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Lady DJs Get Their Own Night At River Horse

by DeMisty Bellinger / photos by Peter DiAntoni

Carolina Psister is not new to the music scene; she hails from a band from her hometown in Brazil and, upon entering the US, quickly formed another band here in Milwaukee. However, she is new to bartending, and when Scean Rose, part owner of the River Horse, gave her the job and the freedom to pick any disc jockey format for her nights of tending, she chose a line-up of all women.

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Local Sounds, Art Bits & Celebrations

Cleveland Miles – New Harmony Indiana – Taste Emcees – the Funky Art Man – Artists Needed at the Currents – Urban Artists House Party – Strive Media – Susanne Carter – Rhythms For A Nuclear Free World – Gordon Park Diversity Picnic

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One Love and Killer Rhythms in Beer City

by Jeremy Berg

“You gotta make people feel the music,” agrees a selector in a video interview, stressing the need for a selector to have “talent and confidence.” He then jokes about putting a lot of ordinary DJs out of business after coming back from Jamaica, but the joke probably has some truth to it. The audience at Thai Joe’s is not allowed to remain standing. This is dancehall music, and you’re going to dance.

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Burning Snow Center

by Jeremy Berg

The Institute for Thought will also host a lecture at UWM’s architecture and urban planning department this fall, and Griswold has worked with the sheriff’s department, fire department, and mayor to make it safe and legal to practice spinning poi (two kevlar balls at the end of chains dipped in flammable liquid and spun around, unsurprisingly popular at a festival that climaxes with the burning of a 40-foot statue of a man).