Jars of Clay

Sun. Dec. 9

Elmbrook Church (Brookfield), 7 p.m. Jars of Clay was the band that changed the course of contemporary Christian music (CCM) in the ’90s.

Bob Schneider

Shank Hall, 8pm

Genre-hopping Bob Schneider performs tonight from The Californian.

Judith Thurman

Schwartz's in Shorewood

New Yorker columnist reads from over 40 essays in her new collection, Cleopatra's Nose.

Greetings!

Next Act Theatre, 7:30pm

A sweetly comic story about a young actor who introduces his devout parents to an aethiest.

Fall of Troy, Schoolyard Heroes

Shorewood Legion Hall, 6pm

Young punk/metal and indie bands share an all ages bill.

Bruce in the USA

Shank Hall, 8pm

For a discount Springsteen fix you can check out the tribute act Bruce in the U.S.A. As the title of the act implies, the Springstreen depicted is modeled after the more buoyant 70s and 80s.

Particle

Miramar Theatre, 8pm

Laidback jam band, Particle, performs tonight from their latest album - Transformations Live for the People.

Cowboy Junkies

Turner Hall, 8pm

It's been 20 years since the Cowboy Junkies recorded Sweet Jane. Their new album, Trinity Revisited, features songs from The Trinity Session performed by Ryan Adams, Vic Chesnutt and Natalie Merchant.

Jim Brickman

Riverside Theater, 8pm

Adult contemporary and new age performer, Jim Brickman, brings his Holiday Homecoming Concert to the Riverside.

Wild Space Dance Company

Steimke Theater, 8pm

Elements of art, music, theater, visual art combine with the Wild Space Dance Company.

The Laramie Project

UW Parkside

Seven of the first 10 projects are sold out, but tickets are still available for the oral account of Matthew Shepard, victim of the hate-crime murder in Laramie, WY.

The Spill Canvas

Turner Hall, 7pm

Hawthrone Heights CANCELED at the Rave, but The Spill Canvas show is still on at Turner Hall.

The Drams

Club Garibaldi, 9pm

No Cover at Club Garibaldi show with The Drams, Two Cow Garage, Glossary, and Grand Champeen.

Milwaukee Symphony

Marcus Center, 8pm

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the play a handful of performances of Beethoven's bombastic final symphony.

KK Holiday:

It's A Wonderful Live in Bay View

Art @ Anodyne event at the Anodyne Café on South Kinnickinnic. Local artists will display their crafts and wares from 4 until 9 p.m.

Monkey Knife Fight

ComedySportz, 7:30pm

The show is adults only in a mostly good-natured, bachelorette party sort of way, which is to say it features some adult language and a blow-up doll you wouldn¹t want the kids playing with.

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

UWM Union, 7pm

A love triangle involving three impoverished characters living in Kuala Lumpur.

Emo-rock band Bayside

Turner Hall Ballroom, 7 p.m.

On Halloween morning, 2005, the emo-rock band Bayside was driving near Cheyenne, Wyo., when its van skidded on a patch of ice and crashed, killing drummer John Holohan.

Texar, featuring Rick McCollum

Hot Cakes Gallery, 7 p.m.

The latest project from Afghan Whigs' lead guitarist Rick McCollum, Texar, plays an intimate 7 p.m. show at the Hot Cakes Gallery tonight.

Over the Rhine

Miramar Theatre, 8 p.m.

Over the Rhine, the long-running husband and wife duo of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, headline an 8 p.m. show at the Miramar Theatre tonight.

Revolution '67

UWM Union Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

A vivid and often uncomfortable account of the racial unrest of the time, Revolution '67, a new documentary from Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, relives the spontaneous, six-day riot that overwhelmed Newark, N.J., in the summer of 1967 and left 26 bodies in its wake.

White Christmas

Skylight Opera Theatre, 2 and 7:30 p.m.

The Sklight Opera Theatre continues its production of White Christmas, the musical Shepherd Express critic Russ Bickerstaff calls the classiest Christmas show in the theatre district this year, today with two presentations, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Cowboy Junkies

Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m. It’s been almost exactly 20 years since the Cowboy Junkies recorded their most famous song, a hypnotically sparse cover of the Velvet Underground’s

Wild Space’s Balancing Forces

Thurs. Nov. 29

The Stiemke Theater, 8 p.m. Dance may be their forte, but performances from the Wild Space Dance Company

The Spill Canvas w/ Meg & Dia

Fri. Nov. 30

The Turner Hall Ballroom, 7 p.m. No doubt some of those attending this concert had their hearts set on seeing a different emo/modern rock band tonight.