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Wednesday, December 26,2007
V100.7 Holiday Jam w/ Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy and Playaz Circle
Fri. Dec. 28
Aside from perhaps T-Pain, no rapper was more ubiquitous this year than Lil Wayne. No
matter that Lil Wayne didn’t even release an album this year (Tha Carter III has been bumped
back to 2008)
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
The Candliers w/ John The Savage
Fri. Dec. 28
The Cactus Club, 10 p.m. Two of Milwaukee’s most novel new bands share this bill. The Candliers take inspiration from old folk, country and ragtime- era swing—basically any music that you can play with a banjo.
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
Lotus
Fri. Dec. 28
Miramar Theatre, 8 p.m. One of the better of the so-called “jamtronica” bands, the Philadelphia five-piece Lotus thinks beyond usual jam influences.
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
Rusted Root w/ Cosmic Railroad
Fri. Dec. 28
The Rave, 8 p.m. Rusted Root stands out from other jam bands for a variety of reasons, chief among them the fact that the group has a bona fide hit single under its belt: the mid- ’90s radio staple “Send Me On My Way”
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
The Celebrated Workingman
Sat. Dec. 29
The Cactus Club, 10 p.m. Longtime Atomic Records fixture Mark Waldoch is flying from New York to Milwaukee to play this show with The Celebrated Workingman, his jovial, punchy, indie-rock band.
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
The Nutty Nutcracker
Sat. Dec. 29
The Marcus Center, 7:30 p.m. For the final night of this year’s production of The Nutcracker, Milwaukee Ballet resurrected this tradition after a 15-year hiatus. Tchaikovsky’s sugarplum fairies and toy soldiers are joined by mascot sausages and real soldiers.
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
Going To New York City
Tonight @ Red Dot
The Shepherd Express bids farewell to one of its own tonight, at James Kloiber’s Going Away Party at the Red Dot. The photographer/illustrator/designer is headed off to New York, but first he’s throwing an open good-bye celebration with music from the city’s premier reggae DJs, Chalice in the Palace.
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
The Nutcracker
Today @ the Marcus Center - 1:30 PM
Attention sugarplum fairy affecionados: The Milwaukee ballet continues its latest, spectacle-filled production of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with a 1:30 p.m. performance today at the Marcus Center.
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Wednesday, December 26,2007
The Norman Conquests
Tonight @ the Milwaukee Repertory Theater - 7:30 PM
If all the Christmas-themed productions dominating the theatre scene this time a year are too saccarhine for your tastes, the Milwaukee Rep is offering you a respite from Christmas cheer in the form of a good, old-fashioned sex farce, The Norman Conquests.
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Monday, December 24,2007
Twelve Days - A Milwaukee Christmas
Today @ Marcus Center - 1 PM
The latest First Stage production tells the little known story of how a Milwaukee native discovered a Christmas tradition. In Twelve Days—A Milwaukee Christmas, which plays today at the Marcus Center at 1 p.m., Downer College teacher Emily Brown discovers the then-little-known Christmas song “The 12 Days of Christmas” while in Britain and brings it back to Milwaukee.
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AP - The Army will substantially reduce use of the unpopular practice of holding troops beyond their enlistment dates and will pay $500 to those still forced to stay in the service, defense and congressional officials said Wednesday.
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.
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AP - For the first time since last fall's election, Democrats and the Obama administration are backpedaling furiously on an issue easily understood by financially strapped taxpayers: $165 million in bonuses paid out at bailed-out AIG.
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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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AP - President Barack Obama says he wants Congress to pass legislation giving the government greater regulatory authority over financial institutions like American International Group.
Consumer prices rise by largest amount in 7 months
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AP - Consumer prices rose in February by the largest amount in seven months as gasoline prices surged again and clothing costs jumped the most in nearly two decades.
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