Tammy is re-introduced to Dan Stika, who she knows from her volunteer days with the KPM.
Tammy: I know Dan. Hi, Dan. How do you know Nita.
Dan: I’m with 91.1 also, and Nita was the co-producer along with Dr. Brown.
T: Oh, I didn’t know that.
D: She went off on her own and her husband purchased a zillion dollars worth of equipment, microphones, the whole PA system is spectacular, but anyway she then asked would you reconstruct one of the performances I had done with Gateway 91.1. Private Eyelashes, I played the elevator operator, “Evening, Miss Diamond. Second floor?” I played a police announcer, too. And then she was going to do Fibber McGee with this Christmas production and the rest is history.
Judy: I am Involved as county board supervisor, also involved in the Copy Center. In addition to this; Rhode Center for the Arts, which includes the Pollard Gallery and Lakeside Players. A little background about Rhode… Rhode theatre was originally the Gateway Theater in 1927. The property was owned by the Rhode family, and given to the downtown business district in 1987.
Josie: In your opinion what does this city need?
Judy: Entertainment expansion of the downtown, so that it can be seen as an entertainment district, and would also promote private businesses.
Josie: Time travel into the next few years, what do you see? Continue reading →
The eighth annual “Bowls & Books” Soupfest Contest will be held at the Rhode on Wednesday March 19th, 2008. Eight restaurants will be serving from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and eight different restaurants will be serving from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The restaurants pick their favorite and best soup. People coming to the event, receive a score card and a commemorative bowl provided by M&I Bank. The attendees go around from table to table, tasting, enjoying and scoring the soups. Where else can you eat that many different soups in one sitting? Continue reading →
It was really gratifying to attend the Afternoon Tea hosted by the Kenosha Orchestra Boosters, and see the results of the Arts and Humanities community of Kenosha working together toward a common goal.
All you have to do is look at the collaborators that made this possible, Orchestra Boosters of Kenosha, Lemon Street Gallery and the participating visual artists, the Anderson Arts Center, The Music Heritage Society, the KUSD Fine art departments, the KUSD Orchestra directors and their students, and all the donors and contributors
Great fundraiser, great attendance, great music performed by the students of Kenosha, a gracious guest (Thank you Rachel Barton), that not only performed but she stayed the whole function; and gave a inspiring presentation to the students with practical advice in how to keep focused and make the best of your music practice and classes. Great!
I believe this is it—Collaboration! There you have it!
I’m looking forward to more organizations following suit and making things happen. According to Sue Jensen from the Kenosha Orchestra Boosters, they are already planning next year’s event, first item in the list is to find a larger venue to accommodate all the attendants. Good for them.
After 137 trips up and down the ladder, Kim called for help. Daughter Taylor and fellow artist Kate attempted a rescue. The Ladies, Kim Rahal and Kate Fallucca, were spending too much of Saturday setting up for their “Double Artist Exhibit”.
They measured, marked, nailed, and hanged, and hanged, and about the third time wound up with a centered and leveled piece. Sometimes it was the right distance from the adjacent piece. Taylor managed to get the right tool to the right place at the right time, and in quiet moments, texted the outside world.
“A Double Artist Exhibit” opens Friday March 7, at the Pollard Gallery from 6 to 9. In addition to notable art from the Ladies, your palette will be tempted by catered treats, and professional musicians Bill Robbins and Sean Mason will entertain you.
And that’s not all.
Two lucky patrons will take home art donated by the Ladies.
The beneficiaries of the chance drawing will be two of the communities most stalwart organizations, Kenosha Meals on Wheels and Kenosha Women and Children’s Horizons. The drawing will proceed at 8:45.
Enjoy a lovely evening while supporting and enriching your community.
Click HERE to see more pictures courtesy of Joe Barr
This year there are 3 shows that ArtWorks-Kenosha will be accepting submissions for: “Water”, “Monster”, and “Tiny Art”. Please contact ArtWorks-Kenosha for any additional information.
Pixels!
A Digital Art Show
March 16-April 30
Opening reception on Saturday March 22
A Louisville, Kentucky transplant will show his art to the world in the heart of downtown Racine. “Bob Ross Nudes,” which opens on March 6 displays the modern oils of KM Scott Moore. Drawn to the flexibility of oils, Moore experiments with the textural qualities of his raw materials to create representational and abstract human forms.
Despite being inspired by the 16th Century High Renaissance and early Mannerist painters, Moore foregoes artistic mimicry in an effort to “do something that no one else has thought of,” something that he dreams he will “do… before (he) dies.”
Moore stated, “This is a rather daunting task, as we have roughly 30,000 years of art history…I am constantly asking myself, ‘What has been done already, and how is what (I am) doing different than that?’”
Describing his works as “artifacts of a thought process,” Moore wants people “to read the pieces not in the sense of a narrative, but as a creative process.”
The “Bob Ross Nudes” runs from March 6 through March 30. The opening reception is Friday, March 7 from 6-9 p.m.
“In Orlando, Florida, Michael Moresby hammers his fifth victim to death outside the Beacon Tavern. The same day in Racine, Wisconsin, his twin brother, McMillan, kills his fourth in the Holiest of Holy rooms. And outside the Brewer’s Miller Park Stadium, Eric Murin’s baseball cap tumbles into the path of a careening Buick. Somewhere beyond the line of life and death, in the vastness of the cosmos, there flows a river of sensations accessible by few. Identical twins can. Seers too. And occasionally the victim of a near death experience. For Homicide Detective Dell Murrin, it is an awakening. And what he sees is terrifying…”
And so begins Racine mystery writer Rick McCluskey’s first thriller, River of Sensations, published under the pseudonym Sheldon Doyle.
The Mahp (The Mark Allen Harrod Project) is a bipolar, southeastern Wisconsin based, original acoustic rock band led fearlessly by singer/songwriter Mark Harrod. While Harrod’s vocal delivery may more loosely resemble modern pop icons such as Dave Mathews and Rob Thomas, the themes of hope, longing, struggle and wonder tend to resemble the very same themes of late-70’s era Springsteen records.
The Mahp do more than play songs, they tell stories and share emotions, dreams and experiences in their music. There are no suspicious notions of racing through filler to get the hooks out. The arrangements are solid and well spoken, driven by Harrod’s articulate and aggressive acoustic guitar, the ethereal textures of Scott Cannaday’s electric guitar work, as well as Brad Hawes’ solid, sophisticated drumming and Chris Jakubiak’s proficiently smooth bass work.
The Mahp pride themselves on a very driving and spiritual live show that may be experienced equally well in acoustic or electric incarnations. Regardless of which you experience, you’ll likely want to relive again and again.
From The Mahp website
The Mahp will be opening the new concert series at 716 in Racine this Saturday, March, 29th. we will keep you posted.
Short story, set in New Orleans on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in which a father takes his teen-age daughter to the Lower Ninth Ward to say goodbye to a classmate who is moving to Wisconsin.
“..It was the anniversary of the disaster. Walter Hobbes was on his way uptown to pick up his daughter, Louise, at Trinity. She had the dentist at four. Then the two of them were going for a hilariously early dinner at the place Louise liked—Papa Andre’s—out on the Chef Highway, a roadhouse on stilts that the flood had missed. Then they were going back to his condo for her homework and a Bill Murray movie. This was New Orleans. It was the anniversary of the disaster. Walter Hobbes was on his…”
A Louisville, Kentucky transplant will show his art to the world in the heart of downtown Racine. “Bob Ross Nudes,” which opens on March 6 displays the modern oils of 
