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Why Recall Scott Walker?
One of Walker’s signature moves was a total reorientation of the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Walker appointed a former Republican legislator and home builder, Cathy Stepp, to be his DNR secretary; Matt Moroney, the former executive director of the Metropolitan Builders Association of Greater Milwaukee, was appointed deputy secretary.

So How Does Fair Trade Benefit Us All?
Participants will be able to visit more than 30 fairtrade-friendly shops to identify featured items. Shoppers who find at least six featured items will be able to receive a prize at any Outpost Natural Foods location on Saturday between 3 and 5 p.m. (For details, go to www.

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The Party of Criminals
Compare that to the organized Republican attack on Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and highly respected retired Appeals Court Judge Neal Nettesheim, who are conducting a John Doe investigation that has led to multiple felony charges against some of Wisconsin Gov.

Issue of the Week
ultra-right-wing Bradley Foundation just lost a very public battle. The multimillion-dollar nonprofit is one of the largest funders of the climate-change-denying Heartland Institute, which gave in to public pressure (and public decency) by taking down a highly offensive billboard.

Heroes of the Week
Founded in 1996, the Nehemiah Project promotes the physical and emotional well-being of youth through psychological, educational, leadership and transitional living services.

Arin Bert: Milwaukee’s Taste of Armenia
Arin Bert opened as a casual café, and then expanded to include the grill when the neighboring space became available. There are two counters to order from, one for beverages and one for food. The place is run by family members who are eager to introduce customers to their Armenian fare.

Rocket Baby Bakery Takes Flight
The vivid purple exterior of Rocket Baby Bakery (6822 W. North Ave.) offers little clue of the interior. Inside it has the classic feel of an early-20th-century bakery, with tile floors, marble counters and a wooden ceiling. The front window displays the European-style breads baked here.

Fast Foodie’s Globacos, Now By Bike
Most food trucks are restricted by their size; it’s difficult, if not impossible, for a cramped kitchen on wheels to offer a very big menu. That’s not a concern at Fast Foodie, though. If anything, the local traveling kitchen was too big: a 24-foot trailer larger than many bar kitchens.

Mozart’s Early Masterpiece
Idomeneo returns to Crete after successfully defeating the Trojans, but a severe storm almost leaves him for dead. He supplicates Neptune for a safe return, but the god demands he must sacrifice the first person he meets on land.

THIS WEEK IN MILWAUKEE
Minneapolis’ DJ Abilities is now on the road as an unwilling solo artist, following the tragic death of his longtime collaborator, battle rapper Eyedea, in 2010. As Eyedea & Abilities, the two left behind a rich recorded legacy, including a spry self-titled 2004 album and a darker, grungeinspired 2009 album, By the Throat.

Depp Sinks His Teeth into ‘Dark Shadows’
The mysterious Barnabas turned out to be a vampire, a circumspect and courtly initiate of the undead, and the already eccentric series just grew odder and odder as he became the star. “Dark Shadows” gathered a loyal following despite its low-rent direction.

Waukesha Civic Theatre Recreates ‘Miss Saigon’
Waukesha Civic Theatre has spared no expense. Fantastic costumes designed by Sharon Sohner dot every scene. The set, designed and created by A.J. Simon, is a wonder unto itself—all steel girders, wood slat shards, bamboo and straw, chain link and netting.

Theatre Gigante’s Twist on ‘Our Town’
But the simple tale of life and death in small-town America has attained the kind of cultural ubiquity that makes it very difficult for modern audiences to relate to in an honest way that is devoid of artificial sentiment. In this way, modern productions of Our Town.

In Tandem Finds Fun in ‘Veronica’s Position’
Director Jane Flieller helps the ensemble to develop rich complexity. Tiffany Vance stars as the drama queen. The character is similar to Taylor in that she’s a woman who loves the idea of love so much that she’s been married countless times. T. Stacy Hicks plays her assistant with restless sarcasm.

Theatre Happenings
n In what sounds like a promising children’s show, Sunset Playhouse.

Grohmann Honors Milwaukee’s ‘Great Lakers’
The exhibition highlights more than 50 artworks, including paintings by Edmund Lewandowski, Robert von Neumann and Fritz Gerlach and scale models of ships by Jerry Guenther.

Visual Art Happenings
A new exhibition presents memorabilia from traditional Jewish weddings. It opens with a noon-4 p.m. reception Sunday, May 13. Visiting historian Robin Judd will present lectures 7 p.m. May 22 at the UWM Golda Meir Library and 11 a.m. May 23 at the museum..

Tara Donovan’s Different Kind of Beauty at MAM
Tara Donovan is a contemporary artist riding a fairly powerful career trajectory. A 2008 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, she has entered the hallowed halls of a number of museums, including the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) with her fantastical sculpture Bluffs.

Will Allen Sparks ‘Good Food Revolution’
Growing Power began in 1993 as a program that offered inner-city Milwaukee teens an opportunity to work by growing food for their community. Since then, Growing Power has received national attention for its efforts and expanded into one of the most successful urban farms in the country.

Esoteric Nazism in ‘Hammer of the Gods’
that influenced and conducted the affairs of a nation gone pedagogically mad under the rule of not merely a tyrant, but one possessed and empowered by forces none of us want to acknowledge or confront. The factual accounts, documented thoroughly in copious notes, read as smoothly as would an accomplished novel.

The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
In their introduction, Oxford Hindu studies professor Gavin Flood and American poet Charles Martin make their case for the enduring relevance of the Bhagavad Gita.

MSO Unveils Chen’s Exotic ‘Iris’
there were mysteriously evocative spots when I was not sure what instruments were playing. I deliberately sat higher on Saturday to see the musicians. Edo de Waart’s aim in the Carnegie Hall program seems to be to display the sophistication possible in the playing of the MSO.

Blowtorch by Himself
Blowtorch emerged on the Milwaukee alternative scene in the early ’80s with bands influenced by reggae and ska as well as rock and soul. Time has made him no less prolific or committed to adding his notes to the music that inspired him. 2012 was barely three months old before Blowtorch released two albums, the CD The Promise of Power.

VIC AND GAB’S SWEET, SISTERLY POP
Victoriah isn’t over the age of 35, and she isn’t clueless about current independent pop and rock bands (she lists the Shout Out Louds and Death Cab for Cutie as two favorites). She simply is a 20-something who found inspiration in a hook and a musical ideal.

Saturday Blues Brunch w/ Otis Clay @ ARJ’s Panache Lounge
So appears to be the case for Otis Clay. The 70-year-old R&B/blues/gospel survivor had a full band concert booked at Evanston’s Northwestern University last Saturday evening. That could have been enough showmanship for one man of that age for one day.

Music Listings
KingHellBastard & Monster House (all-ages, 8pm); Perspective Heights w/Drew Duman, Craig Stoneman, Antler House, Heather LaNasa, Smoke Letting, Billy Dreamer, en Cent Rocket, Sam Weinkauf & Black Wings (all-ages, 6:30pm) Riverside Theater,.

CD Reviews
Louis Armstrong Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours.

Ouch! This Wasn’t in the Plan
seemed to come in threes for the Brewers on the trip that ended Sunday night, and most of it was bad. In three stops—St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco—there were three wins, three missed chances to take the rubber game and, stunningly, three starting players lost to injury.

News of the Weird
developer Larry Hall said he has already sold nearly half of the upscale “doomsday” units he is building in an underground Cold War-era missile silo near Salina, Kan.

Freewill Astrology
playlist and listen to them with full attention while at rest in a comfortable place where you feel perfectly safe. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a concentrated dose of the deepest, richest, most healing emotions you can tap into.

Big Man on Rumpus
Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So, what’s to say, from me this terrible Tuesday, May 8. Yeah yeah, I just got back from voting, and boy-oh are my thumb and index finger tired, I kid you not.

Sexpress
Laura Anne Stuart has a master’s degree in public health and has worked as a sexuality educator for more than a decade. She owns the Tool Shed, an erotic boutique on Milwaukee’s East Side..