So far local rap promoter JC Poppe's “Hip-Hop Hates” series has taken on MS, breast cancer and HIV. The latest installment sets its sights on a different...

David Cecsarini directs the world premiere of Richard Lyons Conlon's drama One Time in a production developed in part at Chicago Dramatists...

The Milwaukee Rep tackles the Moor of Venice with this production of one of Shakespeare's later works, Othello. Directed by Rep artistic director...

It's funny how a little bit of talent is all it takes to make even some of the most exhausted sounds feel new again. Released last year through Fat Possum...

Recalling the summer harmonies of The Beach Boys, the polyrhythmic diversions of Vampire Weekend and the experimental wanderings of Animal Collective...

From their humble beginnings as a house band in Chicago, the progressive-bluegrass ensemble Cornmeal grew an audience that allowed them to play...

The Milwaukee Rep tackles the Moor of Venice with this production of one of Shakespeare's later works, Othello. Directed by Rep artistic director...

David Cecsarini directs the world premiere of Richard Lyons Conlon's drama One Time in a production developed in part at Chicago Dramatists. Linda Stephens...

Anthony Petullo, an avid outsider-art collector and philanthropist, gifted more than 300 works to the Milwaukee Art Museum, approximately 200 of which will be...

As a general rule, rappers don't get many chances to reinvent themselves. Once they're known quantities, the public rarely sees them in a new light, which is part of the reason MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice's various makeover attempts have...

In the lead up to the group's April 27 album release show at the Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee folk-rockers will play a weekly residency at Hotel Foster through April 18. Each Wednesday the band will perform some old songs, tease some...

The Milwaukee Rep closes its Stiemke Studio season with a production of a historical comedy by popular contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). Set in a wealthy Victorian home, the play...

Anthony Petullo, an avid outsider-art collector and philanthropist, gifted more than 300 works to the Milwaukee Art Museum, approximately 200 of which will be on display for this exhibition. Petullo's collection includes works by a variety of...

After two turbulent decades marked by in-fighting between co-leaders Liam and Noel Gallagher, Oasis finally split in 2009. Most of the band continued on as Beady Eye, a Beatles- and Stones-minded band designed to let Liam live out his...

The Milwaukee trio Absolutely isn't beholden to any lone form of punk. Instead, the group cribs generously from melodic post-hardcore, spry math-rock, combustible emo, riff-heavy stoner rock and winking grunge. That may read like a...

The Milwaukee Rep closes its Stiemke Studio season with a production of a historical comedy by popular contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). Set in a wealthy Victorian home, the play...

Anthony Petullo, an avid outsider-art collector and philanthropist, gifted more than 300 works to the Milwaukee Art Museum, approximately 200 of which will be on display for this exhibition. Petullo's collection includes works by a variety of...

The Athens, Ga., quartet Reptar earned fast comparisons to Animal Collective and the Talking Heads for their lively, synth-drenched art-pop. On May 1, the group will release its first full-length, a follow-up to their Oblangle Fizz...

For decades, Dr. Cornel West has been one of the country's go-to experts on matters of race relations. The scholar and early supporter of Barack Obama has been in the news frequently as his criticisms of the president have sharpened...

Sean Casey, star of the Discovery Channel program “Storm Chasers,” set out to detail the creation of a tornado for his first IMAX film, the 42-minute documentary Tornado Alley. Casey and the researchers of VORTEX 2, a...

“The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney” offers 20 chromogenic prints that record well-off subjects at home. The photographs were taken during Barney's European travels. Large-scale, lush and voyeuristic, the artist's prints explore...

One of Milwaukee's finest corner taps celebrates the 25th anniversary of Art Kumbalek's esteemed column for the Shepherd Express. For a quarter century, Kumbalek has been weighing in on the pressing social issues of our time...

If it weren't for Chris Tucker declining to return to his role as Smokey for the sequel to the 1995 cult classic Friday, the world might not know Mike Epps the way it does today. Although he has been featured for his stand-up on Def...

The Boulevard Theatre's latest production is the Milwaukee premiere of This Lime Tree Bower, a trio of interconnected monologues by Irish playwright Conor McPherson. This drama tells the story of three people coming of age in...

The Milwaukee Rep closes its Stiemke Studio season with a production of a historical comedy by popular contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). Set in a wealthy Victorian home, the play...