Today’s Homily (Sunday 7/23/23):

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Bette Midler Has Some Gift Ideas For Your Kids!

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Suggested Summer Play In The Park? Lysistrata!

After presenting our summer reading suggestion, Cider House Rules, I thought it might be a good idea to suggest a play for 2022’s Play in the Park presenters. Time to put away those tired old Shakespearean chestnuts and go for the real classics: Lysistrata! and why? well, here’s the synopsis…

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Thoughts And Prayers of the Day

an appropriate time to use the phrase. Best wishes to you and your families.

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SYD: John Lennon

“Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to…

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Squandering Another Milwaukee Cultural Icon

Delaying maintenance on Milwaukee County infrastructure has been a key strategy out of the County Executive office under both Scott Walker and Chris Abele. And we’ve seen the continued round and round (no pun intended) about the lack of support for the crumbling Mitchel Park Conservatory…aka The Domes. They may…

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Trump’s Support In Wisconsin?

I am not going to go into great detail on who in Wisconsin supports Donald Trump…I’ll let the article speak for itself. It gets into breakdowns of college/non-college, rural/urban, gender, religious/not, etc. So if you are a policy wonk, you’ll love it. Here’s the intro though so you can get…

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Do We Have A New Location For The Milwaukee Public Museum?

Developer Rick Barrett has been trying to build a high rise apartment complex across Michigan Street from the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum and across Lincoln Memorial Drive from the Milwaukee Art Museum and Discovery World for quite some time. BUT: Couture high-rise planned for downtown Milwaukee lakefront runs into more…

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Whitewashing American History via George Washington Murals

Another issue a bit out of the normal Blogging Blue world…but this is a little bit disturbing to me as an artist and a political activist. Here’s the full article and here’s a bit of background: The 1,600-square-foot mural series titled “Life of Washington” was painted on San Francisco’s George…

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Whither MKE County: Tearing Down the Domes

I am not going to weigh in on tearing down the Domes in this blog…or whether to move the Milwaukee Public Museum out of downtown…I have opinions but that is not what I am going to rant about in this post. The MPM and Mitchell Park Domes org put together…

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