Express Milwaukee - Today in Milwaukee http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/articles.sec-222-1-today-in-milwaukee.html <![CDATA[Experience Hendrix]]> Some of the biggest names in blues have grouped together to form the most overqualified Jimi Hendrix cover band of all time. This year’s Experience Hendrix tour features next-generation blues icons Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd...]]> <![CDATA[Kill the Rich! Kill the Poor!]]> The latest company to wear the temporary title of “Milwaukee’s last theater group,” BITE Theatre introduces itself this week by premiering a programs of shorts written by playwright Robert Lawrence. The program—titled...]]> <![CDATA[A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine]]> One cast performs two one-act musicals in Skylight Opera Theatre’s production of A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The show opens as a celebration of classic Hollywood musicals, then gives way to a second act inspired by Anton...]]> <![CDATA[Unseen Architecture]]> 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...]]> <![CDATA[David Gray w/ Phosphorescent]]> Spicing up his folk-rock with some timely electronic production and broadening his American reach with the backing of Dave Matthews, who signed the British singer-songwriter to his ATO Records, David Gray hit it big with his 1999...]]> <![CDATA[Cornmeal w/ Past Blue Rhythm]]> The Chicago ensemble Cornmeal labels itself “progressive bluegrass,” though they aren’t nearly as iconoclastic as that tag might suggest. While the group isn’t immune to occasional jammy digressions into jazz and rock territory, they stay...]]> <![CDATA[Golden Dragon Chinese Acrobats]]> While there are certainly plenty acrobatic tricks in the Golden Dragon Chinese Acrobats’ act, the program features far more than just spandex-clad stuntmen flipping through the air. There are amazing physical feats, elaborate costumes...]]> <![CDATA[Kill the Rich! Kill the Poor!]]> The latest company to wear the temporary title of “Milwaukee’s last theater group,” BITE Theatre introduces itself this week by premiering a programs of shorts written by playwright Robert Lawrence. The program—titled Kill the...]]> <![CDATA[A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine]]> One cast performs two one-act musicals in Skylight Opera Theatre’s production of A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The show opens as a celebration of classic Hollywood musicals, then gives way to a second act inspired by Anton...]]> <![CDATA[Kill the Rich! Kill the Poor!]]> The latest company to wear the temporary title of “Milwaukee’s last theater group,” BITE Threatre introduces itself this week by premiering a programs of shorts written by playwright Robert Lawrence. The program—titled Kill the...]]> <![CDATA[Norah Jones w/ Sasha Dobson]]> Norah Jones emerged in the early 2000s as one of jazz’s biggest crossover stars in ages, thanks to a style of jazz-pop that was both inviting (hence the title to her blockbuster debut, Come On In) and familiar (hence the title of its...]]> <![CDATA[The Big Pink w/ A Place to Bury Strangers]]> One of the more worthwhile products of Britain’s sometimes overzealous, NME-driven hype machine, The Big Pink parlayed the buzz around their early singles into a glowingly reviewed debut album last year, A Brief History of...]]> <![CDATA[Reilly]]> After the death of founding member Brian Reilly in 2000, and several other shakeups to the band's roster in the subsequent years, Reilly has cemented its lineup and its footing in the Milwaukee scene as one of the area’s most popular...]]> <![CDATA[A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine]]> One cast performs two one-act musicals in Skylight Opera Theatre’s production of A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. The show opens as a celebration of classic Hollywood musicals, then gives way to a second act inspired by Anton...]]> <![CDATA[Radio Golf]]> 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...]]> <![CDATA[George Lopez]]> 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...]]> <![CDATA[Shooter Jennings]]> 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...]]> <![CDATA[The Tossers]]> 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...]]> <![CDATA[Kill the Rich! Kill the Poor!]]> <![CDATA[Unseen Architecture]]> 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...]]>