Francis “Franny” Wild, 1928-2016

Grandpa announced my arrival. The story goes that as my mom, pregnant with me, was going into labor at the hospital in Fond du...

A.V. Club | Music Review | St. Vincent: St. Vincent

(Published February 25, 2014) Mere seconds into St. Vincent’s new, bracingly brilliant self-titled album, it becomes clear that the defining moment of Annie Clark’s...

A.V. Club | Jay Leno was good at being bad

(Published February 6, 2014) On Thursday, February 6, Jay Leno will take his final bow (again) as host of The Tonight Show. Few tears will...

A.V. Club | The guilty (and not-so-guilty) pleasures of Dateline NBC

(Published January 24, 2014) Late in 2013, long-running news magazine Dateline NBC launched an online contest called “Don’t Watch Alone.” Viewers were asked to make a...

A.V. Club | Gateways To Geekery | Where to start when revisiting the bullshit-strewn career of Penn & Teller

(Published January 23, 2014) Geek obsession: Penn & Teller Why it’s daunting: It’s not terribly controversial to say that magicians are, well, kind of geeky. Taking...

Milwaukee Magazine | 5 Milwaukee bands that need to reunite

(Published January 14, 2014) In today’s nostalgia-obsessed music climate, bands don’t break up—they simply go on “hiatus” before embarking on lucrative reunion shows. Fall...

Third Coast Daily | 5 Milwaukee bands that need to put out new albums in 2014

(Published January 9, 2014) 2013 was a ridiculously good year for Milwaukee music. Stellar albums from veteran bands like The Fatty Acids and Northless provided a sense of...

A.V. Club Milwaukee | Interview | Fall in love with modern rock ’n’ roll: A conversation with Jonathan Richman

As the frontman for The Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman unwittingly set the stage for punk and new wave, even though his musical interests clearly lied elsewhere....

A.V. Club Milwaukee | 6 easy (and cheap) Milwaukee-themed Halloween costume ideas

A recent Journal Sentinel story broke the news that—brace yourselves, folks—adults enjoy dressing up for Halloween. But what if you’re an adult who wants to dress...

A.V. Club Milwaukee | Music Review | Sat. Nite Duets: Electric Manland

Irony gets a bad rap these days. In an age when soul-baring honesty is seen as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, coating one’s art...