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This Month in Milwaukee

This Month in Milwaukee 10 THINGS TO DO IN OCTOBER

BY ALLEN HALAS, ELIZABETH LINTONEN AND DAVID LUHRSSEN

OCTOBER 7

t Mary Wimmer, The Art of the Break

Boswell Books

The perfect way to spend a chilly October night is within the cozy confines of the Boswell Book Company. Wisconsinbased author Mary Wimmer will be hosting a conversation about her latest novel, The Art of the Break. The novel follows Charlie Sobczak in her journey of friendship, love, loss and cheesemaking. A very Wisconsin novel to perfectly compliment a night well spent at the bookstore, the conversation about The Art of the Break begins at 6:30 p.m.

OCTOBER 8 An Evening of Classical Opera and Armenian Folk Songs South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center

Metropolitan Opera tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan and Boston Opera mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan are a married couple who met in their native Armenia when paired together as singers during their conservatory years. “We have been duet partners ever since,” Manucharyan says. At their Milwaukee debut, they will sing Verdi, Mozart and Puccini while also taking their audience to a less familiar place through haunting words and melodies from Armenia.

OCTOBER 9

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The Back Room at Colectivo

Singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey has a storied career of promoting positivity and using music to communicate in times of division. His bond with string duo and Milwaukee natives SistaStrings formed over playing a show at the Café Carpe in Fort Atkinson in 2020, which ultimately became a tremendous live record. Since then, SistaStrings have moved to Nashville, toured with Brandi Carlile, and reunited with Mulvey for a new record, Love is the Only Thing. They’ll bring the magic of great songwriting and top-level technical musicianship for a special evening on the East Side.

Photo by NeoPG/Getty Images.

OCTOBER 1 New Wave Fest Shank Hall

Milwaukee’s Xposed 4Heads received an unexpected late career boost when DJ Rodney Bingenheimer played “New Wave Apocalypse” on his SiriusXM show. The other local acts on the bill are trading on more than nostalgia, withThe Quilz gaining airplay on WMSE and 88Nine and The First Wave’s opening for ABC in Chicago.

OCTOBER 13

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X-Ray Arcade

Ski masks, squash, and punk rock come together for The Eradicator, a heavy quartet based entirely on a sketch from The Kids in the Hall. Their third LP, Forever The Eradicator, is due out on October 7, with a release show planned for the following week at Cudahy’s X-Ray Arcade. Four of the tracks from the band of veterans in the hardcore and punk scene’s album are currently streaming on their Bandcamp page. Joining the carnage on the squash court, make that dance floor, are metal band Cryptual and emo outfit Overhand.

OCTOBER 14-16

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Marcus Performing Arts Center Uilhlein Hall

Although spellbound as a child by a performance of Rossini’s Otello, Charles Gounod long resisted the temptation to compose in the idiom of arias and prima donnas. Ironically, the French composer is most remembered for his operas, especially Faust (1859) and Roméo et Juliette (1867). His romantic lyricism was well suited for William Shakespeare’s archetypal story of doomed young love across society’s battlelines.

OCTOBER 18 Paul Salsini, Sondheim & Me Boswell Books

Veteran Milwaukee journalist Paul Salsini reflects on editing the Sondheim Review in his latest book, Sondheim & Me: Revealing a Musical Genius. Sondheim & Me accounts for the author’s fandom, reports on how the Review was fun and includes assorted letters and notes from Stephen Sondheim. Many cultural figures at his level would have looked on Salsini’s endeavor with Olympian detachment. Not Sondheim, who applauded, complained, corrected and supplied context. It was a friendly long-distance relationship between editor and subject.

OCTOBER 18 Ace Hood, Slim Diesel The Rave

If you’ve followed hip hop for the better part of the last decade, chances are you’ve heard something that Ace Hood has been involved with. Known most for his single, “Bugatti,” Hood is currently experiencing a new lease on creative life, after leaving DJ Khaled’s We the Best label for greener pastures. Less about the hit single and more about connecting with the fans, Ace Hood recently released a project, M.I.N.D. (Memories Inside Never Die), this past February. Joining Ace Hood will be Miami rapper and collaborator Slim Diesel, as well as local support.

OCTOBER 28-30 Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Night of the Living Opera Broadway Theatre Center Studio Theatre.

Zombies as we know them today arrived with George Romero’s 1968 cult film, Night of the Living Dead. Romero’s conception of zombies as a mindless, all-devouring horde inspired other filmmakers—and performing artists. With Night of the Living Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theatre works with Angry Young Men’s puppeteers to stage a musical adaptation of the film. “If I had to put it in a category, I’d say it’s cinematic in its sweeping expressivity,” says MOT’s Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik of the music. This will be a staged reading with piano, puppets, actors and a chorus of singers. The full production is slated for Halloween 2023.

OCTOBER 29 Mightmare, Rat Bath, Kat and the Hurricane,

Dandy L. Freling, DJ Honeyboy q

Cactus Club

North Carolina-based Mightmare is headed to Bay View, and a bill of local, LGBTQ-friendly alternative acts are rounding out the night. Fronted by River Shook of Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Mightmare is a new outfit with their debut LP, Cruel Liars, out this month. Supporting the band will be Milwaukee’s own country-punk hybrid, Rat Bath, Madison indie pop act Kat and the Hurricane, Americana from Dandy L. Freling, and a DJ set from Honeyboy inside the bar between acts. All proceeds from this show benefit the 21st Street Housing Cooperative.

TOP ROW (Left to Right):

Mightmare, Kat and the Hurricane, Dandy L. Freling

BOTTOM ROW (Left to Right):

RatBath, Honeyboy

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