An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
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 →
Mark "Madden Miles" next project (Download the Kate Upton Beat EP) dropped on the net on Valenine's Day. If you just couldn't get enough of that you could have got out to the Kate Upton EP Beat Tape Release Party live in Racine February 21, 2013. Well if you missed that I suggest you cop... Continue Reading →
The irony of robots is that they are kind of low tech now. In Brian Rott's latest amalgamation of ideas, props, plot and actors Robot Cabaret, we find out that quite possibly robots have feelings too. Extraordinarily imaginative, Rott, in creative tandem with Michael Guthrie, centers an underlying point of tension around a Robot Detective that... Continue Reading →
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