Music Under Glass Series (1/5-3/18)

At The Domes

Visit Tuesdays and Thursdays (6:30 to 8:30pm) to enjoy a variety of live music January 5 through March 18. Stick around during the breaks and after the music for a light show...

George Lopez

Tonight @ The Riverside Theater, 8 p.m.

George Lopez’s self-titled sitcom was often praised for doing for Hispanics what “The Cosby Show” did for African Americans, even if a Hispanic “According to Jim” might have been a more fair point of comparison. Lopez’s stand-up routine...

Shooter Jennings

Tonight @ Potawatomi Bingo Casino, 8 p.m.

Shooter Jennings shares not only a familial resemblance to his father, Waylon—Shooter even depicted his dad in the movie Walk the Line—but also his father’s love of tightly wound, rock-inflected country, making him one of the...

The Tossers

Tonight @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 8 p.m.

A quick lesson in modern Irish rock: In the ’80s, The Pogues imbued Irish music with the spirit of punk, but not the literal speed and venom of punk. Nineties acts like Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys took the sound one step...

Kill the Rich! Kill the Poor!

Tonight @ The Off-Broadway Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Unseen Architecture

Today @ The Eisner Museum

The architect exhibits art on a daily basis, as every residential and commercial design subtly defines a city’s skyline and streets. In an effort to highlight the artistic nature of architecture, an exhibition titled “Unseen Architecture...

This Week in Milwaukee

Film Clips

Gaelic Storm

Tonight @ The Pabst Theater, 8 p.m.

Part of a younger generation of bands that have a sense of humor about the Celtic music they play, Gaelic Storm combines the traditional Irish instruments (fiddle, bagpipes) with a bit of a rock ’n’ roll mentality. They have a reputation for...

Eric Blowtorch and the Welders

Tonight @ The Miramar Theatre, 9 p.m.

Recording primarily to vinyl, with 7-inch singles his preferred medium, Milwaukee reggae enthusiast Eric Blowtorch has released a slew of well-received singles over the last couple years, some of them featuring reggae legends like Prince...

Evan Christian

Tonight @ The Jazz Estate, 10 p.m.

Evan Christian’s commitment to mastering the flamenco guitar is so great that he moved to Spain to study the craft. That’s not to say that his playing is completely grounded in tradition, though. In the studio, he pairs his flamenco...

Radio Golf

Tonight @ The Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Timothy Douglas directs the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of August Wilson’s drama Radio Golf, the latest in a series of Rep shows directed by Douglas, including last year’s Trouble in Mind and 2008’s world premiere...

Unseen Architecture

Today @ The Eisner Museum

The architect exhibits art on a daily basis, as every residential and commercial design subtly defines a city’s skyline and streets. In an effort to highlight the artistic nature of architecture, an exhibition titled “Unseen Architecture...

Issue of the Week: The True Impact of Waukesha’s Water Request

Plus Hero and Jerk of the Week

Welcome, Losers

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So yeah, damn it, it’s happened again. I’m talking about that bullshit Daylight Saving Time, and I’m not...

Looking Back at Frontier Radio

WMSE’s birthday party

Today, it’s hard to escape the constant allure of media buzz—24-hour news, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook—available at our fingertips and formatted to suit our individual preferences. But back in the late-’70s, it was a completely different era. A kid from Bay View would have been hard-pressed to find a...

Reinventing the Library

Tight budgets, technology and community propel libraries forward

In the age of Google, iPhones and Kindle, are brick-and-mortar libraries necessary? Absolutely. Now more than ever. In fact, libraries are enjoying a surge in attendance, despite the pervasiveness of instant-gratification multimedia options. Nationally, library use is up; according to a 2008 survey conducted by the American Library Association (ALA), 76% of Americans...

Beautifying Milwaukee Through Rain Gardens

Homeowners can help to reduce pollution, improve water quality

This spring, those who would like to make the environment a greener place need look no further than their yards. Thanks to a novel approach to reduce storm water, we can all become eco-friendly gardeners. Rain gardens were invented in 1990 as a means to reduce storm water in a cost-effective way. Bioretention, which is the holding and filtering of storm water in plant systems, was the solution Larry Coffman, head of environmental...

Skylight Opera Captures Hollywood’s Golden Age

Theater Review

A Day in Hollywood/ A Night in the Ukraine is a clever, nostalgic package. The two-part tribute to 1930s Hollywood cinema packs just enough intellectual edge to keep the show interesting beneath the surface of a light...

Mulligans Irish Pub Strikes the Right Balance

Friendly pub with tasty food in Franklin

The Irish pub format—a bar with lots of shamrock decorations and a menu featuring a few Irish specialties—has become increasingly popular worldwide. I have visited Irish pubs in places as varied as Thailand, Peru and...

Changing Times: The Life of Barack Obama by Glen Jeansonne & David Luhrssen

Book Review

Since 2001, political books penned by American liberals have flourished, but most have been critiques of the Bush-Cheney administration, the attacks on 9/11 and the Iraq War, interrupted briefly by the 2004 Kerry campaign. The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama, however, gave hopeful writers a new topic...

Mad Tea Party

It’s been years since the so-called “liberal” media could be accused of failing to sufficiently publicize the views of the extreme right. Labeling the media “liberal,” a political tactic by conservatives, worked like a charm. Newspapers everywhere scurried to add right-wing columnists, the more troglodytic the better. Television crews were sent to town hall meetings on health care to film the most shril...

Theatre Gigante’s Beautiful ‘Three Other Sisters’

Performance Review

Three Other Sisters, the fine new work by Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson that opened last weekend, is beautifully composed and deeply felt...

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family

Tonight @ U.S. Cellular Arena, 7:30 p.m.

Playwright Tyler Perry took a five-year break from live theater, but he has a lot to show for that time: He followed up his hit 2005 film debut, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, by writing and directing a whopping eight films, starring in...

Radio Golf

Tonight @ The Milwaukee Repertory Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Timothy Douglas directs the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of August Wilson’s drama Radio Golf, the latest in a series of Rep shows directed by Douglas, including last year’s Trouble in Mind and 2008’s world premiere...