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George Halas
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COVER STORY
L4 Wifee & the HuzzBand
FINE ARTS
L8 Delicious Ambiguity
R8 Foxy Finds
R22 Trout Museum
FOOD & DRINK
R2 Barrel Aged Bigfoot Ale
R2 Yankee Buzzard
R4 A Taste For It
R6 The Wine Cave
R6 Tricia’s Table
ENTERTAINMENT
R10 Life Is Fair
R18 Buddhist Adviser
R24 CD Review
R26 Lawrence Dream Team
R28 Postcards from Milwaukee
R30 The Guess Who
R32 Just Another Band
R34 Concert Watch
NEWS & VIEWS
R12 Divided We Stand
R14 Right Wing Nut
R16 Another Milestone on the
Path to Equality
OUTDOORS
R20 Apartment Gardening
EVENT CALENDARS
R36 Live Music
L9 The Big Events
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BY GEORGE HALAS
The Inquisition is constantly mesmerized by the fact that The Universe
will go to the ends of the earth to create great music.
Halfway across the country anyway….
Our story starts in sunny southern California, the birthplace of Ruby
James. No one knew back then she would one day be Kitty CoopDeVille.
Meanwhile, back in the Fox Cities, Steve Cooper was developing some
impressive sax and vocal chops, playing with stellar outfits like The Groove
Hogs and The Jazz Orgy.
James went to make a major mark on the music scene in Austin, Texas,
before heading to Wisco in July of 2012 as The Universe stepped in, direct-
ing her to Gordon Lodge in Bailey’s Harbor.
“I went to Gordon Lodge for the first time in 2012 right after Steel
Bridge Songfest. My best friend, Anna, took me up there two days before
my flight was supposed to go home to LA where I was going to spend the
summer seeing if I wanted to move back to California. I had been living in
Austin for the last five years,” she said. “It seemed so crazy but I decided
to stay on a whim and take the job as a bartender. I had a suitcase and
a guitar, that was it. But I had been struggling with some life stuff, not
inspired to play much music and I thought this was perfect. I’ll spend the
summer in paradise with my best friend, ride my bike, work and meditate
and not be distracted by guys or anything.”
The U also had Cooper on speed dial.
“In July of 2012 I originally went to Gordon Lodge to play a pick up
gig as a side man for a band I don’t usually play with,” Cooper recalls.
“Two days before that gig, I had been playing a show in Silver City, New
Mexico with my band, The Jazz Orgy. Just as I was about to leave, a very
dear friend of mine, who is also a clairvoyant, stopped me before leaving
and told me without hesitation that in two days I would meet a girl. THE
girl! She would be from Texas, and she was going to take my world and
flip it upside down... For the better. She would be the one I’d been looking
Lotta Fun and
Great Music
Wifee &The
HuzzBand
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COVER STORY // WIFEE & THE HUZZBAND
for but it was gonna go real fast, so hang on
real tight.”
“Due to plane delays, I was awake for
38 hours by the time I got home,” he con-
tinued. “I woke up late on the day of that
Gordon Lodge gig and tried to get out of it
because I was still so tired but I was assured
by the band leader that they really wanted
me to come... and I’m sure glad I did!”
At the break, Cooper asked bartender
James “does the band get a Coke?” and “it
was love at first hair sight.
We got engaged three weeks
later on August 6 in Stur-
geon Bay at pat mAcdonald’s
birthday party,” James noted.
It was love, but not nec-
essarily music, at first.
“I moved Coop back to
Austin with me in Novem-
ber on a tour with Rosie
Flores,” James said. “We had
no idea yet we would play
music together; just figured
I’d take Coopy to Austin and
make him famous with all
that talent he has.”
“We returned to Wiscon-
sin in February of 2013 to
attend the week-long writing
event Love on Holiday at
The Holiday Music Motel
where we wrote “Forever My
Dear” together in about 30
minutes the night we arrived!”
“The light bulb went on! Wow!! Look
what we can do! We also wrote “I Knew”
that week and Coopy wrote “The Get
Down” with our guitar player.”
“On our drive back to Austin in a bliz-
zard driving about five miles an hour with
hardly any visibility I was pleading with
Coopy for us to move back to Wisconsin,”
James recounts. “I said ‘Look what we just
did!! Don’t you see? We need to move back
to Wisconsin and put this band together.”
“Coopy thought I was nuts at the
time,” she added.
“We came back to Wisconsin in June
for Steel Bridge Songfest, wrote some more
songs “She Won’t Go” and “Fall in Lovers”
and stayed in Wisconsin,” James said.
“Our friends asked us to play their wedding
in September and that forced us to put the
band together. So it took us six months
after we met to realize we should play
music together and that we had something
really special with those first few songs and
then it took another six months after that
to put the band together.”
The songwriting has become a very
BY GEORGE HALAS
The great multi-instrumentalist
and thought leader Dennis Jones once
opined that Wham’s Wake Me Up Before
You Go-Go would have been a hit in any
decade of the Twentieth Century.
Likewise, Songs of Eternal Love and
Immediate Satisfaction is a record that
combines and ultimately transcends
genres; one can’t help liking it for a bunch
of reasons.
On first listen, it is an infectious pop
tour de force that utilizes the fun rock of
the 50’s and 60’s with big band R&B to
inform a robust, very danceable, horn-
accented sound.
The songs are the product of the
combined pens of Ruby James (Kitty
CoopDeVille) and Steve Cooper (Coop
DeVille). On second listen, it becomes
apparent that, while the songs recall
certain pop rock genres, they are sophis-
ticated, multi-layered well-crafted com-
positions; Cooper’s horn arrangements
– and his always stellar tenor sax playing
– complement the songs and the sound.
Fun and danceability are the common
themes that weave throughout the record.
Alert: this is not the best music for medi-
tation. Think party.
In addition to a talent for turning
catchy hooks into full-blown musical
compositions, the duo harmonizes very
well vocally.
James has a multi-faceted voice that
ranges from the virginal innocence of the
50’s (i.e., Sandra Dee, Annette Funicello
as well as certain Taylor Swift tunes) to
smoldering sultry. Cooper’s tenor has
never been better when he takes the lead
and blends perfectly with James.
The opening track, She Won’t Go, and
Goodnight Moon are a pair of 50’s-inflected
tunes that give James an opportunity to
run a full gamut of “relationship” emo-
tions. I’ve Been A Fool has an early 60’s –
Carole King kind of sound and showcases
Cooper’s tenor playing. The band, with
a Cooper vocal lead, turns in Girl Can’t
Take It into an R&B anthem with exactly
the right groove to showcase the horns
and a tasty trumpet solo by Greg Garcia.
With Kipp Wylde’s B3 setting the tone,
James takes an understated vocal approach
on I Knew that exposes complex emotional
vulnerability and sets the stage for perhaps
Cooper’s best work on the record.
Forever My Dear is one of the first
tunes James and Cooper wrote together
and, in addition to the obvious chemistry,
the song gives Cooper to chance to shine
vocally as well as contributing another
stratospheric sax solo.
Baritone sax player Julio Reyes sets
the groove of Our Love in a way that
recalls Where Did Our Love Go by The
Supremes – James brings a level of emo-
tional sophistication that takes the tune
into new territory.
The Get Down starts with a Jailhouse
Rock feel and tempo, then Cooper and
the rhythm section cut loose and the
result rocks.
The album tells, in part, the story of
the romance between Kitty CoopDeV-
ille and Coop DeVille, but it also tells a
bigger story.
“All originals so far have been penned
under the roof of the Holiday Music
Motel. We say the band was born out of
the Motel as that’s where the songs have
been written and our rhythm section
came out of the events,” James said. “That
world of singer songwriters that I come
from mixed with Coop’s virtuoso jazz
world out of the Fox Valley is the magical
combo that has created what is WiFEE
and the HUZz BAND. A little punk
rock rhythm section mixed with a pristine
horn section from the jazz world and with
a couple of crazy looking front people and
voila, you’ve got us!”
Produced by pat mAcdonald, the
album features a group of outstanding
musicians including Vee Sonnets on
guitar, Greg Roteik, bass, Zach Vogel,
drums, Kipp Wilde, keys, Kurt Shipe,
trumpet, Tommy Vanden Avond, trom-
bone, Greg Garcia, trumpet and Julio
Reyes, baritone sax.
For additional information and/or to
purchase, go to: wiffeeandthehuzzband.
com
Songs of Eternal Love & Immediate Satisfaction
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COVER STORY // WIFEE & THE HUZZBAND
productive partnership as well.
“I would say we both contribute pretty
equally,” Cooper said. “Generally one of
us will come up with an initial idea and
we will bring it to the other and try to run
with it. Basically something sung into a
voice recorder and we will both work on
lyrics and chords and melody together.”
“We had come in late to Love on
Holiday and we missed being paired off
into songwriting groups so we seized the
opportunity to try writing together,” He
continued. “I had the initial idea for “For-
ever My Dear,” but that idea was mostly
just chord changes and part of the melody.
Ruby really liked it so we focused in on it
and came up with the rest of the melody
together, including the hook, and then
wrote the lyrics together.”
The success was almost immediate.
“It feels like the band took off like
a rocket,” James said. “We went back to
Austin in March of 2014 and played a
bunch of shows during SXSW(South By
Southwest). We played between 50-60
shows in our first year together. We have
pretty much put ourselves on the national
touring band level in just a little over a year.
2015 is shaping up to be even better.
“All the same big festivals wanting us
back for this summer plus there are some
new exciting developments like Jazz in the
Park in Milwaukee this summer,” James
said. “We are touring to Texas again in
April and will play Houston, Austin and
New Orleans. We are headed to Austin
to play the big car show, The Lonestar
Roundup, where we will open for legends
Wanda Jackson and Elvis’ guitar player/
Wisconsin boy James Burton.
“We’ve also had this residency in Chi-
cago once a month at Untitled for the past
year and we
were asked to
kick off the Peg
Egan Center
summer concert
series in Door
County this
coming June,”
James added.
“They only book
national touring
acts. Johnny
Lang kicked off
their series last
summer, so we
are quite hon-
ored to kick off
the series this
year.”
“The whole
band is excited
to finally be
p l a y i n g i n
Appleton at Mill
Creek on March
6th,” James
said. “Our show
last month at
Thelma Sadoff Performing Arts Center in
Fond du Lac was incredible experience. It
was sold out with 40 people on the waiting
list.”
Even without James and Cooper, the
players on the album, Vee Sonnets (guitar),
Greg Roteik(bass), Zach Vogel(drums),
Kipp Wilde(keys),Kurt Shipe(trumpet),
Tommy Vanden Avond(trombone), Greg
Garcia(trumpet) and Julio Reyes (baritone
sax) represent a collection of top talent that
would be worth paying good money to see.
(Vogel is replaced by Chris Scheer or Mike
Underwood for the live shows).
Cooper could front this band without
James – his always outstanding vocal chops
are better than ever - again, top value for
your money…
But when you add James’ considerable
talent, the results are electric. More impor-
tantly, it’s a lotta fun. Everybody in the
band is having a good time. The enormous
chemistry that runs hot between James and
Cooper is augmented by cool band chemis-
try. The band is also a fun visual treat. The
songs, while technically complex, nuanced
at times and very well-crafted, end up being
toe-tappin’, finger-snappin’ fun as well.
Both James and Cooper are incredibly
gifted and accomplished, serious musi-
cians – Coop’s got WAMI’s – but they are
also talented and accessible entertainers
who push the fun to the forefront. Part of
Cooper’s “brand” has always been his long
black 1959 Cadillac, hence “CoopDeville”
and “Kitty CoopDeVille.” It all works very
well for you, the viewer.
If solitude and quiet are what you seek,
Mill Creek next week is probably not your
best bet….
However, if what you seek – and The
Inquisition quotes Belushi on Bliss here –
“as much fun as you can have with your
pants on”, go early and grab some dance
floor.

FINE ARTS // DELICIOUS AMBIGUITY
How often do you take advantage of
ambiguity in the world? When is the last
time you looked at something and thought
to yourself, “What else might this be?”
As American actor, screenwriter, film
director and producer Edward Norton once
said, “All people are paradoxical. No one is
easily reducible, so I like characters who have
contradictory impulses or shades of ambigu-
ity.” In the academic disciplines which study
the human condition (history, philosophy,
literature, etc.), ambiguity has often been
valued as the basis of depth, subtlety and
richness in art. Yet we often fail to embrace
these qualities central to the Humanities in
practical life applications.
We all have our hidden “mysteries,” do
we not? And all of us will deal with unfair
labeling throughout our lives by people
looking for absolutes. Who can forget
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet
Letter, a complex portrayal of social and
moral issues highlighting the dangers of
eliminating ambiguities to get the meanings
“right” (if that’s even possible to do with any
real accuracy)? The allegorical tale shows
that even so simple a label as the first letter
of the alphabet is full of burgeoning mean-
ings dependent upon changing contexts and
nuance.
“There are precious few at ease with
moral ambiguities, so we act as though they
don’t exist!” claimed The Wizard in Wicked.
Yet even in the “land of the free” we still
struggle to tear off suffocating labels which
others put on us to fit their own needs to
find comfort in (unrealistic) absolutes.
Ultimately, looking at how people
respond to ambiguity says a lot about both
human creativity and adaptability. Faced
with life’s complexities it is natural that we
desire to seek a sense of order and mean-
ing. Yet multiple interpretations and the
difficulty of achieving consensus remain a
challenge. Perhaps there is a certain refuge
in embracing uncertainties as a mysterious
and wonderful part of existence itself. Not
having all the answers about the world and
each other certainly makes life interesting.
Is your mind mature enough to endure
uncertainty? If so, how do you success-
fully navigate through it? Please share your
thoughts on the subject, no matter how
uncertain they may be.
Delicious
Ambiguity:
Questions and
Curiosity Make
Life Tasty
BY JEAN DETJEN
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way,
that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear
beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having
to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without
knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”
—Gilda Radner
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Principle’ by Regina Valluzzi,
René Magritte, The Uncertainty
Principle (Le Principe
d’Incertitude), Etching: contempo-
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BY STEVE LONSWAY
When we were first presented the
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as their original brewery.
Final word: You will never be disap-
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Some say history repeats itself, but it always
leaves a trail of people, places and things that
serve as the impetus for the stories we will tell
next. Sometimes the story is a song. Or maybe
a piece of art. And sometimes it’s a craft beer.
Wisconsin Brewing Company Brewmaster,
Kirby Nelson, is a storyteller. His medium isn’t
a canvas or lyrics penned to a tune, but rather
Nelson tells his stories with his beer. And like his
beers, his stories are inspired by the great state
of Wisconsin. And his American I.P.A., Yankee
Buzzard, is no exception.
Nestled in a serene and picturesque space
on the outskirts of Verona, Wis., a few miles
from the hustle and bustle of Madison, Nelson’s
brewery is guarded under the watchful eye of an
American bald eagle keeping perch nearby.
The sight of WBC’s resident eagle prompted
Nelson to brew the story of Old Abe, an orphaned
American bald eagle raised by a Wisconsin sol-
ider during the Civil War. As the mascot of the
Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment,
Old Abe rallied Union troops while soaring over
30 battles. Loathed by Confederate soldiers, they
set bounties on the bird and coined him with
the spiteful nickname of Yankee Buzzard.
And like Old Abe, Nelson’s Yankee Buz-
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Chinook, Centennial and Cascade hops form
an artful blend of floral notes and bitterness
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Midwestern flair to this hoppy brew.
And while Old Abe may no longer soar the
battlefield, his story and resilient spirit lives in
every pint of Yankee Buzzard.
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BY JAMIE LEE RAKE
“Don’t go there if you don’t like big
desserts,” said a friend, with her husband’s
concurring, of Pine Cone Travel Plaza
Restaurant & Bakery (685 W. Linmar
Lane, Johnson Creek, near the outlet mall
around the juncture of Highways 26 and
94;920-699-2767, http://www.pinecone-
johnsoncreek.com/) of where they had
recently enjoyed dining while engaging
in church picnic conversation. The girth
of my abdomen should be sufficient testi-
mony that, yes and probably alas, I enjoy
an occasional oversize last, sweet course
of a meal. Getting to Pine Cone had just
become a culinary imperative.
If you couldn’t guess from its name,
we’re talking about an eatery in a truck
stop. Technically, it’s attached to a truck
stop;attempting to grab a seat and some
grub by way of the Shell station with semi
drivers’ amenities will only result in leav-
ing one hungry and bumping into a wall.
Upon entering the proper set of doors,
however, the sight of a long glass case lined
with goodies galore greets the eyes. Not far
therefrom lies a classically homey dining
room in medium blues and plenty wood, if
not an abundance of pine cones.
Among the silly things I may do, driv-
ing between 40 and 50 minutes (yup, it’s
that second of Wisconsin’s two seasons:
road construction) merely for dessert isn’t
one of them. So, with supper time beckon-
ing, the one unique thing on Pine Cone’s
menu harkened as well.
And it seems most every truck stop
diner has at least one thing a body would
be hard pressed to fins within 100 miles
of it, or at all elsewhere. At Pine Cone,
apart from its desserts, that one thing must
be the Philadelphia chicken sandwich.
Familiarity with the more common Philly
steak sammy gives a near parallel to its fowl
counterpart: something like an especially
lengthy, unbreaded chicken tender, topped
with sauteed green pepper and onion slices
and Swiss cheese, all on what’s something
akin to a double-wide hotdog bun.
The subtle combination of a white
cheese on white meat with white onion
on white bread with a hint of piquant
earthiness provided by the pepper works
well, though there was a bit more bun than
filling upon my last bite. Compensating
for that, however, was the cole slaw. Cab-
bage and carrot gets minced so finely that
it was difficult to glean whether it was
prepared in vinegarette or in creamy style
with mayo’ or salad dressing. Either way,
its empty bowl left no discernible a trace
of moisture. Pine Cone’s menu declares its
slaw “special”; righto, that.
Ah, now for dessert. And for a place
that includes “bakery” in its name (here’s
assuming that the $1.49 half-pound
cookies-such a deal!-sold on the other side
of the building are made on-premises, too),
it might be fair to assume that there may
be a distinctive treat with which to end
my repast. And certainly, never had the
words “cream cheese boat” ever entered my
vocabulary in that order until my initial
eying of Pine Cone’s dessert menu. So, a
blueberry cream cheese boat it would be.
Pie filling adorned with a couple of ribbons
of not overly sweet dairy frosting rests in a
pastry shell something like that of a cream
puff, but sturdier and shaped something
like a banana split bowl. And though on
the gargantuan side, as my friends had
inferred, the lightness of the pastry, flavoful
berries and heaviness of the topping put it
in the vicinity of Goldilocks’ “just right”
assessment of satiation. Sooner than later
I’d like to try the cherry variation of the
boat. From there, maybe Pine Cone’s cara-
mel apple? We’ll see...
ALSO RECENTLY EATEN
The last time my town had anywhere to
order hot pastrami, it was one of Subway’s
limited-time promotions, so when A&W
(numerous locations, but you knew) intro-
duced its Deli Burger with that aforemen-
tioned brined, spiced beef sharing space a
couple of its signature patties, mushrooms,
onions, mustard and, here it is again-Swiss
cheese, I had to give it a go. The pastrami
arguably may more texture than taste to
what is otherwise a glorified mushroom &
Swiss burger, but it’s worth the price. That
will be especially the case if the home of
the Root Bear makes it a short-time run
as Jared Fogle’s former benefactor made its
sandwich.
So, you’ve just seen the great Biz Markie
DJ and rap in Sheboygan for the city’s free
summer concert series, you’re hungry. At
least I did and was, so I was grateful for the
sight of Fountain Park Family Restau-
rant (922 N. 8th St;920-452-3009, http://
fountainparkfamilyrestaurant.com/) on
the walk back to the Rakemobile. All the
more was I thankful for its expertly pre-
pared chicken cacciatora, proportionally
tomatotoey and olive oily to the artistic
presentation of the penne pasta beneath
it all. Tapioca pudding to top it all off?
Of course. So satisfying was the fare that
I fairly took the cantankerous ‘tide of the
owner/manger in stride. Hey, I know you
have to wash the cup from which I only
drank hot water and lemon, but nothing’s
stopping you from charging me a little
something for the fruit, right, guy?!
Wouldn’t it figure that on my way to
Pine Cone there was on the path a new
frozen confection parlor? City Service Ice
Cream (205 N. Main St,, Juneau;920-386-
8084) looks to be housed in an abandoned
gas station, repleted with a wooden
stand-up of an old-time smiling attendant
holding a cone to tempt passers-by. Its
assortment of ice creams comes from long
standing downtown Watertown staple,
Mullen’s Dairy Bar & Eatery. Cones,
dishes, sundaes, etc. are made by fresh-
faced youths, one of whom fixed me up a
splendid butter pecan shake. city Service
also offers hot dogs in with all the Chicago
fixings, for which I may have to splurge
my sodium count some time. It will likely
have to be by summer’s end, though, as
no indoor seating and a few tables outside
gives the appearance of a seasonal business.
May it last for many more.
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BY KIMBERLY FISHER
What makes a wine a WINE? Many
characteristics and attributes contribute
to this luscious drink, but understanding
more of how it becomes what it is will help
you appreciate more of what wine is.
APPEARANCE AND COLOR:
Wine can be red, white or rose. If a wine
appears cloudy, there could be something
wrong with it; we often call this a “flaw”
in the wine. Whatever its color, the wine
must be clear. Red wine is produced from
black grapes meaning the skins of which
are allowed to be present for all or part of
the fermentation process. Young wines
are usually purple in color where older red
wines can have a reddish-brown outer rim
variation as an indication of age.
White wine can be produced from
black grapes, white grapes or a blend of the
two. The red coloring pigment is contained
in the skins of black grapes and not in the
pulp or juice, therefore if black grapes are
pressed, the juices run off the skins straight
away and white wine will result. White
wine can vary in color from almost color-
less to shades of yellow or gold. Young
wines tend to have a greenish tinge while
older whites can turn brown with age.
Rose wines are made is several ways.
The classic method involves commencing
the fermentation as for red wine, then to
remove the partly fermented juice from the
skins after the correct degree of coloration
is achieved. Fermentation then continues
off the skins. Another method includes
blending a small quantity of red wine with
a large quantity of white wine. It is also
possible to blend black and white grapes
together with the fermentation taking
place on the skins of the black grapes.
BOUQUET: The smell of the wine
is often the best indicator of its origin,
its content, its quality, age and character.
Wine should always smell like wine, or
smell clean. If the wine smells of vinegar,
any decayed vegetables or cork, then there
could be a “flaw” in it. Something is not
right.
TASTE: The taste of the wine confirms
the impressions formed by the wines
appearance and bouquet. Does the wine
taste sweet or dry? Then, does the wine
have acidity, vinosity, tannin, weight or
body? Often times the alcohol content
could be an indicator of the type of wine
that it is.
AGING POTENTIAL: Some wines
are meant for early consumption such as
Beaujolais and Muscadet, which means
the wine will not improve with cellaring.
Others are made for letting some time
lapse to allow the wine to come into its
full element. Red wines such as Cabernet
Sauvignon and Nebbiolo, are often made
to age. They contain tannin, which acts as a
preservative, and it softens as the wine ages.
You can be a great wine taster no matter
how much or how little you know about
wine. Tasting is, in its essence, a subjec-
tive experience. Understanding a little bit
more along the way, will help you have a
better appreciation and hopefully lead you
down the path of wanting to learn more.
Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine
Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits
The Wine Cave
FOOD & DRINK // THE WINE CAVE
FOOD & DRINK // TRICIA’S TABLE
BY TRISH DERGE
I know...it’s August. Who wants to
even think about making or eating hot
soup?
But the yellow beans are in!
And what better way to enjoy them
than in a soup?
I found a generation’s old recipe from
a long since passed dear woman from the
Holyland who raised and fed seven kids,
and a few farm hands over the years on her
soup which I’m told was a welcome dinner
after chores, milking, and baling the third
crop.
After you’ve heated up your already
hot kitchen, making Theresa’s Yellow Bean
Soup, enjoy your bowl with a half teaspoon
of vinegar (her German pronunciation was
“winn-a-gar”) added to it...it’s delightful!
INGREDIENTS
1 small bone-in ham
2 quarts water
4 medium sized potatoes - peeled and
diced
3 small onions - chopped
3 stalks of celery - diced
3 carrots - diced
3 - 4 cups yellow beans - diced
1/2 cup flour - browned
1/4 stick butter
vinegar, salt and pepper
1. In a large pot, simmer the ham in the
water for about 2 hours.
2. Remove the ham, keeping the water.
3. Dice the ham into chunks.
4. Give the ham bone to the dog.
5. Put diced ham, onions, celery, carrots,
and yellow beans into the kettle of ham
water.
6. Bring to a boil, then simmer until veg-
etables are tender (approx 1 hour)
7. While the ham and vegetables are sim-
mering, brown your flour.
8. To brown flour: Place flour in saute
pan over medium heat, and stir until
lightly browned being careful not to
burn it. Lower heat, add butter, con-
tinue stirring until blended, add to pot.
9. If you’re not up to browning the flour,
or if it catches fire...put the fire out,
and substitute burned flour and butter
mixture with a cup of milk.
10. When serving by the bowl, add 1/4 to
1/2 teaspoon of vinegar (winn-a-gar)
and salt and pepper to taste.
Theresa
Langenfeld’s
Yellow Bean
Soup

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Foxy FindsBY JEAN DETJEN,ARTFUL LIVING
Cheers to living
artFULLY in the
heart of Wisconsin!
Send your sugges-
tions for Jean’s Foxy
Finds to jdetjen@
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The dramatic
piece that started it all… Get noticed
in this handmade, beaded signature
“Twisted” Statement Necklace by
designer Jessica Theresa. Chunky
and bold with fiercely feminine style.
$105. Available at Studio Pink,
Neenah. Many more stunning styles
and color combinations available.
Find your own unique statement and
“embrace your inner sparkle!” Custom
orders available. Studio Pink also hosts jewelry parties, creative workshops, and ladies night
out events.
Art glass spheres of light to
brighten your home and delight
special people in your life. Choose
from Friendship Balls, Fairy
Balls and Witches Balls. No two
are alike. Most are of European
origin, made in small communi-
ties, or family crafted. Each one
is unique with small variances
in design, color, weight, and
size. Prices range from $34.99
- $42.99. Find one (or more
- look great hung in clusters!)
that catches your eye at Angels
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Gypsy-esque “Festival Beltbag”
from Lakhays. Adjustable
waist strap, multiple zippers,
and snap pockets. Just the
right amount of hip slung
storage for your phone and
other essentials for hands-free
freedom and comfort. Sturdy
cotton fabric with ties, lace,
and brass grommet detailing. Available in black, brown and maroon.
$32. Form, function, and definite foxy factor! Found at Vagabond
Imports, downtown Appleton.
Experience the art of sound with your very own uPhonium, an all acoustic
sound amplifier for the iPhone 4, 5, or 6. Crafted from an antique
Magnavox radio speaker horn and a vintage telephone ringer box. Custom
design by Brad Brautigam | B. Brad Creations, “elegantly bringing new
life and function to the everlasting forms of a bygone era.” $595. Other
unique styles available, prices vary. Check out the artist website to see full
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JB Leather Wallet $25 found at Teak & Soxy,
Princeton. Artist Jason Bowey uses his hands
in nearly every process when creating his hand
punched and stitched leather goods, working
exclusively with natural materials. This small
profile wallet/card holder sells for $25. Other
styles and colors available. Teak & Soxy is a home
design shop featuring an offbeat mix of new and
vintage accessories brimming with color, character
and wit. Owner and designer Matt Trotter is the
fourth generation to occupy his property: a late
19th-century hotel and later a leather and textile
manufacturer. Teak & Soxy were
his family’s notoriously tricky horses
that often escaped their confines to
wander Water Street, the eclectic
street where Trotter’s shop resides.
On trend button-up distressed denim jacket by Chiqle,
Los Angeles. Cotton blend with stretch for great fit and
comfort. Cool tribal print back fabric panel detail takes
this chic piece to a level that’s beyond basic. Women’s
sizes S-M-L. $47. Find this and other fun, fresh fash-
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breathable Gore-Tex Tretorn sneakers for men. This
Swedish brand prides themselves on creating a durable,
long lasting shoe combined with a very casual and stylish
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Their hip selections of casual clothing, natural beauty
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BY DOBIE MAXWELL
Try as I might, as life goes on I just
can’t shake my intense fascination with all
things freakish. I am obviously not alone,
or run of the mill human parasites with
no particular identifiable set of marketable
skills or talents like Jerry Springer or Maury
Povich wouldn’t have been able to rake in
more than a comfortable living showcasing
said freakishness for multiple decades now.
Freaky people…freaky places…freaky
events – I love them all! Anywhere I can
sit off to the side and observe a conscious
gathering of weirdos, wackos, oddballs,
goofballs, mooks, kooks, flukes, flakes or all
around idiots – and the dumber the better –
I like it. It keeps me entertained.
It also gives a crystal clear perspective
and assures me that no matter how deeply
my personal situation happens to slide into
the abyss at any time at least I’m not one
of “them.” I don’t claim to be better than
“them,” but I do think I was given at least
a few more tools in my box from the fac-
tory than a frighteningly large percentage
of fellow planet walkers. I am not at the
bottom.
Is it wrong to proudly walk among
countless hordes of unwashed lowlifes at
any random event silently beaming inwardly
that I’m not them? Then declare me guilty.
How much worse will my punishment be
than having to live on a planet where “they”
rule the roost? I’m just an onlooker.
The first experience that ever rocked my
world with Richter scale proportions was at
about age six when my uncle and aunt took
me to the Wisconsin State Fair. Why they
wanted to subject me to this environment at
such an impressionable age still baffles me,
but I had no choice. I was in a place I didn’t
ask to be with no foreseeable way out. All I
could do was try to act like I belonged.
But I didn’t. And I knew I didn’t, even
at such a tender age. Something inside
screamed loudly that I was a stranger in a
strange land and wasn’t where I had ever
been before – kind of like that stray bug that
gets smuggled in on a load of bananas at the
supermarket. There’s no going back.
Walking through the State Fair with my
uncle, aunt and cousins was a symphony for
the senses at every turn. I could barely take
in all that was going on around me, but I
knew it was something I was not prepared
for. Nobody told me anything other than I
needed to stay close to our group or I would
have to go home with somebody else’s
family. I think it was a joke but I’m still not
sure.
The most vivid memory I have all these
years later oddly enough is the
aroma. Nothing smells
quite like a State
Fair, and I have
to believe the
Wisconsin
State Fair
t a k e s
a back
s e a t t o
none of the
other 49 in
the stomach
curdling stench
department. Countless tons
of fresh from the factory manure combined
with roasting meat and corn on a humid 94
degree day spell two letters – P U.
The first whiff of that putrid odor on
my six year old nostrils put me down for the
count with a single punch. I knew I couldn’t
hold my breath the entire day and attempt-
ing to breathe through my ears wasn’t work-
ing. Going into the bathroom stall later
ended up being a breath of fresh air.
The next experience that busts out
from the confines of my memory like El
Chapo out of a Mexican prison is seeing the
midway for the first time. It was the best
and the worst of times simultaneously. On
the good side I remember how bright and
colorful the lights were and how scary yet
enticing the rides looked. I had never been
on one before but I knew I wanted to tilt,
whirl, spin, flip, rock, roll and/or Ferris.
On the ugly side, I got my first gander
of what a carny looks like. That was like
witnessing the landing of a UFO. It was ter-
rifying on one hand but absolutely fascinat-
ing on the other. All of the people I had seen
previous to that day in the world in which I
lived had teeth basically one color.
The only comparison I could make with
what I saw was the ear of Indian corn that
hung behind our first grade teacher Mrs.
Molter’s desk at school. I was only six, but
even with the significant amount of teeth I
happened to be missing at the time I still
had a few up on these dental midgets.
Next on the agony agenda was being
forced to sit through not just one but two
types of music I took a hating to from the
get go and learned to loathe even more
as life has gone on – polka
and old time country.
I had never seen
any live music
played to that
date with
the possible
exceptions
of the lady
at church
who played the
organ and the ice
cream truck that was in
our neighborhood.
Halfway through the first set of polkas
that all sounded the same played by four or
five fat old farts ridiculously decked out in
leather lederhosen I was ready to barf up the
burnt bratwurst I’d just eaten, sauerkraut
and all. But my uncle and aunt were lifelong
Milwaukeeans, and polkas are right up there
with cribbage and duck pin bowling on the
list of holy things never to make fun of.
After the tent full of Pabst smeared
Schlitz kickers tapped their last toe I
thought I was finally off the hook, but NO.
After waiting in line for a cream puff – a
tiny taste of heaven – we walked through
the buildings where people were pitching
products like vegetable slicers and floor wax.
Six year olds aren’t the target market for that
stuff, so again I sat back and watched the
masses.
There were examples everywhere of
every size, shape and circumference wad-
dling through the barn with blank looks
on their faces. These were not the kind
of people that lived anywhere near my
neighborhood, even though we did have
a few nut cases lurking in the weeds. But
everybody knew where they lived and we
stayed away from those people. The Fair was
loaded with them.
By this time I recall being overwhelmed
with sensory overload and wanting to go
home. Ha! It wasn’t to be for at least a few
more hours as we trudged our way to yet
another tent to watch yet another concert
of yet another style of music that made my
tonsils ache. I couldn’t decide which was
worse, the polka or the country – but does it
matter? It’s like picking a favorite way to die.
That day at the State Fair seemed
like it would never end. Then I got roped
into going the next year and it was pretty
much the same only this time we had to sit
through a clown show. I never thought there
would be anything that would make me
pine for a polka, but watching a bald man
with enormous yellow shoes and a sponge
nose twist balloon animals for an hour made
me flip like a funnel cake. I vowed from that
moment on I never wanted to set foot in a
State Fair again.
But as the years have gone by and I’m
now older than my aunt and uncle were
when they took me to that first State Fair,
I find myself looking forward to the experi-
ence whenever I can get it. I have been lucky
enough to have spent my entire adult life on
the road and have seen everything up to and
including State Fairs, County Fairs, craft
fairs, carnivals, festivals, flea markets, flea
circuses and everything in between. I enjoy
the assortment of mixed nuts that come
with the deal.
And I even find myself tapping a toe
to a polka or country song once in a while.
What kind of a seed was planted all those
years ago that something I found so repul-
sive at first now has a charm that makes me
wax nostalgic. And that smell. Manure and
meat mixed make my mouth moist.
I absolutely believe that aliens exist and
that they have visited us in person. If you
don’t think so, take a walk down the midway
at any carnival or fair. They’re here…and
they’re operating the Tilt-a-Whirl.
Dobie is a stand up comedian and writer
from Milwaukee. To see him on stage at
his next hell-gig, find his schedule and other
rants at dobiemaxwell.com
Life Is Fair
ENTERTAINMENT // DOBIE MAXWELL

NEWS & VIEWS // MEDIA RANTS
BY TONY PALMERI
The night Scott Walker officially
announced his presidential candidacy, I
had a dream (nightmare?) I was watch-
ing his inaugural address on Fox News
in January of 2017. In the dream Walker
became the first incoming president to ride
a Harley in the inaugural parade. Below
are his remarks as they were spoken in my
dream:
Chief Justice Roberts, all Real Ameri-
cans, and others: today we continue an
inaugural tradition as old as the Republic
itself. What we do today is possible only
because our Founders had the wisdom and
courage to articulate and fight for Big and
Bold ideas.
I thank President Obama for his ser-
vice. I also thank him for resisting calls
from so called environmentalists that he
boycott this inauguration due to my pledge
to make good on my campaign promise
to issue as my first Executive order the
removal of solar panels from the White
House. Thank you President Obama.
Wisdom in our time requires recogniz-
ing that our 21st century challenges are
not significantly different from what our
Founders faced in the 18th. Political cour-
age in our time requires the audacity to
assert and fight for 18th century solutions
to 21st century problems.
You see our Founders did not bother
with climate change, but they did change
the political climate from hot tyranny to
cool liberty. So much did they love liberty
that they were willing to legally define
nonwhite southern workers as 3/5 of a
person to get it. That controversial 3/5
compromise was what I call 18th century
cool; a Big and Bold idea proving that our
Founders respected the sovereignty of each
of the 13 original states more than they did
any dictates from Washington.
Big and Bold ideas like the 3/5 com-
promise, or the Manifest Destiny resettle-
ment of natives to make room for our Real
American ancestors, or the expansion of
American power and influence abroad, or
President Reagan’s refusal to back down in
his confrontation with arrogant striking
air traffic controllers, or my own state’s
abridgment of the tyranny of collective
bargaining, have been lambasted by critics
as divisive. Such critics do not understand
the profound role division plays in acceler-
ating the progress of the states.
Indeed, our Founders and all Real
American leaders since are often pictured
as standing for some kind of vague prin-
ciple of national unity. You don’t need a
college degree to know what’s wrong with
that picture: vague unity is undependable,
puts mushy cooperation ahead of vigor-
ous competition, and ultimately makes us
weak.
Division is dependable. Division works.
It creates a critical mass of US always
wary of and willing to fight the attempts
of THEM to transform our traditional
American values.
Our first Republican President, Abra-
ham Lincoln, is a remarkable example of a
decisively divisive leader frequently miscast
as obsessed with unity. Two years before
becoming president, Lincoln said, “I do
not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I
do not expect the house to fall -- but I do
expect it will cease to be divided.” Yet he
then went on to become the most divisive
chief executive in history, presiding over a
civil war that killed hundreds of thousands
of Real Americans over an issue that deeply
divided the nation for many generations.
What the Civil War could not kill was
the 18th century idea of state sovereignty.
That is why today I say ask not what your
country can for you, ask what your country
can do for your state.
Does your state want to define what
marriage is and who can participate in that
most sacred of unions? You now have a
well-wisher in Washington.
Does your state want to be freed from
onerous federal regulations of air and water
quality that degrade the desire of job cre-
ators to compete in the global economy?
You now have a well-wisher in Washington.
Does your state want complete control
over voting rights, including the power to
pass the strictest possible voter identifica-
tion laws? You now have a well-wisher in
Washington.
Does your state want to expand gun
ownership rights to any and all people the
state sees fit? You now have a well-wisher in
Washington.
As regards to foreign policy, there too
we call on the 18th century for guidance.
In the Declaration of Independence Jef-
ferson condemns King George III for not
protecting the colonists against what he
called “the merciless Indian Savages, whose
known rule of warfare is an undistin-
guished destruction of all ages, sexes and
conditions.”
Today’s merciless Indian Savages
are ISIS and their sympathizers. Our
administration will reject any attempts to
rationalize ISIS as somehow a product of
the actions of American behavior in the
Middle East or some other alleged injustice
that creates terrorism. Our administration
will stand for the principle that terrorism is
caused by terrorists. Period. We will wage
a liberty crusade ready and able to pit our
well-armed 18th century principles against
ISIS’s twisted dreams of a 7th century style
caliphate. We will win. They will lose.
Will the liberty crusade be divisive? Yes,
as will our Big and Bold domestic reforms.
But fear not, because following in the
tradition of our most noble ancestors, we
draw inspiration from the knowledge that
Divided We Stand, United We Fall.
Thank you and God Bless America.
Tony Palmeri (palmeri.tony@gmail.com) is
a professor of communication studies at UW
Oshkosh.
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NEWS & VIEWS // RIGHT WING NUT
BY ROBERT MEYER
Several editorial works have appeared
recently, once again addressing the give
and take of global warming/climate change
concerns.
Few of us have the specialized
knowledge necessary to make absolute
pronouncements on this topic, yet all of
us have a right, or even an obligation, to
philosophically cross-examine the argu-
ments presented for rational consistency.
The most arresting observation about
this controversy, is that it’s highly polarized
along the lines of political partisanship.
The people who advocate for it are gener-
ally liberal, while those who are skeptical
are predominately conservative.
Were that likewise the case for belief in
the Law of Gravity, I’d say it was no big
deal. But this should be a stark indication
that more is it play than mere disagreement
over the implications of the data. For me
this is a huge stumbling block toward
embracing alarmism, hook, line and sinker.
We should realize that evidence never
exists in a vacuum. All evidence requires
interpretation, and all too often the inter-
pretation of evidence is influenced by pre-
existing ideology, not ruthless objectivity.
A second observation is what I call
“the fallacy of appealing to expertise.” Let’s
develop this point. It goes something like
this: A consensus of credentialed scientists
nearly all believe a certain thing, therefore
it is true. This reasoning assumes that
someone must be objective in the same
proportion that they are an expert, or said
another way, an expert can never be biased
or affected by groupthink.
Suppose you go in for a dental exami-
nation with a new dentist, and while exam-
ining your mouth, your dentist says, “have
you considered taking out a loan?” Now,
are you dealing with an oral hygiene expert
speaking objectively, or a businessperson
speaking out of self-interest? You have to
use your own judgment to discern the dif-
ference. In that case you have no difficulty
seeing how bias can work contrary to
knowledge. The appeal to expertise is not
as strong an argument as it would appear
to be, because specialized knowledge is not
necessarily tantamount to pure objectivity.
Or take an example from our legal
system. In a court case both the defense
and prosecution may provide testimony
from expert witnesses. But the opinions of
equally qualified people are often in dia-
metric opposition. What accounts for this?
As a juror you must discern who is best at
offering the more plausible explanation,
though you are not a specialized expert on
the topic in question.
So what am I saying? Are all these
experts liars? Of course not. I am saying
that I doubt every expert comes to their
own conclusions independently from
scratch, and that reputations and careers
are sometimes of primary consideration
when such persons publicly take a position.
In general, people confuse two con-
cepts: expertise and objectivity. Having
great intelligence or specialized knowledge
isn’t assurance against a person remaining
unbiased in their public opinions. Persons
of all stripes are generally loyal to their
source of income. We shouldn’t assume
that every expert begins their search tabula
rasa, that is to say, without an agenda or
wholly independent of prevailing consen-
sus.
That is why appeals to credentials or
expertise are never as conclusive as they
ought to be.
Still another observation is that Cli-
mate Change has ramifications on at least
three separate levels. First is the question
of whether the global temperature is actu-
ally increasing. Secondly, the question
of whether the alleged phenomenon is a
natural or human caused event. Finally,
whether the dire predictions about the
impending consequences of Climate
Change are actually plausible, or merely
hysterical assertions.
One reason people might be skeptical
is that they lived through the 1970’s, when
warnings of “global cooling” were being
touted. That thinking was commonplace
after the commemoration of the first
“Earth Day” back in 1970. Furthermore,
many of us who were in school at that
time remember Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book
“The Population Bomb,” and realize how
alarmist prognostications can be way off
the mark.
One might reasonably ask why Al
Gore built a mansion on an oceanfront
property, considering his dire pronounce-
ments about rising sea levels? Skepticism
occurring regarding points two and three,
technically doesn’t qualify as “denial” as
regards changes in the climate, but rather,
how connected the phenomenon is to
human causation. Too often, “deniers”
are inappropriately tagged with that label
for demurring on any of the three distinct
levels, and given the respect worthy of any
Flat-Earth Society charter member.
It should be noted that historically
normative Christian theology has always
embraced the idea of environmental
stewardship in principle, in the sense of a
discipline previously referred to as “conser-
vation.” The nature of the opposition to
contemporary progressive environmental
movements by some evangelical Christians
and other conservatives, is that “environ-
mentalists” seem to espouse philosophies
placing emphasis on worshipping and dei-
fying the creation more than the Creator.
Often people who advocate for legisla-
tion curtailing greenhouse gasses offer us
an argument tantamount to the theological
implications of Pascal’s Wager; “What if we
don’t act, but Climate Change is a reality?
When we know for sure it will be already
too late.”
But the point is easily reversible. We
may pass unnecessary legislative measures
that irretrievably harm economic and
technological development, as well as for-
feiting national sovereignty and restraining
individual liberties. Consider everything
carefully.
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Another Milestone
on the Path to Equality”
BY DENIS RILEY
On June 26th the U.S. Supreme Court
held that the 14th amendment guarantees
of due process and equal protection of the
laws meant that no state could ban mar-
riages between members of the same sex,
just as it had held almost 50 years earlier
that no state could ban marriages between
individuals of different races. Reaction was
fast from those who supported the deci-
sion, and fast and furious from those who
opposed it. Six weeks will have gone by
by the time you read this, but I am willing
to bet that the issues I am about to discuss
will not have been resolved by that time.
Some of those fast and furious reac-
tions seem pretty much the political
equivalent of Shakespeare’s “sound and
fury, signifying nothing.” There will not be
a Constitutional amendment to restore the
right of the states to define marriage (Scott
Walker and Ted Cruz), nor an “all-out
assault against the religious freedom rights
of those Christians who disagree” (Gover-
nor Bobby Jindahl of Louisiana). Amend-
ments to the U.S. Constitution are hard to
pull off – the Equal Rights Amendment
died in the ratification process and there is
still no personhood amendment – and so
far all the political bluster has been aimed
at protecting, not assaulting, the rights of
Christians bothered by gay marriage.
But there have been furious responses
that require very serious thought.
First, no Supreme Court decision is
self-executing. People, especially people
with “executive power” in state and local
governments have to implement many of
these decisions. To the ear of a nearly 72
year old Political Science professor, the
words coming out of the mouths of public
officials in the immediate aftermath of the
gay marriage decision seem to echo those
of politicians reacting to the 1954 Supreme
Court decision in Brown v. Board of
Education. Texas Governor Greg Abbot’s
assertion that, “No Texan is required to
act contrary to his or her religious beliefs
regarding marriage,” was followed quickly
by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s
assurance to county clerks throughout
the state that their religious beliefs could
trump the Supreme Court’s decision and
that he, his office, and an army of Texas
attorneys would be behind them in the
decision to refuse to issue marriage licenses
to gay couples. Louisiana Parish (county)
clerks are refusing to issue licenses and one
Alabama judge has refused to issue mar-
riage licenses to any couples in his county.
Equal protection at work.
But under the 14th amendment,
all states are required to provide equal
protection of the
laws – along with
due process protec-
tions – to all of
its citizens and
the U.S. Supreme
Court – which the
last time I looked
had the authority
to interpret those
provisions – had
declared that issu-
i n g m a r r i a g e
licenses to same
sex couples was a
duty of state and
local authorities. I
don’t have any idea
if what seems to
be shaping up as a
battle over gay mar-
riage could ever produce anything like the
battles over school integration. The South
was a great deal more invested in Jim Crow
than it is in protecting religious liberties,
and Mark Twain was probably right that
history doesn’t really repeat itself, but it
surely does rhyme. I have no formula for
addressing the state-federal confrontation
that seems to be looming, but we had
better come up with one.
I have a good bit more sympathy for
the bakers, the florists, and the musicians,
who believe their artistry would somehow
be offensive to their God if put in the
service of a gay wedding. This would have
to be particularly painful for those who
believe their artistry to be a gift from their
God. Talk about ungrateful. But I sympa-
thize more with the gay men and women
simply trying to assert a right they have
finally been granted. Besides, the bakers,
florists, and musicians are also business
people, and once you go into business you
are obligated by a combination of law and
human decency to treat customers equally.
But it is precisely here where this question
gets a little complicated.
The U.S. Supreme Court can tell
county clerks in Texas that they have to
issue a marriage license to a gay couple,
but can’t tell a baker that he or she must
provide that couple a wedding cake. The
14th amendment due process and equal
protection clauses do not apply to private
citizens and their actions. Congress, a
state legislature, and probably even a city
council can tell a baker he or she must
provide that cake, but the Supreme Court
cannot and has not. The mandate for pri-
vate businesses to stop discriminating on
the basis of race, gender, etc., remember,
is embedded in the Civil Rights Act of
1964. No such protection resides in that
statute for victims of discrimination based
on sexual orientation. Can you imagine
this Congress doing that? How about the
Texas state legislature?
Finally, there are genuinely religious
organizations worried about the impact
of the ruling on their ability to preach and
practice their faith. The chairman of the
religious liberty committee of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, who also
serves as the Archbishop of the Diocese of
Baltimore, was particularly fearful about
being, “silenced or penalized or losing our
tax exemption,” if the Church continues
to “operate our ministries and to live our
lives according to the truth about mar-
riage.” Again, thinking about this political
climate, this Congress and state legislatures
of a majority of the states, and even the
Supreme Court ruling on the right of the
members of the Westboro Baptist Church
to protest at military funerals by excoriat-
ing gay men and women, I think the Arch-
bishop has little to worry about.
There are however, dozens of specific
questions that will have to be litigated.
To borrow just one from Chief Justice
Roberts, what about a religiously based
university that provides housing for mar-
ried couples and refuses to house a same
sex couple?
See you in court. That’s where we bal-
ance conflicting rights.
Enough out of me.

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BY JOHN PRICE - KABHIR,THE
BUDDHIST ADVISER
Readers of this column might perceive
me as dark and negative. If you feel that
way, it’s because my deepest soul-baring
thoughts juxtapose the pain of coming
to grips with truth while inhabiting this
human being. But truly, although deepest
truths are elusive and painful to confront,
doing so is a courageous thing, and it pays
off in the long run.
As I write this, we’re in the transition
time between our Wisconsin spring and
summer. Meteorologists say that June
1 is the beginning of a weatherperson’s
summer. Whatever, the birds are chirp-
ing; the flower beds and potted plants are
showing their birth. I used to dread being
awake when the birds wake up. Now I am
at peace if I’m awake at this time and wel-
come their morning hellos. Lately, the first
ones start chirping around 3:00 am. Other
than the cats wanting me to awake at that
time when I’m not ready, I welcome their
welcomes and feel a deep peace when they
start to wake up to greet the day; that is,
unless it’s raining, then they’re silent. But
I also truly love rainy mornings, and those
days provide a profound solace as the drops
resonate on the roof.
Why is “hiding from myself” in the
title? Well, truth be told, discovering our-
selves is a frightening thing, as in doing so,
we must shed much of the conditioning
that forms our personalities. Buddhists
call this “letting go,” as practice. Truly, if
you embrace the idea of impermanence
as letting go, as we get closer to actually
doing that, it is a challenging way to live.
Embracing that way is not really about
rejecting the ego and personality, but it
most definitely is a way of life having one’s
entire conditioned reality backed up to
the wall, facing (hopefully) a gentle firing
squad.
A few years back, I found myself the
“victim” of a robbery, a serious auto acci-
dent, and a crippling orthopedic matter.
This after nine eye surgeries in the 1990s,
with five occular implants and cranial
nerve damage. I recall sitting in my hall-
way, wondering what to do: Should I sur-
render to a life in a nursing home? What
should I do? As it turned out at the time,
I simply applied myself to what I knew to
be effective practice. Each day, one breath
following the previous. I re-learned just
sitting. I’d known this worked from many
years of past experience. It was either that
or give up, and giving up wasn’t in my rep-
ertoire. Mind you, I lived alone in a small
apartment. I was damn poor, and I had few
distractions, which was ironically a good
thing. Instinct and some Zen training told
me that just sitting would be a good thing,
under the circumstances. Sure enough,
with the financial challenges, the orthope-
dic problems, and an accompanying return
to health, I found myself newly accepting
life’s former pain and loneliness as positive
things. Good practice.
So, as life has gone on since then, I’ve
had a few more problems of the same ilk as
those challenging me previously. Each time
lately, now, I look back and re-create the
matters of that crisis time of my life. If I do
so sincerely, I pull up and out of the malais
and into the acceptance of the times past.
When making a significant change in
lifestyle about ten years ago, I began call-
ing myself, “Mr. Nobody,” signifying my
giving up the former life labels and replac-
ing them with “no label.” Thus, for a time,
Mr. Nobody roamed my house. Now,
as I’ve lived these additional years, I’ve
come to realize it’s not about rejecting my
individual existence. Instead of rejection of
ego, I favor of integrating my personality
with all the things we cannot see. I am a
spiritual empiricist: Thus I do not believe
in things I cannot see or perceive. That’s
not about rejecting God or any forms of
energy manifested.
A lineage I’m very fond of, because it
might just unweave back to pure truth is
encapsulated in a book titled No Mind-I
Am The Self. The book by David Godman
explains simple beliefs tracing back to the
mid-20th Century Indian sage Ramana
Maharshi, about the lives and teachings
of Sri Lakshmana Swamy and Mathru Sri
Sarada (who are both alive and in residence
at a small ashram in southern India).
Ramana Maharshi, who pretty much
stayed out of the public eye, manifested
his enlightenment through a monastic life-
style. He was truly a man of few words, but
later in life he responded to devotees pleas
and set down his ideas. If his readers of his
words really concentrate on what truth
means, he offers us what cannot be grasped
through mere words. But nonetheless, like
all great sages, he offers truth is as directly
as possible in a book. He tells us not to
reject human existence, but to shed layers
of our social conditioning like we shed
our clothing before bathing. Although
we define ourselves by what we wear, but
obviously it’s not nearly to the extent we do
with our sense of self.
When first I called myself Mr. Nobody,
I look back and realize now that doing so
was part of my own elaborate scheme to
put armor over who I really am. It feels
much better to accept me, all the time
working to make my presentation less
about getting rid of my personality and
more about making it a better fit for all of
who I am.
So then it’s really all about integration.
If we begin to deeply understand our
personal conditioning, we can grow in
a healthier way than if we were oblivious
to the personality baubles we use to cover,
yes cover, who we truly are. Meditation is
about acceptance and letting go. Just sit.
Just be. And if you do, you can enter the
truth of who you truly are.
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BY ROB ZIMMER
Gardening in small spaces, or apart-
ments and patios with no yard space at all,
is a challenge for many in our area. Often,
I am asked about options for gardening in
an apartment or small patio space.
Thankfully, there are a number of great
opportunities for gardening, indoors and
out, in apartments, as well as condos, on
patios and porches.
With a little creativity and an open
mind, you can create a lush, full garden
featuring all of your favorites just about
anywhere.
Plant marketers and growers have
focused in recent years on creating dwarf
varieties of most garden favorites, includ-
ing edibles and ornamentals. These dwarf
varieties are perfect for containers, hanging
baskets and tiny spaces that may be no
more than a few feet in diameter.
A great selection of these can be found
at just about any garden center locally.
Even trees are not off limits, as a variety
of dwarf trees have been developed for
small space gardening. This includes fruit-
ing trees as well as ornamentals, flowering
shrubs and conifers.
Edibles in containers
One of the biggest trends in gardening
over the past few growing seasons has been
producing edibles in containers.
For many edibles, at least some sun is
preferred, especially when growing fruits,
berries and some vegetables.
Plants such as tomatoes, peppers,
strawberries, eggplant and others prefer
substantial sun, at least 8 hours a day.
A number of other edible plants and
crops grow quite well in full to part shade.
Plants such as lettuces and other greens,
kale, many herbs, root crops such as carrots
and radishes, as well as others do perfectly
fine in a low sun situation.
Many edibles are now available in
dwarf or container-sized varieties. This is
true of blueberries, blackberries, currants,
strawberries, tomatoes, eggplant, as well as
many traditional herbs such as lavender,
basil and more.
This makes it possible for gardeners to
grow a large variety of crop plants right at
home even with no formal garden space.
Small space beauty
For ornamental purposes, growing
your own garden at home in a small space,
porch or patio has never been simpler.
Use a variety of vertical gardening tech-
niques, including climbers, hanging bas-
kets, containers and more to grow a large
number of plants in just a small space.
Create stunning containers by combin-
ing a variety of plants, textures, colors and
bloom times for long-lasting beauty and
interest.
To create spectacular containers for
porches, patios or hanging baskets, use a
variety of plants, depending on light con-
ditions.
A large number of perennials are now
available in dwarf form. This includes min-
iature hostas, miniature coral bells, dwarf
lilies, dwarf day lilies, and a number of
other perennials that feature short-statured
forms.
Chances are, whatever your favorite
flower, it is now available in a smaller,
compact form that would work perfectly in
a small space garden or container.
Apartment Gardening
OUTDOORS // ROB ZIMMER
Dwarf trees, like this miniature juniper, make gardening in containers more versatile and exciting
than ever.
Combine flowering plants and foliage for long-lasting porch and patio plantings.
Even with no yard space, you can create a beautiful green space on a porch, patio or balcony.

Things with wings
Even gardeners with just a tiny porch,
patio or window sill can create a paradise
for hummingbirds and butterflies.
Create a hummingbird or butterfly
garden in a pot by combining favorite
flower sources for these species. Annuals
such as salvia, petunia, lobelia, lantana,
verbena, fuchsia and others work excellent.
Perennial favorites of butterflies and
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flower, lobelia, purple cone flower, black-
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I will have more great ideas for apart-
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BY WILL STAHL
As a five – seven year-old child in a very
small town in northern Illinois, my mother
sent me, when shaggy, to a barber shop no
more than a hundred yards from our home.
It was the real old-fashioned kind with big
windows, seats around the walls for wait-
ing (appointments were unknown), the
smell of hair tonic mingling with the odor
of the bar on the other side of a door, and
always piles of tattered magazines.
The ones I remember were the Saturday
Evening Posts because their covers were
colorful paintings that generally told a
story about people much like those in my
world. The people might be either sex and
any age, and the story might be funny or
sad or heartwarming, but I could look
at the picture and keep seeing that story
happen. They gave me something to do
while sitting warily among the town’s
characters who often passed back and forth
through the door to the seedy tavern.
Many of those covers were probably
by Norman Rockwell––when I later saw
named examples of his style, they looked
so familiar, and the place I saw them
belonged in one of those pictures.
The Trout Museum of Art’s current
show: “Norman Rockwell: A Portrait of
America” displays collections from two
different periods in his career, both on loan
from the Norman Rockwell Museum in
Stockbridge Massachusetts until October
25. I arranged a visit with Lindsey DePasse,
Marketing and Events Coordinator. She
passed me off to Rebecca Zornow, Visitor
Services and Volunteer Coordinator who
gave me a tour of the exhibit, pointing out
context and high points.
The first collection, on the lower
level, is from the Post covers he did during
World War II. Titled “Norman Rockwell
in the 1940’s: A View of the American
Homefront,” it is mostly covers he painted
depicting the lives of ordinary citizens
during the war. One series features a GI
character called “Willie Gillis,” militarily
inept but otherwise charming, based on
the amount of attention he receives from
women. In one picture, a young woman
sleeps peacefully with his picture on her
nightstand, in another the same woman
is in a confrontation with a taller blond
woman, as they each brandish the same
photograph of Willie with the same auto-
graph on it. In a third, two attractive USO
volunteers fawn over a grinning Willie.
One shows him neglecting his apple-
pealing duties to read his hometown
paper. In one he’s home on leave, sleeping
contentedly in his own bed. A more seri-
ous one shows a pensive Willie in a church
pew.
Others in the collection portray the
daily lives of civilian Americans during
wartime, often with a wry humor. A
burly “Rosie the Riveter” sits in smudgy
self-satisfaction, eating a sandwich with
her rivet gun on her lap. A salesman, his
clothes on the creek bank, takes a break in
a swimming hole. Some are strictly humor-
ous. In one a young woman is dressed in a
sort of Uncle Sam outfit and loaded with
tools as she races to accomplish all her
many roles as a wartime housewife, among
them wrenches and oil can for her factory
job, rolling pin and milk for her kitchen,
hoe, weeder and water can for her victory
garden, a coin dispenser and a streetcar
conductor hat, headphones under the hat
and a red lantern for signaling. This one
incidentally is one of several that are paired
with the source photograph so the viewer
can see Rockwell’s artistic process.
In one striking black-background
composition, a slyly smiling soldier glances
sideways at his female companion who
looks wide-eyed at the “What to Do in a
Blackout” pamphlet he is holding. Also
present are two examples of his “April
Fools” covers, showing ordinary people
and activities surrounded by bizarre but
carefully blended placements of objects
unconnected to the first-glance scene.
Of course the home front collection
includes his Four Freedoms, inspired by
Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 speech. He
originally offered them to the government
for free, but was turned down. They were
first published as inserts in the Saturday
Evening Post, and their popularity caused
the government to see its error, and it sent
the originals around the country to drum
up support for war bond sales.
S o m e
o f t h e
c o v e r s
date to the
immediate
p o s t - w a r
period and
t h e y a r e
remarkably
low key and
free of trium-
phalism. A much-matured Willie Gillis
studies on the GI Bill. A mother peels
potatoes with her soldier son and clearly
can’t keep her eyes off him. A sailor sleeps
in a backyard hammock with his dog on
his lap. A veteran on crutches looks with
bemusement at the gift of a war bond.
In one a young Marine has returned a
hero (a newspaper story is pinned on the
wall) to the place he worked before the
war, and his old co-workers surround him,
their faces lit with expectation. The veteran
sits in the center, loosely fingering his
trophy Japanese flag, his expression seem-
ing to say he has no way to explain what he
has lived through, and if he honestly tries,
he’ll be dredging up things he doesn’t really
want to remember. Rockwell’s paintings
sometimes show keen insight into human
character.
The second part of the exhibit, located
upstairs, is called “Norman Rockwell and
the American Family.” It contains many
of the black-and-white drawings he did
for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company ad campaign in the 1950’s
and 60’s. Mostly they depict family life,
including a series following a young couple
through courtship, marriage and children.
Many show families in various everyday
situations, quiet evenings, minor celebra-
tions and workaday activities. A few show
men at work. Quite a number of them
reflect the themes and even the composi-
tions of the paintings. A few are shown
with the source photographs, demonstrat-
ing again how Rockwell used his models.
Though critics debate whether Rock-
well can be considered an “artist”––many
feel his work is too sentimental and too
obvious––no one disputes that he was a
consummate craftsman. Art students now
study him for his drafting and color skills.
Just as I was about to leave, Trout Presi-
dent Pamela Williams-Lime mentioned
a gallery on the third floor that I hadn’t
heard about before. It is a relatively recent
addition and it is dedicated to local artists.
The current exhibit is of photographs taken
by the late Loretta Judson, a housewife and
mother from Fond du Lac who used her
pictures simply to save family memories.
Her nephew Richard Margolis found
them after her passing and thought they
deserved some recognition. She took them
in the forties and fifties with an old and
rather simple camera, but she had an eye
for composition and light. Taken around
the same time as the Rockwell covers
downstairs were published, they make a
good counterpoint to that exhibit and will
also be up until October 25.
On my way out I found a large mosaic
of a wind-blown American flag being
pieced together in the lobby by its designer
Kimberly Schonfeld, a local artist. While
she was working on it at that moment,
she told me volunteers have done most of
what’s been done at the farmers’ market.
“It’s been a community project.” Though it
is scheduled to be finished before you will
read this, it will be hanging in the Trout
and will eventually find a home in the
community.
The Trout Museum of Art is open
Monday-Saturday 10 AM – 4 PM and
Sunday from noon – 4PM. Guided tours for
groups can be arranged and a drop-in tour
is conducted every Saturday from 11 AM –
noon. info@troutmuseum.org or call (920)
733-4089.
Rockwell at the Trout
FINE ARTS // TROUT MUSEUM
Homefront woman
Home from the War

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ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW
BY GEORGE HALAS
Over the past couple of years, it has
become apparent to fans of Kyle Megna
and The Monsoons, Mile of Music attend-
ees, at least one brilliant music writer
and Megna himself that, while the band’s
work on previously released, impeccably-
produced albums of all-original material is
excellent, the Monsoons sound even better
live.
Megna is both astute and generous;
“Dark Funk” is his response to the demand
for the live sound. It is a very good
response.
The product of one eight-hour record-
ing session with producer Marc Golde
at Rock Gardens studios, “Dark Funk”
achieves Megna’s ambitious objective “to
capture what we’re doing live. It’s the best we
sound when we’re all playing together.”
The songs are “organic” in the sense
that each cut on the album is one complete
“take” in the studio with no overdubs.
“We did two or three takes of each
song,” Megna explained, “but we did not
take a part of one take and splice it with
another. We wanted to be consistent in
presenting complete song featuring the live
sound.”
This is also the band’s first album with
guitarist Aaron Zepplin and saxophonist
Ross Catterton.
“We are very comfortable with Aaron
and he is very easy to work with,” Megna
said. “He takes the sound to a more profes-
sional level. He’s a trained musician – that’s
his only gig – and he takes his role in the
band very seriously.”
“He knows when a song needs to
breathe and he lets those parts breathe,”
Megna added, “but he also knows when to
let loose.”
Catterton is the most recent addition
to the band; he’s only had one rehearsal
with the group but it sounds as though
he’s been playing with them for years. The
addition of his sax playing is both a seem-
ingly natural and almost perfect comple-
ment to the already very good Monsoon
sound.
“Ross adds something we’ve never had
before,” Megna said. “It’s both different
and very appealing.”
The Monsoons are anchored by one
of the Fox Cities’ best rhythm sections,
bassist Jon Wheelock and drummer Ryan
Seefeldt. Keyboardist Dave LeBlanc, who
often performs with Megna as a duo, is a
major contributor to the sound.
LeBlanc gets the album started with an
organ riff on “Beat Up Drum,” that recalls
Question Mark and The Mysterians (how’s
that for an esoteric reference?) and sets the
table for Wheelock, Seefeldt and Catterton
to set a strong groove around Megna’s
bluesy vocal and thought-provoking lyrics.
While there is a lot more than funk
on this record, Zepplin starts “You Are
My Light” with a most funky intro that
is joined and finely augmented by Cat-
teron, who adds colors that take the sound
beyond merely funk-inflected rock the
song changes direction as LeBlanc and
Catteron bring some jazz that then builds
to what the record is all about – the entire
band rockin’ hard on the same page.
“Time and Place” has a gentler feel,
a positive lyric... “this is real love,” and
begins by making the listener very glad
Zepplin and Catteron are in the band.
Zepplin’s mid-song guitar solo is exactly
what the song needs and not an exercise in
overplaying or showmanship.
LeBlanc goes back to the early days
of the Moog Synthesizer for the opening
sounds on “Pick Your Feet Up” and then
hands it off to Wheelock to drive a slow-
building groove that opens the way for
some outstanding fills by Catteron as well
as his best solo.
Zepplin finds another funk-flavored
intro that leads to a quirky but catchy
harmony on “I’m Gonna Get Down,”
which ultimately turns the funk intro
into the powerful, hard-driving Monsoon
rock sound that
clearly benefits from
Catteron’s pres-
ence. The tune also
features one of the
better rock guitar
solos you’ve heard
by Zepplin, but you
may want to play
this tune – and all
the others for that
matter – a second
time and focus on
Wheelock’s bass
playing. He is defi-
nitely one of the best around.
Moody sax begins “You Me And
Everyone” and stays in the mix as Seefeldt
and Wheelock set the beat in an unhurried
but still urgent pocket. The tempo and
dynamic changes on this tune showcase the
band’s strengths but with new textures and
sounds that emphasize the band is moving
in the right direction.
Kyle Megna and The Monsoons are on
Facebook as well as kylemegna.com
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