AltWeeklies Wire
The Milwaukees Deliver Sounds of the Midwest, via Jerseynew
Oddly enough, the Milwaukees aren't from Milwaukee -- but it makes sense that this Jersey City quartet still chose our fine city as its namesake.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
10-05-2007 |
Reviews
Of Montreal Twists Pop Conventionsnew
Kevin Barnes talks about etiquette in hip-hop and his next album, which will be structured as one, long schizophrenic composition, comprised of eclectic 20- to 30-second snippets of music.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
10-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Of Montreal
Muslims in Milwaukee Show Many Shades of Faithnew
If you were to render an accurate portrait of Muslims in Milwaukee, you'd have to draw on a very broad palette, one that accommodates diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, not to mention different schools of Islamic thought -- from Shiite to Sunni.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
10-05-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
DJ Vadim's Soulfu Swaggernew
By framing his latest album, The Sound Catcher, against Brooklyn's grimy, artistic demeanor, Vadim says his latest release is his most diverse to date.
Shepherd Express |
Jenn Danko |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Vadim, The Sound Catcher
Suzanne Vega on 'Beauty & Crime'new
After a six-year hiatus, she returned this year with Beauty & Crime, a paean to her hometown of Manhattan filled with images of remembrance of Ground Zero in the days following 9/11.
Shepherd Express |
Harry Cherkinian |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beauty & Crime, Suzanne Vega
'Bamako' Puts World Bank on Trialnew
The film is a devastating and eloquent indictment of the world's careless disregard for an entire continent.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako
'The Banquet' Serves Shakespeare with a Chinese Twistnew
Openly borrowing from two of The Bard's darkest plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, The Banquet gluts itself on vicarious human passions.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Banquet, Xiaogang Feng
The Internet Haunts in 'Tell No One'new
Director Guillaume Canet explores the dark side of the Internet, with its potential for stripping users of their privacy and of transmitting unwanted messages.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guillaume Canet, Tell No One
What Would [Insert Famous Athlete] Do?new
If professional sports bear any resemblance to real life, we are afflicted with a monumental ethics problem.
Shepherd Express |
Joel McNally |
09-28-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Director Usama Alshaibi on Wartime Iraqi Lifenew
Alshaibi was born in Iraq, but his parents were able to flee the country with their children while Saddam Hussein was in power. After the 2003 invasion, he went back to see how his relatives were doing.
Shepherd Express |
Lia Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi
Winconsin Power Plant Sold, State Loses Oversightnew
The approval of the sale of the nuclear power plant at Point Beach does more than just transfer the ownership of a huge asset from Wisconsin Electric Power Co. to FPL Energy. It also diminishes the role of state oversight in the operation of the nuclear facility.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Public Campaign Funding Could Clean Up Wisconsinnew
State leaders could study publicly financed campaigns in Arizona and Maine -- or they could wait for a scandal that forces a wholesale reform of the system.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-28-2007 |
Commentary
Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom May Host Concerts Againnew
Under the proposed operating agreement, the organization that runs the Pabst and Riverside Theaters would also book concerts at the long-dormant, historic venue.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
09-28-2007 |
Music
Milwaukee Remembers the 1967 Open-housing Marchesnew
Vel Phillips, the city's first black and first female alderperson, became the champion for fair, open housing in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express |
Micheal Timm |
09-28-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
'Songs Without Words' Captures the Tolstoys' Lifenew
The book, which includes 180 of Countess Sophia Tolstoy's photos and dozens of deeply personal journal entries, tells the story of a famous family living through the tumultuous times of pre-Revolution Russia.
Shepherd Express |
Heather Zydek |
09-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
