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Live at The Source!
BY JEAN DETJEN, ‘ARTFUL LIVING’
At The Source Public House, art is
on the menu. Literally. Menasha’s trendi-
est hotspot is a dynamic cornucopia of
gastropub, beergarden, music venue, and
art oasis. It’s fast becoming a destination
location for those in-the-know about great
music, food and creative expression. If you
haven’t been there yet, what’s on stage may
surprise you!
A wide, black-curtained stage is the
focal point of this diversely appealing
restaurant and entertainment hub. The
Source delights guests with a hip, colorful
chorus of live music, original paintings by
local artists, and a delectable array of food
and beverage offerings.
Owner Dan Long says, “At The Source
we showcase original, local and touring
talent as much as possible. We feature per-
forming, visual, and also culinary artists,
highlighting locally sourced food, a full
bar, and Wisconsin brews.”
Craft beers offered change almost every
day and a new keg is cracked open most
days. “We like to mix up the style of beers
we feature, setting our establishment apart
from most others in the area. We don’t
carry any domestic beers, only PBR in a
16 oz can for nostalgia purposes,” he says
with a smile. Fourteen different varieties of
Wisconsin made beers are currently on tap.
A lounge-pub hybrid of sorts that
attracts an eclectic demographic, The
Source is designed with casual comfort in
mind. “Everyone is welcome here, and we
encourage people to come as they are,” says
Long, donned casually in a t-shirt, jeans,
knit cap and fleece jacket. “You don’t have
to wear fancy clothes to enjoy good drinks,
food, and music. Baseball caps and a nice
bottle of wine go just fine together here.”
According to patron Steve Smits, The
Source has the “best sound system for a
club their size north of Milwaukee. Who
else in the area has a dog friendly patio?
No one. And they host live music almost
every night of the week focusing on origi-
nal hand crafted artists. If I could hug the
entire building in my arms I would.”
Rover and Fluffy would likely agree.
During the summer months, an expansive,
thoughtfully designed pet-friendly outdoor
patio with grass and stone pathway beck-
ons. Long says that the sunset views from
the inviting west-facing patio are spectacu-
lar, adding natural art to the landscape of
the Source’s offerings.
“We are a unique destination restaurant
in the Fox Cities. Our focus is on provid-
ing a comfortable, casual atmosphere for
dining during the day and early evening
that is perfect for a date, a
meeting with friends, or a
dinner with your family. In
the evenings we transform
into a lively music-infused
bar.”
Long says they “wanted
to flip the script” on food
sourcing practices, going
to local farmers to see what
they have to offer and then
developing a menu around
those items. This method
allows them to get the high-
est quality ingredients and then turn it over
to Executive Chef Adam Devons and his
kitchen staff to accent the best flavors of
the season’s harvest.
“Our many, great local farmers, ranch-
ers, and fisherman work hard day in and
day out to produce the highest quality
fruits, vegetables, meats, and fish, without
the aid of pesticides or added hormones.
It’s our duty at The Source Public House,
to ensure that effort shines through by
creating dishes that show off the vivid, true
flavors of these ingredients,” adds Long.
One also can’t help but notice a large
handcrafted dichroic glass pendant hung
on a simple cord on his neck.
Long says he’s been wearing
his “good mojo” necklace for
10-11 years and “feels naked
without it.” Says Long, “this
piece has been to a lot of
places with me where there’s
been good energy. It captures
and radiates it.”
As dichroic glass displays
varying color tones as a result
of the light, The Source projects different
hues as a venue depending on the gleam
of entertainment offered, time of day,
and season. The ability to re-invent the
atmosphere based on the mood and food
envisioned is key to The Source’s adaptable
business model.
“I’ve lived out West and traveled to
more than forty states and have seen lots of
cool spots that have provided inspiration.
What’s been formed here has been a cul-
mination of what I’ve seen on my travels,
ultimately shaped into a mix of local food,
music and art that people want to see and
hear. Alchemy Café in Madison was a bit
of a template for us but we made it our
own based on our local market.”
Rotating menu items are “adjusted
based on what’s locally available and fresh,
offering customers the best taste-expe-
rience possible. The focus is on smaller,
elongated, shareable plates which are more
approachable and definitely designed for
group sampling.”
While providing the perfect space for
guests to connect while sharing food and
music, The Source also strives to reconnect
people to the land around them. “Our
state’s plentiful bounty includes a wide
variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, honey,
syrups, meat, fish, and poultry. We want
our customers to enjoy the delicious differ-
ence in our primarily locally sourced dishes
while also letting people know about where
the food we serve comes from.”
Farm-raised fresh fish is always avail-
able - typically trout, salmon and/or blue-
gill - which is sourced from Wisconsin and
other areas of the Midwest. Grass fed beef
burgers are another popular menu item.
Exceptional flavor and quality are the goals,
as is offering food that encourages custom-
ers to stay and come back for more. “The
menu changes monthly, so there are always
new, fresh creations to try,” says Long.
“How we source our food is the most
important aspect of our menu, as empha-
sized by the first part of our establishment’s
name. We added the words ‘Public House’
to our business name for that very reason.
This is a place for families, singles, couples
and, really, all ages. Depending on the time
of day or night, we have something for
everyone.”
That “something” includes hearty
helpings of live music 4-7 days per week,
making The Source a growing destination
site for Fox Cities music aficionados. The
site’s layout and acoustics are designed so
that the stage is the focal point. Having
affiliations with music artists, sound mas-
ters and organizers connected to Appleton’s
dynamic and growing Mile of Music Festi-
val and its offshoots has been a tremendous
benefit.
Original music artist and performer
Nicole Rae (of The Traveling Suitcase and
Wilfret & Miss) is impressed with The
Source’s “great local food” and a “menu
always showcasing new entrees.” Rae also
appreciates the “beautiful sounding room
in a unique space” adding that “any per-
former would and will be pleased with
their experience there.”
A “boomy” 5,000+ square foot room,
natural acoustic sound absorbers are hung
up on the walls amid an array of art for sale,
looking very at home with their colorful
companions. The treatment panels tacked
about at various angles throughout were
crafted from burlap fabric over recycled
denim and carpet fiber insulation.
“The PA was certainly a thought out
entity, with improvements to be added very
soon, including additional monitor mixes,
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FOOD & DRINK  // THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
multi-track recording and a signal feed
to and from the patio, says The Source’s
chief audio engineer, Aaron Duester-Hoff.
“There are also plans to work closely with
SecondHand Studios and future bands to
compile a ‘Live at the Source’ album.”
“The Source is a delight for both
patrons and performers,” says musician
Christopher Gold. “ They put extra effort
into everything they do and it shows.
Aaron is great, the sound is phenomenal,
the whiskey is plentiful, and the nachos
changed my life.”
Enthusiastic customer Todd Van Ham-
mond agrees, saying he “cannot write a
review of the cheese curds or pizza without
expletives!!”
The extra effort put out by The Source
also includes sharing the spotlight with
local visual artists. The restaurant’s colorful
walls are covered in art. Says Long, “We
support these artists by offering a place for
them to display and sell their work. When
an art piece sells the proceeds go to the artist
and a new painting, drawing, photograph,
or other artistic piece takes its place. It cre-
ates a wonderful and changing atmosphere
for our guests while providing income to
numerous artists that would otherwise not
have a place to show their work.”
“We are always looking for new art and
welcome any family-friendly submissions,”
says Long. “Brittany Vera, server and art
curator on staff here, will help you through
the process.”
While you’re waiting for the addictive
nachos, pizza, or cheese curds, be sure to
ask to see the hand screen printed art menu
where you can learn more about what’s for
sale on the walls. Where else can you order
carry-out food and a cool, original paint-
ing?
Appreciative repeat customer Jess Grim
appreciates the artistic focus. “The Source is
a unique place where you can go to gather
with your closest friends, where Wiscon-
sin’s bounty of truly artisan food is available
and talented artists are able to showcase
their talents.”
We want guests to “see our place as
a source of the community,” says Long.
“Come for the music, be surprised by the
food!”
Regular customer Felicia Lyons Rashid
couldn’t be more pleased about the com-
munity palette provided by this unique
establishment. “It’s that place you wish
everyone you knew took an opportunity
to experience. Not only is the food from local vendors, it is unique, fresh and mouth watering. The environment is warm, classy and filled with art inspired pieces through-
out the establishment. You also have the
privilege of listening to live original bands
almost every night of the week! Once you
visit this place you know you will be back!”
Destination unknown? Not so once you
experience all The Source Public House
has to offer. The Source serves lunch and
dinner with brunch on Sundays and is
located at 890 Lake Park Road in Menasha.
For more information about hours, menu,
live music, and other special events, con-
tact them at [phone] or visit their
website at www.thesourcepublichouse.
com . You can also follow The Source on
Twitter and Facebook and sign up for their
newsletter.
Music artists who wish to perform at
The Source are asked to submit for consid-
eration via music@thesourcepublichouse.
com. Visual artists interested in having
their art displayed for sale on The Source
walls are encouraged to email information
via [email protected].
Living artFULLY in the heart of Wisconsin jdetjen@
scenenewspaper.com

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BY MARIANNE WALKER
The 43rd annual Festival of the Arts at
the UWSP Noel Fine Arts Center opens
the spring “season of art” in central Wis-
consin with high-quality art forms in a
myriad of mediums.
Presented by 45 Midwest professional
artists from Wisconsin, Illinois and Min-
nesota, the Festival is an opportunity to
talk with the artists, learn about their work,
and purchase that unique, one-of-a-kind
treasure. In addition, three exceptional art
students from UWSP will also show and
sell their work.
The atrium and second-floor mezza-
nine of the Noel Fine Arts Center will be
filled to bursting with glass, jewelry, fiber,
photography, ceramics, paintings, sculp-
tures, wood and more. And children are
more than welcome. UWSP art professor
Dianne Bywaters will have art activities for
children in one of the art studio rooms.
The Festival is sponsored by the Stevens
Point Festival of the Arts Council and the
UWSP College of Fine Arts and Commu-
nication. The show is open from 10:00 am
to 4:00 pm on April 19, and admission is
free.
The Festival of the Arts is one of the
longest-running, high-quality art shows in
central Wisconsin. The UWSP University
Women started planning it in 1971, and
the first show was held in 1973 as an eve-
ning program for the University Women
and their guests in the University Center
featuring weavers, spinners, potters,
painters and crafts people from the Ste-
vens Point area.
As of the 1980s, the show had evolved
and grown into a juried show with pur-
chase awards. Teaching art appreciation to
the public was important, and the shows
featured art studio demonstrations in vari-
ous media. Activities for children to engage
in art projects or buy small pieces of art
work were part of the program.
REMEMBERING DICK SCHNEIDER
Dick Schneider, well known in central
Wisconsin for his ceramic artistry, became
a significant contributor to the event by
supporting the planners and participating
as a potter for many years. His creative
talent is legendary at UWSP; among
many other achievements, he designed and
supervised the execution of the “E Pluribus
Unum” mosaic mural on the exterior wall
of the Natural Resources building on the
UWSP campus. His devotion to his craft
and mentoring younger artists resulted
in nationally recognized pottery artists,
Rick Foris and Tim Marcotte, both of the
Stevens Point area. Marcotte continues to
show and sell his pottery at the Festival.
Schneider retired from UWSP in 1988
but continued working as a studio potter,
showing and selling locally as well as at his
summer retreat, the Schneider’s Pottery
Shop near Minocqua. It was a great loss
Celebrating the Arts
Photograph by John Morser
Stained glass by Alan Sievers
Woven pillow cover by Barbara Geurink
Eileen McDaniel’s watering can
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to the community when he passed away
on April 25, 2014. Schneider’s daughter,
accomplished potter Lora Hagen, will be
selling her own work at this year’s show
in addition to exhibiting some of her
father’s work as a tribute to his contribu-
tions to the Festival’s history. To honor
Schneider’s legacy with the Festival of the
Arts, the annual Best of Show award has
been permanently re-designated The Dick
Schneider Best of Show Award.
In the 1980s the Festival started a
scholarship program to encourage young
artists at UWSP. The College of Fine
Arts and Communication is the only
one in Wisconsin accredited by all four
professional associations: the National
Association of Schools of Art and Design,
National Association of Schools of Dance,
National Association of Schools of Music,
and National Association of Schools of
Theatre. UWSP is one of only 30 universi-
ties in the nation with those credentials.
Many of the Art and Design students
go on to successful careers in the arts with
design firms, galleries, museums, leading
companies, education, and as indepen-
dent artists. Many Music graduates hold
positions in military ensembles, full-time
professional symphony orchestras, studio
musicians, university teachers and private
teachers. The high-quality academic and
production programs in the Department
of Theater and Dance have established
UWSP as the primary undergraduate
center in Wisconsin for students interested
in the performing arts.
In support of these outstanding under-
graduate programs, the Festival awards
scholarships for each department and raises
the money by soliciting donations from the
corporate and private sectors and by hold-
ing a silent auction of a selection of fine art
donated by the participat-
ing artists. Faculty within
each department selects the
scholarship award winner
based on the students’ over-
all performance.
OUR LOCAL WINNER
Jessie Fritsch of Stevens
Point, an accomplished
encaustic painter in the
show this year, was a schol-
arship winner in 2004 and
is now a member of the
Council that plans the show.
“I was always taking
art lessons growing up,”
Fritsch said. “My professor
at UW-Fox Valley let me
try encaustic in her studio
as it was not taught at that
university. I transferred to
UWSP, wrote an approved
research grant and bought
encaustic painting supplies
under the mentorship of
professor Rob Stolzer. The
Festival of Arts scholarship
allowed me to buy more
supplies to continue learn-
ing.”
Fritsch met Brenda
Gingles, a fine jewelry artist
from Stevens Point who has
been in the Festival for a
long time, and as a result,
decided she’d be a professional artist. Frit-
sch graduated from UWSP in 2006 with a
BFA with honors and started participating
in art fairs that same week. In 2007, Jessie
received the Festival’s Best of Show award.
JEWELRY BY KEITH WESTPHAL
Appleton jewelry artist Keith Westphal
joined the show this year. Keith creates
custom handmade silver jewelry using
clean, simple silverwork to enhance the
natural beauty of the individual gemstones.
After learning the art of lapidary in the late
1970s, he enrolled in an art metals class to
learn how to design jewelry to showcase
his own custom-cut gemstones. He subse-
quently taught lapidary and art metals at
the technical college for an adult evening
program. After recently retiring from his
daytime career, he returned to fabricating
his jewelry designs. He and his wife, Col-
leen, who has degree in graphic arts and
marketing, display Keith’s work together at
art fairs around the state. In 2014, he was
presented with the Award of Excellence
for Jewelry at Artstreet. Keith has acquired
numerous unique, natural gemstones from
all over the world such as
fossilized dinosaur bone,
meteorites from Africa,
Russia and Sweden, fos-
silized sea creatures from
Australia, Indonesia and
Madagascar, and colorful
gemstones from Canada,
Mexico and South Amer-
ica. They’ll be featured in
his designs at the show.
Come and meet Keith to
learn about his materials
and designs.
A DAY IN STEVENS
POINT
While contemplat-
ing that next piece of
art for a collection, the
visitor has even more to
see at the Noel Fine Arts
Center. The Carlsten Gal-
lery on the upper floor
of the mezzanine, open
during the Festival, will
be featuring an exhibit
by Jillian Noble titled
“Ampersand”. Inside
the Carlsten Gallery is a
smaller exhibit space for
area art students. And displayed in cases
that span the exterior walls of the gallery,
the Vallier Collection of Early American
Pressed Glass consists of more than 1,000
individual glass goblets, a special treat for
any glass historian or collector.
Plan a day of art appreciation and
enjoyment. Visit Stevens Point and come
to the Festival of the Arts!
“Extinction,” dinosaur bone with gibeon mete-
orite pendant, by Keith Westphal. Photo by Ann
Cady, ARC Photographic Images, Elmira, N.Y.
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FINE ARTS  // FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
“Jay” by Alexander Lee LandermanWood by Wendell Zeigler

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10. R2 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015FOOD & DRINK  // BREWMASTER
BY STEVE LONSWAY
This month’s selection was taken from
our own stock of guests beers that we run
in the Stone Arch Tap Room. The Alaskan
Black Imperial India Pale Ale comes in a
22 oz. bomber bottle with a very intriguing
label portraying
two black
ravens
perched in a riverside tree. This beer is
part of the Alaskan Brewing Company’s
Pilot Series which is what they name their
limited edition specialty releases.
Because it’s a bigger beer, our team
chose snifter style glassware which was
the right decision for this beer. We paid
close attention to our serving temperature
and nailed it at 48 degrees. As we poured
our samples, a couple comments came
out indicating the dark ruby red pour. It
seemed to pour heavy as well. We had
noticed that the foam started out more of
a tan and as it settled (which was rampant)
it darkened. I held the glass up to the
light to admire the richness of the color
and saw that the beer had brilliant clarity
even though the label warned that natural
sedimentation may occur. The color alone
is reason enough to buy this beer. A rich
brown/red and not opaque like many in
this category.
The aroma aspect of this beer was just
as pleasing. Our team identified smells
similar to mint, chocolate, roast malt char-
acteristics, dark cherry, biscuit, and Indian
spice, possibly biryani? Intensely complex
malt notes with spicy citrus hop aromas
popping out to really tease the senses.
When tasting this beer, all the above
aromas appeared in the flavors as well. An
assertive dry, roasted malt flavor but not
over the top and balanced to perfection
with sweet citrus hops. The chocolatey
notes definitely were more pronounced as
it warmed. This dark beauty finished with
a bit of an alcohol bite, strong hop bitter-
ness and an extremely pleasing mouthfeel.
With a touch of prickliness from the
carbonation and a creamy, dry
finish, this full bodied brew
almost whispers treacle at the
end.
This beer will pair very
well with spicy dishes
especially the aforemen-
tioned Indian Biryani.
Other fare that would
complement this brew
is blackened fish or an
aggressive gumbo. Steve actually brought
a bottle home to pair with the nights’ meal
of black bean tacos and reported perfec-
tion!
Their website description of this offer-
ing states an original gravity of 1.087
which in brewing indicates fermentability
that after fermentation, results in alcohol
content. There is a discrepancy in that
number. The site indicates a 8.5% alcohol
by volume, the bottled version we sampled
indicates a 7.7% a.b.v. We assume their
draught version contains the higher
amount. Regardless, the 7.7% in the
bottle works really well.
The bitterness in this beer came in at
70 I.B.U’s. I.B.U. stands for International
Bitterness Units and is a quick indicator
of how hoppy a beer is. The higher that
number, the more hoppy or bitter the
beer is. Typically the human palette can
only identify up to 100 I.B.U.’s so 70 is
definitely on the higher side which, again
works because of the high “fermentatblity”
of this beer.
Overall an excellent, flavorful example
of the Black I.P.A. style.
Now let’s get into the creators of this
libation. Alaskan Brewing Company
proudly calls Juneau, Alaska home and
has since they first opened their doors in
December of 1986. Started by husband
and wife team, Geoff and Marcy Larson as
the 67
th
brewing company to start in the
United States, their continued hard work
and impressive trail of awards has gotten
them to be the 16
th
ranked brewery on the
Brewers Association’s “Top 50 Craft Brew-
ing Company’s” list based on sales volume
(2012). Matter of fact they are the Great
American Beer Festival’s most award-
winning craft brewery – pretty impressive
especially being located in the final fron-
tier. Their flagship beer was derived from
shipping records and an old newspaper
article they discovered in researching brew-
ing history in Alaska. From the Douglas
City Brewing Co. that operated at the turn
of the last century (1899-1907). That beer
today is known as Alaskan Amber and
deserves a taste or two as well.
These fine folks have developed a well-
deserved reputation of brewing quality
beers for many years and are perennial win-
ners at World Beer Cup competition and
Great American Beer Festival. They have
won numerous awards for their Alaskan
Smoked Porter which lands in my top five
beers of all-time. They use alder wood
to smoke choice malts in a commercial
smoker in small batches and the flavors this
tedious process creates is nothing short of
amazing.
FINAL WORD: Search the Alaskan
Black Imperial India Pale Ale out and
enjoy in moderation. And while you’re
out, pick up a bomber of their amazing
Smoked Porter too. It ages really well so
maybe add a few for your cellar. Make an
Alaskan night out of it. Prosit!
Alaskan Brewing Co.
Black Imperial India Pale Ale

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Japan’s Newest Freaky Burger!
If you’re on the go in Japan, and you
don’t have a lot of time for lunch...how
about a quick Frog Burger?!
The home country to pitch-black
burgers can now boast another strange
sandwich, due out later this month. The
Orbi Yokohama Museum has taken the
bamboo-charcoal buns and inserted an
entire deep-fried frog in between them,
and also adding some lettuce, a chili
sauce, and an ingredient described as
“a small amount of soy sauce-flavored
chicken.”  It costs about $8.40, and it
comes with a drink. Essentially...it’s a
frogwich!
The burger actually promotes a
new exhibit at the museum featuring
poisonous creatures from around the
world, including spiders and puffer fish.
Giving Baby Chicks for
Easter – PLEASE DON’T
BY TRICIA DERGE
Has a relative of yours ever had the
bright idea of giving live baby chicks as an
Easter gift?
Spring is the season when some Bozo’s
purchase “baby chicks” for their backyard
poultry flocks or to give as Easter gifts, but
one Oregon public health expert advises
caution around these cute, fuzzy birds.
The problem: Baby poultry carry salmo-
nella bacteria that can cause serious illness.
“Salmonella bacteria often contami-
nate adult chickens, ducks and other live
poultry, so it goes without saying that their
offspring often carry it, too,” says Emilio
DeBess, D.V.M., Oregon Public Health
veterinarian
“What’s worse is that because of their
size and cuteness, these birds often are
picked up by children, who will put them
close to their faces and kiss them,” DeBess
says. “In many cases, children may not
wash their hands after handling them.”
Since 2010, nine outbreaks of ill-
nesses caused by salmonella bacteria from
chicks have occurred, affecting at least 37
confirmed salmonellosis cases and many
more suspected cases. A third or more of
the cases were children, DeBess said. The
last major salmonellosis outbreak, in 2013,
occurred after
people han-
dled, kissed
and kept
poultry inside
the home.
Because noth-
ing says Easter
like a houseful
of chickens
pooping all
over the Ori-
ental rug.
Salmonella
infections can cause diarrhea, abdominal
cramps and fever symptoms lasting three
to seven days, DeBess said. Anyone with
compromised immune systems, the very
young and elderly people could become
very ill and die of the infection.
“We don’t think they are appropriate
Easter gifts,” DeBess says, “especially for
young children - those younger than 5 -
who are particularly vulnerable to serious
illness from salmonella contamination
because of their underdeveloped immu-
nity.”
Many people
purchasing baby
poultry also
don’t realize the
responsibility
involved with
raising chicks
and ducklings as
the animals grow
up. “These birds
require space to
roam and food to
eat, and these fac-
tors can be expensive,” DeBess says. “As a
result, they often are abandoned after they
become adult chickens and ducks.”
If that dimwit aunt or uncle does give
live chicks as a gift, here are a few tips for
preventing salmonella infection from baby
poultry
• Don’t give live baby birds to children.
How about a nice stuffed animal, or a
package of Peeps?
• Always wash hands with soap and
water, and thoroughly clean surfaces
after handling any animal or coming
in contact with animal waste.
• Keep chicks in an appropriate outdoor
area.
• If chicks are handled, never nuzzle or
kiss them. They’ll only want more
attention, and you’ll have a harder
time separating from them emotion-
ally when it comes time to butcher.
• Never allow poultry inside the home.
FOOD & DRINK  // TRICIA’S TABLE
You’ll have to travel some to find it, but
at long last a bistro has created an edible
“Heaven on Earth.”
A west London restaurant has dreamed
up an Easter-inspired burger topped with a
melted down Creme Egg.
The Creme egg burgers, being served
at the K West Hotel & Spa, in Shepherds
Bush, are made with a sweet brioche bun
dipped in white chocolate.
Inside the bun is a chocolate patty
made out of a gooey melted crème egg, as
well as mascarpone cream, and a helping of
strawberry jelly.
The calorific sliders, available at the
Studio Kitchen restaurant in the hotel, cost
£5.50 ($8.00) for a portion of two, or as
part of the Spring Rocks Afternoon Tea
starting from £22.50 ($33.00) per person.
Each burger contains roughly 530
calories, adding up to 1,060 calories when
served together - more than half the rec-
ommended daily intake of calories for a
woman.
Afternoon tea diners can also enjoy
other Easter inspired treats such as mini
hot cross buns, quail scotch eggs and savory
sliders.
Finally!
The Cadbury Creme Burger!

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14. BY KIMBERLY FISHER
Ahh, finally we are starting to see
signs of spring. The snow has melted, the
grass is starting to green, and the warmer
weather brings out the best in us. Shake
that cabin fever and get ready for your next
leg of wine exploration. Let’s talk about the
three basic white grapes, but this time with
a twist.
Each year, some new region comes into
vogue and some new grapes come to the
forefront. It is worthwhile to concentrate
on these three classic white grapes and by
varying the regions; you can put them side
by side and really taste the difference. See
how each region, each producer is similar
and how they can be different. The jour-
ney won’t take long, but the result is your
palate will broaden greatly and you will
add a wealth of knowledge for your wine vocabulary.
Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine
Sales for Badger Liquor-Wine & Spirits.
From the Wine Cave
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Sauvignon Blanc is a varietal that originated in the Bordeaux
region in France and the name most likely gets its name from the French words Sauvage (wild) and Blanc (white). It is planted in many regions of the world and takes on many different personalities. When exploring this intriguing varietal,
take the time to taste through three different regions to experience the incredible
variety found in this grape. Depending on the climate, the flavors can differ from
grassy, brassy herbaceous flavors – Santa Rita 120 Sauvignon Blanc (Chile) to
tropical fruit and floral notes – Matanzas Creek Sauvignon Blanc, Bennett Valley,
Sonoma (CA). Other parts of the world can show flavors of grapefruit, tree fruit
such as peach notes and green peppers – Yealands Sauvignon Blanc (New Zea-
land). Each will lend its own expression and take you down a path of discovery.
Chardonnay originated in the Burgundy wine region of
Eastern France, but is grown everywhere. The grape is a neutral varietal but can be greatly influenced by terroir and oak. It can be a lean, mean, fighting machine meant to age such as Chardonnay based Champagne or
White Burgundy. It can appear medium bodied with noticeable acidity
and flavors of green apple and pear out of New Zealand - Villa Maria Char-
donnay (New Zealand). In California, you can find a creamy mouth feel
and a kiss of oak – Freemark Abbey Chardonnay, Napa (CA). Finally the
wines of Washington State tend to be similar to California, but it empha-
sizes the fruit than the creaminess – Columbia Crest 2 Vines (WA).
Riesling first originated in the Rhine region in Germany and I
believe it is a chameleon in terms of what it can express. It is aromatic, with flowery, perfumey notes and can have high acidity when done perfectly well. Usually pure and fresh, this varietal can take you on a roller coaster
ride. In Washington State, Riesling is an easy drinker with a detectable
peach and mineral component that tends to adapt to production methods
done in Germany – Snoqualmie Naked Riesling (WA). In Germany,
Riesling tends to have more apple and tree fruit notes with a tangy level of
acidity – Schlink Haus Riesling (Germany). Monterey has an expression
of cool weather allowing Riesling to sport its own character. Seaglass Ries-
ling, Monterey (CA) is the perfect expression of cool air, minimal rainfall
and a long growing season putting all the flavors in check.

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FINE ARTS  // ARTFUL LIVING
BY JEAN DETJEN
Fox Cities/Central Wisconsin inde-
pendent business owners: A side-feature of
my new ‘Artful Living’ column in Scene
Newspaper will be all about fashion and
objects d’art. My personally selected ‘Foxy
Finds’ will be featured monthly, starting
with the April issue. I’m on the hunt for
unique, artful creations for body and work/
living spaces that excite the senses. Cloth-
ing, shoes, accessories, decor items, and all
variety of art objects will be highlighted.
DIY artisans, shop owners and fashionistas
are encouraged to contact me with sug-
gestions for my picks of the
month.
Cheers to living artFULLY!
Artful Living
Murano glass cufflinks in aqua
green stone and chrome. Crafted
in Italy for XMI Platinum collec-
tion.  Other color combinations
of blues, tans and reds available.
$89.50 from Bill Paul Ltd.,
Neenah. billpaulltd.com
Reclaimed silver and gold
artisan necklace. This piece is made with organic discs of reclaimed sterling silver, fused
fine silver, and 12k gold-filled
links. Even the clasp is made by
hand. Each piece is unique but
can be ordered by contacting
Jackie Schubbe at doobeadoo@
gmail.com. This 25-inch necklace
sells for $100.
Blue & cream Aztec print
jersey track shorts by Envi (USA). Drawstring waist with sporty piping detail. $74. Available at
Azure, DePere in sizes XS-L.
azurewi.com
Exquisite Kinzig Design
lamps from The Frame Work-
shop, Appleton.theframework-
shop.com. Hand blown glass
bases. Richly colored shades sewn
from embroidered silks and other
elegant fabrics. Topped with dis-
tinctive finials that enhance these
uniquely crafted pieces. Made in
the USA. Prices vary.
Paintable ceramic wall sharks
from The Fire | Pottery, Mosaic
& Glass Fusing Studio, Appleton. $25.99 each. thefireartstudio.
com.
Take edginess up a notch in
the Sugar, a wedge style sandal
that straps all the way to the ankle
with a back zipper. Reminiscent
of gladiator styles that have been
one of the top trends of the last
few seasons. Comfy and cool.
Black & white polka dots fea-
tured. Eye-catching animal prints
and solid hues also available.
Joseph’s Shoes, Appleton. $139.
shopjosephsshoes.com.
Straw coral cowgirl hat with
funky fabric band from Besselli, Green Bay. Guaranteed to turn heads.  Price: $48.00. besselli.
com.
Lou Reed woodcut tribute
print by Chad Brady / C.E. Brady
Art. Custom frame by Foxley’s,
Appleton. Created on the day
of the musician’s death. Limited
edition of 10, $150 (print only).
Available at Coventry Glass-
works & Gallery, Appleton, or
through the artist: cebradyart@
gmail.com.
Chic vegan faux leather mint
green moto/biker jacket by Black Swan. Dress it up or down. $94. Available at Vintique, Neenah.
vintiqueboutique.com.
Site:1 portable wireless
speaker from Princeton Audio.
Handcrafted from instrument-
quality tonewood and tuned for
optimum frequency response.
Interchangeable interfaces make
it simple to listen inside or out-
side, wireless, over Bluetooth or
hardwired. Rechargeable battery
lasts up to 12 hours. Sleek design,
available in a wide variety of wood
and finish combinations. Special
reduced pricing on the initial
build of these through Spring at
$299. Listening party at the Fox
Note in Downtown Princeton
on April 4th with free drinks and
concert by Rebecca Hron of The
Guilty Wanted!  More listening
parties will also take place in
Appleton and Milwaukee. prince-
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BY RICHARD OSTROM
This month I am going to devote some
quality time toward a surprisingly good
modern day take on one of the oldest
school fractions of the monster movie sub-
genre. Said film, calling itself ‘Late Phases’
(with the subtitle, ‘Night of the Lone
Wolf’ on the cover art but nowhere in the
film) and hailing from the good folks at
Glass Eye Pix (by way of Dark Sky Films)
seeks to pull itself up from the oft tread
conventions tied tight to the common fold
of the werewolf film staple and branch off
in a decidedly different, more character
fueled, direction.
Situated in some far flung, small in
scale New York state locale dubbed ‘Cres-
cent City’, ‘Late Phases’ weds the viewer
close to the pared down living situation of
one vision free war vet name of Ambrose
McKinley (realized onscreen by the ever
dependable Nick Damici) with little more
to yearn for but to count off the remain-
ing days of his dwindling existence with
his loyal pooch by his side. Our dutifully
complacent chap has just freshly set down
in these uneventful parts (with the aid
of his always distracted son, played by
Ethan Embry) when, from directly out of
nowhere, arrives an intrusive menace of an
extremely bestial nature. It would appear,
as the pesky quirks of horror movie fate
would have it, that the ‘harmless’ vibe of
this community is seriously inflected by a
heady dose of Lycanthropic corruption.
The first thick taste of such comes in
very direct fashion one fitfully solemn eve-
ning wherein our main man cursed with
the failed eyeballs must quickly acclimate
to a violent, fatal attack upon, first his
kindly neighbor and next his ever faithful,
four legged best friend. Promptly follow-
ing this unprovoked assault, Ambrose sets
forth to plot a course of action that will,
hopefully, locate, isolate and snuff out the
savage culprit. What this will ultimately
entail is the deeper delving into the pre-
dictably conservative social circles that
inform the spine of this specific slice of
small town Americana. Ambrose attempts
(not often successfully) to win the trust of
the resident old biddy greeting committee
(designed, to a degree, after characters in
the original ‘Stepford Wives’ as confessed
by the director on the revelatory com-
mentary track) as well as integrate himself
into the thick of the area religious populace
(which looks to be a fair chunk of the
story’s supporting players). This all unfolds
in a fairly expected manner with a series
of not-so-stable confrontations giving way
to the inevitable red herring or two on the
way to the customary human to were-thing
transformation reveal that these kinds of
pictures are cemented around.
Fortunately for us, this oh so poten-
tially simple and cliché susceptible piece of
lower budget, wolfman calamity is guided
to a far nobler fruition by the totally able
hand of a gent named Adrian Garcia
Bogliano. Those precious few of you who
actually follow my scattershot column on
a constant basis may recall that name as
being associated with a lively film I covered
but a year ago called ‘Here Comes the
Devil’. That film proved itself the wealthy
result of an ingenious and uber-resourceful
filmmaker who could absorb and adapt his
volumetric genre influences to the benefit
of a work that, in itself, was wholly original
and effortlessly engrossing. ‘Here Comes
the Devil’ also marked the widest ever
exposure in this America Bogliano had yet
been graced with. This reasonable level of
cult success on, mostly, the festival circuit
served to put him in a position to take the
next best step forward in his rising career,
to craft a film within our lovely boarders.
Thus, ‘Late Phases’ was born.
For this, Bogliano’s official English
lingo debut, the man has carted a few
of his well honed directorial traits with
him. Witness the soothing warmth of the
often succulent cinematography that works
one into a lull to pull them away from the
danger you know damn well is impend-
ing. See, as well, the fetishistic dedication
to utter practicality when it comes to the
meat of his film’s FX work. Minimal digital
input was employed in the rendering of the
beasties or their unsparing carnage. What
you eventually lay eyes on is, for the most
part, pure latex, body in suit reality (the
‘from scratch to completion’ details can be
found in the 30 minute featurette ‘Early
Phases’ which ventures into creature maker
Robert Kurtzman’s studio to casually
observe the nuts and bolts behind it all).
Now, while it makes for a slight case of sen-
sory adjustment, these delightfully cheesy
monstrosities actually prove to be effective
throwback, shock horror material once the
last stains of polished digital trickery fall
from ones’ psyche. They help to propel the
mounting unease as generated throughout
the narrative between our protagonist and
a litany of set minded residents who can
never really gel to Ambrose’s somewhat
cold, do it yourself persona.
It seems this fella’s determined in-town
snooping has raised up the red flag with a
number of folks from the gabby spinsters
to the local police and back around to
the members of faith who express equal
parts concern and distain at his disruptive
behavior. In the end, it all must spiral back
to a case of a life hardened man and his
sharpened wits pairing up against a violent
wall of supernatural opposition, something
the film rather effectively marries to the
concept of a fading mortal soul facing its’
concluding moments.
‘Late Phases’ is, apart from being a solid
genre entry occasioned by welcome bursts
of quality gore, a very satisfying roll out
of distinct characters and the fitting per-
formances that breathe them to cinematic
life. In addition to the fine, subtly ren-
dered lead work by Damici (whom some
may recall from his team ups with stellar
director Jim Mickle, like ‘Stakeland”), the
picture is peppered with many a (semi)
familiar mug from across the cult-pop
culture entertainment landscape.
The statuesque Tom (‘House of the
Devil’, ‘Last Action Hero’) Noonan takes
part as a mentor like preacher with a soft
spot for cigarettes, Tina Louise (Ginger
from Gilligan’s Island, now looking more
like a Golden Girl) show up as one of the
pesky neighbors, Lance Guest (the teen
hero of ‘The Last Starfighter’) is a rather
creepy hanger on at the church and
former ‘Twin Peaks’ bad boy Dana Ash-
brook cameos as an underground gun
dealer. All help to fill out the background
details nicely. Each piece of this decent
cast works to raise the end product well
above the standards long set down by one
too many a slapped together, direct to the
shelf, werewolf themed time killer.
‘Late Phases’ features the usual extra
stuff (some of it mentioned above); play
by play audio commentary, a pair of fea-
turettes and the film’s trailer. It comes to
availability on Blu Ray and/or DVD from
the aforementioned Dark Sky Films (dark-
skyfilms.com).
Worth a shot, I say.
Now, for a much needed passing men-
tion to the ongoing phenomenon of the
film festival in this state of ours. With
many such cinema based gatherings taking
place all across Wisconsin (Wildwood in
Appleton, Wisconsin International Film
Fest in Madison plus collectives in Green
Bay, Milwaukee, Weyauwega and many,
many others) I thought it only fitting to
pass along a quick assemblage of my own
make pretend fest line up culled from many
recent finds that I just never got around to
rambling about in a regular column.
1. ‘Whiplash’-Call it ‘Full Metal Jazz
Band’. Young drummer with obvious skill
set comes under the intense tutelage of a
firebrand instructor (J.K. Simmons in an
Oscar winning, volcano of a performance).
The film charts how the poor lad must
endure relentless immersion into the meth-
ods of his chosen craft (often to the sharp
accompaniment of a barrage of profane
insults) in order to come out the other side
as one of the greats. The best I’ve seen, thus
far, of the most recent slate of Academy
Mortal Phases
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Award darlings (sorry Birdman).
2. ‘Under the Skin’- Scarlett Johansson
is an alien newly arrived on Earth (more
explicitly, Scotland)  with an apparent
agenda of luring suitable human males, by
virtue of her foxy exterior, to her mysteri-
ous lair for abduction and...uh...process-
ing purposes or something. Slow, spare
and enigmatic, the film marks a return to
filmmaking after a near decade of absence
for Jonathan Glazer (‘Sexy Beast’, ‘Birth’)
who takes the bare skeleton of Michel
Faber’s source novel and has crafted an
absorbing study of a being out of place in
an environment made all the more alien in
itself as the whole film seems to align with
Scarlett’s character’s somewhat abstracted
point of view. Dense and challenging in its
ambiguity.
3. ‘The Guest’- Those clever, ‘wink,
wink’, cats behind the home invasion
splat fest ‘You’re Next’, Adam Wingard
and Simon Barrett, are back with another
jumpy thriller that repeatedly nods back in
time toward entries from multiple genres
from the 80s and 90s. A soldier on return
from the Afghan war ingratiates himself
as the proposed combat pal of a naïve
family’s fallen son. The mystery thickens
as the man (essayed by ‘Downtown Abby’
star Dan Stevens) turns out to hold secrets
that could prove quite threatening to his
obliging hosts. Twisty, stylish fun in an old
school, accidental video store discovery
kind of way.
4. ‘Starry Eyes’- Think of one of David
Lynch’s starlet in trouble scenarios played
out on a more straight arrow path, for
awhile, until the darker themes of the story-
line bleed vividly to the surface. Somebody
named Alex Essoe stars as Sarah, a waitress
at a typically degrading Hooters knock off
joint who yearns to be a star, awww. She
claims she’ll do anything to get the part and
soon finds herself put to the test of making
good on her word in the most unexpected
and disturbing way. Relentless once it kicks
into its’ true narrative intent, with a game
lead performance by Essoe that runs an
emotional gauntlet that stands to gut the
soul of any timid viewer.
5. ‘VHS Viral’+’The ABC’s of Death
2’- The latest additions to the two anthol-
ogy franchises that have done all in their
power to fully revitalize the format to the
level once held by the likes of ‘Creepshow’.
They’re not quite there, but not for lack
of persistence and notable improvement
of product (especially ‘ABC’s’ which had
a lot to make up for in relation to its
inaugural entry). Segments very wildly as
per usual, but there seems to be a shift in
favor of craftsmanship and stronger ideas
(as opposed to beat you over the head gross
out/shock tactics) which gives me great
hope as this whole concept continues to
move foreword. Bring on the next round.  
6. ‘Life Itself’- A look at the life and
uneasy death (more to the point, dying
days) of the most famous of all movie crit-
ics, Roger Ebert. ‘Hoops Dreams’ creator
Steve James conducts a series of interviews
with a post speech, jaw removal Ebert in his hospital room and interweaves the recollection of Roger’s rise from lowly Illinois newspaper lackey to the heights
of cinematic analysis as the co-host of the
popular ‘At The Movies’ syndicated pro-
gram and beyond with input from some
of the man’s big name pals like Martin
Scorsese and Werner Herzog. We see
images from Ebert’s youth in Urbana, IL
and hear recollections from many mouths
of his tussle with serious alcohol abuse
before he became the sweater sporting
rival to fellow Chicago film critic Gene
Siskel. Funny, revealing and a bit unsettling
(James is often present for Ebert’s some-
times unpleasant medical upkeep), ‘Life
Itself’ is a fully rewarding look at one of
the most unique of all modern celebrities,
in this overburdened age of self indulgent
blogging and social network info-overkill
will there ever be elbow room enough for
another like him? Me thinks not.
That’s enough. Happy festing, no
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22. R14 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015ENTERTAINMENT // NICK OLIG
Game of Thrones Stimulus Package
BY NICK OLIG
The new year brought with it subzero
temperatures and a temptation to binge-
watch popular shows I’d never seen. A
friend’s recommendation guided me
to Game of Thrones. By the end of the
first episode, with so much potential for
episodic drama rife with good, evil, sex,
and violence, I gazed out the window, saw
two polar bears battling over dumpster
scraps outside of Chinatown Kitchen, and
realized I was indeed hooked on Game of
Thrones.
The most striking part of the HBO
series is its enormity. Due to its ever-
sprawling story arc, Thrones features about
a dozen major characters, scores of minor
characters, numerous stunt doubles, and
countless extras—and that only covers the
people who appear on-screen, not the pro-
ducers, writers, directors, editors, camera
and boom mic operators, wardrobe design-
ers, set builders, stylists, key grips and best
boys (whatever it is they do), caterers, and
dialect coaches who constantly harp on the
actors to British-up those accents.
That last job might be the easiest since
many of the performers hail from the
United Kingdom. Although the program is
certifiably huge in the States and we can at
least be proud the dwarf was born in Jersey,
we seem to be missing the full potential of
HBO’s pop-culture juggernaut. Thrones
makes a staggering amount of money and
generates a lot of industry, but that indus-
try mostly profits Europeans, not Ameri-
cans. And for that reason, I declare that our
president and Congress should unite in a
massive group-text effort with the show’s
producers. We’ve got to let them know that
the average American has the potential to
be yet another minor character in a seem-
ingly infinite realm. We must demand that
an already crowded, fictional universe be
expanded for the benefit of America.
Our Thrones homeland is to be named
McDonaldsburgh. Devout fans have no
reason to suspect the rise of McDonalds-
burgh will clash with author George RR
Martin’s epic vision. The new land’s inhab-
itants, the McDonaldsburghers, will exist
apart from Martin’s multitude of characters
and their various adventures. If we can
somehow tie together all the stories in the
end just like they did on Seinfeld, that’d be
fantastic. If not, hey, we’re just hoping to
get paid either way. As if that plea wasn’t
humble enough for the purists, we’re only
asking for ten minutes of screen time per
episode. Plus we’re Americans, so you don’t
have to worry about a drop-off when it
comes to sex and violence.
By introducing McDonaldsburgh into
the narrative, my hunch is that America’s
unemployment rate could be cut in half.
Filmed in the
woods of northern
Wisconsin—the
Midwest’s answer
to Hollywood
if there ever was
one—job-growth
would commence
with some big-time
deforestation efforts
so we can build
enormous sets to
make McDonalds-
burgh come to life.
For that endeavor,
we’re going to need thousands of lumber-
ers, construction workers, and engineers—
and if any of them fit the part, we also need
someone to play the parts of the rugged
crusader Clutch Mountainside as well as
the goateed schemer Fork Stansbury.
The most crucial set-piece is the luxuri-
ous mayor’s office. (Yes, mayor’s office,
the others can have their silly monarchies,
but we do things the McDonaldsburgh
way.) Mayor Plus Wonderpledge rules the
land with a strong hand and a charming
smile, but you might remember him
from a bunch of movies in which he gets
butchered, so don’t get too attached to the
guy! His wife Fern is a paragon of virtue
and his children Whiff and Beige are
spirited upstarts with bright futures, but
Plus’ longtime rival Lance Wedgers and
his cousinly lover Stemla Prickerbush are
dead-set on sabotaging the entire Wonder-
pledge family. They intend to unseat Won-
derpledge behind the hallowed mayor’s
desk and symbolically decimate his empire
by using the over-sized key to the city to
smash his “Realm’s Best Mayor” mug.
Bare in mind, besides the obvious
acting jobs these characters create, every
performer will require makeup ladies (or
lads), costume designers, fight coordina-
tors, acting coaches, personal trainers,
personal assistants, desperate hangers-on
like that surfer dude who crashed at OJ’s,
and various shoulder-to-cry-on specialists
(a position which pays a respectable $12/
hour).
Elsewhere in McDonaldsburgh,
the area’s finest horse-drawn carriage
manufacturing barn is overseen by Lord
Fordsworth, who’s constantly warning
his rabble-rousing blacksmiths Vanderley
Cobbleport and Bloom Chesters to stop
carousing with his 19 irresistible daugh-
ters—each more scantily clad and born out
of wedlock than the last! (Hoping this one
will get its own spin-off, btw.)
Citizens can take refuge from their
troubles at the McDonaldsburgh Gladiator
Arena. Therein, a series of physical chal-
lenges pit contestants against Gladiators
like Clamp Superplex, Ore Flackington,
Boom Merlin-Olsen, and my personal
favorites, the chesty Eliza Thundersnow
and her bosomy friend Vivacity Landol-
akes. All performers are clad in McDon-
aldsburgh’s most wondrous invention:
spandex. Gladiator events like the Dwarf
Catapult, the Rapunzel Climb, the Bastard
Toss, and the Axe Fight to the Death are
sure to put even the best Gladiator, Indigo
Foxboro (whom I just made up to create
another job), to the ultimate test. Contes-
tants include Remi Millimeter, who was
sentenced to compete after his newfangled
system of measurement was deemed
straight-up witchcraft.
In more scandalous fashion, citizens
can also take refuge from their troubles, or
perhaps add to their troubles, by patron-
izing Vice Everlast’s Burlesque-o-torium,
where the bedazzling Marigold Minutia
dances nightly. Male dancers Fort Bravado
and Leif Deciduous provide some eye
candy for the ladies. Also the gay men, I
suppose. Anyway, they supply this eye
candy to the tunes of Clive Aerosmith
and Sammi Redrocker, McDonaldsburgh’s
most radical glockenspiel and lute combo.
The villainous Speck Crumbsteign and the
complex yet also quite complicated Plate
Wightly vie to manage them.
Oh, and in closing, we’ll come up with
stuff to do for the following characters: Flea
Highriser, Fanny Pebblekeg, Zane Beedles,
Ladybird Nippley, Wheely Cobblestone,
Big Mama Cabbagepatch, and if possible, a
part for me, Sir Beardythins of the North.
The main cause for concern is that
these jobs are not going to create them-
selves. (Though Sir Beardythins would
be capable of magically creating jobs if
given the opportunity.) Our government
needs to reach an agreement with Game
of Thrones and its British contingency. So,
however you want to go about it, whether
that means screaming out the window in
the general direction of the White House
or sending your city counsel a video cas-
sette of you being super- P.O.’d, or perhaps
some third, smarter form of political
action, make your voice heard about the
Game of Thrones Stimulus Package. Let’s
let those British thespians know they’re
not the only ones with castles and dragons,
and we’re proud of our bouncy castles and
WWE Hall-of-Famer Ricky “The Dragon”
Steamboat!
And if they refuse us, we must usurp
the British throne. Queen Elizabeth is 88
years old, so I gotta wonder, how hard
could it be? It’d be such an easy usurping,
we could arm a dwarf from Jersey with a
crossbow to get the job done.
Only kidding about the regicide! Regi-
cide is no joke, it’s not a comedy. It’s the
best drama on TV.

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24. R16 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015
BY DOBIE MAXWELL
As painful and disappointing as it may
be to accept, I have finally forced myself to
live with the harsh reality that at this point
in my life the only way I will ever appear
on SportsCenter is if I take a foul ball
to the face at a baseball game. And even
then, they won’t mention my name and I
will only be on for a few seconds while the
anchors crack a joke and then report the
final score.
Sports dreams die hard in those of
us that have them. I’m not sure what the
exact percentage is of little boys that have
pictured themselves as being locks to be
inducted into one or more sports Hall’s of
Fame, but I have to believe it’s in the high
90s. I know I was bitten by the baseball
bug at first, then football and basketball
followed shortly thereafter. By age nine I
had my life plan set.
There was absolutely no doubt in my
still squishy and not fully developed prepu-
bescent brain that I was going to conquer
them all, and be a modern day Jim Thorpe.
I would work out a deal where I could have
special clearance to play in all the big games
in all three sports, and of course I would be
able to play for my local Wisconsin teams
so I wouldn’t have to move anywhere else.
I was fully prepared to work at it, but
that pesky little distraction called “school”
kept holding me back from devoting my
entire being to what I was sure was to be
my true calling. Why would I have to
waste valuable space inside my skull with
useless claptrap like math or world history?
Millions of little boys – and who
knows how many little girls – fall prey
to this ridiculous idea every year only to
have those delicate dreams and sky high
hopes dashed to the rocks below with no
consolation prize from the universe. Only
a precious few ever make it and that’s just
how it is.
The closest I ever made it to par-
ticipating in professional sports was in
high school when I was a ball boy for the
Milwaukee Bucks. It was my job to sit
underneath one of the baskets during the
game, and whenever anybody would hit
the ground I ran out on the court with a
towel to wipe up the sweat so nobody else
would slip and fall. Sometimes the game
would stop, sometimes not.
It was especially tricky when it wouldn’t,
because I had to run out and wipe up the
sweat while watching what was happening
on the other end of the court. The action
could switch back to my end in a split
second, and more than a few times I had
to dive off the court to avoid a trampling.
I lasted two seasons as a ball boy, and in
retrospect it was an unbelievably pleasant
experience most sports fans never get to
enjoy. I was lucky enough to have a great
staff of fellow ball boys to work with, and
we all got along swimmingly. In fact, I am
still in touch with many to this day.
One story I will never forget involves
my fellow ball boy Wade Waugus and
Philadelphia 76er player Henry Bibby. It
taught Wade and I a valuable life lesson
while also letting us both know in no
uncertain terms that a career in the NBA
as a player was officially off the bargain-
ing table for the rest of eternity on this
particular cosmic plane. Once again, the
harshness of it all was ugly.
Like any number of high school boys
anywhere Wade and I fancied ourselves to
be more than decent basketball players.
The fact we were both Caucasians without
the genetic dispositions to make us even
close to six much less seven feet tall wasn’t
enough to stop us from assuming we’d
eventually get drafted by an NBA team
and spend a dozen years getting rich and
winning rings.
Henry Bibby was the last player on the
bench for the 76ers who were a power-
house team then. They had the great Julius
Erving aka “Dr. J” and a galaxy of stars
around him. Mr. Bibby didn’t play all that
much, and he wasn’t all that tall either. He
might have been six feet, but no more.
Wade and I were doing our ball boy
duties hours before the game and Henry
Bibby was on the court by himself practic-
ing his free throws. He sized up Wade and
me and asked if either of us were basketball
players. We said we were, and Henry came
up with an on the spot proposal.
“How about we have a little game
then?” he asked innocently. “It will be you
two against me and we’ll play to 21. For
every basket you get, you get three points.
For every basket I get I get one point. And
to make it even more interesting, how
about we play for one dollar a point?”
To avoid reliving all the bloody details,
the final score was 21-3, and I honestly
can’t recall if Wade or I scored our lone
basket. Mr. Bibby beat us within an inch
of our lives, and I don’t think he came close
to breaking a sweat. Wade and I instantly
had respect for just how good any player
is that makes it to the pros – even if it’s the
very last person on the bench. He stomped
us good.
And to add gas to the fire he made us
pay up on the bet. Ball boy salaries were
nowhere near player salaries, but a bet was
a bet. Wade and I emptied our pockets,
and swore we’d never tell a living soul
about what happened. I have always kept
that secret buried in my heart – until now.
My last brush with professional sports
was with baseball. After I graduated high
school I still thought I had a shot at getting
drafted to play baseball. I pitched in some
city leagues around the Milwaukee area and
the Kansas City Royals held tryout camps
in every Major League city. They came to
Milwaukee and my coach suggested I go
try out. I did get a second look by the scout
on duty, but I never got a contract offer.
That was a sledge hammer to the heart, but
what could I do?
The following summer the Milwaukee
Brewers were hiring vendors. I needed a job,
but I also wasn’t ready to let go of the dream.
Somewhere deep in the crevices of my cere-
bral cortex I had a fuzzy image of one of the
Brewers’ pitchers tearing his rotator cuff and
word getting out that I was in the stadium
to come to the rescue. I’m ashamed to admit
it now, but it’s absolutely true.
Being a vendor on opening day in an
outdoor stadium in Milwaukee made
mopping up sweat as a ball boy look like a
dream career. The temperature that first day
was locked firmly between severe testicle
retraction and purple flesh frostbite requir-
ing amputation of digits. It was torture.
And what ball park treat was I assigned
to sell for nine hellacious innings? POP-
CORN! Stale, over salted, disgusting
popcorn. I think I had a better chance of
selling life insurance that day.
Needless to say, I didn’t set any sales
records that first day. It was pelting some-
thing between snow and sleet, and the Brew-
ers were playing the dreaded White Sox that
day so their obnoxious fans were mixed in
with the drunken sea of Brew Crew faithful
to make it one big ugly bar fight.
Everybody was yelling at me to, “Get
the beer man over here.” I tried to sell them
my popcorn but they wouldn’t have any
of it. By the end of the game I was ready
to jump off the upper deck and end it all.
But the Brewers squeaked out a win and I
decided to come back for another day.
The next game was two days later,
and there were one tenth of the people
in the stands that were there for Opening
Day. The bad part was there was the same
amount of vendors. I had no chance to
unload anything without three more of
my cohorts swarming around them with
the same item for sale. The only redeeming
factor was that instead of popcorn I was
now selling hot dogs.
After taking a few laps across my sec-
tion of the stadium and not selling a single
dog, I walked down to the front row of the
bleachers and plopped myself down next
to the warmth of the hot dog container. I
started watching the game while simultane-
ously downing one hot dog after the next.
I made it through a half a dozen, and got
thirsty so I ended up buying a Coke from
one of the other vendors who shot me the
most quizzical look I ever received – but he
sold me the Coke.
By the later innings a few people had
wandered into my section and I shared
the remainder of my hot dogs with them.
When the game was over I left my con-
tainer there and put my vendor’s smock on
top of it. I didn’t have any money for bus
fare, so I ended up walking several miles
home. But at least I wasn’t hungry. I can’t
help but remember that story whenever
another year of baseball starts. Somewhere
in the karma files I owe the Milwaukee
Brewers 24 hot dogs.
Dobie Maxwell is a stand up comedian, and
writer. Find where he’ll be performing his
next hell-gig at dobiemaxwell.com
An Ending to Vending
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BY DENNIS RILEY
The 14
th
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution guarantees every citizen equal
protection of the laws of the state in which
that citizen — any U.S. citizen in any state
for any reason — finds himself or herself.
The amendment doesn’t define equal
protection, but the First amendment
doesn’t define free speech, the Fifth doesn’t
define due process, and the Eighth doesn’t
define cruel and unusual punishment. That
job is left to the courts, and it is definitely a
work in progress.
Likewise, we don’t have a clear and
easy-to-find statement of what it means to
be a citizen entitled to equal protection.
That is, are there aspects of the relation-
ship between an individual and the state
he or she resides in that rise to the level of
citizenship and that do raise clear issues of
equal protection? I think we can identify at
least three.
THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Start with voting. Would anyone con-
sider himself or herself an equal citizen if
denied the right to vote? This gets to be a
bit of a tricky question, of course. That’s
because as important as the right to vote
is, the opportunity to vote is crucial to
making that right a reality.
In fact, serious enough restrictions on
the opportunity to vote can quickly erode
the right to vote. Even in the heyday of
the suppression of the African American
vote — from the end of Reconstruction to
the passage of the Voting Rights Act — no
Southern state formally denied those Afri-
can Americans the right to vote. They just
made it virtually impossible to cast a ballot
by using impossible-to-pass literacy tests,
poll taxes, and good old-fashioned physical
and economic intimidation.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 opened
up the opportunity for African Americans
to vote, and until the Supreme Court
struck down one of its most important
enforcement mechanisms, no state had
moved to put greater obstacles in the paths
to the polls . . . for anybody. But those days
are over, and state after state — includ-
ing Wisconsin — has moved to make it
tougher for people to vote. Photo IDs,
shorter voting hours, fewer chances to vote
on weekends, even moving polling places,
have all been aimed at reducing the ease of
showing up to vote. These restrictions may
not have been aimed exclusively at African
Americans, but Souls to the Polls was
created by African American churches for
Sunday voting, and an awful lot of South-
ern states reduced or eliminated Sunday
voting. Besides, even if some restrictions
were not aimed at African American voters,
those restrictions hit those voters dispro-
portionately, and results matter just about
as much as intentions.
EDUCATION
Then there is public education. We got
into the business of widespread, basically
free, and generally compulsory public
education by the 1840s, and the job was
always left to state and local governments.
It is hard to overestimate the historical
importance of public education in the tale
of upward social mobility in this country.
Even before the Supreme Court held in
1896 that “separate but equal” facilities
met the 14
th
amendment test of equal
protection in public accommodations
— segregated railroad cars, to be precise
— Southern and even border states main-
tained separate school systems, if there
were schools for African Americans at all.
That system continued unchanged
until the Supreme Court held in Brown
v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
(1954), that separate could never be equal,
and it was changed only very little over the
next couple of decades despite President
Eisenhower’s use of federal troops in Little
Rock in 1957.
Housing segregation accomplished in
the North what the law had accomplished
in the South, and to this day the bulk of
African American children in the South
and in the big and even medium-sized
cities of the North go to schools where they
are surrounded by other children of color.
EQUAL PROTECTION
Finally, equal protection of the laws
has to depend on equal enforcement of the
laws. That, alas, may be the furthest away
of all. Not every American city or town
is a Ferguson, Mo., but even the Justice
Department’s carefully worded and clearly
circumscribed report on the law enforce-
ment system in Ferguson suggested that
Missouri town was not an anomaly.
If you haven’t been exposed to the
mind-numbing numbers included in that
report, just consider one or two. Sixty-
seven percent of the city’s residents are
African American — 85% percent of the
citations were written to African Ameri-
cans, 93% of the arrests were of African
Americans, and 100% of the 60 incidents
in which a police dog was commanded to attack a Ferguson citizen involved an Afri- can American. The reason we know all of this is that Michael Brown was an African American. To add insult to injury, the cita- tions and arrests were used in part to raise money to help the cash-strapped city pay
its bills, and officials in the police depart-
ment exchanged racist emails all the while.
As President Barack Obama said so elo-
quently at the Edmund Pettis Bridge at the
ceremony commemorating what has come
to be called Bloody Sunday — the day
that voting rights marchers were attacked
by Alabama state troopers — 2015 is not
1965, let alone 1915. So much change has
come, and so much good accomplished.
John Lewis was one of the young men
severely beaten on the bridge that day. He
is now Representative John Lewis (D. Ga.).
African Americans are prominent in every
walk of life.
The small private liberal arts college I
attended all those years ago, the one with-
out a single African American student or
faculty member, just said good-bye to its
beloved African American president. When
I pick up my grandsons at school, there are
students of color in every classroom, a far
cry from what I saw when I picked up my
daughter 30 years ago.
As our African American President also
said, however, we have a long way to go.
Can anything make us hurry?
Enough out of me.
Dennis Riley has been teaching about
American government and politics since
the year Richard Nixon was inaugurated as
President of the United States.
The Long Path to Equal Citizenship
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28. R20 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015NEWS & VIEWS  // RIGHT WING NUT
BY ROBERT E. MEYER
Scott Walker got elected as governor of
Wisconsin without a college degree. That
has the usual purveyors of snide remarks,
such as democratic provocateur, Howard
Dean, questioning Walker’s presidential
qualifications. Funny, once upon a time
the unlikely achiever was celebrated as an
American success story. In Howard Dean’s
world, Walker is shunned because he isn’t
an elitist--or a liberal. In my book, Walker’s
decision to drop out of college only helped
him to escape being immersed in the liberal
hegemony that permeates contemporary
higher educational environments.
On the other hand, I do have a college
degree, but never got elected to anything
(though I tried a few times when I was
younger). So I guess that proves I’m an
underachiever of the highest order. I guess
higher education ain’t everything!
Former Wisconsin Senator Russ
Feingold acted according to his convic-
tions and was lauded by the media as a
maverick. Walker does the same thing and
gets branded as a shill for his close friends
the Koch Brothers. In fact, he’s such good
friends with them, that he couldn’t tell the
difference when a liberal imposter called
his office pretending to be one of the
brothers. That would seemingly indicate a
rather dubious close friendship. 
The gag never could have worked with
me though--I don’t have any close friends
for anyone to impersonate. Being a rock,
an island and a loner has certain advan-
tages, I suppose.
Speaking of the Koch Brothers, I never
knew much about them before Walker
was elected the first time. These guys have
been so relentlessly impugned with boil-
erplate diatribes, that were I not already a
conservative, I’d have to assume these guys
are doing something right. A little research
showed that the brothers were generous
philanthropists. Some people are surprised
to discover that conservatives tend to be
more generous with their own money than
are liberals. I was never surprised by that
fact. If you expect the government to do
everything for everyone, you’re less likely
to see the need for doing anything for
anyone yourself.
Of course, I could never make the
cut in politics anyway. I would address
issues regarding the meaningless curiosity
over my opinions on the neo-Darwinian
synthesis, the causes of Climate Change,
Obama’s religious beliefs and my edu-
cational deficiencies, along with other
irrelevant issues before the questions were
even asked. That way the people who are
swayed by my answers could leave, and not
bother wasting their time listening to the
actual policy speech.
And that’s the state of media vetting
today. Don’t bother finding out anything
for sure about candidates, just single out
the candidates you don’t like, and ask a
bunch of foolish questions that will make
the candidate look bad regardless of the
answer they give. Walker was smart not to
take the bait. I have often suggested that
fools ask questions that serve no purpose
in being answered, but far from having no
purpose, their questions have a nefarious
purpose. The statesman Benjamin Disraeli
is credited with saying that there are lies,
damn lies, and then there are statistics. In
that spirit, I would submit that there and
lies, damn lies, and questions designed to
provoke one word answers that are mis-
leading.
We know any innuendo about media
bias is just part of a loony conspiracy
theory. Of course, I have noticed that
people who deny the presence of media
bias are usually the ones who share the
same ideology as the source of the bias. Go
figure.
But, alright then, the mainstream
media can demonstrate that they are fair
and objective once more, by having their
moderator ask all candidates participat-
ing in the 2016 Democratic Presidential
Debates, to raise their hands if they
believe in Biblical Creationism. On second
thought, that venue may not include many
participants, so perhaps any collection of
assembled liberal politicians should do.
After all, the Democrats came within
a whisker
of dropping
reference
to “God”
in their
platform
for 2012...
at least until
cooler heads
prevailed,
and they
realized they
had gone a
bridge too far. They could have unneces-
sarily lost the votes of some lunchbox Joe’s,
who though they have nothing in common
with progressive ideology, still continue
to vote for the donkey, because everyone
“knows” the Democrats are the only party
championing the little guy. My oh my, how
they have feasted off that canard.
I’m not expecting Walker to be the last
man standing when the smoke clears in the
Republican primary. But, Walker’s success
could influence the audacity of the con-
servative platform for 2016. The longer he
stays relevant in the presidential race, the
more shrill and obnoxious his detractors
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30. R22 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015NEWS & VIEWS  // MEDIA RANTS
BY TONY PALMERI
Democracy activist Mike McCabe,
former Executive Director of the Wiscon-
sin Democracy Campaign and author of
the reform manifesto Blue Jeans in High
Places, will speak at the University of Wis-
consin Oshkosh on Thursday, April 9 at
7:30 p.m. in Reeve Union 306. Attendance
is free and open to all. If you are interested
in what is ailing our democracy and what
we can do to cure it, please attend!
In anticipation of Mike’s visit, I asked
him to respond to a few questions.
MEDIA RANTS: Blue Jeans in High
Places is relatively silent on the role of
mainstream media in helping to create the
civic crisis described. What’s the media’s
role in that crisis?
MCCABE: The role has been huge.
Chapter 12 focuses on how the changing
media landscape has contributed mightily
to the decline of our democracy’s health.
There are other parts of the book that
don’t appear to be addressing the media,
but describe how politics has changed
because of the way news organizations have
changed. Like how Bill Proxmire used to be
able to run successfully for statewide office
while spending less than $300 on each of
his campaigns at a time when newspapers
were king, and how we now see $80 mil-
lion spent on statewide races for governor
once television replaced newspapers as the
place where most people get most of their
information about government, elections
and candidates running for office.TV also
has changed the way politicians talk. They
now have to speak in soundbites. They
have to be glib, and they think they have
to be blow dried and made up to look like
TV anchors. Substance is sacrificed. More
truth is found on “fake news” on Comedy
Central than is found on the “real” news
provided by cable news. That’s a sad com-
mentary on the state of the media.
MEDIA RANTS: Are there particular
Wisconsin news sources and/or journalists
that you rely on to find out what’s “really
going on” in our state?
MCCABE: I don’t put my eggs in one
basket, or even in a few baskets. I believe
in reliance on a very wide variety of news
sources. I still subscribe to a daily news-
paper, and glean news from the websites
of many others. I am an avid public radio
listener. I get a lot of news online, from
a large number of sources. I occasionally
listen to commercial talk radio, but gen-
erally don’t find it very useful. I used to
faithfully watch “Meet the Press” and “Face
the Nation” and other national news pro-
grams, but have given up on them. I learn
way more from one episode of The Daily
Show on Comedy Central than I did from
a month’s worth of watching Washington
pundits pontificating on one of the major
networks. Some of the best news sources
are small, little known operations, and
some of the finest journalists work for such
outfits. The Wisconsin Center for Investi-
gative Journalism and its wisconsinwatch.
org website is outstanding. I’m a big fan of
Bruce Murphy at urbanmilwaukee.com.
He’s really good. Jon Stewart and Stephen
Colbert deserve to be included among the
nation’s best newsmen. They are going to
be tough to replace on those shows. As I
write in the book, thank god for satire. The
last safe harbor for truth.
MEDIA RANTS: During your time
at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign,
your “Big Money Blog” was a lifeline for
many activists seeking information and
insight about how special interests rule our
politics. Will you continue to blog or pro-
duce similar reports in some other format?
MCCABE: Yes, I will start blogging
again very soon. I can’t help myself.
MEDIA RANTS: You’re quite active
on social media. How are Facebook and
other social media changing the civic
landscape?
MCCABE: I have a love/hate relation-
ship with social media. They are amazing
tools, with vast potential to democratize
the media. But they are still in their
infancy, politically speaking. They also
have a dark side, obviously. Some of what you find on social media is mindless, some of it is disgusting, and some of it is downright depressing. But on the whole, I
think the good outweighs the bad. I find
Facebook and Twitter and other social
media platforms to be very valuable ways
to reach people, exchange ideas and even
inspire action. So I try to overlook what I
hate about them.
MEDIA RANTS: Blue Jeans in High
Places offers some pretty hard-hitting criti-
cism of the political status quo, yet it’s also
a very hopeful book. You seem optimistic
that engaged citizens can repair our broken
democracy. Why are you so optimistic?
MCCABE: The political system is
broken; the major parties are failing us.
There’s no whitewashing that. The current
moment is bleak. But such conditions
have existed before. And every time past
generations encountered these same kinds
of threats to democracy and civil society,
they rose to the occasion and straightened
things out. I refuse to believe that there
is something fundamentally different
about us or wrong with us that renders us
less capable of making change than past
generations were. We’ve reached a crucial
turning point, just as our grandparents and
great grandparents and great great grand-
parents did. And I have no doubt that we
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April elections and, Did the GOP
commit treason?
BY ROHN BISHOP
Attorney General, Brad Schimel, likes
to remind his audience how a bill becomes
a law, using the “School House Rocks”
cartoon as his example. It goes something
like this:
“First, a bill passes the Assembly; if it
passes the Senate in the exact form; it goes to
the Governor’s desk. If the governor signs the
bill, it becomes a la………a lawsuit in Dane
County Court!”
The left’s attempt to cir-
cumvent the legislative pro-
cess by using activist liberal
judges, who see themselves
as “super legislators” instead
of judges interpreting the
law and constitution, is why
these spring judicial elections
have become so important.
There is no better example
of liberal activist judges than,
Chief Justice Shirley Abraha-
mson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. On
April 7, we can do something about it.
The non partisan spring election has
two important reasons to get a conservative
out to vote.
State Supreme Court race between Jus-
tice Ann Walsh Bradley and Judge James
Daley
An amendment to the state constitu-
tion that changes how the Chief Justice of
the state supreme court is determined.
Daley vs Bradley
The race for the Wisconsin Supreme
Court pits long time liberal justice, Ann
Walsh Bradley, against Rock County Judge
James Daley.
Daley served as the Rock County Dis-
trict Attorney when he was appointed to
the bench by Governor Tommy Thompson
in 1998 and he’s been re-elected five times.
In 2013 the Wisconsin Supreme Court
named Daley as the Chief Judge of the 5
th

Judicial Circuit, where he established three
specialized diversion courts, a drug court, a
veteran’s court, and an OWI court.
Judge Daley is also a decorated war
hero, enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps;
he served in Vietnam, where he was
awarded the Bronze Star with “V” Device
for Valor, the Purple Heart Medal, a
Meritorious Mast, and the Combat Action
Ribbon. Following his service overseas,
Daley served the Wisconsin National
Guard for 30 years.
Then we have incumbent Justice Ann
Walsh Bradley, who’s helped to turn the
Supreme Court into something of a circus.
It was Justice Bradley, who during their
discussions about Act 10...snapped, and in
a rage of anger charged at Justice Prosser in
an apparent attempt to harm him. Justice
Prosser put his hands up for self defense
and the justices had to be split apart. Then
Justice Bradley lied about the event, leak-
ing to media outlets that it was Prosser
whom attempted to “choke hold” her!
Justice Bradley has repeatedly ignored
precedent, the constitution, and the law
in a fledgling attempt to undercut the
conservative legislature and governor. Most
notable are her attempts to overturn the
governor’s reforms, mitigate our Second
Amendment Rights, and to block our
Voter ID law.
Justice Bradley has become an embar-
rassment on the high court.
Defeating Justice Bradley will be no
easy task and is unlikely. Only two justices
have been defeated for re-election since
World War II... “Loop Hole” Louis Butler
in 2008, and in 1967 a challenger defeated
incumbent Justice George Currie. Currie
lost his bid for re-election after he allowed
the Milwaukee Braves baseball team to
relocate to Atlanta.

(As a baseball fan I’d
have voted against him too!)
On April 7, vote for Judge James Daley.
For an independent fair minded conserva-
tive Supreme Court justice.
Constitutional Amendment
Currently the chief justice of the state
Supreme Court goes to the longest serv-
ing justice on the court. This amendment
would change that, allowing the justices to
elect their own chief.
This amendment comes after years of
frustration with the current chief justice,
Shirley Abrahamson. Her inability to get
along with justices has helped to make
our court slow, dysfunctional, and a joke.
Allowing the justices to elect a chief is a
way to make the chief justice accountable
to his or her peers. This would put Wiscon-
sin on par with 22 other states and should
make the court more efficient and effective.
Did GOP Senators commit Treason?
In early March, 47 Republican Sena-
tors signed an open letter to the leadership
of Iran, reminding them that any “deal”
Iran was to strike with President Barack
Obama could be terminated on January
20, 2017...the first day of the next presi-
dent’s administration.
The White House, democrats, and the
news media were indignant; Nancy Pelosi was so hot her plastically enhanced face started to melt.
“Treason!” they roared. Did the Republican commit treason?
No.
Article 2 of the constitution states,
“He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present
concur”
As usual Obama is
ignoring both the constitu- tion and the congress, a co-equal branch of govern- ment. Secretary of State John Kerry announced
that he is not negotiating a
treaty, but a “legally binding
plan.”
“This is clearly a treaty,”
Sen. John McCain said, “They can call it a
banana, but it’s a treaty.”
President Obama seems hell bent on
letting Iran have a nuclear weapon. This
notion terrifies many of us, who believe
that Iran’s leadership is so dangerous, so
nutty, that if they get nuclear weapons,
they will use them. There will be a second
holocaust and a third World War fought
this time with nuclear weapons.
No, the Republicans didn’t commit
treason; they’re trying to save the world
from a nuclear Iran. The Republicans are
trying to sound an alarm, an alarm no one
wants to hear. But, at least their letter
brought attention to the “treason” being
committed by Obama and Kerry.
In 1953 America executed the Rosen-
berg’s for secretly giving nuclear technol-
ogy to an enemy, the Soviet Union. In
2015 the president does it in plain sight!
Rohn W. Bishop is a monthly contributor to the
Scene. Bishop, a former member of the Waupun
City Council, currently serves as Treasurer for the
Republican Party of Fond du Lac County.
Contact Rohn: email: [email protected]
Twitter: @RohnWBishop
NEWS & VIEWS  // ROHN’S RANTS
Article 2 of the constitution states, “He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur”

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ENTERTAINMENT // BUDDHIST ADVISOR
Dreams, Redux
BY JOHN PRICE-KABHIR
THE BUDDHIST ADVISER
(This column follows from last month’s piece
about dreams and dreaming.)
But dreams have a lightness about
them. As a brick or stone carries weight,
dreams carry no weight. Although the
images in dreams are ethereal, the “things”
of dreams do not have weighty substance.
We float through our dreams. Even night-
mares keep us one step from the gritty
reality of waking life. Though they can
torment us, they do not physically injure.
It is only in imagination that dreams carry
substance.
Pema Chodron, the great Zen nun phi-
losopher, wrote of a recurring dream she’d
had after a divorce. She was tormented
by the divorce. Nuns weren’t supposed to
divorce. She felt it as a weakness. In this
dream, night after night, she was chased
by a dragon. It never quite caught up to
her, but she felt that if it did, she would be
mangled or killed. Then, one night, when
the dream was dreadfully vivid, just as the
dragon cornered her and was about to grab
her, she turned on it and screamed, “No!
No, you cannot have me. Go away!” And
sure enough, the monster was dispelled,
gone, never to return. This is most vivid
dreaming. But the key is the dragon never
got her. Like a dream of falling, where the
person falling would die if the dreamer hit
bottom, because if she did, the sequence
would end in death and the dreamer‘s end.
We’re never killed in our dreams. If we had
been, we’d never wake up!
The violence in dreams does not reach
climax. I can think of no instance where
I was physically injured by something
in a dream, only terrified by what might
happen. I might feel anxious or intense fear
concerning some awful event in a dream,
terrified. Never am I pummeled. I am
injured, but I am never really physically
hurt, but never am; in fact, I recall no
dream actually bringing real pain. The pan
in dreams is impending damage or deep
disappointment. In a twisted way, dreams
have a kind of solace in “what might have
been“.
Oh yes, I desire this or that in a dream.
A recurring dream I’ve had the past several
years involved getting out of work at my
former job and not knowing how to get
home. Or, in another recurring dream, I
desire to lead a group of people to a place
and find myself lost. But I do not feel
pain in this context. So in those ways, my
wanting, my desire, brings want but no
pain. While in these senses, dreams can be
unkind, but they do not physically hurt
me. So when we think of the Buddhist
notion of desire as one of the major tor-
ments of life, dreams surely can bring that.
And in the sense of being hurt by a “what
if,” he lessons of dreams are kind in their
own ways.
Like the dream about being frustrated
about leading people home or to a desired
place, I can most definitely see the lesson.
In my unfulfilled desire to reach fulfillmet
in a life goal never reached, the dream tells
me about how I’d never led “my people’
to our appointed goal, the lesson is that I
should have ever given up, no matter what
the goal. I failed to lead the people to the
promised land, to overcome the obstacles.
I have dreamed over and over of trying
to find my way home. This very well might
relate to not having an unhappy childhood
This is truly archetypal, like the journeys of
Ulysses. Many times I am a Don Quixote,
ceaselessly, night after night, trying to
find my way home from a long and ardu-
ous journey. No ironically, the journey is
simply finding my way home from work.
And when I am home, isn’t the same home.
It’s a home I’ve left. I’ve given up, and
upon returning home,  I went back to is an
altered home. My son is gown up without
me. My animals are dead. Dreams are not
fulfilled as I thought they should have
been. There’s a clear image in that, and it’s
an image of why I turned to Zen. It’s sad.
Another dream, also about finding
my way from “here” to “there” involves
travel of an epochal nature. At times, I
am with a special group of people who’ve
been chosen to represent a strong force
of humankind. We’re of all ages and rep-
resent a cross-section of young and old,
science and humanities. We board a giant
vessel designed to travel through all of
earth’s climates and terrains. Our destiny
is the North Pole, then back, quite slowly
through all climates and environments.
This great journey is completed and does
brig us home, unlike the other more simple
treks, Noah’s Ark?
Then, of course, there are the dreams
of sex. Applying Freudian psychology to
dreams, I conclude I do have issues with
my parents, and I find I am not homosex-
ual, if only desiring coupling with females
is my goal. I’ll admit to having desires in
dreams that would be inappropriate in
waking life, for there have been instances
where my sexual desire involves women
with whom sex would be inappropriate by
normal mores.
I sat with my mother in hospice for two
solid months while she died. She seemed to
be dreaming, and talking in her delirium.
One night, when it seemed she was just on
the verge of dying, she talked of sitting at a
dinner table. In a curious sense, out nurse
that night was rather grossly offended
because she was a born again Christian,
and my mom definitely was not. One of
the guests did not show. “I know who‘s
missing,” she lamented. “It’s Larry, we’re
waiting for Larry. When he comes, then we
can eat.” It made her very sad that Larry
wasn’t there. Yet it was still weeks before
she died. Larry, a real person long dead,
was missing and we couldn’t begin to eat
before he arrived.
This vignette reminds my of my dream
of cousin Tim. He’s just outside, on the
other side of the window, out in the yard.
I am aimlessly wandering inside the house.
I can hear his voice, in a quiet whisper,
complete with the unusual inflexion of his voice. The glass is dusty. I can see his image, smudged by the dust. And he’s speaking in
a whisper, barely audible, but I can hear
him and I know he wants me to come out.
I want to join him, but there is no door.
I can find no door before I awaken. Tim
had died suddenly and unexpectedly just
a few weeks before I started having this
dream. Tim was the closest thing I had to
a big brother. He shepherded me through
all the manly rites of passage: driving a car,
swimming, fishing, drinking beer, girls. In
times where very important things a boy
must do to become a man, Tim was there
for me. Like my mom missing Larry (her
brother in law) at her own Last Supper,
I had a dream of missing my dear cousin
Tim in an image associated with death - in
a dream.
I use the Larry and Tim dream anec-
dotes to illustrate how significant dreams
can be, even in their mysteries. I do not
understand dreams, but I know they’re
important, and they bring meaning
through their unique veils, meaning tell-
ing us vagaries illustrating some obvious
import and some confusing and too vague
to make clear sense.
But dreams are exquisite. Think of life
without dreams. It would be a life with
much less mystery. Ah, the mystery of
dreams. So very sweet in their own faces
through the dusty window.
John Price - Kabhir, is an ordained Zen
householder. I welcome your input at 920-
558-3076; [email protected]
It is only in
imagination
that dreams
carry substance.

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OUTDOORS // SEEING GREEN
BY WILL STAHL
Bats and I go back a ways. The first one
I ever saw washed up dead on the shore of
the lake I lived on. No more than ten, I saw
at once what it must be with its matted,
furry body and translucent wings. It was
creepy and fascinating all at once.
In later years I had bats flutter up in
my face as I ripped the wood shingles off a
130 year-old house, squeaking as they flew
frantically to holes they obviously knew of.
I killed one with a broom because I
could not figure out how to get it out of
my house and trapped another between a
record album and a toy pail for live release.
When my kids were growing up in
Peoria, we sat with the neighbors watching
them loop and whirl in the twilight, eating
insects that would have otherwise annoyed
us.
Though 25% of all mammal species
are bats, they exist in the twilight edges
of our consciousness. Because they are all
nocturnal, we do not see the role they fill
in our natural world and we so rarely see
one close. When we do, it carries the load
of our subconscious impressions. Bats have
become associated with all the Halloween
imagery of witches, vampires, and evil in
general. Flying is a natural characteristic
of birds––in mammals it is strange and
suspect, especially when they only do it at
night.
By the twenty-first century, most edu-
cated people, whatever their subconscious
dread, understand that bats are significant
in controlling insect populations, and their
absence would allow our tiny tormentors
to multiply unchecked. It is then with
alarm that the news has spread that a hith-
erto unknown disease has been killing bats
in huge numbers.
In recent years we have heard about
the die-offs of amphibians and honeybees,
monarch butterflies, songbirds and north-
ern moose, and this may seem like just
one more. In those cases causes are mostly
uncertain and diffuse. Scientists know
what has been killing the bats.
“White nose syndrome” is caused by
Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a cold-loving
fungus that thrives in caves. It appears as
a white growth on bats’ faces and wings.
It was first reported in 2007 but was later
identified in a photo from 2006 taken in
New York State.
Since then it has been found in 25
states in the eastern US and five provinces
of Canada. It was unknown on this conti-
nent before 2006, though it is present in
healthy bats in Europe.
Scientists believe humans must have
introduced it, as it was first identified in
a New York cave near where commercial
caves draw thousands of visitors a year.
Studies have shown that the fungus is not
spread by airborne transmission, but it can
persist in soil and clothing for a long time.
This evidence that the fungus could be
spread by human activity has prompted the
US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to
encourage decontamination of clothing
and equipment by cavers and close some
caves to human visitation completely.
For a time scientists believed it caused
bats to die because it aroused them from
their usual winter torpor so they’d fly
around. Without food available, this used
up all their fat reserves and they died of
starvation. With study researchers realized
it was a little more complex. The fungus
invades the skin of the wings, and fighting
that infection already uses up the bats’
energy and causes changes in blood chem-
istry. The damage and excess carbon diox-
ide building up in the blood causes the bats
to wake more frequently, and the increased
activity and loss of water and electrolytes
through the lesions results in their death by
starvation and dehydration.
Estimates are that as of 2012, between
5.7 and 6.7 million bats have died.
Undoubtedly, it’s many more by now.
Consider that each bat eats roughly a thou-
sand insects an hour, which means in a
nine-hour early summer night, a thousand
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bats would eat about nine million insects.
In one night. Six million bats would eat
54 billion insects per night. Every night.
Except they won’t because they’re gone,
and a couple of million pounds of assorted
insects fly around uneaten. When it comes
to our food supply, health, and summer-
time comfort, the bats are on our side.
As long expected, white nose syndrome
was identified on a few northern long-
eared bats in a single cave in southwest
Wisconsin. Whatever needed to be done to
conserve bats was going to be done in this
state too.
Clearly, supporting a robust bat popu-
lation is in our best human interest. But
how do we do that in the face of a disease
that is easily transmitted and 90-95% fatal?
Anything we can reasonably do should be
done, one might think, especially to pre-
vent transmission.
The United States Fish and Wildlife
Service is a federal agency charged with
looking out for the wildlife of our America.
Other agencies such as the Park Service and
the Forest Service have responsibilities in
that area, but for the USFWS it’s the main
deal.
Managing any species has a couple of
major considerations. How are people to
treat members of the species? Hunt them?
Kills them only if they are problems? Feed
them? What if a person’s usual activities
result in occasional harm to members of
the species? Consequences or none?
What about species habitat? Do we
destroy it with impunity? Preserve it volun-
tarily? Preserve it with incentive? Preserve it
by regulation with the force of law?
Buy it up and set it aside?
These are the questions the USFWS
has to consider in the case of every species,
and the Endangered Species Act gives them
quite a bit of power to enforce what they
decide.
Of course, this is government we are
talking about here, so no decision is made
in a sealed room. Politics are always howl-
ing outside the door. But still the USFWS
has a fair amount of discretion in regula-
tions it writes around an endangered spe-
cies though it must subject anything major
to the comments of the public, the scrutiny
of its representatives and the limits of its
budget.
If you are as old as I am, you may
remember the “snail darter,” a tiny fish
apparently found only in the upper reaches
of Tennessee’s Tellico River that the state
wanted to drown behind a dam. That little
critter held up that dam project until it
collapsed of its own inertia. For some it
became an archetype for material progress
halted by an insignificant species of very
few individuals. It didn’t help when the fish
was later discovered in a couple of other
streams.
What the USFWS is proposing for the
northern long-eared bat is a set of regula-
tions that limit what can be done within a
quarter of a mile of places where the bats
hibernate. Other limitations affect the
forest areas the bats use for roosting in the
summer.
Also limited is cave touring and explo-
ration in sites where the bats are known to
be.
Now these would be logical steps to
take if you believed as the USFWS scien-
tists do that white nose syndrome can be
transmitted by human traffic into the caves
and bats can be disturbed by any loud and
disruptive activity in the vicinity of their
hibernacula and roosts. And if the bats are
so valuable to people as they seem to be for
controlling insects, who could object to
rules that keep them safe?
It turns out that two particular groups
object to some aspects of these proposed
new regulations: loggers who want to cut
trees on land near caves, and cavers, people
who want to go in the caves. Both feel their
rights are being trampled, and they both
make a case that the rules are unnecessarily
strict.
Next time we’ll take a look at this con-
troversy, which seems to me a microcosm
of the conflict between conservation and
human plans that plays out time and again.
Can these bats be saved? And will these
regulations be the means by which they
might be?
We won’t know those things by next
issue, but we’ll see why the different
stakeholders believe the way they do. Stay
tuned.
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BY MICHAEL MENTZER
It’s interesting and a bit daunting to
process what filters through a person’s
mind when the thought barricades are
pushed aside.
On a recent unseasonably mild after-
noon, my thoughts — probably for a
number of unfettered reasons — turned
to Beauty and the Beast (not the story, but
the outdoor world); baseball great Roberto
Clemente and a mystery story about one of
his bats; white-throated sparrows, indigo
buntings, Baltimore orioles, catbirds,
towhees, kinglets, rose-breasted grosbeaks
and redstarts; and, of all things, wood-
chucks (not the famous ones that predict
wintry patterns, just the run-of-the-mill
variety).
It all started, I think, when I saw the
distinctive shiny brown husks of American
elm tree buds on our driveway and the
fuzzy, grayish green skins of star magnolia
buds in the garden. It seemed kind of early
to see them but I certainly wasn’t com-
plaining.
They appeared in the midst of a long-
awaited warming trend sparked by a shift
in the jet stream — the polar vortex be
darned.
They opened the gateway to old memo-
ries and some growing concerns.
Beauty and the beast
By chance and observation a number of
years ago, I reached the conclusion that the
forces of nature that burst the blooms on
the star magnolia in the far corner of our
backyard are the same ones that prompt
the lake sturgeon spawning ritual on the
Wolf River and throughout the Win-
nebago System.
When the paper-white blooms with
five petals, like stars, engulf our magnolia
even before leaves appear and the fragrance
filters through the surrounding air, it’s
more than a “safe bet” that sturgeon are
spawning and carrying out the grand
design of their prehistoric ways.
It’s a link of beauty and the beast in the
rites of spring.
I think about it when I see other mag-
nolias, no matter what variety they might
be, in bloom in Fond du Lac and beyond.
A few years ago, I watched huge stur-
geon rolling and gliding together inches
from the Wolf River shore and at most two
feet from me where the river flows through
New London. There’s a sturgeon walk
there to make it easy for people to view the
spawning spectacle.
Sturgeon are protected there, as they
are at several key points along the river
systems, and people volunteer their time
to protect the vulnerable giants from
those who don’t care about preserving the
resource for posterity.
There was a time when violators
slaughtered sturgeon when they were most
vulnerable, weakened the genetic strain
and threatened their future in Lake Win-
nebago and the Upriver Lakes of Poygan
and Winneconne.
Thankfully, that has changed. It’s one of
the great environmental success stories in
our part of the world — the Sturgeon for
Tomorrow organization and human beings
protecting a species for future generations.
Sturgeon prospects are bright not only
here in our piece of the Winnebago System
but at points around the world because of
work and research being done in our so-
called corner of the world.
If time allows, the walk along Sturgeon
Trail in New London is priceless and
unforgettable. I vowed a few years ago
that I would go every year to experience it.
I’ve failed on that promise. It bothers me
because I know better than ever before how
quickly life changes and opportunities fade
into the fog of good intentions.
Woodchuck humor
I laughed when I saw the newspaper
photo of Jimmy the Groundhog and his
big choppers nipping the ear of the Sun
Prairie mayor on Groundhog Day.
It makes me smile even more when I
realize that I know who Jimmy is but don’t
have a clue what the mayor’s name is.
We have our own personal Groundhog
Day at our house along the Dutch Gap
near the Elizabeth Street Bridge.
It always happens in mid to late March.
We look for days from our family room
windows for the annual appearance. There
are a couple burrows carved into the south
side of the Gap where groundhogs tradi-
tionally make their spring debut.
They haven’t missed a spring appear-
ance in 30 consecutive years. I say “they”
because it certainly can’t be the same one
we saw for the first time in the spring of
1985. They carry on the tradition, which
is admirable considering the changes and
threats visited on them over the years.
They make me smile but for a different
reason than Jimmy did.
And they make me think about what’s
to come and whether their days are num-
bered. They just might not fit someday in a
more citified Dutch Gap.
Northward migration
The colorful birds that winter in the
southern states, Central America, South
America and the countless islands and
estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico will be in
our backyards very soon, singing the songs
that distinguish them.
They need no lingual translation
whether they sing in Nicaragua or Hori-
con, El Salvador or Fond du Lac, the West
Indies or Door County.
Birds fire the imagination. They unite
countries, even continents, during the
spring and fall migrations. They know no
boundaries, and nationalism is foreign to
them.
The late Owen Gromme, who was
regarded as one of the finest wildlife artists
in North America, viewed his Fond du Lac
hometown and this part of Wisconsin as
one of the most remarkable, most prolific
areas of bird life to be found anywhere.
He enjoyed great personal satisfaction
in the outdoors and in watching the “birds
of Wisconsin.”
In hindsight, I realize that Owen taught
me more in his conversations, explanations
and observations than I could comprehend
at the time.
One of his lessons has grown in marked
importance for me over the years. It’s
simple and complicated at the same time:
Make time to appreciate the beauty and
the message of birds.
If you are fortunate to find that appre-
ciation in your own proverbial backyard,
enjoy it all the more.
Roberto’s bat
By sheer chance, I picked up a book
the other day that I had read a couple years
ago.
I sat down at the kitchen table and
read it again. The title is “A Drive into
the Gap,” written by Kevin Guilfoile, son
of Bill Guilfoile, a former Fond du Lac
resident who was employed by the New
York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates before
becoming vice president of the Baseball
Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.
It’s a small book in terms of pages (only
71), but large in terms of what it has to say.
It’s about baseball and the great
Roberto Clemente of the Pirates and a bit
of mystery surrounding the bat he used
to get his 3,000th hit in his final regular
season game of the 1972 season. The bat is
on permanent display at the Hall of Fame,
where Bill Guilfoile saw it every day of his
career there.
But it’s about so much more — fathers,
sons, memories, the ravages of Alzheimer’s
disease and the theft of memories, tragedy
and the blessings afforded by the “good
days.”
I read the book much more closely this
second time around. I appreciated it more.
In fact, I also appreciate the legacy of
Roberto Clemente more than I did when
I was a kid. I grew up a Milwaukee Braves
fan and Henry Aaron was my baseball
hero. Back then I perceived any praise for
Clemente as a slight of Aaron. If Clemente
was picked as the All Star right fielder over
Hank, I was distraught.
I view them both as heroes for different
reasons today.
Clemente died aboard a plane bound
for Nicaragua as part of a humanitarian
aid mission for earthquake victims on New
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ENTERTAINMENT //  APRIL CONCERT WATCH
BY JANE SPIETZ
Songwriter and recording artist Todd
Rundgren not only put out such classics
as “Can We Still Be Friends?,” “I Saw
the Light,” “Hello It’s Me,” “Love is the
Answer,” “We Gotta Get You a Woman,”
and “Bang the Drum All Day,” but he has
embraced numerous other roles as well,
throughout his 40-plus year career.
Rundgren is highly respected as a
record producer (Badfinger, Meatloaf,
Hall & Oates, XTC, Patti Smith, New
York Dolls and many others), computer
software developer, video pioneer, concep-
tualist and interactive artist. He earned rec-
ognition for his critically acclaimed 1972
release, Something/Anything? Amazingly,
he sang all of the vocal parts, played all of
the instruments and produced this master-
ful work. Rundgren received the Les Paul
Award in 2014 at the 29th annual NAMM
(National Association of Music Merchants)
TEC Awards.
His latest album, Global, has been
described as a contemporary fusion of
styles - rock, soul and electronica. An
accompanying Limited Edition 2 Disc
CD/DVD is set to be released on April 15,
2015.
I connected with Todd Rundgren in
March during a stop in Mexico City while
he was touring with Ringo Starr and his
All Starr band.
Jane Spietz: This is not your first gig
with Ringo. What’s it like to work with
a former member of the Beatles who is a
great musician in his own right?
Todd Rundgren: It’s an honor and
kind of something you have to do. If a
Beatle calls, you must answer because
they had so much to do with most of us
even getting into the music business. This
band has been together almost three years
so we’re all well used to each other. That
initial awe has turned into almost a family
relationship at this point.
JS: Musician, songwriter, recording
artist, video pioneer, computer software
developer, producer - which of your many
roles do you feel you have enjoyed the
most and why?
TR: It’s one
of those things
where if you do
the same thing
all the time
you get kind of
jaded about it.
And these other
things are an
opportunity to
kind of ‘clear
my head’ some-
times of musical
responsibilities,
like when I first
got into learn-
ing computer
programming.
I took a whole
year off and
didn’t tour, and
didn’t write
any music at all.
(Laughs) I some-
times need to step
away, step back for
a while and think
about everything
just so I can still
feel refreshed
when I have to get
involved in music
again. But ultimately, it’s going to wind up
being something to do with music. And all
of those other things in the end, somehow
wound up leaping back to music. All of the
things that I did with computers, which
I thought at first would have more to
do with the visual aspects - graphics and
things like that – also informed me about
changes in the music business when that
digital technology started to be applied to
recording and such. So, these are the diver-
sions that are ultimately going to have to
do with music in the end.
JS: Which of your musical periods have
you most enjoyed?
TR: I always have fond recollections of
what we call the Nearly Human era, which
was in the late 80’s. I did two records com-
pletely live in the studio with no overdubs.
And the bands that I had in those days, and
the relationships
with the people
in those bands
kind of sustain
even to this
day. I still work
with the same
people...some-
times in various
contexts. The
sort of family
atmosphere that
we had and the
incredible per-
formances that
we put on will
always be kind
of like a golden
age to me. But I
don’t spend a lot
of time dwelling
on the past. So if
you had a list of
questions asking
me about things
that used to be,
I’m probably not
going to have a
lot to say about
it. (Laughs) For
instance, right
now I’m about to
wrap this tour up, and then 100% of my
consciousness is going into preparing for
the tour that we’re about to do behind the
new record.
JS: Yes, Global. I have listened to it. It’s
great!
TR: Thank you. I tried, in this par-
ticular project, to regroup in a way. My last
record was aggressively experimental. I was
incorporating a lot of new techniques and
sound. I was essentially educating myself at
the expense of my audience which is not
unusual. I’ve done it several times before.
(Laughs) This record is an opportunity to
take the things that I learned on the last
record and merge it with my kind of more
traditional sensibilities and my inclination
to write about larger concepts. I think
in that sense it makes a more accessible
record.
JS: You were quoted as saying “I don’t
really do what I do for recognition. I do it
because music is – if you’re lucky enough
– the most satisfying thing in the world to
do.” Please expand on that.
TR: A lot of people think that they
would like to be a musician because they
feel that they don’t have any responsibili-
ties or some other mythology that revolves
around being a musician. I learn about
myself and I express myself in music. I
could probably do the same with some
other art form or with some other kind
of pursuit. But after all this time it’s just
become second nature to me. It’s the way
I make the world make sense to me, and
it’s also the way I objectivize my thought
processes. Often I do it just for my own
benefit. I do it to get the thoughts out of
my head and into a sense of reality so I can
see whether they make any sense or not.
The audience essentially is watching me.
I’m not doing this trying to get in some-
body else’s head. I’m trying to get into my
own head, and the entertainment – if there
is any in that – is watching me go through
that process.
JS: In 2014, at the 29th annual
NAMM (National Association of Music
Merchants) TEC Awards, you received the
Les Paul Award. What did that mean for
you personally?
TR: It’s always humbling to be recog-
nized by your peers, especially the people
you have so much respect for. And then
when they show you respect, it’s very satis-
fying. At the same time, I’ve never desired
to have awards, to the consternation of
my fans. They would like me to be in the
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. They’d like me
to have a Grammy because it justifies all of
the faith they’ve put in me over the years.
(Laughs) But personally, the reward is in
the ability to continue to do it. The ability
to be able to make the music and have ears
willingly listen to it. I can’t think of any-
thing, at least in my own experience, that’s
more satisfying than that – except maybe
having children.
JS: Tell us about Toddstock and the
development of the Spirit of Harmony
Foundation.
Todd Rundgren at the Pabst
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WHEN: 8 PM May 21, 2015
COST: $36.50
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ENTERTAINMENT //  APRIL CONCERT WATCH
Year’s Eve in 1972. He was departing his
native land of Puerto Rico when the plane
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Roberto’s life is
chronicled in the book
“Clemente: The Passion
and Grace of Baseball’s
Last Hero,” by Wisconsin
native David Maraniss, the
author of “When Pride Still
Mattered,” the biography of
legendary Green Bay Pack-
ers coach Vince Lombardi.
Breaking the banks
Bill Guilfoile’s name is
mentioned at least a few
times in the book by Maraniss. It was Bill,
the public relations man for the Pirates,
who broke the news of Clemente’s death to
the world.
Kevin points out in his book, “A Drive
into the Gap,” that his dad broke his
children’s piggy banks the night Clemente
died and put coins into a sock that he car-
ried, along with his address book, “a mile
through the cold and snow to a parking lot
pay phone outside a general store,” to tell
the world that his friend Roberto Clem- ente was dead.
The reason be broke the piggy banks
and trudged to the general store pay phone
was that he could not reach an outside line from his home phone and there was no imme- diate remedy to the problem.
Thanks to Tom
Guilfoile of Fond du
Lac, Bill’s brother, I’ve
had the chance to hold
one of Robert Clem-
ente’s bats on a couple
occasions. There are
base hits in that bat once
used by Clemente that will be confined in
that chunk of ash forever.
It has a special significance, especially
now with baseball in the air and another
season on the horizon and the memories of
Clemente slipping further into the mist.
There is relevance in touching the past.
It must have something to do with age.
Michael Mentzer, now retired after a 40-
year newspaper career, writes a monthly
column for Scene.
TR: Toddstock’s are held specifically on
years where I have a significant birthday.
The first one was my 60th birthday. That
was out in Hawaii. When I turned 65,
which is the one we did in New Orleans,
people wanted to call it Toddstock because
it was a significant birthday. And I hadn’t
planned to do another thing like that until
I was 70, but a lot of my fans, being as old
as I am or older, thought they might not
make it that far. (Laughs) The fans decided
they wanted to do something for the city
of New Orleans because it was still reeling
from the effects of the hurricane. We found
a music program down in the Lower Ninth
Ward that was still struggling to meet their
expenses, so the fans got together and
collected $10,000. It was all strings. Kids
from the age of 5 or so, all the way up to
high school. They were all playing violins,
violas and double basses and they gave us a
little recital. We then gave them the check.
Everyone felt so good about the experience
they said we don’t want this to be a one-time
thing; we want something more to happen.
We want this to be a permanent part of our
collective identity. That’s when we devel-
oped the idea of the Spirit of Harmony
Foundation. It was actually developed by
a couple of our associates. They brought it
to me and said, “You’re going to have to
figurehead this thing!” (Laughs) And so I
said, I’ve not done anything like this before
but I can’t think of anything better to do.
We applied for our nonprofit status and
got it in like record time, so fast that we’re
still trying to refine our mission. Actually,
just a few weeks after the tour starts we’ll
be at the Clinton Library in Little Rock.
We’re going to have a big symposium with
a lot of participants. It’ll be our first big
public event. That’s where we’re going to
lay out our mission which is essentially to
convince people, convince school systems
and parents alike that music education is
actually an integral part of a well-rounded
educational experience. That what you
learn in music education applies to other
aspects, and indeed literally changes the
way the brain works and makes it easier to
learn other things. What we’re trying to do
is recover lost ground. When school sys-
tems run out of money, things like music
education are the first thing to go. We’re
trying to reverse that trend.
JS: Since moving to Hawaii, you have
taught yourself to play the ukulele, joking
that “if you’re a musician, it’s required by
law.”
TR: Well, it doesn’t take a lot of educa-
tion to learn how to play the ukulele. To
learn how to play it really well requires a
lot of time and effort and there are some
spectacular players out there. I just noodle
around on it. Somebody who’s a great uku-
lele player is Greg Hawkes from the Cars.
He goes everywhere with a ukulele! There’s
somebody with a real commitment to the
instrument that I don’t yet possess. Maybe
when I get old and infirm and can’t move
around so much that would be my instru-
ment of choice. (Laughs)
JS: What would you like to take on
musically that you have not yet done?
TR: Hmm, well there isn’t a lot, but
I’d like to learn a little bit more about
jazz theory. I incorporate some unusual
changes in what I do, but I don’t really
have the proper education to understand a
lot of what’s going on. I like listening to
it, but I could never play it. Even if I just
learned a little bit, I think I would be an
overall better musician.
JS: Todd, what’s in store musically for
your audience in Milwaukee on April 21st?
TR: We’re bringing an unusual show in
terms of maybe what people are used to.
I’m fronting a very small group. I’ve got a
DJ – his name is Dan Funk – you can look
him up. He’ll be in charge of the sounds.
I have a couple of background singers so
there’ll be something nice to look at. And
we’ll have kind of a fairly elaborate light
and video show to go along with it so that
we can set a lot of different moods and
kind of bring the whole room into the
show. We’re going to make everyone feel
like they’re onstage.
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48. R40 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015ENTERTAINMENT //  THE SPANISH INQUISITION
BY GEORGE HALAS
By day, they are ordinary citizens,
blending seamlessly into the Wisco-Ameri-
cana landscape of the Fox Cities. They have
jobs, families and they might even be your
neighbors.
However, when night falls and the
call from Commissioner Gordon – or a
booking agent – comes in, they immedi-
ately don superhero identities and lead
the on-going fight against the boring, the
mundane and the ho-hum. Their vast array
of weapons includes guitars, drums, saxo-
phones, infectious enthusiasm and a strong
commitment to fun, good music and the
American Way.
Other collections of would-be heroes
and extraordinary gentlemen have
attempted to achieve the same synergy, but
as de facto leader Marbs Giles explains, it
requires a deep understanding of chemistry
and the olde family recipe.
“Toss into a big pot,” Marbs explained,
“one monster drum master, a rock-solid
bassman, a right-on rhythm player, a
smooth, guitar bluesmaster, a lights-out sax
player, add heat and stir.”
The result? A tightly-knit group with
roots in the blues, R&B, rock and soul
with just a touch of dreadlock that makes
Tin Sandwich a most nutritious and tasty
musical meal.
Marbs plays some of the finest and
exquisite lead guitar you’ve ever heard as
well as handling a lot of the vocal leads,
but he is just another citizen of the band’s
“democracy.”
“I think there is a bit of a similar back
story that sort of binds us together,” he
said. “You see, over the years we have all
played in so many different bands, in so
many different genres, at different stages in
our lives, that now we are at a stage where
coming back to the blues feels in a way, like
coming home.”
He is both grateful for and very appre-
ciative of the unusually high level of talent
that the super heroes bring to the cause.
 The one code named “Stix,” is out of
Fond du Lac and has played drums for over
39 years.
“He is a highly-regarded jazz drummer,
and really brings that sophisticated sensi-
bility to our blues,” Marbs said. “Having
worked on projects with him over the last
20 years, I should mention that he is also
an excellent vocalist. In fact, we are work-
ing on a project now that will inject his
soulful voice into the band’s sound.”
  On bass guitar, “Buffalo” has held
down the big notes for different rock
groups for over 35 years.
“He also has the technical abilities to
integrate the highly technical side of the
spectrum into the needs of today’s digital
music world,” Marbs marveled. “An excel-
lent vocalist, Buffalo takes us on intriguing
journeys both vocally and emotionally.”
 On guitar is singer/songwriter/luthier
“Hacksaw.”
“He is known for his handmade string
instruments of un-rivaled craftsmanship,”
Marbs recalled. “So, of course, the day he
went to the hospital after cutting his finger
on a band saw while building a guitar, the
guys in the band immediately changed his
name to “Hacksaw.” Honestly, the blood
had not yet dried, but that’s what are
friends are for.”
The latest hero to join and play for the
cause is saxophonist Danny G.
“Danny G on saxophone is the most
recent addition to the band,” Marbs said.
“He’s been with us for about a year now.
His extensive work with big bands, jazz
ensembles, swing bands and his work-
shops, brings a bit of be-bop/swing to our
more ‘Chicago Style’ blues.”
Tin Sandwich will be playing at
“one of our favorite places,” Becket’s in
Oshkosh, on Saturday, April 18th at 8:30
p.m.
Planet-Harmon
Benefit Fox Jazz Fest
John Harmon and Janet Planet have
a very special evening of music scheduled
as part of a benefit concert Saturday, April
11th, at Perry Hall at UW-Fox Valley. The
festivities will start at 7:30 p.m.
Susan and John Toussaint, two of the
most generous supporters of jazz in the Fox
Cities, are adding to the special nature of
the evening.
“At this event, we are announcing the
new fund at the Community Foundation
to support the Fox Jazz Fest,” Susan Tous-
saint said. “All proceeds from the concert
will go to the newly established fund, and
we are hoping that others will join us in
supporting this ongoing fabulous annual
event.”
“The Jazz Fest has been a free event
for over 20 years,” Planet noted. “John
Harmon, who continues to give of his time
and also continues to give to this com-
munity artistically, continues to lead the
efforts to keep it alive, thriving…and free.” 
“An evening with Janet Planet and John
Harmon is also about supporting the Fox
Cities jazz community,” she continued.
“An Evening with John Harmon and Janet
Planet” is one more way that the artists
who live here continue to give and attempt
to sustain the quality of the arts in our
community.”
Harmon and Planet are looking for-
ward to the event in part because it pres-
ents an opportunity for them to express
their gratitude and appreciation for the
community support that enabled them to
travel to and perform in Kurgan, Russia as
part of the Fox Cities-Kurgan Sister Cities
program. While the set list is still a work-
in-progress, it may include one or more of
the songs in Russian that Planet learned
and which brought Kurgan audiences to
their feet.
Planet may express additional personal
gratitude as well.
“John Harmon is an exquisite com-
poser, pianist, educator and friend,” she
emphasized. “I’ve been lucky to have him
in my musical and personal life. He has
written music for me and we have col-
laborated on some great projects. Whether
we’re performing on stage or spending
hours together in a creative mode, I’m
always learning from John, a master in
music, life and friendship and I’m blessed
to have him in my life.”
“Please join us for some great music.”
Please contact Lori Lacey for further
information and/or to buy tickets at: 
[email protected] or the Fox Jazz Fest
website. 
Tin Sandwich to the Rescue

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CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR
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APRIL 1
TJ & LYNN
CHANDELIER CLUB
APPLETON 5:00 PM
TOE KNEE V’S 80’S
MILL CREEK
APPLETON 7:00 PM
JAZZ ORGY
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 7:00 PM
April 2
BOBBY & EVIL EVANS
CHANDELIER CLUB
APPLETON 5:00 PM
STRATEGIC
THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
MENASHA 6:00 PM
REVEREND RAVEN
1001 CLUB
GREEN BAY 8:00 PM
TAYLOR JAY
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
“FILTHY STILL, OWEN MAYS
AND THE LAST CALLS”
CRUNCHY FROG
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
April 3
“DECIVILIZE, HE-NIS-RA,
ULTREA”
JJ MALONEYS
KAUKAUNA 7:00 PM
R P M
STONEYARD FOOD & SPIRITS
APPLETON 8:00 PM
MAD POLECATS W/THE
FILTHY STILL
O’MARROS PUBLIC HOUSE
OSHKOSH 8:00 PM
DAVE STEFFENS BAND
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
MILES NIELSEN & THE
RUSTED HEARTS
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
KWT FEATURING TOM
WASHATKA
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
ADAMS WAY
SARDINE CAN
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
THE COUGARS
SAND BOX
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
UNITY
EMMETTS
APPLETON 9:00 PM
WAYNE NEUMANN
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
MR TALLPANTS AND THE
SHORTS
DÉJA VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
COUGARS THE SANDBOX GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
CRANKIN YANKEES WISEGUYS GREENVILLE 9:30 PM
NASHVILLE PIPELINE
HORTONVILLE LANES HORTONVILLE 9:30 PM
ROOFTOP JUMPERS MILL CREEK APPLETON 9:30 PM
ROOFTOP JUMPERS MILL CREEK
APPLETON 10:00 PM
SLY JOE AND SMOOTH
OPERATORS
THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
MENASHA 10:00 PM
STILL CRUISIN DUO
POTAWATOMI CASINO
CARTER 3:30-7:30
April 4
TOMMY WINCH
CHANDELIER CLUB
APPLETON 5:00 PM
TOE KNEE V’S 90’S
MILL CREEK
APPLETON 7:00 PM
THE BOMB
JJ MALONEYS
KAUKAUNA 7:00 PM
NO VACANCY
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
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APRIL 2015
LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR

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FOLLOW SUIT
PLANK ROAD PUB
DE PERE 8:30 PM
THE REAL MCKENZIES W/
THE BASTARD ASSOC
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
JANET PLANET BECKET’S OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
DIAMOND AND STEEL FOX HARBOR PUB & GRILL GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
JOHNNY WAD SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:00 PM
REVEREND RAVEN DEJ
APPLETON 9:00 PM
ROOFTOP JUMPERS
BACKSTAGE BAR
FOND DU LAC 9:00 PM
STAR SIX NINE
OCTANE BAR AND GRILL
WISCONSIN RAPIDS 9:00 PM
THE COUGARS
WATERING HOLE
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
THE PRESIDENTS
OSHKOSH LANES
OSHKOSH 9:00 PM
REVEREND RAVEN
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
OLSEN BAND
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 9:00 PM
UNITY
JIMMY SEAS
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
JOHNNY WAD
SLUGGERS
APPLETON 9:00 PM
“T.I.G.T., THE KEPONES”
CRUNCHY FROG
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
GRAND UNION
KOUNTRY BAR
APPLETON 9:30 PM
NASHVILLE PIPELINE
DAISYS WESTERN SALOON
OSHKOSH 9:30 PM
THE BOMB JJ MALONEYS KAUKAUNA 9:30 PM
FINELINE HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30 PM
R P M LEAP INN FREEDOM 10:00 PM
REBEL GRACE FAT JOES FOND DU LAC 10:00 PM
MILES NIELSOEN AND THE RUSTED HEARTS CRANKY PATS NEENAH 10:00 PM
BRUCE KOESTNER HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7-10:00
COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30-11:00
BOXKAR LVD CASINO WATERSMEET MI 8-12:00 MOSTLY WATER GRAND FALLS CASINO LARCHWOOD IA 8:30-1:00
April 5
RABID AARDVARKS FAT JOES FOND DU LAC 10:00 PM
MOSTLY WATER GRAND FALLS CASINO LARCHWOOD IA 2-6:00
April 7
LAWRENCE JAZZ THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE MENASHA 6:00 PM
April 8
TOE KNEE V’S 80’S MILL CREEK APPLETON 7:00 PM
JAZZ ORGY BECKET’S OSHKOSH 7:00 PM
ROB ANTHONY
CHANDELIER CLUB
APPLETON 8:00 PM
April 9
SUNRAEYES
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 6:00 PM
DAN TULSA DUO
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
SLY JOE
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
April 10
BAZOOKA JOE
PRIVATE
HOWARD 8:00 PM
MAX JONES /AARON
PANTOL
CHANDELIER CLUB
APPLETON 8:00 PM
DEWEY ROCKEM AND
HOWE
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
TWEED FUNK
SLIPPERY NOODLE
INDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PM
“SOUL LOW W/ SPACE
MAGIC, HER MAJESTY,
THE SEA, ANTLER HOUSE”
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
WHATEVER AND EVER
AMENÖA BEN FOLDS FIVE
TRIBUTE
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE
SARDINE CAN
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
STAGE HOGGS ACOUSTIC
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
RED ROSE
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
COSMIC RAILROAD
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 10:00 PM
BOXKAR
DIAMOND JO CASINO
DUBUQUE IA 8-12:00
April 11
DAPHNI
SCHULDES SPORTS CENTER
- SNC
DE PERE 12:00 PM
KINGSTON TAYLOR
THRASHER OPERA HOUSE
GREEN LAKE 7:30 PM
THE COUGARS
PRIVATE
GREEN BAY 8:00 PM
SWINGIN’ JOHNSONS
CHANDELIER CLUB
APPLETON 8:00 PM
DUELING PIANOS
DOCKSIDE TAVERN
OSHKOSH 8:00 PM
TOMBSTONE
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
DIAMOND AND STEEL
PLANK ROAD PUB
DE PERE 8:30 PM
TWEED FUNK
SLIPPERY NOODLE
INDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PM
FUN WITH ATOMS WITH THE CHOCOLATEERS LYRIC ROOM GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
RINGS BECKET’S OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
BRIAN JAMES PUMPHOUSE LITTLE CHUTE 9:00 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ROOKIES STEVENS POINT 9:00 PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS CAPITOL CENTRE APPLETON 9:00 PM
TRAVIS LEE DUO WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9:00 PM CHARLES WALKER BAND
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
ROOFTOP JUMPERS
CAPITOL CENTRE
APPLETON 9:00 PM
WHISKEY DITCH
JIMMY SEAS
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
STOMPIN THE HOLE
THE WATERING HOLE
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
ROAD TRIP
SLUGGERS
APPLETON 9:00 PM
ADAMS WAY
LEAP INN
FREEDOM 9:30 PM
BIG MOUTH
STONE TOAD
MENASHA 9:30 PM
GRAND UNION
HEADLINERS
NEENAH 9:30 PM
HURRY UP WAIT
MINESHAFT
HARTFORD 9:30 PM
JOHNNY WAD
ANDUZZIS EAST GREEN BAY
GREEN BAY 9:30 PM
NASHVILLE PIPELINE
ANDUZZI’S SPORTS CLUB
GREEN BAY 9:30 PM
R P M
GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR
APPLETON 9:30 PM
RABID AARDVARKS
MILWAUKEE ALE HOUSE
MILWAUKEE 9:30 PM
SEPARATE WAYS
THE SHACK
FOND DU LAC 9:30 PM
STAR SIX NINE
KOUNTRY BAR
APPLETON 9:30 PM
GRAND UNION
HEADLINERS
NEENAH 9:30 PM
BIG MOUTH
STONE TOAD
MENASHA 9:30 PM
HALF EMPTY
FAT JOES
FOND DU LAC 10:00 PM
HALF EMPTY
FAT JOES
FOND DU LAC 10:00 PM
HUGH BOB AND THE
HUSTLE
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
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CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR
MENASHA 10:00 PM
FRAN STEENO
HEIDEL HOUSE
GREEN LAKE 7-10:00
HITS
SILVER CRYST
WAUTOMA 8-12:00
April 12
“MIDNIGHT GHOST
TRAIN, LION SLICER,
ATTALLA”
CRUNCHY FROG
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
PAT MC CURDY
HEADLINERS
NEENAH 9:30 PM
April 15
KRIS CHARAIS
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 6:00 PM
TOE KNEE V’S 80’S MILL CREEK APPLETON 7:00 PM
ERIN KREBS & JEFF JOHN- STON CHANDELIER CLUB APPLETON 7:00 PM
JAZZ ORGY
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 7:00 PM
“THE GHOSTWOLVES,
LAST SONS OF KRYPTON,
THE FOAMERS”
CRUNCHY FROG
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
April 16
CHROSTOPHE GOLD
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 6:00 PM
BOBBY EVANS DUO
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
BRANDON VAN DALEN
DÉJA VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
NICOLE KOTTKE BAND MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8-12:00
April 17
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE BRADLEY CENTER - ADMI- RALS GAME MILWAUKEE 6:00 PM
IZZY & THE SCARECROW CHANDELIER CLUB APPLETON 8:00 PM
STRAWBERRY JAM CIMERRON MENASHA 8:00 PM
“KARATE SCHOOL, THE RED HAWKS & CAN’T & WON’T” LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
REVEREND RAVEN AND
THE CHAIN SMOKING
ALTER BOYS
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
BRIAN JAMES
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
THE COUGARS
SARDINE CAN
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
THY DIRTY DEUCE
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
UNDERCOVER ORGANISM WITH STEREO FRONTIER CRANKY PATS NEENAH 10:00 PM
COULEE BOYS THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
MENASHA 10:00 PM
NICOLE KOTTKE BAND MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8-12:00
VIC FERRARI THE D CASINO LAS VEGAS 9-12:00
April 18
REVEREND RAVEN AND THE CHAIN SMOKING ALTER BOYS CIMERRON MENASHA 8:00 PM
REPLICA PLANK ROAD PUB
DE PERE 8:30 PM
“HARVEY BROWN, BRON
SAGE, THE FOAMERS”
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
TIN SANDWICH
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
BIG MOUTH
ANDUZZIS - HOWARD
HOWARD 9:00 PM
CHAD DEMEUSE
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE
NEW CHAPTER TWO
WAUSAU 9:00 PM
GRAND UNION
21 GUN ROADHOUSE
LEDGEVIEW 9:00 PM
R P M
SLUGGERS
APPLETON 9:00 PM
RABID AARDVARKS
BAR LOUIE
MILWAUKEE 9:00 PM
ROOFTOP JUMPERS
FOX HARBOR PUB & GRILL
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
THE BLUES DISCIPLES
DEJ
APPLETON 9:00 PM
THE COUGARS
CIRCLE TAP
DENMARK 9:00 PM
THE BLUES DISCIPLES
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
RPM
SLUGGERS
APPLETON 9:00 PM
FINE LINE
THE SANDBOX
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
DOOZEY SOCIABLES NEW LONDON 9:30 PM
HALF EMPTY STONE TOAD MENASHA 9:30 PM
STAR SIX NINE
LEAP INN
FREEDOM 9:30 PM
BACK’N KICKIN
HEADLINERS
NEENAH 9:30 PM
HALF EMPTY
STONE TOAD
MENASHA 9:30 PM
MEGNA & THE MON-
SOONS
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 9:30 PM
JOHNNY WAD
FAT JOES
FOND DU LAC 10:00 PM
NASHVILLE PIPELINE
KOUNTRY BAR
APPLETON 10:00 PM
JOHNNY WAD
FAT JOES
FOND DU LAC 10:00 PM
CRANKSHAFT AND THE
GEAR GRINDERS
CRANKY PATS
NEENAH 10:00 PM
BILL STEINERT
HEIDEL HOUSE
GREEN LAKE 7-10:00
NICOLE KOTTKE BAND
MENOMINEE CASINO
KESHENA 8-12:00
VIC FERRARI
THE D CASINO
LAS VEGAS 9-12:00
April 22
TOE KNEE V’S 80’S
MILL CREEK
APPLETON 7:00 PM
JAZZ ORGY
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 7:00 PM
MISTRIAL
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
April 23
IZZY & THE SCARECROW
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 8:00 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE POTAWATOMI BINGO AND
CASINO
MILWAUKEE 8:30 PM
AMY LAVERE W/THE
RAGLANDERS
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
HAPPY HOUR HEROES
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
STEVE ARNOLD
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
“THE CREEPSHOW,
PENSKE FILE, T.I.G.T.,
BASTERD ASSOC”
CRUNCHY FROG
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
April 24
THE HONEYMOONERS
ONEIDA CASINO
GREEN BAY 8:00 PM
GOOD NIGHT GOLD DUST
W/ AURALAI
THE SOURCE PUBLIC
HOUSE
MENASHA 8:00 PM
THE HITS
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
“AGAINST THE GRAIN
W/ BEAST IN THE FIELD,
ACCUSER”
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
SLY JOE AND SMOOTH
OPERATORS
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 8:30 PM
WAYNE NEUMANN
WORLD OF BEER
APPLETON 9:00 PM
DB COLLECTIVE
DÉJA VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM

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CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR
BIG MOUTH & THE POWER
TOOL HORNS
JIMMY SEAS
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE
FIRE ON WATER
MILWAUKEE 9:30 PM
NASHVILLE PIPELINE
MR Gs
APPLETON 9:30 PM
GRAND UNION
RED ROCK SALOON
MILWAUKEE 10:00 PM
HITS
CIMARRON
MENASHA 9-1:00
April 25
BAD HABITZ
JOHNNYS LOUNGE
BEAVER DAM 7:00 PM
JOHNNY WAD ICE EXPO MANITOWOC 7:00 PM
TUCK AND PATTI THRASHER OPERA HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7:30 PM
ANDY’S AUTOMATICS
CIMERRON
MENASHA 8:00 PM
ROOFTOP JUMPERS
PLANK ROAD PUB
DE PERE 8:30 PM
GO FOR THE EYES W/THE
REVIVAL
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
ADAMS WAY
10TH FRAME
APPLETON 9:00 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE
JIMMY SEAS
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
DAVE STEFFEN BAND
EMMETTS
APPLETON 9:00 PM
GRAND UNION
OSHKOSH LANES
OSHKOSH 9:00 PM
R P M
BACKSTAGE BAR
FOND DU LAC 9:00 PM
SPITFIRE RODEO
CAPITOL CENTRE
APPLETON 9:00 PM
THE COUGARS
ANDUZZIS EAST GREEN BAY
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
SAVONA
Déja VU
APPLETON 9:00 PM
CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE
JIMMY SEAS
GREEN BAY 9:00 PM
RABID AARDVARKS
FAT JOES
FOND DU LAC 9:30 PM
STAR SIX NINE
GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR
APPLETON 9:30 PM
THE PRESIDENTS
STONE TOAD
MENASHA 9:30 PM
ASK YOUR MOTHER HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30 PM
THE PRESIDENTS STONE TOAD MENASHA 9:30 PM
THE POCKET KINGS
THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
MENASHA 9:30 PM
REPLICA
LEAP INN
FREEDOM 10:00 PM
April 26
SPITFIRE RODEO
CAPITOL CENTRE
APPLETON 1:00 AM
April 29
KRIS CHARAIS
THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
MENASHA 6:00 PM
TOE KNEE V’S 80’S
MILL CREEK
APPLETON 7:00 PM
JAZZ ORGY
BECKET’S
OSHKOSH 7:00 PM
STRINGBENDERS
CIMERRON MENASHA 8:00 PM
April 30
JAY MATTHES
THE SOURCE PUBLIC HOUSE
MENASHA 6:00 PM
THE LOWEST PAIR W/ DEAD
HORSES
LYRIC ROOM
GREEN BAY 8:30 PM
PAT MC CURDY MILL CREEK APPLETON 9:00 PM
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C
A OUTDOORS // ROB ZIMMER
BY ROB ZIMMER
The snow has melted and the birds
have returned and now, in just a few short
weeks, it will be time to begin a new grow-
ing season here in Wisconsin.
Take the opportunity this spring to try
something new in your yard and garden,
experimenting with new ways to grow.
Think outside the box when growing your
ornamentals, fruits, vegetables, berries and
other plants.
Here are some ideas to help get you
started:
CROPS IN POTS
Growing edible crops in pots and
containers is one of the biggest trends in
outdoor gardening and landscaping. A
number of varieties of fruits, berries and
vegetables are now available in dwarf
forms, perfect for containers. Mix and
match with tasty, fragrant herbs to create
your own garden in a pot.
MAKE IT FUN, NOT WORK
The minute any hobby or interest
becomes labor, it is usually no longer
enjoyable. Make your gardening hobby
fun by developing your own fun and out-
going style. It could mean painting pots in
a fun color or designing garden beds in a
fun theme. It could be growing your own
bouquets and decorations. Grow a few
unusual, bizarre plants you’ve never heard
of. Involve the whole family and make it
fun for everyone.
HEIRLOOM TREASURES
Collecting and growing heirloom
plants, including annual flowers, wildflow-
ers, fruits and vegetables is an extremely
satisfying and enjoyable way to garden.
You’ll find great selections online at several
websites including Baker Seed Company
and Seed Savers. Part of the fun of grow-
ing heirlooms is saving the seeds each year
to increase your crop or share with friends
and family. Learning the process of saving
seeds is in itself an enjoyable and reward-
ing hobby.
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
Pollinator gardens, those designed
to benefit pollinating insects such as
bees, butterflies
and others,
are a top
trend in
gardening
in 2015.
Providing
not only
nutrition,
but also
shelter and
water for
these insects
is easy to do
by planting
an assortment of native and garden-variety flowering plants. Bee and butterfly hives and houses, puddling areas and other ele-
ments are also easy to create.
GO NATIVE
Discover the beauty and benefits of
landscaping and gardening with Wiscon-
sin native plants. Wildflowers, trees and
shrubs provide not only interesting colors,
textures and year round beauty, but nutri-
tion and nesting space for wildlife, as well.
CELEBRATE YOUR STYLE
Create your own garden art and
accents using a variety of re-furbished or
repurposed items. Find inspiration online
by searching garden art projects, or visit
one of our many excellent vintage shops.
Whether your style is fun and whimsical
or elegant and formal, you’ll discover many
great ways to create do it yourself garden
art projects.
GROW ORGANIC
Skip the toxic chemical fertilizers
and amendments this year and research
organic options to enhance and protect
your garden treasures. You’ll discover how
organic options are not only better for your
yard and garden, as well as your health, but
also less expensive.
Rob Zimmer is an award winning nature
and gardening writer with over 20 years of
passionate outdoor writing experience. Find
him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/
RobZimmerOutdoors.
Spring Gardening
Tips
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A
FINE ARTS  // MICHELLE RICHESON
BY SHERRI THOMAS
Michelle Richeson’s paintings offer a
surprise to those who look closely at them.
From a distance, they are almost photore-
alistic but, up close, they become so much
more. The colors are applied in a way that
has been described as “prismatic” or “frac-
tured” giving the impression that the image
is being viewed through a kaleidoscope. Up
close, the colors and lines subtly shift so the
image appears to be overlapping and dupli-
cating itself. Yet, when you look at it from
a distance, it merges together to create a
complete image.
Richeson’s studio is based in Neenah
where she works in a variety of media,
including oil, watercolor, pastel, and sculp-
ture.  She is intrigued by both the natural
landscape and the way humanity travels
through it, works, and thrives. A native
of northeast Wisconsin, it is her travels
throughout the US and abroad that inspire
her paintings.
When traveling, she takes numer-
ous photographs and draws inspiration
from them to create her prismatic paint-
ings.  Even though she has traveled through
many beautiful and exotic landscapes, it
was often people working with their hands
that sparked her artistic mind and inspired
her largest series of paintings. She explains,
“When I started the paintings, I concen-
trated on people using their hands because
it’s something I see lacking in our society.
It seems like we work less with our hands
to create, work, or build and have become
reliant on technology and not the simple
act of using our hands to do and make
things. “She particularly enjoys capturing
the intricacies of the anatomy and light
of hands at work. Paintings in the series
include a woman kneading bread dough
at an Irish farmstead, a man cleaning a fish
from the day’s catch off the bay in Seward,
Alaska, and a woman gathering metal fer-
rules and polishing them to make paint
brushes in a brush factory in China. This
brush maker painting resulted in Michelle
winning Best of Show at the Secura Fine
Art Exhibition in 2011.  
Richeson finds inspiration from simple
things and interesting places.  In North
Bay, Ontario Canada, she came upon a
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carousel.  Enchanted by it, she created a
colorful and whimsical 84”x68” painting
titled “North Bay Carousel.” This initi-
ated a commitment to share the painting
with others; particularly children. “It has
brought smiles and joy to children who see
it,” says Richeson. “The piece screams to
be put someplace for them.” There are now
three carousel paintings in the series and for
every canvas print or original purchased,
Richeson donates a signed print to a site
that serves youth and families. The origi-
nal painting is on display at the Richeson
School of Art & Gallery, where it remains a
favorite of children and adults alike.
Richeson’s painting approach is very
different than other artists.   Instead of
completely covering the canvas with paint
and then making adjustments, she works
on a small section until it is completed
before moving on to the next
. “Working on a small part of
the canvas helps me to get the
effect I’m going for.  I’m think-
ing about how shadow and
light affect the subject matter
as I paint. Also, what the color
is going to portray. With that
in mind, I can usually keep
the whole painting cohesive as
it goes on for several months,
even though it’s a section at
a time. I also use a limited palette which
keeps the color harmonious through the
painting.” Depending on the colors in the
actual subject matter, Richeson typically
uses six to ten colors. “I make notes in a
journal so if I ever have to go back to that
painting, I know what colors were used
and any particular thoughts I had about
the painting.” Currently, her easel holds
a large painting of a kayaker fighting his
way through the foaming rapids. Water in
colorful droplets splash in the prismatic
technique Richeson employs.
Richeson’s paintings are at the Richeson
School of Art & Gallery in Kimberly
and Moondeer & Friends Gallery in
Boulder Junction. She has an upcoming
exhibit at Gallery 110 North which will be on view from August 14-October 2 in Plymouth WI. To see her art online, go to ww.mricheson.com.
www.sherrithomas.com
FINE ARTS  // MICHELLE RICHESON

60. L12 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015
Nov. 2014 - Oct. 31, 2015
NEON: Darkness
Electrified
History Museum at the Castle
Appleton WI, 54911
920-735-9370
11am-4pm Tu-Su
myhistorymuseum.org
NEON:Darkness Electrified, features
more than 20 vintage neon advertising
signs from local collector Jed Schleisner.
Explore the history and science behind the
glow of the tubes.
January 23 - April 30
GNC Regional Artist
Gallery, feat. Karla Lauden
The Trout Museum of Art
Appleton WI, 54911
920-733-4089
www.troutmuseum.org/exhibitions/karlalauden
This exhibition explores Karla’s
work of the past three years which
is an embodiment of transition, and
reflection. Her latest series included in
the gallery, HumanbeingbeinghumaN,
explores and exposes the absurdities of the
human condition. 
Exhibit is on display January 23-April 30,
2015. Admission: FREE Museum hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-4pm and Sunday
Noon-4pm.
February 6 - April 5
Members’ Biennial
Exhibition
The Trout Museum of Art
Appleton WI, 54911
920-733-4089
www.troutmuseum.org/
membersbiennial2015
Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-4pm Sunday
Noon-4pm.
A juried fine arts exhibition will feature a diversity of works created by artist members of The Trout Museum of Art.  Works on display will be available for
purchase. Admission: FREE
March 2 - May 30
Appleton Downtown
Winter Farm Market
City Center
Appleton WI, 54911
920-954-9112
www.appletondowntown.org
Saturdays, 9am-12:30pm
Featuring veggies, meats, baked goods,
homemade soup & dip mixes, handcrafted
items, jewelry, rugs & more including
gluten free items. PLUS, enjoy all that
Downtown Appleton has to offer!
March 30 - May 3
Lawrence University
Wriston Art Center
Galleries Exhibition
Wriston Art Center Galleries
Appleton WI, 54911
920-832-6621
www.lawrence.edu/s/wriston
Tu–Fr: 10am -4pm | Sa and Su: noon -4pm
A memorial tribute to Lawrence’s late
studio art professor, Alice King Case.
Text-based drawings by Martin Brief, who
digs deep into the meaning of words in his
artwork. New additions to the galleries›
collection set in relation to the liberal
arts: science, humanities, arts and social
sciences.
April 1
Eva Geiringer Schloss:
Holocaust Survivor
UW Fox Valley Theater
Menasha WI, 54952
920-832-2646
www.uwfox.uwc.edu/events/event. asp?eventID=369497 Noon-1:30pm Eva Schloss who survived the Auschwitz-
Birkenau death camp during the Holocaust
and step-sister of the famous Anne Frank,
will be speaking at the James W. Perry Hall
Theatre. Tickets required. $5 Student/
Senior and $10 Adult. Contact UWFox
Box Office for more information.
Eva Schloss, Holocaust
Survivor - “Hiding, Betrayl,
Survival: The LIfe and
Times of Anne Frank and
Eva Schloss”
UW Fox Valley Theater
Menasha WI, 54952
920-832-2646
www.uwfox.uwc.edu/cac/events.html
Noon
Eva Schloss who survived the Auschwitz-
Birkenau death camp during the
Holocaust and step-sister of the famous
Anne Frank, will be speaking at the James
W. Perry Hall Theatre. Tickets required.
$5 Student/Senior 60+ and $10 Adult.
April 2
Thursday Afternoon @ the
Movies
Appleton Public Library
Appleton WI, 54911
920-832-6173
www.apl.org
4-6pm
Featuring Big Hero 6, an animated film
for the whole family. Refreshments served.
Free admission.
April 3
April Fools 5K Run/Walk
Appleton WI, 54913
920.277.1722
osifv.com
6pm
The 5th annual OSI/Miron April Fools’
5K Fun Run/Walk to benefit Appleton
High School Athletic Programs The
certified course starts at OSI and finishes
at Appleton North. Since 2011, $60,000
has been donated to the Appleton Area
School District. Visit the April Fools’ 5K
Facebook page for running tips, upcoming
events, and all kinds of good stuff!
Orthopedic & Sports
Institute 5k
Orthopedic & Sports Institute of the Fox
Valley
Appleton WI, 54914
9205601000
www.osifv.com
4:30-5:30pm Pre-race Shuttles
6:30-8pm Post Race Shuttles
This fun 5k celebrates the Superhero
in all of us.  Dress up like your favorite
superhero for hte run!  A $250 Scheels
gift card will be awarded to the most
attention-getting superhero!  Post race fun
will take place at Appleton North, with a
post-race party at the Stoneyard.
April 4
Spring Fling Craft &
Vendor Event
Lucky Dogz
Neenah WI, 54956
920-858-0647
www.facebook.com/Fox.Valley.Event/events
9am-2pm
Over 40 crafters & vendors to shop from.
This is a fundraising event for CASA of
the Fox Valley. If you are not able to join
us and want to donate, please contact us.
Fundraiser for CASA of the Fox Valley -
Raffle / Silent Auction items needed.
Wisconsin’s Largest
Indoor Easter Egg Hunt
Pathways Church
Appleton WI, 54913
9207350422 Ext 113
www.egghunt.us
More than 30,000 Easter Eggs and an
additional 3,000+ pounds of candy will be
ready for the 7th annual Pathways Church
Indoor Easter Egg Hunt.
April 7
Call for Art: 35th Annual
SECURA Fine Arts
Exhibition
Trout Museum of Art, The
Appleton WI, 54911
920-733-4089
www.troutmuseum.org/Exhibitions/35th-
Annual-SECURA-Fine-Arts-Exhibition
The Trout Museum of Art is pleased to
invite artists from Northeast Wisconsin
to submit artwork for the 35th Annual
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62. L14 | SceneNewspaper.com | April 2015
CALENDER //  THE BIG EVENTS
SECURA Fine Arts Exhibition. Accepted
artists opportunities include showcasing
up to two pieces in the exhibition,
eligibility for cash prizes and more.
The exhibition will be on display April
14-May 17, 2015. Entry fee is free to
Artist level members of the museum, $30
for non-members. Completed entry form
and payment due April  7th. For more
information on terms of entry and entry
form visit: www.troutmuseum.org
Scheels Kids Klub ~
Baseball 101
Scheels
Appleton WI, 54913
920-830-2977
http://www.scheelscommunity.com/events/
scheels-kids-klub-baseball-101-2/
6PM-7PM
Learn about the basics of baseball and what
you need to play the game. Have a ball and
get some expert tips from our special guests
from the Timber Rattlers. Get your picture
taken with FANG, the Timber Rattlers
mascot. Show your pride and dress in your
favorite baseball team apparel.
April 8
Gluten-Free Greek

The Wire Whisk
Appleton WI, 54913
920-739-3663
www.thewirewhisk.com
6-7:30pm
Addressing the growing concern with
gluten sensitivity, Chef Tim will review
flour options that are gluten free and share
a wonderful Greek/mid-eastern gluten-free
menu: Falafel patties, Tzatziki sauce plus,
Arugula salad with tomatoes, red onion,
and feta cheese and mint vinaigrette. $35
April 9
Cooking with Bacon
The Wire Whisk
Appleton WI, 54913
9207393663
www.thewirewhisk.com
6:00pm-7:30pm
Bacon! It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
Join Chef Terri Milligan as she shares some
unusual bacon recipes from jam to dessert:
Alsatian pizza with caramelized onions,
bacon and Gruyere cheese; Bacon Brittle
with Caramel Sauce (over ice cream) and
Bacon Maple Jam Crostini.
April 11
Art of Conversation:
Layering Meaning into
Local Art
The Trout Museum of Art
Appleton WI, 54911
9207334089
http://www.troutmuseum.org/Events/The-
Art-of-Conversation
11:00am-Noon
Join a discussion featuring two local artists
(Carole Frocillo and Karla Lauden). Both
artists use collage-like techniques to layer
colors, textures, etc. into their artwork.  Also,
both have fascinating stories behind the
images they create and are featured in the
current exhibit. Free Admission.
Fox Jazz Fest Benefit
Concert
UW Fox Valley Theater
Menasha WI, 54952
920 749-2787
www.foxjazzfest.com
7:30-9:30pm
Janet Planet and John Harmon will
perform to help grow the new Fox Jazz
Fest endowment fund located at the
Community Foundation of the Fox
River Valley Region. $20 tickets can be
purchased through the FJF website.
Friends of High Cliff State
Park Spring Fundraiser
High Cliff Supper Club
Sherwood WI, 54169
989-1106
[email protected]
6-9pm
This event is being held at High Cliff
Supper Club  to benefit High Cliff State
Park, primarily to fund the naturalist
position, help fund the Butterfly Pond
Trail Restoration project and other park
funding needs.  There will be a silent and
live auction and TV-2’s Bill Jartz will be
the MC.

Lawrence University Artist
Series - Third Coast
Percussion
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Appleton WI, 54911
920-832-6749
go.lawrence.edu/performingarts
8pm
Third Coast Percussion explores
and expands the extraordinary sonic
possibilities of the percussion repertoire,
delivering exciting performances for
audiences of all kinds.
Mayhem in the Mud - Early
Session
Heckrodt Wetland Reserve
Menasha WI, 54952
920-720-9349
www.heckrodtwetland.org
Noon-1:30pm
Let’s play in the MUD! We’ll be mud
Builders, Chefs, Artists, and Biologists all
in one day. By the time we’re done with
this medley of mud, you’ll be covered from
head to toe. Dress for the weather! $5/
child paid in advance.
Mayhem in the Mud - Late
Session
Heckrodt Wetland Reserve
Menasha WI, 54952
920-720-9349
www.heckrodtwetland.org
2-3:30pm
Let’s play in the MUD!  We’ll be mud
Builders, Chefs, Artists, and Biologists all
in one day.  By the time we’re done with
this medley of mud, you’ll be covered from
head to toe.  Dress for the weather!  $5/
child paid in advance.
Mini-Golf On The Town
Downtown Appleton
Appleton WI, 54911
920-954-9112
appletondowntown.org
12-6pm
Play a unique hole of mini-golf at 9
different bars with Beverage Specials at
each! Afterwards gather at the 19th Hole
for prizes and fun! Registration will be
open March 1 at participating bars.

Scheels Run 4 Home 5K
Run/Walk
Fox Cities Stadium
Appleton WI, 54913
920-475-7180
pacesettersrun.org/race-events/run4home/
The Scheels Run 4 Home is a PaceSetters
“Experience the Sport of Life” premiere
event. Fun for the whole family, we offer a
5K Run/Walk and 1/4-mile, 1/2-mile, and 1-mile Youth Runs for Fitness.The event starts and finishes at Fox Cities Stadium – Home of the Timber Rattlers!
5K Schedule 6:30am – On-site 5K
Registration & Packet Pickup
8am–5K Run/Walk Start
Kids’ Runs 6:30–9am– On-site Kids’ Runs
Registration 9:15 am–1/4 Mile Youth Run
(ages 5 and under)9:30am–1/2 and 1 Mile
Youth Run
Ultimate Ladies Day
Holiday Inn Neenah Riverwalk
Neenah WI, 54956
920-722-1920
neenah.org
9am-4pm
Women participate in this special
day including a champagne breakfast
and fashion show plus pampering,
demonstrations and shopping throughout
historic Downtown Neenah!
April 11 - August 30
William Morris: Native
Species The George R.
Stroemple Collection
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
Neenah WI, 54956
920.751.4658
bmmglass.com
Tu-Sa 10am-4:30pm
Su 1-4:30pm
The exhibition is thirty-eight blown-
glass vessels, inspired by nature and
Stroemple’s own collection of Japanese
Meji ceramic vessels. The work reflects
Morris’ extraordinary combination of skill,
passion, and artistic vision.
April 12 - April 17
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
Baseball
Fox Cities Stadium
Appleton WI, 54913
920-733-4152
www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t572
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, single ‘A’
affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.
4/12/15 4:05pm Peoria
4/13/15 6:35pm Peoria
4/14/15 12:05pm Peoria
4/15/15-4/17/15 6:35pm Burlington
April 13 - April 19

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CALENDAR //  THE BIG EVENTS
Fox Cities Book Festival
Multiple locations around the Fox Cities
Appleton WI, 54912-1014
920-831-6580
www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org
The Fox Cities Book Festival will be a
celebration connecting writers and readers
at several location in the Fox Cities.
Visit our Web site for a complete list of up
to date times and locations.
Failure: A Love Story
April 16 - April 25
UW Fox Valley Theater
Menasha WI, 54952
920-832-2889
www.uwfox.uwc.edu/cac/theatreevents.html
Failure is a magical, whimsical fable that
traces the sisters’ triumphs and defeats,
lived out in the rickety two-story building
by the Chicago River that was the Fail
family home and clock shop. This funny,
moving and profoundly wise play reminds
us that in the end, all that remains is love.
Show Dates:
Th 4/16/15 7pm
Fr 4/17/15 7pm
Sa 4/18/15 7pm
Th 4/23/15 7pm
Fr 4/24/15 7pm
Sa 4/25/15 2pm
April 16
Jazz at the Trout
The Trout Museum of Art
Appleton WI, 54911
920-733-4089
www.troutmuseum.org/Events/Jazz-at-the-
Trout
Doors open at 6:30 pm, performance
begins at 7:30 pm.
Fareed Haque (Guitar)
Cost: Members: $12, Non Members $20,
Students $5.
Thursday Afternoon @ the
Movies
Appleton Public Library
Appleton WI, 54911
920-832-6173
www.apl.org
4:30-6:30pm
Featuring a screening and discussion of ‘14
Days with Alzheimer’s.’ This documentary
is based on Lisa Cerasoli’s memoir ‘As
Nora Fades Away.’ It’s a movie about love, laughter, tears and the power of compassion. Refreshments served. Free.
April 17
Lawrence University Jazz
Series - Jon Cowherd’s
“Mercy Project”
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Appleton WI, 54911
920-832-6749
go.lawrence.edu/performingarts
8pm
Pianist/keyboard player Jon Cowherd
is best known for his association with
drummer Brian Blade’s Fellowship—a
group he co-founded in 1998— but as a
producer and arranger too, there are clearly
other strings to his bow. 
April 18
Appleton - Ladies Day
Downtown!
Downtown Appleton
Appleton WI, 54911
920-954-9112
www.appletondowntown.org
9:30am - 5pm
Enjoy a fashion show at Radisson Paper
Valley, swag bag and numerous activities
and shopping specials throughout
Downtown Appleton for ladies of all ages!
Wild Kratts - Live!
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Appleton WI, 54911
9207303760
foxcitiespac.com/events/wild-kratts-live
10:30am-12:30pm
Wild Kratts — Live! is an all new
theatrical stage show based on the hit
animated PBS television series “Wild
Kratts.” Martin and Chris Kratt, stars of
the Emmy®-nominated “Wild Kratts” step
out live on stage to engage the audience in
a classic “Wild Kratts” story.
April 19
Young Audiences: Inside
a Ballet Class with
Makaroff Youth Ballet
The Trout Museum of Art
Appleton WI, 54911
920-733-4089
www.troutmuseum.org/Events/Young-
Audiences 2-3:30pm Learn the basic concepts and techniques of ballet and engage in an exciting
demonstration.Then, head up to the
studio to complete a fun art project to take
home.   Admission is Free but reservations
are required due to limited capacity.
Children must be accompanied by an
adult.
April 21 - April 26
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
Baseball
Fox Cities Stadium
Appleton WI, 54913
920-733-4152
www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t572
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, single ‘A’
affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.
4/21/15-4/22/15 6:35pm CR
4/23/15 12:05pm CR
4/24/15 6:35pm Peoria
4/25/15-4/26/15 6:35pm Peoria
April 22
Celebrate Earth Day
The Wire Whisk
Appleton WI, 54913
9207393663
www.thewirewhisk.com
6-7:30pm
Chef Tim will answer your questions
and provide information on farmers
markets, Grow Local, Riverview gardens,
Field Note farms, etc. while serving up
an incredibly fresh menu of Spring salad
with micro greens and vinaigrette dressing
plus, a vegetable entrée using only local
ingredients. $35 
April 24
Hal Holbrook in Mark
Twain Tonight!
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Appleton WI, 54911
[phone]
foxcitiespac.com/events/mark-twain-tonight
7:30pm
Mark Twain Tonight! is a one-man play
devised by Hal Holbrook, in which he
depicts Mark Twain giving a dramatic
recitation selected from several of his
(Twain’s) writings, with an emphasis on
the comic ones.
April 25
Family Studio: Spring
Celebration
The Trout Museum of Art
Appleton WI, 54911
9207334089
www.troutmuseum.org/Events/Family-Studio
Drop-In from 9:30am-1:00pm
Create art as a family with this fun
opportunity to engage in hands-on creative
projects and includes materials. Celebrate
the colors of Spring with a colorful mono-
print.  Cost: $5/person, No registration
required for this drop-in activity. Children
must be accompanied by an adult.
April 26
Lawrence Academy of
Music Piano Festival
Recital
Lawrence Conservatory
Appleton WI, 54911
920-832-6632
www.lawrence.edu/s/academy/events/piano_
festival
1-2pm
Join Lawrence Academy of Music for the
Piano Festival recital. The recital is free.
Wisconsin Cage Bird Club
Spring Bird Fair
Holiday Inn Neenah Riverwalk
Neenah WI, 54956
920-428-4595
9am -2pm
http://www.wisconsincagebirdclub.com/
Vendors will have a large variety if cage
birds and cage bird related products
available for sale.
$2 admission per person, under 12 free.
April 28
Pilobolus
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Appleton WI, 54911
9207303760
foxcitiespac.com/events/pilobolus
7:30-9:30pm
This modern dance company with the funny
name returns to the Fox Cities with a new
repertoire that includes Houdini-inspired,
astonishing physical illusions performed
with fantasy, athleticism and strength that
will challenge the way you think about
dance. For mature audiences only.

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