With the exception of a just a few off years, the BoDeans
and Summerfest have been synonymous for the past two decades. That comfortable
connection has been one of the few constants for
Waukesha’s native sons during the band’s
tumultuous 25-year history. The heartland rockers once seemed destined for
certain superstardom, propelled by the unlikely harmonies, sincere lyrics and
emotional performances of singers, songwriters and guitarists Sam Llanas (he’s
not “Sammy” anymore) and Kurt Neumann, but they’ve since settled into a
comfortable career releasing album’s like this year’s Still,
which reunited them with producer T. Bone Burnett. Tonight they play the Briggs
& Stratton Big Backyard at 10 p.m.
Free Community Lecture on why Wisconsin residents were seen as enemies of the US during World War I. Speaker is Trevor Jones, Curator of History, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay. Lecture is approximately 1 hour in length followed by a Question and Answer session. Held in Room 228.
Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best
friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he
met on the Internet. But the journey, filled wi
"Body of Lies" is based on "Washington Post" columnist David Ignatius' 2007
novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major
terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of J
The tribute-album
idiom has changed. It used to be the cover song: Pat Boone covering
Little Richard, for a '50s example of white artists taking black
artists' songs into middle-class homes; or Maurice Williams and the
Zodiacs' "Little Darlin'
Instrumental
post-rock of a surging, emotionally varied sort marks the first
full-length project by West Bend's wonderfully named Canyons of Static.
The quartet-to-quintet, depending upon whether their violinist is in
tow, takes as much from shoega
Situated east of Mitchell International Airport in an area of low-rise office buildings, South Woods restaurant occupies a very unlikely location. The patch of mature trees lining its driveway and the sign announcing the restaurant will take you by surpri
The Diablos Rojos Restaurant Group, which owns Trocadero and Cafe Hollander, opened two new venues this year. In addition to the Belgian-themed Fat Abbey, the group started Cafe Centraal (2306 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) in the booming neighborhood of Bay View.