By the way, those of you that heard the show today know that admission to the speedskating trials is ABSOLUTELY FREE. See you there tomorrow!

The Pettit National Ice Center Events
Big speedskating championships this weekend at the Pettit. See this page to get more details.

Rob Multerer, Marketing director at the Pettit, promised that someone from the Pettit center will be calling us on Saturday, January 30, on the show to tell us more. Make sure you tune in!

Got this tidbit from Jerry Halkowski of Pod Nogi:

CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD DOING A STORY ON JIMMY STURR

Charles Osgood of CBS's Sunday Morning television will do a feature story on Thirteen Time Grammy Award Winner Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra.

The story will include film of Jimmy recording in Nashville with Lee Greenwood and Allison Krause; a visit to his hometown of Florida, New York and the band's performances at the Bayway Polish American Club in Elizabeth. NJ; New Year's Eve in Hannover, Germany and at Polkapalooza events around the country.

The story is scheduled to air on Sunday Morning February 8, 2004 to coincide with the Grammy broadcast that evening. Please check your local listings for the station in your area

Ofoto Spielmannszug Maskenball 2003
We set up a special photo gallery for last night's Spielmannszug Maskenball. It was really a great time with great costumes and great performances.

The Tanzsterne continue to get better with every performance. They even did some specialty moves that I was worried these little girls were going to hurt themselves. But they pulled it off!

The Muller Fasching Verein did their "unique" performance, which I'm sure will show up in the video I'm putting together right now along with clips from the Drum & Bugle Corps and the costume judging.

Speaking of that video, I better get back to work!!

Stimmung Stunde Bulletin Board
If you are looking for more information on the local Mardi Gras events in town, be sure to check our Bulletin Board with the link above!

Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibit

Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection

January 17 – March 14, 2004


Baker/Rowland and North Exhibition Galleries


The nearly 200 prints featured in the exhibition Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection are among the most dramatic artworks of the 20th century. Emotional and technical achievements, these striking images proclaim the revolutionary intent of the German Expressionists, who changed the course of modernism with their radical styles, methods and subjects.

Graphic media attracted many vanguard artists during this period: democratic, immediate and experimental, printmaking also bore strong associations with Germany’s artistic traditions. The artists who came to be known as the Expressionists worked together exchanging ideas and tools, and publishing their works side by side in portfolios and periodicals. Through their prints, the Expressionists bypassed official academies and communicated directly with growing urban audiences. They launched their careers against a background of social unrest and political turmoil. Observing and commenting upon the modern world in which they lived, the Expressionists produced incisive self-portraits, chaotic urban scenes, joyous landscapes and harsh images of war. Their techniques were as varied as their themes, revealing the hand as well as the mind and soul of the artist. Etchings of biting intensity, lithographs of corrosive ingenuity and woodcuts of defiant impact all reveal the truth of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s pronouncement, “Nowhere does one come to know an artist better than in his prints.”

The Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection features some of the most remarkable examples of Expressionist prints to be found in a single American collection. Proof impressions of woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger, unique color lithographs by Emil Nolde and hand-pulled etchings by Conrad Felixmüller are outstanding examples in an exhibition that includes superlative prints by all the key figures related to German Expressionism including Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kathe Kollwitz and Ludwig Meidner. Their expressive visions continue to evoke the turbulent early decades of the 20th century and speak powerfully to our own day.

Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and guest curated by Frank Whitford.

German Toilets
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Milwaukee Art Museum Beer Tasting

Enjoy free admission Friday, January 16, 2003 to the Museum and the German Expressionist exhibition. Curator speaks about the exhibition. Sample local micro-brews and enjoy the tradition of German beer gardens. $10/$8 Mmembers for beer tasting. Runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

This Saturday, Bob Wodke, Events coordinator for the Milwaukee Art Museum, will come on the show after 10:30 a.m. and tell us all about this exciting event. Don't miss out!

Mardi Gras on the Net - Welcome
It's Mardi Gras season - want to learn more about it?

Check out this website for the history of this festival. Or post your questions on the forum. Someone will have the answer...maybe.