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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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Tuesday, November 20,2007
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Humperdinck headlines a pair of shows at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
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Tuesday, December 4,2007
FREE Fish Fry!
Best Of Milwaukee Gala, Serb Hall, 6pm
Come join the Best Of Milwaukee and enjoy free food, bowling with a non-perishable donation to the Hunger Task Force.
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Wednesday, December 12,2007
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings @ Turner Hall Ballroom
Nov. 17, 2007
A gathering of ticket-less Sharon Jones fans braved sheets of icy rain outside Turner Hall on Saturday night hoping that someone, anyone, might have a spare ticket for the soulful crooner's notoriously crowd-pleasing show.
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Wednesday, December 12,2007
House of Spirits
Roy Davis Jr.'s soulful spin control
One of Chicago's most acclaimed deep house artists launched his music career as a CD shrink-wrapper for the burgeoning underground label Trax. It took only a few moments before he brushed shoulders with the likes of Glenn Underground
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Thursday, December 13,2007
Cloud Cult's Green Operation
Cloud Cult's Craig Minowa laughs when recalling a large Canadian retailer that used a song from the band's second album in a television commercial.
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Tuesday, December 18,2007
Pat Graham
Schwartz Bookshop, 7pm
Milwaukee native Pat Graham has spent much of the last 20 years on the road, snapping pictures of bands for the pages of magazines like Rolling Stone, NME and Spin, as well as shooting album covers for acts like Modest Mouse and Bikini Kill.
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Tuesday, December 18,2007
Marc Ballini
Jackalope Lounj, 9pm
Two local singer-songwriters, Marc Ballini, winner of the 2006 Shepherd Express Best-Of Milwaukee award for Acoustic Performer, and Ethan Keller, frontman for his eponymous jam-rock band the Ethan Keller Group, share a laid-back show tonight at the Wicked Hop’s Jackalope Lounj at 9 p.m.
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Friday, January 4,2008
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Another Dance: Rarities From Studio One (Heartbeat)
Bob Marley became a global star in the 1970s, the biggest reggae act from Jamaica. Before then, Marley made a stream of singles popular on his island home. Another Dance collects singles and alternate takes recorded from 1964 through 1966.
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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.
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