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Double-crossed in Londonnew
The Bank Job delivers all the pleasures expected from a crime-heist picture.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
03-07-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Donaldson, The Bank Job
Inspiring and Educatingnew
Meet the Milwaukee Art Museum's new director.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
03-07-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
'Travel Italia' Surveys Commerical Artistsnew
By the 1920s, high-end travel by ship, train and airplane had become a thriving business the world over, promoted by colorful posters of great artistry.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-22-2008 |
Nonfiction
They Might Be Giants of Kids' Musicnew
Cleverly designed to teach kids to recognize numbers and how to count, TMBG deploys its usual earnest wackiness with a variety of musical influences, from twisted American folk to '60s rock riffs and '70s soul, as the duo works its way up from zero to infinity.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-15-2008 |
Reviews
'Cassandra's Dream': When Dreams Go Wrongnew
Woody Allen's murder-thriller is a movie Alfred Hitchcock might make were he alive today.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-25-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
Our Way or No Way?new
Noam Chomsky opens his latest book, What We Say Goes, with fists flying.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-18-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Nice Outfit: Power-pop Legendsnew
Paul James Wall sums up The Nice Outfit with a catchy litany of bands: "Buzzcocks, Bangles, Beatles and Byrds."
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kissing Jocelyn, The Nice Outfit
Kevn Kinney's Milwaukee Homecomingnew
Thirty years ago Kinney and I were among the five kids in our high school of more than 2,000 students who embraced punk rock. Finding each other in study hall was not difficult.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kevn Kinney, Preapproved
Saved or Not?new
Crazy for God is largely an account of Frank Schaeffer's 1960s childhood in Switzerland where his parents, the Calvinist theologians Francis and Edith Schaeffer, ran a community based on their interpretation of Christian ideals.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Boy and His Monsternew
The Water Horse rises well above the level of most contemporary family films. It's moving and amusing, addresses the concerns of adulthood and childhood and is intelligent rather than merely smart allecky or even clever.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Reviews
Minds Not Wastednew
An admirable spirit of social uplift animates The Great Debaters.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Reviews
Dictator-rattling Musicnew
Bachata was the guitar-powered music of the Dominican underclass, akin to blues and tango, but with a gorgeously melodic sound tempered by the simplicity of the performances and straightforward, expressive vocals.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, Bachata Roja
Those Old Wisconsin Bluesnew
Most residents of southeast Wisconsin, even music fans, are still surprised to learn that Port Washington and Grafton were home to a significant blues label in the 1920s, Paramount Records.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-11-2008 |
Music
From Texas to Afghanistannew
Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson's War would be farcical if it weren't close to the truth.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson's War
The Early Bob Marleynew
Another Dance reveals Marley's roots not only in the rock-steady Jamaican rhythms that preceded reggae, but also in American R&B.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
01-04-2008 |
Reviews
