A sneak peek at Naked Boys Singing!
It's sweltering in the Turner Hall Ballroom as cast members of Naked Boys Singing! run through tech rehearsals in their underwear. The problem at the moment is the wireless microphones. The cast members have never played to such a cavernous space in a five-year Chicago-based and road tour, so where exactly do you attach the mics when the players in this cabaret-like revue will be in the buff?
Jun 19th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
Won’t Someone Please Think of the Children?
Any self-respecting editor knows that a personal relationship between a writer and a subject calls the legitimacy of the story into question. And suggesting that Bruce Murphy disputed that rang untrue. I took the liberty of contacting Murphy for clarification. I sent him an email saying that I don’t much care what two consenting adults do but it seemed to me that a reporter ought to maintain a certain distance from his or her subjects or disclose the nature of any personal relationship. So what gives?
Jun 19th, 2009 by Ted Bobrow
Friday Photos Friday, 19. June 2009
The Brewery Corcoran Lofts Corcoran Lofts Aloft Aloft
Jun 19th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Howie interviews David Byrne, asks Haley Dekle to marry him
In this edition: NYC love, 19-year-old stoners, watching David Byrne's stuff, The Dirty Projectors, a high school reunion of sorts - and so much more.
Jun 19th, 2009 by Howie Goldklang
KRM and RTA Update
The Wisconsin state budget is now at a point where it will go to a conference committee after the Senate approved their version of the budget yesterday. The conference committee will reconcile the difference between the Assembly and Senate versions, and send the budget off to Governor Doyle. Doyle will then use his line-item veto power on certain language he doesn't like, and Wisconsin have a budget.
Jun 18th, 2009 by Jeramey Jannene
Common Council Creates Streetcar Committee
The proposed snow and ice fee increase, the furloughs, the possible use of eminent domain for economic development, and the formation of a streetcar committee were topics of interest at this Common Council meeting.
Jun 18th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Gathering Waters Festival, 6/12
A gorgeous day to celebrate the state's only urban state park: Lakeshore State Park, the crescent-moon island behind the Summerfest grounds and Discovery World. Photographer Alice Waraxa covered a day of fun, action and education on the Park grounds.
Jun 18th, 2009 by Alice Waraxa
Travel team update
By Tea Krulos Photos by Bruce Berna The Brew City Bruiser’s All-star Travel Team kicked off the summer travel season with two games I’m calling the “secret brunch bouts” because they were both on Sunday afternoons and not open to the general public. From what I understand these bouts took place for the love of derby and to help the team meet the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA, commonly pronounced woof-da!) standards. The first of these secret brunch bouts took place May 31st against the Arch Rival Roller Girls from good ol’ Saint Louie. The Archettes flew over the Brew Crew’s heads and won the bout, 81-70. The Bruisers won the nail biter second bout against the valkyries of the Twin Cities Northstar Roller Girls by JUST ONE POINT, 92-91! Great job Bruisers! The next home bout for the Travel Team will be open to the public July 18 against Madison’s Dairyland Dolls. More info at www.brewcitybruisers.com
Jun 17th, 2009 by Tea Krulos
A Tale of Two Shows
American Originals at the Milwaukee Art Museums takes a slice of artistic life at the turn of the twentieth century and puts together a double shot of shows with The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs and The Eight and American Modernisms. It's an interesting marriage of convenience as these exhibitions take up summer residence in the Baker/Rowland Gallery. They are arranged back-to-back, like friendly neighbors, but clearly delineated as separate entities, each with its own catalogue.
Jun 17th, 2009 by Kat Murrell
The Milwaukee Sound – Collections of Colonies of Bees
Fan-Belt's Erin Wolf sits down with Collections of Colonies of Bees to talk about their recent tour to Japan and what the future has in store for this dynamic group.
Jun 17th, 2009 by ThirdCoast Podcast
Red River
For years I thought John Wayne was a bad actor, indicative of that kind of Hollywood movie star who could play only a paper thin character, changing his hat maybe and not much more. I felt the same way about Marilyn Monroe until I saw Bus Stop, The Misfits, Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch in a two day span on a little black and white television, hole up in my Lower East Side apartment in New York with no money and nothing to do. When you see them all at once you begin to think about what artists call a "body of work." You can see the subtlety of the changes. You can actually see the artist work, whereas before you were being fooled, as intended, and seeing just character.
Jun 17th, 2009 by Mark Metcalf
By The People, For The People?
The eyes of the world are focused on Iran where the will of the people is struggling to be heard. Here in Milwaukee the people spoke in favor of a paid sick leave mandate. So what's the difference?
Jun 17th, 2009 by Ted Bobrow
