Category: Entertainment

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…

And let’s start with John Oliver! and you have my permission to perform unprotected philately at will!

I wonder what the proper attire is when meeting the first lady and not the president? From last weeks email: Friend, I LOVE being your First Lady. Donald and I have been overwhelmed by all of the incredible people we’ve met all across the country these past few years. While…

yes, I can say that! LOL! https://www.facebook.com/70saroundsounds/videos/600431334039362

A little comic relief today. But the USDA website apparently included Wakanda as a free trade partner. You know, Wakanda, the fictional home of Marvel Comics super hero Black Panther! Wakanda’s free trade agreement with the United States wasn’t forever. Until Wednesday afternoon, the fictional country from the popular 2018…

In a number of articles that have appeared in the print edition over the past few days, and this one online about Senator Ron Johnson’s comments, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and by extension their parent USA Today are misleading the public on what the impeachment inquiry is really about. Their…

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…

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…

Hey, a chance to talk politics, business, and baseball! Major League Baseball along with private equity firm, Seidler Equity Partners, are buying Rawlings Sporting Goods. Now I realize that Rawlings has been making the official balls for the MLB for ages…but doesn’t this automatically preclude any other manufacturer from bidding…

The WMC (aka Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Foundation) is a conservative and very successful business lobbying group who have found ready accomplices in former Governor Scott Walker, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald over the past several years. Despite supporting the various business tax cuts provided…