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Whatever Name He Chooses, Black Francis Rocksnew
On Bluefinger, Francis is channeling faraway echoes of classic, mid-'60s Kinks and early-'70s Lou Reed and New York Dolls
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Francis, Bluefinger
Save the Toddler-sized Wilco T-shirtsnew
Ronnie McCoury creates a bluegrass CD for kids that parents can listen to. Better yet, McCoury doesn't try to be cool while doing it.
Shepherd Express |
Jon Gilbertson |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Mo' McCoury
The National Escape into 'Boxer'new
After the group's supposed-to-be break-out tour was stolen by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The National returns with an album of quiet, meditative tunes.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boxer, The National
Another Attempt at Mental Health Paritynew
Budget proposals could increase insurance coverage in Wisconsin.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
09-24-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
No-Match Letters Already Affecting Workersnew
One fired employee shares her story.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-24-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Global Union World Music Festival Returnsnew
When Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs pushed for Milwaukee to host a world music festival in conjunction with those in the Windy City and Madison, Milwaukee rose to the challenge.
Shepherd Express |
Sarah Biondich |
09-14-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Global Union, concerts
Ani DiFranconew
DiFranco's latest release, Canon, is a best-of compendium of her discography. Compiling it meant that DiFranco, her own harshest critic, had to re-listen to all those old albums, an experience she describes, with an exaggerated whine, as "awful."
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
09-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ani DiFranco, Canon
John Norquist on Urban Living, Sprawl & Transitnew
Norquist took the skills he learned as Milwaukee mayor from 1988 to 2003 and uses them to provide a model for other cities in his role as president of the Congress for the New Urbanism, based in Chicago.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-14-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Frank Lloyd Wright's Extra-Marital Activitiesnew
Debut novelist Nancy Horan takes Wright's real-life affair with Mamah Cheney and runs with it.
Shepherd Express |
Rebecca Schlei |
09-10-2007 |
Fiction
AIDS Beginsnew
Director André Téchiné dramatizes the onset of AIDS through the lives of four interconnected people, two of them gay, one uncertain and the other heterosexual.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
Danny DeVito Preps for 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'new
He measures 4-foot-11 on his tiptoes, is pudgy, balding and has a face that would never be confused with that of a matinee idol -- hardly the attributes of a modern-day celebrity.
Shepherd Express |
Nathan Lerner |
09-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Soulive in Decline?new
Both 2005's Breakout and their latest, No Place Like Soul, find the once groove-solo-vamp focus replaced by a soul and R&B sound more akin to the modern-day handle of slow jams.
Shepherd Express |
Todd Lazarski |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: No Place Like Soul, Soulive
Under-rated: Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfieldnew
Drummer Patrick Ford hopes to raise a the recognition of the late blues musicians through this live tribute album.
Shepherd Express |
Sonia Khatchadourian |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
Maybe 2007 will be Better for Film Schoolnew
Inside the downward-cast glances of Film School's music -- the term "shoegaze" doesn't quite capture the tone -- are a great deal of sidelong resentments and gritted teeth.
Shepherd Express |
Jon Gilbertson |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: film school, Hideout
Los Lobos Tackles Immigrant Issuesnew
The Town and the City is as close to a theme album as the group has recorded in its 30-plus years together, and possibly its best since 1992's Kiko.
Shepherd Express |
Alan Sculley |
09-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Los Lobos, The Town and the City
