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Milwaukee This Week: Veterans Day salutes and more
Milwaukee This Week

Veterans Day salutes and more

While the Milwaukee Children's Choir, Wisconsin Philharmonic Orchestra and "Beyond Glory" honor our troops, Alverno Presents, Soulstice Theatre, Theater Red, Florentine Opera and others present compelling performances.

Milwaukee This Week: Halloween events in full swing
Milwaukee This Week

Halloween events in full swing

In addition to special events like the El Dia de los Muertos Parade, "Night of the Living Dead (The Puppet Show)" and the Haunted Brewery Bash, Quasimondo and the Milwaukee Ballet present anticipated shows and special music performances abound.

Zombies, with extra laughs, gore and felt, arrive in time for Halloween

Zombies, with extra laughs, gore and felt, arrive in time for Halloween

Angry Young Men's puppet version of "Night of the Living Dead" will be staged at the Oriental this year, its sixth iteration in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee This Week: Throwbacks and Halloween ramp-up
Milwaukee This Week

Throwbacks and Halloween ramp-up

Broadway hit "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles" and The Rep's "Forever Plaid" bring us back to the 60's, Indigo Girls at the MSO and a screening of "Ghostbusters" at the Rosebud visit the 80's, and Halloween creeps into Milwaukee's special events.

The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival returns for its 28th year

The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival returns for its 28th year

The festival opens tonight at the Oriental with "I Am Divine," a doc on the infamous drag queen of the same name, and continues through Sunday at UWM's Peck School of the Arts.

Milwaukee This Week: Let’s get quirky
Milwaukee This Week

Let’s get quirky

Renaissance Theaterworks depicts the eccentric Emily Dickinson, live-action graphic novel The Intergalactic Nemesis comes to the Marcus, Alverno Presents welcomes Vaudeville psychedelics The Hinterlands, Uprooted Theatre goes "Against Type."

Milwaukee This Week: Bold openings and visual treats
Milwaukee This Week

Bold openings and visual treats

Frankly Music, Early Music Now and First Stage kick off their seasons, while the MAM unveils its newest exhibit and Radiolab Live returns with an all-new sensory overload.

MFF13: “Laurence Anyways”
MFF13

“Laurence Anyways”

Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan presents the story of Laurence, a young literature teacher who embarks on a journey of self-discovery when he announces on his 30th birthday that he is a transgender woman in a man's body.

TCD’s Milwaukee Film Fest Picks

TCD’s Milwaukee Film Fest Picks

The 5th annual Milwaukee Film Festival is in full swing, so check out our ever-updating daily guide to what's next on the big screen.

MFF13: “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me”
MFF13

“Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me”

The fantastic biopic looks at one of the most legendary cult bands in rock history, Memphis, Tennessee's Big Star.

MFF13: “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”
MFF13

“The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”

Cultural critic Slavoj Žižek returns to the silver screen with a new works dissecting cinema and society in the wake of the global revolutionary wave of 2010-11.

MFF13: The Girls In The Band
MFF13

The Girls In The Band

The impeccably researched documentary sheds light on a little-known hiccup in the history of jazz: the refusal to accept female musicians.