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'The Banquet' Serves Shakespeare with a Chinese Twist

Shepherd Express | September 28, 2007

Openly borrowing from two of The Bard's darkest plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, The Banquet gluts itself on vicarious human passions.

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Tags: The Banquet, Xiaogang Feng

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Mixed Use, Mixed Messagesnew

The problem with multi-task buildings.

Shepherd Express | Aisha Motlani | 03-21-2008 | Art

Tags: visual arts

Milwaukee Public Museum hosts Body Worldsnew

The millions of visitors worldwide who've visited the Body Worlds exhibits to date prove that seeing the human body bereft of all its mystery, not to mention its skin, is fascinating.

Shepherd Express | Aisha Motlani | 01-18-2008 | Art

Tags: visual arts

Present Music at Milwaukee Art Museumnew

In "Art, Architecture and Music" audiences are invited on a musical tour of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) -- "a Gallery Night for the eyes and the ears," according to Eric Lind, Present Music's managing director.

Shepherd Express | Aisha Motlani | 01-11-2008 | Concerts

Tags: Present Music, concerts

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Mel Gibson Crosses the Line in 'Edge of Darkness'new

In the pair of emotionally contradictory images that open Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness, swollen corpses surfacing on a moonlit river are followed without pause by grainy home video of a little girl playing in the surf.

Shepherd Express | David Luhrssen | 01-29-2010 | Reviews

Tags: Edge of Darkness, Martin Campbell

Spike Lee Remembers Balck Braverynew

Lee has been fighting World War II long before the release of his latest film, Miracle at St. Anna. His campaign began with a salvo at Clint Eastwood for excluding black faces from Flags of Our Fathers and perpetuating the assumption that blacks contributed little to the U.S. victory.

Shepherd Express | David Luhrssen | 10-03-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Spike Lee, Miracle at St. Anna

'Outsourced': A Comedy of Job Lossnew

Outsourced is a bright comedy about greedy American corporations, low-wage Indian workers, cultural incomprehension and the bonds that can form across all barriers by people of good will-especially, but not only, if they fall in love.

Shepherd Express | David Luhrssen | 09-05-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Economy, jobs, John Jeffcoat, Outsourced, outsourcing

Son of Hamlet?new

Hamlet 2 is not among the funniest of satires, though it does have its amusing moments.

Shepherd Express | David Luhrssen | 08-29-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Peter Cattaneo, Hamlet 2

Vicky and Cristina Abroadnew

For the fourth in a series of films made outside of his beloved New York, Woody Allen moves from Great Britain to sunnier climes. Set in Spain, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is an ocean away from his mature Manhattan comedies geographically, but emotionally it might as well be just across the Hudson.

Shepherd Express | David Luhrssen | 08-22-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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