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How High-Tech Entrepreneurs Are Energizing Milwaukee ::BY MARY SUSSMAN

f you sense that something is stirring or hear a buzz, it might just be the sound of Milwaukee’s high-tech community building the foundation for a new entrepreneurial economy. In the past several years, an outcropping of high-tech entrepreneurs has emerged here, universities have gone all out to teach entrepreneurial skills, and established companies are on board to support this emerging startup ecosystem. But perceptions change slowly, as the underlying reality shifts. The Milwaukee area brought up the rear in the 2016 Kauffman Index of Start-up Activity, a place it has held for three consecutive years. “That galvanized a lot of individuals to put more focus on entrepreneurship,” says Louis Condon, program director of Gener8tor—a nationally ranked accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. In a 2017 report, the Public Policy Forum also found that Milwaukee lagged in its rates of startup development and survival, as well as in attracting venture capital. The report concluded that, while Milwaukee’s talent pool is growing stronger, it must continue to grow to remain competitive. “I’m not really worried about the Kauffman Foundation data. It’s certainly alarming and concerning that we aren’t a top-10 city for entrepreneurs,” says Matt Cordio—founder and president of Startup Milwaukee, a resource aggregator for the entrepreneurial community. “There are some people who completely write it off, like maybe it’s not accurate or something. I think it’s accurate. We are behind a lot of other cities and metro areas.” Cordio, a successful entrepreneur himself, is also founder and president of Skills Pipeline, LLC, an information technology talent acquisition firm. But Guy Mascari, executive director of the Technology Innovation Center (a startup incubator in Wauwatosa’s Research Park), says using venture capital as a measure of the number of startups in a region “does not capture all of the entrepreneurial or innovation activity in a region.” Startups that self-fund or are bootstrapped by entrepreneurs who grow their companies from revenues—and not through infusions of venture capital—are not reflected in many startup surveys and rankings. “I think we’re doing better than some of those things indicate.” Bootstrapping is a common practice in Milwaukee.

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Area colleges and universities are teaching entrepreneurial skills reflecting a national and international educational trend. For example, UW-Milwaukee’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University, UW-Whitewater’s Entrepreneurship Program, CULaunch! at Concordia University and MATC’s Technical Diploma in Entrepreneurship all teach skills and methods to help entrepreneurs succeed. “We want to arm all of our students with important skills that will make them more successful in their careers, regardless of their discipline,” says Brian Thompson, president of the UWM Research Foundation and director of the Lubar Center. “We want to give them skills in entrepreneurial thinking, innovation and creativity.” Pop-up classes—in which an entrepreneurship professor visits classrooms in other disciplines—reached 1,500 students last year. The Lubar Center wants to offer entrepreneurial education to the entire campus, not just to a small group in the business school. The center sponsors several competitions to encourage entrepreneurship for students and faculty. In 2015, Sheldon and Marianne Lubar donated $10 million to establish the center. Construction will begin on a new building later this year and will be completed in 2019. The new space will provide new instructional space, as well as a “maker” space for students, where they can design and build prototypes of their technology. Within established companies, the practice of “intrapreneurship” is taking hold. “An intrapreneur is an entrepreneur within a large company,” says Eric Baumgartner, vice president of academics at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). Just because someone has an entrepreneurial mindset doesn’t necessarily mean he or she will found a startup. “Sometimes it’s better to do that within a big company because you have the fiscal resources and the other resources behind you when you’re doing something new.”

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The Commons is a collaborative partnership among 24 colleges and universities, the business community and entrepreneurs in southeastern Wisconsin. It finds talented and motivated students and teaches them how to think like entrepreneurs in a nine-week accelerator program. Since its inception three years ago, 500 students have passed through its entrepreneurial accelerator. The Commons is offering programming to students from 30 area high schools. However, Mascari, who has been running the Technology Innovation Center for 20 years, is skeptical that entrepreneurship can be taught. “For the past 20 years, going back to the mid’90s, the dot-com boom and Silicon Valley, the idea, prevalent in the community right now, is that innovation and entrepreneurship are the keys to economic prosperity. The universities are always talking about it. They want to train students to be entrepreneurs.” Mascari thinks the key to economic prosperity is in workforce development. “I’ve dealt Entrepreneurs continued on page 8 >

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with hundreds of entrepreneurs. The mentality, the risk taking, the moxie is part of a basic personality that people have, so you can’t take Student A and turn them into an entrepreneur,” he says. “Just like you couldn’t turn me into a musician.” Conventional STEM education (a curriculum aimed at educating students in four speciﬁc disciplines—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—in an applied, interdisciplinary approach) is taking place at all the regional universities. At UWM, Brett Peters—dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science— says his school has seen strong growth in the demand for engineers, both in student interest and employer interest, and in the past few years, there has been a large increase in employer recruitment on campus. Across the country, corporate partners are a big presence on campus these days and play a role in deﬁning the curriculum and in sponsoring the kinds of research and projects that students do. MSOE has a tradition going back to 1913 of partnering with industry. UWM partners with GE Healthcare, Rockwell Automation, A.O. Smith and Badger Meter, among others, in training the next generation of engineers to innovate while solving industrial problems. “One of the strengths of Milwaukee is that we’ve got strong industry here in town; we’re working with them in trying to integrate them in the educational process,” says UWM’s Thompson.

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“People think that innovation comes from young kids, like Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg,” says Mascari. “The majority of successful companies at the Technology Innovation Center were started by people who had been in the industry for a while. A blind squirrel ﬁnds an acorn every once in a while, but to think that a 21- or 22-year-old is going to come up with groundbreaking innovations, I don’t think is borne out in reality.” Cordio of Startup Milwaukee agrees with this assessment. “Entrepreneurs in the area are good at bootstrapping,” he says. “They are not a bunch of young college dropouts building businesses. There are those prodigy-type situations, but by-and-large it’s people who actually have real work experience who create the more viable, sustainable companies.” Gener8tor’s Condon says California has eliminated all non-compete clauses in employment contracts, which restrict employees who leave a company from working in a competitive business. In California, “you can leave a large corporation and go out and start a startup in the same space; whereas in Wisconsin you can’t do that,” he says. He advocates loosening or eliminating non-compete laws in Wisconsin to encourage entrepreneurship. He knows of no venture-backed startups in Wisconsin that have started from executives of large corporations. “A mature and thriving startup community takes about 20 years to develop,” says Joe Poeschl, project director and co-founder of The Commons. He reckons that the new startup community in Milwaukee is about three-to-ﬁve years old right now. “Something real and quite powerful is being connected across the city, but

“ENTREPRENEURS IN THE AREA ARE GOOD AT BOOTSTRAPPING,” SAYS CORDIO “THEY ARE NOT A BUNCH OF YOUNG COLLEGE DROPOUTS BUILDING BUSINESSES. THERE ARE THOSE PRODIGY-TYPE SITUATIONS, BUT BYAND-LARGE IT’S PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE REAL WORK EXPERIENCE WHO CREATE THE MORE VIABLE, SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES.” it is not at that level where rankings that consider how many companies are getting investment dollars and signiﬁcant amounts of money” are measuring it, he says. “That’s not the sort of story we’re producing right now. We have a lot of smaller companies that are really establishing themselves. It might lead to establishing themselves as a lifestyle business rather than a highgrowth type of thing, but it might just be a much more practical type of growth pattern where they are not taking external investment dollars but bootstrapping.” Michael Liang, a partner at Baird Capital, a venture capital ﬁrm in Chicago, is familiar with the Milwaukee ecosystem. He says developing an ecosystem takes a lot of time, echoing Poeschl’s assessment. “Silicon Valley has been going on since the 1970s and ’80s. We believe that building up these ecosystems, like what’s happening in Wisconsin, is going to take 10 to

20 years, and we’re probably in inning three or four, to use a baseball analogy.” Poeschl says it’s important to “think about playing to your strengths instead of just trying to become the next ‘blank.’ We don’t need to recreate Silicon Valley here in Milwaukee. We just need to do what we do best.” Milwaukee startups have shown strength in the healthcare, ﬁnancial services, information technology and water technology sectors. More than 60 startups are working in healthcare and information technology alone.

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Though lagging badly in venture capital investment and in national rankings, the number of startups in Wisconsin that raised investment capital from 2011-2016 almost doubled, as did the amount of investment capital raised—from just more than $150 million in 2011 to almost $280 million in 2016, according to a Wisconsin Technology Council report. Just last year, 38 Milwaukee-area startups raised around $56 million in investment capital. With UW-Madison spawning many startups, Madison garnered the lion’s share of the $276 million in investment capital raised in the state. Cordio says that there is actually enough seed money and very early stage funding around. He sees the biggest deficit in early stage angel funding, which bridges the gap between seed funding and formal venture capital. He thinks that the State of Wisconsin could help with this by revising the regulations for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Qualified New Business Venture Program. Right now, the state gives a 25% tax credit on the total value of their investment. “What I think would get angel investors off the sidelines potentially is doing a 100% tax credit for up to $250,000.” Cordio says. “Currently, that pool of money is not being fully tapped. Last year, it got diverted into a manufacturing tax credit program because it just was sitting there left over.” He adds: “It gets challenging in Milwaukee and Wisconsin as a whole. Wealth is managed very conservatively. Maybe it’s our Germanic roots? We need some sort of catalyst to get money off the sidelines and into these early stage, high-growth start-ups. Let’s try it for five or 10 years to see the impact of all the wealth that it gets off the sidelines. It’s not a total wash to give those people a tax credit because they’re creating new jobs, and those companies are paying corporate income tax in Wisconsin.”

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Clearing the Clouds for Wisconsin’s Solar Industry ::BY DAN SHAW

uch has changed in the solarenergy business since Paul and Candy Krepel decided to install 44 panels on their house and garage in Bay View nearly 10 years ago. Most remarkably, the cost of solar equipment has plummeted. The couple’s system, when installed, had run nearly $64,000 before various federal and state subsidies knocked about $14,000 off that price; the same project would cost less than half that today. Even with the big price drop, Paul, a family therapist, and Candy, a microbiologist, say they have no regrets about their decision to take the solar plunge in 2008. “We looked at this not only as an investment, but also that it was socially responsible,” said Paul, who opened his house to the public as part of a tour held by the Midwest Renewable Energy Association on Saturday, Oct. 7. The Krepels might have other reasons to be happy about their timing. Even as prices have dropped in recent years, state regulators have let power companies adopt policies that many see as little more than artificial barriers to competition from independent generators.

Utilities Raise the Rates

In Wisconsin, state officials have been particularly willing to go along with investor-owned utilities’ requests to raise the fixed portion of consumers’ monthly energy bills. This is the part of a bill that cannot be lowered, say, by turning down your air conditioner or generating your own power by using solar equipment. Regulators approved three fixed-rate increases in 2014 and two more in 2015. Now they are considering Madison-based Alliant Energy’s request to raise its monthly fixed charge from $7.50 to $12 later this year and $18 in 2018. Many of these changes have hit the Krepels directly. Like more than a million other customers in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the Krepels live in an area where they have little choice but to buy at least part of their power from Milwaukee-based We Energies, and of the three big investor-owned utilities that asked for rate increases in 2014, We Energies was in many ways the most aggressive. Its fixed-rate increase was relatively modest—taking its charge from $19 to $21 per month, but on top of that was a reduction in what customers receive for selling power back onto the grid. Also added in was a new “demand charge” that We Energies would have collected solely from solar customers had the fee not first been shut down in Dane County Circuit Court.

self through energy savings. Paul noted that his system is under a 25-year warranty. One way to look at their investment, then, is that it has let the Krepels pay for 25 years’ worth of power in 10 years’ time. So, no matter what utilities might do now, Paul says, “at least we invested early, and we made it work and got a return on our investment.” But even as Wisconsin regulators have gotten tougher on solar generation, there has been little sign that the industry is slowing down. By this spring, projects totaling 60 megawatts of solar energy had been installed in the state, up from only 25 the year before. And a project being built by the power giant NextEra Energy at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Two Rivers, Wisc., promises to more than double that number, adding 100 megawatts by itself. Elsewhere, private businesses are finding that the economics of solar energy can work in their favor. Lakefront Brewery is using a recently installed array of solar panels to generate nearly 40% of the power used at its warehouse in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood. But still, Wisconsin continues to lag behind other states in solar production. Minnesota—a state where the sun can hardly be said to shine brighter or more frequently than in Wisconsin—has more than

10 times as much solar-generation equipment installed.

Reasons for Optimism…

Various solar installers predict Wisconsin is well on its way to catching up. Matthew K. Neumann, owner of Pewaukee-based Sunvest Solar, Inc., said even with higher fixed charges, payback times continue to shrink. Investments that took pioneers like the Krepels 10 years to recoup would now only take six-to-eight years. Neumann said he generally has reason to be optimistic, adding that “solar is already less expensive than retail energy rates.” That’s especially true in Wisconsin, he said, where utility rates are consistently among the highest in the Midwest. “And the further down that path we go, the sooner we are going to be disrupted by solar,” Neumann said. Others share Neumann’s outlook. Tyler Huebner, executive director of the renewable-energy group RENEW Wisconsin, said our state remains an outlier with its unusually high fixed charges, but when he and others first started fighting these increases several years ago, the fear was that utilities were going to be getting a lot more. “I think what we worried about in 2014 was that they were going to take these fixed charges from $10 or less to $25, $40 or $50 a month,” he said. “For the most part, they’ve increased to the $15to-$20 range. And it looks like it has stopped at that point.” One encouraging sign is that utilities—perhaps recognizing that they are going to have to compete against increasingly cheap renewable energy—are becoming “greener” themselves. Customers of Madison Gas & Electric can now choose to get at least part of their energy from green sources in return for agreeing to pay a bit

extra a month through what is known as a renewable-energy rider. Customers of We Energies can take advantage of similar service through the utility’s Energy for Tomorrow program.

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Amid all this, there remain reasons for caution. Thomas Content, executive director of CUB (Citizens Utility Board) of Wisconsin and a former utilities reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, said it would be unwise to stop paying close attention to power companies’ rate requests simply because the industry seems headed in a good direction. He said that utility regulators in this state have historically looked favorably on power companies and their plans. Content also added that this tendency has very little to do with political party: Even when Democrats were in control in Madison, he said, there was a sense that “the ‘Average Joe’ doesn’t want solar.” But the “Average Joe” can read price signals just as well as anyone else. With costs continuing to fall and utilities under pressure to compete, many think it’s only a matter of time before solar energy in Wisconsin at least catches up with what has happened in nearby states. For the Krepels, there is little that has happened in the past 10 years to make what was a good investment in 2008 any less appealing today. Paul said he thinks the biggest reason why more people don’t have solar equipment is simply a hesitancy to use new technology. He’s proud that he and his wife have managed to show, by example, that it can work. “There have to be people who have already installed this stuff,” Krepel said, “and it has been good to have been very early with this and to have been a pioneer.” Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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ach week, 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 Trump administration and other activities that seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinkingdiscussion get-togethers or any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

Thursday, Nov. 2

Rid Racism Milwaukee Gathering @ El Fuego (909 W. Layton Ave.), 5-7 p.m.

Rid Racism Milwaukee hopes to gather their current members as well as other members of the community for a night of conversation on how to dismantle racism in the Greater Milwaukee Area.

Refugee Volunteer Information Session @ Lutheran Social Services (5300 W. Lincoln Ave.), 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Lutheran Social Services’ Refugee and Immigrant Services will be holding a volunteer information session designed to inform those who want to learn more about refugee resettlement and what they can do as volunteers to support LSS’s work and mission.

Town Hall with County Supervisors Jason Haas and Marina Dimitrijevic @ South Shore Pavilion (2900 South Shore Drive), 6 p.m.

County Supervisors Haas and Dimitrijevic have invited constituents to attend a town hall meeting so members of the public in attendance can ask questions about the Milwaukee County budget and provide their input regarding budget priorities.

Ex Fabula: Refugee Stories @ Haggerty Museum of Art (530 N. 13th St.), 6-8 p.m.

This edition of Ex Fabula’s StorySlam explores the experiences of refugees living in Milwaukee. This free, open-to-the-public event is presented in collaboration with “Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy,” an exhibition currently on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art through Sunday, Jan. 14.

Friday, Nov. 3

Equitable Development in Milwaukee: Policy and Practice @ Italian Community Center (631 E. Chicago St.), 7:45 a.m.-2 p.m.

With a goal of increasing “civic leadership in policy and practices that lead to increased racial and economic equity in Milwaukee,” this one-day symposium will frame a conversation about equitable economic development, gentrification and tools for civic action. Registration is required.

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Milwaukee’s Open Housing Marches of 1967-1968 @ Milwaukee County Historical Society (910 N. Old World Third St.), 5:30-6:30 p.m.

This event, co-hosted with 200 Nights of Freedom, will feature a discussion with Patrick Jones, author of The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee. It is free and open to the public.

Saturday, Nov. 4

Voter and Civic Engagement Campaign @ Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin (221 S. Second St.), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Acción Ciudadana de Wisconsin, Latino Voting Bloc of Wisconsin and Citizen Action of Wisconsin have come together to organize a weekly Saturday campaign of knocking on doors and phone banking to get people thinking about the 2018 elections. Volunteers can go out and talk to voters about the issues that they care about and get them involved in different events happening in the community.

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ The corner of Capitol Drive and Teutonia Avenue, noon-1 p.m.

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

Monday, Nov. 6

Lunchtime for Activists: Confronting Mass Incarceration @ UWM Union (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.), 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

A number of departments at UW-Milwaukee have come together to put together this event, which features keynote speeches from University of Michigan professor and historian Heather Ann Thompson, whose book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History. 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 the administration of Donald Trump has planned for our great country. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n N O V E M B E R 2 , 2 0 1 7 | 11

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Republicans Facing another Joe McCarthy Moment ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

isconsin was at the center of the Republicans’ original Joe McCarthy moment. That was the first time the party had to decide whether to take a stand against one of its own for brazenly dishonest political demagoguery that crossed all boundaries of decency and threatened democracy itself. Many of us have been waiting since January to see how long it would take modern-day Republicans to admit they’re facing another such moment. Republicans barely passed their first political test back in 1954. Republican U.S. Senators split 22 to 22—with half of them joining 44 Democrats and one independent to approve, 67 to 22, a resolution censuring Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy for his fabricated accusations of rampant treason by supposed communists operating within the Eisenhower administration and the U.S. Army. That vote ended Mc-

Carthy’s career and the shameful McCarthy Era that inflamed hatred, smearing anyone on the political left in this country as un-American. Blacklists destroyed lives and careers in government, education, entertainment and industry with cruel abandon.

Will GOP Stand against Trump’s Indecency? When Donald Trump began winning support for the party’s nomination in early 2016, many conservatives began identifying it as another Joe McCarthy moment for Republicans. But any hope Republicans would stand up against Trump’s open bigotry, indecency and constant stream of political lies ended when bigotry, indecency and lies worked like a charm and won the presidency for the Republicans. Even House Speaker Paul Ryan, embarrassed by Trump’s obvious appeals to bigotry instead of employing traditional Republican code words, obediently embraced Trump to pass his teaparty wish list. But that was nine long months ago. Since then, Trump has demonstrated his inability to pass much of anything. The downside of that good fortune is having a president who is dangerously unstable, virulently racist, morally unfit, personally nasty and childishly self-deluded with the power to blow up the world at any moment. But, finally, respectable, conservative Republicans are speaking right out loud about the clear and present danger Trump poses to the

country and to democracy. So far, it’s four Republicans who no longer worry about being elected or reelected, but they’re solid conservatives with strong credentials: George W. Bush, the last Republican president; Arizona Sen. John McCain, a presidential nominee and war hero nearing the end of his life; Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who previously ran the Goldwater Institute— a conservative think tank promoting the ideas of 1964 presidential nominee Barry Goldwater who’s considered the father of the modern conservative movement; and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Flake, who decided not to run for reelection after his party turned on him for denouncing Trump’s trashing of American values, was openly critical of Republicans who privately agree with him but remain cowardly silent and complicit. “When the next generation asks us, ‘Why didn’t you do something? Why didn’t you speak up?’ what are we going to say?” Flake asked. “Mr. President, I rise to say, ‘Enough!’” He continued: “We must never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue with the tone set at the top. We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country. The personal attacks. The threats against principles, freedoms and institutions. The flagrant disregard for truth and decency.”

Bush against Bullying Bush, better known for wisecracks than public eloquence, forcefully denounced the

degrading of presidential discourse. “Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry,” he declared. “Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.” If those things really are what many Republicans say privately, you couldn’t prove it by their eager attempts to trivialize all such deadly serious alarms. “All this stuff you see on a daily basis—Twitter this and Twitter that—forget about it,” Ryan said dismissively. “If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone’s integrity or intent,” Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee seconded, “Congress wouldn’t have any time to govern.” Well, what if it’s a rabid pack of demon squirrels devouring the fundamental principles of American democracy? Corker’s concern about Trump’s reckless attacks launching World War III is hardly inconsequential. Many Republicans are terrified to cross Trump now. They’re desperate to pass tax cuts to prove they can pass something, anything, before the 2018 elections, and Trump’s dishonest rhetoric could sabotage the legislation at any time. Their tax plan already is in trouble with the National Association of Home Builders launching full-scale war against threats to homeowner deductions for mortgage interest payments and property taxes. Continued failure might be the best thing that ever happened to Republicans. It would free more of them to start telling the truth about Trump at this Joe McCarthy moment before he brings the whole party crashing down. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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Facebook revealed this week that 126 million Americans may have been exposed to political content on its site created by Russian operatives. Did Facebook turn a blind eye to the problem and put profits over patriotism? n Yes n No Vote online at shepherdexpress.com. We’ll publish the results of this poll in next week’s issue.

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New Day, New Opportunity to Show Leadership for the Seriously Ill in Wisconsin ::BY JON ERPENBACH AND CHRIS TAYLOR

he face of medical marijuana has changed as our country and community seek to find creative, affordable and safe treatment for individuals affected by opioid abuse or suffering from serious illnesses, including cancer and ALS. Doctor-recommended medical cannabis should be available as an option for those patients fighting debilitating diseases. The time is now for Wisconsin to join the majority of states and legalize medical marijuana by passing Senate Bill 38 and Assembly Bill 75. For more than 10 years in Wisconsin, Democratic Party legislators and advocates have been fighting for gravely ill individuals. In this session, rather than giving these people the courtesy of listening to their stories, a few powerful legislators are using their positions and mistruths to keep affordable medicine out of the hands of those who need it the most. Meanwhile, our opioid abuse and resulting heroin crisis here in Wisconsin continues to escalate. Medical marijuana for pain management for some patients could be a less harmful and safer alternative for individuals who would normally be prescribed opioids and be at greater risk of addiction. According to a recent study— “Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Mortality”—which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, opioid overdose deaths were reduced by 25% in states with effective medical marijuana laws. As policy makers, we are willing to pass bill after bill in an effort to get a handle on the opioid crisis in our communities, but when it comes to legalizing marijuana for seriously ill patients to manage pain and other debilitating health conditions, we cannot even get a public hearing on this issue in the Republican-controlled legislature. Wisconsin lags behind most of the nation on this issue. Twenty-nine other states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, including all four of our neighboring states (Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa). Veterans’ organizations, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and The American Legion, have passed resolutions supporting medical marijuana for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), chronic pain and other injuries incurred while in military service. Veterans’ Affairs (VA) data show that one-third of all veterans in their care received opioids for pain management. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

Sadly, data also show that VA patients had nearly twice the rate of fatal accidental overdoses than adults in the general population.

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The patient population who could greatly benefit from legalizing medical marijuana continues to grow and the support in our state and nationally is overwhelming. How is it that, when 89% of the nation supports legalizing medical marijuana, Republican leadership in our state continues to refuse to hear the public on the issue by giving our legislation a public hearing? Perhaps they are in the grips of the big pharmaceutical industry that fears legalizing marijuana for medical purposes will cut into their fat corporate profits. Perhaps it’s their own beliefs and biases. None of these excuses make up for failing to provide a treatment option for Wisconsinites that seriously ill patients

have access to in 29 other states. This is treatment that cancer patients and veterans can receive; treatment that patients dealing with painful illnesses can receive instead of opting for addictive, harmful opioids. But it’s also treatment that is currently denied to every citizen of Wisconsin. It is our hope that the personal biases and excuses that have driven this bill into the ground for the last decade can experience the swell of support we know exists for medical marijuana as a treatment option for patients when their physicians approve. It is our hope that, this time, common sense and human dignity will win. State Sen. Jon Erpenbach and Rep. Chris Taylor are co-authors of the medical marijuana bill, Senate Bill 38/Assembly Bill 75, that has come before the Wisconsin Legislature. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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THE BATTLE FOR BEER CHEESE ::BY DAVID LUHRSSEN Most of us suppose that beer cheese must have originated somewhere in the Dairy State, home of cheeseheads and more bars per capita than anywhere. But according to Garin Pirnia, author of The Beer Cheese Book, the creamy spread was invented in her home state, Kentucky, which hosts the Beer Cheese Festival every June in the otherwise sleepy town of Winchester. Origin stories aside, Pirnia includes recipes that spruce up the spread with everything from Worcestershire sauce and cayenne to garlic and jalapeños. And yes, before loyal Badgers march on Kentucky with pitchforks and flaming torches, Wisconsin gets several pages in The Beer Cheese Book. Wisconsin Cheese Mart is mentioned along with Chef Kristin Hueneke for her iteration of beer cheese made from that Dairyland favorite, cheese curds, soaked in Lakefront coffee stout.

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WARM UP WITH SOME FLAVORFUL, FILLING AND FREE OF ANY ANIMAL PRODUCTS PUMPKIN CHILI INGREDIENTS: • 1 tbsp olive oil • 1 medium yellow onion (diced) • 1 8-oz. package sliced Portobellos (chopped) • 1-2 jalapeño peppers (stemmed, seeded, and minced) • 3 garlic cloves (minced) • 2 tbsp fresh sage (finely chopped) • 1 cup roasted pumpkin (chopped) • 1 cup cherry tomatoes (chopped) • 1 15-oz. can red kidney beans (drained and rinsed) • 1 15-oz. can pinto beans (drained and rinsed) • 1 15-oz. can pumpkin puree • 2 cups tomato paste • 1 cup low-sodium vegetable broth • 2 tbsp chili powder • 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice • 1 tbsp coconut sugar • 1 tbsp ground cumin • 1 1/2 tsp salt or to taste

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The real question here is, “Why shouldn’t you go vegan?” The simple change of removing animal products from your diet not only helps the billions of animal who suffer and die every year, but it also has a positive effect on your health and a substantial effect on the environment. Avoiding animal products is one of the most obvious ways you can take a stand against animal cruelty and exploitation. Billions of animals a year suffer, abused, raped and murdered for human consumption. Domesticated farm animals like chickens are genetically manipulated to produce 300 eggs per year. That’s 2,000% more than what they would naturally produce per year. During this process, chickens are crammed into cages so small, they can’t spread their wings or even turn around. Once their production declines, they are soon slaughtered for meat. The same goes for the dairy industry. Within hours after birth, calves are stolen from their mother so that humans can take the milk that is intended for calves. These calves are then soon violated through artificial insemination and then go through the same process as their mother. Just by going vegan, you can save nearly 200 animals a year. That’s just from one person eliminating animal products! The vegan lifestyle and diet goes way beyond animal rights. Eating a vegan diet can be one of the healthiest ways to live. Plant-based diets are naturally higher in vitamins, minerals and fiber. Eating vegan can also reduce and prevent a vast amount of diseases and illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Ischemic heart disease, hypertension, stroke, obesity and some cancers including prostate and colon cancer. Another crucial reason to go vegan is that our environment needs it! Eliminating animal products means reducing energy consumption, conserving water, cleaning soil, purifying the air and just being realistic. Our environment will not be able to support our current level of food production for much longer. Animals raised for food production are fed over half of the all the world’s crops. As our population grows, we will require more and more agricultural space. Eating vegan could also potentially help world hunger. Over 850,000,000 people suffer from undernourishment while an estimated 700 million tons of food that could be consumed by humans goes to livestock each year. Like food, hundreds of millions of people around the world do not have access to clean water. It takes 100 to 200 times more water to raise a pound of beef than it does to raise a pound of plant foods. So, if you replace your roasted chicken dinners with a veggie chili, you could save 4,325 litres of water! Going vegan has an endless list of benefits. I highly encourage you to do your research and consider the effects veganism has on the environment, your health and the animals.

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Art Alley On the Way in Harambee ::BY KAT KNEEVERS

ilwaukee has seen mural projects and outdoor art areas spring up on the East Side and in Bay View, Walker’s Point and the Vliet Street neighborhood. Harambee, located just west of Riverwest, is embarking on its own endeavor in public art. The Harambee Art Alley is in its nascent stage, located in a vacant lot between old homes on Burleigh Street. Approaching the site, which is still in a raw state, the idea projects the belief that art can inspire and enliven people who live in the area as well as visitors. The project opened with an event on Oct. 22 when organizers and sponsors, working with artists and area youth, started installing support materials. Simple sheets of plywood were painted and primed for the display of murals, a few of which have been begun. The most distinctive at this point is a large-scale span of text with ornate decoration, simply spelling out “Haramabee.” Even in this early stage, it is reminiscent of the characteristic style of The Milwaukee Collective, a sponsor of this endeavor, and the Walker’s Point mural at 717 S. Second St. on the side of La Michoacana. What all of this reflects is an abiding feeling that art makes a significant difference in a neighborhood. It unifies a community and offers something to take pride in. It may be directly related to its location, or speak to universal feelings and concerns. The fact that this project is taking place in a residential area that is modest and uncommercial speaks to a sense of ambition that art can offer purpose and importance based on its own virtues. This is just the beginning of the Harambee Art Alley. Fruit trees have recently been planted and a Little Library with public seating are awaiting installation. While the land is raw and rocky, there is a long way to go. Whether the primary vision holds true for the final outcome remains to be seen, but it is hoped that this site will grow in stature as have other outdoor art spaces in Milwaukee. The Harambee Art Alley is located at 243 E. Burleigh St. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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CREATING MODERNISM IN PARIS Milwaukee Art Museum’s ‘Degas to Picasso’ takes viewers on a journey of discovery ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

he rules of how to make art and what was considered art were rewritten in 19th- and 20th-century Paris. In remarkable bursts of creative energy coincident with revolutions and world wars, visionaries cast aside the staid rules of academic art and taught us to see the world anew. Visual culture has never been the same. “Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France” (Nov. 4-Jan. 28, 2018 at the Milwaukee Art Museum) leads viewers on a journey through 150 works that trace the emergence of modern art. The exhibition has been carefully curated to render influence and evolution visible. “Viewers can see the way that Cézanne began to use a structuring, almost geometric brushstroke in his work,” explains Britany Salsbury, associate curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum. “In the next gallery, this proto-Cubism turns into actual squares, rectangles and angular forms in the work of Georges Braque, and then into boldly colored geometric forms in pieces by Fernand Léger in the following gallery.” “Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France” values depth as much as breadth. “A gallery toward the center of the show presents depictions of bathers by Edgar Degas,” says Salsbury, “Within

the one space, the same theme is represented by Degas in pastel drawings, multiple printmaking techniques (lithography and etching) and as sculpture. You really get a sense of the fascination that Degas had with experimentation and with pushing the limits of the processes and materials that were available to him.” While including oil paintings and bronze sculptures, the show emphasizes works on paper, an important and under-exhibited medium in modernism. Works on paper are finicky from a curatorial perspective. Because they are light sensitive, these works cannot be on view for extended periods of time—meaning that the exhibition affords the rare opportunity to see these works at all, not to mention in such insightful context. Some of the works themselves are quite rare, such as a drawing by Claude Monet, who despite being a prolific painter left behind few drawings, and the only surviving print by Vincent van Gogh, created just two weeks before his suicide, of the doctor who was treating his mental illness. “Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France” was originally assembled at the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, but MAM has added 37 items, growing the exhibition by nearly one third. The museum will also host programs that invite the community to engage with modern art both intellectually and artistically. On Thursday, Nov. 16, Katie Hanson, assistant curator for European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will give a lecture entitled “Traditional Painting Violated: Picasso and the Art of Emulation,” which explores Picasso’s relationship to various traditions in European art. And throughout November, the Kohl’s Art Generation Open Studio will furnish materials for visitors to follow in the footsteps of modern masters. Chalk pastels, charcoal, watercolors and an etching press will be available for experimentation and—who knows?—perhaps the next giant step in art history. (Clockwise from top left) Roger de la Fresnaye (1885–1925), Composition with Drum and Trumpet, 1917–19, Watercolor with brush and india ink on paper, 10 1/4” × 7 7/8”; Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), Kew Gardens, London, ca. 1892, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 9” × 11 1/2”; Juan Gris (1887–1927), The Guitar, 1912-13, Charcoal on paper, 12 1/2” × 18 7/8”; Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Portrait of Doctor Gachet, 1890, Etching on paper, 7 1/8 × 5 7/”; Edgar Degas (1834–1917), After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Leg, 1900-1905, Charcoal, white chalk, and pastel on paper, 24 5/8 × 20 1/4 inches

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Speaking with ‘Attica Prison Revolt’ Author Heather Ann Thompson ::BY ERIC BEAUMONT

ecently published in paperback by Vintage Books, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy is the result of 13 years’ work by University of Michigan history professor Heather Ann Thompson. Last year Blood in the Water was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. With detailed accounts of state-sanctioned abuse, torture and murder, Blood in the Water can be read as an indictment of complicity in a deliberate, statesanctioned massacre. It also serves as a handbook for the pursuit of justice and/or a manifesto on the quality of mercy, as well as a substantial biography of more than a dozen subjects. Since the paperback publication of Blood in the Water and to Thompson’s surprise, important new information about what happened at Attica back in 1971 continues to surface, and she continues to pursue those leads and share her findings in articles and public appearances. What led you to study Attica in the first place? I’m a civil rights historian by training, and I had always known that there had been this amazing civil rights protest behind bars. I had decided that it’s important that we write a history about it. I didn’t know, really, anything about prisons. I really had not—like most Americans—thought much about prison. That was 14 years ago. A research odyssey later, I came to see that it was one of the most important stories, not just in civil rights history but in American history. Law enforcement had killed people, tortured people, and there’s no statute of limitations on Heather Ann Thompson murder. There’s no limit to the extent to which these acts could have repercussions today. So the State of New York has pretty much shut down all access to these records. I wanted to know what happened. What was the mystery, and how had there been such a cover-up? And how was I going to tell the story when there was no obvious archive of documents? National Guard physician John W. Cudmore said, “I think Attica brings to mind several things. The first is the basic inhumanity of man to man.” Might all the work for justice and telling the stories of Attica have restored some humanity? I think so. That’s why, at the end of the book, the ultimate legacy of Attica is not repression; it is in fact this extraordinary determination to be treated as human and the reality that justice can in fact happen. I think it’s the core. This is a real David-andGoliath story of justice, not just repression. On Monday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m., the Frank P. Zeidler Memorial Lecture Series will present Heather Ann Thompson in a discussion of Blood in the Water at Turner Hall (1034 N. Fourth St.), co-sponsored by the Milwaukee Turners. For the full interview with Heather Ann Thompson, visit shepherdexpress.com.

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::ASKRUTHIE Dear Ruthie, Something stupid is causing a fight with an out-of-town friend. I went to visit my friend in (insert city here). Everything was cool, and we were having a great time until we hit the bars on Saturday night. That’s when I met my dream man. He had the face and body I fantasize about. Best of all, the guy was just as into me as I was into him. I brought him back to my friend’s house to spend the night. It was hot, and I don’t regret a thing. The problem is that my friend was furious I brought someone back to his house for the night. My point is that I’m a friend and I would never bring someone back to the house who couldn’t be trusted. Even if the guy stole something, I’d replace it. (Which he didn’t!) My point is that I was a guest, and if my friend wanted me to have a good time on my vacation, then he should have been cool with a hookup at his house.

My friend and I fought the last day I was there, and we didn’t speak on the drive back to the airport. We’ve only exchanged intense messages since I got back home. What do you think? If you run this question, I’m going to send my friend the link to your answer, no matter whose side you take.

Thanks, Juan Night Stand

Dear Hole in Juan, Sorry, sugar, but I’m going to have to side with your amigo on this one. I get it…you were just trying to get a little piece of chicken on your vacay, but if you wanted a playmate to spend the night you should have gotten a hotel room. After all, everyone is at their most vulnerable when sleeping, so it’s understandable that your friend was nervous about a stranger in his home…while he was asleep. Apologize to your buddy, let him know that it won’t happen again, and don’t let your onenight stand ruin a friendship.

::RUTHIE’SSOCALCALENDAR Nov. 2-12: 32nd Annual Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival at Various Locations: The best of LGBTQ+ cinema takes center stage during this popular festival. More than 15 pieces are featured at the Oriental Theatre and the UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema, so visit uwm.edu/lgbtfilmfestival for viewings, theaters and more. Nov. 3: Courage MKE’s Homecoming Gala at 1451 Renaissance Place (1451 N. Prospect Ave.): It’s that time of year, kids! Time for Courage MKE’s annual bash! Don’t miss the fancy-smancy night that includes a silent auction, food stations, keynote speakers, drag performance, and more! Tickets to the 6:30-11 p.m. evening are $35 at the door; $25 in advance. Visit couragemke.org for more. Nov. 5: Ruthie’s Starry Night Revue at Hamburger Mary’s (730 S. Fifth St.): I hit the stage as Joan Rivers with this fast-and-funny show, featuring your favorite divas. Join Joan’s guests Lady Gaga, Cher, Tina Turner, Madonna and others as they work their magic at Cream City’s favorite hamburger joint. The only celebrity impression show in town starts at 7 p.m., and makes the perfect girls night out, work party or simply a great way to cap off your weekend. Call 414-488-2555 for reservations. Nov. 5: Sticky Fingers 2017 at Wisconsin State Fair Park (640 S. 84th St.): Grab your stretchy pants because the city’s favorite feast fest is back with a new home on the State Fair grounds. Not only do you get to sample bites from dozens of Brew Town restaurants, but you get to judge the best! Strap on a chow bag and hit stickyfingerswi.com for $15 tickets to the 11:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. event, then dig in! Nov. 7: Queer Clothing Swap at UW-Milwaukee Student Union (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Wisconsin Room): If the only thing in your closet is your clothes, this is the event for you! Bring your old duds for swapping or simply pay for the “gently used” pieces of your dreams with this LGBTQ+ rummage. The two-hour swap starts at 4:30 p.m. Want to share an event with Ruthie? Need her advice on a situation? Email DearRuthie@Shepex.com. SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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Scapegoating Gays Again NO FUNERALS FOR LGBTQ CATHOLICS IN MADISON? ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

ust in time for Día de los Muertos, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison issued a memo, approved by its bishop, Robert Morlino, advising priests to essentially avoid performing funeral rites for LGBTQ persons in a “Homosexual Civil or Notorious Union” lest they create “scandal or confusion.” Understandably, the shocking statement that seemingly contradicts compliance with Christ’s instruction for compassion (as in “what you do unto the least of mine, you do unto Me,” Matthew 25:40, and other such citations) quickly reverberated around the world and has since inspired an online call for Pope Francis to remove the bishop. Good luck with that. Otherwise, for me the consternation over this latest of affronts to human dignity by religious extremists is hardly a surprise. I get those who hang onto their church affiliations for whatever reason—Stockholm Syndrome or some other manifestation of self-hate. But, most people I know are beyond that and would reject having a hypocritical Catholic priest perform a rite for a loved one anyway. (At this point I can hear Hamlet’s King Claudius saying, “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”) Anyway, there are plenty of affirming alternatives. Here in Milwaukee we have the Metropolitan Community Church, Plymouth Church and the Village Church, among many other Christian congregations; and there are several of other faiths as well.

But for all the uproar over this blatantly cruel repudiation of Christ’s teaching, the most galling part is its application only to LGBTQs. There’s no mention of refusing rites to remarried divorcees, cohabitating straight couples using birth control, murderers or, for that matter, active gay priests. It’s easy to figure out why: market share. About 25% of American Catholics are divorced. Cohabitating couples make up another batch of sinners, and it’s argued that of Catholic women, 98% have used birth control at some time. Were the Catholic Church really to pursue the matter, it would run out of people to bury. Market share becomes a raison d’etre when one considers the competition for congregants. In the past, the Church could take for granted certain inherently Catholic demographics to fill collection baskets. But recently there’s been a major hemorrhaging of Hispanics, a once reliable revenue stream. So, to remain competitive, if you can’t beat them, join them in their war against LGBTQs. Another factor may also be inspiring Catholic conservatives to assert their antiLGBTQ agenda, namely Pope Francis I himself. An outsider as both an Argentine “foreigner” and, perhaps even worse, a Jesuit, he has moved in a progressive direction on many of the Church’s most sensitive beliefs. Since his 2013 election he has shaken up the Vatican aristocracy by addressing corruption, rejecting its excesses of ceremony (think our Wisconsin brother Cardinal Raymond “Capa Magna” Burke and Madison’s Bishop Morlino, et al.), turned teaching away from dogma and toward policies implementing Christ’s mercy and serving the poor, and furthered Church engagement with world issues like climate change, women’s rights and immigration to name just a few. As a result, there has even been talk of schism. Either way, assaulting the dignity of dead gays is easy. The solace I suppose is contemplating what circle of Dante’s Inferno will be their reward.

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Kamasi Washington Explores the Intersection of Jazz and Hip-Hop ::BY TYLER FRIEDMAN

hen asked to categorize his music, Kamasi Washington’s answer is immediate: “jazz.”“I’m not averse to categories,” he clarifies, “but I am averse to letting categories limit the music.” Letting a variety of traditions influence, but not dictate, the terms of his music has placed the 36-year-old tenor saxophonist, along with a likeminded group of friends from his native Los Angeles, at the forefront of a sort of jazz renaissance. These are the musicians-arrangers-producers—Washington, Terrace Martin, Ronald Bruner Jr. and Thundercat, to name a few—that gave Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly its winsome jazz flavor. Washington first came to jazz by way of hip-hop. “I was really into West Coast hip-hop, especially gangster rap,” he recalls. “There was something about [drummer] Art Blakey’s feel that has a similar groove to it. That’s what brought me into the music.” The sample-heavy hip-hop of A Tribe Called Quest also drew Washington deeper with elusive bits of jazz at its most tantalizing. Washington studied ethnomusicology at UCLA, where he gained an appreciation for the diverse world of human music making. He cites North Indian Classical, Javanese Gamelan, Irish Celtic and Native American music as well as traditions from Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Ghana as leaving a mark, adding: “Ethnomusicology really opened my mind to how powerful and universal music is.” Washington’s tenure at UCLA also put him in direct contact with heavyweights from the history of jazz, particularly trumpeter, composer and arranger Gerald Wilson, drummer Billy Higgins and guitarist Kenny Burrell. Guitarist Burrell, a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Music and Ethnomusicology at UCLA, began his recording career in the early 1950s, when 78-rpm records were still the dominant medium. Appearing on Burrell’s 2004 album, The Ralph J. Bunche Suite, places Washington in a discography that boasts albums with John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie and the aforementioned Art Blakey.

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In Washington’s words, Burrell sounds half-jazzman, half-Zen master. “Kenny was very wise,” he recalls. “He asked me more questions than I asked him. In explaining what you’re doing, you start to see your own path more clearly. Kenny understands that music is a personal journey, not something that someone can tell you how to do. He pushed his students inward.” This immersion in the jazz tradition and study of non-Western musical cultures continued to peaceably ferment with Washington’s love of rap, and he was tapped to tour with Snoop Dogg during his sophomore year at UCLA. Kamasi “That’s when I really started to study Washington hip-hop,” he says. “I had listened to a lot of hip-hop before, but I had just enjoyed Tuesday, it. I didn’t study it. So much of what hipNov. 7, 8 p.m. hop is about is a deep understanding Turner Hall of rhythm, feel, placement and timing. Ballroom Once I understood that it’s not just what I play, but where I play it, that really affected the way I think about and hear music.” This deep study solidified producers such as Battlecat and J Dilla as well as rappers like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre as central influences on Washington’s artistic vision. In 2015, Washington released his first major label album, The Epic. The album resulted from a month’s immersion in a studio with friends that yielded a collective 190 songs—45 of which were Kamasi’s—17 of which were spread over The Epic’s three disks under the thematic divisions of “The Plan,”“The Glorious Tale” and “The Historical Repetition.” His unrelenting adherence to artistic vision also flouted a conventional rule of monomaniacal success seekers: All the tunes are well in excess of radio play’s requisite three-minute-ish limitation. Despite the audacious ambition, or because of it, The Epic was a mainstay on “Best Album of 2015” lists and debuted at number one on iTunes’ jazz chart (not to mention going gold in Germany). Washington kicks off his North American tour in Milwaukee, having recently released the follow up to The Epic, an EP entitled Harmony of Difference. In form, the EP differs markedly from its predecessor. Five of its six tracks lend themselves in length to radio play. The sound, however, will please fans of The Epic. Washington originally composed Harmony of Difference for the art world’s prestigious Whitney Biennial. “I wrote it as a celebration of diversity,” he says. “We lose sight of how beautiful it is to experience someone else’s perspective, but the world is a collection of difference.” The sixth track of the EP is itself a collection of difference, overlaying the previous five tracks like a hip-hop sample on overdrive. Despite its suitability for serving as moodperfecting background music, Washington’s music belongs on a stage with a large, openeared audience ready to give itself over to the music. Of his gigging philosophy, Washington says, “When we play live, we try to create an experience that’s unique to each show. We try to connect with the city we’re in, the people, the venue. It’s about creating something for that very moment. And so it’s different every night.” Kamasi Washington headlines at Turner Hall Ballroom on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. Kamasi Washington

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Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets Proved an Odd but Winning Combination ::BY THOMAS MICHALSKI

hile he’s certainly had no shortage of success in his 40-plus years in music, both as a performer and a producer, Nick Lowe never quite crossed that threshold into superstardom. As far as music industry career arcs go, though, his is almost ideal: He makes a comfortable living doing what he loves, and millions of people know his songs. But if they met him on the street few would know him from Adam. Big fame is often distracting and creatively inhibiting, but by always being just under the mainstream radar, Lowe has been able to simply go about his business, building up an impressive body of work which was on brilliant display Sunday night at Turner Hall Ballroom. By the time the show kicked off, the venue was all but full, with every one of the circular tables spread across the danceﬂoor surrounded almost exclusively by middle-aged white people. The seating arrangement proved a little awkward (what’s wrong with nice, orderly rows?), but the crowd quietly settled in as Cut Worms, a.k.a. Max Clarke, took the stage. His sound—a gentle callback to the folky innocence

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of the early ’60s—laid a hush over the audience to the point where every cough or beer can being cracked could be heard clear across the hall. His oftentimes lovelorn tunes, along with an occasional cover like Ricky Nelson’s “Up to You,” were well crafted and heartfelt, but perhaps a little soporific for the opening slot. The energy rose noticeably as Lowe approached the microphone, even if, as he addressed the audience, the 68-year-old singersongwriter came off as charmingly subdued and understated. After professing his love for Milwaukee and assuring the crowd that, while many of the numbers they were about to hear were short, there were plenty of them; he went on to introduce his oddball backing band for this tour, twangy guitar instrumentalists Los Straitjackets. A notable name in their own right known for their ever-present Mexican wrestling masks, the group cut a strange image in contrast to Lowe’s straight-laced look, but they meshed musically as they led things off with his 1976 classic “So It Goes,” a single with the distinction of being the first ever release from Stiff Records. After about 30-minutes of Lowe material, plus the Northern soul staple “There’s a Ghost in My House” as a Halloween treat, he let Los Straitjackets take center stage. The Nashville luchadores’ live presence is intentionally shambolic, with not-so-synchronized choreography and banter in broken Spanish, but their revved-up, crowd-pleasing surf rock is anything but. Lowe eventually returned for many of his best-remembered tunes, naturally including “Cruel to Be Kind,” before closing out the (first) encore with the unfortunately ultrarelevant “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding,” made famous by Elvis Costello. When the audience still demanded more, Lowe alone emerged and turned the tables with a heart-wrenching take on Costello’s “Alison.” Who needs to be a household name when you’ve got music this good?

Fox Face Lash Out Against Injustice on their Spirited ‘Spoil + Destroy’::BY EVAN RYTLEWSKI

nybody who hasn’t seen Fox Face perform in a while might be surprised by how pointed their new album, Spoil + Destroy, is. The Milwaukee poppunk group earned a fast reputation for their sharp live shows and their no-gimmicks approach to punk, but it was only within the last year or so that the foursome really found its muse, singer-guitarist Lindsay DeGroot

explains. “I think when we started out, I was drawing a lot more from the bands I’d been in in the past,” DeGroot says. “I was used to playing a lot poppier, brighter-sounding stuff, but a year or two ago, we started writing darker songs; songs that were a little more sophisticated with key changes and time changes, and then went from there.” Fox Face’s new music took on a more political edge, with lyrics that lashed out at the patriarchy and its enablers, as well as looming, leering men and the condescension they subject women to daily (women who play music perhaps more than most). DeGroot found the songs started coming even easier than the lighter ones she’d been writing before. “I tend to write better when I’m bothered by something,” she says. Of course, something else happened about a year ago that also contributed to Spoil + Destroy’s raw-edge: Donald Trump’s election—a previously almost unthinkable worst-case scenario that instantly echoed throughout the music world. It’s hard to overstate the impact Trump’s election had on music. Suddenly even bands that hadn’t had much use for politics became outspoken activists, and women in particular leapt to the frontlines, since the stakes are even higher for them. “As a band full of women, we’ve had different experiences than the men writing during this same time,” DeGroot says. “We feel it a little different, because things like healthcare will affect us a lot more than men. It’s not that the issues we write about weren’t happening before. We were thinking about them before Trump. They’re just way more present now.” Spoil + Destroy addresses difficult issues: sexism, subjugation, sexual assault… the kind of injustices that people would generally prefer not to think about and that male musicians rarely write about. Nobody speaks out about these things because it makes Fox Face them popular, and they’re not glamorous issues for a band to be identified with. The group has seen people walk out of their Friday, Nov. 3 shows because of them. Acme Records While the subjects that Fox Face address may be depressing, the music itself is anything but. Spoil + Destroy is a feminist album, but first and foremost it’s a punk album, and a great one at that, animated with sharp hooks, tongue-in-cheek lyrics and an infectious sense of mischief. The band loves all things witchy, so there’s a little bit of that in there too, especially on the cheekily gothy “The Moon and the Tide.” There’s even a quick novelty cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic,” because punk covers of pop songs are fun, and “Toxic” is a killer one. An interest in social justice doesn’t preclude a band from having a sense of humor. Though it can feel like a burdensome double standard, DeGroot says she doesn’t mind discussing issues like sexual assault. She’s passionate about them. She’s good at it. Still, she admits, she sometimes thinks about how much easier it would be playing in an apolitical band. “I saw Andrew W.K.—my boyfriend’s band opened from them—and the whole show was all party, party, party,” she says, jealously. “And I was like, ‘Oh man, could you imagine if that was all you had to think about? ‘We’re going to do this party, then we’re going to do that party and then that party!’ It’d be so great!” Fox Face’s Spoil + Destroy is out Friday, Nov. 3 on Dirtnap Records. The band plays a record release show that night at Acme Records with Red Lodge and Sex Scenes. N O V E M B E R 2 , 2 0 1 7 | 41

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Amelia’s, Jackson Dordel Jazz Quintet (4pm) American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Bobby Way Solo Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Acoustic Guitar Night Caroline’s Jazz Club, J. Ryan Trio Colectivo Coffee (On Prospect), The Accidentals w/Jake Allen County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/Barry Dodd Frank’s Power Plant, The Racing Pulses w/Arcade Mode & Future Sight Jazz Estate, MRS. FUN & Clay Schaub Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Joybird w/Thistledown Thunders Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) Miller Time Pub, Joe Kadlec Miramar Theatre, Figure w/Midnight Tyrannosaurus, WolfBiteR & SOMA (ages 17-plus, 9pm) O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SUPERband (6pm) Pabst Theater, Colin Hay of Men at Work w/Chris Trapper Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Mark Croft (8pm), In the Fire Pit: Keith Anderson w/Nora Collins (8:30pm) Rave / Eagles Club, The Used w/Glassjaw (all-ages, 7:30pm) Riverside Theater, Regina Spektor Shaker’s Cigar Bar, Prof. Pinkerton & the Magnificents Shank Hall, Richard Shindell The Bay Restaurant, Ian Gould The Packing House Restaurant, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Eric Schoor Trio w/Manty Ellis Turner Hall Ballroom, Simply Three Up & Under Pub, A No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic

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Jazz Estate, JACKNIFE-Music of Jackie McLean (8pm), Late Night Session: Tommy Antonic Trio (11:30pm) Jokerz Comedy Club, Eric DaSilva Just J’s, Matt MF Tyner Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Feral Catz Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Rocket Paloma w/Layers & Layers, and Nickle & Rose Mainstream Bar & Grill (Waukesha), Joe Kadlec Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Rock For Relief Hurricane Fundraiser w/Brock Betz Band, Eponymous, Slaughter Party! & Hi/ Jack McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Rock 4 Relief Hurricane Benefit Milwaukee Ale House, Mt. Olive Miramar Theatre, G Jones B2B Eprom w/Mad Zach (ages 17-plus, 9pm) Mo’s Irish Pub (Wauwatosa), 5 Card Studs Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Kirk Tatnall Rave / Eagles Club, Breaking Benjamin (all-ages, 8pm), Eli Young Band w/Levi Hummon (all-ages, 8pm), Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real w/Nikki Lane (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, Bill Burr Riverwest Public House, Sorry Not Sorry Stand Up Shank Hall, The Lovin’ Kind w/Failure To Launch The Coffee House, Food Pantry Benefit: Tribute to Joni Mitchell w/Baboushka Babes, Francesca, the Spirals, & Patty Stevenson The Packing House Restaurant, Lem Banks, Jeff Stoll, Alvin Turner & Omar (6:30pm) Urban Harvest Brewing Company, I Should Know This Yardarm Bar and Grill (Racine), The B Side Band

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Jan T as Patsy Cline (2pm) Angelo’s Piano Lounge, Live Karaoke w/ Julie Brandenburg Cactus Club, Jo Passed w/Apollo Vermouth, Duckling & River Rats Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Denise’s B-Day w/Sigmund Snopek & Denise Goetsch (8pm); DJ: Trail Boss Tim Cook (10pm) Dopp’s Bar & Grill, SheRocks Singer-Songwriter Session (2pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Benefit for Matt-The-Ratt w/The Grovelers, Dick Satan Trio, REV500 reunion, Drunkardly Bros, The Hullmen, Atomic Spins, Guilty & Husher (2pm) Gibraltar Mke, Takin’ It To The Streets: Harvest Benefit Concert to Help the Homeless (3pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Jammin’ Jimmy Open Jam (3pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Dan Rodriguez w/Keith Pulvermacher (5:30pm) Puddler’s Hall, Les Martin (2pm) Riverside Theater, Peppa Pig Live Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic

Shank Hall, The Social Animals The Tonic Tavern, Third Coast Blues w/Jim Liban & Joel Paterson (4pm)

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Cactus Club, Hear Here Presents: Queen Hilma, Caley Conway & DJ Hear Ye for The Milwaukee Record Packers Halftime Show Jazz Estate, Jazz Estate Jam Session Kenosha Fusion, Ira Wolf w/Naomi Marie Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Paul Zukowski (7:30-10:30pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/Christopher John

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Club Garibaldi, WMSE Local/Live: The Rhythm Chicken (6pm) Frank’s Power Plant, Duck and Cover Comedy Open Mic Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Carole & Craig Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Parkside Reunion Big Band Miramar Theatre, Tuesday Open Mic w/host Sandy Weisto (sign-up 7:30pm) Pabst Theater, Tommy Emmanuel & David Grisman w/Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, Jazz Jam Session Transfer Pizzeria Cafe, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich Turner Hall Ballroom, Kemasi Washington

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Cactus Club, And The Kids w/Kalbells & Faux Fiction Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Irish Session Caroline’s Jazz Club, Harvey Westmoreland w/Knee Deep Blues Jam Conway’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill, Open Jam w/Big Wisconsin Johnson Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Danny Wendt Open Jam (6pm) Jazz Estate, Major Vistas at the Jazz Estate Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/feature Matthew Davies (sign-up 8:30pm, start 9pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant, Larry Lynne Band Paulie’s Field Trip, Humpday Jam w/Dave Wacker & Mitch Cooper Potbelly Sandwich Shop (East Side), Texas Dave (noon) Rave / Eagles Club, Kid Cudi (all-ages, 9pm) Shank Hall, Will Dailey Tally’s Tap & Eatery (Waukesha), Tomm Lehnigk Turner Hall Ballroom, Matt Bellassai

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the early stages of Johnny Cash’s development as a musician, his mother hired a coach to give him singing lessons. But after a few meetings, the teacher counseled him to quit. Johnny’s style was so unique, the seasoned pro thought it better not to tamper with his natural sound. I hesitate to offer you comparable advice, Scorpio. I’m a big believer in the value of enhancing one’s innate talents with training and education. On the other hand, my assessment of your destiny between now and October 2018 impels me to offer a suggestion: It may be useful for you to give some credence to the perspective of Johnny Cash’s voice coach. Make sure you guard and revere your distinctiveness. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I used to nurture a grudge against Tony Pastorini. He was the high school math teacher who kicked me out of the extracurricular Calculus Club because my proofs were too “intuitive and unorthodox.” The shock of his rejection drove me away from a subject I had been passionate about. Eventually, though, I came to realize what a good deed he had done. It would have been a mistake for me to keep specializing in math—I was destined to study literature and psychology and mythology—but it took Pastorini to correct my course. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to make a similar shift of attitude. What debt of gratitude do you owe a person you have thought of as a source of frustration or obstruction? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the lore of ancient Greek mythology, the titan Prometheus stole fire from his fellow deities and sneakily gave it to us humans. Before our patron provided us with this natural treasure, we poor creatures had no access to it. As I gaze out at your possibilities in the coming months, Capricorn, I foresee you having Promethean inclinations. Your ability to bestow blessings and spread benevolence and do good deeds will be at a peak. Unlike Prometheus, however, I don’t expect you’ll get into trouble for your generosity. Just the opposite! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s a parable you may find useful. An armchair explorer is unexpectedly given a chance to embark on an adventure she has only read and dreamed about. But she hesitates on the brink of seizing her opportunity. She asks herself, “Do I really want to risk having ragged reality corrupt the beautiful fantasy I’ve built up in my mind’s eye?” In the end she takes the gamble. She embarks on the adventure. And ragged reality does in fact partially corrupt her beautiful fantasy. But it also brings her unexpected lessons that partially enhance the beautiful fantasy. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A game of chess is usually a fairy tale of 1001 blunders,” said chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, a Pisces. “It is a struggle against one’s own errors,” he added. “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” I think this is excellent counsel during the current phase of your astrological cycle, Pisces. It’s time to risk bold moves, because even if they’re partly or wholly mistaken, they will ultimately put you in a good position to succeed in the long run. Here’s a further point for your consideration. Remember the philosopher René Descartes’ famous dictum, “Cogito ergo sum”? It’s Latin for “I think, therefore I am.” Tartakower countered this with, “Erro ergo sum,” which is “I err, therefore I am.” ARIES (March 21-April 19): America’s Civil War ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive today and collecting his pension. In the coming months, I foresee you being able to take advantage of a comparable phenomenon, although it may be more metaphorical. Blessings from bygone times, perhaps even from the distant past, will be available to you. But you’ll have to be alert and know where to look. So now might be a good time to learn more about your ancestors, ruminate exuberantly about your own history, study the lives of your dead heroes and maybe even tune in to your previous incarnations. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I wasn’t in the market to buy a Day-Glo plastic fish from a street vendor,” testified a witty guy named Jef on Facebook, “but that’s exactly what I did. The

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seller said he found it in someone’s trash. He wanted 50 cents for it, but I talked him up to a dollar. The best part is the expression on the fish’s face. It’s from Edvard Munch’s The Scream.” I bring this testimony to your attention, Taurus, because I feel it’s good role modeling for you. In the coming days, I bet you won’t know exactly what you’re looking for until you find it. This prize may not be highly valued by anyone else but you. And it will amuse you and be of use to you in just the right ways. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Where are Chinese gooseberries grown? In New Zealand. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Squirrel fur. When England and France waged their Hundred Years’ War, how long did it last? 116 years. When do Russians celebrate their October Revolution? In November. Trick answers like these are likely to be a recurring theme for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. That’s why I advise you to NOT be a Master of the Obvious. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you indulge in any or all of the following exercises. 1. Dedicate an entire day to performing acts of love. 2. Buy yourself flowers, sing yourself a song and tell yourself a story about why you’re so beautiful. 3. Explain your deeply felt opinion with so much passion and logic that you change the mind of a person who had previously disagreed with you. 4. Make a pilgrimage to a sacred spot you want to be influenced by. 5. Buy a drink for everyone in a bar or café. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I saw a photo of you recently, and I realized that you have a scar on your face. I hope you don’t mind me telling you it resembles an ancient Mayan hieroglyph that means ‘Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home.’ Did you know this? If so, do you think it’s an accurate title for what you do? —Renegade Leo Scholar.” Dear Scholar: Thanks for your observation. I don’t know if I fully deserve the title “Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home,” but it does describe the role I’m hoping to play for Leos. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for your tribe to clarify and cultivate your notion of home. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés encourages us to purge any tendencies we might have to think of ourselves as hounded animals; angry, wounded victims; leaky vessels aching to be filled; or broken creatures yearning for rescue. It so happens that now is a perfect time for you to perform this purgation. You have maximum power to revise your self-image so that it resounds with more poise, self-sufficiency and sovereignty. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I used to scoff at people who play the lottery. The chance of winning big is almost nil. Why not invest one’s hopes in more pragmatic schemes to generate money? But my opinion softened a bit when the planet Jupiter made a lucky transit to an aspect in my personal horoscope. It really did seem like my chances of winning the lottery were unusually high. I started dreaming about the educational amusements I’d pursue if I got a huge influx of cash. I opened my mind to expansive future possibilities that I had previously been closed to. So even though I didn’t actually get a windfall during this favorable financial phase, I was glad I’d entertained the fantasy. In alignment with current astrological omens, Libra, here’s the moral of the story for you: Meditate on what educational amusements you’d seek if you had more money. Homework: Meditate on death not as the end of physical life, but as a metaphor for shedding what’s outworn. In that light, what’s the best death you’ve experienced? 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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‘As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!’

he 72nd annual Yellville, Ark., “Turkey Trot,” which took place on Oct. 14, is famous for its “Turkey Drop,” in which live turkeys are dropped from a low-flying airplane and then chased by festivalgoers. This year, KY3.com reported that several turkeys were dropped during the afternoon despite animal rights activists having filed a formal complaint with the sheriff’s office, saying the pilot “terrorized” the birds. But pharmacist and past pilot Dana Woods told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “We treat the turkeys right. That may sound ironic, but we don’t abuse those turkeys. We coddle and pet those turkeys. We’re good to ’em.” In 2016, about a dozen turkeys were dropped; not all survived the fall. According to The Washington Post, over the past several years, local sponsors and the chamber of commerce have distanced themselves from the Turkey Drop, now more than five decades old. The Federal Aviation Administration is checking to see if any laws or regulations were broken, but said it has not intervened in past years because the dropped turkeys “are not considered to be projectiles.”

And more turkey talk Could turkeys be sensing the peril of the impending season? Police in Bridgewater, Mass., tweeted a warning to the town’s residents on Oct. 15 about aggressive wild turkeys, WBZ-TV reported. As proof, an accompanying video showed four turkeys chasing a Bridgewater police cruiser. “Aggressive turkeys are a problem in town,” the department tweeted. “State law doesn’t allow the police or (animal control) to remove them.”

Panda puberty Zookeepers believe China’s 4-year-old giant panda, Meng Meng, currently on loan to the Berlin Zoo, displays her displeasure with her surroundings, food and caretakers by walking backward. “Meng Meng is in puberty,” zoo director Andreas Knieriem explained to the Berliner Zeitung on Oct. 22. “The reverse walk is a protest.” To address the situation, zookeepers will introduce Meng Meng to Jiao Qing, a male giant panda three years her elder, who presumably will ease her frustration by engaging in sexual activity with her.

Uh, sure Kenyans Gilbert Chumba and David Metto were among the favorites to win the Venice Marathon on Oct. 22. Instead, Eyob Faniel, a local running in only his second marathon, took the prize after the lead runners were led several hundred meters off-course by an errant guide motorcycle. Faniel—the first Italian man to win the Venice Marathon in 22 years—credited his pre-race prep. “Today’s race shows that the work is paying off,” he said following his victory.

The cooking criminal Nelly’s Taqueria in Hicksville, N.Y., suffered a break-in on Oct. 3, but the burglar redefined the term “clean getaway.” Surveillance video showed a man donning food-service gloves and starting a pot of water to boil before hammering open the cash register. He secured $100 in his pockets—leaving a dollar in the tip jar—and then started “cooking up a storm,” owner Will Colon told Newsday. Cameras recorded the thief cooking beans, sautéing shrimp and chicken and helping himself to a cold soda before enjoying his meal. “The way he handled that pan, man, the dude had some skills,” Colon said. Afterward, the man carefully stored his leftovers in a refrigerator, cleaned his pans and wiped down all the surfaces he had used. Then, he took off through the back window—the same way he had come in.

Money to burn An anonymous collector from Palm Beach, Fla., was the winning bidder in an Oct. 11 online auction for a half-smoked cigar that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed during a 1947 trip to Paris. AP reports the four-inch-long cigar remnant brought just over $12,000 in an auction managed by Boston-based RR Auctions. The company says Churchill smoked the cigar on May 11, 1947, at Le Bourget Airport. A British airman, Cpl. William Alan Turner, kept the cigar after his crew and he flew Churchill and his wife between Paris and London. The label on the Cuban stogie includes Churchill’s name.

Maybe they go well with fava beans and a nice Chianti? Coroner’s pathologist Elmo A. Griggs, 75, was arrested Sept. 12 in Morgan County, Ind., for drunken driving, but it was what was rolling around in the back of his pickup truck that caught officers’ attention. Along with a halfempty vodka bottle, Griggs was transporting several labeled totes, according to the Indianapolis Star, containing organic material. Marshal Bradley K. Shaw of the Brooklyn Police Department said early investigations showed the totes contained brain and liver samples. © 2017 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION N O V E M B E R 2 , 2 0 1 7 | 45

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be legally allowed to focking traipse around with a holstered heater would be Gov. Kumbalek—a Gov. Kumbalek empowered not only to make a citizen’s arrest but empowered to make a citizen’s execution, to boot. And I already got a list, buddy; you betcha, I got a list, I kid you not.

::BY ART KUMBALEK

Thirty-first Year On the Job Full Disclosure:

’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So I hear this BBC TV documentary about gun violence is causing quite the stir around the town. What the fock, too many guns in Milwaukee? Hey, how ’bout too many guns in the whole damn state, the whole damn country, for christ sakes. I’ll tell you’s, this weekend I’m investing that extra hour we get from the daylight saving time into my campaign for Badgerland governor ’cause after I knock off Gov. Snidely Whiplash in the election, my first order of business will be to change our State Motto from “Forward” to “Duck!!!” Ba-ding! Second order of business for Gov. Kumbalek will be to flip the State Bird at anyone who buys the notion that Guns & Plenty is a healthy alternative to a diet of common focking sense. And third order of biz will be to dash off a note to the N(o) R(ationality) A(ssociation) on official governor stationery. The note will contain this constitutional clarification: The Second Amendment mentions a “well regulated militia” but not a word about “wellarmed village idiots.” Then, following all that business and provided I hadn’t been already either called to higher office or called home to the lord by way of ricochet, I may toy with the idea that besides members of law enforcement and the military, the only state citizen to

So the other day I was going through my That Time of Year file, and I saw that we got the holidays coming up like a bad burrito, so I thought maybe I ought to go get a nice haircut for the season—since I’ve always been a big believer in the notion that when you look good, you feel good. But instead, I figured I’d keep my hat on and save the buck twoeighty I’d have dropped at the barber’s and instead visit the Uptowner tavern/charm school and invest my hard-earned dough in support of an even more foolproof notion than the one I just mentioned, which is: When you drink good, you feel good. I ordered an ice-cold bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon and wouldn’t you know, sort of like Marcel focking Proust when he took a bite from a piece of teasoaked toast those years ago, I took one sip from the PBR and involuntarily the past became present and the present, past. And so I remembered that haircuts are stupid ’cause after you get one, there is no way not to look like an absolute dick—if not the second you climb out of the chair, then five-10-15 years down the road when some kid sees a photo of you with that haircut and says, “Jeez, he actually wanted his haircut to look like that? What a dick.” And that’s why I always wear the orange hat. No one can see what kind of haircut I’m sportin’ ’cause the one thing a guy who’s big in the public

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eye like me can least afford is to look like a dick. Sure, an Adolf Hitler was able to pull off looking like a dick and yet maintain some kind of credibility with his crowd, but that was 80-90 years ago for christ sakes, back when people were more accepting of the “dick look” worn by members of their families or race than they are in today’s hoppedup fashion-crammed times. Back then, seems to me most people maintained a quaintly cavalier attitude toward the importance of fashion. It was what was underneath the bad haircut and crappy taste in wardrobe— not the other way around— that was cause for concern, that got one’s dander up to go grab the lickin’ stick. And…I forgot my point, what the fock. But speaking of remembrance, I am reminded of a little story, perhaps to bring some cheer to those I know could stand a little cheer, lo, these days: Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards. So, the other day during a round of Canasta one

looked at the other and said, “Now don’t get mad at me...I know we’ve been friends for a long time... but I just can’t think of your name! I’ve thought and thought, but I can’t remember it. This is so embarrassing, but please tell me what your name is.” Her friend raised her eyebrows, and after a couple, three minutes she cleared her throat and said, “Oh my. How soon do you need to know?” Ba-ding! ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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