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Kletzsch Park Dam Plans Provoke Pushback

Proposal to improve river ecology and access would sacrifice a beloved historic overlook ::BY VIRGINIA SMALL sinewy dam within the Milwaukee River in Glendale’s Kletzsch Park forms a gentle waterfall. Fly-fishers often wade downstream from it. A sandstone bluff with ancient oak trees draws many visitors to three benches and a picnic table. Even on a brisk day last week, a steady parade of pedestrians walked the trail between the river’s west bank and the Milwaukee River Parkway.

This riverfront overlook might soon be erased and replaced.

Several Milwaukee County residents said at a recent Milwaukee County Board hearing that this spot’s natural beauty is unlike anything else in the county, but it will be destroyed if proposed drastic changes are executed.

The Milwaukee River Parkway, which winds through Kletzsch Park, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam, a Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps project, is a contributing feature of the parkway’s register listing. Created in 1918, Kletzsch Park also encompasses much of Indian Prairie. In 1855, pioneering Milwaukee scientist Increase Lapham documented Indian Prairie as a tribal ceremonial burial ground, with effigies, conical and intaglio mounds.

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The staff of Milwaukee County and Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) have proposed major renovations to the bluff, adjacent land and water, as well as the continued maintenance of the dam, which remains in good condition. The entire project could cost up to $2 million. An estimated $165,000 from the county budget will fund dam repairs, which is matched by DNR funding.

Additional grants, including funding from federal sources, will cover other elements of the project.

Guy Smith, executive director of Milwaukee County Parks, outlined the project in a memo to the county board requesting funds for the project’s final design. He said the only “required” elements are repairs to the dam’s east bank and clearing of vegetation near abutments. An optional “in-river fish passage” would make it easier for native fish to swim upstream, thus improving their habitat and the river’s ecology. Other objectives include increasing river access for persons with disabilities, replacing a canoe and kayak portage area, improving fishing access and creating a new viewing area and overlook. Smith’s memo did not list among project goals the preservation of the site’s existing landscape character.

After public outcry about the original Kletzsch proposal in January 2019, a revised design no longer would remove mature oak trees along the bluff.

Hackberry trees and other vegetation would be removed, and new vegetation planted. A massive amount of soil would be excavated.

Jim Uhrinak, a consulting arborist representing the Milwaukee Audubon Society, testified at the Milwaukee County Board’s Parks, Energy and Environment Committee in October that the intense disturbance of mature tree roots would predictably cause half of the open-grown bur oaks to be in serious trouble within five to eight years. “I’ve seen disastrous impacts over and over,” said Uhrinak, even as project planners often said they never expected such outcomes. In response, Karl Stave, Milwaukee County’s lead engineer for the project, said that three mature oaks might need to be removed, based on DNR criteria. In that case, that would be a bombshell.

Project Will Adversely Affect a National Register Asset

When federal funding is used in a project for a property on the National Register, a review process called Section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 determines whether that property may be adversely affected. “Adverse effects” diminish characteristics qualifying a property for inclusion in the National Register, according to the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. A finding of adverse effects requires further consultation about how to resolve them.

Multiple consulting parties participate in Section 106 reviews, starting with the respective State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). According to a recent four-page letter from the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Felipe Avila, Kletzsch Park’s revised “project plans…will result in an adverse effect.”

Inexplicably, Stave told the county’s Parks, En-

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For more News, log onto shepherdexpress.com Tickets: Call 414-766-5049 or buy them at southmilwaukeepac.org ergy and Environment Committee that the SHPO “has given us an OK” for the proposed project. Wisconsin’s SHPO does not have authority to approve projects. Instead, SHPO will continue to consult with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other parties about how to mitigate anticipated adverse effects.

Glendale’s Historic Preservation Commission must also review and approve the project.

Preserving ‘a Very Sacred Site’

Supervisors on the parks committee posed pointed questions about the project, including questions about community response to the plan. Sarah Toomsen, manager of planning and development for Milwaukee County Parks, declined to “characterize public opinion about the dam” and referred supervisors to an FAQ statement, which is posted online.

Supervisor Felesia Martin inquired about engagement with tribal communities, which is also required. Stacy Hron, a DNR water specialist, said a letter had been sent to tribal entities with cultural interests in Milwaukee County, but that no responses had yet been received. Martin said it “would not be satisfactory” to rely solely on one letter without secondary efforts to communicate, especially in situations involving burial mounds.

Several citizens voiced major concerns to supervisors. Some suggested “cheaper and less destructive” alternatives to proposed plans. Peter Thornquist, a lifelong Milwaukee County resident, opposed destruction of “this rare bluff that was originally part of Indian Prairie.” Thornquist said, “All efforts should be made to address the ecological area of concern and passing fish without destroying this beautiful natural heritage, a rare remnant of an oak savanna, and a very sacred site.”

Another citizen, Wendy Walcott, said the lure of federal and state money has driven an order for simple repairs to “become a hugely

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expensive and destructive project that will damage the very bones of the river it pretends to remediate.” Walcott said attendees at a September public information meeting were not allowed to speak publicly, and that county and DNR staff “remained firmly in control” of the flow of information. Attendees wrote questions on cards, of which a few were selected for responses by officials. The parks committee voted unanimously to delay a vote on the funding request until December to gather more information.

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A Pattern of Harming Historic Assets

Previous projects have adversely affected historic resources in Milwaukee County Parks, which have been deemed eligible for the National Register as a park system. Replacement bridges along Honey Creek Parkway and the Kinnickinnic River Parkway did not retain the park system’s historic character when they were constructed in 2007 and 2009.

Milwaukee County and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation were required to commission a two-part study about historic park assets, “to both mitigate, in part, for those losses and chart a different course for the future.”

The “Milwaukee County Parkway Inventory,” completed in 2012, was followed in 2013 by the “Milwaukee County Parks and Parkways Historic Properties Management Plan.” Both reports were prepared by architects, engineers and historians at Mead & Hunt.

The management plan specifies how to preserve the integrity of park structures, roads, trails and landscape and water features. For example, a section on topography says, “construction of new features in parks should not lead to adverse effects to existing landforms and topography that help define the historic character of the system. In particular…dramatic changes to topography should be avoided.”

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FUTURE MEETINGS ON THE ISSUE n The Glendale Heritage Committee will host a public presentation about the history of Indian Prairie, which predated Kletzsch Park, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 6 p.m. It will be hosted at the Mazlowski Community Park, in the Hobbs Community Room, 220 W. Bender Road, Glendale. A questionand-comment period will be included. n Milwaukee County Board’s Parks, Energy and Environment Committee meets on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 1 p.m., in the Milwaukee County Courthouse, Room 201B; Kletzsch Park plans will be discussed.

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Historic Greendale Looks to the Future ::BY CATHERINE JOZWIK

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stablished as a village in 1938 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA), Greendale, Wis., is one of three so-called “Greenbelt” communities in the country, the others being in Ohio and Maryland. These communities—in proximity to plenty of green space—were created to provide housing for families of moderate incomes.

In the late 1930s, Greendale consisted of mostly farmland and was not yet a part of Milwaukee’s sprawling metropolis.

The federal government purchased land in Greendale and built 366 housing structures which contained 572 living units altogether, including single-family dwellings and row houses.

Each original structure is still standing. In the early 1950s, the land and homes were sold to a Milwaukee corporation.

“Because of its unique design, planning and social aspects, Greendale is a National Historic Landmark and on the National Registry of Historic Places,” said Ted Mainella, treasurer of the Greendale Historical Society, formed in 1975 to help preserve the village’s history. Seeking historical designations can be time consuming and cost prohibitive, but the Greendale Historical Society’s hard work and dedication brought these distinctions to fruition.

The Greendale Historical Society recently purchased one of the village’s original structures, which is currently undergoing renovations. Located at 5597 Apple Court, the home is “a showplace of Greendale history,” according to Mainella. Robb Nowak, president of the Greendale Historical Society for the last three years, said the organization has been painstakingly trying to replicate the home’s original décor, from the trim to the paint colors. “We’re going oldschool and taking it back to 1938,” he said, adding that the society hopes to finish renovations by summer.

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The Greendale Historical Society also organized efforts to renovate the Historic Hose Tower, a Department of Public Works building located at 5699 Parking St.; to date, the society has helped raise $600,000 for the cause. The building, which will include upgrades by J&J Contractors, will be available to rent as a venue for weddings and other business and community events and is expected to open early next year. To maintain a 1930s look, Nowak said the Greendale Historical Society will loan the contractors an antique lamppost.

In addition, Greendale is also home to Trimborn Farm (8881 W. Grange Ave.) and the Jeremiah Curtin House. Located on eight acres, the 19th-century farm includes a Cream City brick farmhouse, 75-foot kiln and threshing barn. Trimborn now functions as an outdoor museum operated by the Milwaukee County Historical Society. The home of esteemed folklorist and linguist Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906), a stone dwelling built in 1846 located at 8685 W. Grange Ave. is one of the oldest intact structures in Milwaukee County.

Lined with quaint shops, the village’s Broad Street area has been compared to a Norman Rockwell painting. “I love having a small shop in Greendale. There is so much pride in the village, and we are fortunate to get a lot of community support,” says Beth Parkansky, owner of Apples of Eden, a candy store located at 5612 Broad St. “Newcomers, as well as founding families, are committed to preserving Greendale’s rich history and small-town charm,” adds Village Manager Todd Michaels.

Turning the PAGE in Village History

Historically a predominantly white community, Greendale has faced some challenges when it comes to race relations, particularly within its school system, but the village is committed to facing these challenges head on. Recently, school superintendent Gary Kiltz resigned from his position and was replaced by interim school superintendent Kim Amidzich. The district has partnered with Parents Advocating for Greendale Equity (PAGE)—an organization dedicated to diversity and inclusivity in the school system and community as a whole—to create a welcoming community experience for all.

With the help of PAGE, the village recently launched a Greendale Welcomes Diversity Action Plan. The village has allocated $10,000 per year towards PAGE equity and inclusion training workshops, community-wide educational opportunities and other programs which promote diversity, cultural awareness and understanding. The organization is also working with the school district to hire an equity officer.

“PAGE will always push for what we believe is necessary for the community’s health, and especially for the wellbe-

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ing of young people of color in Greendale,” said the group’s communications chair, Nat Godley, in a press release.

Many Greendale families have lived in the community since the village’s inception. Mainella and his wife both grew up in original Greendale homes and later purchased one of their own. “That’s not unusual; that’s a testament to the attraction of the community,” Mainella noted, adding that the village maintains the same quiet charm it had 80 years ago. “Greendale is still a very desirable place to live.”

A Place with ‘a Real Sense of Community’

With a median home value of about $240,000 (according to Zillow.com), Greendale offers a wide variety of housing options, from apartments, condominiums and small ranch homes to million-dollar homes. As the village is bordered

by Whitnall and Scout Lake Parks, its residents don’t have to travel very far to experience scenic nature.

Nowak, a landscape architect and Greendale resident for five years, said he’s a “newbie,” as many folks are lifelong residents. However, the village has welcomed him with open arms. “Greendale is like no other place I’ve ever been to; it has a real sense of community,” he said.

The village attracts a number of residents, mainly retirees and others looking to downsize. Nowak, for example, moved to a smaller Greendale ranch after living in a home in Waukesha County that was surrounded by many acres of land. “It was time to scale back,” he said. Nowak was excited when he found a home with a path leading to a scenic wooded area. “In the fall, it’s just glorious,” he added. He believes that reasonably priced Greendale has comparable amenities to higher-end subdivisions such as Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. Nowak, a history buff, added that he enthusiastically accepted the role as Greendale Historical Society president several years ago. “I’m honored to be able to do the things I’m doing now,” he says.

Michaels notes that newer dining establishments and attractions near Southridge Mall, such as Explorium Brewpub and the mall’s BistroPlex In-Theatre Dining Cinema, have helped attract more visitors, including young professionals, to the area. Michaels adds that, going forward, the village will continue to focus on redevelopment efforts around Southridge Mall. Mike Doble, who, with his wife, owns Explorium Brewpub, feels that the village has overwhelmingly supported his endeavors. “Owning a business and working in Greendale is like stepping back in time where everyone knows each other, looks out for each other and supports local businesses. It’s like no place I’ve worked in before,” he explains.

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2019 Election Lessons for Wisconsin Republicans ::BY JOEL MCNALLY

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WO MAJOR OFF-YEAR STATE ELECTIONS—one in Virginia and the other in Kentucky—should have made the blood of Wisconsin Republicans run cold heading into the 2020 elections. Apparently, they didn’t, though. State Republican legislators proved just two days later they hadn’t learned anything at all about the importance of taking the concerns of their state’s voters seriously.

Virginia was the party’s most dramatic loss nationally. Overnight, the Republican Party lost majority control of both houses of the legislature, giving incumbent Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam total freedom to pass a progressive agenda.

One of the Democrats’ biggest prizes was control over legislative and congressional redistricting following the 2020 census. Democrats won’t even have to corruptly gerrymander districts (like Republicans did) to increase their legislative majority. All they need to do is draw fair voting districts that reflect the actual Democratic majority in the state. The proof of how corrupt those Republican-gerrymandered majorities were is the fact that Republicans in Virginia haven’t won a statewide election since 2009.

“The Republican Party is toast in Virginia for the next 10 years,” lamented Corey Stewart, the white nationalist Republican who hastened his party’s toasting when his racist campaign was buried under 2018’s landslide reelection of Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.

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It’s easy to pinpoint when Republicans guaranteed they would begin wandering in Virginia’s wilderness as a powerless minority.

It was Tuesday, July 9, the day Gov. Northam called a special legislative session to act on gun legislation after a mass shooting in Virginia Beach resulted in 12 people being killed and four others injured. It was the state’s second horrific mass murder. In 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 and wounded 17 others on campus.

Republicans totally misread public reaction by adjourning the session on guns after 90 minutes without considering a single gun reform proposal. Pro-gun NRA demonstrators distributed T-shirts from a conference room of the House speaker’s office.

Passing gun restrictions was the top issue cited by voters going into this year’s election. The other leading issues were health care and passionate opposition to Donald Trump, which began the Democratic surge in 2017 by flipping 15 legislative seats previously held by Republicans. They gained six more seats this

year to take control. The year before Trump took office, Republicans had a 66-seat majority in Virginia’s House of Delegates (equivalent to the Wisconsin Assembly). They’ll be a 45-seat minority in January.

Wisconsin Republicans should be feeling a chill about now, since anti-Trump sentiment—as well as their refusal to act on guns or expand health care—are the same issues riling Wisconsin voters. It was only their own extreme gerrymandering that retained their 63-36 majority in the Assembly last November when Gov. Tony Evers, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Atty. Gen. Josh Kaul and every other Democrat running statewide defeated Republicans. Evers is now poised to end state gerrymandering by vetoing any dishonest Republican redistricting after the new census.

Changing Public Opinion

Now, Wisconsin Republicans have shot themselves in the other foot by using the same unrestricted, deadly weapons as Virginia Republicans. Two days after Virginia voters ended Republican leadership for refusing to consider even mild gun regulations—universal background checks and “red flag” laws—Wisconsin Republicans shaved 89½ minutes off the 90 minutes Virginia Republicans spent not doing anything at all to reduce mass murders. They gaveled the legislative session on guns closed in both chambers in less than 30 seconds.

Before you say, “Oh, but Wisconsin is way more pro-gun than Virginia,” you need to get current on changing public opinion toward guns at a time when moms are buying Kevlar backpacks for their children, and kids themselves are walking out of school to protest adult indifference to the likelihood of their homeroom slaughter. A September Marquette University Law School poll showed 80% of all state voters and 75% of gun owners supported background checks for all firearms sales.

The impeachment investigation’s focus on Trump’s political corruption amped up the Democratic vote in both Virginia and Kentucky this year, but the result was especially delicious in Kentucky. Trump won Kentucky by 30 percentage points over Hillary Clinton in 2016. This year, Kentucky elected Democrat Andy Beshear as governor the day after Trump flew in to rescue a virtual carbon copy of himself: unpopular Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.

Trump turned out the same haters he always does at his rally, but the voters elected Beshear.

It turns out voters really do have a limited tolerance for obnoxious demagogues who vilify immigrants, poor people, the LGBTQ community and those they consider the real villains among us, public schoolteachers.

A common factor in the Democratic victories in Virginia and Kentucky—as well as in other elections that took place in Pennsylvania and Indiana—was solid support for Democrats in formerly Republican suburbs among college-educated voters, especially women.

Republicans in Wisconsin and everywhere else around the country can’t succeed much longer by primarily attracting only voters with limited educations in small towns and rural areas where not very many people live.

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‘Critical Infrastructure’ Bill Is a Major Threat to Freedom of Speech ::BY CHRIS OTT

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f I am part of a human chain participating in an act of civil disobedience where no one was harmed, could I spend six years in prison and be forced to pay a $10,000 fine? If an aggressive anti-protest bill that is making its way through the Republican-controlled Legislature becomes law in Wisconsin, the answer very well could be yes. AB 426 seeks to silence activists with the threat of felony charges for protesting at “critical infrastructure” facilities.

In 2015, Wisconsin passed a law making it a felony to interrupt or impair services provided by WE Energies (WEC Energy Group, Inc.). The newly proposed bill would expand upon those provisions to specifically include companies that operate a gas, oil, petroleum, refined petroleum product, renewable fuel or chemical generation facility. While advertised as an effort to protect Wisconsin’s infrastructure, the real impact of the bill would be to criminalize peaceful protesters and suppress the freedom of speech.

Here in Wisconsin and across the country, climate protesters—who are often members of Native American tribes—have been exercising their constitutional right to protest the impending damage to their lands, homes and livelihoods. This proposal would put these demonstrators at risk of being criminally prosecuted for engaging in peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience—like staging a march that interferes with a tanker truck delivery or blocking a roadway into a refinery.

Freedom of Speech?

Equally problematic is the bill’s ambiguous language, which fails to adequately describe what speech or conduct could subject protest-

ers and organizations to criminal penalties. As a result, the bill would have a chilling effect on expressive activity and lead to self-censorship for fear of criminal prosecution.

Our country has a proud tradition of protest—from the Boston Tea Party to the Million Man March to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock—and as long as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has existed, it has been defending the rights of protesters to speak their minds and assemble together. The ACLU believes that dissent is a form of patriotism, all people have the right to free speech and the freedom to stand up for what they believe in, and when people are able to speak out against injustice, it strengthens American democracy for every citizen.

Unfortunately, it increasingly looks as if this anti-protest bill will pass the Wisconsin Legislature. However, this gives Gov. Tony Evers the opportunity to do the right thing by vetoing the bill and ensuring the people of Wisconsin maintain their right to peacefully protest.

Importantly, this is not a partisan issue. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, vetoed an anti-protest bill in 2017, noting the proposal was “vague, overbroad and will have the effect of restricting both free speech and the right to assemble.” The right to join with fellow citizens in protest or peaceful assembly is at the very core of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Threatening criminal charges against those who participate in exercising these rights would be a critical blow to our functioning democracy.

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hese days, much is said about the many benefits of pursuing a contemplative practice.

Among these practices, we include meditation in its various forms, journaling, centering prayer and insight-oriented psychotherapy, among others.

What all have in common is a mental and spiritual journey inward. These disciplines constitute an exploration of one’s inner space, the boundless world of psyche and soul that resides within.

Multiple studies show contemplative people enjoy better mental and physical health, as well as higher rates of overall well-being. They are less susceptible to negative stress and emotional hijacking, they have greater mental resilience, often exhibit enhanced emotional intelligence and live more in the present moment rather than ruminating on the past or worrying for the future. So, given these many paybacks, why wouldn’t everyone want to join the contemplative club?

Many spurn exploring their inner existence because, quite simply, it unnerves or frightens them. That’s not true for all, of course. For some folks, contemplative practices are not their path to greater well-being or transcendent experiences. Instead, they might pursue service to others—more of an outward reaching way to better know one’s self and achieve greater meaning and purpose. What’s more, there are those who feel so overwhelmed by tasks and timelines that adding one more thing, like journaling, seems ill-advised and counter-productive. Nonetheless, many are those who tell me they can’t meditate, for example, not due to time pressures, but because they find the experience mentally or emotionally uncomfortable.

Adding to anecdotal accounts, there is some research showing contemplative practices focused on self-examination and self-awareness prove disturbing to those who are struggling with inner conflicts or emotional distress. Most of these folks want to avoid so-called navel gazing because, when they don’t, they end up experiencing heightened anxiety, deeper depression, excessive worry or even a sense of nameless dread.

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“I don’t like going inside my head,” Michael told me after I asked him to consider adopting a contemplative practice—in his case, journaling.

“What happens when you do?” I inquired.

“I get agitated and can’t sit still, so, then, I start looking for something to do. I find a way to distract myself.”

Distraction is a core mental survival strategy for folks like Michael. The most effective way to exit inner space is to lock on to something in one’s outer space, so to speak. At its extreme, folks of this ilk feel compelled to busy themselves with external pursuits just about every waking moment. Silence and the absence of activity pose a mental threat. It creates a psychological vacuum that allows unresolved issues to bubble up into the individual’s awareness. This conundrum is typified by the adage, “Don’t look back, something may be gaining on you,” except this is about not looking in.

“The person you spend the most time with is yourself,” I told Michael. “Until you feel more comfortable being in your own psyche, your agitation will always be there, making peace of mind impossible.”

To his credit, Michael pursued journaling, although in small doses to start. As his comfort level with contemplation increased, he took up mindfulness meditation. Over a period of months, he faced his inner demons, put aside some resentment and regrets and developed a more compassionate perspective on his inner struggles. He made peace with himself, warts and all.

Which is what, at their core, contemplative practices offer—a path to greater self-understanding and self-acceptance. When at peace with ourselves, meeting the challenges posed by the external world proves far less difficult. Also, we re-learn the capacity to just be, rather than constantly feeling compelled to do, do, do. Finally, contemplation helps clean out the storm of nattering thoughts that buffet the psyche.

As the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, “Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.” The mind follows suit.

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Thursday, Nov. 14

LiberateMKE Fundraiser @ America’s Black Holocaust Museum, 401 W. North Ave., 5:30-8 p.m.

The African American Roundtable (AART) is a coalition led by and serving Milwaukee’s black community. AART exists to empower and organize the Milwaukee community to transform policies so it can thrive and live to its greatest potential. AART welcomes support for its campaign to position the community for the 2020 presidential election. After the program, attendees are encouraged to take a self-guided tour of the museum.

Friday, Nov. 15

The Social Justice Summit Opening Reception @ Nō Studios, 1037 W. McKinley Ave., 5 p.m.

“Our desire for the Social Justice Summit is to help people build networks, to encourage ongoing conversations, expand the circle of people who want to identify social issues and match them with people who are skilled in solving those problems,” says filmmaker and Nō Studios patron John Ridley. The topic for the summit is “Art as a Change Agent: Healing From Trauma,” featuring Jane Ekayu of Children of Peace Uganda.

Saturday, Nov. 16

The Social Justice Summit: Lived Experience of Disenfranchisement @ 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave., 8 a.m.

For the second day of the Social Justice Summit, come to Nō Studios to discuss topics surrounding the lived experience of disenfranchisement.

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of North Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and West Locust Street, noon-1 p.m.

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

Monthly Community Meetings—NAACP MKE @ 2745 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 202, 11 a.m.

Attend the meeting to stay informed about what’s happening in our community. The NAACP’s Milwaukee branch meets every third Saturday of the month.

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee @ ComedySportz Milwaukee, 420 S. First St., 8 p.m.

With Donald Trump and Republican attacks on health care, immigrants, the environment and more, we need progressive laughs now more than ever. Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is a monthly progressive political comedy show featuring some of our city’s top comedians. Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is hosted by comedian, cartoonist and talk radio host Matthew Filipowicz. Comedians on the Nov. 16 bill include Dina Nina Martinez, Kaitlin McCarthy, Josh Fred, Shawn Vasquez and sketch comedy troupe The Accountants of Homeland Security. Karen Kirsch and Rafael Smith from Citizen Action of Wisconsin will be interviewed to discuss the fight for health care for all.

Monday, Nov. 18

Democratic Party of Milwaukee County Meetup Group @ Amalgamated Transit Union, 734 N. 26th St., 6-8 p.m.

Join Chris Walton MKE Dems Chair for the monthly meeting of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County.

Wednesday, Nov. 20

Dem Debate Watch Party, Hosted by Grassroots Northshore @ 6330 N. Lake Drive, 7:30-10 p.m.

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East Troy Institute Leads in Hemp Research, Education ::BY SHEILA JULSON

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ince 1984, the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI) in East Troy, Wis., has been committed to sustainable agriculture through research, educational programs, outreach and networking. With industrial hemp gaining ground among farmers as a promising additional cash crop, MFAI stands ready to help in this old-yet-new-again industry.

Leah Sandler, education director and research agronomist for MFAI, says hemp farming fits into the organization’s mission from a research and education perspective. “On the research side, we’re doing cultivar trials of different cannabidiol (CBD) hemp cultivars from across the country to figure out which ones grow best in this region and climate,” she explains.

From the educational standpoint, MFAI is acting as a valuable statewide education and networking resource. They partner with UW-Extension, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), the state agency that operates the hemp research pilot program, as well as research specialists and other entities with expertise in growing and curing hemp.

“Hemp hasn’t been grown here for many years, so there’s very little information.

We’re trying to reach farmers and get as much hemp production and agronomic knowledge as we can out to them, along with information about harvesting and the legal framework,” Sandler says. “We facilitate as much networking as we can between growers, buyers and processors.”

MFAI has a series of educational webinars available online covering topics such as agronomics of grain and fiber hemp and CBD hemp, governmental regulations and DATCP sampling protocol and timelines. Sandler gives presentations about growing techniques and who is working in the hemp industry. As a nonprofit, MFAI doesn’t sell anything or promote a particular business over another.

The Farmer Field Days events, hosted by Sandler and representatives from partnering businesses and organizations, are literal field trips where farmers can go out to actual hemp farms to see what’s happening. Sandler says recent Field Day events in September were sold out. MFAI’s Hemp Information Exchange has links to resources and videos hosted by Sandler about male and female plants, pollen drift and CBD hemp storage.

One of the things Sandler has discovered regarding hemp farming is a lack of harvesting and processing infrastructures. “In lots of cases, farmers are successful in growing the plant, but then they’re not able to harvest it, or they have nobody to sell their products to, especially with the CBD boom. The markets are starting to saturate, and some farmers are unaware of how much work harvesting is going to be or the space required to dry the plants.”

Sandler is excited to be working on hemp and helping MFAI continue to be a leader in moving Wisconsin’s hemp industry forward through education and research. The organization is pursuing grants and surveying hemp entities working in the state, particularly growers and processors, and their successes and failures to compile data as a resource. They strive to address questions about harvesting techniques, cultivars ideal for Wisconsin, climate and pest management. Upcoming events are listed on michaelfields.org/calendar.

Sandler is optimistic about the future of hemp in Wisconsin, but she does see changes on the horizon with the CBD “bubble” possible leveling out, driving farmers to switch to more fiber production as infrastructure gets built. “Fiber cultivars grow quite well in the state and have less issues than CBD hemp does,” she concludes.

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Hemp License Applications Are Open for 2020 ::BY JEAN-GABRIEL FERNANDEZ

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isconsin residents who want to grow or process hemp in the coming year must apply for a state license. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), which handles the licenses, opened the application process on Friday, Nov. 1.

DATCP gives out lifetime hemp licenses which do not need to be renewed, so people who received either a grower or processor license in past years will not need a new one, but they will need to register if they plan to grow or process hemp again in 2020. Anyone who does not already have a license will need to apply for one. The process can be completed online at datcp.wi.gov. It requires a background check and fees up to $1,150 for grower licenses (processor licenses are free) and up to $350 per year for the registration fee.

“This process usually takes about a month,” says Frances Hegarty, DATCP’s hemp program manager.

Once the license and registration have been obtained, hemp growers are still beholden to DATCP; they are required to submit at least two reports—one when planting and one after harvesting—as well as open their crops to testing prior to harvest. DATCP must test each field and variety of hemp being grown (for a $250 fee per sample) in order to ensure the hemp has less than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of the cannabis plant. If the crops have THC levels higher than the legal maximum, growers have 10 days to destroy the entire field.

“There is an inherent risk associated with participation in this program. There is no guarantee that your crop will pass the regulatory THC test,” DATCP reminds potential licensees.

Hemp Is Now Federally Legal

At the same time as registrations opened for hemp licenses in Wisconsin, federal law relating to hemp changed. The path to the legalization of hemp was a rocky one, but it is now federally legal. As hemp is a non-psychoactive strain of the cannabis sativa plant, it was often—wrongfully—grouped together with marijuana. It was the 2018 Farm Bill, which was signed into law by Donald Trump in December 2018, that legalized hemp on the

federal level, making it a commodity crop.

The 2018 Farm Bill didn’t immediately go into effect, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) needed time to draft the exact new regulations. Nearly a year after the bill passed, and after being significantly delayed, the new regulations have finally been released.

Starting on Thursday, Oct. 31, of this year and until the same day in 2021, interim regulations will rule the budding market surrounding hemp. People are allowed and encouraged to comment on the interim rule; “after reviewing and evaluating the comments, USDA will draft and publish a final rule,” as the USDA explains.

While federal legalization changes everything in states with no pre-existing hemp programs, Wisconsin will not see much change as it already had a structure in place to grow hemp under previous rules. Since March 2018, Wisconsin has been operating under a state pilot research program, although hemp was federally illegal. In 2014, a federal bill allowed universities and state departments to grow hemp in order to conduct research; Wisconsin farmers have been operating as extensions of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture ever since. To keep up this appearance, the registration process requires signing a research agreement.

However, this change in federal law promises brighter days to come for Wisconsin hemp professionals. The 2018 Farm Bill removes roadblocks to the hemp industry; for instance, by opening federal funding for hemp crops, removing restrictions on banking, water rights and crop insurance. It also allows hemp to be freely transported across state lines and to or through states with no state-sponsored hemp programs.

In the 2019 growing season, Wisconsin’s DATCP received nearly 2,100 applications, “a dramatic increase” from the previous year, according to Brian Kuhn, director of the department’s Plant Industry Bureau. Out of 1,400 applications to grow hemp in the past season, all but 250 were first-time growers. It is likely that this number will keep increasing in the coming months.

“We attribute much of the increase to removal of industrial hemp from the Controlled Substances Act as part of the 2018 Farm Bill late last year,” Kuhn added. “That removed much of the legal uncertainty that may have held participation back somewhat.”

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Druecke says a lot of things converged for the genesis of “Milwaukee Kitchen,” but the idea started brewing from the political climate at the end of 2016. “I think for anybody who is producing culture, that was a moment to kind of reflect and think about what is necessary to put into the world,” he says. “I found myself reading cookbooks and watching standup comedy and became interested in a project that could entertain and challenge its audiences.”

Leplae has a natural ease navigating the kitchen and including guests in food preparation. He is an avid reader of cookbooks, and he frequently watches cooking shows and videos. “Paul asked my wife, Kiki [Anderson], and I if we were interested in helping out with this cooking show project,” Leplae states. “He had me in mind for being a sort of host, and Kiki helping behind the camera. Allegedly, one of the reasons he thought of me is because Kiki once joked to him that I am like a male Martha Stewart.”

Choosing the recipes is a very organic process, Druecke notes, and like Leplae, he’s also fascinated by cookbooks. “A lot of people use cooking books to cook with, but they are also amazing cultural artifacts with an incredibly complicated relationship to time.” They started with a cookbook he inherited from his mother, a 1947 edition of American Woman’s Cookbook, and a

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Just as much thought goes into choosing guests to appear on the show. Druecke looks for people who have a particular talent to share.

Those who have knocked at the front door to join Leplae in the kitchen include Flora Coker, a founding member of Theater X. He credits her with subtly keeping things moving along while the film rolls.

Others that have stopped by the kitchen include Milwaukee painter Ariana Vaeth; food author Christina Ward, whose cookbook, American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas and Jell-O, was featured in an episode; beloved Riverwest letter carrier Mailman Mike; food scholar Scott Barton; Milwaukee poet Margaret Noodin, who

read poetry during an episode; musician Casey Seymour of Ravi/Lola; and many others. Even Druecke’s cat, Penita, makes an occasional appearance. (Her reverie is depicted in various subtitled languages as she watches the happenings in the kitchen.)

Leplae particularly enjoys getting to know all the fun and interesting people that have come on the show, and the friendly atmosphere puts people at ease. “Nothing is overly planned; things just flow naturally. It’s always amazing the funny and interesting things that people say during the course of an episode,” Leplae observes.

Druecke, Leplae and Anderson do much of the planning, but Druecke credits many others with helping to produce each episode, including Milwaukee filmmaker Laj P. Waghray. “There’s a steady stream of people who have consulted on the project,” Druecke concludes. “Really, there are too many people to thank for putting together just one episode of ‘Milwaukee Kitchen.’”

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Measure for Measure First performed in 1604, Measure for Measure is known as one of William Shakespeare’s “problem plays.” It follows the story of a young nun (Isabelle, to be played by Kira Renkas) who is blackmailed by an official into yielding her chastity in exchange for her brother’s life; the latter has been sentenced to death. When Isabelle threatens to expose the official’s corruption, he warns her that no one will ever believe her. Sound familiar? Alas, such a scenario remains all-too relevant so many centuries later. Indeed, Aura Theatre Collective director Jaimelyn Gray will be looking at this play through a modern #MeToo-era lens.

“Harvey Weinstein, reproductive legislation introduced and championed by men in Congress… there is no shortage,” says Gray, who’s currently the artistic director of The Constructivists and director of that company’s recent production of Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell. “Despite the play being written 400 years ago, and Shakespeare’s words sometimes feeling a bit foreign to contemporary audiences, we hope to create an environment in which Measure for Measure is not only still valid, but a warning,” Gray says. (John Jahn) Nov. 14-24 at the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center, 2133 W. Wisconsin Ave. For tickets, visit auratheatre.com.

Newsies A show about newspaper delivery boys? Yes, that describes Newsies, a stage musical based on the 1992 musical film of the same name which, in turn, was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. Newsies has both a great pedigree and creative team: It boasts music by Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors), lyrics by Jack Feldman and book by Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots). The stage musical premiered in 2011 and made its Broadway debut the following year, where it played for more than 1,000 performances before touring.

Skylight Music Theatre’s production of Newsies will be directed by Molly Rhode, choreographed by Rhode and David Roman and have costumes designed by Jason Orlenko. The cast includes Marco Tzunux (Jack), Rachael Zientek (Katherine), Jordan Arrasmith (Crutchie), Nicholas Parrott (Davey), Natalie Harris (Medda) and Lee Palmer (Pulitzer). (John Jahn) Nov. 15-Dec. 29 in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. For tickets, call 414-291-7800 or visit skylightmusictheatre.org.

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“Kingdom Wars” “Kingdom Wars” is one of the largest dance competitions in the Midwest, and 2019’s event will be taking place at Jan Serr Studio in Milwaukee. This dance competition consists of two crews competing against each other to see which is the best in putting on a show of Unlimited versus Unlimited and 1v1. This competition, presented by XIX, boasts three DJs (Fast$Mike, Poohbrezzy and Vic Monsta) who will be collecting millions of streams from across the world. “Kingdom Wars” will be broadcast live to some 30,000 people via Instagram and Facebook and collecting and reaching more than 100,000 impressions. Multi-tiered eliminations will result in a final round and eventual winner of the dance competition; cash and other prizes will be awarded, as well. As the event’s Facebook page says, “Kingdom Wars” is “supported by many,” and they ask Milwaukeeans to “join the movement and support this event that will bring different countries and cities together in one place celebrating life through dance.” (John Jahn) Nov. 15 and 16 at Jan Serr Studio, 2155 N. Prospect Ave. For more information, visit facebook.com/events/2337836909642650.

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he Milwaukee Repertory Theater scores again with Nunsense, its latest offering in the Stackner Cabaret. Performances of this wacky, offbeat, hit show continue into next year, and theatergoers will want to snatch up tickets as soon as possible. It’s a wonder that this smash Off-Broadway hit has taken so long to come to the Stackner.

Nunsense began as a cabaret review and eventually was extended into a full-length musical by its creator, Dan Goggin, who wrote the book and contributed music and lyrics. The OffBroadway show opened in 1985 and became the second-longest-running show there in history, inspiring TV shows and spin-offs. The appeal is Nunsense’s anything-goes humor, delivered by five nuns who still wear the traditional Catholic attire of wimples and black robes. They appear in what looks to be the gymnasium of the Mount Saint Helens School in New Jersey.

Mother Superior (Melody Betts) opens the show and apologizes to the audience about the stage’s appearance. It seems that they promised to leave the set and props intact for a production of Grease by the students. After the nuns are introduced in the opening number, “Nunsense is Habit Forming,” the sisters explain the highly unorthodox reason for mounting a talent show fundraiser. Suffice it to say that the details aren’t the funniest part of the show. Rather, the laughter comes from nuns who try to turn into ballerinas, stand-up comics, TV baking show hosts and all sorts of other hijinks.

The cast is top-notch in every respect, under the capable direction of Malkia Stampley.

The pacing and comic delivery are spot-on, and each nun has an opportunity to shine in a solo number. It’s impossible to pick favorites among the actors, who all have strong voices and deliver the songs with clarity and verve. There’s Rep veteran Kelley Falkner as Sister Robert Anne, Veronica Garza as Sister Mary Amnesia (so-called because a crucifix was dropped on her head), Lachrisa Grandberry as Sister Mary Hubert and Candace Thomas as the youngest nun, Sister Mary Leo. It’s interesting to note that Leo got her start as a Rep Emerging Professional Resident during the 2016-’17 season; she may be young, but she’s got the acting chops to demonstrate what a talented performer she is.

In some ways, the show’s second act is the most satisfying. The audience now has become familiar with all the sisters and their various personalities, and most of the exposition has been covered. One of the sweetest numbers in Stackner Cabaret memory is “Just a’ Coupl’a Sisters,” in which Mother Superior and her right-hand woman, Mary Hubert, strike some harmonious chords. It reminded this reviewer of the famous “Sisters” number from White Christmas.

While Nunsense may gently poke fun at Catholicism, other religions also get their share of laughs. This is a funny, fast-paced show that may not change your life, but it certainly will lighten your spirits.

Through Jan. 12 at Stackner Cabaret, 108 E. Wells St.

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arquette University Theatre casts a nuanced glance into a turning point in race relations with Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs From the Table of Joy. Director Marti Gobel balances Nottage’s sophisticated emotional dynamics with a sharp cast.

A wide-eyed, emotionally radiant Cambryelle Getter plays Ernestine Crump—a mid-20th century African American high school girl who recently moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., with her family. Having come from a small town, Ernestine and her sister, Ermina (Martilla Marechal), are outcasts in the big city. It doesn’t help that their father has come to Brooklyn looking to be closer to a religious leader who doesn’t even live there. Mario Walker has a gruff vulnerability about him as a somewhat directionless Godfrey Crump who has recently lost his wife.

Direction comes to Godfrey’s life in the form of a German immigrant woman who quickly makes a connection with him. Ernestine and Ermina are introduced to that woman as their father’s wife, who promptly moves-in. Suffice it to say this is a sudden change for the two girls.

Giorgia Cozzo summons a firm sense of emotional gravity about her as a housewife trying her best to hold together a household, even as she inadvertently threatens its stability. A particular challenge for her comes in the form of Lily Ann Green, the sister of Godfrey’s late wife. Malaina Moore is impressively balanced as Lily, a woman who has struggled to carve her way into an educated, independent life and become something of an alcoholic in the process.

Through Nov. 17 at Helfaer Theatre, 1304 W. Clybourn St.

‘Morrie’ on the Meaning of Life and Death ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

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uesdays With Morrie is most well known as a best-selling book-turnedmovie based on sports journalist Mitch Albom’s visits with his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz. The professor is wasting away from ALS; Mitch has been living the fast-track life for 16 years since graduation, losing himself in the pursuit of career and fame. The regular visits became a blueprint for Albom and millions of others for how to rediscover the meaning of life and celebrate it in the midst of facing death. Albom, along with veteran playwright Jeff Hatcher, adapted the book into a play featuring the two main characters.

Under the steady direction of Elaine Wyler, Acacia Theatre Company has mounted a moving production featuring two very talented actors, Drew Brhel and David Sapiro. When Albom learns Schwartz is dying (via a TV interview), he visits the professor thinking he’s paid his respects, once and for all. But the more Morrie speaks, the more sense he makes about what truly matters in life and how to deal with what life deals us. Morrie’s lines are often inspirational and amazingly upbeat considering the effects of the disease. “The body kills itself,” he explains to his former pupil; “like a third party, it begins to observe its own decay.”

Albom, for his part, is the typical cellphone-addicted workaholic. So the two very different men become counterpoints and counterbalances for each other as Mitch helps to move Morrie as the disease progresses. No spoiler alerts here; Morrie dies. It’s just when, and, of course, how Mitch and the audience will respond.

With two such finely tuned actors as Brhel (Morrie) and Sapiro (Mitch), Tuesdays With Morrie seamlessly weaves together the close bond between the teacher and his former student in a natural, realistic way. The intimate feel of the play is further enhanced by Acacia’s move to the 100-seat Norvell Commons, where its thrust-like stage gives the audience an up-closeand-personal feel as if sitting with two friends in the family room.

It’s fair to say that there were plenty of tears and sniffling based on these top-notch performances, and yet there was nothing overly sentimental or maudlin, a credit to the writers and director. As Morrie points out toward the end of his life, “The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how live.” This poignant production helps us all to better understand what that means and to practice it while we can.

Through Nov. 14 at St. Christopher’s Church Norvell Commons, 7845 N. River Road, River Hills.

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he debut of Cabaret Milwaukee’s Cream City Crime Syndicate began with a violin and piano duet. They’re playing swing and early jazz tunes to warm up the audience from the dreadful cold outside as they trudge into the ornate bar and lounge of the Astor Hotel. Given the retro-style of Cabaret Milwaukee, even the director is dressed in period-appropriate attire with his hair slicked back, wearing suspenders and olive-colored trousers. From the very moment the audience walks in, the performance has begun, even before a word of dialogue is spoken.

Director Josh Bryan’s latest offering for his 1930s-styled radio show, musical and play performance hybrid is subtitled Politics and Anarchy. In this new entry, Bryan and his co-writers focus on Milwaukee Mayor Daniel Hoan, who headed the longest continuous socialist administration in American history.

In the play, Hoan (Max Williamson) battles to keep control over city hall during World War I, a tumultuous time in the city’s history when tensions were high all around. He is joined by Jack Walker (Rob Schreiner), a fictional police officer, and his assistant, Oscar (Stephen Wolstertorf), as they try to survive in dangerous times. All the while, Hoan is working to implement new ideas to improve Milwaukee and keep it under control despite the rampant unrest. Political foes like Wheeler Bloodgood (Connor Blankmenship) and his puppet candidate, Percy (Audwin Short), take advantage of the chaos and seek to take his place by any means necessary—even murder.

The story is framed by a retro radio program, “The Howling Radio Hour,” hosted by Richard Howling (Marcus Bayer). In between the segments of the play is the radio show set in 1932, during the election that won Franklin Roosevelt the presidency. The radio program includes jingles for such sponsors as Usinger’s and the Astor Hotel, hilarious and occasionally fourth wall-breaking skits and classic jazz standards sung by the Crooner (Cameron Webb). The bulk of the radio portion of the show consists of the skits, which connect historical stories with modern issues such as immigration and abuse in Hollywood.

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Compensating for the minimal stage set was the excellent costuming and ambiance provided by pianist Maggie Deagan and violinist Allen Russell. The production also did a remarkable job integrating the audience into the performance. One instance was when the audience chooses between singing the patriotic “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean,” written in the program, or the “Hymn of Peace” antiwar song handed out on slips of white paper by an anarchist. The two songs battle it out on the stage with the audience deciding which is louder and who to sing with: the prowar preacher or the rebellious anarchist.

The first episode of Cream City Crime Syndicate: Politics and Anarchy is a fun and educational romp through Milwaukee’s history in the early 20th century.

Through Nov. 22 at The Astor Hotel, 924 E. Juneau Ave.

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ō Studios says yes to social justice. This week, the common good is happening.

“Art Activated,” the inaugural Social Justice Summit, comes to our city. Milwaukee native and Oscar-winning screenwriter for the film 12 Years A Slave, John Ridley is the architect behind the event which takes place Nov. 15 and 16 at Nō Studios and Marquette University.

“With Nō Studios, we wanted to create a space and develop a philosophy of using art to build bridges,” Ridley said in a phone interview from his Los Angeles residence.

“Then coalesce that philosophy into an event conjoining artists with activists, organizers and social engineers practiced in implementing real world solutions. We want to build empathy and send people out into the world to improve their communities and understand the issues that are sometimes very local but, at the same time, issues that people all around the world face.”

The penultimate event will be held Saturday at Marquette University’s third floor AMU Monaghan Ballroom (at 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave.), where topics of criminal justice reform, human trafficking, fair housing and arts as a form of protest and repair will be platformed.

“Being a Jesuit university, part of their mandate is not just education but education with a moral underpinning,” Ridley explained.

The opening and closing receptions will be hosted by Nō Studios (1037 W. McKinley Ave.), along with film screenings, talk backs, an actor workshop, inspired press awards and local artists exhibition throughout the week.

Following the opening reception, presenter Jane Ekayu of Children of Peace Uganda will share real life experiences during the presentation, “Using Art as a Change Agent: Healing from Trauma.”

“Jane, whom we’re bringing in from Uganda, is doing an amazing job with children who have been extracted from warlords. These kids had automatic rifles put into their hands and were told to kill other kids for no reason other than they are different. Jane uses art to heal and move them towards a place of normalcy,” Ridley explained.

“How do we let people know that these are things that are happening internationally? Also, if a woman alone like Jane Ekayu can do this in Uganda, why can’t we, the richest country in the world, do more to address similar issues in our city, in our state and across the country?”

Founded by Ridley and joined by siblings Lisa Caesar and Beth Ridley, Nō Studios celebrated its first-year anniversary last month and has become a mecca for artist showcases and industry creatives. The invitingly posh, Cream City brick collaborative space, which is located in the historic Pabst Brewery complex, exists on the dividing line of the haves and the have-nots.

“Even where Nō Studios sits, if you look east, you see revitalization, growth and pride. If you look west, you see folks who are struggling for just the basics day in and day out,” Ridley told attendees of his pre-event press conference.

Margaret Rozga, a poet and English professor with a long history of fair housing and human rights activism in Milwaukee during the 1960s civil rights movement, is one of the speakers to illuminate the conversation. Ko-Thi Dance Company and the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra are among the performers woven between the presentations and panels to enliven the proceedings.

Other featured participants include actress Freida Pinto

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Haggerty Museum of Art • 1234 W. Tory Hill St. Despite its prohibition in international law, torture continues to occur in prisons, detention centers and counterterrorism operations, and the use of torture continues to be defended in the public sphere.

Marquette University philosophy professor Jessica Wolfendale leads this panel discussion about torture as seen through the perspective of the arts. Panel members are Emily Mazzula, Marquette University clinical assistant professor of psychology; Jasmine Alinder, associate dean (humanities) and history professor at UW-Milwaukee; and T. Michael McNulty, scholar-in-residence at the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette University. A reception follows this discussion, which is free and open to the public. The panel is part of Marquette’s two-day Trauma of Torture Conference. To register and for more information, visit the conference’s webpage on Eventbrite.

“Playing House: A New Domesticity, featuring Artwork by Lois Bielefeld and Michelle Grabner”

Nov. 15-March 1 Saint Kate—The Arts Hotel • 139 E. Kilbourne Ave. John Ridley

(Slumdog Millionaire), who also works with communities victimized by human trafficking; Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond, the subject of the documentary Plucked; author, producer and television host Chrishaunda Lee Perez, founder of Uganda-based Children of Peace; and actor Richard Cabral (American Crime). The sponsors are Participant Films, the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Justice and the Milwaukee Bucks.

“I wouldn’t say it was hard to get people together for the summit,” said Ridley. “I find that people who are like-minded are always ready to get together, roll up their sleeves and do what they can for communities.”

In Ridley’s view, there’s a tendency not to think about social justice until one is visited with injustice and inequality. Getting “as many individuals as possible” involved in the crusade for human equity is what a social justice summit does, but what happens in its aftermath may be the difference Milwaukee’s capstone event can make.

“We were fortunate in our early stages to find partners willing to work with us to put together this event. More importantly, to put together an advisory committee so that the things that we learn, people that we meet, networks that we build—so that infrastructure can continue all through the year,” Ridley said. “We’ve reached out to individuals who… no better way to say it, know what they are doing!

They’ve signed up to be part of the council with the expectation that whatever issues, ideas or individuals brought forward are connected with problem solvers.”

According to Ridley, art is uniquely situated to be the catalyst for change, because it has the power to invite us to spend time in other people’s worlds. Making Milwaukee a destination for art and social change is essentially his vision. “For me, art has always been a way to lower barriers. It’s often an apparatus for delivering empathy and moves you in ways that facts and figures do not. Art hits you above the gut and below logic. Just right in the heart.”

In “Playing House,” attendees will examine works by Lois Bielefeld and Michelle Grabner, two artists who explore the multifaceted nature of the domestic and the many ways the concept of home or the domestic can be interpreted. Grabner is a Milwaukee-based artist whose body of work focuses on intellectualizing objects that are seen and used every day, as well as common, shared experiences. Much of her work involves abstracting domestic materials and things that are close at hand, giving them a glorified, uplifting presence. Bielefeld is a photographer who’s known for the performative or narrative nature of her photographs. These works are part of her “New Domesticity” series, where she is thinking about what domesticity looks like today, long after feminism responded to the American-idealized, hyper-role-driven society of the ’50s and ’60s. For more information, call 414-276-8686 or visit saintkatearts.com/exhibitions.

“A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection” Nov. 15-March 22 Milwaukee Art Museum • 700 N. Art Museum Drive

“A Modern Vision” (on display in MAM’s Baker-Rowland Galleries) presents a selection of the most iconic works from the Phillips Collection—the country’s first museum of modern art, which opened in Washington, D.C., in 1921. The exhibition features 50 masterworks by towering figures of European modernism, including Edouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre Bonnard, Wassily Kandinsky, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso. “The Phillips Collection is one of those unique institutions with a collection that was groundbreaking in its day and is full of singular paintings exemplifying the very best of each artist that Duncan Phillips collected,” says Tanya Paul, curator of European art at MAM. “At the same time, the collection is deeply personal, not only because it is Phillips’ own vision of modernism, but also because it retains an intimacy that derives from its presentation in the childhood home of its collector.” For more information, call 414-2243200 or visit mam.org.

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[ FILM CLIPS ] Charlie’s Angels PG-13 Sadly for womankind, the cheesy 1970s TV series has already given us two equally cheesy films. This time, Elizabeth Banks writes, directs and plays a key supporting role. In the present day, the Angels have expanded into a worldwide franchise, each Angel team run by its own Bosley. The film’s Angels (Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska) come to the rescue after a young systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology—hopefully putting Sony’s $48 million budget to good use. In an effort to protect its investment, Sony also signed the grammatically compromised, original lead song, “Don’t Call Me Angel,” by Ariana Grande, featuring her, Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey trashily parading their wares. Girls deserve better. (Lisa Miller)

Ford v Ferrari PG-13 ‘Motherless Brooklyn’

Edward Norton’s Noir Crime Drama ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ ::DAVID LUHRSSEN

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n Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton plays Lionel, a private detective with Tourette’s Syndrome in 1950s New York. The improbability is explained away; Lionel is actually the flunky at a PI agency headed and staffed by fellow graduates of a cruel Roman Catholic orphanage. They’re his crew and they look after him. And despite the compulsive tics, Lionel is no dummy. His phonographic memory grants him total recall on everything he hears.

When the agency’s head, Frank (Bruce Willis), is murdered, Lionel does what any good dick will do in the Dashiell Hammett-Raymond Chandler universe: Duty bound, he goes out into the world seeking the killer, even if the search leads into a labyrinth of deceit and danger.

Norton, who also wrote and directed the movie, based Motherless Brooklyn on Jonathan Lethem’s novel but transposes it to a film noir setting. He gives a bravura performance, swiveling like a man on a bar stool—stutters segue into lucidity and then to obscene jabbering and back again to lucidity. The performance threatens to overwhelm the story and become the story. In an age when people were shut away in asylums for unconventional behavior, how would Tourette’s really play out in the hardboiled world of gangsters and gumshoes?

However, the background for Motherless Brooklyn is drawn from reality. The swaggering yet strangely awkward Building Commissioner, Moses Randolph (Alec Baldwin in full jerk mode), is based on an infamous public official.

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tore down swaths of New York from the 1930s through the ’60s to make way for “progress.”

In Motherless Brooklyn, he’s a man of Pharaonic ambition and Stalinist ruthlessness. One of the film’s pivotal scenes occurs in Randolph’s cavernous office where the “master builder” confronts Lionel the dissident. Randolph was a true believer in his grand visions for the future, a high-rise utopia linked by freeways and built on his own will to power.

Randolph is depicted as addicted to control, not money, and yet is surrounded by a network of predatory real-estate swindlers and eminent-domain abusers. Their designs are hidden inside file cabinets of paperwork and public documents; their scheme suggests the plot of Chinatown changed from water to asphalt and transposed from the orange groves of L.A. County to the boroughs of New York.

Motherless Brooklyn boasts a supporting cast up to their task. Willem Dafoe gives a strong performance as an angry agitator with more than a few secrets. Cherry Jones is convincing as Randolph’s foe, Gabby Horowitz, based on a real thorn-in-Moses’ side, urban-activist Jane Jacobs.

There are excellent scenes inside a Harlem nightclub where a song composed for the occasion by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke was arranged for a ’50s-style combo by Wynton Marsalis.

As is usually the case in contemporary films set in the past, there are historical slip-ups.

Horowitz’s assistant, Laura (Gugu MbathaRaw), complains that Latinos are among Randolph’s victims. Problem: The word Latino wasn’t coined until 20 years after the story’s setting. Norton’s Motherless use of Lionel’s hardboiled voiceovers, Brooklyn carrying some of the Edward Norton narrative’s weight Alec Baldwin instead of editing Directed by and dialogue, was a Edward Norton device the best films noir from the classic Rated R era deployed much more sparingly. The best scenes from Motherless Brooklyn show resistance to the arrogance of unchecked power. Randolph, like many tech-giants today, are fixated on their own future visions and abstractions of perfection. Never mind the people in the way of their world. They can clear out.

It was 1965 when Ford Motor Company declared price was no object in its bid to best Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. An endurance race won by driving the most total miles in 24 hours, Ford’s entries were overseen by automotive visionary Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and his British driver, Ken Miles (Christian Bale). The script examines the strong personalities at play. Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) and his right-hand man, Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal), insert themselves into the process, causing much consternation for Shelby and Miles, who were good friends, frequently in agreement and passionate experts, occasionally at odds. Excellent scripting, filming and acting yield an Oscar-ready, must-see movie event. (L.M.)

The Good Liar R The joy of watching Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen play a cat-and-mouse game is an enviable pleasure of this old-fashioned caper. Career con man Roy (McKellen) reels in recently widowed Betty (Mirren), who is worth millions. A proper English matron, fun-loving Betty nevertheless falls for the sparkle in Roy’s eye, gamely overlooking his rakish behavior and scheming nature. Though criticized for telegraphing its twists, these well-matched octogenarians inject their bankable wit, timing and gravitas into every turn. (L.M.)

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“Photon torpedoes! Brace for impact!” As Capt. Picard, Patrick Stewart brought new life to the old formula with “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987-1994). The six-disc blu-ray set collects a pair of movie-length TV episodes, 10 hours of deleted scenes and bonus material plus all four theatrically released Picard films—Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis.

Stewart brought dignity and humor to the Enterprise as Picard made peace, fought battles, unraveled ethical conundrums and explored new worlds.

n My Son

The 7-year-old son of an estranged couple disappears from camp.

Did he act out against his parents by running away or was he kidnapped? If the latter, by whom? My Son is surprisingly engaging as emotional fissures explode into chasms and the father’s secret life leads him to a dangerous course of action. The film, by French director Christian Carion, is a more thoughtful counterpart to Taken. The wintry landscape lends itself to beautiful cinematography.

n Quartet

The team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala established the tone for high-end filmmaking in the 1980s. Based on the novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet (1981) is set in 1920s Paris and is more interesting for capturing the Jazz Age mood and look than in the erotic rivalry centered around waif-like Marya (Isabelle Adjani). The time and place are rendered with an eye for detail most recent films can’t match.

n Kundun

Martin Scorsese’s films are imbued with Roman Catholicism and—until The Last Temptation of Christ—populated by men of violence. Last Temptation was a gateway to Kundun (1997), a visually astute portrait of the imperious boy who became the present Dalai Lama. Much of the film was shot from a child’s perspective, allowing the audience to explore the boy’s world alongside him. The new blu-ray includes a second disc documenting the making-of Kundun in Morocco.

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11:15AM MORNING YOGA OMTOWN YOGIS & MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Located at the Fashion Show Stage in the Grand Ballroom

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12:00PM IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE IN A RELATIONSHIP, BE IN A GREAT ONE! ALLISON MICKE ORLOVSKY, FOR THE LOVE OF YOU COACHING

12:30PM FROM TRAUMA TO TRIUMPH IN LIFE AND AROUND THE WORLD CARRIE REICHARTZ, INFINITELY MORE LIFE

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2:00PM WOMEN WINEMAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD* MARIA LOMBARDI-SILER, TAUB FAMILY SELECTIONS

2:30PM BEGIN: 5 STEPS FOR SPEAKING OUR TRUTHS MELANIA KLEMOWITS, BRAINCHILD STUDIOS

3:00PM FRESH FLORAL JEWELRY CLASS* JACLYN MILLONZI, FEISTY FLOWERS * Limited seating is available, ticket required.

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EE ON FR SSI I DM On view: Nov. 11, 2019 – Jan. 11, 2020 BROOKS STEVENS GALLERY Examine gaming culture through the lens of the popular card game Magic: The Gathering. The exhibition features rare original artwork and cards, plus concept drawings and models from the game’s history.

UPCOMING EVENTS Artist Talk, Nov. 14, 7 p.m.

“Making a Career of Diversity in Fantasy Art” presented by Winona Nelson Magic: The Gathering Game Day, Nov. 16, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

All experience levels welcome to play Magic: The Gathering.

Guest appearance by illustrator Winona Nelson. Co-hosted by MIAD’s Magic: The Gathering Club.

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Jaquira Díaz’s Journey of Transformation in ‘Ordinary Girls’ ::BY JENNI HERRICK

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n Jaquira Díaz’s electric and highly anticipated memoir, Ordinary Girls, the ordinariness that she refers to is multifaceted and often unexpected. As a young kid growing up in the Puerto Rican projects with a father who worked as a drug dealer, she didn’t initially understand that her life was anything other than ordinary. When her family relocated to Miami Beach and her mother began battling a severe mental illness, she saw other families’ lives as much more ordinary than her own. And as a self-described “closeted queer girl,” her identity and the related issues she struggled with growing up contributed to her yearning for what she saw as the ordinary lives of everyone other than herself. It is these teenage struggles, from drug abuse, depression, dangerous sexual relationships and encounters with the law, that she chronicles in her memoir, Ordinary Girls.

There was violence in this world, and by age 11, Díaz was attempting to inflict violence on herself through suicide attempts and failed efforts to run away from home. Her book is a story of transformation, yet it doesn’t pinpoint a single revelatory moment of transformative change. Rather, she broadens her writing to encompass the “ordinary” coming-of-age tragedies that young women around the globe struggle to overcome. Ordinary Girls is at once a dynamic and powerful story of Puerto Rico, modern America and learning to embrace the extraordinary parts of ourselves.

Jaquira Díaz is a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at UW-Madison and editor at the Kenyon Review. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, The Guardian and The Best American Essays.

Jaquira Díaz will discuss her memoir, Ordinary Girls, at Boswell Book Co., 2559 N. Downer Ave., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m.

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Milwaukee Mystery Writer Strikes Again OVER THE YEARS, MILWAUKEE ATTORNEY MICHAEL BOWEN found time for a side career, writing concise and pageturning murder mysteries and thrillers. The protagonist of his latest, False Flag in Autumn, Josie Kendall, was introduced in his 2016 novel, Damage Control. Kendall is a Washington, D.C., insider who gets caught up in some dangerous political intrigue swirling around the 2020 election. Nowadays, this sort of plot line is no longer fantasy but reaches the borders of journalism.

Bowen will talk about his book at Whitefish Bay Public Library, 5420 N. Marlborough Drive, on Monday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m.

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ith degrees in theater and psychology, Illinois native Erika Navin moved to Milwaukee for a job in community development. Missing theater, she responded to an audition notice in the Shepherd Express for The Nerd at Wauwatosa Players and was cast. A fellow actor recommended Sunset Playhouse, and in 1999, she started volunteering there as actor and crew member. By 2002 she was on the board. She’d just had her first child when Sunset’s modest School for the Arts lost its education director. With children’s theater freshly on her mind, Navin applied for the position and was hired in 2006. She’s greatly expanded the curriculum and created a professional touring company, bug in a rug, for which she writes and directs.

Theater classes for 2-year-olds?

It’s my favorite thing to do. We have a group of 2and 3-year-olds, and a group of kids ages 3 to 5. We do storytelling, imagination and drama. I use children’s literature as a catalyst. We do basic warm-ups. We talk about the actor’s tools: their voice, body and imagination. We become the characters. We act out the story.

We offer classes all the way through high school.

How did bug in a rug start?

It started with my daughter. I wanted to bring her to the theatre, but you had to tell children to be quiet and sit still. I thought, she’s never going to love theatre if I make her do that! I was reading a book with her one night called Love, Ruby Valentine.

We’d read together and act things out, and I thought this would make an adorable play. So, I brought the idea to Sunset’s artistic director and he trusted me.

I asked permission from the publisher to write the book into a play, and we opened in January 2009. It was our first bug in a rug production.

Why that name?

We wanted it to be very casual. Kids come in their pajamas, sit on blankets on the floor. If a 2-year-old wants to run around during the play, that’s fine. We recommend the performances for ages 3 to 8, but we have strollers in the back. Older children come, too.

Who performs?

Sunset hires three professional actors for each show, and Jason Powell composes all our music, at least three original songs for every production.

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How many have you written?

Now that we’ve grown, we do three shows each season. One is generally based on a children’s book that we get rights to adapt. One is an original adaptation of a fairy tale or fable, something kids know the characters of. And one is something random that pops into my head.

And the tours?

The show is generally available for two or three months. We do one weekend of public performances at Sunset and around 25 tour performances, mostly at schools and libraries, but also daycare centers and preschools. One way we’ve been able to offer it to more MPS students is through grant funding that provides free or reduced cost performances. The Women’s Club of Wisconsin has been our largest supporter. Because of them, we’ve been able to expand our curriculum.

We call it bug in a rug jr. One of our instructors goes to a school that’s been chosen for a free performance and teaches a six-week course where the students will perform a tiny version of a similar story. We also have individual supporters.

Super is your show right now. What is it about?

It’s an original story. We did it seven years ago. It came from me having kids in elementary school and dealing with bullying. I worked with the guidance counsellor at my kids’ school to find out what tactics they were trying to give the students. I used the great resources she gave me, like the three steps to deal with a bully, and I came up with three female superheroes.

There’s the one being bullied; her superpower is invisibility because I wanted her to overcome the bully without using her superpower. There’s her archnemesis whose superpower is strength. And then, the super-mom; her superpower is speed. Every bug in a rug show has at least three audience participation parts where children volunteer to come onstage. Here, they travel with mom in a boat, on a plane, on skis, superfast and then super-slow, back and forth. Our next show, Rock ‘n Roll Mole, begins touring in January.

Public performances of Super are Nov. 13-16 at Sunset Playhouse, 700 Wall St., Elm Grove. Call 262-782-443 or visit sunsetplayhouse.com for tickets or tour information.

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The Shepherd Express Holiday Arts Guide 2019

WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON ::BY HARRY CHERKINIAN

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Pabst Mansion

Christmas at the Pabst Mansion Nov. 22-Jan. 5 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave. Experience Christmas past with three floors of vintage decoration from the Parlor Room to the Dining Room and the third floor guest bedrooms. Featured are self-guided, after hours “Twilight Tours” taking visitors through each room. There’s also paper ornament and cookie decorating workshops as well. Looking for a bit of mystery with the holiday merriment? Milwaukee Entertainment Group presents Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose in the mansion’s lower level.

Real Tinsel Gallery

“Buskers” Nov. 22-Jan. 22 1013-1015 Historic Mitchell St. “Buskers” began in 2017 as a charity event to benefit Hunger Task Force and represent underrepresented artists.

And this year, the show has expanded to include all artists in the community who’d like to participate. “All visitors to the gallery on opening night will be required to purchase a roll of change (from pennies to half dollars) upon entering the gallery and deposit in designated vessels adjacent to the art works,” explains gallery owner Shane McAdams. “Artists will keep all proceeds from all art sales and donations.” Real Tinsel will match all contributions with a single gift to Hunger Task Force. It’s a great way to get into the spirit of giving.

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e may be decking our halls with holly and placing mistletoe in strategic places, but there are many holiday reasons to leave the house this season. Music, theater, dance—it’s all a celebration of the most wonderful time of the year.

So, peruse, pick and get to jingling those bells!

NOVEMBER The Fireside Theatre

A Christmas Story: The Musical Through Dec. 22 1131 Janesville Ave., Fort Atkinson The beloved 1983 film classic is a fun-filled musical telling the story of young Ralphie and his obsession getting a Red Ryder Air Rifle for Christmas. Along the way are the many hilarious antics involving his parents and younger brother. For fans of Dear Evan Hansen, the music and lyrics are by the same hitmakers, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

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Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Nov. 16 116 W. Wisconsin Ave. It’s been 35 years since the first Mannheim Steamroller Christmas CD was released, changing how holiday music is heard with its blend of tradition-meets-technology. And once again, Milwaukee is on the “Nice List” for a stopover. Founder Chip Davis revisits the music from that debut on this tour with plenty of multi-media effects to kick off the holiday season.

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Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival 2019 Nov. 21-Jan.1 Pere Marquette Park Christmas officially begins in Milwaukee when the lights go on... and on and on with the switch flipping ceremony. There’s also a holiday variety show in the works.

So, plenty to celebrate as the city lights up the night and starts the season.

Elf: The Musical Nov. 23-Dec. 29 Todd Wehr Theater, 121 E. State St.

When we think of “elf,” we think of Buddy in search of his family—the most important part of the holiday season. And the beloved movie-turned-musical staged

by Milwaukee’s premier children’s company reminds of us of that, according to director and music director Jeff Schaetzke. “We all have some childhood memories of the holidays, spending time together and getting other to feel that spirit,” he says. “Buddy the elf sees things from a child’s perspective and loves the youthful holiday spirit, and that’s what we experience all the time at First Stage.”

Milwaukee Repertory Theater A Christmas Carol Nov. 26-Dec. 24 144 E. Wells St.

The Rep’s artistic director, Mark Clements, has adapted the classic tale into a story filled with music, dance and merriment for the redemption of “you-know-who,” all in the nick of time for Christmas. “While the story of A Christmas Carol was written more than 150 years ago,

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Into the Woods Curator Talk

its themes and social values are timeless, and despite the title, it’s a deeply human and humane story that is appropriate to people of all belief systems,” says Clements. Now in its 44th year at The Rep, the annual performance is a holiday tradition shared from one generation to the next. For many, it’s their introduction to the magic of live theater.

Saturday, November 16 2:00–3:00 Into the Woods is artist Tom Uttech’s first full-career retrospective, featuring more than 150 paintings, photographs, and drawings.

Riverside Theater

Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker Nov. 29 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.

MOWA Executive Director Laurie Winters will share her experience curating this special museum-wide exhibition and explore artwork from all periods of Tom Uttech’s career.

The Moscow Ballet brings its unique vision of the ballet classic to life using largesize puppets amid 200 costumes and an international cast of dancers.

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Sunset Playhouse

Jayne Taylor Christmas Show Nov. 30 700 Wall St., Elm Grove Start the holiday season with the special event performance as Jayne Taylor performs holiday favorites in English, as well as the Romance languages of French, Italian and Spanish.

DECEMBER Miller High Life Theatre “Cirque Musica Presents Holiday Wishes” Dec. 1 500 W. Kilbourn Ave.

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Circus-style acrobats and aerialists, dancers, jugglers and plenty of holiday music with a full symphony orchestra gather under the “Big Top” of the Miller High Life Theatre.

Northern Lights Theater “Even More Holiday Tales” with John McGivern Dec. 3 Potawatomi Bingo and Casino, 1721 W. Canal St.

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Milwaukee’s well-known funnyman and host of PBS’ “Around the Corner” returns with more holiday stories about growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Milwaukee. The third of six children, McGivern recounts the funny and fond memories of trees purchased at the Odd-Lot Tree-Lot to the Wisconsin Gas Company Christmas Cookie Book. Get your nostalgia back on with a visit tales of the entire McGivern clan.

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“Cirque Dreams Holidaze” Dec. 3-4 116 W. Wisconsin Ave. The production includes 300 costumes, 20 acts including those that defy gravity

(excluding Santa and his reindeer, of course) and enough lights to light up the holidays for years to come.

Charles Allis Art Museum “Christmas on the Screen” Dec. 4 1801 N. Prospect Ave.

Milwaukee’s genial film historian, Dale Kuntz, produced a special program culling musical numbers from the movies of Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin and Nelson Eddy.

Festival City Symphony

“Holiday Pajama Jamboree” Dec. 4 Bradley Pavilion, 929 N. Water St. This annual free concert is designed for children to get up close to the musicians. Pajamas, teddy bears and blankets are encouraged, as well as non-perishable food donations to the Milwaukee Hunger Task Force.

Riverside Theater Lindsey Stirling’s “Warmer in the Winter Christmas Tour 2019” Dec. 5 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.

In the seven years since her self-titled debut, Lindsey Stirling has established herself as a forerunner in the EDM genre with violin-driven instrumentals coupled with a frenzied dance beat. Her holiday album, 2017’s Warmer in the Winter, was a holiday chart topper with its mix of classic and original songs. Stirling is also a dancer, a runner-up in Season 25 of “Dancing with the Stars.”

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts

Black Nativity Dec. 5-15 Wilson Center at Vogel Hall, 929 N. Water St. Langston Hughes’ classic story of the Nativity is retold through the use African American poetry, dance and song. Veteran director and actor Malkia Stampley made this an annual holiday tradition relevant to conditions in present-day Milwaukee. This year, Azeeza Islam will direct the production.

Waukesha Civic Theatre Elf: The Musical Dec. 5-22 264 W. Main St., Waukesha

The popular contemporary holiday film is now a popular holiday musical starring our favorite elf, Buddy. An orphan, Buddy goes in search of his family as an adult. And his trip to the Big Apple creates all sorts of (fun) challenges while he discovers the true meaning of Christmas.

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Greenfield Concert Band 2019 Holiday Concert Dec. 6 4800 S. 60th St.

The concert band performs a selection of holiday favorites under the direction of Kelly Schultz. This year’s event features a collaboration with the Greenfield High School Choir with Elias King directing the group.

Racine Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Dec. 6 5 Fifth St., Racine

The RSO performs holiday favorites both classic and contemporary featuring local high school choirs.

School Sisters of St. Francis

“Holiday in Brass” with Milwaukee Festival Brass Dec. 6 St. Joseph Center, 1501 S. Layton Blvd.

Using traditional brass brand instruments, Milwaukee Festival Brass reinvents traditional holiday favorites with jazz and swing reinterpretations. Mark A. Taylor directs the two dozen brass musicians and percussionists.

Carthage College

Carthage College Christmas Festival Dec.6-7 A.F. Siebert Chapel, 2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha The annual festival features holiday readings along with vocal and orchestral groups.

Each evening includes performances by students in the Carthage Choir, Carthage Treble Choir, Lincoln Chamber Singers, Carthage Chorale, Wind Orchestra and Carthage Philharmonic.

Wisconsin Lutheran College Christmas Festival Concert Dec. 6-8 Schwan Concert Hall, 8815 W. Wisconsin Ave.

A longstanding tradition at the college, the Wisconsin Lutheran College Choir features more than 80 student and guest musicians performing sacred choral music. James Nowack directs.

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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Pops Dec. 6-8 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.

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special guest, Tony Award-nominated soprano Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins, Show Boat, The Music Man).

Falls Patio Players

Christmas Carol (an original musical play

by Carol Klose and Jack E. Strawbridge) Dec. 6-8 North Middle School Auditorium, N88 W16750 Garfield Drive, Menomonee Falls Adapted by two Falls Patio Players veterans, this tale includes French and English carols as well as many of the beloved holiday favorites.

Oconomowoc Arts Center MSAD’s The Nutcracker Dec. 6-8 641 E. Forest St., Oconomowoc

The Main Stage Academy of Dance and the Arts Center’s artistic director Eddie Bray have created an all-new choreography for the cherished ballet classic—an annual OAC tradition celebrating its 10th anniversary this year .

Milwaukee Entertainment Group Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose Dec. 6-21 Brumder Mansion, 3046 W. Wisconsin Ave.

When a man loses his hat and Christmas goose in a fight, the intrepid Holmes is asked to investigate. But when a blue carbuncle (precious gemstone) is found in the missing goose’s throat, the fun really begins in this family friendly holiday mystery.

West Bend Theatre Company

A Christmas Carol Dec. 6-15 301 N. University Drive, West Bend

For those looking for an intimate production of the Dickens classic, WBTC performs A Christmas Carol in the round with only four rows of audience members on each side facing the performers. It’s a good way to cozy up to the spirit of season while watching Scrooge catch up to the rest of us.

Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Dailey and Vincent “A Springer Mountain Farms Christmas” Dec. 7 19805 W. Capitol Drive

Put a little bit of country twang in your holiday hoedown with Jamie Dailey and

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The Shepherd Express Holiday Arts Guide 2019 PRESENTED BY Darrin Vincent performing a mix of gospel, traditional country and bluegrass.

Tripoli Shrine Center “A Soulful Christmas” Dec. 7 3000 W. Wisconsin Ave.

The contemporary Irish folk band Tallymoore returns to perform a range of Irish and Scottish folk tunes, ballads and, of course, holiday favorites. Attendees are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to the Wauwatosa Community Food Pantry.

Early Music Now

Sunset Playhouse

Contemplate the serenity and meaning of Christmas while listening to Medieval music from France, Italy and England sung by the Boston Camerata. Given the opulent architecture and stellar acoustics at St. Joseph’s Chapel, the setting is just about as perfect as it gets to hear these beautiful voices.

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“Winter Dreams: A Holiday Concert Featuring Tallymoore” Dec. 7 1532 N. Wauwatosa Ave.

Double B Entertainment is signing off after 19 years of producing shows with this grand finale featuring performances by The Tempters along with R&B veteran Lonnie Givens.

“A Medieval Christmas: Puer Natus Est” with Anne Azéma and Soloists of the Boston Camerata Dec. 7-8 St. Joseph Chapel, 1501 S. Layton Blvd.

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“That Holiday Feeling” Dec. 7 641 E, Forest St., Oconomowoc

Vocalists Tim Patrick, Colleen Raye and Debbie O’Keefe put the “classic” back in holidays tunes along with the 10-piece Blue Eyes Band (named after that famous crooner). They’ll perform hits by Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Karen Carpenter and The Andrews Sisters.

“Santa’s Playhouse: A Morning with Santa” Dec. 7 700 Wall St., Elm Grove

This interactive program starts out with an open house and pictures with Santa followed by a special performance of Becoming Santa’s Helper along with a holiday sing-along.

There’ll be plenty of Santa’s elves to assist in this family friendly event.

Milwaukee Ballet

The Nutcracker Dec. 7-26 Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St. Milwaukee Ballet’s magical production has delighted audiences since 1977, telling the story of Clara and her brave nutcracker soldier as they battle an army of mice and travel to exotic lands. The production is very kid-friendly, and this year features a sensoryfriendly performance at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13, for those with autism.

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The Shepherd Express Holiday Arts Guide 2019 Kohl’s Art Generation Family Sunday: Artful Holiday

Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

Dec. 8 Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive

“Home for the Holidays” Dec. 11 Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive

Explore the art of printmaking in the “Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking” exhibit and watch demonstrations while enjoying the sounds of the season. Learn how to make your own prints to frame or give as holiday gifts.

Listen to the Florentine Opera’s studio artists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) perform songs of the holiday season with the opera’s unique vocal flair.

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Wisconsin Philharmonic

“The First Noël” Dec. 8 Carroll University, Shattuck Music Center, 218 N. East Ave., Waukesha The Wisconsin Philharmonic is back with its annual holiday concert featuring classical arrangements like George Frederic Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” to Mannheim Steamroller’s arrangement of “Silent Night.” Special guests include Gary Fitz on viola and choirs from Brookfield Academy, Divine Saviors, Hartford Union High School and Waukesha West High School.

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Jazz at Lincoln Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis presents “Big Band Holidays” Dec. 10 Marcus Center’s Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra features renowned trumpeter Wynton Marsalis with big band versions of favorite holiday classics as well as few variations like “Brazilian Sleigh Ride.” This year’s guest artist lineup includes baritone vocalist Denzel Sinclaire and 18-year-old singer-songwriter Alexis Morrast, first-place winner of the nationally broadcast “Showtime at the Apollo.”

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“Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Presents Leslie Odom Jr.: A Holiday Special” Dec. 11 116 W. Wisconsin Ave. For those who just didn’t get enough of the theatrical phenomenon Hamilton during its recent Milwaukee run, here’s your chance to see an original Broadway cast member, Leslie Odom Jr. (Aaron Burr). But in this special performance with the MSO under conductor Yaniv Dinur, he’s definitely on Santa’s “Nice List” with his interpretations of “I’ll be Home for Christmas” and “My Favorite Things.”

Cedarburg Cultural Center “Cocktails and Canvas: Christmas Ornaments with Michelle Savas Thompson” Dec. 12 W62 N546 Washington Ave., Cedarburg

Attendees get to complete an acrylic painting, Sparkling Ornaments, while enjoying some holiday spirits concocted especially for the event.

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Milwaukee Public Museum “Old Milwaukee Mixer: A Streets Holiday Party” Dec. 12 800 W. Wells St.

Here’s a chance to see some of the museum’s collections for the first time, including how winter and holidays were celebrated in the past. Before, Christmas holiday cards were... postcards! And there’ll be plenty on display, as well as vintage ornaments and a short holiday film playing in the old-fashioned Nickelodeon.

South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center

“Navidad Mexicana Featuring Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles” Dec. 13 901 15th Ave., South Milwaukee This holiday program features the first U.S. all-female mariachi ensemble. The Grammy Award-nominated musicians play a style of regional Mexican music using some unique instruments, including a guitarron (a high-pitched, round-back guitar) and vihuela (bass guitar).

Cedarburg Performing Arts Center Dailey and Vincent Dec. 13 W68 N611 Evergreen Blvd., Cedarburg.

The bluegrass group will play their 2018 holiday release, Sounds of Christmas, featuring contemporary hymns (“Mary Did You Know”) to rock classics (“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”) and their unique take on The Mean Green One (“Mr. Grinch”).

Christmas with the Choristers

Dec. 13-14 St. Monica Parish, 160 E. Silver Spring Drive The Choristers return with sacred and secular holiday favorites as well as seasonal music by Ludwig van Beethoven, John Ritter and John Wesley Work.

Cedarburg Cultural Center “It’s a Dickens of a Christmas in Cedarburg!”

Dec. 13-14 Kuhefuss House Museum, W63 N6194 Washington Ave., Cedarburg

Enjoy scenes from A Christmas Carol (tea at the Cratchits’, Mr. Fezziwig’s kitchen and Fred’s dining room) while enjoying the lavish decorations throughout the historic Kuhefuss House Museum. Proceeds benefit children’s programs at the Cedarburg Cultural Center.

Bel Canto Chorus

“Christmas in the Basilica” Dec. 13-15 Basilica of St. Josaphat, 601 W. Lincoln Ave.

A longstanding Milwaukee tradition is hearing the Bel Canto Chorus every Christmas in the Basilica. Thousands attend the event, the most popular of all the Bel Canto performances. This year features the work of John Ritter, along with traditional carols.

Florentine Opera Company “Opera at the Center: Home for the Holidays” Dec. 13-22 628 E. Burleigh St.

The Florentine Opera Studio Artists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) will perform songs of the holiday season with unique vocal flair.

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The Shepherd Express Holiday Arts Guide 2019 Cedarburg Cultural Center “Holiday Party with Piano Brew” Dec. 14 W62 N546 Washington Ave., Cedarburg

Piano Brew play dance music dating from 1947 through 2017. They’ll be serving up all your holiday favorites as well. So, if it’s a “human jukebox” you’re looking for during the holiday season, this is the place to be.

Kenosha Pops Concert Band

“A Kenosha Pops Christmas” Dec. 14 A.F. Siebert Chapel, 2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha The Kenosha Pops Concert band presents is 17th annual holiday concert featuring seasonal favorites.

Kenosha Symphony Orchestra

“Celebrating the Holidays” Dec. 14 Reuther High School Performance Center, 913 57th St., Kenosha Celebrating 80 years this season, the

Kenosha Symphony Orchestra will play holiday selections with dancing by the Kenosha Academy of Performing Arts. The Kenosha Chamber Choir also performs and the audience gets into the act with a sing-a-long. Music director Robert G. Hasty will conduct.

Master Singers of Milwaukee

“Unto Us a Child is Born” Dec. 14-15 St. Joseph Chapel, 1501 S. Layton Blvd.

Continuing a yearly tradition, the Master Singers of Milwaukee perform their holiday concert. “Unto Us a Child is Born” features the Muskego High School Choir (Saturday, Dec. 14) and the Port Washington High School Choir (Sunday, Dec. 15).

Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts “A Joyful Christmas” with Eileen Ivers Dec. 14 19805 W. Capitol Drive

Eileen Ivers is best known as a star of Riverdance and an All-Ireland Fiddle Champion. But she excels at bringing her own vision—and fusion—of Celtic and world music genres with plenty of foot-stompin’ roots music thrown in. Expect this holiday show to raise the roof!

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McMann & Tate present the Tater Sutra . . . the ancient art of surviving love 3/14/20 7:30pm $25

PIX Flix: White Christmas Dec. 16 264 W. Main S., Waukesha

For those who like to see White Christmas live in a movie theater with a crowd and, of course, all the concession stand treats, Waukesha Civic Theatre is the place to cozy up and watch Bing and friends get their holiday on with dazzling footwork and some of the best of Irving Berlin, including the timeless classic.

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Local actor and playwright Joel Kopischke injects hilarity into the holidays with sendups like the show’s title and “Ground Control to Santa Claus,” among others.

The Celtic Woman group returns with its eighth annual “Symphony Tour” to perform holiday favorites with a full orchestra.

“I Got Yule, Babe” Dec. 17-19 264 W. Main S., Waukesha

Off-Broadway at the Marcus Center

‘Twas the Month Before Christmas Dec. 18-22 Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall, 121 E. State St. Milwaukee actor and playwright Doug Jarecki takes a humorous look at all the other events that led up to that magical night in Bethlehem. “Looking at Joe and Mary, the three kings and the innkeeper and his daughter, I tried to imagine what each of them had to go through to get to that exact place at that exact time,” explains Jarecki.

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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert Dec. 19 W68 N611 Evergreen Blvd., Cedarburg The MSO travels to Cedarburg to perform holiday classics and favorite carols to get everyone into the holiday spirit.

“Celtic Woman: Christmas Tour” Dec. 21 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.

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“Jim Brickman: A Christmas Celebration 2019” Dec. 26 Wilson Center at Vogel Hall, 121 E. State St. The Grammy Award-nominated pianist is as much a part of the holidays as, well, the holiday tunes he plays on those ivories.

Brickman is a favorite for those who enjoy classic and contemporary takes on the classics along with his humorous banter.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec. 27 1111 Vel. R. Phillips Ave. Trans-Siberian Orchestra has been a Milwaukee favorite for many years for fans who like their holiday classics played rock style with electric guitars and bombastic drums.

TSO is going back to its progressive rock roots, playing its debut holiday CD, Christmas Eve and Other Stories.

Riverside Theater “Motown Christmas” Dec. 20 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Featuring past and present members of The Temptations, The Miracles and The Capitols, the show includes soulful singing Motownstyle, along with some fancy foot-shuffling choreography, all designed to put some holiday spirit into the season.

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CREAM CITY CREATIVES Their 6th Annual Holiday Market is on Sunday, Nov. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Turner Hall Ballroom. There will be over 50 vendors from Milwaukee and beyond. Food will be available from Pedro’s Empanadas, and Press. Waffles. Admission is $3 and kids are free. Free tote bags to the first 50 guests! www.creamcitycreatives.com 40 | N OV E M B E R 14 , 2 0 1 9

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The final Market for the Holiday Pop-Up Shop is December 15th at Glass+Griddle / MKE Brewing. www.milwaukeemakersmarket.com

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Winter chill (even though it’s still Autumn!) might be sweeping across the city, and Halloween’s fun is but a memory, but there’s whole lot of hot craziness still to be had in Milwaukee! Check out the events on my social calendar this week and make some time for yourself.

I’ll be back next week with advice for the lovelorn, lonely and lustful. Speaking of which, be sure to email me your questions, events and announcements.

Hit me up at dearruthie@shepex.com, and you might find your question or event in a future column. Until then, have a helluva week, everyone!

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::RUTHIE’SSOCIALCALENDAR Nov. 14—Mid-Month Masquerade at This Is It! (418 E. Wells St.): Didn’t get your fill of Halloween? Missed out on Día de los Muertos? There’s still time to costume up when you hit this 8 p.m. masquerade. Guess who the masked performers are and win a prize, dress to impress and start your weekend off a little early.

Nov. 15—MAM After Dark: Friendsgiving at the Milwaukee Art Museum (700 N. Art Museum Drive): Kick off the holiday season with your chosen family at one of Milwaukee’s favorite landmarks: the Milwaukee Art Museum. When the lights go down, the tunes crank up with dancing, cash bars, holiday shopping, “Friends” trivia and more. Enjoy the 7:30 p.m. bash for free if you’re a museum member; nonmembers pay $12 for advance tickets, available at etix.com.

Nov. 15—Exposé at The Northern Lights Theater (1721 W. Canal St.): Relive the glory days of the ’80s with one of the most popular girl groups of all time. From “Come Go with Me” and “Point of No Return” to “Seasons Change” and the new single “Shine On,” the songs of Exposé promise to put a little pep in your step and a beat in your butt. Nab your $40-$50 ticket at ticketmaster.com and enjoy the 8 p.m. concert.

Nov. 15—Scorpio Party at Walker’s Pint (818 S. Second St.): Who doesn’t love a Scorpio? Come celebrate this astrological sign (and all horoscope signs, actually) with this annual bash. The party starts at 9 p.m. and has a drag show at 10 p.m. featuring everyone’s favorite king, Tenderoni. Dance the night away after the show and take advantage of shot and drink specials all night long.

Nov. 16—Woman Up 2019 at the Italian Community Center (631 E. Chicago St.): The team at Shepherd Express hosts this annual day of networking, empowerment and celebration for women. Discover the power within yourself as you work toward personal and professional goals via guest speakers, break-out sessions and interactive activities offered by today’s successful women. Grab your besties and enjoy the 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. day, which also includes food from local restaurants, wine tastings, a fashion show and much more. Swing by womanupmke.com for

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early bird tickets and the day’s full schedule. Send an email to eventreg@shepex.com to see how you can get involved.

Nov. 16—Drag Queen Story Hour at Bounce Milwaukee (2801 S. Fifth Court): Plop the kids in the car and head over to Bounce for an afternoon of expression, love, education and fun!

The queens read to the little ones at 3 p.m., followed by a family friendly drag show at 5 p.m. Raffles and a silent auction round out the event which raises money for the city’s official Drag Queen Story Hour program.

Nov. 17—Sunday Funday at Club Charlies (320 E. Menomonee St.): Come and see what the city is talking about when you join this 2 p.m. salute to the Great White Way. Karen Valentine hosts an afternoon of videos, sing-a-longs and laughs that you don’t want to miss.

Nov. 17—FORGE Parents of Trans Kids Support Group at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 N. Market St.): If you’ve suddenly found yourself on a journey of acceptance and advocacy for a transgender, non-binary or gender nonconforming school-aged child, this monthly support group is for you. Meet other parents (and a facilitator) who share your concerns, successes, questions and love. Email parents@forgeforward.org for more information about the 2 p.m. meeting.

Nov. 19—Coffee Connection at the Milwaukee Yacht Club (1700 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive): See why the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts these eye-opening mixers every month when you grab a cup of joe from 8-9 a.m. Connect with likeminded business owners, learn about the Chamber and start your workday on a rainbow-colored note.

Ask Ruthie a question or share your events with her at dearruthie@shepex.com. Follow her on Instagram @ruthiekeester and Facebook at Dear Ruthie. Don’t miss the Halloween special from her reality show, Camp Wannakiki, Season 2, on YouTube right now. Comment at shepherdexpress.com. n

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More LGBTQ Candidates Seeking Political and Judicial Offices ::BY PAUL MASTERSON

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ast week’s national elections continued the blue wave of the 2018 midterms, and within its wake, there was a rainbow wave. At various levels of government throughout the country, voters elected or reelected nearly 100 LGBTQidentified candidates. Victories covered the full range of diversity with four transgender candidates winning, including Virginia state Rep. Danica Roem, who won her second term. The results bode well for the next election cycle in April 2020.

Locally, Milwaukeeans will again head to the polls to cast their ballots for a number of city and county offices, including for alderpersons in all Milwaukee aldermanic dis-

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tricts and for mayor. I wrote in May of this year that two LGBTQ candidates were running for the office of alderperson, JoCasta Zamarripa in District 8 and Peter Burgelis in District 11. Now, a third, Jason Auerbach, has announced his candidacy for alderman of District 14 (Bay View).

A long-term Bay View resident, Auerbach enters the political ring as a grassroots, progressive, non-partisan candidate with a platform built around community concerns.

These span the spectrum from public transit, health and housing to environmental issues. Auerbach hopes to address those needs previously neglected by establishment politicians and improve the local quality of life. This challenge includes limiting big-box housing developments, improving infrastructure (potholes) and green spaces, pursuing strategies for lead-free homes, as well as expanding public transportation and bike lanes. His campaign does not accept donations from Political Action Committees (PACs), special interest groups or from liquor license holders.

A parody map of Milwaukee once defined Bay View as populated by “respectable gays” (hence “Gay View”) and “aging hipster homeowners.” Those certainly carry a modicum of truth, but the area is far more diverse than that, and its inhabitants are facing the very dilemmas Auerbach seeks to address. As a resident myself, I’m hoping for a sensible, socially conscious candidate to speak for Bay View and its population (gay, hipster or otherwise). Perhaps Auerbach is that voice.

Meanwhile, Brett Blomme, currently CEO and president of Milwaukee’s LGBTQ philanthropic organization, Cream City Foundation, and chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Milwaukee,

is running for Milwaukee County Circuit Court Branch 5 judge. Formerly, Blomme served as a litigation attorney with the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office and Madison’s City Attorney’s Office, as well as in the Wisconsin Bar Association’s Government Lawyer’s Division as an elected director. His LGBTQ activism implies a consciousness regarding the specific needs of our community. Married and a father, Blomme is also well aware of the particular needs of LGBTQ families.

Some might think the idea of celebrating the LGBTQ identity of candidates is of little import in the grander scheme of things. After all, a politician should be in tune with the greater constituency. But, like any other representative of underserved communities, there are certain sensitivities that LGBTQ political aspirants bring to the table that others, even allies, might not.

In these times, it is especially necessary for those directly affected by efforts of some to deny them the right to defend themselves. To accomplish that, participation in the political fray, whether through seeking political office, or, especially by voting, is our civic responsibility.

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Trigger Hippy

Ex-Black Crowes Drummer Steve Gorman Goes Full Circle with Trigger Hippy ::BY JOSHUA MILLER

ormer Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman is enjoying a creative second wind, thanks to his latest band, Trigger Hippy.

Despite recently looking back at the highs and lows of his longtime band in his new memoir, Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes (written with the help of Wisconsin native Steven Hyden), Gorman has largely had an eye toward the future with his latest venture.

Formed in 2004 with songwriter and bass player Nick Govrik, Trigger Hippy has provided Gorman with an exciting and invigorating creative outlet. That’s especially evident on the band’s recently released sophomore album, Full Circle and Then Some, which finds the duo fully realizing the vision they had set out with 15 years prior.

Trigger Hippy—a name Gorman likes for its duality and how “hippy” conjures up the band’s hope to get people’s hips moving to the sound—initially was a banner for whoever the duo worked with. Trigger Hippy’s lineup has changed frequently over the years. But the recent additions of guitarist Ed Jurdi and singer Amber Woodhouse have provided a lineup Gorman thinks is “built to last.”

The new album showcases a potent concoction of the band’s collective influences, weaving between country, Delta blues, R&B, gospel, Southern rock and funk.

“Nick and I have been playing together since 2004 and always with a mind to get-

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ting to where we are right now,” says Gorman. “And it took a long time to develop and find itself. If there’s anything that I’m most proud of, it’s that we didn’t do too bad a job at not forcing it. You can put a square peg in a round hole only so many times.”

There were some false starts, “but we recognized it right away, and we would back away from it,” he continues. “Getting older and wiser somehow brings about more patience, which I would’ve thought would be counterintuitive. But I’m thrilled with the album, and I love the band right now and who we have and what we’re doing. So, it was well worth the wait.”

Gorman explains that the album came together quickly.

“The 12 songs on this album are 12 examples of it falling into place very, very... not effortlessly, but painlessly. With a little bit of work and a whole lot of inspiration,” he says.

One example is “Born to Be Blue,” written when Jurdi joined the band. “He brought in just the lyric, ‘born, born to be blue,’ that part, and then the little guitar riff, and that’s all he had,” Gorman says. “And we immediately heard it as a long, sort of meditative groove, if you will. And then when all you had was ‘born to be blue,’ we were immediately looking for a lyric that sort of talked about not just depression, not such a literal translation of ‘born to be blue,’ but of the things that connect people, the human spirit and resilience as much as depression. And it just had that vibe right off the bat.

“And the first version we did, an acoustic demo version Trigger where I’m just playing on a set of bongos into an iPhone— Hippy that first version was 15 minutes long, and it was basically Thursday, the same exact arrangement that you hear on the album, Nov. 14, just very differently, much more stark,” Gorman continues.

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“But we always knew where that song was going to go.

Shank Hall And it was a real indicator to us that we’d found… ‘OK, Ed’s the guy. This worked. This was great.’ And it was a springboard for the rest of the recordings.”

Releasing the album on Thirty Tigers was special for Gorman as it gave him the chance to reunite with label founder/owner David Macias, who played an important role in getting The Black Crowes’ first recording contract 30 years ago. Gorman feels his career has come full circle and cherishes every opportunity he has to be creative.

“Nick and I have kind of come around the bend a couple times, but this one seems to be the right one,” he says.

Trigger Hippy perform at Shank Hall on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m.

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Singer-Songwriter Caley Conway Back with a New Single ::BY MICHAEL CARRIERE

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019 is shaping up to be a banner year for singer-songwriter Caley Conway. Just six months after the release of her acclaimed album, Surrounded Middle, Conway is back with a new digital single. “Your Wedding Song”—produced at Neenah-based Honeytone Studio as part of their curated “Singles” project—finds Conway building off the success of Surrounded Middle. The single sounds like a victory lap for a performer truly becoming comfortable in her own skin.

“Your Wedding Song” was recorded over what Conway calls an “intense and highly concentrated” weekend recording session. Conway had finished writing the song before entering the studio and had even sent the Honeytone production team a series of demos for the track in advance. Such preparation, along with the fact that Conway was only recording one song, compelled her to see “Your Wedding Song” as a stand-alone project. The single will be a part of a broader collection, but to Conway, “It seems so much more like a one-off thing.”

Freed from the responsibility of having to record a multi-track album, Conway gave “Your Wedding Song” her complete and undivided attention. Such attention allowed Conway to experiment with a variety of instruments and push her songwriting in new directions. As on Surrounded Middle, Conway’s vocals and guitar playing remain frontand-center on “Your Wedding Song.” Yet the single also hears Conway bringing in piano, synthesizers and multiple guitar tracks into the mix. The result is a remarkably fullsounding single, one that sounds more like a band and less like a group of musicians

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backing a singer-songwriter.

Lyrically, “Your Wedding Song” explores Conway’s admittedly complicated thoughts on marriage. Following her cousin’s recent wedding, Conway founding herself considering marriage as “a somewhat reckless convention. [Her wedding] just got me thinking about the oaths or vows or promises that you’re making to each other.” Moreover, Conway was also simultaneously assessing the place of co-dependency within her life, so she “was a little rattled about having these conversations about someone close to me getting married. I was just kind of picturing myself in that situation, up there at the altar and being like, ‘Man, you’re really signing something over that you shouldn’t be yet.’”

Perhaps not surprisingly, “Your Wedding Song” exudes a sense of cynicism throughout its verses. At one point, for example, Conway wryly notes that she’s “cracked the couple’s key / you’re warm and I’m lazy.” Yet the song’s chorus belies a feeling of optimism, one that seems to suggest that Conway has not fully given up on love. “I’ll never change my mind on you,” she sings, “I’ll never change my mind again / long as I live.” Who says romance is dead?

Caley Conway performs along with Wavy V and L’Resorts at Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co., 224 W. Bruce St., on Friday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 15 BILL CAMPLIN BAND @ LINNEMAN’S RIVERWEST INN, 8:30 P.M.

Since the late 1960s coffee house days, songwriter Bill Camplin has been a fixture in the Milwaukee area, not so haphazardly buffing and polishing his music. These days, the Walt Whitman look-alike pilots the Café Carpe restaurant in Fort Atkinson, Wis., but fortunately makes regular visits to this Riverwest club with his band of veteran musicians.

WAVY V, L’RESORTS AND CALEY CONWAY @ ANODYNE COFFEE ROASTING CO., 8 P.M.

Celebrating the release of their single “The Fools Have Gone To Bed,” Wavy V leans toward literate chamber pop with a mildly psychedelic vibe that recalls The Left Banke and mid-period Kinks. Amazingly, L’Resorts subtly draw on Tropicália to come up with a near-perfect library of three-minute earworms. Caley Conway’s evolution as a songwriter and performer veers from imaginative rearrangements of classics to just-this-side-of-quirky folk to Robitussen-laced Telecaster sounds. Don’t be surprised if some holiday music finds its way into the evening’s program.

MILWAUKEE JAZZ BOOK EVENT WITH AUTHOR JOEY GRIHALVA @ THE JAZZ GALLERY, 7 P.M.

Joey Grihalva’s book, Milwaukee Jazz, connects the dots of the city’s rich music history, and The Jazz Gallery is one of those markers. This event will focus on the gallery’s history and feature trumpeter Jamie Breiwick (who wrote the book’s introduction), his jazz and hip-hop improv group KASE and Klassik, who was a jazz saxophonist before he was a genre-bending rapper-singer. Klassik will discuss the connections between hip-hop and jazz, as well as perform with KASE.

KINKY FRIEDMAN W/ BRIAN MOLNAR @ SHANK HALL, 8 P.M.

Kinky Friedman

Texas songwriter, novelist and one-time candidate for governor of Texas, Kinky Friedman released his first album, Sold American, in 1973. He stops in Milwaukee with his Merry Kinkster Tour for his new album, Resurrection. Referencing Nelson Mandela and Billy Swan, Friedman’s story songs borrow from Norteño and Mariachi sounds.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 16 POWERWAGON W/ TIN FOIL, ERODERS, MILK BATH @ CACTUS CLUB, 9 P.M.

Detroit trio Eroders’ unrelenting garage sound should pair well with local band Powerwagon, whose unrelenting sound should segue into the no-less unrelenting Tin Foil, who dare to add vocal harmonies. Milk Bath’s “Φωτιά” is one of those sinewy, funky, shooting stars of a song that leaves you wondering, “What the hell was that?” in a good way.

JIMMY WEBB @ THRASHER OPERA HOUSE, 7:30 P.M.

Jimmy Webb’s songs include “Wichita Lineman,” “MacArthur Park,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Galveston.” He has worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to the Fifth Dimension to Kanye West. He is a chapter in American music.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20 EXTRA CRISPY BRASS BAND @ THE JAZZ ESTATE, 8 P.M.

The Extra Crispy Brass Band plays New Orleans-style brass band music inspired by the great contemporary bands such as the Dirty Dozen, Hot Eight, Rebirth and New Birth brass bands, as well as traditional outfits such as the Olympia and Mahogany brass bands.

ECBB’s repertoire includes pieces from the turn of last century, traditional tunes by Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, modern funk tunes and originals.

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MUSIC::LISTINGS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Bremen Cafe, Spade w/Blade, John Doe, Moecyrus, Moicano, Rockz & Scott Summers Cafe Carpe, New Pioneers Caroline’s Jazz Club, Wicked Long Day County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Acoustic Irish Folk w/ Barry Dodd Jazz Estate, Pete McCann Quartet Mason Street Grill, Mark Thierfelder Jazz Trio (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s On The Square (Racine), Open Mic Night Mezcalero Restaurant, Open Jam w/host Abracadabra Jam Band O’Donoghues Irish Pub (Elm Grove), The All-Star SuperBand (6pm) Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, An Evening With Hoppers’ Luck & Canyyn Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Keith Pulvermacher Rave / Eagles Club, Laine Hardy w/Chris Bandi (allages, 8pm) Rock Country MKE, Ricky Orta Jr. Unplugged Rounding Third Bar and Grill, World’s Funniest Free Comedy Show Route 20 (Sturtevant), Comedy Showcase Saloon on Calhoun with Bacon, Amplified Artist Sessions Presents: 2nd Anniversary Showcase Sazzy B (Kenosha), Gypsy Jazz Shank Hall, Trigger Hippy w/Mississippi Cactus The Back Room @ Colectivo, Pile w/Stuck The Miramar Theatre, Thriftworks and Russ Liquid (all-ages, 9pm) The Packing House, Barbara Stephan & Peter Mac (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Café, Martini Jazz Lounge: Scott Hlavenka, Hot Club Thursday Turner Hall Ballroom, Nile & Terrorizer w/Morta Skuld and LIFES Up & Under, No Vacancy Comedy Open Mic Nite X-Ray Arcade, Thursday Night Thunder w/The Demix, Fuzzy Logic & Fancy Nancy

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Ally’s Bistro, Sue Russell and the Men in Black American Legion Post #399, The Ricochettes American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Classic Avenue Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. (Walker’s Point), Wavy V w/L’Resorts & Caley Conway Bremen Cafe, DubNDoom Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), The Boston Imposters Camp Dundee Bar & Grill (Campbellsport), Robert Allen Jr. Band Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: The Grovelers w/The Unheard Of (8pm); DJ: DJ Dolls (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Penelope Antena w/LUXI & Fuzzysurf ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

County Clare Irish Inn & Pub, Traditional Irish Ceilidh Session Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Friday Jam Session w/Steve Nitros & the Liquor Salesmen Jazz Estate, Alex Mercado Trio (8pm), Late Night Session: Gramma Matrix Late Night Vinyl (11:30pm) Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts / Riverwest Artists Association, Milwaukee Jazz Book Release w/KASE Lake Lawn Resort, Brian Fictum Lakefront Brewery, Brewhaus Polka Kings (5:30pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Bill Camplin Band Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant, The Jammers Mamie’s, Pee We Hayes Mary’s Caddyshack (New Berlin), Matt MF Tyner Mason Street Grill, Phil Seed Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), yOya Milwaukee Ale House, Brewtown Beat Mo’s Irish Pub, The HomeReckers Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, The NOX Boys w/Bobcat ‘65 Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: The Blaine Anderson & Jake Blake Acoustic Duo Rave /Eagles Club, A$AP w/Murda Beatz & MadeinTYO (all-ages, 8pm), Maren Morris w/Hailey Whitters & Tenille Townes (all-ages, 7pm) Red Rock Saloon, Anderson Daniels w/ Lee Gantt Reefpoint Brew House (Racine), Marcell Guyton Riverside Theater, Chelsea Handler’s Stand-Up Comedy Tour Riverwest Public House Cooperative, Able Baker w/ The Unitaskers & Limber Brain

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Shank Hall, Kinky Friedman w/Brian Molnar The Back Room @ Colectivo, Chicken Wire Empire w/ Chris Castino of Big Wu The Miramar Theatre, Thriftworks and Russ Liquid (all-ages, 9pm) The Packing House, Carmen Nickerson & The Carmen Sutra Trio (6:30pm) Up & Under, Conscious Congress VFW Post 5716 (New Berlin), Wisconsin Annual Blues Harmonica Festival 2019 (6pm) X-Ray Arcade, Orange Drink album release w/North Breese, Dashcam & Hot Science

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

American Legion Post #449 (Brookfield), Elvis Four Kings Concert w/Caught In the Act 2 Bremen Cafe, Genesis Renji w/J-Lamo, Mo’City, Nile & Von Alexander Brewtown Eatery, Sherwood Alper w/the Hits Cactus Club, Powerwagon w/Tin Foil, Eroders & Milk Bath Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson), Johnsmith Caroline’s Jazz Club, The Paul Spencer Band Charmbiance Wine Art Bar, Matt MF Tyner Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: Sat. Nite Duets w/Vanity Plates (8pm); DJ: WarLock (10pm) Club Garibaldi, Ganser w/Cashfire Sunset, Primitive Broadcast Service & Atheists & Airplanes ComedySportz, ComedySportz Milwaukee!

Company Brewing, Funk Rock Night County Clare Irish Inn and Pub, Blackthorn Folly Crush Wine Bar (Muskego), David “Harmonica” Miller Quartet w/Joe Turano, Mike Cascio & Hal Miller Cue Club of Wisconsin (Waukesha), The Screamin’ Cucumbers Jazz Estate, Soul Message (8pm), Late Night Session: CWE After Party (11:30pm) Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts / Riverwest Artists Association, FTAM presents: Louise Bock/Slow Owls/C Vadi/TE,ILY! Kelly’s Bleachers (Big Bend), 76 Juliet Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Jason Clownboy Freelance w/Johnny Likes Noize & Blaine It On Cain Lake Lawn Resort, Terry Sweet (6pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Riverwest Roots Revival: J.R. & The Strangers, Would Be Astronauts, The Midnight Purchase & Ben Harold Duo Lucky Chucky’s Beach Bar & Grill (Oconomowoc), 5 Card Studs Mason Street Grill, Jonathan Wade Trio (6pm) McAuliffe’s Pub (Racine), Beat Council w/Death Rose Milwaukee Ale House, 4th Annual “All Synths Day” w/ Robot Witch, Guerilla Ghost and The Quilz Mo’s Irish Pub, Mission Accomplished Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Easy Like Saturdays: Eoin McCarthy (2pm), Dashcam w/Luxi (9pm) Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Boyden & Leigh Racine Brewing Company, Grey and Grayer Rave / Eagles Club, Jeezy (all-ages, 8pm), Bishop Briggs w/Miya Folick & Jax Anderson (all-ages, 8pm), The Devil Wears Prada w/Norma Jean & Gideon (allages, 8pm) Reefpoint Brew House (Racine), Joe Kadlec Richy’s (Big Bend), Gin Mill Dogs Riverside Theater, Mannheim Steamroller Christmas (3pm) Rock Country MKE, FM Rodeo Shank Hall, Damaged Justice (Metallica tribute) w/After Forever (Black Sabbath tribute) The Back Room @ Colectivo, Chicken Wire Empire w/ Armchair Boogie The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Escape (Tommy Gerlach Band) The Coffee House, An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word w/Bill Murtaugh, Liana Kapelke-Dale & Nick Ramsey The Miramar Theatre, Greyson Chance (all-ages, 7pm) The Packing House, Lem Banks & Top Shelf (6:30pm) Unitarian Church North, Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series presents: Lucy Kaplansky Up & Under, Wurk album release w/Conundrum & Chicago Loud 9

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Bremen Cafe, Tinyhands w/Discoverer, Nutritious & Delicious, and R3id Cactus Club, GRLwood w/Gender Confetti

::ALBUMS Circle-A Cafe, Alive at Eight: John Stano & Tom Schwark (8pm); DJ: John Riepenhoff & Sara Caron (10pm) Company Brewing, Warhola Cats’ album release w/ Future Living Things Dopp’s Bar & Grill, CCMC Open Jam w/host Whiskey Gun (2pm) Iron Mike’s (Franklin), Sunday Jam w/Rockbound (4pm) J&B’s Blue Ribbon Bar and Grill, The Players Jam Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Sunday Matinee: The Exotics (2pm) Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, The Riverwest Sessions: SleeperSound & Neidhoefer (2pm) Rave / Eagles Club, DaBaby Stunna w/4 Vegas (allages, 8pm), Pete Yorn w/Michigander (all-ages, 8pm), Granger Smith Josh Mirenda (all-ages, 8pm) Riverside Theater, My Brother, My Brother and Me Rounding Third Bar and Grill, The Dangerously Strong Comedy Open Mic Route 20 (Sturtevant), Shallow Side w/Spoken & DayRollers Scotty’s Bar & Pizza, Larry Lynne Solo (4pm) Shank Hall, Donna the Buffalo Turner Hall Ballroom, The Marcus King Band w/Aaron Lee Tasjan X-Ray Arcade, Music Go Round presents: X-Ray Open Mic (4pm)

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Jazz Estate, Latin Jam Session w/Cecilio Negrón Jr. Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Poet’s Monday w/host Timothy Kloss & featured reader Donte McFadden (signup 7:30pm, 8-11pm) Mason Street Grill, Joel Burt Duo (5:30pm) Paulie’s Pub and Eatery, Open Jam w/hosts Josh Becker, Annie Buege, Ally Hart or Marr’lo Parada Turner Hall Ballroom, Ganja White Night w/Boogie T, Jantsen & SubDocta Up & Under, Open Mic X-Ray Arcade, Sanction w/Queensway, Vatican & Fuming Mouth

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Brewtown Eatery, Blues & Jazz Jam w/Jeff Stoll, Joe Zarcone & David “Harmonica” Miller (6pm) JC’S Pub, Open Mic w/host Audio is Rehab Jazz Estate, Funk Night with Jack Reed Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts / Riverwest Artists Association, Tuesday Night Jazz Jam Kim’s Lakeside (Pewaukee), Robert Allen Jr. Band Mamie’s, Open Blues Jam w/Marvelous Mack Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) McAuliffe’s (Racine), The Parkside Reunion Big Band Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White (4pm) Red Circle Inn (Nashotah), Dick Eliot and Greg Shaffer (6pm) Transfer Pizzeria Café, Transfer House Band w/Dennis Fermenich

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Iron Mike’s (Franklin), B Lee Nelson & KZ Acoustic Jam Jazz Estate, Extra Crispy Brass Band Jazz Gallery, JFK Annual Poetry Tribute: Poetry and Protest w/Jeanie Dean (1pm) Kochanski’s Concertina Beer Hall, Polka Open Jam Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Acoustic Open Stage w/ feature G-Flat (sign-up 7:30pm, start 8pm) Mason Street Grill, Jamie Breiwick Group (5:30pm) Mezcalero Restaurant and Bar, Larry Lynne Trio Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom, Jazz Wednesdays: The Door Stoppers Paulie’s Field Trip, Wednesday Night Afterparty w/Dave Wacker & guests Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, In Bar 360: Al White Rave / Eagles Club, Our Last Nightw/ I See Stars, The Word Alive & Ashland (all-ages, 7pm), (all-ages, 7pm) South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Marc Cohn w/Trapper Schoepp Sunset Grill Pewaukee, Robert Allen Jr. Band The Back Room @ Colectivo, Jirard The Completionist The Cheel / The Baaree (Thiensville), Wiegratz & DeRose Jazz (6:30pm) The Packing House, Tracy Hannemann & Kostia Efimov (6pm) Turner Hall Ballroom, Chon/Between The Buried and Me Wicked Hop, Jazz at Noon w/Don Linke X-Ray Arcade, Show Me The Body w/Urochromes, Snag & Mister

Nicholas Elert

Speculative Fiction Speculative Fiction had an exciting Record Store Day release, premiering a limited run of 30 records produced by Little Elephant Lathe Cuts.

Each record was produced by hand on near-translucent vinyl, with the record’s blank side featuring a design by Francisco Ramirez printed by the Bureau of Print Research and Design.

The record itself is short, surpassing just 16 minutes in length. But what it lacks in length, it makes up for in concept and delivery. “Exploded View” opens the record with a short melodic arc similar to what one might hear when powering on an electronic device. The track then slowly dips us into a dark-sound world, establishing a mysterious drone while dancing tones rise out of the mire. Noisy, trumpet-like synths emerge. We find ourselves in a stormy, hazy place. Speculative Fiction builds worlds.

“Big Shock” opens with a blasting sound, reminiscent of explosions or war drums. As the track unfolds, other synths join in this bleak call, creating a driving rhythmic intensity that pushes the track forward. Elert, a Milwaukee-based musician, succeeds in weaving together many different synths to form a coherent, orchestral whole. In “Phase Machines,” Elert pulls melodies out of pulsing rhythms, crafting a sonic perpetual motion machine that thrashes itself apart.

Speculative Fiction offers a brief look at an impressively cohesive sound world. Synth lovers of all stripes will enjoy inhabiting these futuristic scenes.

Speculative Fiction was released by Triple Eye Industries, a Milwaukee-based record label focusing on “extreme, heavy noise rock,” per their Bandcamp page. Though the vinyl run was limited to 30 copies, Speculative Fiction is still available as a digital download for $5 or more at Triple Eye Industries’ Bandcamp page: tripleeye. bandcamp.com.

—Warren Enstrom

Samso Samso

Milwaukee folkie Samso charms on his eponymous debut effort, almost despite himself.

The smile in his voice as he sings of indifference to love and the search for an idyll free of jerks is easy to hear. He comes off as an easily likable slacker. Samso’s strummed acoustic guitar and intermittent motifs on brass and keyboard support melodies infectious enough to imagine them fleshed out in Americana/alt country or indie-rock iterations. His is an intriguing enough premiere to anticipate what he will do next with the engagingly lackadaisical aesthetic and persona he summons here.

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THEME CROSSWORD

By James Barrick

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

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82. First astrological sign 83. Confab 84. Sediment 86. Contend (with “with”) 87. Loud sounds 88. Nice Nelly 89. India’s — Coast 91. Some freshmen 92. Looked 93. — douloureux 94. Old defense acronym 96. Unpaid 97. End of the quip: 4 wds.

104. First king of the Israelites 105. Of sheep 106. Homeric epic 107. Follow 109. Bone: Prefix 110. Settle a debt 111. Bit of color 112. — podrida 113. Having shoes 114. Array 115. Detest 116. Woodwind DOWN 1. Rather or Fogelberg 2. Jai — 3. Basketball shot 4. Prepared with almonds 5. Of a grayish color 6. Exalted 7. Have — — in one’s bonnet 8. Find unpalatable 9. Scandal 10. Say impulsively 11. Tiresome ones 12. Lawman Wyatt — 13. Inelegant 14. Electrical generator 15. False: Abbr.

16. Count 17. Terminus 19. Moving back and forth 27. Paris suburb 28. “East of —” 29. Baseball stat.

33. Desert in Israel 34. Greek coins 35. The Hedgehog 36. “— Godunov” 37. Simpson and Burrows 38. Mournful 39. Seasoning mixture 40. — ordo seclorum 41. Runs 43. Gun 44. Plant fiber 45. London or NYC area 48. From a distance 50. Roman official 53. Surpassed 54. Japanese automaker 55. — de guerre 56. Domain 58. — off (angry) 62. Literary category 63. Guided 64. For — sake!

65. Cheers 66. Marked difference 67. Part of ancient Asia

Minor 68. Textile weave 69. WWII vehicle 70. Hand shears for metal 71. Hebrew prophet 72. Business 73. Cloyed 75. Ancient harplike instrument 76. Believe — — not!

77. Stone Age tool 78. Mouthward 83. Noteholder 85. Told 87. Shed for pigeons 88. Rind 90. Pen brand 91. Mother — chicken 92. Rutabaga 94. Wetlands bird 95. Best and Ferber 96. Kind of orange 97. Ready money 98. — -da-fe 99. Say with confidence 100. Literary pseudonym 101. Grammatical gaffe 102. Auction 103. High hat 104. Soap pad brand 108. Youth

11/7 Solution

WORD FIND This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 20 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Farm chores Solution: 20 Letters

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ACROSS 1. Pop 5. Herringlike fish 9. French clerics 14. Bog down 18. An astringent 19. Excuse 20. Parade attraction 21. You said it!

22. Zola title 23. Gurus 24. Like a housecat 25. — the lily 26. Start of a quip by anonymous: 5 wds.

30. Cart 31. Cuts and assembles 32. Before 33. In a snooping way 36. Rural machine 38. Brazen 42. Wood used in cabinetwork 43. Superhero’s sidekick 44. Skerry cousin 46. Bouquet 47. Away 48. Buenos — 49. The March King 51. Ab — 52. Yale student 53. Part 2 of quip: 6 wds.

57. Eats 59. Performance highlight 60. Slag 61. French 101 verb 62. Bract 64. — -dieu 66. Mentioned formally 69. Holy cow!

70. Waterproof substances 74. Part 3 of quip: 7 wds.

79. Baseball’s Parseghian 80. Cuckoo 81. Hinder

Solution to last week’s puzzle

Axe Bail Barn Bloat Blue heelers Bull Calf Cam Carton Clover Colt Cook Cream

Crop Cud Dairy Dams Dip Dogs Dust Egg Field Fire Flood Fruit Germ Growth

Hay Inland Lush Mealybug Moo Pests Placid Raise Rake Raw Reins Rich Risk Role

Shearer Social Stall Stock Tank Tedious Toil Tough Udder Vet Victoria Water Wool

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Solution: Hard work but rewarding

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::FREEWILLASTROLOGY ::BY ROB BREZSNY SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it.

Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbors the precise treasure you need in order to be replenished and empowered. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I think that during the next two weeks, you should abide as much as possible in the soul’s realm—the cornucopia of holy truths and ever-fresh riches.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my estimation, what you’ve experienced lately has been akin to a fermentation process.

It’s as if you’re undergoing a transformation with resemblances to the way that grapes turn into wine or milk becomes yogurt or dough rises before being baked into bread. You may have had to endure some discomfort, which is the case for anything in the midst of substantial change. But I think you’ll ultimately be quite pleased with the results, which I expect will be ready no later than 10 days after your birthday—and quite possibly sooner.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Many books have been written about Joan of Arc, a 15thcentury teenage peasant girl whose improbable ascent to military leadership, under the guidance of her divine visions, was crucial in France’s victory over the English. Among the many miraculous elements of her story was the fact that less than a year before she led troops into battle on horseback, she didn’t know how to ride a horse. She learned by riding around her father’s farm astride his cows. I foresee an equivalent marvel in your future, Capricorn. By this time next year, you will have developed an aptitude that might seem unimaginable now. (P.S. There’s evidence Joan was a Capricorn.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Divine Comedy is one of history’s greatest literary works. Its author, Dante Alighieri, was 43 when he began writing the Inferno, the first part of his three-part masterpiece. Up until that time, he had published just one book and a few poems, and had also abandoned work on two unfinished books.

Early on in the Inferno, the not-yet-renowned author presents a fictional scene in which he meets with the spirits of antiquity’s most famous authors: Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan. Those illustrious five tell Dante he is such an important writer that he ranks sixth, after them, in his excellence. I’m going to encourage you to dare indulging in behavior like Dante’s: to visualize and extol—and yes, even brag about—the virtues and skills that will ultimately be your signature contribution to this world.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Latin word for sea is mare. Flustra is the calm sea. Undisonus means “resounding with waves.”

Caeruleus is the sea’s deep shade of blue, aestus is the tide and aequoreus means “connected with the sea.”

My hope is that as you meditate on these lyrical terms, you’ll be moved to remember the first lakes, rivers and oceans you ever swam in. You’ll recall your time floating in your mother’s womb and your most joyous immersions in warm baths and hot springs. Why? It’s a favorable time to seek the healing and rejuvenating powers of primal waters—both metaphorically and literally.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If there are any potential Aries heroes or leaders or saviors out there, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to fully bloom and assert your practical magnificence. The lessons you have learned while improvising workable solutions for yourself are ripe to be applied to the riddles that are puzzling your tribe or group or gang. I want to let you know, however, that to achieve maximum effectiveness, you should be willing to do good deeds for people who may not be able to pay you back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial that your receptivity be as robust as possible. To guide you in this delightful but perhaps challenging work, here are good questions for you to pose. 1. Do you know what help and support you need most, and are you brave and forthright enough to ask for it? 2. Is there any part of you, perhaps unconscious, that believes you don’t deserve gifts and bless-

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ings? 3. Do you diligently cultivate your capacity to be refreshed and restored? 4. Are you eagerly responsive when life surprises you with learning experiences and inspirations?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Many people will not be honest because they fear loss of intimacy and togetherness,” writes self-help author Henry Cloud. But the truth, he adds, is that “honesty brings people closer together,” because it “strengthens their identities.” Therein lies the tender paradox: “The more you realize your separate identities, the closer you can become.” Living according to this principle may not be as easy or convenient as being deceptive and covert, but it’s ultimately more gratifying. Henry Cloud concludes, “Telling loved ones what is really on your mind and telling others what you really think is the foundation of love.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization,” said poet Kenneth Rexroth. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom. For many people, the process of growing up and becoming a seasoned adult means trying to fit in, to find one’s category, to be serious and steady and stable. Rexroth, on the other hand, suggested that when you fully ripen into your potentials, you transcend standard definitions; you don’t adhere to others’ expectations; you are uniquely yourself, outside and beyond all pigeonholes and classifications. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice and cultivate this sacred art.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an event from your past that would be empowering for you to remember in detail? Is there a neglected but still viable dream you could resurrect, thereby energizing your enthusiasm for the future? Are there old allies you’ve lost touch with but who, if you called on them, could provide you with just the boost you need? Is there a familiar pleasure you’ve grown numb to but could reinvigorate by visualizing the original reasons you loved it? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to meditate on these questions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Catholic Saint Francis (1181–1226) loved animals and the natural world. According to one folkloric tale, he was once traveling on foot with several companions when they came upon a place where the trees were filled with birds. Francis said, “Wait for me while I go preach to my sisters the birds.” He proceeded to do just that. The birds were an attentive audience for the duration of his sermon, apparently captivated by his tender tones. Seven centuries later, author Rebecca West offered a critique of the birdwhisperer. “Did St. Francis preach to the birds?” she asked. “Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.” In the coming weeks, Virgo, I encourage you to do the metaphorical equivalent of preaching to both the birds and the cats.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every now and then I authorize you Libras to shed your polite, tactful personas and express the angst you sometimes feel but usually hide. That’s now! To egg you on, read this mischievous rant by Libran blogger Clary Gay (claryfightwood.tumblr.com): “We Libras are constantly thinking about how to make everyone else comfortable and happy. There’s not a minute going by when we’re not worrying about radiating a soothing and comforting aura so everyone can have a good time. If a Libra is cranky, it’s because they snapped! Because of some non-Libra who doesn’t appreciate them! If a Libra is mean to people, it’s their own damn fault!”

Homework: “How easy it is to make people happy when you don’t want or need anything from them,” said Gail Godwin. Give an example. 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 877873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

::NEWS OF THE WEIRD ::BY THE EDITORS OF ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Nose Out of Joint

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octors at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia recently documented a peculiar case in the British Medical Journal’s Case Reports. A 48-year-old former prison inmate had been suffering from sinus infections, nasal congestion and headaches for years, UPI reported. Doctors treating the man performed a CT scan and discovered a rhinolith—a stone made of calcium—in his nasal cavity, which, when removed, was found to have formed around a small balloon with cannabis inside.

The patient then recalled that, when he was in prison about 18 years earlier, his girlfriend had smuggled in the little marijuana-filled balloon during a visit, which he inserted in his nose to hide it. But he pushed it too far in and could never retrieve it; he’d always assumed he had simply swallowed it.

No Excuse Belinda Gail Fondren, 52, of Evans, La., was charged with filing or maintaining false public records on Wednesday, Oct. 23, after it was discovered that she was writing fake doctor’s notes for high school students so they could get out of class. Fondren, who worked at a medical clinic, charged $20 for each excuse, Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft told WTAP. He also said it was common knowledge among students that the excuses were for sale. Two students obtained excuses on 14 occasions, he said. Fondren’s fraud came to light when someone from the Vernon Parish school board called a doctor about the notes, which he denied having authorized. Her bond was set at $15,000.

Too Chicken to Drive A 42-year-old Milwaukee man was cited for drunken driving while having a live chicken on his shoulder. A witness told Milwaukee Police on Sunday, Nov. 3, that the man’s car was swerving in traffic in Oak Creek, and that a chicken was perched on the driver’s left

shoulder, according to a police report. Officers pulled the man over and found the chicken inside. Police issued a citation for his third DWI offense; officers also contacted the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission, who took the chicken into custody.

Snakes, Go Forth!

North Carolina’s Madison County Public Library system has had a loosely enforced rule against bringing pets into its branches. But on Tuesday, Oct. 8, interim director Peggy Goforth appeared before the county’s board of commissioners to request a new policy that tightly restricts animals to only service dogs.

Goforth felt she had to advocate for stricter rules after a man brought a bag full of snakes into the library, reported the Citizen Times. “He said, ‘My pets are harmless. Here, let me show you,’” Goforth said, “and he poured them out onto the front desk. They just wriggled everywhere.” When told pets weren’t allowed in the library, “he just bagged up all the snakes and left,” she added. She said another man brought in an ant farm and took the top off to feed them, then forgot to put it back on. “The ants got everywhere.” The library’s new policy excludes all animal species except dogs that are trained to help a person with a disability.

Nice Try Workers at a branch of Pinnacle Bank in Lincoln, Neb., were stymied on Monday, Oct. 28, when a man arrived hoping to open a checking account with… a $1 million bill, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. Bank employees argued with him that it wasn’t real (the largest denomination bill ever minted was for $100,000, and it was never put into public circulation). Eventually he left, with his bill but without an account. Lincoln police are hoping to identify him from surveillance video so they can check on his welfare.

Sh*t Storm Residents of Kansas City, Mo., were puzzled by a foul smell in the air on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 6, according to KSHB. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service came to the rescue with an explanation: A cold front that moved into the area from the north included a shallow mixing layer that had trapped the odors from Minnesota and Iowa in it. As they politely put it: “Strong winds transported in a southeasterly direction an agriculture smell.” © COPYRIGHT 2019 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

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