September 8, 2016 - Wisconsin Gazette

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Performing Arts Preview
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2016–17 arts season in
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September 8, 2016 | Vol. 7 No. 21
New media’s
impact on justice
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5 David vs Goliath
Democrat Ryan Solen faces an
uphill battle in his race to oust
House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he’s
optimistic and out to win.
12 Editorial
San Francisco’s Colin
Kaepernick started
a firestorm when he
refused to stand for
the national anthem.
But exercisizing free
speech to make
the country a better
place is a profound
expression of
patriotism.
31 Milwaukee music collective
Music writer Joey Grihalva gets up
close with the Milwaukee-based
collective/web label Close Up of
the Serene.
36 South African wine
“I had my first taste
of South African wine
during a trip to Ireland
and I was captivated.
The exotic spins on
familiar flavors were a
revelation,” says awardwinning critic Michael
Muckian.
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News with a twist
EXTRA JUICED
inner tubes and inflatWorkers at a Coca-Cola fac- able rafts into Ontario,
tory in France opened a ship- where they were resping container expecting to find cued by the Canadian
orange juice and found cocaine. Coast Guard. Most were under
The container that arrived from the influence of alcohol, and none
Costa Rica held about 815 pounds were paddling with passports.
— or 370 kilograms — of the drug Canada sent them home by bus.
hidden with the OJ. In the By
19thLisa Neff and Louis Weisberg
century, the cola contained coca HE STILL HAS
leaves but never coke, according LITTLE HANDS
Donald Trump showed some
to the company.
huevos when he made his recent
trip to Mexico. He’s not very
BEAUTY DEVICE
popular there. In fact, Mexicans
SPARKS EVACUATION
A vibrating, anti-aging skin have created a small industry
roller forced a Southwest Airlines out of making Trump piñatas
flight to evacuate in New Mexico — and then beating them to a
before takeoff. Passengers were pulp. They’ve also created a video
ordered off the plane after the game in which players can throw
suspicious-looking device was soccer balls, cactus leaves and
tequila bottles at a cartoon image
discovered in the back of a seat.
of the Donald.
WHAT DID DONALD SAY?
About 1,500 undocumented
Americans washed into Canadian
territory after the tide turned on
a river party. The U.S. revelers
were taking part in the annual
Port Huron Float Down on the St.
Clair River when severe weather struck. Strong rains and hard
winds sent them floating on
NOT TOYING AROUND
Students at the University of
Texas-Austin staged a unique
protest against a new state law
making it legal to carry concealed
handguns on college campuses.
For the “Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (Dildo) Carry,” students were
packing sex toys. Hundreds of dil-
Start a Team.
WiGWAG
dos were distributed at a campus
rally to protest gun violence and
the “campus carry” law.
DANCING WITH
THE DISGRACED
Rick Perry is ready to take his
Texas two-step on a national
stage. The forgetful former GOP
presidential candidate and Texas
governor will join the cast of the
wildly popular Dancing With the
Stars. So will Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte, who caused an
international stir when he falsely
claimed to have been robbed
while attending the Summer
Games in Rio.
MISS BIM-BIM GOES BUST
Citing sexism, the government of Burkina Faso banned the
Miss Bim-Bim contest, an annual
pageant of big female buttocks.
Reuters said an advertisement
for the male-organized contest
showed two women, fully clothed,
with extraordinarily large behinds.
Laure Zongo, minister for women
and the famil of the west African
nation, said in a statement, “Our
role is to do everything to avoid
damaging the image of women.”
By Lisa Neff and Louis Weisberg
STILL THE SAME
OLD STORY
A Georgia pastor and anti-gay
political activist was arrested
on charges of aggravated child
molestation involving a young
male member of his congregation. Ken Adkins, 56, came under
fire earlier this summer when he
tweeted “homosexuals got what
they deserved” after the mass
shooting at Pulse nightclub. They
didn’t deserve it — and neither
did his alleged victim.
rized that the skin-sucking created a blood clot that traveled to the
teen’s brain and caused a stroke.
HONEY DO WHAT?
A survey released by the American Sociological Association finds
a majority of Americans believe
in the traditional, sexist division
of household labor between husbands and wives. Nearly threequarters of respondents said
female partners in heterosexual
couples should be responsible for
cleaning, cooking and washing,
while the males should handle
outdoor chores and auto insurPRE-DINNER WRESTLE
The World Gravy Wrestling ance. The survey also shows most
Championships recently took Americans believe household
place in Lancashire, England, to chores should be divided based
raise money for a local hospice. on masculinity and femininity in
Contestants competed on a pad- gay couples.
ded gravy pool at the Rose ‘n’ Bowl
pub in bouts that lasted about two DON’T LIKE
minutes. The pub is known for its
A Florida man is back in jail
rich gravy dishes, in particular the after clicking “like” on a Facebook
homemade steak and mushroom photo posted by a witness in a
pie, according to Yelp.
case against him. A judge revoked
the man’s bond, saying he violated a court order to avoid any
KISS OF DEATH
A 17-year-old boy in Mexico contact with his ex-girlfriend. He
City died after receiving a hickey must now remain in jail until his
from his girlfriend. Doctors theo- case is resolved.
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Voting rights advocates concerned about balloting, access
By Lisa Neff
Staff writer
With less than two months before the
general election, Wisconsin voting rights
advocates continue to express concern
about citizens’ access to ballots in the
state.
For some, the issue is getting a photo ID.
For others, the issue is getting special
credentials, because a photo ID cannot be
obtained.
And for some, the issues involve language barriers that complicate registering
to vote, getting to the polls and casting
ballots in an election that will decide the
next president, as well as representation in
Congress, the state Legislature and more.
GOT ID? GOT CREDENTIALS?
Some voting rights advocates are concerned that people eligible to vote may
not know the Republican-imposed state
mandate for a photo ID is in effect for the
general election.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation offers free photo IDs for voting,
but Democrats complained that people
who lack the proper documents, such as
birth certificates, can’t obtain them.
The DOT responded to those complaints in 2014 with a process that allows
people to petition the agency for a free ID.
Petitioners must show documents proving their identity and Wisconsin residency;
if the agency determines the petitioner is
an eligible voter, he or she gets an ID.
Last year, the DOT modified the process
again to allow anyone who enters the petition process to vote using a special credential issued through the mail.
But that move raised concerns that the
DOT would be unlikely to get voting credentials to people who lack photo identification on Election Day in time to ensure
their ballots will count.
Ann Jacobs, a member of the Wisconsin
Elections Commission, said during a meeting in late August that while people can
cast a provisional ballot without credentials, they would have only until the Friday
after the election to satisfy the identification requirement.
Since the credentials likely wouldn’t
arrive in the mail until the following week,
their provisional ballots would be invalidated, Jacobs said.
“Someone who lacks ID on Election Day
can’t vote,” she said.
Jacobs suggested that the DOT issue
credentials to petitioners over the counter.
BY THE NUMBERS
Census data show about 4.4 million people of voting age in Wisconsin.
Of those, about 3.4 million are registered voters, according to Wisconsin
Elections Commission spokesman Reid
Magney.
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But commission spokesman Reid Magney said the DOT doesn’t do that because
it needs several days to try to verify the
documents that petitioners provide.
DOT spokeswoman Patricia Mayers had
no immediate comment on Jacobs’ concerns, the AP reported.
MASSIVE
REGISTRATION OUTREACH
Meanwhile, state election officials have
approved mailing postcards to more than a
million people telling them how to register
to vote, marking the largest mailing outreach effort they’ve ever attempted.
Legislators passed a law earlier this year
requiring Wisconsin to join a multi-state
consortium, the Electronic Registration
Information Center, to identify eligible voters who haven’t registered.
The consortium requires members to
reach out to eligible people who may not
be registered every two years before Oct.
1.
ERIC is supplying the state with a list of
those who haven’t registered by matching
registration records with lists of driver
license and state-issued photo ID holders.
Those on the list should receive a postcard
telling them how to register.
The ERIC mailing is expected to cost
about $260,000. Up to half of the cost will
be funded with a grant of up to $150,000
from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Federal
dollars will cover remaining costs.
It was unclear, as WiG went to press,
whether any of the mailings would be in
Spanish or bilingual.
¿DÓNDE PUEDO
REGISTRARME PARA VOTAR?
Removing language access barriers to
voting is an issue of both local and national
concern.
“Americans speak many languages, and
election officials are essential to ensuring
the views and votes of minority-language
speakers are a part of our political process,” said Adam Ambrogi, program director for the D.C.-based Democracy Fund
Action. “Of the 8,000 election jurisdictions nationwide, many face complicated
challenges in meeting legal requirements
and diverse voter needs.”
Earlier this summer, DFA and the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission brought
together election officials, voting advocates and language experts to discuss how
best to provide information to U.S. voters
whose primary language is not English.
The forum provided the opportunity for
the EAC to show its BeReady16 resources,
including a glossary translating many election-related words and phrases into about
a dozen languages and a manual for election workers.
Attendees also reviewed the federal
mandates for serving voters who speak
languages other than English, including
requirements for translating voting materials, assisting voters at the polls and designing minority-language ballots.
Under Section 203 of the U.S. Voting
Rights Act, nearly 250 jurisdictions across
the country must meet voter language
requirements other than English. Milwaukee is one such jurisdiction; the city must
guarantee language access for Spanish
speakers.
“I think the city has tried really hard to
comply with this requirement,” said Karyn
Rotker, senior staff attorney at the ACLU
of Wisconsin.
Nonetheless, the attorney — who works
in the ACLU’s race, poverty and civil liberties project — raised two basic concerns
about language access in the state.
First, she said, language access should
be a priority for jurisdictions regardless
of whether it is mandated by the Voting
Rights Act.
“We think it’s a good practice whether it
is Kenosha or Racine or some other city,”
Rotker said.
And second, she’s concerned that not all
state election materials intended for use
by all voters, including in Milwaukee, are
bilingual.
“Some of the state materials and forms
are translated, but it’s pretty clear they are
not all translated,” she said. “And that’s
a problem. We are somewhat concerned
about that.”
The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
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David vs. Goliath in 1st Congressional District
By Chris Walker
Contributing writer
Like many Americans, Democrat Ryan
Solen says he’s fed up with gridlock in
Washington.
He’s trying to do something about it
by running for Congress — against House
Speaker Paul Ryan.
Solen is aware of the uphill climb that
lies ahead.
“There’s not a good track record of
unseating sitting speakers,” he said. In fact,
the last time was in 1994, and the time
before that was in 1860.
Paul Ryan has been elected nine times by
the 1st Congressional District. He’s always
won by wide margins. His closest election
was in 2012, when he beat Democratic challenger Rob Zerban by more than 11 percentage points.
Still, Solen remains optimistic. “I try to
keep the view that nothing is really impossible,” he said. “The fact of the matter is
that, looking at (Ryan’s) policies, he’s wrong
on the issues that matter to constituents. I
really think if we get newer people into Congress, we’re going to be able to make some
progress going forward.”
Solen, a husband and father of four from
Mount Pleasant, served in Iraq as a medic.
He holds a master’s degree in international
relations. He’s currently employed as a
computer security analyst for SC Johnson
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One question Solen said he’d like to
ask Ryan is why the speaker continues to
endorse Donald Trump.
“He’s had to call out Trump a few times
on some of the things he’s said,” Solen
said. “I don’t understand what’s taken him
so long to really consider revoking (his
endorsement).”
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look at senators, who are in office for six
years a term,” he said. “Let’s give them two
terms as well. … If you look at U.S. Rep. Jim
Sensenbrenner, he’s been in for about 38
years. That’s too long.”
Like so many citizens on both sides of
the aisle, Solen believes the U.S. Supreme
Court decision in Citizens United, which
opened the floodgates of corporate campaign spending, has made it harder for average folks to be heard by elected officials.
“The voices of the wealthy are louder
than ours,” he said.
Sticking to his principles, Solen has
refused money from corporate PACs and
interests.
“I really don’t want to be tied to any
corporation,” he said. “I want to be able to
look at everything from the perspective of
a fresh view.”
Unable to match Ryan’s campaign spending, Solen has challenged the Republican to
a debate. He said it’s important for people
to hear the two candidates speak. Ryan
hasn’t responded to the challenge, although
he said during a radio interview that he’d
debate Solen closer to the election.
“Paul Ryan will respond to the Koch
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press statement. “But (he) won’t respond
to a simple debate request from his Demo-
in August, Solen has been canvassing the
district door-to-door and, he said, he’s
received positive feedback.
“I think that constituents are becoming
very positive about my campaign,” he said.
“They’re glad that I’m running, and that
encourages me, it motivates me.”
Solen supports a single-payer health care
system similar to a Medicare-for-all model,
but he sees the Affordable Care Act as a
step in the right direction.
“Do I think it’s perfect?” Solen asked.
“No. But we’ve got to make small steps as
well, and I understand that not everyone
wants to jump right to single-payer immediately.”
Solen is critical of Ryan’s attacks against
the ACA. “The fact of the matter is millions
of people now have health insurance thanks
to it,” he said.
Solen also wants to see fiscal responsibility in Washington. “I’m looking at hopefully
balancing the budget and then trying to pay
down the debt to recover some of the interest money that we pay every year,” he said.
Getting things accomplished in Washington requires working across the aisle and
Solen said he’s ready to take on the task.
“I want to start building some relationships with all members of Congress,” he
said. “That’s going to take some time, but
I think we can find some common ground
with Republican lawmakers.”
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New media is taking old murder convictions back to court
By Lisa Neff
Staff writer
A Baltimore circuit judge this summer
overturned the murder conviction of Adnan
Syed, a decision many Serial fans believe
can lead to the righting of an injustice.
Many who listen to the world’s most
popular podcast believe the jury got it dead
wrong in convicting Syed for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
Also this summer, a federal magistrate
in Milwaukee overturned the conviction of
Brendan Dassey, a decision many Making
a Murderer fans believe can right another injustice. Viewers of the binge-worthy,
10-part Netflix documentary believe that
jury also got it wrong in convicting Dassey.
They say the teenager was coerced into a
confession, which was the only evidence
that sent him to prison for the rape and
murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005.
Most recently, a criminal defense attorney is demanding the new testing and retesting of evidence in the case that sent
Steven Avery to a Wisconsin prison for
Halbach’s death. Avery is the man Making
a Murderer implies was framed — made out
to be a murderer.
These developments are raising questions about the extent to which popular
series influence the outcome of criminal
cases. Clearly, the programs have helped to
bring together new defense teams, fueled
more independent investigations of the
crimes and led to the discovery of new
information and potential witnesses. They
just might impact whether men stay in or
exit prison.
‘SERIAL’ SLEUTHING
Serial was serialized in 2014 and had
more than 130 million downloads as of
this summer. Week after week, those who
listened to the podcast followed the twists
and turns in a case that was decided by a
jury in 2000.
The series, in addition to winning a Peabody Award for illuminating flaws in the
justice system, led many listeners to speculate about Syed’s innocence and question
whether he received a fair trial.
This summer, Baltimore Circuit Judge
Martin P. Welch set aside Syed’s conviction
for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and
granted him a new trial.
The state attorney general’s office, which
is appealing, released a statement from
Lee’s family the day after the judge’s decision: “We continue to grieve. We continue
to believe justice was done when Mr. Syed
was convicted of killing Hae.”
At a news conference that followed the
ruling, Syed’s attorney, C. Justin Brown, was
asked if a retrial would have been possible
without Serial.
“I don’t think so,” Brown said.
In February, at post-conviction hearings,
Syed’s defense team presented evidence
that might have seemed new in a courtroom
but was not new to Serial listeners. The new
Steven Avery’s arrest photo.
evidence included the testimony of alibi
witness Asia McClain and the argument
that Syed’s original defense counsel, the
late Maria Cristina Gutierrez, was grossly
negligent.
Gutierrez, during the trial, failed to question a state witness about the reliability of
evidence relating to cellphone towers.
Welch, in a memo on his order, said the
failure to ask about this “created a substantial possibility that the result of the trial was
fundamentally unreliable.”
Welch also addressed attention generated by Serial: “Regardless of the public
interest surrounding the case, the court
used its best efforts to address the merits
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of petitioner’s petition for post-conviction
relief like it would in any other case that
comes before the court; unfettered by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion.”
Serial moved on from the Syed case with
its second season, which focused on U.S.
soldier Bowe Bergdahl and his capture by
the Taliban.
‘MURDERER’ GETS SEASON 2
Making a Murderer, meanwhile, is returning to Wisconsin for new installments.
On July 19, Netflix announced new episodes in a news release that said it “will take
fans of the acclaimed documentary series
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back inside the story of convicted murderer
Steven Avery and his co-defendant Brendan
Dassey as their respective investigative and
legal teams challenge their convictions and
the state fights to have the convictions and
life sentences upheld.”
Less than a month later, on Aug. 12,
U.S. Magistrate William Duffin overturned
Dassey’s conviction and said he should be
released in 90 days unless prosecutors
decide to retry him.
The state is expected to appeal the ruling.
Defense attorneys have argued that
investigators violated Dassey’s constitutional rights and made false promises to the
then 16-year-old, coercing him into a confession that he and Avery sexually assaulted Halbach and that Avery shot her in the
head before burning her remains.
Duffin called the confession “clearly
involuntary.”
“These repeated false promises, when
considered in conjunction with all relevant
factors, most especially Dassey’s age, intellectual deficits, and the absence of a supportive adult, rendered Dassey’s confession
involuntary under the Fifth and Fourteenth
Amendments,” he wrote.
The news release from Netflix foretold
another development in August — filings
from Avery’s new attorney.
Defense attorney Kathleen Zellner, who
has secured the exoneration of at least 17
people, in August filed a motion asking the
Wisconsin Court of Appeals to pause pro-
ceedings and another motion seeking the
state’s evidence so new forensic testing can
be conducted.
Zellner, at a news conference outside
the Manitowoc County Courthouse, told
reporters Avery is “requesting and is willing
to pay for the most comprehensive, thorough and advanced forensic testing ever
requested by a criminal defendant in the
state of Wisconsin.”
In the filing, she set the groundwork for
the theory that Avery was framed by the
Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office after
suing the county for wrongful conviction.
Avery served 18 years in prison on a rape
charge that was ultimately overturned.
Zellner said Avery “has already completed a series of tests that will conclusively
establish his innocence” and “no guilty person would ever allow such extensive testing
to be done.”
The state, as WiG went to press, had not
responded to the motions.
But clearly, Netflix is counting on a fight.
“This next chapter will provide an indepth look at the high-stakes, post-conviction process, as well as the emotional
toll the process takes on all involved,” read
the Netflix news release, which referred to
“characters close to the case.”
Filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira
Demos, in a statement issued after Dassey’s conviction was overturned, said, “As
we have done for the past 10 years, we
will continue to document the story as it
unfolds and follow it wherever it may lead.”
More podcasts and docu-series
PRESS PLAY
Serial, the This American Life spinoff podcast that examines the 1999 murder of Hae
Min Lee and the conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, changed how people
listened to podcasts. Actually, Serial turned
many people into podcast listeners.
The series is still available for online
listening and download, as is Undisclosed,
which debuted in April 2015. The latter
examines Syed’s case from the perspective
of attorneys.
Some other podcasts for Serial listeners:
• Sword and Scale, which explores disappearances, murders and conspiracies.
• Criminal, “stories of people who’ve
done wrong, been wronged or gotten
caught somewhere in the middle.”
• Actual Innocence, about wrongful convictions and injustice in the criminal justice
system.
• Casefile, about Australian true crime,
the criminal justice system and unsolved
cases.
NOW STREAMING
More than 10 years before Serial and
Making a Murderer, the French docu-series
The Staircase explored the death of Kathleen
Peterson in 2001 and the case against her
husband. Michael Peterson alleged his wife
was intoxicated and fell down the stairs,
hitting her head. Police alleged Peterson
bludgeoned his wife with a fireplace poker.
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free speech rights in Kenosha during a
labor union conflict. Labor issues were
a cornerstone for the WCLU in its early
days — one of the Union’s earliest victories helped change the Wisconsin
Fair Employment Practices law, implementing fines for discrimination in the
workforce.
The ACLU of Wisconsin holds its
annual Bill of Rights fundraising dinner
on Nov. 19. WiG is the event’s media
sponsor.
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Consumers
tell phone
manufacturers
to get smart
about recycling
By Lisa Neff
Staff writer
P H O T O : G R E E N P E A C E / N ATA L I E B E H R I N G
A child sits amid cables and e-waste in Guiyu, China. Much of modern electronic equipment contains toxic substances.
Vast amounts are routinely and often illegally shipped as waste from the United States, Europe and Japan to countries
in Asia where the problem is dumped on poor countries with lower environmental standards.
Message to mobile phone manufacturers: Take responsibility for recycling old smartphones and make new
mobiles more easily repairable.
That message arose from a survey commissioned by
Greenpeace East Asia and conducted in six countries.
Consumers said cellphone manufacturers should be
responsible for providing people with the means to recycle
phones. Four in five people also said it is important to be
able to repair damaged smartphones.
Cellphones are among the most frequently replaced
small electronic products.
A report from United Nations University showed that
mobile phones, personal computers and other small electronics generated about 3 million metric tons of e-waste in
2014. This massive waste of resources is also a source of
contamination from hazardous chemicals.
“The humble smartphone puts enormous strain on our
environment from the moment they are produced … to the
moment they are disposed of in huge e-waste sites,” said
Chih An Lee of Greenpeace East Asia in a press release.
Key findings from the Greenpeace survey:
• Chinese (66 percent) and South Korean respondents
(64 percent) are more likely to have had their phones
repaired, compared to those in the United States (28 percent) and Germany (23 percent).
• Nearly half surveyed believe cellphone manufacturers
should be held the most responsible for making recycling
accessible. This sentiment was strongest in Germany (61
percent).
• Four in five respondents consider it important that a
new smartphone is not produced using hazardous chemicals.
• The same number believe it is important for a new
smartphone to be easily repaired if damaged. This rises
to as high as 95 percent in China, 94 percent in Mexico
and 92 percent in South Korea.
The most common reason for replacing a phone? Consumers said it’s the desire for a more up-to-date device.
And since that desire shows no sign of flagging, more environmentally sound processes must be developed.
“We believe true innovation means gadgets designed to
last, to be repaired and recycled,” Lee said.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton in late
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in agriculture and food production.”
The governor said pollinator populations, critical to the state’s $90 billion
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“Bees and other pollinators play a critical role in supporting both our environment and our economy,” Dayton stated in
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Wisconsin schools among top LGBT-friendly campuses
For LGBT students considering a postsecondary education, Campus Pride offers
a “Best of the Best” list that includes two
Wisconsin schools.
The list of 30 campuses includes University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, each rated 4.5
out of a possible 5 stars.
Each year, Campus Pride indexes colleges
and universities after examining schools’
LGBT policies, programs and priorities.
The index contains ratings for more than
235 colleges and universities.
“Prospective students and their families today expect colleges to be LGBTQfriendly,” said Shane Windmeyer, executive
director of Campus Pride and creator of
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Chris Ahmuty’s top civil liberties advancements
WiG asked retiring ACLU of Wisconsin
executive director Chris Ahmuty to share
with readers the seven most important
civil liberties advances over the past 30
years. These are appearing in each of our
issues printed before the organization’s
annual Bill of Rights fundraising dinner
on Nov. 19.
In this issue, we bring you No. 6 on
Ahmuty’s list.
NO. 6
The ACLU of Wisconsin has a strong
focus on racial justice, from our major
redlining case to the recent Black Lives
Matter movement. Our Poverty, Race,
and Civil Liberties Project was established in the 1990s and in 1995 the ACLU
and the NAACP sued over discriminatory
know what LGBTQ programs, services and
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and which are the ‘Best of the Best.’ … This
top 30 list showcases those campuses leading the way.”
The list includes schools with enrollments as small as 807 students and as high
as 45,000.
Other Wisconsin schools in the index
include:
4.5 out of 5 stars: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
4 stars: UW-Madison, Lawrence University
3 stars: UW-Platteville, UW-La Crosse,
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
2 1/2 stars: UW-Superior.
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Patriots are not only men and women who risk their lives
to protect our freedoms on the battlefield. They’re also people who risk their lives, careers and reputations here at home
to protect our freedoms and strive for a more perfect union.
On Aug. 26, San Francisco 49ers quarterback (and Milwaukee native) Colin Kaepernick showed his patriotism in an
usual way: He risked his career by refusing to stand for the
national anthem before a preseason game with the Packers.
His action was intended to draw attention to the ongoing
injustices suffered by African Americans and other minorities. And it did.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a
country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he
said. “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid
leave and getting away with murder.”
Kaepernick also stirred discussions about the First
Amendment’s guarantee of free expression, a major underpinning of our democracy and the freedoms it affords. Even
prominent people who disagreed with the quarterback’s
action defended his right to do it. While this reaction was far
from universal, it was widespread enough to show how far
the nation has come in First Amendment awareness since
the sit-ins of the black civil rights movement, which met with
brutality and repression.
It’s been four long years since football stars Chris Kluwe
and Brendon Ayanbadejo put their careers on the line for
same-sex marriage. Since then, we’ve been besieged by
negative stories of athletes involved in rapes, shootings,
domestic violence and cheating. Against that backdrop, Kaepernick reminded us of the power that sports figures have to
influence progress, simply by standing up — or sitting down
— courageously for civil rights.
Kaepernick has been joined by a growing number of other
athletes. He’s refined his protest strategy, kneeling rather
than sitting during the anthem in an apparent reference to
the quarterback move of “taking a knee.”
In an op-ed he wrote for The Washington Post, basketball
Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presented a compelling
defense of the quarterback’s silent protest, which has met
with controversy, most of it from whites.
“What should horrify Americans is not Kaepernick’s
choice to remain seated during the national anthem,” he
wrote, “but that nearly 50 years after Ali was banned from
boxing for his stance (on the Vietnam War) and Tommie
Smith and John Carlos’s raised fists (supporting the black
power movement at the Olympics in 1968) caused public
ostracization and numerous death threats, we still need to
call attention to the same racial inequities. Failure to fix this
problem is what’s really un-American here.”
President Barack Obama seemed to concur, when he
pointed out that Kaepernick is only the latest in a long line
of athletes trying to highlight issues of social justice. “I’d
rather have young people who are engaged in the argument
and trying to think through how they can be part of our
democratic process than people who are just sitting on the
sidelines not paying attention at all,” Obama said.
We hope more athletes will sit — or kneel — in support
of Kaepernick, until his message becomes too ubiquitous to
ignore.
What could be more patriotic than trying to better our
nation?
Standing with Standing Rock
Opinion
SARA SHOR
Over the Labor Day weekend, peaceful protesters
against the Dakota Access
Pipeline were met with guard
dogs and pepper spray while
defending sacred burial
grounds from bulldozers.
This is shocking and saddening, but it’s also a wake
up call.
If built, Dakota Access
would carry toxic fracked oil
from North Dakota across
four states and under the
Missouri River, immediately
upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. That
makes it a threat to the sacred
land and water of Native communities and a disaster for
the climate. Tribal leaders are taking the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers to court over the
unjust pipeline approval
process, but President
Barack Obama could step
in any time and say “no” to
this whole thing — like he
did for Keystone XL.
For months, thousands
of indigenous activists have
set up resistance camps
along the pipeline route in a
historic moment of nonviolent resistance.
We know that to defeat
a pipeline, it takes a movement of people from all corners of the nation.
It’s Keystone XL all over
again.
The U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers is rushing to
approve this dirty oil pipeline
that would stretch more than
1,100 miles.
And the construction continues, despite the irreparable damage the pipeline
would cause to our climate,
culture, and communities.
SEEKING JUSTICE, PROTECTING TRIBAL LANDS
“The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe deeply appreciates the
support of other tribes and other supporters in continued
opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“Tribes and other supporters may contact your members
of Congress and the administration to join us in opposing an
easement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
“The tribe will continue to advocate for justice regarding
the protection of our waters and sacred sites through litigation and through a broad and coordinated outreach program
to the media, to Congress and to the States.
“Again, with all of the tribe’s work in this regard, we will
continue to seek justice through peace and lawful means,
focusing on prayer and unity, and we ask all our supporters
to do the same.”
— Dave Archambault II, chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Can you sign our petition —
act.350.org — telling President Barack Obama to join
the tribal nations and say no
to the Dakota Access Pipeline?
Building pipelines used
to be easy for the fossil fuel
industry. Thanks to years of
work by the climate move-
ment, they now face opposition everywhere they turn.
Let’s show them what we’re
made of — and help defeat
Dakota Access for good.
Onwards.
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State senator calls UW diversity outreach program ‘sinister’
The Associated Press
State Sen. Steve Nass said university
leaders “constantly complain about lacking money” but “they never lack money for
advancing new and more sinister ways of
liberal indoctrination of students.”
Nass made the comment in reaction
to UW-Madison announcing its plans to
improve the experiences of minorities on
the flagship campus. The plan calls for having new students discuss social differences,
a new cultural center for black students
and increased opportunities to take ethnic
studies courses.
Nass is vice-chair of the Senate’s committee on universities.
He said the initiative isn’t about advanc-
ing critical thinking, but about “telling students to think and act in ways approved by
the liberal leadership of our universities.”
UW-Madison leaders, however, say they
created the diversity program after a series
of race-related incidents that occurred on
campus.
The campus will test the program, called
Our Wisconsin, giving 1,000 incoming students the chance to learn about themselves
and others, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
reported.
“That’s what the collegiate experience is
all about,” UW-Madison Dean of Students
Lori Berquam said. “Some of our students
are joining us from small towns and they’re
going to live in a residence hall that’s bigger.”
More than half of the university’s students are from Wisconsin, which the U.S.
Census Bureau said was nearly 88 percent
white in 2015.
UW’s action is part of a national trend
of colleges that believe mandatory cultural
competency orientation can relieve racial
tensions and help students navigate diverse
work environments after graduation.
The program’s creators said they consulted with other colleges that have implemented diversity programs, including University
of Oklahoma, Oregon State University and
the University of Michigan. A diversity consulting firm hired by the university wrote
the program’s curriculum.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank set aside
$150,000 to $200,000 from a special fund
for the pilot program.
Lee Hansen, professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison, has written several op-eds questioning the program and
predicting there will be student backlash.
He said the university’s population of more
than 43,000 will always include some people who have unshakable views on race and
that diversity training only pits students
against one another.
Last year, the university saw incidents
in which swastikas were taped to a Jewish student’s dorm room door, a Native
American elder was heckled and a student
of color received an anonymous note with
racial threats.
UW-Madison named top party school
By Todd Richmond
AP writer
UW-Madison has been named the
nation’s top party school by the Princeton
Review survey. It was last named No. 1 in the
2005 survey.
Officials greeted the news coolly, issuing a statement that called heavy alcohol
use on campus a “pressing public health
concern” that hurts academic achievement
and makes schools less safe. They said
incoming students go through mandatory
programs to be educated on alcohol use
and that many students drink moderately
or not at all.
The Princeton Review publishes a book
every year ranking colleges in 62 categories. This year’s edition is based on an
online survey of 143,000 students at colleges selected by an editorial board.
The survey asked students about alcohol
and drug use on campus, the popularity of
Greek life and the number of hours they
study each day outside of class.
UW-Madison is famous for its parties,
especially Halloween and an end-of-year
block party. Every home football game is
preceded by hours of off-site drinking.
Princeton Review senior vice president
and publisher Rob Franek noted that the
school has ranked among the Top 20 party
schools in 22 surveys over the last 25 years.
“You won’t find a more friendly place
to be as attendees share brats, offer up
beers, and join in singing some of our most
memorable chants — all before the game
even begins,” one unnamed student said in
the survey.
West Virginia University in Morgantown
came in second, followed by the University of Illinois’ flagship campus in UrbanaChampaign, which was ranked No. 1 last
year. Two Pennsylvania schools — Lehigh
University and Bucknell University — filled
out the top five schools.
UW-Madison also placed first for “Best
Health Services” and “Lots of Beer.” It was
also fourth in friendliness toward LGBT
people.
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2016 MADISON WORLD
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Various times Sept. 13-29 at
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From Tibet to Zanzibar, Sudan to
Mexico, Hungary and beyond, the
13th annual Madison World Music
Festival offers many unique styles
to explore. The festival is sponsored
by the Wisconsin Union Theater
and begins Sept. 13 with a mandala
construction by the monks of the
Mystical Arts of Tibet. Events take
place at Shannon Hall, the Memorial
Union Terrace, Fredric March Play
Circle and the large stage in the
Willy Street Fair.
JENNIFER KEISHIN ARMSTRONG, AUTHOR OF ‘SEINFELDIA:
HOW A SHOW ABOUT NOTHING CHANGED EVERYTHING’
7 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Soup House in Milwaukee; $5; boswellbooks.com
Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s latest book is a cultural history of the television series
Seinfeld. She takes the reader behind the scenes of how two guys’ idea for a show — dreamt up
over post-midnight coffee in a diner — became a sensation, changed television and bled over
into the real world, altering the lives of everyone it touched. Copies of Armstrong’s books will
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unlimited sampling of more than 250 craft
beers and sodas from nearly 100 brewers.
Food served by local restaurants will be
available for purchase, and all paid attendees
will receive a souvenir tasting glass. The
festival also features live music, including
performances by the Kilties Drum and Bugle
Corps.
MOZART’S ‘THE
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7 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2 p.m. on Sept. 18, and 7
p.m. on Sept. 20 in Uihlein Hall at the Marcus
Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee;
$17 to $107; mso.org
Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee
Symphony’s performances of Mozart’s Don
Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte have been well
received. The symphony concludes its Mozart
cycle with The Marriage of Figaro, featuring an
internationally acclaimed cast.
VIVA SEVILLA:
A FLORENTINE OPERA GALA
6 p.m. on Sept. 16 at the Pritzlaff Building in
Milwaukee; $300 patron seat, $500 VIP seat,
$95 young professional; florentineopera.org
The principal cast of Florentine Opera
Company’s Sister Carrie performs selections
from some of opera’s greatest Spanishinspired hits. Emerging Florentine Opera
studio artists will also preview the school’s
touring opera for the season. Other highlights
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SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE’S
TASTE OF THE WARDS
5:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 at the Broadway Theatre
Center in Milwaukee; $50; skylightmusictheatre.org
Taste of the Wards is a benefit for the
Skylight Music Theatre. The event features
local restaurants, craft breweries and live
entertainment, as well as a cash bar with
cocktails from Milwaukee urban wine room
Indulge.
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE
TOURING COMPANY
7:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 at Wilson Theater at
Vogel Hall in Milwaukee; $25; marcuscenter.org
UCB TourCo brings some of the best improv
comedians from the legendary Upright
Citizens Brigade Theatres in New York and
Los Angeles to new audiences all around
the country. The UCB Theatre — founded
by Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts
and Matt Walsh —
has been home
to some of the
biggest stars
in comedy
today.
J. DAVID HOEVELER, AUTHOR
OF ‘JOHN BASCOM AND THE
WISCONSIN IDEA’
September 8–22
P H OTO : J I M B ROZ E K
7 p.m. on Sept. 7 at Boswell Book Company in
Milwaukee; FREE; boswellbooks.com
The Wisconsin Idea is the concept that a
public university should improve the lives of
people beyond the borders of its campus.
Distinguished Professor of History at UWM
J. David Hoeveler’s new book documents
how John Bascom drew concepts from
German idealism, liberal Protestantism and
evolutionary theory, transforming them into
advocacy for social and political reform.
88NINE RADIO
MILWAUKEE’S FALL BALL
6:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at 88Nine Radio in
Milwaukee; general admission $75, backstage
pass $125; radiomilwaukee.org
88Nine celebrates one year in its Walkers
Point home at the inaugural Fall Ball. The
evening entertainment includes a rooftop
reception and the Dueling DJ Dance Jam,
as well as Rock Star Karaoke, with a live
backing group of Milwaukee musicians
featuring members of Fresh Cut Collective,
RAS Movement, The Willy Porter Band, The
Cavewives, The Lackloves and Radio Radio. WILD SPACE DANCE COMPANY PRESENTS ‘INTO THE GARDEN’
7:15 p.m. on Sept. 8, 11, 13 and 14 at Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee; Advance
tickets only $15 to $25; wildspacedance.org
Set against the backdrop of Lake Michigan at dusk, Wild Space Dance Company’s Into the
Garden features dance sketches, tableaus and musical interludes unfolding in and around Roy
Staab’s Shadow Dance sculpture. Into the Garden is part of Wild Space’s Neighborhood Sites
initiative and will include school outreach in conjunction with the performance.
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Marketing human cuisine as pet food
By Kim Cook
AP writer
Imagine a warm, fragrant entrée of ovenbaked chicken with whole-grain brown rice,
steamed yellow squash and pan-wilted
spinach.
Or slow-roasted leg of lamb with pearl
barley, broccoli and crispy whole-wheat
croutons with cheddar cheese.
Those aren’t offerings at a tony French
bistro. They’re on the menu at Chef K9’s
Doggy Bistro and Café in Pompano Beach,
Florida, which customizes meals for your
dog and sends them to you.
The subscription-based company is just
one of dozens that offer canine and feline
foods that go well beyond run-of-the-mill
supermarket chow.
According to Packaged Facts, a researcher in Rockville, Maryland, the premium petfood sector accounted for nearly half of the
$26 billion U.S. pet-food market in 2013.
Apparently, we want our pets to have not
only a spot on the sofa but a figurative spot
at the dinner table too.
However, delicious-sounding dog and cat
food recipes are just good marketing, says
Chicago veterinarian Donna Solomon.
“The descriptions and the suggestions of
wholesomeness, homemade and gourmet
are aimed at our taste buds, not our pets’,”
she says.
Dogs simply can’t discern different tastes
the way we do.
Dr. Stanley Coren — professor emeritus
of psychology at the University of British
Columbia and author of many books about
dogs, including, most recently, Gods, Ghosts
and Black Dogs (Hubble & Hattie, 2016) —
explains why.
There’s taste-bud allotment, for one
thing: Humans have around 9,000; dogs
only about 1,700.
Dogs’ ancestors consumed salt in their
meat, so they never developed our highly
tuned salt receptors or our tendency to
crave salt, Coren says. But they’ve got a
keener sense of taste for water; both cats
and dogs have a water-sensitive taste bud
at the tip of their tongue.
And then there’s that amazing sense of
smell.
The Sensory Research Institute at Florida
State University found that dogs can smell
about 10,000 times better than humans.
Dogs have 300 million scent receptors, cats
a still impressive 80 million.
Alexandra Horowitz, a canine cognitive
researcher at Barnard College and author
of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell
and Know (Scribner, 2010), writes that
we know when someone’s put a spoonful of sugar in our coffee, but a dog would
detect that spoonful in a million gallons of
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NUTRITION TRUMPS
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So if Fido or Fluffy doesn’t really need
poached squab, what’s the best way to
meet their nutritional needs?
“The main thing you want to be concentrating on is a complete meal, with a
good balance of micronutrients and protein,
that’s easy to digest and meets the pet’s
needs,” says Solomon.
Read ingredients on labels, and investigate the food online. Solomon likes a
resource called Balance IT, started by a
UCLA veterinary nutritionist. Consumerlab.
com reviews pet supplements, too.
Watch out for onions and garlic, which
have high sulfur content. Grapes, chocolate
and high carb/high glycemic foods should
also be avoided.
Some pet owners have opted to reduce
or eliminate grains, soy, corn or wheat
because of allergy concerns — but Solomon
says only a small percentage of pets have
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such allergies.
Still, certain breeds are prone to diseases
that may require special diets, she says. Pet
owners should contact a canine nutritionist
or veterinarian for advice.
Solomon says it’s probably OK to offer
different foods now and then — rotating
MORE TRENDY PET FOODS
Freeze-dried pet foods that you reconstitute with warm water or broth are popular, says Sid Hawkins, a spokesman for
Pet Pantry Warehouse in New Rochelle,
New York. Owners like that the bags are
less cumbersome than regular kibble bags
and are shelf-stable.
Primal Pet Foods offers a protein and
vitamin-rich freeze-dried blend of beef
heart, liver and ground-up bones, as well
as dark green vegetables. There are feline
feasts, too, like Primal’s organic kale, carrots and blueberries with chicken and
salmon.
your protein source, for example. But she
cautions, “Some dogs and cats can’t tolerate switching.”
Introduce variety slowly and conservatively. Watch for gastrointestinal upsets
or lack of appetite, and consult your vet if
those occur during the transition.
Honest Kitchen’s got a turkey and parsnip or chicken and quinoa blend, as well
as a fish and coconut mix designed for
“touchy tummies.”
Fresh pet food is another area of dramatic growth; supermarkets are adding
refrigerated sections where protein and
vegetable combos from companies like
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Season Preview: 2016-17
Coming to major Milwaukee venues
Wisconsinites enjoy entertainment at
many levels, prices and places. This year’s
preview of the 2016–17 performing arts
season focuses on the largest and bestknown performing arts groups and venues
in Milwaukee and Madison, but they’re
just the tip of the iceberg in a state with a
remarkable array of options, from Racine
to Bayfield, La Crosse to Door County. In
addition, UWM and UW-Madison feature a host of quality performances on
campus.
We begin with some of the mega venues in the metro Milwaukee area.
BMO HARRIS BRADLEY CENTER
The home of the Milwaukee Bucks and
Marquette Golden Eagles also doubles as
a concert and performance arena. This
season’s calendar includes: Toruk the First
Flight, a Cirque de Soleil performance
inspired by the James Cameron film Avatar (Sept. 22–25); alt-rockers Maroon 5
with special guests Tove Lo and R. City
(Oct. 1); country artist Carrie Underwood with guests Easton Corbin and The
Swon Brothers (Oct. 5); country heartthrob Keith Urban with Brett Eldredge
and Maren Morris (Nov. 4); and country
singer Eric Church (April 14).
BMO Harris Bradley Center is at 1001 N.
Fourth St., Milwaukee; 414-227-0797; bmoharrisbradleycenter.com.
MILWAUKEE THEATRE
Always eclectic, the Milwaukee Theatre
is featuring a broad cross-section of musical acts including: Christian music artists
Steven Curtis Chapman, Mac Powell and
Brandon Heath with the Songs and Stories
Tour (Sept. 21); Irish music group Celtic
Thunder presents Legacy (Sept. 25); Love
Jones The Musical, a tuneful takeoff on
the film of the same name (Sept. 29);
and Spend the Night with Alice Cooper, the
original shock rocker (Oct. 6).
The season continues with Travis Wall’s
Shaping Sound — Dance Reimagined, a title
that says it all for the Emmy-winning choreographer (Oct. 15); English art-rockers
The Moody Blues Fly Me High Tour 2016
(Nov. 5); Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, the original Jersey Boys (Nov. 17);
and The Oakridge Boys’ Christmas Celebration (Nov. 30).
Milwaukee Theatre is at 500 W. Kilbourn
Ave., Milwaukee; 414-745-3000; milwaukeetheatre.com.
SHARON LYNNE WILSON
CENTER FOR THE ARTS
A full calendar awaits, including: jazz
artists the Branford Marsalis Quartet with
vocalist Kurt Elling (Sept. 30); alt-country
artist Robbie Fulks (Oct. 7); Straighten
Up and Fly Right! A Tribute to Nat King
Cole with singer Maurice Jacox (Oct. 12);
Opera in October: An Afternoon with Alyson Cambridge, part of the Metropolitan
Opera auditions, and Ailey II: The Next
Generation of Dance (Oct. 21).
The season continues with Joan Curto
Sings Cole Porter — From Major to Minor
(Nov. 9); jazz artists the Peter Martin
Trio (Nov. 11); jazz guitarist and singer
Madeleine Peyroux (Nov. 12); Wisconsin’s
own Tom Wopat and Linda Purl — Home for
the Holidays (Dec. 7–8); The King’s Singers (Dec. 9); and Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra Holiday Pops (Dec. 11).
The new year begins with the Venice
Baroque Orchestra (Feb. 17); the Dukes
of Dixieland (Feb. 22–23); Southern songwriter and troubadour Nate Currin and
his Band (Feb. 24); Rise Up and Sing! with
Ruthie Foster and the Heritage Blues
Orchestra Quintet (March 10); the We
Six celebrate the 100th birthdays of jazz
artists Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron and
Thelonious Monk (March 18); O Sole Trio
— From Pavarotti to Pop, featuring soprano
Erin Shields, baritone Giuseppe Spoletini and pianist/violinist David Shenton
(March 22); and Interlocking Rhythms —
Taikoproject + Ryutaro Kaneko, a performance by the first American troupe to
win Tokyo’s International Taiko Contest
with a blend of choreography, music and
storytelling (March 25).
The season winds down with LTD featuring Livingston Taylor, Tom Chapin and
Eva, humor and harmony with the brothers of James Taylor and the late Harry
Chapin (April 8); singer/songwriter Polly
Gibbons (April 21); My Fair Audrey and
Cheek to Cheek with Fascinating Rhythms,
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featuring the music
of Irving Berlin and
George Gershwin; and
the Paul Taylor Dance
Company (May 12).
Sharon Lynne Wilson
Center for the Arts is at
19805 W. Capitol Drive,
Brookfield; 262-781-9520;
www.wilson-center.com.
SOUTH MILWAUKEE
PERFORMING ARTS
CENTER
Affiliated with the School
District of South Milwaukee, the SMPAC offers a variety of performances open to
the public, including: Simply
Swing, featuring Chris Mariani
and the Radio Rosies (Sept. 30);
the Sardarabad Dance Ensemble
of Chicago, also featuring Detroit’s
Ajax Dance Group (Oct. 8); the Travis
Tritt Acoustic Show (Oct. 11); a performance by the Donny McCaslin Group,
who accompanied David Bowie on his
final album, Blackstar (Oct. 13); Aquila
Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s
Murder on the Nile (Oct. 20); and Knightwind Ensemble’s fall concert,
(Oct. 30).
The season continues with dance company Step Afrika! (Nov. 18); men’s vocal
ensemble Cantus performing We All Will
Be Together (Dec. 8); Momentum MBII@
SMPAC, featuring company members
of Milwaukee Ballet II (Jan. 28); Broadway’s Next H!t Musical, a blend of the
Tony Awards and Whose Line Is It Anyway
(Feb. 17); Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project,
a reimagining of American roots music
(March 25); and Robert Post and the Post
Comedy Theater, a one-man variety show
full of humor and physical antics.
South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center
is at 901 15th Ave., South Milwaukee; 414766-5049; southmilwaukeepac.org.
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Milwaukee theaters feature breadth and depth
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
Milwaukee’s theater companies take to
the boards this season with a staggeringly wide range of productions. From the
largest venues to the smallest, the city’s
theater companies have something on the
schedule for audiences of all stripes.
MILWAUKEE REP
son with Lauren Gunderson’s The Taming
(Sept. 29–Oct. 23). Miss Georgia has more
than just the Miss America contest on her
mind in this play. She and a group of female
friends hatch a hilarious plan to give the
U.S. government a makeover.
The season continues with unSilent Night
(Nov. 17–Dec. 11), author John Kishline’s
suspenseful holiday tale of a Milwaukee
radio DJ who, on Christmas Eve of 1953,
finds himself faced with an unusual latenight guest — a troubled intruder in search
of redemption.
Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero (Nov. 23–
Dec. 18); The Few, a drama by MacArthur
Foundation Genius Grant awardee Samuel
D. Hunter (Feb. 23–March 19); and Gale
Childs Daly’s fast-paced and suspenseful adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great
Expectations (April 13–30).
The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre performs at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N.
Broadway, Milwaukee. 414-276-8842; www.
milwaukeechambertheatre.com
Mark Clements, artistic director of the
Milwaukee Repertory Theater, begins his
seventh season with a one-two punch of a
timeless jazz piece and a musical theater
classic.
Author Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at
Emerson’s Bar & Grill chronicles one of the
last performances of jazz legend Billie
Holiday, featuring some of the songs that
made her famous, including “God Bless
the Child,” “Strange Fruit” and “What a
Little Moonlight Can Do.” The show runs
Sept. 9–Oct. 30 in the Stackner Cabaret.
There will be an Out-n-About LGBT Night
at the Oct. 12 performance.
Also on tap for the Stackner this season:
Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano (Nov. 4–Jan.
15); author Dick Enberg’s McGuire, about
legendary Marquette University basketball coach Al McGuire (Jan. 20–March
19); and the return of Frank Ferrante in An
Evening with Groucho (March 24–May 28.)
The Rep’s Quadracci Powerhouse Theatre opens its season with Man of La
Mancha, the Tony Award-winning musical about misguided errant knight Don
Quixote and his noble quest and love
for the “kitchen slut” Aldonza/Dulcinea.
P H O T O : PA U L R U F F O LO
The show, which features the song “The The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s season began Aug. 11 with Christopher Durang’s Tony
Impossible Dream,” runs Sept. 20–Oct. Award-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, starring, above from left to
30. Man of La Mancha also has an Out-n- right, JJ Phillips, Elodie Senetra, C. Michael Wright, Jenny Wanasek.
About LGBT Night scheduled for Sept. 28.
This Quadracci season also presents
Milwaukee author Larry Shue’s The ForNext Act starts the new year with Sharr OFF THE WALL
eigner (Nov. 15–Dec. 18); Milwaukee native White’s The Other Place (Feb. 2–26), a psyDale Gutzman’s Off The Wall Theatre
Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced (Jan. 17–Feb. 12); chological and emotional thriller in which is tackling a broad range of works this
Tennessee Williams’ “memory play” The a medical researcher finds herself adrift season.
Glass Menagerie (March 7–April 9); and among family and professional peers withOTW opens with A Passage to India
a theatrical version of Charlotte Bronte’s out knowing whom to trust.
(Sept. 22–Oct. 2), the stage adaptation of
classic Jane Eyre (April 25–May 21.)
The season ends with the Milwaukee E.M. Forster’s novel exploring racial and
The Rep’s Stiemke Studio fills out the bill premiere of Steven Dietz’s Bloomsday class tensions in British-controlled India.
with The Royale (Sept. 28–Nov. 6) written (April 6–30), an Irish time travel love story Next up is David Ives’ Venus in Furs (Nov.
by Marco Ramirez, a writer for TV’s Orange — there aren’t many of those — that blends 3–13), the award-winning adult drama in
is the New Black and Sons of Anarchy.
wit, humor and heartache in a familiar tale which the goddess appears as a sadoNext up is George Brant’s Grounded about the one who got away.
masochist.
(Feb. 22–April 2), about an F16 fighter pilot
Next Act Theatre is located at 255 S.
OTW welcomes the holiday season
whose unexpected pregnancy leads to her Water St., Milwaukee. 414-278-0765; www. with Gutzman’s own work The Last Holigrounding.
nextact.org
day Punch! (Dec. 14–31), which is filled
Finally, Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and
with music, mirth, mayhem and more than
all those troublesome ghosts reappear MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
a stocking full of political incorrectness.
once again in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas
The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre got its OTW turns serious again with Women of
Carol. The annual holiday haunt, as always, season off to an early start on Aug. 11 with Troy (Feb. 16–26), a new translation of the
plays on the historic Pabst Theater stage Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning Euripides classic.
(Nov. 29–Dec. 24).
The stage brightens in the spring with
comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater complex Spike. But there’s much more in store from The Fantasticks (April 22–30), at one time
is at 108 E. Wells St., Milwaukee. The Pabst artistic director C. Michael Wright and his Broadway’s longest running musical and
Theater is adjacent to the Rep at 144 E. Wells crew.
the model for many subsequent stage
St. 414-224-9490; www.milwaukeerep.com
Leda Hoffmann directs A Lovely Sunday productions. OTW wraps it up with Titus
for Creve Coeur (Sept. 21–Oct. 16), a rarely Andronicus (June 14–25), a radical new verproduced Tennessee Williams drama that sion of Shakespeare’s early tragedy of love,
NEXT ACT THEATRE
loyalty, honor and family set amid a gory
Politics is in this fall, which might explain looks at the comic side of heartbreak.
The rest of MCT’s season includes Roman Empire-era war.
why Next Act Theatre starts its new sea-
Off the Wall Theatre is located at 127 E.
Wells St., Milwaukee. 414-484-8874; www.
offthewalltheatre.com
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS
Renaissance Theaterworks opens
its season with a taut thriller perfectly
designed for the Halloween season.
The Drowning Girls (Oct. 21–Nov. 13) is
a true-crime drama told from the point of
view of the victims of early 20th-century
serial killer George Joseph Smith. He married three women and drowned each one
in the bathtub. In the play, the victims meet
and share their chilling tales.
Renaissance next stages Luna Gale (Jan.
20–Feb. 12), which focuses on a social
worker’s struggles to safely place an infant
in a family with a shadowy past. The season ends with The Violet Hour (April 7–30),
a hilarious tale about a small-time publisher facing a big decision.
Renaissance Theaterworks performs at the
Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway,
Milwaukee. 414-291-7800; www.r-t-w.com
IN TANDEM THEATRE COMPANY
In Tandem Theatre Company also opens
during the Halloween season, presenting
Dracula vs. The Nazis, a romp that has two
actors playing 20 characters in a tale of evil
versus, well, more evil.
The irreverence continues with Holiday
Hell: The Curse of Perry Williams (Dec. 1–
Jan. 8), penned by local playwrights Anthony Wood (A Cudahy Caroler Christmas) and
Mondy Carter (A Twisted Carol). In Tandem
also presents its bawdy annual fundraiser
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, in which
eight of Santa’s most trusted associates
charge him with sexual harassment.
Things get serious with Time Stands Still
(Feb. 23–March 19), a tale about two war
correspondents tired of living in imminent
danger. The season ends with Carnival,
April 20–May 14), the musical best known
for the song “Love Makes the World Go
’Round,” produced in collaboration with
Milwaukee Public Theater.
In Tandem Theatre Company performs in
theater space provided by Calvary Presbyterian, “The Big Red Church,” on Wisconsin
Avenue, with its entrance at 628 S. 10th
St., Milwaukee. 414-271-1371; www.intandemtheatre.org.
SOULSTICE THEATRE
Soulstice Theatre opens its season with
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Sept. 23–
Oct. 8), Michael Friedman’s comic rock
musical about America’s seventh president and the founding of the Democratic
Party. The season continues with Bess
Wohl’s American Hero (Jan. 27–Feb. 11) and
concludes with Copenhagen (April 29–May
14.)
Soulstice Theatre is located at 3770 S.
Pennsylvania Ave., St. Francis. 414-4812800; www.soulsticetheatre.org.
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P H OTO : F R A N K F E R R A N T E P RO D U C T I O N S
Frank Ferrante reprises his uncanny imitation of Groucho Marx this season in An Evening
with Groucho at the Milwaukee Repertory’s Stackner Cabaret (March 24–May 28).
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FIRST STAGE
First Stage, one of the nation’s most
acclaimed children’s theaters, offers a full
slate of productions starting with Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium — The
Musical Oct. 14–Nov. 13 at the Todd Wehr
Theater in Milwaukee’s Performing Arts
Center.
The season continues with Mole Hill Stories (Nov. 5–20 at First Stage’s Main Stage
Hall); Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Nov.
25–Dec. 31, Todd Wehr Theater); Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors (Dec. 9–18
at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center); Welcome to Bronzeville (Jan. 13–Feb. 5 at the
Todd Wehr Theater); and Lovabye Dragon
(Jan. 21–Feb. 19 at the FS Main Stage Hall).
The troupe also produces Robin Hood
(Feb. 17–March 12 at the Todd Wehr Theater); Txt U L8r (March 10–19 at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center); Mockingbird
(March 24–April 9 at the Todd Wehr Theater); Julie B. Jones is Not a Crook (April
28–June 4 at the Todd Wehr Theater); and
George Orwell’s Animal Farm (May 12–21 at
the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center).
First Stage is headquartered at 325 W.
Walnut St., Milwaukee. 414-267-2900;
www.firststage.org.
THEATRE GIGANTE
Theatre Gigante, the self-proclaimed
“theater of big ideas,” is fresh from its Aug.
28 appearance at the Milwaukee Fringe
Festival and ready for a new season.
The troupe’s upcoming performances
include Mark Anderson’s Quorum (Oct.
7–15 at Plymouth Church); Gigante Reads
Excerpts from Spalding Gray: Stories Left to
Tell (Nov. 17 at the Whitefish Bay Library);
David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries (Dec.
9 at Boswell Book Company); Little Bang
Theory & Laugh, Clown, Laugh (March 3–4
at Kenilworth 508 Theater) and Anderson
and Isabelle Kraj’s Lysistrata (April 21–29 at
Alverno College’s Pitman Theater).
Theater Gigante is located at 1920 E.
Kenilworth Pl., Milwaukee. 414-961-6119;
www.theatregigante.org.
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Milwaukee-based Theater RED is producing the world premiere of Bonny Anne
Bonny (Oct. 27–Nov. 12), a new play by
Milwaukee writer Liz Shipe about the infamous female pirate captain.
For this production, Theatre Red is partnering with Wisconsin Lutheran College to
provide students the opportunity to work
alongside professionals. Performances are
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From old favorites to premieres, Madison’s season bustles
MERCURY PLAYERS THEATRE
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
Like Milwaukee, Madison also has a
packed season of theater in store for
2016–2017.
FORWARD THEATER COMPANY
Forward Theater Company kicks off its
season this month with Someone’s Gotta
Do It (Sept. 22–24), its fourth annual monologue festival. A dozen playwrights have
contributed monologues about the impact
of jobs on their lives.
Next up, 4000 Miles (Nov. 3–20), a
2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for playwright
Amy Herzog, examines estrangement and
acceptance among family members. Then
John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar
(Jan. 26–Feb. 12) offers a humorous and
poignant look at two feuding families in
rural Ireland.
Forward’s season ends with the world
premiere of Learning to Stay (March 23–
April 9), a newly commissioned work from
American Players Theatre actor and playwright James DeVita. The play examines
the personality and relationship challenges
faced by a returning Iraq War vet.
Forward Theater Company performs at The
Playhouse at Overture Center for the Arts,
201 State St., Madison. 608-258-4141; www.
forwardtheater.com.
STAGEQ
StageQ, Madison’s LGBT theater troupe,
opened July 22 with Casa Valentina, author
Harvey Fierstein’s opus about cross-dressing in the Catskills. The play served as
prelude to the 2016–17 season, according
to artistic director Michael Bruno.
Next up is Commander (Oct. 7–22), the
story of a gay Rhode Island governor who
finds himself running for president. Following on its heels will be Queer Short 2.1:
Queer Love (Feb. 10–18), StageQ’s annual
and highly popular short play festival.
Onstage next spring is Perfect Arrangement (April 28–May 13), a comedy about
two U.S. State Department employees —
one gay and one lesbian — who married
each other to avoid suspicion about their
sexual orientation. The two are given the
task of identifying sexual deviants in their
P H OTO : TO M K L I N G E L E
The Children’s Theater of Madison’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2015.
ranks in 1950s America.
The season ends with Charles Busch’s
Die, Mommie, Die (June 16–July 1), a campy
comedy thriller that recalls the trashy
“grand guignol” Hollywood films of the
1960s featuring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and other aging stars.
StageQ performs at the Bartell Theatre, 113
E. Mifflin St., Madison. 608-661-9696; www.
stageq.com.
CHILDREN’S THEATER
OF MADISON
Children’s Theater of Madison is holding
auditions for The American Girls Revue (Oct.
7–23), which is based on the popular doll
series. Other shows on CTM’s schedule
include A Christmas Carol (Dec. 10–23);
Seussical (Feb. 25–March 12), the musical based on Dr. Seuss characters; To the
Promised Land (April 22–May 3); and the
musical A Year with Frog and Toad (May
13–25).
Children’s Theater of Madison is a resident
company at Overture Center for the Arts,
ctmtheater.org.
MADISON THEATRE GUILD
Madison Theatre Guild deserves a hand
for its new season, particularly the season
opener. The black comedy A Behanding in
Spokane (Sept. 9–24) concerns a man who
has been searching for his missing left
hand for 27 years. Next up is Alice (Oct.
27–Nov. 5), a hard-rock take on the Lewis
Carroll characters by local writers Dan
Myers and Meghan Rose.
The new year opens with Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still (Jan. 13–28), a
drama about disaffected war correspondents. Following is Mathew Lopez’s The
Whipping Man (March 3–18), concerning a
Jewish Confederate soldier and two former
slaves in the Civil War’s aftermath. The
season ends with Douglas Carter Beane’s
The Nance (April 28–May 13), the story
of 1930s burlesque theater and gay performer Chauncey Miles.
The Madison Theatre Guild performs at the
Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St., Madison.
608-258-4141; www.madisontheatreguild.
org.
Mercury Players Theatre, another Bartell Theatre resident company, has scheduled four productions for its 2016–17 season.
The season opens with what might be
called Nick Schweitzer’s “Wisconsification” of the Wizard of Oz. The show borrows elements of British “panto” — shows
in which men dress as women and women
dress as men. In this production, everyone
dresses as animals with a decidedly Badger
State flavor.
New Year’s Eve sees the one-time performance of Ball Drop Blitz 3, a series
of sketches and one-act plays that are
derived from 24 hours of creative mayhem
among teams of actors, directors and writers. A fundraiser for the Bartell Theatre,
the third annual Blitz is a joint production
by Mercury Players, OUT!Cast Theatre
and KnowBetter Productions.
Next up is August: Osage County (March
10–25), the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awardwinning play by playwright and actor Tracy
Letts. According to The New York Times,
the play is “fiercely funny and bitingly sad.”
Letts is married to actress Carrie Coon,
whom some may remember from her days
in the UW-Madison theater department.
The season ends with Of Dice and Men
(March 10–25), a humorous but brutally
honest look at the lives of gamers and
gamblers.
Mercury Players Theatre performs at the
Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St., Madison.
608-258-4141; www.mercuryplayerstheatre.
com.
FOUR SEASONS THEATRE
Four Seasons Theatre recently concluded its production of Monty Python’s Spamalot at Shannon Hall in the UW Memorial
Union. Upcoming will be a production of
Big Fish (Dec. 2–11) in partnership with
Theatre LILA at The Playhouse at Overture
Center. The troupe will close its season
with Man of La Mancha (Aug. 4–6) at Shannon Hall.
608-616-5721; www.fourseasonstheatre.
com.
STROLLERS THEATRE
Strollers Theatre Ltd. is revisiting its
favorite past productions for a “60th Season Retrospectacular.” Four well-known
shows have made the cut.
The Neil Simon comedy Laughter on the
23rd Floor (Sept. 9–24) opens the season,
followed by Prelude to a Kiss (Feb. 3–18) and
Steel Magnolias (March 31–April 15). The
season ends with Peter Schaeffer’s powerful play about Mozart, Amadeus (June
2–17.)
Strollers Theatre Ltd. performs at the Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St., Madison. 608258-4141; www.strollerstheatre.org
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Jim DeVita, one of Wisconsin’s leading
actors, is seen here in a production of
Red at Forward Theater Company. This
season, DeVita appears in Forward’s production of Learning to Stay (March 23–
April 9), a newly commissioned work from
American Players Theatre that DeVita
co-wrote.
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Marcus and Overture centers bring Broadway and more
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
Milwaukee’s Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Madison’s Overture Center for the Arts are entertainment venues
that strive to meet a wide range of cultural
and artistic needs.
Both venues offer modern amenities and
multiple theaters of various sizes that serve
as home bases for many of the top performing arts companies in each community. And
when it comes to hosting the Broadway
Across America series, each center holds
its own, with schedules that complement
and compete with each other year in and
year out — all for the benefit of performing
arts fans across southern Wisconsin and
northern Illinois.
Take a look at the highlights of each venue’s 2016–17 season and then take your pick
of the shows you would most like to see.
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE
PERFORMING ARTS, MILWAUKEE
The Marcus Center holds the city’s
premiere artistic pedigree, hosting performances by the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Florentine Opera and a host of other companies that call the complex on the Milwaukee
Riverfront home. (You will find their schedules elsewhere in this preview section.) But
that’s just the start of a colorful and often
riotous performance season.
Broadway Across America kicks off in
P H O T O : M AT T H E W M U R P H Y
Kerstin Anderson as Maria Rainer in the
touring production of The Sound of Music.
the center’s Uihlein Hall with the return
of The Book of Mormon (Oct. 25–30), the
wildly funny, multiple Tony Award-winner
from South Park creators Trey Parker and
Matt Stone. The show is currently playing
to standing-room-only crowds in London
and New York, but the traveling version is
on its way. The language is salty, the humor
wicked, and you won’t stop laughing.
Following just in time for the holidays is
ELF The Musical (Nov. 22–27). Based on the
New Line Cinema film of the same name,
the family-friendly show tells the story of a
young boy mistaken for one of Santa’s elves
and the mischief that results. The new year
opens with perennial favorite The Sound
of Music (Jan. 3–8), based on the life of
the von Trapp family and their lively nanny
Maria and featuring some of the most popular songs of all time.
The magic continues — this time literally — with The Illusionists — Live from
Broadway (Feb. 14–19). The New York Times
called it a “high-tech magic extravaganza”
designed to dazzle audiences with jawdropping illusions that will mystify and
entertain.
There is more magic of a different kind
with Rogers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
(March 28–April 2). The Tony Award-winning show from the creators of The Sound
of Music and South Pacific recreates the
classic fairy tale in a lush production that
appeals to all family members. On the heels
of this comes Chicago (April 25–30), the
sexy, sultry story of a Roaring ‘20s murder
as conceived by choreographer Bob Fosse
with the help of composer John Kander and
lyricist Fred Ebb, the talent behind Cabaret.
The Marcus Center’s Broadway season
closes with Beautiful — The Carole King
Musical (June 20–25). It’s the true story of
one of America’s most influential singer/
songwriters who penned the soundtrack
to a generation, and the show is filled with
many of your favorite Carole King songs.
But the Broadway shows are only part of
the Marcus Center’s performance calendar.
The fun continues in the more intimate
Vogel Hall, which has a performance schedule all its own.
Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience
(Oct. 6) presents a high-energy look at one
of America’s early rock ‘n’ roll pioneers and
features the talents of Billy McGuigan, the
country’s top interpreter of Holly’s music.
Following next is Disenchanted! (October
11–16), a hilarious send-up of fairy tale princesses and what they really think in this
not-for-the-kids hit musical.
Acoustic guitar wizard Leo Kottke (Oct.
22) takes the Vogel Hall stage with the
syncopated, polyphonic melodies that have
helped him stand apart from his contemporaries. The amazing month concludes
with The Summit (Oct. 26), which brings
together vocal groups Take 6 and the legendary Manhattan Transfer for one night of
perfect four- and six-part harmony.
TOMMY: A Bluegrass Opera (Nov. 9)
reinterprets The Who’s rock classic thanks
to the talents of The Hillbenders. Pianist
George Winston (Dec. 21) returns with a
program of new music in a genre he has
dubbed “folk piano,” but that’s really so
much more.
And that’s just the first half of the Vogel
Hall season.
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The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is
located at 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee. 414273-7206; www.marcuscenter.org
OVERTURE CENTER
FOR THE ARTS, MADISON
Now entering its 12th season, Overture
Center has become the Capital City’s cornerstone for performing arts. It’s home
to the Madison Symphony Orchestra,
the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Forward Theater, Kanopy Dance, the Madison
Museum of Contemporary Art and other
smaller troupes and galleries. And it presents a wide range of traveling shows and
star performers in programs that appeal
across age, gender and cultural barriers.
The Broadway at Overture series presents several of the same shows that will
grace the stage of Milwaukee’s Marcus
Center, as well as a few favorites exclusive
to Madison.
The 2016–17 season starts with Rogers
+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Oct. 4–9) and
continues with The Illusionists — Live from
Broadway (Nov. 22–27), two shows scheduled for the Marcus Center early in 2017.
The new year then kicks off with the
return of two audience favorites exclusive
this year to Madison. Jersey Boys (Jan.
3–8) is the Tony and Grammy award-winning story of vocal group Frankie Valli and
The Four Seasons that has entertained
more than 22 million people worldwide
since it premiered in 2005.
Cameron Mackintosh’s new production
of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of
the Opera (Jan. 25–Feb. 5) offers bigger and
better scenic design, new costumes and
choreography, and exciting special effects,
including the famous chandelier. With a
cast and orchestra of 52, this is now the
largest production of Phantom currently
on tour.
Kander and Ebb fans will be happy to
note that next up in the series is Cabaret
(March 21–26), a reimagining of the classic
musical about pre-World War II Germany
by the Roundabout Theatre Company and
director Sam Mendes (who helmed the
films Skyfall and American Beauty.) The story
of Sally Bowles and infamous Kit Kat Klub is
a Tony Award winner.
The Broadway at Overture season closes the same way that the Marcus Center
Broadway season opens — with a production of Parker and Stone’s The Book of Mormon (May 9–14).
But there is more to Overture than just
the Broadway series. In fact, the rest of the
season boasts a variety of entertainment,
including a few big-name stars.
Jazz singer Tony Bennett plays a return
engagement on Oct. 28. Having just turned
90, Bennett is the definition of a living legend, yet he is still going strong. Come and
listen to an evening of his greatest hits, and
you, too, may understand why you left your
heart in San Francisco.
At the other end of the season, classical
violinist and Madison favorite Itzhak Perlman performs on April 29. Accompanied by
pianist Rohan De Silva, Perlman brings his
crystalline interpretation of some classical
music’s greatest works.
In between you’ll find the stirring vocals
of Boys II Men (Feb. 12), the all-male crossdressing dance troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Feb. 24), and the
wildly funny Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The
Musical (March 14–19). The performance
season ends with a humorous romp with
Chicago’s Second City comedy troupe
(June 2).
Overture also offers Duck Soup Cinema, a longstanding popular series of silent
films from the 1920s accompanied live by
Overture’s Grand Barton organ. This year’s
schedule includes Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
The Book of Mormon returns to the Marcus Center on Oct. 25–30.
P H OTO : J OA N M A RC U S
(Oct. 8), the long-lost comedy Her Wild Oat
(Nov. 5), Safety Last featuring Harold Lloyd
(February 18), the immortal Douglas Fairbanks as The Thief of Bagdad (March 11),
and Buster Keaton as Sherlock Jr. (April 8).
But wait, there’s more! Overture Center
also offers local acts a chance during the
MadCity Sessions featuring local bands;
Overture’s Rising Stars, which highlights
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local young performers; and Kids in the
Rotunda, always free children’s performances in Overture’s lower level.
Overture Center for the Arts is located at
overturecenter.org
P H OTO : J OA N M A RC U S
Abby Mueller as Carole King and Liam Tobin as Gerry Goffin in Beautiful — The Carole
King Musical, coming to the Marcus Center June 20–25.
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A rich season of concerts ahead for classical fans
P H OTO : TO D D M AU G H A N
The Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Symphony Chorus joined forces to close the Madison Symphony’s 2015–16 concert season with Orff’s Carmina Burana.
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
Amid the autumn leaves’ changing colors comes the vivid musical colors of the
notes, chords, cadenzas and crescendos of
the local classical music scene.
It was Victor Hugo who said music
expresses that which cannot be put into
words and yet cannot remain silent. For
many, life without music would be a life
considerably less rich. That richness is
what classical ensembles in both Milwaukee and Madison provide in abundance.
Here is a look at what some the major
performing groups have in store for the
coming 2016–17 season.
MILWAUKEE
This month Edo de Waart will enter his
eighth and final season as music director
of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra,
moving on next year to become music
director of the New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra. From the look of things, his final
season will be a most fitting farewell.
MSO offers an unusually rich selection
of concerts during its 2016–17 season,
performing music from Johannes Brahms
to David Bowie, from Handel’s Messiah
to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Whether classics, pops, family or special
events, MSO concerts this season offer
something for everyone.
The season opens with a semi-staged
production of Mozart’s The Marriage of
Figaro (Sept. 17, 18 and 20), which is quickly
followed by guest pianist Emanuel Ax playing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sept.
23 and 24) and a special performance by
violinist Itzhak Perlman performing Bruch’s
Violin Concerto No. 1 (Sept. 27). And that’s
just during the season’s first month.
De Waart conducts nine of this year’s
concerts, leaving the podium available for
guest conductors, including an impressive
lineup of women, including JoAnn Falletta,
MSO’s associate conductor from 1985 to
1988; Karina Canellakis, current associate
conductor with the Dallas Symphony; and
Estonian conductor Anu Tali.
Film music plays a large role this season,
leading off with Disney’s Fantasia (Oct.
14–16), Harry Potter (Dec. 15–17) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (Dec. 30–31). The orchestra plays the scores as the films are shown.
The heavy classical lifting takes place
under de Waart’s baton. His hands guide
performances of Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 4 (Nov. 19–20), Holst’s The Planets
(Feb. 24–26), Beethoven’s Triple Concerto
(March 3–4), Beethoven’s Piano Concerto
No. 4 (May 12–13) and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 (May 19–20).
For his finale as Milwaukee’s maestro,
de Waart conducts the mighty Symphony
No. 3 by Gustav Mahler (May 26–28). The
composer once said of his work that it was
a “symphony so vast that it reflects the
whole world. An instrument on which the
universe plays.” What better composition
to close the maestro’s eight remarkable
years?
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performs primarily in the Marcus Center for the
Performing Arts’ Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water
St., Milwaukee. 414-273-7121; www.mso.org.
The Wisconsin Philharmonic (formerly
the Waukesha Symphony Orchestra) has
a full schedule of performances under the
baton of music director Alexander Platt.
The orchestra, now in its 69th season, performs at a variety of venues in Milwaukee’s
western suburbs.
The series starts with Olympian Classics (Oct. 9) featuring compositions by
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Milwaukee native Michael Torke. Next up is Sensational Cinema, including Max Steiner’s
Suite from Gone with the Wind, Bernard
Herrmann’s Suite from Alfred Hitchcock’s
Vertigo, and others.
The new year starts with Back to Bach
(Feb. 19), featuring MSO violinist Frank
Almond and his now infamous Lipinski
Stradivarius performing three works by J.S.
Bach: The Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, the
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E and the orchestral Suite No. 3. Almond also performs
Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto for good measure.
The orchestra closes its season with
Bohemian Rhapsody (April 4), featuring
the compositions of Bohemian composers Leoš Janáčcek, Antonín Dvořák and
Bedřich Smetana. Be sure to Czech that
one out.
The Wisconsin Philharmonic performs at
various western suburban venues. 262-5471858; www.wisphil.org.
When it comes to the classical music of
the future, it’s obvious that Present Music
will have a hand in creating it. The contemporary ensemble performs in a variety of
city venues, creating music that’s compelling, sometimes controversial, but always
worth experiencing.
The new season has already started with
Made in Milwaukee (Sept. 3), performing
the work of Cream City natives Michael
Torke, Jerome Kitzke and Ryan Carter.
Next up is Angst, Horror & Fun (Oct. 21), a
collaboration between Present Music and
Quasimondo Milwaukee Physical Theatre.
Projections from classic silent horror films
and the Eric Segnitz/John Tanner score
created for 1927’s Nosferatu haunt the Milwaukee Art Museum.
The new year begins with the In the
Chamber series of concerts (Feb. 16–19)
and compositions by the energetic Donnacha Dennehy, the ambitious Texu Kim
and the introspective Hannah Lash. Time,
Nature, Culture, Sound (April 29) is devoted
entirely to “Litany for the Whale” and
“Child of Tree” by composer John Cage.
It’s performed at the Milwaukee Public
Museum.
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Present Music’s season ends with
Boundaries (June 2) and the ensemble goes
out of its way to break them with the inclusion of jazz, nonlinear music forms and
other experimental works. Pianist Cory
Smythe debuts his latest work in a world
premiere and jazz sax player and composer Steve Lehman will offer his own String
Quartet. There also will be an homage to
the Ornette Coleman Quartet and other
experimental offerings.
Present Music, which performs at different area venues, is headquartered at the
Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway,
Milwaukee. 414-271-0711; www.presentmusic.org.
MADISON
The Madison Symphony Orchestra,
Wisconsin’s other MSO, begins its 91st
season this fall with 91 performing artists
under the baton of music director John
DeMain. He’s a former Leonard Bernstein
protégé who earned a Grammy Award for
his performance of Porgy and Bess while
with the Houston Grand Opera. DeMain
is considered the country’s leading interpreter of George Gershwin’s 1934 opera.
MSO’s season of nine performances
explores classical music’s tried-and-true
composers and their works, as well as
more contemporary offerings. The season’s kickoff concert, The Planets: An HD
Odyssey (Sept. 23–25), lavishly illustrates
Gustav Holst’s seven astral tone poems
with gorgeous planetary imagery from
NASA. George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 and “Chaconne for Violin and
Orchestra” from John Corigliano’s score
for The Red Violin round out the opening
program.
Other season highlights include a program featuring Beethoven’s Pastorale, a
performance of the composer’s beloved
Sixth Symphony, and guest violinist Henning Kraggerud performing the music of
Max Bruch as well as his own composition, “Three Postludes from Equinox” (Oct.
21–23). Beyond the Score: Scheherazade (Jan.
14–15) borrows an approach developed
by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to
Edo de Waart enters his eighth and final
season as music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Next year he’ll
become music director of the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra.
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dramatize the composition of Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous work. The performance
features American Players Theatre actor
James DeVita as the Composer and his
wife Brenda DeVita as the Storyteller.
For Ultimate Tchaikovsky, guest pianist
Stephen Hough performs Camille SaintSaëns Concerto No. 5 (The Egyptian) prior
to an MSO performance of Tchaikovsky’s
Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique). The MSO
season ends with Brahm’s “Requiem” (May
6–7).
The Madison Symphony Orchestra performs in Overture Hall, 201 State St., Madison.
608-258-4141; www.madisonsymphony.org.
Fresh from six summer Wednesday evenings entertaining tens of thousands on
Madison’s Capitol Square, the Wisconsin
Chamber Orchestra under the baton of
Andrew Sewell launches its Masterworks
series of single concerts starting on Oct.
14. Guest Ilya Kaler performs Tchaikovsky’s
Violin Concerto in D major.
The Masterworks program continues
Jan. 27 with guest artist and guitarist Ana
Vidovic performing Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s
Guitar Concert No. 2. Mozart’s Symphony
No. 30 in D major and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 in D minor bracket Vidovic’s
performance.
On Feb. 24, young Milwaukee violin-
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Early Music Now focuses on “historically
informed” music composed before
1800. The award-winning group has
a robust upcoming season that begins
with a performance by Fretwork titled
“In Nomine” at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 8.
Next up is the ensemble Sequentia
(pictured) presenting “Monks Singing
Pages” at 7:30 on Nov. 19 at Wisconsin
Lutheran College. The last performance
of the year is “A Rose in in Winter,”
presented by The Rose Ensemble,
on Dec. 10 and Dec. 11 at St. Joseph
Chapel. For 2017 performances, go to
earlymusicnow.org. For tickets, phone
414-225-3113.
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ist Julian Rhee joins WCO in performing
Brahm’s Violin Concerto in D major, with
actor James DeVita returning to the classical music stage to narrate Stravinsky’s A
Soldier’s Tale Suite. On March 24, violist and
former Madisonian Vicki Powell performs
Vaughn Williams’ Suite for viola and chamber orchestra. Other works, including Aaron
Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” complete
the program.
The season closes April 28 with guest
artists (and husband and wife) Michael
Shinn and Jessica Chow Shinn perform-
ing “Commissioned Work for Two Pianos
and Orchestra” by contemporary composer
Tom Cabaniss. Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de
Couperin” and Schumann’s Symphony No.
2 in C major round out the program.
The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Masterworks Series takes place at the Overture Center’s Capitol Theater. 201 State St., Madison.
608-258-4141; www.wcoconcerts.org.
Frankly Music’s free-range chamber programs
By Kirstin Margit Roble
Contributing writer
It’s that time of the year again: The leaves
are beginning to change and the cold mornings are upon us. This change augers a new
start in the Milwaukee arts community,
including the 13th season of Milwaukeebased chamber music group Frankly Music.
“We’re very fortunate to still be going
and able to perform such a wide variety
of repertoire,” said artistic director Frank
Almond in a recent interview.
FM’s season will feature four concerts
exploring a wide range of musical styles.
The series kicks off Sept. 26 at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church (914 E. Knapp St., Milwaukee).
“Our first concert is a unique pairing, as it
places works by Josef Haydn and Johannes
Brahms with the lesser known composer
Max Reger,” Almond said. “We’ve never had
the opportunity to perform a work by Reger
before, so this is incredibly exciting.”
German composer Max Reger (1873–
1916) lived during the latter years of
Brahms’ life. He composed extensively, but
very few of his works have found their way
into the standard repertory.
On Nov. 21, Almond and a trio of other
musicians join classical guitarist Rene Izquierdo for Guitar Center, also at St. Paul’s.
“Rene and I have been planning this for the
past eight years,” Almond said. “We finally
decided that we needed to make this happen.”
The concert includes pieces by Nicolai
Paganini, Astor Piazzola, and Castelnuovo
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Violinist and artistic director Frank Almond.
Tedesco, as well as a series of solo guitar
works.
The second half of the season takes place
at Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Schwan
Concert Hall (8815 W. Wisconsin Ave.,
Wauwatosa).
On Jan. 23, Frankly Music will present
a large ensemble concert featuring several members of the MSO. The concert
includes a number of well-known chamber
works in its first half, while the second
half is given over to Mozart’s Divertimento
in B flat for two horns and strings. The
Divertimento should be a not-to-be-missed
performance. It’s a work that rarely gets
performed because of the difficulty and
also the instrumental requirement — two
horns and a larger chamber ensemble,”
Almond said.
The season will wrap up with Czech it Out
on May 15. The concert features chamber
music duets and trios from Czech composers Bohuslav Martin, Leos Janáček, and
Antonin Dvorák.
Says Almond: “Putting together a season
is like a big jigsaw puzzle. There are so
many factors that play in planning. Looking
at the program and which works fit into a
space is a decision maker. Also, who’s available factors in. It can be tricky to coordinate
all of it each year.”
Still, even with the hurdles of planning
a season, Almond counts himself pleased
with the impact that Frankly Music has
made in Milwaukee over the last 13 years.
“We’re lucky to have been able to present
a lot of music that isn’t often heard — and
not have to repeat it regularly in a cycle,”
Almond said. “We’re also lucky to have the
caliber of musicians we have performing.
We’ve featured up-and-coming musicians
as well as established professionals in the
field. It’s pretty amazing.”
Tickets for the season’s concerts are available on franklymusic.org. All concerts are at
7 p.m.
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Planets:
An HD
Odyssey
SEPT. 23, 24, 25
Overture Hall
A spectacular, high-definition
film accompanies Holst’s
masterpiece. Experience
“The Planets” like never before!
GEORGE ENESCU
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Chaconne from The Red Violin
GUSTAV HOLST
The Planets
John DeMain, Conductor
Madison Symphony Orchestra
buy tickets now!
madisonsymphony.org ,
the Overture Center Box Office
or (608) 258-4141.
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Vale Rideout and Keith Phares in Florentine Opera’s 2010 production of Elmer Gantry.
The contemporary work won two Grammys — Robert Aldridge for best contemporary
classical composition and Naxos Records for best engineered album (classical), which
featured the Florentine production. (The work returned to the Florentine with a new
cast in 2014.) This season, the creators of Gantry return to the Florentine with the world
premiere of their work Sister Carrie.
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
Blend the best of music and the best of
theater and what do you get? Why, opera,
of course. But that’s not to say appreciating
opera is easy.
“Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It
takes more time, more patience and more
spirit of sacrifice,” operatic tenor Andrea
Bocelli once said. “All this is well worth it
because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a
lifetime.”
Area opera companies this season are
offering a blend of the old and the new,
with a few world premieres thrown in for
good measure. Here is what’s coming up
on local stages.
MILWAUKEE
area’s finest young operatic voices in a
delightful revue.
The season continues with Mozart’s
Don Giovanni (March 17 and March 19).
The tale of the womanizing rake brought
to heel by the fates is considered one
of Mozart’s greatest works. The writer
Gustave Flaubert once said that along
with Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the sea,
Mozart’s opera “was one of the three finest
things God ever made.”
The Florentine concludes its season with
Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (May 5 and
May 7), a ribald comedy from one of history’s greatest opera composers. Deceptions and counter-deceptions thread their
way through Rossini’s frothy score in a
work that’s as accessible as it is brilliant.
The Florentine plays most of its dates in
the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’
Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee.
414-273-7121; www.florentineopera.org.
The Florentine Opera Company launches its 83rd season with another world preAlthough it’s navigated some choppy
miere. Florentine general director William
Florescu directs Sister Carrie (Oct. 7 and waters in recent months, the Skylight
Oct. 9), a new work by two-time Grammy Music Theatre under interim artistic direcAward winners Robert Aldridge and Her- tor Ray Jivoff is launching a full season
schel Garfein, authors of the opera Elmer comprising four musicals and an opera.
Gantry. Sister Carrie is based on Theodore First up is a production of Violet (Sept.
Dreiser’s classic novel recounts the story 30–Oct. 16), with music by Tony Awardof a man who loses everything in pursuit of winner Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics
a small-town girl who goes to the big city by Brian Crawley. Set in the segregated
in search of opportunity. The story is set South of 1964, the work chronicles a disduring the heartless, newly industrialized figured “pilgrim” in search of a faith healer
to ease her troubles. Love along the way
America of the early 20th century.
Next up is Romance Español (Feb. 10–12), helps the young woman better cope with
the traditional Valentine’s Day weekend her challenges.
Next up is the popular La Cage Aux
gift from the Florentine Opera Studio Artists. Latin music and culture inspires this
song cycle, which features some of the OPERA next page
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production of Dead Man
Walking became a community phenomenon,
inspiring forums and
discussions about the
death penalty.
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Folles (Nov. 18–Dec. 23), the multiple Tony
Award-winner with book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly! and Mame). The work
is a touching comedy of love and crossdressing.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Feb.
3–19), the delightful musical comedy that
asks the question, “Where did all this personal baggage come from?” — and invites
its audience to relive the joys and frustrations of relationships at nearly every stage
of life.
For something completely different,
there’s Zémire et Azor or Beauty and the Beast
(March 17–26). The French Baroque operatic version of the classic fairy tale about
the power of love dates back to 1771 and
was part of the French repertory until 1821.
It was said to have been a favorite of Marie
Antoinette, although it’s anyone’s guess
which character she most identified with.
This is the Wisconsin premiere of Colin
Graham’s English adaptation of the work.
The Skylight’s season ends with Sweeney
Todd (May 19–June 11). Stephen Sondheim’s
tale of “the demon barber of Fleet Street”
earned eight Tony Awards, including Best
Musical, Best Book and Best Score. The
dark musical teaches us just what an angry
man wronged by society can do with a
straight razor, a trap door and an endless
supply of pie crusts.
Skylight Music Theater is part of the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee. 414-291-7800; www.skylightmusictheatre.org.
MADISON
Kathryn Smith enters her fifth year as
general director of the Madison Opera
with a blend of classic repertoire and a
new work designed to jazz up the 2016–17
season.
That season officially began July 24 with
Opera in the Park, the annual free outdoor performance of opera highlights at
Madison’s Garner Park. The production
offered the best of past Madison Opera
seasons, as well as previews of the shows
to come. This year’s Saturday night event
was moved to Sunday due to rain.
Presumably, weather will not be a factor
for the opera’s first indoor performance
of Charles Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet (Nov.
4 and Nov. 6). You know the story. Now
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Eric McKeever singing the role of a runaway slave in the Skylight Music Theatre’s
prior production of El Cimarron, which
plays again this season at Broadway Theater Center’s intimate Studio Theatre.
add soaring arias, impassioned love scenes
and plenty of swordfights and you will have
a sense of the magic Gounod’s version
brings to the stage.
Opera takes a different turn with Charlie
Parker’s Yardbird (Feb. 10 and Feb. 12). The
legendary tenor sax jazz artist returns in
spirit to relive his finest moments in this
2015 opera by composer Daniel Schnyder
and librettist Bridgette A. Wimberly. Madison Opera is only the second company to
perform this synthesis of opera and jazz,
which the Wall Street Journal said “crackles
with energy.”
The season ends with The Magic Flute,
Mozart’s beloved classic that helped raise
the stature of a musical genre previously
known as songspiel. Mozart wrote the tale
of a prince, a princess, mystic rituals and
enchanted musical instruments in the final
year of his short life, and it’s clear he was
saving some his best efforts for last.
The Madison Opera is a resident company
of Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St.,
Madison. 608-258-4141; www.madisonopera.org.
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Moves that move you
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
Some call dance the original art form,
with the body as the original instrument.
Every time you tap your foot to music,
you’ve joined the art of movement.
As primal as it is, though, dance remains
one of the least familiar and most underappreciated modern art forms. However,
groups in both Madison and Milwaukee are
going out of their way this season to right
that rhythmic wrong.
MILWAUKEE
Michael Pink enters his 14th year as
artistic director of the Milwaukee Ballet,
and that tenure has seen many new ballets
and world premieres. MB has grown and
matured over those years, becoming one of
the country’s leading companies.
MB’s 2016 season starts out with two
contrasting works. Rimsky-Korsakov’s
colorful suite Scheherazade (Oct. 20–23)
provides the musical backdrop to Kathryn
Posin’s visually lush story ballet, a work
that brings to life the mystery and wonder
of 1001 Arabian nights.
The same program features Angels in the
Architecture, danced to the music of Aaron
Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Mark Godden’s choreography celebrates the simplicity of Shaker life and Copland’s music. The
work was originally conceived as a ballet
for Martha Graham.
The holiday season, of course, is given
over the ballet’s annual performance of
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. It just
wouldn’t be Christmas without that enormous tree.
The new year kicks off with Momentum
(Jan. 28), which features Milwaukee Ballet II training program dancers performing
world premieres by choreographers Thom
Dancy, Tania Bolivia Vergara and Rolando
Yanes. Expect high energy and boundless
enthusiasm here.
Next up is Genesis (Feb. 16–19), the ballet’s international choreography competition that challenges three up-and-coming
choreographers to create three new ballets
in three weeks. Audience votes, along with
the input of a panel of esteemed judges,
choose the winner.
Things get more serious later in the
spring with La Sylphide (April 6–9), the
romantic classic staged by Danish repetiteur Dinna Bjørn. The work mixes classical
dance with Scottish reels in the land of
sylphs. On the same program, choreographer-in-residence Timothy O’Donnell
introduces audiences to Sans Pleurer — his
sixth world premiere.
The season closes with Mirror, Mirror
(June 1–4), Pink’s interpretation of the
Snow White legend reimagined as both a
dream and a nightmare. The original work
also features longtime collaborator Phillip
Feeney’s score.
The Milwaukee Ballet primarily performs
at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’
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In Nomine
Fretwork
Oct 8, 2016 (Sa) 7:30
Monks Singing Pagans
A Rose in Winter
Nov 19, 2016 (Sa) 7:30
Sequentia
The Rose Ensemble
UWM Zelazo Center
Wisconsin Lutheran College
Dec 10, 2016 (Sa) 5:00
Dec 11, 2016 (Su) 3:00
Gulumbá, Gulumbé
Sugarloaf Mountain
Who Killed Leclair?
Feb 18, 2017 (Sa) 5:00
Mar 18, 2017 (Sa) 5:00
Apr 22, 2017 (Sa) 7:30
Ars Longa De La Habana
UWM Zelazo Center
Apollo’s Fire
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Saint Joseph Chapel
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Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
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Annia Hidalgo in Milwaukee Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker.
Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee.
414-203-7206; www.milwaukeeballet.org.
Milwaukee’s dance scene is further
enhanced by Danceworks Inc., which
provides studio lessons and performance
opportunities in a wide range of dance
styles and disciplines. For information on
upcoming performances, visit www.danceworksmke.org
MADISON
After all but disappearing due to financial woes, the Madison Ballet is back,
bringing a full slate of programs to the
Capital City.
Artistic director W. Earle Smith starts
his season with Black/White (Oct. 14–15), a
blend of classical and contemporary styles
that brings the company’s athletic artistry
up close and personal for audience members at the 200-seat Drury Stage in the
Bartell Theater.
Madison Ballet and the Wisconsin
Chamber Orchestra once again combine
forces in performing Tchaikovsky’s The
Nutcracker (Dec. 10–26) on the Overture
Hall stage. Swirling snowflakes, menacing
mice and a dancing nutcracker — this holiday show has them all.
The ballet returns to the Drury Stage for
Bare (Feb. 3–4), offering ballet in its purest forms and showcasing shorter works
by current and up-and-coming choreographers. The Madison Ballet’s season wraps
with Primavera (March 31–April 1), a program featuring works by artistic director
Smith.
The Madison Ballet performs at both Overture Hall, 201 State St., and the Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St. in Madison. 608-2787990; www.madisonballet.org
Kanopy Dance Company, another resident company at Overture Center for the
Arts, has four programs lined up for its
2016–17 season.
The season starts with Martha Graham:
[R]evolution in Black and White (Nov. 11–13),
which features two principal dancers from
the Martha Graham Dance Company. Former company member Miki Orihara will
perform the master choreographer’s work
“Heretic” from 1929, as well as a piece
from her own solo concert, “Resonance.”
Graham alumnus Martin Løfsnes and Kanopy Artistic Director Lisa Thurrell also will
present Graham-inspired works.
Russian folklore provides the inspiration for Baba Yaga: A Portrait of the Wickedest Witch (Feb. 10–12 and 17–19). The
evil old woman, her magic doll and her
wicked stepsisters come to life in a dance
performance complemented by puppetry,
storytelling and New York designer David
Quinn’s fantastical costumes.
Flamenco artists Danica Sena and Tania
Tandias form the focal point of Snapshots
of Spain (April 7–9), a performance that
celebrates Spain’s legacy of language,
music, culture, history and art in elegant,
contemporary and experimental dance.
The season ends with Pictures Without
Frames (April 22), which features dancers
from Kanopy’s pre-professional training
program performing work by a variety of
choreographers including Thurrell and codirector Robert E. Cleary.
Kanopy Dance Company performs at Overture Center for the Arts’ Promenade Hall,
kanopydance.org.
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Close up with Milwaukee-based collective Close Up of the Serene
By Joey Grihalva
Contributing writer
On a recent Saturday night, my girlfriend
and I pulled up to Studio 200, a nondescript
house-turned-dance club in Milwaukee’s
Walker’s Point neighborhood. A steady
electronic dance beat could be heard. Once
inside, I felt transported to the smoky club
in Prague where I first “got” techno music.
When I lived in Europe in the late 2000s,
this style of dance music dominated the
radio waves and nightclubs. Those sweaty,
liberating nights altered my perspective on
what a dance club could be. They were a far
cry from the hyper-sexualized, overpriced
atmosphere of U.S. nightclubs.
The event we walked into at Studio 200
was called “Can’t Get No Sleep,” co-produced by the Milwaukee-based collective/
web label Close Up of the Serene, which
includes Max Holiday, Liquid City Motors
(Will Mitchell) and MS 115 (Bobby Garvey).
It was their first time organizing a night at
Studio 200, and the turnout was relatively
low. Still, there was an enthusiastic core of
people on the dance floor and PJ Moody
was projecting cool visuals.
As Close Up approaches its anniversary
as a label and producer of club nights, I
spoke with the trio about their backstories,
their approach to dance music, their forebears in the underground and building their
movement “from the outside in.”
CLUB KIDS WITH GUITARS
Max Holiday grew up in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, for the first 12 years of his
life. An aspiring ballet dancer, Holiday hung
up his slippers after moving to Appleton.
His parents instilled in the young Holiday
an intense love of music, which he turned
to after dance. As a child, Holiday was
involved in punk and metal bands, which
eventually led him to electronic music. He
cites Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers as
early influences.
Though Bobby Garvey is also from Appleton, he didn’t meet Holiday until the two
were living in Milwaukee. Garvey was first
introduced to electronic dance music by his
R.A. at UW-La Crosse, a Milwaukee-native
who was friends with the DJs behind Sticky
Records. Unlike Holiday and Mitchell, Garvey does not come from a musical background. He began to DJ in 2014.
In 2012 during Halloween activities, Holiday and Garvey stumbled upon a dance
night at Quarters Rock N Roll Palace. It was
the closest thing to a club experience either
of them had been to.
“When we came home we looked at
each other and said, ‘Gotta throw a party at
Quarters someday.’ For the past four years
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Bobby Garvey (MS 115), left, Max Holiday, and Will Mitchell (Liquid City Motors) are
Close Up of the Serene.
or so that’s been the goal. Because with
dance music what you do is start a night
that is your vision,” says Holiday.
Earlier that summer, Holiday went back
to Appleton and recorded a fuzzy pop EP
under the moniker Young Holidays. It quickly gained traction and Holiday had to put
a band together. After a year, he became
bored with the project and abandoned it.
For two years after, Holiday exclusively
worked as a DJ, which he wants to make
clear is “an autonomous selector with an
artistic agenda, not a jukebox.”
Holiday returned to live music in 2015 and
is the frontman of Athletic Supply, which
also includes Mitchell, Garvey, Margaret
Wilson and Mark Stewart (GGOOLLDD,
Pharo).
“Athletic Supply exists sort of as our foot
in the general Milwaukee music scene. It’s
cool because we can play shows with our
friends in town, but it’s frustrating because
we get lumped in with the garage rock, lo-fi
pop scene, and that’s not really what we’re
trying to do,” says Holiday.
FROM HIP-HOP BEATS TO
SOLDERING AND SYNTHS
Will Mitchell grew up “in the sticks” outside of Stevens Point. He attended college
in Los Angeles and often went to Low End
Theory, a recurring hip-hop night. Mitchell
began making his beats and became known
as Riley Lake. During this time, Rory Ferreira (Milo) came across his music online
and reached out to Mitchell. The two put a
project together and went on tour.
“I specifically remember in Boone, North
Carolina, we got some sounds on his 404
and hooked it up to his computer and I
was like, ‘OK, this is how I would go about
producing a beat.’ I took a lot away from
working with Rory. And I was very fortunate
for meeting him because I don’t think I
would’ve ended up in Milwaukee otherwise,” says Mitchell.
Mitchell met Holiday and Garvey shortly
after moving to Milwaukee in 2014. He
acquired a studio space in the Shampoo
Horn building, which is located in a secluded industrial area adjacent to the Kinnickinnic River. This is where I met them for our
interview.
The small studio is full of Mitchell’s various synthesizers, keyboards and speakers.
Some of the modulated synthesizers are
borrowed from Jason Nanna, one of the
people who built out the sixth floor and
turned Mitchell onto soldering. In addition
to Mitchell’s various endeavors, Close Up
uses the studio for mixing and mastering.
BUILDING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN
“I use the term ‘underground’ a lot and
what it really means is a catch-all for doing
something that you’re not concerned with
whether it will be popular or not. You’re
doing it as part of a lineage of people doing
weird shit that may not have been listened
to at the time they were doing it,” says
Holiday.
For the Close Up boys, a major part of
that lineage is the “Madchester” scene in
the United Kingdom from 1988 to 1992.
The other formative wave of electronic
music was the more recent “post-dubstep
spiral” of 2010–11, sometimes referred to
as “FWD” because of its connection to a
club night called FWD at Plastic People in
London.
A number of local DJs and club nights
have also influenced the Close Up boys,
including the Chalice in the Palace Soundsystem crew, DJ Avets, Marcus Doucette,
Richard Galling, and their “godfather” Asher
Gray. During the Hotel Foster’s heyday,
Gray ran a club night called Le Freak, which
Holiday and Garvey attended religiously.
Precognition, a monthly DJ night at Quarters, is the signature Close Up event — the
party they always wanted to throw.
“Precognition is where the dimension
and depth really exists. Where it becomes
something with a singular quality that only
happens in one place with one group of
people,” says Mitchell.
Their label has put out digital releases
from Athletic Supply, Liquid City Motors,
Mercury Drums (Holiday’s dance music
alias), and Pharo. They also have played
on Radar Radio out of London, a breeding
ground for modern experimental electronic
music.
With the internet’s ability to consolidate disparate geographical niches into a
close community, Close Up has established
an audience outside of Wisconsin. Where
most bands build from the inside out, Close
Up is doing something of the opposite.
“I think it’s important to have one foot
firmly planted in what’s literally geographically happening around us. Then with the
other see how far we can reach,” says
Mitchell.
Close Up of the Serene is constantly
seeking out new music, drawing elements
from other genres back into their brand of
underground. They hope to make connections with the punk, queer, hip-hop, drum
and bass, and experimental noise communities. As they build upon their small
yet passionate local fan base, Close Up
club nights will continue to be a safe space
to enjoy forward-thinking electronic dance
music.
The next Precognition is Sept. 29, with the
anniversary on Nov. 19.
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By Joey Grihalva
HEAR HERE PRESENTS
MOVES INTO NEW SPACE
When I was a college radio DJ and
video student in Minneapolis, I occasionally helped video record “Live on Radio K”
— intimate in-studio performances by upand-coming bands. While both 91.7 WMSE
and 88Nine Radio Milwaukee also host
in-studio sessions, those performances are
not video-recorded for the public.
Hear Here Presents, an independent
series produced by local comedian and
music lover Ryan Holman, is filling that
void in Milwaukee. The series is inspired
by Audiotree Live, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, and others. In its first year, Hear
Here Presents has captured more than
20 performances with local and national
bands, including Soul Low, Foreign Goods
and BUHU.
This summer Hear Here Presents moved
from a loft on South Second Street across
from Purple Door Ice Cream to the Lincoln Warehouse on South First Street. Hear
Here’s new home is shared with 11 other
tenants, including Milwaukee band The
Cavewives. The space is filled with vintage
furniture, band tour posters, plants and
framed landscape paintings behind the performance area.
Hear Here Presents uses high-end equipment to record both the audio and video. It
is currently a self-funded and volunteer-run
endeavor, but Holman’s goal is to eventually
be in partnership with a larger media outlet
that can provide funding and distribution.
GGOOLLDD played a stripped down version of “Younger Days,” with keyboardist and guitarist Thomas Gilbert playing
an acoustic guitar. After a changeover,
the band returned fully electric, and Holman’s team fired up a smoke machine. He
announced it was the first time they’d used
one, which elicited cheers. The band then
played “City Lights,” followed by their signature single “Gold.”
Because of its move, Hear Here’s backlog has grown. It will take a few months
before the GGOOLLDD video is out. In the
meantime, visit hearyemusic.club to check
out their video library and music recommendations.
ARGOPELTER AT
BOONE & CROCKETT
Field Report is one of the most successful Wisconsin bands of the past decade.
The folk rock outfit has garnered praise
from Rolling Stone and Billboard magazines.
In celebration of their sophomore release,
Marigolden, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett proclaimed Oct. 22, 2014, to be “Field
Report Day.”
As part of Arte Para Todos 2016 — a festival that raises awareness and resources
for struggling arts and music programs in
Milwaukee Public Schools, I brought Field
Report frontman Christopher Porterfield
and bassist Barry Paul Clark to Escuela
Vieau School.
Porterfield regaled the Vieau middle
schoolers with road stories and told them
how a failed commercial jingle turned into
one of his biggest singles. For the actual festival, Porterfield performed a daytime solo
set at Lux Bar and Lounge, a small blackowned establishment that doesn’t typically
host singer-songwriters.
No stranger to nontraditional venues and
arrangements, Porterfield and Clark, along
with prolific jazz drummer Devin Drobka,
began playing improvisational sets at a
small bar in the Bay View neighborhood
under the moniker Argopelter. The sets
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GGOOLLDD performs in the new Hear Here Presents studio space.
take place once or twice a month on Mondays at Boone & Crockett. The trio first met
playing at the “Alverno Presents: Unlooped
vs. Marvin Gaye” concert.
On a recent Monday I went to see Argopelter. Porterfield told me that he’s happy
with the progress of the new Field Report
album and that it’s being recorded locally at
Wire & Vice with engineer Daniel Holter. At
the previous Argopelter night, Porterfield
had to leave early because his wife went
into labor with their first child.
Argopelter tunes feel like extended, epic
introductions to a Field Report song. Toward
the end, Porterfield heavily employed pedal
effects — to the point where one song
sounded like the soundtrack to a superhero
movie trailer. Their last song reminded me
of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.”
Overall, Argopelter is heavier and headier
than what Field Report fans might be used
to.
I emailed Porterfield and asked him what
he likes about Argopelter. He responded:
“Argopelter really stretches me out. Most
of what I do in other groups is composed
and considered beforehand. Argopelter
forces me to listen and trust. I love playing
with Barry and Devin, and I’ve grown to
trust myself as a player more from playing
with and trusting them.
“What we do is improvised, but it’s very
different from jamming. It’s more meditative. It’s more moment-sensitive. There’s
a lot of trust between us, the wonderful
people at Boone & Crocket, and the audience we’ve developed. We’d all love to
transcend, but we all know you can’t get
there every time.”
The next Argopelter performance will be
Sept. 12 at Boone & Crockett.
UNDERWEAR BIKE RIDE
AFTER-PARTY
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Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood
has a number of unusual traditions. A few
of those involve bike riding. The annual
Riverwest 24 attracts riders from all over
the city to compete in a 24-hour bike relay
and communal hang. A smaller, but no less
enthusiastic crowd gathers once a month
in the summer for the Underwear Bike Ride
(UBR). This celebration of positive body
image, founded by Steve Roche in 2011,
has grown organically over the years and
regularly turns out over a hundred riders,
especially when the weather cooperates.
The Underwear Bike Ride is followed by
an after-party concert. There have been
some epic after-parties, including Foreign
Goods debut last summer at Bremen Cafe.
Lorde Fredd33 opened the show, which
took place shortly after the South Carolina
church shooting. Fredd33 walked out in a
ripped Confederate flag tank top, which
was eventually thrown into the crowd and
lit on fire. (And then safely stomped out
by Roche.) This June the Nashville-based,
perpetually touring, immersive DIY dance
party Terror Pigeon headlined the UBR
after-party at Company Brewing.
Last week, Gloss Records label heads
Harrison Colby and Joey Peterson got to
play together at the UBR after-party at Mad
Planet. Their respective bands, NO/NO and
Platinum Boys, opened for Baltimore’s Ed
Schrader’s Music Beat. T
“I was extremely pleased with the participation of the riders,” Peterson told me.
“It was cool to expose Ed Schrader’s Music
Beat to them. There was probably 200
more people. It was a nice mix of people
who were going to the show and the underwear riders. The riders bought merch and
were into the bands. They had all that
adrenaline after going on a cruise like that,
plus they’re in their undies. That’s like taking care of three steps of the party. Ideally
that’s where it gets by three in the morning,
but if you’re starting that way at 9:30 p.m.
you’re in good shape.”
Peterson, better known as Joey Turbo, is
also the singer/leader of trash dance pop
outfit Rio Turbo, which plays the Mondo
Lucha! “When Worlds Collide” event.
Mondo Lucha! is an annual wrestling event
inspired by the “Lucha Libre” form of professional Mexican wrestling. The event was
founded by Andy Gorzalski in 2008. This
year’s Mondo Lucha! also features burlesque dancers and a performance by Rio
Turbo.
The final Underwear Bike Ride of 2016 is on
Sept. 16, with an after-party featuring Juiceboxxx (MKE/NYC) and Show Me The Body
(NYC). Mondo Lucha! “When Worlds Collide”
is Sept. 9, at Turner Hall Ballroom.
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The Set List
By Wade Vonasek
TRAMPLED BY TURTLES
7:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 at Riverside Theater
in Milwaukee; $25; pabsttheater.org
Duluth, Minnesota-based Trampled By
Turtles is acclaimed for its live shows.
The five-member bluegrass group has
released eight albums and has been
described as “genre-defying.” Wisconsin
bands Horseshoes & Hand Grenades and
Dead Horses open the show.
THE BIG WU
THE KILLS
8 p.m. on Sept. 17 at The Rave in Milwaukee; general admission $25, VIP balcony
general admission $30; therave.com
Indie rockers The Kills are American singer Alison Mosshart (The Dead
Weather) and British guitarist Jamie
Hince. The group has released five
records, with its most recent studio
album Ash & Ice making the UK Top 20
album chart.
8:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at The Miramar Theatre in Milwaukee; $12 to $15; themiramartheatre.com
Formed in 1992, Minnesota-bred The
Big Wu made its mark on the jam-band
scene with a reputation for hook-oriented
songwriting. It is one of the earliest jam
bands from the Midwest to achieve some
national success. Milwaukee groups
Undercover Organism and Overserved
Gentleman open the show.
ROCK THE GREEN
1 p.m. on Sept. 17 at Reed Street Yards, S.
3rd St. and Freshwater Way in Milwaukee; $35 to $75; rockthegreen.com
Rock the Green offers live music and
food in the name of sustainability. The
Main Stage features headliner Lord
Huron, Robert Delong, Best Coast and
others. The Pedal Power Stage includes
Wisconsin groups such as New Age Narcissism, Great Lake Drifters and Foreign
Goods. The Farm to Fork area has local
restaurants and food vendors serving
locally grown, sustainable and healthy
food options. The Eco-Champs area of
the festival showcases nonprofits and
the Eco-Kids stage and interactive area
has children’s activities, programming
and music.
JOSIENNE CLARKE
& BEN WALKER
7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18 in The Back Room @
Colectivo Coffee, 2211 N. Prospect Ave. in
Milwaukee; $10; pabsttheater.org
BBC Folk Award nominees Josienne
Clarke and Ben Walker infuse stories
of love and loss with a command of
many instruments. Clarke’s voice has
been compared to “a haunted angel.”
The pair’s new album Overnight hits the
shelves on Oct. 14.
KT TUNSTALL
7 p.m. on Sept. 23 at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison; $25; barrymorelive.com
Scottish singer-songwriter and musician KT Tunstall is best known for her
Grammy-nominated track “Black Horse
and the Cherry Tree.” She has released
five albums internationally, as well as
written soundtracks for films.
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Interesting lives and the art of collecting
By Kat Minerath
Contributing writer
Perhaps you’ve been to the Charles Allis
Art Museum and seen one of its many rotating exhibitions. Often it is a mix that juxtaposes the very new with the aged patina of
the stately mansion’s permanent collection,
amassed by former residents Charles and
Sarah Allis. The current exhibition, The Art
of Collecting, showcases both familiar and
rarely seen pieces. In its thoughtful presentation, the exhibition offers new perspective to the architecture, the collectors and
the art they lived with.
The first thing that drew my attention
in the first-floor parlor was the black-andwhite photograph of Sarah Allis. Taken at
the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York by
Falk Studio, it was placed casually on an end
table, much as it would be in any contemporary home.
Sarah Allis stands alertly in profile, her
head turned to the viewer and framed as
though she’s about to walk out of the picture. It is an intriguing image, but what is
most pertinent is that it puts a face on the
house and its contents. She and Charles
Allis were avid art collectors, and their lives
thread through the exhibition in stories and
ephemera, as well as their acquisitions.
That photograph lends a sense of familiarity, as though this was still an inhabited
space. Only the braided ropes strung over
the chairs and settee mark this as a museum rather than a well-appointed home.
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An antique Persian rug is dramatically displayed beside the marble staircase.
This exhibition brings
new light and freshness
to familiar pieces and
the architecture offers
new surprises.
Paintings such as Ernest Meissonier’s
“The Philosopher” invite lingering and contemplation. In this piece, a man sits at a
table covered with large books. He is examining a large document held up in one hand,
while with the other he writes notes. The
books, the process of handwriting and the
aura of quiet tell the story of an analog time,
a less harried life and pace than the present.
This relaxed pace and the pleasures
of looking are encouraged throughout. In
the foyer, glass cases are filled with small
objects. A heavy magnifying glass with
a substantial handle in the shape a giant
brass key sits on a sill, an offer to explore
the details. This is especially useful for
viewing a selection of vases, some decorated with seemingly hundreds of individualized, tiny faces. Charles and Sarah collected
from around the world, and there are some
fine examples of three-dimensional pieces
from Asia. A Chinese water cup made of
star sapphire agate dates to the 18th century. It’s remarkable for its complex, sculptural decoration and diminutive size.
The grand marble staircase is not merely
a passage to the second floor, but also a
dramatic part of the exhibition. A monumental Persian rug is displayed as a wall
hanging. The textile, more than three centuries old, shimmers like soft gold. Paint-
ings line the walls, punctuated by a fiercely
elegant painting of two reclining tigers by
Henri Regnault.
More details about the collection and
the story of Sarah and Charles Allis are
found upstairs. Family photographs, collection inventories and letters are interspersed
with paintings, prints, furniture and vessels
from many eras, including ancient Greece.
In Sarah’s bedroom, prints by Rembrandt
and Whistler are shown, along with letters
from gallerists excitedly gauging the collectors’ interests in obtaining rare pieces.
A great deal of attention was lavished
on the collection, as noted by the inventory
books and ephemera. The news clippings
and condolence letters that came after the
sudden passing of Charles Allis in 1918,
shortly after a routine operation, strike a
somber note. Sarah continued living in the
home for 27 years, until her death in 1945.
Her will decreed that the home and much
of the couple’s art collection be left to the
city of Milwaukee. In 1947, it opened to the
public as the Charles Allis Art Library.
The home has many stories, as many as
there are works of art and artifacts. This
exhibition brings new light and freshness to
familiar pieces and the architecture offers
new surprises. Look for the door underneath the marble staircase and walk down
into the game room and bowling alley. The
Allises, it seems, had a taste for enjoyment
in many ways, but especially through their
commitment to art.
The Art of Collecting continues through
Sept. 18 at the Charles Allis Art Museum, 1801
N. Prospect Ave.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Once and Again:
Still Lifes by Beth Lipman
Jewish Museum Milwaukee,
1360 N. Prospect Ave. Exhibition
opens Sept. 14.
Nationally noted glass artist Beth Lipman will show her
luminous sculptures, which
are often inspired by 17th-century Dutch still life paintings.
Her compositions, carefully
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orchestrated for visual impact, Art Elkon’s photos appear throughout A Social Forever.
mediate between themes of
abundance, materiality and
This exhibition includes hree photothe transience of life in its aspects of graphic bodies of work. Collectively, they
growth and decay.
document daily life, captured with senInto the Garden
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum,
2220 N. Terrace Ave., Sept. 20, 5:30 p.m.,
performance at 7:15 p.m. Tickets available
at villasoiree.bpt.me
The exhibition Roy Staab: Nature in
Three Parts is reaching its closing weekend, but is not going out lightly. Staab
and Wild Space director Deb Lowen will
speak at this closing soirée, a celebration that will also include wine tasting,
hors d’oeuvre, live music, a dance performance by Wild Space and more.
‘A Social Forever’
Portrait Society Gallery, 207 E. Buffalo
St., 5th Floor. Exhibition reception Sept. 9,
6–9 p.m.
sitivity and preserving fleeting moments
that may usually go unnoticed. The photographs of Art Elkon reveal people and
events from Milwaukee’s art and music
scene, of which he was an avid documentarian. His untimely passing last year
leaves these pictures as a lasting legacy.
Blyth Meier, who is also host of WMSE’s
Tiny Film Invasion program, shows blackand-white photographs of Milwaukee’s
architecture, the results of her daily practice, which has been ongoing for several years. Photographs by Tom Kutchera honor employees at his Empire Fish
Company, yielding a behind-the-scenes
look at a long-running Milwaukee family
business.
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South African wines offer a spark all their own
By Michael Muckian
Contributing writer
At one time, some of the most exotic
wines you could enjoy came from South
Africa. They were exotic because they were
unavailable here during the apartheid period, when trade sanctions kept the wine
from the U.S. market.
I had my first taste of South African wine
during a trip to Ireland and I was captivated.
The exotic spins on familiar flavors were a
revelation.
Thankfully, apartheid is gone and South
African wines are widely available throughout the United States. Many of the wines
are economically priced and worth exploring for those who want to expand their
palates.
The history of South African wines dates
to 1659. Jan van Riebeeck, an employee
of the Dutch East India Co., established a
supply station at what is now Cape Town
in 1652 so the company’s fleets traveling to
and from the Far East had a place to refresh
their crews and re-provision their ships.
Van Riebeeck, a surgeon by training, was
given the task of managing the station and
planting vineyards to produce wine and
grapes to help sailors ward off scurvy during long sea voyages. He produced his first
wine in 1659.
The industry grew and, by 1778, South
Africa had perfected a dessert wine made
from native Muscat grapes that became
a European favorite. But that wine notwithstanding, the industry traded quality
for quantity and bulk wines became the
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norm. When South Africa emerged from
apartheid in 1994, the country’s winemakers found out just how out of step with the
global market they had become — and their
emphasis has been on higher quality and
individual varietals ever since.
REGIONS AND THEIR GRAPES
South Africa’s many wine regions, like
the country itself, hug the southern tip of
the African continent, with frontage on both
the Atlantic and Indian oceans. The area’s
mountains, arid regions and urban environments give each of the wine regions distinct
characteristics. There are about 60 appellations indicating where a wine’s grapes were
grown under South Africa’s Wine of Origin
classification system.
The climate tends to be Mediterraneanlike, and the bright sun and dry atmosphere
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South African wines are produced from a
variety of familiar cultivars, including cabernet sauvignon, merlot, shiraz, chardonnay,
Riesling and sauvignon blanc, which comprise the bulk of the wines produced.
The vineyards also grow Chenin Blanc (the
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Trebbiano, Semillion and Muscat of Alexandria, the grape that produced the famed
dessert wines. South Africa also has its own
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Cinsault, once comprised nearly 7.5 percent
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The current crop includes wines for almost
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WHITE WINES
• Beyond Sauvignon Blanc 2015 ($12)
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• Edgebaston Honey Shale Hill 2014 ($15)
from the famed Stellenbosch region
blends sauvignon blanc (57 percent),
chardonnay (29 percent), Semillion (7
percent), and Viognier (7 percent). Tropical notes combine with floral overtones
to create a wine with a creamy mouthfeel
cut with acidity to keep the flavors full
and the palate vibrant.
• DeMorgenzon DMZ Chardonnay 2014
($17), aged in both stainless steel and
French oak barrels, builds on its tropical
fruit foundation with strong chardonnay
characteristics. Expect peach and pineapple flavors to be complemented by notes
of vanilla, caramel and toast.
• Glen Carlou Chardonnay 2014 ($19) follows the same flavor threads as DMZ,
but with a creamy mouthfeel and a more
comprehensive oak presence. Hints of
citrus and stone fruits appear on the palate.
RED WINES
• Edgebaston The Pepper Pot 2014 ($15)
follows the Stellenbosch winery’s penchant for blending. Syrah (80 percent),
Tannat (11 percent) Mouvedre (6 percent) and Grenache (3 percent) create
a blend of white pepper and cloves with
raspberry and plum and a whiff of vanilla
from aging in American and French oak.
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This one sparks the palate.
• Indaba Mosaic 2015 ($11) is a blend of
cabernet sauvignon (74 percent), Petit
Verdot (12 percent), merlot (7 percent)
and Malbec (7 percent). The wine speaks
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Petit Verdot (9 percent) and Cabernet
Franc (8 percent). Smooth and supple on
the palate with concentrated flavors of
ripe plum, cloves and cinnamon, the wine
is both complex and elegant.
• Painted Wolf “Guillermo” Pinotage
2011 ($20) is a full dose of South Africa’s
signature grape aged in a mix of French,
Hungarian and American oak. Flavors of
mulberry, blueberry, vanilla and exotic
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