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https://shepherdexpress.com/music/music-feature/billy-prine-comes-to-shank-hall/ | Photo: Billy Prine - billyprine.com
Billy Prine
Billy Prine
The late John Prine’s gift was writing songs about everyday life. He recognized the telling details and nothing was mundane. So maybe it was fitting that when his brother Billy called, I was walking my dog one evening, wrangling with those small bags that have... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220412 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/music-feature/cat-powers-chan-marshall-finds-inspiration-and-healing-thro/ | Ever since she started writing songs under the Cat Power moniker 30 years ago, singer-songwriter Chan Marshall has gravitated towards music to inspire, heal, and make sense of life. That musical odyssey includes covering songs made by others. Earlier this year, she released her third album of covers, simply titled Cove... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220412 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-610-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 610 new cases
- No new deaths, 6 deaths added to state system
- 12,846 total deaths;
- 149 hospitalized patients, 27 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 610 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 640 new cas... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220412 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewers/for-the-brewers-theres-no-place-like-home/ | Photo by Greg Geeaych
American Family Field 2022
American Family Field
Unofficially, the April 14 home opener at American Family Field is the real start of the Milwaukee Brewers 2022 season. Although they are opening their show on the road with games against the Chicago Cubs and the Baltimore Orioles, it’s akin to an O... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220412 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/more-sports/different-rebuilds-but-similar-challenges-for-uwm-wisconsin/ | Photo: mkepanthers.com
UWM Panthers Vin Baker Jr. Feb. 2022
Vin Baker Jr.
UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison’s men’s basketball teams both ended their seasons in defeat.
Those losses occurred just a few blocks apart. The Panthers fell to the University of Illinois at Chicago in a first round Horizon League Tournament game at ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220412 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/upcoming-events/contests/win-vouchers-to-the-2022-milwaukee-film-festival/ | Image: Milwaukee Film
Milwaukee Film Fest 2022
The Milwaukee Film Fest returns on April 21, and you could win a pair of vouchers courtesy of Shepherd Express! Use the form below to enter before Monday, April 18. Winners will be notified via email on that day. Good luck!
For tickets and information about the 2022 Milwau... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220412 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/happening-now/celebrate-414-milwaukee-day-2022/ | Photo: milwaukeeday.com
414 Milwaukee Day at Leon's Custard
Milwaukee Day at Leon's Custard
The Milwaukee Brewers home opener just happens to fall on April 14 with the first pitch at 4:14 p.m. Consider this: former Brewers second baseman and Hall of Famer Paul Molitor wore number 4 and current Brewers second baseman Ja... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220413 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/lifestyle/art-kumbalek/a-tisket-a-tasket/ | Art Kumbalek Evolution - March of Progress
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, as an effort to assist our beleaguered United States Postal Service, I plan to mail in the following essay myself. Also, what follows will be like one of those podcasts that are all the rage these days in... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220413 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/lifestyle/out-of-my-mind/emotional-disconnection-its-called-alexithymia/ | Image: Ysr Dora - Getty Images
Emotionless smiley face
Margie persuaded her husband, Mike, to come to counseling because “he can’t express his feelings.” When they married, she felt his Rock of Gibraltar demeanor would balance out her high emotionality. However, she subsequently discovered Mike was not a stereotypic ti... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220413 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/music-feature/five-questions-with-brother-cane-guitarist-damon-johnson/ | Photo: Brother Cane - Facebook
Brother Cane
Brother Cane
Damon Johnson has played in some of the most popular rock bands in the world.
Some ‘90s rock fans may know the guitarist from his “moderately popular” band Brother Cane, but since they broke up in 2000, Johnson’s stood on stage with the likes of Alice Cooper, Thi... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220413 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/music-feature/robyn-hitchcock-from-planet-england-to-nashville/ | Photo courtesy Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock
Arguably Britain’s most influential singer/songwriter/surrealist since Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett flew the coop, Robyn Hitchcock first made his mark with his neo-psychedelic band The Soft Boys. Buoyed by singles like “I Wanna Destroy You” and their watershed ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220413 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/shepherd-setlist/shepherd-setlist-april-13-2022/ | The Shepherd Setlist is a collaboration between the Shepherd Express and Milwaukee music website, Breaking And Entering.
Brett Newski Featuring Miles Nielsen – “If We’re Gonna Breakup Let’s Make It Take Forever”
When it’s wrong, it’s wrong, and you know it. That’s the feeling conveyed by Brett Newski on his new song wi... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220413 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-798-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 798 new cases
- No new deaths, 4 deaths added to state system
- 12,851 total deaths;
- 141 hospitalized patients, 27 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 798 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 673 new c... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/river-kings-a-new-history-of-the-vikings-from-scandinavia-to/ | What’s new in Viking history? It’s anything that can be shown by archeology aided by DNA and other new methods of testing old bones. Cat Jarman is in the emerging field of bioarcheology whose methods have become increasingly refined even as new digs turn up new artifacts—and more bones.
Recent discoveries in the field ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/happening-now/shop-local-at-entrepreneur-driven-community-market/ | Photo via Marquette University
Student entrepreneurs from Marquette University and local businesses and organizations will be featured at a community market organized by the Milwaukee Entrepreneur Incubation Program (MKE EIP), an organization that serves Marquette University’s diverse student population.
MKE EIP hosts ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/film/reviews/ed-gein-the-musical-coming-again-to-a-screen-near-you/ | It’s difficult to look at the old black-and-white news photos of Ed Gein, with his vacant stare, goofy grin and raggedy farm clothes, and realize that he was once referred to as “The Butcher of Plainfield” for his unusual hobby of exhuming dead bodies (and creating some of his own), dressing them out like deer after th... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/food/eat-drink/wisconsin-ranks-high-with-organic-farmland/ | Photo: Organic Valley - Facebook
Cows grazing
Wisconsin’s rich agricultural heritage provides a bounty of signature products like cheese, cranberries, horseradish, ginseng, cherries and quality produce that’s renowned throughout our state and beyond. Wisconsin farmers are also excelling in another aspect—organic farmin... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/glass-spheres-by-chris-mondak-summit-records/ | Chris Mondak leads a jazz ensemble as an upright bassist. The position within the quintet he helms leads to spirited interplay on Glass Spheres, the Venezuela-born, Tennessee-residing Mondak's second long-player. Never ostentatious, even on his rare solos, Mondak nevertheless propels the saxophonist, guitarist, pianist... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/serpentina-by-banks-awal/ | Distinctions between mainstream and alternative versions of a musical subgenre are often about as clear as distinctions between shades of red. Jillian Banks, a.k.a. BANKS, distinguishes her alternative styles of pop and R&B from the mainstream with hot-pink techniques and blood-red emotions.
Still, with “Misunderstood,... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/the-eightfold-path-abrams-comic-arts-megascope-by-steven-bar/ | With darkly colorful illustrations by Bryan Christopher Moss, award-winning writers Steven Barnes and Charles Johnson have imagined a graphic novel that approaches Buddhist concepts through a Black lens. The Eightfold Path is a set of stories—many with comic book or sci-fi origins—told by travelers in the Himalayas wai... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/james-and-the-giant-peach-a-big-adventure-for-a-young-cast/ | Photo: Milwaukee Youth Theatre - Facebook
Milwaukee Youth Theatre- James and the Giant Peach
Milwaukee Youth Theatre- James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl’s 1961 children’s book James and the Giant Peach makes its way to an intimate staging this month with Milwaukee Youth Theatre. The surrealistic adventure finds its w... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/this-week/this-week-in-milwaukee-april-14-20-2022/ | Photo by Christoper Duggan
Jacqueline Green in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's "Cry"
Jacqueline Green in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's "Cry"
The Island at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, the 50th Anniversary Of Alvin Ailey’s Cry at Marcus Performing Arts Center, 414 Day music, an underground film festival, songw... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
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https://shepherdexpress.com/puzzles/crossword/crossword-week-of-april-14-2022/ | Click here to download a printable PDF of this week's Crossword. (0.3MB)
The online version of our weekly Puzzles page is sponsored by WaterStreet Creative. With more than 100 years of collective experience in successfully building brands through advertising, design, digital marketing and public relations, the WaterStr... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it." Aries author Erica Jong said that. Since I'm not an Aries myself, her aspiration is too strong for me to embrace. Sometimes I just don’t have the courage... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/puzzles/news-of-the-weird/news-of-the-weird-week-of-april-14-2022/ | Update
The Glitter Twins, Sarah Franks, 29, and Kaitlin O'Donovan, 27, have had their charges dropped in Clearwater, Florida, after a January incident in which they "glitter bombed" one Jacob Colon at 3 a.m. at his home, The Smoking Gun reported on April 5. Franks and O'Donovan, who are married, allegedly threw glitter... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
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The online version of our weekly Puzzles page is sponsored by WaterStreet Creative. With more than 100 years of collective experience in successfully building brands through advertising, design, digital marketing and public relations, the Wate... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/puzzles/word-find/word-find-week-of-april-14-2022/ | Click here to download a printable PDF of this week's Sudoku puzzle. (0.5MB)
The online version of our weekly Puzzles page is sponsored by WaterStreet Creative. With more than 100 years of collective experience in successfully building brands through advertising, design, digital marketing and public relations, the Wate... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220414 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-814-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 814 new cases
- No new deaths, 3 deaths added to state system
- 12,854 total deaths;
- 148 hospitalized patients, 33 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Thursday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 814 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 729 new ca... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/mke-speaks/using-video-as-a-bullhorn-for-milwaukee-social-issues/ | The People's Revolution
The People's Revolution
Bullhorn Films is a video production company run by Madeleine Schweitzer and Sean Kafer whose mission is to tell otherwise-untold stories about struggles against injustice. They hope to convey impactful messages to help shape a better future for generations to come while ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/another-view-on-skylight%E2%80%99s-raisin/ | Photo by Ross Zentner
Skylight Music Theatre "A Raisin in the Sun"
Shawn Holmes, J. Daughtry, Raven Dockery and Ella Lakey in Skylight Music Theatre’s 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Skylight Music Theatre presents Milwaukee’s first full-fledged production of the 1974 Best Musical Tony Award winner Raisin, based on Lorraine Hans... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/food/flash-in-the-pan/garlic-chives-with-choice-of-protein/ | Photo by Ari LeVaux
Garlic Chives with Tofu
Garlic Chives with Tofu
I pulled into the Walmart parking lot and drove around the side of the building, far from the doors, where it was relatively quiet. Nancy was waiting beside an old but well-preserved Cadillac when I pulled up. She came to my window.
“Just four, right?”... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/cannabis/cannabis/april-20-the-origin-of-the-pot-holiday-spurned-by-wisconsin/ | Image: Roman Barkov - Getty Images
4:20 clock with marijuana leaf
April 20 is almost upon us, in an America where, every year, more and more Americans earn freedom from prohibition. April 20 holds a special significance for cannabis enthusiasts across the world. Dubbed the pot holiday, 4/20 or just 420, the day is a co... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/happening-now/from-public-art-to-jazz-joy-engine-expands-on-black-box-fund/ | Joy Engine logo
Since 2019, the Black Box Fund has supported a variety of cultural undertakings in Milwaukee. Among them: “Under One Moon,” a three-day pop-up festival in the Third Ward’s Catalano Square; Guitarist Don Linke’s Jazz at Noon series in the Third Ward; “REbirth,” an installation of 22 oversized swallows on... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/food/lets-eat/enjoy-finer-dining-at-shorewoods-buttermint/ | Photo by Sandy Reitman
Buttermint sign
Walking into Shorewood’s Buttermint Finer Dining and Cocktails, it’s as if you’ve entered Don Draper’s supper club. With a modern twist on Mad Men-era ‘60s decor and a menu that includes fish and game meat you don’t see around Milwaukee very often, it is a pleasure to dine here.
T... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-804-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 804 new cases
- No new deaths, 2 deaths added to state system
- 12,856 total deaths;
- 140 hospitalized patients, 30 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Friday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 804 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 626 new case... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/features/solar-for-good-program-offers-assistance-to-wisconsin-nonp/ | Photo: RENEW Wisconsin
Solar panels at Escuela Verde
Solar panels at Escuela Verde
A grant program called “Solar for Good” invites nonprofit organizations in Wisconsin to apply for grants to install solar-energy panels. The deadline for the Spring 2022 grant cycle in May 1. The program helps reduce upfront costs of sol... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220415 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/cannabis/cannabis/public-hearing-scheduled-for-republican-backed-medical-marij/ | Photo by Bachova - Getty Images
Marijuana leaves repeating pattern
In 2014, Mary Felzkowski was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer for the second time. The Republican senator from Tomahawk worked closely with her oncologist and now has a clean bill of health. Medical marijuana, which is still illegal in Wisconsin, wa... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/happening-now/westside-artwalk-this-weekend/ | Artwalk on West Vliet
Although you wouldn’t know it by looking out of the window today, spring has arrived, temperatures are rising and the season for outdoor events is about to begin.
One of the season’s earliest takes place this weekend, the 20th Annual Westside Artwalk, held on West Vliet Street (between 43rd and 60... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/remembering-radio-doctors-milwaukees-legendary-record-store/ | Image: vitanovski - Getty Images
Stack of 45 records
The other night during a Milwaukee visit enjoying the road show version of the Temptations’ Broadway hit Ain’t Too Proud with my wife, Susan Orr—former WYMS-FM dee-jay—I was reminded of the years I bought their records at Radio Doctors’ three locations: North Second ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/film/film-clips/film-clips-april-18-2022/ | Image: ©Lionsgate
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Bad Guys (In Theaters April 22)
A crew of five criminal animals go straight in order to avoid jail-time in this Dreamworks animation. Adapted from Aaron Blabey’s graphic novel series, the crooks include leader Wolf (vo... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/film/reviews/milwaukee-women-honored-in-direct-positive/ | Photo: Bader Rutter
Direct Positive
Direct Positive
TEMPO Milwaukee is a membership organization dedicated to furthering the role of Milwaukee women in professional leadership positions. Working with the Milwaukee-based Bader Rutter creative agency, TEMPO produced a short film, “Direct Positive,” focused on more than a... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-330-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 330 new cases
- No new deaths added to state system
- 12,856 total deaths;
- 137 hospitalized patients, 26 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Monday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 330 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 672 new cases per day ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/features/dems-gop-unite-to-fund-the-pentagon-as-militarism-fuels-the/ | Photo: icholakov - Getty Images
The Pentagon
The Pentagon
Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree on almost nothing these days, but there is a major exception—one that fuels the climate crisis and degrades and destroys the environment. Military spending by the United States is one of the world’s biggest contributor... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/taking-liberties/why-do-americans-think-bidens-stunning-economic-record-is-s/ | Image: Mike Rosiana - Getty Images
Dollar bill back closeup
By any objective measure, President Biden’s job creation since he took office has been stunning. The economy added 431,000 jobs in March, the 11th straight month the nation added more than 400,000 jobs. That’s produced the fastest recovery from a nationwide ec... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/bucks/bucks-hold-off-bulls-in-game-one/ | With less than a minute left to play, Chicago's Nikola Vucevic turned over the ball after missing an easy put-back layup, and the defeated look on his face said everything. The Milwaukee Bucks, who came into game one of the Eastern Conference playoffs as a solid favorite, squeezed out a win on Easter Sunday, but it wou... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220418 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/classical-music/straight-from-hollywood-a-recital-an-interview-and-a-masterc/ | Image: serikbaib - Getty Images
Violin and cello
The Peck School of Arts will host the cellist and composer Antony Cook and violinist Endre Balogh this coming Sunday and Monday as part of a two-day residency.
Born in Australia, Cook moved to England as a child where he was the principal cellist with the London Mozart P... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/supporting-milwaukee-arts/patrick-nettesheim-co-founder-guitars-for-vets/ | For me, the creation of Guitars for Vets was the merging of two powerful quests in my life, composing music and easing the suffering of others. Living in Milwaukee for many years exposed me to artists that were able to transform the gritty undertow of city life into poignant, yet inspirational forms. The job of the jou... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/visual-art/milwaukee-artist-and-performer-wears-what-she-creates-and-tr/ | Photo: Ginger Whimsy - Facebook
Ginger Whimsy statue closeup
Ginger Whimsy
Ginger Whimsy has a variety of gigs. She has quite the creative flair and does many different things to pay the bills. Living statues are probably her favorite.
You create costumes and perform as human statues at various venues. Give us a few ex... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/visual-art/mowa-exhibit-honoring-marion-coffey-long-overdue/ | Lent by the family of Marion Coffey
Marion Coffey "Three Yellow Moretti Vases"
Marion Coffey "Three Yellow Moretti Vases", 2006
Milwaukee native Marion Coffey always planned to be an illustrator, artist and printmaker, and her sea of accomplishments is testament to her extensive talent, intellectual curiosity, and expr... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/film/reviews/the-northman-goes-berserker/ | Photo ©Universal Pictures
The Northman
The Northman
Draped in multiple bead strands and wearing a crown of wheat stalks, Björk plays the role of the Seeress in The Northman. She reminds the protagonist, Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), that he cannot evade the governing force among Vikings, Fate. His own fate is to... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/lgbtq/dear-ruthie/everything-organized-and-in-its-place/ | Photo Credit: Allen Halas
Ruthie
Dear Ruthie is proudly brought to you by C3 Designs — Award Winning Fine Jewelry. C3 Designs offers a variety of services performed in-house, including custom jewelry design, jewelry and watch repair, appraisal, pearl and bead stringing, engraving and flip guards. C3 Designs is the winn... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-471-new-cases-one-death/ | Summary:
- 471 new cases
- 1 new death, 2 deaths added to state system
- 12,858 total deaths;
- 136 hospitalized patients, 23 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 471 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 647 new cases... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/podcasts/laughing-liberally/laughing-liberally-milwaukee-episode-45-megan-mcgee/ | Laughing Liberally Milwaukee Episode 45
Today on Laughing Liberally Milwaukee, comedian Megan McGee joins host Matthew Filipowicz. The two joke about the recent attempts from the GOP to curb absentee voting, and a lawsuit from the WILL (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty) against the uses of dropboxes. They also t... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
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https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewers-on-deck/brewers-have-been-off-on-offense/ | Photo: Milwaukee Brewers - Facebook
Hunter Renfroe - Milwaukee Brewers
Hunter Renfroe
The Brewers have managed to tread water across the first 10 games of the 2022 season, but they’ve done it without much help from the offense. They set a new season high on Sunday when they scored six runs, but they still rank among th... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/classical-music/uwm-concert-to-feature-premiere-of-new-work/ | Photo: UWM Peck School of the Arts
Casey Dierlam Tse and Nicki Roman
Casey Dierlam Tse and Nicki Roman
Nicki Roman, assistant professor of saxophone at UWM. will be joined in a recital by Casey Dierlam Tse (piano) and Zachary Childress (saxophone and PSOA graduate student). The program will consist of 21st century work... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/literacy-services-of-wisconsin-matches-unique-tools-for-lear/ | Photo: Literacy Services of Wisconsin
Remote learning - Literacy Services of Wisconsin
Remote learning: Literacy Services of Wisconsin
Founded in 1965, Literacy Services of Wisconsin has worked with more than 30,000 adults to achieve their goals. Several years ago, I was matched with a student who came to the United St... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220420 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/when-lynching-occurred-in-milwaukee/ | Tyrone Randle Jr. is an activist and artist who recently led the initiative to uncover the grave of George Marshall Clark, who died in 1861 and is Milwaukee’s only documented lynching victim. Clark was a Black barber who was murdered by an Irish mob after he and his friend were socializing with white women on the stree... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/lifestyle/art-kumbalek/bread-and-salty-tears/ | Art Kumbalek
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, cripes almighty if people I know and loved, or just thankfully knew of, haven’t been dying left and right this past schmutz of time. And now Gilbert Gottfried at the age of a measly 67—yes, as has been said, “the comedian’s comedian.”... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/lifestyle/out-of-my-mind/soothing-our-anxious-souls/ | Photo: Sensvector - Getty Images
Anxiety
There you are, stuck and quaking in some high anxiety situation. Heart pounding, sweaty palms, stuttered breathing, mind racing. Yet, despite the stress hormones raging in your body and the catastrophic thoughts bedeviling your mind, you are expected, either by others, yourself ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
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Spoon
Spoon
Sometimes the devil’s in the details.
As Austin-based rockers Spoon toured in support of their 2017 album Hot Thoughts, they began to realize that the songs were still taking shape with each performance.
“When we're touring on Hot Thoughts, which was recorded in sort of a standard wa... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/shepherd-setlist/shepherd-setlist-april-20-2022/ | The Shepherd Setlist is a collaboration between the Shepherd Express and Milwaukee music website, Breaking And Entering.
Grace Weber Featuring Mudy – “414”
Grace Weber teamed up with Mudy for an R&B-soul love letter to Milwaukee. The song celebrates our city, with Weber, singing about being shaped by hometown love as s... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/city-of-milwaukee-and-milwaukee-downtown-bid-21-hosts-downto/ | Photo: Milwaukee Dept. of City Development - city.milwaukee.gov
Milwaukee downtown from marina in evening
Milwaukee downtown
Milwaukee’s 2010 Downtown Area Plan included the addition of a fixed-rail streetcar system, the revitalization of Wisconsin Avenue and enhancing the Station Plaza/Milwaukee Intermodal Station are... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-1-585-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 1,585 new cases
- No new deaths, 2 deaths added to state system
- 12,860 total deaths;
- 141 hospitalized patients, 24 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 1,585 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 762 n... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220421 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/flung-out-of-space-inspired-by-the-indecent-adventures-of-pa/ | Patricia Highsmith is best known today for writing stories memorably filmed, including The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. She had enormous influence in the 1950s through a novel published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt, an unapologetic depiction of lesbian lovers. Flung Out of Space... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/quest-for-the-presidency-the-storied-and-surprising-history-/ | George Washington didn’t campaign for the presidency. He was chosen unanimously by the Electoral College. However, the first President of the United States set a precedent by traveling to each of the 13 states while in office—a difficult task in an age of bumpy dirt roads. Bob Riel reminds us of this in Quest for the P... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/happening-now/beer-gardens-return-to-milwaukee-parks/ | Ah, the sounds of spring. The birds chirping, the breeze blowing, and the sound of the first keg tapping with cheers off in the distance. It all means spring in Milwaukee, and over the course of the next few weeks, beer gardens will make their return to several Milwaukee County parks.
While some gardens, like South Sho... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/food/eat-drink/southeast-wisconsin-wineries-shine-a-light-on-midwest-variet/ | Photo: Edwin Brix Vineyard - Facebook
Edwin Brix Vineyard
Edwin Brix Vineyard
Until the last couple of decades, wineries in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest primarily crafted sweet or dessert style wines made with fruit such as apples cranberries, rhubarb or strawberries. Those seeking drier, California style wines had ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/lgbtq/my-lgbtq-pov/mke-film-festivals-genrequeer-a-program-of-lgbtq-cinema/ | Photo: Korean Cinema Today - koreanfilm.or.kr
A Distant Place
A Distant Place
The MKE Film Festival, opening April 21 running through May 5, once again offers a marquee of GenreQueer films. Sprinkled through the course of the festival and screened at its major venues that include Times Cinema, Oriental Theater and the ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/a-porta-aperta-by-karl-silveira/ | “A porta apera” translates from Italian as “open door” and the phrase makes for an apt title to the debut by Toronto trombonist Karl Silveira and the sextet he helms. A Porta Aperta's nine pieces open doors to angular, cerebral melodies beholden in roughly equal measure to jazz’s ‘50s cool school and the intellectual r... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/new-dreams-old-stories-by-way-north/ | Jazz has long been an avenue to reinterpret and recontextualize pop songs and tunes from other genres. Way North go one better that that premise by reinterpreting entire genres within their improv-based sound. That’s why their calling their sound folk-jazz makes eminent sense.
The way in which the Brooklyn/Toronto/Otta... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/the-lost-album-from-ronnie-scotts-by-charles-mingus-resonan/ | Charles Mingus was a rarity in jazz or any other music as a bassist who led the band and composed the material. He was also a creative giant whose recordings are well worth seeking out. Just released, The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s is a triple-CD recorded in 1972 at London’s famed jazz club. Portions of it were int... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/music/this-week/this-week-in-milwaukee-april-21-27-2022/ | Photo: Big Thief - bigthief.net
Big Thief
Big Thief
The Music Man, a Spring Gallery Night, Earth Day events, an Exotics matinee and a long-awaited show by Big Thief and more—This Week in Milwaukee!
Thursday, April 21
Arts A La Carte Lecture Series: Optimist Theatre @ Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts (3270 Mitche... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-1-310-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 1,310 new cases
- No new deaths, 3 deaths added to state system
- 12,863 total deaths;
- 156 hospitalized patients, 32 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Thursday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 1,310 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 832 ne... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Marge Piercy writes, "I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/puzzles/news-of-the-weird/news-of-the-weird-week-of-april-21-2022/ | Let Someone Else Eat Cake
A birthday party for an employee at Gravity Diagnostics in Kentucky cost the company $450,000, but it wasn't an expensive cake and decorations that ran up the bill, WLKY-TV reported. The employee, whose birthday fell on Aug. 7, asked the office manager days before to forgo the usual celebratio... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
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The online version of our weekly Puzzles page is sponsored by WaterStreet Creative. With more than 100 years of collective experience in successfully building brands through advertising, design, digital marketing and public relations, the Wate... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
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The online version of our weekly Puzzles page is sponsored by WaterStreet Creative. With more than 100 years of collective experience in successfully building brands through advertising, design, digital marketing and public relations, the WaterStr... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/bucks/bucks-fall-flat-lose-starters-and-game-two/ | Photo via Twitter / Bucks
When it’s on for the Milwaukee Bucks, it’s on. When they’re off, it is glaringly obvious that they’re off, and that was the case on Wednesday night in game two of the Eastern Conference playoffs against the Chicago Bulls. The Bucks never really found their momentum, and the game may have reper... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/food/flash-in-the-pan/edmame-primavera/ | Photo Credit: Christian Van Der Henst
Edamame Pods
When I’m looking to save money on food, I don’t usually hit the sushi bar. But it recently clicked for me that one of the most delicious, nutritious and reasonably priced foods on earth is available wherever sushi is sold. And you can make it perfectly at home for even... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/a-concerned-voter-says-darrell-l-williams-is-wisconsin%E2%80%99s-bes/ | Photo via Darrell Williams for Senate
This is a sponsored article from Darrell Williams for Senate.
I don’t know about you, but when I look at the characteristics and attributes in the next U.S. Senator for the State of Wisconsin, hands down it is Dr. Darrell Williams. He is the kind of guy who has pulled himself up by... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-1-254-new-cases-no-deaths/ | Summary:
- 1,254 new cases
- No new deaths, 1 death added to state system
- 12,864 total deaths;
- 162 hospitalized patients, 33 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Friday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 1,254 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 895 new c... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220422 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/bucks/bucks-look-like-champions-in-game-three-against-chicago/ | Photo via Twitter / Bucks
Grayson Allen
You wouldn’t like them when they’re angry.
The Milwaukee Bucks won an ugly first game of the Eastern Conference opening round on Easter Sunday. They lost an ugly game on Wednesday night. There was nothing ugly about their performance on Friday in Chicago, winning 111-81 to take a... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220423 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/fighting-over-hamlet-in-next-acts-the-last-white-man/ | Photo by Ross Zentner
Next Act Theatre "The Last White Man"
Ken Miller in Next Act Theatre's "The Last White Man"
“To be or not to be ...” Some of the most famous words ever spoken in the theater. And that phrase lies at the very heart—and troubled souls— of The Last White Man by Bill Cain, which opened Next Act Theatr... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/finding-musical-theaters-future-in-something-rotten/ | Photo: Sunset Playhouse - Facebook
Sunset Playhouse "Something Rotten!"
Sunset Playhouse "Something Rotten!"
Something Rotten is rooted in a fun concept. A contemporary of Shakespeare’s visits a seer and discovers that musical theater is going to be a huge hit in the future. Naturally he wants to be ahead of his time, ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/first-stages-inspirational-lemonade-girl/ | Photo by Paul Ruffolo
First Stage "The Amazing Lemonade Girl'
Nala Patel and Pietja Dusek in First Stage's "The Amazing Lemonade Girl'
First Stage explores the true inspirational story of a child who inspired generosity with The Amazing Lemonade Girl. Child actors in two alternating casts play Alexandra Flynn Scott-a g... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/people-of-color-challenge-audience-to-reconsider-stereotypes/ | Photo by Joshua Meitz
VIP Theatre "The Light"
VIP Theatre's "The Light"
Voices Included for People of Color (VIP) Theatre launched its inaugural production—and beginning of its new company—at Marquette University’s Helfaer Theatre last weekend with The Light by Loy A. Webb. It is an intimate two actor drama that challe... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/when-little-women-start-to-sing/ | Photo: Forte Theatre
Forte Theatre "Little Women: The Musical"
Forte Theatre "Little Women: The Musical"
Rarely has a Milwaukee theater made a more impressive debut than Forte Theatre has done with its current production of Little Women: The Musical. From start to finish, the company has created one of the gems of Milw... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/film/film-clips/film-clips-april-25-2022/ | Photo: ©Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc.
Fortress: Sniper's Eye
Bruce Willis in "Fortress: Sniper's Eye"
Fortress: Sniper’s Eye
(Limited Theatrical Release and Streaming on VUDU & AppleTV, April 29)
Bruce Willis starred in nine films during 2021, and—according to numerous critics—seemingly without regard for quality. The... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/community-news/daily-wisconsin-covid-19-update-696-new-cases/ | Summary:
- 696 new cases
- No new deaths recorded or added to state system
- 12,864 total deaths;
- 185 hospitalized patients, 33 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Monday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 696 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 1,071 new ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/taking-liberties/trumps-destruction-of-our-courts-will-last-for-decades/ | Photo: GBlakeley - Getty Images
US Supreme Court
The 2020 defeat of Donald Trump’s failed presidency after a single disastrous term during a deadly worldwide pandemic will always be considered one of the most important elections in American history.
But a year and a half later, we’re just beginning to realize Trump’s p... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
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Josh Hader April 17, 2022
Josh Hader after the April 17, 2022 game.
Josh Hader, the reigning National League Reliever of the Year, is off to a good start in his efforts to win that award for the fourth time in five seasons. Sunday night he notched his eighth save in eight appearances ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/bucks/bucks-comfortably-take-game-four-against-chicago/ | There was a lasting effect to the Milwaukee Bucks’ 30-point win over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night, and that became apparent just a few minutes into game four of the Eastern Conference first round on Sunday afternoon. Less than three minutes into the game, the Bucks took the lead on a Jrue Holiday jumper, and they ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220426 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/comedy/sheng-wangs-food-for-laughter-and-thought/ | Photo: Sheng Wang - Facebook
Sheng Wang
Sheng Wang
It may behoove Sheng Wang to include an advisory on tickets: his stand-up comedy shows can induce growling stomachs. Food is not only a source of vital nutrients to him, but some of his funniest bits.
“I just love food,” declares Wang, who will be coming to The Improv ... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220427 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/supporting-milwaukee-arts/lindsay-stevens-founder-executive-director-of-rock-the-green/ | Music and nature are my passions. As the decade-long founder and executive director of Rock the Green, my passion is summed up by our mission statement, “creating a sustainable ecosystem in concert with each other”… combining music, collaboration … coming together, working together, making a difference together.
To me,... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220427 |
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/theater/mamma-mia-and-evita-are-among-skylight-theatres-offerings/ | Image: Skylight Music Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre "Let's Soar"
After being twice delayed by COVID, Evita will finally come to the Skylight Music Theatre’s stage next year during the company’s 2022-2023 season.
“Last season showed us that audiences are ready, willing and eager to enjoy live music theatre again,” says... | true | true | both | shepherdexpress | 20220427 |
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