Author : Matthew Reddin

• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, ScreenJune 22,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Summer streaming all about movies, miniseries and catching up with the year’s best shows

  [caption id="attachment_38200" align="alignright" width="300"] Will Arnett plays the title character in the third season of "BoJack Horseman."[/caption]NETFLIXWhen your Orange is the New Black binge is over (so, probably three days ago) there's a long wait for new stuff on Netflix (unless you're a fan of Marco Polo...). But the wait should be worth it. Animated cult favorite Bojack Horse.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured, Lifestyle, Music, UncategorizedJune 16,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Save the date for summer’s biggest festivals

  Wisconsin can be proud of more festivals than PrideFest. That event was merely the first in a long string of celebrations hitting both Milwaukee and other parts of the state over the summer months.We can’t, unfortunately, list every festival event in Wisconsin this year, but we’ve done our best to include some of the largest: Milwaukee’s many ethnic festivals, some Madison celebrations, an.... Read More
• Entertainment, LGBT, Milwaukee, News, StageJune 04,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Partners Wright and Jivoff a true theater ‘power couple’

  They don’t have a snappy portmanteau nickname like “Bennifer” or “Brangelina,” but C. Michael Wright and Ray Jivoff qualify as one of Milwaukee’s cultural power couples.In their roles at two of Milwaukee’s most critically acclaimed theater companies, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Skylight Music Theatre, the couple has helped shape the city’s artistic landscape over the better p.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, StageMay 05,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Cream City Comedy Festival puts Milwaukee stand-up first

  Milwaukee’s comedy scene punches way above its weight class. Despite not having the lofty reputation of New York, LA or neighboring Chicago, there’s more places that you’d expect offering open mics, showcases and other comedy events. The trick, of course, is figuring out where to look for local laughs.A new stand-up comedy festival plans to make it a little easier. The Cream City Comedy Fe.... Read More
• Entertainment, StageApril 21,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Milwaukee Rep taps director Lou Bellamy to take a swing at ‘Fences’

  After a long season, the Milwaukee Rep is looking for one more home run to close out the year. So they’re taking a swing at Fences — arguably one of the greatest works written by American playwright August Wilson — and sending up to the plate a director whose batting average with Wilson plays is equally exceptional.[caption id="attachment_35466" align="alignright" width="200"] Penumbra.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured, Featured Entertainment, ScreenApril 01,2016by Matthew Reddin

  ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ lead spring streaming recommendations

  HBO GOIf you’re a subscriber to HBO GO or HBO NOW, you know what’s coming. Winter — I mean Game of Thrones season 6. The April 24 premiere finds Cersei humbled, Sansa on the run, Arya blinded, Dany captured and Jon Snow dead — or, as Billy Crystal might say, “mostly dead.” Which is a step up from every other GoT character you’ve loved and lost.HBO is hoping, though, that your min.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Progressive, ScreenMarch 29,2016by Matthew Reddin

  The ‘radical’ legacy of TV’s Mister Rogers

  When he died in 2003, Fred Rogers was described in many headlines as gentle, beloved, kind and — of course — neighborly.But how about radical? Counter-cultural? A troublemaker?Scholars and others are using such epithets as they assess the legacy of the late creator and host of the long-running Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.For all his much-parodied gentle voice and manner, the Penns.... Read More
• LifestyleMarch 24,2016by Matthew Reddin

  AstroLogic: March 24 – April 7

  Astrology is almost always about reading signs properly, but sometimes the content of those signs is less important than the fonts they're written in. U.S. highway signs use a custom font called Highway Gothic. Facebook friend requested Klavika. This column is written in Lato, as an homage to the late, great astrologist Lilliander Ozymandius Lato.There's a point here, but Helvetica if I can re.... Read More
• Milwaukee, News, ProgressiveMarch 24,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Milwaukee SHARE offers a week of adult sex ed

  [caption id="attachment_33733" align="alignright" width="200"] Lucky Tomaszek, education coordinator for the Tool Shed, says Milwaukee SHARE offers sex ed for adults.[/caption]Conventional wisdom goes like this: Sex ed is something you learn in school. But then what? You're supposed to go the rest of your life only knowing what you learned before you could rent a car?The staff and educators a.... Read More
• Entertainment, StageMarch 22,2016by Matthew Reddin

  Why ‘American Song’? That’s exactly the right question.

  American Song is a well-written play. Star James DeVita proves once again he’s a master of the one-man show, and the Milwaukee Rep deserves credit for taking a chance on this world-premiere work, which forces its audience to consider two of the greatest issues facing 21st-century society: rampant gun violence and school shootings.For much of the audience — perhaps most of it — that will be.... Read More