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Onion Events Newsletter - Milwaukee [May 15 - May 21]
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| MILWAUKEE | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - Monday, May 21, 2007 | |
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| Saturday, May 19, 7pm | Brew City Bruisers Traveling HOME Opener | |
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Established in, 2005, the Brew City Bruisers are a skater-owned and operated flat track roller derby league dedicated to knocking fans off their feet. They're proud to carry on the tradition of roller derby and bring the new wave of the sport to Milwaukee by offering a unique blend of athletic competition and entertainment. On May 19, Milwaukee will see and experience the Bruisers next step toward World domination when the Brew City Bruisers Traveling team takes on the Minnesota Roller Girls. The 2007 Bout Season HOME Opener will be held at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex. Doors open at 6pm and the bout starts at 7pm. Advance tickets are now available online for the sale price of $10. Take advantage of this and save $2 off the $12 door price. Following the bout the girls will head to Vnuk's for an after-party. Be there or die! Milwaukee County Sports Complex |
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| Thur, May 24, 5:30pm | AIDS Walk Kickoff Party | |
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Join The Onion and AIDS Walk Wisconsin for a kickoff party to launch the 2007 AIDS Walk. This will be a great and easy opportunity to register early for the September 29 walk. Indulge yourself in the tasty beer flavors from
the Milwaukee Ale House. And of course, everything tastes better when it's free. Besides the free beer, win prizes from The Onion. So come sign up to get those legs in gear and walk for a great cause. Don't miss your chance to win one of two iPod Shuffles that will be raffled off! You can register by phone for the AIDS walk by calling 800-348-WALK. You can also get more info by clicking HERE Milwaukee Ale House | |
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A.V. Club Picks |
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| This Week in A.V. Milwaukee | ||
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Summer in Wisconsin is like having sex for the first time--you wait a really long time for it, and when it finally comes it's over much too quickly. The summer of '07 should be no different. Milwaukee's calendar is packed
tight with festivals, block parties, concerts, and various other events to get you in the mood, so to speak. To help with the commencement of summer lovin', The A.V. Club has devised its own Kama Sutra: The Blue Skies summer guide. Inside you'll find all you need to know about what to
do for the next three months. It helps to be organized with so much going on--you might even have some time left over to cuddle. This Thursday is shaping up to be a mini-Summerfest of its own--no less than four marquee-worthy attractions are setting up camp in Milwaukee, including Fall Out Boy, Kings Of Leon, The Hold Steady, and George Carlin. If standards are relaxed a bit, you could throw Five For Fighting in there, too. Out of that bunch, The A.V. Club is debating whether to check out The Hold Steady's victory lap behind 2006's beloved Boys And Girls In America at Miramar or catch Kings Of Leon's sweaty live take on the recent Because Of The Times at The Rave/Eagles Club. It's choices like this that make summer in Milwaukee seem so fleeting. Let's get it on. | |
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| Thur., May 17, 8pm | Kings Of Leon + Snowden | |
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Kings Of Leon won't likely outgrow the well-deserved "Southern Strokes" tag that greeted them upon arrival, but a few more albums like Youth & Young Manhood and Aha Shake Heartbreak could make it irrelevant.
The former pricked up a lot of ears back in 2003, when the shaggy Southerners rolled up with greasy guitar riffs and songs that tip toward car-blasting classic rock. Aha Shake Heartbreak was hornier and Stonesier--is that redundant?--but Kings Of Leon's glammed-up take on alt-country still
flashed a regional badge. April's Because Of The Times takes an even bigger leap forward, stretching out song lengths, toying with vocal effects, and generally shaking up expectations. Kings picked an odd but excellent opener in Snowden, an Atlanta outfit whose 2006 debut Anti-Anti is
a stark, idiosyncratic disc that may well be the apotheosis of dance-punk, even as it shuns most of the cliches of the genre. Opening: Philpot.
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| Sat, May 19, 10pm | Testa Rosa + Knit Delicate at Club Garibaldi | |
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The self-titled debut from Milwaukee's dreamy pop trio Testa Rosa came out earlier this year but sounds like a lost alt-rock gem from the early '90s. Singer-songwriter Betty Blexrud-Strigens definitely has a Tanya
Donelly/Kristin Hersh thing going on, delivering strong yet vulnerable vocals that will have hipster boys swooning. Stay back, fellas--Testa Rosa is rounded out by husband Damian Strigens as well as Paul Hancock, the same core that formed the defunct modern rock band The Mustn'ts in the mid-'00s.
Another local music veteran, Charles Jordan was a singer and guitarist for the '80s band The Nerve Twins (which also included Damian Strigens). Lately he's been busy running the Foundation bar in Riverwest, but after several years of woodshedding he's back with a solo project called Knit Delicate
and a new record, Pressed, featuring one perfect power-pop song--the summer anthem-in-waiting "Bright Summer Sun"--and many others that come within spitting distance. Also playing: The Pugilists.
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Box Office |
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| Thur, May 17, 6pm | Honda Civic Tour presents Fall Out Boy | |
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Please enter Fall Out Boy in the subject line of your email for a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show!
Bradley Center |
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| Saturday, May 19, 7pm | Brew City Bruisers Traveling HOME Opener | |
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Please enter Brew City Bruisers in the subject line of your email for a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show!
Milwaukee County Sports Complex |
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| Mon, May 21, 8pm | The Faint at the Pabst Theater | |
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Please enter The Faint in the subject line of your email for a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show!
Pabst Theater | |
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| Thursday May 31st | Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon at the Miramar! | |
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Please enter Vince Herman in the subject line of your email for a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show!
Miramar Theatre | |
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Amtrak Hiawatha Ticket Giveaway |
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| May 24, 2007, 8pm | Amtrak Hiawatha Ticket Giveaway features the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the Vic Theatre in Chicago | |
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Every month, The Onion will send one winner to Chicago on the Amtrak Hiawatha line with free tickets to that month's featured concert. The May installment features a pair of tickets to check out Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. The BRMC is a garage rock folk band that hails from San Francisco, CA and is in the midst of a national tour. Hitting Chicago, the BRMC will perform selections from their four albums, the most recent being Baby 81 which was released May 1. Please enter Amtrak in the subject line of your e-mail along with your preference of either show for a chance to partake in this special trip. Vic Theater | |
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