by Karen Mahoney
Movie-making family films children’s DVD on nine area farms
Look closely at the scenes in “Little Sister,” and you might see something familiar.
The 80-minute DVD, available for purchase at many local stores including all Kenosha-area Walgreens, was filmed on nine farms in Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties.
“We love southeastern Wisconsin,” said Greg Lavin, “Little Sister” director and writer. “So the potential of making other films here is very possible.”
It’s no surprise Lavin is fond of the area. He grew up in Kansasville and still lives on the family farm, though now in a home built on a corner of the property that has been in the family for five generations.
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The House that Art Built, is a fund raising alliance composed of regional artists dedicated to the cause of enhancing the quality of life through the perpetual momentum of creativity.
The blue prints of the House were first conceived while my team and I (Touch Fine Arts) were completing the ceiling of the Florentine Ballroom at the Congress Plaza hotel in Chicago. The idea being that fine art is indeed a lovely addition to the immaculate ballrooms, and banquet halls of the excessively wealthy, but it is NEEDED most on the baron walls of the impoverished.
Our first show is to be held on June 13, 14, and 15 at Mo’s Cafe. Many artists (student & Professional) from Milwaukee to Chicago will be featured, and 20% of all the proceeds will be donated to AHA!
There will be live performances, and plenty of wine. So clear your schedule, get the gang together, and come help lay the foundation of The House That Art Built.
The House that Art Built is currently moving forward on a series of charity Murals within the community. Thanks to a generous donation from ARTWORKS they have all the supplies we will need to create some beautiful work in the community. If any artists out there are interested they would really appreciate volunteers. Also, anyone who would like to submit their work for the show at Mo’s should feel free to contact surrealbigdeal@yahoo.com
Javier C. Rivera reminds me of the Renaissance men of years gone by; he seems to be able to flow from one art form to another almost effortlessly. Javier and I met about twelve years ago as students at UW-Parkside. We became fast friends, and I always had a sense that one day he was going to accomplish some great things. We lost touch for a while, but fortunately, we reconnected and recently started catching up. I was amazed to see just how right I was–in just a few years time, he‘s become an accomplished director, author and musician. Though Javier moved to Austin, Texas about three years ago, he spent most of his childhood and young adult life in Kenosha. So sit back, relax, and allow me to introduce you to a former local who’s making his dreams happen.
Add sunshine, blue skies, and a brisk breeze and you have a beautiful backdrop for the hundreds of people who enjoyed the music and songs and color guards as numerous dignitaries dedicated the Civil War Museum.
Beautiful inside and out, the museum was well represented by a few big hearted re-enactors who offered their time and patience to share a few of the details that will make history live for you. Continue reading →
The war is over. The fiery cannonades of Lee’s and Grant’s Armies no longer echo among the southern hills and valleys of our country. Bullets no longer zip and zing amongst clashing men rushing to meet their fate at Gettysburg, Chickasaw Bayou, Antietam or Chickamauga. Those battlefields are silent.
Yet when you enter Kenosha’s new Civil War Museum, one cannot help but recall those by-gone days when a savage war pitted neighbor against neighbor and brother against brother. The unfinished building is poignant and the hush inside is almost spiritual. For the employees working to recreate the past it is a time of reflection, and for Brett Lobello, Curator of Education, an opportunity to tell a different Civil War story. Continue reading →
Click the Arrow to listen to Braxton Molinaro singing “Hero and Leander”
Braxton Molinaro is currently attending the North Carolina School of The Arts for his BFA in Acting. He is an acting student under Chancellor John Mauceri (Candide and The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conductor) and Dean Gerald Freedman (West Side Story/Hair on Broadway, director).
You may have seen Braxton in previous productions in his high school career including: AIDA, SWEENEY TODD, and the national cast of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. He also directed summer shows in K-town including: THE WILD PARTY, CHICAGO, AND THE LARAMIE PROJECT.
He now has a music page on Myspace and would love some traffic to stop by from his home town! Check it out!
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…”
