(2009/07/02)
With “Public Enemies,” all the pieces would seem to be in place for an epic gangster drama: director Michael Mann, who has an affinity for complicated criminals; stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who are famous for immersing themselves in their roles; and a thrilling true story of brazen bank robbers on the run.
(2009/07/02)
There’s more action and cuddly creatures for kids to love in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” than in the animated franchise’s first two installments.
(2009/06/29)
There’s a squirrel that skis and dogs that do tricks.
(2009/06/29)
Jack Russell has never had a real job. He started being a rock star three decades ago and, at 48, is still going strong.
(2009/06/29)
WINONA, Minn. — They aren’t Shakespeare’s most familiar plays. They aren’t his most popular.
(2009/06/29)
English Lutheran Church is hosting a bus trip to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis to see “Ella,” a play about Ella Fitzgerald, on Saturday, Sept. 5.
(2009/06/29)
If you’ve been writing songs, here’s a chance to get them noticed. The Kickapoo Valley Acoustic Music Association is holding a Songwriter Contest. Deadline for entry is Aug. 1.
(2009/06/27)
ONALASKA — The annual Festival Foods’ Salute to Fourth celebration is one of Amy Mills’ favorite concert events.
(2009/06/26)
“My Sister’s Keeper” is a shameless weeper, one of the most manipulative and fundamental of genres, but it also raises some surprisingly difficult and thought-provoking ethical questions.
(2009/06/26)
A joyless cacophony, an insistent and seemingly endless onslaught, director Michael Bay’s follow-up to the 2007 smash “Transformers” plays like a parody of a Bay movie.
(2009/06/25)
Sons of a Peach, Which One’s Pink and Penny Sack are playing at the Summer Kickoff Campout Party on Saturday at Romance Tavern in Romance, Wis. Music starts at 9 p.m.
(2009/06/25)
It’s time to soak up some sun along with some jazz Sunday at Jazz on the Green.
(2009/06/25)
WINONA, Minn. -- Season six of the Great River Shakespeare Festival runs today through July 26 at Winona State University’s Performing Arts Center Main Stage, featuring “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “The Tempest.”
(2009/06/24)
“Hair” has turned into a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse SummerStage tradition. UW-L stages the musical about every 10 years, and audiences flock to the production for a return trip to the 1960s, when hippies with long hair and patched-up bell bottoms ruled and their mantra was love and peace.
(2009/06/24)
The journey of a Volkswagen bus from Madison to the Toland Theatre stage for “Hair” is a special one for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse theater department.
(2009/06/24)
Johnsmith is back in town, and he’s toting a new CD called “Gravity of Grace.” He’ll be celebrating its release with a party at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Leo and Leona’s on Hwy. 33 in Newburg Corners. Admission is $15.
(2009/06/24)
Thirty-eight young string players from the Stringwood 2009 Summer Chamber Music in Lanesboro, Minn., will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27, in Viterbo University’s Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.
(2009/06/24)
The La Crosse Concert Band goes indoors Wednesday for its third Concert Hall Spectacular in Viterbo University’s Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.
(2009/06/24)
The 2009 Riverside Art Show is seeking fine art by local artists for a juried art show on Sunday, July 19, at Riverside Park in conjunction with the annual Riverside Jazz Party.
(2009/06/24)
The role of father has been well-represented in films since the earliest days of movie making.
(2009/06/19)
RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. -- The stars return here each year in late June, but don’t look toward the sky.
(2009/06/19)
All the romantic comedy conventions are shamelessly on parade in “The Proposal,” trampling on our brains and turning them into mush. They include an uptight character who literally lets her hair down to show she’s loosening up, a spontaneous sing-along, wacky relatives, a shocking mid-wedding revelation, a mad dash to the airport and, finally, some very public I-love-yous. Where is the creativity, people?
(2009/06/19)
Movie studios must be so strapped for ideas that they’re handing out deals like gym towels in middle-school locker rooms. That’s the only possible explanation for the joylessly juvenile, aggressively unfunny comedy “Year One” starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, who turn out to be the worst idea for a pairing since Jon met Kate.
(2009/06/18)
La Crosse Community Theatre polishes off its season with the youth theater production “Masquerade,” a variety show put together by the student actors with some of their favorite music.
(2009/06/18)
The stories will be familiar to children, parents and grandparents in next season’s offerings in the Ronald McDonald Arts for Young America Family Series at Viterbo University.
(2009/06/18)
LANESBORO, Minn. —Adrienne Sweeney sees this year’s staging of “The Rainmaker” as perfect timing.
(2009/06/18)
The Gertrude Salzer Gordon Jazz in the Park free concert series with the Great River Big Band swings into its 35th year at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 21, in the band shell in Riverside Park.
(2009/06/12)
The words “Eddie Murphy family comedy” are enough to send shivers down the spine of any self-respecting film lover.
(2009/06/12)
The way the original 1974 film’s title has been condensed tells you everything you need to know about the direction “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” is headed. In these fast-paced, mixed-up times, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.
(2009/06/11)
Harmony in the Neighborhood will be offered at 7 p.m. Thursdays beginning this week at the South Side Neighborhood Center, 1300 S. Sixth St. Each of the 10 concerts is topped off by a free frozen custard treat from Culver’s.
(2009/06/10)
SPRING GREEN, Wis. — For almost three decades, people have made the pilgrimage up the hill to the American Players Theatre’s open-air theater in the middle of the woods.
(2009/06/10)
Jim Seem is coming home, and he’d like to see all of his friends — preferably at The Root Note on Saturday, June 13.
(2009/06/05)
There is exactly one funny bit in “Land of the Lost,” and it stands out because it comes at the very beginning and the very end.
(2009/06/05)
You’d be forgiven for thinking “The Hangover” is a documentary.
(2009/06/04)
Stupid on an epic scale or epic on a stupid one, "Land of the Lost" is as close as Will Ferrell comes these days to a "kid friendly" movie.
(2009/06/02)
The 2009 La Crosse Concert Band season of free concerts in Riverside Park features Broadway, John Philip Sousa, classical music of Bugs Bunny and another concert hall gala at Viterbo University.
(2009/06/02)
She was raised on classical music, learning oboe and piano as a child in Connecticut. But the music and the place didn’t feel right to Ellen Stanley.
(2009/05/29)
As ambitious and strange as its title is simple, "Up" tells the story of Carl Fredricksen (voice by Ed Asner), a curmudgeonly widower who thus far has refused to sell his house to a construction firm that has turned his once-charming neighborhood into a slick and soulless development.
(2009/05/29)
The name alone, "Drag Me to Hell," tells you exactly what this is: an unabashed celebration of B-movie schlockery. But the dichotomies director Sam Raimi presents within that familiar genre are what make this such a kick.
(2009/05/28)
Hinder and Papa Roach are coming to La Crosse. The concert will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, in the South Hall of the La Crosse Center. General admission tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 30.
(2009/05/28)
Which 1’s Pink? is back for a few last local shows, so catch the guys before they end up on the dark side of the moon or somewhere even stranger.
(2009/05/28)
Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri returns to the stage from a successful run on Broadway in “A Bronx Tale,” opening Tuesday at the State Theatre (651-989-5151) in Minneapolis and running through June 7.
(2009/05/27)
Music has been Big James Montgomery’s ticket around the world.
(2009/05/27)
WINONA, Minn. — Let’s face it. Most of us have less cash to spend this summer.
(2009/05/27)
The duo Switchback will close out the 2008-09 Concert Series at the Pump House. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6.
(2009/05/27)
The Lanesboro Radio Company brings the 15th season of “Over the Back Fence” to the stage of the new Commonweal Theatre in downtown Lanesboro, Minn., this summer. The one-hour variety show runs Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. today through Sept 6.
(2009/05/27)
The Wisconsin Regional Art Program is a competition for local amateur artists 16 and older working in various media. Registrations will be accepted through May 30 and can be sent to Carol
(2009/05/27)
ClogJam will offer its new beginner summer session from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays beginning June 8 in the Doerflinger building, 400 Main St.
(2009/05/23)
We have seen the future in “Terminator Salvation,” and the future is noisy.
(2009/05/23)
“Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” is one of those sequels in which “bigger” is supposed to mean “better,” in which more characters, more sight gags and more action are supposed to add up to more fun.
(2009/05/21)
They’re getting the party started today in Onalaska as Sunfish Days officially begins at the OmniCenter, 255 Riders Club Road, with the opening of the midway at 5 p.m. along with the food court, pop and beer gardens.
(2009/05/18)
David Reedy didn’t know anything about Nannie Colwell Dorset when he spotted one of her oil paintings months ago at the estate sale of Dorothy Wolf.
(2009/05/18)
LANESBORO, Minn. — Eric Bunge and Hal Cropp knew some day they would end up playing familiar roles in Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple.”
(2009/05/18)
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(2009/05/18)
YellowCello Young Artists will present its final concerts of the 2009 season next weekend.
(2009/05/18)
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Continuing Education will sponsor a “Day of Art Fun in Minneapolis” on Saturday, June 27, which includes an art museum visit and shopping for art supplies. Travelers will board the bus at 6:30 a.m. and arrive back in La Crosse later that evening.
(2009/05/18)
Tickets go on sale May 30 to see Papa Roach and Hinder in concert Aug. 23 at the La Crosse Center. Tickets are $32.50 in advance, $37.50 day of show.
(2009/05/18)
I don’t know what our love of revenge flicks says about the quality of the human character, but I do know the revenge story is a powerful elixir that’s been attracting scribes since the beginning of writing and filmmakers and audiences since the first days of celluloid.
(2009/05/18)
MINNEAPOLIS — When Tony Kushner agreed to premiere a new play at the Guthrie Theater, the artistic director at the Minneapolis theater wanted to know what it would be called.
(2009/05/17)
Blessedly, “Angels & Demons” is more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor, the dense and dreary yet enormously successful “The Da Vinci Code.”
(2009/05/14)
Folk singer Tracy Grammer will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Pump House, 119 King St.
(2009/05/14)
Don’t forget about Reggae Fest at the Trempealeau Hotel, 150 Main St., Trempealeau, Wis., on Saturday, featuring Uprising from 2 to 5 p.m., Natty Nation from 5 to 8 p.m. and The Ark Band from 8 to 11 p.m.
(2009/05/14)
Here’s an opportunity to hear an experienced organist play at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
(2009/05/13)
Extravaganza might be the best way to describe Viterbo University’s 2009-10 Bright Star Season.
(2009/05/13)
Family entertainer Hans Mayer got by with a little help from some friends — big and small — on his latest children’s album.
(2009/05/13)
Most boys graduate from La Crosse Boychoir when they enter their freshmen year of high school.
(2009/05/13)
In Kinney Rorrer’s family, you play music. It’s just what you do.
(2009/05/13)
The La Crosse Community Theater will hold auditions Monday and Tuesday for its youth theater production, “Masquerade.”
(2009/05/13)
LANESBORO, Minn. — Commonweal Theatre Company’s production of “The Odd Couple” opens in previews Friday at the Commonweal in Lanesboro.
(2009/05/13)
When Roman Polanski didn’t appear in person to accept the 2002 Best Director Academy Award for “The Pianist,” it
(2009/05/09)
The economy is in the tank. Unemployment rises by the day. And the word pandemic is floating around, along with the swine flu.
(2009/05/08)
You don’t expect to find much fresh air in outer space, but that’s exactly what the reboot of “Star Trek” brings to the musty franchise.
(2009/05/07)
Gays Mills will put on its 17th annual Folk Festival this weekend.
(2009/05/06)
“The Producers” is set to open next weekend at the La Crosse Community Theatre, and the timing couldn’t be better.
(2009/05/06)
The Broadway musical “Into the Woods” and “A Christmas Carol” will headline the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Department of Theatre Arts 2009-10 Toland season.
(2009/05/06)
The Broadway musical “Rent” has been tentatively scheduled as the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse SummerStage production in 2010.
(2009/05/06)
Lynn Biddick will celebrate the release of her folk and jazz-inflected CD, “Ghost in the Bed,” with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at the Pump House, 119 King St.
(2009/05/06)
A spring concert Monday will feature University of Wisconsin-La Crosse men’s and women’s choirs.
(2009/05/06)
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Concert Choir will present its fourth annual Festival of Three Choirs concert Tuesday.
(2009/05/06)
Brazilian soprano Dione Colares (pictured) will be the guest artist for Thursday’s University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks “Amazon to Hollywood” concert.
(2009/05/06)
It’s always a difficult confrontation with reality when a hero dies, especially when that death comes by way of an assassin’s bullet or, worse, the hero’s own hand.
(2009/05/02)
Michael Ranscht wanted to stage an upbeat, entertaining performing arts series during these difficult economic times.
(2009/05/02)
If you love the Kickapoo Valley and you’re up for a puppet show, you’re in luck.
(2009/05/01)
The second coolest thing about the Wolverine of the X-Men movies — after Hugh Jackman’s epic sideburns — was his mystery. So naturally that’s what Marvel set out to delete with “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
(2009/05/01)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans who watched the online leak of “Wolverine” won’t miss one thing by skipping the theater — they’ll miss at least two.
(2009/05/01)
The Internet Hate Fest for Matthew McConaughey reached its nadir this past week, with one blogger going so far as to call the goofy-go-lucky dude “Satan.”
(2009/05/01)
There is so much wrong with “Battle for Terra” that it’s hard to decide where to start.
(2009/04/30)
They’re dancing up on the ridge, and you can, too.
(2009/04/29)
The Moscow Festival Ballet is returning to La Crosse for the third time in five years to stage the ballet “Don Quixote.”
(2009/04/29)
The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s 2009-10 season will be an exciting one, with six conductor finalists using the concerts as auditions for conductor and music director.
(2009/04/29)
The events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago became a seminal moment in American history — another in a cascade of turbulent events of that year including the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, both of which preceded the election-year gathering of Democrats (who would go on to nominate Vice President Hubert Humphrey to head their ticket).
(2009/04/29)
Viterbo University’s music department will hold its annual honors recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3, in the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.
(2009/04/29)
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse modern dance troupe will have its first concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Frederick Theatre in Morris Hall on the UW-L campus. The free concert marks National Dance Week.
(2009/04/29)
String students of Busya Lugovier’s studio at Viterbo University Preparatory School of the Arts will celebrate Jack Schwem’s love of music with a chamber music program at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at the Pump House Regional Arts Center. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. Louise Temte will play piano.
(2009/04/29)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Guthrie Theater is delaying its world premiere of a new Tony Kushner play by a week.
(2009/04/25)
When Laurence Juber first met Hope Schwartz, he had no plans to go on a three-hour tour.
(2009/04/24)
Monta May has always seen art in old things. As a kid, she’d take fossils found near her family’s Bloomington, Ind., home and string them together for bracelets. Discarded tin cans became art projects with May using hammers to create her own designs.
(2009/04/24)
He’s just another homeless man — layers of mismatched clothing, a shopping cart loaded with all his worldly possessions, a voice that never stops chattering and eyes that never make contact.
(2009/04/24)
“Fighting” is a misleading title for this colorful New York City character study.
(2009/04/23)
If you’re feeling in the pink, then you’re ready for Which 1’s Pink, a tribute to Pink Floyd.
(2009/04/23)
T.U.G.G. is at it again. This time, the band has enlisted reggae singer Pato Banton to perform with them at 5:45 p.m. Friday at American Legion Post 52, 711 S. Sixth St.
(2009/04/23)
After 14 years as music director and conductor, Amy Mills will lead the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of 200 voices in Verdi’s “Requiem,” her final season subscription concerts, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Viterbo University’s Fine Arts Center.
(2009/04/23)
The Ten Tenors, an internationally popular Australian vocal ensemble that performs classical and rock music, will perform Friday at the State Theatre (651-989-5151) in Minneapolis.
(2009/04/22)
Write some music. Play every gig you can. Hope to get a record deal.
(2009/04/22)
Kelsey Cole, Lindsay Yach and Maddie Fendrick were young children when war engulfed the former Yugoslavia.
(2009/04/22)
Adam Petchel didn’t catch the theater bug until the last semester of his senior year at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
(2009/04/22)
They grew up in La Crosse, two sisters who loved music. But life took them in opposite directions.
(2009/04/22)
Amy Mills has embraced the staging of Verdi’s “Requiem” for her farewell concerts Friday and Saturday.
(2009/04/22)
Amy Mills still has one more La Crosse Symphony Orchestra concert to conduct after this weekend’s concerts and farewell reception.
(2009/04/22)
The whodunit remains one of filmmaking’s most venerable forms, a carryover from novels and short stories that tease readers with clues and misdirection to keep them guessing. Countless directors and screenwriters have echoed that formula, and there’s no reason to think this style of mystery-crime film will ever lose its popularity.
(2009/04/22)
More dance lessons are being offered at Amanda’s Academy of Dance, 329 Division St.
(2009/04/19)
Viterbo students tackle language, blocking for Shakespeare comedy set in the 1920s
(2009/04/17)
As a remake of “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “Back to the Future,” the movies it borrows from most heavily, the relive-your-senior-year comedy “17 Again” falls a little short of the mark. But as a funny, sweet and smart star vehicle tailored for Zac “High School Musical” Efron, it’s right on the money.
(2009/04/17)
There’s an intriguing story at the heart of “The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story,” a documentary chronicling the global journeys of colorful evangelist Arthur Blessitt who has made the Guinness Book of World Records and CNN for lugging a 12-foot cross through more than 300 countries. Unfortunately, this loving and well-made but frustrating film doesn’t even begin to tell the half of it.
(2009/04/17)
LOS ANGELES — How do you make a movie when the whole planet is your set?
(2009/04/17)
As dense as a Watergate-era newspaper and as immediate as a blog, “State of Play” is an absolutely riveting state-of-the-art “big conspiracy” thriller. It’s an often brilliant collision of political scandal, murder, a privatizing military and the rapidly evolving journalism that may (or may not) remain democracy’s watchdog once newspapers, “instant history,” are rendered history by a culture that has abandoned them.
(2009/04/16)
Bill Miller is back in town, this time playing a gig at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to release his newest CD, “Chronicles of Hope.”
(2009/04/16)
Commonweal Theatre Company’s 12th annual Ibsen Festival starts Friday and continues through Sunday in downtown Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/04/16)
Do you enjoy singing showtunes but haven’t had the time or the courage to audition for a musical?
(2009/04/16)
Marcus Cinema will show DisneyNature’s “Earth” at 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
(2009/04/15)
Andy Dahlberg and Maria Smisek will soon be performing in their last show as members of the Viterbo University Platinum Edition Show Choir.
(2009/04/15)
Luther College’s Nordic Choir is bringing its spring concert program to Onalaska in preparation for its Mediterranean tour next month.
(2009/04/15)
Every so often, a film comes along that is truly unique, one that garners many awards and high praise from a wide range of critics, but fails to connect with ticket buyers.
(2009/04/15)
Mary Tollefson, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse music faculty member, will give a free recital featuring the music of Liszt, Beethoven, Bach and Bartok on a new Steinway piano at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 19, in Annett Recital Hall in UW-L’s Center for Arts.
(2009/04/15)
If you’re feeling artistic, you’ll get plenty of chances to exercise your creativity in May, as the Pump House offers these workshops:
(2009/04/15)
The lineup is now mostly complete for the 10,000 Lakes Festival, held July 22-25 in Detroit Lakes, Minn.
(2009/04/11)
For Matt Olson, it’s not all that amazing he taught himself music recording techniques and did all the instruments and vocals on his recently released CD, “Vision Question.”
(2009/04/10)
“Hannah Montana: The Movie” just shouldn’t be analyzed from an adult perspective — which, frankly, is irrelevant.
(2009/04/10)
There won’t be a more polarizing comedy released in 2009 than “Observe and Report.” This audacious, subversive action comedy turns two of our cuddliest performers, Seth Rogen and Anna Faris, into poster kids for atrocious misbehavior. Writer-director Jody Hill knows that disgusting and hilarious can be two sides of a very thin coin.
(2009/04/09)
WINONA, Minn. -- Art at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum hangs on gallery walls, meant to be looked at and definitely not touched. But the pieces in the museum’s latest exhibit were designed to float.
(2009/04/08)
Grammy Award winner Bill Miller wanted to honor his original fan base in
(2009/04/08)
The new La Crosse Community Theatre season is all about love and laughter.
(2009/04/08)
It will be a little bit country and a little bit rock ’n’ roll with a Southern twist when Brooks and Dunn and Lynyrd Skynyrd co-headline this year’s Army Concert Tour on Friday, Aug. 28, at Fort McCoy’s Constitution Park.
(2009/04/08)
The Harlem Globetrotters are bringing their 2009 “Spinning the Globe” World Tour to the La Crosse Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 9.
(2009/04/08)
When David Fincher’s “Fight Club” premiered in 1999, it was met with scathing reviews and a kind of critical schizophrenia. Many gave high marks to Fincher’s moviemaking prowess but seemed held back from offering greater praise because of the film’s controversial subject matter and decidedly politically incorrect narrative.
(2009/04/08)
Come all ye revelers and ferris wheel riders and music makers. Festival season is almost upon us, and it’s time to send in your listing to be included in the Tribune’s annual festival list, which will be published Friday, May 22.
(2009/04/03)
Writer-director Greg Mottola’s latest film, “Adventureland,” is an eloquent memory piece with the soul of a teen sex comedy. (Or maybe I have that backward.) The movie, based heavily on Mottola’s own youthful experience working in an amusement park, operates in fits and starts, never quite finding the right tone. But it has been crafted with heart and intelligence, and it’s acted with understated charm. You root for it even as it sputters across the finish line.
(2009/04/03)
Noise, noise, noise. Crunched metal and shattered glass. More noise. Revving engines. Vin Diesel’s giant head. Hot chicks in tight miniskirts. Even more noise. The end.
(2009/04/02)
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Clay Riness will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Pump House Regional Arts Center, 119 King St.
(2009/04/02)
WIZM 1410 AM will broadcast the 27th annual Pump House-WIZM Radio Auction live from the Pump House Regional Arts Center from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, featuring $35,000 worth of merchandise donate by area businesses.
(2009/04/02)
America’s cowboys, Riders in the Sky, will be riding into the historic Temple Theatre in Viroqua for 3 and 7:30 p.m. shows Saturday.
(2009/04/02)
Roald Dahl’s classic characters climb out of the book and onto the stage for the musical “James and the Giant Peach” at the Heider Center, 405 E. Hamlin St., West Salem, Wis., at 7 p.m. Friday.
(2009/04/01)
The farm animals are tired of the cold barn and the way they are being treated by Farmer Brown.
(2009/04/01)
Michael Levine never imagined his brass group would become one of America’s foremost musical ensembles.
(2009/04/01)
It is a perfect time in a perfect setting to stage Haydn’s “The Seven Last Words.”
(2009/04/01)
Comedian Rodney Carrington will bring his no-holds-barred standup routine back to the La Crosse Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16. The show, for mature audiences only, includes comedy and music about the funny side of redneck lifestyles, women at bars, men acting like men and oddball sex.
(2009/04/01)
There’s no real use fretting about whether or not or when Big Brother might be coming. He’s already here.
(2009/04/01)
The La Crosse Area Jazz Society is looking for volunteers to work on the Great River Jazz Festival, Aug. 14-16. If you’re interested, show up at a meeting and you’ll get more information. Meetings are at 6:30 p.m. April 7 and 28, May 19, June 2 and 23, July 7, 21 and 28 and Aug. 4 and 11. All meetings are at America’s Best Value Inn, 2622 Rose St.
(2009/04/01)
Gallery La Crosse has put out a call for artists to participate in Paula’s Purse Cancer Patient Fund Benefit. Dates for the exhibit will be April 15 through May 2, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 23.
(2009/04/01)
Charter Communications is partnering with the Wisconsin School Music Association, Tilt Media Inc. and Dennis Graham Associates to award a Wisconsin high school student the opportunity to create a 30-second public service announcement, promoting the statewide music competition Launchpad.
(2009/03/27)
Classic creatures from the 1950s get a high-tech makeover, with a healthy amount of attitude, in the 3D animated “Monsters vs. Aliens.”
(2009/03/27)
When was the last time you were truly scared by a horror movie? Not startled by loud noises and shock cuts, not grossed out by gore, but bound and gagged by fear?
(2009/03/26)
Standup performer Louis Ramey, who was a finalist on this past season’s “Last Comic Standing,” will take the stage at 7 p.m. today in the Cellar in Cartwright Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
(2009/03/26)
Nicholas Phillips, assistant professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, will feature music by Brahms and Haydn in a free piano recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, in Annett Recital Hall on the UW-La Crosse campus.
(2009/03/26)
“Brute,” an oil on canvas by Matt Duckett, will be part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 2009 All-Students Juried Exhibition, which opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the University Art Gallery.
(2009/03/26)
The 34th annual Three Rivers Pow Wow will be held this weekend at UW-L’s Mitchell Hall, 1725 State St., with grand entries at 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.
(2009/03/25)
“Cotton Patch Gospel” is the musical that just kept on going and going and going.
(2009/03/25)
Annie Wood received the book “Stellaluna” as a gift, and she and her three children fell in love with the story.
(2009/03/25)
A world-class soprano from Germany will be the guest artist with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Symphony Orchestra at a concert Sunday, March 29.
(2009/03/25)
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is jumping feet first into spring with a concert by Augustana at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 25, in Valhalla in Cartwright Center at UW-L.
(2009/03/25)
Local band Prairie Smoke will perform a concert in support of its new CD, “River of Dreams,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at the Pump House Regional Arts Center, 119 King St.
(2009/03/25)
What would you do if you learned that in 75 minutes the world as you’ve known it will come to an end? Not a pleasant thought, I grant you, but one that has fascinated writers, theologians, dramatists and countless others since the dawn of the nuclear age.
(2009/03/25)
If you’d like to go “Crazy on You” with Heart, you can in April by taking a drive up the river to Red Wing, Minn., where Treasure Island Resort & Casino will present Heart at 8 p.m. Friday, April 17.
(2009/03/21)
A newly formed University of Wisconsin-La Crosse modern dance troupe will make its debut at the annual concert of Shelter Repertory Dance Theatre.
(2009/03/20)
The newly minted “bromance” genre, with its now-familiar mix of the sweet, awkward and raunchy, has become a part of the cultural consciousness through movies like “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” and “Role Models.” But it reaches its zenith with this comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel as two completely different guys who form an unlikely friendship.
(2009/03/20)
Tony Gilroy penetrated the world of corporate corruption with smarts, suspense and searing insight in his 2007 directing debut, “Michael Clayton.” Here, he revisits that territory, only he does it with plenty of sexual tension to go along with his usual crackling dialogue and complex plotting.
(2009/03/20)
“Knowing” is an early contender for worst movie of the year, if only because it takes itself so seriously and its ambitions are so high. Pity, because it begins with an intriguing premise.
(2009/03/19)
See street rods, motorcycles, custom and antique cars this weekend at God’s Country Racing Association’s 35th annual custom auto show in the La Crosse Center main arena.
(2009/03/19)
Dan Tedesco and his band The Long Haul are making their way back to Chicago and are stopping in Saturday at JB’s Speakeasy, 717 Rose St., for another gig.
(2009/03/19)
Milwaukee-based John Petty and All Good Things will perform their blend of alternative, folk, bluegrass, country, rock and pop Saturday at the Popcorn Tavern, 308 S. Fourth St. If his name sounds familiar, you may have heard him play at the Pump House some time back.
(2009/03/18)
He has done what he can here, says actor Mark Kuroski. Now it’s time to go to New York.
(2009/03/18)
He could have been a scientist. Instead, Dave Richardson picked up a concertina and opted for a gypsy lifestyle.
(2009/03/18)
America had never really seen anyone quite like Huey Pierce Long. The flamboyant populist politician, whose corrupt activities were in sharp contrast to his many contributions to the health and welfare of the people of Louisiana, might even have become president had it not been for his assassination in 1935 at the age of 42.
(2009/03/18)
Viterbo University theater students will present a musical cabaret Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March 21, at the Pump House Regional Arts Center in La Crosse.
(2009/03/18)
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students will stage benefit performances of “The Vagina Monologues” the last weekend in March. The production is based on interviews with more than 200 women about their memories and experiences of sexuality, with this year’s focus on stories from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(2009/03/18)
Music on a Sunday Afternoon, the La Crosse Public Library’s free live music series, begins Sunday, March 22. Concerts begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Main Library auditorium, 800 Main St. The series continues through April 26 and is paid for by a grant from Friends of the Library. There will be no music program on Easter Sunday.
(2009/03/18)
The second of two Lenten Organ Concerts will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at Wesley United Methodist Church, 721 King St.
(2009/03/18)
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Wind Symphony will present Kim Archer’s third symphony at a concert Sunday, March 22, in the Onalaska High School auditorium.
(2009/03/18)
Tickets are on sale for a Bryan Adams (left) concert at 7:30 p.m. May 11 at the Mayo Civic Center’s Presentation Hall in Rochester, Minn. Adams, who has sold more than 65 million records, is offering a new acoustic spin on his classic hits. Tickets are $30 to $50, or $125, which includes a meet and greet, and available at all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
(2009/03/18)
Area art enthusiasts can work with polymer clay during a noncredit University of Wisconsin-La Crosse class. “Learn the Versatile Art of Polymer Clay” runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27, in Morris Hall.
(2009/03/15)
The violence is immediate, unflinching and relentless in “The Last House on the Left,” a movie of shocking sadism and cruelty.
(2009/03/15)
If you grew up in the 1970s, you probably have some fond moviegoing memory of “Escape to Witch Mountain.”
(2009/03/13)
What a mess “Miss March” is. And I’m not just talking about the repeated involuntary bowel-evacuation moments.
(2009/03/12)
They called it quits last summer, but as the band says, it wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without a Kissers show.
(2009/03/12)
Cowboy poet Michael Martin Murphey will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Denim and Diamonds Gala 20th anniversary celebration for HorseSense for Special Riders in the Cargill Room of Riverside Center South, 332 Front St.
(2009/03/12)
Get ready for some harmony as the Coulee Chordsmen tune up for “Life on the River — Twain’s World” at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Heider Center for the Arts in West Salem.
(2009/03/12)
Violinist and La Crosse native Karen Kim returns home this weekend for a special recital with two young pianists to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s Rising Stars Concerto Competition.
(2009/03/12)
Local rock band Flashback will provide the soundtrack for Irish We Were On Spring Break Party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday at Features Sports Bar, 1425 Hwy. 16, West Salem.
(2009/03/11)
“Hairspray” is a bouffant froth of a musical, filled with outrageous hairstyles and costumes and danceable music.
(2009/03/11)
Don’t be fooled by the name. “Three Boomer Broads, Remembering While We Still Can” is not a comedy.
(2009/03/11)
Viterbo University is starting a summer series of Broadway musicals performed in a concert setting.
(2009/03/11)
It may not resemble the health care system or the medical professionals we know today, but “Not as a Stranger” (1955) isn’t really about the world of doctors, nurses, medical schools and hospitals so much as an exploration of how the past can cloud what stands before us and sometimes just as easily provide the energy and motivation needed to endure and conquer the challenges we face.
(2009/03/11)
Three of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse choirs will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Annett Recital Hall on campus.
(2009/03/11)
Local artist Joyce Dively is leading a camp in hand-building pottery at the Pump House. Participants will build several small functional items out of earthenware clay and will receive instruction on different types of clay, basic building techniques and glazing. The full-day workshops will be 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 18 and March 21. The fee is $105 for Pump House members and $115 for others. The fee includes clay, glaze and firing.
(2009/03/11)
East meets west in an upcoming dance performance at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse when Ragamala takes the stage at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Toland Theater in the Center for the Arts.
(2009/03/11)
Marilyn Wood will offer an eight-week session of adult tap lessons for beginner and intermediate students at Julie’s School of Dance, 525 McHugh Road, Holmen.
(2009/03/07)
They dance, they sing, they fiddle. And all of this is done at breakneck pace, hence the name Barrage.
(2009/03/07)
LANESBORO, Minn. — David Harmann has learned about all the various aspects of theater during his 10 months in Commonweal Theatre Company’s first apprentice class.
(2009/03/06)
Gus Van Sant has spent the past few years making dreamy, amorphous meditations on life and death that seemingly were intended for his hardcore fans, himself, and no one else.
(2009/03/06)
Hey, fanboys. Yeah, you guys, the ones who flooded my inbox with e-mails after I trashed Zack Snyder’s “300.”
(2009/03/06)
MADISON (AP) — The first trailer for “Public Enemies” available online shows brief glimpses of the Wisconsin state Capitol and other places where the Johnny Depp movie was filmed last year.
(2009/03/05)
Singer/songwriter Vicki Emerson, a native of Elmwood, Wis., moved to New York a couple of years ago but is back in the area to perform at the Acoustic Cafe, 77 Lafayette St., Winona.
(2009/03/05)
If you’re up for some Irish folk music in an intimate atmosphere, check out a house concert by Irish flutist Norah Rendell and guitarist Brian Miller at 4 p.m. at N7916 Bluff View Court in Holmen.
(2009/03/05)
If you like your good times to produce good things for your community, then come help The Remainders Raise the Roof on Saturday at the La Crosse Center.
(2009/03/04)
The African Children’s Choir performs around the world to raise awareness of the plight of children in Africa and help educate the continent’s orphans.
(2009/03/04)
The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s concerts on Friday and Saturday will feature several invited guests.
(2009/03/04)
The annual Lenten Organ Concert Series begins March 8, with a performance by organist Sue Walby with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Women’s Chorus and trumpet player Jeff Krauklis.
(2009/03/04)
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse SummerStage production
(2009/03/04)
HorseSense for Special Riders will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a “Denim and Diamonds” gala featuring award-winning singer-songwriter and cowboy poet Michael Martin Murphey March 13 in the Cargill Room at Riverside Center South, 332 Front St.
(2009/03/04)
Is there a price to be paid by an elderly Jewish man for his loss of faith in a higher authority? That is but one of the questions director Jan Kadar tackles in this funny, haunting and heavy-hearted rumination that’s painfully faithful to the Bernard Malamud short story from which it comes.
(2009/03/04)
LA CROSSE First Congregational UCC, 2503 Main St.: “Words and Images in Celebration of Paul,” on display through April 15 as part of the ecumenical celebration of The Year of St. Paul. The exhibit features works by calligraphers Kirsten Malcolm Berry of Minneapolis and Tim Botts of Chicago, who use their calligraphy to interpret portions of letters attributed to Paul. The church is from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday mornings.
(2009/03/01)
The African Children’s Choir performs around the world to raise awareness of the plight of children in Africa and help educate the continent’s orphans.
(2009/02/27)
Good people of Minnesota: Stand up! Fight back! Take back your state and your culture and your accent!
(2009/02/27)
Someday, we may actually get a clue as to what makes the Jonas Brothers tick.
(2009/02/26)
They’re tuning up over at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for the 22nd annual Big Band Cabaret. The event will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Valhalla in Cartwright Center at UW-L and will feature the 17-piece UW-L Tuxedo Dance Orchestra, which will recreate the sights and sounds of the swing era.
(2009/02/25)
The young women playing the four March sisters in the University of Wisconsin-
(2009/02/25)
Jillian Kuhl, who plays Jo March in “Little Women: The Musical,” is getting more normal function back in her left leg almost a year after she was hit by a vehicle while walking in La Crosse.
(2009/02/25)
WINONA, Minn. — Shakespeare and Beethoven take the spotlight during Winona’s summers, but this year they’ll share it with local artists during the first Southeast Minnesota Regional Juried Art Exhibition.
(2009/02/25)
Get ready to rock a little harder when hard-rock band Disturbed brings its Music as a Weapon IV Festival to the La Crosse Center on May 12.
(2009/02/25)
MINNEAPOLIS — “That’s where I went to nursery school. And my grade school is coming up here.”
(2009/02/25)
More dance lessons are being offered at Amanda’s Academy of Dance,
(2009/02/25)
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, above, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro, Minn.
(2009/02/20)
Aging 30 years and speaking with a German accent were the least of Kate Winslet’s challenges in playing a former Nazi camp guard accused of mass murder. In “The Reader,” Winslet pulls off a character who has maybe, probably, behaved so monstrously that she deserves no sympathy, yet commands our attention in a way that suggests we should withhold judgment.
(2009/02/20)
It would be news if “Fired Up!” weren’t moronic and adolescent.
(2009/02/19)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/02/19)
Minneapolis electronica trio The Histronic returns to La Crosse for a Friday show at the Popcorn Tavern, 308 S. Fourth St. The music starts at 10 p.m.; admission is $3.
(2009/02/19)
The Wisconsin Brass Quintet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturdat at the Temple Theatre in Viroqua.
(2009/02/18)
Viterbo University will stage the classic German opera “Hansel and Gretel” with a brand new translation, larger-than-life puppets and an American Indian flavor to reflect the La Crosse area heritage.
(2009/02/18)
As an 11-year-old, Jim Witter was so inspired after seeing Billy Joel perform before 1,500 people in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, he rushed home after the concert and asked his mother to teach him some chords on the piano.
(2009/02/18)
Concert ticket prices have doubled in the last decade, and consumers can expect no relief now that Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the two most powerful entities in the concert business, confirmed Tuesday their intentions to merge.
(2009/02/18)
She’s a little bit Sheryl Crow with influences of Tom Petty and Jackson Browne thrown in for good measure.
(2009/02/18)
If you missed Johnsmith and Dan Sebranek at their recent Pump House show, don’t fret. You get one more opportunity.
(2009/02/18)
Artists may register for the fifth annual Driftless Area Art Festival, set for Sept. 19-20 in Soldiers Grove, Wis.
(2009/02/15)
Viterbo University will stage the classic German opera “Hansel and Gretel” with a brand new translation, larger-than-life puppets and an American Indian flavor to reflect the La Crosse area heritage.
(2009/02/15)
As an 11-year-old, Jim Witter was so inspired after seeing Billy Joel perform before 1,500 people in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, he rushed home after the concert and asked his mother to teach him some chords on the piano.
(2009/02/14)
They play just as hard as they work, and sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference when Gaelic Storm is on stage.
(2009/02/14)
Ready for some loud, indie pop rock? Meet Porcupine. They are, from left, Jeff Bahr on drums and backing vocals, Casey Virock on guitar and vocals, and Dave Reinders on bass.
(2009/02/13)
Make no mistake: The new “Friday the 13th” is a sequel masquerading as a reworking of the original 1980 horror film.
(2009/02/13)
Though the timing couldn’t have been worse — the idea of reveling in wretched excess when untold thousands are losing their homes, their jobs, their minds — there really is no appropriate moment for a shrill onslaught that perpetuates the worst stereotypes about female materialism.
(2009/02/13)
Equal parts globe-trotting thriller and architecture porn, as perfectly crystallized by its mind-blowing central set piece: a seemingly endless shootout at the Guggenheim Museum.
(2009/02/12)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/02/12)
Multiple Grammy-winner Coldplay will perform Saturday, July 25, at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy. Tickets go on sale at noon Saturday through livenation.com.
(2009/02/11)
Friendships are the inspiration for the third and last concert in Viterbo University’s One-of-a-Kind Chamber Music Series.
(2009/02/11)
How do you tell your loved one how special he or she is on Valentine’s weekend?
(2009/02/11)
Ari Herstand, along with opening act Heller Mason, will perform an all-ages show at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Warehouse, 328 Pearl St.
(2009/02/11)
HBO comedy festival winner Michael Palascak will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Cellar in Cartwright Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. And here’s something to laugh about — it’s free.
(2009/02/11)
Looking for a sweet summer gig? Send a press kit for this summer’s Down by the Riverside outdoor concert series in Rochester, Minn.
(2009/02/07)
Randy Peterson always wanted to be Pete Seeger. You know, rally everyone in the audience to sing along so that by the end of the night it’s just one big hootenanny.
(2009/02/06)
Someday, we’ll stroll through the Steve Martin Wing of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, admiring his collection, and we’ll appreciate what he had to do to pay for his Picassos, Seurats and Edward Hoppers.
(2009/02/06)
What if, late in life and resigned to your singlehood, you met that special someone and everything went, well, just swimmingly? You’d have a lovely tale to tell your friends, but a less than compelling movie called “Last Chance Harvey.”
(2009/02/06)
Dakota Fanning plays her first-ever drunk scene in “Push,” a new comic-book-inspired thriller about mind-readers and mind-benders, people with telekinetic powers given to them by the government in some demented effort to create walking, talking human weapons.
(2009/02/06)
The first stop-motion animated film to be conceived and shot in 3-D is visually dazzling but strangely joyless.
(2009/02/06)
It couldn’t have had a more cliched premise: A washed-up athlete struggles against the odds for one last shot at greatness. But Darren Aronofsky reinvents this well-worn genre, and allows Mickey Rourke to reinvent himself with disarming charisma and unexpected vulnerability.
(2009/02/06)
This isn’t exactly a romantic comedy — at least, not in the most traditional sense.
(2009/02/05)
Want to see how Bill Miller won that Grammy Award of his?
(2009/02/05)
Earthbound will perform a CD release show at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Pump House, 119 King St.
(2009/02/05)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/02/05)
The UW-L Department of Music and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra will hold Bass Day on Saturday, Feb. 7, featuring a masterclass with Brad Annis, a double bassist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
(2009/02/05)
Liz McConahay and Beth Lakmann will stage their musical revue, “Pennies from Heaven: Seasons of Love,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at the Heider Center for the Arts in the West Salem High School.
(2009/02/04)
Jason Gorman was a junior in high school when he stepped into some of the biggest shoes in the dance world.
(2009/02/04)
When Brad Annis was a student at Lincoln Middle School, band director Tom Berkedal needed an electric bass player for his jazz ensemble.
(2009/02/04)
How did you start playing the double bass? What did you like about the instrument?
(2009/02/04)
DULUTH, Minn. — The rickety old bus pulled out of the Duluth Armory late on Saturday, Jan. 31, 1959, and headed across St. Louis Bay into the frigid Wisconsin night.
(2009/02/04)
The Jon Hassler Theater in Plainview, Minn., will mark its 10th anniversary season in 2009 with a look back at where it all started.
(2009/02/04)
The Trempealeau Hotel in Trempealeau is offering up a whole season of free music at 8 p.m. on Saturdays. Here’s what’s coming up:
(2009/02/04)
Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl performance today will be a teaser for his upcoming world tour, which will make a stop in St. Paul this spring.
(2009/02/04)
If you’re a fan of Frank Sinatra, they’re holding a seat for you at the Heider Center. The Robert Baca Jazz Orchestra will perform a Tribute to Frank Sinatra at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Heider Center, 405 E. Hamlin St., West Salem.
(2009/02/04)
For the second year in a row, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse sophomore Maddy Major served as dramaturg for the winning design team in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Region III Festival in Saginaw, Mich., in January.
(2009/01/30)
A great deal of the allure here comes from the wild juxtaposition of its premise: the idea of esteemed, acclaimed, 56-year-old Liam Neeson kicking all kinds of butt in a Euro B-revenge thriller.
(2009/01/30)
New affluence confronts abject poverty and upward mobility clashes with the ancient caste system in Danny Boyle’s bracing and brilliant new film, “Slumdog Millionaire.” The British filmmaker wears his Irish heart on his sleeve for this taut, tense and witty tale of human tragedy and triumphant humanity set against the sweep of modern India.
(2009/01/29)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/01/28)
Doug Mancheski knows a little bit about ice fishing — the quiet, the peace, the solitude ... the Leinies.
(2009/01/27)
You’ve maybe seen a version of “Godspell” before now. Maybe the actors wore striped shirts and clown makeup. Maybe they looked like hippies or even punk rockers.
(2009/01/26)
When you love reggae, you’ll go to the ends of the earth for it.
(2009/01/26)
Viterbo University’s Theater Department is presenting a staged reading of Ariel Dorfman’s human rights play, “Voices from Beyond the Dark,” Thursday through Saturday in the La Croix Black Box Theatre.
(2009/01/25)
Bobby McFerrin, a 10-time Grammy Award winner, is one of the best-known vocal innovators and improvisers.
(2009/01/25)
Another series of ballroom dance lessons begin the week of Feb. 2 at Amanda’s Academy of Dance, 329 Division St.
(2009/01/24)
Not since the 1930s had a decade produced so many fine films. In fact, the 1970s gave moviegoers so many superior and one-of-a-kind creations that many films like “Wild Rovers” were simply lost in a field positively overflowing with high-quality fare.
(2009/01/24)
Gallery La Crosse, 320 Main St., is holding an Artists Surplus Supplies Swap Sale through Feb. 7.
(2009/01/24)
Veterans receiving care from the Department of Veterans Affairs may enter the Creative Arts Competition at the Tomah VA.
(2009/01/23)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet tear each other apart more thoroughly than an iceberg ever could in this brutal — and brutally tedious — depiction of marital malaise.
(2009/01/23)
“No holds barred,” Richard Nixon urges to David Frost as the two prepare to sit down for a series of interviews in 1977. It’s equal parts promise and threat from both the disgraced figure on screen and the actor playing him.
(2009/01/23)
Whimsy shouldn’t be overwhelming. It shouldn’t be a busy, messy cacophony. By definition, there should be something delicate about it. Charming, even.
(2009/01/22)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/01/22)
Elton John and Billy Joel, the most successful and longest running concert pairing in pop history, will reunite May 5 for their “Face 2 Face” tour at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn.
(2009/01/21)
It’s edgy, funny and quite a bit out of the mainstream.
(2009/01/21)
Toby Keith is coming to town and if you don’t already have a ticket, forget about it. All 5,200 tickets are long gone, though some radio stations, including KQ98 and Cow 97, are still sponsoring contests to win a pair.
(2009/01/21)
Learn how to accurately draw the figure using a live model when artist Matt Duckett — who drew the figure pictured— teaches workshops in figure drawing in February and March at the Pump House, 119 King St.
(2009/01/20)
Liz McConahay and Beth Lakmann are back with their popular musical revue, but this time they will give two shows to raise money for cancer patients.
(2009/01/20)
Jennifer Ebner Josephsen, a 1996 Aquinas High School graduate, has begun her fourth season as a member of the Minnesota Opera chorus and Minnesota Chorale.
(2009/01/20)
It’s a combination of art and sport and a bit like Cirque du Soleil for kids — and there are no animals in this circus.
(2009/01/18)
LA CRESCENT, Minn. — It’s been a long, cold winter with more of the same on the horizon. So why not kick back with a cocktail and forget about the cold — at least for one night.
(2009/01/18)
NEW YORK (AP) — When “Rent” debuted on Broadway in 1996, Gwen Stewart was there. When the curtain came down on its final performance last year, she came back to be there, too.
(2009/01/16)
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop” is basically “Die Hard” with fat jokes.
(2009/01/16)
The premise would seem to be foolproof: It’s about a hotel ... for dogs! How cute is that? How much fun would that be? Say no more.
(2009/01/16)
A true-life story, a family drama, an epic tale of war — “Defiance” aims to be an all-in-one movie.
(2009/01/15)
Gregg “Cheech” Hall and Nick “The Feelin” Mrozinski (pictured) are teaming up for a weekend of music at the Freight House, playing at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
(2009/01/15)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/01/14)
The joint will be jumping at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on Saturday, Jan. 24, at the 35th annual UW-L Jazz Festival.
(2009/01/13)
He has rambled down the road so long and so far that sometimes he looks out at the sea of faces and doesn’t recognize anyone in the crowd.
(2009/01/12)
I’m continually amazed at the variety of arts and entertainment opportunities available in the Coulee Region.
(2009/01/11)
The windows were boarded up, the furnace was barely gasping out warmth and the ceiling had gaping holes.
(2009/01/10)
It’s déjà vu all over again as Hollywood is set to produce an unprecedented number of re-makes over the coming months. Films being redone include everything from throwaway B-pictures to successful major studio efforts and even a few genuine classics.
(2009/01/09)
Part modern-day Western, part vigilante flick, part after-school special, Clint Eastwood’s oddball drama “Grand Torino” remains entertaining right up to the end credits, during which you can scratch your head and wonder what you’ve just seen. One thing is certain: That is, indeed, Eastwood singing the jazzy closing number with Jamie Cullum.
(2009/01/09)
The big problem with the romantic comedy “Bride Wars” seems as plain as the opening credits.
(2009/01/09)
Like a well-composed photograph and a finely drawn illustration, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep take different approaches to their respective portraits in “Doubt,” John Patrick Shanley’s film adaptation of his Pulitzer-winning play. Shanley’s flat-footed direction keeps the two actors from meshing their styles, but it’s a pleasure to see them at work in a single film.
(2009/01/08)
The hard-rocking quartet Zetus Deamos will reunite for an 8 p.m. show Saturday at The Joint, 324 Jay St. The rockers have not performed together since appearing at Riverfest in La Crosse last July.
(2009/01/08)
Your guide to music, movies, visual arts, karaoke, dances and more this weekend in the Coulee Region:
(2009/01/07)
For the past six months, Linda Balgord has been paid to sit backstage and watch Broadway diva Patti Lupone perform in the Broadway musical revival of “Gypsy.”
(2009/01/07)
in Trempealeau Husband-and-wife blues duo Joe and Vicki Price will perform a free show at
(2009/01/06)
You know those bands that create their own genres like electrodance or technofunk?
(2009/01/05)
The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra had expected one of the six finalists for conductor and music director would choose to conduct the March concerts.
(2009/01/04)
For many years, David Reedy tried to convince the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra to start a concerto competition for high school musicians.
(2009/01/03)
“Valkyrie,” the latest Tom Cruise film (now in theaters) is only the most recent to tackle the subject of the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler. In fact, there have been several films to depict the efforts of Klaus Von Stauffenberg and his fellow conspirators to end Hitler’s reign of terror and negotiate a ceasefire with the Allies.
(2009/01/03)
FORT ATKINSON, Wis. — The Fireside Theatre opened its 2009 dinner theater season New Year’s Eve with “Those Fabulous Fifties Part 2,” a musical revue featuring a live band and the hits of the decade. The show runs through Feb. 22.
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