An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
Proclaiming 'Old is the the new New' on the most infamous social media outlet, attracted the comment "New is Ooover!" Can anything be official? Inducing a new understanding of ubiquity, when Alverno Presents announced Ryan Schleicher would lead a night of musical rediscovery entitled Beautiful Dreamer: The Foster Project the pieces of this musical thread... Continue Reading →
Darkness permeates the atmosphere, the bar's rich and chocolate brown stain has the visual quality of an oak barrel that soaked up raw molasses for decades. Oversized canvases beset the Bad Genie's walls, bestowing florescent pop art images of the great heroes of rock n roll's childhood, bears dancing, a Vicious snarl. The stage on... Continue Reading →
"Motley" described a famous Crue of lost angles rocking the 80's. In Milwaukee these days, Thriftones get motley, genuinely. Their distinct brand of folk, rhythm and blues Americana bridges the front porches of Dixie to bonfires of the Heartland, open fields of Upstate New York to city blocks running into Golden Gate Park. The Thriftones... Continue Reading →
Approaching the doorstep of 2013, lets not trip over the threshold without getting a chance to look back on the most popular posts appearing on Local Trolley in 2012. First, I want to thank everyone who has used precious bytes of data and bandwidth to take a peek, if only at the home page on... Continue Reading →
Football dominates Sunday afternoons, especially in Packer country and especially when the hometown favorite makes mince meat morsels out of ancient rivals Chicago Bears. MOCT on Pittsburg has taken a different approach to Sunday funday, mixing an afternoon of sports and indy commerce. They've huddled with Wren Solares' creative start-up Lost In Milwaukee to give... Continue Reading →
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