A&E Feature

Milwaukee Public Theatre’s All-City People’s Parade

A Labor Day of love and community

Milwaukee’s Labor Day parade will include a labor of love, courtesy of Milwaukee Public Theatre (MPT). The second annual All-City People’s Parade will be part of the Sept. 6 Labor Day celebrations—and it’s all free, rain or shine. Jeffrey Holub, one of a dozen lead artists working with MPT, explains the origins of Milwaukee’s All-City People’s Parade. “We were inspired by the Minneapolis MayDay Parade...


Film

Takers

Idris Elba, Matt Dillon among stars in typical heist film

From The Asphalt Jungle through The Italian Job, the heist movie has a long, honorable history. Putting criminals to work in devilishly complicated schemes to burrow into bank vaults, pierce the perimeters of impenetrable museums and make off with the loot of armored trucks, the heist movie is like a chess game pitting...

Milwaukee Color

Topping Brought The Beatles

Saturday, Sept. 4, is the 46th anniversary of the day The Beatles performed their one and only show for Milwaukee. The Fab Four made it to our city because of Nick Topping, a local activist and promoter, who brought them...


Theater

Neil Haven’s Unique, Satisfying ‘Playdaters’

Theater Review

Neil Haven’s The Playdaters is a refreshingly unique show that mixes drama with comedy and commercial elements with experimental aesthetics. Spencer (playwright Haven) and Erwin (Jeremiah Munsey) play a game in which...

Theater

Andre’ Lee Ellis & Co. Finds a Home

Black theater raising consciousness in the community

After roaming nomadically for many seasons, Andre’ Lee Ellis & Co. finally has a home. “It’s just like Downtown,” says Andre Lee Ellis, the theater company’s namesake, proud to show visitors around the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center (1531 W. Vliet St.), a County Parks facility with a...

Art

Portrait Society Gallery’s Everyday People

‘Real Photo Postcard Survey’ captures essence of humanity

Whereas “reality” entertainment often relies on a carefully planned series of falsehoods, artistic realism uses the natural beauty and emotion of our surroundings to depict life. Unaltered human beauty is on display in the Portrait Society Gallery’s current exhibition “The Real Photo Postcard Survey” by J. Shimon and J. Lindemann...

Art

Artist Kendall Baer’s ‘View From 80’

Art Preview

With his Vandyke beard and a racing cap covered with souvenir pins from all over, Kendall Baer resembles a benign beatnik, even if he spent less time on the road than on a career in the commercial precincts of graphic design. Baer turned 80 this summer and is marking his...

Books

Inside America’s Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture (Lawrence Hill), by James L. Dickerson

The title is provocative and the tone polemical. James L. Dickerson is an investigative reporter, not a historian, and sometimes leaps to simplistic conclusions. He maintains that immigrants who came to America for economic reasons “tended to view torture as a legitimate tool with which to protect their wealth...

Books

‘Neil Young’s Greendale’ as Graphic Novel

Music legend’s masterpiece continues to morph

The graphic novel based on Neil Young’s Greendale (published by Vertigo) is the illustrated version, replete with variant narrative, of the original. But what exactly is the “original” when it comes to this work? Is it the live concert series?

Classical Music/Dance

Evolution of the Piano Trio

Prometheus Trio kicks off 11th season with Haydn, Brahms and Fauré

The piano trio genre originated in the “trio sonata” of the Baroque Era (mid-17th to mid-18th centuries), where a solo instrument (usually the violin) dominated the proceedings, supported by keyboards (harpsichord, for the most part) and a bass stringed instrument. But the genre really took off in the...

 
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