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.
Christmas
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Making Hay
In Manitowoc, a seemingly typical small Wisconsin town that happens to have its very own WWII submarine and a main drag dominated by massive grain elevators masquerading as Budweiser bottles, one should perhaps expect the unexpected. Within the confines of an unassuming 1893 cream city brick edifice, photographers John Shimon and Julie Lindemann have constructed a studio whose dimensions rival that of a Hollywood sound stage.
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December
THRU DEC 9 CENTRAL LIBRARY: Exhibit Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. THRU DEC 31 WOODLAND PATTERN: Exhibit Kathy Kuehn. “Things Go Slowly.” 1 WEDNESDAY BREMEN CAFE: Mid-week Mountain Music: 9 PM. CIRCLE A: Freeform w/ Farwell Ken & Andy Reverse. 9:30 PM. COA: Childcare: 6:30 AM-6 PM. Adult Education/GED: 8:30 AM-3:30 PM. Family Center: […]
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Faithful to the Spirit of the Season
All I want for Christmas is Kwanzaa.
I fell out of love with the commercial offerings of Christmas when I was 10 years old…
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No Socks Please
‘Twas but one day after Halloween when I had my first glimpse of the holidays-to-come in a department store. The costumes had orange clearance stickers on them, and the Christmas trees, sparkly decorations, and more, were peeping out of cardboard boxes. In the air was a feverish hum as employees scrambled to shift the inventory from goblins and ghosts to Hanukkah and Christmas. Thanksgiving, it seemed, was to be but a bump between Halloween and the shopping frenzy ’til year’s end.
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