Growing Bolder Community

I have to just rave about seeing Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in concert at Milwaukee's Festa Italiana this past weekend. I'd never been to Festa, and I'd never been to a Frankie Valli concert, and the possibility of the two at an outdoor amphitheater on a summer Sunday evening next to Lake Michigan was an irresistible draw. Little did I know by how much the night would exceed all hopes and...

Chicago--my home town--has always been known for producing a splendid crop of writers. Just think Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, Edna Ferber...the list goes on and on. So an idea whose time has come is the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame . The Hall of Fame, which has been the brainchild of some very talented people in the Chicago Writers Association, will be having its inaugural...

Meat Loaf kicked off his new concert tour in spectacular fashion at Milwaukee's Summerfest last night, and it was a show not to be missed! Here is the preview article about Meat Loaf and his upcoming tour and album that ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper just before. This was the opening night of Summerfest, routinely described as "The Big Gig" and "The World's Largest Music...

Last night I sat through a truly remarkable acoustic concert by rocker Richard Marx and had to share! He's still on tour for anybody who's lucky enough to be in the neighborhood of his shows and get a ticket. That would include both sides of the Atlantic in 2011.We watched him last night at the Hamilton Fine Arts center in Sussex, Wisconsin, which is near Milwaukee. Richard Marx is a familiar...