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Rasmalai Dreams

    by Nick Kotecki

Rasmalai Dreams (62 minutes, Hindi with English subtitles, 2009), takes moviegoers into the headspace of contemporary Indian culture. It is a documentary, parody and travelogue rolled into an hour long feature which will make you scratch your head and laugh. 

 

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Our Milwaukee • Beans & Barley

by Jim Loew ~photos by Janice Christensen
Amidst a time of many protests and demonstrations — over the war, the evils of big business — sprang a little natural foods store on the
2400 block of North Murray Avenue — where Cory The Bike Fixer sits today — called Beans & Barley. Original owner, Mike Stevens,
opened his store in August 1973 with only about six barrels for bulk food and two coolers.

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Inova Gallery • Check it out!

Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg joint installation. • UWM’s Inova Gallery in the Kenilworth Building, 2155 N. Prospect Ave. An exhibition of work by the artists who received Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists in 2008. It brings together work by four artists selected in the Established Artist category: Xav Leplae, Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg (a collaborative) and Iverson White; and five artists selected in the Emerging Artist category: Tate Bunker, Bobby Ciraldo & Andrew Swant (a collaborative), Frankie Latina and Barbara Miner. Thru December 13.