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No tricks, just treats

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

There is something adorable about the little witch that smiles up at you and asks for candy. There is something less adorable about the college-aged witch that does the same. But just because grown-ups can't get away with trick-or-treating as easily...

Stage set for new playhouse opening

Matt Ryno • October 28, 2003

"The Milwaukee Theatre will fill a niche for indoor shows with audiences ranging from 2,500 to 4,100, which no other building in the national market can accommodate," Snyder said.
From the audience perspective, this means more potential shows which...

CBS goes back to the grave

[email protected] • October 23, 2003

While the show is just more investigations of how people died, "Cold Case" (7 p.m., Sundays, CBS) takes a look at slightly colder dead bodies than its predecessors.
The title of the show refers to the sector of the police department that investigates...

‘Jury’ derailed by plot

[email protected] • October 23, 2003

An indication of where the story is going starts as soon as a man with a gun rampages through his former place of employment. This leads to a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer by the widow of one of the people slain in the shooting.
And then the...

Authors hit town for book festival

Lydia Cox • October 23, 2003

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Royal feast of extras elevate Disney’s classic ‘King’

Lydia Cox • October 23, 2003

The story is also kept fairly simple, with traces of all kinds of familiar works involved. Start with the "Hamlet" element of Simba's Uncle Scar scheming to take the throne by any means necessary to the "Bambi" side of losing a parent at a young age to...

Eastwood finds directing touch in ‘River’

[email protected] • October 23, 2003

"Mystic River" starts out strong and never lets up. It plays almost like a reverse murder mystery — it seems clear in the beginning who is guilty of the death of Jimmy's daughter, but Eastwood winds the plot so tightly and through so many twists and...

Local haunts

[email protected] • October 23, 2003

Though Halloween is still a week away, various places around the city are offering the opportunity to get a head start on Halloween celebrations. This weekend, Milwaukee will be alive with people getting a jump on celebrating the holiday of scares, and...

Horror redux cuts bloody new path

Todd Lazarski • October 23, 2003

It's been done, quite literally, to death. Yet with his first full-length motion picture, Marcus Nispel is out to prove that his improvised and improved take on an old formula can still scare audiences witless.
And this time, it works.
Nispel's remake...

Earle espouses views on live CD

Dave Rossetti • October 23, 2003

So far left politically that Earle calls himself a borderline Marxist, the Texas-born musician most recently drew the wrath of the political right with the release of last year's "John Walker's Blues." At a time when the so-called American Taliban was...

Texas tale captures teen-age tragedy

Tim Lowery • October 23, 2003

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, a panty-obsessed, beer-guzzling antisocial, is caught in a serious predicament — his close friend, Jesus, having just shot and killed 16 of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. Starving for answers, the...

Junk wars

October 23, 2003

In response to the Haggerty Museum of Art's exhibition Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces, students from selected Milwaukee school districts and local social justice organizations will create large-scale sculptures from discarded materials collected...

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