A&E Feature

Kohler Festival of Beer Kicks Off Its Fourth Year

Sheboygan's 3 Sheeps among featured breweries

For Grant Pauly, owner of and brewmaster for the new 3 Sheeps Brewing Co. in Sheboygan...

Film

Sound of My Voice

Film draws strength from nuanced acting

In Sound of My Voice, Maggie is the beguiling leader of a doomsday cult with an unusual spin on the future...

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Off the Cuff

Brewcity Bruisers' Becky the Butcher

Rebecca Berkshire, executive chef of Balzac and Hi Hat, is better known to roller derby fans as Becky the Butcher. The heavily tattooed powerhouse has been skating with the league since day one as a member of the Shevil Knevils, one...


Theater

In Tandem Finds Fun in 'Veronica's Position'

In Tandem Theatre brilliantly executes Veronica's Position, a comedy about politics and principles set on the precipice of the final decade of the 20th century. The play is set in motion when a drama-queen actress (an Elizabeth Taylor-like character) is due...

Theater

Sunset's Shining 'Three Little Pigs'

The best children's fare of any kind is a delicate balance. It should be fun and entertaining for kids and those accompanying them, it should be educational without being too obvious and, if it's really good, it should instill a few moral lessons without getting...

Art

Grohmann Honors Milwaukee's 'Great Lakers'

The Milwaukee School of Engineering's Grohmann Museum honors Milwaukee's heritage in the shipping industry with “Great Lakers.” The exhibition features artifacts...

Art

'Uncommon' Works at the Museum of Wisconsin Art

The tie that binds the artists of Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Wisconsin Textiles, now on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, is the versatility of fabric as an art medium. Some artists approach textiles with traditional practices...

Books

Abu-Jaber's Soaring 'Birds of Paradise'

The sunny city of Miami takes center stage in Diana Abu-Jaber's engrossing new novel, Birds of Paradise. The Florida hot spot becomes the backdrop for a dynamic familial tale of identity, loss and forgiveness. The Muirs are a typical yet fractured...

Books

Bernie Gunther Returns in 'Prague Fatale'

Genre master Philip Kerr pens another gem

What an unusual household Philip Kerr's must be, what with his wife and children presumably living a fairly conventional life in contemporary Britain and he a most unconventional one in the middle of Europe in the middle of the previous century...

Classical Music/Dance

Ko-Thi Premieres 'Words from the Sole'

A voice whispers, “I been away so long, I wonder if the drum still has the power to connect us back to the beginning of being.” Those words by Milwaukee poet Sheena Carey open Words from the Sole, a groundbreaking new dance from Ko-Thi Dance...

 
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