Arts

May 15, 2020

Ever get the feeling that the world has gone...mad? Of course you have, because it totally has. Now more than ever, wild and dangerous conspiracy theories fester in dark corners of the media (especially social ...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Black Cat Alley strikes a balance between art gallery and, well, alley

May 11, 2020

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...

This spring’s Bay View Gallery Night has been canceled

May 4, 2020

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized "Milwaukee’s largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community." The massive late spring event brings together talented area artists and mu...

Group behind Walker’s Point window art hasn’t forgotten about Wisconsin’s “Pandemic Primary”

April 29, 2020

It's been just over three weeks since Wisconsinites were—incredibly, unbelievably—forced to vote in person in the 2020 Spring Primary. You know, during a global pandemic. In Milwaukee, there were only five voti...

Milwaukee Art Museum cancels this year’s Lakefront Festival Of Art

April 28, 2020

Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations, there ...

Milwaukee photographer’s “Curbside Portrait” series captures the heart of small businesses from a safe distance

April 10, 2020

On top of the countless financial concerns small businesses are facing during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, owners and customers alike are missing out on many of the personal accents that help make local retail ...

Online storytimes, live drawing, and virtual studio visits to help you and your kids stay busy at home

March 19, 2020

Our 20 Years Later series is on brief hiatus until the end of the world is over—or at least until things start looking up again. Please accept instead this brief collection of book and comics-related online hap...

Help Lion’s Tooth open a physical bookstore by subscribing today

March 9, 2020

Since the fall of 2019, Milwaukee has been lucky enough to be home to Lion's Tooth, a small press subscription service that aims to spread the good word of books and graphic novels to adults, young adults, and ...

Co-opted activism, meddling adults get sent up in Highland Community School’s ‘Justice For Pluto’

February 26, 2020

"The irony of this one is that it's all about using children as props to further your agenda. If I'm not careful, I could be doing the same thing."Those aren't the typical concerns of a performing arts dire...

Fasten your seatbelts for the 2020 Diorama-Rama, coming to Lakefront Brewery March 31

February 26, 2020

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 diorama f...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Eric Reynolds

February 6, 2020

Eric Reynolds is one of the most well respected and loved figures in the world of alternative comics. He is loved by cartoonists, loved by fans, loved by booksellers, and loved by journalists like myself. When ...

Got a downtown wall that could use a mural? Answer the “Call for Walls”

February 6, 2020

Murals! Everyone loves murals! It seems a week doesn't go by without another public art masterpiece popping up somewhere in Milwaukee. But now, in a nice twist, a call is being issued for the location of a new ...

We talked to dwellephant about his coffee cup illustrations

January 23, 2020

On Sunday morning, Turner Hall Ballroom will be full and caffeinated during the inaugural Coffee And Donut Festival. Unfortunately, the celebration of beloved breakfast standards is sold out. However, the first...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Peter Bagge

January 9, 2020

Peter Bagge should be a household name. Sure, he's one of the most notorious underground cartoonists (you're welcome for the oxymoron), but he really should be indecently famous by now. The amazing (and tragica...

Want to paint a mural on the 2nd Street skywalk of The Avenue? Apply now!

January 7, 2020

It's been a while since the once-mighty, long-withering Shops of Grand Avenue closed up shops (heh). Now dubbed "The Avenue," the downtown complex is currently being redeveloped. The east end has already been c...

Milwaukee Fringe Festival announces 2020 festival and submission dates

December 16, 2019

Each August since 2016, Milwaukee Fringe Festival has showcased live acts from the worlds of theater, music, dance, and visual art downtown in Pere Marquette Park, Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall, ...

Behold Nomad World Pub’s new large-scale, interactive, Pandora-equipped mural

December 9, 2019

Hot on the heels of that Giannis/Yelich/Rodgers triple Wisconsin MVP augmented reality bobblehead puzzle set comes another piece of Milwaukee art that features some hi-tech bells and whistles. On Monday, Nomad ...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Dame Darcy

December 5, 2019

This is the second installment in a series of interviews with legendary cartoonists and publishers I first met in 1997. Back then I was a Brazilian journalist touring the U.S. with the not-so-subtle mission to ...

Here’s the schedule for the 2019 Milwaukee Krampusnacht, coming to the Bavarian Bierhaus December 5