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4 Catching the wavea Despite a string of legal victories, Wisconsin same-sex couples find themselves in legal limbo.

8 ‘Freedom Summer’ Fifty years later, we remember Mississippi‘s deadly civil rights battles that changed history.

30 Summerfest gems Naima Adedapo and other more obscure acts shine beneath Selfie Summerfest’s headliners. satisfaction page 16 34 The art of summer The visual arts continue to brighten the summer in Mil- waukee and Madison. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg GUNS DON’T SHOOT hams, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar usually have be pretty shocking,” the duo Club Allure Chicago and ing kidnapping, assault, and PEOPLE? and Robert Hayes. this many peo- posted. “The homophobia the village of Stone Park in criminal sexual contact. A Macon, Georgia, resi- ple when we do we’ve experienced is evi- their lawsuit filed June 13 in dent carrying a .45 caliber COSTCO ENCOUNTER this.” dence of the oppression that Cook County Circuit Court. REAL BEASTS OF N.J. handgun accidentally fired Supreme Court Justice still exists in society, and They claim the club violates New Jersey lawmakers a round into his own man- Sonia Sotomayor says she MAN DEFEATS FOOD has given us all the more Illinois zoning laws, which are working to pass legisla- hood when he tried to hol- was “just shopping” when Adam Richman, the reason to be visible within require a 1,000-foot buffer tion making sex with ani- ster the weapon during a she dropped by a Costco former host of the Travel the community.” between adult entertain- mals a fourth-degree crime. stop at a gas station. He in suburban Virginia and Channel’s beloved Man v. ment facilities and places of New Jersey is one of 14 drove to a friend’s house decided to get a signed Food, has lost more than EAT AWAY THE GAY worship. states that does not explicit- to assess the damage. He copy of Hard Choices at a 60 pounds since the series Jeremy Schwab, a for- ly ban bestiality. Lawmakers decided to go to a hospital Hillary Rodham Clinton ended in December 2011. mer member of Log Cabin COCAINE BELLY? pushing for the legislation after realizing the bullet had book-signing. U.S. Rep. John Richman, the host of the Republicans who helped Police in Deltona, Florida, point to the case of a man pierced his penis and exited Lewis also stopped by, as NBC game show Food Fight- convince Texas Republicans recently arrested a man for who can’t be punished for his ass. Too bad there wasn’t did Costco co-founder Jim ers, is showing off his slim- to back so-called “ex-gay” possession of cocaine and molesting cows. Apparently someone around with a gun Sinegal. Clinton’s book tour trim look in a mostly nude therapy in the state party’s 23 grams of marijuana. The that activity isn’t covered to protect him from himself. currently doesn’t include a centerfold in Cosmopolitan platform, claims he over- man was stopped for failure under the animal cruelty Wisconsin stop. UK. He says it’s nice to now came his homosexuality by to wear a seat belt. At 450 statute. CROWD-PLEASER say “no” to the richest dish indulging in a lot of food. He pounds, he told authori- Otto the Autopilot proved FIELD OF MEMORIES and to be thought of as sexy said in a Facebook post that ties he’s too big to wear the WAPO TO WILL: to be a crowd-pleaser dur- In Iowa for a Field of rather than as a teddy bear. he was sinful with sex, but safety feature, but a police NO WAY ing a recent appearance at Dreams 25th anniversary since finding religion “food dog sniffed out drugs hidden The Washington Post Miller Park, where he nailed celebration, actor Kevin GAY SCIENCE replaced sexual sin.” Now, under the man’s stomach dismissed right-wing col- the opening pitch before a Costner played a little base- After coming out as a Schwab says, he’s come fat. Police also recovered a umnist George Will after Brewers game against the ball with his two young sons gay couple, the hosts of a “back to the Lord” but can’t handgun and about $7,000. he wrote a column claim- Cubs. Yes, that Otto, the at the field near Dyersville popular YouTube science “get into my OWN pants.” ing that being a rape victim inflatable blowup pilot who where the 1989 movie was show have received a num- DOG BITES MAN is now a “coveted status” was pleasured in Airplane! shot. Hundreds of onlookers ber of homophobic com- NUNS VS. STRIPPERS A kidnapper’s attempt to sought by college women. Otto is now appearing in a watched as Costner played ments. Greg Brown and A convent of nuns in sub- sic his dog on a victim back- He also suggested women Travel Wisconsin ad cam- catch with his boys, 7-year- Mitch Moffitt hostAsap - urban Chicago has filed a fired after the pup refused to who say they’ve been raped paign spoofing the 1980s old Cayden and 5-year-old SCIENCE, which has over 2 lawsuit against a neighbor, take orders and bit the kid- are “delusional.” “The col- comedy with Wisconsin Hayes. The movie fans million viewers. Some vid- a strip club they say plays napper instead, according to umn was offensive and inac- natives David and Jerry clapped when the boys eos have received up to 15 throbbing music while the deputies in Las Cruces, New curate, we apologize for Zucker, who directed the made a play, prompting million views. “The hate nuns try to pray. The Sis- Mexico. Gabriel Garcia was publishing it,”WaPo said in a film, as well as Jim Abra- Costner to note, “We don’t that comes from people can ters of St. Charles named indicted on charges includ- statement. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 Amid unprecedented legal momentum for same-sex marriage, Wisconsin couples remain in limbo By Lisa Neff didn’t issue a stay — requested before her Staff writers ruling by Republican Attorney General J.B. As gay couples in Wisconsin waited in Van Hollen — until June 13. So for six days legal limbo in mid-June, equality foes con- in early June, same-sex couples applied for tinued working to defend anti-gay amend- and obtained marriage licenses in 60 of ments in the courts and marched on Wash- the state’s 72 counties. At least 550 gay ington. couples were married in Wisconsin. But those foes are caught in a losing While the case is pending appeal with the streak. The march on Washington on June 7th Circuit in Chicago, there’s uncertainty: 19 fell flat, and there have been 21 consecu- For those with licenses who didn’t marry, tive court rulings for marriage equality since should they wed? For those caught in the last summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court five-day waiting period, can they marry in overturned a key provision in the anti-gay another state? For those who married, what Defense of Marriage Act. benefits, responsibilities or protections do On June 25, a federal judge struck down they have? Indiana’s same-sex marriage ban as uncon- “I think the harder questions are like stitutional. The court clerk in Marion Coun- adoptions, the really hard issues,” said Carl ty, home to Indianapolis, began issuing mar- Tobias, a professor at the University of Rich- riage licenses to same-sex couple about an mond School of Law. That’s why these stays hour after the decision was announced. are so gut-wrenching for people.” On the same day, the 10th Circuit Court On June 16, Wisconsin’s congressional PHOTO: AP/SCOTT ANDERSON/JOURNAL TIMES of Appeals in Denver upheld a lower-court Democrats asked U.S. Attorney General STANDING UP FOR LOVE: Gary Jones holds a rainbow flag in front of the Racine County ruling that found Utah’s prohibition of Eric Holder to confirm, as he has done in Courthouse on June 13 during a rally protesting the county’s refusal to grant marriage same-sex marriage unconsitutional. The 3-2 similar situations in Utah and Michigan, licenses to same-sex couples. Racine County was one of only 12 in the state that refused ruling affects all states in the 10th Circuit: that the federal government will recognize to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples during the week following U.S. District Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, the marriages of Wisconsin gay couples and Judge Barbara Crabb’s finding that the state’s marriage equality ban is unconstitutional. Utah and Wyoming. guarantee them: On June 13, Crabb issued a stay bringing a halt to the marriages at the insistence of But the appeals court immediately put a • The ability to sponsor a foreign spouse Wisconsin Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a staunch equality opponent. stay on marriages in those states pending a for legal residency. U.S. Supreme Court ruling. • Health, workers’ compensation, retire- “Earlier this year, you made clear that Just weeks before the June 25 rulings, ment and other benefits for the spouse of a • Joint income tax filings, as well as couples who married in Utah and Michi- U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on June federal employee. spousal exemptions of gifts, inheritances gan after federal judges struck down those 6 found that Wisconsin’s constitutional • Health benefits, spousal ID cards, and the value of employer-provided spou- states’ bans are entitled to full federal rec- amendment barring gay couples from mar- housing allowances and on-base support sal health coverage. ognition,” the lawmakers wrote. “We are rying violates the 14th Amendment’s Due services for the spouse of a military ser- • Unpaid family and medical leave to grateful for this tremendous leadership on Process and Equal Protection clauses. Crabb vicemember. care for an ill spouse. • Spousal Social Security benefits. 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WAITING from prior page behalf of fairness and equality. We ask that you similarly declare that those same-sex couples who married in Wis- Gay Outagamie couples can get refunds consin since the June 6 decision are equally entitled to the Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson helped the prior cases seeking to overturn such a ruling have federal benefits they deserve.” work out a deal allowing same-sex couples who paid succeeded, and Van Hollen has acknowledged that he Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union and the $100 to apply for marriage licenses to receive refunds in doesn’t expect Crabb’s ruling to be overturned by the ACLU of Wisconsin, which filed the equality case on behalf order to get married in another state. appeals court, but rather believes the U.S. Supreme of eight same-sex couples, was assessing the situation — The Outagamie County clerk’s office initially said it Court will have the final say in the matter. preparing for the appeal and looking into whether addition- would refund the $55 portion of the application fee that Van Hollen maintains that it’s his duty to defend state al lawsuits should be filed on behalf of couples left in limbo. would have gone to the state but would keep its $45 law, but he has refused to defend other state laws, most In addition to the June 25 rulings, another marriage share. Nelson, however, stepped in with other county notably the 2009 law establishing a domestic partner equality case was set for June 26 in Louisiana and a hearing officials and offered to refund the $45 from his budget. registry for same-sex Wisconsin couples. Dana Brueck, was set for July 2 in a Florida case. Local applicants also have the option of not asking Van Hollen’s communications director, said she would And the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear five cases for refunds and keeping their applications on hold until seek clarification on the reasoning behind the attorney from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennes- there’s a decision on Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s general’s perceived duty to defend the anti-gay law but see — in a single session in Cincinnati on Aug. 6. appeal to overturn a circuit judge’s June 6 ruling that not the pro-gay law. The Cincinnati court is the third federal appeals court to the state’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. Most of the state’s county clerks gave same-sex cou- weigh recent challenges to state bans. The 4th Circuit in In the week following that ruling, upward of 555 lesbian ples the standard option to pay for waiving the five-day Virginia heard arguments in another case in May. and gay couples were married in 60 of the state’s 72 waiting period required to process a marriage license. Any one of them, or all, could reach the U.S. Supreme counties. But Outagamie County Clerk Lori O’Bright did not waive Court and bring a conclusive ruling on marriage equality. But U.S. Circuit Court Judge Barbara Crabb eventually the waiting period in most cases. ‘A HATEFUL HANDFUL’ put a stay on her own ruling until the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago hears Van Hollen’s case. None of —Louis Weisberg Leaders on the equality side fully expect the nine- member Court to eventually overturn the amendments and anti-gay marriage laws. And so do many leaders in conservative circles — from Newt Gingrich, who was House speaker when DOMA was enacted, to seven-term U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. In May, Hatch told a radio interviewer, “Let’s face it: Anybody who does not believe that gay marriage is going to be the law of the land just hasn’t been observing what’s going on.” Yet groups such as the National Organization for Mar- riage and the Family Research Council pledge to fight on for years against gay marriage the way the anti-choice move- ment has fought Roe v. Wade. NOM promoted the June 19 march as a “road to victory.” Co-sponsors of the event included FRC, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the Washington Times newspaper, the Alliance Defending Freedom, Concerned Women for America and the Heritage Foundation. Speakers included what the Human Rights Campaign described as a “parade of horribles” — former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, NOM president Brian Brown, Capital Tea Party Patriots co-founder Doug Main- waring, a gay man who says gay marriage is “objective evil,” and ADF counsel Austin Nimocks. NOM also brought to the microphone Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., who has compared gay marriage to a satanic plot; Dr. Him Garlow, who has said gay marriage will lead to enslavement of those opposed to the unions; Heritage Foundation fellow Ryan Anderson, who has compared gays and lesbians to pedophiles; and the Rev. Bill Owens Sr., who has likened gay marriage to bestiality. Brown, in a statement to supporters before the march, claimed the Supreme Court “will be watching.” He also said, “A competition is won by those who take the field, not by those who sit on the sidelines. Friends, we need to take the field for marriage — and fight to win.” NOM’s critics, however, maintain the organization is now faking a movement — national polls show that strong oppo- sition to marriage equality has dropped to 28 percent and only 40 percent of opponents of marriage equality would pay anything to stop its progress. The march proponents “are the proud leaders of a hate- ful handful, the last gasp of a reactionary rump,” said HRC’s Fred Sainz.

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By Louis Weisberg event on June 12. Staff writer “Voters don’t talk to me about that,” With 55 percent of Wisconsinites now in Walker said. “They talk to me about the support of same-sex marriage, according economy, they talk to me about their kids’ to a recent Marquette University poll, Gov. schools, they talk to me about making sure Scott Walker has gone silent about the issue we keep our finances in order.” he once vigorously opposed. “Are you re-thinking your position on gay Walker was very direct about how he marriage?” asked a reporter at a ground- felt on the issue before Wisconsinites wit- breaking in Oak Creek on June 12. nessed the heart-wrenching joy of lesbi- “No. I’m just not stating one at all,” Walk- an and gay couples tying the knot after er replied, going on to say that the issue is decades of being forced to live as virtual for the courts to decide. strangers under the law. Walker initially ordered the state Vital Nine years ago, Walker campaigned Records Office not to process the same-sex strongly in support of the ban that U.S. marriage licenses filed by county clerks Circuit Judge Barbara Crabb found uncon- throughout the state beginning June 6. But stitutional on June 6. in an abrupt change of course on June 11, the “We must change the Wisconsin State governor told Vital Records to go forward Constitution to say that marriage is to be with the processing. between one man and one woman,” Walker Sixty of Wisconsin’s 72 county clerks said in November 2005 during his first run had issued at least 555 marriage licenses for governor. to same-sex couples as of midday June In 2006, Walker voted along with 59 12, before Attorney General J.B. Van Hol- percent of the state’s voters to amend the len won a stay on June 13. At one point state’s constitution to ban same-sex mar- Van Hollen warned that county clerks who riage and any other status by another name gave marriage licenses to same-sex couples that resembles it. could face criminal charges. As a member of the state Assembly in While Walker has tried to avoid or play 1997, he voted for a bill to prohibit same-sex both sides of the issue, Burke has been marriages and declare those conducted in forthright about her pro-equality views, other states invalid. In 2009, as Milwaukee beginning in 2006 when she opposed the County executive, he vetoed a measure just constitutional ban. to explore granting benefits to the same-sex “Finally recognizing that committed, lov- partners of county workers. ing Wisconsin couples have the freedom to And shortly after being elected governor marry whomever they choose represents in 2011, Walker fired the state’s attorney an important step forward for our state,” defending Wisconsin’s domestic registry Burke said in a statement on June 12. “From law. (The state Supreme Court is currently strengthening our communities to making weighing whether the registry violates the our state more competitive economically — state’s ban on gay marriage.) marriage equality makes Wisconsin stron- Even as Walker maintained his opposition ger.” to same-sex marriage, he had several gays Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair and lesbians, most of them closeted, among Mike Tate suggested Walker’s sudden his inner political circle. One of his top gay indifference toward one of the Republican advisors, Tim Russell, went to prison for Party’s signature issues could become a stealing from a veterans fund that Walker character issue in the gubernatorial race. gave him control over. “Ever since he was in the Legislature, Walker’s anti-gay positions have helped Scott Walker has made clear with his words the GOP attract evangelical Christian vot- and his actions that he believes gay and ers. But the political situation on the issue lesbian couples don’t deserve full protection became more complicated for Walker in and equal treatment under the law,” Tate the months leading up to Crabb’s ruling. Hit said in a statement. “That he would now hard by investigations into his campaign cynically skirt questions on marriage equal- fundraising practices and broken promises ity in the name of political expediency is an made to voters about job creation, Walker act of utter cowardice. is locked in a virtual tie with his likely 2014 “Democrats and independents have long Democratic challenger Mary Burke. recognized that Scott Walker will say one Now Walker, who is famously all about thing and do another in order to advance politics all the time, faces a real conundrum: his political career. Now even his supporters whether to back off from his gay-marriage on the far-right are coming to see that Scott opposition to win young independent voters Walker’s only loyalties lie with himself.” but risk offending the Christian evangelicals Julaine Appling, whose group Wisconsin who’ve turned out for him in droves. Family Action originated the same-sex mar- In typical fashion, according to veter- riage ban, has warned her fellow Republi- an Walker-watchers, the governor has so cans that they back away from straight-only far chosen to avoid the issue and hope it marriage at their own peril. resolves itself before November. “Elected officials who are running for Asked recently about his position on office this year in Wisconsin and elsewhere same-sex marriage, Walker has repeatedly should pay close attention,” Appling wrote dodged the issue. on her blog. “They’re concerned about their “My position has been clear. I voted in base. Well, their base says abandoning the the past. It really doesn’t matter,” Walker party’s long-held position on marriage is said to an AP reporter following a campaign not smart.” WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 7 8 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 50 years ago, ‘Freedom Summer’ changed the nation Allen G. Breed and Sharon Cohen AP writers

As a teenager growing up in a segregated society, Roy DeBerry wasn’t waiting for white folks to come down to Mississippi and “save” him. But in the summer of 1964, the factory worker’s son was very glad to see people like Aviva Futorian. The young history teacher from the affluent Chicago suburbs was among hundreds of volunteers — mostly Northern white college students — who descended on Mississippi during what came to be known as “Freedom Summer.” They came to register blacks to vote, and to establish “Freedom Schools” and community centers to help prepare those long disenfranchised for participation in what they hoped would be a new political order. Opposition was brutal. Churches were bombed, volunteers were arrested, beaten — even murdered. “There was real terror in Mississippi,” DeBerry said during a recent visit to his hometown, Holly Springs. PHOTO: TED POLUMBAUM/NEWSEUM COLLECTION Fifty years later, Freedom Summer stands BLACK AND WHITE: The 1964 voter registration campaign was known as “Freedom Summer.” out as a watershed moment in the long drive for civil rights. Mass resistance to and policy today. Sitting side by side recently in Futorian’s trepidation as I should have,” said Futorian, integration started to crumble. Congress And in this vortex of history, lifelong condominium in Chicago, the two friends now a 76-year-old attorney. “Because it’s took a monumental step toward equal friendships formed between people from reminisced about taboos that prevented a hard to imagine your own death.” rights. And scores of young, idealistic vastly different worlds, like a black 16-year- white woman and black man from sitting Years of demonstrations by determined volunteers embarked on careers of activism old from Mississippi and a 26-year-old next to each other in a car. that continue to shape American politics daughter of a Jewish furniture mogul. “I probably didn’t have as much FREEDOM next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 9

FREEDOM from prior page Obama to sign order curbing bias against LGBT workers local blacks, boycotts, legislative campaigns and bloody pitched battles had not dislodged segregation. On March By Lisa Neff contractors is as far as the president can go without 20, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Staff writer Congress. which had been fighting for integration, announced the An executive order due from President Barack Obama Federal contractors employ more than 20 percent of “Mississippi Summer Project.” The group concluded it would prohibit companies with federal contracts the U.S. workforce. needed a dramatic tactic to draw national attention to from discriminating against LGBT employees or job “For more than 70 years, presidents, both Democratic the Southern injustices — and putting Northern whites in applicants. and Republican, have used executive orders to eradicate harm’s way seemed sure to accomplish that. Addressing the Democratic National Committee taxpayer-funded discrimination in the workplace. Volunteers converged for training at a college in Ohio. LGBT leadership gala on June 17 in New York City, he Issuing this executive order will build upon a tradition On June 21, even before orientation ended, chilling word said, “We’ve got to keep fighting for equality in the that dates back to President Roosevelt’s 1941 order spread: Three young volunteers — New Yorkers Andrew workplace. Right now there are more states that allow conditioning defense contracts on an agreement not Goodman and Michael Schwerner and Mississippi native same-sex marriage than there are states that prohibit to discriminate based on race, creed, color or national James Chaney — had vanished while investigating the discrimination against LGBT workers. Think about origin,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of burning of a black church. that.” the American Civil Liberties Union. DeBerry had “an independent streak.” He sensed the Obama has been awaiting congressional action U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said the protection injustice of having to climb to the gallery at the segregated to protect LGBT people in the workplace, but House is long overdue but Congress must still act on ENDA. Holly Theatre. He resented having to call the white kid Republicans will not pass non-discrimination legislation “We need to give LGBT workers a fair shot to get ahead behind the counter at Tyson’s Drug Store “sir.” this session. Last fall, the Senate passed the Employment in life by making sure employers cannot fire, harass, “No one needed to teach you that,” the 66-year-old Non-Discrimination Act, but House Speaker John deny a raise or refuse to hire someone based on sexual DeBerry said. “It was just something that was in your DNA.” Boehner has refused to allow a floor vote. orientation or gender identity,” said Pocan, who is gay. So when a Freedom School opened, DeBerry found his So Obama has promised some executive action. Congressional Democrats, including the 17 senators way there. An executive order banning discrimination by federal seeking re-election this fall, had urged Obama to issue When Futorian met with a group of black teenage boys, she asked them who were the richest blacks in town, how they earned their living, were they involved in the civil rights movement and if not, why not? “Roy was the only one who knew the answers,” she recalls. DeBerry says this was his first interaction with a white person “on a social level.” Through donated books, Futorian introduced him to James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright and other “subversive” black authors. They shared sandwiches at Modena’s Cafe in the “colored” section of town. They worked on voter registration. They were well aware of the risks they were taking even before Aug. 4, when searchers dug the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers from an earthen dam. By fall, most of the Northern volunteers had returned home. Aviva Futorian remained. She worked as a field organizer for SNCC and held a college preparatory study group for a few particularly promising students, including DeBerry. She returned to Chicago after a year and a half, and decided to pursue justice as a lawyer. With her help, DeBerry was accepted at her alma mater, Brandeis University. He helped found a black student association there. That summer brought the beginnings of change in Mississippi and beyond. Systematic resistance to integration began fading in the state. Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which became law July 2. The Freedom Summer effort helped create momentum for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Some believe this activism planted the seeds for history- making events generations later. “If it hadn’t been for the veterans of Freedom Summer, there would be no Barack Obama,” longtime congressman John Lewis, then a coordinator for SNCC, wrote in a memoir. Rita Bender, Michael Schwerner’s widow, is less optimistic. She says a refusal by some to recognize past inequities is partly to blame for today’s social ills. Now an attorney in Seattle, she’s dismayed at recent developments — a Supreme Court decision that nullified portions of the Voting Rights Act, voter identification laws. The country, she says, is “moving backward.” Following a 1995 SNCC reunion in Holly Springs, DeBerry and Futorian began collecting oral histories of those who’d lived under Jim Crow in two Mississippi counties. In 2004, they formally launched the Hill Country Project, which has since grown to include education support and economic development. 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GAY COUPLES MARRY IN INDIANA the first African-American to serve on that As they did in Wisconsin, gay and lesbian court and the first openly gay lifetime- couples in Indiana began marrying immedi- appointed federal judge in Illinois. ately after a federal judge ruled the state’s The White House noted that for the first same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. time in U.S. history, the Senate confirmed The court clerk in Marion County, home two openly gay judges on the same day. to Indianapolis, began issuing the marriage licenses about an hour after U.S. District Judge Richard Young ruled that the state In other national news … law violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal- • Democrat Charlie Crist, who is running protection clause. for governor against incumbent Repub- “Same-sex couples, who would otherwise lican Rick Scott, received the endorse- qualify to marry in Indiana, have the right to ment of Florida’s largest LGBT civil rights marry in Indiana,” he wrote. “These couples, group, Equality Florida Action PAC. when gender and sexual orientation are Stratton Pollitzer, chair of the PAC, said, taken away, are in all respects like the family “Florida is at a critical moment in our down the street. The Constitution demands struggle to end discrimination, and the that we treat them as such.” next governor will have a tremendous The Indiana attorney general’s office said impact on the everyday lives of lesbian, it would appeal the ruling. gay, bisexual and transgender people in “Indiana now joins the momentum for our state.” nationwide marriage equality and Hoosiers • David Malcolm Strickland was arrested can now proclaim they are on the right side June 20 for an execution-style shooting of history,” Lambda Legal, the national gay APPLETON BANS DISCRIMINATION TRUMP DEFENDS TACKY SIGN two years ago that left one south Texas rights group that represented five of the BASED ON GENDER EXPRESSION ON CHICAGO TOWER woman dead and her girlfriend with seri- couples, said in a statement. Appleton on June 18 became the third An installation of 20-foot tall letters ous head injuries. He faces charges of The decision came the same day the 10th city in Wisconsin to pass a fully gender- spelling out “TRUMP” on the side of Don- capital murder, aggravated assault with a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower inclusive anti-discrimination law. The mea- ald Trump’s gleaming Chicago skyscraper weapon and aggravated sexual assault in court ruling overturning Utah’s gay marriage sure bans discrimination based on gender has triggered a war of words between the an attack that left Mollie Olgin, 19, dead ban, marking the first time a federal appeals identity and gender expression in employ- billionaire and Chicago Mayor Rahm Eman- and Kristene Chapa, 18, critically wound- court has ruled that states must allow gay ment and public accommodations, add- uel. The city’s mayor says he’s looking for a ed on a bluff overlooking Corpus Christi marriage. That ruling puts the issue a step ing to existing fair housing protections in way to undo the “architecturally tasteless” Bay in Portland. Vigils were held around closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. Appleton. sign, but the brash developer says he’s not the country for the two young women, Fair Wisconsin, in a news release, taking anything down. Chicago takes its who had been dating for five months. SENATE CONFIRMS GAY, thanked Mayor Tim Hanna, as well as architectural history seriously, and adorn- MINORITY FEDERAL JUDGES • Missouri voters in August will decide Karen Harkness, director of community ing some of the tallest and largest buildings The U.S. Senate on June 17 confirmed whether to add the right to “engage in and economic development; Kathy Flores, on the planet with the owner’s name is seen three federal judges nominated by President agricultural production and ranching diversity and inclusion coordinator and as poor form there. Barack Obama. The White House, in a practices” to the state constitution. The Alders Patti Coenen, Christopher W. Cro- “If this sign was in Atlantic City or Las statement released hours after the votes, proposal is labeled a “right to farm” att, Polly Dalton, Sarah Garb, Curt Konetz- Vegas, nobody would care — but it is in said each judge will be a “trailblazer.” amendment, but in fact it’s a reaction ke, Kyle Lobner, Joe Martin, Vered Meltzer, Chicago, and in a part of Chicago full of • Judge Darrin Gayles of the U.S. Dis- to a 2010 ballot campaign that imposed Kathleen Plank, Cathy Spears, Tim Trauger great buildings from the 1920s to the 1960s trict Court for the Southern District of strict regulations on dog breeders. and Christine Williams. and onward,” said Blair Kamin, a Pulitzer Florida is the first openly gay African- Prize-winning architectural critic for the • The American Civil Liberties Union and IOWA SETS ASIDE Chicago Tribune, who became part of the American man to be confirmed as a the ACLU of Alabama filed a federal law- lifetime-appointed federal judge. HIV CONVICTION scuffle with his withering criticism of the suit challenging Alabama’s ban on mar- The Iowa Supreme Court has set aside Trump sign. “None of the other towers have • Judge Salvador Mendoza of the U.S. riage for same-sex couples. “The word District Court for the Eastern District of the conviction of Nick Rhoades, an HIV- signs on them.” marriage, in itself, brings validity and positive Iowan who was initially sentenced Washington is the first Hispanic judge to respect to any committed relationship,” serve on that court. to 25 years in prison and required to reg- FOND DU LAC, RIPON said April Aaron-Brush, one of the plain- ister as a sex offender after having a one- FIGHT MONEY IN POLITICS • Judge Staci Yandle of the U.S. District tiffs. “One’s marriage status shouldn’t Court for the Southern District of Illinois is time sexual encounter with another man Grassroots activists in Fond du Lac and change simply by crossing state lines.” during which they used a condom. Ripon are working to bring a nonbinding The state’s highest court recognized resolution to the Nov. 4 ballot calling for a that HIV-positive individuals who have a constitutional amendment declaring that reduced viral load because of effective money isn’t speech. Supporters spent the treatment pose little risk of transmitting weekend of June 21 gathering the final sig- HIV. natures needed to get the measure on the Rhoades’ attorney, Christopher Clark of ballot. Ripon organizer Art Baseler said his Lambda Legal, said, “An individual who group had no trouble gathering signatures takes precautions to prevent transmission from voters across the political spectrum. should not be considered a criminal for He said people are upset with how political choosing to be sexually active, and we are campaigns are run and how much money is very pleased that the court agrees.” spent in each political cycle. The resolution The court ruled, “Based on the state calls upon lawmakers to pass a constitu- of medicine both now and at the time of tional amendment, but by itself it wouldn’t the plea in 2009, we are unable to take change anything. judicial notice that an infected individual can transmit HIV, regardless of an infected individual’s viral load, when that individual engages in protected anal or unprotected oral sex with an uninfected person.” — from WiG and AP reports WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 13 COMMUNITY BRIEFS

lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, • The 39th National Women’s Music Festival kicked off annual exams, pregnancy tests, STD testing and treatment, on June 26 at the Marriott Madison West in Middleton. HIV screening and referrals. Headliners include Cheryl Wheeler, Catie Curtis, Lucie Planned Parenthood will maintain health care services Blue Tremblay, Beth Kille and Dos Fallopia. For more, go in 22 health centers across the state. Patients impacted online to wiaonline.org. by the new closure will be referred to Planned Parenthood • GetEqual activists staged a rally outside the Democratic health centers in Oshkosh and West Bend. National Committee’s LGBT leadership gala in New York “Continued patient care is our top priority,” said Teri City on June 17 to celebrate marriage equality victories Huyck, president and CEO of PPWI. “Health center staff are but urge political action to end deportations of undocu- working with the affected patients to identify health care mented immigrants. The president spoke at the gala. For alternatives to minimize the impact of the closures.” more, go online to getequal.org. In other community news … • Transgender Lobby Day takes place July 14-15 in Wash- • Sarah Morgan, who served as board chair of Diverse & ington, D.C. Participating organizations include the Resilient, is leaving the organization to focus on her new National Center for Transgender Equality, Trans People role as chair of the academic staff committee at Uni- of Color Coalition, Trans Latin@ Coalition, National Gay versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is a clinical and Lesbian Task Force, PFLAG National, Black Trans- assistant professor in the College of Nursing. D&R issued men, Inc. and Black Transwomen, Inc. For more, email a statement thanking her for six years of outstanding [email protected]. performance. —L.N. and L.W.

PHOTO: COURTESY Milwaukee County Chair Marina Dimitrijevic, Ald. Tony Zielinski, Matt Schreck and Fernando Gutierrez.

ZIELINSKI HONORS WISCONSIN’S FIRST SAME-SEX MARRIED COUPLE AT CITY HALL Milwaukee Ald. Tony Zielinski presented a proclamation before the Common Council June 24 recognizing Matt Schreck and Jose Fernando Gutierrez as the first same-sex couple to marry in Wisconsin. The two, who have been together for seven years, beat the first couple to marry in Madison by 6 minutes. “Matt and Fernando are constituents of mine and I was proud to present them with the proclamation,” Zielinski said.

PRIDEALIVE RETURNS TO GREEN BAY JULY 12 PrideAlive takes place on July 12 in Joannes Park in Green Bay. The annual celebration features a performance by Mary Lambert, as well as entertainment by Matt Ryanz, the Charles Walker Blues Band, The Traveling Suitcases and J Chomper. Event organizers are seeking donations, volun- teers and sponsors. For more, email hunterphoenix55@ gmail.com.

CENTER HOSTS SAME-SEX MARRIED COUPLES AT TGIF The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center invites all the same-sex couples who married in Wisconsin to be the guests of honor to its July 11 TGIF party at The Harp, 113 E. Juneau Ave. in downtown Milwaukee. “We’re thrilled to use the July 11 party to celebrate both a monumental breakthrough and the committed couples who have benefited from it so far,” said event co-organizer Anne Curley. For more, email Curley at anneconnects@gmail. com.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLOSING CLINIC Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will close its family planning health center in Fond du Lac on Sept. 25. The closing is the fifth resulting from the elimination of funding support by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-led Legislature. The closure will result in the loss of health care services for about 1,104 patients who relied on the clinic for 14 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 { Editorial } WiG’s WEB PICKS Van Hollen’s heartless choice pits him against history Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. ing same-sex marriage in his state. Van Hollen vigorously sought — and Van Hollen mght also have taken a obtained — a stay of U.S. District Judge clue from the U.S. Supreme Court’s deci- Barbara Crabb’s decision finding the sion in Windsor and the fact that since state’s gay marriage ban unconstitu- June 2013, marriage-equality support- tional. A joyous week in Wisconsin that ers have racked up 21 consecutive legal saw more than 550 same-sex couples victories — and zero losses — in federal marry came to an abrupt halt, and Van and state courthouses. Hollen asked the 7th Circuit Court of Although Wisconsinites voted eight Appeals to overturn Crabb’s decision. years ago to deny same-sex couples the Van Hollen said he was compelled to right to marry, there’s been a sea change act in order to comply with his sworn in public opinion on the issue: Fifty-nine constitutional duty to uphold state law percent of Wisconsinites voted against Some of our — in this case a 2006 amendment to the marriage equality in 2006; by contrast, a favorite recent Wisconsin Constitution barring same- Marquette University poll in May found sex marriage or anything “substantially only 37 percent of the state’s voters pictorials from similar.” now oppose it, while 55 percent favor cyberspace But Van Hollen has discretion over same-sex marriage. Even the most zeal- which laws to defend. He refused to ous same-sex marriage opponents now defend the 2009 law that created a agree that its acceptance is inevitable. domestic partner registry for same-sex When Van Hollen appealed Crabb’s couples in Wisconsin. His communica- decision, there were already several tions director told WiG that’s because cases far ahead of his in the federal he believes the partner registry law appeals court pipeline. There are so violates the state’s 2006 constitutional many, in fact, that the 6th Circuit Court amendment banning any status “sub- of Appeals is scheduled to hear cases stantially similar” to marriage, just as from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Ken- he believes Crabb’s ruling violates the tucky and Tennessee — in a single ses- amendment’s injunction against same- sion on Aug. 6. sex marriage itself. The money Van Hollen is spending The tide of history, which invariably to deny same-sex couples in Wisconsin flows toward freedom, should have led the right to marry could have been saved him to a different conclusion, as the edi- pending the outcome of those cases or a torial pages of newspapers around the decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. state have pointed out. At the Attorneys Instead taxpaying Wisconsin gays and General Winter Meeting in February, lesbians are paying legal fees for their Van Hollen heard U.S. Attorney General own persecution. Eric Holder stress that state attorneys Van Hollen is often mentioned as a general are not obliged to defend dis- potential candidate for higher office. It’s criminatory laws. Attorneys general in impossible to win a GOP primary race in Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Illi- Wisconsin without the religious right’s nois, Nevada and Oregon have declined support. Given the undeniable trajectory to defend their state’s gay marriage toward marriage equality, his choices on bans, and New Mexico Attorney General this issue seem based on ambition or Gary King has challenged laws prohibit- bias rather than a sense of duty.

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ON THE RECORD Love wins and chaos ensues ples whose joy and surprise bearing the slogan of the cards for my friends and, “Why can’t a legislator press for were captured by TV news day, “Love Wins.” As a lefty, boy, was that an adven- legislation that benefits a person Opinion teams across the state and I’ve been a part of way too ture. No offense to straight who has contributed to their cam- seen in millions of homes. many demos with unwieldy readers, but the selection paign? Isn’t that the essence of rep- JAMAKAYA Some couples managed chants and slogans. “Love of wedding cards, mostly resentative government? to make lucid statements Wins” is definitely a winner. aimed at heterosexual cou- BRAD SCHIMEL, GOP candidate for We all knew it was com- about what marriage meant There weren’t too many ples, seriously sucks. They Wisconsin Attorney General, answering a question ing, yet U.S. District Judge to them and their families. anti-gay protesters wav- were either solemn and posed by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. Barbara Crabb’s ruling Others just dissolved into ing banners, and those who religious or snickering and against Wisconsin’s same- tears. Either way, it was per- showed up were outnum- suggestive of wild wedding “We discard a whole generation to maintain an sex marriage ban sent many fect. The genuine emotion bered and outshone by the nights, nothing with the wit economic system that no longer endures, a system of us into a flutter of activ- was contagious. Only those happy couples and fam- or flair most queers would that to survive has to make war, as the big empires ity that bordered on chaos with frozen hearts could fail ily members. It was mostly expect. A little Googling have always done. But since we cannot wage the — blissful chaos, but chaos to be moved. online, where posters can for LGBT-themed greeting Third World War, we make regional wars. And nonetheless. Mainstream news cover- remain anonymous, that cards ensued, so I should what does that mean? That we make and sell arms. Quick! Leave work early! age was positive, despite the nastiest comments be good to go for the future. And with that the balance sheets of the idolatrous Get down to the courthouse! the obligatory sound bites appeared. Anti-gay zealots Amid all the excitement, economies — the big world economies that sacrifice Bring your ID, some money from fundamentalist types sure have a creepy obses- my ex, a radical feminist man at the feet of the idol of money — are obviously for the license! Do you have who predicted the country’s sion with “disgusting sex anarcho-pagan, called and cleaned up.” the rings? Pick up the kids! moral demise. Some report- acts.” The posts almost all asked if I would marry her. — POPE FRANCIS telling La Vanguardia’s Vatican Call mom and dad! Oh my ers seemed stirred by the used this same phrase, as if “Are you insane?” I parried. reporter the world economy is on the verge of col- God, it’s really happening! emotions and conveyed that they were parroting a par- “We spent 12 years togeth- lapse due to income inequality and limitless greed. Hurry! vividly through their cover- ticular preacher. er, the last two very rocky, What a delight that the age. I didn’t post this because and have since become “(We’d) get back (to the Hattiesburg area of Mis- ruling came down on the How about the men and I’m sure it would perplex good pals. Why ruin a good sissippi) as often as we could because it was fun day PrideFest opened in women who spontaneously their itty-bitty brains, but friendship?” — it was an adventure to be out there in the country Milwaukee. For years, Pride- came forward to serve as I found a great line from That a radical dyke could and see what goes on. Picking up pecans, from that Fest has been hosting mass witnesses? Some of them Shakespeare’s King Lear to be dazzled by marriage to all kind of indecent things with animals. I know commitment ceremonies for were as thrilled as the mar- answer their hate: “Wisdom fever speaks to the inspi- some of you know what that is.” devoted same-sex couples. ried couples to be a part and goodness to the vile ration — or the temporary — MISSISSIPPI U.S. SEN. TAD COCHRAN in a If the ruling stands, it looks of history in the making. seem vile; filths savor but insanity — of the moment. campaign speech. His campaign tried to duck calls like it will be able to host the Thanks too to those, espe- themselves.” We must still await the final asking for clarification about the “indecent things” “real thing” from now on. cially the kids, who showed I had to dash to the drug- court ruling, but what a wild with animals. “I’ll check with my political correct- Kudos to the many cou- up with supportive signs store to find some wedding ride! ness department and get back to you,” a campaign representative told the Daily Caller.

“So now you flash back 10 years ago. Maybe no single issue divided our country more than same- Lego’s building blocks to diversity sex marriage. In fact, the Republican Party built their When we develop a new building skills and links into plan in the future, some entire strategy for 2004 around this issue. They cal- LEGO set, we use customer their passions and interests. minifigures won’t be yellow culated that if they put constitutional amendments feedback like yours — and Our designers spend all to stay true to their charac- banning same-sex marriage on state ballots, they’d Opinion most importantly, we ask day dreaming up new sets terization. turn out more voters, they’d win. And they, frankly, children for opinions on and ideas, and new roles We put a lot of effort into were right. Those amendments were on the ballots STEVE CLINES, LEGO every little detail. You’re continue to appear and old creating a variety of new in 11 states. They passed in every single one. Now the best play experts in roles evolve for both male and exciting characters for here’s a good bet: They’re not going to try the same Through a partnership the world and the tough- and female characters. Lots the Minifigures Collectibles strategy in 2014.” between Madison Metro- est judges of what’s fun and of strong women and girls line: so far we’ve had a PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA speaking to the politan School District, the what isn’t. live in LEGO City. They work female surgeon, a zoologist, Democratic National Committee’s LGBT fundraising Human Rights Campaign It’s true we currently have as businesswomen, police athletes, extreme sports gala in New York on June 17. Foundation’s Welcoming more male than female officers and fire fighters. characters, rock stars, and Schools program and Gender minifigures in our assort- And THE LEGO MOVIE fea- a scientist — just to share “Anybody who does not believe gay marriage is Spectrum, elementary school ment. We completely agree tures Wyldstyle as a main a few examples. They cover going to be the law of the land hasn’t been observing students analyzed LEGO sets that we need to be careful character. She’s an awe- a lot of everyday profes- what’s going on.” and marketing and, taking about the roles our female some, inspiring character sions, but we’ve also devel- — U.S. SEN. ORRIN HATCH, R-Utah, the most inspiration from a LEGO ad figures play — we need to who’s also one of the best oped heroic characters like senior Republican in the Senate. from 1981, came up with a make sure they’re part of builders around! a female Viking, Amazon 21st century ad to remind the action and have exciting We originally chose yel- warrior, space explorer… as “We have to find the sin in your life that caused LEGO that “diversity is per- adventures, and aren’t just low for the color of mini- well as fantasy and mythical your rape.” fect.” LEGO responded: waiting to be rescued. figures so they wouldn’t female characters. —BOB JONES UNIVERSITY’S DEAN OF STU- It’s amazing to see the You say we should make represent a specific ethnic- Here at the LEGO Group DENTS responding to student Katie Landry when outcome of all the time and female minifigures and ity in sets when there were we’re also having many con- she sought counseling after being raped by a co- effort you put into your sets for girls that look more no characters represented. versations about the topics worker several times. Landry shared the reaction analysis of gender and cul- like our other play themes. In this way, LEGO figures you raised, so your com- to her rape during an interview with Al Jazeera’s ture in LEGO sets. I enjoyed You’re right: we don’t expect would be acceptable all over ments will be shared with program America Tonight, which has an ongoing reading the letters you all girls to love the LEGO the world and fans could our marketing and develop- investigation into the persecution of rape victims at posted on your website. We Friends sets. We know that assign their own individual ment teams. After all, we the fundamentalist Christian university. know we’re lucky to have each child is unique. That’s roles. However, in some want to inspire and develop so many loyal LEGO fans why we offer more than products where we want the builders of tomorrow: around the world and we’re 450 different toys in vari- figures to be as authentic that means both boys and always pleased to get feed- ous themes so everyone can as possible, such as movie girls, everywhere in the back. choose what matches their characters, and others we world! 16 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 Selfies use new technology for an old idea

By Lisa Neff cities in Iraq and retweets of selfies by Jen- Staff writer nifer Lopez and Demi Lovato minus makeup. The morning after Spain lost to Chile in There also was strange news of a warning World Cup play, soccer fan Tony Andres from Madison police against posting #naked snapped a sour selfie and grumbled on selfies. Twitter. “The World Cup will produce more The selfie as portrait. As documentary selfies than goals,” he tweeted to -#World journalism. As celebrity pap shot. As porn. CupSelfies. The image-makers may be using new He most certainly is correct. The 2014 tools and reaching vast audiences, and the FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil, “selfie” may be a relatively new term, but where soccer fanatics, players and coaches self-portraiture is a very old form of art and are seemingly producing selfies by the sec- method of expression. ond. The event kicked off with a celebration that featured hundreds of thousands of self- OLD STYLE ies draped across the field in the “Happiness Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man in a Flag.” The massive photomosaic, sponsored Turban, painted in 1433, is described in art by Coca-Cola, contained 223,206 soccer history books as one of the earliest panel selfies and spanned 11,800 square feet. self-portraits. In medieval and Renais- Beyond Brazil, social media has been sance works, artists may appear as faces flooded with selfies by soccer enthusiasts in their crowds. Rembrandt painted a range showing agony and ecstasy and also a lot of of self-portraits in the 17th century. The boredom and boozing. Most of the images world treasures self-portraits from artists come from smartphones or digital cameras. as diverse as Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, They are making their way to friends and Marie-Denise Villers, Raphael, Anthony fans, as well as strangers on Instagram, Twit- Van Dyck, Gerard Sekoto, Gustave Cour- ter and Facebook. bet and, of course, Vincent Van Gogh, The self-portraits express loyalty to a who painted himself dozens of times as a team and allegiance to a nation. They also means of self-expression but also because PHOTO: AP/DAVID VINCENT he could not afford models. Writing to help to transform the events in Brazil into France’s Raphael Varane takes a selfie with a fan after a press conference at the Teatro his brother about a painting he dedicated global happenings. Pedro II in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, on June 21. Having captured people’s attention at the to Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh said, “The third The same day that those selfies of sour World Cup with some scintillating attacking football, France’s players reached a new and grumbling fans of Spain showed up, there level of popularity. were selfies coming out of blood-soaked SELFIE next page Move your sales career forward! Join our fast-growing team and be part of a publication with impact! We have a unique opportunity for full-time sales people experienced in media. We offer a great atmosphere to work in and a product you can represent with pride.

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SELFIE from prior page picture this week is a portrait of myself, DID YOU KNOW? almost colourless, in ashen tones against a Generally, under copyright law, background of pale veronese green.” unless there is an agreement to the American photographer Robert Cornelius contrary or a photo is shot as part created a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 of a job, it belongs to the creator, that is one of the earliest photographs of a the person who pressed the button person and possibly the first “selfie,” though on the camera. And the owner holds he recorded it as “the first light picture ever exclusive rights to display, copy, taken.” An early self-photograph by a teen- use, produce, or distribute the cre- ager was taken by 13-year-old Russian Grand ation. The subject in a photograph Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna and sent to has some rights but not ownership, a friend in 1914, four years before she was as do social media services where executed by the Bolshevik secret police. photographs are shared. There’s also a long history of self-portraits — L.N. by average Janes and Joes. The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey, recently exhibited “445 Portraits of a vice in Michigan for years. Man,” a collection of photobooth self-images Susan Sidlauskas, who co-curated the taken by Franklyn Swantek from the 1930s exhibit, said Swantek was able to elevate pho- to the 1960s. tomatics into museum-quality conceptual art. The individual in the photos had been a “There’s a twinkle in his eye that suggests mystery until a news story about the collec- he had a reason for holding on to all those tion caught the attention of a man living in photos,” she said. Minden, Nevada, who recognized his Uncle This summer, the museum is exhibiting Franklyn, who had run Swantek Photo Ser- “Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture,” an examination of the portrait as a social medium, as a way of linking people together, which is what NASA accomplished with its Global Selfie from Earth Day.

WORLDWIDE HUG On April 22, NASA invited people to step outside to take a selfie and share it with the world on social media. NASA created a new view of the planet made entirely of those photos, a mosaic consisting of 36,000 indi- vidual images from 113 countries and regions — Antarctica to Yemen. “We were overwhelmed to see people participate from so many countries,” said Peg ADD AN APP Luce, deputy director of the Earth science Popular portraiture apps for division at NASA headquarters in Washing- smartphones and tablets: ton, D.C. • CamMe: Take photos using hand “It’s like being part of a worldwide hug,” gestures. Can take several photos said Kimberly Rawlings of Chicago, who said sequentially, like the old photo her image is included in the Global Selfie. booths. Enhance photos with cut- “The cranks who say we’re narcissistic for outs. Easy sharing options. posting selfies, who complain about me- • Aviary: Touch up with red-eye obsessed millenials, they miss the point of removal. Add or remove color with them.” splash. Add drama with sharpen. And there are critics of the selfie phenom- Stylize with filters and stickers. enon. Bloggers have complained that girls posting selfies are being exploited. Plastic • Mextures: Apply film grain, tex- surgeons say the selfie trend is increasing tures, light leaks and gradients demand for rhinoplasty, hair transplants and to images — from landscapes to eyelid surgery. Mental health professionals portraits. have suggested a link between body dys- • Facetune: Touch up portraits Hol- morphic disorder and a compulsion to take lywood-style. Remove blemishes. selfies. Even out skin tone. Brighten teeth. But there’s little science behind the medi- Color gray hair. Change eye color. cal and mental health assertions and easy rebuttals to the exploitation assertion. • Instagram: Apply filters. Easy share “Taking selfies, that’s empowering, that’s options. Front and back camera being proud of yourself,” said Wisconsin pedi- support. Add depth of field. atric counselor Helen Cox, noting that one • Frontback: Shoot from the front recent survey of young women found that and the back of the camera at the 65 percent said taking selfies boosted their same time for the full story. confidence. “When you share selfies, that’s • Slingshot: From Facebook. Allows bringing you into a community of people.” users to send photos, to friends, Sometimes the community is small, a circle who must reciprocate before of friends. viewing the photo. Sometimes the community is massive, a world of Earth Day celebrants or World Cup soccer fans. 18 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 Brand identity: Pro-LGBT campaigns celebrate Pride

Many recognizable brands are showcasing their support for equality through high profile LGBT-centered • Apple is celebrating LGBT Pride in the iTunes Store, advertisements and social media promotions as Americans where it offers a collection of LGBT-themed movies, apps, celebrate Pride Month. music, books, and more. Many Apple employees and their In years past, many companies and brands rarely — families are marching in the San Francisco Pride Parade if ever — used LGBT-specific themes in marketing or on June 29. advertisements. Today, businesses recognize that a pro- • Honey Maid has changed the profile picture on its equality stance is a way to entice the millions of fair-minded social media platforms to two graham crackers that form Americans who champion LGBT civil rights as an important an equal sign. issue, according to a survey by the Human Rights Campaign. • Google adds a rainbow-colored border to its search The nation’s largest LGBT civil rights group keeps track of bar when users search for LGBT-related terms. corporate policies and positions for a ratings guide that’s • Designer Kenneth Cole has offered limited released annually. edition T-shirts featuring the red HRC equal sign logo inlaid with the text, “Unite The States While companies increasingly are showing off rainbow stripes, Christian right boycotts of America ... Support Marriage Equality for all of U.S.” against them are failing. The National Organization for Marriage’s calls for boycotts against • AT&T has launched its “Live Proud” campaign, inviting users to create and upload their Starbucks and General Mills — after the companies endorsed marriage equality initiatives own memes in celebration of awareness, empowerment and Pride. in Washington and Minnesota — had no lasting impact on sales and only emboldened the • Nike has released a limited edition #BETRUE apparel line to celebrate Pride. corporate giants to be more vocal in their support for equality. Starbucks CEO Howard • Levi’s launched a Pride Month collection. Schultz told one anti-equality shareholder, “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher • General Mills is using Lucky Charms as the face of its Pride promotions. The company return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of launched a Web video that encourages social media followers to tweet and post the reasons Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.” why they’re proud using the hashtag #LuckyToBe. Some of the more visible brands and their LGBT Pride campaigns: • Ben & Jerry’s has shared Pride-themed images on social media with the slogan, “Love • Marriott International made news with its #LoveTravels campaign featuring images of Comes in All Flavors.” LGBT people in print ads, billboards, and social media promotions. • Nordstrom has asked its LGBT and allied employees to share their thoughts on Pride • Macy’s, which partnered with HRC to celebrate Pride Month, is featuring Pride Month in a photo montage on the store’s website. merchandise in stores. — Lisa Neff

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PHOTO: AP/LGBTHISTORYMONTH.COM John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner. Lawrence died in 2011. By Lisa Neff provides,” Larry Dupuis, legal director of rights leaders and the gays and lesbians Staff writer the ACLU of Wisconsin, had said when he who hope to take marriage vows, have her- Eight same-sex couples — with a team filed the equality case in Madison in Febru- alded the couples — Charvonne Kemp and of lawyers — committed earlier this year ary. “They have built their lives and raised Marie Carlson, Judith Trampf and Katharina to overturn Wisconsin’s constitutional children here. It is wrong for the state to Heyning, Roy Badger and Garth Wange- amendment barring gays and lesbians from treat these loving and committed couples as mann, Johannes Wallmann and Keith Bor- the freedom to marry in the state. Their second-class citizens, and it is cruel to place den, Salud Garcia and Pam Kleiss, Kami fight continues, but already their pursuit of them in a catch-22 where they can’t even Young and Karina Willes, Bill Hurtubise and equality has resulted in the marriages of at travel elsewhere to obtain federal protec- Dean Palmer — as heroes. least 555 same-sex couples in Wisconsin. tions without their marriage being labeled “To be a plaintiff in a case like this, you “These families simply want the secu- a crime.” have to put yourself out there and vow to rity and recognition that only marriage The couples’ attorneys, the state’s equal see the fight through maybe all the way to the Supreme Court,” said April Goodmann, a Waukesha resident who when the case is settled for good hopes to marry her long- time girlfriend. “These people are heroes, plain and simple. They are my heroes.” There now are hundreds of heroes serv- ing as plaintiffs in more than 70 marriage equality cases pending in 31 states. And there’s a long history of heroes who, with the support of groups such as the ACLU and Lambda Legal, challenged laws and regulations, changing the lives of LGBT people in housing and schools, in the Armed Forces and on the job, at the marriage license bureau and in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Most of them have been plaintiffs, but some have been defendants. A look at just a handful of the many LGBT civil rights cases fought over the years and the legal activists involved in them: • Jamie Nabozny. For four years, Naboz- ny was subjected to anti-gay verbal and physical abuse by students at his school in Ashland, Wisconsin. Students urinated on him, pretended to rape him during class and, in one assault, kicked him so many times in the stomach that he required sur- gery. Nabozny sued the school district and won in a federal appeals court in Chicago, which said in 1996 that public schools are obligated to protect students from anti-gay abuse. Nabozny, represented by Lambda, also won back in Wisconsin, where a jury in 1996 also found school officials liable. • Richard G. Evans. Evans, an adminis- trator in Denver, was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Colorado’s PLAINTIFFS next page PHOTO: LGBTHISTORYMONTH.COM

WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 21 Heroes: Plaintiffs in pursuit of equality DID YOU KNOW? Before Oscar Wilde became a defendant — perse- cuted and prosecuted for “gross indecency” — he was on the side of the prosecution in a libel lawsuit. The famous British author took action against John Sholto Douglas, the marquess of Queensberry and the father of Alfred Douglas, accusing the man of libel. The mar- quess had left a card for Wilde with a porter at the Albemarle Club in London that said, “To Oscar Wilde posing as a somdomite (sic).” Wilde requested a warrant for the marquess’ arrest for libel and provided assurances that there was no foundation for the marquess’ statement. The trial revealed a series of relationships involving Wilde and other men. The charge of libel was with- PHOTO: LGBTHISTORYMONTH.COM drawn and a warrant for Wilde’s arrest was issued. Jamie Nabozny as an adult. PLAINTIFFS from prior page Amendment 2, enacted by voters in 1992. The amendment barred governments in the state from enacting non-dis- crimination ordinances or policies that would protect gays. The state argued that Amendment 2 simply prohibited creating “special rights” for gays, but Evans et al., repre- sented by the ACLU and Lambda Legal, argued the mea- sure denied gays the right to participate in the political process. The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in 1996, said the amendment did not satisfy the Equal Protection Clause. The majority opinion said, “The resulting disqualification of a class of persons from the right to seek specific protec- tion from the law is unprecedented in our jurisprudence.” • John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner. On Sept. 17, 1998, deputies in Harris County, Texas, were dispatched to an apartment expecting to deal with a “black male going crazy with a gun.” It was a false claim, called in to police by a jealous man. At the apartment, two deputies said they saw Lawrence and Garner engaged in sexual activity. They arrested the men for “deviate sex.” The two pleaded no contest before a justice of the peace, then appealed in Texas Criminal Court. Their case, managed by Lambda Legal, reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 2003 that sexual relationships between consenting adults are protected by the 14th Amendment. • Ninia Baerhr and Genora Dancel. The women became the lead plaintiffs in Baehr v. Miike, the landmark lawsuit seeking the freedom to marry in Hawaii in the 1990s. Though state lawmakers and voters erected barriers to the plaintiffs securing that right in the 1990s, their case launched the marriage equality movement and resulted, way back in 1993, in the first high court ruling for gay mar- riage. Today, Hawaii is an equality state. • Edith Windsor. Windsor is the widow of Thea Clary Spyer and the executor of Spyer’s estate. The women mar- ried in Canada in 2007, two years before Spyer’s death, and their marriage was legal in the state of New York. But until last summer, the marriage was not recognized by the federal government, which imposed $363,000 in taxes on the estate left to Windsor. Windsor’s lawsuit, brought by the ACLU, resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Section 3 in the Defense of Marriage Act and the full fed- eral recognition of gay marriages. • Miguel Brashi. Braschi and Leslie Blanchard lived together for 10 years in a rent-controlled apartment in New York City, beginning in 1975. When Blanchard died in September 1986, the landlord threatened to evict Bra- schi, maintaining that he had no right to stay because Blanchard was the tenant of record. The 1989 case, Bras- chi v. Stahl, led the court to expand the definition of family in the city’s rent control regulations. The majority opinion said that protection against eviction “should not rest on fictitious legal distinctions or genetic history, but instead should find its foundation in the reality of family life.” 22 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 23 24 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014

IN THE GAME… PHOTO: WIKICOMMONS PHOTO: AP WIG’S ANNUAL PRIDE POP QUIZ

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By Leanne Italie AP writer Writer David Levithan last year marked the 10th anniversary of his Boy Meets Boy, a romantic teen novel where the homecoming queen was once a guy and the gay-straight alliance was aimed at helping the straight kids learn how to dance. And there was Paul, who meets Noah. Since then, there’s been a burst of books featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning young people. Levithan, also publisher and editorial PHOTOS: COURTESY director at Scholastic, offered AP his insights Author David Levithan. into parenting and books on LGBTQ-related copies around for kids to find, so the kids themes for young people. would know they were supported and loved.

How does a parent who isn’t involved in Are LGBTQ kids and teens fairly repre- the LGBTQ community but would like to sented in books for those age groups? Are foster an awareness and tolerance in chil- there enough stories where LGBTQ themes dren go about doing that through books, are taken on but also books that just hap- and at what age does that process begin? pen to include such characters but are not It’s never too early to foster kindness and about that experience? There is constantly equal treatment, for whatever group. So a need for diversity within the representa- much of the pain that LGBT kids go through tions. It’s just as limiting to say there’s only is because they feel distanced from all of one kind of gay story, just as it’s limiting to the narratives they’ve been given. They’ve say there’s only one kind of straight one. been told that everyone grows up a certain As for how much being gay is central to the way, and now their own way is diverging character’s identity or story — as in life that from that. totally depends on who the character is and The best thing parents can do, whether what he or she is going through. their kids end up queer or straight, is to The important thing is for the characters acknowledge all of the different options that to feel real, and to be given the humanity are out there, and letting their kids know they are due. That granting of humanity is that they support them no matter which what separates a full portrait from a ste- options end up being theirs. reotype. Books are a wonderful signifier and a I think it’s dangerous to talk about, ”Oh, perfect conversation starter. With my novel that character just happens to be gay” as Boy Meets Boy, I’ve seen it work both ways: some kind of goal for us and our literature. I’ve had kids who’ve left their copies around The important thing is to show as much of for parents to find, as a way of coming out to the spectrum as possible, and to continue them. And I’ve had parents who’ve left their to investigate it. 26 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 Israel hosts Mideast’s only Pride parades

PHOTO: AP/ODED BALILTY Israeli dancers perform during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 13.

By Ian Deitch an annual Pride parade, albeit on a much AP writer more modest scale. Shirtless Israeli men, colorfully dressed Gays serve openly in Israel’s military and drag queens and others partied June 13 parliament and many popular artists and through central Tel Aviv as tens of thou- entertainers are gay. However, leaders of sands of people took part in the city’s the gay community say Israel still has far to annual gay Pride parade, the largest event go in promoting equality. of its kind in the Middle East. Officially, there is no same-sex marriage Tel Aviv is one of the few places in the in Israel, primarily because there is no civil Middle East where gays feel free to walk marriage of any kind. All Jewish weddings hand-in-hand and kiss in public. The city must be conducted through the Jewish rab- has emerged as one of the world’s most binate, which considers homosexuality a sin gay-friendly travel destinations in recent and a violation of Jewish law. But the state years, in sharp contrast to the rest of the recognizes same-sex couples who marry region. abroad. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Across the rest of the Middle East, gay more than 100,000 people took part. Loud and lesbian relationships are taboo. The music blasted along the parade’s route, pervasiveness of religion in everyday life, thick with people dancing to the beats and along with strict cultural norms, plays a waving rainbow flags. Drag queens wear- major factor in that. Same-sex relations are ing heavy makeup, dresses with sequins punishable by death in Iran, Mauritania, and high heels bounced along to the music Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. alongside scantily clad men and women. Among most Palestinians, gays tend to Tel Aviv’s openness to gays stands in be secretive about their social lives. In the contrast to conservative Jerusalem, just a West Bank, a 1951 Jordanian law banning short drive away, home to some of the holi- homosexual acts remains in effect, as does est sites to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. a ban in Gaza passed by British authorities Still, Jerusalem has a small gay scene and in 1936. You’ve worked hard... to turn your dreams into a reality that makes you proud.

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You make your feature film debut in the new movie Obvious Child. What was that experience like? An 11 out of 10. It was the most positive experience ever. PHOTO: COURTESY Jenny Slate and Jake Lacy in Obvious Child, currently in national release. Check your local movie listings. What made it so positive? It’s hard to see this now, because it’s a film that’s Braugher, who’s not actually a gay guy. Part of it is stuff that I improvised on the the subject matter of Obvious Child, is still playing in theaters across the country. But Every day, I watch a straight guy play a gay spot just for the hell of it. a hot-button issue. Are you prepared for when we were making it, it had no guaran- guy. That’s always kind of a minefield. You a potential backlash against the film? You tee of ever being seen. It was a really small can really pull it off if you are a talented The way a comedian would do. Yes, have to be prepared for anything, certainly. budget and a really small crew. We were actor who is being given material that lets exactly. The Jeffery Dahmer stuff — that No one who made this movie is unaware of kind of all friends or becoming friends. It you be respectful and show love and all that was just a riff in between something much the fact that, in the last year or two, this has was so positive and low-key, which makes stuff. But there’s also something really nice longer. It’s so funny on its own. Gillian has been the most aggressive Congress ever in everything that’s happened since just such about The Normal Heart, where most of the an eye for comedy. She is so funny and such trying to limit a woman’s right to choose. a huge happy surprise. cast playing gay guys, except for the lead, a good director. But she’s never done stand- I don’t know if (there) will be a backlash. are actual gay guys. They’re not walking into up and she knows that. It’s a huge relief to There are a lot of shut doors, a lot of people You play Joey, the gay best friend of that minefield of, ”Do I do a voice? Should I be doing stand-up in a movie that is actually who won’t be reached by this. I know that Donna, played by Jenny Slate. What was hold myself differently? Is my co-star going funny. Gillian and Jenny and the producers are not it about the character that made you want to be weird when I kiss them?” I’m also real- interested in fanning that kind of reaction to play him? I really liked the portrayal ly happy to be living in a time when actors How would you best describe your rela- for publicity. You won’t find Jenny going of the gay best friend (laughs) in this can be out of the closet and still work. tionship, both personally and profession- on Glenn Beck to have the argument to get movie. I thought that this was, first of all, ally, with Slate? Personally and profession- clicks on the blog. The negative will come, not snarky. He’s a little snarky, but in the You are also a comedian. What are the ally are very intertwined, because we’ve but hopefully it will come in the form of way that you’re realistically snarky with challenges and rewards of being a come- been best friends since we were about 18. crossed arms and rolled eyes, and nothing friends. He doesn’t wear a bow tie, he’s dian playing a comedian in a movie? If We met during freshman year of college (at scary. not her roommate, he’s not her assistant. anyone knows who I am, they know me Columbia University) in the comedy club at He seems to have his own life. I felt like because I do stand-up. I don’t want to be in our school. When we started doing stand- What can you tell me about any new (writer/director) Gillian (Robespierre) was a more widely available format doing stand- up, we started as a duo before we went or upcoming projects you have? I write creating a gay guy like I think I am, like my up I don’t believe in. That was something solo. I think we are each other’s home base. for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which is a huge show friends are. I thought, “Hell, yeah.” that took zero fights and zero convincing Beyond that, we also cook dinner together that takes up most of my time. I’ve also to get across to Gillian. She was so open to sometimes and know each other’s boy- got scripts that will be seeing the light of What are the challenges and rewards help in writing the stand-up and she was so friends and husband and go to the super- day sooner rather than later. For the most of being a gay man playing a gay man inclusive of my voice and Jenny’s voice as market and talk on the phone. Now that part, my life is Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Season in a movie? It’s really nice (laughs). I individual performers to the point where it we’re both busy in Hollywood, we go for two of Brooklyn Nine-Nine starts this fall and write for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which is a was like, “Great, now I’m not scared at all.” hikes in the morning before we get to work. season three of Kroll Show comes out in show on Fox set in a police precinct. The Part of what you see there is stand-up that the winter. Those will sound a lot like me captain is gay and he’s played by Andre I’ve been doing as myself for a long time. Sadly, in 2014, a woman’s right to choose, because I wrote for them (laughs). 28 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 Summer programs still bring the stars to Ten Chimneys

By Anne Siegel Contributing writer chance to hear Hyde Pierce share stories of his life in the theater at 8 p.m. on July 18. Now that summer is here, the Broadway Ticket prices range from $40–$150. Call stars are arriving at Ten Chimneys, continu- 262-968-4110 for reservations. ing a tradition that began when theater On the following evening — July 19 — legends Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne Hyde Pierce and the 10 Lunt-Fontanne Fel- used the remodeled Beaux-Arts mansion in lows will take the stage together to dem- Genesee Depot as a summer retreat. onstrate some of the work they explored Three-time Tony Award-winning director during their week together at Ten Chimneys. Jack O’Brien (Hairspray, Henry IV and The Coast of Utopia) was the first star to arrive for the summer theater programs held at ON THE GROUNDS Ten Chimneys, which has been called the Ten Chimney’s final tour each day Camp David of the theater world. On June concludes with champagne and can- 21, O’Brien shared his experiences as a apés, “just as the Lunts would have Broadway and regional theater director with wished,” according to a Ten Chimneys’ local fans and industry professionals. administrator. Tours begin at 10 a.m. and O’Brien, former artistic director of San conclude at 2:30 p.m. For reservations, Diego’s Old Globe Theater, is currently which are recommended, call 262-968- directing a Shakespeare in the Park produc- 4110. For the first time this year, Ten tion of Much Ado About Nothing through July Chimneys’ visitors will also have the 6. In September, O’Brien will direct Matthew PHOTO: WARREN MAILO’BRIEN FROM THE O’BRIEN FAMILY COLLECTION chance to enjoy the estate much like the Broderick and Nathan Lane, who are reunit- Theatrical legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne enjoy the pool at Ten Chimneys with celebrity guests of the 1930s, ’40s and ing after their mega-hit musical The Produc- guests. On Aug. 2, visitors will have an opportunity to explore the grounds just as the ’50s. The Ten Chimneys Foundation has ers, in Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play. Lunts’ celebrity guests did. named Sat., Aug. 2, “All Access Day.” O’Brien had the opportunity of seeing From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can take Lunt and Fontanne appear together on a dip in the Lunts’ famous pool, enjoy a Broadway in a 1958 production of The Visit, Fellowship Program. The program, now in its hit TV series, Frasier, for which he won four picnic, listen to live music while strolling directed by the legendary Peter Brook. sixth year, is offered to 10 actors selected Emmy Awards, Hyde Pierce is a veteran of the estate’s paths, and tour the historic Next to appear at Ten Chimneys is Tony from around the country. numerous plays and musicals both on and buildings at their leisure. Tickets — $50 Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce, Hyde Pierce won a Tony Award for his off Broadway. per person — are limited for the event, who will lead a master class for accom- performance in 2007’s Curtains. Although At the fellowship program’s conclusion, so make reservcations now. plished actors as part of the Lunt-Fontanne he’s best known as Dr. Niles Crane in the his fans and local theater buffs will have the WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 29 30 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 The other side of Summerfest Interesting acts that might get lost beneath the headliners

By Michael Muckian music to the masses. That wasn’t neces- PHOTO: COURTESY Contributing writer sarily the festival’s stated purpose, but it’s TAJ MAHAL TRIO. As a Summerfest-goer since 1968, I have a happy byproduct for those seeking to seen my share of legendary acts and a siz- expand their musical horizons. able slice of contemporary music history on You have to look a little harder this year to Milwaukee’s lakefront. uncover acts that aren’t appearing at Sum- I was there for The Doors, the Mahavisnu merfest as part of their Bonnaroo/Coach- Orchestra, B.B. King and a new band called ella/Lollapalooza summer tour. But there Chicago. I remember when Milwaukee are some interesting choices and, at the risk Police arrested George Carlin onstage for of betraying my age, I’d like to recommend uttering his “seven dirty words,” when the some of the more obscure acts that are Miller Lite Oasis was still the Miller Jazz worthy of note. Oasis and when main stage seating was a blanket in the dirt and a cooler full of wine The Buddy Rich Big Band featuring Cathy that you brought in yourself. Rich and Gregg Potter, June 26, Briggs & I’ve been told, repeatedly, that this year is Stratton Big Backyard Summerfest’s best musical lineup in years, Before big band drummer Buddy Rich now that the festival has finally gotten died in 1987 at age 70, he cut a wide swath beyond its baby boomer obligations. OK, as one of the premiere drummers of mul- if you say so. I think that minimizing the tiple jazz eras. Bringing back his big-band oldsters’ influence makes good box office sound fronted by daughter Cathy Rich is a sense, but time will tell if Bruno Mars, Arctic bit of inspired lunacy on the part of Sum- Monkeys and The Fatty Acids are legend- merfest organizers. It’s lunacy because who worthy. I hope so, for their sakes. This is would go to see a dead jazz drummer’s not a screed about whose music is, or was, cover band in lieu of Lady Gaga or Kenny better. Wayne Shepherd, who are performing at One thing Summerfest has always done, the same time. But it’s inspired because besides providing the opportunity to get those who wander into Briggs & Stratton’s hammered in public with 35,000 of your Big Backyard will be blown away by the closest friends, is to introduce a variety of SUMMERFEST next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 31

PHOTO: COURTESY THE YARDBIRDS.

SUMMERFEST from prior page Don’t expect any of the more famous mem- sound, energy and finesse of the 17-piece bers to make an appearance, but drummer ensemble. This group succeeds at making Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist Anthony old things new again. “Top” Topham — both founding Yardbird members — will perform. The chance to Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, hear “For Your Love” and “Heart Full of Soul” June 25, Harley Davidson Roadhouse live may be worth the price of Summerfest Award-winning blues artist Ben Harper admission. will have no trouble drawing a crowd, but And, out of deference for its key demo- the big surprise for the next generation of graphic, The Yardbirds are scheduled to emerging blues fans will be Charlie Mus- perform at 5 p.m., followed by REO Speed- selwhite, the Mississippi-born master of wagon at 8 p.m. Now that’s an evening of the blues harp and one of the few white rock ‘n’ roll. blues artists who came to prominence in the 1960s. Dan Ackroyd claims to have based his Elwood Blues character on Musselwhite, but the 70-year-old artist is long past any quickstepping onstage. His 2012 album Get Up!, which won the Grammy Award for best blues album, was recorded with Harper. Need we say more? Taj Mahal Trio, June 27, Johnson Controls World Sound Stage Few musicians have the pedigree of Taj Mahal, an early proponent of black folk and roots music at a time when the Carolina Chocolate Drops were, as the saying goes, mere twinkles in their fathers’ eyes. Mahal has combined his folk and blues roots with an insatiable appetite for world music, cre- ating a blend that is as much a history and geography lesson as an evening of musical PHOTO: COURTESY pleasure. With Kester Smith on drums and NAIMA ADEDAPO. Bill Rich on bass, the Taj Mahal trio will take its audience to places they’ve never been Naima Adedapo, July and leave them wondering why it took them 5, Harley Davidson Roadhouse so long to get there. With rare exceptions, it’s tough to care about American Idol finalists unless they The Yardbirds, June 28, BMO Harris Pavilion have local roots. Danny Gokey was one such There are a few boomer acts on Sum- finalist and so is Naima Adedapo. The Chi- merfest’s calendar, but the most puzzling is cago native graduated from UWM’s Peck The Yardbirds — not just because some of School of the Arts with a degree in dance them are still alive, but because they’re still and has since added singing to her reper- performing under the band’s brand. toire. She has appeared onstage and taught Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, African and hip-hop dance in Milwaukee. the band has been a who’s who of musical She has even served as celebrity ambassa- talent. Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy dor for Camp Hometown Heroes, a summer Page all strummed some of their first licks camp for kids of fallen service personnel. with the band, alongside English blues stal- With a solid sound rooted in the blues and warts Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith. rock, this lady has it going on! 32 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS

PHOTO: WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM GOVERNOR’S AWARD: Dave Fantle, Wisconsin’s deputy secretary of tourism, presented Peninsula Players Theatre with the 2014 Governor’s Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage June 17 during the world premiere of Sean Grennan’s The Tin Woman. From left are: development and events coordinator Danielle Kapolnek, Fantle, artistic director Greg Vinkler, managing director Brian Kelsey and business manager Audra Baakari Boyle. The award is presented to a business or destination that showcases the arts, culture, or heritage for the enhancement and economic well-being of a community.

CANCEL MAMET’S ‘OLEANNA’ to avoid making the production just about Blomquist said, “We felt we could put our loosely based on Dustin Diamond’s tell-all After only one performance, the Alche- the casting. The Alchemist is offering full newfound economic resources to better Behind the Bell. The movie’s cast, assembled mist Theatre was forced to cancel its pro- refunds and free seats for a future show. use by expanding the Boulevard’s artistic by original Saved by the Bell casting direc- duction of David Mamet’s student-teacher Mamet’s contracts are strict. A Milwau- footprint in the city.” tor Robin Lippin, includes Shameless’ Sam drama Oleanna. The playwright’s represen- kee production of Race at Next Act Theatre The Boulevard’s 2014–15 season will Kindseth as Diamond/Screech and Degrassi tatives sent the theater a cease-and-desist earlier this year was unable to hold talk- begin in the fall with a concert staging of star Dylan Everett as Mark-Paul Gosselaar/ letter stating it broke its contract by casting backs due to contract restrictions. Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey at the South Zach. The movie premieres on Labor Day. the play’s female role with a male actor. In a Milwaukee Performing Arts Center Sept. statement, Alchemist owners Aaron Kopec BOULEVARD THEATRE TO 26–28. VIA DOWNER TO CLOSE, BE and Erica Case said they sought to cast the LEAVE KINNICKINNIC HOME REPLACED BY THIRD BELAIR best talent, not the best talent within a gen- After 29 years on Kinnickinnic Avenue, LIFETIME MAKING MOVIE ON Via Downer Pizzeria, 2625 N. Downer der. They also maintained that they “stayed during which time it helped spur the revi- ‘SAVED BY THE BELL’ CAST Ave., Milwaukee, announced it’s closing on true to each of David Mamet’s powerful talization of Bay View, the Boulevard The- The Lifetime network announced June June 30. BelAir Cantina will develop its third words and did not change the character of atre has sold its iconic storefront to Sarah 19 it will return to the ’90s with The Unau- restaurant in the location. Via Downer co- Carol but allowed the reality of gender and Jonas and Camryne Roberts of Rojo Proper- thorized Saved by the Bell Story. The TV owner Krys Zielinski is leaving the partner- relationship fluidity to add to the impact of ties, who own the nearby Café Lulu. Bou- movie offers a behind-the-scenes expose ship to move out of state, while co-owners the story.” Director Erin Eggers added that levard Theatre will become an itinerant of the cast of unknowns trying to preserve John and Russell Rossetto have decided to she had not previously revealed the identity company beginning with its 2014–15 sea- their characters’ clean-cut images while focus exclusively on Via’s sister restaurant, of actors David Shapiro and Ben Parman son. In a statement, board president Holly growing up in show business. The movie is Transfer Pizzeria. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 33 Is Sam Smith the male Adele?

PHOTO: NBC Sam Smith performing on Saturday Night Live. Bill Lamb “Latch,” and fame moved from the horizon Contributing writer to just around the corner. When Katy Perry tweeted last month On Jan. 10, Smith received one of the that Sam Smith “is gonna be like a male biggest boosts to his rising career when Adele,” she was voicing what many in the he was named the winner of the BBC’s music industry were already thinking. Just Sound Of 2014 poll. Chosen by a panel four years ago, Adele released the album of music industry veterans, the honor has 21, which sold more than 25 million copies frequently been a prescient one. Previous globally, making it one of the highest-gross- winners include Ellie Goulding, Jessie J and, ing pop albums of all time. The album’s yes, Adele. songs were heard across the radio dial, from Major UK success as a solo artist came rock to adult contemporary to dance-music quickly when the single “Money On My stations. Mind” went to No. 1 there in February. But Now the music world is waiting to see if U.S. success would take a bit longer. With Smith’s first album, In the Lonely Hour, fol- “La La La” just beginning to take off on lows a similar trajectory. pop radio here, Smith was booked to be Smith, a 22-year-old native of London, the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on has quickly become one of the most suc- March 29. His performance of the soulful, cessful out gay artists in the music industry. gospel-influenced “Stay With Me” electri- He didn’t make a big deal out of coming out. fied TV audiences in much the same fashion Rather he casually referred to his sexual that Adele’s Oct. 18, 2008, performance of orientation during an interview in May. He “Chasing Pavements” had on the show. explained that the inspiration for In the In the Lonely Hour hit U.S. stores on June Lonely Hour was the experience of falling in 17. It’s a pleasing, often mesmerizing combi- love with a man who didn’t love him back. nation of up-tempo pop and soulful ballads. For pop-radio listeners, Smith’s voice is The unifying force is Smith’s voice and the becoming increasingly familiar. At this time visceral pain of loving from afar. last year, only the most dedicated musical Smith admits he’s never experienced a Anglophiles knew his name. But a string of relationship, only unrequited love. He told three top 20 hits are making his artful, soul- Digital Spy, “My debut album is just a diary ful vocals one of the most familiar sounds from a lonely 21-year-old. That’s what it is. on the pop top 40. It was my way of talking about the only real His first U.S. hit came as the featured issue in my life.” vocalist on Naughty Boy’s irresistibly catchy But the impeccable phrasing, the ease and elegant “La La La.” Next came “Latch,” with which he moves across his vocal range, the breakthrough hit for the critically and his natural expressiveness make the acclaimed dance-music duo Disclosure. album something special. Smith’s vocals on the record had an instant Early projections for opening week sales impact on listeners. of In the Lonely Hour were around 100,000, Smith’s solo hit “Stay With Me” is his a very strong start for a new artist. But those first to reach the top 10, and it shows strong projections have been revised upward to potential for heading all the way to No. 1. 150,000 or even more. Smith began training with a jazz singer Smith is performing across the European at age 8 after his parents heard him singing festival circuit this summer. He heads to the along with Whitney Houston’s “My Love Is United States in September and will appear Your Love” in the car on the way to school. at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre on Sept. 22. The son of a prominent banker, the young In response to Perry’s tweet comparing Smith was frequently asked to perform for him to Adele, Smith has said that he’s a very his parents’ friends and associates. different artist, but also that he’s flattered Although fame as a singer always seemed by the comparison. He has a long road to on the horizon, it was elusive for many travel to reach anything close to 20 million years. At age 18, Smith met songwriter albums sold, but it does look like the BBC Jimmy Napes and his luck began to change. is correct in identifying Sam Smith as the The pair soon collaborated with the Law- “Sound of 2014.” rence brothers of Disclosure in writing 34 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 This summer, enjoy Milwaukee’s flourishing art scene By Kat Murrell The loan exhibitions that begin arriving this Contributing writer fall are quite exciting, including Italian Renais- During the summer, Milwaukee spills out sance painting. Also on the calendar is the onto the streets, filling sidewalks with bis- Ebony Fashion Fair exhibition, the first fashion tro tables and hanging flowerpots, bringing exhibition at MAM, and paintings by masters biergartens and outdoor concerts to parks. of modern art. The final closings of the per- But there’s plenty of activity in the area’s art manent collection aren’t until September, but scene to pull you indoors for a break from the it’s best to visit as soon as possible because sun’s rays. the gallery deinstallations will begin over the One of the premier events is the Wassily summer. Kandinsky retrospective at the Milwaukee Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum Art Museum, the first major solo show of the of Art is showing Scrutiny After the Glimpse, artist’s work in Milwaukee since 1945. A joint an exhibition drawn from its own permanent effort between MAM and the Centre Pom- collection. This might not seem like a big deal pidou in Paris, one of the world’s foremost — if you’ve been to the Haggerty over time contemporary art venues, the Kandinsky you have seen quite a few of these pieces. exhibition is, to understate it, a major deal. But don’t let that stop you. This exhibition And although it’s been a little over a century plays on fascinating juxtapositions of unlikely since Kandinsky turned to pure abstraction in artists, styles, and time periods. The underly- his art, his paintings and prints remain vibrant ing theme is the human figure, but that fades and exciting, as does Kandinsky’s reputation a bit into the background as stylistic interest as an artist and writer. takes over. How often do you see Andy War- The Kandinsky and MAM’s upcoming hol and Diane Arbus in the same room? The “Postcards from America” exhibitions bring Haggerty reshuffles the deck, and everything fresh, new work to the city, but this summer is up for grabs in this beautifully installed includes a swan song of sorts for MAM. The exhibition. permanent collection will close in September. One of the highlights of Scrutiny After the Everything will come off the walls and the Glimpse is a monumental, triple-eyed face galleries will be shuttered due to a compete painted by Keith Haring on a bright orange overhaul of the Kahler and Saarinen build- board. It is especially significant because ings. The slate of exhibitions for late 2014 it was part of a construction fence Haring through next summer will be held only in painted as a commission for the Haggerty in the Calatrava addition, which includes the 1983, when the museum was being built. © CENTRE POMPIDOU, MNAM-CCI/ PHILIPPE MIGEAT / DIST.RMN-GP© 2014 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK / ADAGP, PARIS Baker/Rowland main exhibition space, plus the adjunct galleries on each side. ART next page Wassily Kandinsky, “Yellow-Red-Blue” (Gelb-Rot-Blau), 1925. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 35

PHOTOS: HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART. Top, Leo Saul Berk, “Clinkers,” 2011, cour- tesy of the artist. Right, Chuck Close, “John,” 1998. Color screen print.

You can find fascinating archival foot- age and interviews with Haring during this project on view at RedLine Milwaukee, 1422 N. Fourth St. The gallery is also presenting Haring’s Apocalypse Series, which pairs his work with poetic text written by William Burroughs. In this project from 1988, Bur- roughs evokes the god Pan and transfor- mation via destruction. Haring’s images of writhing bodies, hands and arms, and strange, lurking silhouettes speak of apoca- lypse that is both universal and personal. He was an outspoken artist and activist in the New York art scene, witnessing the dev- astating effects of AIDS in the community. Until his death in 1990 from AIDS, Haring both of which are stately homes trans- was a beacon, a voice calling for action and formed into cultural institutions. Forward awareness. This exhibition shows Haring’s 2014: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now is power of communication in a manner that’s nearing the end of its run at the Charles a bit more ominous than the bright, exuber- Allis, and the next exhibition to open is ant images he’s often associated with. Red- “Unis: The Origin of the Unicorn,” presented Line’s ability to host this exhibition is made by Timothy Westbrook Studio. In mid-July, possible with support from the Joseph R. Villa Terrace will host an important show Pabst Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foun- of Japanese art, Noh Theatre in the Wood- dation and co-sponsorship of the Milwau- block Prints of Tsukioka Kögyo. kee LGBT Community Center. Also located on the East Side, INOVA RedLine Milwaukee is a relatively hid- is the architectural opposite of the two den treasure, but an important venue for previous venues. Housed in the Kenilworth support of contemporary art through work- building, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., its concrete shops and classes. Walker’s Point Center floors and fairly raw industrial space form for the Arts shares this commitment to the perfect blank slate for showing national community involvement and education. and local contemporary artists. This summer, WPCA will host an exhibi- Leo Saul Berk’s exhibition there — The tion focusing on Milwaukee’s art and music Uncertainty of Enclosure — asks questions scene. Twenty artists and collectors will about the nature of architecture as an agent bring together about 100 pieces of work of change. During his childhood and early related to music and musicians, including teen years, Berk lived in the futuristic Ford concert posters, album art and such unusu- House in Aurora, Illinois. Designed by Bruce al items as painted music scores. Goff, it is a building known to architec- WPCA is not the only venue that com- tural buffs internationally. Berk’s sculptural bines music and art this summer. The Jew- installations and video work are inspired by ish Museum Milwaukee continues its show the unusual space where he spent his for- of Jews Who Rock: 60 Years of Jews in Rock- mative years. He contends that he wouldn’t n-Roll. The exhibition highlights the con- be who he is without the magical inspiration tributions to popular music of performers of such an unusual place to grow up. with Jewish backgrounds, including Bob Milwaukee is home to a plethora of ven- Dylan, The Ramones and Pink. They form an ues, galleries and art centers, both large and impressive set list indeed. small. To borrow a theme from Berk’s exhi- The Jewish Museum Milwaukee is affili- bition, the place where you live can have a ated with other museums on the East Side, transformative effect on your outlook. notably the Charles Allis Art Museum and the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 36 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014

ART GAZE - MADISON

By Michael Muckian Fishing,” that gazes serenely down the Hispanic heritage, which runs Sept. 15–Oct. Contributing writer length of University Avenue in front of the 15. The exhibit, designed to celebrate the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW campus. richness of Dane County’s Hispanic cul- DINE’S SKULL ART HEADS It’s also part of a remarkable gift from artist ture, is sponsored by the Latino Chamber CHAZEN’S SUMMER SCHEDULE Jim Dine. of Commerce, the Madison Public Library, Madison’s latest photo op takes the form Dine burst on the pop art scene of the Centro Hispano and the Latino Professional of a 6-foot bronze skull sculpture, “Ancient 1960s, a contemporary of Andy Warhol, Association. Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg. Artwork accepted will be judged in the A performance artist and writer as well as a juried show by professional artists, universi- painter and sculptor, Dine is known for his ty art faculty, local gallery owners, and other invention and reinterpretation of specific arts professionals. The works of several art- themes, among them his fascination with ists also will be chosen for the Best of Show the human skull. The artist recently con- and People’s Choice awards. tributed 67 paintings and sculptures worth Applications to participate in the show, an estimated $4 million to $6 million to the including an artist bio and three photos of Chazen, all variations on his skull obsession. the artwork, are due June 30, with the win- Dine was visiting UW’s Tandem Press, a ners to be notified by July 4. For more infor- fine arts press run by Paula Panczenko, the mation and to apply, contact sarah.sosa@ wife of Chazen director Russel Panczenko. camaralatinadecomercio.org. Over dinner with the couple, the 79-year- old artist offered to donate the works to the WATROUS GALLERY museum as a way to preserve his legacy. HIGHLIGHTS LOCAL ARTISTS The single theme, in this case skulls, The works of two more local artists will be was chosen as suitable for a university set- highlighted beginning July 11 by the James ting. Showcasing a single object like a skull Watrous Gallery, located inside Madison’s allows art students to examine the various Overture Center for the Arts. ways the artist approaches a single subject. Madison sculptor Graham Yaeger and “I was always struck by memento mori, Sun Prairie photographer Tyler Robbins will the use of the skull to speak about mortal- share the gallery’s display space through ity,” Dine says in a video posted to the Cha- PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Aug. 24 with two one-man shows. zen’s website. “I realized I had an opportu- “Ancient Fishing” by Jim Dine, 1989, bronze Making Adjustments will feature Yaeger’s nity to essentially control an exhibition and with patina and pigment. steel-and-wood sculptures finished with to see for myself, selfishly, what that (body a mixed-media palette of vibrant colors. of) work looked like.” hand tools in their tableau. Trained in ceramics, Yaeger has created a The exhibition’s title, “I Knew Him,” taps Dine’s contribution features all manner dynamic display of pieces that move, pull the famous scene in Shakespeare’s Ham- of skull art, including two large sculptures, apart and can be rearranged to represent let in which the Melancholy Dane cradles two ceramic pieces, five paintings, eight different machines, jewelry and toys. Yorick’s skull in his hand and ponders the drawings, 25 prints and a number of photo- In his Anatomy of a Weekend, Robbins’ meaning of life. The Chazen exhibit will pro- graphs. Dine produced the works from 1982 photos and montages celebrate life in the vide plenty for visitors to ponder. to 2000. suburbs with familiar images like cookouts, In one of the sculptures, “The Plow,” The exhibit runs through Aug. 17. For garages and lawns. He also isolates objects a large skull sits atop its namesake farm more information visit www.chazen.wisc. in his black-and-white images such as lawn implement. Tools were another area of fas- edu. chairs and garden tools, creating montages cination for the Cincinnati-born artist, who that showcase the implements of the Amer- was raised by grandparents who owned a LATINO, LATINA ARTISTS SOUGHT ican weekend culture. hardware store. Several of the works include For the second consecutive year, Latino The James Watrous Gallery, which high- and Latina artists are being sought to par- lights the work of Wisconsin artists, is free ticipate in a special exhibit at the Madison and open to the public. The gallery is part Public Library designed to launch Hispanic of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts Heritage Month. and Letters and is dedicated to promoting The exhibit, scheduled to be unveiled on the state’s visual artists. For more informa- Sept. 10, will launch the month celebrating tion, visit ww.wisconinacademy.org/gallery. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 37

You go, grill to flame. Warm everything to room tem- in the flavors without creating that charred perature first. That will help keep it from characteristic you’ve tried so hard to avoid. By Michael Muckian sticking to the grill and creating unwanted You’ll also have less messy drippings to Contributing writer burn spots on the food. clean up. With the harsh winter behind us, it’s time • Marinate your meats. A nice marinade to get outside, fire up the Weber and enjoy adds flavor, but it also reduces the forma- FINALLY the primitive allure of cooking and dining in tion of potentially carcinogenic heterocyclic • Give it a rest. Allow your grilled meats the fresh air. Tender cuts of meats, savory amines that can form during the grilling about a 10-minute rest after removing fish and crisp, fresh fruits and vegetables process. them from the grill so that the juices can taste better grilled al fresco, whether over • Cut the fat. Trimming your meat and distribute throughout the grilled cuts. Keep gas or charcoal. using leaner cuts slow down possible flare- them covered to preserve warmth and then There’s much more involved in successful ups from dripping fat, reduces the chances serve with confidence, knowing that all grilling than throwing food on a grill over an of unwanted charring and results in more your preparations have preserved your title open flame. As with all other forms of cook- evenly cooked foods. as backyard barbecue royalty. ing, planning and preparation are a must if • Strive for balance. Beef isn’t the only you expect perfection. thing that grills well. Practice your tech- GRILL YOUR HARVEST Here are some tips and reminders that niques for grilling fish, poultry, vegetables More outdoor cooks are discovering that will improve your output, even if you’re not and fruit so your outdoor buffet is bounti- grilled vegetables, legumes and roots pro- new to the apron and spatula. ful. vide excellent and healthy side dishes for grilled meats. For some, a meal of grilled BEFORE THE FLAME AT THE GRILL veggies is all that’s needed for a full and • Decide on the medium. Charcoal grill- • Access to tools. Make sure that your complete dinner. ers know that lump charcoal (pure carbon basting brush, long-handled tongs and What are best vegetables for the grill? resulting from burned hardwoods) burns other tools of the grilling trade are within The Full Circle Organic Produce website cleaner and hotter than briquettes (car- easy reach. More food is ruined by absent offers the following Top 10 list: bon particles compressed and sealed with cooks searching for oven mitts than by any • Asparagus chemical additives.) Lump charcoal may be high-heat oil before you begin should do other problems. Invest in a meat thermom- • Potatoes more expensive and harder to find, but it’s the trick. eter so you can tell when your foods are • Sweet corn worth the effort and expense because of cooked to the right temperature inside and • Onions the flavors it will — and won’t — impart to • Preheat your grill. Food cooks more out. • Zucchini your grilled foods. evenly in a preheated environment. When • Don’t press that patty. Impatient grill- • Tomatoes • Start clean. You wouldn’t use a dirty meat is placed on the grill as it’s heating ers like to press burger patties, hoping the • Radicchio saucepan to cook something on your stove, up, portions of your steak, chop or burger pressure will make them cook faster. The • Bell peppers so clean your grill to reduce unwanted might come out underdone and overdone. pressure simply causes the meat to lose its • Eggplant flavor intrusions, as well as flare-ups from Charcoal should be red-hot and covered juices, resulting in flare-ups and, ultimately, • Green beans food and grease residue. Ten or 15 minutes with white ash prior to placing food on the dried-out burgers. Enjoy the sizzle and rest One caveat: Use a basket or fine mesh of cleaning with a stiff wire brush over a grill; gas grills should be given 15 minutes assured that meat is cooking exactly as it screen with small pieces in order to pre- high-heat grill is a great start. If you use of high heat with the lid closed before any should. vent them from slipping off the grate. Once chemical cleaners, make sure that you food hits the flames. • Wait to baste. Barbecue and other grilled, most veggies can simply be brushed rinse thoroughly following application. sauces almost always contain some form of with a little olive oil, salted and peppered • Oil it up. A lot of outdoor cooks forget PREPARING YOUR FOOD sugar, a substance that burns quickly over before serving. to grease the grill as a way to keep foods • Warm up your entrées. Don’t take your high heat. Apply your sauces at the end of from sticking. Rubbing the grate with a grilling favorites directly from refrigerator the cooking cycle. The heat will help lock 38 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 GELATO from prior page Ain’t no pour like the summertime brews

By Michael Muckian anced by lemon and citrus accents. There Contributing writer is a banana essence on the nose that more Dan Carey, co-owner and brewmaster of or less disappears on the palate. The beer New Glarus Brewing Co., would like you to is substantial, even for a hefeweizen, and a enjoy his beer Totally Naked. good choice for a warm afternoon. Depending on circumstances — and the Milwaukee Brewing Co. has taken a retro temperature — you can, of course, enjoy turn with Outboard, a cream ale that your any beer totally naked. But only Carey pro- father would consider “a real beer.” In other duces a brand of beer called Totally Naked words, those who cut their beer-drinking that can be enjoyed virtually anywhere, teeth on Pabst, Schlitz and Miller High Life regardless of the weather. It’s also a perfect would feel right at home quaffing Outboard. beer to add to your list of summertime The beer pours golden with a little carbon- brews. ation and a thin white head. The flavor is A lager brewed with two-row barley malt crisp in the palate and clean in its finish. and Noble Hop varieties from Germany and This is what they call a ”lawnmower beer” the Czech Republic, Totally Naked pours and you’ll want several after toiling on your with a bright white head and a light golden back 40. color that literally sparkles in the summer India pale ales are always summer favor- sun. The beer’s flavor is light, but creates ites, and one of ours is Hop Whoopin’ from a significant, yet subtle impression on the O’so Brewery in Plover, outside Stevens palate. It finishes very cleanly, with barely a Point. A floral nose leads to a yellow/orange whisper of aftertaste. pour and off-white foam, with orange/ The perfect summer beer is, of course, grapefruit flavors bursting on the palate. the beer you enjoy the most. But warmer Even at 95 international bittering units, the temperatures generally call for lighter, more beer’s hop monster status is tamed beneath refreshing fare. Just like food, there are a creamy mouthfeel and complex charac- beers that suit the season, and here are a teristics. Yum! few for your summer six-pack. Not far from O’so, Central Waters Brew- Earlier this year Madison’s Ale Asylum let ing Co. in Amherst is turning out many fine loose with six-packs of Unshadowed, brew- beers, not the least of which is its Belgian master Dean Coffee’s version of the classic Blonde Ale. Generally a light-bodied, palat- PHOTO: MILWAUKEE BREWING CO. hefeweizen. Coffee’s version pours a hazy able and lightly malted beer, this blonde Milwaukee Brewing Co. has taken a retro gold, with the classic wheat backbone bal- ale takes a slightly different turn through turn with Outboard, a cream ale that your father would consider “a real beer.”

its Belgian stylings, which add a little more hoppiness than blonde beer drinkers may expect. At around 8 percent alcohol by vol- ume, it’s also a little stronger, with spiciness on the palate and distinctly Belgian taste characteristics. Refreshing, yet with a little kick all its own. Summer shouldn’t mean a total absence of dark beer, and 3 Sheeps Baaad Boy Black Wheat Ale from Sheboygan may be the per- fect crossover beer for the season. The beer pours dark, but is not quite opaque, with an off-white head and nose of molasses and burnt grain. With flavors of toasty malt and cocoa, the beer has a somewhat complex palate. It retains a crisp characteristic that refreshes, while still meeting the taste pro- file preferred by dark beer lovers. One of our go-to summer beers has always been Lake Louie Warped Speed Scotch Ale, from Lake Louie Brewery in the little town of Arena. It’s robust, “wee heavy” dark in color, and rich in flavor char- acteristics. In July, brewmaster Tom Porter will release Impulse Drive Scotch Ale, a 4.4 percent ABV junior partner to Warped Speed’s 6.9 percent ABV and a “session beer” version of one of our favorites brews. What better way to celebrate the season? Star Trek fans will immediately recognize the beers’ homage to Mr. Scott, the Enter- prise engineer who used the warp drive to hop the ship from star system to star sys- tem, and the impulse drive to dodge those nasty Klingon rays. The source of the names doesn’t affect the flavor, of course, but it does add to the beer-drinking fun. GELATO from prior page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 39 bare the intellectual shallowness and emo- As Donny, Mani is the master of all he tional agony each character undergoes. surveys, which in this case is a junk shop ‘American Buffalo’ Fans of the Chicago playwright will rec- cluttered with a remarkable amount of cul- ognize the stop-start staccato of the play’s tural detritus, empty beer bottles, playing action, while those unfamiliar with Mamet cards and all manner of castoffs assembled shows ugly side of may be bowled over by the play’s emotional by scenic designer Liz Freese. Donny is the brutality. steady, if reluctant hand on the helm of the American Dream Director Kenneth Albers whips the sce- ensuing chaos, and his junk shop backdrop nario to a fine froth mostly, through the presents a suitable visual for reflecting the energy of Teach, a small-time hustler and cultural depths in which the characters have petty criminal whose philosophical preten- become mired. tions explore deeper themes. Teach is also a As Bobby, who may or may not be a career-defining performance for APT com- junkie, Meyer falls a bit short in the pres- pany member Ridge. ence of the two APT veterans. As Donny’s Best known for his classical turns, from protégé and Teach’s foil, the character has Shakespeare’s Shylock to Charles Dickens a smaller, but no less vital role that Meyer in Dickens in America, Ridge has always been often seems reluctant to fill. Thanks to one of APT’s most malleable performers. voice and text coach Christine Adaire, Mani PHOTO: ZANE WILLIAMS Clad by costume designer Anne Murphy and Ridge have both mastered the classic Brian Mani and James Ridge in American Players Theatre’s production of American Buf- in cheap plaid bellbottoms and a beaten Chicago accent. Yet Meyer, who is from falo. The play runs through Nov. 8. Upcoming dates include June 22, 27, 29 and July 2, 5, leather jacket, Ridge’s Teach is a study in Chicago, shows little trace of it. 8, 11 and 16. mannerisms and attitude, a constantly mov- Still, the three performers generally work ing manic often bordering on hysteria and well together in the emotionally difficult By Michael Muckian shop” somewhere in Chicago, has just sold bringing the most mundane moments to a web that Mamet spins. The characters never Contributing writer a buffalo nickel he didn’t even know he roiling boil. arrive at their goal, because they never get According to the tenets of the American had in his dusty, cracked display case to Teach defends the pending crime as one going. If art represents life, as critics often Dream, people are free to pursue the lives a well-heeled collector for $90. The sale more instance of the American Dream of like to think, American Buffalo paints a par- they want. sets the wheels in motion for Donny, his free enterprise, a concept he both disdains ticularly difficult one — a narrative soiled That dream takes a particularly ugly turn friend Teach (James Ridge) and his young and clings too, even though the dream has with streaks and smears that will seem all in David Mamet’s American Buffalo, which is assistant Bobby (APT newcomer Brendan long ago abandoned him. too familiar to many in the audience. part of American Players Theatre’s opening Meyer) to plan a heist of the man’s coin col- “Without this we’re just savage shitheads No doubt that was Mamet’s intention. line-up for its 35th season. The production lection while he is out of town. in the wilderness, sitting around some American Buffalo continues in repertory at is performed in APT’s Touchstone Theatre. But this is much less a caper comedy than vicious campfire,” Teach espouses. APT’s Touchstone Theatre through Nov. 8. Mamet’s rapid-fire, exceedingly vulgar an agonizing struggle of disappointment From the way the action unfolds, it doesn’t For play dates and ticket information, go to 1975 tragi-comedy explores what happens and unfulfilled need. Mamet’s profane poet- look like the characters in American Buffalo americanplayers.org. when people not only don’t get what they ry plumbs the depths of his characters’ frus- have evolved far beyond the campfire. And want, but fail to understand why. trations and misunderstandings. Teach’s Ridge must be truly exhausted after each Donny (Brian Mani), who runs a “resale overwrought, often hilarious invective lays performance. 40 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 26, 2014 Out on the town June 26 – July 10 A curated calendar of upcoming events

SUMMERFEST Through July 6 We don’t need to tell you Summerfest is taking over Mil- waukee for the next two weekends or that the city’s greatest festival once again will welcome hundreds of acts over the course of 11 days. So what should we tell you about Summer- fest? How about the major headliners, including Lady Gaga (June 26), Tegan and Sara (June 27), Joan Jett and the Black- hearts (July 2), and Usher (July 6). There are also local stars appearing, such as Wild Cub (June 27), Maritime (July 2), The Delta Routine (July 3), and Naima Adedapo (July 5, see story page 30). The great thing about Summerfest is you can move from stage to stage and hear a variety of performances for a single admission price. Admission is $18, $11 weekdays before 4 p.m., and $6 for children and seniors. Weekday value passes and three-day passes are available as well. Get more info and schedules at summerfest.com.

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PHOTO: MARK FROHNA JELLY BELLY CARNIVAL June 26–29 A LADY IS… 7:30 p.m. on June 27 and 28 The Jelly Belly factory in Pleasant Prairie presents an annual carnival dedicated to jelly beans. This year’s Jelly Belly Carnival pays special tribute to its buttered popcorn version Professional dancer Carrie Lande in celebration of the flavor’s 25th anniversary. In addition to buttered popcorn-inspired Homuth is currently based in the tastings, visitors can enjoy carnival rides, midway games, and jelly beans of all imaginable Twin Cities, but for the past few flavors. At 10100 Jelly Belly Lane. Admission, including a tour and samples, is free. Call summers she’s studied with UWM’s 866-868-7522 or visit jellybelly.com for details. dance program to earn her MFA. For the conclusion of her studies, she’s bringing her Minnesota dance company Live Wire Dance to Mil- waukee to perform her thesis work — A Lady Is… The program explores the perception of women’s roles in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s, as seen through fashion and the workplace. At Studio 508, 1925 E. Kenilworth Place. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at arts.uwm.edu/tickets.

LIEBER ABEND: A NIGHT OF GERMAN SONG 7 p.m. on Thurs., June 26 The exuberant Opera on Tap assembles at Villa Terrace Deco- rative Arts Museum for an eve- ning dedicated to German song. The group will perform works by Shubert, Strauss, Brahms and Mozart in a setting that provides a much more relaxed environment than the recital hall, and, accord- ing to the group, makes for a more energized and engaged presen- tation. The suggested donation is $10. At 2220 N. Terrace Ave., Milwaukee. Visit villaterracemu- seum.org for further details. PHOTO: JELLY BELLY CANDY COMPANY WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 26, 2014 Out on the town June 26 – July 10

PHOTO: SUE MOEN ‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’ (‘LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE’) 7 p.m. on Thurs., June 26 Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art is showing a variety of different films in the Summer Cinematheque series — a partnership with UW- Madison’s Cinematheque group. One of the season’s highlights is this adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fable by French filmmaker Jean Cocteau. With the help of a hypnotic score by Georges Auric, Cocteau’s film turns the tale into a visually poetic fantasy. The film will be screened in a newly struck 35 mm print, in French with Eng- lish subtitles. Admission is free. At 750 University Ave., Madison. Visit chazen.wisc.edu.

HEIDI FESTIVAL/TASTE OF NEW GLARUS June 27– 29 It’s the 50th anniversary of New Glarus’ Heidi Festival, honoring the town’s Swiss routes. The centerpiece of the festival is the annual performance of Heidi at New Glarus High School, where it will be presented four times during the weekend. Local downtown vendors will be on hand throughout the weekend, and on Saturday the Taste of New Glarus will offer visitors samples of locally produced foods and beverages. Tickets to Heidi are $8, $6 for PHOTO: COURTESY children under six. Festival admission is free. Visit swisstown.com for more information.

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CEDARBURG STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL June 28–29 Strawberries are one of the summer’s greatest treasures, as the residents of Cedarburg know very well. They’ve been putting MOON TAXI 8 p.m. on Tues., July 1 together their annual Cedarburg Strawberry Festival for a gen- If you can’t make it to Summerfest on June 28 to hear the indie jam-rock band Moon Taxi, catch eration now, and the free festival is known for miles around as a the group at Madison’s High Noon Saloon a few days later. Moon Taxi is headlining a show there wonderful, family-friendly activity featuring local growers’ berries on July 1, following opening acts The Delta Saints and Red Rose. Give a listen to the sonic land- and berry treats. The festival also features a variety of musicians scape that Moon Taxi creates on its latest album Mountains Beaches Cities, an explorative record and artists, as well as a plein air painting competition. This year that charts new ground for the group. At 701 E. Washington Ave., Madison. Tickets are $14, $12 the festival will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for in advance. Call 608-268-1122 or visit high-noon.com. the Largest Scoop of Ice Cream, so bring your appetites. For more information, visit cedarburgfestivals.org/strawberryfestival.html.

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BRISTOL RENAISSANCE FAIRE July 5 through Sept. 1 Replicating the Renaissance is challeng- ing, but the Bristol Renaissance Faire has been recreating the year 1574 in Southeast Wisconsin for more than 40 years, so its organizers are old hands at olden times. The fair offers the whole scene: royalty, peasants, jousters, jesters, and costumed re-enactors of all stripes. Most importantly, they offer you a path into the magic, wheth- er you’re corseted in period garb or wearing jeans. The festival stretches until Labor Day. At 12550 120th Ave., Kenosha. Admis- sion is $23.95, $11.50 for children; a season pass is $125. Visit renfair.com/bristol for tickets and more information. ILLUSTRATION: © 1987-2014 BY MARTIN HANDFORD

FIND WALDO SCAVENGER HUNT July 1 through 31 Where’s Waldo? Ask Boswell Book Company, which is hosting the kick-off party for the city’s Waldo scaven- ger hunt, Milwaukee’s version of a national initiative to patronize local businesses. Kids who visit Boswell on July 1 between 4 and 6 p.m. can pick up a free Find Waldo pass- port, which they can take to any of the scavenger hunt’s many locations to track down Waldo and earn a stamp from that particular business. Getting 15 or more stamps by July 30 brings the chance to win one of a variety of prizes, from gift cards for Yo Mama or Boswell to a deluxe set of Waldo books. At 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee. For more information, visit boswell.indiebound.com. PHOTO: NIA DAMGOVA

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