1 FRIDAY ART BAR: Syntha-size it. DJ’s Mike Kasun& John Alen. BREMEN CAFE: Dark Sarcasm’s CD release. BUCKETWORKS: Haute and Cold Fashion. over 15 designers. 6PM. $4/6 THE COFFEE HOUSE: David H.B. Drake, Monica Jabonski, Rich Morgan & Sandy Weisto. Food Pantry Benefit. $3 & two cans food. 8PM. MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: First Fridays; Robin […]
March 2005
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Take it Off
I’m sorry – I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on,” I apologized as the Brew City Burlesque girls waved me down at Anodyne Coffee Roasters . . . actually, that wasn’t the case at all. I instantly spotted Miss Chassy Dee Luxe and Ophelia Knightly sitting in the middle of the room as afternoon coffee-quaffers milled about. Maybe it was Chassy’s neon green jumpsuit, or perhaps Ophelia’s Veronica Lake hairstyle. Either way, Miss Trixie Van Tassel and their manager, Cookie, joined us shortly afterward and we began to delve into what drew them into the world of burlesque.
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Champagne & Irish Bacon
James Liddy (Irish, poet, teacher, gay, rebel) resides right here in this snow shush tree-lined town we call Milwaukee. His most recent book, The Doctor’s House, published by Salmon, is considered a rather “unconventional autobiography.” Read it! Mr. Liddy’s work defies labels, combining American and Irish contexts, states of history, states of love and joy. He was interviewed by John Tyson (poet, publisher, house painter) who produces irregular poetry readings at Voss books in the wonderful Third Ward. Tyson bounced a few e-mails in Liddy’s direction.
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Words Remembered
Back in the summer of 1997, Art Muscle Magazine published their final issue. Included in it were essays on the “art of criticism.” I saved the copy Lo these many years, and in thinking how best to honor MJS art critic, James Auer, who died in December, it was clear that only text written by Mr. Auer would suffice. The following interview (penned by James Scarborough) and edited for length says it all….Judith Ann Moriarty, Art Muscle editor, Riverwest Currents.
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Shirin Cabraal
When Shirin Cabraal first heard of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, it was not through reports in the media. She got a direct call from her mother in Sri Lanka. Beaches that Shirin had known as a child had been devastated; fishing villages had been destroyed. But fortunately, her mother said, the capitol city of Colombo had been spared and no one in her immediate family had been lost.
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