The Milwaukee Public Museum followed up its popular “Body Worlds” exhibition with another high-profile exhibit that has broken records at museums around the world, “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.” This loaded exhibit tells the story of the iconic passenger ship that crossed paths with an iceberg on its maiden voyage, killing over 1,500 people from all walks of life. Pulled from the ship upon discovery of the wreckage in 1985, the artifacts in this exhibit...

The recent exhibit at Milwaukee Art Museum titled "Act/React" reveals the weightlessness that art engenders by erasing all memory of itself. Using interactive digital technology that springs to life through motion or touch, each of the pieces included in the exhibit not only illustrates the manner in which we engage with space but actually affects how we occupy it. It’s as engaging, engrossing and cutting-edge an exhibit as the art museum has featured in a long time.

Fittingly enough for a one-time Dave Matthews opening act, singer-songwriter Bob Schneider has a tendency to genre-hop. Carefree early discs found him careening from reggae-tinged jam rock, to silly hip-hop-inflected folk, to classic rock and lovelorn ballads, but since his 2006 album The Californian, the Austin, Texas, troubadour has tightened his sound, restricting himself mostly to direct roots-rock. Since The Californian, Schneider...

Based on a play and also paced like one, Dial M For Murder is perhaps the most talky of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers, a non-stop gabfest set almost entirely in one home. Hitchcock filmed it in 3D, making surprisingly scant use of the technology, save for one iconic scene where an attacked Grace Kelly reaches in defense for a pair of scissors, but what it lacks in thrills, it makes up for in wit—the dialogue is some of the snappiest Hitchcock ever filmed. The Times Cinema screens this classic in 3D today at 1:30 and 7 p.m.

San Francisco-based director Jonathan Moscone teamed up with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater for the first time to stage Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a stylish, fresh look at the eternal dance of life, love and death. The play follows the title character as she travels beyond the veil of life following her untimely death on her wedding night. Eurydice was to be wed to Orpheus, the father of songs, who must now travel to the underworld to retrieve her. The production, which runs through...

One of the greatest achievements of E.B. White's 1952 novel Charlotte's Web is that it avoids talking down to children. Alongside the humor and hope inherent in a barn spider's selfless friendship with a runty pig, the tale illuminates the graver realities of nature and survival. First Stage's production of Charlotte's Web, which is staged this afternoon at 1 and 3:30 p.m. in the Marcus Center, doesn't fully eclipse these graver themes but focuses more on the tale's lyrical life/death cycle, investing it with a mystical quality that runs somewhat contrary to its earthy...

That Northern Room’s first big gig was an open spot for Bon Jovi at the Bradley Center says everything you need to know about the band’s arena-sized ambitions. In a mid-market music scene with modest ambitions, this ever-prim band carried themselves like stars, delivering flashy, U2-styled concerts with a grandiosity and pomposity that made them stand out from their beer-drinking competition. Their Christian-leaning buzz ballads had such undeniable commercial potential that the band is often almost-reflexively pinpointed as one of Milwaukee’s...

Given his toxic reputation as a wife-beating, Hepatitis-spreading cretin, you’d think that Tommy Lee would be the last person respectable strip clubs would want to associate their brand with, but in his new role as celebrity DJ, Lee has made something of a second career playing adult-entertainment locales. It’s a reliable gig for Lee, which is important since, depending on the day and the account, he may or may not be drumming for Motley Crue anymore. Lee’s electronic-music set with DJ Aero is the main attraction at Silk Exotic’s five-year anniversary party...

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee specializes in soulful folk music, yet his last few albums have been released on the seminal jazz label Blue Note Records, introducing the young guitarist to a novel niche audience. Tonight the Philadelphian plays an improbably expensive $25 show at the Pabst Theater.

Widespread Panic has been playing its swampy jam-rock since the mid-’80s, when there was no organized jam scene for them to lean on. The emergence of jam in the late-’90s as its own genre—with its own business model—turned the once-obscure band into a lucrative touring machine, and in recent years the band has had to alter its tours to account for its many sold-out shows. After doing a sold-out show at the Riverside Theater, for instance, the band planned ahead and booked two shows at the Riverside last year. For this latest go-round...