Riverwest musicians on “Stringzology MKE” – International Film Fest – New! Hotcakes Gallery – Flying Fish will Fly No More – New Cafes: Art Bar Cafe and Green Dragon Cafe – Bucketworks – WI Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Series – A Black Woman’s Burden: Her Journey from Pain to Freedom – Prophecy’s “Visions of Destruction”
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Flanagan’s Wake
by Thomas Patrick and Daniel Patrick
Me and me second cousin, Daniel Patrick, trekked over the big pond to Grapplin City in County Sligo for the wake o’ Flanagan, our fourth-cousin, twice removed. Everyone was there, even that old fekkin’ ‘oor, Mary Babs, an’ too many tongues went a-waggin’ about her and Flanagan, not to mention most o’ the men o’ Grapplin.
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Getting Schooled in Late Night Catechism
by Dan Knauss and Sonya Jongsma Knauss
Late Nite is not nostalgic in the sense of presenting an idealized vision of “the good old days,” just as it isn’t about mocking the past. A traditionalist and an iconoclast, Sister has little respect for nuns who gave up the habit, but she thinks women should be allowed to be priests, and as a kind of penance for her past sins, she makes children’s chairs from broken rulers. A good deal of impromptu humor arises from her invitation to survivors of Catholic schools in their 40s on up to share their stories about ruler-wielding nuns.
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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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