Mar
17
BREAKING: State Supreme Court to Hear Paid Sick Days Case
Lisa Kaiser Daily DoseThis just in: the state Supreme Court has just accepted the Milwaukee Paid Sick Days case.
The District IV Court of Appeals kicked the case to the Supreme Court, saying that there were bigger issues surrounding the enactment of the measure that shoul
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Mar
17
Why I Don’t Think Tommy Will Run
Lisa Kaiser Daily DoseFrom his perch in Washington, Chris Cilizza puts a Tommy Thompson senate run at 50/50.
Shepherd readers gave it a solid 65% chance.
Me, I’m giving it a zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch.
I think the former governor’s current flirtation wit
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Mar
17
One For The Team Walks with "Ghosts"
Evan Rytlewski On MusicGhosts, the third album from the young Minneapolis band One For The Team, is part break-up record, loaded with all the recriminations that term connotes, and part escapist fantasy about befriending a ghost. It’s a bittersweet pairing: Having a spiri
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Mar
17
Pygmalion At Ten Chimneys Monday
The Milwaukee Rep Presents a Staged Reading At The Popular Tourist Destination
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
My wife keeps suggesting that we go to Ten Chimneys some time. The grand estate of golden age Broadway talents Alfred Lunt and Fontanne would certainly be interesting, but the $30 it would cost to tour the place always seems more than a bit prohibi
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Mar
16
Heidi Spencer and the Rare Birds Sign to Bella Union Records
Evan Rytlewski On Music
Heidi Spencer, a rootsy Milwaukee folk singer whose sweet voice belies her brutally sad songwriting, has signed to the United Kingdom record label Bella Union, Bobby Tanzilo of OnMilwaukee.com confirmed today. The label is the British home to acts like F
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Mar
16
The Boulevard: Marketing The Connection
Boulevard Theatre’s Next Bookstore Sneak Peak
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
It’s one of those things that I haven’t given myself the time to make much mention of. There’s been a lot of concern over the fact that everyone is getting increasingly isolated with all the little digital apparatuses we’ve come t
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Mar
15
On The Media Takes a Look at Music
Evan Rytlewski On MusicThis week National Public Radio's fantastic "On The Media" program broke from its usual format and dedicated its entire hour to the music industry. The whole program is worth a listen if you're the type of person who podcasts NPR shows, and it o
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Mar
15
BREAKING: MPS “Reform” Group, Advocates for Student Achievement, Agrees to Pay $5,000 Fine
Lisa Kaiser Daily DoseRemember Advocates for Student Achievement, the so-called “reform” group that recruited and raised money for candidates for the MPS board elections held in April 2009?
It took almost a year, but the district attorney’s offi
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Mar
15
Lady Gaga to Play the Bradley Center Sept. 1
Shepherd Express Staff Concert AnnouncementsEccentric, often-pantless pop superstar Lady Gaga will perform at the Bradley Center on Sept. 1, as part of the second leg of her Monster Ball Tour, the venue announced this morning. The tour promises to be another high-production spectacle with more than
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Mar
15
Beauty Queen of Leenane In Racine
Over Our Head Players Stages Mid-‘90’s Irish Play
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
Between 1997 and 1998, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh developed four feature-length plays. One of them was a dark comedy about a 40 year-old woman who looks after her 70 year-old mother. There is bitterness. There is dysfunction. There is mental
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Mar
15
Clash of the Gods
Myths on the History Channel
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
The gods of ancient Greece haven’t been widely worshipped since the fourth century, but linger on as important archetypes in literature and human psychology. The History Channel series “Clash of the Gods” looks at prominent figures in the Greek panthe
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Mar
14
Tom Crean latching on to Marquette success?
Nicole Cute SportsFormer Marquette coach Tom Crean <a href="http://twitter.com/TomCrean/status/10488338097">tweeted this</a> today:<span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Congratulations to everyone at Marquette. 5 straight NCAA
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Mar
14
Uprooted Theatre On 10th Street
Theatre Company Returns to Beauty’s Daughter with Marti Gobel
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
In a year beset by a greater than usual number of adjustments and cancellations on the Milwaukee stage, Uprooted Theatre has had to cancel its production of The Colored Museum due to the difficulties of scrambling to replace a couple of actresses a
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Mar
13
High Marx: Clips From The Skylight
Pardon Me While I Have A Strange Interlude
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
It’s been a weekend of bite-sized performances, Theatre Gigante’s one-hour, one-weekend only production Other Three Sisters was joined last night by the opening of the Skylight Opera Theatre’s A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the
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Mar
13
Bollywood Remembers
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Music is integral to most Bollywood movies, those colorful, often modestly budgeted pictures from India’s prolific film industry. Characters unselfconsciously break into song and even the gods themselves descend to join the dance. Among the most proli
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Mar
12
Titus Andronicus' Audacious Civil War Epic, "The Monitor"
Evan Rytlewski On MusicSaying Titus Andronicus singer Patrick Stickles bears a resemblance to Conor Oberst is akin to saying Owl City sounds faintly like the Postal Service. Stickles’ throaty quiver is the mirror image of Oberst’s, indistinguishable in both timbre a
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Mar
12
Theatre Gigante’s THREE OTHER SISTERS
Another Dreamlike One-Weekend-Show With Mark and Iasabelle
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
I wish I would’ve had the presence of mind to do the theatre preview on Theatre Gigante’s show rather than the Skylight’s this week. There are a couple of reasons for this . . . the most selfish probably being that I’d like to
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Mar
12
Baader Meinhof Complex
Revolution in �60s Germany
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
For millions who came of age in the 1960s, peace, love and understanding was a bourgeois farce. And while the media of the ’00s fixated on Sgt. Pepper and Woodstock, for many the defining events of the late ’60s were the bloody upheavals that erupted ar
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Mar
11
The National Premiere "Terrible Love"
Evan Rytlewski On MusicThe National teased their upcoming May 11 album High Violet with an appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night, performing the "Terrible Love," another lovely, wound-licking track that announces early its intentions of bui
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Mar
11
NOW: Silent Vigil at UWM
Lisa Kaiser Daily DoseEmilio de Torre from ACLU of Wisconsin is tweeting about a silent vigil at UWM.
It’s peaceful, but police are parked nearby, Emilio says.
About 75 students and faculty are demonstrating while Chancellor Carlos Santiago meets with three stu
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Mar
11
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
Kathleen Wills Green LifeMore than 1,000 people attended the annual Local Food and Farmer Open House last year (formerly the "CSA Open House"), a good indication that the local food movement is on the rise here in Milwaukee. The event is a one-stop-shop for meeting loca
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Mar
11
Response from DCF on Child Care License Revocations
Lisa Kaiser Daily DoseIt’s too bad that the Department of Children and Families didn’t respond to my questions before press time. I would have loved to have included their perspective in my article on the injunctions filed to halt child care license revocations bas
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Mar
11
Marquette FINALLY beats Villanova
Nicole Cute SportsAfter losing four games in a row to Villanova by a total of four points, Marquette had their revenge today in the Big East tournament.
The Golden Eagles were a preseason pick to finish 12th in the Big East. Now they're heading into the semi-finals of t
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Mar
11
Packers to wear throwback jersey
Nicole Cute SportsJSOnline.com reported yesterday that the Packers will be wearing a third, alternate jersey during the upcoming season. The report says it’s guaranteed for one game, but may make another appearance.
The blurb doesn’t offer any information but does point
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Mar
11
Some Badger Hockey stats
Nicole Cute SportsDespite their absolutely abysmal showing in Minnesota this weekend, the Badgers are the #3 team in the nation. One of the ways they've gotten to that point is their prolific scoring, both from offense and defenders.
As a team, the Badgers are:
Avera
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