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Written by Janice Christensen   
Monday, 29 June 2009

July 2009

1 WEDNESDAY
GORDON PARK 2828 N Humboldt AWE
Art for Kids Art Truck. Open ended art
project; drop-in program for kids ages
4 to 14 in parks. 1-4PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Acoustic
open stage. 9PM sign-up/9:30 start. No
Cover.
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Monarch Larvae Monitoring. 5:30PM  $4/$7

2 THURSDAY
GORDON PARK 2828 N Humboldt AWE
Art for Kids Art Truck. Open ended art
project; drop-in program for kids ages
4 to 14 in parks. 1-4PM
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Ornithology Workshop 6:30-8PM
$5/$10. Free for birding volunteers.
4 SATURDAY
GORDON PARK 2828 N Humboldt
Annual 4th of July Celebration. See
listing, Page 4.
5 SUNDAY
GARDENERS MARKET Locust &
Bremen Holly Haebig & Jeff Bray 11AM-
4PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust
Highlonesome w/ Danny Price & the
Loose Change& Har Herrar 9:30PM $5
6 MONDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Fran Slayton reading When The Whistle
Blows. 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Poets
Monday - 7:30PM
7 TUESDAY
SKYLINE MUSIC AT KADISH PARK.
Between the Reservoir and Commerce
Street. SON - MYSO’s Latin Jazz Combo
5:30-8:30PM Free
WWBIC 2745 MLK Small Business
Discussion Groups Noon-1PM Free.
8 WEDNESDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Les Leopold reading The Looting of
America: How Wall Street’s Game of
Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs,
Pensions, and Prosperity - and What We
Can Co About It 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Acoustic
open stage. 9PM sign-up/9:30 start.
Feature: Paul Setser. No Cover
9 THURSDAY
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Cory Hart.
9:30PM $5
MIRAMAR/MODJESKA 2844 N
Oakland The Radiators w/ Salt Creek
8PM $25
10 FRIDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Aleksander Hemon, author of Love
and Obstacles: Stories and The Lazarus
Project. 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Sandmen
w/ Dr. Chow’s Love Medicine 9:30PM $5
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl A Sense of Wonder: film screening.
11 SATURDAY
BLIFFERT LUMBER GRAND OPENING.
1014 E Chambers Door prizes, live
music by Freddy Bliffert from 2-4PM.
DANCEWORKS 1661 N Water
ScreenDance. 9:15PM
EAST SIDE GREEN MARKET Beans &
Barley Parking Lot. Adam Helt-Baldwin.
Habitat for Humanity. Milwaukee
Riverkeeper.
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Pessettino
w/ the Blue Heels 9:30PM $5
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E
Park Pl Wellspring Farm Tour. 9AM-1PM
Adults $7/$10. Children: $3/$5
12 SUNDAY
GARDENERS MARKET Locust &
Bremen Blue Valentine and the FREE
MARKET RETURNS! 11AM-4PM
Secret Garden Tour 1-4 pm $3
Maps & Tickets available at Market
13 MONDAY
FALCON BOWL 801 E Clarke Public
Meeting: Garden Park Proposals. 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Poets
Monday - 7:30PM Mike Fredrickson
10PM No Cover
14 TUESDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Merry Wiesner-Hanks Distinguished
Professor of History at UWM, author of
The Marvelous Hairy Girs: the Gonzales
Sisters and Their Worlds. 7PM
RIVERWEST NEIGHBORHOOD
ASSOCIATION ANNUAL SUMMER
POT LUCK. Gordon Park Pavilion. 2828
N Humboldt 6PM
SKYLINE MUSIC AT KADISH PARK.
Between the Reservoir and Commerce
Street. Alex Wilson Band 5:30-8:30PM
Free
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Pioneering Citizen Scientists: The
Packhams. 7-8:30PM Free/$5
15 WEDNESDAY
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Acoustic
open stage. 9PM sign-up/9:30 start.
Feature: Keith Baierle. 9PM No Cover
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Chi-Gung. 5:30-7PM $10/$12
16 THURSDAY
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Soggy
Flats w/ Union Pulse 9:30PM $5
MAD PLANET 533 E Center Grupo
Fantasma
17 FRIDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Nathan Rabin, Head Writer at The
Onion, author of The Big Rewind: A
Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture.
(Another crazy Wisconsin boy makes
good) 7PM
DANCEWORKS 1661 N Water Keely
Garfield Dance 7:30PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Rumbrava
9:30PM $6
MIRAMAR/MODJESKA 2844 N
Oakland The Erotic Adventures of the
Static Chicken 9PM
18 SATURDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
A. Manette Ansay, Port Washington
native, author of Good Things I Wish
You. 2PM
DANCEWORKS 1661 N Water Keely
Garfield Dance 7:30PM
EAST SIDE GREEN MARKET Beans &
Barley Parking Lot. Sleep Tight Too.
GARFIELD AVE FEST. MLK to 7th St.
Jazz, Gospel & Arts. Noon to sunset.
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Heidi
Spencer w/ Elizabeth Birr & Laughing
Eye, Weeping Eye. 9:30PM $5
GARDENERS MARKET Locust &
Bremen Charlie Maxwell Trio 11AM-
4PM
19 SUNDAY
LAKE PARK PICNIC AREA #5 The Coffee
House Annual Picnic. Bring instruments,
voices, food to share. Come to play
music or just enjoy an afternoon with
friends. Grills and charcoal available.
Noon - 6PM Free.
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Opening: Wet and Wild: Art by Sue
Haislmeier and Jan Montgomery.
20 MONDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Mary Lloyd, author of Supercharged
Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair,
Trash the Remote and Do What You
Love. 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Poets
Monday - 7:30PM
21 TUESDAY
SKYLINE MUSIC AT KADISH PARK.
Between the Reservoir and Commerce
Street. Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound
5:30-8:30PM Free
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Summer Cooking: Summer Salads.
6:30-8:30PM $30/$35
22 WEDNESDAY
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Acoustic
open stage. 9PM sign-up/9:30 start.
Feature: Meagan Owens. No Cover
MIRAMAR/MODJESKA 2844 N
Oakland Reverend Horton Heat w/ The
Necromantics 8PM $25
23 THURSDAY
KILBOURN PARK Promise to America -
Movie Screening 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Ehson Rad
9:30PM $5
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Darwin Lives in our Homes: Natural
Selection, Insects and Our Household
Ecosystem. 7-8:30PM Free/$5
24 FRIDAY
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Scott H.
Biram 9:30PM $10
MILWAUKEE SHAMBHALA CENTER
Teaching by renowned meditation
master Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche.
Through July 26. 254-0529, or
milwaukee.shambhala.org
RIVERWEST 24-HOUR BIKE RACE.
Through July 25. Riverwest24.com
25 SATURDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer A
Night of Tango - Boswell After Hours.
9-10:30PM $10
BRADY STREET FESTIVAL. Free live
music 11AM - 11PM, including Fever
Marlene, Code Breaker, Alex Wilson, Hot
Sauce & more. Vendors - art, jewelry,
cheese, wine, beer - Fashion Show at
7PM, Drag Show at 8PM. Bradyst.com
BUCKETWORKS 1340 N 6th Art Not
Apathy 7PM
EAST SIDE GREEN MARKET Beans &
Barley Parking Lot. Leon Walls
FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY Public talk
by meditation master Jetsun Khandro
Rinpoche. 10AM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Kinetic
9:30PM $5
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Book Club: Biomimicry by Janine
Benyus. 10-11AM
26 SUNDAY
GARDENERS MARKET Locust &
Bremen Sigmund Snopek & Michael
Woods 11AM-4PM
27 MONDAY
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Poets
Monday - 7:30PM Amy Rohan - 10PM
No Cover
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500
E Park Pl Sprouting Theology: The
Growing Relationship Between Food
and Religion. Jordon Wesley Stone,
Growing Power. 7:30PM Free
28 TUESDAY
SKYLINE MUSIC AT KADISH PARK.
Between the Reservoir and Commerce
Street. De La Buena 5:30-8:30PM Free
TAMARACK WALDORF SCHOOL. 1150 E
Brady Open House. 6:30-8:30PM
29 WEDNESDAY
BOSWELL BOOKS 2559 N Downer
Aaron Allen Schiller, baseball fan, cyclist,
longboarder, cat owner and home brewer
- has reportedly told some associates
he “teaches philosophy” at UWM; editor
of Stephen Colbert and Philosophy:
I Am Philosophy (And So Can You!).
With William Keith, associate professor
of communicaiton at UWM, author of
Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education
and the American Forum Movement and
The Essential Guide to Rhetoric. 7PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Acoustic
open stage. 9PM sign-up/9:30 start.
Feature: Jumpsuit. No Cover
WWBIC 2745 MLK WWBIC Orientation.
9-10:30AM Free.
31 FRIDAY
DANCEWORKS 1661 N Water Art to Art
7:30PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust The Brimleys
9:30PM No Cover
MIRAMAR/MODJESKA 2844 N Oakland
Within the Ruins, We Are the End,
The Crimson Armada, Chrodh Mara,
A Wretched Betrayal, A Silent Ascent,
FMK!, Milosny, These Lights Above Us,
Amygdala Hijack, Arsenal of Blasphemy,
Cain & Abel, Dance Cadaverous. 3PM 1 WEDNESDAY
GORDON PARK 2828 N Humboldt AWE
Art for Kids Art Truck. Open ended art
project; drop-in program for kids ages
4 to 14 in parks. 1-4PM
LINNEMAN’S 1001 E Locust Acoustic
open stage. 9PM sign-up/9:30 start. No
Cover.
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 1500 E Park
Pl Monarch Larvae Monitoring. 5:30PM  $4/$7