David Luhrssen

Milwaukee's internationally respected champions of neo-classical music, Present Music, are marking their 45th season this month with a concert and—as always—a post-show party.

“Instinctually, Most People Know that What is Happening is Wrong” What does Rachel Maddow have in mind for her November 12 presentation at the Riverside Theater?

In 2025 and 2026, E.G. Nadeau wrote a series of essays for the Shepherd Express . Nadeau collected those essays and a postscript for his new

When does a slap become child abuse—and who gets to decide? Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu poses the question in Fjord and leaves the audience wondering and thinking.

Fisherwoman (played with daffy commitment by Olivia Colman) falls in love with a man made of wicker (Alexander Skarsgård) in Wicker.

Nightmares and Daydreams A.C. 2020 is not a graphic novel but a sequence of mood-sustaining images. In that book, the Bosnian-born, New York designer and comic artist ponders his experience during the Covid catastrophe that continues to ripple through politics, public policy and the arts.

Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA history professor) makes her case easily enough. The first immigration law passed by Congress (1803) excluded any freeborn “person of color.” The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) limited Chinese arrivals until 1943. The Immigration Act (1924) was based on racial hierarchies that limited the number of arrivals not only from Asia and Africa but also from Southern and Eastern Europe. Lyndon Johnson was able to lift many of those restrictions in his Immigration Reform Act (1965) by prioritizing “family reunification,” implicitly favoring Canadian and European applicants.

With the 2026 centennial of Alfred Hitchcock's first film, writers and publishers have been motivated to revisit the life and career of one of the last century's great and most influential directors.

For his next performance, at The Deep Groove, he'll focus on jazz, playing in a duo with pianist Anthony Deutsch.

The fictional story about Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley) finds the author in a deadly mood.