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This document summarizes the vanishing of historic barns across Wisconsin's rural landscape. As agriculture has modernized, many old barns have fallen into disrepair or have been torn down. Efforts have been made to preserve some barns through rehabilitation projects and adaptive reuse. Meanwhile, the salvaged wood from old barns is in high demand and is being reused in new construction. While the number of old barns continues to decline, their architectural styles and materials are being incorporated into new buildings to pay homage to Wisconsin's agricultural heritage.

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L4  | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | November 2015 SCENE STAFF Publisher James Moran • 920.418.1777 jmoran@scenenewspaper.com Associate Publisher Norma Jean Fochs • 715.254.6324 njfochs@scenenewspaper.com Ad Sales Norma Jean Fochs • 715.254.6324 njfochs@scenenewspaper.com Connie Carmical • 920-267-0721 ccarmical@scenenewspaper.com Graphic Designer Ericka Kramer-Baker • 920.602.2297 ebaker@scenenewspaper.com GREATER OSHKOSH EDITION Advertising deadline for December is November 20 at 5 p.m. Submit ads to ads@scenenewspaper.com. The SCENE is published monthly by Calumet Press, Inc.The SCENE provides news and commentary on politics, current events, arts and entertainment, and daily living.We retain sole ownership of all non-syndicated editorial work and staff-produced advertisements contained herein. No duplication is allowed without permission from Calumet Press,Inc.2015. PO Box 227 •Chilton,WI 53014 •920-849-4551 Calumet PRESSINC. R16 CONTRIBUTORS L9 L6 COVER STORY R16 Jeff Daniels FINE ARTS R6 Foxy Finds FOOD & DRINK R2 Brewmaster R4 From the Wine Cave R5 Tricia’s Table ENTERTAINMENT R12 Weyauwega International Film Festival R14 Poco & Firefall R18 Postcard from Milwaukee R20 CD Review: Blue Whisper R22 The Spanish Inquisition R23 CD Review: The Look R24 Wisconsin’s Favorite Band R26 Marianas Trench L9 UW Oshkosh Theatre L12 Dobie Maxwell NEWS & VIEWS L6 Vanishing Barns L8 Media Rants R10 Heroe’s Hunt GREEN CHOICES L10 Seeing Green OUTDOORS R8 Backyard Flock: Part Two EVENT CALENDARS R28 Live Music L13 The Big Events CONTENTS Lori Palmeri Tony Palmeri Will Stahl Dobie Maxwell Steve Lonsway Kimberly Fisher Trish Derge Jean Detjen Rob Zimmer Michael Casper Joseph Ferlo Blaine Schultz George Halas Troy Reissmann Jeremy J. Johanski ALL NEW 2016 Mazda CX-3 Available with All Wheel Drive! Available with All Wheel Drive! Spectacular year-End Savings! 32MPG HWY 16M366 $ 269 * PER MONTH, 36 MO. LEASE Images shown for illustration only and may differ from advertised unit. (*) Payments shown are examples based on in-stock vehicles and available incentives/offers at time of this publications deadline (10/28/2015) and are subject to change. Example payments shown are plus tax, title, license and services fee. Payments based on a 36 month, 10,000 mile per year lease, no security deposit required, with $2,499 or equivalent trade due at signing to approved credit. See us for complete details and a great deal on your next vehicle! (855) 783-3355 HWY 41 & 23, FOND DU LAC (ACROSS FROM WALMART) HOURS: MON-THURS: 8AM - 8PM FRI: 8AM - 5:30PM SAT: 8AM - 5PM COME TAKE A TEST-DRIVE HOLIDAYMAZDA.COM 2016 Mazda CX-535MPG HWY 16M235 $ 209 * PER MONTH, 36 MO. LEASE 2015 Mazda CX-9 AWD 7 passenger 24MPG HWY 15M488 $ 319 * PER MONTH, 36 MO. LEASE COME TEST-DRIVE A MAZDA A better way to go... in snow!
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L6  | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | November 2015 NEWS & VIEWS  //  WISCONSIN VANISHING BARNS BY LORI PALMERI A nostalgic pastime this fall might be a road trip along Wisconsin’s rustic high- ways. Punctuating the pastoral skyline, iconic Wisconsin gambrel roofs on red and white barns, beacons of the distant past, set the stage for picturesque Wisconsin rural- ity. These barns illustrate a cultural heritage of agriculture in the state, symbolizing dedication and hard work of farmers of the past. From early wheat crops transitioning to profuse dairy production, many of these barns have vanished from the landscape, while some still stand tall and proud on their owner’s property. Author, Jerry Apps, “Barns of Wis- consin” says, “We have far fewer barns in the state than we did twenty years ago.” He should know as he was part of a core group to promote preservation of the his- toric structures. His passion is tracing the ethnic heritage and agricultural timeline through study and writing about barns in Wisconsin. While Wisconsin barns may be vanish- ing from our view, contemporary building of luxury rustic residential and commercial design, allow parts of these rural relics to enter into the current urban aesthetic. Through salvage reclamation and reuse, we see the demand for these solid timbers and elements incorporated into our pres- ent. The demand is growing both in and out of Wisconsin, as the barns timbers and innards are distributed across the globe for various uses. Some barns have been pre- served and hang on through adaptive reuse in the currently popular venue options for weddings, parties and retreats, not to mention storage for big Wisconsin winter toys like snowmobiles, and other non- agricultural acquisitions, while others have been converted to hobby farmettes. In worst case scenarios, the barns are beyond repair and become a burden on owners who need to pay taxes or otherwise are unable to do the repairs. Wisconsin winters, water and ice are the barns’ big- gest enemy as the 100 year plus roofs and foundations succumb to the elements. Without the livestock or hay use, the beams can become brittle and dry accord- ing to Stan Goodwin of Wisconsin Barn, Beam and Board in western Wisconsin. They reclaim, restore and redistribute barn and factories wood remnants. They also do restoration work. The demand for reclaimed and reuse of Wisconsin timber is nothing new. In the early lumber industry, boats and barges were made from the wood and floated down the Mississippi to later become fur- niture and other structures. Fast forward to the 1980’s, California began requiring a percentage of new build- ing to incorporate reclaimed barn and other wood, which kicked off parts of Wis- consin historic structures’ migration across the country. While Wisconsin’s barns started van- ishing, a program for barn preservation emerged. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the University of Wisconsin Extension partnered with the Wisconsin Historical Society to connect farm owners with resources to preserve and maintain these culturally significant structures. Workshops on roofs and foundations were offered and state tax credits, coupled with federal tax credits were encouraged as prop- erty owners decided whether to tear the barn down or resurrect. Struggling with substantial costs to save the barn, weighed against the economic or sentimental value, tough decisions are made at kitchen table discussions. These tax credit programs require criteria for eligibility for Historic Registries and not all make it through the application process. Even if a structure is not historically significant, those built WISCONSIN’S Vanishing Barns
November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L7 NEWS & VIEWS  //  WISCONSIN VANISHING BARNS prior to 1936 are still eligible for a 10% federal tax credit on repairs. Efforts statewide at preservation have helped to retain some of the significant structures, but the business of reclamation and salvage have kept pace if not surpassed preservation according to some entrepre- neurial efforts. Chuck Law, UW Extension Govern- ment Office, disagrees, pointing to a new trend, what he calls “barn architecture.” Epic Corp Development, a large Health Records Software company recently built a corporate campus outside of Madison, in the Verona area, with a focus on barn architecture. The structures are all themed. Of note, one in particular has a dairy barn theme. Chuck also says they see a trend replicating the barn architecture on con- temporary buildings and in luxury homes. He says, examples abound statewide of interest in the older structures, with devel- opment projects all over the state. So, while the old dilapidated barns may be fewer on the landscape, they emerge reborn in vari- ous development iterations. He believes that the barn preservation interest has grown statewide in recent years and the Barn Preservation Program’s success of bringing people and resources together has contributed to that. There are discus- sions taking place about offering an annual conference as a supplement to earlier years’ mini workshops on such maintenance and restoration efforts. Jerry Apps believes interest has increased. In an documentary for Wiscon- sin Public Television program, “Wisconsin Barns: Stories in Wood and Stone” he said, “…interest seems to be increasing. Why? The reasons are several. I think many people, urban people, are searching for something. And when you live in the Midwest it is hard to deny that all of us are within two or three generations of living on the land. And there’s something about the experience of living on the land that people are coming back to. They want to rediscover it. They want to visit it, and they want to find out what it was like having a barn on your property, a working barn with cattle in it? What did that smell like, and what did that feel like when you went into a barn with the wind was blowing around the corners and rustling under the eaves, when the pigeons were cooing up on the hayfork track? What was that like?”  Wisconsin’s barn preservation program and other efforts to save the rustic barns must be having some affect, even if it is more of an agri-tourism trend. Supporting that, Jo DeRose of the Wisconsin Historical Society says that most owners that take advantage of the state tax credit, are non-farming and more recreational. They do not have to be listed on historic places, but have to be eligible in order to qualify for the credits. The struggle is getting the awareness of the program out there for people to take advantage. Non qualifying farms/barns structures can still take advantage if built prior to the 1936 10% tax fed credit by self-certifying. Jen Davel, also of Wisconsin Historical Society was asked how many barn struc- tures are listed as taking advantage state tax credits. Her response is that the database currently does not identify specifics, but a rough estimate based on applications processed, are maybe 6 out of 300 applica- tions are farmstead. Another handful are applications that are not eligible because of identity and integrity as not enough of the original structures remain. She also says, there are revisions of the state database which may be able to identify actual num- bers of farmsteads. More information on the Wisconsin Barn Preservation can be found on the so-named Facebook page or WisconsinHis- tory.org website. As with many of the budget cuts in recent years, the Histori- cal Society also has gone lean, and could definitely use volunteers to help get the word out on this and other programs to those who wax nostalgic on the subject. On the private side of these vanishing icons, opportunity for repurposing and meeting the recent decade’s demand for reclaimed barn wood has emerged a plethora of companies offering the services. There are over 47 companies registered as some form of wood reclamation or salvage for Wisconsin, includ- ing Habitat for Humanity’s Restore. Stan Goodwin, of Wisconsin Barn, Beam and Board has been at it for six years. While mostly salvage, reclaim, and redistribu- tion, they offer quality restora- tion and repair for preservation enthusiasts. He said the biggest threat are the foundation’s buckle, without heat or hay, dry rot sets in from lack of use. He estimates the cost to repair a roof from $10,000 to $15,000 and restoration proj- ects can range into the tens of thousands. “Roofs are easy to fix,” Goodwin said “but foundations aren’t.” Ken DeMien, of Glacier Ridge Organ- ics, owns an example of rebuilding a barn for adaptive reuse. Tearing the barn down was considered, but then as WI BBB came to assess, they were encouraged to rebuild. It now serves as a general store of sorts for Tim’s Antiques and Collectibles. The cost decision comparison was approximately $5,000 to tear down or $15,000 to restore. Ken and his wife decided to rebuild and have not regretted it. They also have used reclaimed wood from WI BBB to build an inspirational bunkhouse which, as of next spring will offer a farm experience retreat to the urban agri-curious. And they’ve added solar and rain harvesting to sustainably enhance the property and farm. As for reclaimed barn wood, Stan says most demand is generated from commer- cial and residential building in California, Texas, Colorado and the Dakota’s, but they’re seeing more Midwest customers designing high-end structures reusing the timbers, and other elements from barns and factories. While barns disappear, so to may our culture of Wisconsin’s agri-heritage. Still using their barn for agricultural purposes, Olden Produce owners, Tracy and Richard Vinz of Ripon, say they struggle to keep the barn in good repair for storage of produce for their Community Supported Agriculture. Financial consider- ations for repair and upkeep have them get- ting creative with events like “Breakfast on the Farm,” to help supplement operations. Other private barn owners keep them just because they love them, and enjoy the space and experience. Kelly and Paul O’Brien of Fond du Lac have preserved their barn. Kelly opens the barn for special craft and collectible sales a few times a year. It serves primarily as stor- age for primitive and up-cycled furniture and other near-urban, but still rural experi- ences. On November 8, she will host the “Junket of Joy,” which features a bus trip from Vintique (Neenah) and Ye Old Goat (Appleton) to the barn for a day of collect- ing treasures. A former Wisconsin resident said, “When I returned after twenty years, I was saddened to see so few barns left, but overjoyed at the few preserved and still majestic.” As Jerry Apps put it, “When we tear down a barn, we lose a piece of history.” Know your Wisconsin Barn Styles...The Bank Barn – 1800’s, typically situated against the bank of a hill, rectangular shape, two levels, one for livestock and the upper level for storage and threshing. If no hill was available, a bank ramp was built of earth. This allowed wagons to load and unload at both levels. The earliest bank barns featured gabled roofs, while later bank barns were built with gambrel roofs. Bank barns were primarily constructed with their axis parallel to the hill on the south side; this allowed live- stock to have a sunny spot to gather in the winter. To take advantage of this protection, the second story is extended over the first; the over- hang sheltered animals from harsh weather. A few octagonal barns still stand, while round barns are still stand- ing in fewer numbers, more around the Viroqua area. Three bay threshing log barns precede the larger bank barns. Smaller log barns are fewer in number, but were used prior to the dairy barns we see much of today. The log barns were used in wheat pro- duction. Author, Jerry Apps’ latest edition of Barns of Wisconsin has a com- prehensive list of preserved barns in the State.
L8  | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | November 2015 NEWS & VIEWS  //  MEDIA RANTS The Pope Mystifies Mr. Jones BY TONY PALMERI Pope Francis’ late September whirlwind tour of the United States put him in the Papal Rock Star category that had been the exclusive domain of Pope John Paul II. Corporate media, conditioned to think of Popes as merely Presidents in groovy out- fits, seemed ill equipped to handle Francis’ Jesus-like musings. Surely the media knew what was coming; in his remarkable 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) Francis stated a belief in economic principles not endorsed by the Boards of Director’s of our media elite: • No to an economy of exclusion. • No to the new idolatry of money. • No to a financial system which rules rather than serves. • No to the inequality which spawns violence. According to Millennial, an online journal for young Catholics, Evangelii Gaudium employs the word “love” 154 times, “joy” 109 times, “the poor” 91 times, “peace” 58 times, “justice” 37 times,” dignity” 23 times,  and “common good” 15 times. Francis’ June of 2015 encyclical “Lau- dato Si’” (“Praise be to you”), subtitled “On Care For Our Common Home” issued similar challenges to the elites: “To claim economic freedom...while real con- ditions bar many people from real access to it, and while possibilities for employment continue to shrink, is to practice a double- speak which brings politics into disrepute.” He describes a planet that is the victim of “relentless exploitation,” that is in part the result of “the reckless pursuit of profits.” In rock and roll terms, those are Woodstock-era platitudes. I found myself thinking of two classic rock songs every time the Pope appeared on American tele- vision: “After Forever,” by Black Sabbath and Bob Dylan’s, “Ballad of a Thin Man.” Whenever right wing pundits pontificated about the Pope and dismissed his call for reigning in capitalist excesses as somehow nothing more than communist polemics, these lines from the “After Forever,” came to mind: “Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he’s a fool?” and “I think it was true, it was people like you that crucified Christ.” National Public Radio’s Bob Garfield, cohost of “On the Media,” perfectly summed up the wingnut reaction to the Pope in a rant called “The Pope is not a Politician.” After citing hysterical reactions to Francis from the likes of Rush Lim- baugh and Stuart Varney, Garfield argues cogently that, “The problem is that in our hyper-politicized media culture, nothing in the world is immune from partisanship and polemic.  Not atmospheric crisis.  Not evolution.  Not vaccination. Not economic history.  Not even hunger. What should the leader of the Church talk about then? Deflategate?” We shouldn’t get too upset about wing- nut commentators because they only exist to entertain. Only “true believers” take them seriously. Of much more concern are the mainstream, “moderate” journalists and commentators. These journalistas may or may not be Catholic, but they do belong to what New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen has long called the “Church of the Savvy.” According to Rosen: “Savviness is what journalists admire in others. Savvy is what they themselves dearly wish to be. (And to be unsavvy is far worse than being wrong.) Savviness: that quality of being shrewd, practical, well-informed, perceptive, ironic, ‘with it,’ and unsentimental in all things political is, in a sense, their professional religion. They make a cult of it.” It’s those “savvy” journalists Bob Dylan probably had in mind when he wrote this in “Ballad of a Thin Man”:  Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, Mister Jones? In the 1980’s the “thin men” running Pravda and other Soviet media viewed Pope John Paul II through a Cold War “evil capitalist/benevolent communist,” frame that had little relevance to anyone outside Western and Soviet elites. State controlled journalists refused to see that the “something happening here,” was a grassroots rebellion of millions standing up against a totalitarian state that had spent years squashing basic freedoms and squan- dering wealth on a pointless arms race. Pope John Paul II, originally from Poland, no doubt inspired resistance to Communist authorities, but like any “great leader,” the most he could be was a symbol of what was going on at the street level. Today, the thin men and women run- ning mainstream USA journalism insist on viewing Francis through a partisan Left/Right lens that is meaningless pretty much everywhere on earth except in USA mainstream media. The subtext of almost all the Pope coverage was that Francis is a moderate Republican on social issues (he upholds traditional Catholic dogma on most issues, but is less mean spirited about it) and a liberal Democrat on economics. Like their Soviet counterparts a genera- tion ago, these government lapdog media will not or cannot see that the “something happening here,” is a global, grassroots resistance to the “New World Order,” that emerged in 1989 with the promise of democracy for all and a “peace dividend,” but ended up giving the world more inequality, more environmental destruc- tion, and more elite control of the centers of power. Francis came to America and preached the old fashioned Golden Rule to politi- cians, and a media establishment that are the chief enablers of the new golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. Tony Palmeri (palmeri.tony@gmail.com) is a professor of communication studies at UW Oshkosh.
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R2  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 FOOD & DRINK  //  BREWMASTER BY STEVE LONSWAY As I passed through my favorite beer outlet in search of the next beer to write our article on, it was easy to get lost in the vast sea of labels.  Unique names, flashy colors, eye catching graphics, crazy bottles, it’s all there for the beer aficionado to enjoy.  But what really grabbed my attention this round was Central Waters Mudpuppy Porter.  A relatively discreet package with colors of browns, tans and blues, yet catchy enough with their iconic heron proudly perched as if in the wild. The Stone Arch Brew team was excited to sample this beer as a couple of us have not had it in a while.  Yet another claimed it to be his “go-to” Porter as he’s ripping it up on his snow board at Nordic Mountain (seems to me he’s spending his time in the bar rather than on the slopes, but that’s understandable). We chose to use standard English pint glasses for this sampling as it is a true Eng- lish style beer.  Although not our favorite glass, it does lead nicely to bring the smells of the beer up to your nose as you taste it. The Mud- puppy Porter poured dark brown with a light brown-to- tan head.  Car- bonation was evident, yet the head diminished rather quickly.  As we held the glass up to the light, we noticed deep shades of amber and brown colors which is what one should expect with the Porter style. The nose has scents of brown sugar, black licorice, semi-sweet chocolate and coffee.  An earthy nose is noticed with a gentle smoke coming through.  Quite complex in the nose which, again is typical in this historic style. If you think our descriptions of ‘the nose’ sounds complex, wait until you taste it!  Numerous flavors erupt from the glass.  From a caramel, malty-sweet start to the dark chocolate tones that sail through the middle, and a bitter chocolate and oatmeal dryness tapering at the end.  This beer flows smooth from start to finish. Speaking of finish; it finishes smooth and sweet.  A bit of bitterness pops out at you as the flavor fades.  The ‘mouthfeel’ is creamy, but is a bit thin at the end.  Maybe a bit prickly from the carbonation, but very enjoyable nonetheless. Central Waters Brew- ing Company got their start back in 1996 in an old Model-A dealership building built in 1920 in Junction City, Wisconsin.  The original owners worked diligently for over two years to get the brick building ready, and equipped it with used dairy equip- ment to make the beer.  Months later the Central Waters Brew- ery was born.  A few more months later, a gentleman by the name of Paul Graham was hired to take over the brewing duties so the original owners could continue to focus on their full time jobs.  Three years down the road the brewery went up for sale.  Paul Graham teamed up with Clint Schultz, an avid beer guy, to purchase the brewery.  Paul and Clint had their sights on packaging their fine brews in six packs for the retail market and acquired an automated bottler.  A short time later the old and over-worked brew kettle developed an unrepairable crack.  This forced the duo to purchase a new brew house. In 2006, Clint Schultz left the brewery, and in comes Anello Mollica.  One year later they moved the operation to their current location in Amherst, Wisconsin. Central Waters has always been known for creating wonderful barrel aged beers and have several awards to prove it.  To us what is most impressive is their dedication to renewable energy.  Their use of solar panels has been a signature of their brew- ery since they made their home in Amherst and that’s just a start to what they do to minimize their carbon footprint.  They take many steps, often incurring higher costs, to help protect our mother earth.  For that alone you should rush out and buy Mudpuppy Porter (or any other of their fine offerings). FINAL WORD: Great beer made by great dudes in a great small Wisconsin town with our great earth in the forefront of their operation! MUDPUPPY PORTER: Central Waters Brewing Company Amherst,Wisconsin Authentic Tapas * Pizza * Soups * Salads * Sandwiches * Burgers * Cheeses Meats * Chicken * Sausage * Baked Goods * Catering * Beer * Wine Full Breakfast Every Day * Brunch on Sat. & Sun. 8 am – 2 pm Holiday Gift Baskets Order your Fresh, All Natural Bell & Evans Turkey For the Holidays Richmond Terrace 400 N. Richmond St., Appleton 831-8311 M-Th 7am-8pm, F 7am-9pm, sat. 8am-9pm Sun. 8am-5pm www.greengeckogrocer.com Serving the Finest Selection of Quality Meats & Cheeses In the Valley Breakfast Lunch Dinner
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R3 Box office opens Nov 16. Hours: weekdays noon–4 p.m. and one hour before each performance. (920) 424-4417 or uwosh.edu/theatre Nov.19–22 Fredric March Theatre, 1020 Algoma Blvd. General: $14 .Seniors/Alumni with Alumni TitanCard: $11 UW Oshkosh Student with ID: $5 • Student with ID: $6 Set in the Radium Dial Company on the outskirts of Chicago, These Shining Lives is inspired by the true story of Catherine Donohue, who painted watches with a mixture of water, glue and radium powder — all for 8 cents a watch. Catherine’s is a story of survival, of how she and the other women refused to allow the company — which stole their health — to kill their spirits or endanger the lives of those who came after them. TO ORDER TICKETS: These SHINING LIVES theatre season 2015-16OUR AMERICAN LIVES by Melanie Marnich Directed by Merlaine Angwall
R4  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 BY KIMBERLY FISHER “Come quickly, I think I am seeing stars.” This was a famous quote by a monk in Champagne who worked in the cellars making wine. What little did he know back then that this thing he called ‘stars,’ was actually bubbles in a glass that could change your world. Effervescent wines have been known since antiquity, when they were developed completely by accident. Incomplete fer- mented wine that had been stored in the chill of the winter or in cold, dark cellars began to re-ferment when temperatures began to rise in the spring. This process is what we call Method Rurale, or Methode Ancestral meaning it is used as a term today to a limited degree. The most famous process that we know today is known as Traditional, or Clas- sic Method. If you are making wine in Champagne, we call this method Methode Champenoise which involves producing a base wine, adding a measured amount of sugar and yeast and initiating a second fermentation in the sealed bottle. Wine has evolved over the centuries, Champagne’s export trade in the late eigh- teenth century and nineteenth centuries, “Champagne” became a default word for sparking worldwide. The fact is, Cham- pagne can only be called Champagne if it is made in the Champagne region in France. One can duplicate how it is made by using the same technique and using the same grapes, but if it made outside of the Champagne region in France, it’s called the Traditional Method or Classic Method of Sparkling Wine. The portfolio of Moet Hennessy has proven to have some iconic producers who have changed the way we see Champagne today. Krug – Reims, France: Established in 1843, this house solely produces excep- tional Champagnes, commonly known as prestige cuvees or tete de cuvee. Con- sidered as a Grande Marque Champagne House, Krug uses grapes only of the highest quality sourced from historic Krug vineyards in the Champagne Region. This style of Champagne is like no other and at the base level, blends over 150 base wines from six to 10 different years and 20-25 terroirs. This wine is truly unique in style and flavor profile. If you are a Champagne lover, and favor Chardonnay, this is a must try! Moet and Chandon - Epernay, France: Moet’s approach to wine making fully respects the integrity of the fruit and is able to call upon the largest selection of wine reserves in Champagne. A balanced blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier reveals a harmonious suc- cession of sensations and elegant wines. Moet offers six different styles that include Imperial Brut, Rose Imperial, Nectar Impe- rial, Nectar Rose Imperial and Vintage. Ruinart – Reims, France: Considered the oldest Champagne house since 1729 when the vision began. Chardonnay is the very essence of the Ruinart taste and the shape of the bottle is legendary as well being the first glass structure that was able to withstand the pressure of the wine inside. All their grapes come from Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards which makes this house style absolutely a treasure. This is a hidden gem amongst the great Champagne houses in the region and is worth the exploration! Veuve Clicquot – Reims, France: Founded in 1772, Veuve Clicquot is amongst the most prestigious Champagne houses. The great widow Madam Clic- quot took over the business at a young age of 27, and has made the brand a huge success. She was one the first to introduce Rose Champagne to the market, as well as the introduction to riddling (remuage) which has changed how Champagne is made today. When looking at the choices of Cham- pagne, one must look to the “house” from which to choose. No other portfolio offers so many choices and different styles to understand what the region has to offer. Champagne isn’t just for the holidays, but is a year round beverage that can liven up any activity or event. This holiday season, start working your way through the list, and see what style suits you best! Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits From the Wine Cave FOOD & DRINK  //  FROM THE WINE CAVE
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R5 FOOD & DRINK  // TRICIA’S TABLE BY TRISH DERGE This dish is so yummy, it’s a shame it’s only thought of once a year while your bird is thawing. My aunt Francine passed this one along to me some years back. You can prep it the day before whatever meal you’re making, and keep it in the fridge overnight! INGREDIENTS: 1 lb. of a dense white bread, cut in 3/4” cubes 6 tbsp unsalted butter, plus extra to grease the pan 2 leeks - halved lengthwise 4-6 oz fresh, wild mushrooms of your liking - slice them Olive oil 1 1/2 cups chopped celery 2 to 3 tsp crumbled dried sage 1 1/2 tsp dried thyme or marjoram or a combo of the two 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper 3 cups chicken stock 2 large eggs 1/2 tsp baking powder Fresh sage or thyme for garnish DIRECTIONS: Preheat your over to 325 F. Place the cubed bread on a cookie sheet, and toast in the oven (25 minutes) turning to brown evenly. Then transfer them to a large bowl. If you’re making this for the day-of meal, butter a 9x13 baking pan, and set aside. If you’re making this for the next day, don’t butter the pan until then. Brush the leeks and mushroom with olive oil, and grill over medium heat until they are tender. Slice the white and pale green part of the leek, and add them along with the mushrooms to the croutons. In a skillet, warm the butter and add the celery, saute until soft (5 to 7 minutes). Add the sage, thyme, salt and pepper - stir - then scrape all into the bowl of croutons. Pour into the bowl, one cup of chicken stock at a time until the bread is moist, but not saturated. Cover and refrigerate until you’re ready to make it for your meal. MEAL PREP: Preheat oven to 425 F, or if you’re preparing the day-of, raise temp to 425 F. In a small bowl whisk the eggs and baking powder together, then incorporate into the bowl of soaked croutons. Spoon the dressing into your buttered 9x13 pan, and cover with foil. Bake for 25 minutes covered, then another 15-20 minutes uncovered, or until lightly browned. Garnish with sage or thyme sprigs. Enjoy! Thanksgiving Stuffing...on the Side
R6  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 FINE ARTS  //  FOXY FINDS 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@ scenenewspaper.com R6  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 “Chicken Lick’n” original paint- ing by Midwest artist Deborah (“Debo”) Vandenbloomer. Whimsically wonderful and vibrant, this piece is sure to add cheer to whatever wall it is perched upon. Artwork measures 16”x16” Medium: acrylic. $300. Found at The Hang Up Gallery of Fine Art in downtown Neenah. The shop offers distinctive custom framing, origi- nal paintings, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and accessories by regional and national artists. Mixology hand-poured soy wax candles by Paddywax honor the craft cocktail movement in style. Each comes in a retro-inspired collectible cocktail glass. $16.95 each in a variety of libatious scents. Choices include: Mint Julep (Mint/Bourbon), Negroni (Gin/Vermouth), Dark & Story (Rum/Lime/Ginger) and Wisco supper club favorite…the Old Fashioned (Whiskey/Orange). Features cocktail recipe on back. Fantastic host/hostess gifts! Found at The Frame Workshop, in Appleton is known for their award winning custom framing, gifts, art and home decor. Bring on the cozy in your neighborhood and beyond with these his and hers “Grandpa” cardigan sweaters. Both new and vintage styles available. Found at Beatnik Betty’s Resale Butik in downtown Appleton where you can find unique fashions for both men and women. The shop’s ever-changing inventory includes designer labels, vintage, denim, leather, current basics, and brand new merchandise. Canada Goose “Hybridge Lite” Vest from The Haberdasher Limited in downtown Green Bay. Great-looking lightweight layer with a snug fit for essential core warmth. Breathable, abrasion resistant soft outer shell with 800 fill power hutterite white goose down. The slim cut stays close to your body and side stretch panels increase movement and help regulate temperature. $345. Other Canada Goose outerwear styles and colors available. The black vest is paired here with a Gran Sasso button mock over a Robert Talbott sports shirt. From classic suits and sport coats to updated and rugged sportswear, Haberdasher Limited appeals to men of all ages. Sweet inspiration abounds with this Good hYOUman “Great Things” baby onesie. Super soft 100% cotton, made in the USA. Shown here in storm grey with this wonderful message: “I’m going to do great things for this world...promise.” Makes a great gift! $32. Found at Besselli, in Green Bay, a cozy and quaint family owned and operated woman’s boutique with a bohemian feel and spin of flirtiness. Hot cocoa never had it so good with these vessels of pure happiness. These adorable retro-inspired marshmallow mugs are just too cute! $10 each, perfect for gift-giving. Found at Vintique, an inviting women’s clothing and gift boutique in downtown Neenah. It’s a shop where ‘new meets vintage,’ and the result is a whole lot of fun! Store owners strive to offer unique items with a vintage, retro or romantic inspiration. A state love-fest on wheels comes your way with this pink Wisconsin deck from Surfin’ Bird Skateshop in downtown Appleton. $44.99. Rollin’ since 1988, Surfin’ Bird carries a wide variety of skateboard and longboard hard goods, apparel and shoes. Their knowledgeable, friendly staff is proud to serve and support the Wisconsin’s Skate Community.
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R8  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 OUTDOORS // BACKYARD FLOCK BY ROB ZIMMER NOTE: This is part two of a series on keeping backyard chickens. Part one appeared in last month’s issue. With winter fast approaching, there are several considerations to keep in mind when it comes to keeping your backyard flock safe, secure and warm during the cold months of the year. Keeping your backyard chickens during winter is not much different than the rest of the year, though there are additional requirements and modifications that may be needed. Keeping the birds safe from predators, warm, properly nourished and watered are the most important factors to consider. It’s not difficult or challenging to keep a flock throughout the winter months as chickens are perfectly capable of fending for themselves during the cold season. Water challenges Water is probably the most important consideration when it comes to wintering your flock. Because of the low humidity, chickens need fresh water throughout the winter months. Chickens will consume approximately 2 pounds of water, or about 1 quart, for every pound of feed. Keeping the water ice-free and available throughout the season may present a challenge, depending upon weather and other factors. Water is especially important for egg production. The University of Wisconsin Extension recommends several options for keeping fresh water available. Heated bases for chicken waterers are available, as are insu- lated watering containers that help to keep open water available for longer periods during extreme cold. Heat lamps suspended over the water- ing station are also effective. At the very least, provide your flock with fresh water at least twice daily. Rubber pans, which are flexible for easy ice removal, are an option. Another technique flock owners use is to alternate watering stations, keeping one ice-free at all times. High energy supplements Providing proper food and care is important for the winter flock as much of the prey they seek out during the warm season is gone. Many free roaming flocks feast upon slugs, insects, worms, grubs and other food sources during the warm season. In winter, it is important to provide proper food options for your birds. There are many balanced commercial mixes and feeds available in a variety of blends. To provide extra energy and warmth, it is important to provide some high oil grains such as corn and sunflower seeds. These should be treated only a supplement to a balanced feed, however, to keep the birds properly fed. Do not rely solely on grains. Many flock owners also supplement with fresh plant material and kitchen scraps throughout the winter. Unexpected treasure Keeping the area clean and sanitary throughout winter is also important. Kylea Dowland, Forest Junction, is heading into her first winter with her back- yard flock. As she discovered during her agriculture classes at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, keeping the chicken coop clean does not need to be a difficult or unpleas- ant chore. “One of the coolest things with my flock is how I clean up after them. I use a deep-litter method in my coop,” Kylea said. “Every week I add some carbon materials like straw, grass clippings, leaves, sticks and wood chips. You could even use paper products or many of the same prod- ucts you would add to your compost pile.” Just like in home composting, carbon materials are added to the area when odors begin to present themselves. “Basically, composting is actually what is going on inside the coop. The manure and carbon materials form a compost. The chickens will aerate the materials and mix it up,” Kylea said. “The best part? There is no odor when properly main- tained. If it starts to smell, I just add more carbon materials.” Daily or weekly cleanup is not even required with this form of coop maintenance. “I only need to clean the coop once each year,”Kylea said “and I’ll do that in spring. It will likely be a foot deep with compost in some areas but it will be rich, organic matter for my garden at some point. Chicken manure is pretty potent. It needs to be fully compos- ted first to prevent it from burning your plants, like any raw manure.” Keeping predators out “A big challenge for me was the preda- tor problem,” Kylea said of her beginner experience keeping chickens at home. “A cat ate a few chicks, then an owl took some, a stray dog destroyed much of the flock and a hawk killed one right before my eyes. With each death, we have learned to do something different and fix the situa- tion. We have added fencing to the ceiling of the coop in the barn, as well as added fencing to the doorway. We also secured the coop completely, and we will be adding more shrubs to the area to create more safe hiding spots. They have 4 large evergreen trees to rest under during the day.” Providing safe and secure places for your chickens to seek shelter from preda- tors and called will help to ensure a suc- cessful and healthy flock throughout the season. Backyard Flock: Part Two WEDNESDAY - Pizza Night: Choice of Pepperoni, House Sausage and Mushroom or one of the chef’s creations THURSDAY - NY Strip: Horseradish and Herb crusted smoke roasted NY Strip loin FRIDAY - Fish Fry: 10 oz. baked or lightly breaded Alaskan Pollock, served with cole slaw, lemon, marble rye, tartar and your choice of potato. 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R10  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 NEWS & VIEWS  //  HEROES’ HUNT BY MICHAEL CASPER An acquaintance of mine by the name of Jim Zahn, a US Army and Vietnam Vet- eran who belongs to the Rosendale VFW Post 10195, suggested that since Veteran’s Day is November 11th, I look up a gentle- man by the name of Brian Ball. A year ago Brian formed a non-profit to help our war wounded brothers and sis- ters hunt on donated land, using donated weapons and donated ammo. I was curi- ous. “My nephew, who had done two tours in Afghanistan for the Marine Corps,” Brian said “returned home for 6 months. He wasn’t a very happy kid when he came back, hadn’t seen him smile in a long while. Then deer season rolled around, and to make a long story short...he shot a real nice 8-pointer. It just lit him up! It was like he was able to breathe again, and smile, and enjoy life, just through the simple act of harvesting a deer.” Brian thought there may be a degree of healing for some of the soldiers through hunting. It was time to get the City of Waupun involved, specifically Director of Public Works, Dick Flynn, a retired Navy Seabee. “We brought it to the city council,” Brian said “and they liked the idea, and okayed it.” They started with 77-some acres dedi- cated to the Heroes, until word began to spread, and within a month had expanded to 500 acres made available. “All private land, great spots to hunt,” Brian said “and last year, our first year we took 14 vet’s out hunting, and did so for twelve weeks in a row. They bagged 19 deer, and a bunch of ducks, pheasants and geese.” Interest continues to boom. “This year I had 60 vet’s sign up,” Brian said “with seven on a waiting list. And now we’ve grown to 1,500 acres of deer hunting land, another 1,000 acres of goose and duck hunting land, all private property, and exclusively for the vet’s to hunt on, that’s what we really stressed to any landowners who wanted to participate. They can hunt their own land of course, but we want to leave it ‘fresh’ for when the vet’s come out on the weekends.” In hind sight, Brian admitted he should have cut off the number of vet’s who can join the hunt at forty. “But I just can’t say no,” Brian said “and especially to disabled vet’s, or those who were wounded. I kept saying, ‘We’ll fit you in,’ and finally I looked at the list of sixty and said, ‘Oh my Lord,’ (laugh) we better shut’er down.” The kill ratio was also a concern. “If we started getting to fifty percent,” he said “we had to be careful not to over- harvest, because we want good, quality hunting for the guys.” So far this year the vet’s aim has not been as true as last. “They’ve only gotten three nice doe’s,” Brian said “but they also missed six deer. Last year out of thirteen shots with the crossbow, they got twelve deer, so I don’t know what’s happening (laugh), but they’re having a lot of fun.” The Board of Directors includes Jay Steinbach, a friend of Brian’s from church. “Jay said, ‘If we’re going to make this work, we need to put God first, and give Him all the glory for it.’ And we did that, and it’s just taken off.” Other board members include Floyd Resplayje, a local contractor, Jeff Lem- mens, and his son Loden, and Dave Vogel volunteers as well. “What’s kind of neat is,” Brian said “none of us are veterans.” The Hunt corps has 17 volunteer guides. “Typically what happens on a Friday or Saturday,” Brian said “it depends on when the vets arrive, the AmericInn in Waupun donates rooms, The Goose Shot supper club gives them a prime rib dinner Sat- urday night. And the Hitching Post near Manchester gives a couple guys free dinner. Pizza Ranch and Taco Bell also contribute. The city has really embraced this, and helps Heroes’ Hunt for Wisconsin Game Back Row Bill Ball, Brian Ball, Aaron Hackett (Army), Mike Kadinger Jr., James Dennis (Army, two-time Purple Heart recipient), Avery Raith Front Row Randy Raith, William Schumacher (Navy), Jeff Stockinger (Army), Autumn Raith, Danny Dorzok (Navy)
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R11 NEWS & VIEWS  //  HEROES’ HUNT these guys out.” They also have a 12x18 foot wall tent set up near Manchester, Wisconsin, what they’ve named Camp Nicholas. “Nicholas Mueller was Special Forces,” Brian said “what they called ‘night stalk- ers,’ and Nick was killed in Afghanistan in 2009 when he and sixteen of his comrades were shot down in their Chinook Helicop- ter. His mom and dad, Sharon and Larry donated a lot of money to construct Camp Nicholas that has the tent with a wood burner, and four cots in it. It’s located on a very picturesque spot, and the guys really like it.” There’s always some tune up before venturing out. “We practice with the bows,” Brian said “or if they’ve brought their own bows, and then we go hunting from there. Heroes’ Hunt isn’t only designed for those wounded. “We decided to open this up to all veterans,” Brian said “because I think every vet deserves to be able to hunt, every vet who signed that dotted line, could have been wounded or killed.” They set out in groups of four or five. “And some of these ‘walking-vets’ have been severely injured,” Brian said “but you wouldn’t know it unless you asked them, and then I always save two spots for handi- capped guys.” The hunt continues through bow season, then the gun hunt both weekends this month, muzzle loaders in December, then right back to bow season in January. “It’s around seventeen weeks we do this,” Brian said “quite a commitment and a lot of work, I won’t lie to you, but I’m blessed with a really good wife, Sharon who is very patient with me, she helps out a lot...married 27 years now.” Part of the Heroes’ Hunt creed says that a veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, reserve or guard, is a person who at one point in their life wrote a blank check, made payable to the United States of America, for an amount up to, and including their own life. Something to remember. And not only on the 11th. The Rosendale VFW Post 10195 recently donated $5000 to help cover just some of the cost of an all-terrain track wheel chair. Visit heroeshuntforww.org
R12  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY WELCOMES YEAR 5 The Weyauwega International Film Festival, presented by Wega Arts, will be returning November 11-14 to the Gerold Opera House for its fifth year of films from around the globe. This year the festival will be screening forty-three films representing seventeen different countries. Many of the films were either made in Wisconsin or have Wisconsin connections. The 13th of the month of November happens to fall on a Friday which of course invites an opportunity to screen horror films. The Weyauwega International Film Festival (WIFF) has seized this opportu- nity to satisfy the horror hounds in Central Wisconsin and will be screening horror films and thrillers all day on Friday the 13th in what they are calling a “Friday the 13th Fright Fest”. Most notable in this line up is the world theatrical premiere of the new feature film DISMEMBERING CHRIST- MAS by local filmmakers Steve Golz and Kevin Sommerfield of Slasher Studios. They will be on hand to present their twisted Christmas tale at 9 pm. Another Wisconsin film screening on Friday is HAUNTED STATE, a blood chilling documentary which explores the hauntings of several locations in Wisconsin including the Stone Cellar Brew Pub in Appleton, the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee and locations in Wisconsin Rapids and Merrill. The film- makers including director Michael Brown of Appleton will be in attendance for the screening of HAUNTED STATE at 3:30 pm on Friday. The other scary Wisconsin film is the psychological thriller THE SCARAPIST which tells the tale of a distraught women who is led astray by a very demented therapist. The writer, director and star of the film, Jeanne Marie Spicuzza is expected to be in attendance for this entertaining thriller which screens at 5:15 pm on Friday. For those looking for a good possession tale there are two offer- ings. IN THE DARK by New York filmmaker David Spaltro offers a very spooky and original demonic posses- sion tale featuring a mostly female cast which screens at 7 pm. At 10:30 pm LUCIFEROUS promises to raise the chill factor with its story about a family that is being tormented by a very nasty entity. This unique tale fea- tures a real couple and their daughter as the onscreen family. This especially creepy film has lately been honored with several awards on the festival circuit. Of course WIFF is not all about horror films. Some great feature films and documentaries as well as a wide variety of short films will be screened this year. Wednesday’s lineup includes the documen- tary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHARLIE at 5 pm about outsider artist Charlie van Ness who started out making a wide variety of art objects featuring phalluses. The filmmaker follows Charlie for several years and his persistence pays off. There are some very unexpected and harrowing developments in Charlie’s life. At 7:30pm on Wednesday the Sci-Fi film EMBERS screens. EMBERS is set in a post apocalyptic world where a global virus has wiped out the memory of everyone it infects. This is no zombie or Mad Max marauder flick, it is a very thought provok- ing and touching existential tale of identity and what it is to be human. The film fol- lows several characters as each morning they awake with no recollection of the day before or who they are. This film is a real conversation starter and is also beautifully filmed. EMBERS has an encore screening on Saturday, November 14th at 2:15pm. Thursday features the classic 1959 court room thriller COMPULSION about the Leopold-Loeb murder case starring Orson Welles screening at 1:30pm. The
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R13 film will be introduced by noted film his- torian Dr. Jack Rhodes and it is also a free screening. The documentary POLYFACES screens at 5:15pm and examines the unique and highly sustainable farming practices at the Polyfaces Farm in Virginia. This film is a real eye opener about the potential of sustainable farming and should be a must see for anyone environmentally or agri- culturally minded. At 8pm the extremely timely documentary PEACE OFFICER examines the results of the recent surge in the militarization of our police forces. In Utah, a crime scene investigator offers clear and insightful examinations of several extremely violent cases involving SWAT teams. In a sad note of irony, this exam- iner’s family also becomes the victim of an SWAT raid gone wrong. This film is one of those ‘Must See’ films for anyone who is a citizen of this world. Saturday starts with a filmmaker seminar with local filmmakers Dan Davies, Craig Knitt, Rex Sikes, and Jim Brecken- ridge, a script writing consultant, at 10am. An encore screening of the previously mentioned EMBERS screens at 2:15pm. The very entertaining romantic comedy DIRTY BEAUTI- FUL screens at 4pm. The documentary about Wisconsin Supper Clubs, OLD F A S H I O N E D screens at 6pm. The filmmakers, Holly L. De Ruyter & Brian Risselada, will be in attendance and of course Old Fashioneds will be featured at the Gerold Opera House’s full bar. The closing night film is a documentary about the state of photojournalism in Afghanistan. During the Taliban regime all photography was banned and women were severely oppressed. FRAME BY FRAME follows several young Afghani photojournalists both men and women who are again facing the threat of another uprising by the Taliban. This film shows a truly beautiful side of Afghani- stan that is rarely seen while simultaneously illuminating the dark reality and horror of oppression in a society that seems to be forever doomed. This is an outstanding film and festival director Ian Teal states that this is a ‘must see’ of the fest. FRAME BY FRAME screens at 7:30pm and will be followed by an awards ceremony and reception with complimentary appetizers and of course, conversations about film. The historic Gerold Opera House is cel- ebrating its one hundredth year in 2015. It is only about a 25 minute drive West of the valley in Weyauwega conveniently located off of HWY 10. There will be soup and sandwiches available for purchase as well as fresh popcorn and a full bar so plan to make a day of it. Tickets are $12 for a day pass and are good for any one film or a whole day of films. Festival passes are $30 and are good for the whole festival. The full schedule can be found at wegaarts.org. Festival passes and day tickets can be purchased at wegaarts. org and at the Book Cellar in Waupaca and Rural Relics Antiques in Weyauwega. The box office can be reached at 920-867-4888. See you at the Gerold! ENTERTAINMENT // WEYAUWEGA FILM FESTIVAL All Performances at 7:30pm Doors open at 6:30pm, featuring musicians from Lawrence University. Season VI Series Sponsors: Nov. 19, 2015 Soulful Si (Keyboard) Blues Vocal Jan. 21, 2016 Bob Levy Little Big Band Swing Sponsored by: Feb. 18, 2016 Dave Sullivan Quartet BeBop Guitar March 17, 2016 Janet Planet feat. John Harmon Jazz Vocals April 21, 2016 Dave Bayles Conventional Piano Jazz Trio May 19, 2016 Matt Turner and Bill Carrothers Contemporary/Future Artistic Director John Harmon Tickets: $20 Museum Members: $12 Students: $5 Member-Only Season Tickets Available Advance Tickets Recommended Tickets available online or by calling 920-733-4089 THE EVOLUTION OF JAZZ
R14  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // POCO & FIREFALL BY MICHAEL CASPER A great one-two combination of bands from our wistful memories of music in the 70’s appear at The Meyer Theatre this month. Originally formed by Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young, with George Grantham, and Randy Meisner (original member of the Eagles), Poco picked up where Buffalo Springfield left off back in 1968. Part of the West Coast country- rock genre, they titled their first album, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces,” referencing that ‘Springfield’ break up, and thought to be a seminal album of its time. After Messina left the band in 1970, Poco found Paul Cotton, a musician born in Alabama, but who developed into a true musician after his move to Chicago. “I moved to the south side of Chi- cago,” Paul said “I had some friends in school who took up guitar, and taught me what I needed to know. A year later I did my first gig at the YMCA for $16 (laugh), but that was the start. We were called The Capitals, but eventually were renamed by James William Geurcio, as The Illinois Speed Press.” Cotton, and the Speed Press’ ‘break’ came while playing at a club called The Whiskey a Go-Go. “James Geurcio had produced for the band Chicago,” Paul said “ he was a local boy himself. He was on tour with Chad and Jeremy at the time, and wandered into the Whiskey and discovered us, and soon renamed the band The Illinois Speed Press, told us we had to get out of west, and let me show you around. He was connected with the Columbia record company, and signed us to a two-record deal.” This was in 1967. “It was amazing,” Paul said “we became the house band at the Whiskey out there, and played clubs all up and down the coast, fell in love with California. It was very inspiring for me as a songwriter.” Meanwhile, Peter Cetera was taking pedal steel guitar lessons from Rusty Young. “Rusty mentioned to Peter that Jimmy Messina was pursuing another career path,” Paul said “which became Loggins and Mes- sina. Peter recommended me to Rusty, as the Speed Press was breaking up. Anyway, I got a call from Richie Furay who invited me to the house, and to bring my guitar. I auditioned with one of the first songs I ever wrote called, ‘Bad Weather.’ I guess I passed the audition (laugh). That song ended up on my first album with them in 1970.” Then came nearly a decade of coast- to-coast touring live with Poco producing some of the sweetest harmonies ever heard. “We worked hard on that,” Paul said “with our singing drummer (George Grantham) who had a stratospheric high voice which topped it off for me. I filled in on the low parts, but it was very special.” Cotton had two tenures with Poco; 1970 through 1988, and then 1998 through 2010, and currently for sporadic reunion gatherings. “In the early 90’s Rusty Young and I toured as a duo,” Paul said “ we hired some English fellas as the rest of the band on bass and drums, and Kim Bullard who toured with Elton on keyboards. We kind of went through that decade together. Those guys were on our biggest Poco album, ‘Legend.’” Crazy Love was #1 for seven weeks in 1979, and went gold. “Very surprising,” Paul said “especially since that was during the end of the disco era (laugh), coming out with that cute little song. By golly there it went! It opened a lot of doors, and a new audience” Paul wrote Poco’s other huge hit, “Heart of the Night.” “That came directly from the inspira- tion of the city of New Orleans,” Paul said. “I didn’t know it at the time, until I got home and wrote that thing in like 30-min- utes back in L.A., and bingo...second hit.” The Legend album artwork has become iconic, and a familiar symbol of Poco over the years. “Not everybody knows this, but Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live fame designed that,” Paul said “in fact he did probably ten of our album covers. And he designed album artwork for America as well. His brother managed us, but Phil was a great human being, and I really miss that guy...quite a talent.” Currently Paul is working on Volume II of his ‘100% Cotton’ album series. In January of 2015 Poco was inducted into the Colorado Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. “We were honored there along with The Dirt Band, and Firefall,” Paul said. Firefall In 1973, Rick Roberts and his new band were about to play their first gig, but hadn’t come up with a name for the band. A memory of a cascading blaze of burning logs pushed from a cliff’s edge as a staged event for tourists in the Yosemite National Park, like a primitive light show, was still stuck in Roberts head. Firefall is what he named the band. Roberts had replaced Gram Parsons in the The Flying Burrito Brothers band in 1970, recorded a couple critically acclaimed albums that were near totally ignored by record buyers. Mid-1973, Roberts and Jock Bartley began practicing as a duo, then decided to put a band together enlisting bassist and singer Mark Andes. Larry Burnett, a singer/songwriter and guitarist was driving a cab in Washington D.C. when old friend Rick Roberts called him. Now all they needed was a drummer. Roberts called his old Burrito band- mate, and former Byrd, Michael Clarke, and hired him over the phone. In early 1975 Firefall recorded a three- song demo produced by Chris Hillman that was heard by Atlantic Records reps, who then saw them live, and signed them to a multi-album contract. Firefall then added Dave Muse to the band. A high school friend of Robert’s, Muse played sax, flute, harmonica, and keyboards. Their first album, “Firefall” took a month to record, and became Atlantic’s quickest album to go gold (500,000 copies). The songs, “Livin’ Ain’t Livin,’ got into the top 40, and “Cinderella” began getting radio airplay, while “You Are the Woman,” broke into the top ten. The group was touring with Leon and Mary Russell, The Doobies, and The Band. In 1976 Firefall went on the road with Fleetwood Mac. A new album named “Luna Sea,” was released in early 1977, and featured the top ten single, “Just Remember I Love You,” with ex-Poco and future Fleetwood Mac member Timothy B. Schmidt singing background vocals. Their next album was “Elan,” which produced the hits “Strange Way,” and “Goodbye, I Love You,” in 1978. Elan went platinum. Poco and Firefall, and incredible twin bill, Thursday night, November 19th at the Meyer Theatre in Green Bay. Visit meyertheatre.org Poco & Firefall in the Heart of the Night at The Meyer
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R15 returns to the Grand Opera House for one night only! Call (920) 424-2350 or 1-866-96GRAND Order online: GrandOperaHouse.org Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:30 PM The Second City: Fully Loaded Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra: Songs for the Season Celebrating Sinatra with Bryan Anthony and the UW Oshkosh Jazz Ensemble Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 PM Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Series OSO thanks sponsor BMO Harris Bank Saturday, November 21 at 7:30 PM Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 PM Tickets on sale now! Box Office 100 High Ave. Oshkosh, WI 54901 Hours: Monday-Friday 11:30 AM-5 PM Saturday 11 AM-2 PM Jeff Daniels and the Ben Daniels Band GOH-2015Nov-SceneAd.indd 1 10/15/15 11:01 AM
ENTERTAINMENT // JEFF DANIELS BY JOSEPH FERLO On November 20, actor/singer/song- writer Jeff Daniels takes the stage at The Grand Opera House in Oshkosh for his fifth visit to the historic Fox Valley venue in the past decade. Actor/singer/songwriter. The last two things may come as a surprise to people who know Michigan-raised Jeff Daniels from DUMB AND DUMBER (and DUMB AND DUMBER TO, which he says, “had to be done”), PLEASANTVILLE, SQUID AND THE WHALE, and STEVE JOBS, and from his Emmy-winning performance in THE NEWSROOM. The world largely knows Jeff Daniels as an actor, but these days Daniels can be found on the road with his guitar, playing the bluesy folk music he kept quiet for so long. I remember when I discovered that Jeff Daniels was a singer, and one who was going on the road. I felt like I had “discov- ered” him, but of course, that wasn’t the case. In fact, songwriting had been a solace and creative outlet for Jeff Daniels since he took his first guitar on the road with him in 1976. Thirty years later, he was letting the world in on the secret, releasing his first album as a fund-raiser for the Purple Rose Theatre, which he had founded in his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan, and for whom he still writes original plays (anyone remember ESCANABA IN DA MOON- LIGHT?). Apparently, he had enjoyed himself enough that he was considering taking his act on the road. But this was Jeff Daniels, movie star. I presumed there was no way we could afford to bring this performance to Oshkosh. So, I did something I have only done a handful of times in my twenty-five years of present- ing. I wrote a letter to the artist, rather than the agent. I had no way of knowing whether he’d see it, of course, but I sent it anyway. I told him all about this jewel-box of a theatre in the heart of a small city in Wisconsin. I told him I knew of his affin- ity for the Midwest, for small towns and for what a vibrant theatre can do for the economy. I sent photos, of course. And I walked through the math, and told him that I was uncertain whether we could afford an artist like him. And a funny thing happened. His agent, with whom I had worked previ- ously, gave a call and asked, “what can you afford?” And we got it done. Now, almost a decade later, we’re preparing for his fifth visit to The Grand. Turns out, this big-time star prefers intimate venues like The Grand for his performances. There’s a hint of that (and, we like to point out, a not-so-indirect ref- erence to venues like ours) on his website, where Daniels says, he “(has) played over 300 gigs the past 12 years from Maine to Alaska to Californ-i-a with my preferred venue of choice being clubs and hundred year old opera houses.” And the feeling’s been mutual, as we’ve enjoyed near-to- mostly sold-out performances each time he has visited. Jeff Daniels is, by the way, a great guy. That first season, my offer was...well, let’s just say, it’s what I could afford. And he took it. Another year, I asked for two per- formances, and he did them. I asked him to do a fundraising spot for The Grand, and we still use it today, his words echoing what we love to hear about our venue, “for the audience, it’s like sitting in your living room…they just don’t build places like this anymore…years of history and tradition… where Mark Twain spoke, where Sara Bern- hardt did Shakespeare.” Yes, I gave the man talking points. But he did the rest, with the same genuine Midwestern charm that he has since lent to the Michigan Department of Tourism for their commercial spots (yes, that’s him). He’s done donor receptions, meet-and-greets, and performs in that “living-room” style that our audiences love, and that is unique to smaller venues like The Grand. And when I asked him to re- open The Grand after its 18-month closure JEFF DANIELS AND THE BEN DANIELS BAND November 20, 2015, one performance only Grand Opera House, Downtown Oshkosh Tickets (920) 424-2355 or online at grandoperahouse.org JEFF DANIELS RETURNS TO THE GRAND R16  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R17 ENTERTAINMENT // JEFF DANIELS in 2009-10, he was gracious enough to work it into his schedule. Daniels’ musical career has turned into a growing family project, as he now per- forms with his son’s band, the Ben Daniels Band, something he calls “drinking from the fountain of youth.” Think he’s a proud Dad? Here’s how he describes it, quoted from his website. “From the opening song onward, my time with the Ben Daniels Band was and will always be a Life High- light. I had no idea if fronting a bunch of talented Twenty-somethings would work or not, but I damned the torpedoes and risked a high profile creative implosion in front of paying customers on a ‘16 Gigs in 19 Days Tour’ as together, we traversed the back roads of the Upper Midwest in an RV and a Band Van. With great relief and a surprising sense of what it feels like to be young again, I’m here to say it exceeded even my loftiest expectations.” And yes, The Grand was a part of that tour. And the Ben Daniels Band, who joins Jeff again on November 20, is pretty great too. From their opening song to the finale of their set, the Ben Dan- iels Band cuts through with their originality, musicianship, and a sound that is in equal parts Americana, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. With five CDs under their belts – “Coming From The C,” “Checkin’ In To The Michigan Inn,” “Can’t You See,” “The Mountain Home EP,” the dual album & movie release, “Old Gold” and their most recent release, “Roll.” The Ben Daniels Band has a sound that is both unique and familiar. At last year’s gig, many com- mented that I should bring back that band, solo. It may yet happen. And Jeff Daniels continues to record, now with his son at the helm of the record- ings. “Ben went to school for sound engineer- ing, which is great for me,” Daniels laughs, reflecting on their at-home studio sessions. Now, almost 40 years after heading out east with his D-40 from Herb David’s Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, he releases his 7th recording, “Days Like These.” The New York Times says, “Jeff Daniels sings his songs with a growly twang and barbed good humor, at its high point evoking a transcendental picture of American wanderlust.” Jeff Daniels says, “No matter how much fanfare I get, no matter how much exaltation and anointment comes my way, it will never top gigging through the Upper Midwest with my boy.” Yes, it’s deer-hunting kickoff night (which, in a way, is appropriate) but from that opening ovation, through an entire audience dancing the “Big Bay Shuffle” (which cannot be described, only experienced), through the encore, it promises to be one of those great nights where the audience leaves the theatre, knowing they’ve had a one-of-a-kind experience, and glad that they did not miss it. Hope to see you at the theatre! Joseph Ferlo is President and CEO of the Oshkosh Opera House Foundation and Director of the historic Grand Opera House since 2004.
R18  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // POSTCARD FROM MILWAUKEE BY BLAINE SCHULTZ Some bands take a while to develop a sound and grow into their skin. Milwau- kee’s Testa Rosa seems to have been birthed fully formed, and hit the ground running. Since their 2007 debut they have mined a sound richly textured, drawing as much from well-produced classic studio albums as high energy Punk/New Wave singles. Testa Rosa’s new album III (which may or may not be a nod to albums by Chicago band, Chicago) finds the quintet further refining a sound all but blueprinted on the first album. Not one to be pigeonholed, the band has paid tribute to The Pretenders and The Shocking Blue at benefit shows. Last Fall, Testa Rosa front woman Betty Blexrud- Strigens curated an evening of Patti Smith’s music for the Alverno Presents series. Yet it is their original music where Testa Rosa shines brightest. With a lineage that reaches back to Nerve Twins, The Frogs and Little Blue Crunchy Things, it should be noted these are not dilettantes we are dealing with here. Employing breezy melodies that often prove to be a façade or prelude where some- thing deeper is revealed, this is a band of strong players (Blexrud-Strigens – vocals/ guitar/keyboards, Damian Stri- gens – guitars, Paul Hancock – bass, Bill Backes – drums, Nick Berg – keyboards), who conjure sonic tapestries over which Blexrud-Strigens’ lyrics take flight.  And she continues to grow into a great teller of three-minute stories. “The Summer of We Three” sketches a situation that might well have dripped off the pen of Tennessee Williams.  Blexrud-Strigens’ knowing vocal sets the listener with the impression something sinister may be laying in wait, biding time in the fertile subtext. This notion of pop noir is nothing new.  Shadow Morton’s production with the Shangri La’s let alone Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill come to mind -- but Testa Rosa adds a bit of production gloss that will catch the lazy listener off guard.  Final track “Lost Loon,” closes the album swathed in gauze, and a mood that would make David Lynch proud. Once again work- ing with Smart Studios alumni, producer/engi- neer Beau Sorenson, the album is rife with sonic touches that gleam while still remaining slave to the song.  “…for words they never hear,” the final line of “The Fireman at the Well,” sounds instantly flat, and in your face, as the reverb attached to the isolated vocal track is stripped. Lessons learned, hard-bitten lessons perhaps, but always at the basest level this is a band whose music offers more with each listen. Their evolution is well worth checking into. The cover of Testa Rosa III depicts the band in shirtsleeves standing in front of a mammoth snow pile.  This blending of fire and ice should be your first clue. Test Rosa III (Atomic Records)
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R20  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW Blue Whisper Makes a Strong, Uplifting Statement BY GEORGE HALAS One of the most pleasant surprises and highlights of the 2011 Fox Jazz Festival was the appearance of The Amina Figarova Sextet. The ensemble’s stellar performance, showcasing her soaring compositions and piano virtuosity, earned them a growing legion of fans in the Fox Cities. Her latest release, “Blue Whisper,” arguably the best in a series of consistently strong albums, has already garnered con- siderable international critical acclaim and reinforces her status as one of the finest jazz composers in the world. The compositions “Pictures” and “The Traveler” were com- missioned by Jazz from Lincoln Center for its 2014-15 New Jazz Standards series. “Blue Whisper” is Figarova’s second album, after “Twelve,” on In + Out Records, an independent label based in Freiberg, Ger- many. In addition, “Blue Whisper”, has been accepted into four categories on the 58th Grammy’s Ballot: Improvised Jazz Solo for the tenor sax solo by Marc Mommaas on “Hewa;” Jazz Instrumental Album; Instru- mental Composition for “Hear My Voice;” and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals, for “Hewa.” The album includes 10 original Figa- rova compositions, inspired by her deeply personal, highly evocative responses to social turmoil, distinctive personalities she’s encountered and universal transitions of life. While her technical virtuosity is clearly evident, her playing sounds effort- lessly elegant regardless of the tempo. Her melodies are consistently pleasing and uplifting. Moods range from the haunting beauty of the titular track “Blue Whisper,” – her interplay with saxophonist Wayne Escof- frey is exquisite - as well as “Moonrise” and “Hewa” (featuring lyrics in Swahili by Sarah Elizabeth Charles) to the straight- ahead momentum of “Moving Upwards,” “The Hustler” and “The Traveler,” to the sophisticated playfulness of “Pictures,” “Marians” and “Juno.” In “Hear My Voice,” perhaps the most interesting and thought-provoking piece, over a martial beat and sorrowful, resolute horn choir, an eight-year-old girl (Salhiya Bilal Tumba) earnestly strips out the complications of the adult perspective and, from a child’s perspective, simply urges an end to violence world-wide and, with laughter, a request to “let kids be kids.” Figarova utilizes the rhythmic laughter in the final passage as an instrument to aug- ment a spare but poignant, understated horn and drum arrangement As a composer, Figarova is generous in creating opportunities for her bandmates to showcase their own superb talent and create synergy simultaneously. The play- ing is technically superb yet never sounds forced. Throughout all tracks, her classi- cally founded touch, her lilting melodies, luminous harmonies, often understated yet always propulsive rhythms and star soloists come together with immaculate sophistica- tion. Trumpeters Ernie Hammes and Alex Pope Norris, saxophonists Escoffery and Marc Mommaas, bassists Luques Curtis and Yasushi Nakamura, drummer Jason Brown, flutist Bart Platteau -- Figarova’s partner and husband of nearly 25 years – and electric guitarist Anthony Wilson (on “Pictures”) are featured advantageously in spontaneous, creative engagement with her compositional themes and intentions. Platteau deserves special recognition as his world-class flute playing adds a distinc- tive signature to the Figarova sound and greatly expands her compositional options. Figarova has a compelling personal story as well. She was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical con- cert pianist. In the late 1980’s she entered Rotterdam Conservatory (Holland) to pursue jazz, coming to the United State in 1989 to complete her formal education at Boston’s Berklee College of Music (where she met Platteau, a fellow student from Belgium). In 1998 they were invited to the Thelonious Monk Institute’s summer jazz colony in Aspen. Since then, she has toured constantly for over a decade of bookings in major U.S. jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals. There are many in the Fox Cities who are hoping that her travels bring her back the area very soon; in the interim, “Blue Whisper” –and her other CD’s – are avail- able at Square.com. For more information, go to: www.aminafigarova.com Crescent Moon Architectural Salvage since 1987 Antiques & Salvage 537 N. Main St. Oshkosh (920) 232-MOON (6666) www.crescentmoonantiquesandsalvage.com
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ENTERTAINMENT // THE SPANISH INQUISITION BY GEORGE HALAS There are a number of very good rea- sons why you might recognize the name, despite the fact that he is a very humble, self-described “utility man” who deliber- ately avoids the spotlight. Perhaps you know him as the co-leader and trombonist for The Big Band Reunion, the 18-piece jazz big band now in its 24th year, and playing every Tuesday night from October through May at Frank’s Pizza Palace on College Ave. “I’m a utility person and that’s how I see myself,” Skitch said. “Except for a couple of times, I’ve never taken a leader- ship role.” He estimates that, since his arrival in Wisconsin in 1987, he has been a member of over 25 bands, and has subbed in over 30 others. Skitch is “complemented mightily” by BBR co-leader and trumpeter Marty Robinson, but the two have taken the reins of the BBR for the last two as the result of careful consideration by BBR founder Bob Levy. “Ken is one of the original members of The BBR, he is an excellent lead trombon- ist and he has led his section very well,” Levy said. “First and foremost, though, is that he is very highly respected for his musicianship.” “Bob’s vision was to make sure that his successors were respected as musicians, because you have to lead by example,” Skitch said. “It is also my role as MC (master of ceremonies) to get the audience involved and enjoying what we’ve got.” “There is a fine line between being a community band and being elite. It’s tough to do both,” he noted. “We have focused the members on producing the highest quality music and they feel privi- leged to be in the band.” Skitch and Robinson have also created set lists that enable The BBR to play more songs per night. “People come to hear the band,” he said, “and we’re giving them more.” While The BBR library has over 1500 compositions and the band rarely plays the same tune twice in a year, “there are a couple of real favorites that we should and will play more often.” Skitch also plays with Vic Ferrari Sym- phony on The Rocks – he and bandmates Chris Felts and Jack Naus form The HD Horns, but he may be best known for his work at Heid Music. After earning a bachelor’s degree in per- formance and composition from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and audi- tioning “for some symphonies,” he studied instrument repair at Allied Music. A horrible repair job on a new trom- bone that brought a fellow band member to tears inspired him. “I’ve always been mechanical and started to think about it as a career,” he said. “A guy who did a very good job on one of my instruments told me to go to Allied. In 1987, I moved to Appleton for my first wife and a job….and I kept the job.” (laugh) The “job” was as a repair technician at Heid. He was promoted to service manager in 1995, a position he has held ever since. “I don’t want anyone to be disap- pointed,” Skitch said. “I don’t want anyone to have to go through what my friend did.” He has gained worldwide recognition by giving clinics on repair and serving as the president of the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians (NAPBIRT). Some of the best musicians in the world – Clark Terry, for example - know him as a “lifesaver.” Tom Washatka, one of the best saxophone players in Wisconsin, is a big believer. “It was early 90’s, I was packing up after a late gig and I dropped a PA speaker on my saxophone,” Washatka said. “I knew what the damage might be so I waited until the next morning to peak into my case.  Sure enough the horn was schmushed.  The point of impact was about half way down the horn and compressed the body of the horn into an oval shape - should be round – and bent numerous keys and rods.  It was unplayable. I called Kenny and dropped off my horn later that day. Up to that point I knew him only as a bass- ist/trombonist, but was aware that he also worked as a horn repair guy.” The next day, Skitch called.  “He had taken the horn apart and pulled the body of the horn back to its original shape,” Washatka said. “He put the keys back on the horn to check alignments of the keys to the tone holes - and this is the expertise of one Kenny Skitch - all the keys lined up perfectly!  Unbelievable!  He had the horn for another day to make final adjustments.  I got the horn back and it looked and played as if NOTHING had happened. Well, needless to say he’s been my repair guy ever since. He’s gotten a big head and charges me an arm and a leg for repair (laugh).  But worth it he is!” Roger Rosenberg of Steely Dan is also a big Skitch fan. “While I was on the road, I was having problems with my bass clarinet. When we got to Appleton, I contacted Bob Levy and he immediately recommended Ken,” Rosenberg said. “He not only did it quickly and in a very professional way, he was nice, friendly and very accommodating.” “As a touring professional, it is vital to be able to make that kind of contact in that situation,” he said. “I absolutely recom- mend Ken to anyone.” Very good player, great guy and his wife, Paula…is glad he kept the job. Ken Skitch.“Kenny.” R22  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R23 ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW BY GEORGE HALAS Marlin McKay has performed at three of the last four Fox Jazz Festivals. He has more than earned his growing number of fans in the Fox Cities with his extraordi- nary playing, whether it be paying homage to a hard bop legend like Horace Silver or presenting his own compositions. McKay has relished in nation and international acclaim, having placed first runner up in the 2009 National Trumpet Competition Jazz Division and has also participated in prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead resi- dency program. Just released, “The Look” is McKay’s second album on the Nostalgic Records label, following “Deep in the Cosmos,” and features Grammy-nominated vibraphonist, Stefon Harris, organist Bobby Floyd of Dr. John and the Count Basie Orchestra, Anthony Wonsey, Dezron Douglas, and current Head Hunter saxophonist Rob Dixon. Trumpeter Joe Tondu was involved with Fox Jazz Fest for many years and is a McKay admirer. “Marlin’s unforced blowing style and affinity for graceful melodies reflects the influence of his two favorite trumpeters, Nicholas Payton and Tom Harrell,” Tondu said. “His love of Hard Bop makes him a natural choice to present jazz to listeners and aficionados both young and seasoned. Pianist Mike Kubicki has played with McKay in two of his FJF appearances. “Marlin and I met almost 10 years ago. A drummer that I was playing with, Mikel Avery, recommended him,” Kubicki said. “We established an instant rapport based on our shared interest in and respect for the hard bop tradition.” “He strives for excellence – in his arranging, his composing, his improvising, and in the show that he presents. He’s a passionate, hard-working professional. Others are noticing, because Marlin has been playing with a number of jazz legends these days.” As far as McKay’s most outstanding attributes as a player, Kubicki said, “He never tries to overplay. He goes for qual- ity over quantity. His tone is warm and relaxed.” “As a composer,” he continued, his composing is sophisticated, a modern mix of rich jazz harmony and rhythms. His tunes are very original sounding, yet they are friendly and navigable to the impro- viser. The movements make sense, but they are not predictable. And his melodies are memorable. I love playing his originals.” Not surprisingly, Kubicki likes “The Look.” “I love it, but I’m biased because the niche is right up my alley – modern hard-bop, at least that’s what I’d call it,” he said. “He assembled world class musicians from New York City and elsewhere. The musicianship on this recording is on par with anything you’d see from a premier jazz label like Blue Note.” “His composing and improvising gets stronger year after year.” he added. “What I like about his recordings is that he definitely has a sound, a signature concept – much like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and others did. Each record is different, but they had a compositional identity. And Marlin has developed one – a good one.” Douglas, Wallace and Wonsey set a strong uptempo groove and Dixon has the opening cut, “If We Must Die,” moving before McKay takes over and plays melodi- cally in a manner that recalls basketball coach John Wooden’s famous quote, “be quick but don’t hurry.” Wonsey adds some fine work on the keys. The tempo slows on “Lawns” where McKay’s playing is both smooth and exquisite. That style and feel continue on “Rhyne For Lemon Vine,” where addi- tional percussive sounds and Harris’ vibe contributions result in a very engaging sound. McKay and Wonsey get the funky “Peas in A Pod” off and running to a finger-snapping, toe-tapping rhythm and McKay keeps the fun going. “Mikhael” follows with slow, deep harmonies with each player waiting patiently to contribute something special, a trend that continues on “Far and Away;” as the tune develops, McKay’s outstanding technique comes into sharper focus and Dixon pro- vides some fine interplay. Harris and McKay have an easy-to- listen to but unpredictable exchange to set the tone for “Easy To Love,” highlighted by Floyd’s Hammond B3 solo. The title tune closes out with a flourish as Harris once again creates an ambience that showcases another engaging McKay melody. A solo by Harris is another highlight. Overall, the album is both consistently interesting and maintains a signature sound generated by a very good playing. It gets better with additional listens. Kubicki and Tondu agree that McKay’s persona is part of the appeal. “Marlin is a warm, authentic, passion- ate performer of and ambassador for this music,” Kubicki said. “I’m fortunate to call him my musical collaborator and close friend.” For more information and/or to pur- chase, go to: www.marlinmckay.com MARLIN MCKAY’S “The Look” Deserves a Listen
R24  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 BY TROY REISSMANN As a lifetime resident of Wisconsin and a huge fan of local music, I always loved The BoDeans. A true product of our state, The BoDeans are on record as the biggest and most successful collaborative band to have ever called Wisconsin home. Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas met at Waukesha South High School in 1977. After discovering that they both had similar music interests, the duo began writing songs together. Llanas enrolled in college, but soon left after Neumann urged him to pursue music with him. At the time, Neumann didn’t sing much, and considered himself to primarily be a drum- mer, while Llanas had little experience as a guitar player. However, the two decided to get serious about music and both began to sing and play guitar under the name Da BoDeans in 1980. Though there are several stories of how their name came into existence, Sam has often explained that he got the name from The Beverly Hillbillies character Jethro Bodine. Neumann’s version of the BoDe- ans moniker conjured up the image of rock n’ roll icons Bo Diddley and James Dean for a familial name, similar to The Smiths and The Connells. Early on, Neumann and Llanas were often credited as “Beau and Sammy BoDean.” The band went on to have many top 40 hits through close to two decades. They were part of the most successful tour in his- tory supporting U2, and were once referred to as, “one of the best bands in America,” by Rolling Stone Magazine. In August of 2011, the collaboration of Kurt and Sammy came to an abrupt end. I had asked Kurt in an interview back in 2013 why the band broke up. He told me Sam simply quit to pursue a solo career. There have been many reports as to exactly why the two friends split, almost all are contradictory to one another. Kurt told me Sam had done something terrible to end their lifetime friendship. “He (Sam) was my friend, my brother and my co-worker for close to thirty years. I can honestly tell you, I have no interest in ever speaking to him again.” I could not help but think there was still more information we may never know, but one thing I took away from interview- ing both Sam and Kurt is that hey really respected each other up until the end. In one of many conversations with Kurt’s wife and manager, she revealed what she felt was the truth behind the split. This conversation was off the record, and out of respect for all parties and the band, it will stay that way. Never once in any of the many conversations I had with Kurt, Sam or Barbara Neumann did anyone have anything derogatory to say about the talent of each other or the band. I sat down with Sam Llanas not long ago at a bar in De Pere. Sam and I had talked on the phone a few times leading up to this interview, but it was nice to get together in person. OW. How does your new album, 4 A.M. differ from your first solo album and those you did with The BoDeans? SL. In many ways, I consider this my first solo album. For the first time in years, I don’t feel I’m under the pressure of trying to be someone different from who I actu- ally am. I don’t feel I have to alter my voice, so it is not as confused as with my days with The BoDeans. OW. Were running from the past? SL. I would not say running, I am proud of those years and what we were able to accomplish. The new CD is kind of a trilogy. My two past recordings came from a very dark time in my life. My brother’s suicide really affected me, and in reflection, these albums are all about the night, hence the title 4 A.M. OW. So, in this release, you felt more like the original Sammy? SL. I felt more relaxed and less restrained. My voice is unique, I cannot change it, and I feel it is my trademark. The song, ‘The Whole Night Through’ reflects this, I am very proud of it. OW. As you know, I have a relationship with Kurt and the BoDeans. I was once told by their management, that Kurt is the voice of the BoDeans. Do you feel that is incorrect? SL. Absolutely. The BoDeans unique sound came from two people, and I was one of those people! The harmonies we cre- ated were the sound of that band. OW. The break up with The BoDeans was tough, was it mutual? SL. Not at all! Let me explain once and for all what happened. I was in the middle of producing my first solo project. The way this industry works is simple, about three months prior to the release of a new CD, the promotion starts. This gives audiences and fans a chance to get excited for the new project. We had an agreement that my album was going to come out that Sep- tember or October. Before the release of 4 A.M., our new BoDeans project Indigo Dreams was going to be released. This was within that three month publicity period. So my record was in the works. There was an issue that tied up that release. It didn’t come out until a month later. It wasn’t my fault, actually I was in no way aware at all. In all the confusion, nobody thought, ‘hey maybe we should push Sam’s record back.’ I forgot about it, they didn’t say anything about it. Had they brought it to my atten- tion, I would’ve said, ‘yeah, that’s a good idea, let’s push my album back.’ So the BoDeans record came back, and then the next day or two, the publicity about my record came out. Some of the press for my market was good. Dave Marsh, a big rock critic said that my new release was some of the best music he had heard from us in a long time. Basically they lost their minds about the entire situation! They started accusing me of sabotage, and back stab- bing them, blah blah blah. OW. So there was no such sabotage? SL. No way, I mean, why would I do that? Why would I sabotage my own band by doing this? Why can’t we just rescind this, put a positive light on it? I mean, Sam’s album is out, The BoDeans have a new release and sometime down the road, Kurt will have something, all transcending back to another great BoDeans CD. OW. Makes sense to me. Did they see it that way? SL. Not at all, all they saw was red. They came at me hard. OW. Was it coming from Kurt and the band, or Barbara? I mean, after dealing with them earlier this year, Barbara Neu- mann seems to speak for the band. SL. You are right when you say Barbara speaks for the band. You know, she was forgetting the fact that she also worked for me, and I could fire her at any time! (laugh) The next day, Kurt was very upset. That was the first nail in the coffin. Don’t get me wrong, Kurt and I were not as close as we had been in the past, he was going a different direction. I didn’t need to be hanging out with him. OW. Did the tour ever happen? SL. We had a couple shows. I had thought we had put it behind us. Right before the new tour was supposed to start in Denver, Kurt started telling me how I was to act, and what I was to do. I said, ‘Hey man, f@#% you! I mean, this is just as much my band as yours! You can’t tell me what to do.” OW. So he was putting it all on you? SL. Oh yeah, saying, ‘You did this, and that!’ So that lead to the famous ‘conversa- tion.’ I never said anything until Kurt said, ‘Hey, the BoDeans are over! The only thing left would be the details of the split.’ They say one thing, but honestly I just said, ‘If this is actually the way you feel, then I don’t want to be in the band anymore.’ I mean, if that’s the way he felt, I was out! ENTERTAINMENT // WISCONSIN’S FAVORITE BAND NOT QUITE PARADISE: The REAL story of the collapse of Wisconsin’s favorite band.
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R25 ENTERTAINMENT // WISCONSIN’S FAVORITE BAND I’m not going to do eight or ten shows making all nicey-nice on stage if in your heart, it’s already over! OW. Did they end up doing the first show in Denver? SL. Yeah, they did the show and lied about it. They said that I missed my plane but didn’t know why. They knew why, I missed my plane on purpose! They came back a few days later and said I quit to explore a solo career. That just wasn’t true. I did go on having a solo career, but why would I leave my bread and butter job to go solo? That doesn’t make sense. All I wanted to do was release a little solo record that I wasn’t even planning to promote, ya know? OW. So how did the record do? SL. I don’t know, I mean critically it did great! It did okay. OW. How did Indigo Dreams do? SL. I’m not sure, at that point, I really gave up caring! It’s been three years, and to be honest, it’s been a struggle. They con- tinue to bad mouth me and point fingers. Some of the accusations are nothing short of ridiculous! OW. Do you continue to get residuals from your years as the BoDeans front man? SL. Not a penny, they are withholding it from me. They owe me a ton of money. I really don’t want to get into that. I am all about moving forward. The BoDeans have stated as recently as October of this year that they were surprised that Sam had abruptly quit the band, but according to the interviews I did with both Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann, this is simply not true. The new CD from the band The BoDeans is good, but there is and always will be something missing in the list of ingredients, and that is Sammy. Being friends with both Kurt Neu- mann and Sam Llanas, I am sad that their relationship ended on such a low note. These guys made some of the best music Wisconsin has ever known. I hired Kurt and the current line up to play last year’s Rock for Autism and they did admirably. I also hired Sam to play a wine tasting event earlier in the year, and he was great. After a long week of performing, he still took time to talk to the fans and sign CD’s. Fans of The BoDeans continue to support each version of the band, but we are the ones who truly lost out with their break up. Hwy Q over looking the Chain O’Lakes 715-258-8289 www.wheelhouserestaurant.com THE WHEELHOUSE PRESENTS, LIVE MUSIC: “WEDNESDAY WITH WAGS” 11/25 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featuring “Lost” Jim Olschmidt on guitar & vocals, Tony Menzer on bass guitar. 12/9 CAJUN & POP: Featured artists Danny Jarabeck & Drew Hicks of the band “Copper Box” performing their high energy, signature sound. 12/30 CHICAGO BLUES & ROCK: Featured artists “Rockin” Johnny Burgin on guitar & vocals along with Tony Menzer on bass. 1/13 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featured artists Lil’ Davey Max on vocals and blues harp. Gary Shaw on guitar & Chris Okkerse on bass and vocals. 1/27 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featured artist “Cadillac Pete” on blues harp and vocals. Donnie Pick on guitar and Jason Karnite on bass. 2/10 LATIN JAZZ: WAMI Award Winners: “VIVO” (Wisconsin Area Music Industry). Voted best Jazz Group of 2015. Warren Wiegratz on Sax & Keys. Pam Duronio, Vocalist. With Tim Stemper on guitar and Charlie Sauter on bass. 2/24 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featured artists “Otis & The Alligators” The reunion tour; featuring Otis McLennon on blues harp and vocals. Joe Fittante on keyboards and vocals and Jim Prideaux on guitar and Kenny Stevenson on bass. 3/9 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featuring Artists Perry Weber of “The Jimmy’s” on guitar and vocals Larry “3rd Degree” Byrne on keyboards. Tom McCarty on bass. 3/23 RHYTHM & BLUES: Featuring “MoJoe & Flipside” with Joe Fittante on keyboards and vocals, Jim Prideaux on guitar and Bill Jordon on vocals and sax. With Charlie Sauter on bass. 4/6 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featuring “Reverend Raven” on guitar and vocals Westside Andy on blues harp and & “P.T.” bass player for The Chain Smoking Alter Boys. 4/20 R&B, JAZZ, FUNK: Featured artists Warren Wiegratz on Sax, and keyboards, Joe Jordan on vocals and Eric Hervey on bass. (all from Streetlife). Special guest Jim Prideaux on guitar. YOUR HOST AND DRUMMER EXTRAORDINAIRE, TONY “WAGS” WAGNER JOINS THESE FINE MUSICIANS FOR EACH PERFORMANCE 11/11 Rhythem Blues & Jazz: Featured artists Jamie Fletcher on keyboards and vocals, Jay Whitney (Big Mouth) on guitar and vocals, Steve Cooper on sax and vocals (Wifee & The Huzz band), with Eric Hervey from Streetlife on bass. Shenandoah books 133 East Wisconsin Ave • Appleton • 920.832.9525 OPEN DAILY AT 10 AM Many Subject areas Collectible hard cover or paperback Used and out of print books Huge selection of books
R26  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // MARIANAS TRENCH BY JEREMY J. JOHANSKI Hey You Guys! is coming through Green Bay. No, that sentence is not miss- ing some pieces. That’s the new U.S. tour name being headlined by Marianas Trench, and it visits Titletown on November 17th. One of Canada’s most popular young pop bands of the past decade is dropping into the U.S. this Fall on a tour pattern the jet stream would be proud of. After a dip along the West Coast and through the Rockies, Marianas Trench will play Meyer Theatre in support of their October 23rd album release Astoria. Marianas Trench hails from Vancouver and has a massive following across Canada, but chose to endear a small U.S. city with the name of its fourth studio album, Asto- ria, Oregon. Astoria, the setting of the 80’s coming of age classic film The Goonies represents a suitable pairing for creativity and 80’s style immersion that Marianas Trench lead Josh Ramsay sought out for the new album. “Once I made the choice to do a throw- back record,” Ramsay said “I figured the best way to inspire it was to live it…I was recording vocals shirtless, wearing a scarf and leather pants…method acting.” I was granted an early preview of Astoria, and after I took the headphones off, got a haircut and acclimated back to 2015 once again, I asked Josh Ramsay a few things all the “trenchers” might want to know. JJJ: While you presented yourself and your bandmates embodying the 80’s for recording Astoria in your Vancouver home, how would you say you present yourself to others upon their first impression of you? Josh: Ha-ha, I think people that meet me for the first time find me quite… eccentric. JJJ: Alright, well although I’ve known your music for some time, it wasn’t until looking into a number of your music videos that it hit me…and please take zero offense to this…but I thought, ‘Wow, Marilyn Manson lookalike!’ Josh: What?!?! JJJ: Have you never, ever heard this, not from anyone? Josh: What…no?! But oh my God that’s hilarious! JJJ: Just my thoughts, but also a few others think so too. Just go type in your name and “Manson” on Google and have a look around. Josh: Well that’s hilarious but I definitely choose not to Google myself as a rule. But I’ll just take your word for it (laugh). JJJ: So, you said in some Canadian media interviews that prior to writing this album you went through a very dark period and pretty much went away for 6 months or so to avoid quite a bit of crap, to be blunt, that you were trying to deal with. Do you feel like you’re completely removed from that, out of that funk from that, and riding the energy you got to write Astoria? Josh: No…not in a nutshell but, I definitely feel hopeful again…part of the reason I couldn’t write wasn’t that I couldn’t write, it’s that I wouldn’t. Because I always write about my own life, I knew that I was going to have to take a really hard, honest look at that stuff, and I wasn’t ready to, but once I sort of got up the balls to follow through with it…and with the knowledge that I feel personally, and artistically it’s my best stuff…there’s definitely a feeling of catharsis that goes with that. JJJ: So would you say that getting that written or on paper was somewhat… medicating? Josh: In some ways, yes. It’s certainly a great tool…or a great outlet to vent. JJJ: I will say you’ve been amazingly refreshing in that you’re unusually straight- forward. Having reviewed your social media content on Twitter, interviews and the like, you differ from many of the other entertainers or celebrities I’ve looked at in a while. Josh: I think you can never totally be yourself when someone’s interviewing you or what not. At the end of the day you’re still a performer and you’re portraying a performance. I kind of miss the days when rock stars were just like, ‘F*ck it, I’m going to be blunt’ like the Noel Gallagher type. I love guys that are just straight up, kind of like no bullsh*t. I aspire to be a more real performer. JJJ: In your Twitter for example, one tweet from your follower @loveto- dance1999 says “@JoshRamsay I don’t think you’ll ever really understand how important you are to us or in general. You’re worth looking up to. <3.” Your reply was “I disagree. Entertain- ers only show you a performance of a character they portray. Look at the people you really know.” Furthermore when @SJ_5sauce said, “@JoshRamsay you’re literally the defini- tion of what I aspire to be one day. <3,” you replied, “Aim higher.” Josh: Hahaha! JJJ: Do you get asked about that, or are people in the entertainment industry around you kind of like, ‘Wow, what a d*ck.’ Correct me if I’m wrong, there isn’t anything wrong with setting people straight and not leading them on some illusion, right? Josh: Yeah…I think it’s very, very dan- gerous when people in the entertainment industry start weighing in on subjects that they have no f*cking right to be talking about in the first place, like mental health and immunizing babies, for example. Like what the f*ck do you know, you’re an actor, why are you talking to people about how they should live their lives? Isn’t that what psychologists are for? You know what you’re an expert at…playing parts. What I’m an expert at is like chord progressions in music theory. Ask me questions about that and I’m happy give you a knowledge- able answer, outside of that, it’s not really my field, you know? JJJ: Right! That’s spot on! Perhaps politicians in this country can take some of that advice too. TOUR AND TRACKS JJJ: Doing this music thing, especially from a base in Canada is challenging. You mentioned how especially in Canada pop- ularity doesn’t happen overnight exactly, right? Josh: Yeah, haha. The old, 10-year overnight success. JJJ: This tour is going through much of the heart of the American music scene geographically, minus the southern part of the country, is that focus based on demand or popularity, or is it with the hopeful intent of evangelizing and spreading more? Josh: We’ve toured in the states a lot in past years, but there are so many cities that you just can’t possibly do the whole country in one single tour. So we’re just breaking it up in chunks…we’re kind of getting to the places that have been the longest since we’ve been to them. Many of the places on this tour are places that we likely haven’t been to in probably three years or so. We’ve played Green Bay before. I don’t remember the name of the place…but it was on our Ever After album tour. [Green Bay Distillery, June 2012] I remember it because Ian (Casselman, drums) had horrible food poisoning and we thought he wasn’t going to be able to play the show. Anyway, because I play the drums too, I thought that I might need to play drums and do lead vocals from behind the drums. That’s how we sound checked and that’s how I remember Green Bay. JJJ: Hopefully the food poisoning wasn’t from food in Green Bay…right? Josh: (Laugh) No, it was from ques- tionable mayonnaise actually. JJJ: Many critics and fans agree that your music, especially the hits have largely a positive vibe or energy to them, a feel- good spirit to them. I agree personally. What would you say from Astoria are songs that fit that description? Josh: In terms of feel good songs spe- cifically, it’s not much of a feel-good record Canada’s Marianas Trench Dives Deep into U.S. on Fall Tour
November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R27 ENTERTAINMENT // MARIANAS TRENCH Japanese Restaurant & Lounge Hibachi • Sushi Bar 4100 W. Pine St • Appleton • 920-739-6057 2200 Holmgren Way • Green Bay • 920-494-4103 Hibachi • Yaki-Niku (Japanese BBQ) • Sushi Bar 511 W. College Ave • Appleton • 920-882-4183 Please visit our newly expanded menu at our website: www.nakashimas.com Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm Sunday 4pm-9pm Visit the Valley’s Largest Sushi Selection! Join us for our Sushi & Sake Happy Hour! Try Yaki-Niku! Only at Katsu-Ya of Japan Downtown Appleton (laugh). There are still a few ‘fun’ songs, and feel-good jams. For one, if you’re going to do a record that’s a meticulous and loving tribute to the 80’s, you have to have at least one feel-good up-tempo song, a la “Walking on Sunshine,” or “Footloose,” or something like that. We did do a song like that called “Yesterday,” where some of the lyrics actually quote some 80’s movies and I felt like it had been a long time since someone did that kind of a feel good jam, like a Kenny Loggins type of song. JJJ: In speaking about the full album and its tracks…would you agree with my thinking that “One Love,” “Yesterday,” “Who Do You Love,” “Wildfire,” and maybe “This Means War,” will become the favorites? Josh: I don’t know…I guess that remains to be seen! I’m always very curious to see when a record of ours first comes out to see what the standout tracks are for other people because I mean, I’m so inside of it that I can’t really be a reliable voice on that subject. JJJ: So you talked about the 80’s and being embodied in it. The very first track “Astoria,” I got 2 minutes into and went, ‘He sounds like Prince!’ Josh: Yeah? That’s a great compliment, thank you! Yeah, I guess I can do the girl- ish falsetto thing (laugh). JJJ: The song moves forward and into kind of a Supertramp, Queen, Abba…a little hint of MJ in there? Josh: I’m a big believer in an album being an entire body of work, not with throwaway tracks. So for me, I want the opening of the record in that first track to be setting the stage for what you’re going to hear in this album. What are some of the sonic qualities, the lyric qualities that you’re going to hear? So yeah, I wanted “Astoria” to feel like a preview to all of those things. I’ve done this on most of our albums where there’s a big opening number and I don’t follow standard song structure, and I just kind of make it big and free form. Being that this record has all this 80’s feel to it, I really wanted to approach a song like that, probably how I would have if I was a contemporary in the 80’s. That meant each section of the song has a different 80’s band feel. There’s some U2 in there, some Police, Tears for Fears, some Michael Jack- son, there’s some Prince…some Queen… all things I probably would have drawn on if I was around at that time. JJJ: Take me for crazy, but I think the production of the song “Who Do You Love,” feels a bit like One Direction. In a full, potential pop, young love and repeat- play again and again capability. I did make a note to myself to apologize in advance to you in case that reference hurts (laugh)! Josh: Well, I will tell you what I was going for, and it had nothing to do with One Direction…it had a lot more to do with Toto. JJJ: Whoops, okay... Josh: I was after that sort of really lush production, like with “Africa,” something of that era. That sort of vocal quality, really tight gang vocals and using some sort of African instruments…like there’s a kalmiba in it. JJJ: The superior production quality makes it jump out. Josh: Thank you! We even recorded it with ten of us playing drums at once. Ian and I playing drums, and then eight other guys and we were all in a circle, and we mic’d it in the middle and everyone playing along with these big parts and it ended up sounding very thunderous. Ramsay and Marianas Trench are an interesting mix of solid musicians and per- formers. Ramsay himself was nominated for a 2013 Grammy for his work on Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” Ramsay’s bandmates dig into current mainstream sports, and Ramsay’s Twitter calls himself “Gayest straight boy ever.” They’re like brothers on the road together. I tipped him off to just make sure he knew about the Green and Gold while in Titletown. “I do know…the first time we were there we went to the radio station,” Ramsay said “and the Packers were playing and Green Bay was just a complete ghost town! Like you could lie down in the middle of the street!” Green Bay won’t resemble a ghost town when Marianas Trench plays the intimate Meyer Theatre on November 17th, and hopefully for Ramsay and company they’ll soon be in well-populated US hit music charts as well. Tweet Jeremy J. Johanski @TripleJx
R28  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC NOVEMBER 01 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH 9:30PM REVEREND RAVEN THE HILL OMRO 2:00PM NOVEMBER 05 ROSS CATTERTON (OF KYLE MEGNA & THE MONSOONS) DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM LEGACY BIG BAND PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 7:00PM JAY MATTHES THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 6:00PM NOVEMBER 06 NASHVILLE PIPELINE ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY EAST 9:30PM KWT FEATURING TOM WASHATKA BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM THE 151’S DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM JENIRATORS LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9-1:00 WILDSIDE OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 8:00PM CONSIOUS PILOT SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE THE METAL GRILL CUDAHY 9:00PM HILLARY REYNOLDS BAND W/ WALT HAMBURGER THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:30PM RED LIGHT SAINTS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 07 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ANDUZZI’S HOWARD 9:00PM JOHNNY WAD ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 9:30PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS BACKSTAGE BAR FOND DU LAC 9:00PM TIN SANDWICH BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM CROSSING PATHS BOEHMERS BAR GREEN BAY 9:00PM GRAYLING PINGEL BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM BAD HABITZ DAISYS WESTERN SALOON OSHKOSH 9:00PM THE LATELY DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM LOVE MONKEYS FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC MARBLEHEAD HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH BRUCE KOESTNER HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00 FOLLOW SUIT JACKSON POINT SPORTS GRILL SEYMOUR 9:00PM HYDE KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM JENIRATORS LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9-1:00 THE COUGARS LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM “ACCUSER, HIRED RIVALS, ROLLO TOMASI, SONS OF KONG” LYRIC ROOM GREEN BAY 8:30PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30-11:00 STAR SIX NINE OCTANE BAR AND GRILL WISCONSIN RAPIDS 9:00PM ROAD TRIP OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:30PM WILDSIDE PIGGYS PUB MARATHON 9:00PM DIAMOND AND STEEL PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM ADAMS WAY SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM GRAND UNION SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM NASHVILLE PIPELINE STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM CRANKIN YANKEES THE SHORT BRANCH NEENAH 10:00PM THE LAST REVEL & THE LOWEST PAIR THE SOURCE PUBILC HOUSE MENASHA 9:00PM BOURBON COWBOYS WATERING HOLE GREEN BAY 8:00PM THE STANGS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM UNITY THE BAND ZIGGY’S CORNER PUB FOND DU LAC 8:00PM NOVEMBER 08 ROAD TRIP HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH 9:30PM NOVEMBER 11 “TONY WAGNER, JAMIE FLETCHER & GUESTS” WED. WITH WAGS WHEELHOUSE WAUPACA 8:00PM NOVEMBER 12 JIM COUNTER DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM STUCK ON BLUE THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 6:30PM NOVEMBER 13 RPM ANDUZZI’S HOWARD 9:00PM THE MARK MARTIN PROJECT BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM HITS CIMARRON MENASHA 9-1:00 DONNIE PICK & THE ROAD BAND DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM RED CLOVER GREEN BAY DISTILLERY GREEN BAY 10:00PM JERRY & NORA DUO ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9-1:00 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE JIMMY SEAS GREEN BAY 9:00PM BOXKAR MILL CREEK APPLETON 10:00 PM DANA ERLANDSON MONA ROSE WINERY GREEN BAY 7:00PM THE BELLE WEATHER NEW MOON CAFÈ OSHKOSH 8:00PM R2 SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:30PM THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 9:00PM GREG ORLOWSKI & FRIENDS THE LANDMARK COFFEEHOUSE AMHERST 8:00PM HAUNTED HEADS W/ BACKER THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:30PM BAD HABITZ WISEGUYS GREENVILLE 9:30PM RUCKUS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 14 ROOFTOP JUMPERS 10TH FRAME APPLETON 9:00PM BIG MOUTH & THE POWER TOOL HORNS ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY EAST 9:00PM REVEREND RAVEN & THE CHAIN SMOKING ALTER BOYS BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM REDFISH REMIX BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM CRANKIN YANKEES CAPITOL CENTRE APPLETON 9:00PM MISHA SIEGFRIED BAND DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM SAVING SAVANNAH FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC FINELINE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH BILL STEINERT HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00 JERRY & NORA DUO ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9-1:00 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE JJ MALONEY’S KAUKAUNA STAR SIX NINE KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM GRAND UNION LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM NIKKI LANE W/ CLEAR PLASTIC MASKS LYRIC ROOM GREEN BAY 8:30PM FOLLOW SUIT OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:00PM WILDSIDE PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM SONIC CIRCUS SARDINE CAN NOVEMBER 2015 Wisconsin’s Arts & Entertainment Paper SC NE E Live Music C A L E N D A R
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R30  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 CALENDAR   //  LIVE MUSIC GREEN BAY 9:00PM DANA ERLANDSON IN CONCERT WITH THE DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET SHANK HALL MILWAUKEE 8:00PM JOHNNY WAD SLUGGERS APPLETON 10:00PM HITS STONE HARBOR STURGEON BAY 8:30-12:00PM ASK YOUR MOTHER STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM HYDE THE HAWK BAR AND GRILL CRIVITZ 9:00PM TOM CHAPIN THRASHER OPERA HOUSE FOND DU LAC 7:30PM JERGENSEN TAGG WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM SPITFIRE RODEO WOUTERS SPORTS BAR LITTLE SUAMICO 9:00PM NOVEMBER 15 CHERRY PIE ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 3:00PM THE PRESIDENTS KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 8:30AM THE COUGARS STADIUM VIEW GREEN BAY 3:15PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONE - LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 8:15AM NOVEMBER 16 THE NOBLE THIEFS MILL CREEK APPLETON 8:00PM NOVEMBER 17 COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC PRIVATE GRAND UNION ROUTE 15 APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 18 PAT MCCURDY ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 8:00PM November 19 KYLE MEGNA (OF THE MONSOONS) DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM POCO AND FIREFALL MEYER THEATER GREEN BAY WILD ADRIATIC MILL CREEK APPLETON 8:00PM BAD MEDICINE THEATRE @ 1800 - SENTRY INSURANCE STEVENS POINT 6:30PM NOVEMBER 20 DANNY MOORE & THE BOOGIE BOOGIE FLU BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM DANA ERLANDSON CHEFUSION GREEN BAY 7:00PM ALEX WILSON BAND DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM BAD HABITZ EMMETTS APPLETON 9:00PM BAZOOKA JOE JACKSON POINT SPORTS GRILL SEYMOUR 9:00PM THE PRESIDENTS NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 8:00PM DAN TULSA DUO POTAWATOMI CASINO CARTER 3:30-7:30 6 FIGURES SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM JORDIN BAAS & CHRISTOPHER GOLD THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL WATERING HOLE GREEN BAY 8:00PM THE LATCHKEYS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 21 FOLLOW SUIT 21 GUN ROADHOUSE LEDGEVIEW 9:00PM BIG MOUTH & THE POWER TOOL HORNS ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 9:00PM BOBBY EVANS BAND BACKSTAGE BAR FOND DU LAC 9:00PM MUTTS BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM THE POUNDING FATHERS DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM STAR SIX NINE FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC 10:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH FRAN STEENO HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00 HYDE LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM 17 Waugoo Ave. Oshkosh 235-0023 • atomickatz.com Be thankful for VINTAGE… HAPPY Thanksgiving Tues-Sat 11am-6pm
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R32  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 CALENDAR   //  LIVE MUSIC DANA ERLANDSON MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL MOLE LAKE CASINO CRANDON 9:00PM THE PRESIDENTS NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8:00PM R P M OUTPOST SHERWOOD 9:30PM HURRY UP WAIT PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM ADAMS WAY ROCKY AND TARAS NUTHOUSE KAUKAUNA 9:00PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM “FEED THE DOG W/ THE SHARROWS, & THE RED HAWKS “ SHORT BRANCH SALOON NEENAH 9:00PM THE COUGARS SKINNY DAVES MOUNTAIN 9:00PM BAD HABITZ STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM JOHNNY WAD THE SHACK FOND DU LAC 9:30PM SAM LUNA & KYLE MEGNA THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:00PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM SPARE CHANGE TRIO WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 22 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 23 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 24 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 25 UNITY 10TH FRAME APPLETON 9:00PM DANA ERLANDSON BOTTLE ROOM SUAMICO 7:00PM BOXKAR BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM STAR SIZ NINE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH THE BOMB ICU BAR AND GRILL NEENAH 8:00PM THE PRESIDENTS JACKSON POINT SPORTS GRILL SEYMOUR 9:00PM ADAMS WAY JJ MALONEYS KAUKAUNA 9:30PM CRANKIN YANKEES KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM R P M LEAP INN FREEDOM 10:00PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:00PM SONIC CIRCUS OUTPOST SHERWOOD 9:00PM THE COUGARS PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM HYDE RIVER RAIL SHIOCTON 8:30PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM WILDSIDE SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM HURRY UP WAIT TANNERS KIMBERLY 9:00PM GRAND UNION THE STONEYARD GREENVILLE 9:30PM “TONY WAGNER, JIM OLSCHMIDT & TONY MENZER” WED. WITH WAGS WHEELHOUSE WAUPACA 8:00PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 26 ASK YOUR MOTHER ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 3:30PM THE COUGARS KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 3:00PM JOHNNY WAD TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONE - LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 3:30PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 27 MIKE MALONE PRESENTS BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM DANA ERLANDSON BOTTLE ROOM SUAMICO 7:00PM THIRD WHEEL BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM BLUES TALK DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM UNITY EMMETTS APPLETON 9:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE JEN AND TONICS GALLOWAY 9:00PM THE PRESIDENTS POTAWATOMI CASINO CARTER 8:00PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC PRIVATE RED LIGHT SAINTS RED LANTERN FOOD AND SPIRITS GREEN BAY 9:30PM THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 9:00PM FRAN STEENO STONE HARBOR STURGEON BAY 8:30-12:00 DIAMOND AND STEEL THE SHORT BRANCH NEENAH 10:00PM STARGOYLE W/ THE HOOK UP THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:00PM VIVO THRASHER OPERA HOUSE FOND DU LAC 7:30PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM JERGENSEN TAGG WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 28 THE PRESIDENTS ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 9:00PM JOHNNY WAD ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY EAST 9:30PM ROB ANTHONY BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM BUFFALO STOMP BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM THE POCKET KINGS DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM ROAD TRIP FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC THE COUGARS FOX HARBOR PUB & GRILL GREEN BAY 9:00PM GRAND UNION HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30PM GRAND UNION HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH ROOFTOP JUMPERS LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM NASHVILLE PIPELINE OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:00PM R P M PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM WILDSIDE STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM THE LISTENING PARTY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 29 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM DECEMBER 05 JEREMY GARRETT OF THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS W/ FEED THE DOG THE SOURCE PUBIC HOUSE MENASHA 8:30PM
ENTERTAINMENT // UW OSHKOSH THEATRE “These Shining Lives,” is a play based on the true story of four women who worked at factory painting watches with a radium compound. The play focuses on Catherine Donohue who explains the play “begins like a fairy tale, even though it isn’t one,” and “ends like a tragedy, even though it isn’t one.” The director of the play, Merlaine Angwall, says the story line focuses on the life of Donohue, “how she knew she had radium poisoning and how she went forward with other women to pursue a lawsuit.” Throughout the course of the play the women face many challenges despite the fact that they are uncharac- teristically working a well-paying job during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The job required the women to dab a paint- brush covered in a radium compound between their lips. In doing so they ended up ingesting radium orally and collecting it on their hands and clothes. The company, Radium Dial, and its president told the women that there was no evidence that radium was harmful; they said it was highly beneficial and even cured a number of diseases. “The company didn’t want to pay for any damages,” Angwall said. “The women were all very, very sick and the company knew that, but they didn’t want to take respon- sibility for their illness. The company said, ‘We’re helping these poor souls. They’re lucky to have a job. Why are you biting the hand that feeds you?’” After a few years the women began to notice their hands glowed in the dark and became concerned. As time went by, the ladies noticed more effects and developed more serious health issues. The company doctors told them not to worry, nothing was wrong and prescribed them aspirin to help. “The company knew all along that radium would kill them and did nothing to help them.” Angwall said. “They sent them to the company doctor rather than pay for an outside, licensed physician to examine them.” Eventually after years of searching, the women found a doctor who would help them, and he diagnosed them with radium poisoning. With the help of their attorney, Leonard J. Grossman, a lawsuit was filed against Radium Dial with Donohue as the lead plaintiff. After six years, the women won the case and just twenty-one days later Donohue passed away from the effects of radium. “Because of Donohue’s persistence, it was a landmark case,” Angwall said. Franca Barricelli, a dramaturg for the play, said Dono- hue’s determination was key in winning the case. “Her will to fight is a characteristic of her,” Barricelli said. “She was cognizant of making a legacy and making a legal change.” Donohue’s case was shortly after the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire case, which was a fire in New York that trapped many garment workers in a warehouse with no means of escape. “With events like the Shirtwaist Fire it forced state and federal government to enact laws for workers’ safety,” Barricelli said. Cases like this brought to light the extent of responsi- bility a company has or should have for its workers health and safety. Barricelli said “These Shining Lives” addresses several complex issues. “Not only does the show ask what responsibility com- panies have to its workers, but what responsibility do we have to each other in a civil contract, not individuality, but to ensure the wellbeing of the whole,” Barricelli said. “This case also occurred in a time of personal empower- ment for women, and in this hopeful moment hope is taken away by disease and greed.” Angwall said she always looks forward to putting a cast and crew together, creating the ensemble and the journey to present the story that the playwright tells. “To me, the best part is seeing how well we can tell that story,” Angwall said. Cameron Hitchcock, who plays Dr. Dalitsch, said this show presents the actors with multiple challenges. “These people had lives and we’re representing them,” Hitchcock said. “There’s moments of happiness and moments of sadness, so we need to capture that and pres- ent that the way it should be played because we’re living the experience they lived,” “I’m excited to see where this goes,” Amy Baumgard- ner, who plays Catherine Donohue, said. “It’s a really powerful play. It’s funny and it’s not funny because it’s so serious so it’s going be cool to see how it all comes together.” “These Shining Lives” will run from Nov. 19-22 at the Fredric March Theatre. Visit uwosh.edu/theatre or cal 608-770-4841. About the UW Oshkosh Theatre Department The University ofWisconsin Oshkosh Theatre Department offers students a program combining personalized attention with a full range of classroom and production opportunities. The theatre major exposes students to all aspects of the theatri- cal arts, and allows students to focus their training in acting, directing, design, technology and playwriting. UW Oshkosh Theatre presents “These Shining Lives” November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L9
L10  | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | November 2015 GREEN CHOICES  //  SEEING GREEN BY WILL STAHL In November 2009 the media world was roiled by the news that hackers had gotten into the e-mails of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Right-wing media out- lets and commentators crowed that here was the smoking gun that proved global warming was a hoax promulgated by a conspiracy. In fact only a few cherry-picked quotes seemed to confirm anything like the deniers’ claims, and those resulted from a misunderstanding of scientific jargon. Though the whole “scandal” has been thor- oughly and repeatedly debunked, deniers still cite it when they troll climate-change articles on the Internet. This past week a smoking cannon has been discovered that indicates the hoaxing has been coming from the other direction. InsideClimateNews, a Pulitzer Prize- winning website, has released a series of articles resulting from an eight-month investigation into Exxon’s global warming research that demonstrates conclusively that the oil giant’s own scientists had brought the problem to the company’s attention literally decades ago. In recent years Exxon has been a heavy funder of global warming denial, but in the 1970’s they began a research program to find out if climate change could be caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, whether burning fossil fuels contributed to the buildup of CO2, and if the resulting climate change could be problematic for human welfare. The answers turned out to be yes, yes, and yes. This research started during the late seventies, which deniers point to as a time when scientists were talking about global cooling and an impending ice age. In fact much of this cultural memory relates to a series of brutally cold winters and a splashy TIME magazine article on the subject. Serious climate scientists, some of them working for Exxon, were already researching and discussing global warm- ing. As early as 1977, one of Exxon’s senior scientists, James F. Black, told a gathering of oil barons that the release of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels could dramatically warm the Earth’s climate in ways that could put the human population in jeopardy. In July 1977 he made the same pitch to Exxon’s top executives. Black was unequivocal in his assertion that fossil fuel consumption would affect the world’s climate in mostly negative ways, but the exact affects could not be known. “Some countries would benefit, but others would have their agricultural output reduced or destroyed,” he told Exxon’s scientists and managers. His advocacy prompted Exxon to establish a wide-ranging program to study how fossil fuel use would affect the Earth. In 1979 the company began a project to use one of its supertankers to collect data on CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. An important goal was to find out how much carbon dioxide the ocean could absorb. If it was enough, perhaps nothing needed to be done in the near future to curtail the use of oil, gas and coal. When asked about this project by the InsideClimateNews investigators, the Exxon spokesman denied the project was concerned with CO2 effects on climate and was instead concerned with the “marine carbon cycle.” Documents and former employee accounts tell a different story. According to former employees, at that time Exxon had an internal culture that valued “foresightedness.” It constantly monitored possible risks to corporate profits, including such factors as environ- mental effects. They anticipated that if carbon-induced climate change became accepted science, government might step in with regulation and programs to reduce fossil fuel use. The scientists Exxon hired worked to develop better climate models and publish their results in reputable scientific journals. Within five years they concluded that global warming could exceed even Black’s dire predictions. Though uncertainties existed in the models, Exxon scientists saw those as research questions, not a negation of the reality of greenhouse gas-induced climate change. Though the corporation was backing climate research and some of its scientists and executives were extolling the opportu- nities in alternative energy, Exxon said little to their stockholders about their products’ contribution to global warming. In private though they fretted about the ramifica- tions of developing certain gas fields and Denier-gate: What Exxon Knew and When They Knew It
November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L11 GREEN CHOICES  //  SEEING GREEN new sources of oil from tar sands and shale because it was obvious those sources would contribute huge quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere. When oil prices plunged in the mid- eighties, due mainly to new discoveries in places such as the North Sea and Mexico, Exxon laid off many of its scientists and climate change research slowed. The tanker research project had ended in 1982 after concluding that the oceans could absorb only 20% of the annual emissions of carbon dioxide. Nothing Exxon scientist’s research found disproved anything about global warming, and in fact, it amplified their earliest predictions. They were major contributors to climate research, and their models have been remarkably on-target and borne out by subsequent events. They understood the poles would see the fastest warming and the melting of the ice and snow in those regions would accelerate the process. They realized that sea levels would rise and precipitation patterns would change. They foresaw that weeds and pests would multiply with the droughts and floods, human migration would increase as agriculture in some regions failed. We are now seeing the early phases of these trends. But the eighties were the Reagan years when the Great Communicator said to forget that gloomy Carter stuff and party hearty. These were the early years of the SUV, uninhibited suburban sprawl and airline travel for the masses. Exxon’s climate research limped along until the late eighties when climate change emerged as a serious potential political issue. In 1988 James Hansen, a leading cli- mate expert from NASA, testified before Congress about the reality of global warm- ing and set legislators talking about what might be done to mitigate it. By 1989 Exxon had reversed course and began fund- ing various efforts to cast doubt on the climate science it had helped to create. One Exxon initiative was the Global Climate Coalition that pulled together some of the world’s largest companies to stop government attempts to restrict fossil fuel emissions. Through the American Petroleum Institute, various right-wing think tanks and liberal contributions of money to lobbyists and politicians, they spread their message that climate science was as yet too unreliable to make any big changes in the way we used fossil fuels. In 1996-97 Exxon’s CEO Lee Raymond made high-profile speeches urging caution and delay in dealing with climate change. “Let’s agree there’s a lot we don’t know about how climate will change in the 21st century and beyond…It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.” Long respected in the scientific com- munity for its support of early climate research, Exxon became the object of deri- sion. The Royal Society, the UK’s noted science academy, accused Exxon of being “inaccurate and misleading” when it talked up “uncertainty” in climate research. In 2006 activists among its shareholders pres- sured the company into ending support for some of the groups that distorted the science. But the damage is done. Due in large part to the campaign of misdirection and falsehood waged by Exxon and its ilk, we have lost 25 years that we could have used to work toward a low-carbon economy. Millions believe that a vast conspiracy of scientists grasping for research dollars and socialistic liberals who want to take away their trucks is more credible than that the world’s most profitable corporations, making hundreds of billions per year, might be paying to spread disinformation to safeguard their profits. Not one of the current Republican presidential candidates is willing to admit that humankind can do anything to stop the steady rise in world temperatures and some deny it is even occurring. Because of the money spent by Exxon and others, they can be assured they are saying what their base wants to hear. These articles plainly show that Exxon’s executives, at the highest level, knew what their product would do to the environment. And they chose to ignore it. To see these articles and their documen- tation go to InsideClimateNews.org. More articles on the same subject are coming. 101 North Main, FDL (Next to Hopper’s) 933-6003 • Kitchen open daily 7 am LocatedonNorthMainStreet,justnorthofHopper’sSilkScreening The Talented & Popular LIGHT HOUSE BIG BAND Playing everything from Beatles to Basie Enjoy Dinner Before or During the Show! Come Early... The Show is FREE! Presenting... 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L12  | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // DOBIE MAXWELL BY DOBIE MAXWELL People ask me quite frequently - really, they do - if ‘Mr. Lucky’ is a made up gim- mick I came up with for the stage. Ha! Don’t I wish? It’s a joke. I know everyone has things go haywire in life from time to time, but for reasons I have never been able to decipher I have had more, and on a painfully consistent basis, than anybody I have ever met – and I’ve met a lot of people. If there was a Hard Luck Hall of Fame, I’d be in it. What has always baffled me is, it’s rarely any singular event. It’s a constant collection of small stuff that comes in random yet highly annoying clumps, and then morphs into an ugly bombastic blur that jam packs my waking hours with unbridled stress, utter frustration and all out misery. I have tried my best to maintain a posi- tive attitude, but these sinister streaks keep coming back to hammer me into submis- sion again and again. Whatever heinous debauchery I must have done in a past life to keep getting tortured in this one - I’m truly sorry. Can’t I be forgiven already? For a painful example, here’s how a recent day went: I woke up especially early to get in an exercise walk. I popped a shoe lace and it was too early to go buy another so I decided to put off the walk until later in the day and answer some emails. The very first one was a booking cancel- lation for several months down the road I had assumed was a solid date. It was a nice chunk of cash I was counting on, and now it’s gone. No deposit. No gig. I was already steamed as I stepped into a steaming shower, and there’s barely enough shampoo. I had to hold the bottle upside down and take the cap off, and it all took way too long. There was also a tiny sliver of soap left, and that was the last bar. It kept breaking, and it was all a big pain. Then I went to shave and the can of shaving cream farted. I was out of that too. Ugh. I dry shaved and got dressed to go do a radio interview across town. I had been having serious car issues for a month, as it had been stalling at random. I had taken it to several mechanics, but none of them could figure it out. It always ran fine when they looked at it, but then stall in traffic. That particular morning it happened to conk out five blocks from home – smack dab, dead nuts in the middle of morning rush hour traffic. I embarrassingly pushed it off to the side of the road as a steady parade of peeved to the hilt impatient drivers beeped, swore and gave me the finger. Right! I see their logic. I obviously woke up planning on screwing up their commute. Pinheads. I cranked and cranked and cranked some more on that starter, but that piece of temperamental tin just did NOT want to run. It’s a Toyota Camry, one of the most reliable cars ever. Usually. A local cop stopped and asked to see my driver’s license. I didn’t have it because I had lost my wallet a couple of weeks prior, and had to go get a new picture taken for a new license. It now is required to be sent in the mail to avoid identity theft apparently, and I hadn’t received it as of yet. The officer was cool about it, and looked me up on the computer. I had no war- rants so he said he would add my car to a computer list so other cops would leave me alone until I got moving. He left, and after cranking almost to the end of my battery - and my will to live - it FINALLY started and ran like it just came off the showroom floor. I think it was the universe mocking me. By this time I was a sweaty, angry stressed out mess, and late for the radio interview. I tried to call the station, but of course it went to voice mail. I wasn’t able to reach a live human being. I put the station’s address into my GPS, and it took me on a route I wasn’t famil- iar with. While trying to navigate my way through construction and new turf, I got pulled over by a second cop. “May I see your driver’s license please?” “Uhhhhh....no.” I proceeded to tell him the story about losing my wallet. He wasn’t impressed. I waited in my car twenty minutes. Speeding ticket. $120. Now I’m even more late. Ugh. Stress is now rising like the national debt, and then the radio station calls. “Where ARE you?” “I tried calling, but you didn’t answer.” “Well, we’re on a time schedule. When can you get here?” Stress level now to code triple red. Got there. Apologized. Did the inter- view. Went well. On the way home, I stopped at the small lot where I bought the car two plus years ago to ask the owner if he knew of a trustworthy garage who could diagnose my situation. He did. They took an hour to go over my car with a fine tooth comb. The diagnosis was a distributor, which cost $250 I’m told. Ugh. Not thrilled, but not surprised. It made sense when they said it. They order the part, it comes a half hour later. It doesn’t fit. Of course. None of them can figure out why, but it doesn’t. They order another one from another source. Now it’s a race against time. They put the second distributor in, but now the car won’t start. They fart around another hour, and it finally starts. Now the ‘Check Engine’ light is permanently on. Nobody knows why. Ugh. Total cost out the door: $400.51. Now I’m tired, frustrated, highly stressed, out of patience, and late for a previ- ous appointment to help a friend go through some collectibles. I put his address into the GPS, and again it takes me on a route I’m not familiar with. I’m trying to figure out the quickest route, and I’m frazzled. Police lights again. Pulled over a second time. “May I see your driver’s license please?” “Uhhhh...no.” Deja vu all over again. I told the lost wallet story again. Again, the officer wasn’t impressed. Speeding ticket number TWO. $132. Inflation. I called my friend and told him I wasn’t going to make it tonight. He’s not thrilled. More stress. I then grab a quick bite to eat, and on my way home nature called my private number, right in the middle of traffic. It can’t wait until I get home, and I think I’m going to have a code brown. It was one of those where you pinch your cheeks and pray for green lights. They didn’t come. I think I hit every red light in the county. Then I got stopped by a train. I was losing hope quickly. I got to the first gas station I saw, and the rest room is outside. Of course. I try the door but it’s locked. Of course. I waited in line in the station for some soup head to scratch off a lottery ticket. Then he couldn’t remember the brand of cigarettes his old lady told him to buy. Total torture. I thought would evacuate my bowels right there on the floor. I finally got to the bathroom, and the toilet seat is physically OFF the toilet. I have never seen that in my life. Ever. Plus there’s no toilet paper. Of course. I thought about using the speeding tickets, but they were back in the car. I give the key back to the attendant and waddle to my car, thinking I’m going to pop like a zit. Next stop - Taco Bell. I go into the bath- room and the toilet there was overflowing. Water was an inch deep on the floor and gurgling up like a geyser. Yuck. I was not able to wait any longer. I finally went into the women’s room and crop dusted like a bull moose after Christmas dinner. Relief! It was Colon The Barbarian, and there about three squares of toilet paper left. Of course. Finally I made it home dejected, and severely defeated by life yet again, and decided to check my emails before hope- fully getting some much needed sleep. The first one I see is from a pretty woman I am extremely fond of, with whom I was sup- posed to have lunch the next day. “Hey, I just don’t think we’re a match…” Blah, blah, blah. Ugh. Of course not. And this is by far not the first time a day like this has happened. Far, far from it. I have actually gotten two speeding tickets in one day before. It was in Wyoming of all places, but that’s another tale for another time. This is enough of an example of one day in the life of Mr. Lucky. So in summary, I am now officially the only person I know who has gotten a pair of speeding tickets in one day - twice...and in a car that didn’t run. I never did get my exercise walk in either, or the shoe laces. At this point in my life I’m praying like a monk for identity theft. I don’t think anybody would keep it very long though. I have no doubt I would get it back the next morning with a nasty note. Nobody wants to be me – including me. So...that’s how my day went. Other than that, everything’s fine. And YOU? Dobie Maxwell is a writer and stand-up comic from Milwaukee. To see what hell-gig he’s working next, visit dobiemaxwell.com “Lucked Out”
November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L13 ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY BY C A November 1 Music at First Congregational First Congregational Church 1:30 pm Free Live classical and bluegrass violin and piano music with Beth Chafey-Hon, Maryellen Pung, and others. 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, First Congregational Church, 137 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh. Fun Gypsy and Irish fiddling plus JS Bach, Franck, Dvorak, and the American classic, Orange Blossom Special. Concert is free and open to public. November 5 The Second City: Fully Loaded The Grand Opera House 7:30 pm Tickets: $44/$40/$36/$32/$26/$20 Fresh, fast and always spectacu- larly funny, The Second City is celebrating 55 years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and continues to launch the careers of comedy superstars. This irresistible new show features classic material made famous by Second City stars like Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, as well as brand new scenes, songs and improv straight from their sold out shows in Chi- cago and Toronto. This must-see evening of comedy features some of Chicago’s best and brightest in a special one-night engagement! www.grandoperahouse.org Valley VNA Holiday Avenue, Shopping for a Cause Best Western Premier Bridgewood Resort, Neenah 12:00 pm Cost: $35 - $40 Divulge in a bistro lunch from noon to 3 pm or an evening of hors d’oeuvres from 4 pm to 7 pm. Enjoy boutique shopping, indulge in great food, fantastic raffles, with one of a kind prizes from Zuppas, getaways to Kohler, a weekend at the Wild Eagle Lodge in Eagle River or the enjoy an evening at Rye followed by fun at Pinot’s Palette. All proceeds support Valley VNA’s life enrichment programs for their residents and clients. Reserve your spot today! Go to http://www. valleyvna.org/holiday-avenue/ to register or call 727-5555 to find out more. November 6 Free Fridays - HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 7 Altrusa Club of Oshkosh Presents Harvest Moon Madness Fine Arts & Craft Faire Hilton Garden Inn 8:30 am Altrusa Club of Oshkosh invites you to Harvest Moon Madness Fine Arts & Crafts Fair. Help support local charities and schools. Come shop our Fine Arts; Craft Fair; Book Fair; Bake Sale with a large variety wonderful treats to choose from; fresh picked pecans; Oshkosh landmarks commemora- tive afghans. Oshkosh Farmers Market – Downtown 8:00 am -12:30 pm Free MUSIC BY: TimberMoon FOOD BY: The Roxy Supper Club Approx. 40 vendors every Saturday morning at the Winter/Indoor Market bring you fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables, eggs, honey, syrups, cheeses, pasture-raised meats and poultry, fish, jams and preserves. A variety of handcrafted items are also available throughout the season. Local food artisans bring fresh baked goods, candy, prepared foods and other goodies. Ready to eat foods are available in the kitchen from local businesses. Enjoy live music from 9:30 until 12:30. On our website (www. OSFMI.com), find a list of Who’s Doing What, a Market Layout (updated every Friday) and our Weekly Events for a list of our popular scheduled musicians. Oshkosh Gallery Walk 400-500 Blks N Main St & 100 Blk Church Ave, Oshkosh 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Held the first Saturday of each month in downtown Oshkosh, the Gallery Walk features dozens of local art galleries and businesses showcasing the talents of local, regional and touring artists in a variety of mediums. LABYRINTH Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com Downtown Night Out Comedy Show & Painting Fire Escape & The Backlot Comedy House 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Cost: $20.00 Enjoy a night out with friends! Paint a mug at Fire Escape and after attend an Improv Show at the Backlot Comedy House. $20 includes your comedy show ticket, and a mug (firing and paint included) The Downtown Night out will be held the first Saturday of every month at two different times. Ages 13-20 Painting at 6:00 Comedy Show at 7:30. Ages 21+ Painting at 7:30 Comedy Show at 9:00. No drink minimum. Drinks available for purchase at Backlot during show or from Bar430 while painting. November 10 EAA’s Skyscape Theater Royale EAA AirVenture Museum 6:30 pm Travel back in time and experi- ence the golden age of cinema at EAA’s Skyscape Theater Royale, a free series of classic aviation film screenings held at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, WI. The movies are free of charge and will be shown in the museum’s Skyscape Theater, an intimate setting with a 50-foot screen and state-of-the-art projection and sound systems. The films will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in 2015 (except for July). In keeping with the classic movie feel, bags of popcorn are also free. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis and is subject to capacity. www.EAA.org/skyscapetheater November 12 2015 Oshkosh Chamber Holiday Parade Downtown Oshkosh Main St. & Ceape Ave. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm This year’s theme is “Surf, Sand and Santa.” So bust out your Hawaiian leis, coconut bras, and tiki torches and join in on the fun! Meet the Author Oshkosh Public Museum 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Local author Randy Domer will present his new book Oshkosh - Land of Lakeflies, Bubblers and Squeaky Cheese at the Oshkosh Public Museum on Thursday, November 12, starting at 6:30 pm. Domer will be signing copies of his book following the presenta- tion. www.oshkoshmuseum.org While the SCENE does everything to ensure the accuracy of its Events calendar, we also understand that some dates and times change. Please call ahead to confirm before traveling any distance. NOVEMBER 2015 For inclusion in our calendar of events, please contact us
L14  | SceneNewspaper.com | Greater Oshkosh | November 2015 CALENDARS // THE BIG EVENTS November 13 Free Fridays SUPER MARIO BROS. Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 14 Oshkosh Farmers Market – Winter 8:00 am - 12:30 pm Free MUSIC BY: Oshkosh Suzuki Violin FOOD BY: The Magnet Billiards & Bar Approx. 40 vendors every Saturday morning at the Winter/Indoor Market bring you fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables, eggs, honey, syrups, cheeses, pasture-raised meats and poultry, fish, jams and preserves. A variety of handcrafted items are also available throughout the season. Local food artisans bring fresh baked goods, candy, prepared foods and other goodies. Ready to eat foods are available in the kitchen from local businesses. Enjoy live music from 9:30 until 12:30. On our website (www. OSFMI.com), find a list of Who’s Doing What, a Market Layout (updated every Friday) and our Weekly Events for a list of our popular scheduled musicians. Winnebago Area Model Classic La Sures Hall 9:30 am The show is open to all scales and subject matter such as automobile, aircraft, armor, science fiction, ships, figures and more. We have a special challenge class that is for model pickups only. We will also have a few demonstrations from area model builders as well. http://wamclassic.wix.com/wamc Holiday Wonders Shopping Expo & Craft Fair Sunnyview Expo Center 10:00 am Free Start your holiday shopping early by attending the admission free Holiday Wonders Shopping Expo & Craft Fair. You’ll browse and shop over 75 vendors selling a wide variety of unique and wonderful items for those hard to buy for people including custom decorations, artisan glass, designer purses and jewelry. And don’t worry if you work up an appetite, the kitchen is open along with many vendors selling very tasty goodies. www.landkproductions.com Frosting for Flight Cupcake Competition Wittman Regional Airport Terminal Conference Room 1:00 pm Free The Oshkosh chapter of Women in Aviation, International is hold- ing its fifth annual Frosting for Flight cupcake competition and cupcake sale to raise funds for its Spirit of Flight scholarship. Come for an afternoon of tasting and a chance to win door prizes. Meet our “celebrity” judges. Cupcakes will be on sale for just $1 each or six for $5. November 15 Oshkosh Empty Bowls Soup Sampler Becket’s 4:00 pm Empty bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger. A variety of soups from 12-14 area restaurants will be served with handmade ceramic bowls from area potters, professional and hobbyist as well as college, high school and middle school students. Proceeds will go to the Oshkosh Area Hunger Task Force food pantries. November 19 Museum Auxiliary’s Annual Gala Oshkosh Public Museum 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Stroll through the halls of the Sawyer home to view the beautiful Deck the Halls holiday decorations, and feast on an array of savory hors d’oeuvres and decadent des- serts. Admission is $15 per person to benefit the Museum. A cash bar serving soda, beer and wine will also be available. www.oshkoshmuseum.org November 20 JEFF DANIELS and the BEN DANIELS BAND The Grand Opera House 7:30 pm Tickets: $55/$50/$44/$40/$36/$30/$25 Emmy-Award winner for THE NEWSROOM and star of the DUMB AND DUMBER films as well as others including PLEASANTVILLE, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, and the soon- to-be-released STEVE JOBS. In 1976, Jeff Daniels bought a Guild D-40 from Herb David’s Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, threw it in the back of his old Buick, and moved to New York City. That guitar led to a creative outlet, became a solace, a road into the artist that he didn’t know existed. Now, almost 40 years later, he releases his 7th record, “Days Like These”. And he’s bringing his show back to The Grand. www.grandoperahouse.org Nutcracker in the Castle: Candlelight Tours Paine Art Center and Gardens 4:30 pm $11 Adult, $7 Youth (ages 5-17) Members FREE The Nutcracker story unfolds in the Paine “castle” with the historic rooms elaborately decorated as the fantastic scenes of the beloved holiday fairy tale. During evening candlelight tours, the magical set- tings shimmer in the glow of more than seventy Christmas trees. Free Fridays - FRIDAY Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 20-Jan. 1 Nutcracker in the Castle: Tours Paine Art Center and Gardens 11:00 am $11 Adult, $7 Youth (ages 5-17) Members FREE The Nutcracker Story unfolds in the Paine “castle” with the historic rooms elaborately decorated as the fantastic scenes of the beloved holiday fairy tale. Journey through the magical settings of the Nutcracker story. November 21 Oshkosh Farmers Market – Winter 8:00 am - 12:30 pm Free MUSIC BY: Dornan FOOD BY: Hmong & Asian Foods Approx. 40 vendors every Saturday morning at the Winter/Indoor Market bring you fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables, eggs, honey, syrups, cheeses, pasture-raised meats and poultry, fish, jams and preserves. A variety of handcrafted items are also available throughout the season. Local food artisans bring fresh baked goods, candy, prepared foods and other goodies. Ready to eat foods are available in the kitchen from local businesses. Enjoy live music from 9:30 until 12:30. On our website (www. OSFMI.com), find a list of Who’s Doing What, a Market Layout (updated every Friday) and our Weekly Events for a list of our popular scheduled musicians. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 22 Farmer’s Market Parking lot next to the Post Office on S 2nd St, Omro 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Free Vendors, please contact us with your name, email address, phone number, and what you will be selling. Slots are free but we have limited space. www.winneconne.org/calendar Nov. 22, 24-25, 27-29 Deck the Halls Oshkosh Public Museum 1:00 - 3:00 pm Public Reception Admission is free for all children under 18, and adults receive special admission of $3.50 per person. This annual extravaganza will feature the historic Sawyer home decorated as only the wealthy could do. Holiday “dressings” as reported in periodicals and news- papers of the decades from 1880
November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L15 CALENDARS // THE BIG EVENTS to 1919 are recreated to delight and perhaps provide inspiration. Nov. 24-Dec. 31 Celebration of Lights Menominee Park 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Daily The cost: $8.00 per vehicle Bus Loads $1.00 per person. Quietly nestled along the shores of Lake Winnebago, in beautiful Menominee Park in Oshkosh, lies a single mile stretch that trans- forms into illuminated holiday wonder each year since 2001. Oshkosh Celebration of Lights is no longer a local best-kept secret. November 26 Festival Foods Turkey Trot 8:00 am The Turkey Trot offers two events – a five mile run and a two mile walk – to accommodate participants of all ages and abili- ties. Attendees enjoy the upbeat music, high quality long-sleeved t-shirts and free Festival Foods pumpkin pies at the finish line that they can take home and enjoy with their family. New this year - the Dog Jog, a separate group just for dogs and their humans. The Dog Jog will start at the back of the 2 mile event. November 27 Free Fridays - WILLOW Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 28 The Gathering Space Grateful Gathering The Gathering Space 7:00 pm Those of use who have a roof over our heads, three square meals in our bellies and four walls to keep out the chill have lots of good reasons to be grateful. Some of our fellow travelers aren’t so lucky, though. The folks at The Gathering Space think one really great way to express gratitude for all the blessings we enjoy is to help others who are less fortu- nate – and to have fun doing it! That’s why we have decided to invite our good friend John Duggleby – musician, author, and chicken-dancer extraordi- naire – for a return engagement at The Gathering Space. It will be an evening of good music for a good cause, as a portion of the proceeds from his concert will be donated to The Day by Day Warming Shelter in Oshkosh. The Shelter is open October through April and provides a safe and comfortable alternative for area folks who just need a place to come in from the cold. January 30 TOWARD HARMONY WITH NATURE Oshkosh Convention Center 2 N Main, Oshkosh In celebration of the 20th Toward Harmony with Nature Confer- ence, Wild Ones Fox Valley Area is pleased to present Dr. Darrell Morrison, one of the country’s most distinguished native land- scape designers and educators. Dr. Morrison landscape designs include two of our country’s most admired landscape gardens; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX and the Native Plants Garden at the UW Arboretum. His keynote address “Rivers and Drifts: Natural Process in Designed Places” will provide a wealth of informa- tion and inspiration for home gardeners. The all-day natural landscaping conference also includes nine other speakers on the whole spectrum of native plants and natural landscaping topics will be present, as well as vendors and exhibitors and a silent auction. For more information, visit http://www.towardharmonywith- nature.org. Hours: Tues-Fri 10-4 OPEN SATURDAYS 10-2 Special order and in stock bedroom sets, dining sets, bookcases, gliders, desks, end tables, children’s furniture and much more! 116 S. Main Downtown • Fond du Lac • 926-9663 Handcrafted Solid Wood Furniture • Many Amish Items Handcrafted Wood Furniture Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy a new wood dining table this Holiday Season!
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    November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L3 TheWisconsin Dairy logo is a registered trademark of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. © 2015 Culver Franchising System, Inc. 03/2014 Our Culver’s at 1580 S. Koeller St., Oshkosh may be closed, but we’re building a new building.We will re-open in January 2016, giving you a new Culver’s! Visit us at 2270 Westowne Ave. during the rebuild. Culver’s of Fond du Lac - E. Johnson 969 E. Johnson Street Fond du Lac, WI 54935 (920) 922-5559 Culver’s of Fond du Lac - Hwy. 23 W6606 Hwy. 23 Fond du Lac, WI 54937 (920) 922-2272 Culver’s of Oshkosh - Koeller 1580 S. Koeller Street Oshkosh, WI 54902 (920) 231-6028 Culver’s of Oshkosh - Westowne 2270 Westowne Ave. Oshkosh, WI 54904 (920) 231-6019 Come on in to your local Culver’s restaurant: Culver’s of Fond du Lac - Pioneer 81 W. Pioneer Road Fond du Lac, WI 54935 (920) 922-2826 culvers.com The Culver’s Deluxe (Recipe No. 4) Fresh, Never Frozen, Midwest Beef Cooked to Order Lightly Buttered, Toasted Bun Real Wisconsin Cheese
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    L4  | SceneNewspaper.com | GreaterOshkosh | November 2015 SCENE STAFF Publisher James Moran • 920.418.1777 jmoran@scenenewspaper.com Associate Publisher Norma Jean Fochs • 715.254.6324 njfochs@scenenewspaper.com Ad Sales Norma Jean Fochs • 715.254.6324 njfochs@scenenewspaper.com Connie Carmical • 920-267-0721 ccarmical@scenenewspaper.com Graphic Designer Ericka Kramer-Baker • 920.602.2297 ebaker@scenenewspaper.com GREATER OSHKOSH EDITION Advertising deadline for December is November 20 at 5 p.m. Submit ads to ads@scenenewspaper.com. The SCENE is published monthly by Calumet Press, Inc.The SCENE provides news and commentary on politics, current events, arts and entertainment, and daily living.We retain sole ownership of all non-syndicated editorial work and staff-produced advertisements contained herein. No duplication is allowed without permission from Calumet Press,Inc.2015. PO Box 227 •Chilton,WI 53014 •920-849-4551 Calumet PRESSINC. R16 CONTRIBUTORS L9 L6 COVER STORY R16 Jeff Daniels FINE ARTS R6 Foxy Finds FOOD & DRINK R2 Brewmaster R4 From the Wine Cave R5 Tricia’s Table ENTERTAINMENT R12 Weyauwega International Film Festival R14 Poco & Firefall R18 Postcard from Milwaukee R20 CD Review: Blue Whisper R22 The Spanish Inquisition R23 CD Review: The Look R24 Wisconsin’s Favorite Band R26 Marianas Trench L9 UW Oshkosh Theatre L12 Dobie Maxwell NEWS & VIEWS L6 Vanishing Barns L8 Media Rants R10 Heroe’s Hunt GREEN CHOICES L10 Seeing Green OUTDOORS R8 Backyard Flock: Part Two EVENT CALENDARS R28 Live Music L13 The Big Events CONTENTS Lori Palmeri Tony Palmeri Will Stahl Dobie Maxwell Steve Lonsway Kimberly Fisher Trish Derge Jean Detjen Rob Zimmer Michael Casper Joseph Ferlo Blaine Schultz George Halas Troy Reissmann Jeremy J. Johanski ALL NEW 2016 Mazda CX-3 Available with All Wheel Drive! Available with All Wheel Drive! Spectacular year-End Savings! 32MPG HWY 16M366 $ 269 * PER MONTH, 36 MO. LEASE Images shown for illustration only and may differ from advertised unit. (*) Payments shown are examples based on in-stock vehicles and available incentives/offers at time of this publications deadline (10/28/2015) and are subject to change. Example payments shown are plus tax, title, license and services fee. Payments based on a 36 month, 10,000 mile per year lease, no security deposit required, with $2,499 or equivalent trade due at signing to approved credit. See us for complete details and a great deal on your next vehicle! (855) 783-3355 HWY 41 & 23, FOND DU LAC (ACROSS FROM WALMART) HOURS: MON-THURS: 8AM - 8PM FRI: 8AM - 5:30PM SAT: 8AM - 5PM COME TAKE A TEST-DRIVE HOLIDAYMAZDA.COM 2016 Mazda CX-535MPG HWY 16M235 $ 209 * PER MONTH, 36 MO. LEASE 2015 Mazda CX-9 AWD 7 passenger 24MPG HWY 15M488 $ 319 * PER MONTH, 36 MO. LEASE COME TEST-DRIVE A MAZDA A better way to go... in snow!
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    L6  | SceneNewspaper.com | GreaterOshkosh | November 2015 NEWS & VIEWS  //  WISCONSIN VANISHING BARNS BY LORI PALMERI A nostalgic pastime this fall might be a road trip along Wisconsin’s rustic high- ways. Punctuating the pastoral skyline, iconic Wisconsin gambrel roofs on red and white barns, beacons of the distant past, set the stage for picturesque Wisconsin rural- ity. These barns illustrate a cultural heritage of agriculture in the state, symbolizing dedication and hard work of farmers of the past. From early wheat crops transitioning to profuse dairy production, many of these barns have vanished from the landscape, while some still stand tall and proud on their owner’s property. Author, Jerry Apps, “Barns of Wis- consin” says, “We have far fewer barns in the state than we did twenty years ago.” He should know as he was part of a core group to promote preservation of the his- toric structures. His passion is tracing the ethnic heritage and agricultural timeline through study and writing about barns in Wisconsin. While Wisconsin barns may be vanish- ing from our view, contemporary building of luxury rustic residential and commercial design, allow parts of these rural relics to enter into the current urban aesthetic. Through salvage reclamation and reuse, we see the demand for these solid timbers and elements incorporated into our pres- ent. The demand is growing both in and out of Wisconsin, as the barns timbers and innards are distributed across the globe for various uses. Some barns have been pre- served and hang on through adaptive reuse in the currently popular venue options for weddings, parties and retreats, not to mention storage for big Wisconsin winter toys like snowmobiles, and other non- agricultural acquisitions, while others have been converted to hobby farmettes. In worst case scenarios, the barns are beyond repair and become a burden on owners who need to pay taxes or otherwise are unable to do the repairs. Wisconsin winters, water and ice are the barns’ big- gest enemy as the 100 year plus roofs and foundations succumb to the elements. Without the livestock or hay use, the beams can become brittle and dry accord- ing to Stan Goodwin of Wisconsin Barn, Beam and Board in western Wisconsin. They reclaim, restore and redistribute barn and factories wood remnants. They also do restoration work. The demand for reclaimed and reuse of Wisconsin timber is nothing new. In the early lumber industry, boats and barges were made from the wood and floated down the Mississippi to later become fur- niture and other structures. Fast forward to the 1980’s, California began requiring a percentage of new build- ing to incorporate reclaimed barn and other wood, which kicked off parts of Wis- consin historic structures’ migration across the country. While Wisconsin’s barns started van- ishing, a program for barn preservation emerged. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the University of Wisconsin Extension partnered with the Wisconsin Historical Society to connect farm owners with resources to preserve and maintain these culturally significant structures. Workshops on roofs and foundations were offered and state tax credits, coupled with federal tax credits were encouraged as prop- erty owners decided whether to tear the barn down or resurrect. Struggling with substantial costs to save the barn, weighed against the economic or sentimental value, tough decisions are made at kitchen table discussions. These tax credit programs require criteria for eligibility for Historic Registries and not all make it through the application process. Even if a structure is not historically significant, those built WISCONSIN’S Vanishing Barns
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    November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L7 NEWS& VIEWS  //  WISCONSIN VANISHING BARNS prior to 1936 are still eligible for a 10% federal tax credit on repairs. Efforts statewide at preservation have helped to retain some of the significant structures, but the business of reclamation and salvage have kept pace if not surpassed preservation according to some entrepre- neurial efforts. Chuck Law, UW Extension Govern- ment Office, disagrees, pointing to a new trend, what he calls “barn architecture.” Epic Corp Development, a large Health Records Software company recently built a corporate campus outside of Madison, in the Verona area, with a focus on barn architecture. The structures are all themed. Of note, one in particular has a dairy barn theme. Chuck also says they see a trend replicating the barn architecture on con- temporary buildings and in luxury homes. He says, examples abound statewide of interest in the older structures, with devel- opment projects all over the state. So, while the old dilapidated barns may be fewer on the landscape, they emerge reborn in vari- ous development iterations. He believes that the barn preservation interest has grown statewide in recent years and the Barn Preservation Program’s success of bringing people and resources together has contributed to that. There are discus- sions taking place about offering an annual conference as a supplement to earlier years’ mini workshops on such maintenance and restoration efforts. Jerry Apps believes interest has increased. In an documentary for Wiscon- sin Public Television program, “Wisconsin Barns: Stories in Wood and Stone” he said, “…interest seems to be increasing. Why? The reasons are several. I think many people, urban people, are searching for something. And when you live in the Midwest it is hard to deny that all of us are within two or three generations of living on the land. And there’s something about the experience of living on the land that people are coming back to. They want to rediscover it. They want to visit it, and they want to find out what it was like having a barn on your property, a working barn with cattle in it? What did that smell like, and what did that feel like when you went into a barn with the wind was blowing around the corners and rustling under the eaves, when the pigeons were cooing up on the hayfork track? What was that like?”  Wisconsin’s barn preservation program and other efforts to save the rustic barns must be having some affect, even if it is more of an agri-tourism trend. Supporting that, Jo DeRose of the Wisconsin Historical Society says that most owners that take advantage of the state tax credit, are non-farming and more recreational. They do not have to be listed on historic places, but have to be eligible in order to qualify for the credits. The struggle is getting the awareness of the program out there for people to take advantage. Non qualifying farms/barns structures can still take advantage if built prior to the 1936 10% tax fed credit by self-certifying. Jen Davel, also of Wisconsin Historical Society was asked how many barn struc- tures are listed as taking advantage state tax credits. Her response is that the database currently does not identify specifics, but a rough estimate based on applications processed, are maybe 6 out of 300 applica- tions are farmstead. Another handful are applications that are not eligible because of identity and integrity as not enough of the original structures remain. She also says, there are revisions of the state database which may be able to identify actual num- bers of farmsteads. More information on the Wisconsin Barn Preservation can be found on the so-named Facebook page or WisconsinHis- tory.org website. As with many of the budget cuts in recent years, the Histori- cal Society also has gone lean, and could definitely use volunteers to help get the word out on this and other programs to those who wax nostalgic on the subject. On the private side of these vanishing icons, opportunity for repurposing and meeting the recent decade’s demand for reclaimed barn wood has emerged a plethora of companies offering the services. There are over 47 companies registered as some form of wood reclamation or salvage for Wisconsin, includ- ing Habitat for Humanity’s Restore. Stan Goodwin, of Wisconsin Barn, Beam and Board has been at it for six years. While mostly salvage, reclaim, and redistribu- tion, they offer quality restora- tion and repair for preservation enthusiasts. He said the biggest threat are the foundation’s buckle, without heat or hay, dry rot sets in from lack of use. He estimates the cost to repair a roof from $10,000 to $15,000 and restoration proj- ects can range into the tens of thousands. “Roofs are easy to fix,” Goodwin said “but foundations aren’t.” Ken DeMien, of Glacier Ridge Organ- ics, owns an example of rebuilding a barn for adaptive reuse. Tearing the barn down was considered, but then as WI BBB came to assess, they were encouraged to rebuild. It now serves as a general store of sorts for Tim’s Antiques and Collectibles. The cost decision comparison was approximately $5,000 to tear down or $15,000 to restore. Ken and his wife decided to rebuild and have not regretted it. They also have used reclaimed wood from WI BBB to build an inspirational bunkhouse which, as of next spring will offer a farm experience retreat to the urban agri-curious. And they’ve added solar and rain harvesting to sustainably enhance the property and farm. As for reclaimed barn wood, Stan says most demand is generated from commer- cial and residential building in California, Texas, Colorado and the Dakota’s, but they’re seeing more Midwest customers designing high-end structures reusing the timbers, and other elements from barns and factories. While barns disappear, so to may our culture of Wisconsin’s agri-heritage. Still using their barn for agricultural purposes, Olden Produce owners, Tracy and Richard Vinz of Ripon, say they struggle to keep the barn in good repair for storage of produce for their Community Supported Agriculture. Financial consider- ations for repair and upkeep have them get- ting creative with events like “Breakfast on the Farm,” to help supplement operations. Other private barn owners keep them just because they love them, and enjoy the space and experience. Kelly and Paul O’Brien of Fond du Lac have preserved their barn. Kelly opens the barn for special craft and collectible sales a few times a year. It serves primarily as stor- age for primitive and up-cycled furniture and other near-urban, but still rural experi- ences. On November 8, she will host the “Junket of Joy,” which features a bus trip from Vintique (Neenah) and Ye Old Goat (Appleton) to the barn for a day of collect- ing treasures. A former Wisconsin resident said, “When I returned after twenty years, I was saddened to see so few barns left, but overjoyed at the few preserved and still majestic.” As Jerry Apps put it, “When we tear down a barn, we lose a piece of history.” Know your Wisconsin Barn Styles...The Bank Barn – 1800’s, typically situated against the bank of a hill, rectangular shape, two levels, one for livestock and the upper level for storage and threshing. If no hill was available, a bank ramp was built of earth. This allowed wagons to load and unload at both levels. The earliest bank barns featured gabled roofs, while later bank barns were built with gambrel roofs. Bank barns were primarily constructed with their axis parallel to the hill on the south side; this allowed live- stock to have a sunny spot to gather in the winter. To take advantage of this protection, the second story is extended over the first; the over- hang sheltered animals from harsh weather. A few octagonal barns still stand, while round barns are still stand- ing in fewer numbers, more around the Viroqua area. Three bay threshing log barns precede the larger bank barns. Smaller log barns are fewer in number, but were used prior to the dairy barns we see much of today. The log barns were used in wheat pro- duction. Author, Jerry Apps’ latest edition of Barns of Wisconsin has a com- prehensive list of preserved barns in the State.
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    L8  | SceneNewspaper.com | GreaterOshkosh | November 2015 NEWS & VIEWS  //  MEDIA RANTS The Pope Mystifies Mr. Jones BY TONY PALMERI Pope Francis’ late September whirlwind tour of the United States put him in the Papal Rock Star category that had been the exclusive domain of Pope John Paul II. Corporate media, conditioned to think of Popes as merely Presidents in groovy out- fits, seemed ill equipped to handle Francis’ Jesus-like musings. Surely the media knew what was coming; in his remarkable 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) Francis stated a belief in economic principles not endorsed by the Boards of Director’s of our media elite: • No to an economy of exclusion. • No to the new idolatry of money. • No to a financial system which rules rather than serves. • No to the inequality which spawns violence. According to Millennial, an online journal for young Catholics, Evangelii Gaudium employs the word “love” 154 times, “joy” 109 times, “the poor” 91 times, “peace” 58 times, “justice” 37 times,” dignity” 23 times,  and “common good” 15 times. Francis’ June of 2015 encyclical “Lau- dato Si’” (“Praise be to you”), subtitled “On Care For Our Common Home” issued similar challenges to the elites: “To claim economic freedom...while real con- ditions bar many people from real access to it, and while possibilities for employment continue to shrink, is to practice a double- speak which brings politics into disrepute.” He describes a planet that is the victim of “relentless exploitation,” that is in part the result of “the reckless pursuit of profits.” In rock and roll terms, those are Woodstock-era platitudes. I found myself thinking of two classic rock songs every time the Pope appeared on American tele- vision: “After Forever,” by Black Sabbath and Bob Dylan’s, “Ballad of a Thin Man.” Whenever right wing pundits pontificated about the Pope and dismissed his call for reigning in capitalist excesses as somehow nothing more than communist polemics, these lines from the “After Forever,” came to mind: “Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he’s a fool?” and “I think it was true, it was people like you that crucified Christ.” National Public Radio’s Bob Garfield, cohost of “On the Media,” perfectly summed up the wingnut reaction to the Pope in a rant called “The Pope is not a Politician.” After citing hysterical reactions to Francis from the likes of Rush Lim- baugh and Stuart Varney, Garfield argues cogently that, “The problem is that in our hyper-politicized media culture, nothing in the world is immune from partisanship and polemic.  Not atmospheric crisis.  Not evolution.  Not vaccination. Not economic history.  Not even hunger. What should the leader of the Church talk about then? Deflategate?” We shouldn’t get too upset about wing- nut commentators because they only exist to entertain. Only “true believers” take them seriously. Of much more concern are the mainstream, “moderate” journalists and commentators. These journalistas may or may not be Catholic, but they do belong to what New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen has long called the “Church of the Savvy.” According to Rosen: “Savviness is what journalists admire in others. Savvy is what they themselves dearly wish to be. (And to be unsavvy is far worse than being wrong.) Savviness: that quality of being shrewd, practical, well-informed, perceptive, ironic, ‘with it,’ and unsentimental in all things political is, in a sense, their professional religion. They make a cult of it.” It’s those “savvy” journalists Bob Dylan probably had in mind when he wrote this in “Ballad of a Thin Man”:  Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, Mister Jones? In the 1980’s the “thin men” running Pravda and other Soviet media viewed Pope John Paul II through a Cold War “evil capitalist/benevolent communist,” frame that had little relevance to anyone outside Western and Soviet elites. State controlled journalists refused to see that the “something happening here,” was a grassroots rebellion of millions standing up against a totalitarian state that had spent years squashing basic freedoms and squan- dering wealth on a pointless arms race. Pope John Paul II, originally from Poland, no doubt inspired resistance to Communist authorities, but like any “great leader,” the most he could be was a symbol of what was going on at the street level. Today, the thin men and women run- ning mainstream USA journalism insist on viewing Francis through a partisan Left/Right lens that is meaningless pretty much everywhere on earth except in USA mainstream media. The subtext of almost all the Pope coverage was that Francis is a moderate Republican on social issues (he upholds traditional Catholic dogma on most issues, but is less mean spirited about it) and a liberal Democrat on economics. Like their Soviet counterparts a genera- tion ago, these government lapdog media will not or cannot see that the “something happening here,” is a global, grassroots resistance to the “New World Order,” that emerged in 1989 with the promise of democracy for all and a “peace dividend,” but ended up giving the world more inequality, more environmental destruc- tion, and more elite control of the centers of power. Francis came to America and preached the old fashioned Golden Rule to politi- cians, and a media establishment that are the chief enablers of the new golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. Tony Palmeri (palmeri.tony@gmail.com) is a professor of communication studies at UW Oshkosh.
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R1 Appleton One GreatPlace! Saturdays, November – May 28, 2016 INDOOR FARM MARKET 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., City Center Plaza November 1 – 21 FESTIVAL OF TREES Trout Museum of Art and throughout Downtown Friday, November 13 WINDOW WALK 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Saturdays, November 14 – December 19 VISITS WITH SANTA 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m., Gabriel Furniture Saturdays, November 21 – December 19 ONE STOP ELF SHOP KIDS MARKET 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. City Center Plaza (Next to Building for Kids) Tuesday, November 24 SANTA SCAMPER 6:25 p.m. DOWNTOWN APPLETON CHRISTMAS PARADE 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 28 SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Saturday, December 19 HOLIDAY FUN FEST 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Houdini Plaza Featuring Thrivent Financial’s Avenue of Ice, plus ice carving, visits with Santa & more! #onegreatplaceappletondowntown.org One Great Place for the HOLIDAYS 70+ Pubs & Eateries for Holiday Parties
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    R2  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 FOOD & DRINK  //  BREWMASTER BY STEVE LONSWAY As I passed through my favorite beer outlet in search of the next beer to write our article on, it was easy to get lost in the vast sea of labels.  Unique names, flashy colors, eye catching graphics, crazy bottles, it’s all there for the beer aficionado to enjoy.  But what really grabbed my attention this round was Central Waters Mudpuppy Porter.  A relatively discreet package with colors of browns, tans and blues, yet catchy enough with their iconic heron proudly perched as if in the wild. The Stone Arch Brew team was excited to sample this beer as a couple of us have not had it in a while.  Yet another claimed it to be his “go-to” Porter as he’s ripping it up on his snow board at Nordic Mountain (seems to me he’s spending his time in the bar rather than on the slopes, but that’s understandable). We chose to use standard English pint glasses for this sampling as it is a true Eng- lish style beer.  Although not our favorite glass, it does lead nicely to bring the smells of the beer up to your nose as you taste it. The Mud- puppy Porter poured dark brown with a light brown-to- tan head.  Car- bonation was evident, yet the head diminished rather quickly.  As we held the glass up to the light, we noticed deep shades of amber and brown colors which is what one should expect with the Porter style. The nose has scents of brown sugar, black licorice, semi-sweet chocolate and coffee.  An earthy nose is noticed with a gentle smoke coming through.  Quite complex in the nose which, again is typical in this historic style. If you think our descriptions of ‘the nose’ sounds complex, wait until you taste it!  Numerous flavors erupt from the glass.  From a caramel, malty-sweet start to the dark chocolate tones that sail through the middle, and a bitter chocolate and oatmeal dryness tapering at the end.  This beer flows smooth from start to finish. Speaking of finish; it finishes smooth and sweet.  A bit of bitterness pops out at you as the flavor fades.  The ‘mouthfeel’ is creamy, but is a bit thin at the end.  Maybe a bit prickly from the carbonation, but very enjoyable nonetheless. Central Waters Brew- ing Company got their start back in 1996 in an old Model-A dealership building built in 1920 in Junction City, Wisconsin.  The original owners worked diligently for over two years to get the brick building ready, and equipped it with used dairy equip- ment to make the beer.  Months later the Central Waters Brew- ery was born.  A few more months later, a gentleman by the name of Paul Graham was hired to take over the brewing duties so the original owners could continue to focus on their full time jobs.  Three years down the road the brewery went up for sale.  Paul Graham teamed up with Clint Schultz, an avid beer guy, to purchase the brewery.  Paul and Clint had their sights on packaging their fine brews in six packs for the retail market and acquired an automated bottler.  A short time later the old and over-worked brew kettle developed an unrepairable crack.  This forced the duo to purchase a new brew house. In 2006, Clint Schultz left the brewery, and in comes Anello Mollica.  One year later they moved the operation to their current location in Amherst, Wisconsin. Central Waters has always been known for creating wonderful barrel aged beers and have several awards to prove it.  To us what is most impressive is their dedication to renewable energy.  Their use of solar panels has been a signature of their brew- ery since they made their home in Amherst and that’s just a start to what they do to minimize their carbon footprint.  They take many steps, often incurring higher costs, to help protect our mother earth.  For that alone you should rush out and buy Mudpuppy Porter (or any other of their fine offerings). FINAL WORD: Great beer made by great dudes in a great small Wisconsin town with our great earth in the forefront of their operation! MUDPUPPY PORTER: Central Waters Brewing Company Amherst,Wisconsin Authentic Tapas * Pizza * Soups * Salads * Sandwiches * Burgers * Cheeses Meats * Chicken * Sausage * Baked Goods * Catering * Beer * Wine Full Breakfast Every Day * Brunch on Sat. & Sun. 8 am – 2 pm Holiday Gift Baskets Order your Fresh, All Natural Bell & Evans Turkey For the Holidays Richmond Terrace 400 N. Richmond St., Appleton 831-8311 M-Th 7am-8pm, F 7am-9pm, sat. 8am-9pm Sun. 8am-5pm www.greengeckogrocer.com Serving the Finest Selection of Quality Meats & Cheeses In the Valley Breakfast Lunch Dinner
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R3 Box officeopens Nov 16. Hours: weekdays noon–4 p.m. and one hour before each performance. (920) 424-4417 or uwosh.edu/theatre Nov.19–22 Fredric March Theatre, 1020 Algoma Blvd. General: $14 .Seniors/Alumni with Alumni TitanCard: $11 UW Oshkosh Student with ID: $5 • Student with ID: $6 Set in the Radium Dial Company on the outskirts of Chicago, These Shining Lives is inspired by the true story of Catherine Donohue, who painted watches with a mixture of water, glue and radium powder — all for 8 cents a watch. Catherine’s is a story of survival, of how she and the other women refused to allow the company — which stole their health — to kill their spirits or endanger the lives of those who came after them. TO ORDER TICKETS: These SHINING LIVES theatre season 2015-16OUR AMERICAN LIVES by Melanie Marnich Directed by Merlaine Angwall
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    R4  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 BY KIMBERLY FISHER “Come quickly, I think I am seeing stars.” This was a famous quote by a monk in Champagne who worked in the cellars making wine. What little did he know back then that this thing he called ‘stars,’ was actually bubbles in a glass that could change your world. Effervescent wines have been known since antiquity, when they were developed completely by accident. Incomplete fer- mented wine that had been stored in the chill of the winter or in cold, dark cellars began to re-ferment when temperatures began to rise in the spring. This process is what we call Method Rurale, or Methode Ancestral meaning it is used as a term today to a limited degree. The most famous process that we know today is known as Traditional, or Clas- sic Method. If you are making wine in Champagne, we call this method Methode Champenoise which involves producing a base wine, adding a measured amount of sugar and yeast and initiating a second fermentation in the sealed bottle. Wine has evolved over the centuries, Champagne’s export trade in the late eigh- teenth century and nineteenth centuries, “Champagne” became a default word for sparking worldwide. The fact is, Cham- pagne can only be called Champagne if it is made in the Champagne region in France. One can duplicate how it is made by using the same technique and using the same grapes, but if it made outside of the Champagne region in France, it’s called the Traditional Method or Classic Method of Sparkling Wine. The portfolio of Moet Hennessy has proven to have some iconic producers who have changed the way we see Champagne today. Krug – Reims, France: Established in 1843, this house solely produces excep- tional Champagnes, commonly known as prestige cuvees or tete de cuvee. Con- sidered as a Grande Marque Champagne House, Krug uses grapes only of the highest quality sourced from historic Krug vineyards in the Champagne Region. This style of Champagne is like no other and at the base level, blends over 150 base wines from six to 10 different years and 20-25 terroirs. This wine is truly unique in style and flavor profile. If you are a Champagne lover, and favor Chardonnay, this is a must try! Moet and Chandon - Epernay, France: Moet’s approach to wine making fully respects the integrity of the fruit and is able to call upon the largest selection of wine reserves in Champagne. A balanced blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier reveals a harmonious suc- cession of sensations and elegant wines. Moet offers six different styles that include Imperial Brut, Rose Imperial, Nectar Impe- rial, Nectar Rose Imperial and Vintage. Ruinart – Reims, France: Considered the oldest Champagne house since 1729 when the vision began. Chardonnay is the very essence of the Ruinart taste and the shape of the bottle is legendary as well being the first glass structure that was able to withstand the pressure of the wine inside. All their grapes come from Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards which makes this house style absolutely a treasure. This is a hidden gem amongst the great Champagne houses in the region and is worth the exploration! Veuve Clicquot – Reims, France: Founded in 1772, Veuve Clicquot is amongst the most prestigious Champagne houses. The great widow Madam Clic- quot took over the business at a young age of 27, and has made the brand a huge success. She was one the first to introduce Rose Champagne to the market, as well as the introduction to riddling (remuage) which has changed how Champagne is made today. When looking at the choices of Cham- pagne, one must look to the “house” from which to choose. No other portfolio offers so many choices and different styles to understand what the region has to offer. Champagne isn’t just for the holidays, but is a year round beverage that can liven up any activity or event. This holiday season, start working your way through the list, and see what style suits you best! Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits From the Wine Cave FOOD & DRINK  //  FROM THE WINE CAVE
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R5 FOOD &DRINK  // TRICIA’S TABLE BY TRISH DERGE This dish is so yummy, it’s a shame it’s only thought of once a year while your bird is thawing. My aunt Francine passed this one along to me some years back. You can prep it the day before whatever meal you’re making, and keep it in the fridge overnight! INGREDIENTS: 1 lb. of a dense white bread, cut in 3/4” cubes 6 tbsp unsalted butter, plus extra to grease the pan 2 leeks - halved lengthwise 4-6 oz fresh, wild mushrooms of your liking - slice them Olive oil 1 1/2 cups chopped celery 2 to 3 tsp crumbled dried sage 1 1/2 tsp dried thyme or marjoram or a combo of the two 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper 3 cups chicken stock 2 large eggs 1/2 tsp baking powder Fresh sage or thyme for garnish DIRECTIONS: Preheat your over to 325 F. Place the cubed bread on a cookie sheet, and toast in the oven (25 minutes) turning to brown evenly. Then transfer them to a large bowl. If you’re making this for the day-of meal, butter a 9x13 baking pan, and set aside. If you’re making this for the next day, don’t butter the pan until then. Brush the leeks and mushroom with olive oil, and grill over medium heat until they are tender. Slice the white and pale green part of the leek, and add them along with the mushrooms to the croutons. In a skillet, warm the butter and add the celery, saute until soft (5 to 7 minutes). Add the sage, thyme, salt and pepper - stir - then scrape all into the bowl of croutons. Pour into the bowl, one cup of chicken stock at a time until the bread is moist, but not saturated. Cover and refrigerate until you’re ready to make it for your meal. MEAL PREP: Preheat oven to 425 F, or if you’re preparing the day-of, raise temp to 425 F. In a small bowl whisk the eggs and baking powder together, then incorporate into the bowl of soaked croutons. Spoon the dressing into your buttered 9x13 pan, and cover with foil. Bake for 25 minutes covered, then another 15-20 minutes uncovered, or until lightly browned. Garnish with sage or thyme sprigs. Enjoy! Thanksgiving Stuffing...on the Side
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    R6  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 FINE ARTS  //  FOXY FINDS 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@ scenenewspaper.com R6  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015 “Chicken Lick’n” original paint- ing by Midwest artist Deborah (“Debo”) Vandenbloomer. Whimsically wonderful and vibrant, this piece is sure to add cheer to whatever wall it is perched upon. Artwork measures 16”x16” Medium: acrylic. $300. Found at The Hang Up Gallery of Fine Art in downtown Neenah. The shop offers distinctive custom framing, origi- nal paintings, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and accessories by regional and national artists. Mixology hand-poured soy wax candles by Paddywax honor the craft cocktail movement in style. Each comes in a retro-inspired collectible cocktail glass. $16.95 each in a variety of libatious scents. Choices include: Mint Julep (Mint/Bourbon), Negroni (Gin/Vermouth), Dark & Story (Rum/Lime/Ginger) and Wisco supper club favorite…the Old Fashioned (Whiskey/Orange). Features cocktail recipe on back. Fantastic host/hostess gifts! Found at The Frame Workshop, in Appleton is known for their award winning custom framing, gifts, art and home decor. Bring on the cozy in your neighborhood and beyond with these his and hers “Grandpa” cardigan sweaters. Both new and vintage styles available. Found at Beatnik Betty’s Resale Butik in downtown Appleton where you can find unique fashions for both men and women. The shop’s ever-changing inventory includes designer labels, vintage, denim, leather, current basics, and brand new merchandise. Canada Goose “Hybridge Lite” Vest from The Haberdasher Limited in downtown Green Bay. Great-looking lightweight layer with a snug fit for essential core warmth. Breathable, abrasion resistant soft outer shell with 800 fill power hutterite white goose down. The slim cut stays close to your body and side stretch panels increase movement and help regulate temperature. $345. Other Canada Goose outerwear styles and colors available. The black vest is paired here with a Gran Sasso button mock over a Robert Talbott sports shirt. From classic suits and sport coats to updated and rugged sportswear, Haberdasher Limited appeals to men of all ages. Sweet inspiration abounds with this Good hYOUman “Great Things” baby onesie. Super soft 100% cotton, made in the USA. Shown here in storm grey with this wonderful message: “I’m going to do great things for this world...promise.” Makes a great gift! $32. Found at Besselli, in Green Bay, a cozy and quaint family owned and operated woman’s boutique with a bohemian feel and spin of flirtiness. Hot cocoa never had it so good with these vessels of pure happiness. These adorable retro-inspired marshmallow mugs are just too cute! $10 each, perfect for gift-giving. Found at Vintique, an inviting women’s clothing and gift boutique in downtown Neenah. It’s a shop where ‘new meets vintage,’ and the result is a whole lot of fun! Store owners strive to offer unique items with a vintage, retro or romantic inspiration. A state love-fest on wheels comes your way with this pink Wisconsin deck from Surfin’ Bird Skateshop in downtown Appleton. $44.99. Rollin’ since 1988, Surfin’ Bird carries a wide variety of skateboard and longboard hard goods, apparel and shoes. Their knowledgeable, friendly staff is proud to serve and support the Wisconsin’s Skate Community.
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    R8  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 OUTDOORS // BACKYARD FLOCK BY ROB ZIMMER NOTE: This is part two of a series on keeping backyard chickens. Part one appeared in last month’s issue. With winter fast approaching, there are several considerations to keep in mind when it comes to keeping your backyard flock safe, secure and warm during the cold months of the year. Keeping your backyard chickens during winter is not much different than the rest of the year, though there are additional requirements and modifications that may be needed. Keeping the birds safe from predators, warm, properly nourished and watered are the most important factors to consider. It’s not difficult or challenging to keep a flock throughout the winter months as chickens are perfectly capable of fending for themselves during the cold season. Water challenges Water is probably the most important consideration when it comes to wintering your flock. Because of the low humidity, chickens need fresh water throughout the winter months. Chickens will consume approximately 2 pounds of water, or about 1 quart, for every pound of feed. Keeping the water ice-free and available throughout the season may present a challenge, depending upon weather and other factors. Water is especially important for egg production. The University of Wisconsin Extension recommends several options for keeping fresh water available. Heated bases for chicken waterers are available, as are insu- lated watering containers that help to keep open water available for longer periods during extreme cold. Heat lamps suspended over the water- ing station are also effective. At the very least, provide your flock with fresh water at least twice daily. Rubber pans, which are flexible for easy ice removal, are an option. Another technique flock owners use is to alternate watering stations, keeping one ice-free at all times. High energy supplements Providing proper food and care is important for the winter flock as much of the prey they seek out during the warm season is gone. Many free roaming flocks feast upon slugs, insects, worms, grubs and other food sources during the warm season. In winter, it is important to provide proper food options for your birds. There are many balanced commercial mixes and feeds available in a variety of blends. To provide extra energy and warmth, it is important to provide some high oil grains such as corn and sunflower seeds. These should be treated only a supplement to a balanced feed, however, to keep the birds properly fed. Do not rely solely on grains. Many flock owners also supplement with fresh plant material and kitchen scraps throughout the winter. Unexpected treasure Keeping the area clean and sanitary throughout winter is also important. Kylea Dowland, Forest Junction, is heading into her first winter with her back- yard flock. As she discovered during her agriculture classes at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, keeping the chicken coop clean does not need to be a difficult or unpleas- ant chore. “One of the coolest things with my flock is how I clean up after them. I use a deep-litter method in my coop,” Kylea said. “Every week I add some carbon materials like straw, grass clippings, leaves, sticks and wood chips. You could even use paper products or many of the same prod- ucts you would add to your compost pile.” Just like in home composting, carbon materials are added to the area when odors begin to present themselves. “Basically, composting is actually what is going on inside the coop. The manure and carbon materials form a compost. The chickens will aerate the materials and mix it up,” Kylea said. “The best part? There is no odor when properly main- tained. If it starts to smell, I just add more carbon materials.” Daily or weekly cleanup is not even required with this form of coop maintenance. “I only need to clean the coop once each year,”Kylea said “and I’ll do that in spring. It will likely be a foot deep with compost in some areas but it will be rich, organic matter for my garden at some point. Chicken manure is pretty potent. It needs to be fully compos- ted first to prevent it from burning your plants, like any raw manure.” Keeping predators out “A big challenge for me was the preda- tor problem,” Kylea said of her beginner experience keeping chickens at home. “A cat ate a few chicks, then an owl took some, a stray dog destroyed much of the flock and a hawk killed one right before my eyes. With each death, we have learned to do something different and fix the situa- tion. We have added fencing to the ceiling of the coop in the barn, as well as added fencing to the doorway. We also secured the coop completely, and we will be adding more shrubs to the area to create more safe hiding spots. They have 4 large evergreen trees to rest under during the day.” Providing safe and secure places for your chickens to seek shelter from preda- tors and called will help to ensure a suc- cessful and healthy flock throughout the season. Backyard Flock: Part Two WEDNESDAY - Pizza Night: Choice of Pepperoni, House Sausage and Mushroom or one of the chef’s creations THURSDAY - NY Strip: Horseradish and Herb crusted smoke roasted NY Strip loin FRIDAY - Fish Fry: 10 oz. baked or lightly breaded Alaskan Pollock, served with cole slaw, lemon, marble rye, tartar and your choice of potato. SATURDAY - Chef’s Choice: Something new every week SUNDAY - Smoked Ribs: Hickory and pecan smoked extra meaty pork ribs, served with choice of BBQ sauce and potato at Glacier Wood Golf Club DINING HOURS: M & Tu - Closed | Wed & Th – 3pm-9pm Fri & Sat – 11am-10pm | Su - 11am – 9pm (Bar Open Later) JOIN US FOR PACKER GAME DAY SPECIALS Ask About booking Your PrivAte PArtY with us! (715) 445-0044 | 604 Water St., Iola, WI The Iron Grille located at the Glacier Wood Golf Club for: Great Meals Great Views Great Times Never Settle for Second Best DAILY SPECIALS
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    R10  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 NEWS & VIEWS  //  HEROES’ HUNT BY MICHAEL CASPER An acquaintance of mine by the name of Jim Zahn, a US Army and Vietnam Vet- eran who belongs to the Rosendale VFW Post 10195, suggested that since Veteran’s Day is November 11th, I look up a gentle- man by the name of Brian Ball. A year ago Brian formed a non-profit to help our war wounded brothers and sis- ters hunt on donated land, using donated weapons and donated ammo. I was curi- ous. “My nephew, who had done two tours in Afghanistan for the Marine Corps,” Brian said “returned home for 6 months. He wasn’t a very happy kid when he came back, hadn’t seen him smile in a long while. Then deer season rolled around, and to make a long story short...he shot a real nice 8-pointer. It just lit him up! It was like he was able to breathe again, and smile, and enjoy life, just through the simple act of harvesting a deer.” Brian thought there may be a degree of healing for some of the soldiers through hunting. It was time to get the City of Waupun involved, specifically Director of Public Works, Dick Flynn, a retired Navy Seabee. “We brought it to the city council,” Brian said “and they liked the idea, and okayed it.” They started with 77-some acres dedi- cated to the Heroes, until word began to spread, and within a month had expanded to 500 acres made available. “All private land, great spots to hunt,” Brian said “and last year, our first year we took 14 vet’s out hunting, and did so for twelve weeks in a row. They bagged 19 deer, and a bunch of ducks, pheasants and geese.” Interest continues to boom. “This year I had 60 vet’s sign up,” Brian said “with seven on a waiting list. And now we’ve grown to 1,500 acres of deer hunting land, another 1,000 acres of goose and duck hunting land, all private property, and exclusively for the vet’s to hunt on, that’s what we really stressed to any landowners who wanted to participate. They can hunt their own land of course, but we want to leave it ‘fresh’ for when the vet’s come out on the weekends.” In hind sight, Brian admitted he should have cut off the number of vet’s who can join the hunt at forty. “But I just can’t say no,” Brian said “and especially to disabled vet’s, or those who were wounded. I kept saying, ‘We’ll fit you in,’ and finally I looked at the list of sixty and said, ‘Oh my Lord,’ (laugh) we better shut’er down.” The kill ratio was also a concern. “If we started getting to fifty percent,” he said “we had to be careful not to over- harvest, because we want good, quality hunting for the guys.” So far this year the vet’s aim has not been as true as last. “They’ve only gotten three nice doe’s,” Brian said “but they also missed six deer. Last year out of thirteen shots with the crossbow, they got twelve deer, so I don’t know what’s happening (laugh), but they’re having a lot of fun.” The Board of Directors includes Jay Steinbach, a friend of Brian’s from church. “Jay said, ‘If we’re going to make this work, we need to put God first, and give Him all the glory for it.’ And we did that, and it’s just taken off.” Other board members include Floyd Resplayje, a local contractor, Jeff Lem- mens, and his son Loden, and Dave Vogel volunteers as well. “What’s kind of neat is,” Brian said “none of us are veterans.” The Hunt corps has 17 volunteer guides. “Typically what happens on a Friday or Saturday,” Brian said “it depends on when the vets arrive, the AmericInn in Waupun donates rooms, The Goose Shot supper club gives them a prime rib dinner Sat- urday night. And the Hitching Post near Manchester gives a couple guys free dinner. Pizza Ranch and Taco Bell also contribute. The city has really embraced this, and helps Heroes’ Hunt for Wisconsin Game Back Row Bill Ball, Brian Ball, Aaron Hackett (Army), Mike Kadinger Jr., James Dennis (Army, two-time Purple Heart recipient), Avery Raith Front Row Randy Raith, William Schumacher (Navy), Jeff Stockinger (Army), Autumn Raith, Danny Dorzok (Navy)
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R11 NEWS &VIEWS  //  HEROES’ HUNT these guys out.” They also have a 12x18 foot wall tent set up near Manchester, Wisconsin, what they’ve named Camp Nicholas. “Nicholas Mueller was Special Forces,” Brian said “what they called ‘night stalk- ers,’ and Nick was killed in Afghanistan in 2009 when he and sixteen of his comrades were shot down in their Chinook Helicop- ter. His mom and dad, Sharon and Larry donated a lot of money to construct Camp Nicholas that has the tent with a wood burner, and four cots in it. It’s located on a very picturesque spot, and the guys really like it.” There’s always some tune up before venturing out. “We practice with the bows,” Brian said “or if they’ve brought their own bows, and then we go hunting from there. Heroes’ Hunt isn’t only designed for those wounded. “We decided to open this up to all veterans,” Brian said “because I think every vet deserves to be able to hunt, every vet who signed that dotted line, could have been wounded or killed.” They set out in groups of four or five. “And some of these ‘walking-vets’ have been severely injured,” Brian said “but you wouldn’t know it unless you asked them, and then I always save two spots for handi- capped guys.” The hunt continues through bow season, then the gun hunt both weekends this month, muzzle loaders in December, then right back to bow season in January. “It’s around seventeen weeks we do this,” Brian said “quite a commitment and a lot of work, I won’t lie to you, but I’m blessed with a really good wife, Sharon who is very patient with me, she helps out a lot...married 27 years now.” Part of the Heroes’ Hunt creed says that a veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, reserve or guard, is a person who at one point in their life wrote a blank check, made payable to the United States of America, for an amount up to, and including their own life. Something to remember. And not only on the 11th. The Rosendale VFW Post 10195 recently donated $5000 to help cover just some of the cost of an all-terrain track wheel chair. Visit heroeshuntforww.org
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    R12  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY WELCOMES YEAR 5 The Weyauwega International Film Festival, presented by Wega Arts, will be returning November 11-14 to the Gerold Opera House for its fifth year of films from around the globe. This year the festival will be screening forty-three films representing seventeen different countries. Many of the films were either made in Wisconsin or have Wisconsin connections. The 13th of the month of November happens to fall on a Friday which of course invites an opportunity to screen horror films. The Weyauwega International Film Festival (WIFF) has seized this opportu- nity to satisfy the horror hounds in Central Wisconsin and will be screening horror films and thrillers all day on Friday the 13th in what they are calling a “Friday the 13th Fright Fest”. Most notable in this line up is the world theatrical premiere of the new feature film DISMEMBERING CHRIST- MAS by local filmmakers Steve Golz and Kevin Sommerfield of Slasher Studios. They will be on hand to present their twisted Christmas tale at 9 pm. Another Wisconsin film screening on Friday is HAUNTED STATE, a blood chilling documentary which explores the hauntings of several locations in Wisconsin including the Stone Cellar Brew Pub in Appleton, the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee and locations in Wisconsin Rapids and Merrill. The film- makers including director Michael Brown of Appleton will be in attendance for the screening of HAUNTED STATE at 3:30 pm on Friday. The other scary Wisconsin film is the psychological thriller THE SCARAPIST which tells the tale of a distraught women who is led astray by a very demented therapist. The writer, director and star of the film, Jeanne Marie Spicuzza is expected to be in attendance for this entertaining thriller which screens at 5:15 pm on Friday. For those looking for a good possession tale there are two offer- ings. IN THE DARK by New York filmmaker David Spaltro offers a very spooky and original demonic posses- sion tale featuring a mostly female cast which screens at 7 pm. At 10:30 pm LUCIFEROUS promises to raise the chill factor with its story about a family that is being tormented by a very nasty entity. This unique tale fea- tures a real couple and their daughter as the onscreen family. This especially creepy film has lately been honored with several awards on the festival circuit. Of course WIFF is not all about horror films. Some great feature films and documentaries as well as a wide variety of short films will be screened this year. Wednesday’s lineup includes the documen- tary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHARLIE at 5 pm about outsider artist Charlie van Ness who started out making a wide variety of art objects featuring phalluses. The filmmaker follows Charlie for several years and his persistence pays off. There are some very unexpected and harrowing developments in Charlie’s life. At 7:30pm on Wednesday the Sci-Fi film EMBERS screens. EMBERS is set in a post apocalyptic world where a global virus has wiped out the memory of everyone it infects. This is no zombie or Mad Max marauder flick, it is a very thought provok- ing and touching existential tale of identity and what it is to be human. The film fol- lows several characters as each morning they awake with no recollection of the day before or who they are. This film is a real conversation starter and is also beautifully filmed. EMBERS has an encore screening on Saturday, November 14th at 2:15pm. Thursday features the classic 1959 court room thriller COMPULSION about the Leopold-Loeb murder case starring Orson Welles screening at 1:30pm. The
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R13 film willbe introduced by noted film his- torian Dr. Jack Rhodes and it is also a free screening. The documentary POLYFACES screens at 5:15pm and examines the unique and highly sustainable farming practices at the Polyfaces Farm in Virginia. This film is a real eye opener about the potential of sustainable farming and should be a must see for anyone environmentally or agri- culturally minded. At 8pm the extremely timely documentary PEACE OFFICER examines the results of the recent surge in the militarization of our police forces. In Utah, a crime scene investigator offers clear and insightful examinations of several extremely violent cases involving SWAT teams. In a sad note of irony, this exam- iner’s family also becomes the victim of an SWAT raid gone wrong. This film is one of those ‘Must See’ films for anyone who is a citizen of this world. Saturday starts with a filmmaker seminar with local filmmakers Dan Davies, Craig Knitt, Rex Sikes, and Jim Brecken- ridge, a script writing consultant, at 10am. An encore screening of the previously mentioned EMBERS screens at 2:15pm. The very entertaining romantic comedy DIRTY BEAUTI- FUL screens at 4pm. The documentary about Wisconsin Supper Clubs, OLD F A S H I O N E D screens at 6pm. The filmmakers, Holly L. De Ruyter & Brian Risselada, will be in attendance and of course Old Fashioneds will be featured at the Gerold Opera House’s full bar. The closing night film is a documentary about the state of photojournalism in Afghanistan. During the Taliban regime all photography was banned and women were severely oppressed. FRAME BY FRAME follows several young Afghani photojournalists both men and women who are again facing the threat of another uprising by the Taliban. This film shows a truly beautiful side of Afghani- stan that is rarely seen while simultaneously illuminating the dark reality and horror of oppression in a society that seems to be forever doomed. This is an outstanding film and festival director Ian Teal states that this is a ‘must see’ of the fest. FRAME BY FRAME screens at 7:30pm and will be followed by an awards ceremony and reception with complimentary appetizers and of course, conversations about film. The historic Gerold Opera House is cel- ebrating its one hundredth year in 2015. It is only about a 25 minute drive West of the valley in Weyauwega conveniently located off of HWY 10. There will be soup and sandwiches available for purchase as well as fresh popcorn and a full bar so plan to make a day of it. Tickets are $12 for a day pass and are good for any one film or a whole day of films. Festival passes are $30 and are good for the whole festival. The full schedule can be found at wegaarts.org. Festival passes and day tickets can be purchased at wegaarts. org and at the Book Cellar in Waupaca and Rural Relics Antiques in Weyauwega. The box office can be reached at 920-867-4888. See you at the Gerold! ENTERTAINMENT // WEYAUWEGA FILM FESTIVAL All Performances at 7:30pm Doors open at 6:30pm, featuring musicians from Lawrence University. Season VI Series Sponsors: Nov. 19, 2015 Soulful Si (Keyboard) Blues Vocal Jan. 21, 2016 Bob Levy Little Big Band Swing Sponsored by: Feb. 18, 2016 Dave Sullivan Quartet BeBop Guitar March 17, 2016 Janet Planet feat. John Harmon Jazz Vocals April 21, 2016 Dave Bayles Conventional Piano Jazz Trio May 19, 2016 Matt Turner and Bill Carrothers Contemporary/Future Artistic Director John Harmon Tickets: $20 Museum Members: $12 Students: $5 Member-Only Season Tickets Available Advance Tickets Recommended Tickets available online or by calling 920-733-4089 THE EVOLUTION OF JAZZ
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    R14  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // POCO & FIREFALL BY MICHAEL CASPER A great one-two combination of bands from our wistful memories of music in the 70’s appear at The Meyer Theatre this month. Originally formed by Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young, with George Grantham, and Randy Meisner (original member of the Eagles), Poco picked up where Buffalo Springfield left off back in 1968. Part of the West Coast country- rock genre, they titled their first album, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces,” referencing that ‘Springfield’ break up, and thought to be a seminal album of its time. After Messina left the band in 1970, Poco found Paul Cotton, a musician born in Alabama, but who developed into a true musician after his move to Chicago. “I moved to the south side of Chi- cago,” Paul said “I had some friends in school who took up guitar, and taught me what I needed to know. A year later I did my first gig at the YMCA for $16 (laugh), but that was the start. We were called The Capitals, but eventually were renamed by James William Geurcio, as The Illinois Speed Press.” Cotton, and the Speed Press’ ‘break’ came while playing at a club called The Whiskey a Go-Go. “James Geurcio had produced for the band Chicago,” Paul said “ he was a local boy himself. He was on tour with Chad and Jeremy at the time, and wandered into the Whiskey and discovered us, and soon renamed the band The Illinois Speed Press, told us we had to get out of west, and let me show you around. He was connected with the Columbia record company, and signed us to a two-record deal.” This was in 1967. “It was amazing,” Paul said “we became the house band at the Whiskey out there, and played clubs all up and down the coast, fell in love with California. It was very inspiring for me as a songwriter.” Meanwhile, Peter Cetera was taking pedal steel guitar lessons from Rusty Young. “Rusty mentioned to Peter that Jimmy Messina was pursuing another career path,” Paul said “which became Loggins and Mes- sina. Peter recommended me to Rusty, as the Speed Press was breaking up. Anyway, I got a call from Richie Furay who invited me to the house, and to bring my guitar. I auditioned with one of the first songs I ever wrote called, ‘Bad Weather.’ I guess I passed the audition (laugh). That song ended up on my first album with them in 1970.” Then came nearly a decade of coast- to-coast touring live with Poco producing some of the sweetest harmonies ever heard. “We worked hard on that,” Paul said “with our singing drummer (George Grantham) who had a stratospheric high voice which topped it off for me. I filled in on the low parts, but it was very special.” Cotton had two tenures with Poco; 1970 through 1988, and then 1998 through 2010, and currently for sporadic reunion gatherings. “In the early 90’s Rusty Young and I toured as a duo,” Paul said “ we hired some English fellas as the rest of the band on bass and drums, and Kim Bullard who toured with Elton on keyboards. We kind of went through that decade together. Those guys were on our biggest Poco album, ‘Legend.’” Crazy Love was #1 for seven weeks in 1979, and went gold. “Very surprising,” Paul said “especially since that was during the end of the disco era (laugh), coming out with that cute little song. By golly there it went! It opened a lot of doors, and a new audience” Paul wrote Poco’s other huge hit, “Heart of the Night.” “That came directly from the inspira- tion of the city of New Orleans,” Paul said. “I didn’t know it at the time, until I got home and wrote that thing in like 30-min- utes back in L.A., and bingo...second hit.” The Legend album artwork has become iconic, and a familiar symbol of Poco over the years. “Not everybody knows this, but Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live fame designed that,” Paul said “in fact he did probably ten of our album covers. And he designed album artwork for America as well. His brother managed us, but Phil was a great human being, and I really miss that guy...quite a talent.” Currently Paul is working on Volume II of his ‘100% Cotton’ album series. In January of 2015 Poco was inducted into the Colorado Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. “We were honored there along with The Dirt Band, and Firefall,” Paul said. Firefall In 1973, Rick Roberts and his new band were about to play their first gig, but hadn’t come up with a name for the band. A memory of a cascading blaze of burning logs pushed from a cliff’s edge as a staged event for tourists in the Yosemite National Park, like a primitive light show, was still stuck in Roberts head. Firefall is what he named the band. Roberts had replaced Gram Parsons in the The Flying Burrito Brothers band in 1970, recorded a couple critically acclaimed albums that were near totally ignored by record buyers. Mid-1973, Roberts and Jock Bartley began practicing as a duo, then decided to put a band together enlisting bassist and singer Mark Andes. Larry Burnett, a singer/songwriter and guitarist was driving a cab in Washington D.C. when old friend Rick Roberts called him. Now all they needed was a drummer. Roberts called his old Burrito band- mate, and former Byrd, Michael Clarke, and hired him over the phone. In early 1975 Firefall recorded a three- song demo produced by Chris Hillman that was heard by Atlantic Records reps, who then saw them live, and signed them to a multi-album contract. Firefall then added Dave Muse to the band. A high school friend of Robert’s, Muse played sax, flute, harmonica, and keyboards. Their first album, “Firefall” took a month to record, and became Atlantic’s quickest album to go gold (500,000 copies). The songs, “Livin’ Ain’t Livin,’ got into the top 40, and “Cinderella” began getting radio airplay, while “You Are the Woman,” broke into the top ten. The group was touring with Leon and Mary Russell, The Doobies, and The Band. In 1976 Firefall went on the road with Fleetwood Mac. A new album named “Luna Sea,” was released in early 1977, and featured the top ten single, “Just Remember I Love You,” with ex-Poco and future Fleetwood Mac member Timothy B. Schmidt singing background vocals. Their next album was “Elan,” which produced the hits “Strange Way,” and “Goodbye, I Love You,” in 1978. Elan went platinum. Poco and Firefall, and incredible twin bill, Thursday night, November 19th at the Meyer Theatre in Green Bay. Visit meyertheatre.org Poco & Firefall in the Heart of the Night at The Meyer
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R15 returns tothe Grand Opera House for one night only! Call (920) 424-2350 or 1-866-96GRAND Order online: GrandOperaHouse.org Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:30 PM The Second City: Fully Loaded Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra: Songs for the Season Celebrating Sinatra with Bryan Anthony and the UW Oshkosh Jazz Ensemble Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 PM Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Series OSO thanks sponsor BMO Harris Bank Saturday, November 21 at 7:30 PM Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 PM Tickets on sale now! Box Office 100 High Ave. Oshkosh, WI 54901 Hours: Monday-Friday 11:30 AM-5 PM Saturday 11 AM-2 PM Jeff Daniels and the Ben Daniels Band GOH-2015Nov-SceneAd.indd 1 10/15/15 11:01 AM
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    ENTERTAINMENT // JEFF DANIELS BY JOSEPHFERLO On November 20, actor/singer/song- writer Jeff Daniels takes the stage at The Grand Opera House in Oshkosh for his fifth visit to the historic Fox Valley venue in the past decade. Actor/singer/songwriter. The last two things may come as a surprise to people who know Michigan-raised Jeff Daniels from DUMB AND DUMBER (and DUMB AND DUMBER TO, which he says, “had to be done”), PLEASANTVILLE, SQUID AND THE WHALE, and STEVE JOBS, and from his Emmy-winning performance in THE NEWSROOM. The world largely knows Jeff Daniels as an actor, but these days Daniels can be found on the road with his guitar, playing the bluesy folk music he kept quiet for so long. I remember when I discovered that Jeff Daniels was a singer, and one who was going on the road. I felt like I had “discov- ered” him, but of course, that wasn’t the case. In fact, songwriting had been a solace and creative outlet for Jeff Daniels since he took his first guitar on the road with him in 1976. Thirty years later, he was letting the world in on the secret, releasing his first album as a fund-raiser for the Purple Rose Theatre, which he had founded in his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan, and for whom he still writes original plays (anyone remember ESCANABA IN DA MOON- LIGHT?). Apparently, he had enjoyed himself enough that he was considering taking his act on the road. But this was Jeff Daniels, movie star. I presumed there was no way we could afford to bring this performance to Oshkosh. So, I did something I have only done a handful of times in my twenty-five years of present- ing. I wrote a letter to the artist, rather than the agent. I had no way of knowing whether he’d see it, of course, but I sent it anyway. I told him all about this jewel-box of a theatre in the heart of a small city in Wisconsin. I told him I knew of his affin- ity for the Midwest, for small towns and for what a vibrant theatre can do for the economy. I sent photos, of course. And I walked through the math, and told him that I was uncertain whether we could afford an artist like him. And a funny thing happened. His agent, with whom I had worked previ- ously, gave a call and asked, “what can you afford?” And we got it done. Now, almost a decade later, we’re preparing for his fifth visit to The Grand. Turns out, this big-time star prefers intimate venues like The Grand for his performances. There’s a hint of that (and, we like to point out, a not-so-indirect ref- erence to venues like ours) on his website, where Daniels says, he “(has) played over 300 gigs the past 12 years from Maine to Alaska to Californ-i-a with my preferred venue of choice being clubs and hundred year old opera houses.” And the feeling’s been mutual, as we’ve enjoyed near-to- mostly sold-out performances each time he has visited. Jeff Daniels is, by the way, a great guy. That first season, my offer was...well, let’s just say, it’s what I could afford. And he took it. Another year, I asked for two per- formances, and he did them. I asked him to do a fundraising spot for The Grand, and we still use it today, his words echoing what we love to hear about our venue, “for the audience, it’s like sitting in your living room…they just don’t build places like this anymore…years of history and tradition… where Mark Twain spoke, where Sara Bern- hardt did Shakespeare.” Yes, I gave the man talking points. But he did the rest, with the same genuine Midwestern charm that he has since lent to the Michigan Department of Tourism for their commercial spots (yes, that’s him). He’s done donor receptions, meet-and-greets, and performs in that “living-room” style that our audiences love, and that is unique to smaller venues like The Grand. And when I asked him to re- open The Grand after its 18-month closure JEFF DANIELS AND THE BEN DANIELS BAND November 20, 2015, one performance only Grand Opera House, Downtown Oshkosh Tickets (920) 424-2355 or online at grandoperahouse.org JEFF DANIELS RETURNS TO THE GRAND R16  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R17 ENTERTAINMENT // JEFF DANIELS in2009-10, he was gracious enough to work it into his schedule. Daniels’ musical career has turned into a growing family project, as he now per- forms with his son’s band, the Ben Daniels Band, something he calls “drinking from the fountain of youth.” Think he’s a proud Dad? Here’s how he describes it, quoted from his website. “From the opening song onward, my time with the Ben Daniels Band was and will always be a Life High- light. I had no idea if fronting a bunch of talented Twenty-somethings would work or not, but I damned the torpedoes and risked a high profile creative implosion in front of paying customers on a ‘16 Gigs in 19 Days Tour’ as together, we traversed the back roads of the Upper Midwest in an RV and a Band Van. With great relief and a surprising sense of what it feels like to be young again, I’m here to say it exceeded even my loftiest expectations.” And yes, The Grand was a part of that tour. And the Ben Daniels Band, who joins Jeff again on November 20, is pretty great too. From their opening song to the finale of their set, the Ben Dan- iels Band cuts through with their originality, musicianship, and a sound that is in equal parts Americana, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. With five CDs under their belts – “Coming From The C,” “Checkin’ In To The Michigan Inn,” “Can’t You See,” “The Mountain Home EP,” the dual album & movie release, “Old Gold” and their most recent release, “Roll.” The Ben Daniels Band has a sound that is both unique and familiar. At last year’s gig, many com- mented that I should bring back that band, solo. It may yet happen. And Jeff Daniels continues to record, now with his son at the helm of the record- ings. “Ben went to school for sound engineer- ing, which is great for me,” Daniels laughs, reflecting on their at-home studio sessions. Now, almost 40 years after heading out east with his D-40 from Herb David’s Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, he releases his 7th recording, “Days Like These.” The New York Times says, “Jeff Daniels sings his songs with a growly twang and barbed good humor, at its high point evoking a transcendental picture of American wanderlust.” Jeff Daniels says, “No matter how much fanfare I get, no matter how much exaltation and anointment comes my way, it will never top gigging through the Upper Midwest with my boy.” Yes, it’s deer-hunting kickoff night (which, in a way, is appropriate) but from that opening ovation, through an entire audience dancing the “Big Bay Shuffle” (which cannot be described, only experienced), through the encore, it promises to be one of those great nights where the audience leaves the theatre, knowing they’ve had a one-of-a-kind experience, and glad that they did not miss it. Hope to see you at the theatre! Joseph Ferlo is President and CEO of the Oshkosh Opera House Foundation and Director of the historic Grand Opera House since 2004.
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    R18  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // POSTCARD FROM MILWAUKEE BY BLAINE SCHULTZ Some bands take a while to develop a sound and grow into their skin. Milwau- kee’s Testa Rosa seems to have been birthed fully formed, and hit the ground running. Since their 2007 debut they have mined a sound richly textured, drawing as much from well-produced classic studio albums as high energy Punk/New Wave singles. Testa Rosa’s new album III (which may or may not be a nod to albums by Chicago band, Chicago) finds the quintet further refining a sound all but blueprinted on the first album. Not one to be pigeonholed, the band has paid tribute to The Pretenders and The Shocking Blue at benefit shows. Last Fall, Testa Rosa front woman Betty Blexrud- Strigens curated an evening of Patti Smith’s music for the Alverno Presents series. Yet it is their original music where Testa Rosa shines brightest. With a lineage that reaches back to Nerve Twins, The Frogs and Little Blue Crunchy Things, it should be noted these are not dilettantes we are dealing with here. Employing breezy melodies that often prove to be a façade or prelude where some- thing deeper is revealed, this is a band of strong players (Blexrud-Strigens – vocals/ guitar/keyboards, Damian Stri- gens – guitars, Paul Hancock – bass, Bill Backes – drums, Nick Berg – keyboards), who conjure sonic tapestries over which Blexrud-Strigens’ lyrics take flight.  And she continues to grow into a great teller of three-minute stories. “The Summer of We Three” sketches a situation that might well have dripped off the pen of Tennessee Williams.  Blexrud-Strigens’ knowing vocal sets the listener with the impression something sinister may be laying in wait, biding time in the fertile subtext. This notion of pop noir is nothing new.  Shadow Morton’s production with the Shangri La’s let alone Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill come to mind -- but Testa Rosa adds a bit of production gloss that will catch the lazy listener off guard.  Final track “Lost Loon,” closes the album swathed in gauze, and a mood that would make David Lynch proud. Once again work- ing with Smart Studios alumni, producer/engi- neer Beau Sorenson, the album is rife with sonic touches that gleam while still remaining slave to the song.  “…for words they never hear,” the final line of “The Fireman at the Well,” sounds instantly flat, and in your face, as the reverb attached to the isolated vocal track is stripped. Lessons learned, hard-bitten lessons perhaps, but always at the basest level this is a band whose music offers more with each listen. Their evolution is well worth checking into. The cover of Testa Rosa III depicts the band in shirtsleeves standing in front of a mammoth snow pile.  This blending of fire and ice should be your first clue. Test Rosa III (Atomic Records)
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    R20  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW Blue Whisper Makes a Strong, Uplifting Statement BY GEORGE HALAS One of the most pleasant surprises and highlights of the 2011 Fox Jazz Festival was the appearance of The Amina Figarova Sextet. The ensemble’s stellar performance, showcasing her soaring compositions and piano virtuosity, earned them a growing legion of fans in the Fox Cities. Her latest release, “Blue Whisper,” arguably the best in a series of consistently strong albums, has already garnered con- siderable international critical acclaim and reinforces her status as one of the finest jazz composers in the world. The compositions “Pictures” and “The Traveler” were com- missioned by Jazz from Lincoln Center for its 2014-15 New Jazz Standards series. “Blue Whisper” is Figarova’s second album, after “Twelve,” on In + Out Records, an independent label based in Freiberg, Ger- many. In addition, “Blue Whisper”, has been accepted into four categories on the 58th Grammy’s Ballot: Improvised Jazz Solo for the tenor sax solo by Marc Mommaas on “Hewa;” Jazz Instrumental Album; Instru- mental Composition for “Hear My Voice;” and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals, for “Hewa.” The album includes 10 original Figa- rova compositions, inspired by her deeply personal, highly evocative responses to social turmoil, distinctive personalities she’s encountered and universal transitions of life. While her technical virtuosity is clearly evident, her playing sounds effort- lessly elegant regardless of the tempo. Her melodies are consistently pleasing and uplifting. Moods range from the haunting beauty of the titular track “Blue Whisper,” – her interplay with saxophonist Wayne Escof- frey is exquisite - as well as “Moonrise” and “Hewa” (featuring lyrics in Swahili by Sarah Elizabeth Charles) to the straight- ahead momentum of “Moving Upwards,” “The Hustler” and “The Traveler,” to the sophisticated playfulness of “Pictures,” “Marians” and “Juno.” In “Hear My Voice,” perhaps the most interesting and thought-provoking piece, over a martial beat and sorrowful, resolute horn choir, an eight-year-old girl (Salhiya Bilal Tumba) earnestly strips out the complications of the adult perspective and, from a child’s perspective, simply urges an end to violence world-wide and, with laughter, a request to “let kids be kids.” Figarova utilizes the rhythmic laughter in the final passage as an instrument to aug- ment a spare but poignant, understated horn and drum arrangement As a composer, Figarova is generous in creating opportunities for her bandmates to showcase their own superb talent and create synergy simultaneously. The play- ing is technically superb yet never sounds forced. Throughout all tracks, her classi- cally founded touch, her lilting melodies, luminous harmonies, often understated yet always propulsive rhythms and star soloists come together with immaculate sophistica- tion. Trumpeters Ernie Hammes and Alex Pope Norris, saxophonists Escoffery and Marc Mommaas, bassists Luques Curtis and Yasushi Nakamura, drummer Jason Brown, flutist Bart Platteau -- Figarova’s partner and husband of nearly 25 years – and electric guitarist Anthony Wilson (on “Pictures”) are featured advantageously in spontaneous, creative engagement with her compositional themes and intentions. Platteau deserves special recognition as his world-class flute playing adds a distinc- tive signature to the Figarova sound and greatly expands her compositional options. Figarova has a compelling personal story as well. She was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical con- cert pianist. In the late 1980’s she entered Rotterdam Conservatory (Holland) to pursue jazz, coming to the United State in 1989 to complete her formal education at Boston’s Berklee College of Music (where she met Platteau, a fellow student from Belgium). In 1998 they were invited to the Thelonious Monk Institute’s summer jazz colony in Aspen. Since then, she has toured constantly for over a decade of bookings in major U.S. jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals. There are many in the Fox Cities who are hoping that her travels bring her back the area very soon; in the interim, “Blue Whisper” –and her other CD’s – are avail- able at Square.com. For more information, go to: www.aminafigarova.com Crescent Moon Architectural Salvage since 1987 Antiques & Salvage 537 N. Main St. Oshkosh (920) 232-MOON (6666) www.crescentmoonantiquesandsalvage.com
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R21 SIMPSON Experience themagic of live performance in a cool little historic venue TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR ALL EVENTS! 506 Mill St Green Lake, WI 54941 920.294.4279 info@thrasheroperahouse.com www.thrasheroperahouse.com Visit website for more info! Saturday, March 5 | $25 | 7:30 p.m. Alan Kelly Gang | Powerful, emotive and critically acclaimed traditional Irish music band from the west of Ireland. Saturday, November 14 | $26 | 7:30 p.m. Tom Chapin | With three GRAMMY awards & 23 albums, Chapin’s also acted on Broadway, in films and on television. Saturday, December 19 | $15 | 7:30 p.m. Switchback: A Midwestern Christmas Holiday songs interspersed with lively reels, jigs and originals. Saturday, November 7 | $12 | 3 p.m. Dog Loves Books | ArtsPowers newest family-friendly muscial about the irresist- ible Dog who loves everything about books. Saturday, April 9 | $22 | 7:30 p.m. April Verch Band | Fiddler/singer/step- dancer with a unique style of music blending American roots, bluegrass & folk. Friday, November 27 | $20 | 7:30 p.m. VIVO | Lively & contemporary jazz-pop bossa-samba music ensemble and 2015 WAMI winner for Jazz Artist of the Year! Saturday, December 12 | $25 | 7:30 p.m. Alley Cats: A Harmoniously Hysterical Holiday Hit | Songs for the holiday with America’s premiere doo-wop group. Saturday, February 13 | $20 | 7:30 p.m. Willy Porter | Indie folk singer/songwriter whose electrifying shows are guitar driven events- equal parts grit, soul, and muscle.
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    ENTERTAINMENT // THE SPANISH INQUISITION BYGEORGE HALAS There are a number of very good rea- sons why you might recognize the name, despite the fact that he is a very humble, self-described “utility man” who deliber- ately avoids the spotlight. Perhaps you know him as the co-leader and trombonist for The Big Band Reunion, the 18-piece jazz big band now in its 24th year, and playing every Tuesday night from October through May at Frank’s Pizza Palace on College Ave. “I’m a utility person and that’s how I see myself,” Skitch said. “Except for a couple of times, I’ve never taken a leader- ship role.” He estimates that, since his arrival in Wisconsin in 1987, he has been a member of over 25 bands, and has subbed in over 30 others. Skitch is “complemented mightily” by BBR co-leader and trumpeter Marty Robinson, but the two have taken the reins of the BBR for the last two as the result of careful consideration by BBR founder Bob Levy. “Ken is one of the original members of The BBR, he is an excellent lead trombon- ist and he has led his section very well,” Levy said. “First and foremost, though, is that he is very highly respected for his musicianship.” “Bob’s vision was to make sure that his successors were respected as musicians, because you have to lead by example,” Skitch said. “It is also my role as MC (master of ceremonies) to get the audience involved and enjoying what we’ve got.” “There is a fine line between being a community band and being elite. It’s tough to do both,” he noted. “We have focused the members on producing the highest quality music and they feel privi- leged to be in the band.” Skitch and Robinson have also created set lists that enable The BBR to play more songs per night. “People come to hear the band,” he said, “and we’re giving them more.” While The BBR library has over 1500 compositions and the band rarely plays the same tune twice in a year, “there are a couple of real favorites that we should and will play more often.” Skitch also plays with Vic Ferrari Sym- phony on The Rocks – he and bandmates Chris Felts and Jack Naus form The HD Horns, but he may be best known for his work at Heid Music. After earning a bachelor’s degree in per- formance and composition from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and audi- tioning “for some symphonies,” he studied instrument repair at Allied Music. A horrible repair job on a new trom- bone that brought a fellow band member to tears inspired him. “I’ve always been mechanical and started to think about it as a career,” he said. “A guy who did a very good job on one of my instruments told me to go to Allied. In 1987, I moved to Appleton for my first wife and a job….and I kept the job.” (laugh) The “job” was as a repair technician at Heid. He was promoted to service manager in 1995, a position he has held ever since. “I don’t want anyone to be disap- pointed,” Skitch said. “I don’t want anyone to have to go through what my friend did.” He has gained worldwide recognition by giving clinics on repair and serving as the president of the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians (NAPBIRT). Some of the best musicians in the world – Clark Terry, for example - know him as a “lifesaver.” Tom Washatka, one of the best saxophone players in Wisconsin, is a big believer. “It was early 90’s, I was packing up after a late gig and I dropped a PA speaker on my saxophone,” Washatka said. “I knew what the damage might be so I waited until the next morning to peak into my case.  Sure enough the horn was schmushed.  The point of impact was about half way down the horn and compressed the body of the horn into an oval shape - should be round – and bent numerous keys and rods.  It was unplayable. I called Kenny and dropped off my horn later that day. Up to that point I knew him only as a bass- ist/trombonist, but was aware that he also worked as a horn repair guy.” The next day, Skitch called.  “He had taken the horn apart and pulled the body of the horn back to its original shape,” Washatka said. “He put the keys back on the horn to check alignments of the keys to the tone holes - and this is the expertise of one Kenny Skitch - all the keys lined up perfectly!  Unbelievable!  He had the horn for another day to make final adjustments.  I got the horn back and it looked and played as if NOTHING had happened. Well, needless to say he’s been my repair guy ever since. He’s gotten a big head and charges me an arm and a leg for repair (laugh).  But worth it he is!” Roger Rosenberg of Steely Dan is also a big Skitch fan. “While I was on the road, I was having problems with my bass clarinet. When we got to Appleton, I contacted Bob Levy and he immediately recommended Ken,” Rosenberg said. “He not only did it quickly and in a very professional way, he was nice, friendly and very accommodating.” “As a touring professional, it is vital to be able to make that kind of contact in that situation,” he said. “I absolutely recom- mend Ken to anyone.” Very good player, great guy and his wife, Paula…is glad he kept the job. Ken Skitch.“Kenny.” R22  |  SceneNewspaper.com  | November 2015
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R23 ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW BYGEORGE HALAS Marlin McKay has performed at three of the last four Fox Jazz Festivals. He has more than earned his growing number of fans in the Fox Cities with his extraordi- nary playing, whether it be paying homage to a hard bop legend like Horace Silver or presenting his own compositions. McKay has relished in nation and international acclaim, having placed first runner up in the 2009 National Trumpet Competition Jazz Division and has also participated in prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead resi- dency program. Just released, “The Look” is McKay’s second album on the Nostalgic Records label, following “Deep in the Cosmos,” and features Grammy-nominated vibraphonist, Stefon Harris, organist Bobby Floyd of Dr. John and the Count Basie Orchestra, Anthony Wonsey, Dezron Douglas, and current Head Hunter saxophonist Rob Dixon. Trumpeter Joe Tondu was involved with Fox Jazz Fest for many years and is a McKay admirer. “Marlin’s unforced blowing style and affinity for graceful melodies reflects the influence of his two favorite trumpeters, Nicholas Payton and Tom Harrell,” Tondu said. “His love of Hard Bop makes him a natural choice to present jazz to listeners and aficionados both young and seasoned. Pianist Mike Kubicki has played with McKay in two of his FJF appearances. “Marlin and I met almost 10 years ago. A drummer that I was playing with, Mikel Avery, recommended him,” Kubicki said. “We established an instant rapport based on our shared interest in and respect for the hard bop tradition.” “He strives for excellence – in his arranging, his composing, his improvising, and in the show that he presents. He’s a passionate, hard-working professional. Others are noticing, because Marlin has been playing with a number of jazz legends these days.” As far as McKay’s most outstanding attributes as a player, Kubicki said, “He never tries to overplay. He goes for qual- ity over quantity. His tone is warm and relaxed.” “As a composer,” he continued, his composing is sophisticated, a modern mix of rich jazz harmony and rhythms. His tunes are very original sounding, yet they are friendly and navigable to the impro- viser. The movements make sense, but they are not predictable. And his melodies are memorable. I love playing his originals.” Not surprisingly, Kubicki likes “The Look.” “I love it, but I’m biased because the niche is right up my alley – modern hard-bop, at least that’s what I’d call it,” he said. “He assembled world class musicians from New York City and elsewhere. The musicianship on this recording is on par with anything you’d see from a premier jazz label like Blue Note.” “His composing and improvising gets stronger year after year.” he added. “What I like about his recordings is that he definitely has a sound, a signature concept – much like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and others did. Each record is different, but they had a compositional identity. And Marlin has developed one – a good one.” Douglas, Wallace and Wonsey set a strong uptempo groove and Dixon has the opening cut, “If We Must Die,” moving before McKay takes over and plays melodi- cally in a manner that recalls basketball coach John Wooden’s famous quote, “be quick but don’t hurry.” Wonsey adds some fine work on the keys. The tempo slows on “Lawns” where McKay’s playing is both smooth and exquisite. That style and feel continue on “Rhyne For Lemon Vine,” where addi- tional percussive sounds and Harris’ vibe contributions result in a very engaging sound. McKay and Wonsey get the funky “Peas in A Pod” off and running to a finger-snapping, toe-tapping rhythm and McKay keeps the fun going. “Mikhael” follows with slow, deep harmonies with each player waiting patiently to contribute something special, a trend that continues on “Far and Away;” as the tune develops, McKay’s outstanding technique comes into sharper focus and Dixon pro- vides some fine interplay. Harris and McKay have an easy-to- listen to but unpredictable exchange to set the tone for “Easy To Love,” highlighted by Floyd’s Hammond B3 solo. The title tune closes out with a flourish as Harris once again creates an ambience that showcases another engaging McKay melody. A solo by Harris is another highlight. Overall, the album is both consistently interesting and maintains a signature sound generated by a very good playing. It gets better with additional listens. Kubicki and Tondu agree that McKay’s persona is part of the appeal. “Marlin is a warm, authentic, passion- ate performer of and ambassador for this music,” Kubicki said. “I’m fortunate to call him my musical collaborator and close friend.” For more information and/or to pur- chase, go to: www.marlinmckay.com MARLIN MCKAY’S “The Look” Deserves a Listen
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    R24  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 BY TROY REISSMANN As a lifetime resident of Wisconsin and a huge fan of local music, I always loved The BoDeans. A true product of our state, The BoDeans are on record as the biggest and most successful collaborative band to have ever called Wisconsin home. Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas met at Waukesha South High School in 1977. After discovering that they both had similar music interests, the duo began writing songs together. Llanas enrolled in college, but soon left after Neumann urged him to pursue music with him. At the time, Neumann didn’t sing much, and considered himself to primarily be a drum- mer, while Llanas had little experience as a guitar player. However, the two decided to get serious about music and both began to sing and play guitar under the name Da BoDeans in 1980. Though there are several stories of how their name came into existence, Sam has often explained that he got the name from The Beverly Hillbillies character Jethro Bodine. Neumann’s version of the BoDe- ans moniker conjured up the image of rock n’ roll icons Bo Diddley and James Dean for a familial name, similar to The Smiths and The Connells. Early on, Neumann and Llanas were often credited as “Beau and Sammy BoDean.” The band went on to have many top 40 hits through close to two decades. They were part of the most successful tour in his- tory supporting U2, and were once referred to as, “one of the best bands in America,” by Rolling Stone Magazine. In August of 2011, the collaboration of Kurt and Sammy came to an abrupt end. I had asked Kurt in an interview back in 2013 why the band broke up. He told me Sam simply quit to pursue a solo career. There have been many reports as to exactly why the two friends split, almost all are contradictory to one another. Kurt told me Sam had done something terrible to end their lifetime friendship. “He (Sam) was my friend, my brother and my co-worker for close to thirty years. I can honestly tell you, I have no interest in ever speaking to him again.” I could not help but think there was still more information we may never know, but one thing I took away from interview- ing both Sam and Kurt is that hey really respected each other up until the end. In one of many conversations with Kurt’s wife and manager, she revealed what she felt was the truth behind the split. This conversation was off the record, and out of respect for all parties and the band, it will stay that way. Never once in any of the many conversations I had with Kurt, Sam or Barbara Neumann did anyone have anything derogatory to say about the talent of each other or the band. I sat down with Sam Llanas not long ago at a bar in De Pere. Sam and I had talked on the phone a few times leading up to this interview, but it was nice to get together in person. OW. How does your new album, 4 A.M. differ from your first solo album and those you did with The BoDeans? SL. In many ways, I consider this my first solo album. For the first time in years, I don’t feel I’m under the pressure of trying to be someone different from who I actu- ally am. I don’t feel I have to alter my voice, so it is not as confused as with my days with The BoDeans. OW. Were running from the past? SL. I would not say running, I am proud of those years and what we were able to accomplish. The new CD is kind of a trilogy. My two past recordings came from a very dark time in my life. My brother’s suicide really affected me, and in reflection, these albums are all about the night, hence the title 4 A.M. OW. So, in this release, you felt more like the original Sammy? SL. I felt more relaxed and less restrained. My voice is unique, I cannot change it, and I feel it is my trademark. The song, ‘The Whole Night Through’ reflects this, I am very proud of it. OW. As you know, I have a relationship with Kurt and the BoDeans. I was once told by their management, that Kurt is the voice of the BoDeans. Do you feel that is incorrect? SL. Absolutely. The BoDeans unique sound came from two people, and I was one of those people! The harmonies we cre- ated were the sound of that band. OW. The break up with The BoDeans was tough, was it mutual? SL. Not at all! Let me explain once and for all what happened. I was in the middle of producing my first solo project. The way this industry works is simple, about three months prior to the release of a new CD, the promotion starts. This gives audiences and fans a chance to get excited for the new project. We had an agreement that my album was going to come out that Sep- tember or October. Before the release of 4 A.M., our new BoDeans project Indigo Dreams was going to be released. This was within that three month publicity period. So my record was in the works. There was an issue that tied up that release. It didn’t come out until a month later. It wasn’t my fault, actually I was in no way aware at all. In all the confusion, nobody thought, ‘hey maybe we should push Sam’s record back.’ I forgot about it, they didn’t say anything about it. Had they brought it to my atten- tion, I would’ve said, ‘yeah, that’s a good idea, let’s push my album back.’ So the BoDeans record came back, and then the next day or two, the publicity about my record came out. Some of the press for my market was good. Dave Marsh, a big rock critic said that my new release was some of the best music he had heard from us in a long time. Basically they lost their minds about the entire situation! They started accusing me of sabotage, and back stab- bing them, blah blah blah. OW. So there was no such sabotage? SL. No way, I mean, why would I do that? Why would I sabotage my own band by doing this? Why can’t we just rescind this, put a positive light on it? I mean, Sam’s album is out, The BoDeans have a new release and sometime down the road, Kurt will have something, all transcending back to another great BoDeans CD. OW. Makes sense to me. Did they see it that way? SL. Not at all, all they saw was red. They came at me hard. OW. Was it coming from Kurt and the band, or Barbara? I mean, after dealing with them earlier this year, Barbara Neu- mann seems to speak for the band. SL. You are right when you say Barbara speaks for the band. You know, she was forgetting the fact that she also worked for me, and I could fire her at any time! (laugh) The next day, Kurt was very upset. That was the first nail in the coffin. Don’t get me wrong, Kurt and I were not as close as we had been in the past, he was going a different direction. I didn’t need to be hanging out with him. OW. Did the tour ever happen? SL. We had a couple shows. I had thought we had put it behind us. Right before the new tour was supposed to start in Denver, Kurt started telling me how I was to act, and what I was to do. I said, ‘Hey man, f@#% you! I mean, this is just as much my band as yours! You can’t tell me what to do.” OW. So he was putting it all on you? SL. Oh yeah, saying, ‘You did this, and that!’ So that lead to the famous ‘conversa- tion.’ I never said anything until Kurt said, ‘Hey, the BoDeans are over! The only thing left would be the details of the split.’ They say one thing, but honestly I just said, ‘If this is actually the way you feel, then I don’t want to be in the band anymore.’ I mean, if that’s the way he felt, I was out! ENTERTAINMENT // WISCONSIN’S FAVORITE BAND NOT QUITE PARADISE: The REAL story of the collapse of Wisconsin’s favorite band.
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R25 ENTERTAINMENT // WISCONSIN’S FAVORITEBAND I’m not going to do eight or ten shows making all nicey-nice on stage if in your heart, it’s already over! OW. Did they end up doing the first show in Denver? SL. Yeah, they did the show and lied about it. They said that I missed my plane but didn’t know why. They knew why, I missed my plane on purpose! They came back a few days later and said I quit to explore a solo career. That just wasn’t true. I did go on having a solo career, but why would I leave my bread and butter job to go solo? That doesn’t make sense. All I wanted to do was release a little solo record that I wasn’t even planning to promote, ya know? OW. So how did the record do? SL. I don’t know, I mean critically it did great! It did okay. OW. How did Indigo Dreams do? SL. I’m not sure, at that point, I really gave up caring! It’s been three years, and to be honest, it’s been a struggle. They con- tinue to bad mouth me and point fingers. Some of the accusations are nothing short of ridiculous! OW. Do you continue to get residuals from your years as the BoDeans front man? SL. Not a penny, they are withholding it from me. They owe me a ton of money. I really don’t want to get into that. I am all about moving forward. The BoDeans have stated as recently as October of this year that they were surprised that Sam had abruptly quit the band, but according to the interviews I did with both Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann, this is simply not true. The new CD from the band The BoDeans is good, but there is and always will be something missing in the list of ingredients, and that is Sammy. Being friends with both Kurt Neu- mann and Sam Llanas, I am sad that their relationship ended on such a low note. These guys made some of the best music Wisconsin has ever known. I hired Kurt and the current line up to play last year’s Rock for Autism and they did admirably. I also hired Sam to play a wine tasting event earlier in the year, and he was great. After a long week of performing, he still took time to talk to the fans and sign CD’s. Fans of The BoDeans continue to support each version of the band, but we are the ones who truly lost out with their break up. Hwy Q over looking the Chain O’Lakes 715-258-8289 www.wheelhouserestaurant.com THE WHEELHOUSE PRESENTS, LIVE MUSIC: “WEDNESDAY WITH WAGS” 11/25 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featuring “Lost” Jim Olschmidt on guitar & vocals, Tony Menzer on bass guitar. 12/9 CAJUN & POP: Featured artists Danny Jarabeck & Drew Hicks of the band “Copper Box” performing their high energy, signature sound. 12/30 CHICAGO BLUES & ROCK: Featured artists “Rockin” Johnny Burgin on guitar & vocals along with Tony Menzer on bass. 1/13 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featured artists Lil’ Davey Max on vocals and blues harp. Gary Shaw on guitar & Chris Okkerse on bass and vocals. 1/27 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featured artist “Cadillac Pete” on blues harp and vocals. Donnie Pick on guitar and Jason Karnite on bass. 2/10 LATIN JAZZ: WAMI Award Winners: “VIVO” (Wisconsin Area Music Industry). Voted best Jazz Group of 2015. Warren Wiegratz on Sax & Keys. Pam Duronio, Vocalist. With Tim Stemper on guitar and Charlie Sauter on bass. 2/24 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featured artists “Otis & The Alligators” The reunion tour; featuring Otis McLennon on blues harp and vocals. Joe Fittante on keyboards and vocals and Jim Prideaux on guitar and Kenny Stevenson on bass. 3/9 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featuring Artists Perry Weber of “The Jimmy’s” on guitar and vocals Larry “3rd Degree” Byrne on keyboards. Tom McCarty on bass. 3/23 RHYTHM & BLUES: Featuring “MoJoe & Flipside” with Joe Fittante on keyboards and vocals, Jim Prideaux on guitar and Bill Jordon on vocals and sax. With Charlie Sauter on bass. 4/6 ORIGINAL BLUES: Featuring “Reverend Raven” on guitar and vocals Westside Andy on blues harp and & “P.T.” bass player for The Chain Smoking Alter Boys. 4/20 R&B, JAZZ, FUNK: Featured artists Warren Wiegratz on Sax, and keyboards, Joe Jordan on vocals and Eric Hervey on bass. (all from Streetlife). Special guest Jim Prideaux on guitar. YOUR HOST AND DRUMMER EXTRAORDINAIRE, TONY “WAGS” WAGNER JOINS THESE FINE MUSICIANS FOR EACH PERFORMANCE 11/11 Rhythem Blues & Jazz: Featured artists Jamie Fletcher on keyboards and vocals, Jay Whitney (Big Mouth) on guitar and vocals, Steve Cooper on sax and vocals (Wifee & The Huzz band), with Eric Hervey from Streetlife on bass. Shenandoah books 133 East Wisconsin Ave • Appleton • 920.832.9525 OPEN DAILY AT 10 AM Many Subject areas Collectible hard cover or paperback Used and out of print books Huge selection of books
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    R26  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // MARIANAS TRENCH BY JEREMY J. JOHANSKI Hey You Guys! is coming through Green Bay. No, that sentence is not miss- ing some pieces. That’s the new U.S. tour name being headlined by Marianas Trench, and it visits Titletown on November 17th. One of Canada’s most popular young pop bands of the past decade is dropping into the U.S. this Fall on a tour pattern the jet stream would be proud of. After a dip along the West Coast and through the Rockies, Marianas Trench will play Meyer Theatre in support of their October 23rd album release Astoria. Marianas Trench hails from Vancouver and has a massive following across Canada, but chose to endear a small U.S. city with the name of its fourth studio album, Asto- ria, Oregon. Astoria, the setting of the 80’s coming of age classic film The Goonies represents a suitable pairing for creativity and 80’s style immersion that Marianas Trench lead Josh Ramsay sought out for the new album. “Once I made the choice to do a throw- back record,” Ramsay said “I figured the best way to inspire it was to live it…I was recording vocals shirtless, wearing a scarf and leather pants…method acting.” I was granted an early preview of Astoria, and after I took the headphones off, got a haircut and acclimated back to 2015 once again, I asked Josh Ramsay a few things all the “trenchers” might want to know. JJJ: While you presented yourself and your bandmates embodying the 80’s for recording Astoria in your Vancouver home, how would you say you present yourself to others upon their first impression of you? Josh: Ha-ha, I think people that meet me for the first time find me quite… eccentric. JJJ: Alright, well although I’ve known your music for some time, it wasn’t until looking into a number of your music videos that it hit me…and please take zero offense to this…but I thought, ‘Wow, Marilyn Manson lookalike!’ Josh: What?!?! JJJ: Have you never, ever heard this, not from anyone? Josh: What…no?! But oh my God that’s hilarious! JJJ: Just my thoughts, but also a few others think so too. Just go type in your name and “Manson” on Google and have a look around. Josh: Well that’s hilarious but I definitely choose not to Google myself as a rule. But I’ll just take your word for it (laugh). JJJ: So, you said in some Canadian media interviews that prior to writing this album you went through a very dark period and pretty much went away for 6 months or so to avoid quite a bit of crap, to be blunt, that you were trying to deal with. Do you feel like you’re completely removed from that, out of that funk from that, and riding the energy you got to write Astoria? Josh: No…not in a nutshell but, I definitely feel hopeful again…part of the reason I couldn’t write wasn’t that I couldn’t write, it’s that I wouldn’t. Because I always write about my own life, I knew that I was going to have to take a really hard, honest look at that stuff, and I wasn’t ready to, but once I sort of got up the balls to follow through with it…and with the knowledge that I feel personally, and artistically it’s my best stuff…there’s definitely a feeling of catharsis that goes with that. JJJ: So would you say that getting that written or on paper was somewhat… medicating? Josh: In some ways, yes. It’s certainly a great tool…or a great outlet to vent. JJJ: I will say you’ve been amazingly refreshing in that you’re unusually straight- forward. Having reviewed your social media content on Twitter, interviews and the like, you differ from many of the other entertainers or celebrities I’ve looked at in a while. Josh: I think you can never totally be yourself when someone’s interviewing you or what not. At the end of the day you’re still a performer and you’re portraying a performance. I kind of miss the days when rock stars were just like, ‘F*ck it, I’m going to be blunt’ like the Noel Gallagher type. I love guys that are just straight up, kind of like no bullsh*t. I aspire to be a more real performer. JJJ: In your Twitter for example, one tweet from your follower @loveto- dance1999 says “@JoshRamsay I don’t think you’ll ever really understand how important you are to us or in general. You’re worth looking up to. <3.” Your reply was “I disagree. Entertain- ers only show you a performance of a character they portray. Look at the people you really know.” Furthermore when @SJ_5sauce said, “@JoshRamsay you’re literally the defini- tion of what I aspire to be one day. <3,” you replied, “Aim higher.” Josh: Hahaha! JJJ: Do you get asked about that, or are people in the entertainment industry around you kind of like, ‘Wow, what a d*ck.’ Correct me if I’m wrong, there isn’t anything wrong with setting people straight and not leading them on some illusion, right? Josh: Yeah…I think it’s very, very dan- gerous when people in the entertainment industry start weighing in on subjects that they have no f*cking right to be talking about in the first place, like mental health and immunizing babies, for example. Like what the f*ck do you know, you’re an actor, why are you talking to people about how they should live their lives? Isn’t that what psychologists are for? You know what you’re an expert at…playing parts. What I’m an expert at is like chord progressions in music theory. Ask me questions about that and I’m happy give you a knowledge- able answer, outside of that, it’s not really my field, you know? JJJ: Right! That’s spot on! Perhaps politicians in this country can take some of that advice too. TOUR AND TRACKS JJJ: Doing this music thing, especially from a base in Canada is challenging. You mentioned how especially in Canada pop- ularity doesn’t happen overnight exactly, right? Josh: Yeah, haha. The old, 10-year overnight success. JJJ: This tour is going through much of the heart of the American music scene geographically, minus the southern part of the country, is that focus based on demand or popularity, or is it with the hopeful intent of evangelizing and spreading more? Josh: We’ve toured in the states a lot in past years, but there are so many cities that you just can’t possibly do the whole country in one single tour. So we’re just breaking it up in chunks…we’re kind of getting to the places that have been the longest since we’ve been to them. Many of the places on this tour are places that we likely haven’t been to in probably three years or so. We’ve played Green Bay before. I don’t remember the name of the place…but it was on our Ever After album tour. [Green Bay Distillery, June 2012] I remember it because Ian (Casselman, drums) had horrible food poisoning and we thought he wasn’t going to be able to play the show. Anyway, because I play the drums too, I thought that I might need to play drums and do lead vocals from behind the drums. That’s how we sound checked and that’s how I remember Green Bay. JJJ: Hopefully the food poisoning wasn’t from food in Green Bay…right? Josh: (Laugh) No, it was from ques- tionable mayonnaise actually. JJJ: Many critics and fans agree that your music, especially the hits have largely a positive vibe or energy to them, a feel- good spirit to them. I agree personally. What would you say from Astoria are songs that fit that description? Josh: In terms of feel good songs spe- cifically, it’s not much of a feel-good record Canada’s Marianas Trench Dives Deep into U.S. on Fall Tour
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R27 ENTERTAINMENT // MARIANAS TRENCH JapaneseRestaurant & Lounge Hibachi • Sushi Bar 4100 W. Pine St • Appleton • 920-739-6057 2200 Holmgren Way • Green Bay • 920-494-4103 Hibachi • Yaki-Niku (Japanese BBQ) • Sushi Bar 511 W. College Ave • Appleton • 920-882-4183 Please visit our newly expanded menu at our website: www.nakashimas.com Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm Sunday 4pm-9pm Visit the Valley’s Largest Sushi Selection! Join us for our Sushi & Sake Happy Hour! Try Yaki-Niku! Only at Katsu-Ya of Japan Downtown Appleton (laugh). There are still a few ‘fun’ songs, and feel-good jams. For one, if you’re going to do a record that’s a meticulous and loving tribute to the 80’s, you have to have at least one feel-good up-tempo song, a la “Walking on Sunshine,” or “Footloose,” or something like that. We did do a song like that called “Yesterday,” where some of the lyrics actually quote some 80’s movies and I felt like it had been a long time since someone did that kind of a feel good jam, like a Kenny Loggins type of song. JJJ: In speaking about the full album and its tracks…would you agree with my thinking that “One Love,” “Yesterday,” “Who Do You Love,” “Wildfire,” and maybe “This Means War,” will become the favorites? Josh: I don’t know…I guess that remains to be seen! I’m always very curious to see when a record of ours first comes out to see what the standout tracks are for other people because I mean, I’m so inside of it that I can’t really be a reliable voice on that subject. JJJ: So you talked about the 80’s and being embodied in it. The very first track “Astoria,” I got 2 minutes into and went, ‘He sounds like Prince!’ Josh: Yeah? That’s a great compliment, thank you! Yeah, I guess I can do the girl- ish falsetto thing (laugh). JJJ: The song moves forward and into kind of a Supertramp, Queen, Abba…a little hint of MJ in there? Josh: I’m a big believer in an album being an entire body of work, not with throwaway tracks. So for me, I want the opening of the record in that first track to be setting the stage for what you’re going to hear in this album. What are some of the sonic qualities, the lyric qualities that you’re going to hear? So yeah, I wanted “Astoria” to feel like a preview to all of those things. I’ve done this on most of our albums where there’s a big opening number and I don’t follow standard song structure, and I just kind of make it big and free form. Being that this record has all this 80’s feel to it, I really wanted to approach a song like that, probably how I would have if I was a contemporary in the 80’s. That meant each section of the song has a different 80’s band feel. There’s some U2 in there, some Police, Tears for Fears, some Michael Jack- son, there’s some Prince…some Queen… all things I probably would have drawn on if I was around at that time. JJJ: Take me for crazy, but I think the production of the song “Who Do You Love,” feels a bit like One Direction. In a full, potential pop, young love and repeat- play again and again capability. I did make a note to myself to apologize in advance to you in case that reference hurts (laugh)! Josh: Well, I will tell you what I was going for, and it had nothing to do with One Direction…it had a lot more to do with Toto. JJJ: Whoops, okay... Josh: I was after that sort of really lush production, like with “Africa,” something of that era. That sort of vocal quality, really tight gang vocals and using some sort of African instruments…like there’s a kalmiba in it. JJJ: The superior production quality makes it jump out. Josh: Thank you! We even recorded it with ten of us playing drums at once. Ian and I playing drums, and then eight other guys and we were all in a circle, and we mic’d it in the middle and everyone playing along with these big parts and it ended up sounding very thunderous. Ramsay and Marianas Trench are an interesting mix of solid musicians and per- formers. Ramsay himself was nominated for a 2013 Grammy for his work on Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” Ramsay’s bandmates dig into current mainstream sports, and Ramsay’s Twitter calls himself “Gayest straight boy ever.” They’re like brothers on the road together. I tipped him off to just make sure he knew about the Green and Gold while in Titletown. “I do know…the first time we were there we went to the radio station,” Ramsay said “and the Packers were playing and Green Bay was just a complete ghost town! Like you could lie down in the middle of the street!” Green Bay won’t resemble a ghost town when Marianas Trench plays the intimate Meyer Theatre on November 17th, and hopefully for Ramsay and company they’ll soon be in well-populated US hit music charts as well. Tweet Jeremy J. Johanski @TripleJx
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    R28  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC NOVEMBER 01 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH 9:30PM REVEREND RAVEN THE HILL OMRO 2:00PM NOVEMBER 05 ROSS CATTERTON (OF KYLE MEGNA & THE MONSOONS) DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM LEGACY BIG BAND PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 7:00PM JAY MATTHES THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 6:00PM NOVEMBER 06 NASHVILLE PIPELINE ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY EAST 9:30PM KWT FEATURING TOM WASHATKA BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM THE 151’S DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM JENIRATORS LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9-1:00 WILDSIDE OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 8:00PM CONSIOUS PILOT SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE THE METAL GRILL CUDAHY 9:00PM HILLARY REYNOLDS BAND W/ WALT HAMBURGER THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:30PM RED LIGHT SAINTS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 07 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ANDUZZI’S HOWARD 9:00PM JOHNNY WAD ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 9:30PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS BACKSTAGE BAR FOND DU LAC 9:00PM TIN SANDWICH BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM CROSSING PATHS BOEHMERS BAR GREEN BAY 9:00PM GRAYLING PINGEL BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM BAD HABITZ DAISYS WESTERN SALOON OSHKOSH 9:00PM THE LATELY DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM LOVE MONKEYS FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC MARBLEHEAD HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH BRUCE KOESTNER HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00 FOLLOW SUIT JACKSON POINT SPORTS GRILL SEYMOUR 9:00PM HYDE KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM JENIRATORS LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9-1:00 THE COUGARS LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM “ACCUSER, HIRED RIVALS, ROLLO TOMASI, SONS OF KONG” LYRIC ROOM GREEN BAY 8:30PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30-11:00 STAR SIX NINE OCTANE BAR AND GRILL WISCONSIN RAPIDS 9:00PM ROAD TRIP OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:30PM WILDSIDE PIGGYS PUB MARATHON 9:00PM DIAMOND AND STEEL PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM ADAMS WAY SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM GRAND UNION SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM NASHVILLE PIPELINE STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM CRANKIN YANKEES THE SHORT BRANCH NEENAH 10:00PM THE LAST REVEL & THE LOWEST PAIR THE SOURCE PUBILC HOUSE MENASHA 9:00PM BOURBON COWBOYS WATERING HOLE GREEN BAY 8:00PM THE STANGS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM UNITY THE BAND ZIGGY’S CORNER PUB FOND DU LAC 8:00PM NOVEMBER 08 ROAD TRIP HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH 9:30PM NOVEMBER 11 “TONY WAGNER, JAMIE FLETCHER & GUESTS” WED. WITH WAGS WHEELHOUSE WAUPACA 8:00PM NOVEMBER 12 JIM COUNTER DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM STUCK ON BLUE THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 6:30PM NOVEMBER 13 RPM ANDUZZI’S HOWARD 9:00PM THE MARK MARTIN PROJECT BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM HITS CIMARRON MENASHA 9-1:00 DONNIE PICK & THE ROAD BAND DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM RED CLOVER GREEN BAY DISTILLERY GREEN BAY 10:00PM JERRY & NORA DUO ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9-1:00 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE JIMMY SEAS GREEN BAY 9:00PM BOXKAR MILL CREEK APPLETON 10:00 PM DANA ERLANDSON MONA ROSE WINERY GREEN BAY 7:00PM THE BELLE WEATHER NEW MOON CAFÈ OSHKOSH 8:00PM R2 SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:30PM THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 9:00PM GREG ORLOWSKI & FRIENDS THE LANDMARK COFFEEHOUSE AMHERST 8:00PM HAUNTED HEADS W/ BACKER THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:30PM BAD HABITZ WISEGUYS GREENVILLE 9:30PM RUCKUS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 14 ROOFTOP JUMPERS 10TH FRAME APPLETON 9:00PM BIG MOUTH & THE POWER TOOL HORNS ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY EAST 9:00PM REVEREND RAVEN & THE CHAIN SMOKING ALTER BOYS BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM REDFISH REMIX BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM CRANKIN YANKEES CAPITOL CENTRE APPLETON 9:00PM MISHA SIEGFRIED BAND DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM SAVING SAVANNAH FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC FINELINE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH BILL STEINERT HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00 JERRY & NORA DUO ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9-1:00 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE JJ MALONEY’S KAUKAUNA STAR SIX NINE KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM GRAND UNION LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM NIKKI LANE W/ CLEAR PLASTIC MASKS LYRIC ROOM GREEN BAY 8:30PM FOLLOW SUIT OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:00PM WILDSIDE PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM SONIC CIRCUS SARDINE CAN NOVEMBER 2015 Wisconsin’s Arts & Entertainment Paper SC NE E Live Music C A L E N D A R
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    November 2015 | SceneNewspaper.com | R29 Tickets availableat AmericInn in Waupun or For More Information: www.CityHallStage.com or call 920-268-8005 November 14, 2015 Let Me Be Frank Productions presents Rahr’s Beer and Prison City USA 16th Season of Original Scripts for Musical Theater Doors Open at 6:00pm Show starts at 7:00pm All Seats Reserved December 5, 2015 Boogie and the Yo-Yo’z December 19, 2015 It’s A Wonderful Life Waupun Community Players - A Live Radio Play Copies of Fond du Lac Scene available at these Waupun locations AmericInn Hotel and Suites, City Hall, Kwik Trip, The Other Bar, Bishop’s Car Wash & Polishing, Thirsty Marlins, The Goose Shot, Judson Bowling Alley, Our Bar, Mikes Wild Boar Liquor Store 900 Kelly Ave. Waupun, WI 1601 North Spring St. Beaver Dam, WI culvers.com and PrisonCity USA 30 info@FoxBanquets.com www.FoxBanquets.com
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    R30  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 CALENDAR   //  LIVE MUSIC GREEN BAY 9:00PM DANA ERLANDSON IN CONCERT WITH THE DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET SHANK HALL MILWAUKEE 8:00PM JOHNNY WAD SLUGGERS APPLETON 10:00PM HITS STONE HARBOR STURGEON BAY 8:30-12:00PM ASK YOUR MOTHER STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM HYDE THE HAWK BAR AND GRILL CRIVITZ 9:00PM TOM CHAPIN THRASHER OPERA HOUSE FOND DU LAC 7:30PM JERGENSEN TAGG WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM SPITFIRE RODEO WOUTERS SPORTS BAR LITTLE SUAMICO 9:00PM NOVEMBER 15 CHERRY PIE ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 3:00PM THE PRESIDENTS KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 8:30AM THE COUGARS STADIUM VIEW GREEN BAY 3:15PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONE - LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 8:15AM NOVEMBER 16 THE NOBLE THIEFS MILL CREEK APPLETON 8:00PM NOVEMBER 17 COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC PRIVATE GRAND UNION ROUTE 15 APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 18 PAT MCCURDY ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 8:00PM November 19 KYLE MEGNA (OF THE MONSOONS) DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM POCO AND FIREFALL MEYER THEATER GREEN BAY WILD ADRIATIC MILL CREEK APPLETON 8:00PM BAD MEDICINE THEATRE @ 1800 - SENTRY INSURANCE STEVENS POINT 6:30PM NOVEMBER 20 DANNY MOORE & THE BOOGIE BOOGIE FLU BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM DANA ERLANDSON CHEFUSION GREEN BAY 7:00PM ALEX WILSON BAND DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM BAD HABITZ EMMETTS APPLETON 9:00PM BAZOOKA JOE JACKSON POINT SPORTS GRILL SEYMOUR 9:00PM THE PRESIDENTS NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 8:00PM DAN TULSA DUO POTAWATOMI CASINO CARTER 3:30-7:30 6 FIGURES SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM JORDIN BAAS & CHRISTOPHER GOLD THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL WATERING HOLE GREEN BAY 8:00PM THE LATCHKEYS WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 21 FOLLOW SUIT 21 GUN ROADHOUSE LEDGEVIEW 9:00PM BIG MOUTH & THE POWER TOOL HORNS ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 9:00PM BOBBY EVANS BAND BACKSTAGE BAR FOND DU LAC 9:00PM MUTTS BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM THE POUNDING FATHERS DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM STAR SIX NINE FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC 10:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH FRAN STEENO HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00 HYDE LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM 17 Waugoo Ave. Oshkosh 235-0023 • atomickatz.com Be thankful for VINTAGE… HAPPY Thanksgiving Tues-Sat 11am-6pm
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    R32  |  SceneNewspaper.com | November 2015 CALENDAR   //  LIVE MUSIC DANA ERLANDSON MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL MOLE LAKE CASINO CRANDON 9:00PM THE PRESIDENTS NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8:00PM R P M OUTPOST SHERWOOD 9:30PM HURRY UP WAIT PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM ADAMS WAY ROCKY AND TARAS NUTHOUSE KAUKAUNA 9:00PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM “FEED THE DOG W/ THE SHARROWS, & THE RED HAWKS “ SHORT BRANCH SALOON NEENAH 9:00PM THE COUGARS SKINNY DAVES MOUNTAIN 9:00PM BAD HABITZ STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM JOHNNY WAD THE SHACK FOND DU LAC 9:30PM SAM LUNA & KYLE MEGNA THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:00PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM SPARE CHANGE TRIO WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 22 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 23 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 24 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 25 UNITY 10TH FRAME APPLETON 9:00PM DANA ERLANDSON BOTTLE ROOM SUAMICO 7:00PM BOXKAR BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM STAR SIZ NINE HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH THE BOMB ICU BAR AND GRILL NEENAH 8:00PM THE PRESIDENTS JACKSON POINT SPORTS GRILL SEYMOUR 9:00PM ADAMS WAY JJ MALONEYS KAUKAUNA 9:30PM CRANKIN YANKEES KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM R P M LEAP INN FREEDOM 10:00PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:00PM SONIC CIRCUS OUTPOST SHERWOOD 9:00PM THE COUGARS PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM HYDE RIVER RAIL SHIOCTON 8:30PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM WILDSIDE SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM HURRY UP WAIT TANNERS KIMBERLY 9:00PM GRAND UNION THE STONEYARD GREENVILLE 9:30PM “TONY WAGNER, JIM OLSCHMIDT & TONY MENZER” WED. WITH WAGS WHEELHOUSE WAUPACA 8:00PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 26 ASK YOUR MOTHER ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 3:30PM THE COUGARS KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 3:00PM JOHNNY WAD TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONE - LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 3:30PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 27 MIKE MALONE PRESENTS BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM DANA ERLANDSON BOTTLE ROOM SUAMICO 7:00PM THIRD WHEEL BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM BLUES TALK DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM UNITY EMMETTS APPLETON 9:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE JEN AND TONICS GALLOWAY 9:00PM THE PRESIDENTS POTAWATOMI CASINO CARTER 8:00PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC PRIVATE RED LIGHT SAINTS RED LANTERN FOOD AND SPIRITS GREEN BAY 9:30PM THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 9:00PM FRAN STEENO STONE HARBOR STURGEON BAY 8:30-12:00 DIAMOND AND STEEL THE SHORT BRANCH NEENAH 10:00PM STARGOYLE W/ THE HOOK UP THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 9:00PM VIVO THRASHER OPERA HOUSE FOND DU LAC 7:30PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM JERGENSEN TAGG WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 28 THE PRESIDENTS ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY WEST 9:00PM JOHNNY WAD ANDUZZI’S GREEN BAY EAST 9:30PM ROB ANTHONY BECKETS OSHKOSH 8:00PM BUFFALO STOMP BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8:00PM THE POCKET KINGS DÈJA VU APPLETON 9:00PM ROAD TRIP FAT JOE’S BAR & GRILL FOND DU LAC THE COUGARS FOX HARBOR PUB & GRILL GREEN BAY 9:00PM GRAND UNION HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30PM GRAND UNION HEADLINERS BAR & GRILL NEENAH ROOFTOP JUMPERS LEAP INN FREEDOM 9:30PM NASHVILLE PIPELINE OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9:00PM R P M PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9:00PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM WILDSIDE STONE TOAD BAR - GRILL MENASHA 9:00PM DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM THE LISTENING PARTY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM NOVEMBER 29 DOOZEY WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00PM DECEMBER 05 JEREMY GARRETT OF THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS W/ FEED THE DOG THE SOURCE PUBIC HOUSE MENASHA 8:30PM
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    ENTERTAINMENT // UW OSHKOSH THEATRE “TheseShining Lives,” is a play based on the true story of four women who worked at factory painting watches with a radium compound. The play focuses on Catherine Donohue who explains the play “begins like a fairy tale, even though it isn’t one,” and “ends like a tragedy, even though it isn’t one.” The director of the play, Merlaine Angwall, says the story line focuses on the life of Donohue, “how she knew she had radium poisoning and how she went forward with other women to pursue a lawsuit.” Throughout the course of the play the women face many challenges despite the fact that they are uncharac- teristically working a well-paying job during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The job required the women to dab a paint- brush covered in a radium compound between their lips. In doing so they ended up ingesting radium orally and collecting it on their hands and clothes. The company, Radium Dial, and its president told the women that there was no evidence that radium was harmful; they said it was highly beneficial and even cured a number of diseases. “The company didn’t want to pay for any damages,” Angwall said. “The women were all very, very sick and the company knew that, but they didn’t want to take respon- sibility for their illness. The company said, ‘We’re helping these poor souls. They’re lucky to have a job. Why are you biting the hand that feeds you?’” After a few years the women began to notice their hands glowed in the dark and became concerned. As time went by, the ladies noticed more effects and developed more serious health issues. The company doctors told them not to worry, nothing was wrong and prescribed them aspirin to help. “The company knew all along that radium would kill them and did nothing to help them.” Angwall said. “They sent them to the company doctor rather than pay for an outside, licensed physician to examine them.” Eventually after years of searching, the women found a doctor who would help them, and he diagnosed them with radium poisoning. With the help of their attorney, Leonard J. Grossman, a lawsuit was filed against Radium Dial with Donohue as the lead plaintiff. After six years, the women won the case and just twenty-one days later Donohue passed away from the effects of radium. “Because of Donohue’s persistence, it was a landmark case,” Angwall said. Franca Barricelli, a dramaturg for the play, said Dono- hue’s determination was key in winning the case. “Her will to fight is a characteristic of her,” Barricelli said. “She was cognizant of making a legacy and making a legal change.” Donohue’s case was shortly after the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire case, which was a fire in New York that trapped many garment workers in a warehouse with no means of escape. “With events like the Shirtwaist Fire it forced state and federal government to enact laws for workers’ safety,” Barricelli said. Cases like this brought to light the extent of responsi- bility a company has or should have for its workers health and safety. Barricelli said “These Shining Lives” addresses several complex issues. “Not only does the show ask what responsibility com- panies have to its workers, but what responsibility do we have to each other in a civil contract, not individuality, but to ensure the wellbeing of the whole,” Barricelli said. “This case also occurred in a time of personal empower- ment for women, and in this hopeful moment hope is taken away by disease and greed.” Angwall said she always looks forward to putting a cast and crew together, creating the ensemble and the journey to present the story that the playwright tells. “To me, the best part is seeing how well we can tell that story,” Angwall said. Cameron Hitchcock, who plays Dr. Dalitsch, said this show presents the actors with multiple challenges. “These people had lives and we’re representing them,” Hitchcock said. “There’s moments of happiness and moments of sadness, so we need to capture that and pres- ent that the way it should be played because we’re living the experience they lived,” “I’m excited to see where this goes,” Amy Baumgard- ner, who plays Catherine Donohue, said. “It’s a really powerful play. It’s funny and it’s not funny because it’s so serious so it’s going be cool to see how it all comes together.” “These Shining Lives” will run from Nov. 19-22 at the Fredric March Theatre. Visit uwosh.edu/theatre or cal 608-770-4841. About the UW Oshkosh Theatre Department The University ofWisconsin Oshkosh Theatre Department offers students a program combining personalized attention with a full range of classroom and production opportunities. The theatre major exposes students to all aspects of the theatri- cal arts, and allows students to focus their training in acting, directing, design, technology and playwriting. UW Oshkosh Theatre presents “These Shining Lives” November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L9
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    L10  | SceneNewspaper.com | GreaterOshkosh | November 2015 GREEN CHOICES  //  SEEING GREEN BY WILL STAHL In November 2009 the media world was roiled by the news that hackers had gotten into the e-mails of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Right-wing media out- lets and commentators crowed that here was the smoking gun that proved global warming was a hoax promulgated by a conspiracy. In fact only a few cherry-picked quotes seemed to confirm anything like the deniers’ claims, and those resulted from a misunderstanding of scientific jargon. Though the whole “scandal” has been thor- oughly and repeatedly debunked, deniers still cite it when they troll climate-change articles on the Internet. This past week a smoking cannon has been discovered that indicates the hoaxing has been coming from the other direction. InsideClimateNews, a Pulitzer Prize- winning website, has released a series of articles resulting from an eight-month investigation into Exxon’s global warming research that demonstrates conclusively that the oil giant’s own scientists had brought the problem to the company’s attention literally decades ago. In recent years Exxon has been a heavy funder of global warming denial, but in the 1970’s they began a research program to find out if climate change could be caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, whether burning fossil fuels contributed to the buildup of CO2, and if the resulting climate change could be problematic for human welfare. The answers turned out to be yes, yes, and yes. This research started during the late seventies, which deniers point to as a time when scientists were talking about global cooling and an impending ice age. In fact much of this cultural memory relates to a series of brutally cold winters and a splashy TIME magazine article on the subject. Serious climate scientists, some of them working for Exxon, were already researching and discussing global warm- ing. As early as 1977, one of Exxon’s senior scientists, James F. Black, told a gathering of oil barons that the release of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels could dramatically warm the Earth’s climate in ways that could put the human population in jeopardy. In July 1977 he made the same pitch to Exxon’s top executives. Black was unequivocal in his assertion that fossil fuel consumption would affect the world’s climate in mostly negative ways, but the exact affects could not be known. “Some countries would benefit, but others would have their agricultural output reduced or destroyed,” he told Exxon’s scientists and managers. His advocacy prompted Exxon to establish a wide-ranging program to study how fossil fuel use would affect the Earth. In 1979 the company began a project to use one of its supertankers to collect data on CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. An important goal was to find out how much carbon dioxide the ocean could absorb. If it was enough, perhaps nothing needed to be done in the near future to curtail the use of oil, gas and coal. When asked about this project by the InsideClimateNews investigators, the Exxon spokesman denied the project was concerned with CO2 effects on climate and was instead concerned with the “marine carbon cycle.” Documents and former employee accounts tell a different story. According to former employees, at that time Exxon had an internal culture that valued “foresightedness.” It constantly monitored possible risks to corporate profits, including such factors as environ- mental effects. They anticipated that if carbon-induced climate change became accepted science, government might step in with regulation and programs to reduce fossil fuel use. The scientists Exxon hired worked to develop better climate models and publish their results in reputable scientific journals. Within five years they concluded that global warming could exceed even Black’s dire predictions. Though uncertainties existed in the models, Exxon scientists saw those as research questions, not a negation of the reality of greenhouse gas-induced climate change. Though the corporation was backing climate research and some of its scientists and executives were extolling the opportu- nities in alternative energy, Exxon said little to their stockholders about their products’ contribution to global warming. In private though they fretted about the ramifica- tions of developing certain gas fields and Denier-gate: What Exxon Knew and When They Knew It
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    November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L11 GREENCHOICES  //  SEEING GREEN new sources of oil from tar sands and shale because it was obvious those sources would contribute huge quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere. When oil prices plunged in the mid- eighties, due mainly to new discoveries in places such as the North Sea and Mexico, Exxon laid off many of its scientists and climate change research slowed. The tanker research project had ended in 1982 after concluding that the oceans could absorb only 20% of the annual emissions of carbon dioxide. Nothing Exxon scientist’s research found disproved anything about global warming, and in fact, it amplified their earliest predictions. They were major contributors to climate research, and their models have been remarkably on-target and borne out by subsequent events. They understood the poles would see the fastest warming and the melting of the ice and snow in those regions would accelerate the process. They realized that sea levels would rise and precipitation patterns would change. They foresaw that weeds and pests would multiply with the droughts and floods, human migration would increase as agriculture in some regions failed. We are now seeing the early phases of these trends. But the eighties were the Reagan years when the Great Communicator said to forget that gloomy Carter stuff and party hearty. These were the early years of the SUV, uninhibited suburban sprawl and airline travel for the masses. Exxon’s climate research limped along until the late eighties when climate change emerged as a serious potential political issue. In 1988 James Hansen, a leading cli- mate expert from NASA, testified before Congress about the reality of global warm- ing and set legislators talking about what might be done to mitigate it. By 1989 Exxon had reversed course and began fund- ing various efforts to cast doubt on the climate science it had helped to create. One Exxon initiative was the Global Climate Coalition that pulled together some of the world’s largest companies to stop government attempts to restrict fossil fuel emissions. Through the American Petroleum Institute, various right-wing think tanks and liberal contributions of money to lobbyists and politicians, they spread their message that climate science was as yet too unreliable to make any big changes in the way we used fossil fuels. In 1996-97 Exxon’s CEO Lee Raymond made high-profile speeches urging caution and delay in dealing with climate change. “Let’s agree there’s a lot we don’t know about how climate will change in the 21st century and beyond…It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.” Long respected in the scientific com- munity for its support of early climate research, Exxon became the object of deri- sion. The Royal Society, the UK’s noted science academy, accused Exxon of being “inaccurate and misleading” when it talked up “uncertainty” in climate research. In 2006 activists among its shareholders pres- sured the company into ending support for some of the groups that distorted the science. But the damage is done. Due in large part to the campaign of misdirection and falsehood waged by Exxon and its ilk, we have lost 25 years that we could have used to work toward a low-carbon economy. Millions believe that a vast conspiracy of scientists grasping for research dollars and socialistic liberals who want to take away their trucks is more credible than that the world’s most profitable corporations, making hundreds of billions per year, might be paying to spread disinformation to safeguard their profits. Not one of the current Republican presidential candidates is willing to admit that humankind can do anything to stop the steady rise in world temperatures and some deny it is even occurring. Because of the money spent by Exxon and others, they can be assured they are saying what their base wants to hear. These articles plainly show that Exxon’s executives, at the highest level, knew what their product would do to the environment. And they chose to ignore it. To see these articles and their documen- tation go to InsideClimateNews.org. More articles on the same subject are coming. 101 North Main, FDL (Next to Hopper’s) 933-6003 • Kitchen open daily 7 am LocatedonNorthMainStreet,justnorthofHopper’sSilkScreening The Talented & Popular LIGHT HOUSE BIG BAND Playing everything from Beatles to Basie Enjoy Dinner Before or During the Show! Come Early... The Show is FREE! Presenting... 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    L12  | SceneNewspaper.com | GreaterOshkosh | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT // DOBIE MAXWELL BY DOBIE MAXWELL People ask me quite frequently - really, they do - if ‘Mr. Lucky’ is a made up gim- mick I came up with for the stage. Ha! Don’t I wish? It’s a joke. I know everyone has things go haywire in life from time to time, but for reasons I have never been able to decipher I have had more, and on a painfully consistent basis, than anybody I have ever met – and I’ve met a lot of people. If there was a Hard Luck Hall of Fame, I’d be in it. What has always baffled me is, it’s rarely any singular event. It’s a constant collection of small stuff that comes in random yet highly annoying clumps, and then morphs into an ugly bombastic blur that jam packs my waking hours with unbridled stress, utter frustration and all out misery. I have tried my best to maintain a posi- tive attitude, but these sinister streaks keep coming back to hammer me into submis- sion again and again. Whatever heinous debauchery I must have done in a past life to keep getting tortured in this one - I’m truly sorry. Can’t I be forgiven already? For a painful example, here’s how a recent day went: I woke up especially early to get in an exercise walk. I popped a shoe lace and it was too early to go buy another so I decided to put off the walk until later in the day and answer some emails. The very first one was a booking cancel- lation for several months down the road I had assumed was a solid date. It was a nice chunk of cash I was counting on, and now it’s gone. No deposit. No gig. I was already steamed as I stepped into a steaming shower, and there’s barely enough shampoo. I had to hold the bottle upside down and take the cap off, and it all took way too long. There was also a tiny sliver of soap left, and that was the last bar. It kept breaking, and it was all a big pain. Then I went to shave and the can of shaving cream farted. I was out of that too. Ugh. I dry shaved and got dressed to go do a radio interview across town. I had been having serious car issues for a month, as it had been stalling at random. I had taken it to several mechanics, but none of them could figure it out. It always ran fine when they looked at it, but then stall in traffic. That particular morning it happened to conk out five blocks from home – smack dab, dead nuts in the middle of morning rush hour traffic. I embarrassingly pushed it off to the side of the road as a steady parade of peeved to the hilt impatient drivers beeped, swore and gave me the finger. Right! I see their logic. I obviously woke up planning on screwing up their commute. Pinheads. I cranked and cranked and cranked some more on that starter, but that piece of temperamental tin just did NOT want to run. It’s a Toyota Camry, one of the most reliable cars ever. Usually. A local cop stopped and asked to see my driver’s license. I didn’t have it because I had lost my wallet a couple of weeks prior, and had to go get a new picture taken for a new license. It now is required to be sent in the mail to avoid identity theft apparently, and I hadn’t received it as of yet. The officer was cool about it, and looked me up on the computer. I had no war- rants so he said he would add my car to a computer list so other cops would leave me alone until I got moving. He left, and after cranking almost to the end of my battery - and my will to live - it FINALLY started and ran like it just came off the showroom floor. I think it was the universe mocking me. By this time I was a sweaty, angry stressed out mess, and late for the radio interview. I tried to call the station, but of course it went to voice mail. I wasn’t able to reach a live human being. I put the station’s address into my GPS, and it took me on a route I wasn’t famil- iar with. While trying to navigate my way through construction and new turf, I got pulled over by a second cop. “May I see your driver’s license please?” “Uhhhhh....no.” I proceeded to tell him the story about losing my wallet. He wasn’t impressed. I waited in my car twenty minutes. Speeding ticket. $120. Now I’m even more late. Ugh. Stress is now rising like the national debt, and then the radio station calls. “Where ARE you?” “I tried calling, but you didn’t answer.” “Well, we’re on a time schedule. When can you get here?” Stress level now to code triple red. Got there. Apologized. Did the inter- view. Went well. On the way home, I stopped at the small lot where I bought the car two plus years ago to ask the owner if he knew of a trustworthy garage who could diagnose my situation. He did. They took an hour to go over my car with a fine tooth comb. The diagnosis was a distributor, which cost $250 I’m told. Ugh. Not thrilled, but not surprised. It made sense when they said it. They order the part, it comes a half hour later. It doesn’t fit. Of course. None of them can figure out why, but it doesn’t. They order another one from another source. Now it’s a race against time. They put the second distributor in, but now the car won’t start. They fart around another hour, and it finally starts. Now the ‘Check Engine’ light is permanently on. Nobody knows why. Ugh. Total cost out the door: $400.51. Now I’m tired, frustrated, highly stressed, out of patience, and late for a previ- ous appointment to help a friend go through some collectibles. I put his address into the GPS, and again it takes me on a route I’m not familiar with. I’m trying to figure out the quickest route, and I’m frazzled. Police lights again. Pulled over a second time. “May I see your driver’s license please?” “Uhhhh...no.” Deja vu all over again. I told the lost wallet story again. Again, the officer wasn’t impressed. Speeding ticket number TWO. $132. Inflation. I called my friend and told him I wasn’t going to make it tonight. He’s not thrilled. More stress. I then grab a quick bite to eat, and on my way home nature called my private number, right in the middle of traffic. It can’t wait until I get home, and I think I’m going to have a code brown. It was one of those where you pinch your cheeks and pray for green lights. They didn’t come. I think I hit every red light in the county. Then I got stopped by a train. I was losing hope quickly. I got to the first gas station I saw, and the rest room is outside. Of course. I try the door but it’s locked. Of course. I waited in line in the station for some soup head to scratch off a lottery ticket. Then he couldn’t remember the brand of cigarettes his old lady told him to buy. Total torture. I thought would evacuate my bowels right there on the floor. I finally got to the bathroom, and the toilet seat is physically OFF the toilet. I have never seen that in my life. Ever. Plus there’s no toilet paper. Of course. I thought about using the speeding tickets, but they were back in the car. I give the key back to the attendant and waddle to my car, thinking I’m going to pop like a zit. Next stop - Taco Bell. I go into the bath- room and the toilet there was overflowing. Water was an inch deep on the floor and gurgling up like a geyser. Yuck. I was not able to wait any longer. I finally went into the women’s room and crop dusted like a bull moose after Christmas dinner. Relief! It was Colon The Barbarian, and there about three squares of toilet paper left. Of course. Finally I made it home dejected, and severely defeated by life yet again, and decided to check my emails before hope- fully getting some much needed sleep. The first one I see is from a pretty woman I am extremely fond of, with whom I was sup- posed to have lunch the next day. “Hey, I just don’t think we’re a match…” Blah, blah, blah. Ugh. Of course not. And this is by far not the first time a day like this has happened. Far, far from it. I have actually gotten two speeding tickets in one day before. It was in Wyoming of all places, but that’s another tale for another time. This is enough of an example of one day in the life of Mr. Lucky. So in summary, I am now officially the only person I know who has gotten a pair of speeding tickets in one day - twice...and in a car that didn’t run. I never did get my exercise walk in either, or the shoe laces. At this point in my life I’m praying like a monk for identity theft. I don’t think anybody would keep it very long though. I have no doubt I would get it back the next morning with a nasty note. Nobody wants to be me – including me. So...that’s how my day went. Other than that, everything’s fine. And YOU? Dobie Maxwell is a writer and stand-up comic from Milwaukee. To see what hell-gig he’s working next, visit dobiemaxwell.com “Lucked Out”
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    November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L13 ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLYFUNNY BY C A November 1 Music at First Congregational First Congregational Church 1:30 pm Free Live classical and bluegrass violin and piano music with Beth Chafey-Hon, Maryellen Pung, and others. 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, First Congregational Church, 137 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh. Fun Gypsy and Irish fiddling plus JS Bach, Franck, Dvorak, and the American classic, Orange Blossom Special. Concert is free and open to public. November 5 The Second City: Fully Loaded The Grand Opera House 7:30 pm Tickets: $44/$40/$36/$32/$26/$20 Fresh, fast and always spectacu- larly funny, The Second City is celebrating 55 years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and continues to launch the careers of comedy superstars. This irresistible new show features classic material made famous by Second City stars like Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, as well as brand new scenes, songs and improv straight from their sold out shows in Chi- cago and Toronto. This must-see evening of comedy features some of Chicago’s best and brightest in a special one-night engagement! www.grandoperahouse.org Valley VNA Holiday Avenue, Shopping for a Cause Best Western Premier Bridgewood Resort, Neenah 12:00 pm Cost: $35 - $40 Divulge in a bistro lunch from noon to 3 pm or an evening of hors d’oeuvres from 4 pm to 7 pm. Enjoy boutique shopping, indulge in great food, fantastic raffles, with one of a kind prizes from Zuppas, getaways to Kohler, a weekend at the Wild Eagle Lodge in Eagle River or the enjoy an evening at Rye followed by fun at Pinot’s Palette. All proceeds support Valley VNA’s life enrichment programs for their residents and clients. Reserve your spot today! Go to http://www. valleyvna.org/holiday-avenue/ to register or call 727-5555 to find out more. November 6 Free Fridays - HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 7 Altrusa Club of Oshkosh Presents Harvest Moon Madness Fine Arts & Craft Faire Hilton Garden Inn 8:30 am Altrusa Club of Oshkosh invites you to Harvest Moon Madness Fine Arts & Crafts Fair. Help support local charities and schools. Come shop our Fine Arts; Craft Fair; Book Fair; Bake Sale with a large variety wonderful treats to choose from; fresh picked pecans; Oshkosh landmarks commemora- tive afghans. Oshkosh Farmers Market – Downtown 8:00 am -12:30 pm Free MUSIC BY: TimberMoon FOOD BY: The Roxy Supper Club Approx. 40 vendors every Saturday morning at the Winter/Indoor Market bring you fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables, eggs, honey, syrups, cheeses, pasture-raised meats and poultry, fish, jams and preserves. A variety of handcrafted items are also available throughout the season. Local food artisans bring fresh baked goods, candy, prepared foods and other goodies. Ready to eat foods are available in the kitchen from local businesses. Enjoy live music from 9:30 until 12:30. On our website (www. OSFMI.com), find a list of Who’s Doing What, a Market Layout (updated every Friday) and our Weekly Events for a list of our popular scheduled musicians. Oshkosh Gallery Walk 400-500 Blks N Main St & 100 Blk Church Ave, Oshkosh 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Held the first Saturday of each month in downtown Oshkosh, the Gallery Walk features dozens of local art galleries and businesses showcasing the talents of local, regional and touring artists in a variety of mediums. LABYRINTH Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com Downtown Night Out Comedy Show & Painting Fire Escape & The Backlot Comedy House 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Cost: $20.00 Enjoy a night out with friends! Paint a mug at Fire Escape and after attend an Improv Show at the Backlot Comedy House. $20 includes your comedy show ticket, and a mug (firing and paint included) The Downtown Night out will be held the first Saturday of every month at two different times. Ages 13-20 Painting at 6:00 Comedy Show at 7:30. Ages 21+ Painting at 7:30 Comedy Show at 9:00. No drink minimum. Drinks available for purchase at Backlot during show or from Bar430 while painting. November 10 EAA’s Skyscape Theater Royale EAA AirVenture Museum 6:30 pm Travel back in time and experi- ence the golden age of cinema at EAA’s Skyscape Theater Royale, a free series of classic aviation film screenings held at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, WI. The movies are free of charge and will be shown in the museum’s Skyscape Theater, an intimate setting with a 50-foot screen and state-of-the-art projection and sound systems. The films will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month in 2015 (except for July). In keeping with the classic movie feel, bags of popcorn are also free. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis and is subject to capacity. www.EAA.org/skyscapetheater November 12 2015 Oshkosh Chamber Holiday Parade Downtown Oshkosh Main St. & Ceape Ave. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm This year’s theme is “Surf, Sand and Santa.” So bust out your Hawaiian leis, coconut bras, and tiki torches and join in on the fun! Meet the Author Oshkosh Public Museum 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Local author Randy Domer will present his new book Oshkosh - Land of Lakeflies, Bubblers and Squeaky Cheese at the Oshkosh Public Museum on Thursday, November 12, starting at 6:30 pm. Domer will be signing copies of his book following the presenta- tion. www.oshkoshmuseum.org While the SCENE does everything to ensure the accuracy of its Events calendar, we also understand that some dates and times change. Please call ahead to confirm before traveling any distance. NOVEMBER 2015 For inclusion in our calendar of events, please contact us
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    L14  | SceneNewspaper.com | GreaterOshkosh | November 2015 CALENDARS // THE BIG EVENTS November 13 Free Fridays SUPER MARIO BROS. Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 14 Oshkosh Farmers Market – Winter 8:00 am - 12:30 pm Free MUSIC BY: Oshkosh Suzuki Violin FOOD BY: The Magnet Billiards & Bar Approx. 40 vendors every Saturday morning at the Winter/Indoor Market bring you fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables, eggs, honey, syrups, cheeses, pasture-raised meats and poultry, fish, jams and preserves. A variety of handcrafted items are also available throughout the season. Local food artisans bring fresh baked goods, candy, prepared foods and other goodies. Ready to eat foods are available in the kitchen from local businesses. Enjoy live music from 9:30 until 12:30. On our website (www. OSFMI.com), find a list of Who’s Doing What, a Market Layout (updated every Friday) and our Weekly Events for a list of our popular scheduled musicians. Winnebago Area Model Classic La Sures Hall 9:30 am The show is open to all scales and subject matter such as automobile, aircraft, armor, science fiction, ships, figures and more. We have a special challenge class that is for model pickups only. We will also have a few demonstrations from area model builders as well. http://wamclassic.wix.com/wamc Holiday Wonders Shopping Expo & Craft Fair Sunnyview Expo Center 10:00 am Free Start your holiday shopping early by attending the admission free Holiday Wonders Shopping Expo & Craft Fair. You’ll browse and shop over 75 vendors selling a wide variety of unique and wonderful items for those hard to buy for people including custom decorations, artisan glass, designer purses and jewelry. And don’t worry if you work up an appetite, the kitchen is open along with many vendors selling very tasty goodies. www.landkproductions.com Frosting for Flight Cupcake Competition Wittman Regional Airport Terminal Conference Room 1:00 pm Free The Oshkosh chapter of Women in Aviation, International is hold- ing its fifth annual Frosting for Flight cupcake competition and cupcake sale to raise funds for its Spirit of Flight scholarship. Come for an afternoon of tasting and a chance to win door prizes. Meet our “celebrity” judges. Cupcakes will be on sale for just $1 each or six for $5. November 15 Oshkosh Empty Bowls Soup Sampler Becket’s 4:00 pm Empty bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger. A variety of soups from 12-14 area restaurants will be served with handmade ceramic bowls from area potters, professional and hobbyist as well as college, high school and middle school students. Proceeds will go to the Oshkosh Area Hunger Task Force food pantries. November 19 Museum Auxiliary’s Annual Gala Oshkosh Public Museum 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Stroll through the halls of the Sawyer home to view the beautiful Deck the Halls holiday decorations, and feast on an array of savory hors d’oeuvres and decadent des- serts. Admission is $15 per person to benefit the Museum. A cash bar serving soda, beer and wine will also be available. www.oshkoshmuseum.org November 20 JEFF DANIELS and the BEN DANIELS BAND The Grand Opera House 7:30 pm Tickets: $55/$50/$44/$40/$36/$30/$25 Emmy-Award winner for THE NEWSROOM and star of the DUMB AND DUMBER films as well as others including PLEASANTVILLE, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, and the soon- to-be-released STEVE JOBS. In 1976, Jeff Daniels bought a Guild D-40 from Herb David’s Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, threw it in the back of his old Buick, and moved to New York City. That guitar led to a creative outlet, became a solace, a road into the artist that he didn’t know existed. Now, almost 40 years later, he releases his 7th record, “Days Like These”. And he’s bringing his show back to The Grand. www.grandoperahouse.org Nutcracker in the Castle: Candlelight Tours Paine Art Center and Gardens 4:30 pm $11 Adult, $7 Youth (ages 5-17) Members FREE The Nutcracker story unfolds in the Paine “castle” with the historic rooms elaborately decorated as the fantastic scenes of the beloved holiday fairy tale. During evening candlelight tours, the magical set- tings shimmer in the glow of more than seventy Christmas trees. Free Fridays - FRIDAY Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 20-Jan. 1 Nutcracker in the Castle: Tours Paine Art Center and Gardens 11:00 am $11 Adult, $7 Youth (ages 5-17) Members FREE The Nutcracker Story unfolds in the Paine “castle” with the historic rooms elaborately decorated as the fantastic scenes of the beloved holiday fairy tale. Journey through the magical settings of the Nutcracker story. November 21 Oshkosh Farmers Market – Winter 8:00 am - 12:30 pm Free MUSIC BY: Dornan FOOD BY: Hmong & Asian Foods Approx. 40 vendors every Saturday morning at the Winter/Indoor Market bring you fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables, eggs, honey, syrups, cheeses, pasture-raised meats and poultry, fish, jams and preserves. A variety of handcrafted items are also available throughout the season. Local food artisans bring fresh baked goods, candy, prepared foods and other goodies. Ready to eat foods are available in the kitchen from local businesses. Enjoy live music from 9:30 until 12:30. On our website (www. OSFMI.com), find a list of Who’s Doing What, a Market Layout (updated every Friday) and our Weekly Events for a list of our popular scheduled musicians. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 22 Farmer’s Market Parking lot next to the Post Office on S 2nd St, Omro 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Free Vendors, please contact us with your name, email address, phone number, and what you will be selling. Slots are free but we have limited space. www.winneconne.org/calendar Nov. 22, 24-25, 27-29 Deck the Halls Oshkosh Public Museum 1:00 - 3:00 pm Public Reception Admission is free for all children under 18, and adults receive special admission of $3.50 per person. This annual extravaganza will feature the historic Sawyer home decorated as only the wealthy could do. Holiday “dressings” as reported in periodicals and news- papers of the decades from 1880
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    November 2015 | Greater Oshkosh | SceneNewspaper.com | L15 CALENDARS // THEBIG EVENTS to 1919 are recreated to delight and perhaps provide inspiration. Nov. 24-Dec. 31 Celebration of Lights Menominee Park 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Daily The cost: $8.00 per vehicle Bus Loads $1.00 per person. Quietly nestled along the shores of Lake Winnebago, in beautiful Menominee Park in Oshkosh, lies a single mile stretch that trans- forms into illuminated holiday wonder each year since 2001. Oshkosh Celebration of Lights is no longer a local best-kept secret. November 26 Festival Foods Turkey Trot 8:00 am The Turkey Trot offers two events – a five mile run and a two mile walk – to accommodate participants of all ages and abili- ties. Attendees enjoy the upbeat music, high quality long-sleeved t-shirts and free Festival Foods pumpkin pies at the finish line that they can take home and enjoy with their family. New this year - the Dog Jog, a separate group just for dogs and their humans. The Dog Jog will start at the back of the 2 mile event. November 27 Free Fridays - WILLOW Time Community Theater 7:00 pm The Time Community Theater is a volunteer-based, non-profit theater established to provide an affordable venue for the arts that contributes to the revitalization of downtown Oshkosh offering free movies on Fridays. www.timecommunitytheater.com November 28 The Gathering Space Grateful Gathering The Gathering Space 7:00 pm Those of use who have a roof over our heads, three square meals in our bellies and four walls to keep out the chill have lots of good reasons to be grateful. Some of our fellow travelers aren’t so lucky, though. The folks at The Gathering Space think one really great way to express gratitude for all the blessings we enjoy is to help others who are less fortu- nate – and to have fun doing it! That’s why we have decided to invite our good friend John Duggleby – musician, author, and chicken-dancer extraordi- naire – for a return engagement at The Gathering Space. It will be an evening of good music for a good cause, as a portion of the proceeds from his concert will be donated to The Day by Day Warming Shelter in Oshkosh. The Shelter is open October through April and provides a safe and comfortable alternative for area folks who just need a place to come in from the cold. January 30 TOWARD HARMONY WITH NATURE Oshkosh Convention Center 2 N Main, Oshkosh In celebration of the 20th Toward Harmony with Nature Confer- ence, Wild Ones Fox Valley Area is pleased to present Dr. Darrell Morrison, one of the country’s most distinguished native land- scape designers and educators. Dr. Morrison landscape designs include two of our country’s most admired landscape gardens; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX and the Native Plants Garden at the UW Arboretum. His keynote address “Rivers and Drifts: Natural Process in Designed Places” will provide a wealth of informa- tion and inspiration for home gardeners. The all-day natural landscaping conference also includes nine other speakers on the whole spectrum of native plants and natural landscaping topics will be present, as well as vendors and exhibitors and a silent auction. For more information, visit http://www.towardharmonywith- nature.org. Hours: Tues-Fri 10-4 OPEN SATURDAYS 10-2 Special order and in stock bedroom sets, dining sets, bookcases, gliders, desks, end tables, children’s furniture and much more! 116 S. Main Downtown • Fond du Lac • 926-9663 Handcrafted Solid Wood Furniture • Many Amish Items Handcrafted Wood Furniture Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy a new wood dining table this Holiday Season!
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    Join us thisHoliday Season at the Learn more at OshkoshCelebrationOfLights.org COL-SceneAd.indd 1 10/26/15 3:45 PM www.shoplocalcommunities.com SHOP LOCAL MONTH IS NOVEMBER 20TH - DECEMBER 24TH