Posted inMusic & Events

This Weekend in Riverwest 1/20

====================== FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 ====================== CIRCLE A, Chambers & Weil “Alive at 8” w/Aluminum Knot Eye, 8PM, $2. “Rockin’ A Friday w/Let’s Rock With Johnny Z, 10PM. BREMEN CAFE, Bremen & Clarke, 9PM Fair Webber (2003 WAMI Folk Artist Winner) & Mambo Surfers, $5 LINNEMAN’S, Locust & Weil, 10PM Orin Project. ======================= SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 21 […]

Posted inNeighborhood News

Mayoral Candidates on “Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods”

“Sherman Park, Riverwest, and Merrill Park are three of Milwaukee’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods. Each year Milwaukee showcases its dynamic ethnic diversity with festivals at the lakefront. Yet a disconnect still persists between these inclusive, celebrative ethnic festivals and everyday reality in many of Milwaukee’s neighborhoods. How would you, as Mayor, help foster more communication and cooperation between different ethnic groups on a neighborhood level?”

Posted inMusic & Events

LOST FILM FESTIVAL comes to Milwaukee

In the midsts of Teargas, police brutality, censorship, and repression in the name of “Homeland Security” there is a movement of independent mediamakers dedicated to maintaining a free and open press. Lost Film Festival celebrates freedom of expression by traveling around the world, presenting controversial work often glossed over by the corporate press.

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[MARN] MADE IN MILWAUKEE: 17 short films, $10

Old Skool Productions and local filmmaker Ross Bigley proudly announce the following line up of The 5 th Semi-Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival. The festival will be held at Bean Head Cafe, 1835 North Martin Luther King Drive on November 21-22nd, 2003. Bean Head Cafe will also award the grand prize of $1,000 on the […]

Posted inArts & Entertainment

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.