Last night Benji and I went to Shank Hall here in Milwaukee to see Jeremy Enigk. Just as an aside - Milwaukee is frequently passed over whenever a national indie rock act comes through the midwest. Usually it’s Chicago and sometimes Minneapolis, Grand Rapids, or Cincinnati - but no Milwaukee. Milwaukee of course has it’s […]

I like conceptual art. It’s not always as visually stimulating as the Dutch masters, but it’s intellectually satisfying. Cory Arcangel creates art with the philosophy that pretension is bad, simplicity is better, and something that “knows it’s ridiculous” is best. Arcangel was visiting MIAD recently and brought along his “studio” to demo his work and […]

Milwaukee is a great little city. We have a lake that’s too disgusting to swim in, a “downtown” several blocks in diameter, and a lot of white-man-blues cover bands. But we also have a great college radio station playing some great indie and underground music. WMSE (91.7) (in the milwaukee school of engineering) has an […]

Milwaukee is known for many things Milwaukee is known for two things: Beer and Harley-Davidson Motorcycles. Photos were recently posted of the new Harley-Davidson (HD) museum, which incidentally will be only 6 blocks from my house, and it looks really cool. Better than the museum in my opinion is the transformation of one of the […]

We went down to the opening day of the Milwaukee Public Market in the Historic Third Ward (motto: “It’s Historic!”) a few weeks ago. It’s a nice building — lots of light from floor-to-ceiling windows, lots of exo- and endoskeleton to look at, and lots of people. The floors are polished concrete; the building is […]