Arts & Entertainment

Threads: Mad Men fashion, inspired by MAM
Threads

Mad Men fashion, inspired by MAM

Tamara Leigh analyzes '60s fashion trends, on full display both on "Mad Men" and at the Milwaukee Art Museum's After Dark event last Friday.

MKE This Week: The road to April Fools is lined with Easter eggs
MKE This Week

The road to April Fools is lined with Easter eggs

Guitars at UWM, Peeps at Racine Art Museum, Handel at the MSO, Thao Nguyen at Turner Hall, comics at the Milwaukee Theatre and Sugar Maple and art meetups Friday and Saturday.

Milwaukee Rep’s 2013-14 Season: First Impressions
Milwaukee Rep’s 2013-14 Season

First Impressions

The Rep's season is extra-musical, with a stacked Stackner and two musicals ("Ragtime," "End of the Rainbow") in the Quadracci, but don't discount a take on Superman's creator, an adapted Iliad or the Stiemke Studio's options.

TCD Art Date: Milwaukee embraces Print Week
TCD Art Date

Milwaukee embraces Print Week

Kat breaks down a variety of locations to celebrate the de facto celebration centered around the SGCI Print:MKE conference – it's like Shark Week, but with art!

Backstage with Mark Metcalf: Ilana Setapen
Backstage with Mark Metcalf

Ilana Setapen

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's associate concertmaster met with Mark to discuss her upcoming solo performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 and more.

UWM, WPCA shows highlight print history

UWM, WPCA shows highlight print history

Print exhibitions at UWM and WPCA will get you warmed up for next week's PRINT:MKE art conference.

Ron OJ Parson set to retell “A Raisin in the Sun”

Ron OJ Parson set to retell “A Raisin in the Sun”

Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play about a black family trying to pursue their dreams closes the Milwaukee Rep's season.

Wild Space gets “Luscious”

Wild Space gets “Luscious”

Debra Loewen's Wild Space Dance company luxuriates in the sensual Thursday through Saturday.

MKE This Week: Irishmen, Greek women, & Leonard Cohen
MKE This Week

Irishmen, Greek women, & Leonard Cohen

Thursday update: Asner show cancelled. Leonard Cohen visist; Bluebeard's back to the MSO; Rep closes with "Raisin in the Sun;" Lysistrata can (not) do it; & St. Pat's.

Threads: A fashion show to stop child abuse
Threads

A fashion show to stop child abuse

The Safe Babies Healthy Familes fashion show, held Feb. 15, was a benefit to help teach parents to create a positive environment for their children.

Fiber Arts: A hidden medium, woven into Milwaukee
Fiber Arts

A hidden medium, woven into Milwaukee

Organizations and events like Warped Milwaukee, ABK Weaving Center and a UWM program in fiber arts have helped cultivate an often community-less medium.

MKE This Week: 24 good reasons not to stay home
MKE This Week

24 good reasons not to stay home

Milwaukee's main-line groups -- the MSO, the Skylight, the Florentine -- are busy this week, but lots of quirky stuff, too.