‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Grimm’: New TV from old tales
Two of the new TV series we have sampled over the last couple of weekends have some things in common. Both are hour-long scripted dramas which layer fantasy and supernatural elements onto the everyday, modern world. Both also link back to the realm of classic fairy...Drive-By Truckers, Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
< Previous Photos Next > Drive-By Truckers, Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin — Guitarist/vocalists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley and bassist/vocalist Shonna Tucker of the Drive-By Truckers perform at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1032 N....Dry Bones song: Ezekiel cried, ‘Dem dry bones!’
Dry Bones song: Ezekiel cried, ‘Dem dry bones!’ Dry Bones, the video above by Dan DiFelice, is something that showed up in my Vimeo inbox the other day and caught my eye. It does not use the Dry Bones song. However, both this short film and the Dry Bones...Michael Lewis: ‘Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World’
Author Michael Lewis is on tour for his new book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, published on Monday by Simon & Schuster. Above is the extended clip of his appearance last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Boomerang is sort of a followup to...C. Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation
It was on The Rachel Maddow Show back on August 10 that I first heard of the New Apostolic Reformation. That segment aired just before Rick Perry entered the 2012 presidential race, and just after his August 6th prayer rally — “The Response” — at...Social Media Week Chicago: Reinventing media careers
Social Media Week Chicago took place last week, and one of the sessions generating some online buzz was the event above on Friday evening, featuring: Nancy Loo (@NancyLoo) Robert Feder (@RobertFeder) Richard Roeper (@richardroeper) and Steve Dahl (@SteveDahlShow)...Iraq War casualties erased from ‘War on Terror’?
Today, as news organization after news organization “remembers” the September 11 attacks — and as our fellow Americans remind us not to forget September 11 — I saw something truly shocking. It was a Facebook post by WISN 12 NEWS, Milwaukee’s ABC...SC Johnson companies pay no Wisconsin income taxes?
Over his 45-year career in journalism, David Cay Johnston has many impressive achivements. Tax reporter for the The New York Times from 1995 to 2006, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2000 and 2003, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2001 “for...Allstate ‘Raccoon Mayhem’ commercial with Dean Winters
The Allstate Mayhem commercial series has burrowed deep into my head. I saw the “Raccoon Mayhem” commercial above a couple of days ago. Then, this morning at about 2:30, I heard either a large raccoon or a small horse tramping across our roof above my bed....
