Film

The Twilight Saga Continues

New Moon Rising

There was no such thing as a good vampire in earlier generations of film and literature. Lately, however, the creatures of darkness come in all shades of good, evil and in between. The way was clear for Stephanie Meyer to introduce the family values vampires, a loving and benign clan called the Cullens, in her best selling Twilight series. In the second movie adapted from Meyer’s books...


On Music

Download the Talib Kweli "Party Robot" Mixtape... If You Dare

I can't be certain for sure, but Party Robot, the debut mixtape from Talib Kweli's electro-dance side project Idle Warship, feels less like a mixtape than a scrapped album. The mixtape (album?) was qu...

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News Features

Lawmakers Present Another MPS Reform Proposal

Resistance to mayoral takeover in the Legislature and Milwaukee community

Although the governor, mayor and a handful of Milwaukee legislators are pushing the Milwaukee TEACH Act, which would turn over the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) to the mayor, their goal is not a done deal. On Monday, local legislators...




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Taking Liberties

The Call of History

Opportunities to make history in politics rarely adhere to any candidate’s plans. They open up unexpectedly for those who seize the moment. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was an ambitious, young politician who almost certainly envisioned he would run for president...

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Expresso

Issue of the Week: Lying Your Way to the Top

Plus Hero and Jerk of the Week

What’s worse: Knowingly approving a racially charged campaign ad that wrongly implies that your opponent did something horrendous, or determining that airing that lie-filled ad isn’t so awful? That’s the problem created by a three-judge panel’s ruling...



Sports
This Maintenance Job Spruces Up a Season
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
The Tides of Enthusiasm, They Ebb and Flow
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
What Next for the Brewers?
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
For These Bucks, 8 Would Be Great
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Art for Art's Sake

Call It Doomsday, But Tuesday’s Just as Bad

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So here we go, a reoccurring dream, that it’s a Tuesday morning and I’m feeling like I got hit by a train sometime during the night, which causes me to believe that I may not have enough smoke up my ass to blow out a fully...

 
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