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4 New fly zones 6 25 years after 35 Jenniferize Pride 41 Up and coming 44 Summer freeze Climate change is Defying government, Chi- Jennifer Hudson aims to Milwaukee band Guilty La Coppa Artisan Gelato affecting bird behavior, nese remember demon- “Jenniferize” Chicago’s Wanted graduates to and others are giving ice including where and when stration, massacre in Pride Festival this month. headline position at cream the cold shoulder. species migrate. Tiananmen Square. Summerfest. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg Stormy SexiSm? kids at the ceremony: Rosie to return mail for LGBT citizens in their in the yearbook was titled Researchers at the Uni- O’Donnell, Chelsea Han- postmarked BeardS, BarS party platforms. “Wasatch Stud Life.” In it, versity of Illinois-Cham- dler, Whitney Cummings, with the stamp and BearS shirtless male students paign have concluded that Peter Facinelli and Sia. to the sender or Cue the Buffett and pack making a poop Stop appear under a headline people are more likely to refuse to accept the flip-flops. A fantasy A US Airways flight from that proclaims, “Studs doin’ fear hurricanes with mas- ChriStie and the it from their postal carriers. festival of bars, beards and Los Angeles to Philadel- what studs do best!” culine names than feminine BaCheloretteS Milk, who served briefly on bears takes place in Key phia made an emergency names. The researchers New Jersey Gov. Chris the San Francisco Board of West, Florida, in mid-July. poop stop in Kansas City. potaBle from conducted six experiments Christie brightened the day Supervisors before he was That’s when some 125 burly The unscheduled landing poop? and found in each case that of a bride-to-be when he assassinated, was one of characters compete in the was made after a service Researchers at Michigan people were more likely to and Gov. Bill Haslam unwit- the first out gay men ever annual “Papa” Hemingway dog pooped twice in the State University say tech- heed warnings for storms tingly went to a restaurant elected to public office. look-a-like contest. It’s all aisle, creating an odor that nology to extract drinkable named Christopher, Victor, hosting a bachelorette part of Hemingway Days, sickened the passengers. water from manure could Alexander and Danny than party. Christie was making the China which also includes prose The flight resumed after go commercial this year. storms named Christina, a sweep of GOP events in ConneCtion and poetry readings, an off- the mess was cleaned up, The McLanahan Nutrient Victoria, Alexandra and the state in an attempt to Five men — four from beat “Running of the Bulls” the plane aired out and the Separation System has pro- Kate. The consequences? gauge what the reaction the Atlanta area and a fifth and a street fair on Duval. dog and its human com- duced water that’s clean In the United States, hur- would be like among Dixie from Alabama — face fed- panion booked on a differ- enough for cattle to drink ricanes with feminine- Republicans to a Christie eral conspiracy charges for Better than ent plane. Such events are and can extract about 50 sounding names tend to be presidential bid. While Ten- allegedly illegally importing SeCeSSion? rare, according to reps for gallons of water from 100 deadlier (Katrina, Sandy), nessee pols had a negative male enhancement prod- Flouting science, a draft the airlines and service dog gallons of manure. They say probably because people reaction, the bachelorettes ucts from China. The gov- of the Texas Republican Par- organizations. the technology has practi- underestimate their wrath. gushed and had their pic- ernment claims the men ty’s new platform endorses cal, life-saving applications. tures taken with New Jer- told their China connection gay conversion therapy, Cover up California sey’s biggest highway haz- to mislabel the boxes con- which is considered so Female students at no pride Ceremony ard. They did not, however, taining Viagra products to damaging psychologically Wasatch High School Utah A Salt Lake City police Rocker Melissa Etheridge ask him to strip. avoid detection by the U.S. that it’s been outlawed for discovered that their year- officer was placed on leave and TV exec Linda Wal- Food and Drug Administra- minors in California and book photos had been after refusing an assign- lem married on May 31 at don’t Want milk? tion, as well as Customs New Jersey. The platform altered electronically ment to work at the annual the San Ysidro Ranch in A Christian hate group is and Border Patrol. The men also condemns homosexual to cover up most of their Utah Pride Parade on June 8 Montecito, California. The urging its followers not to allegedly purchased about behavior. According to the exposed skin. But the same in Salt Lake City. “We don’t couple had announced their accept mail bearing the new $2 million in Viagra over Huffington Post, Republi- yearbook contained pho- tolerate bias and bigotry wedding plans last sum- Harvey Milk stamp. Instead, three years. Not quite the cans in 43 states promote tos of boys exposing their in the department,” said a mer, after the demise of the American Family Asso- life-and-death stuff of Dal- opposition to same-sex bare chests and dressed in department spokesperson. Prop 8. Joining Etheridge’s ciation wants its followers las Buyers Club. marriage and other rights boxers. In fact, one spread WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 Shifting flight patterns Climate change’s impact on birds

By lisa neff National Audubon Society. lected and used by Audubon Staff writer Researchers have looked scientists to identify pat- Could it be that some at the impact of climate terns and trends over time. day the “oh-sweet-canada” change on specific species, An analysis of the counts whistle of the white-throat- such as the peacock, a bird provided evidence that cli- ed sparrow or the steady indigenous to Pakistan that mate change is seriously musical trill of the pine war- typically breeds in June and impacting natural sys- bler won’t be heard in Wis- July and nests through the tems, especially influencing consin? summer. Delays in the mon- migration. The co-author of At least two climate soon season have brought the Audubon study, Greg change models — one from heavy rains in September Butcher, wrote, “Birds are the Canadian Climate Cen- that can damage peacock showing us how the heavy ter and another from the eggs. And severe flooding hand of humanity is tipping United Kingdom’s Hadley has caused some peacock the balance of nature and Center for Climate Predic- populations to migrate to causing ecological disrup- tion and Research — indi- more mountainous habitats. tion in ways we are just cate that by 2100 many bird At the University of East beginning to predict and Photo: NatioN al auduboN Society species now found in Wis- Anglia in England, scientists comprehend.” the peacock. Science suggests that climate change is impacting the bird’s breeding and consin will be locally extinct, in the school of biological The Audubon research migration patterns. including the white-throat- sciences studied a popula- was focused on North ed sparrow, red-breasted tion of Icelandic black-tailed America and showed a nuthatch, mourning warbler godwits for two decades. strong correlation between and pine warbler. During that time, the flock shifting ranges and winter Other research efforts advanced the end of its temperature trends. Birds show that climate change spring migration by two are found further north in is impacting birds and weeks. warmer winters than they their behavior — especially The scientists found are in colder winters. Also, migration and breeding — that a younger generation many birds are moving away around the globe, raising was pushing up the sched- from coastal areas, where questions for the fate of the ule. “We found that birds oceans help moderate tem- proud peacocks of Pakistan, hatched in the late 1990s peratures, and are being the brown pelicans of Cali- arrived in May, but those seen farther inland as tem- fornia, the pine warblers of hatched in more recent peratures rise. Wisconsin and more. years are tending to arrive The birds, according to “The science is clear: Car- in April,” said lead research- Audubon, are following bon pollution is profoundly er Jenny Gill. “So the arriv- the biological imperative Photo:courteSy damaging to our air, water, al dates are advancing to move into areas with Canada geese. natural spaces and wild- because the new youngsters suitable climate. Over the life, and failure to tackle are migrating earlier. 40-year period, the red-

Photo: JoS e P h kNoll the problem is no longer an “Climate change is likely breasted merganser has pine Warbler. option,” said David Yarnold, to be driving this change moved 317 miles north and president and CEO of the because godwits nest earli- the green-winged teal, 157 er in warmer years and birds miles north. The pine siskin that hatch earlier will have has moved 288 miles north more time to gain the body and the spruce grouse, 316 condition needed for migra- miles north. tion and to find good places The data also showed to spend the winter, which that: can help them to return • Twice as many bird spe- early to Iceland when they cies moved north as come back to breed.” south. One of the most signifi- • Twice as many species cant studies on the subject, moved inland as moved “Birds and Climate Change coastally. — Ecological Disruption in Motion” from the Audubon • There is a high correla- Society, examined 40 years tion between the rate of of data collected by citizen winter population change scientists in the organiza- for species in states and tion’s annual Christmas Bird the winter temperature in Count. those states. Each year, the citizen sci- While some species entists, most of them avid appear to be adapting — birdwatchers, go out on a moving north, shifting specific date in December inland — other species are or January and count birds, at risk. Grassland birds, for Photo: l ee k arN ey/u SFWS noting the species and their example. Their habitats an american robin. Photo: GleNN t e P ke/NatioN al auduboN Society number. The data are col- an american goldfinch. Climate next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 5

Climate from prior page have been so decimated by human overuse that there additional reSearCh ShoWS: are few places to go to find • Lowland and foothill bird species in Costa Rica have a more suitable habitat. extended their ranges up mountain slopes. Audubon also has con- • Breeding birds in the United Kingdom extended cerns for the fate of ice-lov- their ranges north by 12 miles in association with ing birds, such as the Ivory warming temperatures. and Ross’s gulls, Arctic- breeding shorebirds such as • Warming ocean temperatures contributed to a the American golden-plover 90-percent decline in the population of sooty shear- and coastal birds such as waters on the west coast of the United States. the piping plover. “Common sense dictates that we act now to curb the causes and impacts of glob- birds — and ourselves — the wildlife that you see and al warming to the extent we in a changing world. Sure, hear will be birds. Listen to can, and shape our policies energy companies are going that warbler and then think to better cope with the dis- to howl, but they can’t get a about what you can do to ruptions we cannot avoid,” free pass to dump harmful minimize your impact.” waste into our air any lon- according to Butcher. Photo: GleNN t e P ke/NatioN al auduboN Society ger, and they’re fully capa- Earlier this month, the the Steller’s jay. Obama administration ble of innovating their way announced plans to reduce to solutions.” carbon dioxide emissions Birdwatchers who par- from U.S. power plants, ticipate in the Christmas many of which are coal- count also welcomed the fired, by 30 percent from announcement, but said 2005 levels by 2030. more must be done by The announcement was everyone. well received in environ- “I’d like everyone who mental circles. reads this to go outside. Audubon’s Yarnold said, Take a look around. Listen,” “Cutting carbon pollution is said bird enthusiast Ginny the single most important Manzerik of Milwaukee. thing we can do to protect “There’s a good chance that

The Sibley Guide to Birds Second Edition by david allen Sibley is an essential tool for the birdwatcher’s backpack. 6 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 China wants the world to forget, but many remember the tiananmen Square massacre 25 years ago

By lisa neff tions,” according to the watchdog group inquiry into what took place in the square, ment, said the United States urges the Chi- Staff writer Human Rights Watch. to compensate the families of the victims nese government to guarantee “universal On June 4, Chin and his husband solemnly The government censors the press, the and to cease harassment and persecution rights and fundamental freedoms” to all its marked the anniversary of one of the most Internet and academic research and justi- of those seeking to commemorate or speak citizens and “will always speak out in sup- significant protests of the 20th century — fies human rights abuses as necessary to out about the protests. port of the basic freedoms the protesters at the 25th anniversary of the pro-democra- preserve “social stability,” said Ken Roth, The White House, on June 4, also called Tiananmen Square sought.” cy demonstrations in China’s Tiananmen executive director of HRW. Populations are on the Chinese government to account for Square and the bloody government assault involuntarily relocated and rehoused on a those killed, detained or reported missing that killed hundreds, if not thousands, of massive scale, and repressive policies are 25 years ago. unarmed citizens. carried out against ethnic minorities in Inner Press secretary Jay Carney, in a state- Chin observed the anniversary during a Mongolia, Xinjiang and candlelight vigil in Golden Gate Park orga- Tibet. nized by an LGBT Asian-Pacific Islanders Protests do take place group. Similar remembrances took place in China — HRW esti- June 3–4 around the world, with the excep- mates as many as 300– China ‘places arbitrary tion of in China. 500 protests occur each “We remember, people all over the world day. curbs on expression, remembered, but China is seeing to it that But no protests have association, assembly people there forget,” said the gay student reached the scale or activist. “We know the history of Stonewall. captured the attention and religion; prohibits Twenty-five years later, we still don’t know of the rest of the world the whole truth of what happened in Tianan- as the pro-democra- independent labor men Square.” cy demonstrations in For Chin, the 33-foot-tall Goddess of Tiananmen Square 25 unions and human Democracy that demonstrators built in years ago. That’s in Tiananmen Square is as important a sym- large part due to gov- rights organizations; bol of freedom as the rainbow Pride flag. “I ernment crackdowns — and maintains party hope that someday it can be rebuilt again in human rights activists in Tiananmen Square,” Chin said. The statue, the country often face control over all judicial which was made of foam, plaster, papier- imprisonment, deten- mâché and metal, drew people to the square tion, torture, intimida- institutions.’ for those days in early June in Beijing. tion, house arrest and China has never issued a full account- commitment to psychi- ing of what happened, but journalists have atric institutes. estimated that as many as a million people, Amnesty Interna- including about 100,000 students, were tional reported that in protesters occupying Beijing’s tiananmen engaged in the pro-democracy, anti-cor- advance of the 25th Square work on the statue of the ruption demonstrations that spring in Bei- anniversary of the goddess of democracy, may 30, 1989. jing. They were seeking reform, calling for Tiananmen Square the makeshift statue, modeled after the changes to the authoritarian regime. crackdown, China Statue of liberty, was destroyed, and On May 20, 1989, the government detained at least 60 hundreds of people were killed when imposed martial law. people in an effort to Chinese soldiers overran the square in the On June 3–4, tanks and armored person- suppress any commem- early morning hours of June 4, 1989. nel carriers reached Tiananmen Square, fol- oration of the victims of lowed by tens of thousands of troops armed the June 3–4 assault. Among the detainees with automatic weapons that were used on was a student activist in 1989 and a former unarmed marchers and onlookers. Reports political aide to the late Communist Party put the number of people killed at some- leader Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the gov- where between 200 and 2,600. ernment crackdown in Tiananmen. The incident of the lone man standing in According to Amnesty, 18 activists were the path of the column of tanks occurred the criminally detained, 20 activists were placed day after the crackdown, the day the square under house arrest, 10 activists were forced still was being cleared of the wounded and to relocate, another 10 activists were miss- their bicycles. The identity of the Tank Man ing but believed to be detained and 12 were is not known, though there has been specu- questioned by police. lation. His fate also is not known — some Chinese authorities “have gone further say he was detained and later executed, but when compared to past years, including the others maintain he went on to live a quiet 20th anniversary, with more people crimi- life in China. nally detained,” said William Nee, AI’s China Today, a relaxation of some restrictions researcher. But, Nee said, “Authorities’ suf- on basic rights has coincided with rapid focating grip on freedom of expression will socio-economic change in China. But the not stop people in China and around the government remains “an authoritarian one- world from remembering the victims.” party state. It places arbitrary curbs on Amnesty, like many other human rights PhotoS : JeFF WideN er/a P a file photo taken June 5, 1989, shows a lone Chinese man standing to block a line of expression, association, assembly and reli- groups, has called on the Chinese govern- tanks heading east on Beijing’s Changan Boulevard near tiananmen Square on June gion; prohibits independent labor unions ment to publicly acknowledge the human 5, 1989. a quarter century after the Communist party’s attack on demonstrations and human rights organizations; and main- rights violations that occurred in the Tianan- centered on tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the ruling party prohibits public tains party control over all judicial institu- men crackdown, to launch an independent discussion and 1989 is banned from textbooks and Chinese websites. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 7 8 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 Wisconsin sees first same-sex marriages ruling’s future clouded by gop’s legal challenges

P hoto: a P Photo/JeFFrey PhelPS hitChed in milWaukee: Jill Winkler, left, and pamela dietzler kiss after they were married at the milwaukee County Courthouse June 6. Same-sex couples began getting married in Wisconsin shortly after a federal judge ruled that state’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. Confusion over the effect of the ruling continues.

By lisa neff Milwaukee County Chairwoman Marina after seven years as a couple, Schreck “I’m still up in the clouds!” Roll said after Staff writer Dimitrijevic served as volunteer gatekeeper and Gutierrez became the first same-sex the ceremony. “I’ve never seen such a happy courthouse,” of the event, checking in couples as couple to legally marry in Wisconsin. Theirs The marriages prompted news confer- quipped a man entering Milwaukee County they arrived and giving them a number. was also the first marriage ceremony that ences, celebrations and a flurry of state- Courthouse late on the afternoon of June 6. Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele Koepnick had ever performed. ments from civil rights leaders, activists, What hadn’t seemed possible to lesbian played host, adding to the party atmosphere “He did great,” Schreck said. lawmakers and candidates who cheered and gay Wisconsinites on the morning of by ordering in food for everyone. He also Crabb’s decision. June 6 — the right to marry the person volunteered to pay personally for the cost to ‘i’m Still in the CloudS’ There also were condemnations, along they love in the state where they live — had keep the courthouse open until 9 p.m. Dozens of couples married on June 6 with a notice from Wisconsin Attorney suddenly become reality just hours later, Matt Schreck, 37, had the day off and was in Madison and Milwaukee. Dozens more General J.B. Van Hollen that he was filing when U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb sitting at home watching the Major League married on June 7. Other couples who drove an emergency request for a stay with ruled the state’s ban on same-sex marriage Baseball draft when he received a tweet to those courthouses were turned away — Crabb and from the state Department of is unconstitutional. Scores of same-sex from the ACLU of Wisconsin informing him either because they didn’t make residency Justice warning clerks not to issue marriage couples raced through the courthouse’s of Crabb’s ruling. He immediately phoned to requirements or lacked proper documents. licenses to same-sex couples. Wells Street entrance, determined to get share the news with his partner, Fernando Jean Salzer and Linda Kapheim, together Van Hollen said that because Crabb hitched before a Republican official could Gutierrez, 35, who was on the job as a 14 years, also married in Milwaukee. didn’t issue an immediate injunction against get an injunction to bring the weddings to Milwaukee Public School teacher. “It just makes it so real for family,” enforcement that the law remained in effect. a halt. The couple had prepared for a Kapheim said. “The United States Supreme Court, after The word “happy” doesn’t do justice to development like this. A folder containing all Salzer added, “I think there’s that a referral from Justice (Sonia) Sotomayor, the emotions on display. The crowd was of the documentation they’d need to obtain legitimacy piece. You are the same as stayed a lower court’s decision striking jubilant in an over-the-top, my-team-just- a marriage license was neatly stashed in the everyone else. Someone with power says down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage. won-the-Super Bowl kind of way. Their eyes glove compartment of their car. On the way we are married.” There is no reason to believe the Supreme shimmered with tears of joy. The cavernous to pick up Gutierrez from school, Schreck In Dane County, Shari Roll and Renee Court would treat Wisconsin’s ban any space felt lit with smiles that beamed phoned a friend who was on standby to act Currie, together for 10 years, became the differently,” he said in the statement. straight from people’s hearts. People held as witness. first same-sex couple to marry there. Of But Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell hands, embraced and cheered as couple Next they called the Rev. Eric Koepnick, course they hadn’t started out their Friday had a different interpretation of Crabb’s after couple exited the large doors of who just six days earlier had been the first with plans to marry, but they had dozens ruling, as did Czarnezki, Abele, and Dane Milwaukee County Clerk Joe Czarnezki’s openly gay clergyman to be ordained by the of witnesses as they exchanged vows in an County Executive Joe Parisi. office as husband and husband, as wife and United Church of Christ in Walworth County. 80-second ceremony before a throng of wife. Everything came together as planned, and media. marry next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 9 marry from prior page “This is a happy and historic day in summary judgment and denying defendants’ Wisconsin,” Parisi said. “It’s been a long motion to dismiss because I conclude that they do time coming, it’s been too long coming, but the Wisconsin laws prohibiting marriage Counties issuing marriage licenses it’s here. Everyone who wants to marry in between same-sex couples interfere with to same-sex couples, as of June 10: Wisconsin is now finally able to marry the plaintiffs’ right to marry, in violation of the Ashland, Bayfield, Brown, Buffalo, person they love.” due process clause, and discriminate against Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, After a day of rest — and undoubtedly plaintiffs on the basis of sexual orientation, Door, Douglas, Florence, Fond du some proposals — June 9 dawned with lines in violation of the equal protection clause,” Lac, Green, Iowa, Jackson, Jeffer- of gay couples seeking marriage licenses she wrote. son, Juneau, Kenosha, La Crosse, from clerk’s offices across the state. She continued, “I do not mean to Langlade, Manitowoc, Milwau- Some clerks offices continued to refuse disparage the legislators and citizens who kee, Monroe, Outagamie, Pepin, licenses. Some refused but then reversed voted in good conscience for the marriage Polk, Rock, Rusk, Sauk, Taylor, Trem- course after couples vowed not to leave until amendment.” However, “It is necessary to pealeau, Vilas, Waukesha, Wau- they had a license to exchange vows. Some conclude only that the state may not intrude paca, Wood. accepted marriage license applications but without adequate justification on certain Some of the counties have waived declined to waive the usual five-day waiting fundamental decisions made by individuals the waiting period. period. And other clerks were eager to join and that, when the state does impose Dane and Milwaukee without delay. restrictions on these important matters, it Source: Fair Wisconsin By the end of the day, a majority of must do so in an even-handed manner.” counties in the state were accepting Larry Dupuis, legal director of the ACLU applications for licenses from gay couples. of Wisconsin, said, “We are tremendously And by the June 10, the first licenses had happy that these loving and committed on June 6, “Today is a great day for Wisconsin been submitted to the state vital records couples will now be able to access the and committed couples who love each other office. security and recognition that only marriage across the state. Every loving couple should provides. These discriminatory laws are have the freedom to marry whomever they Seeking a Stay falling around the country, and it is only choose, and the fact that this freedom is But the wedding march in Wisconsin right that Wisconsin move forward as well.” now available in Wisconsin is something we could prove to be a brief one. On June 9, Wisconsin voted in 2006 to approve the all can and should be proud of.” Van Hollen turned to the 7th Circuit Court anti-gay amendment, which states, “Only a of Appeals in Chicago seeking to stop the marriage between one man and one woman from CoaSt to CoaSt marriages. shall be valid or recognized as a marriage There are about 70 lawsuits pending in On the same day, the state and plaintiffs in this state. A legal status identical or state and federal courts challenging anti-gay attorneys held a conference with Crabb, who substantially similar to that of marriage for marriage laws in 30 states, in addition to the declined to act on Van Hollen’s emergency unmarried individuals shall not be valid or challenge in Wisconsin, which is the 12th request for a stay from her. Instead she set recognized in this state.” state to see an anti-gay ban struck down in a June 19 hearing. But recent polls show that Wisconsin federal court since the U.S. Supreme Court From the appeals court, Van Hollen wants voters have flipped on the marriage ban — handed down its marriage rulings last June. a reversal of Crabb’s ruling and, in the about 55 percent in the state now support Same-sex couples can marry in the meantime, a stay. “The point of a stay is marriage equality. District of Columbia and 19 other states. obvious to most: It preserves the status quo Despite the sea change in the law, politics Until June 6, Wisconsin had been an during the appeal process and prevents the and opinions on gay marriage since 2006, inequality state surrounded by the equality introduction of uncertainty, inconsistency the Republican leadership has pledged to states of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. and confusion into Wisconsin’s marriage continue to defend the amendment. “Where you live should never limit your laws,” he said in a statement. Gov. Scott Walker said, “It is correct for ability to marry the person you love,” said As of WiG’s press time for this issue, Van the attorney general, on this or any other Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Hollen didn’t have the stay and the wedding issue, to defend the constitution of the state Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil march continued. of Wisconsin, especially in a case where the rights group. “All across the country, from Larry Dupuis, legal director of the ACLU of people voted to amend it.” coast to coast and everywhere in between, Wisconsin, said he’s sure future rulings will Mary Burke, Walker’s likely Democratic judges are striking marriage discrimination be on the side of justice. “We are confident opponent in November, said in a statement from the books using the U.S. Constitution that the appeals court will review the case as their guide. Because of the couples who and agree with Judge Crabb’s initial finding brought this case, their attorneys with that this case is about the constitutional from the Cover the ACLU and Mayer Brown LLP, and the cornerstones of liberty and equality. This is hundreds of plaintiffs challenging marriage about basic rights for people who are being bans across the country, we as a nation are harmed by the current law,” he said. closer than ever before to full equality under the law.” ‘even-handed manner’ The Associated Press contributed to this Wolf v. Walker was filed on behalf of report. eight same-sex couples either seeking the right to marry in Wisconsin and to have the state recognize an out-of-state marriage. Photo: a P/JeFFrey PhelPS The ACLU, the ACLU of Wisconsin and Jose fernando gutierrez, left, and mat- the law firm of Mayer Brown LLP have thew Schreck pose for a photograph Breaking neWS argued that Wisconsin’s ban on marriage with rev. erik koepnick after their For updates on marriage equality equality violates the couples’ due process marriage ceremony at the milwaukee in Wisconsin, go online to www.wis- and equal protection rights under the County Courthouse friday June 6, 2014, consingazette.com. Also, follow WiG 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. in milwaukee.Same-sex couples began reports on Facebook and Twitter. Crabb, in her opinion, said two motions getting married in Wisconsin on fri- Share your wedding photos at @ were before the court: a motion to dismiss, day shortly after a federal judge struck wigazette and #LoveWinsWi. filed by the state, and a motion for summary down the state’s gay marriage ban and judgment, filed by the plaintiffs. despite confusion over the effect of the “I am granting plaintiff’s motion for ruling. 10 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 plaintiffs celebrate ruling Her daughter’s security. That’s what collie-Australian shepherd mix, Z. Karina Willes was thinking about on June • Salud garcia and pam kleiss of Madi- 6 when a federal judge overturned Wis- son. Garcia, 50, and Kleiss, 49, were both consin’s constitutional amendment against working for the American Association of same-sex marriage. Retired Persons — Kleiss in Seattle, and Willes is a plaintiff in the American Civil Garcia in California — when they met. A co- Liberties Union of Wisconsin’s lawsuit chal- worker who was friends with both of them lenging the ban. She married her wife, Kami used to forward funny emails from Garcia Young, last year in Minnesota. to Kleiss. The women, who live in West Milwaukee, • Charvonne kemp and marie Carlson are raising a newborn daughter, but only of Milwaukee. Kemp, 43, and Carlson, 48, Young, the birth mother, is recognized as have been partners more than seven years the legal parent on the birth certificate. and raised two sons together. Kemp is an “I am no less a mother to her than Kami accountant and Carlson is a raw material is, and she deserves the security of having handler for a manufacturing company. both of her parents legally recognized,” • Johannes Wallmann and keith Borden Young said. of Madison. Wallmann, 39, and Borden, 40, Young, 36, and Willes, 44, have been have been together for 15 years. Wallmann together for 13 years. is a music professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also is a profes- the other plaintiffS: sional jazz pianist, composer, and bandlead- • roy Badger and garth Wangemann of er. Borden is a classically trained singer and Milwaukee. Badger, 56, and Wangemann, yoga instructor. 58, have been together 37 years. They met • Judi trampf and katy heyning of Madi- through mutual friends when they were son. Trampf, 53, and Heyning, 51, met in students at the University of Wisconsin- college at the Girl Scout National Center Milwaukee, and got together on Election in Wyoming. They were part of a group of Day in November 1976. women from the Midwest who would get • Carol Schumacher and virginia Wolf of together outside of summer camp. Eau Claire. Schumacher, 60, and Wolf, 74, • William hurtubise and leslie “dean” grew up in Kansas and moved to Wisconsin palmer of Racine. Hurtubise and Palmer, together in 1977. Schumacher worked as an both 40, live in Racine with their three chil- elections administrator and city clerk, and dren, ages 5, 4, and 2. Hurtubise grew up in is now retired. Wolf is a retired Unitarian Racine, and he commutes four hours a day Universalist minister and also a professor to work in Chicago so that he, Palmer and emeritus of English at the University of Wis- their children can live in his hometown near consin-Stout, where she worked 24 years. family, friends and their church. They live in Eau Claire with their border Source: ACLU Wedding license update At least 42 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties Waukesha County Clerk Kathleen were issuing marriage licenses to same- Novack said her office began accepting sex couples on June 9, according to a applications for licenses about 9:30 a.m. canvass by The Associated Press. Many on June 9. Her office had issued about a clerks were waiving the state’s five-day half-dozen licenses in the first half-hour waiting period. and expected perhaps two dozen more Dozens of couples were initially refused by day’s end. licenses in Appleton, Green Bay and else- The Rock County clerk’s office in Janes- where on June 9, while county clerks in ville issued two licenses before noon the those communities sought advice from same day. the Wisconsin Vital Records Office, St. Croix County deputy clerk Cheryl which keeps marriage records. Nearly Harmon said a county attorney told her 100 people at the Outagamie County office in Hudson not to issue licenses Clerk’s office in Appleton objected when until after Crabb’s June 16 deadline for turned away. the ACLU to submit its proposed order. “We did tell them we weren’t leaving La Crosse County Clerk Ginny Dank- until licenses were issued,” said Kathy meyer said her county’s attorney initially Flores, 47, of Appleton, who hopes to gave the same advice but she issued marry her partner Ann Kendzierski. a license later in the day, after Crabb Soon afterward, Outagamie County refused Republican Attorney General J.B. attorney Joe Guidote told couples that he Van Hollen’s request for an emergency had advised Clerk Lori O’Bright to accept order halting the marriages. applications for licenses. How long Wisconsin’s marriage win- Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno said dow stays open is anyone’s guess. she decided to issue licenses to about Van Hollen appealed Crabb’s deci- 10 couples at her Green Bay office after sion to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals failing to reach anyone in the Wisconsin and asked it to stop the ceremonies. Vital Records Office. She told couples the The request was being weighed by the work would stop as soon as a court put appeals court as WiG headed to press. the judge’s decision on hold. —The Associated Press WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 11 12 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 Why would gay ally Jonah hill let fly with a slur?

Photo: courteSy Jonah hill, star of the new 22 Jump Street, is apologizing for saying “faggot.”

By John rogers “In anger, the emotional overtakes the AP writer rational and you think of the harshest thing Jonah Hill is winning points for what you can say, and that certainly sounds appears to be a sincere apology for hurling a harsh,” added Bragman, who himself is gay, gay slur at a paparazzo he says was harass- knows Hill personally and doesn’t believe ing him. the actor is anti-gay. Hill’s support of gay But the insult the actor hurled last week rights includes speaking out against Russian still raises the question: Why would some- laws against “gay propaganda.” one like Hill, for years a vocal supporter of Hill, who starred in The Wolf of Wall the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Street and the new 22 Jump Street film, let community, use such a word? Even in a fly with the epithet after a photographer moment of anger? tried to get a rise out of him by insulting Not that he’s the first or likely will be the him and his family. That’s an act that’s fairly last prominent person to do so. A nation- commonplace among Hollywood paparazzi, al television audience heard Kobe Bryant who often hope to get their money shots by shout the same slur three years ago at a ref- provoking celebrities into doing something eree he thought had made a bad call during stupid. a basketball game. Isaiah Washington said “In response, I wanted to hurt him back, it to his Grey’s Anatomy co-star T.R. Knight and I said the most hurtful word that I could in 2007, setting off a dispute that eventually think of at that moment,” Hill said this week got Washington fired. Chicago Bulls cen- on The Tonight Show. ter Joakim Noah yelled it at a Miami Heat Still, he has said in multiple apologies, basketball fan who had been getting on him there was no excuse for what he did. during a game. Like Hill, Bryant and Noah were also quick The word is “faggot,” and although it’s to apologize, and the National Basketball not the only gay pejorative, it seems to Association hit them with large fines. Major be the one people most often fall back on League Baseball suspended Yunel Escobar, when they’re mad at someone. And often then a shortstop with the Toronto Blue Jays, it doesn’t seem to matter if they think the two seasons ago for stenciling the word, in person is gay or not. Spanish, onto his eye black. “I think Jonah Hill’s comments are indica- Hudson says that isn’t enough. People tive of the fact that oftentimes when some- have to learn the word is intolerable. body uses that language, they aren’t using it The word is derived from a centuries- because they are necessarily homophobic,” old term for heretics, said Karen Tonson, a said Hudson Taylor, whose group, Athlete professor of English and gender studies at Ally, seeks to end anti-gay bias in sports. the University of Southern California. Only “That language is so prevalent in all the fairly recently has it come to be among the communities I work with that whether it’s worst gay epithets in the language. Thus a fourth-grader or a professional athlete, it hasn’t yet developed quite as negative a 90 percent have heard the term in the last reputation as the N-word. But she believes week.” it eventually will. It is so commonplace that when someone “I think enlightenment or knowledge of is furious and searching for the most insult- just how hurtful certain terms are does ing thing they can say, that’s the one they phase them out,” Tonson said. “It isn’t politi- pick, says Howard Bragman, a veteran Hol- cal correctness that is shutting down the use lywood crisis publicist and vice president of of that word. It’s about understanding that Reputation.com. that word has a very violent etymology.” WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 13 14 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014

national BriefS regional BriefS

P hoto: the SeaWiFS ProJ ect/Na S a /Goddard SPace FliG ht c e N ter/orbiM aG e proteCting the great lakeS: the obama administration has proposed an updated five-year blueprint for great lakes environmental protection that would put greater emphasis on climate change and using science to choose cleanup projects. Congress has appropriated $1.6 billion since 2009 for the great lakes restoration initiative, which targets

P HOTO: t ed S. WarreN /a P what experts consider the most pressing threats to the freshwater seas: toxic contamination, maximum Support for minimum-Wage hike: the Seattle City invasive species, loss of wildlife habitat and runoff that causes noxious algae blooms. the Council unanimously passed an ordinance on June 2 that would give the administration is proposing a second phase that would continue work in those areas while city the highest minimum wage in the nation. Socialist City Council member addressing concerns about how well the program is meeting its objectives. kshama Sawant, who after the council meeting called on the people of america to elect more independent and socialist candidates, said the push for a higher gay marriage BeginS in in other regional news … minimum wage is spreading across the nation. “Seattle may be a hippie city. illinoiS after Staggered We may wear socks with our sandals, but it’s also a city where different Start • democrats Jon richards, Susan happ and ismael progressive groups can work together to bring about change.” June 1 marked the first day that all of ozanne and republican Brad Schimel — the can- Illinois’ 102 counties could begin issuing didates for Wisconsin attorney general — agreed marriage licenses to same-sex couples. that heroin is the state’s top public safety issue dur- ruling: mediCare Can’t Some county officials began granting ing a debate in late May at the Wisconsin Profes- CategoriCally exClude in other national news … licenses months ago following a federal sional Police Association annual meeting. They also tranSition-related court ruling, but that was only a piece- shared common ground on the new law requiring proCedureS • the u.S. house voted 219-189 on May 30 meal start. outside investigations of police-involved deaths, An independent board of for an amendment that would block the Gay couples and civil rights advocates collective bargaining rights of public safety workers the U.S. Department of Health federal government from interfering with across the state marked the date with and protecting children from Internet crimes. states that permit the use of medical mari- and Human Services has ruled ceremonies and group weddings, and • a federal judge said in late May that he’s worried a juana. Voting yes were 170 Democrats and that a Medicare policy from several county clerks opened briefly to Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to get 49 Republicans. From Wisconsin, Demo- 1989 categorically excluding issue licenses for those who didn’t want hospital admitting privileges is too rigid. Planned cratic U.S. Reps. Ron Kind, Gwen Moore transition-related medical to wait for the regular business week. Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services sued and Mark Pocan voted yes. Republicans procedures, regardless of medical Gov. Pat Quinn signed the state’s mar- the state last summer, arguing the requirement will Sean Duffy, Tom Petri, Reid Ribble, Paul need, is unreasonable and invalid riage equality law in November, but last force AMS’s Milwaukee clinic to close because its Ryan and Jim Sensenbrenner voted “no.” based on medical science. February a federal court ruling in Chicago doctors can’t get admitting privileges. “Today’s ruling represents • a new duke university study shows that declared Illinois’ original ban unconstitu- • the Wisconsin Club for growth has filed a lawsuit the medical community’s clear the current rate of species extinctions is tional, clearing the way for some same- against the state board that oversees elections, understanding that gender more than 1,000 times greater than pre- sex couples to marry. arguing that it exceeded its authority and violated dysphoria is a serious medical viously predicted. The primary cause of In a statement on June 1, Quinn said the group’s rights by investigating “virtually every condition, and the government this dramatic rise in the loss of species is Illinois is now on the “right side of his- conservative-leaning group in Wisconsin.” The law- should not stand in the way when human population growth and increased tory.” suit, filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court, adds doctors recommend treatment,” consumption. “All couples across Illinois can now another layer to the already complex legal fight said Mara Keisling of the receive the rights and protections under • the national Cancer institute reported being waged by targets of the probe that focuses on National Center for Transgender the sacred vow of marriage,” he said. success in a pilot study using immune Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign and a host of Equality. “This ruling comes “The Land of Lincoln has always been a therapy against a cancer caused by a virus conservative advocacy groups. from an independent panel place to embrace all people and today — HPV. In the cervical cancer experiment, who’ve studied the science on we stand as an example for the rest of • a panel of scientists and engineers and regulators tumors of two out of nine women complete- transgender health care. Today, the nation.” gathered in northern Wisconsin in early June to ly disappeared and the women are cancer- this panel ruled that Medicare Equality Illinois officials estimate discuss Gogebic Taconite’s plans for the proposed free a year later. cannot flat-out exclude medically about 1,300 couples have wed since Feb- iron mine in the Penokee Hills near Mellen. Repub- supported treatments for • opponents of a maryland anti-discrimi- ruary, most of them in Chicago’s Cook lican state lawmakers cleared the way for the mine transgender people.” nation law that bans bias based on gender County. by relaxing regulations, but the proposal still needs NCTE, along with the American identity said they failed to gather the sig- Most of the state’s remaining 86 coun- local approval. natures to ask voters to consider repealing Civil Liberties Union, Gay & ties opted to wait until the Religious Free- • activists with voces de la frontera joined in a the measure in November. The opponents Lesbian Advocates & Defenders dom and Marriage Fairness Act officially demonstration outside Immigration and Customs of the civil rights measure came up about and the National Center for took effect. In some cases, they worried Enforcement offices in Milwaukee in late May to 1,000 signatures short. Lesbian Rights challenged the that issuing licenses before June 1 could protest a series of ICE raids and the president’s policy. — from WiG and AP reports trigger lawsuits against the counties and announcement of a delay in Homeland Security’s perhaps cause legal problems for the review of the deportation process. couples. — from WiG and AP reports WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 15

Community BriefS

Photo: c itizeN koch Still regreSSive politiCS: an exposé on the state of american democracy and the fracturing of the republican party, Citizen Koch investigates the money behind the tea party and traces the impact of unlimited election spending by corporations and billionaires. the film is focused on the political situation in Wisconsin.

400th mayor SignS freedom on Oct. 12 at the Summerfest grounds in to marry pledge Milwaukee. Gunn is the co-host of Life- Freedom to Marry announced in late May time’s Project Runway, a fashion educator that Karyn Hippen of Thompson, North and the author of Tim Gunn: A Guide to Dakota, became the 400th mayor to sign Quality, Taste and Style. Gunn, in a state- the organization’s pledge of support. ment, said, “We need to strengthen the Hippen is the first mayor from North fight against AIDS, and I know that AIDS Dakota to join the campaign. She said, “I Walk Wisconsin will keep Wisconsin a have always been a proponent of equal national leader in helping people with designated as Sierra Club Community even greater animal suffering. rights — and I pray that all three of my sons HIV live long, healthy lives.” He urged Night and every ticket sold will support • aidS resource Center of Wisconsin get the chance to get married and have a “everyone to join me right now and regis- the group’s conservation work. For more, family. I am honored to sign my name to the raised more than $56,000 at its Make A ter for AIDS Walk Wisconsin.” For more, go to www.mallardsgroups.com and enter Promise Gala for the ARCW Food Pantry Mayors for the Freedom to Marry.” go online to www.aidswalkwis.org. “sierra” as the password. Wisconsin mayors who have signed the Program, which is expanding from seven pledge include Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, • the Citizen Koch documentary, • flip out for fairness is a social night and to eight pantries and provides more Timothy Hanna of Appleton, Larry Mac- from Academy Award-nominated direc- fundraiser presented by Fair Wisconsin. than 400 tons of food to HIV patients Donald of Bayfield and Paul Soglin of Madi- tors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, is reaching The event takes place at 6 p.m. on June throughout the state. For more, go online son. For more, including information to theaters nationwide this month, including 14 at Walker’s Pint, 818 S. Second, Mil- to www.arcw.org. encourage a local mayor to sign, go online in Milwaukee at the Landmark Downer waukee. For more, go online to fairwis- • Cream City foundation announced to freedomtomarry.org. Theater and in Madison at Sundance consin.com. on June 2 that CEO Paul Fairchild had Cinemas on June 13. For more, go online • the federal government is consider- resigned, effective immediately. Fairchild in other community news … to www.citizenkoch.com/page/content/ ing new rules that would allow poultry cited personal reasons for his decision. TRAILER. workers to kill even more birds on each The foundation’s board is assuming • tim gunn will serve as the honorary slaughter line every minute. Call your Fairchild’s duties while undertaking the chair of the 25th annual AIDS Walk • the Sierra Club Wisconsin benefits from U.S. representative and ask her/him to search for a new leader. Wisconsin and 5K run, which kicks off ticket sales to the Madison Mallards baseball game on July 31. The night is oppose this new policy, which will lead to — from WiG reports 16 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 { Editorial } Wig’s WeB piCkS Some of u.S. in no position to criticize our favorite violence against women recent pictorials Two unspeakably cruel incidents that recently occurred half a world apart from are terrifying reminders of the world’s growing misogyny. cyberspace On May 23, in the upscale environs of Santa Barbara, California, a 22-year- old man went on a deadly stabbing and shooting spree that left six Univer- sity of California, Santa Barbara, students dead and another 13 young people wounded. The provocation for Elliott Rodger’s attack, as outlined in his 137- page “manifesto” was to punish attractive women for not dating him. In faraway India, where the rape, torture and killing of women has seeming- ly become a national pastime, two girls — ages 14 and 15 — were gang-raped, tortured and hanged. The latest (as of this writing) Indian atrocity occurred in a rural area where girls are forced to go outdoors at night to relieve them- selves, due to the lack of indoor plumbing. That’s what led the girls outdoors for the final time on May 30. Indian authorities, who seem reluctant to prosecute male perpetrators, have reportedly responded more tepidly than usual to this case, because the girls were from a low caste. In Nigeria, 300 schoolgirls who were abducted for the sin of seeking an education have remained missing since early May. Sympathizers of the girls say law-enforcement officials have declined to make any serious effort to locate them; instead the government has banned protests on behalf of the girls. Many Nigerians fear the girls were sold into sexual slavery — an increas- ingly common practice. Here at home, one out of every five American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape (girls ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely to be victims). But including unreported rapes, only about 6 percent of rapists serve time in prison, and 15 out of 16 perpetrators walk free. More than three U.S. women a day are murdered by their husbands or boy- friends. Women serving in the U.S. military were more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq. Is there any connection between the growing violence toward women and the political “war on women” in the United States? In the last four years, Republican leaders (including here in Wisconsin) have abolished pay equity laws for women, and conservatives have sued to prevent health insurance pro- viders from paying for women’s birth control. Republican leaders “slut shame” women who demand access to affordable birth control and foam at the mouth over use of the word “vagina” in public, even as they seek to put every vagina in America under their control. The rise of anti-feminism on America’s political right prevents us from convincingly shaking a finger at the atrocities against women elsewhere in the world. Once people looked to the U.S. as a leader in justice and fairness. But when it comes to the treatment of women, our nation appears to be heading in the direction of the primitive barbarity of other nations rather than securing and protecting women’s rights.

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ON THE RECORD remembering past lgBt community leaders “In the strict sense of the term, perfect straight couple! ing activists for some new hibited discrimination based it is not ‘sexual’ activity at all. As Opinion Eldon presided for years campaign. He would argue on sexual orientation. individuals, some human beings may as the editor of the GPU with me about my latest col- Although he never held find this activity intensely gratify- JaMaKaya News, a monthly magazine umn and then try to wangle public office, Alyn was like ing. But considered on the whole, in published between 1971 my support for changes in Milwaukee’s Harvey Milk. terms of its consequences … the homo- During Pride season, my and 1981. Initially the maga- some gay group he felt was He promoted voter registra- sexual couple is not engaged in the act of human thoughts fly to the people zine included gay commu- underperforming. Bless his tion and organized gay peo- procreation. Their activity is not haunted by the who helped get us to where nity news and commentary. stubborn heart. Eldon died ple to attend public hear- possibility of human offspring. Because it is, on we are, those who are no Today, GPU News is a trea- in 2007 at age 77. ings and candidate forums. the whole, of no consequence, homosexual activity longer with us to celebrate sure trove for historians, Alyn Hess was a modest He believed LGBT people involves no natural right.” and share the fun. who can trace the devel- but charismatic organizer could be more influential if — ALAN KEYES, three-times failed Senate candi- Eldon Murray was one opment of Milwaukee’s who drew many gay people they participated more fully date and three-times failed presidential candidate, of the first publicly out gay gay community through its into activism through GPU in the political process. He explaining to World Net Daily readers that homo- men in Milwaukee, becom- pages. and other groups. Alyn worked hard on many cam- sexuality doesn’t matter. ing a founder and officer As GPU News expanded, made a singular contribu- paigns; the last was Jesse of the Gay People’s Union it published original photos, tion to the queer community Jackson’s campaign for in 1971, when others were “The flight attendants were looking at me, and artwork, poetry and fiction. by forging strategic allianc- president in 1988. afraid to be associated with they were sort of looking at me and pointing at me. People are often surprised es with other organizations Alyn died of AIDS com- such a group. Eldon was the to learn that the magazine and promoting political plications in 1989 at age 49. And then, finally, one of them comes up to me and first gay person to go on included nude art and pho- action. I saw him in the lobby of says, ‘You’re somebody famous, aren’t you? Are you local media and talk about tos, even full frontal nudity. In the 1970s, Alyn worked the Oriental Theatre short- Anthony Weiner?’ I’ve been confused for Anthony the new and controversial It is highly unlikely that any with the Wisconsin Civil ly before he died. It was a Weiner twice now. I don’t know how this keeps hap- topic of “homosexuality.” mainstream LGBT publica- Liberties Union to represent fundraiser for a gay or AIDS pening.” Eldon and Donna Utke, an tion would publish such pho- gay people in discrimina- service organization. Alyn — U.S. REP. PAUL RYAN telling a Michigan audi- early lesbian pioneer, used tos today, due to concerns tion suits. He was a member looked physically wasted ence that he’s been mistaken for both Scott Walker to don their Sunday best — about image and advertiser of the National Organiza- but wore the grin of a kid and Anthony Weiner. The latter, whose political he a suit and tie, she a dress support. It took guts to do so tion for Women, proudly opening presents on Christ- career crashed over a sexting scandal, told Business and heels — and speak to back in the 1970s. donned the label “feminist,” mas Day. Insider that having the tea party favorite mistaken groups about being gay Eldon, who made his liv- and helped found Black “I’m not dead yet, Jamak- for him was “the final insult.” Added Weiner: “How and lesbian. Eldon laughed ing as a stockbroker, was and White Men Together. aya,” he joked, “not ‘til I see much more can I bear?” about it in later years, joking analytical and famously He cultivated local politi- the movie.” I can’t recall that ironically he and Donna argumentative. If he were cians and lobbied for the what the movie was, but I “We carefully considered the public safety and went to these gay “aware- here today, he’d be staffing Milwaukee ordinance and will never forget Alyn’s grin. health risks of long work hours and solicited input ness” events looking like the a booth at PrideFest recruit- Wisconsin statute that pro- from everyone who has a stake in this important issue, including victims’ advocates, truck drivers and companies. Suspending the current Hours-of- Service safety rules will expose families and drivers to greater risk every time they’re on the road.” taxpayers subsidize billionaires’ political ads — ANNE FERRO, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, chastising Congress for attempting to invalidate new require- consin with their pro-Walk- visions of the Internal Rev- serves any political pur- er messages, the Kochs are enue Code. The information pose. Watch some of the ments to combat trucker fatigue, a leading factor in Opinion reducing their tax liability. you submitted will be con- ads and judge for yourself. large truck crashes. The Senate had voted to weaken MiKe Mccabe IRS rules governing 501(c) sidered for this program.” At the invitation of the IRS, trucker fatigue laws just days before comedian (3) tax-exempt status, The letter went on to say, we have followed up on Tracy Morgan was critically injured after being rear- That the billionaire which is meant for chari- “We cannot disclose the our 2012 complaint with a ended by a tractor trailer early in the early morning Koch brothers are spend- table and educational orga- status of any investigation.” letter calling the agency’s hours of June 7. Comedian James “Jimmy Mack” ing upwards of $1 million nizations to promote “social That’s the last we heard. attention to the AFPF’s lat- McNair was killed. to launch an election-year welfare,” prohibit such Given that AFPF is doing est election-year advertising advertising campaign in groups from using resourc- more of the kind of adver- and requesting enforcement “It’s astounding to me. The House Republican Wisconsin to sing the prais- es to participate or inter- tising that prompted our action. We await the tax- caucus will do anything and everything to pre- es of Gov. Scott Walker’s pol- vene in political campaigns. 2012 complaint, one has to man’s response. vent low-income Virginians from getting healthcare. icies comes as no surprise. On these grounds, the assume the IRS has blessed They figure the only way they could win was to give What might not be readily Democracy Campaign filed this activity. Evidently Mike McCabe, executive a job to a state senator.” apparent to casual observ- a complaint with the Inter- the IRS does not believe director of the Wisconsin — Virginia DEL. SCOTT A. SUROVELL, D-Fairfax ers is that taxpayers are sub- nal Revenue Service in 2012 this kind of advertising Democracy Campaign. expressing dismay to The Washington Post over the sidizing this electioneering. asking the IRS to investi- GOP’s use of bribery to scuttle the Affordable Care Much of the pro-Walker gate what appeared to be Act in his state. Republicans offered prestigious advertising is sponsored by clear violations of the tax- Photo: jobs to Democratic state Sen. Phillip P. Puckett and the Americans for Prosper- exempt status of the Ameri- yout ube his daughter in exchange for Puckett’s resigna- ity Foundation, an arm of the cans for Prosperity Founda- a still tion, which flipped the chamber into Koch brothers’ operation tion and two other 501(c)(3) from a Republican hands. Prior to this, the that is organized as a 501(c) “charities.” The IRS replied current Democratic-led Senate was on a (3) charitable organization. with a letter dated March afpf course to expand Medicaid to low- That structure means that 22, 2012, saying the agency pro- income Virginians. donations that pay for its “has an ongoing examina- Walker advocacy efforts are tax tion program to ensure that commer- deductible. By blanketing exempt organizations com- cial. the airwaves across Wis- ply with the applicable pro- 18 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 19

amid historic court decision, pridefest entertains Pride! record-breaking crowd rideFest Milwaukee 2014 got off courthouse again on June 7 to accommodate allowed visitors to donate an extra dollar You have been heard, and we are feeling the to a historic start, with U.S. District same-sex couples. at the gate to fund the group’s lawsuit for love. Thank you for all the photos, emails, JudgeP Barbara Crabb striking down Although the court decision faces an marriage equality, were not immediately voicemails, tweets, Facebook posts, and Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage uncertain future, it brought an extraordinary available. Diamond Nexus, a Milwaukee- hugs.” as unconstitutional within one hour of the level of enthusiasm to the record-breaking based Internet jewelry company, has “PrideFest is extremely pleased with festival’s opening on Friday afternoon, June 31,295 visitors who thronged to Milwaukee’s pledged to match every dollar contributed everything that happened this weekend: 6. During the festival’s opening ceremony, lakefront June 6, 7 and 8 to enjoy the up to $10,000. wonderful weather, outstanding Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele world’s largest LGBT music festival. This “We are so deeply humbled by what programming and such beautiful crowds,” announced that he would personally pay year’s attendance reflected a 3-percent we’ve seen and heard this weekend,” said said PrideFest Milwaukee president Scott for the county courthouse to remain open increase over the previous record of 30,385, Kate Sherry, festival co-producer. “Our Gunkel. “The timing of the marriage equality until 9 p.m. so that couples who’ve waited set in 2010. visitors, volunteers, and performers shared news was a great gift to the people of for years could get married right away. He Revenue results, including funds raised how excited and proud they were to be Wisconsin and our PrideFest visitors. Love and County Clerk Joe Czarnezki opened the for the ACLU Plus One Campaign, which here, with us, during this historic weekend. won out, pure and simple, this weekend.”

—WiG

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a ll P hotoS by dave l auerS dorF 22 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 from protest to preservation: Federal government identifies historic LGBT sites and events

By lisa neff cabinet — gathered outside tive, a task force will spend Park Service tells a more property having extraordi- diverse population.” Staff writer the unobtrusive brick build- the next 12-18 months iden- complete story of the peo- nary significance in Ameri- Eliza Byard, the execu- On a warm night in June ing that stands as the sym- tifying places and events ple and events responsible can history. tive director of the nation’s 1969 outside the Stonewall bolic birthplace of the mod- associated with the story for building the nation. “We know that there are largest LGBT education Inn, rioters rebelled against ern gay civil rights move- of lesbian, gay, bisexual and Interior Secretary Sally other sites, like Stonewall group, the Gay, Lesbian the continued persecution ment to usher in LGBT Pride transgender Americans for Jewell said she chose the Inn, that have played impor- and Straight Education and harassment by govern- Month with a new initia- inclusion in the parks pro- Stonewall in New York’s tant roles in our nation’s Network, also applauded ment officials. tive — a historic campaign grams. Greenwich Village because ongoing struggle for civil the announcement. She On a sunny day in late to preserve and celebrate The study is part of a it is the only LGBT-associat- rights,” she said. observed that laws banning May, government officers — LGBT history. broader initiative under ed site designated a nation- The study will be a pub- schools from teaching any- the highest-ranking among As part of the National the Obama administration al historic landmark by the lic-private partnership, with thing positive about homo- them member of the U.S. Park Service Heritage Initia- to ensure that the National National Park Service as a funding from the Gill Foun- sexuality remain on the dation through the National books in eight states. Park Foundation. “Symbolically it’s hugely “LGBT history is Ameri- important that now LGBT can history,” said Gill Foun- history is officially part of dation founder Tim Gill. the national narrative,” she “The contributions of LGBT said. “This is part of what people are part of the great our federal government will American journey toward identify, preserve and single full equality, freedom and out.” liberty for all our citizens.” In keeping with tradition, The first meeting of schol- there was a demonstration ars involved in the research at the Stonewall the day of took place in Washington, the announcement. D.C., on June 10. Other Activists with the grass- meetings will take place roots group GetEqual pro- over the next year. tested on Christopher Street “The National Park Ser- under the banner “Don’t vice has a responsibility to Stop at Our History — Full protect, preserve and tell Federal Equality Now!” the stories of some of our GetEqual has led the push nation’s most iconic places, for a presidential executive and as part of that responsi- order banning federal con- bility, it is our job to be sure tractors from discriminating that Americans never forget based on sexual orientation where we’ve been, where we and gender identity. are and what we aspire to be “Across this country, in as a nation,” said Jon B. Jar- every single state, LGBTQ vis, director of the National people suffer from the Park Service. “I am excited uncertainty created by the to see how the outcomes of lack of legal protections,” the LGBT Heritage Initiative said Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez, and theme study will allow GetEQUAL co-director. “A us to share a more inclu- study will bring light to what sive version of our uniquely we already know — that dis- American experience.” crimination against LGBTQ With praise for the ini- people has plagued our his- tiative, Clark Bunting of the tory since its inception. We National Parks Conserva- have resisted inequality and tion Association said, “Our oppression for hundreds of national parks belong to all years to be able to live as of us — a fact that is par- our full, authentic selves. ticularly important as we We need President Obama look toward the Park Ser- to create a clear vision and a vice’s centennial in 2016 clear roadmap to full LGBTQ and its next 100 years. As equality under the law under America’s storyteller, it is his administration, and our commendable and appro- time is running out.” priate for the National Park Service to examine themes that incorporate the history and significant events of our hiStoriC next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 23 hiStoriC from prior page

PhotoS : u .S. d e PartM e N t oF the iNterior interior Secretary Sally Jewell, standing outside the famed Stonewall inn, announces a task force to identify places and events significant to the lives of lgBt americans and to history for inclusion in the national parks program.

on the regiSter The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s inventory of properties deemed central to its history and worthy of preservation. It includes more than 89,000 entries, more than 1.7 million individual buildings and sites representing local, state or nationally significant people, places and events. Just over 2,500 of these properties are national historic landmarks, designated by the secretary as representing the highest level of national significance. But relatively few of these properties can be identified as representing the sto- ries associated with African-American, American Latinos, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians or women. Currently, only four LGBT history-related properties are included in the National Register of His- toric Places — the Dr. Franklin E. Kameny residence in Washington, D.C.; the Cherry Grove Community House and Theater on Fire Island in New York; the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut, and the Carrington House on Fire Island, Source: iNterior d e PartM e Nt 24 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014

Catch kenosha pride The second annual Kenosha Pride March kicks off at noon on July 12 in Library Park at 60th Street and Eighth Avenue. at a glance: World pride 2014 By lisa neff The parade route goes west on July 2-6: Gay Pride Madrid 60th Street to Sheridan Road, north Staff writer on Sheridan to 46th Street, east on Miami already has had its Sizzle. Dallas July 4-6: Cologne Gay Pride 46th to Seventh Avenue, south on Sev- has done its Razzle Dazzle. And Milwau- JULY 12: KENOSHA PRIDE, GREEN BAY enth to merge with Sixth Avenue and kee, of course, celebrated for three days PRIDEALIVE continuing south on Sixth to a block at PrideFest. But dozens more LGBT Pride July 16-20: San Diego Pride celebrations crowd the calendar from now party near Trolley Dogs Restaurant, July 19: Glasgow Pride 5501 Sixth Ave. through the summer and into the fall. Chad Mica is set to perform at the One of the largest Pride parades takes July 25-Aug. 1: Belfast Gay Pride Festival party. place in Chicago on June 29, a week after July 26-Aug. 3: Hamburg Pride the two-day Chicago Pride Festival on A sign-making party takes place Photo: a P/Geert va N deN WiJNGaert July 28-Aug. 2: Stockholm Gay Pride before the march at Library Park. North Halsted Street that features Thel- people dance during the annual gay pride ma Houston, Jennifer Hudson and Maya, July 28-Aug. 3: Montreal’s Pride Divers/ For more information, contact Dan- in Brussels, Belgium, on Sat., may 17, 2014. Cite iel Seaver at 262-705-9702 or via among others. email at [email protected]. The 45th annual parade — always the last Sunday in June — begins at noon at Aug. 1-3: Amsterdam Gay Pride Broadway and Montrose in Lakeview. The June 14: Athens, Vienna, Berlin and Aug. 2: Brighton Gay Pride keeping pridealive Portland, Oregon, Pride Green Bay’s family-friendly Pride- parade proceeds south on Broadway, then Aug. 3: Vancouver Gay Pride south on Halsted, east on Belmont, south June 14-29: Dublin Pride Alive takes place 11-a.m.-10 p.m. on Aug. 4-10: Antwerp Pride July 12 in Joannes Park. on Broadway and east on Diversey to Can- June 20-22: Gay Pride New Orleans Aug. 5-10: Reykjavik Gay Pride The free festival features entertain- non Drive. June 20-29: Europride in Oslo and ment, exhibits, more than 50 vendors, More than 200 entries are registered WorldPride in Toronto Aug. 9-16: Gay Games Cleveland demonstrations, artists, civic informa- for a parade that’s typically cheered on by Aug. 11-17: Prague Gay Pride more than 200,000 people assembled on June 21: Rhode Island Pride tion, food and drink. Aug. 22-25: Manchester Gay Pride For more information, contact Jeff sidewalks, at storefronts and outdoor cafes June 21-22: Gay Pride Fest Denver Hunter at 920-360-3601 or hunter- and partying on balconies. June 21-30: Gay Pride Houston Aug. 22-Sept. 1: Calgary Gay Pride [email protected]. Details also Another big regional event, Minneapolis’ June 22-29: Harlem Pride and CHICAGO Aug. 26-31: Gay Pride Copenhagen are online at newpridealive.com. 2014 Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade, PRIDE Aug. 31: Oakland Gay Pride takes place the same day along Henne- June 23-29: Istanbul Gay Pride pin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. The Sept. 2-8: Gay Days Las Vegas/Las Vegas June 24-29: New York City Gay Pride celebration includes a two-day festival in Pride Loring Park, a Margaret Cho concert, a June 27-29: Gay Pride Barcelona Sept. 20: Austin Gay Pride family picnic, a rainbow run and marriage June 28: Bologna Pride, Cleveland Pride, Sept. 21: Dallas Gay Pride ceremonies. Gay Pride Paris on the calendar … June 28-29: San Francisco Pride, Seattle Oct. 3-5: Gay Days Anaheim Pride, TWIN CITIES PRIDE Oct. 11-12: Atlanta Pride June 11-15: Key West Pride Fest June 28-July 5: Independence Weekend June 13-21: Shanghai Pride in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Photo: a P/J. Pat c arter violeta proas and her partner, Steffan Casuo, hug as they watch the miami Beach, florida, gay pride parade on april 13, 2014. in its sixth year, miami Beach gay pride has grown into the largest, two- day event of the entire year in miami Photo: a P/i vaN Pierre aGuirre Beach. men in costume hold hands as they make their way to the annual gay pride parade in mexico City on June 29, 2013. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 25 26 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014

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By lisa neff a news release. “There is At the time of his death, only inducted into the National Staff writer no place for discrimination six gay and inclusive rugby Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall Call it a blitz. on our sporting fields, clubs existed in the world — of Fame, which is based in Australian organizers of in our clubs or sports two of them co-founded by Chicago. The ceremony will this year’s Bingham Cup — organizations.” Bingham. Today, there are coincide with the annual Out the world cup of gay rugby Some of Australia’s about 60 such clubs, including at Wrigley Field on July 12. — are challenging athletes, most celebrated athletes the Madison Minotaurs, Bingham “is an excellent coaches and front-office appeared at a news which formed in Wisconsin’s role model for all LGBT execs around the globe to conference to announce the capital in the spring of 2007. athletes, whether it be at the help eliminate homophobia initiative and also appear in In 2002, Bingham youth, professional, amateur in sport. a 30-second ad. posthumously received the or collegiate level,” said hall “Discrimination in sport is “I feel we have reached a Arthur Ashe Courage Award. of fame founder Bill Gubrud. something we see globally,” turning point in our efforts The same year, the Mark “We are very proud to have said Andrew Purchas, to change sporting culture,” Kendall Bingham Memorial Mark Bingham in the National president of the Bingham said Wallaby John Eales, Tournament — the Bingham Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall

Cup Sydney 2014. “In fact, the ambassador for the Cup — was created. of Fame.” P hoto: sport is one of the last Bingham Cup Sydney and In July, Bingham will be mark B...... places in Western societies the most successful captain where gay, lesbian and in Australian rugby history. bisexual people still struggle “It’s important to focus to be accepted.” entirely on a person’s ability This spring, Purchas and to play a sport and not get others involved in hosting caught up in old-fashioned, a gay rugby tournament in clearly incorrect stereotypes August, announced that and assumptions about the leaders of Australia’s people. I’m very proud professional sports leagues of the five Australian signed a commitment sporting organizations pledging to eliminate for undertaking this homophobia in the game. commitment to make their The commitment is sport more welcoming, safe unprecedented — the and inclusive.” first time all the major The deadline to professional sports leaders implement policies and in a country collectively changes under Australia’s committed to implement newly created Anti- policies and changes to Homophobia and Inclusion welcome LGBT people on Framework is mid-August, the field and in the stands. when 2,000 gay rugby The pledge was made by players from 16 countries Andrew Demetrious, CEO will gather for the Bingham of the Australian Football Cup hosted by the Sydney League; Bill Pulver, CEO Convicts and named for of the Australia Rugby American Mark Bingham, Union; Dave Smith, CEO one of the heroes of Sept. of the National Rugby 11, 2001. League; David Gallop, CEO Bingham, a member of of the Football Federation the San Francisco Fog, died Australia and Ben Amarflo, on United Airlines Flight executive general manager 93, the plane hijacked of Cricket Australia. by terrorists that went “I’m proud to see down over Shanksville, Australian sports play such Pennsylvania. Bingham an important leadership is believed to have joined role,” Australian Minister for three other men in trying to Sport Peter Dutton stated in overtake the hijackers.

for the reCord “We have the chance to be role models for other gay folks who wanted to play sports, but never felt good enough or strong enough. More importantly, we have the chance to show the other teams in the league that we are as good as they are. Good rugby players. Good partiers. Good sports. Good men.” — Mark Bingham, in an email to the San Francisco Fog rugby team after the team’s acceptance into the local union. 28 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 pride by presidential proclamation By lisa neff 1999 and another in June 2000. affirmed freedom and fairness, ing health disparities within the Staff writer The second stated, in part, “This and we recommit ourselves to LGBT community by implement- Pride Month arrived with a June, recognizing the joys and completing the work that remains. ing the Affordable Care Act and proclamation from President sorrows that the gay and lesbian Last year, supporters of equality the National HIV/AIDS Strategy — Barack Obama, who said Ameri- movement has witnessed and the celebrated the Supreme Court’s which focuses on improving care cans can celebrate “victories that work that remains to be done, we decision to strike down a key pro- while decreasing HIV transmission have affirmed freedom and fair- observe Gay and Lesbian Pride vision of the Defense of Marriage rates among communities most ness” but must “recommit our- Month and celebrate the progress Act, a ruling which, at long last, at risk. selves to completing the work that we have made in creating a society gave loving, committed families “Our commitment to advancing Photo: White h ouS e archiveS remains.” more inclusive and accepting of the respect and legal protections equality for the LGBT community then-president Bill Clinton, first The president has issued Pride gays and lesbians.” they deserve. In keeping with this extends far beyond our borders. lady hillary rodham Clinton and proclamations each year in the With George W. Bush in the decision, my Administration is In many places around the globe, their daughter Chelsea Clinton White House, as have those in Oval Office, Pride went un-pro- extending family and spousal ben- LGBT people face persecution, join in a parade down pennsyl- his cabinet. Obama is the second claimed for eight years. In fact, efits — from immigration benefits arrest, or even state-sponsored vania avenue. Bill Clinton was president to issue such proclama- the Bush administration made to military family benefits — to execution. This is unacceptable. the first president to issue an tions. Bill Clinton was the first, headlines for quashing LGBT Pride legally married same-sex couples. The United States calls on every lgBt pride proclamation. Barack issuing a proclamation in June celebrations planned by federal “My Administration proudly nation to join us in defending the obama was the second. george employees, most notably in Attor- stands alongside all those who universal human rights of our W. Bush skipped pride. ney General John Ashcroft’s Jus- fight for LGBT rights. Here at LGBT brothers and sisters. tice Department. home, we have strengthened laws “This month, as we mark 45 Obama, who also plans to hold against violence toward LGBT years since the patrons of the ed States of America, by virtue a White House Pride celebration Americans, taken action to pre- Stonewall Inn defied an unjust pol- of the authority vested in me by later this month, stated in his vent bullying and harassment, icy and awakened a nascent move- the Constitution and the laws of proclamation: and prohibited discrimination in ment, let us honor every brave the United States, do hereby pro- “As progress spreads from State housing and hospitals. Despite leader who stood up, sat in, and claim June 2014 as Lesbian, Gay, to State, as justice is delivered in this progress, LGBT workers in came out, as well as the allies who Bisexual, and Transgender Pride the courtroom, and as more of too many States can be fired just supported them along the way. Month. I call upon the people of our fellow Americans are treated because of their sexual orienta- Following their example, let each the United States to eliminate with dignity and respect — our tion or gender identity; I continue of us speak for tolerance, justice, prejudice everywhere it exists, and Nation becomes not only more to call on the Congress to cor- and dignity — because if hearts to celebrate the great diversity of accepting, but more equal as well. rect this injustice by passing the and minds continue to change the American people.” During Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Employment Non-Discrimination over time, laws will too. Photo: courteSy Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Act. And in the years ahead, we “NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK president Barack obama. we celebrate victories that have will remain dedicated to address- OBAMA, President of the Unit- WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 29 30 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 after one year, midwest nice is creeping into elvis duran’s radio patter By matthew reddin Contributing writer The cultures of Madison, Milwaukee and other Out radio host Elvis Duran says he can’t really define his secret to success — he’s Midwestern cities have seeped into the tone of “just glad someone listens” to him. Well, more than just someone, to be the show, adding a nicer, more wholesome vibe... accurate. “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” Duran’s signature morning program, outside that market. Duran says the turning Madison, is doing well in both markets. is currently the top nationally syndicated point came when he realized that he and his Duran says the show took off a bit faster show in the country, with more than 7 co-hosts needed to be more authentic on in Madison than Milwaukee. million listeners in over 70 markets, the air. In the process of loosening up the Duran says he can usually pick out including Milwaukee and Madison, where show to accomplish that goal, the program’s callers from Wisconsin for a reason that the show first went on the air a year ago. following began to grow, first expanding has nothing to do with their accent or The show’s format is similar to most into Miami and then syndicating in markets area codes: They usually want to talk morning radio shows, with Duran and his on the East Coast and areas further west. to one of his newest co-hosts, Bethany team of co-hosts dishing about news and Expanding into the Midwest has had Watson, who was born and raised in the entertainment. Duran’s also known for his impact on the show. The cultures of state. “She has that Wisconsin sense, and celebrity interviews, his ability to identify Madison, Milwaukee and other Midwestern they pick up on that,” he says. up-and-coming artists early in their careers cities have seeped into the tone of the show, Watson is just one of many hosts and, most famously, his “phone taps,” adding a nicer, more wholesome vibe that Duran features. “Our show just keeps in which he pranks a selected listener’s has, in turn, broadened the show’s appeal. growing and growing,” he says, “because unsuspecting relative or friend. “Our show is not a New York show now,” we keep meeting people we love who we Photo: courteSy Duran’s fame has expanded beyond the Duran says. “It’s such a nice change of want to bring into the fold.” elvis duran. studio booth. He has a regular gig on the pace.” The Morning Show is still produced Today Show talking about his “Artist of What makes the show a hit in multiple in New York, but Duran says he likes to markets, he says, is that everyone faces travel with the show a few times a month. the Month,” and he hosted Entertainment he’s got to drop in for the State Fair this Tonight’s live show during the Grammys. the same issues and problems in their lives, Often his road trips are to Los Angeles, and the show provides a forum for talking but he tries to visit other affiliates as well. summer — if he can work out the details. But Duran’s heart has been with the He’s determined to experience the state-fair Morning Show ever since it began airing 18 them out. Is a trip to Wisconsin in the show’s After a year, the Morning Show, which future? It’s too early for Duran to confirm craze of deep-frying just about everything years ago on the New York station WHTZ. imaginable, something he’s unlikely to It took a few years for the show to expand airs on WRNW in Milwaukee and WZEE in anything, but all the calls coming in from Wisconsin have convinced him that encounter in New York.

did you know? Out Congressman Mark Pocan now holds the Wisconsin seat held by Tammy Baldwin, who is the highest-ranking openly gay elected official in the country. After Baldwin won the Senate seat in November 2012, The New York Times headlined a story: “Fickle Wisconsin Sends a Trusty Progressive to the Senate.”

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proud sponsor Milwaukee lGBT Film/video Festival WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 31 hep girls who can hit still face discrimination By Bill lamb Contributing writer Women drummers More than 70 years ago, woman drum- mer Viola Smith rattled the music estab- hadn’t always been a lishment when she wrote an editorial for novelty act. In ancient the jazz magazine Down Beat declaring that “hep girls” could hold their own in any jam times, for instance, session. The piece, title “Give Girl Musi- cians a Break!,” expressed the frustration women were the that she faced as a woman playing instru- ments that society believed women were primary percussionists: not capable of playing as well as men. Smith was one of many legendary female Drums were seen as drummers interviewed by author Angela symbols of fertility, and Smith for her new landmark book Women Drummers: A History From Rock and Jazz only women could play To Blues and Country. Smith reports that women drummers hadn’t always been a them. novelty act. In ancient times, for instance, women were the primary percussionists: Drums were seen as symbols of fertility, and only women could play them. But the Middle Ages changed that atti- tude. By Victorian times, women were only expected to participate in music in the research into that, Smith learned about the home, and even there they were mostly challenges women drummers face. So she restricted to singing or playing the piano. pitched the publisher about turning that The harp was another acceptable instru- discovery into book. He loved it, and the ment for women, because they could project began. remain graceful while playing it. But drums, During her research, Smith learned often seen as the most primitive of instru- many interesting anecdotes. She inter- ments, were strictly off limits for women. viewed dozens of women drummers, from Smith is a classical cellist by training, 101-year-old Viola Smith to Meg White of Photo: z ildJ iaN .coM but 10 years ago she started playing the The White Stripes. Smith said the great- kim thompson, the drummer for fred armisen’s band, which plays on TV’s Late Night steel drum. It was an instrument that had est factor behind discrimination against With Seth Meyers. intrigued her from childhood. Her experi- women drummers is the perception that ence in learning to play the steel drum led playing the drums requires a great deal of her to write a successful book titled Steel physical strength and dexterity that women Drums and Steelbands: A History. As part of don’t have. story about performing with the legendary The book Women Drummers: A History the project, she met many percussionists, Most women drummers have heard at Benny Goodman and getting more applause From Rock and Jazz To Blues and Country including women and men drummers. least once, “You hit pretty good for a girl,” than he did. She was fired the next day. is fascinating reading for music fans and After the success of that project, her Smith said. Smith said things are changing for women those who are interested in gender issues publisher asked her to look into Karen Car- One story she likes to recount in this drummers. Kim Thompson, the drummer as well. Smith recounts stories that should penter’s position as an influential drummer vein is about blues legend Willie Mae “Big for Fred Armisen’s band on TV’s Late Night be heard as today’s young girl drummers in pop and rock music. While doing the Mama” Thornton. “She got her start in the With Seth Meyers, gives nightly exposure to seek to break stereotypes and pursue their music business by helping a producer move women drummers. A recent iPhone ad fea- personal muses. The book is an essential a piano up several flights of stairs,” Smith tured a young girl playing the drums. There work on both women’s history and the con- said. “If she was strong enough to do that, is also a magazine —Tom Tom — which is temporary state of female percussionists in then he would give her a chance to prove devoted exclusively to female drummers. the music industry. her skills as a drummer and vocalist.” But Smith said she believes it will be a Smith said Karen Carpenter, of the pop very long time before women drummers are duo The Carpenters, once beat out John seen as “more than a novelty.” Bonham of Led Zeppelin to be named best drummer in a Playboy reader’s poll. Bon- ham was incensed, but jazz great Buddy Rich rallied to her side, saying Carpenter was one of the greatest drummers he had ever known. Musically, she always con- sidered herself “a drummer who sang.” Canadian Michelle Josef began her drumming career as male drummer Bohdan Hluszko. Regarded as Canada’s best country music drummer, she faced a lot of discrimination in the percus- sion community for being female after transitioning to a woman, even though her skills remained the same. Dotty Dodgion accomplished the exceedingly difficult task of having a successful drumming career in the jazz community. But she related a 32 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 Schools work to improve inclusion for all students

P hoto: a P Photo/c harlie r iedel transgender high school students isaac Barnett, right, and his prom date, identified only by his first name Jasen, get ready to take photos after picking up their tuxedos for prom in kansas City, missouri. the seniors say friends, teachers and administrators have been much more supportive than they expected.

By lisa leff crimination on the basis of gender locker rooms, sports teams and tor. tion culturally where schools are AP writer identity in schools. Dozens of dis- other kinds of accommodations “For a long time they would have just caving to these demands is Isaac Barnett took a bold step tricts, from Salt Lake City and Kan- covered under California’s law, told you we don’t have any trans very concerning,” he said. last year: He told teachers and sas City to Knoxville, Tennessee, said Mark Blom, a National School kids here,” Atwood said. “But as Kim Pearson, training direc- classmates at his Kansas high and Decatur, Georgia, to Shore- Boards Association attorney. more and more kids are coming tor of Trans Youth Family Allies, school that the student they had wood, Wisconsin, have adopted He said the memo surprised out everywhere else in the coun- estimates that for every case that known as a girl wanted to be similar protections. him, because courts have said try, that is true in Mississippi as makes headlines there are dozens accepted as a boy. Parents are increasingly seeking Title IX doesn’t provide protec- well. that are resolved quietly and eas- His close childhood friend, who a comfortable learning environ- tions for sexual orientation or gen- “There is this sense of, ‘We have ily. also identified as transgender, was ment for their transgender chil- der identity. to start figuring out how to deal Since she co-founded the sup- ready to come out as well. dren, according to Transgender “It’s going to create a real prob- with this,’” Atwood said. port and advocacy group in 2007, With the administration’s bless- Legal Defense and Education Fund lem for school districts because Earlier in May, a Christian legal Pearson has worked with parents ing, a segment featuring the two executive director Michael Silver- the department has the right to group, Alliance Defending Free- and educators in half of the states. friends talking about their transi- man. go in and attempt to require the dom, asked the Louisville, Ken- “If a school wants to get it, they tions aired in the school’s class- His group represented the par- district under threat of losing fed- tucky, school board to overrule a will,” Pearson said. rooms, alongside a basketball ents of a transgender Colorado eral funding to meet the standard high school principal who allowed team promotion and a feature on grade school girl who was prevent- the department articulates,” Blom a transgender freshman to start the importance of the arts. ed from using the girls’ restroom said. using the girls’ bathrooms. turnaround initiative “I didn’t get any questions or until state civil rights officials School officials in states with- The principal has since limited The White House hate or put-downs or anything like ruled in her favor last year. out anti-discrimination provisions the student to using a specific girls’ announced in May private- that,” said Barnett, now 18, adding There’s “a new generation of for transgender residents are also restroom but said treating her like public funding — more than that they called him Isaac immedi- parents who grew up in the age grappling with how to serve stu- other female students adhered to $17 million — to help turn ately — a drama-free coming-out of the gay rights movement and dents whose needs conflict with the recent Title IX guidance. around low-performing that would have been extraordi- are saying, ‘We want to do what is traditional views about when and “When the issue of gender iden- schools and narrow the nary in schools a decade ago. best for our children,’” he said. why boys and girls are separated. tity was brought to my attention, I achievement gap. Money will Surveys show that schools in The trend is likely to accelerate The ACLU of Mississippi got had to educate myself on the issue be used to hire arts and music districts large and small, conserva- with help from the federal govern- involved last year when a high and what this means in terms of teachers, bring teaching art- tive and liberal, are working to help ment. school senior wanted to dress in fair and just treatment of trans- ists, art supplies and music transitioning youth fit in without Last month, the U.S. Education clothing to match his gender iden- gender people,” Atherton High instruments into schools and a fuss. Department alerted districts in a tity. The principal balked, saying School principal Thomas Aberli integrate the arts into other California this year became the memo on sexual violence that it the dress code required clothing said. core subjects. “Turnaround first state with a law spelling out would investigate civil rights com- to conform to his official birth gen- Alliance Defending Freedom artists” include Elton John, the transgender student rights in plaints from transgender students der, which is female. attorney Jeremy Tedesco said Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Marc public schools, including the abil- under Title IX, the 1972 law that The school board relented and schools should instead give trans- Anthony, Rashida Jones, Tim ity to use restrooms and to play bans gender discrimination at stood by its decision, even after gender students the option of Robbins, Trombone Shorty, on sports teams that match their schools. some parents and students com- using staff or unisex facilities, as Forest Whitaker and Alfre expressed genders. The guidance gives families new plained, said Bear Atwood, then many do. Woodard. Another 13 states prohibit dis- leverage to negotiate access to the state ACLU’s executive direc- “The fact that we are in a posi- WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 33 34 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 35

By gregg Shapiro WiGOUT! Contributing writer Jennifer Hudson’s story is the stuff hudson plans to ‘Jenniferize’ of legends. The Chicago native’s mete- oric rise from American Idol competitor to Oscar-winning actress is a once-in-a- generation story. We knew she could sing, Chicago pride festival audience but when she stole the movie Dreamgirls from Beyoncé, she entered the strato- sphere. Personal tragedies (the murder of family members) and triumphs (remark- able weight loss) followed. Hudson has persevered through whatever life has thrown her way and continued to turn out memorable work and performances. Her third album Driven, soon to be released, is expected to show yet another side of the star. Fans can experience being “Jennifer- ized” (her term) when Hudson performs at Chicago’s Pride Fest on June 21, 2014. I spoke with Jennifer in May about her LGBT fans and more. you performed “Same love” with macklemore, ryan lewis and mary lam- bert on the vmas in 2013. on June 21, you are doing a mid-day set at Chicago’s pride festival. What do your lgBt fans mean to you? Oh, my God! I would have to say everything. That’s where I started. I always say it was the gay community that loved me first. It feels good to come full circle and get back into that. I am so excited!

Will you perform any songs from your new album? Almost every song will be a new song. I can’t wait. I’ve created a playl- ist of all the songs I’m going to do and I can’t stop listening to it (laughs). That’s how excited I am.

Will you also perform songs from your older repertoire? There will be a few little sprinkles here and there. But I don’t give anything away. There will be a few remind- ers. For the most part, it will definitely be ourselves. But in my type of position, I can’t I did on this album when I was in the studio my friends go and always do a drag show. new songs from the new album Driven for just do anything, although I might have a with Timbaland. My manager was asleep For my 30th birthday, it was a timeline sure. thought or two like, “Hmmm. I might like to with his mouth wide open. I was like, “We of Jennifer drag queens. They went from do that.” Even if you do, there’s a way to do are not leaving this studio.” That’s when you Idol all the way to now. They did a time- What is it about Chicago that keeps it. As far as how I feel like I’m perceived, I’m know it’s right. When they allow you to be line of different performances and different you coming back? Chicago is home. Obvi- perceived as everybody’s very safe when you and put your artistry into things, that’s appearances with different looks. I had a ously, family, and it’s all I know. I don’t care it comes to Jennifer. Then there are other when you know the producer is right. ball. Love that! where I go in the world, there is no place sides to me. When you meet me, it’s like, like home. Every time I come home, I get “She’s nothing like that at all.” The image is the current season of RuPaul’s Drag What else can your fans expect from to come home to Chicago. very clean-cut; this little good girl. There’s Race just wrapped up with Bianca del rio the new album? is there a concert tour in more to me than that. I think we’ll find that being crowned. have you ever been invited the works? There better be a concert tour, in your most recent single “Walk it out on this album as well. to be a judge on that show — and would first of all (laughs)! It’s a whole new side of out,” you sing about being a good girl you do it if you were invited? No, I’ve never me, for sure. There’s a lot of dance music who has to think about her image. how there are spoken words at the begin- gotten an invite, but I sure would go! With on there for sure. This is the most I’ve ever would you describe the general percep- ning of “Walk it out” that say, “you must bells on, honey. I would love that for sure. been involved in any of my projects. It’s tion of your image — and what image have the right producer.” how do you know a celebration and I’m loving it. It’s a new would you like to project? That is a very when a producer is right for you? Well, how many Jennifer hudson drag queens space I’m in and I can’t wait to share it. I good question! I almost don’t know how when I work with a Timbaland and a Phar- have you encountered? Oh, my God, so got some serious tracks going there for all to answer it. In writing “Walk It Out,” the rell and producers like that (laughs), that’s many! On one of my last birthdays. Any the queens! I’m even bringing some queens verses I’m singing came from me, from my how I know. If I’m going to sit in the studio time it’s time for me to celebrate — if it’s with me when I come. I hope you are all perspective. We all have other sides to until six a.m. when the sun comes up, which Mother’s Day or a birthday or something, ready, because I’m not playing, honey! 36 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014

Alan Paul, who was appearing in Grease. A new iteration of TMT began to gel. the manhattan transfer looks back In 1978, Massé was seriously injured in an auto accident and couldn’t perform. She was replaced by Cheryl Bentyne who, along at 45 years of four-part magic with Hauser, Siegel and Paul, formed the final version of the band. TMT’s style has evolved and become more sophisticated over the years, some- thing Hauser credits to each of the singers. “Cheryl is the daughter of a swing musi- cian, and she gravitates that way,” Hauser says. “Alan and I both like doo-wop, and Janis is a real East Coast jazzhead. The older we get the more difficult it sometimes becomes managing the influences, but once we agree on an approach it really works.” One of the numbers that worked excep- tionally well was TMT’s vocal version of Joe Zawinul’s “Birdland.” Featuring lyrics by Jon Hendricks, TMT matched the original rhythmic and highly complex instrumen- tal composition note for note, an impres- sive performance that earned TMT its first Grammy Award. “This piece is a testament to produc- er Jay Graydon, who was very fastidious, almost anal-retentive in matching the origi- nal work,” says Hauser. “He wanted perfect doubling and he was a pain in the ass in the Photo: courteSy studio but it worked.” Siegel’s vocals soared through Wayne By michael muckian 1969, on an impressive career trajectory as music, so I thought, ‘We could do that,’ and Shorter’s original saxophone measures, Contributing writer the country’s best-known jazz vocal group. no one was doing four-part harmony, and I while Hauser covered legendary bassist By all accounts, Tim Hauser is a lucky But Hauser, now 72, maintains that the thought, ‘We could do that,’” Hauser says. Jaco Pastorious’ part note for note. Every- man, and luck has helped propel The Man- success of TMT was more than just luck. Hauser took the name of the group from one jumped in on Zawinul’s keyboard work, hattan Transfer, the group he founded in The Troy, New York, native first conceived Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos’ 1925 Hauser adds. the idea as a student at Villanova Univer- novel about the development of New York The group has enjoyed acclaim for other sity: Find the right talent to create a new City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. cover pieces, including Freddie Green’s spin on the four-part vocal harmonies that The book had been assigned reading in one “Corner Pocket,” originally written for the were a small but significant part of the Big of Hauser’s Villanova literature classes. Count Basie Orchestra and covered by TMT Band sound of the 1930s and ’40s. “If you read the book, you could make a as “Until I Met You.” Entire albums have “The Big Band arrangers would write for case that it tells the story of how we all got also been devoted to single artists, includ- the entire orchestra and leave a 32-bar sec- together, but my reason was much more ing 2000’s The Spirit of St. Louis, an homage tion for the vocalists to fill,” says Hauser, prosaic,” Hauser says. “The cover of the to Louis Armstrong that was suggested by who appears with TMT on June 19 at the paperback had the drawing of a subway Bentyne. Northern Lights Theater in Milwaukee’s train screaming into a station, and that to Another homage album, 2009’s The Chick Potawatomi Bingo Casino. me summed up New York City.” Corea Songbook, covers the work of the The Big Bands styled their four-part har- TMT’s original iteration lasted two years contemporary jazz pianist. It was a project monies like an arranger would style the sax- and produced one album — Jukin’. brought to the group by producer Yusuf ophone section — in a way that matched the Hauser, who had left a Madison Avenue Gandhi. It was a little more difficult for tone and timbre of the composition. That marketing career to pursue music, was driv- Hauser to wrap his head around. was an approach that appealed to Hauser, ing a cab in New York in 1972 when he “This was difficult because Chick’s music who grew up listening to many of the great picked up Laurel Massé, an aspiring singer is very complex and the melodic structure jazz artists. He also believed it made sense familiar with the album. A few weeks later, is unconventional, “ Hauser says. “It’s very from a marketing perspective. he met Janis Siegel at a party and Massé’s cerebral. It took me a long time to ‘get’ a lot “At the time no one was doing vocalese boyfriend introduced Hauser and Siegel to of his music, which comes from a different place than where I come from.” But the album marked a step forward for TMT, which continues to evolve. Still, steps toward the next album haven’t always proved easy to take, Hauser says. “Cheryl would like to record Vocalese 2,” says Hauser, referring to a sequel to the suc- cessful 1985 TMT album, “and that would be a great idea. I’d like to do an album that captures the Philadelphia soul sound like that of The Spinners and The Delfonics, but my partners aren’t too keen on that. Janis and Alan say they just want to record another TMT album, but I don’t know what that is.” Once TMT’s members do reach a consen- sus on what to do next, it will work — and it will work really well. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 37

Photo: yout ube the manhattan transfer’s tim hauser in a youtube video for his kickstarter cam- paign to raise money for “i made Sauce!” ‘i made sauce!’ Growing up in heavily Italian-American New Jersey neighborhoods, Tim Hauser was often invited for dinner by his friends’ mothers. “They would say to me, ‘Timmy, why don’t you stay for dinner. I made sauce,’” says Hauser, referring to the pasta sauce that would be the evening’s main feature. Hauser has drawn on those experiences to launch “I Made Sauce!,” his own line of pasta sauces, produced and marketed by him and his wife Barb. The couple raised $35,000 on a Kickstarter campaign, which closed June 4, and is off and running with the new product line. The high-end sauces, based on the foods he tasted when he toured Italy, are designed to make people happy in the same way that TMT’s music does, says Hauser. After years of working in the music business, he’s happy he can start a new enterprise. “I want to show people that you can climb another mountain at 72,” says Hauser, who last year underwent back surgery as a result of having cancer. “You get up and you get moving, dude!”

Photo: courteSy under the Streetlamp. northern lights hosts Under the Streetlamp Fans of four-part harmony get a treat on June 14, when Northern Lights Theater presents Under the Streetlamp, a male vocal quartet made up of past cast mem- bers from the wildly popular Broadway musical Jersey Boys. Comprised of singers Michael Cunio, Michael Ingersoll, Christopher Kale Jones and Shonn Wiley, Under the Streetlamp performs hits from the American Radio Songbook, from doo-wop and Motown to old time rock ‘n’ roll. Unique harmonies and some slick dance moves round out a performance that’s the perfect warm-up act for The Manhattan Transfer. Information and tickets: www.paysbig.com. 38 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014

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CharleS alliS and villa and partly a rebranding. Artistic director Jef- ‘JeSuS ChriSt SuperStar’ terraCe appoint interim frey Herbst said board members have con- CanCelS ameriCan tour exeCutive direCtor sidered changing the company’s name for Only days before its planned launch in Former marketing manager John Sterr the past seven years. He said the new name New Orleans, the new arena version of the has been appointed interim executive direc- evokes the experience of seeing a summer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical tor of the Charles Allis and Villa Terrace show at the group’s outdoor amphitheater Jesus Christ Superstar was abruptly canceled Art Museums, the position previously held in Peninsula State Park, where the natural by producers without explanation May 30. by Maria Costello for five years. Sterr has setting is itself a dramatic element. The tour, which would have visited Milwau- directed the museum’s marketing for the The name change also acknowledges kee as part of its 54-city run beginning June past three years. In that role, he established AFT’s evolution from its earliest days. Forty- 9, had featured a notable cast that included the Milwaukee Museum Mile, a creative five years ago, David Peterson founded the punk legend John Johnny Rotten Lydon as partnership bringing together the CAVT group under the name The Heritage Ensem- King Herod, Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Museums, the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, ble. In 1990, the group reorganized into an Child as Mary Magdalene, Incubus’ Brandon Museum of Wisconsin Art at Saint John’s ensemble that performed traditional folk- Boyd as Judas and JC Chasez as Pontius on the Lake, and the North Point Light- songs and tales. But over the past 25 years, Pilate. The title role was to be played by Ben house. The partnership’s goal is to boost the the focus has shifted to the creation and Forster, the winner of a U.K. talent show. profiles of all five member organizations. presentation of original, full-book musicals. While no reason has been given for the According to CAVT Museums president AFT will introduce the new name to its cancellation, producer Michael Cohl previ- audiences during the summer season and Claudia Egan, Sterr’s knowledge of the orga- ously stated the show’s costs were in the Photo: From album cover nization will allow the group to look for a unveil a new logo later this fall. eight figures, which meant it would have new executive director at Villa Terrace with- to gross several hundred thousand dollars out any lapse of services or programming. nathan lane, mattheW nightly to break even. lorde’S neW north ameriCan BroderiCk to reunite tour inCludeS ‘royal’ viSit to on BroadWay neW digital muSiC Store to milWaukee in SeptemBer Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick will Cater to theatre fanS Overnight pop superstar Lorde announced be back together again on Broadway in a The team of entrepreneurs behind Bway- June 2 a new North American tour book- revival of Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Tunes.com say they’ll offer showtune lovers ended by appearances at Lollapalooza and Play, joining an ensemble that includes Tony the Internet’s most comprehensive catalog Austin City Limits in August and October, Award winner Stockard Channing, Oscar of digital musical theater music. Theater respectively. Also on the itinerary is her winner F. Murray Abraham and Emmy win- marketing professional Jim Russek and first-ever visit to Milwaukee. She’ll play the ner Megan Mullally. Jack O’Brien will direct Wall Street strategist Erik Hartog have part- BMO Harris Pavilion on the Summerfest the production, a send-up of show business nered with 7digital, a fast-growing music grounds Sept. 26, following opening elec- set to open on Oct. 9. Lane and Broderick and content platform, for the venture, tronic pop duo Majical Cloudz. The booking most famously performed together in “The which is intended to eliminate the need for is a joint effort between Milwaukee World Producers,” and most recently in “The Odd showtune lovers to rummage through mil- Festival (Summerfest’s parent company) maJor door County theater Couple” (during the 2005 season). Their lions of other songs on sites like Amazon. and the Pabst Theater Group, which recent- ChangeS name last individual turns on Broadway came BwayTunes.com currently offers Broadway- ly shifted its scheduled Vampire Weekend In January 2015, Door County’s award- in 2013 and 2012, respectively, with Lane related songs, albums and compilations at concert from the Riverside to the BMO Har- winning American Folklore Theatre will playing the lead role in The Nance, a drama price rates comparable to iTunes, as well ris Pavilion due to overwhelming demand. debut a new name — “Northern Sky The- about a gay man a 1930s-era burlesque as access to curated radio channels, several ater.” The name change was announced at troupe, and Broderick as the male romantic blogs and even music for shows in develop- the company’s annual “Raise the Curtain” lead in Nice Work if You Can Get It, a recon- ment. The website also provides detailed — from WiG and AP reports fundraiser May 25. The change is partly a figuration of classic Gershwin tunes around production credits for cast albums to allow tribute to the company’s late co-founder an orginal Prohibition-era story. searchers to find the most obscure informa- Fred Alley (“Beneath the Northern Sky” is tion. Downloads will cost slightly more than the title of one of his best-known ballads) rates at the average music site.

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[email protected] • 916 – AURELIA • (916–287–3542) www.schultzlaw.us • 3757 S. Howell Ave., Milwaukee WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 39 ivy Spokes to headline Summerfest’s kne new music Stage on opening night By Bill lamb Contributing writer Milwaukee band Ivy Spokes first came together in 2011 and released a debut EP titled Chaos to Cosmos. The band describes its sound as dance rock, but that doesn’t fully honor the wide range of sounds that are woven into an Ivy Spokes show. The opening track from the EP “In Dreams” received a Wisconsin Area Music Award nomination for song of the year, putting Ivy Spokes on the radar as one of the area’s hottest new bands. Last year the band performed as part of Summerfest’s Emerging Artists Series. This year it has moved up and will take the headlining spot on the KNE New Music Stage at 8:30 p.m., June 25 — the opening night of Summerfest. Ivy Spokes’ second recording Upside appeared early this year. Group lead vocal- ist Brandon Arndt says a new collection of songs will be released later this summer and together with Upside, they’ll form a full- Photo: y voNNe lo P ez length album. He says Ivy Spokes’ music has moved in a more direct rock ’n’ roll direc- tion recently, but it remains music that will “make you move a little bit.” Some of the Ivy Spokes is working new songs reveal the influence of bands like hard for recognition Foo Fighters. In addition to new songs, the group has a new bass player for the sum- as one of Milwaukee’s mer of 2014. Arndt and drummer Hans Blanc are the rising bands. core of the band and its primary songwrit- ers. New songs sometimes evolve from jam sessions, Arndt says. “We usually know if the song’s going to work in the first 10 min- Ivy Spokes has a full lineup of perfor- utes of playing with it.” mances for the summer of 2014. In addition The band got its name in a similarly spon- to their Summerfest appearance, the band taneous way. “We were sitting and debating will be taking the stage at Bastille Days and what we were going to be called for awhile,” a wide range of outdoor events in the area. Arndt says. “Then we were sitting on my They are working hard to put themselves front porch and looked over and I had this foremost among the Milwaukee area’s ris- bike that was just growing plants all over it ing bands. The group is also looking to climb ... and that’s where we got the name.” one step higher in recognition of the quality Arndt’s two favorite songs from Upside — of their music. Brandon says the Summer- “Coexist” and “Something New” — reveal fest headlining spot is a sign, “We’re making the wide range of sounds that make up the things happen.” music of Ivy Spokes. “Coexist” has a big, Ivy Spokes has a unique sound that will expansive sound that finds a comfortable appeal to a wide spectrum of music fans. middle ground between arena rock and It’s difficult to tease apart the influences, dance pop. “Something New” is more of a but if you like pop, rock or dance music, you bracing slice of summer pop rock. Guitars are likely to find something to catch your are front and center in the breezily energetic attention here. tune. Ivy Spokes works hard in concert. The performers clearly aim to win over the on Stage crowd and draw them into the music. Arndt Ivy Spokes kicks off the headlining says the band feeds off the energy of the performances at Summerfest’s KNE crowd and performs out of love for the New Music Stage at 8:30 p.m. on music. Sept. 25. “We’re always looking to see what we can do better in the next shows and next release,” Arndt adds. 40 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 Bach dancing & dynamite Society is creative explosion

By michael muckian know what picture you’re aiming for.” Contributing writer The concert series will be held over three Anyone who thinks chamber music is consecutive weekends — June 13–15, June stately, stodgy and, in some cases, som- 20–22 and June 27–29. In addition to the nolent has never seen the seasonal perfor- Hillside School, The Playhouse at Madison’s mances offered by Madison’s Bach Dancing Overture Center for the Arts and the his- & Dynamite Society. toric Stoughton Opera House in Stoughton This year’s program, dubbed “23 Skidoo” will hold performances. to celebrate BDDS’s 23rd year, is offering In terms of content, BDDS has centuries performances of 28 compositions by 22 of artists to choose from, ranging from composers from Brahms and Mozart to Baroque master J.S. Bach, for whom the Antonin Dvořák, Arnold Bax and film scorer group is named, to contemporary names in Nino Rota, with a healthy dose of Impres- composition. This year’s program includes sionists sandwiched in between. the “Quartet in A minor for Flute, Viola and In addition to co-founders and co-artistic Piano” by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach, one directors Stephanie Jutt on flute and Jeffrey of J.S. Bach’s 20 children, in honor of C.P.E. Sykes on piano, this year’s iteration of BDDS Bach’s 300th birth anniversary. includes 15 other musicians from around The playlist over the three weekends the world giving 12 performances over nine also includes four compositions by Maurice days in three different venues, including Ravel, three by tango composer Astor Piaz- the historic Hillside Theatre at Frank Lloyd zolla, and one each by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wright’s Taliesin estate outside of Spring Dmitri Shostakovich, Witold Lutoslawski, Green. All of that activity in less than a Aaron Jay Kernis and a host of others. Vari- Photo: d ick a i NSWorth month must make this group the state’s ety is one of the things that gives BDDS its stantly surprising while being at the same during two of this year’s concerts. During most energetic traveling band. momentum, says Jutt. time comforting and familiar.” the four-minute film, BDDS members will “Wow, I never counted it all up before,” “We’ve never been big fans of the ‘wall- Of course, there is a bit of Mozart on the accompany live with Darius Milhaud’s “Le says Jutt, who also serves as principal flut- to-wall Mozart’ types of concerts,” says Jutt. program. His “Piano Concerto in A Major, boeuf sur le toit for piano four-hands.” ist for the Madison Symphony Orchestra “Maybe Jeff and I don’t have the patience, No. 23” will be performed at the Stoughton “We’re very interested in any kind of col- and as faculty member at the UW-Madison but maybe we just love variety, juxtaposi- Opera House on Friday, June 20, and then laboration with other artists, which is why School of Music. “Putting together the sea- tion of styles, and unusual elements in new again at the Hillside Theatre on Sunday, we’ve had visual artists every single year son is like putting together a giant jigsaw combinations — just the way a great chef June 22. Mozart’s work will share the stage of our festival,” Jutt says. “We’ve done sev- puzzle, except the pieces change size and does in your favorite restaurant. It makes with compositions by Brahms, Piazzolla, eral collaborations with video artists with shape as you work with them, and you don’t for a concert-going experience that is con- Antonio Vivaldi and 19th-century American varying degrees of success. Some of the composer Amy Beach. audiences love to see abstract images float- BDDS draws its name from the original ing past while listening to music and some Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society that still people just can’t stand it.” performs in Half Moon Bay, California, south Milhaud’s work originally was a film score of San Francisco. Jutt is from the Bay Area, written to accompany a Chaplin film, one of Holistic Healthy and Sykes currently calls it home. He serves many he wrote for French cinema primarily as a department of music faculty member during the 1930s, ’40s and even as late as for both the University of California, Berke- 1970. (A version of the work for violin and Pet Diets ley, and California State University, East Bay. piano matched to a 16-minute version of The California BDDS, which offers per- “The Count” can be viewed on YouTube Toxis Free formances throughout the summer, has Jutt and Sykes see the blend of music and evolved to include jazz, blues and hip-hop. cinema as one more arts hybrid that fits Cleaners But this year the program also is sharing neatly into BDDS’s creative esthetic. several musicians with its Madison counter- “We agree with the old French expres- Essential Oils part, according to Jutt. sion chacun sa chance, which simply means “Pianist Jeffrey Sykes, violinist Axel ‘everyone gets a chance,’” Sykes says. “We Strauss and cellist Jean-Michel Fontaneau want see how we can combine art forms have a separate chamber music group and come up with something new and won- called the San Francisco Piano Trio, because derful, as Milhaud did with his film score.” they all live and work in San Francisco,” Jutt explains. “We try to make a special place for this ensemble within our festival, and they on the WeB will be performing trios by Shostakovich and For more information and a complete Dvořák this year.” schedule of Bach Dancing & Dynamite A relatively unknown Charlie Chaplin Society’s June concerts, visit www.bach- silent short, “The Count,” is to be shown dancinganddynamite.org.

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‘turn turn turn’ through ‘a tumultuouS aSSemBly: others began assembling found objects in tion” (1988), one of the exhibit’s three- auguSt 24 Collage, aSSemBlage and the interesting ways, resulting in the formal dimensional works. To everything there is a season, and this found oBJeCt’ through July 27 emergence of collages (from the French At Madison Museum of Contemporary summer will be the season for “Turn Turn Summer weather usually means a sea- coller, meaning “to paste.”) Both Braque Art, located in the Overture Center for the Turn,” a Madison Museum of Contemporary sonal slowdown for indoor activities, but and Picasso are credited with coining the Arts, 201 State St. Call 608-257-0158 or Art exhibit that draws its name from the late the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art term. MMOCA’s “A Tumultuous Assem- visit www.mmoca.org. Pete Seeger’s song and explores life’s joys, continues to offer new exhibits, even as bly: Collage, Assemblage and the Found sorrows and momentous events through it gears up for Art Fair on the Square July Object” does not feature works by any of re-art SWap, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. on modern art. Using pieces from MMOCA’s 12–13. the movement’s founders, but it does offer Sun., June 22 collection, the exhibit illustrates passages Early last century, artists Pablo Picas- a collection of works by more contemporary Absolutely Art hosts its ninth annual from the famous song, which draws its title so, Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp and artists, including Louise Nevelson, Robert Re-Art SWAP — the gallery’s annual oppor- from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Rauschenberg and oth- tunity to help artists clean out their studios. “To everything there is a season,” the ers. The exhibit clearly Just about anything is fair game for trading, song’s subtitle and summation verse, is references futurism, from beads, buttons and broken ceramics illustrated by Grant Wood’s “Calendar the movement founded to screws, spools, stock photos and tools. Prints,’ which chronicle the changing agri- in 1909 that celebrated Show up with your goods and you’ll be cultural seasons in the Midwest. “A time all things future. The assigned a table to display them. Then find to kill” is illustrated by Claes Oldenburg’s name “Tumultuous something new that speaks to you and take “Ray Gun (1972),” while “a time to hate” Assembly” comes from it home with you. Or show up with no goods is supported by Ed Paschke’s frightening a typographical col- and make a $5 donation, which will be “Kontato” and “Kantata.” lage by the poet Filippo used to help purchase art supplies for local The gallery’s Learning Center offers a Tommaso Marinetti, an schools and community groups. variety of resources, including videos of advocate for free-verse Absolutely Art is looking for volunteers “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a poetry and founder of to help with set-up both Saturday and Sun- Season),” performed by a very young Seeger futurism. day. If you’re interested in helping, contact and Judy Collins, as well as by the folk-rock Families might want Meghan Blake-Horst at 608-249-9100 or group The Byrds, which made the song a hit. to stop at the muse- meghan@absolutelyartllc. There also are videos of an elderly Seeger um’s reception desk At Absolutely Art, 2322 Atwood Ave., discussing the song and its creation. for a MMOCAkids Art- Madison. For more information, visit www. At Madison Museum of Contemporary Pack, which includes absolutelyartllc.com. Art, located in the Overture Center for the a paper sculpture — Michel Muckian Arts, 201 State St. Call 608-257-0158 or Photo: MMoca activity based on Don visit www.mmoca.org. don Baum, “the apparition,” 1988. Canvas board and wood. Baum’s “The Appari-

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DiCaprio on greed ‘WINTERDANCES’ series is a staple Oscar-nominated actor Thurs., Jan. 23Winterdances through Sun., Jan. 26 Leonardo DiCaprio disses UWM’s the hedonism and greed of the arts season’s early months, but the 2014 installment has more resonance than flaunted by his character usual: It’s doubling as a commemoration of in Wolf of Wall Street. the dance department’s 50th anniversary. So it makes sense that the event, subtitled page 17 “Past Moving Forward,” would feature a mix of choreographers old and new. Alumna Keely Garfield, based in New York, returns | with “Lamb,” a piece based on the Zen say- January 23, 2014 Vol. 5 No. 5 ing “Fallen sevent faculty times, members stand Debraup eight.” Loewen, Works by curr PHOTO: COURTESY Christina Briggs Winslow and Maria Gil- lespie are also featured. But there’s a nod to the future, as well. The event will re-stage “Going to Polly’s,” by current MFA student CarrieMajo Lande (Homuth), whichr was partmi of ssteps that xhibit. the summer 2013 Dancemakers show. At UWM’s Mainstage Theater, 2400 E. Ken- wood Blvd., Milwaukee. All performances , part of the Real/Surreal exhibit. are at 7:30 p.m., excepting a 2 p.m. Sunday r it vis arts.uwm.edu/ cosmatinee. Ticketst are $17,Wisc $15 for seniors/ onsin Sundayjobs Morning 3 real, a traveling exhibit of early modern Ameri- al/Sur UWM faculty and $8 for Peck students. to RReal/Surreale l an Call 414-229-4308 o ost is rea what and tickets. Edward Hopper’s painting een Hopper ward yeth pages 4–6 d w W re ‘JANUARY THAW’ e Rural And ores ch expl 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 25 , whichwhi exploresr visit the growth of surrealism and magical realism 58 o ‘REAL/SURREAL’ 7-01 Winter have you feeling frosty? Make Jan. 25 through April 27, and ‘The Mystery Beneath,’ Jan. 25 through April 513 your way to Spring Green, where th The Mystery Beneath The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St., plays host to Musicians Forum has gathered together can art from the Whitney Museum that plays with the tension between what is real and7 p.m. what Fri., is imagined.Jan. 24 and In 3 addition p.m. Sat., to Jan. paintings, 25 a trio of musical groups to heat up the ol lection to enhance the show, including paintings by Andrew WyethAL and Marsden Hartley. The museum has also night. There’s a little something for every- drawings and prints by such acclaimed masters as Paul Cadmus, EdwardFE SHopperTIV and George Tooker, MMoCa will add works , a song cycle one — jazz-lovers have Chance Allies, a from its own c Ponas Eurydice YDICE nna local piano/bass/vocalist trio; heartland curated a full supporting exhibition of its own, Jill A reek he G rock fans can find kindred spirits in the in Wisconsin art from 1940 to 1975. AdmissionTHE is free. EURYDICE Call 608-257-0158 iFESTIVALng t or visitat T mmoca.org for more information. or kend Americana-influenced band Cupola; and Artistic director Jillw Annaee Ponasikrden. has led Milwaukee Opera Theatre through a three- is al ga , a chamber opera by Joel Boyd;. The company will perform those looking for a bit of variety can look year journey exploringythi thec Greekg D mytho of ,Eurydice a production through devised song, by and Danny the fruitsBrylow of and their Joanna m rawlin to Better Daze, a quartet that plays every- labor blossom this h weekende C at Go The to Eurydice Hell Festival, an event that transforms Carroll TThe Crawling; and Dove Orpheus and Euridice thing from rock to reggae to blue-eyed University into a mythicalowski garden. MOT has commissioned three works by local artists for sselowski;sel andll studen the occasion — arro Ia ng C icky Spring Green. Tickets are $10 and can be by Nathan We R ol poser Carr purchased at Arcadia Books or at ruralmu- Kerner featuringm Carroll, at studenta performers. The repertoire is rounded out with excerpts twice cupc siciansforum.org. from NYC composerlu Rickyde Ian Gordon’s inc 800- the program chtwice, Caat llCarroll University’s Otteson Theatre, 238 N. East Ave., Waukesha. nts. Tickets, whichde include cupcakes and other refreshments, are $25, $30 for reserved seats, $20 for students. CallCH 800-838-3006ILI or visit milwaukeeoperatheatre.org to order. UKEE un., Jan A m., S MILWAUKEE4 p. CHILIy BOWL man 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,e h Sun.,as Jan.on 26 auke big Milwaukees hasthe manyen chili competitions his i po C ’s Ex hi — but thisasin iso the bigres one,c staged at Potawa- featu tomi Casino’svent Expo fCenter,rom 1721 W. Canal St. The event featuresrants, chilin from more than 50 restau ant a area restaurants,ur from the obvious (Antigua Resta cure Latinin Restaurantobs andf The Loaded Slate) to more bs, the morei s obscureh pu (themadn ess, weirdly $15 high gets num- you of Ir chi berr of Irishn tpubs,he for example). If you want in i unc to joinjo in theee- o chili t, thr in eight,eigh three-ounceing samples; if that isn’t quite gh, br F enenough,ou bringTask in two canned goods for the ger les. HunHungers a Taskmp Force and you can get two PHOTO: CHRISTIE’S re owl.c momore samples.hilib Order tickets in advance at mmkechilibowl.com.kec u | JanuaryJ a n 23, 2014 M oil on canvas. C O T E. Orpheus and Eurydice WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM 8 New War on Poverty 9 Hoosiers show heart 10 Workers rising up 21 Woody (1734-1802) Sez 25 Madison Ballet Fifty years after Lyndon Indiana lawmakers stall Wisconsin GOP defeats aGaetano Tom Gandolfi Strini praises The Repertory performance Johnson launched the War a measure to enact a proposal to hike the mini- Rep for authenticity in explores new themes and on Poverty, Democrats constitutional ban against mum wage and proposes a presenting the music of dance styles seek to renew it. marriage equality. seven-day work week. Woody Guthrie.

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wisconsingazette.com WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 43 madison’s art gaZe - milWaukee This week’s Art Gaze State Street selections prompt new ways of seeing through an extraordinary array to get new of paintings, prints and photographs, and whimsical sculptural work of installations. ‘the unCertainty public art of enCloSure: leo By Jay rath Saul Berk,’ June 7– Contributing writer aug. 17 The campus end of Madison’s The enclosure that State Street looks like the scene of an Leo Saul Berk refer- explosion right now, due to roadwork. ences in this exhibition But by the time autumn leaves fall, it title refers to his child- will feature a new sculptural work of hood home known as the public art. Ford House, designed “LEAF,” the working title of a sculp- by the very experimen- ture by Milwaukee-based artist Jill tal architect Bruce Goff. Sebastian, will take the form of a The house is located in 27-foot-square maple leaf. The figure the quiet, suburban town will feature layers of depth that create of Aurora, Illinois, but is subtle lighting patterns that change known the world over with the seasons. The patterns are for its futuristic domed intended to reflect the waves on near- construction and unusual by Lake Mendota, especially at night. building materials. Coal “LEAF” will be organic to the space, and rope are two that fig- both figuratively and literally, thanks to ure prominently both in early civic planning. the house and in Berk’s “The intersection of State Street resulting sculpture. “yellow-red-Blue” by Wassily kandinsky, 1925. oil on canvas. and Library Mall/East Campus Mall Braided hemp forms is one of the most important public complex woven patterns places, and one of the busiest, in the that recall the miles of city,” says William Fruhling, principal rope used along walls of Kandinsky believed abandoning recog- planner with the City of Madison’s the house, and curved about the value of visual culture. nizable stories and symbols was a way of Neighborhood Planning, Preservation wood planes reflect its rounded ceilings. Scrutiny After the Glimpse encourages making art that responded to the internal and Design Section. “For the design Narrow lines of coal create outlines like the viewing that goes beyond the few seconds feelings and expressions of the artist. He of the 700–800 blocks of State Street mortar surrounding the house’s masonry that most visitors give pieces in museums. felt it was possible to think about art and — the portion now under construction walls. The exhibition unfolds a little like a puzzle, its formal elements as conveying particular between Lake and Park Streets — we As Berk explained in a recent gallery talk, as it is up to the viewer to make sense of sensations or vibrations. In his abstract required that an artist be part of the the magic of this home was its amazing what is displayed and why various works work, a visual rhythm of lines and colors design team so that integrating public sense of daring, creativity and play. Now are shown together. The dearth of wall text becomes apparent with relaxed, patient and art could be considered from the earli- in his forties, he looks back to his forma- leaves these questions open, and while it close viewing. For all the dynamism of Kan- est stages.” tive years, surrounded by this inventive may seem a little discomforting at first, the dinsky’s bright colors and playful lines, he is “The city has a strong commitment architecture, and notes that it helped foster novel approach of combining the work of best approached with meditative mind and to ‘place-making’ and creating unique his own path and sense of possibility. The artists who occupy very different styles and fully open eyes. public spaces where people will want power of Goff’s visionary design not only time periods in the history of art becomes At Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art to visit and spend time,” Fruhling adds. created an architectural landmark, but rich- fascinating. Some of the best groupings Museum Dr. Phone 414-224-3200 or go to “Public art plays a major role in that, ly influenced the visual creativity of a child combine pieces made hundreds of years www.mam.org. and that is why we required an artist who would become an artist. apart. As unorthodox as this may seem, it is At Inova, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwau- a little like the way we view images online. to be part of the design team, and not SCrutiny after the glimpSe, just think of adding public art where it kee. Go to www4.uwm.edu/psoa/inova/ We have become accustomed to being pre- schedule.cfm. thorne Brandt’S ‘agod,’ sented with ostensibly random pictures and fit after everything else was designed.” June 4–aug. 3 Sebastian has already made an bits of data simultaneously. This sort of Thorne Brandt’s video piece, AGOD, is a impact on the other end of State ‘kandinSky: a retroSpeCtive,’ visual layering is what the Haggerty does in little bit like tossing pop culture animations Street, where she created “Philoso- June 5–Sept. 1 this exhibition in analog form, while Brandt’s in a blender, amping up their color satura- phers Stones,” the public sitting area Wassily Kandinsky became a major figure work is strictly digital. tion, and giving them a good whirl. A Jeff adjacent to the Wisconsin Historical in modern art in the early years of the 20th At Marquette University’s Haggerty Koons-like bunny, Indian temple dancers, Museum. Her works have been exhib- century. His work with important groups Museum of Art, 13th Street and Claybourn maniacal gingerbread men with chainsaws, ited across the United States, as well such as Der Blaue Reiter and the Bauhaus in Miwaukee. Phone 414-288-1669 or visit a symphony violinist, and a skeleton chow- as in Israel and the Netherlands. School solidified his reputation, but his work www.marquette.edu/haggerty. ing down on a Big Mac are just a few of the The final cost and installation date and writings about abstract painting made images that parade across the dense layers of “LEAF” are as yet unknown. Sebas- him one of the most influential artists of the — Kat Murrell of characters and images drawn up from the tian is now working out the details past century. This retrospective exhibition contemporary Internet soup. AGOD stands of engineering and constructing the is a thorough study of the major phases for “animated GIF of the day,” and for three piece. of his career, opening with Impressionistic landscape paintings and concluding with years Brandt collected these, synthesizing FiND US ON TWiTTeR! his stunningly energetic, purely nonobjec- the bits into a final piece that may both @wigazette tive paintings. entertain and give pause when thinking 44 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014

Wanna whole gelatolato love?love? By michael muckian In Madison, La Coppa Contributing writer has two locations. Gelato The display case of gelato flavors was is also served at Choco- overwhelming in its variety and volume. But late Shoppe Ice Cream, it still wasn’t sufficient to prepare me for my 468 State St.; Babcock first taste at the La Coppa Artisan Gelato Hall Dairy Store, 1605 stand in the food court at Madison’s West Linden Dr. on the Towne Mall. UW-Madison cam- “Try the Wedding Cake,” suggested the pus; Michael’s Frozen helpful clerk. “People like that one.” Custard, with three Given that June is wedding season, the Madison locations; suggestion seemed reasonable. So I accept- and Villa Dolce Pizza ed a tiny spoon and popped the sample in Bar & Italian Restau- my mouth. rant, 1828 Parmenter Astounding, I thought. The gelato not St. in Middleton. only tasted exactly like wedding cake, but Gelato’s origins date like some of the best wedding cake that I’ve back to the time of the ever tasted. I decided on the spot that ice ancient Romans, who cream would be moving to the back of my brought ice down from the freezer to make way for this lower fat and Italian Alps to make frozen more richly flavored Italian treat. dessert. Bernardo Buontalen- It’s hard not to love all the varieties and ti, a Florentine, is said to have flavors of gelato, a word derived from the invented modern ice cream in Latin gelatus, which means “frozen.” The you could opt for 1565 and presented his recipe and opportunities and presentations of the Ital- a gelato “snowman,” his innovative refrigerating techniques ian version of ice cream appear endless. three scoops of the gela- to Catherine de Medici, who in turn took Milwaukee-based La Coppa, which also to of your choice dusted with the frozen novelty to France. operates gelato cafes in Bayshore Town white chocolate “snowflakes” and Despite a common origin, gelato differs Center in Glendale and on Madison’s State Photo: courteSy l a co PPa from ice cream both in the way it’s made and decorated with a candy face topped with Coppa Spaghetti pomodore Street, offers 40 inventive creations and a sugar cone hat. There’s the very adult how it tastes and feels on the palate. Unlike dozens of flavors. Each one seems more “electric lemonade,” which involves two ice cream, which is subject to strict FDA appealing than the next, making it an effort scoops of non-fat lemon sorbetto dressed standards, there are few if any guidelines just to choose. with whipped cream and dosed with vodka frozen custard, a Wisconsin favorite. governing the production of gelato, which In the exotic category, for instance, and Blue Curaçao. In addition to La Coppa, there are a means there are variations upon variations. there’s “spaghetti chocolate” — a scoop Or just have a full order of wedding cake. growing number of gelatarias in Milwaukee, That’s part of the dessert’s unique appeal. of vanilla bean gelato shaped like spaghet- Gelatarias, as gelato cafes are often including Cold Spoons Gelato, 5924 W. Ice cream begins as frozen water to which ti and served over fresh whipped cream, called, have proliferated across the U.S. Vliet St.; Cream City Swirl, 2663 S. Kinnick- cream is added, along with sugar and, in the smothered in strawberry sauce and topped during the past decade. In Milwaukee, gela- innic Ave.; Paciugo Gelato & Caffé, 2500 N. case of custard and some home-churns, with shaved white chocolate “cheese.” Or Mayfair Road and several others. to competes with traditional ice cream and gelato next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 45 gelato from prior page egg yolks. All three ingredients keep the ice quickly they melt. crystals from freezing together and give ice Gelato, in comparison, uses more cream its softness and pliability. Ice cream milk than cream and generally no is churned at a certain speed, with adds air egg yolks, which reduces the fat to the mix and makes the result lighter on level in the mixture to as little the palate. as 3.5 percent. It’s churned According to regulation, all ice cream at a much slower speed, must have a fat content of at least 10 which introduces less percent, but premium brands generally air into the mixture and have more. The better brands usually are contributes to its denser, churned so that the air amount, called creamier flavor. “overrun,” constitutes roughly 25 percent In addition, gelato dis- of the finished product. Cheaper ice creams play cases are set at a higher may have overrun levels of between 50 temperature than those for and 90 percent, which ice cream, which are usually 10 accounts for how degrees Fahrenheit. The higher insubstantial temperatures offset the lower fat they taste count and keep the gelato from and how freezing into a solid brick. Back at the La Coppa stand in West Towne for a light dessert, we pondered over the 20 styles, including some fat-free sorbetto. Choosing was difficult, but we ended up with a scoop each of cara- mel with sea salt and caramel latte. The caramel with sea salt was a little sweeter, and the coffee under- current of the latte was rich and smooth, blending well with the cara- mel overtones. It was only after we were served that we saw the sign for spaghetti chocolate. Now we have a good excuse to return.

Photo: courteSy l a co PPa one of many fruity gelatos. 46 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 drink the rainbow

By michael muckian the douBle rainBoW Contributing writer Is anything more visually inspiring than Directions Time to get your Pride on! To help you a double rainbow? You can simulate it in a Cut oranges in half and carve out interiors celebrate Pride Month, we’ve researched glass by creating rainbow ice cubes. Add until you have empty orange shells. (The a number of rainbow cocktails suitable for droplets of different food coloring to each interior can be saved for fresh-squeezed June — or all summer long. These quench- section of your ice cube tray and freeze. juice.) ers have been designed to refresh — and That was the easy part. You’ll also need: Prepare different colors of gelatin, their bright color bars will remind you and Ingredients according to the directions on the package. your guests of all that we have to celebrate. 1 oz. vodka Depending on the size of the batch, add 1 oz. elderflower liqueur either one or two cups of chilled vodka, gin CoConut rainBoW 4 oz. club soda or tequila to the mix. Stir until the powder Simple is sometimes best, and this con- 4 dashes grapefruit bitters dissolves. coction can be quick and easy. You’ll need: Lemon and lime peel, cut into star shapes Pour the different colored gelatin mix- Ingredients tures into the orange “cups” and chill in the 2 oz. Malibu coconut rum Directions refrigerator for several hours or until solid. 1 oz. Midori melon liqueur Fill a tall glass with rainbow ice cubes — Once solid, carefully turn the orange halves 3-4 oz. pineapple juice two cubes per color — then add ingredients upside down with rind up on a cutting board 1 splash cranberry juice and garnish with citrus stars. and slice into ample-sized wedges. The gelatin mixture should cling to the rind. Directions orange peel Jello ShotS Turn the wedges over and display them Fill a highball glass with ice cubes, then Good hosts and hostesses know presen- on a serving platter, carefully alternating the add the Malibu rum. Add the Midori liqueur, tation is as important as preparation, and different colors into a rainbow pattern. which should sink to the bottom. Gently these little beauties will impress everyone. add pineapple juice, then add the cranberry Ingredients nuClear rainBoW juice. Do not mix. If you’ve done this cor- Several large oranges Houston’s Komodo’s Pub came up with rectly, the colors should be layered green, Different colors of gelatin mix this little depth charge, and if you’re not yellow and red from the bottom up. Choice of vodka, gin or tequila careful, one blast could sink your boat. In addition to two cocktail shakers, you’ll need: Ingredients 1 oz. Midori melon liqueur 1 oz. Bacardi 151 Rum 1 oz. Blue Curaçao liqueur 1 splash sweet-and-sour mix 1 splash grenadine Directions In the first shaker, add the Midori and sweet-and-sour mix and shake with ice. Do the same in a second shaker with the Bacardi 151 and the Blue Curaçao. Pour the Midori mixture into a cocktail glass, then sink a small amount of grenadine though the mixture to the bottom. Carefully layer the Bacardi and Blue Curaçao mixture on top. Feeling brave? Push a cocktail straw into the grenadine and try to drink it all down. (You may want to sit down for this.) drink next page WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 47 drink from prior page

rainBoW Sangria This little refresher, prepared by the glass, is all about the fruit. Ingredients 1 cup white wine 2–3 tbsp. fresh orange juice 1 tbsp. apple, pear or other fruit juice 1–2 tbsp. ginger ale or other soft drink of choice 1 tbsp. brandy (optional) A selection of multi-colored fruit, which may include strawberries, blackberries, tan- gerine wedges, kiwi and pineapple chunks.

Directions Make sure the wine and juice have been properly chilled. Stack the fruit in rainbow order in a tall glass, Pour in wine and fruit juice. Top with ginger ale and brandy, then serve.

rainBoW 7 By now you’ve seen that rainbow cock- tails are all about choosing or creating dif- ferent colored ingredients and “stacking” them in the glass. With that in mind, the Rainbow 7 may be the easiest to under- stand and create. You’ll need one “part” each of the following ingredients: Ingredients Crème de Cacao Crème de Violette Yellow Chartreuse Maraschino liqueur Benedictine Green Chartreuse Brandy Directions In a tall liqueur glass, add each ingredient carefully so that they do not mix — alter- nating colors for the maximum rainbow effect. Then sit back and sip. 48 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM June 12, 2014 Out on the town June 12 – June 21 A curated calendar of upcoming events

‘the winteR’s tAle,’ Photo: Len ViLLano 8 p.m. on Fri., June 13, through Sun, June 29 It might seem a little strange for a the- ater company dedicated to summer per- formances to take on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, but Optimist Theatre isn’t going to let a silly thing like seasonal dis- sonance get in the way of a good story. And The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s best, a romance that begins with a queen wrongly accused of adultery (haven’t we all been there?) and ends with her abandoned daughter, a shepherdess unaware of her royal blood, bringing about her mother’s redemption and finding love of her own. ‘KAndinsKy: A As if that plot didn’t offer enough action, RetRospective’ there’s also a bear chasing someone off- Through Sept. 1 stage. At Kadish Park in Riverwest, Mil- waukee. Admission is free, and seating can This summer, the Milwaukee Art Muse- be accessed beginning an hour before the um traces the evolution of Wassily Kandin- show. Visit optimisttheatre.org for more sky, the revolutionary modern artist who details. helped establish abstraction as an artis- tic style. In cooperation with Paris’ Centre Pompidou, home to more than 100 Kandin- sky works from his personal collection of favorites, MAM explores a curated selec- tion of works. The exhibit presents work from the artist’s landscape and figurative period in the early 1900s, his pre-abstract AMeRicAn FolKloRe theAtRe’s suMMeR seAson works, and the monumental works of geo- Through Aug. 23 metric abstraction that define his career. Fish Creek’s American Folklore Theatre is a cornerstone of Door County that produces It’s a vividly colorful tribute to one of the shows in repertory for natives and visitors alike. The 2014 summer season features a ros- 20th century’s greatest artists, highlighted ter that pays tribute to the company’s long history and bright future. Currently playing is by the first American presentation of a Strings Attached, a Comedy of Errors-type tale of two separated-at-birth twins who end mural Kandinsky created during his time up as a ukulele fanatic and heir to a family banjo dynasty, respectively. Also playing in rep- with Germany’s Bauhaus school. At 700 ertory is one of AFT’s biggest hits ever, the sci-fi football musical Packer Fans from Outer N. Art Museum Dr. Museum admission is Space. The season’s capped off by the quintessential, defining AFT musical: Guys On Ice, a $17, $14 for seniors/students and free to tale of two ice fishing buddies. For tickets and showtimes, visit folkloretheater.com or call members and kids under 12. Visit mam.org 920-854-6117. or call 414-224-3200 for more information.

AMeRicAn plAyeRs theAtRe’s seAson Through Nov. 9 Most theater companies halt production during the summer months, and for more than 30 years American Players The- atre has filled the gap. The group offers a summer season of theater at Theater in the Woods, a 1,148-seat outdoor amphi- theater just south of Spring Green. The group’s early years focused on classical theater but since then American plays have been added to the canon. In addition to the outdoor theater, APT has added an indoor stage that produces shows into the fall. The company kicked off its season with performances in repertory of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, David Mamet’s American Buffalo, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet and an additional five productions. At 5950 Golf Course Road. For info, go to americanplayers.org or phone 608-588-2361.

eAst town MARKet, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays through Oct. 4 East Town Market in Milwaukee’s Cathe- dral Square Park features all the fare you’d expect to find at a traditional farmer’s market: fresh produce, locally made crafts and goods, and a variety of food vendors. But this year, the East Town Association is ratcheting the market’s activities up a notch. Each day begins with free yoga and dance workouts, led by the Wisconsin Ath- letic Club and Danceworks, respectively. Also featured are live musical performanc- es each week. And, every fourth Saturday, chef Michael Feker of Il Mito restaurant provides a culinary demonstration. For a full schedule and list of events, visit easttown. com.

WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | June 12, 2014 Out on the town June 12 – June 21

wisconsin BeeR loveRs FestivAl, 1 to 5 p.m. on Sat., June 14 This premier all-Wisconsin beer tasting festival takes over Bayshore Town Center for its fifth year, featuring more than 150 craft beer selections from about 40 Wisconsin brewer- ies, including Sprecher, New Glarus, Milwaukee Brewing Company and Capital Brewery. Visitors can try a variety of unique beers, each paired with food provided by a local chef, cheese manufacturer or restaurant. Kyle Cherek of public TV’s Wisconsin Foodie will be on hand, hosting seminars on beer-and-food pairings. Admission — $45 in advance or $50 at the door — includes a souvenir drinking glass and unlimited samples. VIP admission, available for $80, includes early entry, access to a VIP tent with exclusive beers and addi- tional perks. At 5800 N. Bayshore Dr., Glendale. For more details or to order tickets, go to wisconsinbeerloversfest.com.

polish Fest, Fri., June 13, to Sun., June 15 The Summerfest grounds plays host to a variety of ethnic festivals over the course of the summer, and the one that kicks them off just so happens to be Polish Fest, one of the largest of its kind in the country. The three-day festival celebrates Milwaukee’s rich Polish heritage through a variety of musical and cultural events, as well as by offering traditional food and marketplace items. Milwaukee is still Polish enough that you don’t have to wait for June to find a pierogi or dance a polka, but the best ones are always going to be at Pol- ish Fest. Admission is $12, $10 for seniors or if purchased in advance. For a full schedule of events, visit polishfest.org Photo: WeLcome to GL endaL e.

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wAlK, Run, wAg, 9:30 a.m. on Sat., June 21 JeFF tweedy, 8 p.m. on Mon., June 16 Lots of charities host runs/walks, but few allow participants to bring Fido along for The man behind alt-country stars Wilco, the fun. Friends of Milwaukee Area Domes- Jeff Tweedy has struck out on his own for tic Animal Control Commission is a notable a solo tour, and that journey takes him exception. The third annual Walk, Run, Wag to Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater this month. event at Hart Park has a chip-timed 5K run He’ll perform songs from a forthcoming for people and their dogs starting at 9:45 solo debut album, break out some acoustic a.m. A humans-only run starts at 9:30 a.m., versions of songs by Wilco and his previous and one- and two-mile walks step off at band Uncle Tupelo and give fans a better 10 a.m. Of course, the event raises money glimpse of the man behind the curtain. At for MADACC. At the end of the races, par- 144 E. Wells St. Tickets are $45 and can ticipants can meet adoptable animals and be purchased at 414-286-3663 or pabst- pet-friendly vendors, as well as enjoy fun theater.com. activities for their furry friends. Registra- tion runs through June 15 online at madac- Photo: coURteSY cwalkrun.org.

nicK cAve And the BAd ‘oleAnnA,’ 7:30 p.m. on Thurs., June 19, seeds, 8 p.m. on Fri., June 20 through Sat., July 12 Post-punk rockers Nick Cave and the The Alchemist Theatre continues its 2014 Bad Seeds missed Milwaukee on their first season with this ambitious David Mamet play North American tour supporting Push the that focuses on a male university professor and Sky Away, the group’s 15th album. Nick and a female student who comes to him seeking help company have realized their mistake and with his course. The play follows their relationship booked a show at the Milwaukee Theatre, as it explodes into a complex game of sexual and where they’ll perform tracks from that new academic politics. Alchemist regular Erin Eggers record as well as other selections from their makes her directorial debut with the piece, cer- 30-year career. All-female indie rockers tain to be one of the sharpest-edged shows of the Warpaint open for them. At 500 W. Kil- summer. At 2569 E. Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee. bourn Ave. Tickets range from $25 to $90, Tickets are $19 and can be reserved at alchemist- and can be purchased at 800-745-3000 or theatre.com or by phoning 414-426-4169. milwaukeetheatre.com. Photo: madacc

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‘hoMe plAce,’ 7 p.m. on Sat., June 21 Present Music wraps up its season with this celebration of community in partnership with Milwaukee Opera Theatre. Dedicated to the theme of “home,” PM will perform Shelter, a piece that parses the meanings and con- notations of the word through music and film. Music presentations include Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw’s Passacaglia and Bryce Dessner’s Aheym, both performed by the Hearing Voices vocal ensemble. To top off the evening, artistic director Kevin Stalheim showcases original music and art created by Milwaukee-area students and seniors. At the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. Tickets are $35, $25 or $15, with a 50-percent student discount. Visit presentmusic.org to order.

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suMMeR soulstice Music FestivAl, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. on Sat., June 21 Summer Soulstice may not be the biggest music festival kicking off in June, but it’s certainly the biggest featuring the region’s top bands, many of which will converge on Mil- waukee’s North Avenue on the East Side for a day filled to the brim with performances of all stripes. The festival’s three stages will feature more than 20 different artists throughout the day, culminating with performances by the Fatty Acids, Kane Place Record Club, Fever Marlene, I’m Not A Pilot, Midwest Death Rattle and Evan Christian and the Stinkies. In addition, there will be an “Arts Ave” running up Murray Avenue, where local artists will create and sell their work; a half-pipe demo for National Skate Day and “Rage in the Cage” Dodgeball. Visit theeastside.org for more details.

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