An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
Rains drenched the week leading up to this spring's Gallery Night in Milwaukee and a tornado warning. No worries there are plenty of great place to get stuck in the Third Ward tonight. Cohesion, would be the word that best describes what the Third Ward has achieved in the arts and entertainment lobe of its... Continue Reading →
Growing up, I had a shit kicking, High Life drinking, roof laying, neighbor next door. He was also the first person I ever saw grilling in the rain under an umbrella, with a beer can and Marlboro smoking in one hand, turning brats with a serving fork in the other. Beside the yelling, cursing, racist... Continue Reading →
MC Mikal lumbered in the BBC upper room, tall, gangly, vibrating above it all. The scene, relatively modest by hip-hop standards, dropped like an ember that starts a wild brush fire. A performative charge present, highly concentrated energy burned the anticipatory material around it, not caring to be seen. In a benefit for Men of... Continue Reading →
I like the idea of a one block tour, it's the next best thing to traveling all over the country chasing your favorite bands! Keepers of the local ART Milwaukee are making it happen this Saturday on Brady Street all day with the Eastside Music Tour. They strung together an all day line up of... Continue Reading →
Maybe because it happened to be Black History Month did the irony of Aaron McGruder's talk at UW-Milwaukee's most recent Distinguished Lecture Series evening feel even more striking. McGruder's comic strip turned animated adult cartoon series, picked-up steam the past three years as one of the only televised young and flippant pop-culture outlets originating from... Continue Reading →
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