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Democratic Candidates for Lieutenant Governor

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Democratic Candidates for Lieutenant Governor
By Lisa Kaiser
On Sept. 14, voters in the Democratic primary will select the running mate for the party’s nominee for governor, presumed to be Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

LT. Governor

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

State Rep. Tom Nelson of Kaukauna was elected to the state Assembly in 2004 and was selected by his Democratic colleagues to be majority leader in 2009. Nelson championed a tough payday lending reform bill that served as the basis for a bill that passed in the last session.

Is Pollution From Coal Ash a Concern?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Lisa Kaiser
Environmental concerns about coal-fired power plants tend to center on toxins in air emissions and the plants’ heavy carbon footprints.

Fighting Bob Fest Is Back for Its Ninth Annual Event

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Lisa Kaiser
In the midst of a tough election season in which the conservative Tea Parties are the media’s darlings, progressives in Wisconsin are meeting on Sept. 11 at Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo to network and brainstorm about the most pressing issues facing the country.

The Billionaire Right-Winger

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Joe Conason
proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does journalism fully penetrate the glittering illusions created by partisans on every side to reveal the grittier realities.

The Next Governor

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Joel McNally
Anyone trained in public opinion research knows that the polls in this summer’s media reports about what’s going to happen in the November elections are totally meaningless.

Issue of the Week

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

In the midst of an era in which health care costs have spiraled out of control, the leading Republican candidates for governor have vowed to cut one of the state’s most popular and necessary programs—BadgerCare. In a debate last week, both candidates derided the program as an “entitlement.

El Canaveral’s Mexican Charm

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

El Canaveral’s Mexican Charm
By Jeff Beutner
In the area south of National Avenue, between First and 35th streets, there is no shortage of authentic Mexican restaurants. Instead of following in the footsteps of big, popular venues like La Perla and La Fuente

Korean Lettuce Wraps at Milwaukee’s Seoul

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Korean Lettuce Wraps at Milwaukee’s Seoul
Lettuce wraps have become quite the trend at Chinese and Thai restaurants. Indeed, it is nearly mandatory to order them at P.F. Chang’s. They are also a tradition at Korean restaurants, especially those that specialize in tabletop barbecues. Milwaukee’s lone restaurant solely devoted to Korean food is the aptly named Seoul (2178 N.

Eat Local Challenge

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Sarah Biondich
If we’ve learned anything from the recent food recall that now includes more than half a billion salmonellatainted eggs, sold under more than 20 brands and causing 1,300 reported illnesses, it’s that allowing a small number of industrialized mega-farms to supply a large percentage of America’s food supply is risky business.

A&E

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

A&E
Milwaukee´s labor Day parade will include a labor of love, courtesy of Milwaukee Public Theatre (MPT). The second annual all-City People’s Parade will be part of the sept. 6 labor Day celebrations—and it’s all free, rain or shine.

Topping Brought The Beatles

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Topping Brought The Beatles
By Sarah Biondich
Saturday, Sept. 4, is the 46th anniversary of the day The Beatles performed their one and only show for Milwaukee.

This Week in Milwaukee

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in Milwaukee
With their face paint, flamboyant outfits and flaming guitars, KISS branded themselves as the most theatrical rockers of the 1970s.

Take or Leave ‘Takers’

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Take or Leave ‘Takers’
By David Luhrssen
From The Asphalt Jungle through The Italian Job, the heist movie has a long, honorable history. Putting criminals to work in devilishly complicated schemes to burrow into bank vaults, pierce the perimeters of impenetrable museums and make off with the loot of armored trucks

Film Clips

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Complete film coverage online at expressmilwaukee.com.

Art Happenings

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Eighteenth-century Moravian immigrants in the Carolinas created earthenware of startling beauty with designs rooted in Europe, Asia and the Near East. Opens Sept. 2 in the Decorative Arts Gallery.

Neil Haven’s Unique, Satisfying ‘Playdaters’

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Russ Bickerstaff
Neil Haven’s The Playdaters is a refreshingly unique show that mixes drama with comedy and commercial elements with experimental aesthetics. Spencer (playwright Haven) and Erwin (Jeremiah Munsey)

Neil Young’s ‘Greendale’ as Graphic novel

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Neil Young’s ‘Greendale’ as Graphic novel
By Martin Jack Rosenblum
The graphic novel based on Neil Young’s Greendale (published by Vertigo) is the illustrated version, replete with variant narrative, of the original. But what exactly is the “original” when it comes to this work?

Inside America’s Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

(Lawrence Hill), by James L. Dickerson The title is provocative and the tone polemical. James L. Dickerson is an investigative reporter, not a historian, and sometimes leaps to simplistic conclusions. He maintains that immigrants who came to America for economic reasons “tended to view torture as a legitimate tool with which to protect their wealth.

Readers Decide Fate in ‘Million Little Mistakes’

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Readers Decide Fate in ‘Million Little Mistakes’
Many Gen-Xers will recall the “Choose Your Own Adventure” children’s books, where the reader assumes the guise of the main character and is able to determine how the story should progress, leading to multiple plotlines and fresh, divergent escapades with the single jump of a page.

SLASH GOES SOLO, IN GOOD COMPANY

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

SLASH GOES SOLO, IN GOOD COMPANY
Slash’s band Velvet Revolver may still be looking for the right singer, but the guitarist didn’t have the same problem while recording his self-titled solo album.

Music Listings

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Pavilion): Sociables (noon-3pm), 4 Lane Highway (3:30- 7:30pm), Chasin’ Mason (8-11:30pm) SuNDay, SepTember 5 american Legion Grounds,.

Concert Review

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Concert Review
The band doesn’t give the impression that it is approaching its influences from a point of alt/indie irony. If the lyrics are a bit vague in a BoDeans-ish way, the Sleepwalkers sell their songs with at least as much gusto as those Waukesha wonders. Earnest and fetching, Olvera and his mates sound like they’re investing sweat equity for the long haul.

“Weird Al” Yankovic @ The Riverside Theater

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Tea Krulos
Weird Al” Yankovic has been pumping out parodies for 30 years, but he looked ageless at the Riverside Theater Saturday night, dressed in his trademark Hawaiian shirt with his mane of curly hair flying around as he energetically plugged away on his accordion.

slash

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The freedom Slash felt in writing for his album was a major contrast to his time from 1985 until 1996 in Guns N’ Roses, where singer Axl Rose was lead songwriter, and even to Velvet Revolver, where it’s been reported that especially on the group’s second album, Libertad,.

Milwaukee Births Several New Record Labels

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Milwaukee Births Several New Record Labels
By Evan Rytiewski
As business plans go, starting a record label is a pretty awful one. Music sales are down, record stores are dying off and bands have learned how to release their albums without a label’s assistance, so there’s more music than ever competing for the buck of fewer consumers still willing to pay for it.

Music Listings

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Grassroots Wednesdays, Weekly Open Mic and Artist Showcase Mo’s Irish pub (downtown),.

Milwaukee Soldier Turning the desert green in iraq

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Vincent High School graduate Capt. Calvin Fisher is a distinguished U.S. officer participating in an environmentally friendly project with Qahtan Kareem, CEO of the Alshefar Group. As the individual in charge of the Iraqi-Based Industrial Zone located on Contingency Operating Base Speicher

Badger Fans, Feel Free to Raise Your Hopes

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Badger Fans, Feel Free to Raise Your Hopes
It’s a time for athletic dreams in Wisconsin. Fans expect big things from the Packers, and this weekend the Wisconsin Badgers open their football season amid lots of buzz from national media. Meanwhile at Miller Park, a new statue honors Bud Selig, who 40 years ago fulfilled the dream of returning baseball to Milwaukee and keeping it here.

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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

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‘Nerd’ Is Not a Dirty Word… Or Is It?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Laura Anne Stuart, MPH
I am a self-described nerd. By this I mean that I’ve always been a little weird, a little quirky, not saying or doing the right thing at the right time. I think that “weird, quirky and not quite right” often illustrates how people feel about their sex lives, especially since we don’t have many chances to talk honestly about sexuality.

Free Will Astrology

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer; it’s that there are so many answers,” said folklorist Ruth Benedict. That’s always true, of course, but it’s especially apropos for you right now. You’re teeming with viable possibilities.

What, This Tattoo?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

It turns out that face and neck tattoos can become a liability for criminals. Royce Spottedbird Jr., 23, apparently thought it would be cool to have his name tattooed on his neck.

Never Never Land

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Never Never Land
By Art Kumbalek
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I hear we got another Labor Day coming up, the holiday when we honor the workingman by pissing the day away drinking beer in the back yard or a park somewheres.

Bizarre Bazaar

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

GREEN FIELDS ON FARWELL Get back to school with Green Fields. Large selection of New T-shirts, hoodies, bags, tapestries, doorbeads, and posters. Unique back to school essentials for unique students! 1800 N. Farwell 414-224-7762.

Fall Theater Preview

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By Russ Bickerstaff
Off the Wall Theatre kicks off its season Sept. 2 with a production of Charles Busch’s campy comedy Psycho Beach Party. Jeremy Welter directs the talented Liz Mistele and Dear Ruthie.

Andre’ Lee Ellis & Co. Finds a Home

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Andre’ Lee Ellis & Co. Finds a Home
After roaming nomadically for many seasons, Andre’ Lee Ellis & Co. finally has a home. “It’s just like Downtown,” says Andre Lee Ellis, the theater company’s namesake, proud to show visitors around the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center

Theater Calendar

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Wauwatosa 414.774.0620 Kellar Dance Studio 250 W. Broadway, Waukesha 262.542.8224 www.patkellardance.com.

Fall Visual Arts Preview

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Fall Visual Arts Preview
By Peggy Sue Dunigan
During Wisconsin’s fall season, nature creates its own array of visual art. Against this vibrant outdoor backdrop, many exceptional indoor art exhibitions begin in September and October..

Portrait Society Gallery’s Everyday People

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Portrait Society Gallery’s Everyday People
By Peggy Sue Dunigan
Whereas “reality” entertainment often relies on a carefully planned series of falsehoods, artistic realism uses the natural beauty and emotion of our surroundings to depict life.

Artist Kendall Baer’s ‘View From 80’

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Artist Kendall Baer’s ‘View From 80’
By David Luhrssen
With his Vandyke beard and a racing cap covered with souvenir pins from all over, Kendall Baer resembles a benign beatnik, even if he spent less time on the road than on a career in the commercial precincts of graphic design.

Visual Arts Calendar

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Shimon Lindemann: An Exhibition From “Survivorship: Through the Lens” Residency Dec. 11-Feb. 13, 2011.

Fall Classical Music Preview

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Fall Classical Music Preview
Milwaukee classical music fans are blessed to have so many options available to them, as this smattering of highlights from the new music season makes crystal clear.

Evolution of the Piano Trio

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

By John Jahn
The piano trio genre originated in the “trio sonata” of the Baroque Era (mid-17th to mid-18th centuries), where a solo instrument (usually the violin) dominated the proceedings, supported by keyboards (harpsichord, for the most part) and a bass stringed instrument.

Classical Music Calendar

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

A Romantic Christmas Dec. 7-8 Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield.

Dance Calendar

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Alverno Presents 414-382-6044 alvernopresents.alverno.edu Pitman Theatre 3431 S. 39th St..

Fall Dance Preview

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Fall Dance Preview
In the fields of dance and hybrid performance, almost every work presented in our town is brand new. Debra Loewen is among the most original of the originators. She has been making dances here for so long that the life energy of our city is somehow always her subject and everything her Wild Space.