Oct
14
Wide Weird Universe
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
The science of nowadays envisions a cosmos wider and weirder than the science of a century or even a quarter century ago. It�s hard for most of us to keep up with the changing theories or fully grasp their implications.
The History Chann
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Oct
13
Michael Moore Slacks Off
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
In July 2004 John Kerry was pulling ahead of George W. Bush in the polls until the Bush campaign introduced a new word to our vocabulary, swiftboating. As Kerry fumbled in response to the howling pack of lies being unleashed about his war record, Mich
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Oct
08
Lou Reed's Berlin
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Lou Reed’s recording career has been patchy over the past 30 years. But in the 1960s he led the most important rock band that never sold many records during their time together, the Velvet Underground. Going solo in the ‘70s, he was one of the most un
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Oct
06
The Muslim Conquest
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Western Europe was a backwater among world cultures in the Middle Ages, except for Spain, then an Islamic kingdom where learning and tolerance flourished.
In “When the Moors Ruled in Europe,” British historian-television host Bettany Hughes e
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Oct
03
Appaloosa
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
The first sound is of pounding hooves and the first sight is of three horsemen hurrying over the crest of a dun colored hill, framed by the wooden gate to a ranch in desolate country. The city marshal and his deputies have come to arrest one of the hire
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Oct
03
Flash of Genius
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
There’s a scene near the beginning of Flash of Genius that neatly and amusingly speaks volumes about its protagonist, Dr. Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear). One night the electrical engineering instructor at a Detroit college is confronted by his sexy wife P
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Oct
02
Blindness the Movie
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
With avian flu and AIDS in the background, the idea of startling new contagions has been in the air among horror writers, literary authors and screenwriters. The novel by Portugese Novel Prize winner Jose Saramago, Blindness, concerns an apparnelty vira
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Sep
30
Vintage Horror
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
“What are you doing in that funny looking get-up?” Asking the question is a man wearing a pith helmet, a khaki colonial officer’s uniform, tall leather cavalry boots and a flowing cape. In comparison, the sidekick he’s questioning cuts a
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Sep
27
Spike Lee's War
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Spike Lee has been fighting World War II long before the release of his latest film, Miracle at St. Anna. His campaign began with a salvo at Clint Eastwood for excluding black faces from Flags of Our Fathers and perpetuating the assumption that blacks c
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Sep
22
Straight Shootin' John McCain?
David Luhrssen I Hate HollywoodJohn McCain may once have been a straight talker, but the mainstream media has often overlooked the crooked path he took during the 2008 campaign. Political activist Robert Greenwald made an effort to go around the gatekeepers and reach the public with a
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2008-10-15 7:00pm
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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.
Location: Central Milwaukee
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.
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