This play takes place in two side-by-side apartments in present-day Chicago. Charles Norton, a musicologist, lives in one apartment alone with his books and music. Isabel Fox, a poet on the verge of a divorce, moves into the other apartment and puts her head in the oven in a half-baked suicide attempt. Charles smells the gas and inadvertently becomes Isabel’s savior. These characters use their knack for music and words as they nervously navigate the path of true love.
7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays
2:00 pm Sundays
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Pigs ears.I’m sure that’s what she said. I switch the phone to my other ear, and ask Cherie if she’s pulling my leg. She assures me this is true, naming the local butcher shop where she’d go to replenish her stock. Looking at Cherie’s sophisticated digital artwork, it is hard to believe that her early training as an artist involved using pigs’ ears as a canvas.
I’m talking to Cherie as she recovers from a bout with asthma that recently landed her in the hospital. Not yet having stumbled onto the Pig Ears Years story, I’ve been asking general questions about the ‘long and winding road’ that led to the birth of Mystic Moon Media.
Art has been a lifelong obsession for southeast Wisconsin native Cherie Gerhardt. Her earliest memories are of sitting in the hayloft in her family’s barn, sketching the horses. Continue reading →
he Kenosha Writers’ Group has been meeting for two years in gallery lofts, members’ homes, and coffee shops throughout Kenosha. They gather on the third Thursday of each month to offer support through the writing process and to share in the joy of completed projects.
Membership is open to anyone who writes, whether professionally or for pleasure, any genre or format, and is looking for open, honest feedback about their writing.
My great granddaughter and I attended our “Mommy and Me” swimming class today. Her mother teaches the class, so I get the honor of playing the mommy role. After an enjoyable class, we went down to the dressing room to shower and dress. When we were on our way up to the stairs, she said “G.G. (great grandmother), I can’t walk up all of these stairs, can you carry me like mommy does?
“Well, I’m getting kind of old, and you are getting kind of big, so I can’t carry you up the stairs, but I can teach you to fly up them”.
Put your arms way up and out to your side, and wave your hands and fingers as fast as you can, now start up the stairs and you’ll see how easy it is. She managed to get up all 9 stairs, and when she got to the top she called out loudly in her two year old voice. “G.G. I did it”. When we got to my daughters home, she told her grandmother that her G.G. taught her how to fly. My daughter said, “What’s next Mom, roller skating?” I’ll think about that.
What sweet memories we can make out of the simplest things . . .
Mary Ann Eils is a retired registered nurse working part time as a nursing instructor. She has been married for sixty years. Mary Ann is a mother of four, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of two. She enjoys writing true to life stories with a humorous touch.
Doug Moe
dmoe@madison.com
As published in the Wisconsin State Journal
This was late spring 1998 and George Pollard was in his Kenosha home on the shore of Lake Michigan talking about the time he did a portrait of Harry Truman.
“It was his last portrait,” Pollard said.
The former president was not famous for his patience. “His hip hurt and he didn’t like sitting,” Pollard said.
Pollard was undaunted. After all, as a sergeant during World War II, he had known the pressure of being asked to paint generals. “This experience,” Pollard would later note, “had taught me two things — paint fast and do not be intimidated by important people.”
The Truman portrait, done in 1964, had taken a full year to set up. It was at the presidential library in Missouri. Truman sat, began to chat, and Pollard went to work.
Although he called Truman one of his most memorable subjects, George Pollard, the internationally known portrait artist who died Thursday in his Kenosha home at 88, was used to working with the celebrated and the powerful. His subjects — and his subjects nearly always became admirers — were presidents, popes, A-list entertainers and athletes. Yet somehow Pollard remained as friendly and unpretentious as the Wisconsin farm boy he was.
I was at his home in Kenosha that day in 1998 in the company of my Madison friend Bob Royko. It was one of the most enjoyable afternoons I’ve ever spent.
Click HERE to read the rest from the Wisconsin State Journal
Mariann Kramer (top center) with Actor’s Craft families in Music and Improv for Pre-School!
Mariann Kramer makes the arts come alive for Pre-Schoolers. For twenty-five years, she has engaged young minds and bodies in imaginative play, all while teaching lifelong skills of active listening, responsibility and self-control. Kindergarten readiness is part of her mission.
I first met Mariann when she was my daughter Theresa’s pre-school teacher at Kid’s Castle. I was impressed with how she managed to keep all the youngsters happily engaged in their activities — even cleaning up after themselves — while never raising her voice. As a mother with three children under 5, I thought I might learn something from her! Continue reading →
ArtWorks new class schedule for May and June is now available. Please go to our newly updated website at www.artworks-kenosha.com and check it out. Our gallery art exhibit schedule for 2008 is now posted as well as a few photos from our Pixels! opening on March 22nd.
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Your are invited to participate in Lemon Street Gallery’s art-making, fund-raising event, LemonAID ‘08!
Formerly know as Caged! Artists in Their Natural Habitat, LemonAID’08 promises to be our biggest event ever. This great ART day has been moved to Downtown Kenosha, where it will be a featured activity of Bloomin’ Days, a large community event. To compliment the new premier location, we selected the new name, LemonAID.
Participation details: On Saturday, June 7th up to 40 artists will arrive at the event grounds Continue reading →
ArtWorks new class schedule for May and June is now available. Please go to our newly updated website at www.artworks-kenosha.com and check it out. Our gallery art exhibit schedule for 2008 is now posted as well as a few photos from our Pixels! opening on March 22nd.
