Arts & Entertainment - Sept. 15, 2007
Appearances bring readers, writers together
Although local booksellers never really shut down the author appearances, thankfully, things definitely quiet down in summer. But the Packers have kicked off, the Brewers may be tanking and that means the writers are arriving en masse again.
Tags: Kozol, Austen, Viera Rigler, Schwartz, Alverno, Marquette, Casals, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mamah Borthwick Cheyney, Oak Park, Loving Frank, Songs Without Words, Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Spanish Bow, Amy Bloom, Ethiopia, Haregewoin Teferra, adoption, orphan

Music - Nov. 17, 2006
Baptista's world party sweeps across Pitman Theatre's stage
Cyro Baptista, who came to the United States from Brazil in 1980, is a world-renowned, "world music" percussionist who gigged with everyone from Sting to Herbie Hancock. He comes to Alverno College on Friday night.
Tags: Cyro Baptista, world music, percussion, Beat the Donkey, Herbie Hancock, Sting, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Alverno, barenboim, roosevelt middle school, ryuichi sakamoto

Politics - Oct. 26, 2006
Obama speaks at Pere Marquette Park
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama will speak at a rally for Gov. Jim Doyle in Downtown Milwaukee’s Pere Marquette Park, 3rd and Kilbourn, on Tuesday, Oct. 31 at 9 a.m.
Tags: Obama, Kohl, Doyle, Gwen Moore, Schwartz, Alverno, Kathleen Falk, election, democrat, pere marquette park, audacity of hope, vote

Music - Oct. 8, 2006
Tyner brings a bit of Blue Note to Alverno
As the McCoy Tyner Trio, Tyner and his sidemen, Charnett Moffett on bass and Eric Kamau Gravatt on drums, the band performed an 80-minute set -– replete with two encores including one after the houselights had already been turned on –- that left the audience exhilarated and ready for more.
Tags: Tyner, Charnett Moffett, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Coltrane, Alverno

Music - Sept. 7, 2006
Hiatt's music is a thing of beauty
In a perfect world (of perfectly good guitars), John Hiatt would be a gigantic star and Britney, K-Fed and others would be working at Dairy Queen. Hiatt performs with Paul Thorn at 8 tonight at Alverno College.
Tags: hiatt, thorn, alverno