All American Overnight sensation Steve Grand shares his inspiring story and talks about playing PrideFest. page 17 May 1, 2014 | Vol. 5 No. 12 4 Jailed for being pregnant Beer here! Authorities are rounding up preg- nant women suspected of drug A guide to abuse and throwing them in jail. the state’s craft-brewing festivals page 12 8 Seeding the future Wisconsin activists are fighting the corporate takeover of com- mon seeds and trying to ensure they remain in the public domain. 23 Backstage at the Derby A fascinating museum, insight- ful tours and a very dirty party offer different ways to experience Churchill Downs. 28 Nature’s powerful berries Among nature’s most flavorful gifts, summer berries pack a PHOTO: MAX SIKER surprising nutritional wallop. Lakefront Brewery president Russ Klisch. The Milwaukee-based company is Wisconsin’s second-largest craft brewer. 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM May 1, 2014 News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff & Louis Weisberg subjects to stick pins in to com- busted for performing a sex THeater PRIDE house, and it got to me like “voodoo dolls” to indicate edy web- act with a black transvestite For the first time in its it gets kids and teenagers” levels of aggressive feelings sites, com- prostitute in the back seat 130 years, Playbill will alter who are attacked. Trump toward their significant oth- ics’ ratings of a car. Frazier Glenn Cross, its iconic black-and-yellow had tweeted that Novak ers. The researchers found of comedy 73, was arrested over the cover in honor of Pride. The should “sue her plastic sur- people with lower blood club audi- incident in Raleigh, North logo will become rainbow- geon.” Novak also took issue sugar were more prone ences, native-born famous Carolina, in the 1980s, hued at all Broadway and with Ellen DeGeneres’ joke to piercing their dolls. So, comedians, concentrations according to WTVD-TV. The off-Broadway theaters in — “Good job, sir” — direct- snack to avoid snapping or of funny tweeters, frequen- station uncovered reports of June. ed at Liza Minnelli. sniping. cy of humor-related Web the incident while looking FOR MALES ONLY searches and comedy clubs into Cross’ background in SIT, BEG, CONVICT? PERSONAL Super buff guys in span- BIG CatCH per square mile. connection with the anti- Cumberland County, New waste water dex briefs rolling around Bjørn Frilund, 64, a mas- Semitic killings. Jersey, recently summoned A Culpepper, Virginia, together on the floor, ter baiter in the village of ALBREWQUERQUE? IV Griner to jury duty. Prob- man was sentenced to one moaning and groaning. Eidsbygda, Norway, recently We’ve heard all about TEACHING PREJUDICE lem is, the prospective juror year in jail and ordered to Sound kind of gay? None- found a big pink dildo in a the Blue Sky meth, but who A teacher in Ohio’s Fair- is 5 years old and a German pay $5,000 in damages theless, pro wrestlers with cod he netted. He says the knew about the chili pepper field School District got an shepherd. Officials think the after admitting he spiked the WWE recently pressed fish probably thought the beer? Livability.com, which early but unwanted start computer was attempting to his colleague’s coffee at their sweaty near-naked dildo was a small octopus exists to rank places, says to his summer. The school summon the dog’s owner, a wastewater treatment bodies together for cheer- and ate it. Albuquerque, New Mexico, district fired Gil Voigt after Barrett Griner IV. plant with his urine. The co- ing male crowds in the ultra is the best “unexpected he told a black high school worker never drank the cof- homophobic nation of Saudi 2ND CITY CHUCKLE beer city” in the United student that the nation HOLLYWOOD fee, because it smelled like Arabia. The WWE is wildly Did you hear the one States. Don’t despair Madi- didn’t need another black Harassment urine. The contents of his popular in the region. But about Milwaukee ranking son and Milwaukee — that’s commander in chief. Voigt, Actress Kim Novak says personal coffee pot tested women, beware. Ticketmas- 34th out of 50 on the list not the same as “best beer who’s had a history of prob- she was crushed by the positive for urine and feces. ter warned on its website of America’s funniest cities city.” lematic remarks to students, bullying that took place at that WWE matches in Saudi from the Humor Research claims he was misquoted the Academy Awards this NO PROM date Arabia are “for males only.” Lab at the University of MIXED FEELINGS and that what he told the spring. In a letter condemn- A Pennsylvania high Colorado-Boulder? Coming The former KKK grand kid was that the nation can’t ing remarks by Donald school student who asked FEELING HANGRY? in at No. 33 was Oklahoma dragon accused of gunning afford another president like Trump and others about her Miss America to prom dur- Researchers with Ohio City, Oklahoma, and Nash- down and killing three peo- Barack Obama, “whether appearance, the 81-year-old ing a question and answer State University studied 107 ville, Tennessee., was at No. ple outside a Jewish com- he’s black or white.” What Novak, who served as an session at his school not married couples for three 35. Meanwhile, Chicago munity center and a retire- WiGWAG knows is the Oscar presenter with Mat- only got turned down but weeks, measuring blood took first place in the survey, ment community in Kansas nation doesn’t need any thew McConaughey, said, also received three days of sugar and asking the test which was based on visits City, Kansas, was once more teachers like Voigt. “For days, I didn’t leave the in-school suspension. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | May 1, 2014 3 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM May 1, 2014 Pregnant women shackled, jailed for alleged substance use By Lisa Neff of her pregnancy, even had a court-ordered attor- Staff writer though the woman had been ney but she had no counsel. A pregnant woman tum- declared brain dead and had At the hearing, without bles down a flight of stairs previously indicated to her testimony from any medical and is arrested for attempt- family that she did not want expert, Beltran was ordered ed feticide. to be kept alive artificially. to spend 78 days in a drug A pregnant woman about One bill, authored by Ber- rehab facility, where, she to be released from prison ceau, would ensure pregnant maintains, she went without is re-incarcerated when the women’s advanced medical adequate health care or pre- judge learns she is pregnant directives are respected. natal care. and HIV-positive. “Pregnant women are not The federal civil rights A pregnant woman second-class citizens and complaint is pending in the informs health care work- deserve the same rights as U.S. District Court in Mil- ers that she previously used everyone one else,” Ber- waukee. drugs but kicked her habit ceau stated. “Major medi- Beltran is represented by and is clean. She’s hand- cal decisions, as outlined attorney Linda Vanden Heu- cuffed, shackled, taken in advanced directives, are vel, who has said locking up to court and ordered into very personal decisions that the woman was not in the detention at a drug treat- should be left up to individu- interest of a future child and ment facility. als and their families, not “most certainly tramples All of these incidents hap- politicians.” pened. A second measure, intro- The last one occurred duced as Assembly Joint ‘Criminalizing pregnancy for Tennessee families,” said passed in 2006 and intend- in Wisconsin last summer, Resolution 111, would affirm Cherisse Scott, CEO of Sis- ed to deter people from leading to the filing of a fed- “that pregnant women be outcomes scares women away terReach. “It was promoted bringing children to places eral civil rights lawsuit in afforded all the rights of by prosecutors against the where controlled substanc- Milwaukee and helping to non-pregnant people.” from prenatal care and drug recommendations of medi- es are distributed or pro- inspire two state legislators And the third bill, writ- treatment.’ cal professionals, (it) per- duced — like meth labs. to offer a trio of bills aimed ten by Taylor, would ensure mits arrest and incarcera- Since 2006, more than at protecting the rights of pregnant women who are tion of women who cannot 100 women have been pregnant women. alleged to have used drugs the rights of Ms. Beltran, a Women and a co-counsel in guarantee that their new- arrested. In mid-March, Demo- have the right to counsel woman who was not in fact the case. “This kind of dan- born is in perfect health and Research shows is that cratic state Reps. Chris before being detained. using any controlled sub- gerous, authoritarian state (it) creates a separate and policies that deter women Taylor and Terese Berceau This last measure is a stances at the time of her action is exactly what hap- unequal law for women, from seeking prenatal care of Madison introduced the response to the forced arrest.” pens when laws give police allowing their arrest if they are contrary to the welfare Pregnancy Protection Pack- detention last summer of The complaint challenges officers and other state are pregnant and struggling of the mother and fetus and age, which was not passed Alicia Beltran of Jackson. a 1997 Wisconsin law that actors the authority to treat with addiction.” that incarceration or the in the 2014 session but will Beltran, seeking prenatal “takes away from a preg- fertilized eggs, embryos and Thousands had called threat of detention are inef- be reintroduced next ses- care, told a health-care pro- nant woman virtually every fetuses as if they are already on the governor to veto the fective in reducing drug or sion.