Arts & Entertainment
No costume? No problem
Pre-packaged Halloween costumes are boring --and expensive. You needn't look any further than your nearest thrift store and your own imagination for ideas.
Oct 30th, 2010 by Annie Vihtelic
Milwaukee Ballet’s “Esmeralda”
Michael Pink's "Hunchback" returns with a new name, a cleaner look, a super cast. But it remains overwrought.
Oct 29th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Milwaukee Short Film Festival lights up the Lubar this weekend
One more proof that Milwaukee has been a "film town" for years, 12-year old MSFF just keeps getting better.
Oct 28th, 2010 by Jon Anne Willow
“In the Catskills” with George Inness
Picking up where Tom Strini's summer series left off, Judith Ann Moriarty spends an afternoon with the work of a self-taught painter at the Charles Allis Museum.
Oct 27th, 2010 by Judith Ann Moriarty
Freaky theater, cinematic chamber music
Youngblood stages Freakshow in a warehouse, and Chamber Music Milwaukee shows the arty side of movie composers.
Oct 26th, 2010 by Tom Strini
“We have to save our nation’s children”
Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, says we are the supermen our school children need.
Oct 25th, 2010 by Michael Ray
Halloween, celebrity style
How to spoof your favorite (or least favorite) celebrities this Halloween. Think fake tans, bump-its and colors so bright they should be illegal.
Oct 23rd, 2010 by Emily Thungkaew
4th Congressional candidate Dan Sebring
To dream the impossible dream - Dan Sebring seeks to be first GOP congressman from Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District.
Oct 22nd, 2010 by Patti Wenzel
Survivor Stories
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Backstage begins a new series talking to Milwaukee women in various stages of their own battles with breast cancer.
Oct 21st, 2010 by Mark Metcalf
Food for thought at the LGBT Film & Video Festival
The vitriol aimed at the gay community lately is almost unbearable.Thankfully, the 2010 LGBT Film Fest is packed with plenty of cinematic cures to heal the soul.
Oct 20th, 2010 by Ashley Altadonna
Bloody theater and bloody good singing
Latino Arts opens its Day of the Dead celebration Friday, and Saturday is grand day for singing.
Oct 19th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Beware of health reform scare tactics
Tea Party Republicans Rebecca Kleefisch and Ron Johnson’s doomsday rhetoric on health reform might win some votes, but it won’t help people live longer.
Oct 18th, 2010 by Julie Sneider
