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Riverwest Bars Fill the Music Void

by Eryn Moris

I remember a time when my right hand didn’t go a week without being marked by a doorman for a rock show. The five years I have lived here have been filled with countless evenings spent in the company of Milwaukee music lovers and our favorite local and national acts. For a small city in the Midwest, we’ve had it pretty good as far as our music scene is concerned.

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Why Are You Wearing that Stupid Man Suit?

by Dan Wilson

Donnie Darko appeared on the festival circuit in 2001 to critical acclaim, and was picked up for limited theatrical distribution shortly thereafter. Typically playing in art houses and college theaters, the film played Milwaukee for two nights as part of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s Spring 2002 screening series. Through word of mouth, the film has developed a cult following, and movie-lovers across the country are counting it among their favorite films.

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Who are the “Cuban Five”?

Imagine a country losing over 3,000 innocent people to terrorism, including passengers on its civilian airlines, just because of their nationality. And a government defending its own citizens by monitoring and infiltrating illegal terrorist groups operating in another country. Imagine the information they found, on training camps, explosives, and related plots, being turned over to the FBI — but then the FBI arrests the informants and not the terrorists! That is the story of the “Cuban 5″…

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Drawing Resistance – slide projections

Slide Projections is a side project of Drawing Resistance – a traveling political art show. Realizing that the tour of the exhibition of 31 artworks will eventually come to an end (2001-2005) and that it can not feasibly travel to other continents due to costs, slide projections is a way to continue to showcase political […]