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Friday, November 16,2007
Cirque Eloize
The Canadian Cirque Eloize troupe sticks very closely to the “cirque nouveau” template laid out by the more famous Cirque du Soleil company, updating traditional, acrobatic circus performances by stripping them of some of their silliness, replacing it with a more sophisticated New Age sensibility and hints of narrative. Tonight and tomorrow night the troupe brings its water-centric presentation RAIN to the Milwaukee Theatre. Tonight’s show begins at 8 p.m.
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Friday, November 16,2007
The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow, which Florentine Opera presents throughout the weekend at the Marcus Center. The production, which promises some extravagant set pieces, begins tonight with a 7:30 p.m. show.
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Friday, November 16,2007
Great Cinema
Throughout the weekend, the UWM Union Theatre screens two of the greatest films from one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers, Jean Renoir. The 1939 farce Rules of the Game, which plays at 7 p.m. tonight, has all the ingredients of a cliché whodunnit—an out-of-the-way retreat populated by rich socialites and their servants—but the characters are so fleshed out and the final act is so tragic that the film rings with an unexpected poignancy. The tender 1937 World War I drama The Grand Illusion, which follows at 9:30 p.m., is high on suspense and relentless in its critique of war, but it gets its message across without showing a single battle scene.
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Thursday, November 15,2007
Blue Cheer and Plasticland
Blue Cheer played psychedelic- and blues-twinged hard-rock at deafening volumes. Fittingly, this historical band share an 8 p.m. bill at Shank Hall tonight with Plasticland, an act that played vibrant, British-styled psychedelic rock and pop throughout the ’80s.
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Thursday, November 15,2007
D.L. Hughley
The first host of BET’s influential “Comic View” and one fourth of the trendsetting Original Kinds of Comedy, D.L. Hughley performs his stand-up act at 8 p.m. tonight at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino
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Thursday, November 15,2007
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
The Spiral Theatre (at 534 W. National Ave.) continues its inaugural season tonight with a 7:30 p.m. opening-night performance of the Frank McGuiness drama Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
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Thursday, November 15,2007
Trying
Opening tonight is the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of playwright Joanna McClelland Glass’ historical two-character drama, Trying
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Thursday, November 15,2007
Greetings!
Greetings! is a sweet story about a young Shakespearian actor who introduces his devoutly Catholic parents to his fiancée: an aethiest Jew. It runs through Dec. 165 at the Off-Broadway Theatre.
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Wednesday, November 14,2007
Me'Shell Ndegeocello
Me'Shell Ndegeocello first earned fame with the "Wild Night" cover she belted out with John Cougar Mellencamp. Her new The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams is a sprawling free-for-all, filled with muscular funk, rock and, well, just about everything else. It’s anybody’s guess how she’ll bring that eclectic album to the stage tonight at her 8 p.m. concert at the Turner Hall Ballroom.
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Wednesday, November 14,2007
The Von Bondies
One of the better Detroit groups with ties to the White Stripes, co-ed garage-rockers The Von Bondies actually became a better, catchier band once they severed those ties. Tonight they play what’s bound to be a very packed 9:30 show at the Cactus Club.
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AIG head shares US anger of bonuses but backs them
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AP - The chief executive officer of failed insurance conglomerate AIG acknowledged Wednesday that the company's multimillion-dollar bonuses were "distasteful" to many and had provoked a firestorm of wrath. "I share that anger," Edward Liddy, chairman and CEO of the American International Group Inc., said in testimony prepared for Congress.
Obama seeks greater rein on financial institutions
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