providing nearly 2 million meals to families and individuals facing hunger in our local community. This is a collaborative effort by Milwaukee-area designers, artists, makers and community organizers coming together to host an event that features edgy, thoughtprovoking and inspired pieces of art auctioned off in a space as unique as the art: Flux Design in Riverwest. For tickets and more information, visit feedingamericawi.org/fys.
Taiwanese Jewelry and Metal Arts Exhibit Nov. 2-16 Alverno College Art and Cultures Gallery 3400 S. 43rd St.
Alverno College hosts a month-long public exhibition of Taiwanese contemporary jewelry and metal arts with a 4-8 p.m. opening reception on Friday, Nov. 2, will feature a public discussion with professor Meiing Hsu of the Taiwan National University of the Arts. The exhibit is meant to increase our community’s understanding and appreciation of contemporary sculpture and body embellishment as works of art and cultural expression. For more information, visit alverno.edu. Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Conversation at the Racetrack, 1882/85; Pastel on tan paper PHOTO BY JOHN R. GLEMBIN
scrapbook. To complicate matters, Darger’s works are double sided—and the lab has five of them. “The conservation is still ongoing as it is even too fragile to put on a photo easel,” DeYoung points out. Like the Degas, these works remain flat, unable to even be placed vertical or upright. The Conservation Lab currently has four full-time employees and two part-time employees, along with an intern for a three-month period each year, and DeYoung brings in outside conservators two or three times a year, usually to work on paintings. This was evident this past summer when an outside conservator worked on a painting first attributed to English painter John Constable. It actually turned out be the work of French painter Théodore Rousseau. But, regardless of the surprises laying beneath the layers of paint, conservation keeps the art available for all to see over time. “We want to preserve these works forever,” DeYoung emphasizes, adding, “We want people to be able to see them now, as well as 100 years from now.”
“Spectacular Vernacular” Nov. 3-March 2 MIAD Brooks Stevens Gallery 273 E. Erie St.
The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design exhibit examines objects and their functions through a journey of observation, experimentation and speculation. Married British duo Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth of Parsons & Charlesworth Design Studio explore both the rhetorical and practical opportunities of designed objects. “We want to start conversations about design,” said Parsons, “about how we can imagine objects to be different. Beyond need, how can we design them to address our hopes and fears?” for more information, visit miad.edu.
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Spectacular Vernacular takes you on a journey through observation, experimentation and speculation of how creators Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth mix their craft and industrial design backgrounds. Opening Reception: Thurs., Nov. 8, 6 – 8 p.m. Panel Discussion: Tues., Nov. 27, 7 – 9 p.m. Moderated by Monica Obniski, Milwaukee Art Museum
The exhibit and programming events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 273 East Erie St. Milwaukee, WI 53202 miad.edu/galleries
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‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’
Melissa McCarthy Reaches Out in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN
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here’s nothing like changing whispers in her ear: forge letters by famous the game when you’re at the authors and peddle them as real. With an intop of yours. Melissa McCarthy timate feel for their language, she needs only is one of the most recognized to compose the letters on vintage typewriters, contemporary female comedians carefully copy the signatures of those authors after her success with Bridesmaids and This is and prepare the paper to look old and worn. 40. She could continue on that amicable track Some dealers are gullible, and others turn a with no sweat, but in Can You Ever Forgive blind eye because the forgeries are so well Me? McCarthy shifts course and disappears done. Assisting in her increasingly lucrative into the frumpy, sour disposition of the late, crime wave is Lee’s drinking partner, the real-life author Lee Israel. flamboyantly gay British hustler Jack Hock Based on a true story, Can You Ever For- (Richard E. Grant). Their exchanges provide give Me? is a drama mined for slivers of the film with its moments of humor. comedy. Trudging through the click-clacking However, Can You Ever Forgive Me? typewriter world of early 1990s literary Man- shouldn’t be confused with a comedy. The hattan, Lee is a once-was film is a prickly yet ultimately evaporating into a has-been. A touching character study of an biographer of famous people irascible protagonist. Lee is Can You Ever from earlier in the 20th cendepicted in the pathos of her Forgive Me? tury, she is pitching a book on aloneness, unwilling to lower Melissa McCarthy entertainer Fanny Brice but is her barriers against humanroundly ignored by publishers Richard E. Grant ity (much less intimacy) and who deem the subject too obslipping toward untidy deDirected by scure for the age of Madonna. crepitude. Lee’s back story Marielle Heller Lee isn’t helping her case is untold, but one can infer Rated R by being herself. Midway sources for her pain: An ugly through middle-age, overduckling girlhood? A lesbian weight and with a poor comin an age before acceptance, plexion and a small closet of bad clothes, understanding or sympathy? Or, perhaps, beshe’s the sort of person from whom everyone ing possessive of an old-school dedication to steers clear. Unwilling to play by anyone’s the literary craft in the Tom Clancy era? rules, she’s fired from her data entry job for Can You Ever Forgive Me? plays out ironidrinking scotch in her cubicle. She’s behind cally in some scenes against the tony backon rent and can’t afford medication for her drop of high-culture Manhattan where Lee sick cat. Piles of her latest book are stacked in has become the dotty old aunt and plays with the 75% off discount bin. the irony that climaxed her authorial career: After selling a letter by Fanny Brice she She became better known for forging other discovers tucked into a book, a perverse muse people’s words than for writing her own.
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[ FILM CLIPS ] Bohemian Rhapsody PG-13
This paint-by-the-numbers biopic of Freddie Mercury, Queen’s flamboyant lead singer, fails to illuminate the man behind the image. Filled with half-truths and omissions, the film features Rami Malek’s stunning performance as he captures Mercury’s velvet-toned off-stage manner and spectacular on-stage performances. Central to Mercury’s inner life is learning he’s more attracted to men than women. While he expresses these difficulties through his music, we see little of Mercury’s work process. Though amiable enough, the film gives short shrift to certain Queen staples, choosing commercialism over peeking behind the curtain. (Lisa Miller)
City Swim Not Rated
Marquette University documentary filmmaker Joe Brown will premiere City Swim at the fourth-annual Great Lakes Environmental Film Festival (GLEFF). Brown’s project chronicles the Cream City Classic Milwaukee River Swim held this past August and hopes to break the misconception that the river’s water is too contaminated for activities. “What I like about this film is that it’s about a success story!” Brown said. “The water in the Milwaukee River is getting cleaner, but a lot of people don’t realize it.” Only a couple decades ago, it would have been ridiculous to propose swimming in the river. But, thanks to the work of many local nonprofits, it continues to become a cleaner environment. City Swim takes on a different view of water activities within an urban environment. Brown says there is something unique about watching swimmers pass by from riverside lofts and walkways. (Parker Thompson) 7 p.m., Nov. 7-8, at The Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. For more information on this free event, visit gleff.org.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms PG
At the annual holiday party thrown by her godfather, Drosselmeyer (Morgan Freeman), Clara (Mackenzie Foy) receives a key to a box left by her late mother. She and the key are whisked into a parallel world where she meets a soldier (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and regents who preside over three realms: Snowflakes, Flowers and Sweets. The key has disappeared into the “Fourth Realm” ruled by tyrannical Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren). Clara learns she must retrieve the key to stabilize these hidden worlds. Disney spared no expense reimagining The Nutcracker to make Clara a more proactive heroine—thus bringing this production totally in line with the company’s current girl-power agenda. (L.M.) Nobody’s Fool R Tyler Perry’s latest comedy places Tiffany Haddish front and center as rebellious Tanya. When Tanya decides to get her life in order, she looks to her straight-laced sister, Danica (Tika Sumpter) for guidance. By forcing opposite women into close proximity, writer-director Perry presumes to bring home the laughs and life lessons. And where’s Madea? Perry ought to know that although his own feisty granny schtick may be able to pull off vulgar bodily function jokes and creepy, graphic flirtations, he’s asked more than Haddish can do. (L.M.)
[ HOME MOVIES / NOW STREAMING ] City Slickers
Mitch (Billy Crystal) is losing his edge at work. Choices in life are narrowing, his hair is falling out and he’s reached the age when the peak years are in the rearview mirror. Will a cattle drive with his buddies rejuvenate him? The humor in City Slickers (1991) is often in the pregnant pauses. The new Collector’s Edition includes deleted scenes, a handful of short features and audio commentary by director Ron Underwood and cast.
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden
Director Dieter Berner caught the youthful vitality of his subject, fin de siècle artist Egon Schiele, by casting a young actor, Noah Saavedra. Studying photographs of the painter, Saavedra learned to live in Schiele’s body. Death and the Maiden also focuses on the women he painted, starting with his sister Gerti (Maresi Riegner) and presents a vivid picture of Vienna’s thriving culture in the years before World War I. Death, decay and doom permeated Schiele’s canvases.
Yes - Yessongs
In its heyday, Yes embodied rock music’s move toward the grandiose and the elaborate with gatefold LP covers adorned with Roger Dean fantasy paintings and side-long album tracks. The British band was at its prog peak when this 1972 concert was documented at London’s Rainbow Theatre. The players came out in spangles and capes and proceeded to execute the intricacies of their current album, Yessongs. The lineup included elfin-voiced Jon Anderson and master guitarist Steve Howe.
Les Parents Terribles
Jean Cocteau was a poet, playwright, novelist, stage designer and painter, but is best remembered as a filmmaker. Of his career as director, the darkly humorous Beauty and the Beast was his masterpiece. But Les Parents Terribles (1948) is an overlooked gem, fluidly executed with a story that hovers between comedy and tragedy. A smothering mother plots to break up her son’s affair by revealing that his girlfriend is his father’s mistress. Only in France? —David Luhrssen SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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America’s Failed Foreign Policy? Harvard’s Stephen Walt argues U.S. did more harm than good ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN
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onald Trump had a point, did he? One theme during the 2016 campaign was his attack on U.S. foreign policy that dovetailed easily with his pseudo-populist message of resentment. The foreign policy establishment—which counted Hillary Clinton in its ranks—committed the U.S. to costly wars, spent billions on failed efforts to replicate the American way overseas and entangled the country in expensive alliances whose benefits can seem small from the perspective of our shores. What’s to like about that? In The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Stephen M. Walt concedes that Trump wasn’t entirely wrong in his criticisms, scattershot as they were. The problem is that Trump lacks the focus and character to construct a viable alternative. He’s the man who threatens an ill-designed house with a wrecking ball, but can’t draw a blueprint—much less build a foundation—to save his life. As an international affairs professor at Harvard, Walt is a member of that foreign policy establishment—but a dissident among them. In The Hell of Good Intentions, he castigates many of his colleagues for a groupthink that overlaps party lines, especially their unswerving belief in America as the linchpin of a world order where democracy and free markets are inevitable. Walt reminds us that the U.S. proved unsuccessful in spreading its professed values at a time of greatest opportunity after winning the Cold War. Instead, “existing dictatorships proved resilient, several new democracies eventually slid back toward authoritarian rule, U.S.-led efforts at regime change produced failed states” and American hypocrisy grew in light of torture, war crimes, massive electronic surveillance of citizens and a pick-and-choose approach to dictatorships. Muammar Gaddafi could go to the dogs but China, he says, “was too big to push around.” If Trump identified real problems, he offered only “bluster, empty threats, and childish tweets” in place of solutions. Walt was prescient in identifying the Saudi crown prince’s “reckless gambits” (the book was out before the murder of Jamal Khashoggi) and Trump’s foolishness in giving the monarch unconditional support. Walt defends NATO against Trump’s sweeping claims of its obsolescence and points out that reversing the globalized economy hasn’t proven as easy as Trump promised. Many readers will be dismayed, however, by Walt’s conclusion that despite his brow-furrowing assault on democratic norms, Trump’s “impact on the substance of policy was more limited.” Time will measure the damage done.
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Rod Eglash’s Rich Life
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od Eglash was always a man who neither stood still nor satisfied himself with doing just one thing. And so throughout his life he kept on moving and doing many things. But there was a consistency throughout his life, grounded in family and community while spurred by the nagging idea that our broken world could be repaired. Eglash taught adults at the University of Wisconsin-Extension and children at the Golda Meir School, worked as program director at the Jewish Community Center and owned one of Milwaukee’s last standing locally owned video stores until 2008. But he’s best remembered for running one of the city’s beloved folk clubs from the 1970s, the Id & Eggo Coffehouse. It was where Larry Penn, one of the city’s prominent folk singers, found a home. At the Id & Eggo, Eglash discovered his own love for writing poetry. He published a chapbook in 1973 and immediately planned a sequel. He finally published it this fall, along with his memoir, as The Ego of Eggo. “I started hearing, ‘Rod, you’ve got a book,’” he says, recalling the audience response for his impromptu Id & Eggo readings. “I had no training. I never studied poetry. I was in social work, but by 1973 I had a lot of poems.” But afterward writing sat on the back burner for many years. “I was immersed in my life, my children, my grandchildren, my jobs—I always had several!” Retirement after the closing of his video store, plus badgering from his son Joel, an editor by trade, gave him the time and the impetus for The Ego of Eggo, which looks back on growing up on Milwaukee’s West Side (where anti-Semitism was often undisguised), his wife Helen (who arrived from Europe’s displaced persons camps after World War II), fatherhood (“I have excessive demands and expectations of my own children”) and the ’60s-’70s folk music scene—among many other thoughts. “Everything I did was interconnected,” Eglash says. “I followed the mission of making a mark—of contributing to my family and friends but also to my community and to society.” He remains an unapologetic refusenik from the ’60s, “I was always anti this and anti that. I never wanted to trim my values, which amounted to giving back to the world, to contribute to the betterment of the world.” The Ego of Eggo is on sale at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Boswell Book Co. and—of course—Amazon.
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6 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5 Historic Milwaukee, Inc. • 235 E. Michigan St. Although Milwaukee hasn’t gone down in history as a “wide-open town” on par with Kansas City or Memphis, red light districts and gambling dens flourished here in the early years of the last century. And once Prohibition was imposed, the City That Means Beer refused to satisfy its thirst with soft drinks. In Wicked Milwaukee, Yance Marti offers a solidly researched and entertainingly written account of the underground economies that sprang up to service the illicit desires and needs of our city’s residents. The elaborate efforts to brew beer under Prohibition are easy to imagine, but many will be surprised to learn of opium dens operated out of Chinese laundries. (David Luhrssen)
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I completely freak out every time my elderly mother doesn’t answer the phone. As an only child, I feel completely responsible for my mom’s well-being since my dad died. Also, I’m a lesbian with no partner or children, so I wonder if worrying about mom hasn’t filled some lonely void in my life? Am I slowly going crazy? Am I being overprotective? Maybe I’m just being a good daughter. I struggle with all three of these possibilities. What do you think?
Seeking Input, Lonely Laura
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You’re not a worry wart, you’re not going crazy, and you are a good daughter, sugar pie! It’s easy to understand how you might feel like your mom’s caretaker, even though I don’t know her health, economic or emotional status. Let’s tackle the phone issue first, okay? A good idea might be to establish a time you and your mother talk on the phone daily. Let her know that you’ll be calling at that time every day, and that it’s imperative you speak to her at that time. Explain that you need her to answer the phone at that specific time or you’ll assume an emergency is at hand. Once the call is done, try to go about your day without worry. Now for your loneliness. Consider expanding your social circle with some volunteer work or a part-time job. Don’t look specifically for love but for friendship. Feel your circle of friends is fine as is? Then plan weekly get-togethers. (See my Social Calendar for some ideas!) These events will give you something to look forward to and keep your mind off unsubstantiated worry. If your feelings of loneliness are crippling, please see a therapist who can help. Similarly, a therapist can steer you through issues you might experience as your mother’s primary caretaker. You’re a strong, caring woman. Remind yourself of that, and you’ll find instant comfort, darlin’. 38 | N O V E M B E R 1 , 2 0 1 8
Nov. 2—“Randy Rainbow Live” at The Pabst Theatre (144 E. Wells St.): Internet sensation Randy Rainbow returns to Milwaukee with his brilliant wit fully in tow. As thoughtprovoking as he is hilarious, Randy promises a night of songs and laughter during the 7:30 p.m. one-man show. Nab your tickets (starting at $29) at pabstheater.org. Nov. 3—Halloween Ball at Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): An event for LGBTQ youth, this dance party is open to those 13-24 years old. Enjoy a drag show, snacks and beverages. Have questions about the 7 p.m. event? Call the center at 414-271-2656. Nov. 3—Drag Matinee Presents Dear Ruthie and Red Rum at Berlin Nightclub (954 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago): Join me, burlesque superstar Red Rum and infamous emcee T Rex during this legendary 10:30 p.m. drag show. You’ll also party with five other performers, two incredible DJs, drink specials and more, because this party is the spot to be when it comes to Midwest craziness. Nov. 4—Love is Love: An LGBT & Allies Wedding Showcase at Hilton Milwaukee City Center (509 W. Wisconsin Ave.): Planning your wedding? Check out this expo, showcasing vendors happy to work with all families. Sponsored by the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. expo is free and open to the public. Nov. 5—Monday Moonlight Karaoke at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): Jump-start the work week with a 9 p.m. sing-along at one of Cream City’s favorite LGBTQ bars. Sing a song or sit back and watch the fun with some of the friendliest, funniest bartenders in town. Ask Ruthie a question and share your events at dearruthie@ shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Listen to Ruthie every Friday on Energy 106.9FM at 10:05 a.m. SHEPHERD EXPRESS
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ctober’s LGBT History Month ended with a historic event, when Matthew Shepard’s (1976-’98) ashes were interred in the Washington National Cathedral. Twenty years after his vicious murder by homophobic thugs, the act’s historic significance was magnified by the fact that the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, presided over the ceremony. Shepard’s 1998 torture and death are recognized as a critical moment of America’s reckoning with LGBTQ bias. It led to a protracted fight for hate crime legislation, inevitably derailed by Republicans, until, more than a decade later, President Barrack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. It also led to the creation of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Its mission is the embrace of human dignity and diversity and to “replace hate with understanding, compassion and acceptance.” But, sadly, other events overshadowed that historic marker. It’s been a horrific week for our country. A crazed regime cheerleader sent pipe bombs to a dozen Democratic leaders, an actor and a major news outlet. After failing to enter an African American church, a white supremacist shot dead two black shoppers at a grocery store. Then, an anti-Semitic white nationalist gunman attacked a Pittsburgh synagogue. The resulting massacre of 11 congregants took place during a bris ceremony for a gay couple’s adopted twins (a fact that has been thus far omitted by most news outlets). Save for one, the victims were senior citizens, including 97-year-old Rose Mallinger, a Holocaust survivor. It was just two weeks before the 80th anniversary of Reichskristallnacht—a pogrom against Jewish citizens in Nazi Germany
that led to the death and incarceration of thousands of innocents. Finally, at least this for this week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seems to be planning on redefining gender to exclude transgender people. And all this in the aftermath of a journalist’s butchering at the hands of a so-called ally, followed by our provocateurpresident encouraging violence against reporters while declaring himself a “nationalist” and bemoaning the “bomb stuff” that distracted from his own incendiary message. His radicalized cult loved it. With the 2018 election, we have the chance to at least slow the erosion of our democratic values. Oddly though, our LGBTQ community still seems to be mired in a residual minimalization of our self-worth. Many organizations declare their apolitical nature as a matter of course. Even a local online history page leads with a repeated “NO Politics” warning. What is our LGBTQ history if not one of a political struggle? Admittedly, I’m on the board of a gay social organization that also that insists on its non-political nature. Like those family Thanksgiving dinners where guests eschew talk of politics and religion at the table, we ignore the elephant in the room for the sake of a Rockwellian but false sense of family harmony. We do so at our peril. Still, there are numerous out LGBTQ candidates running as Democratic Party candidates, including our own Tammy Baldwin. None represent the GOP. For its part, the Republican Party’s slate includes a North Carolina state election candidate claiming God is a racist and white supremacist. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh’s Jewish leaders have told the president he is not welcome there until he denounces white nationalism. Just days away now, the Tuesday, Nov. 6, election may be our only chance to effectively deliver a similar demand that he finally and unequivocally denounce homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism and hate. But he won’t. Remember Matthew Shepard and VOTE! Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n
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o the average person without a background in coding, the idea of building a video game—a real one, with professional graphics and everything—seems daunting, if not outright impossible. Thanks to advances in software and visual scripting engines, though, it is possible for novices to create their own surprisingly advanced video games, provided they have a solid understanding of computers and dozens, if not hundreds, of hours to devote to the task. It’s an enormous undertaking, but a doable one.
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LUXI’s New Album is Also a Video Game ::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI
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Milwaukee electronic artist LUXI is proof of that. She’d always been a gamer but didn’t have any development experience when she decided she wanted to build her own game a couple of years ago. She found the experience wasn’t all that different from making DIY electronic music. Both involve endless hours alone, experimenting until the desired effect is achieved and consulting online tutorials, YouTube videos and forums for help when needed. “The kindness of strangers in forums really helped when doing this,” she says. “I definitely spent a lot of hours doing very tedious technical tasks. It definitely requires a certain personality type to sit at a computer for hours and hours and look at lines of code.” She conceived her debut game Lost Letters (of Seraphina) as both a video game and an album, with each level lasting the length of a song. “I started making this game and working on the music part of it simultaneously, so it progressed over time,” she said. “I’d work on the game for a little bit, then work on the music for a little bit, just chipping away at it.” The game follows a young protagonist named Elle as she navigates a post-apocalyptic world, scavenging for electronics while piecing together the mystery of how her town, Seraphina, collapsed. “There isn’t a way of winning or losing,” LUXI says. “I just wanted the player to sit down and experience the album. It’s all about the experience of exploring.” As part of the process of developing the game, LUXI LUXI says she wrote about 70 pages of backstory, Cactus including the namesake lost letters that the game’s Club characters wrote to each other. She compiled Thursday, some of that material into an accompanying zine. Nov. 1, “So technically,” she says, “I made my first self-pub9 p.m. lished book as well.” That undertaking is made all the more impressive by the performance schedule LUXI maintained while completing the project, which included shows at Summerfest, PrideFest and the Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party. Within the span of just a few years, she went from being a virtually unknown underground oddity to one of the most in-demand headliners in Milwaukee’s electronic music scene, an honor she credits to the approachable nature of her music. Underneath her experimental production approach, she writes heartfelt pop songs about relationships and anxieties, and sings in a naked, vulnerable voice that cuts an empathetic contrast to the alien soundscapes. “It probably helps that I have live vocals and bring in live aspects, like playing the keyboard,” LUXI speculates on the appeal of her live show. “I think people connect to how personal the songs are. When people think of electronic music, they think of a more sterile electronic dance music that’s made to a certain formula, but that’s not what’s going on in the underground scene. A lot of artists are making really personal music, especially here in Milwaukee.” LUXI plays an album release show Thursday, Nov. 1, at Cactus Club at 9 p.m. with Dashcam and Immortal Girlfriend. Lost Letters (of Seraphina) will be available that same day at Steampowered.com.
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ilwaukee’s Red Stuff has a way of doing things their own way. Ten years in, they have delivered a sound that can veer from the thud-rock of The Troggs to The Ventures Songbook 101 to Yoko Ono-influenced rule-bending. The trio is constantly evolving. And in that sense perhaps it would be better to characterize them as a Folk Art project than a band. A decade is a long time for a band, but not for a marriage. Multi-instrumentalist Kelly Buros (guitar, vocals, organ, autoharp, lap steel, percussion) and her husband Tom Wanderer (bass, guitar, vocals, percussion) are joined by drummer Steve Tiber (who coincidentally happened to perform Kelly and Tom’s wedding ceremony). A few years ago Red Stuff were in the middle of an album they had been working on for five years. It would eventually be released this spring as Saccharine Underground. They started recording it many times. Then one night at rehearsal Wanderer wanted to record one song. Instead of working on the album, the band just started improvising. They had microphones set up for recording in case any ideas emerged that were interesting. “Things happen really fast,” Buros recalls. And over the course of an hour they came up with a batch of totally new songs, recorded them and decided to put that record out immediately with the title Woodfaces. “It is an interesting record, really weird, at points and almost embarrassing—but 100% genuine,” Wanderer says of the 2017 release. “Once we put our egos aside, that last shred of ‘we have to do this, we have to do that,’ our expectations went out the window.”
Highlighted by Buros’ melodica playing, the sound manages to find a lo-fi middle ground between garage rock and dub. “The main point became we could read each other without having to talk to each other. That connection is always nice to have,” Tiber says. “I played what I felt and it gave me confidence to weave in and out of what Kelly and Tom were doing. In my experience it is rare to get to that point. And it allowed the others to do what they want.” This idea of music as a dialogue is nothing new. In Red Stuff’s case it is not about level of ability, but personalities working together. And that idea of working together extends to their vinyl-centric discography, with material recorded by the band on analog gear and record covers screen printed and assembled by the band. Wanderer ran up his credit card buying things like Austrian microphones off eBay. “They were definitely not industry standard,” he says. But that early step meant everything they record will sound different than the pack. By now he has tinkered with the band’s recording setup so long that he can just turn it on and record, allowing the band to not lose any momentum. “I can’t tell you how many 1-2 minute themes we have recorded.” Tiber suggest ones of the band’s strengths is that “everyone can serve as editor on Red the fly with ideas, keeping or moving on. We try to get Stuff together each week but don’t WMSE’s always practice.” With the “Local/ current lineup of Wanderer Live” on short-scale bass and Buros Friday, on guitar and Fender Twin the Nov. 6, evolution continues. “I like every bit of the 6 p.m. process and it becomes more fun with fewer expectations,” Wanderer says. “From the very beginning I wanted to put out records even though I knew they weren’t going to be technically flawless. I wanted to have the recordings and do the packaging—all that stuff. If we are going to do it, let’s do something really cool that people will see in a thrift store 20 years from now and go, ‘What the hell is this?’” Red Stuff plays WMSE’s “Local/Live,” Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. Their albums are streaming at redstuff.bandcamp.com.
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Milk Carton Kids
Milk Carton Kids Blended Mournful Songs with Deadpan Humor ::BY JAMIE LEE RAKE
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he audience coming to see The Milk Carton Kids at The Pabst Theater Thursday night got a fresh approach from the acoustic duo with the tragicomic name. Most notable initially, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale have switched out formal suits, which had defined their sartorial aesthetic since their national debut at the turn of the decade, for more casual attire. Pattengale, the more boyish-looking and slightly more fidgety of the two, looked especially comfortable in a plaid flannel shirt. But, after an opening song wherein the men’s harmonized singing’s sole accompaniment was the intricate interplay of their guitars, as is the case on much of their previous recorded output, they brought out a band. The fleshing out of the Kids’ sound with drums, double bass, fiddle, accordion and pedal steel guitar follows from the approach they take on their fifth album, All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do. The change in musical tack abets a set of songs wherein Ryan and especially Pattengale may be at their most personally transparent. That transparency derives from less than cheery circumstances. Pattengale’s breakup with his girlfriend of seven years informs the stark emotional devastation of the collection’s titular track and “I’ve Been Loving You.” “Mourning In America” imbues the same kind of heartache into a wider angle of sorrow, likely informed by recent national sociopolitical goings on, perhaps influenced by Ryan’s concern for his young children. Contrasting with such processing of grief, the Milk Carton tradition of deadpan, funny banter hasn’t changed. The idea of lightening an audience’s psychic load from emotionally weighty songs is one Ryan and Pattengale share with their folk and bluegrass forebears, but none of those predecessors may have been so nerdy as these two. Musings about the number of strings on fiddler Jenna Moynihan’s instrument led to a bit of math humor shtick, along the way incorporating a commentary on the appropriateness for the 4-year-old in the audience of the adult language the guys used a mite. Their contrasting of Pattengale’s recently won bout with cancer to Ryan having lost a pair of glasses made for an edgier bit. If the laughter at the Pabst Theater was any indication, an album of their Smothers Brothers-meets-Demetri Martin brand of funny could become as well received as their growing catalog of mournful music. Not all Milk Carton Kids’ songs are incitements to tears, thankfully. The rambling ways of the protagonist in “Girls, Gather ‘Round” end on the hopeful note of a man sticking by his mate. It can be almost discomfiting to see Pattengale present songs so giddy, if only because of the prevalence of sadness throughout most of his and Ryan’s repertoire. “Promised Land,” one of their three encores after a set of 15 songs, transmuted a phrase of gospel iconography into a less-hopeful portrait of a relationship in tatters. But a cheery bow from the whole ensemble, arm in arm as if ending a play, left a rapt audience on a wellearned high. N O V E M B E R 1 , 2 0 1 8 | 41
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Anodyne Coffee , Voodoohoney Brass Band Cactus Club, Lost Letters Tour w/LUXI, Dashcam & Immortal Girlfriend County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Ultimate Open Jam w/host Abracadabra On the Bayou, Open Mic Comedy w/host The Original Darryl Hill Pabst Theater, Blues Traveler w/Con Brio Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Kevin Kennedy is Special K (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Keith Anderson Solo Acoustic w/ Geoff Landon (8:30pm) Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Shaker’s Cigar Bar, Prof. Pinkerton & the Magnificents Shank Hall, Adrian Legg The Back Room at Colectivo, The Wind and The Wave The Bay Restaurant, Ian Gould The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Martini Jazz Lounge: Juli Wood Group Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Ally’s Bistro (Menomonee Falls), The Kaye Berigan 4Tet American Legion Post #399 (Okauchee), Sawyer Road Band American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Danny Moore & The Boogie Woogie Flu Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Julie’s Piano Karaoke Anodyne Coffee (Walker’s Point), The Right Now w/Wild Skies Cactus Club, ADULT. w/Ritual Howls, HOGG & DJ Demian Glas Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Small Potatoes Camp Dundee Bar & Grill (Campbellsport), Matt MF Tyner Cedarburg Cultural Center, First Fridays: The UnXpected (6pm) Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Silk Torpedo (8pm); DJ: Seedy (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Viogression ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee! Company Brewing, That R&B Kickback with DJ Bizzon & DJ 88 County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Crush Wine Bar (Waukesha), CP & Stoll w/Chris Peppas & Jeff Stoll Dandy - Midventurous Modern, A Dandy Comedy Show
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Hudson Business Lounge and Cafe, Jazz at Noon: Don Linke and Friends Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & Friends Jazz Estate, Scott Currier Quartet (8pm), Late Night Session: Juli Wood / Kim Zick Duo (11:30pm) Kenosha Yacht Club, The Blues Disciples Kim’s Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. Band Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Landmark Lanes, Halloween on the Moon: The Unitaskers, Side Hug, Soniendo & Adam Joy Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Henhouse Prowlers Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) Miramar Theatre, Dead Man’s Carnival w/Prof. Pinkerton & The Magnificents (8pm), Shadow People (TRUTH x YOUNGSTA) w/Ukiyo (11pm) Pabst Theater, Randy Rainbow Live Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Dave Wacker Duo (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Keith Anderson Solo Acoustic w/Geoff Landon (9:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Ween (all-ages, 8pm), Zoso - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Shank Hall, Local H Site 1A, Kill Frenzy The Back Room at Colectivo, Phil Cook w/Chris Rosenau (of Collections Of Colonies of Bees) The Bay Restaurant, Rick Aaron & The Men in Black Trio The Brass Tap, Joe Kadlec The Cooperage, Beats Winter Milwaukee: Serengeti, Tytuus & Lil Guillotine Turner Hall Ballroom, Stephen Marley Acoustic Up & Under Pub, Video Dead
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3
American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), The Ricochettes Big Head Brewing Company, Jonny T-Bird Cactus Club, RIP Soul Low w/Whips & Amanda Huff (all-ages, 3pm), R.I.P. Soul Low w/Taj & Sundial Mottos (ages 21+, 9pm) Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Ridgeway Studio Ensemble Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Best Westerns (8pm); DJ: Theresa Who (10pm) Coin’s Sports Bar (Kenosha), 76 Juliet ComedySportz Milwaukee, ComedySportz Milwaukee! Company Brewing, Neocaveman album release show w/The Old Prospectors and Saebra & Carlyle Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), King of Clubs Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Vocals & Keys Jazz Estate, Roberto Magris Quintet (8pm), Late Night Session: Mike Pauers Quartet (11:30pm) Just J’s, The Carpetbaggers Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Fuzee w/DoneAway & Bruce Dean and then Some Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Dr. Sinclair w/The Nightenjails Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) Matty’s Bar & Grille (New Berlin), Fall Music: Phil Norby McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), The Kung Foo Grips Miramar Theatre, Lane 8: Little By Little Tour w/Enamour & Eppen (all-ages, 9pm) Mo’s Irish Pub (Wauwatosa), 5 Card Studs Orchard Inn (Menomonee Falls), 2nd Annual Guitar for Vets Benefit: Gimme Skynyrd, Rustic Road & Bad Medicine Pabst Theater, Manitowoc Minute’s Charlie Berens Plymouth Church UCC, The Coffeehouse presents Food Pantry Benefit: “Songs of Cities and Towns” w/Jonnie Guernsey (joined by Jerry Danks, Jon Pagenkopf, and Chris Straw), John King, Tom Martinsen & J.P. Spencer Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Xeno & Joe (9pm), In the Fire Pit: Saving Savannah (9pm) Rave / Eagles Club, Seether Poison w/Dead Original (all-ages, 8pm), Filmore w/Hannah Ellis & Renee Blair (all-ages, 8pm) Riverwest Filling Station, Eccentric Acoustic Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Bluegrass Sampler VII (5:30pm) Shank Hall, Third Annual All Synths Day w/Moth Light EP release, Donny Jankowski aka Dashcam & Xposed 4Heads The Cheel (Thiensville), J. Ryan Jazz Trio The Crimson Club, Back to the ‘80s Prom w/Mixtape Turner Hall Ballroom, Paul Thorn w/Trapper Schoepp
::ALBUM Unitarian Church North, Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series presents: 2nd Annual Community Sing w/Mark Dvorak, Julie Thompson & Craig Siemsen Up & Under Pub, Bourbon House w/The Almas & Three Unassisted Westallion Brewing Company, Robert Allen Jr. Band
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/Julie Brandenburg Cactus Club, Milwaukee Record Halftime Show: Iron Pizza Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Bronze Clockwork (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Dugout 54, Dugout 54 Sunday Open Jam Lakefront Brewery, Keg Stand Up Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Route 20 Outhouse (Sturtevant), Devour The Day w/ Resistance Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Larry Lynne Solo (4pm) Smiling Moose (Osman), The Blues Disciples (3pm) The Back Room at Colectivo, Rafiq Bhatia w/WILLS The Tonic Tavern, Third Coast Blues: Andrew Koenig Band (4pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, KT Tunstall w/Maddie Ross
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Cactus Club, Death Valley Girls w/Gymshorts, Slow Walker & Body Work Jazz Estate, Jazz Estate Jam Session Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader James Houck (sign-up 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Parkside Reunion Big Band Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam: Christopher John & Friends w/featured band Shank Hall, James McMurtry w/Bonnie Whitmore The Back Room at Colectivo, (Sandy) Alex G w/Half Wai Up & Under Pub, Open Mic w/Marshall McGhee and the Wanderers
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Cactus Club, #IVOTED Initiative w/Eliza Hanson & Beach Static Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Jazz Estate, Extra Crispy Brass Band Kim’s Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. & Friends (6pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Miller High Life Theatre, #iVoted Concert: Lorde Fredd33 w/ Tapebenders (6pm) Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm, all-ages) Pabst Theater, The FUN Show with Cat & Nat Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Riverwest Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/George Braith Turner Hall Ballroom, Judd Apatow
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Anodyne Coffee (Walker’s Point), Cactus Club Presents: Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Sen Morimoto, Gauss & K-Stamp Caroline’s Jazz Club, Jimi Schutte American Blues Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson High Dive, The Voodoohoney Pirates Iron Mike’s (Franklin), B Lee Nelson Acoustic Jam Jazz Estate, Jason Fabus Quartet Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Seth Ladd (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Shank Hall, Peter Asher & Jeremy Clyde Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. & Friends (6pm) Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk The Cheel (Thiensville), Eric Jacobson Jazz Trio (6:30pm) The Packing House Restaurant, Carmen Nickerson & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, The Infamous Stringdusters w/The Wooks
Jack Grassel and Jill Jensen Snow People
(FROZEN SKY RECORDS) “Winter means short days, long shadows. It’s an introspective time,” says Jill Jensen, one half of the duo behind Snow People. Her other half, Jack Grassel, adds, “It’s not all Christmas songs. You hear Christmas songs in stores all the time and people aren’t crazy about it.” Snow People is a collection of 13 songs that evoke winter (and the holidays) musically as well as lyrically. It includes one original, “Snow Sprite,” a poem by Racine’s Leslie Sobota set to music by Grassel and Jensen, and a batch of mostly familiar tunes performed in largely unfamiliar ways. An outstanding and venturesome jazz guitarist, Grassel channels one of his early influences, Wes Montgomery, on their interpretation of The Mamas & The Papas’“California Dreamin’.” Jensen has grown into one of Wisconsin’s most accomplished jazz singers and brings playfulness and sensuality to “Merry Christmas, Baby” and “Canadian Sunset.” “If I’m going to do a song that’s been around a while, I’ll rewrite it,” says Grassel, who plays all instruments on the album. “If you’ve ever been on a sleigh ride, you know it doesn’t feel like you’re in a race,” Jensen jumps in, explaining their rendition of that old holiday chestnut, “Sleigh Ride.”“It’s clunking along behind a slow horse—it’s romantic! Our interpretation has the joy of a sleigh ride but not the frantic-manic thing.” At whatever tempo, the music on Snow People suggests an evening by a warm fire. —David Luhrssen Jack Grassel and Jill Jensen will perform at the Beulah Brinton House, 2590 S. Superior St., on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. The pre-paid $30 event includes food, wine, beer, coffee, soft drinks and desserts. For tickets visit houseconcertsmke.com or call 262951-1915. They will also perform at the Jazz Gallery, 926 E. Center St., on Sunday, Dec. 9 from 2-4 p.m.
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PSYCHO SUDOKU! “Sum Sudoku”
Put one digit from 1-9 in each square of this Sudoku so that the following three conditions are met: 1) each row, column, and 3x3 box (as marked off by heavy lines in the grid) contains the digits 1-9 exactly one time; 2) no digit is repeated within any of the areas marked off by dotted lines; and 3) the sums of the numbers in each area marked off by dotted lines total the little number given in each of those areas. Now do what I tell you—solve!! psychosudoku@gmail.com
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15. In the style of 16. Holmes’ Dr. Watson 17. Wizards 18. Frosted 24. Sparkle 25. Plant of the goosefoot family 26. Great blue — 31. Routine work 32. Jag 33. Brace 34. Like some leaf edges 35. Pester 37. Proprietress 38. Wouk’s warship 39. Scintilla 40. Introduces 41. At a distance 43. Flow regulator 45. Pressed 46. “Revenge of the —” 47. Arrow poison: Var. 50. Paradise 54. Norman of “Psycho” 55. Working-group dog 56. Stunts 58. Native of Kathmandu 59. Experts 60. Wavelet 62. Avant-garde composer 63. Dalai — 64. Hidden store
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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Penetralia” is a word that means the innermost or most private parts, the most secret and mysterious places. It’s derived from the same Latin term that evolved into the word “penetrate.” You Scorpios are of course the zodiac’s masters of penetralia. More than any other sign, you’re likely to know where the penetralia are, as well as how to get to them and what to do when you get to them. I suspect that this tricky skill will come in extra handy during the coming weeks. I bet your intimate adeptness with penetralia will bring you power, fun, and knowledge. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke suggested that we cultivate an alertness for the ever-present possibility of germination and gestation. On a regular basis, he advised, we should send probes down into the darkness, into our unconscious minds, to explore for early signs of awakening. And when we discover the forces of renewal stirring there in the depths, we should be humble and reverent toward them, understanding that they are as-yet beyond the reach of our ability to understand. We shouldn’t seek to explain and define them at first, but simply devote ourselves to nurturing them. Everything I just said is your top assignment in the coming weeks. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re in a phase of your cycle when your influence is at a peak. People are more receptive than usual to your ideas and more likely to want the same things you do. Given these conditions, I think the best information I can offer you is the following meditation by Capricorn activist Martin Luther King Jr. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian environmentalist Edward Abbey spent much of his life rambling around in the great outdoors. He was an emancipated spirit who regarded the natural world as the only church he needed. In an eruption of ecstatic appreciation, he once testified that “Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.” And yet the truth is, Abbey was more than a wild-hearted Dionysian explorer in the wilderness. He found the discipline and diligence to write 23 books! I mention this, Aquarius, because now is a perfect time for you to be like the disciplined and diligent and productive version of Abbey. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For renowned Piscean visual artist Anne Truitt (1921– 2004), creating her work was high adventure. She testified that artists like her had “to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse’s neck, peering into a blinding rain.” Whether or not you’re an artist, Pisces, I suspect your life in the coming weeks may feel like the process she described. And that’s a good thing! A fun thing! Enjoy your ride. ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have officially arrived at the heart of the most therapeutic phase of your cycle. Congratulations! It’s an excellent time to fix what’s wrong, hurt, or distorted. You will attract more help than you can imagine if you summon an aggressive approach toward finding antidotes and cures. A good way to set the tone for your aggressive determination to feel better is to heed this advice from poet Maya Angelou: “Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): U2’s singer Bono, born under the sign of Taurus, says that all of us suffer from the sense that something’s missing from our lives. We imagine that we lack an essential quality or experience, and its absence makes us feel sad and insufficient. French philosopher Blaise Pascal referred to this emptiness as “a God-shaped hole.” Bono adds that “you can never completely fill that hole,” but you may find partial fixes through love and sex, creative expression, family, meaningful work, parenting, activism and spiritual devotion. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I have a strong sus-
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picion that in the coming weeks you will have more power to fill your God-shaped hole than you’ve had in a long time. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it’s even possible to have an original desire anymore.” So says a character in Gemini author Tobias Wolff’s short story “Sanity.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to refute and rebel against this notion. The cosmic rhythms will work in your favor to the degree that you cultivate innovative yearnings and unique urges. I hope you’ll make it your goal to have the experiences necessary to stir up an outbreak of original desires. CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you’re a typical member of the Cancerian tribe, you’re skilled at responding constructively when things go wrong. Your intelligence rises up hot and strong when you get sick or rejected or burned. But if you’re a classic Crab, you have less savvy in dealing with triumphs. You may sputter when faced with splashy joy, smart praise, or lucky breaks. But everything I just said is meant to be a challenge, not a curse. One of the best reasons to study astrology is to be aware of the potential shortcomings of your sign so you can outwit and overcome them. That’s why I think that eventually you’ll evolve to the point where you won’t be a bit flustered when blessings arrive. And the immediate future will bring you excellent opportunities to upgrade your response to good fortune. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Each of us needs something of an island in her life,” said poet John Keats. “If not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be herself, free to cultivate her differences from others.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Leo, you’ll be wise to spend extra time on your own island in the next two weeks. Solitude is unlikely to breed unpleasant loneliness but will instead inspire creative power and evoke inner strength. If you don’t have an island yet, go in search! (P.S.: I translated Keats’ pronouns into the feminine gender.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m rooting for you to engage in experimental intimacy, Virgo. I hope you’ll have an affinity for sweet blends and incandescent mixtures and arousing juxtapositions. To get in the right mood for this playful work, you could read love poetry and listen to uplifting songs that potentize your urge to merge. Here are a few lyrical passages to get you warmed up. 1. “Your flesh quivers against mine like moonlight on the sea.”—Julio Cortázar. 2. “When she smiles like that she is as beautiful as all my secrets.”—Anne Carson. 3. “My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars . . . The flowers of your garden blossom in my body.”—Rabindranath Tagore. 4. “I can only find you by looking deeper, that’s how love leads us into the world.”— Anne Michaels. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Of course I want you to have more money. I’d love for you to buy experiences that expand your mind, deepen your emotional intelligence, and foster your ability to create inspiring forms of togetherness. My soul would celebrate if you got access to new wealth that enabled you to go in quest of spiritual fun and educational adventures. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be thrilled about you spending extra cash on trivial desires or fancy junk you don’t really need. Here’s why I feel this way: To the extent that you seek more money to pursue your most righteous cravings, you’re likely to get more money. Homework: What gifts and blessings do you want? Express your outrageous demands and humble requests at freewillastrology.com. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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n Ouachita Parish, La., chicken owner Stephanie Morse told KNOETV on Oct. 18 that she is not going to be deterred from dressing up her chickens for Halloween, even in light of the warning from the Centers for Disease Control about exposure to salmonella. More than 90 people in 29 states have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacteria after coming into contact with raw chicken products. Dressing up live chickens might also cause people to be exposed to the germ. “Don’t kiss your birds or snuggle them,” the CDC warns. But Morse clucks back, “I just like to put a sweater on them to keep them warm and comfortable.”
Largest Colectomy Ever The University of Kansas Cancer Center just wants its colon back. The $4,000 giant inflatable colon that is used to educate the public about colon health was stolen from the bed of a pickup truck on Oct. 19. The Kansas City Star reported it was scheduled to appear at a run/walk event at a local park the next day. Kansas City Police are hoping the public will help find the 150-pound, 10-foot-long colon and return it to its owners.
Tea Time in Minnesota Helen Washington, 75, of Brooklyn Center, Minn., faces charges of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon after she ran out of patience on Oct. 12 with her grandson, who continued to put his teacup without a saucer on her furniture even after she repeatedly asked him not to. After dumping his tea out, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, Washington left the room, apparently to get a gun. Meanwhile, the grandson had made a new cup of tea and put it on the furniture, as usual, sans saucer. The argument resumed, and Washington pulled out the .38 Special, shooting her grandson. She told officers at the scene she didn’t think she should go to jail; a judge ordered an evaluation to see if she’s competent to stand trial.
When Pig Heads Fly Beagle Brigade K-9 officer Hardy probably thought he’d hit the jackpot when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents discovered an unusual item in a passenger’s luggage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Oct. 11. Fox5 reported that something
smelled suspicious to Hardy, so agents opened the bag of a traveler from Ecuador to find… a pig’s head. “This seizure at ATL illustrates the tremendous expertise of our four-legged K-9 partners in protecting the United States,” gushed Carey Davis, CBP area port director of the Port of Atlanta. No doubt to Hardy’s distress, the pig’s head was removed and destroyed.
Hose: 7, Kelly: 0 When Denver Broncos backup quarterback Chad Kelly wandered into a suburban house in Englewood, Colo., early on the morning of Oct. 23, he didn’t appear to pose much of a threat, according to ESPN News. He sat down on the couch next to the female resident, who was holding her young child, and began “mumbling incoherently,” police records showed. But the man of the house, thinking quickly, shooed the 24-year-old Kelly out with nothing more than a vacuum hose. Kelly, who had been at a Halloween party with teammates, was later found sitting in his car about a block away. He was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass, but the real shame is how Kelly hosed his own career: On Oct. 24, the Broncos released him.
The Krispy Kreme Caper Police officers in Clearwater, Fla., shared their good fortune on Oct. 16 after they recovered a stolen van filled with Krispy Kreme doughnuts, reported the Tampa Bay Times. The van was stolen almost 200 miles north of Clearwater, in Lake City, where the store manager donated the sweet cargo to the officers, who shared their treats with local homeless people. Evidently the resulting sugar coma impaired the officers’ ability to hunt down the doughnut-stealing delinquents, as he, she or they are still on the run.
Ewww! William Friedman, 68, of Franklin Township, N.J., told police officers when he was apprehended that his weird practice of dumping his grandson’s used diapers around town “almost became a game.” Friedman had been disposing of the soiled nappies along several roadways over the past year, until an officer spotted him at 3:15 a.m. on Oct. 21 making another deposit. Not only is the littering disgusting, but officials told the Associated Press that a motorcyclist crashed in June after running over a diaper Friedman had tossed out. He was charged with interference with transportation and faces up to $1,000 in fines. © 2018 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION N O V E M B E R 1 , 2 0 1 8 | 45
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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. Where the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car, In pools among the rushes That scarce could bathe a star, We seek for slumbering trout And whispering in their ears Give them unquiet dreams; Leaning softly out From ferns that drop their tears Over the young streams. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. Away with us she’s going, The solemn-eyed: She’ll hear no more the lowing Of the calves on the warm hillside Or the kettle on the hob Sing peace into her breast, Or see the brown mice bob Round and round the oatmeal chest. For she comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than she can understand. To Martha. (Hey, this is going late but good and I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)
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