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Tuesday, December 23,2008
A Lifelong Occupation
On Nov. 2 Celeste Spransy celebrated her 90th birthday by exhibiting her watercolors and prismatics (durable Lucite pieces with fade-resistant dyes) at Milwaukee's Elaine Erickson Gallery. This inventive artist and her late husband...
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Wednesday, December 17,2008
Big bang Theory
More and more often the sound of music and the passion for flashin’ comes crashing together—a cultural version of the Big Bang Theory—and there are many front-runners taking advantage. Take fashion designer and music artist Damion Thompson, whose band, 3 the Hard Way, has laced the eardrums
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Wednesday, December 10,2008
Rising Star
Rachel Schmeling, a 15-year-old actress who has studied with the First Stage Theater Academy for eight years, will soon be appearing in the role of Molly in First Stage’s premiere of The Happy Elf. She talks about her experience of working alongside the production’s prestigious New York directors, choreographers...
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Monday, December 8,2008
Dinosaur Tracks?
Return of the Fossil Poets
Gary Tanin goes back a long way in Milwaukee music. He started recording with 1960s garage bands and by the early ’70s was already ahead of the pack by releasing carefully crafted DIY albums on his own label. As the ’90s began he was collaborating with musicians from half the world away, producing CDs long...
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Wednesday, November 26,2008
Barber Extraordinaire
It was 1960 when Jose Ortiz began his career as a “barber extraordinaire.” Besides practicing his brand of “hairapy,” he has also become a politician, teacher, community activist, musician and baseball aficionado. He is the father of musicians Christopher and Nicolaus Ortiz. Christopher...
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Wednesday, November 19,2008
The Beauty Myth
The measure of beauty may vary over time, but our zealous search for physical perfection remains decidedly intact—aided by modern techniques that can zap our unwanted features into obscurity. A new anthology of short stories for young adults edited by Mount Mary College professor Ann...
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Wednesday, November 5,2008
Unsung Heroes
Last year South Milwaukee resident Janet Halfmann published Little Skink’s Tail, an engaging story about a young lizard who loses her tail and tries a host of other animal tails on for size. The book won her Learning Magazine’s 2009 Teachers’ Choice Award as well as the Best Children’s Book and the Best Overall Book...
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Friday, October 31,2008
Lesbian Cabaret
Milwaukee native Kathryn Lounsbery has followed a rapid upward trajectory since moving to the West Coast. She hit the ground running right out of graduate school, landing a job as pop keyboard editor for prestigious Alfred Publishing. As impressive as that may be, Lounsbery’s day job pales next to her current...
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Wednesday, October 22,2008
A Passion for Change
Milwaukee native Tyanna Clayton Mallet is making a difference as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana. Before leaving family and friends to embark on a whirlwind adventure to Ghana, Tyanna received a bachelor’s degree in African-American Studies from Marquette University in 2005. Her passion for change...
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Wednesday, October 15,2008
From milwaukee to Tinseltown
On any given day, Milwaukee-born Brandon DeShazer is knocking on doors in Hollywood in search of roles. Recently, that hard-to-breach portal swung open. DeShazer, a 20-something actor who attended Marquette, already knows the ins-and-outs of show business because he’s been modeling and acting since childhood.
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FIRST SUNDAY FREE CLASS JANUARY 4, 1-2:30PM
Come one and all and refresh yourself for the holidays. Here is a great opportunity to introduce yourself, family and friends to the transformative practice of Iyengar yoga. Peggy Hong will teach the January free Introductory class.
Our Mission: Riverwest Yogashala, a nonprofit yoga center, brings yoga to a diverse population, promoting strength, clarity, and overall well-being through the practice of
Location: East Milwaukee
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As if guided by evil voices, Hitler rose remarkably from nobody artist to master of Europe, aided by timing and abetted by luck. He survived, unscathed, several plots to kill him. Valkyrie dramatizes the one that nearly hit bull's-eye, a conspiracy by Ger
Although the wacky, anonymous, eyeball-mask-wearing members of The Residents make a point of labeling it a collection of "pop songs," The Bunny Boy isn't simply a pop album. It's also a cryptic Internet series that "inspired" the album, a live performance
Steve Grimm's place in Milwaukee music history remains secure for having fronted one of the city's most prominent bands to make it to a major label. It's been a while since Bad Boy was a happening entity, but Grimm remains vital-if inextricably linked to
General Billy Mitchell was predicting the future of aerial warfare when a restaurant opened near the airfield that would bear his name. Under different names and...
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Welcome To Rock Netroots: Confusion Over Newspaper's Publishing Policy
Last week Sunday (Dec.28), the Janesville Gazette included the marriage announcement of an openly gay local couple among a listing of ?straight? marriage announcements on their ?Celebrations? page. As it turns out, the couple exchanged vows in California on Nov. 3, the day before Proposition 8 banned same-sex marriage in [...]
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