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Sea Monsters

Today @ the Humphrey IMAX Dome Theater - 3:30 p.m.

Back in the day—eight million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, to be exact—dinosaurs could swim. With almost the entire planet submerged in water, of course, they didn’t have much of a choice, but the prehistoric creatures that lived in the ocean were in many cases just as gigantic and ferocious as the better known, land-dwelling dinosaurs that children continue to idolize. Using a mix of footage from paleontological digs...

Today in Milwaukee

Tribute to the King

Tonight @ the Potawatomi Bingo Casino - 7:30 p.m.

Despite what the tabloids occasionally suggest, Elvis is long dead, but thanks to casinos around the county, his spirit will live on forever. The Potawatomi Bingo Casino does its part to remember one of the biggest pop stars of all-time with a four-night bill that begins tonight called “Tribute to the King,” featuring Elvis imitator extraordinaire Ryan Pelton, as well as The Imperials. The bill begins its runs tonight with a 7:30 p.m. show in the casino’s Northern Lights Theater.

Today in Milwaukee

Marc Ballini & Ryan Ogburn

Tonight @ the Jazz Estate - 9:30 p.m.

As they do every Monday night at the Jazz Estate, local singer-songwriter Marc Ballini, a guitarist/pianist who took home the Shepherd’s 2006 Best Of Milwaukee award for Acoustic Performer, and Ryan Ogburn, the accomplished mandolinist from the local bluegrass ensemble Stealin’ Strings, share a laid-back, collaborative set of soulful, jazzy music tonight at 9:30 p.m.

Today in Milwaukee

Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World

Today @ the Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum tapped its own collection for its latest exhibition, “Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World,” culling 60 rare prints from naturalists like John James Audubon and his predecessors, including Mark Catesby, an English native who crafted beautiful, hand-colored etchings of America’s flora and fauna. The exhibit is on display in the museum’s Koss Gallery until March 22.


Featured Stories

The Naked Vine

Felice Anno Nuovo!

Now that I've had a couple of days to rehydrate so that my brain feels less like it's been slow-cooked in bacon grease, I can start the Vine train rolling again. For a little background, the Sweet Partner in Crime and I hunker down each New Year's Eve...

I Hate Hollywood

Monsterquest

Science has uncovered some strange creatures, especially in the depths of the sea where sunlight never reaches. But from the dark corners of the world’s surface come reports of creatures science ref...

On Music

The Dead to Play Chicago

It isn't too much of a surprise, given that three of the four reunited this fall to play a concert for Barack Obama, but the surviving members of the Dead are giving it another go, launching a 19-date...

Sports

New Olympic Sport ?

Sports in Real Life

It's unlikely that snow-blowing will ever become a Winter Olympic sport, and that is a shame. Picture ten of the world's best blowers lined up on a track, roaring, revving and jumping at the start. Envision the white arcs of snow...

Cover Story

A Vision for 2009

Bold action for difficult times

This year, like every year, gives us an opportunity to consider where we've been, how we arrived at the present moment, and how we can launch a new year with promise.2008 was particularly difficult and is ending with our nation in the deepest recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. These difficulties offer us an opportunity to make big changes in the way we think about our society, our neighborhoods and our role in moving into the future in a fair and just manner.


Left and Right
Left and Right

The Case Against Light Rail

Earlier this month, the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think-tank based in Los Angeles, released a study conducted to assess the costs and benefits of a commuter light rail system being proposed for the corridor between Milwaukee and Racine. Interestingly, only those who listen to local talk radio would know that this study exists, as it was barely covered in the local media. The study was conducted by Thomas Rubin, a transit consultant also based in Los Angeles. Rubin's conclusion is that the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter light rail line (KRM) could not reach new rider goals, nor could it sustain the projected amount of riders.

Left and Right

Light Rail Still Makes Sense

My belief is that light rail should be expanded for reasons both economical and ecological. I propose that in addition to the KRM line, additional rail lines should be constructed connecting the city to the northern and western communities as well, perhaps as far north as Sheboygan and as far west as Oconomowoc.

Local Music

.357 String Band’s Punk-Rock Hootenannies

The .357 String Band has come a long way from playing on street corners and basement shows since they formed four years ago. They've recorded two albums, 2006's Ghost Town and last year's Fire & Hail. They've also toured both coasts and gone on three European tours, taking their high-octane acoustic act as far as Serbia. The String Band is where new meets old. It is cowboy hats and nose rings, a hootenanny with a mosh pit. The songs play like...

Music Feature

2008: The Year in Milwaukee Music

Though it hasn't put the city on the national radar, there has been a crucial sea change here over the past two or three years: After a long period of neglect, Milwaukeeans have begun paying attention to their own music scene again. Newspapers and magazines large and small have started covering local music with fervent thoroughness, while Web sites and blogs are showering musicians with needed encouragement and promotion. Now, there is even more than one radio station open to airing local music, a modest accomplishment that nonetheless seemed infeasible as recently as 2005. In part because it finally has...

Film

The Plot Against Hitler

As if guided by evil voices, Hitler rose remarkably from nobody artist to master of Europe, aided by timing and abetted by luck. He survived, unscathed, several plots to kill him. Valkyrie dramatizes the one that nearly hit bull's-eye, a conspiracy by German army officers and noblemen to assassinate Hitler and seize power. Again, evil luck intervened when an adjutant absent-mindedly pushed aside the exploding suitcase intended for the Fuhrer. Hitler escaped the blast, madder than...

Curtains

46 Miles Per Hour

In the early morning hour of January 3rd . . . (a Saturday) actor/playwright Sam Shepard was pulled over by police officers in Normal, Illinois. The author of True West and A Lie of the Mind was...

Film

Doubt and Certainty

In 1964, the time of Doubt, no one spoke of pedophile priests, even if the Roman Catholic Church was already riddled with them. Directed by John Patrick Shanley from his own play, one of the most provocative recent productions on a Broadway that has surrendered to the tourist trade, Doubt is true to its title. Neither an exercise in moral certainty nor an easy story for armchair ethicists, Doubt investigates the blurry line between perception and reality...

Expresso

Hero of the Week: MPS Board President Peter Blewett

Plus Jerk and Blog of the Week

Finally! MPS Board President Peter Blewett stood up for public education and democracy in the pages of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with his Dec. 28 op-ed titled "Cheap Advice from a Newspaper that Supports Failed Experiments." Blewett recounted the many floundering reforms the JS's editors have supported at taxpayers' expense-such as the Neighborhood Schools Initiative and the voucher program. Blewett also called out the...

Poll

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Marquette impressive in first Big East game, beats Villanova 79-

You know when watching the Golden Eagles play this season that you're going to see Jerel McNeal, Wesley Matthews and Dominic James make great plays.But who are Pat Hazel and Jimmy Butler?Most of the n...

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You Will Have Many Great Adventures This Year – In Bed

Online Edition

If your family participates in the long-standing tradition of seeing a movie and eating at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas day, you may have played the familiar game where you sex up the predictions received in fortune cookies by adding "in bed" to the end of the fortune. When you're making your list of New Year's resolutions this week, I strongly urge you to do the same thing. Like any other area of your life, your sex life benefits from regular appraisal and thoughtful commitment to improvement. Below are some sex-filled add-ons to common resolutions...

 
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FIRST SUNDAY FREE CLASS JANUARY 4, 1-2:30PM Come one and all and refresh yourself for the holidays. Here is a great opportunity to introduce yourself, family and friends to the transformative practice of Iyengar yoga. Peggy Hong will teach the January free Introductory class. Our Mission: Riverwest Yogashala, a nonprofit yoga center, brings yoga to a diverse population, promoting strength, clarity, and overall well-being through the practice of
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