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COVER STORYR14 Poco & Firefall

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FOOD & DRINKL4 Brickhouse Burgers & BrewL6 Liberty Cafe R2 BrewmasterR4 From the Wine CaveR5 Tricia’s Table

ENTERTAINMENTR12 Weyauwega International

Film FestivalR16 Jeff DanielsR18 Postcard from MilwaukeeR20 CD Review: Blue WhisperR22 The Spanish InquisitionR23 CD Review: The Look

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FOOD & DRINK // BRICKHOUSE BURGERS AND BREW

BY PATRICK MARES

When the Sports Corner on 500 Grant Street in De Pere closed it’s doors it took with it one of the area’s most beautiful places to catch a meal or drink or a sports game. The old building had been wonder-fully restored and housed both a sports bar and a more upscale restaurant on the east side.

When Julie’s Cafe bought the place in July of last year it may have raised a couple eyebrows. The cafe, which opened in November seemed to be in an odd place, so far from the traffic off Main Street. The building wasn’t the most natural fit for the establishment, and it only took up half the available space. Rest assured, the missing piece of the puzzle in Julie’s new venture is Brickhouse, Craft Burgers and Brew. And it fits quite well.

We sat down with Troy Metzler the man with the vision behind the restaurant. According to him, the Brickhouse had been in the works for two years before they opened February 1, 2015.

“It’s just been figuring out the feel of the place,” Troy said “an old place like this, an old gastropub-y type place. And then you get the right chef in and he really builds out that menu. I’ve been in restau-rants since I was four, when my parents opened the first ‘Julie’s Cafe’ in 1994. I never really left the business. I went to college, got an accounting degree and then came back and worked in the family busi-ness, and eventually into ownership.”

The business, named after his mother who passed away eight years ago, is now a partnership between Troy and his father.

“This one is kinda’ my baby,” Troy said “Brickhouse has been my vision for a while. We really saw a need for a gourmet burger, or a different burger place with a craft beer complement to it. There’s not a lot in Green Bay as far as the ‘craft burger - craft beer’ combination. We did a lot of research in Chicago because there are a lot of great burger and craft beer places there. And we really loved the concept, and we

brought it here and made it our own.” While just next door ‘Nicolet’ does

great breakfast business, 500 Grant Street was acquired with another purpose.

“You know, it’s kind of what’s old is new,” Troy said. “The building is 103 years old, built in 1912. So we took the old building and made it new again. And that’s what we did with the burgers, since burgers have been around forever, we took them and did some different things with them. Our burgers are made with locally-sourced meat. It’s all local steer: from Ottawa to Luxemberg. Our buns are all baked fresh locally. And all of our cheeses are Wisconsin cheeses, as local as we can get them. But it’s still so simple. It’s beer and burgers.”

BURGERSTroy: All of our burgers are on brioche

buns, so they have the heft to them to hold all of our toppings. The M.O. of our burgers is, kinda get-in-there and eat em, messy-style burger, you know. The burgers are two beef patties that are three ounces a piece, equaling around a third of a pound burger split between two patties.

We offer a burger of the month that our chef comes up with. The barbecue pulled pork was our number one selling burger of the month. It’s basically one beef patty with pulled pork on it, and coleslaw.

The Baad Boy was also one of our burgers of the month. We really wanted to bring in another style of patty, with lamb, to give a little bit different feel. And again the Mac-N-Cheezy was also one of those [listed as one beef patty served with BBQ dipped house-made bacon, pan fried cheddar Mac-n-Cheese with lettuce and tomato].

You can a l so bui ld-your own burger. You can go kinda crazy on this. You get one cheese and then you can do up to six toppings. We do a pork belly on it, which is amazing. I told you, we try to do everything in house. We literally make our bacon in house.

The Scene: Do you have a smokehouse

in here?Troy: We don’t smoke it actually. It’s

a cured bacon. So we cure it for four days. We marinate it for another three days. Then we bake it off, marinate it another day and slice it. It really is unique, not like anything that you’ve ever had. That’s going to be on a lot of different things.

We have out bacon cheeseburger, which seems traditional, but has our house made bacon and our chipotle mayo, which gives it a little bit of heat. We dip our bacon in barbecue sauce in our Mac-N-Cheezy. So taking our barbecue, which is our house made chipotle barbecue, we dip our house-made bacon in there and it goes into our Mac-N-Cheezy burger. And with our house made bacon we come and make our pork belly off of that as well. So we take some of our larger chunks off of that and make our pork belly, which also goes on some of our burgers. Build your own specifically.

BREWSThe Scene: What can you tell us about

the beer side of things?Troy: There are four craft breweries in

Green Bay right now. Titletown Brewing, Hinterland, Badger State Brewing, and Stillmank.

So, Badger State is near the Lambeau Field area, and Stillmank is on the east side of Green Bay. And we have a great relationships with them.

And then there’s Ahnapee in Algoma, some from central Wisconsin, Three Sheeps in Sheboygan...

Beer has been around for a long time, but craft beer is just exploding. We just have a great staff that has a passion for draft beer as well. We try to have people under-stand, even at the basic level of what beer and flavors [match]. If someone is coming in for a certain kind of beer, our staff can direct them.

We have 20 tap handles and our beer lineup is always changing, which is fun for our customers. It goes along with the theme of our burgers always chang-

ing. Our burger of the month, grilled cheese, poutine, different beer. So it’s always something different and new when you come in as a regular.

The Scene: I get the beer and the burg-ers, but where does the poutine come into this?

Troy: It’s a Canadian dish. It’s fries, fried cheese curds and gravy. We take our cheese curds: we break them apart. Our smaller curds go into a poutine. We have a classic poutine and then a poutine of the month. We’ve done everything from a pulled pork poutine to a breakfast poutine with sausage and bacon in sausage gravy.

And then we brought that through to our desserts. We do a fried Kit Kat. A chocolate-caramel marshmallow ganache, which is the gravy, the fried Kit Kats, and a seasonal fruit.

The Scene: So It’s definitely a comfort food.

Troy: That’s exactly what it is. We brought it to the forefront. You know there are only a few places right now in Green Bay that serve poutine, and we were one of the first. It’s a growing item.

The Scene: You’ve been open since spring, have you made any menu changes?

Troy: This is our second menu now. We expanded on the burgers side of things. That’s what we are really and truly focusing on. We hang our hat on our burg-ers.

We also have our grilled cheese of the month. We do something different every month with that and then we have our seasonal vegetable. We try to get those healthy options. We really do try to accom-modate the health, the gluten free. All of our burgers can be subbed with chicken, portobello or turkey-burger.

All of our sauces are in-house. Our chef really works that angle well. All of our burgers come with fries, but the ‘upgrading shareables’ here are pretty unique, whether it’s our white truffle fries, which you just don’t find around here. They’re pretty popular in Chicago with a lot of burger

Brickhouse Burgers and BrewDe Pere’s newest brewpub is just getting started.

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The Packer Backer Special was a tower of savory goodness that came with a choice of 3 beers and a half order of Brickhouse’s fried cheese curds. The burger was massive, containing 3 beef patties, one brat patty, lettuce, tomato, onion, bacon, Swiss, Gouda, Cheddar and Muenster. If you seek to tackle this particular challenge you’d best come hungry, or be prepared to take home some leftovers. The result was delicious, combining heaped cheese and meats with masterfully caramelized onions, and Brickhouse’s house-made bacon, so good it was hard not to pull it out and eat it separately. The side of hand battered cheese curds tasted more like a pastry than fair food, and were well complemented by the tangy cream and tomato marinara.

The heat was somewhat intimidating, with a layer of sriracha aioli and jalapeno poppers, but the meat and carbs on display did nicely to dampen the heat to a pleasurable dull roar. The fries that were served with it are perhaps best described as the platonic ideal of that powdered cheese seasoning you see on things everywhere. This was the real stuff, and the white goodness sprinkled over the top of these made dipping them in the cheese curd’s marinara sauce that much better. The burgers were served with Badger State Brewing Company’s On Wisconsin Red Ale. The 22 IBU the bartender pegged it at might have typically been a bit on the bitter side for a wussy malt fiend like me, but they calculated well. It was excellent with the two burgers.

joints. Or our garlic parm fries, which are amazing.

Chef David’s November SpecialsBurger: Five Peppercorn

Chef David: We’re doing a five pep-percorn burger where we bring in pep-percorns from around the world, and make our own blend.

The Scene: What differentiates the standard peppercorn from the specialized options?

David: What you find in a grocery store is a variation from India where they call it tellicherry. That’s the black peppercorn that most people are used to seeing. Every peppercorn has a little bit different flavor. But the top 20 percent of the tellicherry’s are actually left on the vine longer. Not as spicy, they have a stronger woody flavor. But other peppercorns, depending on where they are in the region, have signifi-cantly either more woody, more fruity, or more spicy flavor. And we’re going to make our own blend with those five different kinds of environments. Where it’s going to have... in our case it will be a little bit more mild, with a much stronger woody and fruit flavor.

The Scene: Could you go a bit deeper into what you mean by fruity?

David: When you eat pineapple and

you get that little bit of spice to it, that just hint of acid that is hard to distinguish. That’s what I’m talking about. You’ll get that same sort of fruity nature out of that. If you were to eat a grape, that same sort of fruity nature comes out of it too. It will have that same type of tannin type nature. Which is why a lot of times people pair pepper with wines, because of that tannin natural mixture.

Poutine: Moule’s and FritesDavid: It’s going to be moule’s and

frites. Which is mussels and frites, which is just another word for fries. And we’re going to be doing that with a roasted poblano sauce, as a dipping sauce for the mussels and frites. Poblanos are a large pepper, a little more mild than a habanero or a jalapeno. Jalapeno’s have more of that coriander/cumin flavor to them. Poblanos tend to be a little bit sweeter and a little bit more on the pepper flavor than that kind of coriander/cumin. I think when you eat a habanero or a jalapeno most people don’t pick that up, but if you really stop and you ate some coriander and cumin and tried a jalepeno you’d say, yeah I get that. If you eat a poblano, a poblano has a milder pepper flavor. So we’re going to roast it and we’ll puree it with a little bit of garlic, some dark chili powder, some honey and prob-ably a little bit of lemon.

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FOOD & DRINK // LIBERTY CAFE

BY PATRICK MARES

Many patrons thought Liberty Cafe, on 228 N. Adams in Green Bay was gone for good. But the former owners Linda and Alex Galt told us the cafe wasn’t a casualty of business, but their busy schedules. And they’ve chosen to pass the banner down to an old acquaintance.

Who is that man? Cory Nicklaus: a former manager at Kavarna Coffee shop. When Cory realized Liberty was closing, he didn’t hesitate.

“I contacted them the same day,” Cory

said “when they posted it on Facebook. The layout reminds me of a big city corner coffee shop like you’d see in Milwaukee or Chicago. It’s not a big space by any means, but customers can hold their busi-ness meetings here, or meet and study. I’m already planning to invite local artists to show their work and once in a while, maybe I’ll feature an acoustic guitar player.”

It wasn’t always an easy road for Cory told us about a sandwich they will high-light on the menu, called the Kimberly, after his partner’s sister.

15 years ago, Cory realized his dream

of opening a coffee shop while working at Kavarna where Kimberly had been one of his biggest supporters. Sadly, she devel-oped cancer, passing away before her time.

“I wanted to name a sandwich after her because she was all excited about me starting a coffee shop some day,” Cory said “she’d probably be really proud.”

There’s a big pair of shoes that come with the property, but Cory has the experience, both as a manager and in the cafe business. And he has help from

a pair of Green Bay’s most distinguished coffee shop owners. Here’s hoping that the new Liberty Cafe can be everything the old shop was, and more!

Liberty Cafe is on Its Way Back inShop reopening under new management in early November


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BY PATRICK MARES

November 7, the 41st Gallerie of Shop-pes arrives at the Lambeau Field Atrium from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thirty vendors from locations outside the Brown County area will offer cloth-ing, home décor, gifts and specialty foods, among many other products. The event is sponsored by the Green Bay chapter of the Philanthropic Educational Organization or P.E.O. established in 1859.

All proceeds raised support educational opportunities for area women. The Gal-lerie boasts over $500,000 in scholarships awarded over the last four decades for women returning to school

Carol Wilinski, P.E.O.’s Publicity Co-

Chair explained a bit more about this year’s event and the organization that spawned it.

“There are nine chapters in the Green Bay area,” Carol said “five of which are responsible for the Gallerie of Shoppes. The revenue is generated in two ways, we have the ticket sales at five dollars each. And then we get a percentage from the vendors that come as well.”

The Gallerie had simple beginnings. “It was really just a number of women

who got together,” Carol said “and decided they wanted to put the thing on. Gosh, I think my first time was back in 1992. Back then, it was held at the Midway Hotel near the stadium, but as it grew, we needed a larger venue.”

Ms. Wilinski was pulled into the P.E.O.

by some friends who knew she attended the Gallerie regularly.

“This was the most organized group I’d ever known,” Carol said “when they said they were going to do something, it got done.”

Shops that rent a space who have trav-eled from a great distance, are chosen to make the Gallerie a ‘destination’ rather than something that could be replaced by a drive into town.

“We have quite a few shops coming in from Door County,” Carol said “from Cedarburg, near Milwaukee, Franklin, West Bend, Illinois, Tomah, Berlin, Neenah, Madison.”

The invitations to vendors from farther out came as members asked some of their favorite not-quite-local stores to partici-pate, and who realized and appreciated the benefit for the fund-raiser.

“The reason that I have always loved going,” Carol said “is it’s before Thanks-giving, before the hustle and bustle of the holidays start. I personally do a lot of my Christmas shopping at this event. It’s a really fun day. We have mens things too, and there are men that come. But a lot of people seem to make it a girl’s day out. And the chance to go shopping in the Lambeau Field Atrium just adds something to the experience.”

Christmas (Shopping) Comes EarlyGallerie of Shoppes offers a way to buy gifts while helping a good cause

NEWS & VIEWS // GALLERIE OF SHOPPES

TwisterWe focus on fun. We truly love

doing retail, we love the products we sell, enjoy working with our customers and love to see those cus-tomers connect with our products. They tell us over and again that we actually make shopping fun by surprising the consumer with our choice of merchandise.

I was a heavy industrial structural engi-neer and my wife an interior designer. We both wanted to change careers. After my wife graduated from law school we moved to central Wisconsin where we came across the wonderful community of Princeton. In 1999 we completed the renovation of our 1882 building, complete with loft for easy commute, and opened Twister. At the time It was primarily a home accent store. Today home accents are a minor component of our business.

Over the years we have seen the market shift in so many ways and have adapted to what we are today. I cannot say we focus on any one thing we have so many things!

We sell fashion, fashion accessories, kitchen, kids (toys), wine, beer, liquor, home goods, and we have an espresso café.

Vintique Vintique is a destination-style

experience boutique. The empha-sis is on our customers, providing unique choices along with a feeling of nostalgia, hope, comfort and joy! At Vintique we want our customers to enjoy their shopping experience and to always be pleasantly surprised. At the Gallerie of Shoppes we will create a mini version of our historic downtown Neenah location. Shoppers there will find unique designers, eclectic choices of clothing, gifts and accessories. Our Christmas items will be coming with us to the Gallerie of Shoppes as well. It will be a unique collection of great finds!

Vintique opened on October 1st, 2009. Establishing ourselves in the commu-nity is an ongoing process. Vintique works from the heart, not the mind with an eclectic mix of new and old. Currently we have women’s clothing styles from over 100 designers throughout the world. Our jewelry is all locally made by more than fourteen area artists. Many of our pieces are one of a kind. The accessories that we offer are also from a wide variety of designers. The clothing, gifts, accessories and home decor all have a romantic, inspirational, vintage or retro feel, telling a story as statement pieces. Our gifts are unique and eclectic as well as fun.

Vintique has true vintage from the 1900’s through the 1970’s. Antiques are used throughout the shop for displays as well as being for sale in the shop.

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FOOD & DRINK // BREWMASTER

BY STEVE LONSWAY

As I passed through my favorite beer outlet in search of the next beer to write our article on, it was easy to get lost in the vast sea of labels. Unique names, flashy colors, eye catching graphics, crazy bottles, it’s all there for the beer aficionado to enjoy. But what really grabbed my attention this round was Central Waters Mudpuppy Porter. A relatively discreet package with colors of browns, tans and blues, yet catchy enough with their iconic heron proudly perched as if in the wild.

The Stone Arch Brew team was excited to sample this beer as a couple of us have not had it in a while. Yet another claimed it to be his “go-to” Porter as he’s ripping it up on his snow board at Nordic Mountain (seems to me he’s spending his time in the bar rather than on the slopes, but that’s understandable).

We chose to use standard English pint glasses for this sampling as it is a true Eng-lish style beer. Although not our favorite glass, it does lead nicely to bring the smells of the beer up to your nose as you taste it.

The Mud-puppy Porter poured dark brown with a light brown-to-tan head. Car-bonation was evident, yet the head diminished rather quickly. As we held the glass up to the light, we noticed deep shades of amber and brown colors which is what one should expect with the Porter style.

The nose has scents of brown sugar, black licorice, semi-sweet chocolate and coffee. An earthy nose is noticed with a gentle smoke coming through. Quite complex in the nose which, again is typical in this historic style.

If you think our descriptions of ‘the nose’ sounds complex, wait until you taste it! Numerous flavors erupt from the glass. From a caramel, malty-sweet start to the dark chocolate tones that sail through the middle, and a bitter chocolate and oatmeal dryness tapering at the end. This beer flows smooth from start to finish.

Speaking of finish; it finishes smooth and sweet. A bit of bitterness pops out at you as the flavor fades. The ‘mouthfeel’

is creamy, but is a bit thin at the end. Maybe a bit prickly from the carbonation, but very enjoyable nonetheless.

Central Waters Brew-ing Company got their start back in 1996 in an old Model-A dealership building built in 1920 in

Junction City, Wisconsin. The original owners worked diligently for over two years to get the brick building ready, and equipped it with used dairy equip-ment to make the beer. Months later the Central Waters Brew-ery was born. A few more months later, a gentleman by the name of Paul Graham was hired to take over

the brewing duties so the original owners could continue to focus on their full time jobs.

Three years down the road the brewery

went up for sale. Paul Graham teamed up with Clint Schultz, an avid beer guy, to purchase the brewery. Paul and Clint had their sights on packaging their fine brews in six packs for the retail market and acquired an automated bottler. A short time later the old and over-worked brew kettle developed an unrepairable crack. This forced the duo to purchase a new brew house.

In 2006, Clint Schultz left the brewery, and in comes Anello Mollica. One year later they moved the operation to their current location in Amherst, Wisconsin.

Central Waters has always been known for creating wonderful barrel aged beers

and have several awards to prove it. To us what is most impressive is their dedication to renewable energy. Their use of solar panels has been a signature of their brew-ery since they made their home in Amherst and that’s just a start to what they do to minimize their carbon footprint. They take many steps, often incurring higher costs, to help protect our mother earth. For that alone you should rush out and buy Mudpuppy Porter (or any other of their fine offerings).

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BY KIMBERLY FISHER

“Come quickly, I think I am seeing stars.” This was a famous quote by a monk in Champagne who worked in the cellars making wine. What little did he know back then that this thing he called ‘stars,’ was actually bubbles in a glass that could change your world.

Effervescent wines have been known since antiquity, when they were developed completely by accident. Incomplete fer-mented wine that had been stored in the chill of the winter or in cold, dark cellars began to re-ferment when temperatures began to rise in the spring. This process is what we call Method Rurale, or Methode Ancestral meaning it is used as a term today to a limited degree.

The most famous process that we know today is known as Traditional, or Clas-sic Method. If you are making wine in Champagne, we call this method Methode Champenoise which involves producing a base wine, adding a measured amount of sugar and yeast and initiating a second fermentation in the sealed bottle.

Wine has evolved over the centuries, Champagne’s export trade in the late eigh-teenth century and nineteenth centuries, “Champagne” became a default word for sparking worldwide. The fact is, Cham-

pagne can only be called Champagne if it is made in the Champagne region in France. One can duplicate how it is made by using the same technique and using the same grapes, but if it made outside of the Champagne region in France, it’s called the Traditional Method or Classic Method of Sparkling Wine.

The portfolio of Moet Hennessy has proven to have some iconic producers who have changed the way we see Champagne today.

Krug – Reims, France: Established in 1843, this house solely produces excep-tional Champagnes, commonly known as prestige cuvees or tete de cuvee. Con-sidered as a Grande Marque Champagne House, Krug uses grapes only of the highest quality sourced from historic Krug vineyards in the Champagne Region. This style of Champagne is like no other and at the base level, blends over 150 base wines from six to 10 different years and 20-25 terroirs. This wine is truly unique in style and flavor profile. If you are a Champagne lover, and favor Chardonnay, this is a must try!

Moet and Chandon - Epernay, France: Moet’s approach to wine making fully respects the integrity of the fruit and is able to call upon the largest selection of wine reserves in Champagne. A balanced

blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier reveals a harmonious suc-cession of sensations and elegant wines. Moet offers six different styles that include Imperial Brut, Rose Imperial, Nectar Impe-rial, Nectar Rose Imperial and Vintage.

Ruinart – Reims, France: Considered the oldest Champagne house since 1729 when the vision began. Chardonnay is the very essence of the Ruinart taste and the shape of the bottle is legendary as well being the first glass structure that was able to withstand the pressure of the wine inside. All their grapes come from Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards which makes this house style absolutely a treasure. This is a hidden gem amongst the great Champagne houses in the region and is worth the exploration!

Veuve Clicquot – Reims, France: Founded in 1772, Veuve Clicquot is amongst the most prestigious Champagne

houses. The great widow Madam Clic-quot took over the business at a young age of 27, and has made the brand a huge success. She was one the first to introduce Rose Champagne to the market, as well as the introduction to riddling (remuage) which has changed how Champagne is made today.

When looking at the choices of Cham-pagne, one must look to the “house” from which to choose. No other portfolio offers so many choices and different styles to understand what the region has to offer. Champagne isn’t just for the holidays, but is a year round beverage that can liven up any activity or event. This holiday season, start working your way through the list, and see what style suits you best!

Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits

From the Wine Cave

FOOD & DRINK // FROM THE WINE CAVE


FOOD & DRINK // TRICIA’S TABLE

BY TRISH DERGE

This dish is so yummy, it’s a shame it’s only thought of once a year while your bird is thawing. My aunt Francine passed this one along to me some years back.

You can prep it the day before whatever meal you’re making, and keep it in the fridge overnight!

INGREDIENTS:1 lb. of a dense white bread, cut in 3/4” cubes6 tbsp unsalted butter, plus extra to grease the pan2 leeks - halved lengthwise4-6 oz fresh, wild mushrooms of your liking - slice themOlive oil1 1/2 cups chopped celery2 to 3 tsp crumbled dried sage1 1/2 tsp dried thyme or marjoram or a combo of the two1 tsp salt1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper3 cups chicken stock2 large eggs1/2 tsp baking powderFresh sage or thyme for garnish

DIRECTIONS:Preheat your over to 325 F.Place the cubed bread on a cookie

sheet, and toast in the oven (25 minutes) turning to brown evenly. Then transfer them to a large bowl.

If you’re making this for the day-of meal, butter a 9x13 baking pan, and set aside.

If you’re making this for the next day,

don’t butter the pan until then.Brush the leeks and mushroom with

olive oil, and grill over medium heat until they are tender.

Slice the white and pale green part of the leek, and add them along with the mushrooms to the croutons.

In a skillet, warm the butter and add the celery, saute until soft (5 to 7 minutes).

Add the sage, thyme, salt and pepper - stir - then scrape all into the bowl of croutons.

Pour into the bowl, one cup of chicken stock at a time until the bread is moist, but not saturated.

Cover and refrigerate until you’re ready to make it for your meal.

MEAL PREP:Preheat oven to 425 F, or if you’re

preparing the day-of, raise temp to 425 F.In a small bowl whisk the eggs and

baking powder together, then incorporate into the bowl of soaked croutons.

Spoon the dressing into your buttered 9x13 pan, and cover with foil.

Bake for 25 minutes covered, then another 15-20 minutes uncovered, or until lightly browned.

Garnish with sage or thyme sprigs.Enjoy!

Thanksgiving Stuffing...on the Side


FINE ARTS // FOXY FINDS

Foxy FindsBY JEAN DETJEN, ARTFUL LIVING

Cheers to living artFULLY in the

heart of Wisconsin!Send your sugges-

tions for Jean’s Foxy Finds to jdetjen@

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“Chicken Lick’n” original paint-ing by Midwest artist Deborah

(“Debo”) Vandenbloomer.

Whimsically wonderful and

vibrant, this piece is sure to add

cheer to whatever wall it is perched upon. Artwork

measures 16”x16” Medium: acrylic. $300. Found at The Hang Up

Gallery of Fine Art in downtown Neenah. The

shop offers distinctive custom framing, origi-nal paintings, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and accessories by regional and national artists.

Mixology hand-poured soy wax candles by Paddywax honor the craft cocktail movement in style. Each comes in a retro-inspired

collectible cocktail glass. $16.95 each in a variety of libatious scents. Choices include: Mint

Julep (Mint/Bourbon), Negroni (Gin/Vermouth), Dark & Story (Rum/Lime/Ginger) and Wisco supper club favorite…the Old Fashioned (Whiskey/Orange).

Features cocktail recipe on back. Fantastic host/hostess gifts! Found at The Frame Workshop, in Appleton is

known for their award winning custom framing, gifts, art and

home decor.

Bring on the cozy in your neighborhood and beyond with these his and hers “Grandpa”

cardigan sweaters. Both new and vintage styles available. Found at Beatnik Betty’s Resale Butik in downtown Appleton where you can

find unique fashions for both men and women. The shop’s ever-changing inventory includes

designer labels, vintage, denim, leather, current basics, and brand new merchandise.

Canada Goose “Hybridge Lite” Vest from The Haberdasher Limited in downtown Green Bay. Great-looking lightweight layer with a snug fit for

essential core warmth. Breathable, abrasion resistant soft outer shell with 800 fill power hutterite white goose down. The slim cut stays close to your body

and side stretch panels increase movement and help regulate temperature. $345. Other Canada Goose outerwear styles and colors available. The black

vest is paired here with a Gran Sasso button mock over a Robert Talbott sports shirt. From classic suits and sport coats to updated and rugged sportswear, Haberdasher Limited appeals to men of all ages.

Sweet inspiration abounds with this Good hYOUman “Great Things” baby onesie. Super

soft 100% cotton, made in the USA. Shown here in storm grey with this wonderful message:

“I’m going to do great things for this world...promise.” Makes a great gift! $32. Found at

Besselli, in Green Bay, a cozy and quaint family owned and

operated woman’s boutique with a bohemian feel and spin

of flirtiness.

Hot cocoa never had it so good with these vessels of pure happiness. These adorable retro-inspired marshmallow mugs are just too cute! $10 each,

perfect for gift-giving. Found at Vintique, an inviting women’s clothing and gift boutique in downtown Neenah. It’s a shop where ‘new meets

vintage,’ and the result is a whole lot of fun! Store owners strive to offer unique items with a vintage, retro or romantic inspiration.

A state love-fest on wheels comes your way with this pink Wisconsin deck from

Surfin’ Bird Skateshop in downtown Appleton. $44.99.

Rollin’ since 1988, Surfin’ Bird carries a wide variety

of skateboard and longboard hard goods, apparel and shoes. Their knowledgeable, friendly

staff is proud to serve and support the Wisconsin’s Skate

Community.



OUTDOORS // BACKYARD FLOCK

BY ROB ZIMMER

NOTE: This is part two of a series on keeping backyard chickens. Part one appeared in last month’s issue.

With winter fast approaching, there are several considerations to keep in mind when it comes to keeping your backyard flock safe, secure and warm during the cold months of the year.

Keeping your backyard chickens during winter is not much different than the rest of the year, though there are additional requirements and modifications that may be needed.

Keeping the birds safe from predators, warm, properly nourished and watered are the most important factors to consider.

It’s not difficult or challenging to keep a flock throughout the winter months as chickens are perfectly capable of fending for themselves during the cold season.

Water challengesWater is probably the most important

consideration when it comes to wintering your flock. Because of the low humidity, chickens need fresh water throughout the winter months.

Chickens will consume approximately 2 pounds of water, or about 1 quart, for every pound of feed. Keeping the water ice-free and available throughout the season may present a challenge, depending upon weather and other factors.

Water is especially important for egg production.

The University of Wisconsin Extension recommends several options for keeping fresh water available. Heated bases for chicken waterers are available, as are insu-lated watering containers that help to keep open water available for longer periods during extreme cold.

Heat lamps suspended over the water-ing station are also effective.

At the very least, provide your flock with fresh water at least twice daily.

Rubber pans, which are flexible for easy ice removal, are an option. Another technique flock owners use is to alternate watering stations, keeping one ice-free at

all times.

High energy supplementsProviding proper food and care is

important for the winter flock as much of the prey they seek out during the warm season is gone.

Many free roaming flocks feast upon slugs, insects, worms, grubs and other food sources during the warm season. In winter, it is important to provide proper food options for your birds.

There are many balanced commercial mixes and feeds available in a variety of blends.

To provide extra energy and warmth, it is important to provide some high oil grains such as corn and sunflower seeds. These should be treated only a supplement to a balanced feed, however, to keep the birds properly fed. Do not rely solely on grains.

Many flock owners also supplement with fresh plant material and kitchen scraps throughout the winter.

Unexpected treasure Keeping the area clean and sanitary

throughout winter is also important. Kylea Dowland, Forest Junction, is

heading into her first winter with her back-yard flock.

As she discovered during her agriculture classes at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, keeping the chicken coop clean does not need to be a difficult or unpleas-ant chore.

“One of the coolest things with my flock is how I clean up after them. I use a deep-litter method in my coop,” Kylea said. “Every week I add some carbon materials like straw, grass clippings, leaves, sticks and wood chips. You could even use paper products or many of the same prod-ucts you would add to your compost pile.”

Just like in home composting, carbon materials are added to the area when odors begin to present themselves.

“Basically, composting is actually what is going on inside the coop. The manure and carbon materials form a compost. The chickens will aerate the materials and mix it up,” Kylea said. “The best part? There

is no odor when properly main-tained. If it starts to smell, I just add more carbon materials.”

Daily or weekly cleanup is not even required with this form of coop maintenance.

“I only need to clean the coop once each year,”Kylea said “and I’ll do that in spring. It will likely be a foot deep with compost in some areas but it will be rich, organic matter for my garden at some point. Chicken manure is pretty potent. It needs to be fully compos-ted first to prevent it from burning your plants, like any raw manure.”

Keeping predators out“A big challenge for me was the preda-

tor problem,” Kylea said of her beginner experience keeping chickens at home. “A cat ate a few chicks, then an owl took some, a stray dog destroyed much of the

flock and a hawk killed one right before my eyes. With each death, we have learned to do something different and fix the situa-tion. We have added fencing to the ceiling of the coop in the barn, as well as added fencing to the doorway. We also secured the coop completely, and we will be adding more shrubs to the area to create more safe hiding spots. They have 4 large evergreen trees to rest under during the day.”

Providing safe and secure places for your chickens to seek shelter from preda-tors and called will help to ensure a suc-cessful and healthy flock throughout the season.

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NEWS & VIEWS // HEROES’ HUNT

BY MICHAEL CASPER

An acquaintance of mine by the name of Jim Zahn, a US Army and Vietnam Vet-eran who belongs to the Rosendale VFW Post 10195, suggested that since Veteran’s Day is November 11th, I look up a gentle-man by the name of Brian Ball.

A year ago Brian formed a non-profit to help our war wounded brothers and sis-ters hunt on donated land, using donated weapons and donated ammo. I was curi-ous.

“My nephew, who had done two tours in Afghanistan for the Marine Corps,” Brian said “returned home for 6 months. He wasn’t a very happy kid when he came back, hadn’t seen him smile in a long while. Then deer season rolled around, and to make a long story short...he shot a real nice 8-pointer. It just lit him up! It was like he was able to breathe again, and smile, and enjoy life, just through the simple act of harvesting a deer.”

Brian thought there may be a degree of healing for some of the soldiers through hunting.

It was time to get the City of Waupun involved, specifically Director of Public Works, Dick Flynn, a retired Navy Seabee.

“We brought it to the city council,” Brian said “and they liked the idea, and okayed it.”

They started with 77-some acres dedi-

cated to the Heroes, until word began to spread, and within a month had expanded to 500 acres made available.

“All private land, great spots to hunt,” Brian said “and last year, our first year we took 14 vet’s out hunting, and did so for twelve weeks in a row. They bagged 19 deer, and a bunch of ducks, pheasants and geese.”

Interest continues to boom.“This year I had 60 vet’s sign up,”

Brian said “with seven on a waiting list. And now we’ve grown to 1,500 acres of deer hunting land, another 1,000 acres of goose and duck hunting land, all private property, and exclusively for the vet’s to hunt on, that’s what we really stressed to any landowners who wanted to participate. They can hunt their own land of course, but we want to leave it ‘fresh’ for when the vet’s come out on the weekends.”

In hind sight, Brian admitted he should have cut off the number of vet’s who can join the hunt at forty.

“But I just can’t say no,” Brian said “and especially to disabled vet’s, or those who were wounded. I kept saying, ‘We’ll fit you in,’ and finally I looked at the list of sixty and said, ‘Oh my Lord,’ (laugh) we better shut’er down.”

The kill ratio was also a concern.“If we started getting to fifty percent,”

he said “we had to be careful not to over-harvest, because we want good, quality

hunting for the guys.”So far this year the vet’s aim has not

been as true as last.“They’ve only gotten three nice doe’s,”

Brian said “but they also missed six deer. Last year out of thirteen shots with the crossbow, they got twelve deer, so I don’t know what’s happening (laugh), but they’re having a lot of fun.”

The Board of Directors includes Jay Steinbach, a friend of Brian’s from church.

“Jay said, ‘If we’re going to make this work, we need to put God first, and give Him all the glory for it.’ And we did that, and it’s just taken off.”

Other board members include Floyd

Resplayje, a local contractor, Jeff Lem-mens, and his son Loden, and Dave Vogel volunteers as well.

“What’s kind of neat is,” Brian said “none of us are veterans.”

The Hunt corps has 17 volunteer guides.

“Typically what happens on a Friday or Saturday,” Brian said “it depends on when the vets arrive, the AmericInn in Waupun donates rooms, The Goose Shot supper club gives them a prime rib dinner Sat-urday night. And the Hitching Post near Manchester gives a couple guys free dinner. Pizza Ranch and Taco Bell also contribute. The city has really embraced this, and helps

Heroes’ Hunt for Wisconsin Game

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(Navy), Jeff Stockinger (Army), Autumn Raith, Danny Dorzok (Navy)


NEWS & VIEWS // HEROES’ HUNT

these guys out.”They also have a 12x18 foot wall tent

set up near Manchester, Wisconsin, what they’ve named Camp Nicholas.

“Nicholas Mueller was Special Forces,” Brian said “what they called ‘night stalk-ers,’ and Nick was killed in Afghanistan in 2009 when he and sixteen of his comrades were shot down in their Chinook Helicop-ter. His mom and dad, Sharon and Larry donated a lot of money to construct Camp Nicholas that has the tent with a wood burner, and four cots in it. It’s located on a very picturesque spot, and the guys really like it.”

There’s always some tune up before venturing out.

“We practice with the bows,” Brian said “or if they’ve brought their own bows, and then we go hunting from there.

Heroes’ Hunt isn’t only designed for those wounded.

“We decided to open this up to all veterans,” Brian said “because I think every vet deserves to be able to hunt, every vet who signed that dotted line, could have been wounded or killed.”

They set out in groups of four or five.“And some of these ‘walking-vets’ have

been severely injured,” Brian said “but you wouldn’t know it unless you asked them, and then I always save two spots for handi-capped guys.”

The hunt continues through bow season, then the gun hunt both weekends this month, muzzle loaders in December, then right back to bow season in January.

“It’s around seventeen weeks we do this,” Brian said “quite a commitment and a lot of work, I won’t lie to you, but I’m blessed with a really good wife, Sharon who is very patient with me, she helps out a lot...married 27 years now.”

Part of the Heroes’ Hunt creed says that a veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, reserve or guard, is a person who at one point in their life wrote a blank check, made payable to the United States of America, for an amount up to, and including their own life.

Something to remember. And not only on the 11th.

The Rosendale VFW Post 10195 recently donated $5000 to help cover just some of the cost of an all-terrain track wheel chair.

Visit heroeshuntforww.org


ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY

WELCOMES

YEAR

5The Weyauwega International Film

Festival, presented by Wega Arts, will be returning November 11-14 to the Gerold Opera House for its fifth year of films from around the globe. This year the festival will be screening forty-three films representing seventeen different countries. Many of the films were either made in Wisconsin or have Wisconsin connections.

The 13th of the month of November happens to fall on a Friday which of course invites an opportunity to screen horror

films. The Weyauwega International Film Festival (WIFF) has seized this opportu-nity to satisfy the horror hounds in Central Wisconsin and will be screening horror films and thrillers all day on Friday the 13th in what they are calling a “Friday the 13th Fright Fest”. Most notable in this line up is the world theatrical premiere of the new feature film DISMEMBERING CHRIST-MAS by local filmmakers Steve Golz and Kevin Sommerfield of Slasher Studios. They will be on hand to present their

twisted Christmas tale at 9 pm. Another Wisconsin film screening on Friday is HAUNTED STATE, a blood chilling documentary which explores the hauntings of several locations in Wisconsin including the Stone Cellar Brew Pub in Appleton, the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee and locations in Wisconsin Rapids and Merrill. The film-makers including director Michael Brown of Appleton will be in attendance for the screening of HAUNTED STATE at 3:30 pm on Friday. The other scary Wisconsin

film is the psychological thriller THE SCARAPIST which tells the tale of a distraught women who is led astray by a very demented therapist. The writer, director and star of the film, Jeanne Marie Spicuzza is expected to be in attendance for this entertaining thriller which screens at 5:15 pm on Friday. For those looking for a good possession tale there are two offer-ings. IN THE DARK by New York filmmaker David Spaltro offers a very spooky and original demonic posses-sion tale featuring a mostly female cast which screens at 7 pm. At 10:30 pm LUCIFEROUS promises to raise the chill factor with its story about a family that is being tormented by a very nasty entity. This unique tale fea-tures a real couple and their daughter as the onscreen family. This especially

creepy film has lately been honored with several awards on the festival circuit.

Of course WIFF is not all about horror films. Some great feature films and documentaries as well as a wide variety of short films will be screened this year. Wednesday’s lineup includes the documen-tary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHARLIE at 5 pm about outsider artist Charlie van Ness who started out making a wide variety of art objects featuring phalluses. The filmmaker follows Charlie for several years and his persistence pays off. There are some very unexpected and harrowing developments in Charlie’s life. At 7:30pm on Wednesday the Sci-Fi film EMBERS screens. EMBERS is set in a post apocalyptic world where a global virus has wiped out the memory of everyone it infects. This is no zombie or Mad Max marauder flick, it is a very thought provok-ing and touching existential tale of identity and what it is to be human. The film fol-lows several characters as each morning they awake with no recollection of the day before or who they are. This film is a real conversation starter and is also beautifully filmed. EMBERS has an encore screening on Saturday, November 14th at 2:15pm.

Thursday features the classic 1959 court room thriller COMPULSION about the Leopold-Loeb murder case starring Orson Welles screening at 1:30pm. The


film will be introduced by noted film his-torian Dr. Jack Rhodes and it is also a free screening. The documentary POLYFACES screens at 5:15pm and examines the unique and highly sustainable farming practices at the Polyfaces Farm in Virginia. This film is a real eye opener about the potential of sustainable farming and should be a must see for anyone environmentally or agri-culturally minded. At 8pm the extremely timely documentary PEACE OFFICER examines the results of the recent surge in the militarization of our police forces. In Utah, a crime scene investigator offers clear and insightful examinations of several extremely violent cases involving SWAT teams. In a sad note of irony, this exam-iner’s family also becomes the victim of an SWAT raid gone wrong. This film is one of those ‘Must See’ films for anyone who is a citizen of this world.

Saturday starts with a filmmaker seminar with local filmmakers Dan Davies, Craig Knitt, Rex Sikes, and Jim Brecken-ridge, a script writing consultant, at 10am. An encore screening of the previously mentioned EMBERS screens at 2:15pm. The very entertaining romantic comedy DIRTY BEAUTI-FUL screens at 4pm. The documentary about Wiscons in Supper Clubs, OLD F A S H I O N E D screens at 6pm. The filmmakers, Holly L. De Ruyter & Brian Risselada, will be in attendance and of course Old Fashioneds will be featured at the Gerold Opera House’s full bar.

The closing night film is a documentary

about the state of photojournalism in Afghanistan. During the Taliban regime all photography was banned and women

were severely oppressed. FRAME BY FRAME follows several young Afghani photojournalists both men and women who are again facing the threat of another

uprising by the Taliban. This fi lm shows a truly beautiful side of Afghani-s t an tha t i s rarely seen while simultaneously i l l u m i n a t i n g the dark reality and horror of oppression in a society that seems to be forever doomed.

This is an outstanding film and festival director Ian Teal states that this is a ‘must see’ of the fest. FRAME BY FRAME screens at 7:30pm and will be followed by an awards ceremony and reception with complimentary appetizers and of course, conversations about film.

The historic Gerold Opera House is cel-ebrating its one hundredth year in 2015. It is only about a 25 minute drive West of the valley in Weyauwega conveniently located off of HWY 10. There will be soup and sandwiches available for purchase as well as fresh popcorn and a full bar so plan to make a day of it.

Tickets are $12 for a day pass and are good for any one film or a whole day of films. Festival passes are $30 and are good for the whole festival. The full schedule can be found at wegaarts.org. Festival passes and day tickets can be purchased at wegaarts.org and at the Book Cellar in Waupaca and Rural Relics Antiques in Weyauwega. The box office can be reached at 920-867-4888. See you at the Gerold!

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THE EVOLUTION OF JAZZ


ENTERTAINMENT // POCO & FIREFALL

BY MICHAEL CASPER

A great one-two combination of bands from our wistful memories of music in the 70’s appear at The Meyer Theatre this month.

Originally formed by Richie Furay, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young, with George Grantham, and Randy Meisner (original member of the Eagles), Poco picked up where Buffalo Springfield left off back in 1968.

Part of the West Coast country-rock genre, they titled their first album, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces,” referencing that ‘Springfield’ break up, and thought to be a seminal album of its time.

After Messina left the band in 1970, Poco found Paul Cotton, a musician born in Alabama, but who developed into a true musician after his move to Chicago.

“I moved to the south side of Chi-cago,” Paul said “I had some friends in school who took up guitar, and taught me what I needed to know. A year later I did my first gig at the YMCA for $16 (laugh), but that was the start. We were called The Capitals, but eventually were renamed by James William Geurcio, as The Illinois Speed Press.”

Cotton, and the Speed Press’ ‘break’ came while playing at a club called The Whiskey a Go-Go.

“James Geurcio had produced for the band Chicago,” Paul said “ he was a local boy himself. He was on tour with Chad and Jeremy at the time, and wandered into the Whiskey and discovered us, and soon renamed the band The Illinois Speed Press,

told us we had to get out of west, and let me show you around. He was connected with the Columbia record company, and signed us to a two-record deal.”

This was in 1967.“It was amazing,” Paul said “we became

the house band at the Whiskey out there, and played clubs all up and down the coast, fell in love with California. It was very inspiring for me as a songwriter.”

Meanwhile, Peter Cetera was taking pedal steel guitar lessons from Rusty Young.

“Rusty mentioned to Peter that Jimmy Messina was pursuing another career path,” Paul said “which became Loggins and Mes-sina. Peter recommended me to Rusty, as the Speed Press was breaking up. Anyway, I got a call from Richie Furay who invited me to the house, and to bring my guitar. I auditioned with one of the first songs I ever wrote called, ‘Bad Weather.’ I guess I passed the audition (laugh). That song ended up on my first album with them in 1970.”

Then came nearly a decade of coast-to-coast touring live with Poco producing some of the sweetest harmonies ever heard.

“We worked hard on that,” Paul said “with our singing drummer (George Grantham) who had a stratospheric high voice which topped it off for me. I filled in on the low parts, but it was very special.”

Cotton had two tenures with Poco; 1970 through 1988, and then 1998 through 2010, and currently for sporadic reunion gatherings.

“In the early 90’s Rusty Young and I toured as a duo,” Paul said “ we hired some English fellas as the rest of the band on bass and drums, and Kim Bullard who toured with Elton on keyboards. We kind of went through that decade together. Those guys were on our biggest Poco album, ‘Legend.’”

Crazy Love was #1 for seven weeks in 1979, and went gold.

“Very surprising,” Paul said “especially since that was during the end of the disco era (laugh), coming out with that cute little song. By golly there it went! It opened a

lot of doors, and a new audience”Paul wrote Poco’s other huge hit,

“Heart of the Night.”“That came directly from the inspira-

tion of the city of New Orleans,” Paul said. “I didn’t know it at the time, until I got home and wrote that thing in like 30-min-utes back in L.A., and bingo...second hit.”

The Legend album artwork has become iconic, and a familiar symbol of Poco over the years.

“Not everybody knows this, but Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live fame designed that,” Paul said “in fact he did probably ten of our album covers. And he designed album artwork for America as well. His brother managed us, but Phil was a great human being, and I really miss that guy...quite a talent.”

Currently Paul is working on Volume II of his ‘100% Cotton’ album series.

In January of 2015 Poco was inducted into the Colorado Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.

“We were honored there along with The Dirt Band, and Firefall,” Paul said.

FirefallIn 1973, Rick Roberts and his new

band were about to play their first gig, but hadn’t come up with a name for the band. A memory of a cascading blaze of burning logs pushed from a cliff’s edge as a staged event for tourists in the Yosemite National Park, like a primitive light show, was still stuck in Roberts head. Firefall is what he named the band.

Roberts had replaced Gram Parsons in the The Flying Burrito Brothers band in 1970, recorded a couple critically acclaimed albums that were near totally ignored by record buyers.

Mid-1973, Roberts and Jock Bartley began practicing as a duo, then decided to put a band together enlisting bassist and singer Mark Andes. Larry Burnett, a singer/songwriter and guitarist was driving a cab in Washington D.C. when old friend Rick Roberts called him.

Now all they needed was a drummer.Roberts called his old Burrito band-

mate, and former Byrd, Michael Clarke, and hired him over the phone.

In early 1975 Firefall recorded a three-song demo produced by Chris Hillman that was heard by Atlantic Records reps, who then saw them live, and signed them to a multi-album contract.

Firefall then added Dave Muse to the band. A high school friend of Robert’s, Muse played sax, flute, harmonica, and keyboards.

Their first album, “Firefall” took a month to record, and became Atlantic’s quickest album to go gold (500,000 copies).

The songs, “Livin’ Ain’t Livin,’ got into the top 40, and “Cinderella” began getting radio airplay, while “You Are the Woman,” broke into the top ten.

The group was touring with Leon and Mary Russell, The Doobies, and The Band. In 1976 Firefall went on the road with Fleetwood Mac.

A new album named “Luna Sea,” was released in early 1977, and featured the top ten single, “Just Remember I Love You,” with ex-Poco and future Fleetwood Mac member Timothy B. Schmidt singing background vocals.

Their next album was “Elan,” which produced the hits “Strange Way,” and “Goodbye, I Love You,” in 1978. Elan went platinum.

Poco and Firefall, and incredible twin bill, Thursday night, November 19th at the Meyer Theatre in Green Bay.

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ENTERTAINMENT // JEFF DANIELS

BY JOSEPH FERLO

On November 20, actor/singer/song-writer Jeff Daniels takes the stage at The Grand Opera House in Oshkosh for his fifth visit to the historic Fox Valley venue in the past decade.

Actor/singer/songwriter. The last two things may come as a surprise to people who know Michigan-raised Jeff Daniels from DUMB AND DUMBER (and DUMB AND DUMBER TO, which he says, “had to be done”), PLEASANTVILLE, SQUID AND THE WHALE, and STEVE JOBS, and from his Emmy-winning performance in THE NEWSROOM. The world largely knows Jeff Daniels as an actor, but these days Daniels can be found on the road with his guitar, playing the bluesy folk music he kept quiet for so long.

I remember when I discovered that Jeff Daniels was a singer, and one who was going on the road. I felt like I had “discov-ered” him, but of course, that wasn’t the case. In fact, songwriting had been a solace and creative outlet for Jeff Daniels since he took his first guitar on the road with him in 1976. Thirty years later, he was letting the world in on the secret, releasing his first album as a fund-raiser for the Purple Rose Theatre, which he had founded in his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan, and for whom he still writes original plays (anyone remember ESCANABA IN DA MOON-LIGHT?). Apparently, he had enjoyed himself enough that he was considering taking his act on the road.

But this was Jeff Daniels, movie star. I presumed there was no way we could afford to bring this performance to Oshkosh. So, I did something I have only done a handful of times in my twenty-five years of present-ing. I wrote a letter to the artist, rather than the agent. I had no way of knowing whether he’d see it, of course, but I sent it anyway. I told him all about this jewel-box of a theatre in the heart of a small city in Wisconsin. I told him I knew of his affin-

ity for the Midwest, for small towns and for what a vibrant theatre can do for the economy. I sent photos, of course. And I walked through the math, and told him that I was uncertain whether we could afford an artist like him.

And a funny thing happened. His agent, with whom I had worked previ-ously, gave a call and asked, “what can you afford?” And we got it done. Now, almost a decade later, we’re preparing for his fifth visit to The Grand.

Turns out, this big-time star prefers intimate venues like The Grand for his performances. There’s a hint of that (and, we like to point out, a not-so-indirect ref-erence to venues like ours) on his website, where Daniels says, he “(has) played over 300 gigs the past 12 years from Maine to Alaska to Californ-i-a with my preferred venue of choice being clubs and hundred year old opera houses.” And the feeling’s been mutual, as we’ve enjoyed near-to-mostly sold-out performances each time he has visited.

Jeff Daniels is, by the way, a great guy. That first season, my offer was...well, let’s just say, it’s what I could afford. And he took it. Another year, I asked for two per-formances, and he did them. I asked him to do a fundraising spot for The Grand, and we still use it today, his words echoing what we love to hear about our venue, “for the audience, it’s like sitting in your living room…they just don’t build places like this anymore…years of history and tradition…where Mark Twain spoke, where Sara Bern-hardt did Shakespeare.” Yes, I gave the man talking points. But he did the rest, with the same genuine Midwestern charm that he has since lent to the Michigan Department of Tourism for their commercial spots (yes, that’s him). He’s done donor receptions, meet-and-greets, and performs in that “living-room” style that our audiences love, and that is unique to smaller venues like The Grand. And when I asked him to re-open The Grand after its 18-month closure

JEFF DANIELS AND THE BEN DANIELS BANDNovember 20, 2015, one performance onlyGrand Opera House, Downtown Oshkosh

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in 2009-10, he was gracious enough to work it into his schedule.

Daniels’ musical career has turned into a growing family project, as he now per-forms with his son’s band, the Ben Daniels Band, something he calls “drinking from the fountain of youth.” Think he’s a proud Dad?

Here’s how he describes it, quoted from his website. “From the opening song onward, my time with the Ben Daniels Band was and will always be a Life High-light. I had no idea if fronting a bunch of talented Twenty-somethings would work or not, but I damned the torpedoes and risked a high profile creative implosion in front of paying customers on a ‘16 Gigs in 19 Days Tour’ as together, we traversed the back roads of the Upper Midwest in an RV and a Band Van. With great relief and a surprising sense of what it feels like to be young again, I’m here to say it exceeded even my loftiest expectations.”

And yes, The Grand was a part of that tour. And the Ben Daniels Band, who joins Jeff again on November 20, is pretty great

too. From their opening song to the finale of their set, the Ben Dan-iels Band cuts through with their originality, musicianship, and a sound that is in equal parts Americana, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. With five CDs under their belts – “Coming From The C,” “Checkin’ In To The Michigan Inn,” “Can’t You See,” “The Mountain Home EP,” the dual album & movie release, “Old Gold” and their most recent release, “Roll.” The Ben Daniels Band has a sound that is both unique and familiar. At last year’s gig, many com-mented that I should bring back that band, solo. It may yet happen.

And Jeff Daniels continues to record, now with his son at the helm of the record-ings.

“Ben went to school for sound engineer-ing, which is great for me,” Daniels laughs, reflecting on their at-home studio sessions. Now, almost 40 years after heading out east with his D-40 from Herb David’s Guitar Studio in Ann Arbor, he releases his 7th recording, “Days Like These.” The New York Times says, “Jeff Daniels sings his

songs with a growly twang and barbed good humor, at its high point evoking a transcendental picture of American wanderlust.”

Jeff Daniels says, “No matter how much fanfare I get, no matter how much exaltation and anointment comes my way, it will never top gigging through the Upper Midwest with my boy.”

Yes, it’s deer-hunting kickoff night (which, in a way, is appropriate) but from that opening ovation, through an entire audience dancing the “Big Bay Shuffle” (which cannot be described, only experienced), through the encore, it promises to be one of those great nights where the audience leaves the theatre, knowing they’ve had a one-of-a-kind experience, and glad that they did not

miss it. Hope to see you at the theatre!

Joseph Ferlo is President and CEO of the Oshkosh Opera House Foundation and Director of the historic Grand Opera House since 2004.


ENTERTAINMENT // POSTCARD FROM MILWAUKEE

BY BLAINE SCHULTZ

Some bands take a while to develop a sound and grow into their skin. Milwau-kee’s Testa Rosa seems to have been birthed fully formed, and hit the ground running.

Since their 2007 debut they have mined a sound richly textured, drawing as much from well-produced classic studio albums as high energy Punk/New Wave singles. Testa Rosa’s new album III (which may or may not be a nod to albums by Chicago band, Chicago) finds the quintet further refining a sound all but blueprinted on the first album.

Not one to be pigeonholed, the band has paid tribute to The Pretenders and The Shocking Blue at benefit shows. Last Fall, Testa Rosa front woman Betty Blexrud-Strigens curated an evening of Patti Smith’s

music for the Alverno Presents series.Yet it is their original music

where Testa Rosa shines brightest. With a lineage that reaches back to Nerve Twins, The Frogs and Little Blue Crunchy Things, it should be noted these are not dilettantes we are dealing with here.

Employing breezy melodies that often prove to be a façade or prelude where some-thing deeper is revealed, this is a band of strong players (Blexrud-Strigens – vocals/

guitar/keyboards, Damian Stri-gens – guitars, Paul Hancock – bass, Bill Backes – drums, Nick Berg – keyboards), who conjure sonic tapestries over which Blexrud-Strigens’ lyrics take flight. And she continues to grow into a great teller of three-minute stories.

“The Summer of We Three” sketches a situation that might well have dripped off the pen of Tennessee Williams. Blexrud-Strigens’ knowing vocal sets the listener with the impression something sinister may be laying in wait, biding time in the fertile subtext.

This notion of pop noir is nothing new. Shadow Morton’s production with

the Shangri La’s let alone Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill come to mind -- but Testa Rosa adds a bit of production gloss that will catch the lazy listener off guard. Final track “Lost Loon,” closes the album swathed in gauze, and a mood that would make David Lynch proud.

Once again work-ing with Smart Studios alumni, producer/engi-neer Beau Sorenson, the album is rife with sonic touches that gleam while

still remaining slave to the song. “…for words they never hear,” the final

line of “The Fireman at the Well,” sounds instantly flat, and in your face, as the

reverb attached to the isolated vocal track is stripped.

Lessons learned, hard-bitten lessons perhaps, but always at the basest level this is a band whose music offers more with each listen. Their evolution is well worth

checking into.The cover of Testa Rosa III depicts the

band in shirtsleeves standing in front of a mammoth snow pile. This blending of fire and ice should be your first clue.

Test Rosa III (Atomic Records)


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Blue WhisperMakes a Strong, Uplifting StatementBY GEORGE HALAS

One of the most pleasant surprises and highlights of the 2011 Fox Jazz Festival was the appearance of The Amina Figarova Sextet. The ensemble’s stellar performance, showcasing her soaring compositions and piano virtuosity, earned them a growing legion of fans in the Fox Cities.

Her latest release, “Blue Whisper,” arguably the best in a series of consistently strong albums, has already garnered con-siderable international critical acclaim and reinforces her status as one of the finest jazz composers in the world. The compositions “Pictures” and “The Traveler” were com-missioned by Jazz from Lincoln Center for its 2014-15 New Jazz Standards series. “Blue Whisper” is Figarova’s second album, after “Twelve,” on In + Out Records, an independent label based in Freiberg, Ger-many.

In addition, “Blue Whisper”, has been accepted into four categories on the 58th Grammy’s Ballot: Improvised Jazz Solo for the tenor sax solo by Marc Mommaas on “Hewa;” Jazz Instrumental Album; Instru-mental Composition for “Hear My Voice;” and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals, for “Hewa.”

The album includes 10 original Figa-rova compositions, inspired by her deeply personal, highly evocative responses to social turmoil, distinctive personalities she’s encountered and universal transitions of life. While her technical virtuosity is clearly evident, her playing sounds effort-lessly elegant regardless of the tempo. Her melodies are consistently pleasing and uplifting.

Moods range from the haunting beauty of the titular track “Blue Whisper,” – her interplay with saxophonist Wayne Escof-frey is exquisite - as well as “Moonrise”

and “Hewa” (featuring lyrics in Swahili by Sarah Elizabeth Charles) to the straight-ahead momentum of “Moving Upwards,” “The Hustler” and “The Traveler,” to the sophisticated playfulness of “Pictures,” “Marians” and “Juno.”

In “Hear My Voice,” perhaps the most interesting and thought-provoking piece, over a martial beat and sorrowful, resolute horn choir, an eight-year-old girl (Salhiya Bilal Tumba) earnestly strips out the complications of the adult perspective and, from a child’s perspective, simply urges an end to violence world-wide and, with laughter, a request to “let kids be kids.” Figarova utilizes the rhythmic laughter in the final passage as an instrument to aug-ment a spare but poignant, understated horn and drum arrangement

As a composer, Figarova is generous in creating opportunities for her bandmates to showcase their own superb talent and create synergy simultaneously. The play-ing is technically superb yet never sounds forced. Throughout all tracks, her classi-cally founded touch, her lilting melodies, luminous harmonies, often understated yet always propulsive rhythms and star soloists come together with immaculate sophistica-tion. Trumpeters Ernie Hammes and Alex Pope Norris, saxophonists Escoffery and Marc Mommaas, bassists Luques Curtis and Yasushi Nakamura, drummer Jason Brown, flutist Bart Platteau -- Figarova’s partner and husband of nearly 25 years – and electric guitarist Anthony Wilson (on “Pictures”) are featured advantageously in spontaneous, creative engagement with her compositional themes and intentions.

Platteau deserves special recognition as his world-class flute playing adds a distinc-tive signature to the Figarova sound and greatly expands her compositional options.

Figarova has a compelling personal

story as well.She was born in

Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical con-cert pianist. In the late 1980’s she entered Rotterdam Conservatory (Holland) to pursue jazz, coming to the United State in 1989 to complete her formal education at Boston’s Berklee College of Music (where she met Platteau, a fellow student from Belgium). In 1998 they were invited to the Thelonious Monk Institute’s summer jazz colony in Aspen. Since then, she has toured constantly for over a decade of

bookings in major U.S. jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals.

There are many in the Fox Cities who are hoping that her travels bring her back the area very soon; in the interim, “Blue Whisper” –and her other CD’s – are avail-able at Square.com. For more information, go to: www.aminafigarova.com

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ENTERTAINMENT // THE SPANISH INQUISITION

BY GEORGE HALAS

There are a number of very good rea-sons why you might recognize the name, despite the fact that he is a very humble, self-described “utility man” who deliber-ately avoids the spotlight.

Perhaps you know him as the co-leader and trombonist for The Big Band Reunion, the 18-piece jazz big band now in its 24th year, and playing every Tuesday night from October through May at Frank’s Pizza Palace on College Ave.

“I’m a utility person and that’s how I see myself,” Skitch said. “Except for a couple of times, I’ve never taken a leader-ship role.” He estimates that, since his arrival in Wisconsin in 1987, he has been a member of over 25 bands, and has subbed in over 30 others.

Skitch is “complemented mightily” by BBR co-leader and trumpeter Marty Robinson, but the two have taken the reins of the BBR for the last two as the result of careful consideration by BBR founder Bob Levy.

“Ken is one of the original members of The BBR, he is an excellent lead trombon-ist and he has led his section very well,” Levy said. “First and foremost, though, is that he is very highly respected for his musicianship.”

“Bob’s vision was to make sure that his successors were respected as musicians, because you have to lead by example,” Skitch said. “It is also my role as MC (master of ceremonies) to get the audience involved and enjoying what we’ve got.”

“There is a fine line between being a community band and being elite. It’s tough to do both,” he noted. “We have focused the members on producing the highest quality music and they feel privi-leged to be in the band.”

Skitch and Robinson have also created set lists that enable The BBR to play more songs per night.

“People come to hear the band,” he said, “and we’re giving them more.”

While The BBR library has

over 1500 compositions and the band rarely plays the same tune twice in a year, “there are a couple of real favorites that we should and will play more often.”

Skitch also plays with Vic Ferrari Sym-phony on The Rocks – he and bandmates Chris Felts and Jack Naus form The HD Horns, but he may be best known for his work at Heid Music.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in per-formance and composition from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and audi-tioning “for some symphonies,” he studied instrument repair at Allied Music.

A horrible repair job on a new trom-bone that brought a fellow band member to tears inspired him.

“I’ve always been mechanical and started to think about it as a career,” he said. “A guy who did a very good job on one of my instruments told me to go to Allied. In 1987, I moved to Appleton for my first wife and a job….and I kept the job.” (laugh)

The “job” was as a repair technician at Heid. He was promoted to service manager in 1995, a position he has held ever since.

“I don’t want anyone to be disap-pointed,” Skitch said. “I don’t want anyone

to have to go through what my friend did.”He has gained worldwide recognition

by giving clinics on repair and serving as the president of the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians (NAPBIRT). Some of the best musicians in the world – Clark Terry, for example - know him as a “lifesaver.”

Tom Washatka, one of the best saxophone players in Wisconsin, is a big believer.

“It was early 90’s, I was packing up after a late gig and I dropped a PA speaker on my saxophone,” Washatka said. “I knew what the damage might be so I waited until the next morning to peak into my case. Sure enough the horn was schmushed. The point of impact was about half way down the horn and compressed the body of the horn into an oval shape - should be round – and bent numerous keys and rods. It was unplayable. I called Kenny and dropped off my horn later that day. Up to that point I knew him only as a bass-ist/trombonist, but was aware that he also worked as a horn repair guy.”

The next day, Skitch called. “He had taken the horn apart and

pulled the body of the horn back to its

original shape,” Washatka said. “He put the keys back on the horn to check alignments of the keys to the tone holes - and this is the expertise of one Kenny Skitch - all the keys lined up perfectly! Unbelievable! He had the horn for another day to make final adjustments. I got the horn back and it looked and played as if NOTHING had happened. Well, needless to say he’s been my repair guy ever since. He’s gotten a big head and charges me an arm and a leg for repair (laugh). But worth it he is!”

Roger Rosenberg of Steely Dan is also a big Skitch fan.

“While I was on the road, I was having problems with my bass clarinet. When we got to Appleton, I contacted Bob Levy and he immediately recommended Ken,” Rosenberg said. “He not only did it quickly and in a very professional way, he was nice, friendly and very accommodating.”

“As a touring professional, it is vital to be able to make that kind of contact in that situation,” he said. “I absolutely recom-mend Ken to anyone.”

Very good player, great guy and his wife, Paula…is glad he kept the job.

Ken Skitch. “Kenny.”



ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW

BY GEORGE HALAS

Marlin McKay has performed at three of the last four Fox Jazz Festivals. He has more than earned his growing number of fans in the Fox Cities with his extraordi-nary playing, whether it be paying homage to a hard bop legend like Horace Silver or presenting his own compositions. McKay has relished in nation and international acclaim, having placed first runner up in the 2009 National Trumpet Competition Jazz Division and has also participated in prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead resi-dency program.

Just released, “The Look” is McKay’s second album on the Nostalgic Records label, following “Deep in the Cosmos,” and features Grammy-nominated vibraphonist, Stefon Harris, organist Bobby Floyd of Dr. John and the Count Basie Orchestra, Anthony Wonsey, Dezron Douglas, and current Head Hunter saxophonist Rob Dixon.

Trumpeter Joe Tondu was involved with Fox Jazz Fest for many years and is a McKay admirer.

“Marlin’s unforced blowing style and affinity for graceful melodies reflects the influence of his two favorite trumpeters, Nicholas Payton and Tom Harrell,” Tondu said. “His love of Hard Bop makes him a natural choice to present jazz to listeners and aficionados both young and seasoned.

Pianist Mike Kubicki has played with McKay in two of his FJF appearances.

“Marlin and I met almost 10 years ago. A drummer that I was playing with, Mikel Avery, recommended him,” Kubicki said. “We established an instant rapport based on our shared interest in and respect for the hard bop tradition.”

“He strives for excellence – in his arranging, his composing, his improvising, and in the show that he presents. He’s a passionate, hard-working professional. Others are noticing, because Marlin has been playing with a number of jazz legends these days.”

As far as McKay’s most outstanding

attributes as a player, Kubicki said, “He never tries to overplay. He goes for qual-ity over quantity. His tone is warm and relaxed.”

“As a composer,” he continued, his composing is sophisticated, a modern mix of rich jazz harmony and rhythms. His tunes are very original sounding, yet they are friendly and navigable to the impro-viser. The movements make sense, but they are not predictable. And his melodies are memorable. I love playing his originals.”

Not surprisingly, Kubicki likes “The Look.”

“I love it, but I’m biased because the niche is right up my alley – modern hard-bop, at least that’s what I’d call it,” he said. “He assembled world class musicians from New York City and elsewhere. The musicianship on this recording is on par with anything you’d see from a premier jazz label like Blue Note.”

“His composing and improvising gets stronger year after year.” he added. “What I like about his recordings is that he definitely has a sound, a signature concept – much like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and others did. Each record is different, but they had a compositional identity. And Marlin has developed one – a good one.”

Douglas, Wallace and Wonsey set a strong uptempo groove and Dixon has the opening cut, “If We Must Die,” moving before McKay takes over and plays melodi-cally in a manner that recalls basketball coach John Wooden’s famous quote, “be quick but don’t hurry.” Wonsey adds some fine work on the keys.

The tempo slows on “Lawns” where McKay’s playing is both smooth and exquisite. That style and feel continue on “Rhyne For Lemon Vine,” where addi-tional percussive sounds and Harris’ vibe contributions result in a very engaging sound.

McKay and Wonsey get the funky “Peas in A Pod” off and running to a finger-snapping, toe-tapping rhythm and McKay keeps the fun going. “Mikhael”

follows with slow, deep harmonies with each player waiting patiently to contribute something special, a trend that continues on “Far and Away;” as the tune develops, McKay’s outstanding technique comes into sharper focus and Dixon pro-vides some fine interplay.

Harris and McKay have an easy-to-listen to but unpredictable exchange to set the tone for “Easy To Love,” highlighted by Floyd’s Hammond B3 solo. The title tune closes out with a flourish as Harris once again creates an ambience that showcases another engaging McKay melody. A solo by Harris is another highlight.

Overall, the album is both consistently interesting and maintains a signature sound generated by a very good playing. It

gets better with additional listens.

Kubicki and Tondu agree that McKay’s persona is part of the appeal.

“Marlin is a warm, authentic, passion-ate performer of and ambassador for this music,” Kubicki said. “I’m fortunate to call him my musical collaborator and close friend.”

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MARLIN MCKAY’S “The Look” Deserves a Listen


BY TROY REISSMANN

As a lifetime resident of Wisconsin and a huge fan of local music, I always loved The BoDeans. A true product of our state, The BoDeans are on record as the biggest and most successful collaborative band to have ever called Wisconsin home.

Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas met at Waukesha South High School in 1977. After discovering that they both had similar music interests, the duo began writing songs together. Llanas enrolled in college, but soon left after Neumann urged him to pursue music with him. At the time, Neumann didn’t sing much, and considered himself to primarily be a drum-mer, while Llanas had little experience as a guitar player. However, the two decided to get serious about music and both began to sing and play guitar under the name Da BoDeans in 1980.

Though there are several stories of how their name came into existence, Sam has often explained that he got the name from The Beverly Hillbillies character Jethro Bodine. Neumann’s version of the BoDe-ans moniker conjured up the image of rock n’ roll icons Bo Diddley and James Dean for a familial name, similar to The Smiths and The Connells. Early on, Neumann and Llanas were often credited as “Beau and Sammy BoDean.”

The band went on to have many top 40 hits through close to two decades. They were part of the most successful tour in his-tory supporting U2, and were once referred to as, “one of the best bands in America,” by Rolling Stone Magazine.

In August of 2011, the collaboration of Kurt and Sammy came to an abrupt end. I had asked Kurt in an interview back in 2013 why the band broke up. He told me Sam simply quit to pursue a solo career.

There have been many reports as to exactly why the two friends split, almost all are contradictory to one another.

Kurt told me Sam had done something terrible to end their lifetime friendship. “He (Sam) was my friend, my brother and my co-worker for close to thirty years. I can honestly tell you, I have no interest in ever speaking to him again.”

I could not help but think there was still more information we may never know, but one thing I took away from interview-ing both Sam and Kurt is that hey really respected each other up until the end.

In one of many conversations with Kurt’s wife and manager, she revealed what she felt was the truth behind the split. This conversation was off the record, and out of respect for all parties and the band, it will stay that way. Never once in any of the many conversations I had with Kurt, Sam or Barbara Neumann did anyone have anything derogatory to say about the talent of each other or the band.

I sat down with Sam Llanas not long ago at a bar in De Pere. Sam and I had talked on the phone a few times leading up to this interview, but it was nice to get together in person.

OW. How does your new album, 4 A.M. differ from your first solo album and those you did with The BoDeans?

SL. In many ways, I consider this my first solo album. For the first time in years, I don’t feel I’m under the pressure of trying to be someone different from who I actu-ally am. I don’t feel I have to alter my voice, so it is not as confused as with my days with The BoDeans.

OW. Were running from the past?SL. I would not say running, I am

proud of those years and what we were able to accomplish. The new CD is kind of a trilogy. My two past recordings came from a very dark time in my life. My brother’s suicide really affected me, and in reflection, these albums are all about the night, hence the title 4 A.M.

OW. So, in this release, you felt more like the original Sammy?

SL. I felt more relaxed and less restrained. My voice is unique, I cannot change it, and I feel it is my trademark. The song, ‘The Whole Night Through’ reflects this, I am very proud of it.

OW. As you know, I have a relationship with Kurt and the BoDeans. I was once told by their management, that Kurt is the voice of the BoDeans. Do you feel that is incorrect?

SL. Absolutely. The BoDeans unique sound came from two people, and I was one of those people! The harmonies we cre-ated were the sound of that band.

OW. The break up with The BoDeans was tough, was it mutual?

SL. Not at all! Let me explain once and for all what happened. I was in the middle of producing my first solo project. The way this industry works is simple, about three months prior to the release of a new CD, the promotion starts. This gives audiences and fans a chance to get excited for the new project. We had an agreement that my album was going to come out that Sep-tember or October. Before the release of 4 A.M., our new BoDeans project Indigo Dreams was going to be released. This was within that three month publicity period. So my record was in the works. There was an issue that tied up that release. It didn’t come out until a month later. It wasn’t my fault, actually I was in no way aware at all. In all the confusion, nobody thought, ‘hey maybe we should push Sam’s record back.’ I forgot about it, they didn’t say anything about it. Had they brought it to my atten-tion, I would’ve said, ‘yeah, that’s a good idea, let’s push my album back.’ So the BoDeans record came back, and then the next day or two, the publicity about my record came out. Some of the press for my market was good. Dave Marsh, a big rock critic said that my new release was some of the best music he had heard from us in a long time. Basically they lost their minds about the entire situation! They started accusing me of sabotage, and back stab-

bing them, blah blah blah. OW. So there was no such sabotage?SL. No way, I mean, why would I do

that? Why would I sabotage my own band by doing this? Why can’t we just rescind this, put a positive light on it? I mean, Sam’s album is out, The BoDeans have a new release and sometime down the road, Kurt will have something, all transcending back to another great BoDeans CD.

OW. Makes sense to me. Did they see it that way?

SL. Not at all, all they saw was red. They came at me hard.

OW. Was it coming from Kurt and the band, or Barbara? I mean, after dealing with them earlier this year, Barbara Neu-mann seems to speak for the band.

SL. You are right when you say Barbara speaks for the band. You know, she was forgetting the fact that she also worked for me, and I could fire her at any time! (laugh) The next day, Kurt was very upset. That was the first nail in the coffin. Don’t get me wrong, Kurt and I were not as close as we had been in the past, he was going a different direction. I didn’t need to be hanging out with him.

OW. Did the tour ever happen?SL. We had a couple shows. I had

thought we had put it behind us. Right before the new tour was supposed to start in Denver, Kurt started telling me how I was to act, and what I was to do. I said, ‘Hey man, f@#% you! I mean, this is just as much my band as yours! You can’t tell me what to do.”

OW. So he was putting it all on you?SL. Oh yeah, saying, ‘You did this, and

that!’ So that lead to the famous ‘conversa-tion.’ I never said anything until Kurt said, ‘Hey, the BoDeans are over! The only thing left would be the details of the split.’ They say one thing, but honestly I just said, ‘If this is actually the way you feel, then I don’t want to be in the band anymore.’ I mean, if that’s the way he felt, I was out!

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I’m not going to do eight or ten shows making all nicey-nice on stage if in your heart, it’s already over!

OW. Did they end up doing the first show in Denver?

SL. Yeah, they did the show and lied about it. They said that I missed my plane but didn’t know why. They knew why, I missed my plane on purpose! They came back a few days later and said I quit to explore a solo career. That just wasn’t true. I did go on having a solo career, but why would I leave my bread and butter job to go solo? That doesn’t make sense. All I wanted to do was release a little solo record that I wasn’t even planning to promote, ya know?

OW. So how did the record do?SL. I don’t know, I mean critically it

did great! It did okay.OW. How did Indigo Dreams do?SL. I’m not sure, at that point, I really

gave up caring! It’s been three years, and to be honest, it’s been a struggle. They con-tinue to bad mouth me and point fingers. Some of the accusations are nothing short of ridiculous!

OW. Do you continue to get residuals from your years as the BoDeans front man?

SL. Not a penny, they are withholding it from me. They owe me a ton of money. I really don’t want to get into that. I am all about moving forward.

The BoDeans have stated as recently as October of this year that they were surprised that Sam had abruptly quit the band, but according to the interviews I did with both Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann, this is simply not true. The new CD from the band The BoDeans is good, but there is and always will be something missing in the list of ingredients, and that is Sammy.

Being friends with both Kurt Neu-mann and Sam Llanas, I am sad that their relationship ended on such a low note. These guys made some of the best music Wisconsin has ever known. I hired Kurt and the current line up to play last year’s Rock for Autism and they did admirably. I also hired Sam to play a wine tasting event earlier in the year, and he was great. After a long week of performing, he still took time to talk to the fans and sign CD’s.

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Hey You Guys! is coming through Green Bay. No, that sentence is not miss-ing some pieces. That’s the new U.S. tour name being headlined by Marianas Trench, and it visits Titletown on November 17th.

One of Canada’s most popular young pop bands of the past decade is dropping into the U.S. this Fall on a tour pattern the jet stream would be proud of. After a dip along the West Coast and through the Rockies, Marianas Trench will play Meyer Theatre in support of their October 23rd album release Astoria.

Marianas Trench hails from Vancouver and has a massive following across Canada, but chose to endear a small U.S. city with the name of its fourth studio album, Asto-ria, Oregon. Astoria, the setting of the 80’s coming of age classic film The Goonies represents a suitable pairing for creativity and 80’s style immersion that Marianas Trench lead Josh Ramsay sought out for the new album.

“Once I made the choice to do a throw-back record,” Ramsay said “I figured the best way to inspire it was to live it…I was recording vocals shirtless, wearing a scarf and leather pants…method acting.”

I was granted an early preview of Astoria, and after I took the headphones off, got a haircut and acclimated back to 2015 once again, I asked Josh Ramsay a few things all the “trenchers” might want to know.

JJJ: While you presented yourself and your bandmates embodying the 80’s for recording Astoria in your Vancouver home, how would you say you present yourself to others upon their first impression of you?

Josh: Ha-ha, I think people that meet me for the first time find me quite…eccentric.

JJJ: Alright, well although I’ve known your music for some time, it wasn’t until looking into a number of your music videos that it hit me…and please take

zero offense to this…but I thought, ‘Wow, Marilyn Manson lookalike!’

Josh: What?!?!JJJ: Have you never, ever heard this,

not from anyone?Josh: What…no?! But oh my God

that’s hilarious!JJJ: Just my thoughts, but also a few

others think so too. Just go type in your name and “Manson” on Google and have a look around.

Josh: Well that’s hilarious but I definitely choose not to Google myself as a rule. But I’ll just take your word for it (laugh).

JJJ: So, you said in some Canadian media interviews that prior to writing this album you went through a very dark period and pretty much went away for 6 months or so to avoid quite a bit of crap, to be blunt, that you were trying to deal with. Do you feel like you’re completely removed from that, out of that funk from that, and riding the energy you got to write Astoria?

Josh: No…not in a nutshell but, I definitely feel hopeful again…part of the reason I couldn’t write wasn’t that I couldn’t write, it’s that I wouldn’t. Because I always write about my own life, I knew that I was going to have to take a really hard, honest look at that stuff, and I wasn’t ready to, but once I sort of got up the balls to follow through with it…and with the knowledge that I feel personally, and artistically it’s my best stuff…there’s definitely a feeling of catharsis that goes with that.

JJJ: So would you say that getting that written or on paper was somewhat…medicating?

Josh: In some ways, yes. It’s certainly a great tool…or a great outlet to vent.

JJJ: I will say you’ve been amazingly refreshing in that you’re unusually straight-forward. Having reviewed your social media content on Twitter, interviews and the like, you differ from many of the other entertainers or celebrities I’ve looked at in a while.

Josh: I think you can never totally be

yourself when someone’s interviewing you or what not. At the end of the day you’re still a performer and you’re portraying a performance. I kind of miss the days when rock stars were just like, ‘F*ck it, I’m going to be blunt’ like the Noel Gallagher type. I love guys that are just straight up, kind of like no bullsh*t. I aspire to be a more real performer.

JJJ: In your Twitter for example, one tweet from your follower @loveto-dance1999 says “@JoshRamsay I don’t think you’ll ever really understand how important you are to us or in general. You’re worth looking up to. <3.”

Your reply was “I disagree. Entertain-ers only show you a performance of a character they portray. Look at the people you really know.”

Furthermore when @SJ_5sauce said, “@JoshRamsay you’re literally the defini-tion of what I aspire to be one day. <3,” you replied, “Aim higher.”

Josh: Hahaha!JJJ: Do you get asked about that, or

are people in the entertainment industry around you kind of like, ‘Wow, what a d*ck.’ Correct me if I’m wrong, there isn’t anything wrong with setting people straight and not leading them on some illusion, right?

Josh: Yeah…I think it’s very, very dan-gerous when people in the entertainment industry start weighing in on subjects that they have no f*cking right to be talking about in the first place, like mental health and immunizing babies, for example. Like what the f*ck do you know, you’re an actor, why are you talking to people about how they should live their lives? Isn’t that what psychologists are for? You know what you’re an expert at…playing parts. What I’m an expert at is like chord progressions in music theory. Ask me questions about that and I’m happy give you a knowledge-able answer, outside of that, it’s not really my field, you know?

JJJ: Right! That’s spot on! Perhaps politicians in this country can take some of

that advice too.

TOUR AND TRACKSJJJ: Doing this music thing, especially

from a base in Canada is challenging. You mentioned how especially in Canada pop-ularity doesn’t happen overnight exactly, right?

Josh: Yeah, haha. The old, 10-year overnight success.

JJJ: This tour is going through much of the heart of the American music scene geographically, minus the southern part of the country, is that focus based on demand or popularity, or is it with the hopeful intent of evangelizing and spreading more?

Josh: We’ve toured in the states a lot in past years, but there are so many cities that you just can’t possibly do the whole country in one single tour. So we’re just breaking it up in chunks…we’re kind of getting to the places that have been the longest since we’ve been to them. Many of the places on this tour are places that we likely haven’t been to in probably three years or so. We’ve played Green Bay before. I don’t remember the name of the place…but it was on our Ever After album tour. [Green Bay Distillery, June 2012] I remember it because Ian (Casselman, drums) had horrible food poisoning and we thought he wasn’t going to be able to play the show. Anyway, because I play the drums too, I thought that I might need to play drums and do lead vocals from behind the drums. That’s how we sound checked and that’s how I remember Green Bay.

JJJ: Hopefully the food poisoning wasn’t from food in Green Bay…right?

Josh: (Laugh) No, it was from ques-tionable mayonnaise actually.

JJJ: Many critics and fans agree that your music, especially the hits have largely a positive vibe or energy to them, a feel-good spirit to them. I agree personally. What would you say from Astoria are songs that fit that description?

Josh: In terms of feel good songs spe-cifically, it’s not much of a feel-good record

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(laugh). There are still a few ‘fun’ songs, and feel-good jams. For one, if you’re going to do a record that’s a meticulous and loving tribute to the 80’s, you have to have at least one feel-good up-tempo song, a la “Walking on Sunshine,” or “Footloose,” or something like that. We did do a song like that called “Yesterday,” where some of the lyrics actually quote some 80’s movies and I felt like it had been a long time since someone did that kind of a feel good jam, like a Kenny Loggins type of song.

JJJ: In speaking about the full album and its tracks…would you agree with my thinking that “One Love,” “Yesterday,” “Who Do You Love,” “Wildfire,” and maybe “This Means War,” will become the favorites?

Josh: I don’t know…I guess that remains to be seen! I’m always very curious to see when a record of ours first comes out to see what the standout tracks are for other people because I mean, I’m so inside of it that I can’t really be a reliable voice on that subject.

JJJ: So you talked about the 80’s and being embodied in it. The very first track “Astoria,” I got 2 minutes into and went, ‘He sounds like Prince!’

Josh: Yeah? That’s a great compliment, thank you! Yeah, I guess I can do the girl-ish falsetto thing (laugh).

JJJ: The song moves forward and into kind of a Supertramp, Queen, Abba…a little hint of MJ in there?

Josh: I’m a big believer in an album being an entire body of work, not with throwaway tracks. So for me, I want the opening of the record in that first track to be setting the stage for what you’re going to hear in this album. What are some of the sonic qualities, the lyric qualities that you’re going to hear? So yeah, I wanted “Astoria” to feel like a preview to all of those things. I’ve done this on most of our albums where there’s a big opening number and I don’t follow standard song structure, and I just kind of make it big and free form. Being that this record has all this 80’s feel to it, I really wanted to approach a song like that, probably how I would have if I was a contemporary in the 80’s. That meant each section of the song has a different 80’s band feel. There’s some U2 in there, some Police, Tears for Fears, some Michael Jack-son, there’s some Prince…some Queen…

all things I probably would have drawn on if I was around at that time.

JJJ: Take me for crazy, but I think the production of the song “Who Do You Love,” feels a bit like One Direction. In a full, potential pop, young love and repeat-play again and again capability. I did make a note to myself to apologize in advance to you in case that reference hurts (laugh)!

Josh: Well, I will tell you what I was going for, and it had nothing to do with One Direction…it had a lot more to do with Toto.

JJJ: Whoops, okay...Josh: I was after that sort of really lush

production, like with “Africa,” something of that era. That sort of vocal quality, really tight gang vocals and using some sort of African instruments…like there’s a kalmiba in it.

JJJ: The superior production quality makes it jump out.

Josh: Thank you! We even recorded it with ten of us playing drums at once. Ian and I playing drums, and then eight other guys and we were all in a circle, and we mic’d it in the middle and everyone playing along with these big parts and it ended up sounding very thunderous.

Ramsay and Marianas Trench are an interesting mix of solid musicians and per-formers. Ramsay himself was nominated for a 2013 Grammy for his work on Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”

Ramsay’s bandmates dig into current mainstream sports, and Ramsay’s Twitter calls himself “Gayest straight boy ever.” They’re like brothers on the road together.

I tipped him off to just make sure he knew about the Green and Gold while in Titletown.

“I do know…the first time we were there we went to the radio station,” Ramsay said “and the Packers were playing and Green Bay was just a complete ghost town! Like you could lie down in the middle of the street!”

Green Bay won’t resemble a ghost town when Marianas Trench plays the intimate Meyer Theatre on November 17th, and hopefully for Ramsay and company they’ll soon be in well-populated US hit music charts as well.

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PanachePanache is a boutique that offers fun, fashionable cloth-

ing and accessories that are trend driven and timeless to delight an array of ages and tastes. Panache will be showcas-ing styles that have been selected exclusively for the Gallerie of Shoppes event. Come shop Panache and experience a boutique atmosphere where you’ll find your own sense of style with clothing, accessories, shoes, and some gift items.

May of 2002 Panache opened its doors. With a degree in interior design and having a passion for colors, textures, and style, opening my boutique was another fun way to use these talents with clothing and accessories instead of only home décor.

Panache is always evolving. Every season I try to introduce new lines that keep things current. Tastes change and yet some lines I’ve had for 13 years because they are tried and true.

Blacksmith Clothing Co. established in 2010, offers on-trend clothing for men and women of all ages. The fashion-forward mer-chandise, not ironically, is showcased in a sturdy, historic masonry building that actually once housed the village blacksmith, slightly off the beaten path, in downtown Egg Harbor.

Our customer base has taken off and grown exponentially. Why? Customers are not only coming back, they’re spreading the word. Probably the most common comment we hear from returning customers is that they get continual compliments from their garments bought at Blacksmith Clothing Co.

Our conscientious commitment to customer service ensures all shoppers will enjoy their visit.

The business hasn’t changed from it’s original concept, as we gauge the lasting trends that sweep the fashion scene so customers can be right on top of today’s styles, especially lines coming out of New York and California.

Men’s fashion in particular is growing steadily. Seriously, guys of all ages show an interest in today’s fashion. The newer men’s styles are basically the classics with strong attention to cut, detail and mixed fabrication.

In addition to tops, jackets, tunics, dresses, outerwear, and accessories, we have a strong selection of footwear. When we select a sandal, shoe or boot for the shop, the design must be both striking and comfortable enough to wear all day, and of course on-trend. We also carry fashion jewelry directly from New York jewelry houses; these styles are fluid, so we make semi-annual buying trips to keep up with jewelry that works with, and compliments today’s fashion wear.

We are a women’s boutique in Door County that has been in business for 21 years.

We are, and always have been “American Made,” even when the apparel lines were few and far between. One popular line is, “The Happy Seams of Monti-cello” because their clothes are made by artists who love and live for their business.

No child labor, No prison labor, No locked up in foreign countries being paid pennies.

The quality, craftsmanship, and fabrics are real and feel different. Actually, every-thing about our store feels different.

We dress people. Build their wardrobes with them. A whole lot of personal inter-action. People trust us.

Our customers come to us for one-of-a-kind items, clothes with personality and character. We dress everyone, from the art gallery owners of Door County, and bank-ers in Chicago, to the women who are going on safari in Africa, or a weekend in Paris. Our customers are world travelers, sophisticated and lively folks who have found us over the years. Mothers, daughters and grandmothers.

Christine’sWe are a “Town and Country” lifestyle

boutique featuring upscale, fun and affordable clothing. I opened in 1980 as an art gallery and also sold hand painted t-shirts I had brought back from Aspen. They were expen-sive, yet were so well received that I decided to “outfit” them with exciting clothing including denim, jackets, skirts and dresses. I then became known as, “The Store for Beautiful Dresses.”

We have a great following and our customers tell us they always find something they wouldn’t find anywhere else.

A ladies clothing boutique. We carry clothing, jewelry and accessories for every season. We have been a participant of the Gallerie of Shoppes for over 12 years. This year we expanded our booth which means more room for you to shop, but best of all we are able to bring even more of our great merchandise with us!

Crivitz is one of the many unique vacation areas located in beautiful northeastern Wisconsin. With many lakes, rivers and parks, thousands of visitors pass through our area. I thought it would be a nice addition to our community to have a store for women to shop. In 2007 we opened

Ladies Choice Boutique. It has been a unique endeavor. Clothing changes, and transition from

season to season, so we are always looking for new things to bring into the store. My sales associates set us apart from the big box stores, provid-ing individual assistance to each one of the guests who walk through our doors.

We sell missy sized women’s clothing - casual to dressy casual with handbags, gloves, hats, scarves, and costume jewelry.

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November 2Vanessa CarltonMeyer Theatre7:30 pm$30 Reserved SeatingAn unusual light shines through Liberman, Vanessa Carlton’s fifth album. Its ten songs, built on ethereal melodies and lush orchestration, seem to climb out of the shadows, each resonating with a sense of haunting positivity.www.meyertheatre.org

November 3The Flax ProjectWeidner Center5:00 pmCost: $15.00The UWGB Flax Project is a multi-year interdisciplinary study that recreates the ancient processing of flax to linen, from seed to cloth and paper. In this presentation, Dr. Sherman and Professor Gates will share their experiences working across disciplines and across the ages as they perfect and innovate growing a fiber crop and processing the harvest on a college campus.www.uwgb.edu/afterthoughts

David Coleman – The Dating DoctorUWGB - Phoenix Rooms8:00 pmAre you romantically challenged? Find out all the tips and tricks to relationships and how to find the

“one” (without using those cheesy pick-up lines). If you need even more direction, you can sign up for a 1-1 session for those specific questions before the show.

An Evening With Gordon LightfootMeyer Theatre8:00 pm$55 Orchestra and Grand Tier$50 MezzanineFeaturing his well-known hits as well as some deep album cuts for the die-hard fans. All of which are woven together with some of Lightfoot’s own behind the scenes stories and personal anecdotes about his historic 50-year musical career.www.meyertheatre.org

November 4Brian O’SullivanUWGB - Phoenix Club8:00 pmBrian is armed with an acoustic guitar and unwavering comedic wit. His show combines comedy with popular music that will be sure to get stuck in your head for days.

International Film Series: Before Your EyesThe Neville Public Museum7:00 pmTen year old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes

when their parents are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

November 5Travelogue – Transient CanvasWeidner Center6:30 pmFree and open to the public $5 suggested donationAn innovative performance series designed to connect the campus and local communities with music in more meaningful ways.www.uwgb.edu/music/thursdays

DakaboomUWGB - Phoenix Club8:00 pmThis a capella duo combines pop, hip-hop, opera, jazz, and musical theater into an exciting show! Ben has made appearances on General Hospital and NBC’s The Sing Off. Pail has worked with Chester See and Lana McKissack, and was the original piano player on Fox’s Glee!

Cellar Series: Highland Scotch Ale BrewingThe Neville Public Museum6:00 - 7:30 pmCost: Neville Member Rate $15 per person Non-Member Rate: $20 per personThe Neville Public Museum is pleased to announce the second

season of the popular Cellar Series. These hands-on workshops are taught by the museum’s Deputy Director and specialist in ancient and traditional brewing methods, Kevin Cullen. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

November 6Cirque Mechanics: Pedal Punk7:30 pmCost: Starting at $25.00Enter the world of Pedal Punk, a Steampunk inspired place where cycling is the way to escape the technology obsessed society. In Pedal Punk we experience the excitement, artistry and thrill that occurs when a wacky bike shop mechanic interacts with cyclists and bikes, he repairs more than broken pieces. He creates wondrous machines and inspires the cyclist in all of us to become a Pedal Punk.www.cirquemechanics.com/pedal-punk/

Xoe WiseUWGB - Coffeehouse8:00 pmChicago singer-songwriter Xoe Wise accelerates from her folk pop starting line to her electro rock fantasies. She does a mixture of original music to covers of songs from various genres.

Civic Symphony of Green BayMeyer Theatre7:00pmSingle: Adult $17, Senior $12, Student $7, Family* $40 / Season $56, Senior $40, Student $21, Family* $120Overture to Die Fledermaus by Johan Strauss IIPeter and Wolf by Prokofiev

November 7Lou Gramm “Voice of Foreigner”8:00PM$50.00 Orchestra and Grand Tier $45.00 MezzaninePRESENTED BY THE DRIVE 94.3One of the greatest singers in Rock music, Lou Gramm’s unique vocals and hit songs have placed Foreigner among Billboard’s top artists of all time. The band’s 16 Top 40 hits defined an era.www.meyertheatre.org

Bay Port High School Craft Fair9:00am - 3:00pmCost of Admission $3.00We welcome all vendor types and can host up to 225 vendors. We offer Friday evening and Saturday morning set up, with parents and team members available to help transport items to and from your vehicles. On average we welcome 2,500 costumers through our doors when they open at 9am on Saturday morning. Concessions are sold throughout the day and vendor lunches are available for those who would like one.

Explorer Saturday: Kids Potter Project with Jennifer StevensThe Neville Public MuseumNoon - 3:00 p.m.Program is free with admission.Jennifer Stevens, Oneida potter and master instructor, will lead a pottery workshop in connection with her exhibit “One Handful of Earth.” Jennifer will teach beginning clay-working techniques and share stories about traditional and contemporary pottery.www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

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41st Annual Gallerie of ShoppesLambeau Field Atrium9:00 am - 3:00 pmAdmission is $5The event is open to the public with more than 2,000 shoppers expected to attend.gallerieofshoppes.com/

November 9Redeployment – Book DiscussionUWGB - Heritage Room6:00 pm - 8:00 pmReaders are taken to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Register to receive a free copy of the book and join our discussion. www.uwgb.edu/student-life/events/registration.asp

November 10Jim WandUWGB - Phoenix Rooms8:00 pmCome celebrate the 50th day of classes with returning hypnotist Jim Wand. His show will draw you in from the audience and even on stage. Be sure to come and get a good laugh in from your fellow students!

Craig FergusonMeyer Theatre7:30 pmReserved seating: $49 Orchestra and Grand Tier or $39 MezzanineCraig Ferguson got his start in the entertainment industry as a drummer for some of the worst punk bands in the U.K. He eventually entered the world of late night comedy following an eclectic career encompassing film, television and the stage.www.meyertheatre.org

Suamico Movie MatineeMunicipal Services Center1:00 - 3:00pmFree

Latino Americans: Foreigners in Their Own Land - Dr. Marcelo Cruz The Neville Public Museum6:00 – 9:00 pmDr. Marcelo Cruz, University of Wisconsin Green Bay Professor in Geography, will introduce and lead a discussion on Latino Americans: Foreigners in Their Own Land. This episode explores the period from 1565-1880, as the first Spanish explorers enter North America, the U.S. expands into territories in the Southwest that had been home to Native Americans and English and Spanish colonies, and as the Mexican-American War strips Mexico of half its territories by 1848.

November 11Games, Learning, and Society: The Intellectual Life of Digital PlayThe Neville Public Museum6:00 – 8:00 pmWhat do video games have to do with learning? A lot more than most people think. Professor Steinkuehler brings her world-renowned expertise to Green Bay for an unforgettable talk about the games we play and how they’re shaping our minds and society itself. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

November 12Piano Per Diem: 30 Piano Pieces in 30 DaysWeidner Center

6:30 pmAssociate Professor of Music, Michelle McQuade Dewhirst challenged herself to write one new piano piece each day for the month of September 2015. All 30 “Piano Per Diem” pieces will be premiered, featuring pianists Michael Rector and Holly Roadfeldt.www.uwgb.edu/music/thursdays/

LIFE IS MANDITORI – A COMMUNITY IN CONCERTMeyer Theatre7:00 pm$20 Reserved SeatingNashville music duo Manditori (Mandi Sagal and Tori Occhino) returns to Green Bay for their 2nd annual Life Is Manditori concert to benefit Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary (501c3).www.meyertheatre.org

November 13UWGB Nites – Outdoor ThemeUWGB - University Union10:00 pm-1:00 amCome to the Union for a photo “shoot” with hunters and buck, a log-0rolling competition, life-sized Angry Birds, Giant Kerplunk, Hoverball Archery, Bug Eating, Snow Shoe Racing, crafts, food, and much more!

Darius RuckerResch Center7:30 PM$49.75 reserved and general admission standing (pit), $39.75 reserved and $29.75* reservedwww.reschcenter.com

November 14Jason IsbellMeyer Theatre8:00 pm$49.50 Gold Circle Reserved

Seating / $39.50 Reserved SeatingTo fans and the music press, the personal story surrounding Isbell’s last, breakthrough album, Southeastern, is widely known and easily reprised. It was an album of aching elegance, marked by the sort of lyrical precision that brought to mind certain literary masters of the melancholy American scene, from Flannery O’Connor to Raymond Carver.www.meyertheatre.org

Packers Heritage Trail Trolley ToursResch Center12:00 pmWe are proud to offer our Original Tour and the ACME Tour throughout the 2015 football season. Check the schedule and then go to www.ticketstaronline.com or call 800/895-0071 to make your reservations.www.candmpresents.com/packers-heritage-trail-tours

November 16Allouez Village BandMeyer Theatre7:00 pmFree“Darn Tootin’ We’re Salutin’!” – November 2008 – This concert is our traditional salute to veterans, but with a “USO-type” feel to the night.www.meyertheatre.org

November 17Marianas TrenchMeyer Theatre8:00 pm$25 Advance $28 At The Door - ReservedThe Vancouver-based quartet’s front man Josh Ramsay describes Astoria as a loose concept record

based around the band’s love of 1980s fantasy and adventure films.www.meyertheatre.org

Smarty Pants TriviaThe Green Room Lounge7:00 pm - 9:00 pmHead to the Green Room Lounge to test your trivia skills! Individuals and teams up to 5 people are welcome at this free event. Prizes will be awarded to the team, or individual, that can beat the pants off their rivals each round and overall. Snacks & beverages available for purchase.

November 18Peace Tree CeremonyBrown County Courthouse6 pmA brief ceremony inside the courthouse will be led with comments by City of Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt and followed by the tree lighting outside near Jefferson Street.

International Film Series: Big Deal on Madonna StreetThe Neville Public Museum7:00 pmBest friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they’re not very adept. Peppe thinks that he’s finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With help of fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

November 19ValleyhillUWGB - Phoenix Club8:00 pmThis alternative rock group has only one mission: to reach those



who are facing valleys to climb out of and hills to descend from.

Poco and FirefallMeyer Theatre7:00 pmTickets are $100 donation per seat for Front Five Rows and Grand Tier Seating and $50 donation for general admissionPresented by 91.1 The AvenuePoco and Firefall: Two bands that help birth the musical genre known as “southern country rock”…two bands going strong from the 70’s until today…and you can see them together for one night in support of independent, nonprofit, community radio!www.meyertheatre.org

Gallery Nite Presented by Merrill LynchOlde Main Street District

5:00 - 9:00 pm12 galleries/stops in and around the Olde Main Street district will be featured in the 2015 Gallery Nite Series featuring free shuttles every fifteen minutes. The free event encourages attendees to enjoy an evening with the artists and also check out many of the Olde Main Street shops, restaurants and galleries.

Cellar Series: Highland Scotch Ale BrewingThe Neville Public Museum6:00 - 7:30 pmCost: Neville Member Rate: $15 per person Non-Member Rate: $20 per personThe Neville Public Museum is pleased to announce the second season of the popular Cellar Series. These hands-on workshops are taught by the museum’s Deputy Director and specialist in

ancient and traditional brewing methods, Kevin Cullen. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

2015 Heritage Dinner SeriesFarm Market KitchenLocal Holiday Favorites: The dinners are a showcase event of the Farm Market Kitchen Incubator a shared-used food processing center located in the marina district of Algoma, WI.farmmarketkitchen.org/heritage-sampler-series/

November 19 & 20It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play7:30 pmCost: Starting at $27.50This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940’s radio broadcast.

With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

November 20ORLEANS & FRIENDS with Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett Little Feat’s GuitaristsMeyer Theatre8:00 pm$40.00 Orchestra and Grand Tier $35.00 MezzaninePRESENTED BY 103.1 WOGBOrleans is the 70s pop/rock band with the iconic hits “Still The One,” “Dance With Me” and “Love Takes Time.” Barrere and Tackett have joined forces to form an acoustic duet performing songs from their Little Feat catalog and more.www.meyertheatre.org

Holiday Window Traditions UnveilChildren’s Museum of Green Bay5:00 pm - 7:00 pmwww.gbchildrensmuseum.org

Lighting Ceremony On BroadwayOn Broadway District5-8 pmThe annual Lighting Ceremony on Broadway kicks off the holiday season with the illumination of the Broadway District’s tree lights. The lights officially go on at 5:30pm in front of Old Fort Square (211 N. Broadway) with a small ceremony. Live music and a special visit from Santa will be part of the activities. After the ceremony, get a head start on your holiday shopping as downtown businesses will be open until 8pm with live window displays.

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November 20-21Green Bay/DePere Antiquarian Society Antique ShowRock GardenFriday, November 20th from 10:00 am-7:00 pm and Saturday, November 21st from 10 am-4 pmDealers from throughout the State and Midwest will be featured.In addition to shopping from a fabulous array of dealers, show goers are invited to enjoy refreshments at the Holiday Café and to pick up delicious treats from the Bakery.www.antiquariansocietygbdp.org

Nov.20-Jan. 3Festival of TreesNational Railroad MuseumOpen museum hoursThe beautifully decorated Christmas trees and trains just go together for the holidays. Visit the Museum during the Festival of Trees and enjoy dozens of Christmas trees among the historic trains of the Lenfestey Center.

Nov. 20-22 & 27-29Polar ExpressNational Railroad MuseumWeekday shows are at 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm Weekend shows are scheduled for 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm, and 7:00 pmStandard tickets are $17.00 per person.The Polar Express™ at the

National Railroad Museum features a live rendition of the Hot Chocolate Dance followed by a dramatic reading of the original Polar Express™ book. Patrons then board the train for the ride to the North Pole. Once we reach top of the world, Santa personally greets each and every child.www.nationalrrmuseum.org/

November 21Ronnie MilsapWeidner Center7:30 pmCost: Starting at $46.25Not only has Ronnie Milsap been a consistent chart topper and true icon in the industry, he is known for his highly entertaining live shows. Ronnie’s humor is on display with fun stories from his time in the business, as well as a diverse mix of hits that showcase his amazing musical talent.https://www.ronniemilsap.com/

AT&T Green Bay Holiday Parade10:00 amThe 32nd Annual AT&T Green Bay Holiday Parade will take place Sat., November 21st at 10 a.m. The theme is “Sounds of the Season”

Everybody’s Rummage SaleShopko Hall8am - 3pmJoin us for the area’s LARGEST

indoor rummage sale!Items for sale include, but are not limited to: baby – adult clothes, books, vintage items, music, movies, toys, baby accessories, electronics, crafts, sports memorabilia, tools, jewelry, household items, and much more!

Children Only ShopThe Neville Public MuseumNoon - 3:00 pmBrowse through the Children Only Shop, a re-creation of the Prange’s holiday experience back for its fifth year in a row! Children ages 4 -12 are invited to purchase from an assortment of holiday gifts at $3 each and have them gift-wrapped.

November 22Art NightThe Green Room Lounge7:00 pm - 11:00 pmArt Night is an informal sort of thing where the Green Room Lounge will be open for folks to stop by and grab a beer or wine, if they’d like. Owner Mike Eserkaln and troupe member CJ Guzan will be here working on artistic stuff (painting, music, etc.), and you’re welcome to hang out with them.thegreenroomonline.com/

November 23LakinUWGB - Coffeehouse8:00 pm

Lakin is a young singer/songwriter whose beautiful voice and warmth led her to give an amazing performance. She has opened for many major acts, such as Sheryl Crow and Colbie Caillat. She has a variety of music ranging from modern pop to country.

November 26Festival Foods Turkey Trot8 amThe Turkey Trot offers two events – a five mile run and a two mile walk – to accommodate participants of all ages and abilities. Attendees enjoy the upbeat music, high quality long-sleeved t-shirts and free Festival Foods pumpkin pies at the finish line that they can take home and enjoy with their family. New this year- the Dog Jog, a separate group just for dogs and their humans. The Dog Jog will start at the back of the 2 mile event.

Nov. 27, 28 & 29GREEN BAY NUTCRACKER BALLETMeyer TheatreNovember 27 - 7:00 pmNovember 28 - 1:00 & 7:00 pmNovember 29 - 1:00 pmPresented by Northeastern Wisconsin Dance Organizationwww.meyertheatre.org

WPS Garden of LightsBotanical Gardens5 - 9 pmGreen Bay Botanical Garden transforms into a stunning winter landscape featuring botanical light displays inspired by its natural features.

November 28Mannheim Steamroller ChristmasWeidner Center7:30 pmCost: Starting at $54.50MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS by Chip Davis has been America’s favorite holiday tradition for the past 30 years! Grammy® Award winner Chip Davis has created a show that features the beloved Christmas music of Mannheim Steamroller along with dazzling multimedia effects performed in an intimate setting. www.mannheimsteamroller.com/

November 28 & 29Sesame Street Live- Make a New FriendShopko Hall10:30 am, 2:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 4:30pm$16, $31 (Gold Circle), $61 (Sunny Seats)Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, and their Sesame Street friends welcome Chamki, Grover’s friend from India, to Sesame Street.


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