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February 09,2017
by Joey Grihalva
By Joey Grihalva
It is unwise to employ the term “genius” loosely. Gratuitous use can degrade its meaning and discredit your judgement.
That said, I find Brandon Thomas — also known as bliss & alice — to be a genius. Since his debut project — Poetry Volume One - The Shit Talker Tape — was released in 2014, he has been heralded as a hip-hop virtuoso.
Thomas can be understood....
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Tracking Trump
February 06,2017
by Associated Press
A new British stage adaptation of George Orwell’s chilling dystopic novel 1984 is coming to an America where issues of “newspeak” and surveillance are quite relevant.
Producers Sonia Friedman and Scott Rudin said the play will open in June at the Hudson Theatre. Nominated for an Olivier Award, it was created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan. No casting was revealed.
First published ....
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February 01,2017
by Joey Grihalva
By Joey Grihalva
For the bulk of its existence, hip-hop has been a culture and a music championed by youth, much to the chagrin of parents. This paradigm is shifting now that hip-hop is nearly a half century old. As I discovered talking with young Milwaukee hip-hop artists, many of their parents love hip-hop and some are even performers themselves.
“When I was young my mom played so much Mo....
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January 30,2017
by Michael Muckian
If the waitress has dirty ankles, Al McGuire liked to say, then the chili in the restaurant should be good.
Such an oblique bon mot was typical for McGuire, who led the Marquette Warriors (now the Golden Eagles) to an NCAA victory in 1977, the last season of his 14-year coaching run at Marquette University.
A street kid and son of an Irish saloonkeeper from Queens, New York, McGuire in 1964 bega....
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January 27,2017
by Associated Press
After incorrect or unprovable statements made by Republican President Donald Trump and some White House aides, one truth is undeniable: Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 are soaring.
First published in 1949, Orwell’s classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak” topped the best-seller list of Amazon.com as of Jan. 24.
The sales b....
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January 27,2017
by Joey Grihalva
By Joey Grihalva
Wisconsin has some incredibly talented female artists. That is not an “alternative fact.”
But you might not know it if you went to any random concert, art gallery or comedy club. In an effort to address this gender imbalance, multiple venues in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood played host to a parade of female and female-identifying creatives for five days last week ....
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January 26,2017
by Virginia Small
A provocative poster with the U.S. Capitol superimposed over a female’s lower torso was among signs carried during the Women’s March in Washington D.C., as well as marches in Milwaukee, Madison and elsewhere. Commissioned by activist Megan Holbrook, the “Tear Us Down, We Rise” poster was designed by local artist Niki Johnson and Christian Westphal. It was based on a work Johnson spent year....
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January 26,2017
by Kat Minerath
Martin Johnson Heade is an American artist who was born in 1819 in rural Pennsylvania. He achieved some critical notoriety during his life, but after his death in 1904 was largely overlooked in the art world.
In the waning years of Heade’s career and the early 20th century, Art Nouveau and the revolutionary compositions of Expressionism and Cubism with their angst and color, abstraction and jag....
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January 26,2017
by Michael Muckian
Would an opera about a jazz performer still be considered an opera? Or is it more like an extended jazz riff on the performer’s life?
According to composer and jazz saxophonist Daniel Schnyder, it can be a bit of both.
The Swiss-born Schnyder explored this thesis with Opera Philadelphia in 2015 through his work Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, a fantasized look at 48 hours in the life of Parker, t....
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January 25,2017
by Associated Press
Before winning the most prestigious prize in children’s literature, Kelly Barnhill took a little detour.
Barnhill, named this week as this year’s winner of the John Newbery Medal for her fantasy novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon, started writing children’s stories in her late 20s — after two kids and a yearslong hiatus from the craft she studied as an undergraduate.
“I was doing al....
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