Thursday, Oct. 16, Minus the Bear w/ Annuals and Themes @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 7 p.m. With their twisty, tangled guitars and number-crunching chord changes, Minus the Bear sound increasingly disconnected from a greater indie-rock scene that now prefers manic, cute-overload pop or tranquilized...

The organizers of PrideFest have long strived to book entertainment with appeal beyond the typical LGBT circles, but they’ve never before booked one as broadly popular as Natasha Bedingfield, a British star with no particular public LGBT ties. She’s best known for her single “Unwritten,” a song that charted around the . . .

If last weekend’s RiverSplash! didn’t make it official enough, there can be no doubt that Milwaukee’s summer festival season has finally arrived now that Jazz in the Park has returned. Every Thursday through September in Cathedral Square Park, a different jazz artist will headline this free gig while patrons—