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Milwaukee’s National Diorama Month goes big by going small

March 15, 2016

// Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony di...

Help make Rob Wieland’s new comic book, ‘Girls’ Heist Out,’ a kickass reality

Matt Wild

March 1, 2016

// Throw a rock and you'll hit at least 8,000 local crowdfunding campaigns hoping to save a bar, save some domes, or finally get some men's underwear with waterproof pockets to market. There's an almost end...

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ resurrected as grade school play ‘The Bully, The Liar & The Thief’

Matt Wild

February 29, 2016

// In Jim Jarmusch's 1995 "psychedelic Western" Dead Man, William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the dystopian town of Machine for a new job. Things don't go as planned, unfortunately, and Blake ends up sho...

Reading Carrie Schneider’s “Reading Women”

Marielle Allschwang

February 26, 2016

Last week, I was shown a photograph of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce's Ulysses. She is near the end, seemingly lost in Molly Bloom's punctuation-less, sensual reverie, immersed in the flows and throes ...

UPAF reaches out to new performing arts fans with old Henry Winkler ads

Matt Wild

February 15, 2016

The United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support more than a dozen performing arts groups in Southeastern Wisconsin. Last year found UPAF doling out its large...

Saying goodbye to Alverno Presents

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 4, 2016

// Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Open View shares Milwaukee’s insider art world

John Riepenhoff

January 28, 2016

Open View started emailing subscribers in the fall of 2015 with a concise but diverse list of recommended screenings, exhibitions, lectures, and other conceptual cultural events happing each month in Milwau...

‘Making A Murderer’ attorneys Dean Strang and Jerry Buting will speak at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

January 26, 2016

Perhaps you've heard of Making A Murderer, the 10-part Netflix documentary investigating the contentious legal issues surrounding Manitowoc resident Steven Avery and the murder of Teresa Halbach. Perhaps yo...

Milwaukeeists: 1996-2006 or: What Made Milwaukee Famous

Nicholas Frank

January 19, 2016

Editor's note: The following piece, covering a 10-year period in Milwaukee's alternative art scene, originally appeared as an accompanying essay for the 2013 "Milwaukeeists: 1996-2006" exhibition at the Lawton ...

Here’s what was changed to make that non-anti-Semitic Shorewood sculpture even more non-anti-Semitic

Matt Wild

January 18, 2016

Take yourself back to November 2015, when a New Jersey blogger "well known for his innovative and transformative ideas as a marketing, social media, and business development consultant" named Matt Sweetwood tra...

Tom Bamberger explores time and trash with 36-foot-long landfill photo in “Civil Twilight”

Matt Wild

January 14, 2016

// For all of photography’s triumphs in capturing a moment in time, the medium is surprisingly ill suited to capturing a moment over time. A moment is just that, and although plenty of exceptions abound—thi...

Alverno Presents’ current season will be its last, and that really sucks

Matt Wild

January 13, 2016

// For the past 56 (!) years, the performing arts series of Alverno College, Alverno Presents, has been bringing some of the most rewarding art and artists to Milwaukee's doorstep. Internationally celebrate...

Let’s talk about that “offensive” Shorewood sculpture one last time

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 19, 2015

// Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Riverside Theater, ruin your favorite movies

Matt Wild

November 16, 2015

// Back in December 2014, everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, champion of reason, and walking meme Neil deGrasse Tyson dropped by Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater for two enlightening shows dedicated to all th...

Are there really anti-Semitic messages hidden in a Shorewood sculpture?

Matt Wild

November 13, 2015

UPDATE #2: What in the actual fuck they’re taking it down and changing it. Mary Louise Schumacher has more. UPDATE #1: Mary Louise Schumacher has a response to the “controversy” from two gallery owners speak...

Former Schwartz booksellers spin tale of mystery, murder, shady animals in ‘Shady Hollow’

Matt Wild

November 3, 2015

A small-town gossip columnist stumbles across a body floating in a pond. An intrepid reporter takes up the case and starts sniffing around. A peaceful village is revealed to be a mysterious place full of dark s...

‘Night Of The Living Dead: The Puppet Show’ is coming to get you (again)

Kathy Nichols

October 27, 2015

Brother and sister Barbra and Johnny are driving to put flowers on their father’s grave at a cemetery apparently in the middle of nowhere, per their mother’s request. We hear a few squeals from the radio. The a...

“Larry Sultan: Here And Home” brings suburban ennui, flaming oranges to MAM

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There’s a moment in the Manos: The Hands Of Fate episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where Joel comments on the unnerving nature of the infamously terrible film: “Every frame of this movie looks like someon...

Jesse Eisenberg will appear at Boswell Book Company in October

Matt Wild

October 16, 2015

Boswell Book Company is known for a lot of things: being a breath of fresh, independent air in the world of bookselling; proudly continuing the homegrown traditions of its predecessor, Harry W. Schwartz; and br...

Found Footage Festival will return to Milwaukee in November with “Salute to Weirdos”

Matt Wild

October 12, 2015

For more than 10 years, Wisconsin natives Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been bravely scouring America’s cut-out bins, Goodwills, and dumpsters in order to find some of the most bizarre and delightful VHS od...