For many years, the Florentine Opera, one of Milwaukee's longest-running cultural institutions...

Tastes vary. How do we acquire them? When applied to the inedible, why do we call it taste?

“Serendipitous” was the word Simone Ferro found to describe the haunting coincidences behind...

“It's like a monster eating the city!” jokes Artistic Director Dani Kuepper about the many-limbed...

From 26, in which 26 unrelated opera arias were joined in an original...

Bob Watt, whose roots as a Milwaukee legend stretched back to counter culture '60s, writing poetry for Milwaukee's underground paper Kaleidoscope and reading his poems at the Avante Garde coffeehouse. Many Milwaukeeans first meet...

Classical music performances are usually planned a season in advance and etched onto calendars...

Long before injured reserve, third-down backs and four-hour pregame shows, the National...

Milwaukee has never been known for teetotalism, and New Year's Eve only gives the city more cause...

Hookah smoking has been a tradition in much of the world for centuries...

If good fortune brings you to The Nutcracker this year—as you enjoy the children from the...

As gift-giving season descends upon us again, the temptation to go to a national big-box store...

I always loved my grandmother's mah jongg set. I never knew my grandmother...

In the world of men's shaving, more isn't always better. A plastic multi-blade...

“The public thinks artists can't work together,” says Richard Hynson, music director...

“This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep, but I won't be weeping long...

With Turandot, Puccini stepped boldly into the sexual psychology of the 20th century...

I vividly remember Rob Goodman 25 years ago, excited, nervous and even a bit sheepish...

The names of ancient monarchs are mostly dead letters in old books. They are powerless...

Although it's still 2011, the 2012 presidential campaign has already begun—and for political...

Mention the name Cirque Du Soleil and a different meaning—and image—comes to mind...

When my job dissolved with Theatre X in 2004, Bucketworks rescued me. There was nothing like it...

“When I came to the United States, I thought that this was the place in the world where journalists...

One of Downtown Milwaukee's great charms is its dense stock of historic buildings, many of...

In his new comedy on the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Powerhouse stage, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher imagines stagy entanglements and arch repartee involving several giants of 20th century theater. Ten Chimneys is named after the Genesee Depot...